The Old Scrapbook: Dreams

post from Women Of Esoterica on 19 November 2010 11:32:35 PM. © Women Of Esoterica

I loved this page, not only for the "Dream book" graphics, but also the pages of vintage dream interpretations beneath that.[...]

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TSA agents force flight attendant to remove, show
prosthetic breast

post from Offbeat News on 19 November 2010 11:20:47 PM. © Offbeat News

The TSA has taken much flak about its new full body scanners, and it has also taken criticism over its pat down procedure, which passengers can opt for rather than the scan. In the case of flight attendant Cathy Boss, she received an embarrassing addition to the procedure: she was forced to remove her prosthetic breast as part of it.

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THIS is TRUE #857: 14 November

post from This is True on 19 November 2010 11:00:43 PM. © This is True

SINCE 1994 and reaching at least 43,565 subscribers (down 32 from last  week), this is the 857th weekly issue of Randy Cassingham's...THIS is TRUE: 14 November        Copyright 2010 http://www.thisistrue.com-------------------------------------------------------------------------AND HE GOT HIS RIDE, TOO: Ongley Raymond Ocon III, 19, of Danville,  Calif., had left a party and was looking for a ride. He may have

To read the full text of this week's issue seeThis is True's --weird news stories.

Large portions of True are archived on the web, including theThis is True story archive,the Honorary Unsubscribe, andthe Bonzer Web Site of the Week.

This is True coversbizarre-but-true stories from newspapers from around the world. Trueis also the source of the (in)famous Get Outof Hell Free cards, the well-edited humor siteJumbo Joke, and is the publisher of theTrue Stella Awards, featuring case write-ups ofcrazy lawsuits.

Special Note from True's 13 March 2005 issue:

Bad News, Good News: The bad news is, the RSS feed for True's free edition was being abused: people were using scripts to postthe text to their web sites automatically, despite very clear prohibitionsagainst that. Since people wouldn't stop that abuse, I stopped it --by not putting the full text in the RSS feed anymore. It sucks that a fewidiots spoiled it for everyone, but that's the way it is. Truedepends on its copyright to stay in business, and I just can't have peoplestealing it like that. I offer all sorts of neat things for free, includingthe "True-a-Day" service for you to put a story on your own web sites thatautomatically changes every day, a free archive of past stories, this freesubscription, and lots more. Yet some just can't be satisfied with that andtake more than what's offered. That is indeed stealing, folks, and those ofyou who post stories on your web sites, post them to Usenet, print them innewsletters, and more threaten True's very existence. And thatmatters to me. It's not a "victimless crime"! I'm very generouswith my work, but I must draw the line somewhere. The "where" is up to me,not you, and if you're one who's stealing it and can't deal with that fact,then stop reading my stuff.

The GOOD news is, I'm very sympathetic to the vast majority -- those whowant to stay within the rules, to not cross the line, to not steal. A lotof you try hard to subscribe and get the issues by e-mail, but havedifficulty, either because you only have a work e-mail address and are notallowed to subscribe to e-mail publications, or your ISP filters out thee-mail you asked to get, even while you still get loads of spam.Thus, as of last week I have started posting the current issue on the True web site so you can read it via the web. Not only that, butbecause very often the letters in the current issue refer to the previousone, I'm also posting the previous issue on the True website. They automatically rotate, and the RSS feed is now a notification ofthe new postings, keeping the RSS option a useful feature. To find thecurrent issue, look in the Navbar on the True site. The previousissue is linked from the current one's page. (That Navbar is pretty handy:it has links to the True-a-Day service, the archive, the Reader Forum, theBonzer and Honorary Unsubscribe archives, site search and a lot more. Thesite is pretty big, but it's well organized -- if you take the time toexplore it and use the tools provided to find what you want.)

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UFO in Singapore

post from Asia Paranormal on 19 November 2010 10:32:20 PM. © Asia Paranormal

Contributed by a reader to Coast to Coast AMCopyright to Graceful Image Photography6/27/2010 - I was up on the top of the Sands Hotel taking pictures of the city and I thought I would get a picture of the Singapore Harbor before it got too dark. That is when I noticed a black dot in my...

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Corporate America Is Pushing Us All Off a Cliff

post from Nexus of Science/Spirituality/Politics on 19 November 2010 10:31:53 PM. © Nexus of Science/Spirituality/Politics

One of my favorite film author and grassroot activist :)
Read Michael Moore below.

Friday, November 19th, 2010
Friends,
When someone talks about pushing you off a cliff, it's just human nature to be curious about them. Who are these people, you wonder, and why would they want to do such a thing?
That's what I was thinking when corporate whistleblower Wendell Potter revealed that, when "Sicko" was being released in 2007, the health insurance industry's PR firm, APCO Worldwide, discussed their Plan B: "Pushing Michael Moore off a cliff."
But after looking into it, it turns out, it's nothing personal! APCO wants to push everyone off a cliff.
APCO was hatched in 1984 as a subsidiary of the Washington, D.C. law firm Arnold & Porter -- best known for its years of representing the giant tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris. APCO set up fake "grassroots" organizations around the country to do the bidding of Big Tobacco. All of a sudden, "normal, everyday, in-no-way-employed-by-Philip Morris Americans" were popping up everywhere. And it turned out they were outraged -- outraged! -- by exactly the things APCO's clients hated (such as, the government telling tobacco companies what to do). In particular, they were "furious" that regular people had the right to sue big corporations...you know, like Philip Morris. (For details, see the 2000 report "The CALA Files" (PDF) by my friends and colleagues Carl Deal and Joanne Doroshow.)
Right about now you may be wondering: how many Americans get pushed off a cliff by Big Tobacco every year? The answer is 443,000 Americans die every year due to smoking. That's a big cliff.
With this success under their belts, APCO created "The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition." TASSC, funded partly by Exxon, had a leading role in a planned campaign by the fossil fuel industry to create doubt about global warming. The problem for Big Oil speaking out against global warming, according to the campaign's own leaked documents, was that the public could see the "vested interest" that oil companies had in opposing environmental laws. APCO's job was to help conceal those oil company interests.
And boy, have they ever succeeded. Polls now show that, as the world gets hotter, Americans are getting less and less worried about it.
How big is this particular cliff? According to the World Health Organization, climate change contributes -- right now -- to the deaths of 150,000 people every year. By 2030 it may be double that. And after that...well, the sky is literally the limit! I don't think it's crazy to say APCO may rack up even bigger numbers here than they have with tobacco.
With this track record, you can see why, when the health insurance industry wanted to come after "Sicko," they went straight to APCO. The "worst case," as their leaked documents say, was that "Sicko evolves into a sustained populist movement." That simply could not be allowed to happen. Something obviously had to be done.
As Wendell Potter explains, APCO ran their standard playbook, setting up something called "Health Care America." Health Care America, according to Potter, "was received by mainstream reporters, including the New York Times, as a legitimate organization when it was nothing but a front group set up by APCO Worldwide. It was not anything approaching what it was reporting to be: a 'grassroots organization.' It was a sham group."
Health Care America showed up online in 2007 (the year "Sicko" was released) and disappeared quickly by early 2008. You can still find their website archived here. As you'll see, their "moderated forum" allowed normal, everyday, in-no-way-employed-by-the-insurance-industry Americans to speak out. For instance, here's something Nicole felt very strongly about:
"Moore shouldn't be allowed to call his film a 'documentary.' It should be called a political commercial. We need to fix our health care system, but we shouldn?t accept a Hollywood moviemaker?s political views as the starting point."
Here's what Wendell Potter revealed about the insurance industry's media strategy:
"As we would do the media training, we would always have someone refer to him as 'Hollywood entertainer' or 'Hollywood moviemaker Michael Moore.' They don't want you to think that it was a documentary that had some truth."
Thanks for your perspective, "Nicole"!
Now, how big was THAT cliff? A pretty good size -- according to a recent study, 45,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance.
And here we are in 2010. A lesser PR firm might be resting on its laurels at this point, content to sit back and watch hundreds of thousands of people continue to be pushed off the various cliffs they've built. But not APCO! Right now they've taken on their biggest challenge yet: leading a giant, multi-million dollar effort to help Wall Street "earn back the trust of the American people."
We may never know the size of this particular cliff. But we can be sure it's gigantic. According to the New York Times, one of the things Wall Street's recession gave us is "the crippling of the government program that provides life-sustaining antiretroviral drugs to Americans with H.I.V. or AIDS who cannot afford them." Internationally, organizations fighting AIDS and other diseases are "hugely afraid" of cutbacks in funding.
Of course, there are the 101 ways recessions kill quietly. For instance, children's hospitals are seeing a sharp 55% rise in the abuse of babies by parents.
And that's just the previous cliff. If APCO and its Wall Street co-conspirators lull us into turning our backs on them again, we can be sure the next cliff -- the next crash -- will be much bigger.
Anyway, this is all just a way for me to say to APCO: No hard feelings! My getting mad at you would be like a chicken who's still happily pecking away getting mad at McDonald's. Compared to the millions you've already turned into McNuggets, you've actually treated me much, much BETTER! Spying on my family, planting smears and lies about me, privately badgering movie critics to give the film a poor review, scaring Americans into believing they'd be committing a near-act of treason were they to go to the theater and see my movie -- hey, ya done good, health insurance companies of America. And, most important, you stopped the nation from getting true universal health care. Good job!
There's only one problem -- I'm not one of those "liberals" you fund in Congress, the ones who fear your power.
I'm me. And that, sadly, is not good for you.
Yours in good health,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com
P.S. It seems to me that APCO's discussion of pushing me off a cliff should legitimately be part of their Wikipedia page. And why not something about their role in Wall Street's new PR offensive? So I'm asking everyone interested to write something up that meets Wikipedia's guidelines and help bring the APCO Worldwide entry up to date. Post it somewhere online and send a tweet about it to @mmflint. I'll award a signed copy of "Sicko" by noon Sunday to the best entry...and then deputize you to post it on Wikipedia for real and make sure APCO's minions don't take it down. Just be sure afterward not to walk near any cliffs!
P.P.S. The late, great comedian Bill Hicks had some thoughts about marketing and the people who do it.

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Facebook turns into a debt collection tool

post from Offbeat News on 19 November 2010 08:47:53 PM. © Offbeat News

Debt collectors have begun using Facebook to try to track down debtors. According to Alternet, it's unclear if the contact is legal, while at the same time Facebook isn't happy about the matter, either.

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REAL ALIEN SKULL -DNA Tests Say Possibly

post from Dr. Ryles' Strange Sights & New Beginnings : The Bizarre, Paranormal, Mind Power, & Health Blog on 19 November 2010 07:34:40 PM. © Dr. Ryles' Strange Sights & New Beginnings : The Bizarre, Paranormal, Mind Power, & Health Blog

Could Clicking Here Change Your Entire Reality ??? Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: 2010, alien, DNA, Result, skull, Starchild, ufo

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White iPhone 4s land in China's grey market

post from Offbeat News on 19 November 2010 07:20:40 PM. © Offbeat News

We expect someone at Foxconn to take the hit for this, assuming it's true. According to Giz-China, white iPhone 4's are showing up on China's grey market.

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Italy PM replaces body parts on statues

Italy's culture ministry on Friday defended Premier Silvio Berlusconi for giving ancient marble statues in his office replacement body parts, to the horror of art restorers.

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Summary List of Eurasia Vampires

Eurasia VampiresPretty difficult to really explain Eurasia, but to make it simple, It is basically countries which are strategically in terms of geographical location, located at the bordering areas between Asia and Europe. Such nations to generalize it, are Eurasia countries as they are...

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