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		<title>White Americans soon in minority</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Whites will be in minority by 2050: http://tinyurl.com/2asfqwc Is this unproblematical? What will happen with society, its structures, its mores? Can an advanced society be maintained when average IQ is lowered? Mats]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>US Whites will be in minority by 2050: <br /> http://tinyurl.com/2asfqwc <br /> 
<p>Is this unproblematical? What will happen with society, its <br /> structures, its mores? Can an advanced society be maintained <br /> when average IQ is lowered?  </p>
<p>Mats </p>
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		<title>See D Eagle</title>
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		<title>Re: Asian Powers Are Starting to Call the Shots, and the US Can&#039;t Do Anything About It</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMERICAN TOPIC? &#160; KEEP IT IN THE U.S. &#34;Colonel Kurtz&#34; &#60;Colon&#8230;@youcantthink.net&#62; wrote in message news:ulaFo.445946$Is6.416221@en-nntp-13.dc1.easynews.com&#8230; - &#8212; - &#62; On 17-Nov-2010, &#34;klunk&#34; &#60;kl&#8230;@theothershoo.org&#62; wrote:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AMERICAN TOPIC? &nbsp; KEEP IT IN THE U.S. <br /> 
<p>&quot;Colonel Kurtz&quot; &lt;Colon&#8230;@youcantthink.net&gt; wrote in message </p>
<p>news:ulaFo.445946$Is6.416221@en-nntp-13.dc1.easynews.com&#8230;  </p>
<p>-   &#8212;   -</p>
<p>&gt; On 17-Nov-2010, &quot;klunk&quot; &lt;kl&#8230;@theothershoo.org&gt; wrote: </p>
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		<title>Report from (inside) the White House, con&#039;t:</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report from (inside) the White House, con&#8217;t: http://www.deawatch.com 18 Nov 2010, 10:14 PST, 1st Edition &#160; &#160; &#160; Today I got my first solid evidence as to why the Obama WH is dysfunctional and Obama himself is failing on all fronts&#8230; I subscribed to the WH email/bulletin list on the day Obama moved into the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Report from (inside) the White House, con&#8217;t: <br /> http://www.deawatch.com <br /> 
<p>18 Nov 2010, 10:14 PST, 1st Edition  </p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Today I got my first solid evidence as to why the Obama WH is <br /> dysfunctional and Obama himself is failing on all fronts&#8230; I subscribed to the <br /> WH email/bulletin list on the day Obama moved into the WH. After two years I got <br /> my first WH email today&#8230; TWO YEARS!!!  </p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Not surprisingly, this email turned out to be a dud. The purpose for the <br /> email was to ask people to participate in a &quot;five minute&quot; online survey&#8230; but <br /> NOWHERE in the email did the WH provide the website address for the survey!  </p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; When I wrote the WH back to tell them the forgot to provide the survey <br /> address I got an automated response telling them they (the WH) does not read <br /> email sent to their reply address, and that I should go to the main WH website <br /> and read its full content.  </p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Barack Obama and his nutty people don&#8217;t have a clue. They think that all <br /> they need to do is send Obama to a college auditorium or to a small business <br /> location to flap his lips and the entire US public should be more than satisfied <br /> with those insufficient exposures of the president that rob him of his <br /> basketball and golfing time.  </p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; No wonder most of the people who voted for this yo-yo are saying <br /> &quot;Sheeeeeesh! What a loser!  </p>
<p>http://www.deawatch.com </p>
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		<title>State GOP leaders grab issue of Obama eligibility</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP members of Congress who booted Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi from the speaker&#8217;s seat when they took the majority in the U.S. House this month may be the least of President Barack Obama&#8217;s concerns as the 2012 presidential campaign assembles. That&#8217;s because in Pennsylvania, and in at least a couple of other states, there [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The GOP members of Congress who booted Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi from <br /> the speaker&#8217;s seat when they took the majority in the U.S. House this <br /> month may be the least of President Barack Obama&#8217;s concerns as the <br /> 2012 presidential campaign assembles.  </p>
<p>That&#8217;s because in Pennsylvania, and in at least a couple of other <br /> states, there are Republican-controlled Houses, Senates and governors&#8217; <br /> offices where being developed right now are plans to use state law to <br /> demand proof of constitutional eligibility from presidential <br /> candidates before they would be allowed on the state ballot. </p>
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		<title>Challenge to psychiatry: Let us end schizophrenia(Mental Illness is a SCAM) -$5000 reward</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I will pay the person who can get the head of psychiatry to challenge me $5000 in cash(US currency) and for a regular psychiatrist $2000 in cash(US currency) will be paid if a deal is struck. (Have the individual respond to this posting and provide full contact and background information and Cc to d&#8230;@destroypsychiatry.org. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp; I will pay the person who can get the head of psychiatry to challenge me <br /> $5000 in cash(US currency) and for a regular psychiatrist $2000 in <br /> cash(US currency) will be paid if a deal is struck. <br /> 
<p>(Have the individual respond to this posting and provide full contact <br /> and background information and Cc to d&#8230;@destroypsychiatry.org. I want <br /> the BEST psychiatrist so there will not be an excuse when the psychiatry <br /> industry LOSES.)  </p>
<p>This is more than a fair offer for the task involved. <br /> Still no taker?  </p>
<p>What is head of psychiatry? &nbsp;It can be from academic institutions, <br /> hospital, etc: <br /> Here are some examples: <br /> Jay Burke, MD, MPH <br /> Chairman and Chief, Dept. of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance <br /> Professor and Department Head of Psychiatry at Cambridge, <br /> Harvard Medical School  </p>
<p>Charles F. Zorumski, MD <br /> Head of the Department of Psychiatry <br /> Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis  </p>
<p>Steven L. Dubovsky, M.D., professor of psychiatry and medicine <br /> chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the University at Buffalo <br /> School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences  </p>
<p>(**The purpose of the challenge is to prove that schizophrenia is a <br /> created illness since no medication will be used to cure the patient. I <br /> want to end the mental illness scam not the psych industry. I care about <br /> those made mentally ill not the psych industry. The FBI has a medical <br /> fraud unit, why haven&#8217;t the FBI destroyed the psych industry completely, <br /> is the task too difficult? Yet, the FBI doesn&#8217;t seem to have an issue <br /> about me challenging the psych scam industry as this is all in the open. <br /> Does the FBI need this much help? This can cause a panic in the psych <br /> industry that for so long lied to the world. Companies like <br /> Pfizer should no longer be allowed to sell schizophrenia medication. <br /> What other drugs that Pfizer sells that is also made for a false illness?**)  </p>
<p>&#8211; <br /> www.destroypsychiatry.org  </p>
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<p>Let us put an end to schizophrenia. I challenge any head of psychiatry <br /> to go against me on this illness. <br /> To make it interesting lets put our life on the line. If I lose, you own <br /> my life; if you lose, I own your <br /> life and do with it as I want. What do you have to lose if you believe <br /> this illness requires medication. <br /> In a control experiment using (Self-Protection+T-Room) where the patient <br /> will not be required to take any medication. <br /> Respond to this in an open forum if you want to take the challenge. </p>
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		<title>Is psychiatry racist?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The logic of psychiatry: Even when patients exhibit the same symptoms the diagnosis is different??? &#34;when compared to whites who exhibit the same symptoms, African Americans tend to be diagnosed more frequently with schizophrenia and less frequently with affective disorders&#34;. http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/links/samhsa_gov.html http://www.child-autism-parent-cafe.com/disparities-in-health.html Does this mean that psychiatry hates black people more? schizophrenia is a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp; The logic of psychiatry: <br /> Even when patients exhibit the same symptoms the diagnosis is different??? <br /> 
<p>&quot;when compared to whites who exhibit the same symptoms, African Americans <br /> tend to be diagnosed more frequently with schizophrenia and less frequently <br /> with affective disorders&quot;. <br /> http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/links/samhsa_gov.html <br /> http://www.child-autism-parent-cafe.com/disparities-in-health.html  </p>
<p>Does this mean that psychiatry hates black people <br /> more? schizophrenia is a worse diagnosis!  </p>
<p>&quot;People from afro-caribbean backgrounds are three to five times more likely <br /> to be diagnosed for schizophrenia and admitted to hospital than other <br /> backgrounds.&quot; <br /> http://www.selfhelparticles.net/mental-illness-statistics/  </p>
<p>Why are so many afro-caribbean more susceptible to this illness than any <br /> other people when schizophrenia is a scam illness that can be cured <br /> &lt;http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/selfprot.html&gt;.  </p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- <br /> The logic of psychiatry: <br /> So we have two different view of schizophrenia, one NON-VIOLENT to one <br /> of being HOSTILE and AGGRESSIVE. An illness can change just with a new <br /> publication of DSM. &nbsp;Can a brain disease illness change with a new <br /> publication of DSM-NO. Can a emotional illness change with a new <br /> publication of DSM-NO. <br /> If symptoms are created then it can change with a new publication of <br /> DSM. It only supports my position that mental illness is a created illness.  </p>
<p>For instance, from How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease: An <br /> Interview with Jonathan Metzl: <br /> &lt;http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201005/how-schizophr&#8230;&gt; <br /> [LocalCopy <br /> &lt;http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/links/how-schizophrenia-became-black...&gt;] <br /> &quot;Doctors viewed schizophrenia as an illness that afflicted nonviolent, <br /> white, petty criminals&quot; Then &quot;In 1968, in the midst of a political <br /> climate marked by profound protest and social unrest, psychiatry <br /> published the second edition of the /Diagnostic and Statistical Manual/. <br /> That text recast the paranoid subtype of schizophrenia as a disorder of <br /> masculinized belligerence. &quot;The patient&#8217;s attitude is frequently hostile <br /> and aggressive.&quot;  </p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; <br /> The logic of psychiatry: <br /> Mental illness is a disease of the brain. Then why isn&#8217;t mental illness <br /> being research by those in the field of neurology. Psychiatry is not <br /> needed. If it is a disease of the brain why do we need medication? <br /> Shouldn&#8217;t there be an &nbsp;operation of the brain? &nbsp;There is no proof that <br /> it is a disease of the brain <br /> &lt;http://psychclassics.asu.edu/Szasz/myth.htm&gt; [LocalCopy <br /> &lt;http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/links/Thomas_Szasz.html&gt;] that is the <br /> reason. &nbsp;Since it isn&#8217;t a disease of the brain then it must be caused <br /> somehow. A lifestyle change, social unrest, an emotional event, etc, <br /> cannot lead one to have mental illness. Szasz <br /> &lt;http://psychclassics.asu.edu/Szasz/myth.htm&gt; is correct in the general <br /> sense <br /> that mental illness is a myth because when an illness is created, it <br /> isn&#8217;t a real <br /> illness; in essence mental illness doesn&#8217;t exist. Symptoms of <br /> hallucinations <br /> which is common of schizophrenia, cannot be a normal human behavior but <br /> chemically caused. Why on earth would a person hallucinate hearing <br /> voices or seeing things? Therefore, an external factor must be causing <br /> the symptoms which is why self-protection <br /> &lt;http://www.destroypsychiatry.org/selfprot.html&gt; works.  </p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- <br /> Psychiatry is a racist profession once you look at the illness of <br /> schizophrenia. It is the worst of all mental illness. Given the same <br /> symptoms, black people are more likely to be diagnosed schizophrenic <br /> than white people. Once the diagnosis is made, then the patient is <br /> supposed to be on medication for life. The medication have side-effects <br /> &nbsp; that are harmful to the patient. But schizophrenia is a created <br /> illness and more black people seem to have it. So more black people are <br /> cause to have this illness than other race. &nbsp;So psychiatry is racist <br /> playing favorite. </p>
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		<title>Why nobody can shut me up and I am calling psychiatrists CRIMINAL? -Mental illness IS a scam!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We live in a society of law and I am calling psychiatrists CRIMINAL. Why don&#8217;t they do something to me in a LEGAL sense because they are criminals and they can only resort to criminal means since mental illness is a SCAM! Do you understand what I am trying to say? &#160;I know for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp; We live in a society of law and I am calling psychiatrists CRIMINAL. <br /> Why don&#8217;t they do something to me in a LEGAL sense because they are <br /> criminals and they can only resort to criminal means since mental <br /> illness is a SCAM! Do you understand what I am trying to say? &nbsp;I know <br /> for a fact that mental illness is a scam that I am willing to put my <br /> LIFE on the line. Why don&#8217;t psychiatrists put their LIFE on the line <br /> since they believe mental illness is real? Because I have offered proof <br /> that mental illness is a SCAM and they have been caught! They have no <br /> confidence in their scam anymore and act like a little boy who hides <br /> with his hands in his ears ignoring what someone is telling him hoping <br /> that it will all go away. But as people with conscience we have to teach <br /> the child right from wrong because people should not be rewarded being a <br /> CRIMINAL. <br /> 
<p>&#8211; <br /> www.destroypsychiatry.org </p>
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		<title>&#8230;and just happen to be a Communist&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF22gXti_E4 &#34;Hi, my name is Jane Doe. I enjoy needlpoint, good movies, walks in the park with my kids, and I just happen to be a F@cking Communist, who wants to ban all your guns, eliminate all your fredom, take everything you own, and give you back what the Party thinks you need.]]></description>
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		<title>The &quot;Gridlock&quot; Bogeyman</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever the party that controls the White House does not also control Capitol Hill, political pundits worry that there will be &#34;gridlock&#34; in Washington, so that the government cannot solve the nation&#8217;s problems. Almost never is that fear based on what actually happens when there is divided government, compared to what happens when one party [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whenever the party that controls the White House does not also control <br /> Capitol Hill, political pundits worry that there will be &quot;gridlock&quot; in <br /> Washington, so that the government cannot solve the nation&#8217;s problems. <br /> 
<p>Almost never is that fear based on what actually happens when there is <br /> divided government, compared to what happens when one party has a <br /> monopoly of both legislative and executive branches.  </p>
<p>The last time the federal government had a budget surplus, instead of <br /> its usual deficits, there was divided government. That was when the <br /> Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, where all <br /> spending bills originate, and Bill Clinton was in the White House. The <br /> media called it &quot;the Clinton surplus.&quot;  </p>
<p>By the same token, some of the worst laws ever passed were passed when <br /> one party had overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress, as <br /> well as being led by their own President of the United States. <br /> ObamaCare is a product of the kind of arrogance that so much power <br /> breeds.  </p>
<p>It was the same story back in the famous &quot;first hundred days&quot; of the <br /> New Deal in 1933. The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 clamped <br /> down on the American economy the kind of pervasive government control <br /> seldom seen outside of totalitarian countries.  </p>
<p>It was the ObamaCare of its time, but covering industries right down <br /> to local dry cleaners. One man was sent to jail for charging less than <br /> the government-specified price for pressing a suit of clothes. This <br /> typified the mindset of the New Deal.  </p>
<p>Fortunately, the Supreme Court eventually declared the National <br /> Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional. But, before that happened, <br /> the N.I.R.A. probably did more to prevent the economy from recovering <br /> from the Great Depression than any other law or policy. Even liberal <br /> icon John Maynard Keynes said at the time that the N.I.R.A. &quot;probably <br /> impedes recovery.&quot;  </p>
<p>You cannot tell what effect a law or policy will have by what <br /> politicians call it, whether they label it a &quot;recovery&quot; program or a <br /> &quot;stimulus&quot; program.  </p>
<p>Those who fear gridlock in Washington today implicitly assume that <br /> government actions are needed to &quot;solve&quot; the economy&#8217;s &quot;problems.&quot; <br /> That assumption has been so pervasive over the past 80 years that many <br /> people fail to realize that the republic existed for nearly twice that <br /> long before the federal government intervened to get the economy out <br /> of a recession or depression.  </p>
<p>During all that time, no depression ever lasted even half as long as <br /> the Great Depression of the 1930s, when first President Hoover and <br /> then President Roosevelt intervened.  </p>
<p>For most of the history of this country, there was no Federal Reserve <br /> System, which was established in 1914 to prevent bank failures and the <br /> bad effects of large expansions or contractions of the supply of money <br /> and credit. But bank failures in the 1930s exceeded anything ever seen <br /> before the Fed was established. So did the contraction of money and <br /> credit during the Great Depression.  </p>
<p>The seductive notion that some Big Daddy in Washington can solve our <br /> problems for us&#8211; whether healing the sick, preventing poverty or <br /> &quot;growing the economy&quot;&#8211; is encouraged by politicians for obvious <br /> reasons, and the media echo the idea.  </p>
<p>Both in Washington and in the media, there is virtually zero interest <br /> in comparing what actually happens when the federal government <br /> intervenes in the economy and when it does not.  </p>
<p>More than a century and a half of ignoring downturns in the economy <br /> never produced a depression as deep or as long as the 1930s <br /> depression, with its many federal interventions, first under Herbert <br /> Hoover and then under Franklin D. Roosevelt.  </p>
<p>The unemployment rate was 6.3 percent when the first big intervention <br /> took place, during the Hoover administration. It later peaked at 25 <br /> percent, but its fluctuations were always in double digits throughout <br /> the 1930s, as FDR tried one thing after another. As late as the spring <br /> of 1939, nearly a decade after the stock market crash of 1929, <br /> unemployment hit 20 percent again.  </p>
<p>It is not a matter of faith that a market economy can recover on its <br /> own. It is a matter of faith that politicians speed recovery. But <br /> there is no way that Barack Obama is going to stop intervening in the <br /> economy unless he gets stopped. Only gridlock can do that.  </p>
<p>http://www.TSowell.com  </p>
<p>http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/11/09/the_gridlock_b&#8230;  </p>
<p>http://www.FreeToChoose.tv  </p>
<p>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/CommandingHeights/hi/story/index.html </p>
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