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The Ultimate Conspiracy - The Biomedical ParadigmSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 2008-08-20 05:18.
James McCumiskey has penned a book challenging the conventional medical wisdom. Haven't read it. Don't know if it's accurate. But it's certainly interesting. Available at the link for £12.99, or at amazon.co.uk for £8.57. Related to Dr. Harner's German New Medicine. The Biomedical Paradigm describes the underlying philosophy or pattern of thinking behind Modern Medicine. What if the Biomedical Paradigm is fundamentally flawed, resulting in 95% of Modern Medicine being scientifically and medically wrong? Doctors are mostly nice, hard-working and respectable people. But what if they are killing and injuring many, many times more people than they are healing because of their insane belief in the Biomedical Paradigm? They have already been remarkably successful in killing millions of people with vaccinations, chemotherapy and HIV-AIDS. They now want to create a medically induced bird flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people. They will succeed in this endeavour unless enough ordinary people understand the Horror that is the Biomedical Paradigm. The Biomedical Paradigm is the Ultimate Conspiracy because most of us, more than 99% of us, currently believe it to make common sense, to be scientific, and to be true. However there is a simple scientific explanation as to why a person gets a specific cancer or disease. Cancer is not a meaningless failure of Nature, but is rather a meaningful event, which occurs for a specific reason. Once you know this, you will no longer fear cancer nor any other disease, because you will understand it. Cancer is curable! When enough ordinary people know this easily understandable and scientific explanation for cancer, the Biomedical Paradigm will be seen for what it really is, and can then be finally overcome.
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Pinchas ZukermanSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 2008-08-18 05:25.
On Saturday morning, my family, and a couple of friends, went to Tanglewood to see the dress rehearsal for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's concert of yesterday afternoon. The Saturday morning dress rehearsals are a relatively inexpensive way to see high-brow music for a lot less money ($17, 12 and under free). My wife went early with a regular to these rehearsals, and ran for seats when they opened the doors at 8:30 (performance at 10:30). She saved us front row seats. The "front row" for these rehearsals is about 10 rows back, leaving a buffer zone for the conductor to talk with the orchestra, but they were still incredible seats. Their program was Rapsodie espagnole by Ravel, Violin Concerto No. 1 by Bruch, and Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov. Pinchas Zukerman (wikipedia) played the violin solo for the Bruch on the "Dushkin" Guarnerius del Gesù violin of 1742. I enjoy my recordings of Itzhak Perlman, a close friend of Mr. Zukerman, playing his Soil Stradivarius violin, but there is nothing like live music. To say that I thought I had died and gone to heaven would be an understatement. The Bruch is not a particularly notey piece, though it had it's fast parts, but Mr. Zukerman handled it all, with seeming ease. And the sweetness of the sound that he evinced from his violin was a wonder to behold. I did not cry, as I have done before at a concert, but I closed my eyes in rapture and opened them wide in wonder. At one point he motioned to the string bass section to get louder. He even made kicking motions with his foot. "Kick it! Kick it!" Hehe. What a heavenly experience! Thank you, Mr. Zukerman. add new comment | quote | 6 reads
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Trubanc Server WorkingSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 2008-08-15 22:02.
The Trubanc server is working. It's not complete yet, but there's enough there that I've started coding the client. If you click here, you'll see the result of a request for the bank's ID. It's running from a real database, with a couple of testing users in it. I've also written a simple description of the Trubanc protocol: Trubanc in Plain English. Yay! add new comment | quote | 24 reads
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The penalty is always deathSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 2008-08-11 07:35.
Mike Gogulski at NoState.com - a good explication of the "gun in the room" observation. Every state law, no matter how small, is ultimately enforced by the death penalty. If we accept the natural-rights view of self defense as given by libertarian theory, we can see that the penalty for every infraction is death.
Fail to pay your taxes? You will be killed. Consume a proscribed substance? Death awaits you. Neglect or ignore some trivial regulation? Murder is your fate. “Oh come now,” they will cry, “the government doesn’t kill people for not paying their taxes!” In general this is true. In general people are compliant, whether out of worship or fear. But as situations escalate from non-compliance to the State’s demand for enforcement, be sure that the blade remains ready to plunge into the belly of the scofflaw. add new comment | quote | 41 reads
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'Good Morning, Mr. President.'Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 2008-08-11 06:37.
William Buppert at LewRockwell.com - an imagined conversation between the governor of Idaho and the president of the United States, announcing Idaho's secession from the union. Bravo! I'd love to witness lots of these conversations. The U.S. is way too big. It was designed as 13 separate states, with a loose federal union. It has become a behemoth. Time to split it into 50 parts. Or even more. Some of the big cities, e.g. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, need to be removed from their associated states, so that they can no longer subsist on the slave labor of the rural folk they currently rule. "I hope you have thought through the consequences of what you are embarking on."
"Mr. President, we have had over two hundred years to give the rulers on the Potomac a chance but that time has expired. Effective immediately, all so-called Federal lands now belong to the nation of Idaho and we will dispose of these lands at our leisure. In the interest of burying the hatchet, we will not seek compensation for the seizure, abuse and tenure of Federal practices on the aforementioned land and call the balance even." "Those are my lands, Governor…" "In actuality, they belong to neither of us, sir. On to other business, I have alerted my National Guard forces to establish checkpoints at all the main arterials in and out of Idaho. All National Guard forces deployed overseas will return home in the next 48 hours. I would also caution you on the use of military force to convince Idaho and its citizens to forcibly return to the yoke of the Union. Idaho has a well-deserved reputation as a rather well-equipped state in firearms possession and use. As Yamamoto said, you may find a rifle behind every blade of grass." ( categories: Politics )
'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolutionSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 2008-08-09 14:06.
Anne Trafton at The MIT News Office - Daniel Nocera claims to have discovered a catalyst that enables solar hydrolysis. Yay! The evermore solution to our energy problems. I hope. [tmm] The key component in Nocera and Kanan's new process is a new catalyst that produces oxygen gas from water; another catalyst produces valuable hydrogen gas. The new catalyst consists of cobalt metal, phosphate and an electrode, placed in water. When electricity -- whether from a photovoltaic cell, a wind turbine or any other source -- runs through the electrode, the cobalt and phosphate form a thin film on the electrode, and oxygen gas is produced.
Combined with another catalyst, such as platinum, that can produce hydrogen gas from water, the system can duplicate the water splitting reaction that occurs during photosynthesis. The new catalyst works at room temperature, in neutral pH water, and it's easy to set up, Nocera said. "That's why I know this is going to work. It's so easy to implement," he said. add new comment | quote | 43 reads
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A Handgun Against An Army -- Ten Years AfterSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 2008-08-08 20:19.
Mike Vanderboegh at Western Rifle Shooters - Mr. Vanderbeogh updates his essay of ten years ago. Remember, a handgun in the hands of a determined man, with friends, can defeat an army. Pray it doesn't come to that, but know that you will not submit. add new comment | quote | 50 reads
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Honda CH80 Elite MopedSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 2008-08-05 14:06.
Well, I got my scooter. It took over an hour at the dealer. Got my insurance ID cards on his computer. Packed it into the back of our van, and drove the hour to the registry. Lady there told me that insurance was dated tomorrow, the earliest that Geico would give me, so I couldn't register until tomorrow. So now I get to spend another 2.5 hours to pay the state its filthy lucre. Oh, joy! Bike's fun, though. Drags my 250 pounds up my fairly steep hill, just barely.
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More CowbellSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 2008-08-02 09:18.
I took my son to Guitar Center in Albany yesterday. While I had lunch with my buddies from my last job, he chose a new bass guitar. Nice one. I was looking around while waiting for him and found the anarchy cowbell pictured below. Just had to have it.
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TrubancSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 2008-07-31 22:25.
On Monday, I talked about a new idea I had for a Loom-like system with public-key-signed balances. Well, I've been madly writing code since then. I'm calling it Trubanc. There's a design document, and you can peruse the code as I write it. I intend to keep it open source, so that it can be verified. The server is about 1/3 done. When I finish that, and an initial web client, I'll let you know, and you can try it out, with funny money, of course. Exciting!
If you know how, and are willing, I'd love the signature on the logo above to be curved and reduced so that it would fit from about 3 to 5 o'clock near the edge of the coin. The images I started with are here and here. I'll give a GoldNowBanc GoldGram to the first person to submit an image that I like (you'll need a Loom account to take it). 8 comments | quote | 147 reads
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I switched to GeicoSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 2008-07-31 22:20.
My son just got his driver's license, and we're planning on him driving himself the 25 miles to school and back starting in September. Time to add him to the insurance. Well, insuring a young male is expensive. And when we add a third car in a couple of months, it gets even more expensive, with everybody we looked at but Geico. The others charge extra because the young male becomes a "primary driver". Because he's taken a driving course, and has good grades, Geico considers him a low risk. They give us a third car discount. $800 to $1000 twice a year for the third car from the other guys. More like $400 for Geico. Of course it won't mean anything if they don't handle our claims with a minimum of fuss, or jack up our rates if we file one. We'll see how it turns out. ( categories: Personal )
FibbiesSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 2008-07-29 08:24.
Mike Vanderboegh at Western Rifle Shooters - some humor, and a warning, on the 100th anniversary of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Given the oppressively incompetent way the Bureau has ill-served the American people and the Constitution its agents swore to maintain over the past 100 years, I shudder to think what new murderous excesses we can expect in its second century.
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QuoteSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 2008-07-28 09:47.
From gsc: "There's an old saying about fat girls and mopeds. "You don't want your friends to see you on one, but they can be a lot of fun to ride." -- unattributed Secure banking: summarySubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 2008-07-27 23:45.
I talked for an hour last night with Patrick Chkoreff, the creator of loom.cc. We came up with a scheme for doing secure banking and trading, where both the bank and the customer can prove at all times what the customer's balances are and what outstanding spends he has, and to whom. That's all that either party needs to keep track of. It uses public key signing on every exchanged message. Users and banks are identified by the 160-bit fingerprint of their public key ID. I intend to write a longer article, explaining the notation below, but I wanted to post this, so it's not just on my computer. Create account: (id_a, public_key_a, random): signature_a Sequence request: (id_a, "getsequence", random): signature_a Spend order: (id_a, "spendto", id_b, sequence1, type, amount, comment1): signature_a Cancel Spend: (id_a, "cancelspend", id_b, sequence1, type, amount): signature_a Get queue entry: (id_b, "getq", random): signature_b Get queue entry: (id_a, "getq", random): signature_a Deny receipt: (id_b, "denyreceipt", id_a, sequence1, type, amount, comment2): signature_b Get queue entry: id_a ... Get confirmed balance: (id_a, "getconfirmedbalance", type, random): signature_a Get confirmed outstanding spends: (id_a, "getconfirmedoutstandingspends", random): signature_a ( categories: Digital Money | Loom )
This Is Your Country, Fighting the War on DrugsSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 2008-07-24 06:51.
I thought up an addition to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America's This is Your Brain on Drugs commercial. Holding up an egg: "This is your brain." With the narrator from above looking out the door of a house: "This is your country." "Any questions?" 2 comments | quote | 143 reads
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To End War, Prepare For PeaceSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 2008-07-21 04:52.
L. Neil Smith at The Libertarian Enterprise - some things that have to change before we'll have peace in the world. Number one, of course, is taxation, the great enabler of state violence. [tle] The first is to establish widespread recognition that, in addition to being immoral because it happens to be theft, taxation is the fuel of war. If you remember nothing else from this essay, try to remember that.
Taxation is the fuel of war. No matter how any political administration promises to use the money that it extorts from us, sooner or later, either directly or indirectly, it will be diverted and used to "break things and kill people". What it will break is civilization itself, and a great many of the people that it kills won't just be foreigners, a majority of them completely innocent of any wrongdoing, but our own sons and daughters. Likewise, the particular form of slavery that we politely call "conscription" should be considered by everyone to be a provocation and an act of war. Whenever we hear that, oh, say Canada, has begun registering its kids for a potential draft (and this should definitely include those programs intended to coerce individuals into any kind of domestic service), they should be harshly confronted and persuaded to desist. Exactly as they should do when we draft our children. At the same time, we must arm the people and disarm the state. We now know from the experience of the past thirty years that "an armed society is a polite society". Violent crime is much more effectively suppressed by those who would otherwise be its victims, than by hordes of government lackeys whose first thought is for their pensions. We also know—thanks to people like the Vietnamese and the Afghans—that a civil population in possession of small arms is more than a match for any huge government equipped with high-tech, high-capital weaponry. add new comment | quote | 156 reads
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So What If Pot Can Cure Cancer; That’s No Reason For You To Use ItSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 2008-07-19 04:37.
Paul Armentano at LewRockwell.com - Dr. Wai Man Liu has discovered that an ingredient of marijuana "slows tumour growth and prevents the reproduction of cancer cells", but he thinks that "smoking ganja" would cause "more harm than good." Bull. [lew] Having recently lost friends and family members to cancer, including one to leukemia, I can inform Dr. Liu that such a diagnosis – even when treated with standard radiation and chemotherapy – is a death sentence. For Dr. Liu to advise, with a straight face no less, that these patients would do “more harm than good” by smoking cannabis is a disgrace. Not only can cannabis alleviate cancer patients’ nausea and pain, elevate their mood, and increase their appetite, but also – as Dr. Liu’s own data demonstrates – it may help to alleviate the very disease that’s ravaging their bodies. Nevertheless, I suppose that Dr. Liu would rather have these patients shut up and die than expose the political hypocrisy surrounding criminalizing a plant.
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Legalization in disguiseSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 2008-07-19 03:45.
Margaret Wente at The Globe and Mail - fourth in a series of articles deriding harm reduction, and proposing treatment-or-jail programs for drug addicts. The four articles are:
I sent the following letter to the editor, and posted it as a comment to the final article: [drugsense] Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:30:33 -0400
From: "Bill St. Clair" <billstclair@gmail.com> To: letters@globeandmail.ca Subject: Letter to the editor The real question about drugs, weed or cocaine or heroin, is not how harmful they are, but who owns our bodies. If each one of us owns his or her own body, then if we choose to live in a drug-induced stupor, it ain't nobody's business. All drugs must be legalized. If the state owns us, well then, it can do what it will with its slaves, so there's nothing to discuss. The natural consequences of drug abuse are more harsh and more fair than anything any legislator can dream up. You can't help somebody who doesn't want to be helped. Give it up. Bill St. Clair add new comment | quote | 162 reads
KinSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 2008-07-18 18:56.
(for East End, with love.) My name is Tyler McCammon and I am fourteen years old. I was born and raised right here in this county made out of mountains and the spaces between them. Polk County, Kentucky -- a small, hidden world of creeks and hollows, forests and the shadows they cast. "A great place to be from," my cousin David told me once "but a shitty place to be." ( categories: Gloryroad )
Impeach.MeSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 2008-07-18 04:18.
www.impeach.me - go ahead. Click that link. You know you want to. Hehe. [gsc] add new comment | quote | 155 reads
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BlogrollLewRockwell.comQuotesEvery man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission. -- L. Neil Smith Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. -- L. Neil Smith Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents. -- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report (PDF) on gun control laws Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap") "A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim." -- L. Neil Smith Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP" Why Did It Have to be... Guns? Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put. If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you. If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims. What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him? -- L. Neil Smith "Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you." -- Mike Vanderboegh The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war. -- Bill St. Clair Monthly ArchivesTTLB |
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