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Achilleaze

Achilleaze's Journal
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February 11, 2017

Mucking around in Republican philosophical cesspool: Bannon's dead BFF

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"...the deeply taboo, Nazi-affiliated thinker, Julius Evola.

"...But he is best known as a leading proponent of Traditionalism, a worldview popular in far-right and alternative religious circles that believes progress and equality are poisonous illusions.

"Evola became a darling of Italian Fascists, and Italy’s post-Fascist terrorists of the 1960s and 1970s looked to him as a spiritual and intellectual godfather..."

Yesterday's NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/world/europe/bannon-vatican-julius-evola-fascism.html
January 18, 2017

Yuuge changes underway: Earth Sets a Temperature Record for 3rd Straight Year

Behold the staggering reality of the facts in the context of the Monumental Greed and Deliberate Stupidity of the Republicans and their family values role model, Comrade Donald Trump (Russian-Republican Oil Grifter).

WE ARE UNDERGOING BIG CHANGES - Top Scientists - NY Times
"Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 — trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row.

"The findings come two days before the inauguration of an American president who has called global warming a Chinese plot and vowed to roll back his predecessor’s efforts to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases...."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/science/earth-highest-temperature-record.html?emc=edit_na_20170118&nlid=47943027&ref=cta&_r=0

January 11, 2017

Republican Senators gave a Standing O to a creep for having diaper sex with a hooker

Senate Republicans could not contain their Standing Ovation of approval for Republican 'Family Values christian' Senator David Vitter when he was exposed for having diaper sex with high priced hookers.

http://www.recordonline.com/article/20070723/OPINION/707230311

So no one should be surprised that now the Family Values Republicans are racing to defend and applaud Comrade Casino's peeculiar Republican SEX kinks. It's who they are.

January 5, 2017

We need 1,000,000 baseball caps & t-shirts with Trump's tweet

Plaster this everywhere... props to BigTree...

December 28, 2016

NY Times: gross conflicts of interest at National biotech (GMO) panel.

We all have to be on the lookout for twisted science and propaganda not just about pharmaceutical drugs and agricultural chemicals, but also about the so-called "safety" and "value" of genetically modified food (GMO) because of corporate "science" and the slick operators who infest national review panels, and their trolls who infest the Intertubes.

Read The Times and take careful note. Your diet has a tremendous impact on your physical, mental and emotional health. Eat crappy food, and you are cultivating crappy physical, mental and emotional health.

New York Times, Dec. 27, 2016

"...One of those committees, though, is facing questions about how its members were selected. The concerns focus on a panel studying biotechnology, a booming area of business, including in the food industry, and one of the most contentious scientific issues in Washington.

"Critics say that several committee members have financial ties to biotech businesses that could color the panel’s report, expected to be published soon, potentially giving short shrift to health and environmental worries.

"By the academies’ own account, two of the scientists already violate the group’s extensive conflict-of-interest policy..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/business/national-academies-biotechnology-conflicts.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fstephanie-strom&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

December 26, 2016

Big Pharma, Inc. royally reaming American people - NY Times.

The New York Times published a blockbuster story on December 23, about how pharmaceutical corporations are royally screwing the American people.

Right after the Times published its story and continuing merrily through Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the Intertubes were pumped up with diverting rants and attacks on clean, healthy, non-toxic alternative or complementary therapeutics that millions of people around the world find effective, but that Big Pharma considers to be competition.

Wow, what a coincidence! We do live on an amazing planet.

...Price Spikes on Prescription Drugs...

"...The report focused on Retrophin, Rodelis Therapeutics, Turing Pharmaceuticals and an old favorite, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.

"But these four companies are not alone in pursuing the pernicious price-hike business model, the committee noted. Other companies take the same approach, hurting taxpayers, patients and the health care system..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/business/drug-price-medicare-mallinckrodt-acthar.html

December 17, 2016

"The report... reads like a checklist for the apocalypse..."

The New Yorker on the latest science and most alarming news about climate change, and the parallel appointment of Exxon's climate-change denying oil baron, Comrade Rex Tillerson as Comrade Casino's secretary of state.

Will the Republicans bring us the firkin apocalypse first, or will it be freakin Armageddon?

"As has been copiously documented, ExxonMobil has a long history of peddling misinformation on climate change."

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/rex-tillersons-state-of-denial

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