Lieberman's DC Office Results In 9 Protestors Being Arrested

This morning at 9:15A.M. a group of protestors requested a meeting with Senator Lieberman and refused to leave until they were given an opportunity to meet with him. Senator Lieberman's staff told them that they would not be given a meeting with the Senator. Then they were directed to leave or face being arrested. Senator Lieberman's staff subsequently called the police, and 9 activists were arrested after being physically removed from the building.

According to a website Myleftnutmeg "Some members of the group went to a meeting of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (which Senator Lieberman chairs) to stage a protest in the presence of Senator Lieberman. They were asked to leave and did so without incident."

The group was also upset with Senator Lieberman's threat last week that he will filibuster any healthcare bill that contains a public option.

On record being arrested are two Uconn students Brittney Florio,and John Mohrbacher, an alumnus. The activists were representing a Healthcare organization called "Mobilization for Health Care For All."

Explaining their actions, a student activist Jason Ortiz said: "We staged a sit-in at Senator Lieberman's office this morning in order to ask him to return the $65,000 campaign donation that he recently received from the Aetna health insurance corporation and to ask him to represent the people of Connecticut, not the insurance companies."

Real Sugar, vs. Aspertame Toxicity

The following video pertains to the deadly toxic effects of Aspertame, a deadly toxic drug that impairs mental function and ability. The video below is a documentary by several experts in the artificial swetner field explaining the facts behind the toxic effects of this deadly chemical. It is an "eye opener" and with untold amounts of tons and tons of this poison in everything we eat we highly recommend you watch this video to protect yourself and loves ones.

The Future Of Medicine.. The Posthumanist Movement

There are actually places, companies and people out there who are of the opinion that we will be able to live longer than anyone ever thought possible. Some people are actually funding research and programs aimed at human life extension.

There has already been some successes with worms, mice and flies, experiments that doubled their simple lifespans, but no such success has been attributed to any significant mammal species. Testing is underway with monkeys, and the early results indicate, to no surprise, that a calorie restricted diet comprised of quality food significantly improves health and wellness.

The post humanist movement, has been really the brainchild of Biotechnology companies, companies that use technology, in conjunction with biology. To explain this further, we already have heard about the artificial heart, but imagine stem cell research, cloning, the human genome project, retroviruses, enzyme engineering, and other sciences beyond my understanding, all working together to slow, stop or possibly reverse aging.

One such company, Alcore, has made a business of preserving their clients in the hope they can be revived some time in the distant future. The science is likened to a Frankenstein motion picture plot where we will be able to reanimate dead bodies. As outrageous as that sounds there is enough support out there to keep the dream, or nightmare (depending on how you see it) of immortality.

Below is a documentary, of a computer engineer gone biologist, Aubrey De Gray. It is important to note that Aubrey is a dreamer and the documentary clearly shows that his obsession with living forever is as old as the dream of discovering the proverbial "fountain of youth." At best it is speculative science with some merit, but at worst it is pure thrilling entertainment guaranteed to brighten your day. Enjoy the video, I certainly did.

Tune in, Tune out

For the last two weeks my email has been flooded with forwarded messages from my friends about Ron Paul, and judging by the amount of responses to last week’s article in The Rebel Yell about the presidential candidate, it seems his campaign is growing in popularity. I was very interested in finding out more since I didn’t know much about the Ron Paul “revolution,” so I checked out a video on YouTube titled, “Ron Paul: A New Hope,” which is a brilliant title. Someone should make a video called, “Dick Cheney: The Empire Strikes Back” so that people might understand why many consider Ron Paul to be a new hope for American politics.

Throughout the video, uplifting background music played behind various clips from Ron Paul speeches. He promised to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, which I don’t think anyone would object to; he also wanted to abolish America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, which I think would be fantastic. However, one thing occurred to me - this man has some amazingly progressive ideas, but if he actually does try to follow through with them, he’s definitely going to be assassinated either politically, or literally. The reason being: the average citizen who might want these changes doesn’t have the power he or she is constitutionally supposed to have to make them happen. Plus, there’s no way the reserve’s bankers would let the Ron Paul revolution get too crazy.

The video was well made, giving off a sense of renewed hope about a return to an America the framers had envisioned; an America whose first interests are the interests of the people, not the major corporations and special interest groups. The main function of our government is to serve and protect its citizens first. But sadly, this isn’t the case, because our current system of politics and democracy has disconnected itself from what it was meant to be - a representative government by the people and for the people.

The bottom line is that our “democracy” and way of life which we wish to export to other countries is in a downward spiral, and I’m not sure if even a Ron Paul revolution can turn it around. Think about this - the richest 1 percent of the U.S. population makes 50 percent of the total income made in the United States. What we have here is not a democracy, it’s an oligarchy.

The policies of our government, both at home and abroad, are out of touch with the true interests and needs of the people. A good example of this, a very pressing issue that is hardly mentioned on any news station nor spoken of by any government official, is the threat of the next global pandemic. Our federal, state and local governments are ill-prepared for an outbreak of SARS, Avian flu or the next influenza pandemic. Hospitals are under-funded, understaffed, and overcrowded. Insurance premiums are forcing many doctors into rural areas and away from big cities. If a mild pandemic were to hit the United States, it would create a complete disaster with the current state of emergency medical services being what they are.

Another example of how this country is not answering to the needs of the people is the strictly profit-driven attitudes of pharmaceutical companies. Ever wonder why your kid brother or sister runs around the house singing “Viva Viagra” all day? That’s because pharmaceutical companies specialize in marketing and producing drugs and treatments for diseases of the rich - like erectile dysfunction. Pharmaceutical companies don’t want to research vaccines or cures for influenzas, viruses and other causes of mass death and suffering because there is little or no profit in such research and development. And if a private company does discover a cure for HIV/AIDS, cancer or any influenza or virus, any and every company would patent it in order to sell for an astronomical amount of money.

Ironically, money is what’s necessary to correct some of these problems, but getting it is a question that again exemplifies how we are not a country run by the people, for the people. Case in point: the national debt is more than $9 trillion, and $1 trillion of it is going to that quagmire in Iraq. Nothing good has come of this war for the United States. We went into Iraq for two main reasons: One, to secure access to friendly oil, and two, to make the Middle East safer for Israel by spearheading a transition to democracy in Middle Eastern states beginning with Iraq, because rarely do democracies go to war with one another.

But what’s actually happened is the war has emboldened a new radical alliance in the Middle East between Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon with Iraq, which has a majority Shiite population that may eventually join this rising alliance. And how is the U.S. government trying to counter-balance this new alliance? By selling more than $20 billion worth of hi-tech armaments to Saudi Arabia. Oh yeah, how many of the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers were from Iraq? And how many were from Saudi Arabia?

The war has been disastrous, with thousands of Americans killed or maimed during combat and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead and dying. There is no doubt that this war has hurt U.S. credibility worldwide. There is no more soft power, only hard power; and the word of the United States does not resonate as it once did in the international community because the carrot is gone, leaving us only with the stick that is seemingly getting frailer. And yet, we hear of a “revolution” among some candidates’ campaigns, an end to the war among others, but the decision to elect such candidates, which is supposed to be held in the hands of the people, has become too oligarchical in nature.

Changes are needed, but citizens are kept ignorant. How? The United States ranks ninth among industrialized nations in the number of people between the ages of 25 to 34 with high school degrees. Thirty years ago, the United States was number one in that category. Our public education system is falling behind quickly, but do we do anything about it? We talk about it, but the truth is that the 1 percent of the population that makes 50 percent of the entire income of the United States doesn’t really care about public education and have no interest in improving it. They’re interests lie in maintaining the status quo. Just keep feeding us Britney Spears, O.J. Simpson, Ellen DeGeneres’ dog, and all that other guff on the evening news that keeps us tuned in to unimportance and tuned out to what we should know.

It seems like there are a trillion examples of flaws within the system that need to be fixed; basically one flaw for every dollar spent in Iraq. But where does change start? Does it start with the Ron Paul revolution? We’ll see. He was right about one thing - the founding fathers would be disgusted if they saw how things are going today, mainly because these politicians are not for us, they are for the interests of those lobbyists who fund their campaigns. But they have no problem taxing us without truly representing us. I wonder if the founding fathers had planned on this - taxation without representation. Probably not.

By Sharief Ali, Contributing Writer

Bayer Aspirin, Formerly a NH CT Company in Big Trouble

This story just came to my attention today. It poses yet another egregious and dangerous abuse of corporate power for profit. This news clip is very alarming because no one would have known about these contaminated vaccines had an insider from Bayer not leaked the story.

Our leaders trusted to protect us from this type of malaise, did so partially by not allowing the vaccine to be sold or used in the U.S. However, Bayer and corporate greed proceeded to engage in a widespread cover up, and with our politicians permission was allowed to sell the vaccine in France and Japan where several authorities there found themselves incarcerated for the deliberate actions of Bayer's Greed.

This video is yet another example that there is no one looking out for health care in America, as a matter of fact it is quite to the contrary, we are looking out for the health of big corporations and profits, at the expense of ever increasing bankruptcies, malpractice deaths, and Americans without proper coverage.