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Jax
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Re: Our Ignorance is no Accident [Re: Sleepwalker]
#9213804 - 11/09/08 07:17 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Is fluoride just in tap water or is it also in our bottled water? The contamination of our food supply is one of my biggest concerns and I'm not really sure what to do about it.
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BrainChemistry
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Re: Our Ignorance is no Accident [Re: Jax]
#9213845 - 11/09/08 07:23 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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No there is no fluoride in bottled water. Water treatment plants are allowed to put into tap water because it promotes healthy teeth. It was only later we found out that it is a carcinogen as well.
The thing you gotta be worried about with bottled water is bisphenol-A.
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coberst
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CA (Corporate America) has developed a well-honed expertise in motivating the population to behave in a desired manner. Citizens as consumers are ample manifestation of that expertise. CA has accomplished this ability by careful study and implementation of the knowledge of the ways of human behavior. I suspect this same structure applies to most Western democracies.
A democratic form of government is one wherein the citizens have some voice in some policy decisions. The greater the voice of the citizens the better the democracy.
In America we have policy makers, decision makers, and citizens. The decision makers are our elected representatives and are, thus, under some control by the voting citizen. The policy makers are the leaders of CA; less than ten thousand individuals, according to those who study such matters. Policy makers exercise significant control of decision makers by controlling the financing of elections.
Policy makers customize and maintain the dominant ideology in order to control the political behavior of the citizens. This dominant ideology exercises the political control of the citizens in the same fashion as the consuming citizen is controlled by the same dominant ideology.
An enlightened citizen is the only means to gain more voice in more policy decisions. An enlightened citizen is much more than an informed citizen. Critical thinking is the only practical means to develop a more enlightened citizen. If, however, we wait until our CT trained grade-schoolers become adults I suspect all will be lost. This is why I think a massive effort must be made to convince today’s adults that they must train themselves in CT.
“Thomas R. Dye, Professor of Political Science at Florida State University, has published a series of books examining who and what institutions actually control and run America. to understand who is making the decisions that affect our lives, we also have to understand how societies structure themselves in general. Why the few always tend to share more power than the many and what this means in terms of both a society's evolution and our daily lives. they examined the other 11 institutions that exert just as powerful a shaping influence, although somewhat more subtle: The Industrial, Corporations, Utilities and Communications, Banking, Insurance Investment, Mass Media, Law, Education Foundation, Civic and Cultural Organizations, Government, and the Military.” http://www.21stcenturyradio.com/12-dye.html
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Icelander
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Re: Our Ignorance is no Accident [Re: Mr.Al]
#9216730 - 11/10/08 08:17 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mr.Al said: That is good that you stay away from soda. Soda contributes to diabetes! As far as these influences being business minded... Why do we have a centralized banking system that issues funny money that is backed by nothing??? The end result is always total economic collapse. Perhaps they just wish a bigger piece of the pie? This doesn't make sense because having a bigger piece of the pie is not as important as actually increasing the size of the pie. If they were really just businessmen they would be working on increasing the size of the pie itself.
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That scene from "They Live" is an excellent idea on how to deal with the international banking cartel.
I suggest you post in physical and mental or the political forum. This shit doesn't belong here.
I love soda.
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