2018-03-06

Well this is good.

http://www.localnews8.com/news/national-world/south-korea-delegation-to-propose-pyongyangwashington-talks/711382852

North, South Korea to hold summit in April



Let's hope no one tries to derail it between now and then.

Another one of those days

Where I'm once again somewhere I don't want to be.

And doing things I don't want to do.

Interacting with people I'd rather avoid.

Right now - I have no choice.

2018-03-03

Surprise surprise - who's really funding the research into new medical drugs?

You mean it's not the large pharmaceutical companies?

Why no! It's the fucking American taxpayer.

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/taxpayers-not-big-pharma-have-funded-research-behind-every-new-drug-2010

"Just how important is our publicly funded research to Big Pharma and Biotech? According to a new study by a small, partly industry-funded think tank called the Center for Integration of Science and Industry (CISI), it is existentially important. No NIH funds, no new drugs, no patents, no profits, no industry.

The CISI study, underwritten by the National Biomedical Research Foundation, mapped the relationship between NIH-funded research and every new drug approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2016. The authors found that each of the 210 medicines approved for market came out of research supported by the NIH. Of the $100 billion it spent nationally during this period, more than half of it—$64 billion—ended up helping the development of 84 first-in-class drugs."

The connection between the military, the NRA, and America's kids?

The Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program and the Civilian Marksmanship Program -

The CMP is a little-known congressionally mandated organization. It was set up in 1903. It’s the Civilian Marksmanship Program. After the Spanish-American War in 1898, military planners were shocked that American youth just couldn’t shoot as straight as they’d hoped. And so Congress instituted this program in order to teach children how to shoot.
And that program exists today. The Civilian Marksmanship Program regulates the JROTC marksmanship program. Oftentimes, when schools are having difficult times keeping their program afloat, the CMP will communicate with the NRA, and grants will be filled out, and the individual JROTC program will outfitted with guns and ammunition.

More here - https://fair.org/home/they-put-lethal-weapons-into-the-hands-of-13-year-olds/

This precisely why I never want armed forces to be allowed into public schools.

2018-03-01

Yeah, good luck with this happening any time soon.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/11/11/an-israeli-sports-ban-recall-apartheid-south-africa/ Sports are mostly businesses, run for profit of t...