Dokumentarfilm mit Bruce DePalma, Stan Deyo, Thomas Brown, Dr. Paramahansa Tewari and Stan Meyer. Darin wird exemplarisch nachgewiesen, dass Energie der größte Wirtschaftsfaktor der Welt ist und mehr Profit erwirtschaftet als die nächstfolgenden Wirtschaftsfaktoren Rüstung, Drogen und Genussmittel zusammen genommen.
Schlisßlich wird erklärt, weshalb weder die Regierungen noch die Industrie ein Interesse
an Innovation durch kostenloser Energie und supereffizienten Maschinen haben.
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.
His death was reported by the publisher Morgan Entrekin, a longtime family friend, who said Mr. Vonnegut suffered brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago.
Mr. Vonnegut wrote plays, essays and short fiction. But it was his novels that became classics of the American counterculture, making him a literary idol, particularly to students in the 1960s and ’70s. Dog-eared paperback copies of his books could be found in the back pockets of blue jeans and in dorm rooms on campuses throughout the United States.
Like Mark Twain, Mr. Vonnegut used humor to tackle the basic questions of human existence: Why are we in this world? Is there a presiding figure to make sense of all this, a god who in the end, despite making people suffer, wishes them well?
He also shared with Twain a profound pessimism. “Mark Twain,” Mr. Vonnegut wrote in his 1991 book, “Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage,” “finally stopped laughing at his own agony and that of those around him. He denounced life on this planet as a crock. He died.”
Not all Mr. Vonnegut’s themes were metaphysical. With a blend of vernacular writing, science fiction, jokes and philosophy, he also wrote about the banalities of consumer culture, for example, or the destruction of the environment.
His novels — 14 in all — were alternate universes, filled with topsy-turvy images and populated by races of his own creation, like the Tralfamadorians and the Mercurian Harmoniums. He invented phenomena like chrono-synclastic infundibula (places in the universe where all truths fit neatly together) as well as religions, like the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent and Bokononism (based on the books of a black British Episcopalian from Tobago “filled with bittersweet lies,” a narrator says).
The defining moment of Mr. Vonnegut’s life was the firebombing of Dresden, Germany, by Allied forces in 1945, an event he witnessed firsthand as a young prisoner of war. Thousands of civilians were killed in the raids, many of them burned to death or asphyxiated. “The firebombing of Dresden,” Mr. Vonnegut wrote, “was a work of art.” It was, he added, “a tower of smoke and flame to commemorate the rage and heartbreak of so many who had had their lives warped or ruined by the indescribable greed and vanity and cruelty of Germany.”
His experience in Dresden was the basis of “Slaughterhouse-Five,” which was published in 1969 against the backdrop of war in Vietnam, racial unrest and cultural and social upheaval. The novel, wrote the critic Jerome Klinkowitz, “so perfectly caught America’s transformative mood that its story and structure became best-selling metaphors for the new age.”
To Mr. Vonnegut, the only possible redemption for the madness and apparent meaninglessness of existence was human kindness. The title character in his 1965 novel, “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,” summed up his philosophy:
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ”
Mr. Vonnegut eschewed traditional structure and punctuation. His books were a mixture of fiction and autobiography, prone to one-sentence paragraphs, exclamation points and italics. Graham Greene called him “one of the most able of living American writers.” Some critics said he had invented a new literary type, infusing the science-fiction form with humor and moral relevance and elevating it to serious literature.
He was also accused of repeating himself, of recycling themes and characters. Some readers found his work incoherent. His harshest critics called him no more than a comic book philosopher, a purveyor of empty aphorisms.
Die Firma gibt es auch in Deutschland und die Geschäftspraktiken sind dieselben:
Astra sales manager fired over his comments in a newsletter
By Thomas Ginsberg
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
AstraZeneca P.L.C., the pharmaceutical giant with U.S. headquarters near Wilmington, summarily fired a regional sales director from Kennett Square today after his avaricious advice for sales people found its way to the Internet.
Michael Zubillaga, 50, made the comments in an internal Oncology Newsletter, published by and for employees at AstraZeneca's Mid-Atlantic Business Center in Wayne.
In a Q&A section of the newsletter's winter edition, Zubillaga is quoted stating three sales goals for calling on cancer doctors' offices for 2007. His goal No. 3:
"Call Execution - Not making the calls you are supposed to make does not drive your business. I see it like this: there is a big bucket of money sitting in every office. Every time you go in, you reach your hand in the bucket and grab a handful. The more times you are in, the more money goes in your pocket. Every time you make a call, you are looking to make more money."
read the rest of the article here (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/business_breaking/20070406_Astra_sales_manager_fired_over_his_comments_in_a_newsletter.html)
Hoxsey - How Healing Becomes A Crime. alt. cancer cure http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5528328984547372206&q=hoxsey&hl=en
This documentary concerns Harry M. Hoxsey, the former coal miner whose family's herbal recipe has brought about claims of a cancer cure. All starting in 1924 with his first clinic, he expanded to 17 states by the mid 1950s, along the way constantly battling organized medicine that labeled him a charlatan. Hoxsey's supporters point out he was the victim of arrests, or "quackdowns" spearheaded by the proponents of established medical practices. Interviews of patients satisfied with the results of the controversial treatment are balanced with physicians from the FDA and the AMA. A clinic in Tijuana, Mexico claims an 80% success rate, while opponents are naturally skeptical. What is apparent is that cancer continues to be one of humankind's more dreaded diseases, and that political and economic forces dominate research and development.
Cure for Cancer through Apple and Apricot seeds http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2793380650380830725&q=vitamin+b17&hl=en
Jason Vale, Champion arm wrestler has fought and cured cancer 3 times through eating raw apple and apricot seeds that contain a little ... all » known vitamin B17. The Big Pharmaceutical giants don't want people to know this little fact so they have encouraged the FDA to ban the sale of raw apricot or Vitamin B17 ~ Amygdalin Laetrile as it is also known. You can however order the seeds online from other countries. Search the web... there are endless testimonials of persons that have sent various cancers into complete remission because of these little seeds. God Bless you... there is always a way to LIFE in his Kingdom!
The Illusion Of Disease
By Mike Adams
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There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to label a set of symptoms as a disease. For example, I recently spotted a poster touting a new drug for osteoporosis. It was written by a drug company and it said this: "Osteoporosis is a disease that causes weak and fragile bones." The poster went on to say that you need a particular drug to counteract this "disease."
Yet the language is all backward. Osteoporosis is not a disease that causes weak bones. Osteoporosis is the name given to a diagnosis of weak bones. In other words, the weak bones happened first, and then the diagnosis followed.
Another drug company defines osteoporosis as "the disease that causes bones to become thinner." Again, the cause and effect are reversed. And that's how drug companies want people to think about diseases and symptoms: First you "get" the disease, then you are "diagnosed" just in time to take an expensive new drug for the rest of your life.
But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's just a name for a pattern of symptoms that indicate you've let your bones get fragile. And to treat it, western doctors will give you prescriptions for drugs that claim to make your bones less brittle.
We should really call it Brittle Bones Disease, and describe the treatment in plain language - exercise, vitamin D, mineral supplements with calcium and strontium, natural sunlight, and the avoidance of substances like soft drinks, white flour, and added sugars, which strip away bone mass.
Diabetes is another condition given a complex name that puts its solution out of reach of the average patient. Type 2 diabetes isn't technically a disease. It's just a natural metabolic side effect of consuming refined carbohydrates and added sugars in large quantities without engaging in regular physical exercise.
The name "diabetes" is meaningless to the average person. It should be called Excessive Sugar Disease. If it were called Excessive Sugar Disease, the solution to it would be rather apparent.
Cancer is another disease named after its symptom. To this day, most doctors and patients still believe that cancer is a physical thing: a tumor. In reality, a tumor is only a side effect of cancer, not its cause. A tumor is simply a physical manifestation of a cancer pattern that is expressed by the body.
When a person "has cancer," what they really have is a sluggish or suppressed immune system. And that would be a far better name for the disease: Suppressed Immune System Disorder.
If cancer were actually called that, it would seem ridiculous to try to cure it by cutting out tumors and destroying the immune system with chemotherapy. These are the two most popular treatments for cancer, and they do nothing to support the patient's immune system or prevent future occurrences. That's exactly why most people who undergo chemotherapy or the removal of tumors end up with yet more cancer down the road.
The cure for cancer already exists, and it's found in every human body. Your body kills cancer cells as a routine daily task, and it has done it thousands of times in your lifetime.
All we have to do is stop poisoning our bodies with cancer-causing chemicals and start feeding ourselves the materials our bodies need to beat chronic disease. Instead of searching for new technological cures, our money and time would be better spent making people aware of the existing cures and prevention strategies available right now.
Here's another example: high cholesterol. Conventional medicine says that high cholesterol is caused by a chemical imbalance in the liver, the organ that produces cholesterol. Thus the treatment is drugs (statin drugs) that inhibit the liver's production of cholesterol. Upon taking these drugs, the high cholesterol (the "disease") is regulated.
But the fatal flaw in this approach is once again evident: The symptom is not the cause of the disease. There is another cause, one that is routinely ignored by conventional medicine, doctors, drug companies, and even patients. The root cause of high cholesterol is primarily dietary. A person who eats foods that are high in saturated fats and hydrogenated oils will inevitably produce more bad cholesterol. It's simple cause and effect, not some bizarre behavior by the liver.
"There's a great deal of ego invested in the medical community, and they sure don't want to make health sound attainable to the average person."
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If the disease were accurately named, it would be called Fatty Food Choice Disease. That would make more sense to people. And the obvious solution to the disease would be to choose foods that aren't so fatty. Of course, that may be a bit of an oversimplification, since you have to distinguish between healthy fats and unhealthy fats. But at least the name would give patients a better idea of what's actually going on.
Outside the United States , the names of diseases in other languages (such as Chinese) more accurately describe their actual causes. In western medicine, however, the name of the disease obscures the root cause. That makes all diseases sound far more complex and mysterious than they really are.
That's a shame, because the treatments and cures for virtually all chronic diseases are actually quite simple and can be described in plain language. Preventing and reversing these diseases only requires language that describes things like making different food choices, getting more natural sunlight, drinking more water, engaging in regular physical exercise, avoiding specific toxins, supplementing your diet, and so on.
There is a degree of arrogance in the language of western medicine, and this arrogance propagates the separation between doctors and their patients. Separation never results in healing. In order to create healing, we must bring together healers and patients by using plain language that real people understand and that real people can act upon.
There's a great deal of ego invested in the medical community, and they sure don't want to make health sound attainable to the average person. Making the language of disease complicated keeps it out of reach of the public.
But health is attainable by every single person. It isn't rocket science. It's not complex. And it doesn't require a prescription. Health is easy, it is straightforward, and it is direct. And, for the most part, it is available free of charge if you invoke the healing power of sunlight, pure water, stress reduction, exercise, and healthy food choices.
Mike Adams is a holistic nutritionist and author of more than 1,500 articles on disease prevention, conventional medicine, and more. He posts new articles daily at http://www.NewsTarget.com. His downloadable e-books (many are free) are published atAre you Ready for The Cure for Cancer? Here it is.
Keir A. Lieber
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
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Daryl G. Press
Associate Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College
Respondent und Gesprächsleiter: Dr. Götz Neuneck, Hamburg
Dienstag, 17. April 2007 um 19 Uhr
Einstein Forum Potsdam
Am Neuen Markt 7
U.S. Nuclear Primacy and the Future of International Security
Die geplante Stationierung einer US-Raketenabwehr in Europa muss vor dem Hintergrund einer neuen globalen Sicherheitslage diskutiert werden. Seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges sind nicht nur neue Nuklearmächte entstanden, sondern auch das Verhältnis der alten hat sich tiefgreifend geändert. Fast ein halbes Jahrhundert lang herrschte ein Gleichgewicht des Schreckens: Jeder nukleare Erstschlag hätte einen vernichtenden Gegenschlag provoziert. Inzwischen hat sich jedoch das Kräftegleichgewicht auch in diesem Bereich entscheidend verschoben. Das amerikanische Nukleararsenal wurde kontinuierlich modernisiert und seine Zielgenauigkeit erhöht, während das russische veraltete und die Modernisierung des chinesischen nur sehr langsam vorankommt. Damit stehen die USA heute am Rande einer nuklearen Überlegenheit, die es ihnen ermöglichen würde, das Nukleararsenal aller potentiellen Gegner mit einem Erstschlag zu zerstören. Diese Überlegenheit wird in den nächsten Jahren vermutlich noch wa!
chsen. Warum streben die USA eine solche nukleare Vorrangstellung an? Wie werden Staaten wie Russland und China darauf reagieren? Welche Folgen wird die wachsende nukleare Überlegenheit der USA für die internationale Sicherheit haben?
Keir A. Lieber studierte Political Science u.a. an der University of Chicago und lehrt heute an der University of Notre Dame. Seine wichtigsten Veröffentlichungen umfassen War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology (2005) sowie - zusammen mit Daryl G. Press - die viel beachteten Aufsätze The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy (Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006) und The End of MAD? The Nuclear Dimension of U.S. Primacy (International Security 30/4, 2006).
Daryl G. Press studierte Political Science u.a. am Massachusetts Institute of Technology und lehrt am Dartmouth College. Seine wichtigsten Veröffentlichungen umfassen Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats (2005) und die genannten Aufsätze zusammen mit Keir A. Lieber.
Götz Neuneck ist Physiker und Leiter der Interdisziplinären Arbeitsgruppe Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung und Risikotechnologien am Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH) und lehrt im Masterstudiengang "Peace and Security Studies".
