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Playing with the human mind — let’s erase memories

Posted in General, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Scientists Erase Specific Memories in Mice
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081022/hl_hsn/scientistserasespecificmemoriesinmice
The Spotless Mind
http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/alain-brunet
Isn’t this a little backwards? Why not try to do something about psychopathic criminals rather than erase their tracks (not that it’s likely to work, IMO)? What’s the purpose here? To torture people for hours, get the desired information (the primitive and [...]

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Low Hanging Fruit — The Idiots Who Rule America

Posted in General, tagged , , , , , , , on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

That’s combining, of course, the title of Chris Hedges column in Truthdig of Oct. 20 and a phrase from Andrew Lahde’s So long, Suckers letter. Hedges column, including a section of Lahde’s farewell letter: The Idiots Who Rule America The elites have just made monkeys of themselves. The only thing greater [...]

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Suzy Bass — What is Pseudologia Fantastica?

Posted in General, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »

She Said She Had Breast Cancer—But She Lied

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“Suzy Bass had less than a year to live. The Knoxville, Tennessee, high school math teacher was battling stage IV breast cancer, and it had spread to her shoulder and heel. . . . “Everyone just loved her immediately. We could tell her anything.” . . . Webb’s [...]

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Welcome to our sociopaths-gone-wild economy

Posted in General, tagged , , on October 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »

It’s all a question of confidence, don’t cha know? There is no reality, it’s all perception management! Bring out the Plunge Protection Team. The PPT can juggle an infinite number of balls in the air for an infinite amount of time — and never drop a one. Perpetual motion machines work [...]

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