Saturday, May 31, 2008

Great Article on the Pioneer of the Low-Carb Diet

William Banting, an undertaker and charitable soul, published a pamphlet on a low carbohydrate, high fat diet - in 1863! Read about him here.

"60 Top Thinkers" Predict the Future: Eugenics, Surveillance Society, Globalism

The "top thinkers" included Google Vice President Vint Cerf, secretary-general of Interpol Ronald Noble, transhumanist Ray Kurzweil, and Francis S. Collins, leader of the Human Genome Project.

Some highlights from their 20 predictions:

7. People must have government approval to marry and have children, based on their genetic compatibility, or face a huge tax burden for any sick or disabled children they produce in defiance of a ban.

12. Global interdependence will allow people, capital and information to flow freely across borders, eroding the power of nation-states.

13. Goodbye, privacy. Data from cameras, biometrics (retinal scans, fingerprints, face recognition software), full body scans and perhaps microchip implants will be sent to intelligence "fusion" centers to tell governments where people are going and what they're doing in the public realm.


From the Seattle Post

Newborn Abducted by CPS Because Parents Questioned Giving it METHADONE

Methadone, of course, is a version of synthetic heroin.

All the Ellises had to do to raise suspicion and get the state involved was simply ask for their own doctor's second opinion on whether it was necessary to give their baby the powerful drug, methadone.


From Indiana's WISH-TV