Tag: Health

  • Prevention of Dangers: Mark of a Compassionate Society

    If only canes, walkers, railings and banisters were sentient, what would their message be to humans on Earth? “Prevention is the Priority, Dummies,” they would exclaim.  “Look at how many trips and falls we prevent for our users compared to the enormous costs in pain, suffering, family disarray and economic expenses that would occur were […]

  • Authoritarian Control Freaks Want to Micromanage Our Lives

    Authoritarian Control Freaks Want to Micromanage Our Lives

    Man is born free but everywhere is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become the new normal or, to be more accurate, the new abnormal when it comes to how the government relates to the citizenry. This overbearing despotism, which pre-dates the COVID-19 hysteria, […]

  • Resisting Genetically Mutilated Food and the Eco-Modern Nightmare: Together, “Just You and Me”

    Resisting Genetically Mutilated Food and the Eco-Modern Nightmare: Together, “Just You and Me”

    This image is symbolic of everything that is wrong with modern society. A gas leak from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal in 1984 resulted in around 560,000 injured (respiratory problems, eye irritation, etc.), 4,000 severely disabled and 20,000 dead. Not only that, but the pesticides produced at the factory and the model of farming […]

  • Corporate Criminal Behavior Almost Exposé Proof

    Corporate law firms have taught their wayward corporate clients how to use accretions of privileges and immunities to ward off or wait out the most devastating books, documentaries and media exposés. Corporate P.R. firms know that the media doesn’t follow the efforts of civic advocacy groups as a regular beat. Feature exposés are prime candidates […]

  • The Three M’s: Mutual Aid, Magnanimity and Meals on Wheels

    The Three M’s: Mutual Aid, Magnanimity and Meals on Wheels

    While August 19 was International Humanitarian Day, just a short stone’s throw from the Waldport Post Office is a hub of volunteers and one director feeding the soul of the needy on a weekly basis. For manager Nicole Person, her 10 years of service with Meals on Wheels in Waldport have been a lesson in […]

  • Once again, the FDA admits it lied to us, and once more, we yawn

    Once again, the FDA admits it lied to us, and once more, we yawn

    The reality is that most of us are not ready for the truth. We want reassurance. We cling to our comfort blankets because the idea that we live in a world in which our and our families’ interests are not paramount is too disturbing. The idea that our fates are entirely dependent on a giant […]

  • Authoritarian Sadism in U.S. “Foreign Policy” (Part 2)

    In the first part of this paper, Authoritarian Sadism in U.S. “Foreign Policy” (Part 1), Dissident Voice, July 25, 2023, I introduced some psychoanalytic concepts and explained their application in revealing the latent motivations of high-ranking policy-makers in recent U.S. presidential administrations.  This approach was long ago studied by the eminent political scientist Harold Lasswell, […]

  • Unsmoking the World: The Philip Morris Rebranding Effort

    God really must love Philip Morris. — John Safran, Haaretz, November 29, 2021 John Safran is a scamp, but in the finest tradition of investigative ones.  With the enthusiasm of a bloodhound, he gets wind of a scent and goes for it.  Of recent interest to his gonzo style of comedic yet lethal line of […]

  • Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government’s War on Thought Crimes

    Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government’s War on Thought Crimes

    Get ready for the next phase of the government’s war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions. Under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch […]

  • Across the West, people are dying in greater numbers: Nobody wants to learn why

    Across the West, people are dying in greater numbers: Nobody wants to learn why

    During the pandemic, the challenge for each of us was to maintain critical distance: spurning both the tribalism of those insisting Covid was a hoax and the counter-tribalism of those who demanded complete acquiesence to a corporate-political agenda dictated by Big Pharma under the mantle of “Follow the science”. Fear of living under Big Brother […]

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