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		<title>Global Interest Rate Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, interest rates were cut globally. This is the first step in creating a world financial system, which I suspect is coming. Such a system would be a first step towards global currency, which would lead eventually to global government system. Good or bad, I suspect we&#8217;re close to such things [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the first time ever,<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/09/MNPU13DOHJ.DTL" target="_blank"> interest rates were cut globally. </a></p>
<p>This is the first step in creating a world financial system, which I suspect is coming.</p>
<p>Such a system would be a first step towards global currency, which would lead eventually to global government system.</p>
<p>Good or bad, I suspect we&#8217;re close to such things happening.</p>
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		<title>Subsidized Sterilization?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied. &#8220;We&#8217;re on a train headed to the future and there&#8217;s a bridge out,&#8221; LaBruzzo said of what he suspects are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re on a train headed to the future and there&#8217;s a bridge out,&#8221; LaBruzzo said of what he suspects are dangerous demographic trends. &#8220;And nobody wants to talk about it.&#8221;</p>
<p>LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government. He said he is gathering statistics now.</p>
<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;m really studying is any and all possibilities that we can reduce the number of people that are going from generational welfare to generational welfare,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>He said his program would be voluntary. It could involve tubal ligation, encouraging other forms of birth control or, to avoid charges of gender discrimination, vasectomies for men.</p>
<p>It also could include tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, he said.</p>
<p>LaBruzzo, 38, is white, married to a lawyer, has a toddler daughter and holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree from Louisiana State University.</p>
<p>He is serving his second term in the Legislature, where he drew attention this year for advocating the controversial legislative pay raise and for trying to abolish the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Commission and its Police Department.</p>
<p>His 81st House District runs from Old Metairie north to Bucktown and west along Lake Pontchartrain to the Suburban Canal. In a somewhat different configuration, it is the same district that sent white supremacist David Duke to the Legislature in 1989.</p>
<p>LaBruzzo described the tube-tying incentive as a brainstorming exercise that has yet to take form as a bill for the Legislature to consider. He said it already has drawn critics who argue the idea is racist, sexist, unethical and immoral. He said more white people are on welfare than black people, so his proposal is not targeting race.</p>
<p>LaBruzzo said other, mainstream strategies for attacking poverty, such as education reforms and programs informing people about family planning issues, have repeatedly failed to solve the problem. He said he is simply looking for new ways to address it.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to say, &#8216;Oh, he&#8217;s a racist,&#8217; &#8221; LaBruzzo said. &#8220;The hard part is to sit down and think of some solutions.&#8221;</p>
<p>LaBruzzo said he opposes abortion and paying people to have abortions. He described a sterilization program as providing poor people with better opportunities to avoid welfare, because they would have fewer children to feed and clothe.</p>
<p>He acknowledged his idea might be a difficult sell politically.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s a viable option,&#8221; LaBruzzo said. &#8220;Of course people are going to get excited about it. Maybe we&#8217;ll start a debate on it.&#8221;</p>
<p>(<a href="http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2F%2Fnews-6%2F122223371288730.xml&amp;coll=1" target="_blank">Source</a>)</p>
<p><em>I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about this.  Seems like it could be a slippery slope towards mandatory sterilzation.</em></p>
<p><em>However, it&#8217;s also possible that people who would fall for this, might not be people we want reproducing.</em></p>
<p><em>Regardless, it&#8217;s interesting.</em></p>
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		<title>Interesting Google Trends</title>
		<link>http://www.catstomp.com/blog/2008/08/02/interesting-google-trends-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite ways of feeling the pulse of what america is thinking and being influnced to, is by reading Google Trends.  This site is updated hourly, and shows the latest fast rising search trends. Most of the time, its just pop culture references and such, but sometimes some interesting things pop up. Todays [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my favorite ways of feeling the pulse of what america is thinking and being influnced to, is by reading Google Trends.  This site is updated hourly, and shows the latest fast rising search trends.</p>
<p>Most of the time, its just pop culture references and such, but sometimes some interesting things pop up.</p>
<h4>Todays Trends roundup:</h4>
<h3>Number 1. <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=montauk+monster+pictures&amp;date=2008-8-1&amp;sa=X#" target="_blank">Montauk Monster Pictures</a> and Number 40. <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=strange+creature+washes+ashore&amp;date=2008-8-1&amp;sa=X" target="_blank">Strange Creature Washes Ashore</a>.</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.catstomp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/montauk_monster.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-307 alignright" title="montauk_monster" src="http://www.catstomp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/montauk_monster-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Aparently this strange looking creature washed ashore in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project" target="_blank">Montauk, New York</a>.  For a while I couldn&#8217;t remember why the name &#8220;Montauk&#8221; meant something to me.  Then I remembered that early radar experiments were carried out there at the AFB, and there is some strong evidence that much more sinister and secret experiments took place as well.<a href="http://www.gedop.org/blog/2008/08/konudisi/montauk-canavari/" target="_blank"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gedop.org/blog/2008/08/konudisi/montauk-canavari/" target="_blank">More Pictures</a></p>
<h3>Number 11. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project" target="_blank">Airborne Toxic Event</a>.</h3>
<p>Even though this is just some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Airborne_Toxic_Event" target="_blank">silly band</a>, there is obviously some keyword programming and conditioning going on here.  Precursor to a sinister event? Perhaps.</p>
<p>From wikipedia, the referring to the origin of the name.</p>
<blockquote><p>The band takes its name from the postmodern novel <a title="White Noise (novel)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Noise_%28novel%29">White Noise</a>, by <a title="Don DeLillo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_DeLillo">Don DeLillo</a>, which won the <a title="National Book Award" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award">National Book Award</a> in 1985. In the book, a chemical spill from a railcar releases a poisonous cloud, dubbed by the military as an “airborne toxic event.” This serves as a metaphorical device for the novel’s themes of mortality and media consumption, as the protagonist Jack Gladney is forced to confront the prospect of his own death.</p></blockquote>
<h3>Number 46. <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=green+blood&amp;date=2008-8-1&amp;sa=X" target="_blank">Green Blood</a>.</h3>
<p>Apparently <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/06/08/health-green-blood.html" target="_blank">some guy in Canada</a> oozed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_blood" target="_blank">green blood</a> during an operation.  I have no idea what this means, but it is certainly strange.  Do lizards have green blood? Perhaps it was humans stumbling upon a lizard.  Or maybe this is some kind of conditioning.</p>
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		<title>Interesting Google Trends</title>
		<link>http://www.catstomp.com/blog/2008/07/18/interesting-google-trends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloom Energy &#8211; Aparently a newly created corporation who is trying to sell personal electricty generators for the home.  I&#8217;ve been hearing about this for years now, wonder if it&#8217;ll ever take off.  Imagine one $8000 dollar machine that produces all your electricty for half the cost and half the emissions, plus no reliance on [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=bloom+energy&amp;date=2008-7-18&amp;sa=X" target="_blank">Bloom Energy</a> &#8211; Aparently a newly created corporation who is trying to sell personal electricty generators for the home.  I&#8217;ve been hearing about this for years now, wonder if it&#8217;ll ever take off.  Imagine one $8000 dollar machine that produces all your electricty for half the cost and half the emissions, plus no reliance on the grid?  Rad!</li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=rope+rituals&amp;date=2008-7-18&amp;sa=X" target="_blank">Rope Rituals</a> &#8211; Some actor allegedly starred in a gay bondage film called &#8220;Rope Rituals.&#8221;  Sounds more like a satanic power ritual to me, and the gay porno thing is just a cover story.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=alice+in+wonderland+syndrome&amp;date=2008-7-18&amp;sa=X" target="_blank">Alice in Wonderland Syndrome</a> &#8211; This one is pretty bizarre.  Why 3 hours ago, did a LOT of people suddenly start searching for a syndrome where one goes batshit insane?  Creepy.</li>
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		<title>Bank Troubles.</title>
		<link>http://www.catstomp.com/blog/2008/07/15/bank-troubles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[#59 In google&#8217;s hot searched items: List of Banks in Trouble I like seeing what the Internet public at large is searching for.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#59 In google&#8217;s hot searched items:  <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=list+of+banks+in+trouble&amp;date=2008-7-15&amp;sa=X">List of Banks in Trouble</a></p>
<p>I like seeing what the Internet public at large is searching for.</p>
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