Thai, you hit the nail on the head with your comment on 3rd June 3 @ 22:49. Hitler and his 3rd Reich perfected the art of propaganda and evangelists (particularly Al Gore) have learned a lot from it and are doing their utmost to spread the UN’s climate change propaganda globally. I have published an article (Note 1) on this at my blog “Global Political Shenanigans" if you are interested. Open and reasoned debate is welcome but invective will be moderated (althopugh it is difficult to moderate my own comments).
Searchbuster, you are absolutely correct when saying on 1st June 1 @ 21.08 QUOTE: .. climate awareness is very important .. UNQUOTE but there is a difference between making children (and adults) aware and brainwashing them with UN-inspired propaganda.
1) see http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2010/05/propaganda-evangelism.html
Any analytical chemist who works with food will be able to explain why salt is so popular with food companies. It is an inexpensive ingredient that has the ability to make addicts of huge swathes of the population. It is as simple as that and analogous to newspapers with the word "Sun" in them using scantily-clad women throughout their publications to maintain "readership". Just as "sex sells", so does salt. We humans have as basic a reaction to the taste of salt as we do to water and warmth. The over-use of it by food companies strikes me as no different than the effort of pornographers to tap into the sexual urges of males to keep dropping quarters in peep booths or signing up for "memberships" on-line to fill their urges. I would like to see CMD expose the sources of disinformation that regularly send out statements to the effect that salt has not been proven to cause high blood pressure, only that it "might" exacerbate it: meaning that no one who doesn't already have a problem with hypertension has ever had a health issue with salt. However, feed dollops of salt (or sugar) to mice and they die. As well as being a needed ingredient in our bodies that humans have a hard time detecting an over-abundance of (as any alcoholic has a hard time acknowledging when he has had too much to drink), salt also masks the nasty off-flavours of processed food. Are we so duped that we can't see through the efforts of these companies? Perhaps if there are still those who smoke despite 40 years of effort by governments to expose the health risks, it will take some time before people appreciate the damage being caused by a food industry that doesn't care about your health but only about your appetite for the lowest common denominator of foodstuffs that they can possibly concoct to sustain revenues, whether you die from that concoction or not.
I live in Grand Junction, and this is very typical of the kind of thinking that goes on in this area. Grand Junction, at just over 50,000 people, is extreme western Colorado and is the largest city between Denver and Salt Lake City, so it is geographically isolated yet large enough for right wing ideas to take root and prosper. The entire western half of the state, save for a few rich enclaves such as Aspen, is so right wing you'd think you're in the south. Not surprisingly, the Tea Party is very, very big around here.
Oh, and the Ten Commandments are inscribed on block of granite in front of Grand Junction City Hall on city property. Surprised?
The odd thing is, you talk to some of the local farmers (each one more ultra conservative than the last) and they'll matter of factly talk about how things are hotter and drier around here than when they they were a kid. But use the words "climate change" and you've got a problem on your hands.
Thai, you hit the nail on the head with your comment on 3rd June 3 @ 22:49. Hitler and his 3rd Reich perfected the art of propaganda and evangelists (particularly Al Gore) have learned a lot from it and are doing their utmost to spread the UN’s climate change propaganda globally. I have published an article (Note 1) on this at my blog “Global Political Shenanigans" if you are interested. Open and reasoned debate is welcome but invective will be moderated (althopugh it is difficult to moderate my own comments).
Searchbuster, you are absolutely correct when saying on 1st June 1 @ 21.08 QUOTE: .. climate awareness is very important .. UNQUOTE but there is a difference between making children (and adults) aware and brainwashing them with UN-inspired propaganda.
1) see http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2010/05/propaganda-evangelism.html
Best regards, Pete Ridley
Any analytical chemist who works with food will be able to explain why salt is so popular with food companies. It is an inexpensive ingredient that has the ability to make addicts of huge swathes of the population. It is as simple as that and analogous to newspapers with the word "Sun" in them using scantily-clad women throughout their publications to maintain "readership". Just as "sex sells", so does salt. We humans have as basic a reaction to the taste of salt as we do to water and warmth. The over-use of it by food companies strikes me as no different than the effort of pornographers to tap into the sexual urges of males to keep dropping quarters in peep booths or signing up for "memberships" on-line to fill their urges. I would like to see CMD expose the sources of disinformation that regularly send out statements to the effect that salt has not been proven to cause high blood pressure, only that it "might" exacerbate it: meaning that no one who doesn't already have a problem with hypertension has ever had a health issue with salt. However, feed dollops of salt (or sugar) to mice and they die. As well as being a needed ingredient in our bodies that humans have a hard time detecting an over-abundance of (as any alcoholic has a hard time acknowledging when he has had too much to drink), salt also masks the nasty off-flavours of processed food. Are we so duped that we can't see through the efforts of these companies? Perhaps if there are still those who smoke despite 40 years of effort by governments to expose the health risks, it will take some time before people appreciate the damage being caused by a food industry that doesn't care about your health but only about your appetite for the lowest common denominator of foodstuffs that they can possibly concoct to sustain revenues, whether you die from that concoction or not.
...one hundred and ten percent with your analysis.
Anne Landman
I live in Grand Junction, and this is very typical of the kind of thinking that goes on in this area. Grand Junction, at just over 50,000 people, is extreme western Colorado and is the largest city between Denver and Salt Lake City, so it is geographically isolated yet large enough for right wing ideas to take root and prosper. The entire western half of the state, save for a few rich enclaves such as Aspen, is so right wing you'd think you're in the south. Not surprisingly, the Tea Party is very, very big around here.
Oh, and the Ten Commandments are inscribed on block of granite in front of Grand Junction City Hall on city property. Surprised?
The odd thing is, you talk to some of the local farmers (each one more ultra conservative than the last) and they'll matter of factly talk about how things are hotter and drier around here than when they they were a kid. But use the words "climate change" and you've got a problem on your hands.
I can't wait to get out of this place.
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