State of the nation

It’s frightening what researchers are finding in these brain imaging studies. It’s frightening because of what it says about us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/science/28brai.html

The researchers found that social conformity showed up in the brain as activity in regions that are entirely devoted to perception. But independence of judgment - standing up for one’s beliefs - showed up as activity in brain areas involved in emotion

We like to think that seeing is believing,” said Dr. Gregory Berns, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Emory University in Atlanta who led the study.

But the study’s findings, he said, show that seeing is believing what the group tells you to believe.

This is an interesting phenomenom in light of what a certain group in Washington wants us to believe about the war on terror. I guess that’s why so many of my fellow Americans have this perception of a link between Sept 11th and Iraq. Such beliefs makes us rest comfortably while men women and children are killed to keep America safe. Will waging endless wars against terror really keep us safe or is it because our leaders say it will?
In the meantime it has actually made the world more unsafe for many.

Groupthink. Don’t forget that many people listened to Bush’s talk last night! So much for the image of Americans as rugged individualists. Maybe they will do some brain scans of the neo-cons. I think they’ll find that these people relish leading us into the wasteland this place is quickly becoming. Maybe they too are being led by some other group.

Can you perceive all of that?

So our esteemed president gave his speech tonight. According to yahoo news, he said:
“Is the sacrifice worth it? It is worth it and it is vital to the security of our country,” Bush told a nation increasingly doubtful about the toll of the 27-month-old war.
“America will not leave before the job is done,”

Sure. He doesn’t have to sacrifice or do the job, only our sons and daughters.
Is this 27 month war the same one that was being referred to with the “mission accomplished” comment way back in May of 2003?

I have to agree with http://www.retrovsmetro.org/blog/id/271;
“For Cheney and Bush, their mission was accomplished. Unfortunately for the American people, it was accomplished at an unspeakable cost: our children’s lives, the enmity of the free world, a crushing federal deficit, and the increased probability of future terror attacks.”

What do we do now? See what the Egyptians are doing on
http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/signs20050627.htm

So the leader of the “free world” is set to grace us with a talk. Only those of us who duly subject to mind control in the guise of sports and entertainment and believe the words of a psychopath is looking forward to it. Everyone else knows what it will be about. More justification for sending our sons and daughters to kill and be killed after recruiting and training them with that most entertaining of games.
But what does it all really mean? Sometimes it takes a perfect infidel with a rigorous intuition to find out. From my latest blogsurfing:
http://perfectinfidel.blogspot.com/
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

Think it’s just a third world problem?
Think again.

Riskiest US debt post double digit losses

The borrowing by Congress to fund their immoral and unconstitutional wars, UN dues, 18% of the IMFs budget, billions in corporate welfare, trillions in foreign “aid,” all these social welfare programs and basic government functions continues to rack up debt at a rate of $1.69 BILLION dollars a day from an empty treasury. Quite a trick.

Fiscal gap estimated at 72 trillion and counting.

received an email recently from a 55-year-old, unemployed American who had been to 14 States looking for work. He couldn’t find any, he said, because “I am not a Mexican.”

Europe must undergo “structural reforms” - the adoption of “free market” measures, cuts in social welfare and a more “flexible” workforce - in order to boost growth. But, according to a member of the European Central Bank (ECB), these measures do not seem to be working.