The Binary Circumstance

There are a growing number of “Hitler Finds Out” videos popping up on YouTube and other sites. They are based on footage from the German movie “Der Untergang” / Downfall (2004). People add subtitles to the same segment of the film creating their own story out of it. The original movie is in German.

I wrote the subtitles for Hitler Finds Out His Dog is Pregnant.

The director of the movie, Oliver Hirschbiegel, has gone on record about the clips. “Someone sends me the links every time there’s a new one. I think I’ve seen about 145 of them… Many times the lines are so funny, I laugh out loud, and I’m laughing about the scene that I staged myself! You couldn’t get a better compliment as a director.”

This story sounds like it’s out of the Dark Ages. Once science gets married to religion or politics, it ceases to exist. This is yet another reason why I don’t want the government messing around in my health care, although it’s obviously already too late to stop that. They’ve been doing it for decades.

This article makes you wonder how many other possible cures they’ve suppressed.

From Alternet.org:

Most Americans don’t know anything about the Madrid discovery. Virtually no major U.S. newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP and UPI news wires, on Feb. 29, 2000.

The ominous part is that this isn’t the first time scientists have discovered that THC shrinks tumors. In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice — lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.

The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research, according to Jack Herer, who reports on the events in his book, “The Emperor Wears No Clothes.” In 1976 President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out — unsuccessfully — to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the “high.”

60 Minutes did a story tonight on the California water shortage and their decaying levee system. It is well worth watching and you can watch it here.

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I think it’s interesting that although a huge increase in the state’s population is mentioned, nobody explicitly says in the story that relentless population growth is the root of the problem. California and the American southwest have been grabbing water from surrounding areas for decades and all that has done is promote more growth. People forget that most of California is a desert. It’s supposed to be dry. That’s what makes a desert a desert.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is called “the green governor,” thinks that spending $40 billion to build more dams, shore up the levees and move more water around is the solution. That sounds like a short-term solution to the current lack of jobs but isn’t it just making the same mistake they’ve made in the past? It can only lead to more growth which will ultimately lead to the need for more water.

On the subject of water wars and shortages, I also recommend Blue Gold: World Water Wars

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. — Thomas Jefferson

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