According to today's [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114791345665656111.html?mod=home_whats_news_us Wall Street Journal] (sub req'd), the industry-funded, lobbyist-run [[Tech Central Station]] launched another attack site on Schlosser, but then pulled it:
<blockquote>The nation's largest fast-food chain is also funding TCS Daily, an arm of the Washington lobbying and public-relations firm [[DCI Group]], that is making more pointed attacks against Mr. Schlosser and his work. Last week, TCS Daily launched a Web site called Fast Talk Nation that called his theories "rhetoric" and argued that he wants to decriminalize marijuana, based on excerpts from one of his other books, "Reefer Madness," about sex, drugs and cheap labor in the American black market.
Last Friday, TCS Daily abruptly closed the Fast Talk Nation site two days after its launch. [[James Glassman]], who says he "hosts" the TCS Daily site, says he closed the Fast Talk Nation site because he wanted to pool his resources with the broader industry's Best Food Nation site.</blockquote>
You wrote: "If North450 would be President of the Usa you would be shot for treason."
We regard this as a threat of violence, and I must warn you that any further threats of this nature will result in your being banned from further posting to this website.
I can't refrain from adding that someone who is this eager to kill people simply for expressing ideas with which he disagrees certainly lacks the discernment necessary to judge whether Bush has "trampled individual rights."
This article is excerpted from "Who's After Schlosser" in the in 5/15/06 Advertising Age online at http://www.adage.com/article?article_id=109192
"The site [BestFoodNation] was registered on May 3 to [[Charlie Arnot]], president
of [[CMA Consulting]], Kansas City, Mo., an issues management, public
relations and communications firm. Mr. Arnot is a long-time pork
industry consultant and worked for Premium Standard Farms.
Bestfoodnation has links to groups such as the American Council on
Science and Health, which at one time received 40% of its funding
from companies including Burger King, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo and Coca-
Cola Co. Fasttalknation.com says it's sponsored by TCSDaily.com, a Web site of
[[Tech Central Station]], published by public and government affairs firm
[[DCI Group]], Washington, DC. On the TCS site, it lists "a small group
of sponsors," including the American Beverage Association, [[McDonalds]]
Corp., [[ExxonMobil]], General Motors Corp. and Merck."
Here is the attack on Schlosser on [[Tech Central Station]]'s website, a website funded in part by [[McDonalds]]:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=031103E
The notion that crystal meth is on rapid upswing and destined to overtake other drugs in terms of usage and value is not based on any facts I have seen. According to the ONDCP's website, their data concerning meth use suggests a plateau, if not even a decline in overall use. Other indicators, such as ER cases involving meth use, suggest an erradic trend, if any trend at all. Simply put, it is not clear exactly how many people are using meth and whether or not it is increasing, though some evidence contradicts the "meth panic" in the news lately. This claim is supported by a Slate Magazine article by Jack Shafer, who has published a series of articles on the reporting of meth data, a good summary is here: http://www.slate.com/id/2137388/
But it is certainly true the US Drug Control wonks don't understand the economics of opium production in a country like Afghanistan, where food and sustenance are often of daily concern. Similar lessons can be drawn from the utter failure of the "Drug War" in Colombia and Bolivia, where the incentive to be able to make an income producing coca in the $2-3k range compared to the $200-300 range for maize (or 12 fold increase for poppy production to wheat) is easy math. Colombia, like Afghanistan, suffers from poor infrastructure in rural areas and large portions of territory outside of government control. Yet Colombia is clearly a bad model to emulate, with an ineffective government and strong rebel groups. Another on point slate article: http://www.slate.com/id/2118915/
Islamic terrorists use their religious ideology to promote and strengthen their causes. Western religions also use their dogma, superstitions and brainwashing techniques on the gullible. In order to counter this and establish religious rationality a new ideology must be established; this can be Transcendology.
Transcendology is the application of Transcendentalism to twenty-first century spirituality. It asserts that truthfulness and rationality in religions are truths that can be substantiated by science or those that can not be proven to be incorrect. It is a doctrine and proclamation that spiritual transcendence and spiritual interaction, if one believes this to be an actuality, could only be possible between the spiritual existence and the "spirit" of man. Supernatural acts performed by physical or spiritual beings in the physical universe are not capable of existing or transpiring.
Transcendology would benefit ALL religions and eliminate superstitions within them. It could unify them and it would eliminate superstitions, religious related terrorism and brainwashing.
~ Kurt Kawohl
You wrote: "If North450 would be President of the Usa you would be shot for treason."
We regard this as a threat of violence, and I must warn you that any further threats of this nature will result in your being banned from further posting to this website.
I can't refrain from adding that someone who is this eager to kill people simply for expressing ideas with which he disagrees certainly lacks the discernment necessary to judge whether Bush has "trampled individual rights."
The notion that crystal meth is on rapid upswing and destined to overtake other drugs in terms of usage and value is not based on any facts I have seen. According to the ONDCP's website, their data concerning meth use suggests a plateau, if not even a decline in overall use. Other indicators, such as ER cases involving meth use, suggest an erradic trend, if any trend at all. Simply put, it is not clear exactly how many people are using meth and whether or not it is increasing, though some evidence contradicts the "meth panic" in the news lately. This claim is supported by a Slate Magazine article by Jack Shafer, who has published a series of articles on the reporting of meth data, a good summary is here: http://www.slate.com/id/2137388/
But it is certainly true the US Drug Control wonks don't understand the economics of opium production in a country like Afghanistan, where food and sustenance are often of daily concern. Similar lessons can be drawn from the utter failure of the "Drug War" in Colombia and Bolivia, where the incentive to be able to make an income producing coca in the $2-3k range compared to the $200-300 range for maize (or 12 fold increase for poppy production to wheat) is easy math. Colombia, like Afghanistan, suffers from poor infrastructure in rural areas and large portions of territory outside of government control. Yet Colombia is clearly a bad model to emulate, with an ineffective government and strong rebel groups. Another on point slate article: http://www.slate.com/id/2118915/
Islamic terrorists use their religious ideology to promote and strengthen their causes. Western religions also use their dogma, superstitions and brainwashing techniques on the gullible. In order to counter this and establish religious rationality a new ideology must be established; this can be Transcendology.
Transcendology is the application of Transcendentalism to twenty-first century spirituality. It asserts that truthfulness and rationality in religions are truths that can be substantiated by science or those that can not be proven to be incorrect. It is a doctrine and proclamation that spiritual transcendence and spiritual interaction, if one believes this to be an actuality, could only be possible between the spiritual existence and the "spirit" of man. Supernatural acts performed by physical or spiritual beings in the physical universe are not capable of existing or transpiring.
Transcendology would benefit ALL religions and eliminate superstitions within them. It could unify them and it would eliminate superstitions, religious related terrorism and brainwashing.
~ Kurt Kawohl
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