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LONDON (Reuters) - Leading banks have funded arms manufacturers, whose products include cluster bombs, to the tune of $5 billion in the past two years, despite an international accord to ban such weapons, a study said Thursday.The report by Profundo consultancy and several NGOs said the banks lo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/135 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:09:38 I'm going to use my experiences with a dental situation as a real life example of how it is to visit a dentist when you have insurance,lose all coverage and then what it's like going to a dentist on medical assistance.

If you need a dentist to pull a tooth ,and there are none that accept medi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/134 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:22:13 Those on the right just love to brag about how self sufficient they are.Never realizing all the efforts and contributions countless OTHERS have made to make this fantasy the narcissist stands on his own two feet appear as reality to the narcissist....Right wing narcissist types believe they DO earn ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/133 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:21:23 The entire market,wall street,and the feds are all Ponzi scams leading into one huge scam,the world market...And because we believe we suffer and die for that belief the Ponzi has us in it's trance..The movers and shakers of the money system are just a few assholes.There are many many,more of us a w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/132 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:31:18 Disability and Debtors prisons
(revised)
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and other aspects of the safety net are being cut, but you aren't disabled, so it's not your problem -- right? Think again.

The government gave us (disabled people like me) our checks, and some-
times when they could ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/131 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:28:09 As long as Washington remains wedded to the illusion that market-based medicine will cure health care's woes, tens of billions of dollars a year will continue to vanish in waste, inefficiency, fraud, and in profits to companies that make money by denying care.
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60 Million Persons in the US Negatively Affected By Someone Else's Pathology

How many people does pathology negatively affect?' We did a little math....There are 304 million persons in the U.S. 1 in 25 people will have the disorders associated with 'no conscience' which include anti-socia... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/129 Mon, 11 May 2009 01:06:44
BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Children who are constantly bullied are at greater risk for developing psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions as they hit adolescence.

British researchers said Monday children who were consistently victimized by their peers at ages 8 or 10 were... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/128 Thu, 07 May 2009 04:32:17
Investments at the Bottom of the Social Pyramid Produce Results
Market Watch
Posted on October 27, 2008
Turns out that the best return on investment lies with the poor, not the rich.

A Moody's analysis earlier this year shows the government gets the biggest bang for its buck by spending incr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/127 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:23:31 THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS CANDID
The Federal Reserve itself is amazingly frank about this process. A booklet published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York tells us: "Currency cannot be redeemed, or exchanged, for Treasury gold or any other asset used as backing. The question of just what assets '... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/126 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:18:44 Bankers know how to create money out of thin air. In fact, banks are money factories. Banks exist to make money. You might think that banks are in business to provide services such as banking accounts and loans to their customers. It's true that banks provide essential financial services. However, t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/125 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:56:23 In Honor of this January, National Poverty Month..



Taken from the Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood speech...

The affluent nations, the “have” nations must join in the grand alliance to do something about this. And not only must we look abroad, we can look in our own nation. We will dis... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/124 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:17:36 to those that give them more power(or money,sexual favors,gifts etc.),and those who threaten their place of power.
Otherwise you are invisible,basically.
Threaten them and you might find yourself in danger.
Or be rich enough to buy them,or close to them so you are considered part of their circle.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/123 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:35:33 …There are only two possible ways in which a world of 10 billion people can be averted. Either the current birth rates must come down more quickly. Or the current death rates must go up. There is no other way. There are, of course, many ways in which the death rates can go up.
http://www.dieoff.or... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/122 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:18:51 "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness".John Kenneth Galbraith

"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy".
Benjamin Disraeli

Republicans want freedom FROM the h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/121 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:09:11 My new roommate,she is going through some tough times.She was homeless and told no one. A week or so ago she fessed up.She's staying here for two weeks until her boyfriend(he has a place to stay but she cannot stay there with him) and her have an apartment lined up together.She has been exhausted. A... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/120 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:14:50 Really deep down past all politics, There is a war of two types.
Two types of personalities,who thrive in two different kinds of cultures.

The sociopath/authoritarian/bully/narcissist personality types..
Who thrive in authoritarian,competitive,selfish,ruthless greedy hierarchical types of cultu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/119 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:56:27 Let me start with this..
It is obvious as jobs go overseas that America has become a DEBTOR nation which means we don't even OWN all of our own country anymore.China owns alot of OUR country because we are in DEBT to them for all the cheap or toxic Chinese goods we imported,and than hand China IOU... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/118 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:12:27 To react to,and to demand a SOLUTION for..A distraction from...

I hope all this "awareness" spread around recently about painkiller addiction does not get the public yammering for the paranoid DEA to find an excuse to remove access to pain medicine for those with chronic pain. because people ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/117 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:14:18
Does Punishment Deter Juvenile Crime?

"Researchers note a close connection between lack of punishment and the forming of criminal habits."
"There is an inverse correlation between expected punishment and the crime rate." "Studies conclude that (1) a majority of serious crime is committed by ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/116 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:36:47 I know this OP will bother some here.But it is just another way of looking at an old idea.

I ask you all, when is enough enough?


Sometimes all the cultural issues and bad personality flaws in republicans and fundamentalists is intolerable to be around without slowly going insane. So I gott... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/115 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:15:05 Some of my thoughts and some links concerning the financial meltdown...

Usury, to be clear about it, is rich people taking advantage of poor people by lending them money on terms that are sure to make them fail - William Greid

Considering this Housing crash,The coming financial storm,And the s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/114 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:26:54 As you read these snips from the links,and my comments, keep in mind this word and it's definition..
:Synderesis : The interior witness to universal basic ethics, the deep structure of moral reasoning,it does not make mistakes...
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mu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/113 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:58:28 Usury goes deeper than rich people taking advantage of poor people by lending them money on terms that are sure to make them fail. ..
It is the theft of what sustains life,by thugs.Usury is extortion.and a racket that began long ago...of the strong exploiting the weak, a sort of planned social con... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/112 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:24:07 There was once a television show that always concluded its program with the stand up comic stating just as seriously as he possibly could, “Just remember folks ... there’s one thing that money can’t buy ... and that’s poverty.” It always brought a roar of laughter.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/111 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:24:25