FREEGANS

NEWSWEEK (2007) 10/1

ADLER 48/   FREEGANS are those individuals who live off the urban land by

foraging for food and shelter. Some have day jobs. It is  a Utopian movement.

It is part hippie/part homeless in life style and goes back to some like the

early Christian  communities rejecting worldly ways. They are small egalitarian groups who have

formed groups on the basis of sharing and yet they are not socialists or social democratic socialists because they today's socialism is for technology. They romanticize old hunting and gathering societies, but their information is a bit flawed. Hunting and gathering humans were more violent than the average 21st century citizen. They may become a subculture, but not a society.

When you see a Freegan, they are scavenging in back of a restaurant or super market.

TIME (2007) 10/1

GUPTA 62/  CAFFIENE is everywhere. Most drink about 200 to 300 mg. a day. There are about  170 million addicts in the country. HOWEVER, don't be fooled that drinks are the only resource.

Caffeine is now in bottled water, gum. lip balm, mints, beer, sunflower seeds and even

soap. Take an aspirin, it may have caffeine in it. Thus, every thing has to have a substance label. Please read them. Too much and you get the shakes, nausea, nervousness and related. Go  a couple of days without it and you first get the blues, then severe headaches.

THE WEEK (2007) 9/28

THEY ARE WATCHING YOU  PART III. The Brits have the most cameras and recorders, but the USA is catching up. Cameras are everywhere, so you might want to wave at the ceiling and say hello because you are being taped with new  digital camera. Most cities have cameras, but the most aggressive are Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, and New York. By 2010, they should be everywhere.

They work. The act as a deterrent or they can also be used in court showing the perpetrator

doing the bad deed. They are also legal, because you are on someone's property other than your own. About 7 out of ten favor the cameras.

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPROT (2007) 10/1

ZUCKERMAN  72/  Look both parties now recognize that we can not create a democracy in Iraq. Further, if we leave completely, hundreds of thousands could die because they are in a war that they didn't want. It would appear that some arrangement is necessary to bring down the troops and protect borders and the oil. Back in 1990's, hundreds of thousands of Kurds were killed, because the troops left Iraq. We must also acknowledge that we supported a puppet government under the Shah of Iran. That the west has exploited the middle east for years especially in pursuit of oil. Further, we probably should not have gotten into the war, the strategy was botched, but we can't leave Iraq completely or on the other end try to make democrats out of theocrats.

It is our problem, that we caused and we must get a truce of some type out of it. Think

South Korea. We did get a regime change. Saddam is gone. There has been an election. However, when it is all over, we will be there. Our presence over time will be reduced.

BUSINESS WEEK (2007) 10/1

OREY 49-58/  There is a new wage war. It includes all kinds of folks from blue collar to white collar. It does not apply to management or professionals that work off the clock. However, there are millions and an overtime law under FDR is indicates that these folks should get overtime. There also a tremendous resentment toward management as wages stagnate and CE0's live in luxury. The movement is being led by a libertarian Republicans.

new innovations

75/ There are lasers that can detect cancer in the blood and purify it. / A patch has been invented that has millions of micro needles that can penetrate the skin painlessly. Above the needles

are various drugs that need to be ingested into the individual. / There is a new coffee test that can find out what is in corn. The corn is dunked in the coffee and then placed in the lab. The coffee registers the various compounds that are not necessarily good for humans.

THE ECONOMIST (2007) 9/22

Abstinence only has now been tested in numerous countries and the vast generalization is that it

does not work or shows no significant difference to nothing at all in the way of education. This conservative periodical  recommends abstinence plus. That means the education system endorses

celibacy and if the students is not celibate, they use birth control. Special emphasis is  placed

on AIDS and STD prevention.

THE NEW REPUBLIC (2007) 9/24

VERINI  His name is Fred Krupp. He will do anything and everything that is legal to

get corporations to go green. Even the smallest change in a corporation is a step in a thousand mile journey.