The article talks about teens needing to save for college and whatnot, but college is so expensive in some places that a summer job can barely cover it. Maybe the teens don't think its worth it. I didn't have my first job until I was 19 mostly due to the lack of financial means to buy a private vehicle. The necessity of work is determined by whether or not someone has actual bills to pay. Maybe the teen unemployment rate will open up jobs for adults who actually need to work. Its a positive anyways.
An article says that teens don't want to get summer jobs anymore and this downward rate of teen employment can't be explained by bad economy alone. Really I think its become MORE acceptable for a teen to not have a job period. Parents are okay with their teen not having a job and perhaps they don't want to spend the money on a used car for their teen. Simply put its become acceptable for a teen to be unemployed. Perhaps the idea of child labor is less acceptable than pass decades (though I don't consider 16-17 to be a child).
The article talks about teens needing to save for college and whatnot, but college is so expensive in some places that a summer job can barely cover it. Maybe the teens don't think its worth it. I didn't have my first job until I was 19 mostly due to the lack of financial means to buy a private vehicle. The necessity of work is determined by whether or not someone has actual bills to pay. Maybe the teen unemployment rate will open up jobs for adults who actually need to work. Its a positive anyways.
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"Trumping up one superficial case as representative of all cases. Its same tactic used by pseudoskeptics to attempt to discredit an entire group."
The mainstream media seems to be ever engaged in pushing false breakthroughs (or to use ISNs word "fakethrough"), fraudulent biases, and allowing only the gatekeepers a voice. Sure, they give coverage to the pro-GMO propaganda and supplement bashing, but do you ever hear the other side? I wonder how people could be so ignorant as to believe an intellectual rag like New York Times and USA Today. If they do, they must be the most uniformed people on Earth. I'd rather get my news from some conspiracy nutcase website. However, its not surprising. I've always believed that humans are conditioned to do the things they do. Well, the general population anyways seems to be easy for mind control. With the advocating by some doctor against supplements you almost wonder whos really pulling the strings. Does the general population know of the long corrupted history of the pharma-medical complex? Do they honestly give a damn about real alternative medicine? The puppets claim its so dangerous to be deterred from the drug dogma, but people don't want responsibility for their health anyways. They can't be bothered to look outside the false window presented to them. If you going to believe one authority then theres another authority that totally contradicts the first authority. Life is never a certainty in the context of modernity or vain delusion for answers. There are many truths in this world. The purpose of MSM seems to be only creating a dogmatic image of established truth. Better just to throw the TV out the window and turn computer off. Yet suckers keep coming back to have their fears staunched by the latest bullock on pro-chemical-GM-genetic myth-vitamin denial-drug dogma, and so on. Take the subject and simplify it and then turn it into a twisted truth. The thing is pieced together and even tries to blame its opponents for its own problems. Self-p Keep the internet free and open by stopping the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) that aims to harmonize the US laws in environment, health, and internet with dozens of other countries. The TPP along with FCC threatens to destroy internet freedom with net neutrality, which basically allows ISPs to decide on what information is allowed on internet rather than customers. This is an all around bad situation that will destroy the internet.
Think about it... how many alternative news outlets can only be connected with on the internet because corporations own the mainstream media. I've never given credibility to the New York Times or USA Today due to their obvious invested interests and blatant misinformation. Stop The Secrecy action page Controversial? The toxicity of mercury has been known for centuries and its widespread, accepted use by the dentist establishment does not make it nontoxic. A bit slow, people...
In life you realize sometimes that there are certain people who never seem to see outside their own bubble. You come upon them and its still a shock especially when said philosophy is an extremist hategroup. Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church is dying apparently. You should never wish anyone ill will less someday theres a death watch for you. Really there are others who could be erronously labeled in the wrong and have a group attack them. Though in WBC case the label is entirely justified. They are a hategroup.
Groups like WBC and its leader Phelps are a constant reminder of that internal dark side of humanity and the society we live in. Though its underbelly has many different colors and other groups exhibit such behavior in lesser degrees still its one of the starkest colors. Regardless of your views on the vaccine issue theres an obviously fake story floating about the internet that supposedly was written by someone who "grew up unvaccinated" (post here). Now what really irritated me about the story is that it seems to try to discredit natural medicine and make conventional medicine look superior. They push the same old propaganda without realizing that drugs/vaccines don't make you impervious to disease.
Its the propaganda that conventional therapies make you safe, but using natural therapies makes you somehow dangerous to be around. If anything a natural "healthnut" would have a far more extensive knowledge in how to implement medical care in a illness situation. Why is it fake? Healthnuts don't take antibiotics and they rarely ever go to conventional doctors. It seems like the author survived her "diseased" childhood. So now she has natural immunity. A real healthnut would use their own natural remedies and immune-boosting supplements, not turn to conventional medicine. Perhaps the author is working for the vaccine industry or is rebelling against her childhood. Upon reading an article a few weeks back on the vast expansion of government and corporate spying ability along with its ability to "disappear" any dissenting voices I had to think to myself: the discrediting and sabotage of individuals has been going on for years. The ability for the industrial-government complex to make disappear enemies is literally nothing new. And in the coming years with the NSA fiasco and Snowden dissenters will most likely continue, but we should know that this has been in action for awhile.
Obviously, the more expansive ability of technology to invade upon privacy of individuals is of concern. Ironic how technology has become such an enemy to our individual lives. Certainly, in the past when index cards were used in finalizing political decisions it may have been harder to find someone out. Maybe they should use the cards again... Alright, here goes. This is part rant/part serious. I'm simply trying to sum things up.
Since spending time looking through responses to various alt. health articles I came to think that perhaps many people out there are pretty ignorant about the topic or else the place is invaded by shills from the pharmaceutical and medical establishment. Actually, I think its almost funny how supposedly educated or otherwise intelligent people can be so trusting and uninformed of the medical reality of the world. They seem to know nothing about the history of the war on alternative medicine and the way new paradigms emerge. They rely on the trusted authorities of conventional wisdom without looking for alternatives. For a while theres been a certain commentator who I'll simply call Erie (not a real name) thats frequents "lefty" sites and supposedly has a background in science. One of the first comments I saw by them they dismissed that early puberty can be caused by endocrine-disruptors. Then another that dismissed that food has anything to do with health. Then said that organic food is "false claims." Then they accused another commentator of selling a product because they were called "the enemy." Actually, Erie is a common example of the arrogant, narcissistic, bigoted attitude of the cult of scientism. They always trust the corporate-medical establishment yet accuse alternative medicine of being nothing but "profiteering." Then these same elites wonder why people are turning to the internet for answers to their problems. But why do individuals like Erie, who are supposedly educated, seem ignorant of the history of suppression and corruption by the establishment? Hey, blaming everything in the world on profiteering is too simplistic after awhile. You could say as some others do that credentials are the mark of the beast and academia the inner circles of hell. Okay, thats only what some say. From what I've heard its a pretty narrow-minded place that doesn't place much value on real truth. What are some of the examples of issues being politicized and then totally manipulated by the establishment and corporate-dominated establishments alike? To start: natural medicine, fluoride, tobacco, DDT, plastics, GMOs, science itself, universities, organic food, mercury, illnesses not recognized by conventional med., and etc.
To be continued... What is it with Facebook comments that seem to attract an ignorant crowd? The comments on some the best alternative health sites seems to have a problem with mindless, nonsensical comments by individuals that clearly haven't read the article.
Then I greatly suspect that some of them (especially the inflammatory type) seem to be intentionally stirring the roost. My suspicious is about the "skeptic" empire sending out its minions to create doubt and misinformation in the comment section on various alt. health sites. The comment below is a typical example of the Facebook ignorant types and shills who try to stir the roost. The article was about a certain vaccine actually spreading disease. Now I'm not saying one way or the other when it comes to the vaccine issue, but the comment illustrates my point: "Another quack spreading lies to scare parents into agreeing with their view of anti-vaccinations! You are a homeopathic and nutritional specialist. Don't you then have a conflict of interest in writing this article? When someone's child gets the measles or the mumps because they didn't vaccinate, do you have a nice, homeade, all-natural tea to sell them?" First, the article did present cited sources for their information. The author, who I have no connection with or the site, is not trying to get anyone to agree with their viewpoint. They are presenting information on a topic thats not easily addressed in the mainstream. If modern medicine in all their glory would actually care about vaccine concerns or any other pharmaceutical concerns by the lowly peasants then maybe people wouldn't have to rely on "internet stories." Second, the instant name-calling is a telltale sign this commentator has an agenda themselves or buys into their own ideology. The instant label of "anti-vaccine" is the wrong term for a marginalized group of people who question a pharmaceutical product. So what if the author has a conflict of interest? Many conventional medicine authorities advocate staying away from alternative medicine. Do they have a conflict of interest? Perhaps the commentator is a Wikipedia contributor so they would know all about ideological warfare in the battle to control the lowly peasants minds. They know about only allowing one viewpoint onto a site. Third, who said the article was trying to sell anything? Like someones actually going to get rich selling home-made teas (misspelling there, too)? Most people don't anyways. Whos a better authority on vaccine issues, conventional doctors who aren't even aware of alternatives or simply trust what the pharmaceutical companies tell them or someone outside the whole system. I know who I'd rather trust. Sometimes I really think my mental health could improve if I stopped looking at comment sections. Internet people are a bunch of assholes. Not long ago on a site supposedly dedicated to unconventional ideas the topic of vaccines came up. It was msotly related to a poster who called out the "anti-vaccine movement" and another poster who accused them of following the mainstream. I have to agree that I was surprised that someone who normally is outside the box would agree so unquestioningly with the orthodox medical establishment. Never understood how someone could not follow the mainstream on some topics then on others. A mystery to me. I've always wondered about the "official story" even if it leads to me being outed as a conspiracy theorist or weirdo.
Theres alot of some who do that though. When you think someone is outside the box there really just in a much bigger box. |