The Seattle Intelligencer reports:

“A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that obesity rates in the United States will reach up to 42 percent of the population by the year 2030. More than 10 percent will be classified as “morbidly obese,” which is 100 pounds plus over a healthy weight range. If these predictions come true, health care costs in the U.S. will increase by well over half a trillion dollars….Currently, over 60 percent of Americans have weight problems and over 30 percent are diagnosed as obese. Even more worrisome are the growing rates among young people. Over 20 percent of children and adolescents are obese today.” read more…

They OWN Asia!

To hell with these politicians, vote for Roman Stoad in Novemeber and I will institute my economic recovery plan—guaranteed to work. Check it out.
What is needed is a simple redistribution of wealth down the pyramid. Think about it. There are a total of 1,210 billionaires in the world with a combined wealth of 4.5 trillion which equals 4,500 billion which equals 4,500,000 million or $4,500,000,000,000. Spread this out over the population and think of the shopping that would go down.

He OWNS your mind

A few examples: Carlos Slim of Mexico has over 74.5 billion, Bill Gates has 56 billion. Warren Buffett has 50 has billion. Mark Zuckerberg has a mere 13.5 billion. I could go on but you get the point. And while billionaires are the obvious place to start we need not focus on them alone. There’s plenty of millionaires to trickle down the stimulus to us potential shoppers. read more…

Gate to Dachau Concentration Camp: "Work makes one free"

At the entrance gates of certain concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau, the Nazis erected signs that proclaimed “Arbeit macht frei” — “work sets one free” or “work is liberating” — one of history’s most gruesomely ironic examples of sloganeering. Likewise, for more than a century capitalists have told poor and working-class Americans that wage-slavery is the ticket to freedom. Does anybody buy this crap anymore? With Tuesday’s May Day General Strike we start reclaiming our lives — and Life Itself — from the wage-enslavers, human traffickers, murderers, usurers, and other purveyors of misery on Wall Street and in the boardrooms of the Corporatocracy. read more…

This little video taken at a recent protest against the U.S.’s increasing use of killer sky-robots (aka drones) tells the tale of how our foreign policy is coming home in the ugliest ways. Look at the armed young drones on the police lines, in battle gear against a bunch of oldsters singing “hallelujah”:

(The following is, of course, both parody of, and homage to, Rimbaud’s Le bateau ivre)

Le drone saoul

As I came down the implausible currents,
Guided no more by the remote navigator’s digital code,
Slumped over their consoles, they were
Victims of a rage their instrumentation could not tame. read more…