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They' reslow, addict ive poisons.</p><p>Treatments</p><p>Well, it was ten years agowhen the blacks rioted overthe acquittal of the policewho so brutally beat RodneyKing, Hey, how come thejury did that'? I' ll bet you'venever heard the real story. Iknow I hadn't.</p><p>The acquittal was the resultof the jury seeing the entirevi deotape of the event, notjust the lill ie segment shownendless ly on TV. Yes, thenews shows had the wholetape to work with, but show-ing the whole thing wouldn'thave been as shocking (news-worthy).</p><p>(unless they bring back theirsalad bars).</p><p>Let's say you're a smallemployer like I was a whileback, I had about 250 em-ployees. Today I'd be payingabout $1 million in healthbenefits for them. Next yearit would be S1, 125,000,Would I buy 250 copies ofmy health guide at $20 awhack, a $5,000 outlay, in thehopes of cutting my healthcare bills'! In an instant. Fur-ther, I' d blow another $ 10 fora video of Wayne Green ex-plaini ng the benefits of chang-ing one's lifestyle. I'd also getrid of the candy and coffee ma-chines in the employees'lounge. I'd replace them withbowls of grapes, cherries,apples, etc. Oh, and watercoolers with big bottles ofdistilled water.</p><p>A bigger company's CEO,wi th 10,000 employees, facedwith spending $40 million ayear on health benefi ts (wh ichhave been lately goi ng up atabout S500 a year per em-ployce), might he in terestedin investing S1 20,000 (bulkdiscount) in my books to helphis employees be healthier. Ifnot, his hoard of directorsshould fire his ass becausethe savings would go ri ght tothe bottom line, increasingthe company's profi ts (and itsstock price).</p><p>Would corner bars li keCheers and Moe's be replacedby sashim i bars'? I sure hopeso.</p><p>So , do you kno w an ypubl isher inte res ted in abook which co uld be thebiggest se ller yet? In 50 orso languages?</p><p>Some thing's out of kilter.we're having marc volcanoeserupti ng today than ever inhistory. We're havi ng moreearthquakes. And the Sun ishaving the longest and mostintense sunspot pcriod in his-tory. Why, it's almost enoughto make even a scientist think.But, not quite.</p><p>The scientific establisbmemin every field tends to be al-most totall y immune to newideas or investigating anomalies.Al ways has been.</p><p>So, what's going on? Theidea that Planet X will becoming along in May and de-stroyi ng civilization is patentlyabsurd. Yes, the governmentis sti ll covering up AmeliaEarhart's disappearance, evenafter 65 years. And PresidentRoosevelt's masterminding thePearl Harbor anack for 61years. And the Roswell UFOcrash for 55 years. And thefaked Moon landi ngs fo r over30 years.</p><p>I wouldn't be such a worry-wart about the whole X dealif what's happening wasn'texactly what Nancy Leider(Zeratalk). 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