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This is how the banks OWN YOU !!!! You must read that.

2012-03-20T17:16:00.003-07:00

O.K. folks, I know I'm always stepping on people's feet but you know I love doing that. Well... you are slaves to the banks. Even if you are a "blue-collar worker" you are slaves to them. It is not your fault. There is not much you can do. With this video by Foster Gamble, a family member of the Proctor & Gamble Empire, he explains how hopeless it is to fight the monetary system we live in and HOW the world works with money. Very crucial.

Check it out yourself. Let me know what you think.

Guido

Toronto Car Show 2012

2012-02-26T22:42:00.000-08:00

DRUG (RX) MONEY: MAKING A KILLING

2011-11-25T14:20:00.001-08:00

The current health care system took root around the turn of the century when the AMA, Rockefeller Foundation, and Carnegie Foundation forged a partnership. They put their money into drug-based research and made that the main focus of “healthcare”. Since then, the Rockefellers and other prominent banking elite have been able to control and profit enormously from the drug industry. The AMA – which is the largest association of physicians in the U.S. – enforces the drug-treatment paradigm by heavily lobbying Congress and publishing one of the most influential journals, JAMA, which is largely funded by pharmaceutical advertisers. It is also engaged in suppressing alternative health treatments, such as the Royal Rife cancer cure.

Here’s a timeline detailing the suppression of alternative cancer cures and the Rockefeller Foundation’s role in shaping the healthcare industry:

1901 – Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Opens

Based out of New York, this became one of the most “richly endowed” research centers. By 1928, John D. Rockefeller had given it $65 million in endowment funds.[1] This later became Rockefeller University.

1910 – Flexner Report Published, Establishes New Standards For Medical Education

This highly influential report, sponsored by the Rockefeller’s and Carnegie Foundation, evaluated medical schools and restructured American medical education. It set up a new standard so that schools could only be accredited if they showed an emphasis in drug based research and treatment. Homeopathy and other alternative approaches to medicine were no longer recognized. Abraham Flexner, author of the report, was on the staff of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 1910, 161 medical schools existed. By 1919, there were only 81 left.[2]

1913 – Rockefeller Foundation Establishes the International Health Commission

This laid the foundation for how health and science research and development were to be conducted. Many of today’s health institutions were modeled on this commission’s practices, policies, and research processes such as the UN’s World Health Organization, the U.S. Government’s National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Health.

1918 – Public Health Becomes Rockefeller Foundation’s Top Priority

“The Foundation identifies public health education as one of its principal areas of interest, and builds and endows the first school of public health at Johns Hopkins University.”

1921 – Rockefeller Foundation Contributes $357 million [3] to Medical Schools Around the World

This spreads the drug-based approach to the most prominent schools around the world.

1922 – Dr. Royal Raymond Rife Begins Cancer Research

In the 1920s, Dr. Rife – a brilliant bacteriologist and former student of John Hopkins University – began researching and developing an alternative cancer cure.

1924 – Morris Fishbein Becomes Primary Editor of JAMA

JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, is one of the most influential medical journals in the world. As head of JAMA, Morris Fishbein, became one of most powerful, prominent men in medicine during the time. He transformed the industry into a money-making machine and used negative campaigns to squash competitors. He was one of the key figures to suppress Dr. Royal Rife’s cancer cure.

1924 – Harry Hoxsey Founds First Cancer Clinic in Taylorville, Illinois

Harry Hoxsey offers a natural herbal formula to cure cancer that thousands claim to have worked. This is the first of 17 clinics to eventually open.

1926 – JAMA Publishes First Tirade Against Hoxsey

The article scares doctors and researchers from being associated with Hoxsey.

1927 – John D. Rockefeller Jr. Gave the First of his Annual $60,000 Contribution to Memorial (Sloan-Kettering) Cancer Center

1932 – Dr. Rife Develops Cancer Cure

Dr. Rife developed a machine that could neutralize disease-causing micro-organisms, including cancer cells, with the use of frequencies.

1932 - Director of Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Thomas Rivers, Denies Success of Rife Cancer Treatment

In 1932, Dr. Arthur Kendall, director of Medical Research at Northwestern University, spoke before the Association of American Physicians at Johns Hopkins University about the preliminary successes with Rife's methods and treatments of cancer. Dr. Thomas Rivers, virologist and bacteriologist, director of the Rockefeller Institute (a primary source of funding for medical research) and Dr. Hans Zinsser, called Kendall a liar to his face in front of the assembled crowd.[4]

1934 - Rife’s Treatment Cures 16 Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

In 1934 at the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, Southern California, Rife conducted clinical trials on 16 terminally ill cancer patients, and successfully cured all of them. A team of medical specialists – including Dr. Milbank Johnson, Chairman of the Special Medical Research Committee of USC; George Fischer of the NY Children’s Hospital; and Dr. Wayland Morrison, the chief medical officer of the Santa Fe Railway – confirmed the findings.

1938 – The AMA Indicts Rife for Fraudulent Medical Practices

1939 – Philip Hoyland Files Suit Against Royal Rife’s Company, the Beam Ray Corporation

Philip Hoyland admitted to accepting a $10,000 bribe from Hahn Realty Group (AMA Agents) to sue the Beam Ray Corporation.

1939 – New Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Opens – John D. Rockefeller donated the land and provided $3 million of funding

1940s – Rife’s Work Is Destroyed & Continues to be Suppressed

1949 – Hoxsey Sues JAMA and Editors for Libel and Slander – Hoxsey Wins

1949 – Morris Fishbein is Ousted from AMA

1956 – FDA Issues Public Warning About Hoxsey Cancer Treatment

1960 – Hoxsey Method Banned in U.S. by the FDA

1960 – Laurance Rockefeller Serves as Chairman of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York from 1960-1982

This center is one of the most influential cancer centers in the world. During WWII it performed some of the first experiments applying chemical warfare weapons to the “treatment of cancer”, which evolved into chemotherapy.

1963 – Bio-Medical (Hoxsey) Center Opens in Tijuana, Mexico

It continues to operate and claims an 80% success rate.

1971 – President Nixon Declares a “War on Cancer”

Signs $1.6 billion law.

1977 – Sloan-Kettering Rejects Laetrile (derived from Apricot Kernels) as Effective Cancer Treatment

This is despite positive results from Sloan-Kettering’s own famous researcher, Kanematsu Suguira. In November of 1977 Dr. Ralph Moss, Assistant Director of public affairs at Sloan-Kettering, held a press-conference about the success and potential of laetrile, despite the centers desire to cover it up. Ralph Moss was fired the next day for “failing to carry out the most basic job responsibilities.”

1991 – Rockefeller Foundation Helps Start Children’s Vaccine Initiative

The Foundation joins with the United Nations Development Programme, UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank to form the Children’s Vaccine Initiative (CVI).

2010 – More Than Half a Million Americans Die of Cancer

What does YAHOO and GOOGLE stand for?

2011-02-02T14:00:00.001-08:00

I found an interesting and humorous topic to blog about today.

What does GOOGLE stand for?

The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.
After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'.

Sergey Brin - "We were thinking about very large numbers ... so we came up with the term "googol" which is the mathematical term for 10 to the hundredth (power). The correct spelling was g-o-o-g-o-l and I'm not sure that we realized that we had made a spelling error. But that was taken, anyway. There was this guy who'd already registered Googol.com, and I tried to buy it from him, but he was fond of it. So we went with Google."

What does YAHOO stand for?

There are unofficial explanations out there, so let me post one of the unofficial ones first, before I humor you with my opinion.

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human.Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

I think the above explanation is not true either. First, we know that yahoo is an expression used in Australia. There is even an artist Yahoo Serious, known for the movie "Einstein Junior". That's not it either. Here comes my crazy opinion and allegation towards Mr. Filo and Mr. Yang:

2011 years ago GOD, yes....the almighty GOD, told Abraham his real humanoid name. Which is spelled as YHAW and pronounced as "Yawheii". The Middle-Eastern at the time was ruled by Pharaohs and the once known Babilonians fled to a region, which is now known as Israel and Palastain. The Israelites, as they called themselves, changed the name of their GOD to YHA and this is pronounced as "YAHOO". So, there you go. Mr. Filo and Mr. Yang want to tell us, that THEY ARE GOD ! Perhaps...on the internet... until GOOGLE came along! LOL

Oh, now I have two more words for you: ELOHIM and JERIDOO. I will get into those to a later stage...but the second one Jeridoo I can explain with 100% certainty.

Cheers

Guido

The truth behind electric cars and their CO2 emission!

2010-08-16T14:03:00.001-07:00

Dear fellow reader, before you throw your hands up in the air due to outrage what Guido has to say again....let me first say: SORRY. I didn't mean to burst your bubble. Matter of fact, I am a BIG supporter of electric cars, after all they are faster than regular gas powered cars and some of them, like the TESLA Roadster are pretty darn sexy!

I have a great supporting video http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=376826002719 posted on my fanpage "Guido's Garage" on Facebook.

On that show made by "Top Gear", which is probably the best car show on the planet, you can watch a test between the new Lotus Elise vs. the Tesla Roadster. GAS power vs. ELECTRIC power. In short: The Tesla (which is based on the Lotus Elise, built in England then shipped without an engine to the States...) is super fast, matter of fact, it beats even most Ferrari's and Lamborghini's. From Zero to 60 mph in just about 3.9 seconds. WOW... I WANT ONE!

The Lotus Elise, which is lighter because it doesn't have the lithium batteries, is much more nimble and outdoes the Tesla with it's handling. So, all you car nuts, including myself, are pretty blown away by both cars!

Having said that there are many good reasons to buy a Tesla or any other electric car currently on the market and if you look at the new upcoming Tesla Sedan (see picture), you can now buy GOOD looking affordable electric cars. But my reason for buying an electric car is not to save the planet and producing less CO2 emission, it is to stop the "oil crises" and the wars over oil, therefore taking the fuel out of terrorists hands.....

"Click to view the new Tesla Sedan Picture"

Matter of fact, if you are concerned about protecting mother nature you SHOULD NOT buy an electric car at the moment. Here are two good reasons why not:

Production of Batteries:

Did you know that the nickel for cadmium batteries, a.k.a. NiCd is mined all over the world, but that the batteries used in the Tesla or the Toyota Prius Hybrid for that matter come from Canada and the United States. Cadmium is HIGHLY TOXIC, in fact it is so toxic that during the process of mining it many miners die and lose their life.

Then, this cadmium is being shipped by boat to Poland and Hungary, where in sometime less than super-modern factories the people prepare the cadmium, containing this toxic metal to be put into a charging process, which is called electrochemistry procedure. Once they are done doing that, they ship it by trucks through Russia to China (I don't want to know how many accidents happen on that 3'000 miles trip)

In China, some 30 cents an hour workers and most likely without any proper protection manufacture the actual batteries, which are then shipped to Japan (in case of the Prius) or back to the United States (in case of the Tesla), where they are being put into the cars.

IN FACT: You could have driven a Toyota Corolla with a 2 lt, 4-banger engine for 280'000 miles and would have produced the same amount of CO2 emission as this toxic battery for the Prius/Tesla produced!!! That is a FACT.

And, don't get me started on the issue of DISPOSING old batteries, which are clogging our landfills and are highly toxic waste.

TESLA vs. ELISE CO2 output

What CO2 output you might say on the TESLA? I am not talking about the manufacturing process of the vehicle, which by now has produced 280'000 miles full of CO2 for their batteries. NO, I am talking about another pretty dyer fact. Except you live in Switzerland where 70% of it's power comes from hydro-plants, 20% from nuclear plants and 10% from alternative like wind mills, you are probably living in a country that produces it's electricity from COAL.

What do you think happens when you burn COAL? Exactly, it produces CO2, tons of it! Did you know that in 2008 the world's combined energy consumption was 474 exajoules with 80 to 90 percent derived by fossil fuels like oil and coal? That is right, in many countries they burn oil to produce electricity.

In the test video, they drove both cars in California. The range of the Tesla was about 250 miles per charge and the range of the Elise was about 250 miles per tank as well. Both cars are equal there. A tank full of unleaded premium costs around $45 for the Elise and a full charge of 9 hours on the Tesla (with those outrages high electricity prices in CA) almost the SAME.

And now comes the bummer: 2/3 of California's electricity production comes from....COAL! The production of this power produces the SAME AMOUNT of CO2 as the Elise emits from it's unleaded fuel!!!

Does it make sense now to buy an electric car? Besides the unstable world politics and wars over oil, it truly doesn't make sense to spend the extra dough on an electric car!

What are our options? I tell you one thing, keep a close eye on AIR POWERED cars like the ones invented in FRANCE by MTB. You can fully drive any car purely powered by AIR, compressed air that is. I will pick up on that topic soon once I finished my research on it...but AIR is the future and perhaps some other electrical devices, like the one Nikolai Tesla invented 100 years ago called electromagnetism. (Rumors say he got assassinated for that invention...). By the way, it came to my attention that the inventor of the TESLA cars calls them after Nikolai Tesla...perhaps the company is on to "something" ???

Anyway, I have spoken my mind again. I don't want to discourage you from buying a Tesla or other electric vehicle, just think about where you live and where the power comes from. Put a solar cell on your roof to charge up your Tesla please!!!

It is NOT your fault !!!

2010-08-16T07:21:00.000-07:00

It's not bad enough that this whole Global Warming is a huge swindle. That we are being lied to my the governments who use the media to spread the lie to you...it comes even better: governments around the globe are forcing television networks to pull shows or threaten them that funding will dry up if certain shows will air. You want prove? Check out this interesting documentary which was made by British television ITV. It has been pulled off the air shortly after it aired. The producers have been sued and the scientists on the show have been cut off funding! And the producers were forced to call it a "mokumentary". Certain producers of the show are not producers anymore and are now cutting simple news somewhere in a rusty old outdated local television station! Speaking the truth will get you in trouble...."do not go against Goliath"...

http://www.jeridootv.com/the-great-global-warming-swindle.html

If you see how politics, money and global dominance interact with each other, then you will understand why "they" don't want us to know that there is NOTHING, absolutely nothing we can do about or against global warming. That in fact, we are not the cause and that in fact we could continue to burn all our fuels and drive our Hummer's all the freakin' long without making the slightest, not even a Millisecond of change on this global impact with our actions. By now, I must have pissed off all green people reading this...be pissed off...but not at me for spreading the truth, be pissed off at your governments who are fully and totally controlled by corporations. These mass manufacturer decide what we eat, drink, work, spend our money on and BELIEVE. They control the governments - all of them, even yours and I don't give a rats-ass where you live.

More than 20 years ago a British television channel made a documentary called "Stopping the Ice Age". You can view the 59 minute documentary right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGUMqBBbKqI

This documentary, just like the one above that aired ONE time in 2006 on ITV, has been shelved and just like so many other active challenged documentaries are faded away. Again, to prevent the viewers of learning the truth. You say...NO...the governments are trying to protect us of not letting us watch these harmful lying documentaries.

They are crab and they are not speaking the truth. So explain something to me please: How come both of the two documentaries have CREDITED scientists from America, England, Switzerland and other countries and how come they are explaining certain theories plausible and some not? How come we have found ample prove in our earth that these theories are true? All just a bunch of "humbug"? I don't think so!

How come these people are given a muzzle? They are being silenced. Let me explain a few major points our fellow scientists and journalists have known already more than 20 years ago.

- The CO2 that you are producing is doing VERY LITTLE to the global warming. I will get into that in a moment.

- The CO2 discussion is merely a HUGE PROPAGANDA, giving politicians the chance to build their career on it, because YOU ARE LISTENING.

- Media is merely a vehicle for large corporations and politicians to spread THEIR WORD, their believes and their propaganda. The Media is just passing it on to you without researching the FACTS of it. I can PROVE that, I work for several years for a leading media house!!! If they are being told that the sun shines BLUE now, they will pass that on to you without actually looking at the stars and the sun first...that's how bad it is!

What is going on on this planet? Have you noticed that it's not getting hotter anymore as of this and the last year? Let me tell you, the NEW ERA of the Ice Age HAS BEGUN. Here a little fact about our mother earth. Every 100'000 years the world goes into a deep, ice-cold ICE AGE. That is right, an ICE AGE. And it doesn't take thousands of years or even hundreds of years, no it takes about 30 years for the world to drop into the Ice Age.

After a cycle of of 90'000 years being stock in that wintry ice age era the world is starting to heat up, gradually heating up. Volcanoes are starting to erupt and release huge amounts of CO2. In fact our recent volcano EyJafijallajokull has released more CO2 in ONE DAY as all of Europe produced in the past 50 years. Therefore what makes you think really matters with out CO2 production? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I do support a few (just a few and this is a different topic) alternative power methods. But the reason for that is simple. First, we will run out of fossil fuel soon and we need fossil fuel to produce plastics and other materials. We don't really need fossil fuels to run cars and planes on it, for that we can use solar power or even PURE AIR (see the air car from France's MTB company). And another point I am trying to make is that with fossil fuel we are fueling worldwide terrorism and that is a pretty good reason to stop using it. But I certainly don't care if your Range Rover, Hummer, Cayenne or Helicopter is producing CO2...let it blow that out...doesn't make a difference.

But getting back in explaining you the Ice Age situation...It takes 10'000 years for the the world to warm up...welcome to the "stone age". That is when primitive homoerectus (about 180'000 years ago) starting becoming homosapien and we built create cultures: Inka, Maya, Sum'aria, Greek, Roman, Barbarian...and some of you are still Barbarian's...(just cheering you up...) Anyway...we are living in the "stone age" right now and it is starting to PEAK right now.

What are the signs of an ending stone age and beginning of an Ice Age you might ask? First of all the volcano's are erupting more frequently and the ice caps are melting rapidly, so are the glaciers. All this water has to go somewhere and creates floods, horrible floods. The inner core of the planet is at high peak temperature which makes the 7 plates worldwide move at a higher pace, not just centimeters a year, not try 30 centimeter a DAY. This global movement causes earth quakes worldwide, creates climate problems and creates increasingly more hurricanes, typhoons and storms.

And the excessive CO2 creates like a shield around the globe, putting our world into a dry season. A worldwide drought, you may say. And then wildfires are starting to burn off the mineral depleted forest worldwide, again releasing more CO2, creating a stronger shield and therefore heating up more...

But we have all this already, to the most part, behind us. What the governments don't want you know is that we CANNOT do anything about it. And that it's not 5 minutes before 12, no it's 15 minutes past 12! The train has left the station....the boat sailed without you!

But instead of trying to find a way how to prepare the public to what it's coming they are hiding behind a mask of lies. They don't really have a solution, we are not powerful as we wish to be. We are not living in a movie where we can build arches and boats to avoid what's really coming. And what is coming? Never mind the coalition of the planets and the polar shift situation, which is overdue for 3000 years and is a whole different animal by itself and a pure coincidence that ICE AGE and Polar Shift are about to happen....no....all this water from the ice caps has to go somewhere...so it floods your cities and your countries. (Just take a look at Pakistan this month).

But all this water will not just stay. The sun will evaporate the water and build up MASSIVE storms (Hurricane Andrew and Katrina were like walks in a park)....and these MASSIVE storms will hit every country (just take a look at Switzerland in the last few years). They will release major amounts of water and the clouds will COOL OFF, yes - you are reading this right...COOL OFF the atmosphere and it will start to snow. And it will snow even more and more. The Ice Caps are coming back and with them the ICE AGE. We will have constant ICE and SNOW all the way to the Ecuador! And for the next 90'000 years we will live in this constant ICE AGE. Animals will die, Humans will die and it will be the largest genocide on mankind, right after the upcoming HUNGER GENOCIDE the world is facing.

I am full of sh&^%(t? I don't think so. These are PROVEN facts that we have this cycle. There is nothing we can do about. We can stretch it out by reducing CO2 output, but that will buy us maybe 10 years. Or we can re-mineralize the world (see video), but this was never done as it looked far fetched and not PROFITABLE enough to the corporations. We rather just hack down all trees!

More than 20 years ago the scientist in this old, banned and vanished video told us exactly this. They said, within the next 25 years this will start to shift. And look at what's going on? Wildfires in Russia, Volcanoes worldwide erupting, plates are moving causing earthquakes in Mexico, Turkey, Haiti just to mention a few, floods in Europe (France got majorly hit, Switzerland and Germany), earthquakes in Canada, East Coast, more tremors on the West Coast of America!, floods in Pakistan and ASIA...

DROUGHTS in Australia for 7 years now, Droughts in Africa, cooler summers (Europe is having the coolest summer in history right now). Increase of Hurricane's (I know what I am saying, had to live through 12 Hurricanes). Orcans in Europe and typhoons in West Australia (that's new...HELLO!!!). So...it is happening right now.

I am going to dig out my snow boots now and get ready for the big climate shift. Time to buy those Matracks and stack up on fire wood!

The Global Warming and CO2 Lobbying is a bunch of none sense. Instead of think about what we should have done and instead of tyring to invent things (electric cars and stuff) that will NOT CHANGE THE OUTCOME, we should be MORE PROACTIVE and find out how we can live with the upcoming ICE AGE. How do we need to build our homes, where do we need to build them. Is POLAR shift that imminent that we have to move to other continents? These are the questions we have to ask ourselves. Instead of fighting useless wars, which are funded by governments but fought for us by private armies like the one from Colonel Spicer, which has HQ in Basel Switzerland and has 20'000 mercenaries fighting "our wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan and breaking every rule coming from the Geneva Convention, we should use these BILLIONS of tax payers money and fund science to help us DEAL with the Ice Age.

One day, they will find a dusted old computer with my blog on it and say..."Shit...we should have listened and acted."

BOTH VIDEOS RIGHT HERE EMBEDDED:

Wahr ist das Gegenteil - Medien Masse Manipulation

2010-08-05T14:39:00.000-07:00

Wir leben, um es gleich zu Beginn und möglichst deutlich auszudrücken, seit dem Durchbruch des Neoliberalismus in einer Weltvoller falscher und verdrehter Bilder, die wir infolge ihrer stündigen Wiederholung als kollektive Wahrheiten akzeptiert haben. Fast pausenlos werden wir sowohl zur besten Sendezeit als auch in kurzen Nebensätzen mit Behauptungen eingedeckt, die wir - weil scheinbar alle mit ihnen einverstanden sind - gar nicht mehr als solche erkennen. Zum Beispiel:

* Konkurrenzkampf ist natürlich, bringt Fortschritt und erhöht die Effizienz.

Halbwahrheit. Richtig ist: Die Kooperation (von Zellen zu Organen, Organen zu Organismen, Organismen zu Gesellschaften) ist der Hauptmotor der Entwicklung in unserem Universum, Konkurrenz und Selektion fiir ein reibungsloses Laufen dieses Motors.

* Der Islam macht Menschen gefährlich und intolerant:

Krasse Verallgemeinerung, in etwa so wahr wie die Behauptung, alle Christen seien potenzielle Kreuzzügler.

* Geld arbeitet und vermehrt sich selbst:

So real wie das Rascheln in Banktresoren.

* Terrorismus ist real:

Verdrehte Wahrheit. Zum einen ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, im Flugzeug einem Terroranschlag
zum Opfer zu fallen 21 mal geringer als von einem Blitz erschlagen zu werden (www.fivethirtyeight.com). Zum andern wachsen die Hinweise auf geheimdienstliche Unterstützung von Terrorgruppen langsam zur Sicherheit. Richtig wäre:
Terrorismus ist gewollt und gemacht.

* Demokratische Regierungen tun, was ihre Wähler wollen.

Stimmt höchstens vor Wahlen.

* Geld macht glücklich:

Verkürzte Halbwahrheit. Wahr ist: Erzwungene Armut macht unglücklich.

* Kontrolle erhöht Sicherheit.

Halbrichtig. Ganz richtig ist: Vertrauen erhöht Sicherheit.

* Privatisierung steigert die Effizienz.

Neoliberaler Nonsense, wie eine mittlerweile lange Reihe von Privatisierung von Bahnen,
Elektrizitätswerken, Wasserversorgungen etc. zeigt.

* Not ist selbst verschuldet:

Teilwahrheit. Richtig ist: Wir leben in einem System krasser Umverteilungvon Arbeitenden
zu Besitzenden.

* Die Wissenschaft hat Recht.

Manchmal ja, aber: Die Wissenschaft serviert aufgrund ihres mechanistischen Weltbildes
immer nur Teilerkenntnisse über Teilsysteme. Zudem ist der Wissenschaftsbetrieb, wie man immer zunehmend feststellen muss, extrem betrugs- und korruptionsanfällig.

* Wohlstand gibt es nur gegenharte Arbeit.

Biblischer Mythos...Richtig ist: In einem gerechten, zinsfreien Geldsystem
müssen wir für denselben Lebensstandard zwei bis drei Stunden täglich arbeiten.

Die Reihe liesse sich fast beliebig fortsetzen. In ihrer Summe erzeugen diese Bilder und Behauptungen einen irregeleiteten Menschen, eine konstruierte Wirklichkeit, eine Matrix, in der wir uns freiwillig so verhalten, wie es von uns gewünscht wird. Denn diese Bilder, da brauchen wir uns keinen Illusionen hinzugeben, sind mit grossen Umschichtungen von Macht und Werten verbunden. Jede einzelne der oben erwähnten Behauptungen nützt ganz bestimmten Personengruppen und schadet anderen. Es sind, wie Sie unschwer selber feststellen können, immer dieselben, die von ihnen profitieren. In ihrer letzten Konsequenz laufen diese Bilder darauf hinaus, dass wir das aufgeben, was uns Menschen vom Tier unterscheidet: den freien Willen. Damit ist ausdrücklich auch der demokratisch gebildete kollektive Wille gemeint. In den meisten Fällen werden diese Behauptungen nicht von den Massenmedien in die Welt gesetzt, aber von ihnen durch unkritische Wiederholung in unsere Köpfe verpflanzt. Was den Behauptungen widerspricht, wird entweder verschwiegen oder lächerlich gemacht. Natürlich lässt sich diese Hypothese anhand der genannten Beispiele nicht in einem Blog dieser Länge beweisen. Aber wir haben einen Kronzeugen der Medienmanipulation:

Der 11. September zeigt, wie weit die Konstruktion einer falschen Realität gehen kann... und wie unbegreiflich irrational sich die Medien verhalten. Die Beweise, dass die drei Türme gesprengt wurden und nicht einfach einer Terrorattacke zum Opfer fielen, sind heute überwältigend. Sie reichen von Funden von Spezialsprengstoff und geschmolzenem Stahl (brennendes Flugpetrol kann Stahl nicht schmelzen), über sauber getrennte Stahlträger (wie bei einer kontrollierten Sprengung) bis zu hunderten von Zeugen aus dem World Trade Center, die Explosionen direkt gehört haben. Eine halbe Stunde Internet-Recherche (von den zahlreichen Büchern und Filmen ganz zu schweigen) reicht aus, um sich mit Ersthand-Informationen einzudecken, die nur einen Schluss zulassen:

Die offizielle Erklärung mit der Verschwörung neunzehn islamischer Terroristen ist falsch. Und was tun die Medien in globaler Einhelligkeit? Wenn sie über Kritik an der offiziellen Erklärung überhaupt berichten, stellen sie diese als Phantasie von Verschwörungstheoretikern dar. Dabei hat dieses Ereignis und seine offizielle Darstellung den Gang der Geschichte stärker beeinflusst als jeder andere Vorfall seit dem Abwurf der Atombomben auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki. Der 11. September war der Auftakt zum Krieg gegen den Terror mit einer drastischen Einschränkung der Bürgerrechte in zahlreichen Ländern, mit den zwei Kriegen gegen Afghanistan und Irak und einem massiven Ausbau der Kontrolle auf zahlreichen Ebenen. Das Unvermögen der Massenmedien bei der Aufklärung des 11. September ist nicht einfach eine bedauerliche Fehlleistung, sondern ein kapitales Versagen, das ihre Existenzberechtigung in Frage stellt.

Anstatt die Öffentlichkeit im Bemühen um Wahrheit über alles Wichtige umfassend zu informieren, streuen uns die Massenmedien Sand in die Augen, verschweigen das Wesentliche, übertreiben nebensächliche Gefahren und lenken uns mit Seichtigkeiten ab. Der 11. September ist bei weitem nicht das einzige Thema, bei dem die Massenmedien in tragischer Konsequenz versagten, aber das deutlichste Beispiel. Unentschuldbare Fehlleistungen mit globalen Folgen leisteten sich die Massenmedien auch bei der Schweinegrippe oder der Finanzkrise.

Wer sich um die Details kümmerte, dem war schon im letzten Juni klar, dass die Ausrufung der höchsten Pandemie-Stufe ein Humbug war. Die Finanzkrise konnte nur <überwunden> werden, weil die Medien die Beruhigungspillen der Staatenlenker und der Bankenwelt bereitwillig weiterreichten und mit massiv geschonten Zahlen anrichteten.Daneben gibt es auch vitale Themen, über die die Massenmedien weder falsch, noch einseitig, sondern gar nicht berichten:

über die Geldschöpfung, von der Henry Ford sagte, es würde morgen eine Revolution ausbrechen, wenn die Leute wüssten, wie sie funktioniert

über die verheerende langfristige Wirkung des Zinses als Motor des Wachstumszwangs und der gigantischen Umverteilung von Arbeitenden und Besitzenden,

über geheime Treffen und Absprachen selbsternannter globaler Führer, den Bilderbergern zum Beispiel,

über die Kontrolle des internationalen Drogenhandels durch Geheimdienste, nach dem Erdöl der umsatzstärkste Rohstoff und eine gigantische Finanzierungsquelle für klandestine Vorhaben aller Art.

Ein derartiges Informations- und Meinungskartell hat sich nur aufbauen können, weil die globalen Nachrichtenagenturen, die grossen Verlage mit den weltweiten Leitmedien und die Konzerne mit den entscheidenden Werbeetats heute von ein paar Dutzend gut vernetzten Individuen kontrolliert werden. Es sind - kein Zufall - dieselben. die von der Verbreitung der neoliberalen Behauptungen am meisten profitieren. In ihren Think Tanks werden die eingängigen Begriffe geprägt, mit denen Kriege als "friendssicherenden Massnahmen" verkauft werden, von da aus wird die Erde mit Falschinformationen geflutet (wie die falsch übersetzten Zitate Achmadinedschad), die später nicht mehr aus der Welt zu schaffen sind. Da werden die Themen gesetzt, die die andern aufgreifen müssen. Wer ausschert, wird abgestraft. verliert Werbegelder und Zugang zu Informationsquellen. Kleine Medien dürfen weiterhin

Es gibt heute viel mehr PR-Leute, Spin-Doctors und Medienbeauftragte als Journalisten, die zudem den grössten Teil ihrer Zeit mit der Nachbearbeitung des Materials verbringen, das ihnen die PR-Industrie auf den Bildschirm liefert. Im Wesentlichen arbeiten sie für die Informationsindustrie und deren Interessen und nicht für die Leser.

Warum sind wir so leicht zu belügen und warum hat die Wahrheit in der Welt der Irrlehren einen so schweren Stand?

Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, müssen wir weit in die Geschichte zurückgehen. Die Menschen am Anfang unserer Zivilisation bezogen ihr Weltbild im Wesentlichen

aus den Primärerfahrungen, die sie selber erlebt, gesehen, gerochen oder sonstwie mit ihren Sinnen wahrgenommen hatten. Mit fortlaufender Geschichte und der Entwicklung

neuer Medien wuchs der Anteil der Sekundärerfahrungen gegenüber dem eigenen Erleben, und so besteht unser Bild der Welt heute grösstenteils aus Informationen, die wir über die Schule, aus Büchern, Filmen, Massenmedien und andere indirekte Kanälen aufgenommen haben.

Diese Bilder haben einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Art, wie wir die Welt wahrnehmen. Eine Reihe von Wahrnehmungsgesetzen regelt die Aufnahme und Einordnung der Sinnesreize, denn der Mensch hat ein überlebenswichtiges Interesse daran, jedem Reiz möglichst schnell einen übergeordneten Sinn zuzuordnen und allenfalls zu handeln: Brummen - Bär - Gefahr - Flucht.

Deshalb versuchen wir dauernd, uns auf alles einen Reim zu machen. Die falsche Interpretation der Signale wurde dabei von der Evolution viel weniger hart bestraft als der Verzicht auf eine Sinngebung: Zehnmal unnötigerweise wegen eines knackenden Astes im Wald davonzurennen ist gesünder, als es ein einziges entscheidendes Mal zu unterlassen und vom Bär verspiesen zu werden. Deshalb sind aus Sicht der Evolutionserfahrung falsche Bilder besser als gar keine.

Und noch etwas können wir an diesem Beispiel erkennen:

Bilder der Angst haben einen privilegierten Zugang, während Bilder der Sicherheit, ist das Urvertrauen einmal verloren, eine detaillierte Auseinandersetzung mit der Situation erfordern - zu viel für den gestressten Menschen von heute.

Bilder beeinflussen uns immer und überall, individuell und kollektiv. Wenn wir zum Beispiel vor einem Menschen gewarnt werden, treten wir ihm mit Misstrauen gegenüber und die Begegnung wird wahrscheinlich weniger erfreulich, als wenn wir unvoreingenommen oder gar mit freudiger Erwartung auf ihn zugegangen wären. Das vorgefertigte Bild beeinflusst aber auch unser Gegenüber:

Vielleicht legt es die finstere Miene ab, wenn wir ihm mit einem Lächeln begegnen. Der Mechanismus spielt ebenfalls auf kollektiver Ebene:

Wenn wir als Volk von der Schlechtigkeit eines anderen überzeugt sind, werden wir aggressiven Massnahmen leichter zustimmen, auch wenn die meisten das Land und seine Bewohner gar nicht kennen. Und umgekehrt wird dieses negative Bild das Verhalten des betreffenden Staates noch verschärfen. Der Konflikt eskaliert.

Unsere Bilder sind zudem nie komplett. Sie setzen sich aus ein paar entscheidenden Mosaiksteinen zusammen, denen wir neue Elemente und Informationen ohne lange Prüfung zuordnen. Die Stimme einer fürsorglichen Mutter signalisiert dem Baby , was immer sie sagen mag. Der entscheidende Punkt dabei: Ein paar Schlüsselreize reichen aus , um ein Bild nach einem plausiblen Muster zu vervollständigen. Und dann sehen wir, woran wir uns gewöhnt haben oder was wir sehen sollen - die Wirklichkeit dahinter bleibt verborgen. Trotzdem bestimmen diese verzerrten und zum Teil regelrecht falschen Bilder in einem entscheidenden Ausmass den Verlauf unseres Lebens und - auf der kollektiven Ebene - den Lauf der Geschichte.

Die Gesetze der Wahrnehmung sind auch denen bekannt, die auf Teufel komm raus wachsen, Profite erzielen und ihre Macht erweitern müssen. So haben wir als Kollektiv unter dem Einfluss des Neoliberalismus ein vollkommen verdrehtes Weltbild verinnerlicht, ein Bild des Mangels, des alles umfassenden Konkurrenzkampfes, des Konflikts zwischen Völkern und Religionen, der allgegenwärtigen Bedrohungen und - nicht zuletzt - Bilder von falschen Rettern. Wer Mangel befürchtet, wird raffen - und damit den Mangel verstärken. Völker mit eingebildeten Ängsten werden eingebildete Führer wählen - und schliesslich reale Kriege führen.

In ihrer Summe sind die Massenmedien nicht nur nutzlos, sondern schädlich. In ihrer Essenz entwerfen sie eine Welt, deren Gegenbild der Wahrheit näher ist. Wer schon einmal eine Mediendiät durchgeführt hat, weiss: Man lebt heute besser, wenn man weniger weiss, wenn die falschen Sekundär- und Tertiärerfahrungen durch unmittelbare Wahrnehmung und direktes Erleben ersetzt werden.

Der Mensch ist kein Einzelwesen, das für sich allein glücklich wird, schon gar nicht, wenn die Welt ringsum im Morast versinkt. Wir brauchen einander, nicht nur als Nachbarn, auch als Mitbürger im Staat und als Mitmenschen auf der Erde. Deshalb brauchen wir Medien, die uns verbinden. Nicht trennen.

Nude/Art/Akt Photography vs. Erotic/Pornographic/Sexually Explicit Photography and youTube's weak policy!!!

2010-06-27T14:19:00.000-07:00

Usually I don’t just go out and start writing about every issue, but this issue with youTube bothers me a little, as they deleted one of my videos....
This was the video they deleted:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/video/video.php?v=402477212719&ref=mf

What happened? One of my little side-businesses is promoting Switzerland’s, strike that..., Europe’s most renowned photographer, Philipp Marfurt, who is best known for his AKT Photography. Akt Photography is also known in the States as “nude”, or “art” photography. I copied youTube’s Community Guidelines below for your reference.

There are two distinguished categories:

AKT/ART/NUDE Photography
and
EROTIC/NAKED/PORNOGRAPHIC Photography

Here is just ONE reference from wikipedia.org about nude/art/akt photography:

Nude photography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A nude photograph by Félix-Jacques Moulin from the early 1850s

Nude photography is a style of art photography which depicts the nude human body as a study. Nude photography should be distinguished from erotic photography, which has a sexually suggestive component. Nude photography should also be distinguished from glamour photography, which places more emphasis on the model and her/his sexuality, and treats the model as the primary subject.

Many photographers consider an art nude photograph to be a one that studies the human body, rather than the person. A photograph of a person that is meant to be recognized is called a portrait, and nude photographs often do not show a face at all. Nude photography is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. As an art form, nude photography is a stylized depiction of the nude body with the line and form of the human figure as the primary objective. Photographers sometimes use extremes of light and shadow, oiled skin, and shadows falling across the body to show texture and structure of the body.

Now that we are all aware of the “official” terms of nude/akt/art photography I wonder why someone on youTube marked my video as “offensive” or “inappropriate”. Actually, beside the “red color flagged” email from youTube, I felt like screaming out load...”what a freakin’ idiot!” to this unknown person who flagged it.

There is absolutely nothing “sexually explicit” or “pornographic” on the art I posted. Let’s analyze what the world outside youTube’s weak guidelines explains:

nude/art/akt: Concentrates on showing the human naked body as a STUDY. A FORM. It concentrates on the art of the picture (shadows, light, concealment, study) and not onto the specific sexual emphasis on the model itself. In most cases, you cannot even see the models face. nude/art/akt photography also rarely shows ANY GENITALS, so you won’t see a Penis, erect or not erect or a woman’s vagina. You might see a woman’s bare breasts, again (look that one up too) breasts are NOT genitals, so they don’t qualify.

The fact that strippers in America put little stars on their breasts has nothing to do with “official” declaration of what portrays nude/nudity or erotic/sexually explicit / porn. Therefore, even under the form of NUDE/ART/AKT you should be able to show a models bare breasts. It is simply a custom to avoid being attacked on the net, as I was, to color-out the nipples or put little tiny stars on the nipples! Oh, last time I was sitting next to woman in the airplane (I had no other way to go then...) and she breast-fed her baby and, oh by gosh..., everybody was able to see her nipple!!! And...thinking of how far some Americans take that issue *** they might soon see this as pornographic, perhaps even as child-porn.
*** in 2003 some Floridian group tried to outlaw mothers breast nursing/feeding their children in public places!

I want to explain here, that non-prude Europeans don’t even see a non-erect man’s penis or even a woman’s vagina violating the nude/art/akt declaration. However, Philipp Marfurt never shows/showed in any of his art pictures genitals. Even if due to technique of the taking the picture said genitals would show up, they have been retouched and removed. So, you won’t see a vagina or penis, ever!

Here is an example of a NUDE/ART/AKT Photography:

Clearly you can see this as an artistic play, a stylized depiction of a nude art model.....

So, you may ask, what is (as stated below by youTube) sexually explicit and pornographic? Let’s take the later one first (it’s easier to distinguish)...pornographic: Do I really have to spell that one out for you? I guess not, but even a woman touching herself on her vagina, or a man doing the same...well I guess that is pornographic. Or a woman posing and EXPOSING her vagina clearly, that is boarder line pornographic. Of course, as explained on Wiki, any ACT of sexuality (I will refrain from spelling them out...) are pornographic. What about the Playboy Magazine? It is clearly EROTIC and SEXUALLY EXPLICIT material (see below) but also a hint of NUDE/ART. Let’s take a look at Hustler Magazine...well....EROTIC my friends, clearly! I guess you start understanding the two differences....I hope.

Now comes “Sexually Explicit”. That is PORTRAYING the ACT of sexuality. Being in an act alone or an act with another person...A couple kissing (lip-locked), two women or two men kissing...that is sexually explicit...anything beyond that might not just be EROTIC, it soon falls into pornographic...again...make your own picture...

What about this Philipp Marfurt Picture?

NO, this is not a sexually explicit picture!

What about this?

NO, AGAIN! Yes, it’s a nice pose, but it does not depict a sexual position, nor does it show the model’s sexuality in any form, it’s not a glamour photo either (you can’t tell who she is...) and not a portrait photo. It is clearly the photographer’s choice to show the LINES of the model’s body. Specifically in that case: Philipp Marfurt worked here with the black/white shadows, lights and forms of the human body! Clear cut case again....at least to someone with a normal brain!

I could show you tons of examples, but again, they are all NUDE/ART/AKT. Let me show the difference....

SEXUALLY EXPLICIT:

(This is a case to argue about: But, you can clearly tell/see the models face and the pose is a sexual explicit pose. Plus the model speaks directly to YOU, the viewer and this is clearly not considered a “study”....so stop studying the picture...LOL)

PORTRAIT (which stills falls under nude/art/akt as long as you can’t see more than that....)
Why is this considered PORTRAIT? Because the picture clearly emphasizes on the MODEL.

Nevertheless, all the pictures you have seen on this blog are NOT pornographic and only one is sexually explicit!

I must admit, that this is a tricky discussion and I would love to hear your take on it. I also respect everybodys own opinion and some people feel disturbed about certain things easier than others. Specially if we are talking about sex, nudity, erotic....

So, I posted a CLEAR CUT NUDE/ART video of Philipp’s work today. Check it out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k7CQrOrqUE

This video shows beautiful model’s with their instruments. For now, I just hope nobody finds that PORNOGRAPHIC or SEXUALLY EXPLICIT, because if they do...then there is something seriously wrong with them !!!!

I am also frustrated about youTube’s WEAK policy. They claim, that they watch every video to make sure it is in violation with the guidelines, but I guess they don’t do that. Nor, can the owner of the video actually plea his case to youTube. That simply sucks. I am also frustrated about it, because I found other videos under “art photography” showing women with cut-open, bleeding heads, half-dead, being strangled, hung on their head, pushed under water to suficate....they are ALL o.k. to youTube...I guess as long as you don’t see their breasts hanging out...(it is sad...)

You can buy videogames where you kill hookers (oh, they are just hookers, never mind then...) and shot children.....again...as long as you cannot see a beautiful woman lying half naked on the beach...because that is sooooo unnatural and wrong!

Perhaps it’s just me who feels that some of our rules and ethics are weird...who knows...

YouTube Community Guidelines

(copied from youtube on the 27th of June 2010)

Respect the YouTube Community

We're not asking for the kind of respect reserved for nuns, the elderly, and brain surgeons. We mean don't abuse the site. Every cool new community feature on YouTube involves a certain level of trust. We trust you to be responsible, and millions of users respect that trust. Please be one of them.

Don't Cross the Line

Here are some common-sense rules that will help you steer clear of trouble:

YouTube is not for pornography or sexually explicit content. If this describes your video, even if it's a video of yourself, don't post it on YouTube. Also, be advised that we work closely with law enforcement and we report child exploitation. Please read our Safety Center and stay safe on YouTube.
Don't post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making.
Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don't post it.
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Respect copyright. Only upload videos that you made or that you are authorized to use. This means don't upload videos you didn't make, or use content in your videos that someone else owns the copyright to, such as music tracks, snippets of copyrighted programs, or videos made by other users, without necessary authorizations. Read our Copyright Tips for more information.
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Please take these rules seriously and take them to heart. Don't try to look for loopholes or try to lawyer your way around the guidelines—just understand them and try to respect the spirit in which they were created. If you'd like more details, check out our Community Guideline Tips.

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The Last Great 'Lost' Debate: Falling sideways

2010-05-31T16:36:00.001-07:00

Great disussion about the final show of "Lost" posted on Zap2it/Jeridoo. I thought it's great to pass it on.

As we enter the final week of new content here on the "Lost" blog, I wanted to touch base once again with my Zap2it colleague, Rick Porter. He's been kind enough to offer his thoughts on the series throughout the course of Season 6, and I'd be remiss if I didn't check in with him one last time. He's been busy with a million different things here on the site, but he was generous to share some thoughts about the finale, the sideways world, and the series as a whole.

Ryan McGee: OK, Rick, we're a week out from the "Lost" finale, and clearly, the debate around the sideways world's true nature hasn't died yet. In fact, I'm pretty sure that most future discussions about the show will HAVE to include some mention of this reveal as part of their overall analysis of "Lost" as a whole. I've spent the better part of the week trying to flesh out my interpretation of what I saw, but before getting into our debate about how the sideways-world-as-psychic-holding-ground will ultimately define the show, I was hoping to hear your perspective as you watched on Sunday night.

Rick Porter: I've said in these debates, in other writing I've done about the show, to friends and to the wall that my primary hope for the end of the series was that it be true to its characters, and I think the finale hit that mark extremely well. So I left the show largely satisfied -- if a little confused by the final images of the Oceanic 815 wreckage over the credits (which, we've since learned, was a bad call on ABC's part and not anything intentional by Cuse and Lindelof). I share the general concerns about plot holes vis-à-vis the sideways world, but so far they haven't overtaken (or really come close to overtaking) my appreciation for the emotional weight of what we watched.

But yeah -- it feels like it's important to hash out those gaps. My semi-formed notion about the purpose of the sideways world for the characters is that, however it came into being, it was a way to get everyone to see how much they meant to one another. Whether it did that for us in the audience is, naturally, up for discussion, but that's where I am at the moment.

RM: As I soak in the finale more and more, I find myself thinking more about those still in that spiritual weigh station far more than those that sat in the church at the end. After all, the sideways world didn't end with that white light for those outside the church. To me, that speaks volumes about two central tenets of the show: atonement and community.

Let's start with atonement: having Ben outside the church gave us two achingly lovely moments, one with Locke and one with Hurley. The first one gave something to Ben that he desperately needed: forgiveness. It wasn't enough to make him feel ready to move on, but it was a step in the right direction. The everyday struggles that these characters subconsciously put themselves through were related to the amount of guilt and unfounded desires with which they died. For instance, Sayid decided to punish himself, taking everyone's "you're a killer" opinion to heart even into the afterlife. For his part, Ben took care of his ailing father in the sideways world, itself a type of penance that made up for his guilt over his father's murder in Dharmaville that simultaneously ensured a lack of happiness in his own sideways existence. But even doing that wasn't enough to make up for the genocide that was The Purge, never mind a host of other atrocities committed during his time as Island Leader Pretend.

Now, to the second part: community. So much of what we know about Ben Linus stems from his consummate position as outsider, even while ensconced within large social groups. Not to bring up The Episode That Should Not Be Named, but I have to think that the message on Jack's tattoo ("He walks among us, but he is not one of us") equally applies to Ben as well. What does he want, above all else? A family. But he raises a daughter that's not his own while surrounded by people who fear, rather than love, him. His father figure, Jacob, won't speak to him. And he's willing to side with The Man in Black because, "He's the only one that will have me." So for Hurley to give Ben a seat at the table during his Island reign is important, and clearly heals a lot of Ben's wounds. But not all of them.

All this leads to something I think intrinsic to the sideways world: You cannot leave it alone. Maybe you don't need the love of your life, but you need the love of another to fully let go. What does Ben do now? Eloise? What do these brokenhearted, yet fully awake, people do after the Lostaways have gone?

RP: You make an excellent point. One of the big questions about the final scenes was, "Why wasn't [Michael/Walt/Ana Lucia/insert character name here] in the church?" But the more I've thought about the sideways world, the more I've come to believe that it wasn't just Jack's life passing before his eyes. Because A) that part of the story was told from multiple points of view, and B) and more important, I don't think it's that narrow a construct. Ben's sitting outside the church means he's not ready to go yet, and so maybe he'll go back to being Dr. Linus, continuing to take care of his dad and keeping tabs on his prized student Alex, maybe even continuing a relationship with Danielle. Maybe that's his way out.

I think that interpretation of Sidewaysland also explains why Eloise Hawking was so desperate to keep the others (if not the Others) from waking up. She's not ready to face up to what she did to her son -- not just the fact that she shot him on the Island, but for the way that she raised him and the things she did to him as an adult. So of course she would want to hold onto this idealized existence, one where Daniel's (more or less) happy and well-adjusted and she can push her guilt down. If she can't get past that, she may never move on, but if she can -- which is to say, she'll have to forgive herself before seeking the love of any others -- then maybe she can move on. Or maybe not. I haven't really thought of that place as a type of purgatory, but for some of these characters, that may be just what it is.

The other thing that's been occupying my mind since the finale was Desmond's reaction to NOT getting to the sideways world after he unplugged the Cave of Light. That, for me, was one of the more intriguing twists in the finale as it suggested that the Desmond in the Island world, like us in the audience, didn't quite know what to make of the sideways world. I don't think that detracts any from his "specialness"; rather, my feeling is that Island Desmond saw it as a place where nothing would interfere with his relationship with Penny, whereas the Island represented nothing but interference. He needed that community -- Hurley and Ben, in this case -- to help him "move on" in his own life, and his presence in the church indicated that he got there eventually.

I could probably, in fact, go all fanfic on how Des got off the Island and got back to Penny and little Charlie, but I won't (at least not here). But it's nice to think that once those who survived did get home, that they were better for their time on the Island, isn't it?

RM: See, I LOVED that Sideways Des and Island Des were actually trying to accomplish two very different things. It's almost as if Island Des was suddenly in "Flash Forward," only it was a version of "Flash Forward" that wasn't terrible and didn't make me want to beat my head against a wall. He had a vision, but didn't have the full picture. If anything, it made him less of a narrative shortcut and more of a human being for me, and I'm perfectly fine with that. We've talked in the past about the "Des ex machina," effect, and in some ways, having Island Des actually have the wrong idea played off audience expectations in a nice way.

My take on Eloise: something woke her up, but she's so scared of what lies beyond her current status that she's happy to maintain a fragile, false existence in the sideways world rather than risk losing him again. I love the idea of Daniel forgiving her at some point, but that's something that can linger in my mind as opposed to ever be answered in a future article, book, panel, or DVD extra.

In fact, I'm ready to do something that the characters in the show did in the final episode: let go. Maybe more "answers" will come in some ancillary form, but for me, "Lost" consists of the sum total of episodes aired on ABC between 2004-2010. It's over, and while it's nice to think about interpretations at this point as opposed to theories, interpretations are intensely personal. We've watched "Lost" together, but in some ways, we can only determine what the show means (as a whole) alone. Any final thoughts on the show as a whole before we end this final debate?

RP: So what you're saying is "Watch together, think alone"? I think I can get behind that, actually. One of the things that made "Lost" special outside of its creative heights was the community of devoted fans it created. That's not unique in the Internet age, but over six years I got a ton of enjoyment out of talking about the show with you and other Losties -- and the ideas and thoughtful responses the show provoked in others added to my own enjoyment of it

I'm pretty well ready to let go too -- and exceedingly glad that "Lost" got to end on its own terms. (Let's give a note of thanks for that to, yes, "Stranger in a Strange Land," which Lindelof and Cuse have said provided ABC with motivation to accept the end-date idea.) This is a show that goes into my personal pantheon, and I'm walking away with a lot of good memories of it.

RM: And I'll be walking away with a lot of good memories of these debates over the course of the final season. On behalf of the readers, namaste, Rick!

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Dennis Hopper dies at 74

2010-05-29T13:40:00.001-07:00

Actor Dennis Hopper has finally succumbed to his battle with prostate cancer at the age 74. According to KTLA, the actor died at his Venice, CA home early Saturday morning, May 29. He was surrounded by family and friends.

Hopper is best known for writing, directing and starring in "Easy Rider" and for his roles in "Blue Velvet" and "Hoosiers." He received Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay for "Easy Rider" and Best Supporting Actor for "Hoosiers."

His most recent work was the role of a film producer for the 2010 movie "The Last Film Festival," which he filmed shortly before his illness was announced in 2009. Hopper's last public appearance was when he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March, wherefriend Viggo Mortensen gave a moving speech about Hopper.

Making his battle with cancer even more complicated was the recent struggles he was having with his estranged wife Victoria Duffy in their bitter divorce battle. The courteventually ruled in Duffy's favor.

Hopper is survived by ex-wives Brooke Hayward, Michelle Phillips, Daria Halprin, Katherine LaNasa and estranged wife Victoria Duffy, daughters Marin, 47, Ruthanna, 35, and Galen, 7, son Henry, 19, and granddaughters Violet and Ella.

RIP, Dennis Hopper.

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Written by: Andrea Reiher

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Why Do Single Women Like Taken Men?

2010-05-27T10:18:00.001-07:00

By Justin Prugh from www.askmen.com

Reposted

Here’s the scenario: You've been single for a while and no matter how you try to woo the ladies, your suavepickup lines and quips bear no fruit. Then, one evening when your dignity has all but bottomed out, you make nice with a jaw-dropper and soon find yourself in a new relationship. Things progress beautifully, and as they do, you notice that you’re getting an abnormally high number of bicep-squeezes, do-me eyes and knee-slapping laughs from attractive women who aren’t yours to bring home. In an unlikely turn of events, it seems that your success with one woman has made you successful with all women. So what gives?

Like a moth to a flame, single women are drawn to a man in a relationship. It’s a fascinating coincidence -- one that is frustrating and unfair for the newly tied-down gentleman. Just when the gettin’s good, he’s not allowed to get. Nevertheless, the reasoning behind this phenomenon will help you be a better man, whether you’re single or taken.

Women want what’s off limits

In the Garden of Eden, Eve sinks her teeth into the one piece of fruit that God instructed her to avoid -- so began a long line of women who wanted, oh so badly, what they could not have. We see the same trend continue today with women staring longingly at designer shoes, fawning over limited-edition jewelry and above all, chasing after already spoken-for men. Be it human or handbag, the more tantalizingly out of reach it is, the more appealing it becomes.

Women think taken men are safe

Women, at least those in good stead with the girlfriend, have the green light to pick the brain of a taken man. They can discuss their romantic strategies, seek advice and flirt without fear of repercussion. A guy who is off the market is, after all, harmless. We know how this movie ends though. Before long, she has fallen for him. Her infatuation comes to light in a moment of devastating clarity. When she’s not supposed to, she far outdoes the girlfriend (“Box seats at Yankee Stadium -- you shouldn’t have!”), at which point the gig is up. Lo and behold, the safety of his relationship status is what lured her in all along.

Women hear good things about taken men

Significant others are a reflection of the people they date. That’s why it’s in a girl’s best interest to act like her boyfriend’s PR rep: to mention whenever possible that he studied at Harvard -- oh, and he plays in a band. When she boasts, her listeners see him through the rose-colored glasses that she wears. By the time she gets to the part about his volunteer firefighting, it’s obvious that he’s a major stud and consequently, she’s his female equivalent. Unfortunately, the girls, now in agreement, want to steal her title away.

Women think that taken men don’t have ulterior motives

Too many women have gotten past the clamor of insincere compliments, kind gestures and sweet nothings only to find a broken record playing at a single man’s core. It repeats, “get some.” Thus, the most well-intentioned actions of single men still have women scrutinizing between the lines. Men who are in a relationship (and respectful of that commitment) don’t use women as a means to an end. Once they settle into something serious, their behavior undergoes purification and the selfish sexual intentions are removed. In turn, women lower their guard.

Women like what is popular

This one is fairly straightforward. Girls want what other girls have. To women, the simple fact that a guy is someone’s favorite flavor makes him worth a try. A guy in a relationship is wanted by at least one person -- the girl on his arm, who confirms that he has been tested and approved as boyfriend material -- and therefore attracts the buzz of many others.

More reasons why single women want you now that you're taken after the jump..

Women want an ego boost

Man or woman, the ultimate ego boost is the knowledge that you’re not just hot, but irresistibly hot. Consider this: If a man risks his entire relationship -- commitment be damned -- for one exceptionally steamy night with another woman, that other woman will go home feeling like she has one-upped Helen of Troy. That’s bragging rights to the max. A shot of confidence like that could make up for a long dry spell of celibacy or jump-start a love life. Plus, if she’s unable to win him over, there’s a net to catch her: “Of course he’s not interested in me; he’s in a relationship.”

Women see taken men as having desirable qualities

To help you further understand how women perceive the dating pool, think of men like parking spaces surrounding a popular restaurant on a Friday evening. The best ones, meaning the ones closest to the restaurant, will be occupied almost solidly until closing. But as one gets farther from the front door, the parking spots aren’t as good, so they open up with greater regularity or, in some cases, remain open permanently. In short, women believe that men who are single are single for a reason. Backward as it may sound, the ones who aren’t available are the ones worth going for.

Women like a challenge

Women who demonstrate the right combination of warmth and affection can bag a single guy like candy on Halloween. Taken men, on the other hand, are tougher to get. For starters, they’re probably content with their current girlfriend and not too keen on gambling that relationship. You’d think this would deter an aggressive girl, but no. With two hearts that stand to gain (and only one to be crushed as collateral damage), the stakes are too high to back out. Also, what if he’s not as happy as he looks? Women know a man loves to be fought over, and there’s potential that his girlfriend under-delivers. Hello window of opportunity!

Women want to screw over other women

Then there are those women who simply have it out for their own gender. In grade school, they pulled pigtails; now that they’re older, they pull boyfriends. Some are out for revenge, others make a sport of seeing if they “can get him,” whatever the emotional cost. Women size up their competition and somehow rationalize that her boyfriend is begging to be with a real woman -- no offense to the tramp he’s with. Remember, too, that women aren’t always down with waiting patiently for a taken man to free up. They want results, and they want them yesterday.

Taken men have confidence

The next time you go out, take a look around. The most confident guy in the room isn’t the one usurping attention or emptying his wallet on drinks for the gang. The man exuding confidence like perspiration in a sweat lodge has his arm blissfully around his bombshell of a girlfriend -- and in case you didn’t notice, she’s all about him. What better proof exists that he is successful, intelligent and endlessly charming? Men who enjoy this luxury are infinitely more natural, comfortable and cool. They worry little, stress out even less. This all adds up to a man with incredible romantic gravity who pulls women into his orbit.

What is Guido's take on it?

I get it now, I truly do! I fully agree with this blog and knowing the facts now, makes me more aware (do not know if that is a good thing or not...) but nevertheless "certain things" add up now!

Cheers

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'Lost': 'The End' of the show finally...

2010-05-24T01:57:00.001-07:00

'Lost': 'The End' of the show finally arrives in the series finale

By Ryan McGee

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May 24, 2010 12:37 AM ET

So here's the deal: this will not be a complete recap of the series finale of "Lost." To try to make complete and coherent sense of what just dropped our way would be 1) impossible, and 2) be a disgrace to what just happened. Because what just happened isn't something you instantly react to, but rather mull over during the course of a few days, weeks, months, or years. After all, that was the final episode. We have all the time in the world to think about its implications until we "move on."

And yes, I use the phrase "move on" specifically due to the use of the phrase by Christian Shephard in the sideways universe, which we know now to be real only in the emotional sense of the world. All throughout the season, the producers of the show have assured us that what happens over there had stakes and meanings, and this is still completely true in the most basic of senses. Neither the pro-epilogue camp nor the pro-Island timeline had it exactly right, even though both camps had valid perspectives to bring to the table and pieces of the puzzle in hand. What "Lost" brought instead was a third perspective, one that nobody really saw and one that I bet made a core section of its audience completely and utterly insane with anger.

Looking at the finale from a perspective of mythology isn't the best way to go about it. (I started to jot down "So who put the stone in the devil cave in the first place?" before slapping myself silly.) Looking at the finale from a perspective of plot probably isn't the best ay, either. (Waaaaay too much time spent on getting Ajira 316 up and running again, especially considering the sideways resolution. And there are enough holes in the overall plot as a whole to dig a few dozen wells down towards the light inside all of us.) But looking at it from an emotional perspective, I thought the finale was a masterpiece.

In a sense, "The End" was a love letter from the show to itself and, hopefully, to the audience as well. But it didn't pay off donkey wheels and Dharma Initiatives but the core characters of the show themselves. The sideways universe did offer a second chance, but not in the way that those that saw the sideways world as a chance to live their lives free from the Island. Instead, it offered each character a tremendous grace note, one felt both by the characters but also the audience at home. When these people "flashed" to their Island lives, they didn't flash to epic moments in Island history: they flashed to empty jars of peanut butter and freshly picked flowers and all the small moments that make up a relationship.

If the show had to get one of three aforementioned elements right (character, mythology, plot), then it absolutely focused on the right one. As of this moment, writing in the immediate aftermath of what I just saw, I could care less about what happened to Kate and Company once they left the Island. The point of the show seems to be that what you do is less important than the meaning behind what you do. And moreover, if you live those lives in the correct manner, then the specifics are null and void. In the end, you arrive at the same destination. (In Richard's case, you arrive there with newly graying hair, and the chance to actually buy the eyeliner you've long been accused of using.)

Now, let's talk about that sideways destination itself. If put on the spot, here's what Ithink we're supposed to take away from it: As Island Protector, Hurley envisioned a way to give a gift back to those with whom he shared his time on the Island. Mother had her style, Jacob had his style, and Jack had his extremely interim style. But placing Hurley in ultimate charge of the Island? Brilliant, and not just because I predicted this last Fall and am happy I got at least SOMETHING right.

He's the absolute perfect person to take the Island from what it was (something to be protected) into what it should be (something to be shared). In a show full of selfish people, Hurley is the epitome of unselfishness. Go back to the pilot episode: he's distributing food on the first night (including a double dose for Claire, eating for two at the time). In "Everybody Hates Hugo," he once again institutes a massive redistribution of foodstuffs. In both the Island timeline and sideways one, he uses wealth as a means to help others, giving away his cash rather than hang onto it. So having him established as the final Protector of the Island that we see (though, I imagine, not the final one by any means) worked for me.

What I imagine did not work for a LOT of you is the fact that we've spent one-half of the final season of the show watching events that would have been solved in "LA X" had Haley Joel Osment been on the flight. It's a feeling that I have sensed coming for a while: the sideways world was doing such a damn good job of providing emotionally resonant moments that it eventually turned into an overwhelming attractive option for both the characters and the viewers. In fact, it turns out that the major players had absolutely no problem moving on once they made their emotional connections/breakthroughs, and instead willingly moved onto whatever lies on the other side of that white light.

As such, I look at the sideways world now as something created by Hurley (with Ben's help, and maybe the leftover mental residue of each Lostaway past and present) as a stopping ground for all major players in the "Lost" universe to meet at once, irrespective of when or how they died. As Christian says, there is no "now" over there. Time is just a relative construct created by people who are used to seeing events progress in a linear manner. What does Hurley ever want? For his friends to be happy! So what does he do? Well, he doesn't build a golf course, he builds a space for them to somehow connect after shuffling off their mortal coil and all end up getting the moments of happiness that eluded them, making connections that had been previously missed, and getting forgiveness once thought impossible. They don't have to be alive to have these things matter once achieved in the sideways universe, which is why I was behind the ultimate explanation 100%.

In the end, electromagnetism had nothing to do with the sideways world. There was no Faustian bargain between Eloise Hawking and The Man in Black. I've spent the second half of the season (ever since "Happily Ever After") arguing that theory, and I'm delighted to be wrong. Why? It's easier to buy "Hurley's gift" as a reason as opposed to trying to throw Schroedinger's cat as a reason for the sideways world. And that "gift" yielded scene after scene in the sideways world that reminded us all why we care so much about this show: its characters. I'm sure everyone had their particular favorites: for now, I'm putting Sawyer/Juliet in the pole position with Charlie/Claire as a surprising second. I'll take scenes like this over lengthy exposition of the true nature of the glowing cave any day.

It's obviously easy to say, "Well, the characters are happy, so we should be happy." But clearly it's not that simple. After all, these characters are fictional, constructs of the writing staff, whom I am sure went into hiding knowing that there would not only be questions but flaming torches/pitchforks aimed their way once this episode dropped. If we didn't care about these characters, then there wouldn't be such anger. Either you read interviews and now feel deceived, or you're generally displeased that our characters are all dead. I'm not going to tut-tut you from that perspective, since it's your perspective and you're totally welcome to it.

To me, anything in the sideways world ended up being something of a bonus, both a meta-level and a narrative level. The show didn't do the one thing I prayed it wouldn't: negate the sacrifices and deaths on the Island timeline for some sort of reboot/do over in the sideways timeline. So, we got to see really interesting combinations and remixes of existing characters in unusual settings, with those settings driven by a combination of subconscious psychological desires and latent psychological holdups. (Kate sees herself as the innocent victim, rather than an actual killer, but is still on the run. Sawyer fashions himself a do-gooder, but is still unable to shake the memory of his parents. Jack invents a domestic life he never had, inserting a new body in his life in the form of a son to replace the father he could never find.)

On a character level, the sideways world allowed these characters the chance to let go in ways that they were unable to do in their actual lives. To fault the show for creating such a space when we have so often lamented the unfairness or abruptness of their deaths seems a bit hypocritical to me. For example, let's take Sun/Jin. Many howled when they died, unable to believe two seasons apart boiled down to one episode; many others noted that it didn't move them, due to the couple being alive in the sideways world. Turns out, the sideways world gave them another chance to "be together," as the latter group suspected, but also honoring the sacrifice that tore up the former. I'd love to call this win/win, but I'm not sure I'd get many takers on this.

Let's take another example: John Locke. Here's a man that died a potentially pitiful death in "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham," only to have his life honored and vindicated in the finale. Without inspiring Jack, the good doctor doesn't return to the Island, and never becomes Protector, and never stops The Man in Black, and never passes off the torch to Hurley who in turn creates a special world in which Locke not only gets to have the relationship with Jack they never had on the Island, but also gets to forgive his murderer. I could give a flying fig about the other people on the outrigger if I get payoffs such as this instead.

And, as many of us suspected, the show closed on a familiar image, in a familiar place. Some might find fault with the heart of the Island being so near the place where the show started, but if The Island has taught us anything, it's that looking and seeing are two different things. Charlie couldn't "see" his guitar until he chose to give up his drugs. The cave is no different: Jack couldn't see it until he was ready to see it. That's the work he had to do all along. By bookending the series around a man opening up his eyes to the unknown and closing them as a man who learned what it meant to truly live, "Lost" encapsulated its' primary thematic concern: what it means to live and learn through other people. They lived together, and none of them died alone. Not in the end. Perfect.

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2010-05-23T14:05:00.001-07:00

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About Jeridoo

2010-05-23T13:52:00.001-07:00

Latest DVD and Blu-Ray movies on Jeridoo

About Jeridoo

We can change everything.

Collecting Movies and Music has been a huge hobby for all founders of Jeridoo. But a collection can only grow to a certain size. "What should we do?" - we asked ourselves ... selling any media on online auction houses is not profitable anymore and sacrificing the collection is not a solution either. "Let's trade it!" - We thought. And .......Jeridoo was born. First launched overseas with huge success and going strong. Dating back to 2005. Late 2006 we finally launched Jeridoo USA and it took just a few months to get copied.

We envision a trading community where people can grow, sell, trade their books, CD's, DVD's, etc. or switch from their DVD collection to BluRay! Books to Movies or just have plain fun with the selling factor. You choose your own price and you get paid with secure Jeridoo Points. There are no limits on how many trades you make as long as you have sufficient "money" in your account. After all, what you trade on Jeridoo is yours to keep or trade again.

To make the platform secure was the biggest goal and that's why you can't exchange products for real money on our site. The point system is 100% "bullet" proof. Together we can change how the world is watching movies, listening to great music and best of all keep supporting the great artists by only trading original products and not "freely download it off the net". We believe, we are a great asset to the entertainment industry!

Please enjoy Jeridoo and any comments, suggestions are welcome any time.

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Where smart people trade, swap and exchange their dvd movies and

2010-05-23T13:47:00.001-07:00

Latest DVD's on Jeridoo

What is Jeridoo?

Jeridoo was the first free North American Exchange-Community for Movies, Games, Music and Books. The Members are listing their own collection of different products and offer them for sale. The recipient receives the ordered product directly from the Seller, who ships it directly and pays for postage. The selling Member receives payment in form of Jeridoo-Points. Jeridoo-Points can be used to purchase other products on Jeridoo.com and its affiliates.

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How does it work?

First you choose the movie, game or book you would like to buy. The current owner of the item will send it by mail to you and pay for shipping (around $1.64). You are now the rightful owner of the purchased product. You are not renting the product, you OWN the product. You can keep it as long as you desire or list it on Jeridoo again. You can even change the price and ask more or less for the same product. Or you keep the item in your private collection.

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Why should I trade my DVDs and not rent them?

If you rent a DVD instead of buying it on Jeridoo, you pay rental fee, which are sometimes expensive and you don’t own the product. Many proud DVD, Book and Game collectors love the idea of keeping a steady amount of great products in their private collection, yet trading off some of the items to acquire new great movies, books or games. Jeridoo let’s you buy these items at a better price. And you can get it used or new. The choices on Jeridoo are huge.

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What are Jeridoo-Points?

Jeridoo-Points are not currency. The Jerdioo-Points is only Jeridoo-Currency on Jeridoo.com and its affiliates. You use these points to purchase your products. 1 Jeridoo-Point = 1 US$.

You will NOT exchange real US$ or any other form of currency on Jeridoo. No credit card payments for you to worry about. If you order a DVD from another member then you pay with Jeridoo-Points from your account. The selling member will send you the product and once you confirm receipt of the item, then the points are transferred to the selling member. The more items you trade – the more Jeridoo-Points you collect to purchase more products.

Jeridoo Points cannot be exchanged for an official currency. When you add a product our platform will SUGGEST a price. This price is shown in Jeridoo Points. Our system compares the price offered on amazon USED and other websites. You do not have to accept this price offering and feel free TO CHANGE THE PRICE for as many points you wish to sell it for. The difference between Jeridoo and competitive websites is that you work with these points like they are real money. We feel that a new BlueRay Movie is worth much more than just "one credit" or "one trade credit". Sell it for 40 JP credits and buy with your money 2, 3 or more products

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Is Jeridoo legal?

Jeridoo is 100% legal, because you always trade original products. If a Member tries to trade counterfeit items he will be excluded with immediate effect and law enforcement agencies are informed.

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What does it cost?

Jeridoo is absolutely FREE. There are no sign-up fees, no annual fees, trading fees, listing fees or any other hidden costs. The only expense you have is the postage on the products you send to other members. Within the United States it costs you on average of US$ 1.31 to US$ 1.64 per envelope (First Class Mail).

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How do I order a DVD from another Jeridooer?

You can order from another Members after you registered free on Jeridoo. Just browse the current listings and once you found the DVD, Book, Game or other item you would like to purchase click “order it now”. We will inform the other member with an email to send you the item. Once you received the item and confirmed it by marking it “received” in “my account” we will transfer the Jeridoo Points to the selling member.

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How do I list my own DVDs, Games, Books and Music CDs?

You only need a DVD, Game, CD or other Jeridoo allowed product and the bar code, also known as UPC, on the back of the item. You type this UPC into the „list new item“ area and Jeridoo will do the rest for you. Try it out, it’s easy, fast and fun! The product will be offered immediately for trade on Jerdioo. Once you ship the product to another member, you will receive the Jerdioo-Points.

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Can I list products without the UPC (Bar Code) on Jeridoo?

Currently you can only list items with a valid UPC code. Illegal items, e.g. child pornography are prohibited and cannot be listed.

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Jeridoo evaluates the value of your inserted item automatically. It compares it to other Jerdioo listings, amazon used prices, competitive websites and retail prices. You can change the price of the item as you wish. We suggest you work with the value of your product like you would sell it for "real" money.

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In what condition do my products have to be?

Every product traded on Jerdioo must meet minimum condition, if not other stated in the additional description. If nothing is stated, the product must be complete as originally sold: including booklets, manuals, covers. The item has to be playable and not damaged. DVD’s, CD’s and LaserDisc must have the original cover box and the DVD, BlueRays, HDDVD can only have minor scratches and must be playable. Books must have a clean cover, all pages and no major tears.

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50 Most Shocking TV Moments

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Deaths, season finale cliffhangers, scorned housewives, more deaths, reality show twists, lovesick celebrities, still more deaths, provocative kisses and mind blowing series finales ... we've got 'em all in our list of the 50 most shocking moments in TV history.

From Oprah's wagon of weight loss and Sue Hawk's snakes-and-rats speech to a certain couch-jumping action star and the granddaddy of all cliffhangers, take a trip down primetime memory lane and prepare to say, "Whoa!" all over again.

50. The Sin of the Father
'The X-Files' -- 'One Son' (Feb. 14, 1999)
More shocks regarding Jeffrey Spender (Chris Owens) were to come -- that he had survived and that his father had subjected him to disfiguring experiments, for example -- but none were more jaw-dropping than when his Cigarette Smoking Man papa (William B. Davis) shot him in season 6, after finding out Jeffrey knew what CSM had done to the ex-Mrs. CSM.

49. A Woman Scorned
'Desperate Housewives' -- 'Bang' (Nov. 5, 2006)
While Carolyn Bigsby (guest star Laurie Metcalf) was seeking revenge on her adulterous, grocery store manager hubby, she ended up taking the entire supermarket hostage. Completely unhinged, Carolyn snapped when she heard Lynette's (Felicity Huffman) rival Nora (Kiersten Warren) had tried to steal Lynette's hubby, Tom, and she killed Nora. But the drama wasn't over, nor the hostages released, until Carolyn shot Lynette and was killed herself when a quick-thinking hostage grabbed her gun and turned it on her.

48. Look at the Wagon She's Draggin'
'The Oprah Winfrey Show' -- 'Diet Dreams Come True' (Nov. 5, 1988)
The Big O had starved herself for months, ingesting nothing but liquid protein shakes, to fit into a pair of size 10 Calvin Klein jeans. But sporting the skin-tight jeans wasn't enough proof of her weight-loss success: She came out on stage, wheeling a wagon packed with 67 pounds of globby fat, representing the amount of globby goo she'd dropped from her frame. Despite the display's impact, Oprah later called it a huge mistake. "Two hours after that show, I started eating to celebrate," she said. "Of course, within two days those jeans no longer fit!"

47. Punch Drunk Hate
'Jersey Shore' -- 'Fade to Black' (Dec. 17, 2009)
As preview clips had teased, there were going to be throwdowns on the 'Jersey Shore,' and some of them were going to involve the female cast members. But seeing the short-statured, tall-haired Snooki getting socked in the face by a burly dude in a bar? That was shocking. And so disturbing that, even though MTV had been airing the clip of the punch since the show's Dec. 3, 2009 premiere, the network declined to air it again during the episode that dealt with the situation, and followed the episode with a PSA about violence against women.

46. Sipowicz, You Crack Us Up
'NYPD Blue' -- 'The Final Adjustment' (Nov. 22, 1994)
Amy Brenneman's butt? Okay. Sharon Lawrence? Check. Even David Caruso's ... alright. But no one was prepared for the dumpy derriere of one Det. Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) when it was bared for all to see as Sipowicz prepared to take a steamy shower with his girlfriend Sylvia (Lawrence). At least two full on shots of the nekkid Sipowicz not only shocked viewers, but also provided plenty of fodder for Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and, later, 'Family Guy.'

45. "Chloe ... Edgar ..."
'24' -- 'Day 5: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.' (March 6, 2006)
David Palmer and Michelle Dessler had already died earlier in the season, but neither of those deaths were sadder than the shocking ending met by lovable CTU geek Edgar Stiles (Louis Lombardi), who was off checking on a fellow employee and just missed making it into the safe room after the office was exposed to the deadly Sentox gas. He said pal Chloe's name as he fell to the ground, leaving Jack Bauer, Chloe and Audrey Raines to helplessly watch him die.

44. Snow Job
'St. Elsewhere' -- 'The Last One' (May 25, 1988)
You can't talk about great series finales without mentioning 'St. Elsewhere,' the NBC medical drama that featured stars like Denzel Washington, Mark Harmon and Howie Mandel, and tackled provocative story lines like AIDS, rape and sex in the morgue. The show's series ender, though, topped all that, as viewers were left with the impression that six seasons of hospital activity were really just the imagination of Dr. Westphall's (Ed Flanders) autistic son, Tommy (Chad Allen), who, in the last scene, is fascinated by a snow globe with a replica of the series' hospital inside.

43. The Family That Drinks Together ...
'Rescue Me' -- 'Drink' (Sept. 1, 2009)
The show's returning for another season, so we're guessing Denis Leary's Tommy Gavin will make it, but it was still a good season-ending cliffhanger, and a shocker of one at that, when Uncle Teddy (Lenny Clarke) shot Tommy at the bar, and held everyone hostage so they had to let Tommy bleed out. Why? Teddy's wife was killed in a car accident after Tommy had cajoled the whole family (most of them alcoholics) into drinking.

42. Snakes and Rats
'Survivor' -- 'Season Finale' (Aug. 23, 2000)
Sue Hawk didn't win the first season of 'Survivor,' but, while casting her jury vote for who should take home the $1 million prize, she made what remains the most memorable, and one of the most shocking, speeches in reality TV history. Explaining why she was voting for sneaky Richard Hatch, instead of her former friend and ally Kelly Wiglesworth, Hawk said, "This island is full of, pretty much, only two things: snakes and rats. And in the end of Mother Nature, we have Richard the Snake, who knowingly went after prey, and Kelly, who turned into the rat that ran around like rats do on this island ... I believe we owe it to the island spirits we have come to know to let it end in the way that Mother Nature intended: For the snake to eat the rat."

41. Madonna Kissed Two Girls ... And They Liked it
'2003 MTV Music Video Awards' (Aug. 28, 2003)
Missy Elliott won video of the year honors, 50 Cent was named best new artist in a video and Justin Timberlake's Britney Spears-mocking 'Cry Me a River' won multiple VMAs. But what you most likely remember from the 2003 VMAs: That opening number smooch between Madonna and Britney ... and Madonna and Christina Aguilera.

40. Mama of Anarchy
'Sons of Anarchy' -- 'Albification' (Sept. 8, 2009)
We knew nothing good was going to come of "white separatists" Ethan Zobelle (Adam Arkin) and A.J. Weston (Henry Rollins) coming to town, especially as far as SAMCRO was concerned. But the season 2 premiere ended with one of the most brutal, stunning moments in the show's history, as Weston and two of his cronies (and with the help of Zobelle's daughter) kidnapped, beat and raped SAMCRO mama Gemma (the Emmy-deserving Katey Sagal), who still defiantly ignored their demand that she warn SAMCRO from selling guns.

39. Every Rose Has Its Thorn
'The Bachelor' -- 'After the Final Rose: Part One' (March 2, 2009)
In 'The Bachelor' 13th season finale, single dad Jason Mesnick asked Texas sales rep Melissa Rycroft to marry him, and she accepted his ring. But less than an hour later, in the post-finale 'After the Final Rose' special (which, in real world time, was two months after the show was filmed), Mesnick dropped the bombshell that his feelings had changed. Well, his feelings for Rycroft, anyway. He no longer wanted to be with her. But the runner-up, Molly Malaney, the one he'd sent packing? He wanted to start things up with her again, and she was game. And though many who'd been charmed by Mesnick now thought of him as a cad, less than one year later, he and Malaney were married and the ceremony aired on ABC as 'The Bachelor: Jason and Molly's Wedding' in March 2010.

38. Watch That Last Step ...
'L.A. Law' -- 'Good to the Last Drop' (March 21, 1991)
Rosalind Shays (Diana Muldaur) was certainly not the most well-liked attorney, and she had already been part of a big surprise for viewers when she and enemy Leland McKenzie were revealed to be secret lovers. But no one, most unfortunately, Rosalind herself, could have seen this one coming: She and McKenzie were standing in front of an elevator, chatting and waiting for the elevator doors to open. The bells rang, signaling its arrival, and Rosalind turned and immediately stepped through the doors ... and down an empty elevator shaft, where only her screams signaled that she was on her way to her deadly fate. One of primetime's more twisted deaths, made more so by that (admittedly clever) episode title.

37. The Slap
'The Real World: Seattle' -- 'Irene Calls It Quits' (Sept. 22, 1998)
More than a decade before Snooki's reality world abuse, MTV fans were shocked by the infamous 'Real World' slap, in which Irene, who was leaving the 'RW' house and the show, told her roommate Stephen that she thought he was gay. Offended, Stephen tossed her favorite stuffed animal into the water, then ran down the car she was in, opened the door and slapped her. He nearly got kicked off the show (his roomies voted that he could stay if he attended anger therapy sessions), Irene continued her departure and, flash forward a decade to the 'Real World Awards Bash' in 2008, where Stephen revealed that he's happily engaged ... to a man.

36. The Voice GERD Around the World
'Saturday Night Live' -- 'Jude Law/Ashlee Simpson' (Oct. 23, 2004)
Busted! The only one more shocked than the studio audience and at-home viewers when Ashlee Simpson was caught using a vocal track during her performance on 'SNL'? Simpson herself, who jumped around the stage awkwardly for a few minutes, then exited, stage right even. The singer at first blamed her band for playing the wrong song, then later claimed she'd used a guide track because of her acid reflux.

35. Boob Tube, Indeed
'The Price Is Right' -- (Sept. 14, 1977)
The lesson that should have been noted by all future contestants of 'The Price Is Right': Maybe a tube top isn't the right attire for this show. It sure wasn't for Yolanda Bowsley, who began her run to Contestant's Row after announcer Johnny Olson called her name. Unfortunately, just as she "came on down," so did her tube top, exposing her chest and prompting editors to cover them on screen with a big blue bar. Host Bob Barker's response: "I know you truly love me, but you don't really love me this much, do you?"

34. Strange Bedfellows?
'Thirtysomething' -- 'Strangers' (Nov. 7, 1989)
There were calls of protest to ABC (and a $1.5 million loss of pulled ad dollars), as well as letters of support, for what, despite being a relatively low-key scene that lasted less than two minutes, was also a pivotal one: When artist Russell (David Marshall Grant) and new boyfriend Peter (Peter Frechette) were shown chatting in the afterglow of sex, it was the first time a gay couple had been seen in bed together in primetime. Future tie-in: Grant once again works with 'thirtysomething' star Ken Olin, as both are producers (and Grant a writer) on ABC's 'Brothers & Sisters,' which also prominently features gay characters.

33. Death Notice
'M*A*S*H' -- 'Abyssinia, Henry' (March 18, 1975)
It was no secret that McLean Stevenson was leaving the show, so, though his 4077 colleagues would miss him, they were also happy that Stevenson's Col. Henry Blake had gotten his discharge and was headed home from the war. A going away party and hugs and well wishes sent Blake on his way, but at the end of the episode, Radar (Gary Burghoff) delivered heartbreaking news to the staff in the operating room: "I have a message. Lieutenant Colonel ... Henry Blake's plane ... was shot down ... over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors." Backstory: Producers wanted to capture genuine shock at the news, so the actors were given the script pages that contained Blake's death right before the ending was filmed. And the plot worked: Viewers were so surprised and outraged by the death that they wrote letters to the network, and Stevenson, who was unhappy with his character's demise, made a cameo on an episode of 'The Carol Burnett Show,' where his Col. Blake was floating on a raft, screaming "I'm OK! I'm OK!" The death also sparked a shift in the show's tone, from straight situation comedy to a frequently more serious dramedy.

32. The S-Word Happens
'South Park' -- 'It Hits the Fan' (June 20, 2001)
In a hilarious episode that mocked everything from curse words and the FCC's confusing standards on indecency to 'NYPD Blue' and network censorship, 'South Park' creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker had Cartman and company utter the word "sh*t" more than 160 times, which we know because the counter in the corner of the screen kept track throughout the episode. Most surprising fact: Stone and Parker say Comedy Central didn't agree to air the episode uncensored when they planned on saying the s-word a handful of times. It was only when they went for the hundreds of utterances that the network agreed it was obvious parody and gave the thumbs up to let, well, sh*t unfold unexpurgated.

31. With a Friend Like This ...
'The Wire' -- 'Middle Ground' (Dec. 12, 2004)
Drug business partners (and childhood friends) Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris) and Stringer Bell (Idris Elba) betray each other in this episode, and it seems pretty clear that only one of them will survive the actions they've taken against each other in the end. Bell is the less bloodthirsty of the two, with his economics classes and desire to turn his business interests legitimate, while Barksdale's main commitment is towards keeping himself in power as Baltimore's top drug man. In this shocking instance, Barksdale wins, turning Brother Mouzone (Michael Potts) and Omar (Michael K. Williams) against Stringer, who they shoot and kill inside the condo development Stringer saw as the beginning of his future as a real estate mogul.

30. Lucy Is Preg ... Uh, With Child
'I Love Lucy' -- 'Lucy Is Enceinte' (Dec. 8, 1952)
It's difficult to imagine now, but in 'I Love Lucy's' day, TV shows weren't even allowed to use the word "pregnant" on air (hence the French word for pregnant being used in the episode title). But Lucille Ball was indeed enceinte in real life (with son Desi Jr.) and on the show, as Lucy, with son Ricky, marking only the second time a TV character had been pregnant on air (the first was Mary Kay Stearns on the 'I Love Lucy'-ish 'Mary Kay and Johnny'). And Lucy's big reveal to TV hubby Ricky (real-life hubby Desi Arnaz): She requested that Ricky sing 'We're Having a Baby' at the club.

29. Valentine's Day Massacre
'ER' -- 'Be Still My Heart' (Feb. 10, 2000)
Med student Lucy Knight (Kellie Martin) had had her share of problems fitting in at the ER since joining the show in season 5, but, after clashes with Romano, Hathaway and pal Carter (Noah Wyle), finally seemed to be more comfortable by season 6. So, of course, that's when she ran into schizophrenic patient Paul Sobriki (David Krumholtz), whom while in a delusional state, sneaks up behind Lucy -- on Valentine's Day -- and uses a knife meant to cut a Valentine cake to stab Lucy in the chest, neck and abdomen. Sobriki would also attack Carter before he was done, but it was Lucy who died from her wounds, in the next episode, 'All in the Family.'

28. You've Just Been Kanye-d!
'2009 MTV Video Music Awards' (Sept. 13, 2009)
Who wasn't happy that Taylor Swift became the first country artist to win the VMA for Best Female Video? Rapper Kanye West, who jumped on stage, interrupted Swift's acceptance speech, took her microphone and expressed his displeasure that Beyoncé's 'Single Ladies' video didn't win the Moonman. "Yo Tay, I'm really happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time." Swift, who was scheduled to perform live just moments later, looked stunned, the crowd booed West and Beyoncé, who won Video of the Year honors later in the show, invited Swift on stage to finish her speech. West, meanwhile, went on 'The Jay Leno Show' to apologize, was called a "jackass" by President Obama and gave us a permanent entry in the pop culture slang dictionary: to get "Kanye-d" is to get interrupted.

27. Two for the Death of One
'Lost' -- 'Two for the Road' (May 3, 2006)
There had already been shocking deaths on 'Lost' -- Boone, Shannon, the poor Oceanic 815 pilot -- but this episode raised the bar, with not just one, but two major characters biting the dust, and at the hand (or more specifically, hand with a gun in it) of another major character. Michael (Harold Perrineau) was being blackmailed by The Others: If he freed Henry Gale (Michael Emerson), they'd release his kidnapped son Walt (Malcolm David Kelley). Michael's plot to spring Henry involved shooting Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez). But just as he pulled the trigger, Libby (Cynthia Watros) walked in, and Michael had to shoot her to cover up shooting Ana Lucia (which in itself was to cover up his release of Henry).

26. A Fowl Ending
'M*A*S*H' -- 'Goodbye, Farewell and Amen' (Feb. 28, 1983)
The 'M*A*S*H' series finale remains the most-watched non-sports event in TV history, and, at 2.5 hours long, it was an event-packed episode. But the most shocking, and heartbreaking, moment came when 4077 doc Hawkeye (Alan Alda) remembered what had led to his earlier nervous breakdown. Hawkeye was riding on a bus full of people when gun-toting enemies were rumored to be in the area, and he initially remembered yelling at a woman to keep a chicken quiet so the enemy would not discover them, prompting the woman to kill the chicken. But when a sobbing Hawkeye finally remembered what had actually happened, the source of his breakdown was clear: The woman had been carrying a baby, and, fearing its crying would lead the enemy to find and kill everyone on the bus, she smothered her child.

25. Out of the Closet
'Ellen' -- 'The Puppy Episode' (April 30, 1997)
Viewers knew it was happening, and stars like Oprah Winfrey, Billy Bob Thornton, Laura Dern, k.d. lang, Melissa Etheridge, Demi Moore and Dwight Yoakam lined up for guest gigs, but the way that Ellen Morgan (Ellen DeGeneres) came out as a lesbian still managed to be surprising and hilarious. After meeting and clicking with Susan (Dern), Ellen recognized the truth about her sexuality and went to the airport to tell her new friend. But as she was saying the words "I'm gay," Ellen realized she was talking into the intercom system, and that she was telling the entire airport about her news. The episode, which had drawn protests from anti-gay groups, also drew more than 40 million viewers and coincided with DeGenres' real-life coming out in Time magazine.

24. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
'Twin Peaks' -- 'Arbitrary Law' (Dec. 1, 1990)
FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) spent a season and a half (and ingested a lot of damn fine coffee and pie) trying to find out who had killed Twin Peaks homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), and after all that time, the revelation of the big baddie came with shock after shock: It was her dad, Leland Palmer (Ray Wise)! Who'd molested her throughout her teens! Because he was possessed by the demonic BOB! Who had probably molested him when he was a child! Leland also killed Laura's lookalike cousin! And after Cooper arrested Leland, BOB forced Leland to kill himself!

23. Roe v. Wade v. Maude
'Maude' -- 'Maude's Dilemma, Part 2' (Nov. 21, 1972)
The 'All in the Family' spin-off never shied away from controversial topics, tackling mental health, drugs and menopause during its six-season run, but 'Maude's' most memorable and polarizing moment came in the show's premiere season, when 47-year-old Maude (Bea Arthur) found out she was pregnant. Unhappy with the idea of becoming a new parent at her age and fearful of the risks, Maude, with the support of her hubby Walter (Bill Macy), decided to have an abortion, two months before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal nationwide (it was legal in New York, where Maude lived, already).

22. A Family Affair
'The Shield' -- 'Family Meeting' (Nov. 25, 2008)
Plotting bad cop Vic (Michael Chiklis) was always confident that he'd continue to weasel his way out of trouble, but his fellow Strike Team member (and dirty cop) Shane (Walton Goggins) believed he was out of options in the show's series finale. His wife was likely headed to jail, he was on Vic's hit list and likely to end up dead or in jail and there would be no one to raise Shane's son Jackson. Shane's desperation was palpable when he bought flowers and a toy for his wife and son and then returned home, where he spoke to a neighbor. The neighbor called the police, who arrived at Shane's house just as he was putting a gun to his head. With their former co-worker dead by his own hand, Claudette (CCH Pounder) and Dutch (Jay Karnes) were still in for another shocker when they looked in the bedroom, where Shane's wife, Mara, and Jackson were also dead, presumably also killed by Shane.

21. A Kiss Is Not Just a Kiss
'Star Trek' -- 'Plato's Stepchildren' (Nov. 22, 1968)
This is another of those shocking moments that seems like no big deal today, but when TV's first interracial kiss on a scripted program happened in 1968, network executives were concerned that it would spark a very negative viewer reaction. The buss in question: It was between Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and NBC and 'Trek' producers were so concerned about potential reaction to the kiss that it unfolded in the story as something the characters were being forced to do by Parmen, leader of the Plutonians, who was holding them hostage. In her 1994 autobiography 'Beyond Uhura,' Nichols says viewer mail response to the kiss was overwhelmingly positive, with girls writing in to ask her what it was like to kiss Shatner/Kirk and guys writing to Shatner to ask the same thing about her.

20. I Take Thee ... What's Your Name?
'Friends' -- 'The One With Ross's Wedding ' (May 7, 1998)
Everyone knew Ross (David Schwimmer) was still in love with Rachel (Jennifer Aniston). Chandler knew, Joey knew, Monica knew, Phoebe knew, Rachel knew and Ross himself probably knew. Okay, there was one person who didn't know, and that was Ross's new fiancée Emily (Helen Baxendale). The whole gang (minus the preggers Phoebe) had flown to London to see Ross take wife number two, but, with Rachel as a last-minute guest and a pre-ceremony conversation with her fresh in his mind, when it came time for Ross to say "I do" to Emily, what he actually said was, "I Ross, take thee ... Rachel." Oops. No surprise that Emily ended up being the second ex-Mrs. Geller.

19. Roseanne Calls a Do-Over
'Roseanne' -- 'Into That Good Night' (May 27, 1997)
Like several other series finales on our list, the 'Roseanne' wrap-up was a game changer. Roseanne Conner (Roseanne) had always talked about wanting to be a writer, and in the finale, we learn that she is. In fact, all the events that had unfolded throughout the show's nine seasons were the work of Roseanne's writing imagination. In reality (in the fictional show's "real" reality), as Roseanne reveals in a monologue, Becky was actually married to David and Darlene was married to his brother Mark, Roseanne's sister Jackie was a lesbian and Dan Conner (John Goodman) had died after suffering a heart attack. And, in a bit of news that erased what was the show's jump-the-shark storyline, the Conner family never won the lottery.

18. Sinéad O'Connor Declares War
'Saturday Night Live' -- 'Tim Robbins/Sinéad O'Connor' (Oct. 3, 1992)
She was singing an a cappella cover of Bob Marley's 'War' when she set off a minor one between her and Catholics. While crooning the tune, Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor changed the lyric "racism" to "child abuse," as a protest against sexual abuse in the Catholic church. But it didn't end there; O'Connor then produced a photo of Pope John Paul II, which she proceeded to tear into pieces and toss at the camera after saying, "Fight the real enemy." 'SNL' producer Lorne Michaels and his staff had no idea what O'Connor planned to do, and in all rebroadcasts of the episode, video of the singer's rehearsal performance was swapped in. In fact, the original performance had not been aired in on TV until the April 23, 2010 episode of MSNBC's 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' which featured an interview with O'Connor.

17. A Bad Romance
'1994 MTV Music Video Awards' (Sept. 8, 1994)
It was no small feat to make this moment we all remember from the '94 VMAs ... Madonna popped up with surprise guest David Letterman, on whose show she had just made a profanity-laced appearance. But the newly-wed Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley managed to top that twosome, taking the VMA stage and being greeted by a standing ovation. "And just think, nobody thought this would last," Jackson said, before grabbing his wife and planting a giant kiss on her. Presley laughed and the pair left the stage, with her later, to no great surprise, admitting that her hubby's publicity team planned the stunt.

16. Mob Rules
'The Sopranos' -- 'Long Term Parking' (May 23, 2004)
Once she admitted to fiancee Christufuh (Michael Imperioli) that she'd been blackmailed by the FBI into giving them information on the Sopranos family mob activity, it was clear that life as she knew it wasn't going to continue for Adriana La Cerva (Drea de Matteo). She begged Christopher to run away with her, but he instead gave her up to mob boss Tony (James Gandolfini), who concocted a ruse about Christopher attempting suicide, which sent a guilty Adriana off in a car with mobster Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) to meet up with Christopher at the hospital. There was no hospital, of course. Silvio drove Adriana into the woods, and as she crawled across the ground begging for her life, he shot and killed her.

15. Mommy, Dearest
'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' -- 'I Was Made to Love You' (Feb. 20, 2001)
It's not like Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) didn't have enough on her plate already, what with the vampire slaying and all. But the universe threw another major curve at her in this episode. Buffy's mom Joyce (Kristine Sutherland), divorced from Buffy's dad Hank, had finally gone on an enjoyable date, and returned home happy and making jokes about getting frisky with the fella. Which made her from-out-of-left field death all the more sad and heartbreaking, as Buffy later that evening found her mom, who had suffered a brain aneurysm, dead on the living room couch.

14. Narm
'Six Feet Under' -- 'Ecotone' (July 31, 2005)
With his second marriage pretty much done in by the fact that he'd just committed adultery with his stepsister, Nate Fisher (Peter Krause) was getting dressed after the fling when he felt numbness in his right arm. "My arm is numb ... numb arm ... numb arm ... narm," Nate slurred as he dropped to the floor. Later, at the hospital, the brain hemorrhage led to a brief coma, but Nate seemed to be on the road to recovery, visiting with his family and making plans to end his marriage. So it was another shock when, with his brother David (Michael C. Hall) sleeping at his bedside, Nate had a final dream and died, with David waking up to find him flatlining.

13. Jumping the Couch
'The Oprah Winfrey Show' (May 23, 2005)
Tom Cruise was enthusiastically (and then some) telling pal Oprah Winfrey about his new girlfriend, Katie Holmes, in this episode, when he suddenly hopped up on The Big O's couch, and pumped his fists in the air. "You're gone ... you are gone," Oprah said of Cruise's giddy behavior, which included pounding his fist on the floor repeatedly, giggling when Holmes' name was mentioned and, finally, dragging the 'Dawson's Creek' star from backstage and onto the set. After effect: "jumping the couch" became the new catchphrase for people, especially celebs, who engaged in "strange or frenetic behavior."

12. Split Screen Sadness
'The View' (May 23, 2007)
It would end up being Rosie O'Donnell's final appearance as a 'View' co-host, and she would later say her decision to leave came down to the split screen the show's director had employed during her heated discussion with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Conservative Hasselbeck had taken issue with O'Donnell's comments about the war in Iraq, and O'Donnell had taken issue with the fact that Hasselbeck, she said, had not defended her right to express her opinions. O'Donnell called her co-worker "cowardly" and the loud discussion, which lasted for more than five minutes, ended only when the director finally went to a commercial break.

11. Like Father, Like Son?
'Dexter' -- 'The Getaway' (Dec. 13, 2009)
When you're a serial killer who murders other serial killers, there's a good chance you're going to make some enemies. Such was the case with Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), who, in the show's fourth season, had aggressively gone after the wackadoo "Trinity" killer, Arthur (John Lithgow). Dexter got his man, killing Trinity in the season finale, but returned home to a shocking scene: His wife Rita (Julie Benz) had already been killed by Trinity, and Dexter's son Harrison was sitting on the floor in a pool of blood. The scene was reminiscent of how a young Dexter had been left sitting in blood after the murder of his mother, a situation that sparked his serial killer ways.

10. Rocker Shocker
'American Idol' -- 'Elvis Presley Week' (May 10, 2006)
Had fans assumed he was safe? Did they think he'd gotten cocky? Or did they really just not enjoy his performances of 'Suspicious Minds' and 'A Little Less Conversation'? We'll never know exactly why Chris Daughtry was sent packing in 'American Idol's' fifth season, since the "rocker dad" was one of the season's favorites to win. His ouster was a shock to viewers, his fellow contestants, the 'AI' judges and Daughtry himself -- "I'm a little bit in shock," he told host Ryan Seacrest -- but the fourth-place finish certainly hasn't hurt his post-'Idol' career. Daughtry is third in 'Idol' alumni record sales (behind Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson), with his first two CDs each going platinum and selling more than 5 million copies.

9. Bob Newhart: Dreamweaver
'Newhart' -- 'The Last Newhart' (May 21, 1990)
In the series finale of comedian Bob Newhart's second hit sitcom, his Dick Loudon refused, unlike his kooky neighbors, to sell his Stratford Inn to a Japanese businessman who planned to turn the whole town into a golf resort. Dick and wife Joanna (Mary Frann) remained in town, running the Inn, and five years later, were visited by their now-wealthy, still-nutty former employees and friends. The reunion ends with Bob getting hit in the head with a golf ball, and the scene fades to black as he passes out. Next scene: A light is turned on ... by Dr. Bob Hartley, Newhart's character from his 1972-78 sitcom 'The Bob Newhart Show.' Bob Hartley, we see, is talking to his wife Emily (Suzanne Pleshette), and telling her that he just had a crazy dream about being an inn owner in Vermont! Yes, a la the dream season of 'Dallas,' the 'Newhart' series finale cleverly proposed that the entire series had been nothing more than a dream of Dr. Bob's.

8. Crash Into Me
'Alias' -- 'Before the Flood' (May 25, 2005)
The 'Alias' season 4 finale found long-suffering spies Sydney (Jennifer Garner) and Vaughn (Michael Vartan) finally on their way to a much-deserved vacation in Santa Barbara and a much-awaited elopement. Vaughn, heeding Sydney's spy mama's advice to always be honest with her daughter, was driving along when he decided to drop a couple of bombshells on Syd: First, his name was not really Michael Vaughn. Second, it was no accident that he had been assigned to be her CIA handler several years. Third ... actually, there was no third, because before Vaughn could even explain one and two, a car suddenly crashed into his driver's side door and the season came to a sudden, shocking, cliffhanger-y end.

7. Dream a Little Dream
'Dallas' -- 'Blast From the Past' (May 16, 1986)
It has become the symbol for ridiculous TV plot developments (so much so that the aforementioned 'Newhart' series finale was a spoof-y homage): The events of the entire ninth season of 'Dallas' were nullified in the season finale when Pam, who had just married boyfriend Mark -- since ex-hubby Bobby (Patrick Duffy) had been murdered by her sister in the season 8 finale -- woke up the day after her wedding, went into the bathroom and opened the shower door, to find ... Bobby, who bid her a "Good morning!" Yep, he was alive! As we'd learn the next season, Bobby had never died -- season 9 was Pam's dream.

6. Boob Tube, The Sequel
'Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show' (Feb. 1, 2004)
The worst part of the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake/boob scandal from Super Bowl XXXVIII? How many times we had to hear the phrase "wardrobe malfunction" afterwards. According to Jackson, that was exactly what had happened when she and Timberlake were performing his 'Rock Your Body' during the live halftime show: He got to the line "I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song," and pulled off part of her costume, which revealed, for half a second, her nipple shield-adorned right breast. As Jackson claimed, it was a "wardrobe malfunction," an accident, though others charged that Timberlake and Jackson had planned the event to, ahem, titillate audiences. The result: Lots of viewer complaints and an FCC fine against Viacom, parent company of Super Bowl broadcaster CBS, for a total of $550,000.

5. Flashforwards
'Lost' -- 'Through the Looking Glass' (May 23, 2007)
We were used to the flashbacks ... that's how a good deal of 'Lost' had unfolded throughout its first three seasons. And as the third-season finale played out, we once again were treated to glimpses of the island-dwellers' lives off the island.
Jack (Matthew Fox) was at work as a surgeon, but was experiencing a miserable life: Drinking, addicted to drugs and planning to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge ... someone else from the island had died, and Jack was the only person who attended the funeral ... and, in the final scene, Jack met up with his island pal Kate (Evangeline Lilly). But it was this pivotal moment in which we were introduced to a new 'Lost' device, the flashforward. As Jack talks to Kate, he pleads with her to do something that, he feels, they're destined to do: return to the island. That's right: this Jack and Kate we're seeing are in the future, and they've escaped from the island. Mind-blowing enough on its own, but the fact that Jack was now saying they had to go back meant 'Lost' fans were in for a lot more mystery and adventure when the show returned for season 4.

4. Teri Bauer and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
'24' -- 'Day 1: 11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.' (May 21, 2002)
Teri Bauer (Leslie Hope) had been kidnapped, raped and suffered a bout of amnesia, all while pregnant with heroic hubby Jack's (Kiefer Sutherland) second child. As '24's' first season, and Teri Bauer's bad day, wound to a close, it seemed like the worst was behind the Bauer clan, who'd managed to stay alive and thwart some very bad dudes (and a really bad dudette) along the way. So it was to Jack's -- and the viewers' -- horror when he wandered into a CTU room and found his dead wife's body. The evil, traitorous Nina (Sarah Clarke) had killed her, and the death was just the show's first hint that almost any '24' character was considered to be expendable.

3. Kimberly Wigs Out
'Melrose Place' -- 'The Bitch Is Back' (April 27, 1994)
Relative to other shocking TV moments, this one might not seem all that shocking. But ask any 'Melrose' fan (we're talking the original 'Melrose Place' only, of course) about the most shocking scene in the show's history, the most memorable scene, and invariably they will say this one. When Kimberly (Marcia Cross), who was thought to have died after the accident in which a drunken Michael (Thomas Calabro) crashed his car, returned, seemingly unscathed, to her creep of a boyfriend, then crept out of bed one night and went into the bathroom, stood in front of the mirror and removed her wig (whut?!) and revealed a doozy of a scar across her head. Unscathed she wasn't, physically nor emotionally, as the Melrose dwellers would soon find out.

2. Don't Stop!
'The Sopranos' -- 'Made in America' (June 10, 2007)
It's only several years after the mob/family drama's controversial series finale that we've come to appreciate how smart it was; at the time, we wanted to throw a shoe at the screen just like everyone else.
In the tense episodes leading up to the finale, Soprano family (and "family") head Tony (James Gandolfini) had been one of the few members of his crew to survive the gangster war that had claimed several of his enemies and several of his own cohorts. One of his capos had turned FBI informant, and as Tony, Carmela and A.J. sat down for onion rings in a Jersey diner, a strange man kept staring at Tony. With Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'' blaring from the tabletop jukebox, the man heads to the bathroom (near Tony's table), Meadow runs toward the diner, Tony looks up and, with Steve Perry singing "Don't stop!" the scene, the episode and the series does. Stop, that is, as the screen cuts abruptly to black. No footnotes, no postscripts ... we either make our own call about what happened to the Sopranos, or we wait for series creator David Chase to make good on those rumors of a big-screen 'Sopranos' movie.

1. The Shot Seen 'Round the World
'Dallas' -- 'A House Divided' (March 21, 1980)
It's not like he didn't have it coming. In fact, there were so many people who'd been wronged by ol' J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), that it was tough to narrow down the list of suspects who might want to do him harm. Still, J.R. always seemed to come out on top, so it was a shocker when someone crept into the Ewing Oil offices and pumped two shots into the wily oil baron, setting off what remains TV's all-time greatest cliffhanger with the "Who shot J.R.?" guessing game in the summer of 1980. PS -- In case you don't remember, it was J.R.'s sister-in-law, and lover, Kristin (Mary Crosby) whodunit.

Tell us: What television moments shocked you the most?

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LOST: 10 questions that "Lost" needs to resolve in the series fin

2010-05-22T11:56:00.001-07:00

10 questions that 'Lost' needs to resolve in the series finale

By Ryan McGee

edited by Guido Baechler

May 20, 2010 1:13 PM ET

With the end of "Lost" just around the corner, fans are anxiously waiting to see how the show will end. Some are waiting with baited breath, and others are looking through their fingers at the approaching finale, simply (and aptly) titled "The End."

With only two and a half hours to go, there's simply no way for the show to answer every lingering mystery still up for discussion. I'm not entirely sure that's a bug as a much as a feature: after all, were every question answered in the final 150 minutes, we would 1) have nothing but a long, boring, series of expositional downloads coming our way this Sunday, and more importantly, 2) we'd have nothing to talk about once the final curtain closes. Some questions raised by the show are so metaphysical that no one program could ever claim to "answer" it, and some mysteries are in the eye of the beholder at home, not the writer in the studio. So, for the final time, let's push aside any expectation of the show answering everything this Sunday. Like John Locke, we should let go.

That said, rather than go on a rant about "mysteries that need to be answered," I think it's perfectly fair to try and analyze "questions that need resolution." I've long favored the word "resolution" over "answer," since as the woman that raised Jacob and The Man in Black would tell us, answers usually only lead to more questions. For instance: the hieroglyphics that have dotted the Island landscape, even creeping into the countdown timer in the Swan? Most likely simple decoration, meant to allude to as aspect of the Island's history rather than be something to be decoded and applied as a type of Rosetta stone to the show as a whole. Time Magazine's James Poniewozik recently called "Lost" a "TV show with footnotes," and I think the hieroglyphics are one such footnote. Yes, they are interesting, but are they really crucial to the show's ultimate meaning or simply extremely cool window dressing meant to suggest rather than explicitly illuminate?

So here are ten current questions in "Lost" that need to be resolved in the series finale.

1) What is the sideways world?

I mean, that's the biggie, right? It's only THE central question at the heart of Season 6, and perhaps the crucial question in the history of the show. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have constructed their climatic season around this complex, "Sliding Doors"-esque universe. They have insisted all along that the events in this world are real and have meaning. Throughout Season 6, we've seen people in this world "waking up" to remember their time on the Island. How are these two worlds connected, and how does that connection feed into the show's endgame?

2) Why is Eloise Hawking so darn insistent that Des stop waking people up in the sideways world?

We've seen the sideways version of our Lostaways slowly realizing that the world around them isn't quite what it seems. But Eloise Hawking seems to remember the Island timeline perfectly well in "Happily Ever After." Did she cut a deal with The Man in Black to create a new timeline in which Daniel Faraday lived? Is the sideways world explained by the guilt of a mother (Eloise) combined the rage of a son (The Man in Black)? Is she, not Jacob, the real reason Charles Widmore returned to the Island this season? All these subquestions lead to the next major one...

3) What is the implication of The Man in Black destroying the Island?

In "LA X," The Man in Black insisted that he wanted to go "home." "Home," we have learned, is an amorphous concept for him, defined not by what it is but rather by what it is NOT (namely, The Island). If he plans to use Charles Widmore's "failsafe" to destroy the energy at the heart of the Island, does that give a hint into the submerged version of the Island in the sideways world? All of this leads to the major question...

4) Is the destruction of the Island actually a BAD thing?

Many fans think that the sideways world shows what would happen if "The Island" didn't interfere with the lives of our Lostaways. On a macro level, it's hard to argue against that. But "Across the Sea" and "What They Died For" complicate (but do not negate) this view. If the energy at the heart of the Island lives inside of us, then the Island might be a geographical, moral testing ground. It's cruel but necessary for human evolution, tempting our basest nature while providing an opportunity to expand our capacity for good. All of which is a way of asking the following query...

5) Would these characters lives have been better having never gone to The Island?

In this week's episode, Jacob suggested a symbiotic relationship between The Island and those that find themselves upon its shores. Both, on a fundamental level, need each other. But it's also a hard place, a violent place, a place that Charlotte Staples Lewis once called "death" incarnate. It's a place in which Charlie Pace died trying to protect Claire and Aaron. It was a noble death, a sacrifice made out of love borne out of his experiences on the Island. But it's also one that might not actually have meant anything should The Man in Black succeed. Over in the sideways world, Charlie is back to being a junkie, but he's still alive, and in the same city as the girl of his literal dreams. Or is he? By which, I mean to ask...

6) Are these familiar faces in the sideways world the same people, or something different entirely?

How the show answers this question will directly inform how the final 2.5 hours play out. Let's look at both scenarios, using the players in the previous paragraph. Option A) Charlie and Claire can meet in Los Angeles, fall in love, raise Aaron, and get the chance to be a happy trio in a way that they didn't get on The Island. Option B) Charlie's flash to his times on the Island showed him just how unreal his life in the sideways world is, and even if he stumbled across Claire in a Sideways Starbucks, he would merely stumble upon someone that looked a lot like the girl in his vision but on a fundamental level is not the same person AT ALL. They were meant to be a trio, but only for a short time, and only that short time. Let's carry this over and broadly apply it by asking the following...

7) In what form(s) will sacrifice occur in the finale?

What's maddening about the two universes in "Lost" this season is also its greatest strength: it's still very difficult to decide as an audience member which one you want to "win," for lack of a better term. It's hard (although not impossible) to imagine the show ending with both timelines continuing into the narrative sunset. Depending on your perspective, both sides offer compelling views on what it means it live a life. But no matter to which viewpoint you subscribe, there will be things that must be given up for that universe to continue. Neither the Island timeline nor sideways timeline will be immune from this. On the Island, we're looking at the literal destruction of what may lie at the heart of humanity. In Los Angeles, Desmond is gathering people to the mother of all cosmic concerts. Speaking of music...

8) Does Mama Cass explain everything about "Lost"?

When talking about all-time great "Lost" sequences, it's hard to omit the opening sequence of Season 2. It's a bravura segment set deep inside the Swan Station, with little to orientate the audience and a little song called "Make Your Own Kind of Music" scoring the whole endeavor. In a subtle yet tangible way, the concert in the sideways world is the most explicit expression of Mama Cass' metaphor. Coupling Mama Cass' song with the revelations in "What They Died For" paints a scenario in which fate and free will are not opposites but simply perspectives. If a simple line of chalk doesn't discount Kate's candidacy, what does that say about the rules (and "The Rules") under which our characters have arbitrarily been living under for their entire lives?

9) Will Bai Ling appear in the finale?

Just making sure you're paying attention.

9) Why can't we find Christian Shephard in either timeline?

What started in "White Rabbit" has kept going, Energizer Bunny-esque, into the finale. Christian's absence has formed a palpable presence in Jack's life in both timelines. An astute commenter recently wondered if Jack's ascension to the rank of Island Protector now means The Man in Black can start shapeshifting again, and, if so, could take the form of Christian in order to confront his new nemesis. It's a pretty powerful thought, but even if that doesn't play out, look for Christian's involvement in the lives of the show's major players to finally pay off this Sunday. And, finally...

10) Are we seeing the start of a new Age of the Island or the start of something else entirely?

In "Across the Sea," we saw protectorship of the Island pass down from Mother to Jacob, in a ceremony that predated them both by possibly tens of thousands of years and countless other iterations. In "What They Died For," Jacob and Jack performed the latest version the ceremony, with the former officially passing the torch off to the latter. Have the passengers of Oceanic 815 been brought to The Island merely to push the cycle into its next iteration, or to create an entirely new scenario altogether. In "The Incident," Jacob told The Man in Black, "It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress." Given the title of the finale ("The End"), and given Desmond's wildcard status in these proceedings, how exactly will "Lost" sound its final notes about the War of the Island? Will things remain status quo with new faces replacing the old ones, or will "the end" give way to the next phase of humanity itself?

Those are our ten burning questions that need resolution in the series finale. What's burning in your mind? Leave your thoughts and predictions below!

Additional Credit to: zap2it

Photo credit: ABC

THE HEART ATTACK GRILL : THE TASTE WORTH DYING FOR!

2010-05-21T17:51:00.001-07:00

THE HEART ATTACK GRILL : THE TASTE WORTH DYING FOR!

If you've been looking around for somewhere to curl up and die with the delicious taste of the world's fattiest foods in your mouth, look no further than the Heart Attack Grill.

The Heart Attack Grill is a terribly unusual hamburger joint in Chandler, Arizona. Here, when you walk in the door you are the "patient," you sit down and order your "prescription," and it is brought to you by a really attractive "nurse." It was founded by a guy named Jon Basso, who goes by "Dr. Jon" even though he's not recognized by the AMA. He walks around the restaurant and flips burgers in a white labcoat with a stethoscope around his neck. "Dr. Jon" used to be a nutritionist, but one day the idea struck him while he was writing a marketing thesis for fitness centers about how his clients would keep cheating on their diets. He flipped to the darkside and made a menu that was filled with such bad foods that if you were on a Heart Attack Grill diet, you would have to jump through some serious hoops to cheat on it.

The menu consists of the fattiest burgers out there. Basso's food has been said to be "nutritional pornography" and "food so bad for you its shocking." The "Bypass" which is the smallest with a half-pound patty, "Double-Bypass," "Triple-Bypass," and the stunning "Quadruple-Bypass" which is a whopping 2 pounds are some of the most controversial burgers out there. They are all slathered with lard before they go on the grill and served with copious amounts of cheese. The restaurant is also well-known for their "Flatliner Fries" which are deep-fried in liquid lard. The fries are served at an all-you-can-eat "fry bar" to any paying customer. To give you a perspective on how much obsurdly fattening food the Heart Attack Grill puts out, I can tell you that they go through 450 pounds of lard in a regular week.

Food isn't the only thing at the Heart Attack Grill that can introduce you to the Reaper. They also offer extreme energy drinks like "Jolt" cola and no filter Lucky Strike brand cigarettes. Energy drinks and artery clogging burgers with just a few inhaled carcinogens for good measure, sounds like my Friday night!

The worst thing though, as if the food wasn't bad enough for the overweight, is that upon arrival you can be weighed in by a nurse, and if you weigh over 350 pounds, or 160kg, you eat FREE every day. Yes, if you weigh over 350 pounds you can literally eat yourself to death for FREE every day. Another Heart Attack Grill perk is a free ride in a wheelchair. If a "patient" eats an entire "Quadruple-Bypass" burger, they are wheeled to the door in a wheelchair by the "nurse" crew and slapped with a Heart Attack Grill T-shirt! The T-shirts go up for sale in October of '09 if you love the place but don't want to kill yourself for some cotton. Just make sure that you're big enough to wear 2XL - 5XL since they only come in "manly sizes."

Basso's anti-marketing genius has been recognized even by Entrepreneur.com. The controversy that the restaurant projects is advertising enough. The only advertising that Basso has done is maintain his website and allow reporters to come in and talk about how bad the food is for you, but even they can't deny how delicious it must taste.

I personally think that this is a great idea and one of those places that lets you take home an experience that you will remember for a long while, maybe even a lifetime. I know that the next time I'm in AZ I'm definitely going to make the drive and try to get that Quadruple-Bypass burger down my hatch and bag that t-shirt. For the less healthy people that eat there and enjoy it, I feel no pity. I think that unhealthy people should be conscious of what they eat and if they choose to eat at a place called the "Heart Attack Grill" then I believe that they know what they are getting into. There shouldn't be any controversy. If people want to eat themselves to death then I consider it natural selection at work.

Filed under: Hamburger, Heart attack grill nurses, Chandler, Fatty foods, Fries, Nurses, Heart Attack Grill, Burger, AZ

Swap and Trade your DVD's and BluRays online

2010-05-20T10:54:00.001-07:00

Jeridoo - Swap and Trade your DVD movies/games

With www.Jeridoo.com we created the first and largest dvd movie, video games, books and music cd exchange, trade and selling platform in the United States.
Collecting Movies and Music has been a huge hobby for all founders of Jeridoo. But a collection can only grow to a certain size. "What should we do?" - we asked ourselves ... selling any media on online auction houses is not profitable anymore and sacrificing the collection is not a solution either. "Let's trade it!" - We thought. And .......Jeridoo was born. First launched overseas with huge success and going strong. Dating back to 2005. Late 2006 we finally launched Jeridoo USA and it took just a few months to get copied.

We envision a trading community where people can grow, sell, trade their books, CD's, DVD's, etc. or switch from their DVD collection to BlueRay! Books to Movies or just have plain fun with the selling factor. You chose your own price and you get paid with secure Jeridoo Points. There are no limits to how many trades you make as long as you have sufficient "money" in your account. After all, what you trade on Jeridoo is yours to keep or trade again.

To make the platform secure was the biggest goal and that's why you can't exchange products for real money on our site. The point system is 100% "bullet" proof. Together we can change how the world is watching movies, listening to great music and best of all keep supporting the great artists by only trading original products and not "freely download it off the net". We believe, we are a great asset to the entertainment industry!

Please enjoy Jeridoo and any comments, suggestions are welcome any time.

The founders of Jeridoo.com and Jeridoo Inc.
Guido Baechler, C.E.O. (a.k.a. Dr. G) & Tim Haedke C.O.O. (a.k.a. DonTieme) and many co-founders like Monika Baechler

Parents ought to be slapped!

2010-05-20T01:09:00.001-07:00

Parents ought to be slapped!

Enough is enough. When will parents realize that they are responsible for the health of their children. Stop feeding your kids fast foods, Take-outs and microwave oven meals! All I hear is wining and complaining from parents who say that they don't have time, money or the know-how to prepare a homemade meal? Really, that is your excuse? Isn't it just laziness? North Americans watch three, four or five shows at night and during the day. The weekends are mostly reserved for TV and food, they sit around on the weekends doing nothing. How is it possible that there is no time to care for our children's health or your own health for that matter?

You are the parents and you only make the decision what to feed your kids. Not the other way around. “But I feel so guilty if I don't take her/him to McDonald's for lunch”. Is that your final answer? You feel guilty? Don't you think you should feel actually guilty of taking your child there in the first place? I do get it, It's so much easier, faster and more convenient to drive up and let them eat what they want. At least they leave you alone for a while. Right?

What about, “I'm just not a great cook! I have no idea how to prepare a nutritious meal from scratch!” This answer is unacceptable as well, with all the different cooking shows out there and youtube videos you can not be serious. Better yet, ask your neighbor, your friend, your mom or aunt to teach you. It is so simple to take action and responsibility.

Would you let your kids eat from a garbage pile? Why not? You're already feeding your children dead food. You heard me “DEAD FOOD”. There is nothing nourishing in a burger with fries. It has been processed, poisoned and killed. Oh, excuse me, you are feeding your kids the chicken nuggets with apples and milk. Well of course, that does sounds much better! The nuggets are all leftover garbage meat (if you actually can call it meat), filled with poison like antibiotics and other medicine, shaped in a neat little shape and then fried in hot, rancid, carcinogenic oil bath. The apples are soaked in chlorine so they don't turn brown and the milk is filled with lots and lots of more chemicals, antibiotics and hormones to really make sure that your kids get the daily toxin and poison requirement of the day. There you have it! The perfect meal for your precious little one, a child you brought into this world whom you promised to take care of with all your strength and means.

Whole foods are simple, inexpensive, wholesome and a necessity to our and our children's health. Period.

Most behavior problems arise from malnutrition and deficiencies. What about learning difficulties or social problems. Even allergies like asthma will be gone by providing our children with home made foods from whole foods, the way mother nature made them. (not your local fast food chain)

Now you can argue with me about this topic all you want, and if you do argue with me, that means that you are feeding your children manufactured crap and you are trying to defend your actions and thoughts.

The only right thing to do here is to acknowledge that you made a mistake and work towards a healthier and more nutritious home for your kids and family.

With that said, I do believe that mothers can make a change if they are organized and taught how to do it right. Why do I say Mothers? Well, Mom is the Head of the household. She buys the food, brings it home and cooks the food (zapping it in the microwave). Not only does the Mother buy the groceries but she also budgets the food money (sometimes anyway).

Every time you're thinking about the next meal, I want you to have one thought: Would Monika approve of this meal I'm about give my family? If the answer is “no” or “maybe not”, I want you to rethink your menu. Wholesome meals are very easy to prepare, they sometimes take less time and money then ordering from your local pizza delivery place. Think about it! Sometimes I spend less then $20 on three days of groceries. Vegetables, whole grains and fruits are not more expensive than manufactured crap that comes in a box. Take out all the processed foods off your grocery list and only add whole grains like millet, brown rice and whole wheat pasta (many more), vegetables and fruits. Your bill will be much, much less.

Eating healthy, nutritious home cooked meals are less expensive

This morning for example: it was fast, delicious and inexpensive

Breakfast Banana Smoothie

· 2 bananas

· 2 cups almond milk

· 3 dates

· 2 tbsp silken tofu

· add 2 servings of green+ (green food supplement)

blend everything until smooth, done! The boys gobble it up in seconds, and I mean seconds!

Grain and vegetables dishes and fruit desert are not only feeding the mind and body, they also feed the soul. If you feed your children's soul, you will experience a more balanced family life without frustration and conflicts. Some kids are very angry and troubled because of malnutrition and deficiencies. Whole grains and vegetables will balance hormones and toxic blood from over acidity.

One more thought. If you're still using dairy products, make sure you are only choosing organic whole milk. Organic means without any antibiotics or hormones given to the cows. Just to be clear, dairy is not a necessary food group. Not even for children – specially not for children. Milk is mucus forming and very hard to digest for little tummies. Children get many ear infections because of milk products as well as other allergic symptoms, but that is a topic for another blog.

Today I would like to leave you with this:

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” Buddha

Stay Healthy!

Monika Baechler

http://www.monikabaechler.com