I was kind of with you until you snuck that one in. Technically, raw milk may in fact be healthier. The problem is that what can live in raw milk can kill a human in a few hours. That's why we pasteurize milk.

Despite their best intentions, nobody knows how often milking machines are accidentally contaminated with raw animal fecal matter, or if a machine malfunctions...

Of course the more basic issue is why milk has become such a juggernaut in the food industry. It is ridiculous to consume milk in the quantities that are produced. Absolutely unnecessary consumption, foisted on an unwary populace by a government subsidized and protected industry.

There are plenty of plant foods that are high in calcium and low in fat.

Prof. Cooley is a desperate weasel.

If Goldman didn't need the money, as they claim, why don't they just give it back? Answer: it is padding this year bonus pool.

But if some honest congressman/woman wanted a few hundred thousand dollars to upgrade insulation in district schools, it would disappear into a committee and never be seen again.

Who really runs the country is obvious.

The Fed answers to the bankers who run it, which effectively acts as an international banking cartel to which President Woodrow Wilson unwittingly handed the power to run our country in the early part of the twentieth century. Toward the end of his life he confessed that it was his greatest regret. Our founding fathers carefully and repeatedly warned us of just such a possibility. Well, most of us in this country have been unwittingly living just that possibility ever since Wilson and now we're really paying the piper (again). It's time to wake up and take the wheel.

In the fifties and sixties, scientists were predicting technology would bring us 20-hour work weeks within a couple of decades or so. Well, the technology has been developed, but who's reaping the benefits? Ask yourself that one. Workers won the right to a 40-hour work week, but now we've been suckered into having at least two family members sometimes working 50- and 60-hour work weeks in order to buy all the stuff the royal court has suckered us with their advertising into thinking we just have to have.

It is a clear, scientifically certifiable fact that our planet cannot support the level of consumption of the average U.S. citizen if everyone worldwide were to consume anywhere close to our rates. Water seeks its own level and that's what's happening in the world market. Everyone wants what we have. That's just plain impossible and ultimately we have to compete in the world market. Human economies just articulate the flow of energy to restructure the environment. That's really all they do. Even taking oil out of the ground is just restructuring the environment. Then we use that energy to restructure it some more.

So energy and the intelligence with which we articulate its flow to restructure our personal, social, and natural environments is all economies ultimately boil down to. We're not being very intelligent in the way we do that. Worse, those with the most power to do restructuring are doing it in their own, selfish, short-term interests. We let them manipulate us with politics, their advertising, and finally their marketing influence on our very culture itself. This is not in the interests of people in general and certainly not in those of the planet.

So what must happen for things to ultimately go well? Worldwide per capita consumption cannot imitate what we're doing. It just physically cannot happen. So we need to restructure our environment much more intelligently to recycle non-renewable resources and not burn it all up or put it in landfills, rivers, and oceans. Physical resources must be conserved to the highest degree possible because they are clearly not infinite as our past perspective has unwittingly assumed. Also, of course, energy must move ultimately to totally renewable sources.

What, then, is the inevitable conclusion? The ultimate, long-term success of the global economic system toward which we cannot help but move depends not on economic growth in our rate of consumption of physical resources, but the intelligence with which we articulate the restructuring of our environment to improve the true quality of our lives while preserving our finite physical resources to the maximum possible degree.

This is precisely the opposite direction from that in which we've been going. This is not rocket science. That this is ultimately true is so clearly unarguable that it takes very little, and very uncomplicated thought for all people with an open mind to confirm it for themselves.

"If the American People ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around (the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..." -- Thomas Jefferson

When Woodrow Wilson caved and signed the Federal Reserve Act, he committed treason against the people of the United States. (The members of Congress who voted for it also deserve to be forgotten, but their actions should not be -- they were sellouts, bribe recipients, traitors.) These bastards need to be tarred, feathered, feathered, then re-tarred. And their collaborators in the federal government (all the positions of power) need to be removed -- I hardly care how at this point. Leeches have higher ethics than this crew.