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sterlling wrote: Better?
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dearlenbaugh wrote:Oct. 11, 1963. Tonight's episode was called "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet". ...
So, cut to late in the episode: My sister is asleep on the couch behind me; I'm sitting Indian Native-American-style on the floor with a big bowl of now-forgotten potato chips, tensely leaning forward as Shatner reaches for the curtain covering the airplane window. Donna opens her eyes just in time to see The Gremlin revealed, and SHRIEKS!! Electricity shoots through me -- I scream and convulse, the potato chips go airborne! My scream startles Donna and she screams again!Her scream startles me and I scream again! This could have continued well into Alfred Hitchcock, but my little nephew came running out of his bedroom crying because all the howling woke him.
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Quote:...the U.N. exaggerates the effect on the health of third world children of its activities. UNICEF’s efforts are effectively insignificant compared to the effect of continuing economic growth in the developing world. Economic growth delivers dramatic health effects. It brings cleaner water and improved nutrition which are long proven to be the key factors in improving child health and preventing deaths from infectious disease. UNICEF airbrushes out the effect of economic growth [and] thus seeks to gain the credit. The following superb BBC FOUR broadcast by Professor Hans Rosling shows how health improved in step with wealth over the last 200 years: "200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes“: The main advances in combating disease over 200 years have been better food and clean drinking water. Improved sanitation, less overcrowded and better living conditions also contribute. This is also borne out in published peer reviewed research. [Also], UNICEF...has for decades been harming the interests of third world children by buying cheap and known-to-be dangerous vaccines like Urabe strain MMR as well as mercury-laced vaccines like DTP and [administering] them...[end quote]
The following superb BBC FOUR broadcast by Professor Hans Rosling shows how health improved in step with wealth over the last 200 years: "200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes“:
The main advances in combating disease over 200 years have been better food and clean drinking water. Improved sanitation, less overcrowded and better living conditions also contribute. This is also borne out in published peer reviewed research.
[Also], UNICEF...has for decades been harming the interests of third world children by buying cheap and known-to-be dangerous vaccines like Urabe strain MMR as well as mercury-laced vaccines like DTP and [administering] them...
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Oct 14 13 2:01 PM
seattleguy wrote:Without getting too caught up in the politics involved, I would guess that Schiff may have been unaware of any negative ramifications regarding the UNESCO ads featuring Superman.
I won't question his sincerity regarding them.
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seattleguy wrote:Without getting too caught up in the politics involved. . .
Oct 14 13 3:12 PM
dearlenbaugh wrote:seattleguy wrote:Without getting too caught up in the politics involved. . . Too late. Alizarin stepped right in it. Unless we want this to be the first Time Capsule to get locked, we'd better just step back and let it be.
seattleguy wrote:Without getting too caught up in the politics involved...
dearlenbaugh wrote:Too late. Alizarin stepped right in it. Unless we want this to be the first Time Capsule to get locked, we'd better just step back and let it be.
I have never meant this to be the "be all, end all" discussion about these pages. All I want to do here is recognize the entire canon of PSA pages. Nothing more. There are way too many people besides myself who can evaluate the merits of each individual entry. Lord knows, I'm not qualified to do so.
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alizarin1 wrote:Anyone....could suddenly find themselves kidnapped by Superman in broad daylight off the streets in America, then whisked thousands of miles away and dropped into some third-world slum where presumably he would have left them until they saw things his way. There was never so much as a whisper of a reasonable opposing view in these ads, never any raising of other important questions that would have challenged Schiff's simplistic, naive and misleading narrative.....This bizarre and offensive notion of Superman as United Nations propaganda enforcer over vulnerable, impressionable young kids never sat well with me.
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dearlenbaugh wrote:On a more cheerful note, early in you recap of "Decoy Missions of the Justice League" I decided to stop and get out the actual story to read. It was an odd sensation. It brought back the old excitement I used to feel reading a JLA story. The plot was so convoluted, I used to think it was my teen-age brain that just couldn't keep up with events. Now I'm seeing it with an old man's eyes, and I realize that most of it is just plain confusing.
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