Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Rove & Cheddar: Both Newspeak and Nose-speak lie...

Just a Pro Memoriam: Scientists learn the taste of words* - Or: what do Cheddar cheese and Karl Rove have in common?


A cheese by any other name doesn’t smell as sweet...

University of Oxford News

- In a finding that holds lessons for restaurateurs and advertisers, researchers from the Department of Experimental Psychology have discovered that visually presented words can influence the perception of smells – with pleasant words influencing the effects that odours have on even early levels of brain processing of smell.

- In their experiments, the results of which were published in the 19 May issue of Neuron, the researchers presented people with a smell that was somewhat like brie: it could be considered as pleasant, or perhaps not. When presented, it was paired with a label that read either ‘cheddar cheese’ or ‘body odour.’

SUBJECTS RATED THE ODOUR SIGNIFICANTLY MORE PLEASANT WHEN IT WAS LABELLED ‘CHEDDAR CHEESE’.

- The researchers then scanned the subjects’ brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during the presentation of the test odour. They found that the word label modulated the response of basic olfactory processing areas, such as the orbitofrontal cortex, to the test odour. There was more brain activity if the label was ‘cheddar cheese’ than if it was ‘body odour’, and the amount of brain activity was correlated with the pleasantness ratings given by the participants.

- Professor Edmund Rolls, who led the research, said: ‘The results of this study show that high-level cognitive inputs, such as the sight of a word, influence the early cortical areas of the brain that are activated by olfactory stimuli, and play a significant part in our subjective responses to odours.

- Part of the interest of the study is that it shows that cognitive influences, originating from as high in processing as linguistic representations, can reach down into the orbitofrontal cortex – a ‘lower level’ part of the brain which deals with reward and emotion – to modulate responses there.

- The experiment thus shows that linguistic representations can influence how emotional states are represented in the brain and thus experienced.’

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Venezuela: Bush responsible for assassionations!

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=90193;title=APFN
Venezuela: Bush responsible for assassionations!


IF PRIOR PRACTICE IS ANY GUIDE, HUGO CHAVEZ IS A MARKED MAN.

FPF-fwd.: Venezuela's Electronic News - Url.: http://www.vheadline.com

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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias:

"George W. Bush will be held responsible for any attempt at assassination!"

Subtitled TV segment - Url.: http://www.vheadline.com/Alo_Presidente_050220.html

A short list of (the american version) of some of the wars, invasions, occupations* and other 'killing for profit' of Latin America's leaders by the US, has been published yesterday in 'Mondo Washington':

GOD'S HIT MAN

The Republican establishment may pass Pat Robertson off as an amusing wack job, but he floats ideas for Bush, and the proposal to kill Venezuela's Chavez is like putting out a hit on the man.

Coups have been a major foreign policy tool in exercising U.S. power throughout the hemisphere. And under the Bush doctrine of unilateral attack, they are more important than ever. Here is a partial list, prepared with the help of the Council on Hemispheric Policy in Washington, of the Latin leaders we've helped get rid of:

FRANCISCO I. MADERO: Mexican revolutionary leader deposed, captured, and executed. The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson, was deeply involved in ousting Madero, who had helped end Porfirio Diaz's 30-year dictatorship. Under Diaz's regime, U.S. investment had boomed, with Americans owning more than 40 percent of all property in the country.

AUGUSTO SANDINO:An anti-colonialist Nicaraguan leader, he had laid down arms when the U.S. Marines withdrew from the country. But Anastasio Somoza, a Philadelphia-educated Nicaraguan close to the U.S., ordered henchmen to seize and kill him.

JACOBO ARBENZ GUZMAN: elected president of Guatemala, he was ousted in a plot hatched and in large part carried out by the CIA. A military junta headed by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas replaced him. This was the so-called United Fruit coup.

RAFAEL TRUJILLO: The Dominican Republic dictator was gunned down by the Dominican military as he drove to visit his mistress. He had fallen into Dwight Eisenhower's disfavor after Fidel Castro deposed Fulgencio Batista in Cuba. Ike thought the Commies might win over the D.R. as well if there were an uprising against Trujillo's corrupt rule.
Trujillo's son hurried home to replace his murdered dad, but the U.S. didn't like him any better, and the young Trujillo was deposed and replaced by Joaqu Balaguer, who was replaced by the elected Juan Bosch. But Bosch was deemed too leftish and was deposed, again with U.S. connivance.

SALVADOR ALLENDE: The president of Chile was killed in a mil itary coup led by Augusto Pinochet on September 11. At the time, Henry Kissinger told President Richard Nixon that the U.S. wasn't involved in the actual coup, but it is well known that the CIA had been plotting against Allende ever since he came to power.

MAURICE BISHOP: The president of Grenada was executed in 1983 after a military coup led by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard. Soon thereafter Reagan invaded to depose the pro-Soviet Coard.

MANUEL NORIEGA: The Panama strongman and longtime employee of the CIA was captured in the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1990, later indicted in the U.S. on drug charges, found guilty in a Miami federal court, and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He is eligible for parole next year.

IF PRIOR PRACTICE IS ANY GUIDE, HUGO CHAVEZ IS A MARKED MAN.

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FPF: Watch Out! The Americans are Coming - by Paul Harris: ''If this is a nation of peace lovers...'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9fxke

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* MSNBC Poll: Ninety-four percent believes that George Bush and the neocon media mislead the nation to go to war with Iraq - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8248969/

*Corporate News Media: Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe

* Brainwashed? Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find out if you're really a mind slave or not - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc

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