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Excerpts from Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Gary G. Kohls, MD
The percentage of Americans disabled by mental illness has increased fivefold since 1955, when Thorazine – remembered today as psychiatry’s first “wonder” drug – was introduced into the market.
There are now nearly 6 million Americans disabled by mental illness, and this number increases by more than 400 people each day. A review of the scientific literature reveals that it is our drug-based paradigm of care that is fueling this epidemic. The drugs increase the likelihood that a person will become chronically ill, and induce new and more severe psychiatric symptoms in a significant percentage of patients.
E. Fuller Torrey, in his 2001 book The Invisible Plague, concluded that insanity had risen to the level of an epidemic. This epidemic has unfolded in lockstep with the ever-increasing use of psychiatric drugs.
Duty to Warn: Forgetting All About The Golden Rule
Gary G. Kohls, MD
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” asked the Pharisees of Jesus, trying to entrap him into making some statement of blasphemy. Jesus answered: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and prophets.” In his answer, Jesus was being consistent in his commitment to the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Lies About Lockerbie, 911 and Terrorism
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
Memorial services were held to mark the 20th anniversary of the crash of Pan Am 103 near Lockerbie, Scotland. Like 911, 'Lockerbie', an alleged 'terrorist' attacked named for the nearby township, raises more questions than are answered. But there is one important difference. In Lockerbie there is identifiable wreckage. In New York and at the Pentagon, the laws of physics --we are expected to believe --were suspended!
In Lockerbie, southern Scotland, eleven people were killed when large sections of aircraft fell on, in and around the township, bringing total fatalities to 270. Many have called it the 'Lockerbie bombing'. Unlike 911, Lockerbie was investigated but, like 911, the case is obviously not solved and that it was Mossad which issue the first 'tip' that a bomb had bee placed among the luggage is enough to make me suspicious. Mossad, after all, is probably second only to the US CIA among the world's largest 'official' terrorist organizations!
Vaccine-Induced Disease Epidemic Outbreaks: The Engineering of ‘Pandemics’
By A. True Ott, PhD, ND
The year was 1921. America was entering a decade of robust prosperity. Later called “The Roaring Twenties”, it was a time of unparalleled economic expansion. Debt money from Wall Street banks was plentiful and easy to obtain. The “Great War” was over.
America was flexing her industrial muscles. Factories were being built and expanded in every major city. Automobiles began rolling off Detroit assembly lines in record numbers. The stock market began making millionaires. People were HEALTHY and HAPPY largely because the dreaded “world mystery disease” (which decades later became known as the “1918 Flu Pandemic”) had disappeared. Two entire years had passed with no dreaded “mystery deaths” being reported. America had cause to celebrate, and celebrate they did!
Sex, Silicone, and Suits: Miss California Goes a-Courtin'
by Walter Brasch
There's a cat fight going on in the Miss USA operation—and it isn't pretty.
It began when an openly gay judge asked Miss California, Carrie Prejean, what she thought about same sex marriage. Prejean, a student at San Diego Christian College, said that although she recognizes and accepts that others may believe in same-sex marriage, "I think I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman." That created a firestorm of publicity for the Trump-owned organization. A large minority of Americans said they supported Prejean's opinion. A large minority said she was reciting biased lessons of intolerance; Perez Hilton, the judge who had asked the question, on his blog called Prejean "a dumb bitch." However, several prominent gay rights activists defended Prejean's right to her opinion.
A rare victory for Lebanon’s Palestinians
Why Hezbollah ushered a key Lebanese ally to the woodshed
Franklin Lamb
Syria’s Yarmouk Refugee Camp, Damascus
Known simply as “ the General” Michel Naim Aoun was born in a peaceful mixed Christian-Shia area of Haret Hreik, now a core Hezbollah area. He rose from poverty to become the head of Lebanon’s newly created Eighth army following the September 1983 battle of Souq el Gharb against Palestinian and Druze forces. Six years later he served a forcibly truncated term as President of Lebanon. Since returning from a self imposed 15 year exile in France in 2005, he is widely believed to intend to gain that office.
A current outspoken member of Lebanon’s parliament, Aoun has many supporters and detractors being variously referred to a brilliant, cunning, honest, corrupt, obstructionist, mercurial, mentally ill, Napoleonic, and Hezbollah’s most important political ally.
JORDAN could do more to protect al-Aqsa Mosque from Israel’s evil designs
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
IOF troops at Aqsa gate
So far, the Jordanian reactions to the scandalous Israeli provocations at al Masjidul Aqsa (Aqsa Mosque) have been minimal, inadequate and strikingly weak. Jordan, which signed the inauspicious Wadi Araba treaty with Israel fifteen years ago, is legally and morally responsible for the Islamic and Christian holy places in al-Quds.
However, the Jordanian state, apart from playing a symbolic role, has been effectively silent in the face of uninterrupted and unrelenting Israeli conspiracies against the Islamic sanctuary in the holy city. Israel has been carrying out far-reaching excavations in the vicinity of the Haram al Sharif esplanade which experts say are destabilizing the foundations of the structures.
Is Obama “Playing the Game?”
By Frederick Alexander Meade
In recent weeks, the Obama administration has come under considerable fire, as it has attempted to advance its agenda regarding national health care reform. Much of the opposition directed towards the President’s plan has expressed itself in a manner which many believe to pertain less to the proposal and more to the Head of State himself. African Americans, among other citizens, have voiced concerns over disturbing images and utterances emerging from those who oppose Obama’s political intentions; as these expressions, in numerous instances, have been observed by some as acts deeply rooted in racism.
In late August, a series of rallies organized by a conservative advocacy group - Tea Party Express - were staged over the course of several weeks, in an effort to quell the President’s efforts to gain public support for his Health Care Plan. Significant attention was drawn by these events as many in some quarters regarded the organized protests as nothing more than “Confederate style”, gatherings wherein racial epitaphs and covert language imbedded in “white supremacy”, substituted for civil expressions of opposition. Such assessments germinated as numerous ralliers displayed signs portraying Obama as an “illegal immigrant”, an African “witch doctor” , “Adolph Hitler” and even “Satan” amidst vocalizations suggesting that he as a result of his political orientation is somehow less “American” than those in possession of dissimilar views. Additionally, other attendees held signs stating, “We Didn’t Bring our Guns (This Time),” a reference to a prior presidential event in which some outside protesters boldly brandished firearms, as Obama addressed constituents in regard to his health care initiatives. These acts, composed what many interpreted to be, indirect threats to the physical safety of Obama. Such widely regarded misconduct would not only surface within the boundaries of less formal public events, but also too, within the confines of an official government institution.
THE WARNING / OTC DERIVATIVE MARKET STILL DANGEROUSLY UNREGULATED
Allen L Roland
In the midst of the Clinton 1990's raging bull market ~ a lone regulator, Brooksley Born, stood up against the Washington elite and warned them about the unregulated dark OTC Derivative market . Her truth was ridiculed, violently opposed and is now seen as self evident ~ but the OTC derivative market still remains dangerously unregulated:
Click on the photo or enclosed links and watch 55 minutes of PBS at its best ~ THE WARNING / How Greenspan, Summers & Rubin conspired to silence Derivatives whistleblower Brooksley Born. the warning | PBS
I watched it on last week and it confirmed what I have long suspected ~ the ticking time bomb, that still exists in the Obama administration, is the continuing concerted Wall Street effort not to regulate the highly-complex and lucrative OTC derivative multi-trillion dollar crap shoot which still continues to rake in millions for the financial elite while Main Street stagnates. See my UNSPOKEN CAUSE OF MARKET COLLAPSE IS DERIVATIVE TRADING written on October 13, 2008 http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/10/13.html
Black Women, Power and African Hair
Written by Frederick Alexander Meade
In recent times, women of African descent within many industrialized nations have begun to garner significant financial, social and political standings.
This phenomenon finds its expression especially within the confines of the United States of America. With the emergence of such figures as Oprah Winfrey, Tyra Banks and more recently Michelle Obama, African American women have started to establish themselves within previously male dominated industries and have thus increased their visibility within exclusive social and political circles.
With the status of some women of African descent ascending to exceedingly high societal echelons, rather new dimensions have started to develop in relation to the physical images projected of Black women.
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