tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-996428238712361912024-03-05T19:32:20.937-08:00AnnyBelle Foundation<i>Arming Ourselves for the Future with the Knowledge from the Past.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-70363611004062601772024-02-14T16:23:00.000-08:002024-02-14T16:23:44.139-08:00United We Light <p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">YOUR PERSONAL INVITATION</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlEX_VdKLVPL6GDY0b_D1HNrlatCGd-v8uPMkrzuLE8nH6eZXezNGVDCe3j4eouLlTpcr2cJgkoPx3lJvV0EE8ATl6S_st_UZ8JuvAv0UHPStM9MEwoK1dmUAdVCA8iz48DyFhi8_cl5R73TxQ8bL1S5M5WXaTehdbqgYa9dlB9jwW9ihrFJtx2RcancKN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlEX_VdKLVPL6GDY0b_D1HNrlatCGd-v8uPMkrzuLE8nH6eZXezNGVDCe3j4eouLlTpcr2cJgkoPx3lJvV0EE8ATl6S_st_UZ8JuvAv0UHPStM9MEwoK1dmUAdVCA8iz48DyFhi8_cl5R73TxQ8bL1S5M5WXaTehdbqgYa9dlB9jwW9ihrFJtx2RcancKN" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; 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Emerging from their axial homes, fungi are
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ecological sustainability. Paul explores mycology and compels support
for your own good nature and our fungal allies. This is the first in a
collaboration of Louie Schwartzberg of Blacklight films ( <a class="yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDEQ6TgYACITCKSw1pOM2NICFQogTgoddawA7yj4HQ" data-target-new-window="True" data-url="http://bit.ly/FantasticFungi" href="http://bit.ly/FantasticFungi" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/FantasticFungi</a> ) and Paul Stamets of Fungi Perfecti ( <a class="yt-uix-servicelink " data-servicelink="CDEQ6TgYACITCKSw1pOM2NICFQogTgoddawA7yj4HQ" data-target-new-window="True" data-url="http://fungi.net" href="http://fungi.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://fungi.net</a> ). Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-87639103546151476702016-12-21T11:43:00.002-08:002016-12-21T11:43:33.631-08:00The Drug Story<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>THE DRUG STORY</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>by Morris A. Bealle</i></span><i><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> First printing December 1949-copyright 1949: by Maurice A. Bealle-All Rights Reserved </span></i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">"The Drug Story" is a factalogical history of America’s $10 billion drug cartel (back in 1949), its methods, operations, hidden ownership, profits and terrific impact on the health of the American people.</span></b><br />
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Thirty years ago the Standard Oil Company became impressed with the methods of the big packing houses which used, processed and sold every part of the hog but the squeal.<br /><br />
Their sales research department went ‘way back to the 1860’s when “Old Bill” Rockefeller, the itinerant pappy of John D. (the first) and a patent medicine showman, used to palm off bottled raw petroleum on the yokels as a cure for cancer.<br /><br />
“Old Bill” was an upstate New York farmer, until 1850. He moved to Cleveland then, entered the patent medicine racket and had himself listed as a “physician” in the city directory. In selling raw petroleum in a pretty bottle “Old Bill” did nothing new.<br /><br />
He merely took a page out of the book of other patent medicine fakers who were then hawking their wares from the backs of wagons – covered and uncovered. When oil was discovered in northwest Pennsylvania (1850) the jackals of the oil trade found there was more gold in the jeans of the gullible yokels than there was in working for it in the oil fields.<br /><br />
They began to bottle the raw petroleum and palm it off under various names as a cure for everything under the sun. The popular maladies of the day were liver complaint, cholera morbus, consumption and bronchitis. Among the names given this raw petroleum were “Seneca Oil", “Rock Oil” and “American Medicinal Oil”.<br /><br />
“Old Bill” opened up a new field for himself. He called his bottled petroleum “Nujol” (meaning new oil) and sold it to those who had cancer and those whom he could make fear they would have it.<br /><br />
This sounded good to Standard’s researchists. It sounded even better when they found it cost but $2.00 a barrel to concoct Nujol from crude petroleum. And that from one barrel of the raw stuff they could make 1,000 six-ounce bottles of finished Nujol. Instead of calling it a cure for cancer they called it a cure for constipation.<br /><br />
The latest trade catalog lists Nujol as going to the druggist at 28-2/3 cents a half pint (8 fluid ounces). The druggist thus pays about 21 cents for a 6-ounce bottle of Nujol which costs Standard Oil 1/5 of a cent.<br /><br />
These breath-taking profits from Nujol make it inevitable that America’s largest and most ruthless industrial combine (the Rockefeller Empire) should soon add the drug traffic to its already vast production and sales domain. It wasn’t until 1939, however, that the Drug Trust was formed and the upward curve in their drug profits began to assume the present gigantic proportions which today make it a macabre $10,000,000,000 a year business. How the American Drug Trust was formed by an alliance with its opposite number in Germany is almost a story in itself.<br /><br />
Soon after the present-day Nujol was put on the market it was discovered by physicians to be harmful. It robbed the body of fat soluble vitamins and caused serious deficiency diseases. Standard Oil checked the loss in sales by adding carotene (one of the fat soluble vitamins) to Nujol and claiming this overcame these injuries. Physicians disagree with the sales department of Standard Oil on this point.<br /><br />
And what of Nujol, now being sold to the public as a laxative. For some uyears before his death Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York used to set up a radio microphone every morning in his Senate Office Building quarters in Washington, furnished by the American taxpayers, and plug this greasy concoction – at $75,000 a year.<br /><br />
The New York Senator was a doctor of sorts. Although he possessed a medical degree he was never able to make a living as a bedside practitioner. He went into politics and made medicine pay in a big way. First he became a health commissioner of New York City, then a Senator from the Empire State where he used the prominence thus gained to ballyhoo Nujol to unsuspecting radio listeners.<br /><br />
Today Nujol is made by Stanco, Incorporated, 216 West 14th Street in New York, listed in Moody’s Manual as one of the many subsidiaries of the Standard Oil Company. Stanco’s only other product is Flit, well known fly killer and insecticide, made from the same raw materials and by pretty much the same process.<br /><br />
When a German beer hall bum named Hitler began to plan his 1,000-year Reich, the powers-that-were in Germany didn’t actually know that American politicians were going to solve their acute employment crisis by forcing us into the Second World War to again save England’s hide and Rockefeller’s oil. But they weren’t taking any chances.<br /><br />
Germany’s huge dye trust (or chemical cartel) known as the I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, enjoyed a monopoly on all chemical products manufactured in Germany. German IG made an alliance with American Standard Oil in order to control important patents. The general idea was that the two were to pool their processes. This was done—in a one-sided way.<br /><br />
With the help of Standard Oil the German behemoth prevented American chemists from learning how to make synthetic rubber until after the Japs took the Malayan Peninsula and its vast rubber plantations. This almost lost the war for the United States.<br /><br />
So, in 1939, when it became apparent that Germany would soon be unpopular in the United States, Standard Oil helped Hitler’s Reich cover its American holdings in the drug and chemical field. The American IG was formed, by taking over the Sterling Products Company, the Grasseli Chemical Works (alias the General Aniline Works), the Agfa-Film Company, the Winthrop Chemical and the Magnesium Development companies.<br /><br />
Standard Oil took 15% of the stock in the new German-American chemical trust. Efforts to hook the DuPont company into this situation partially failed. Among the directors of the “cover up” company were Walter Teagle (President of the Standard Oil Company), Paul Warburg (a Roosevelt-Rockefeller stooge), and Edsel Ford.<br /><br />
Five hundred thousand shares of stock were issued to Walter Teagle. At a later Securities & Exchange Commission investigation Mr. Teagle denied his parentage of this stock, claiming he was holding it as a dummy for someone else. <br /><br />
When asked by the examiner who this “someone else” was he blandly replied he did not know, although he was under oath. Everyone else knew it was either one of the Rockefeller clan in person, or the Standard Oil Company.<br /><br />
The war was getting pretty close to this country. President Roosevelt was setting up the Pearl Harbor disaster, and had ordered our radar defenses let down at 7 o’clock every morning. History records that the Japs accepted this “opportunity” to destroy most of the American Navy, made defenseless on orders from Washington.<br /><br />
At this juncture American IG Farben decided to camouflage its German parentage and sympathies, with the help of Standard Oil. It changed its name to the General Aniline & Film Corporation shortly before the Pearl Harbor attack. Before doing this, American IG purchased an undisclosed number of shares in the Ozalid Corporation, Schering & Company, Mission Corporation, Monsanto Chemical, Aluminum Corporation, Drug *Incorporated), Dow Chemical, Antidolar Company, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil of Indiana, Standard Oil of California and the DuPont Company. It took over bodily the privately-owned Hoffman-LaRoche Company.<br /><br />
Meanwhile, Sterling Drug gobbled up Winthrop Chemical, the Bayer Company, General Drug, Vegex (Inc.), Cook laboratories, the Centaur Company and Alba Pharmacal Company.<br /><br />
Drug, Inc., owned by Louis K. Liggett (a powerful Massachusetts politician during the Hoover administration), had in 1929 taken over the Bristol-Myers Company, Vick Chemical, United Drug, Life Savers (Inc.), and the Liggett chain of “RX” Retail drug stores.<br /><br />
With Vick Chemical, Drug, Inc, (and the Rockefeller-Standard Oil-German IG Drug Trust) got the J.T. Baker Chemical Company, the William S. Merrell Company, the Jensen-Salsberry Laboratories, Prince Matchabelli (Inc.), Alfred D. McKelvy Company, Loeser Laboratories (Inc.), Taylor Chemical and the Sofskin Company.<br /><br />
When the American doughboys sloughed into Germany, and reached the industrial city of Frankfort, they were amazed to find intact all of the buildings and the huge plant of the German IG Farben Chemical Trust. American aviators, pinpointing their targets, had demolished every other structure in town.<br /><br />
What the doughboys didn’t know was that the Secretary of War, one Robert P. Patterson, was a Rockefeller lawyer, appointed by President Roosevelt upon Rockefeller orders, fresh out of Dillon, Read and Company. The Dillon-Read concern not only is a Rockefeller subsidiary, but was the banking house that financed German IG Farben and attended to the financial details of forming the American “cover up” firm for the German chemical cartel.<br /><br />
Amerian aviators, who gnashed their teeth at their orders to miss the biggest target in Frankfort, have never accepted the weak alibi given them from headquarters. Which was that this juicy and IMPORTANT target shoud be saved because the American Expeditionary Forces would “need an office building” when they got into Germany proper.<br /><br />
To show how the German Chemical Cartel and the Rockefeller Drug Trust affect the lives of most American people, Sterling Drug’s 66 subsidiaries manufacture among other things Phillips’ Dentrifices and Cosmetics, Double Danderine, Ironized Yeast, Andrews’ Liver Salts, Ross’ Pills, Mejoral, Astringosol, Campho-Phenique, Molle, Energine, Diamond Dyes, and many anaesthetics, vitamins, antimalarials, sulfa drugs, analgesics, arsenicals, barbiturates, antiseptics, anti-bacterials and digenstive ferments.<br /><br />
The Bristol-Myers Company makes Ipana Tooth Paste, Sal Hepatica, Vitalis, Ingrams’ Shaving Cream, Mum, Minitrub, Trushay, Perman’s Insecticides, Benex and Ammer’s Powder.<br /><br />
Dow Chemical makes Epsom Salts, bromides and many other USP (U.S. Pharmacopoeia) products. Monsanto makes glycer-phosphate, vanillin, aspirin, saccharin, benzoic acid and many medicinals and “fine” chemicals. The Centaur Company makes Castoria.<br /><br />
Hoffman-LaRoche makes Allonal, Alurate, Antihistamine, Cal-C-Tose, Citro-Thiocol, Digitalis, Pantopon, Sedulon Cough Syrup, Presidon (sedative), Thephorin (a phony hay fever nostrum), ViPenta Drops and Vitaminets. Hoffman-LaRoche is privately owned, and is part of the Swiss branch of German IG, set up in 1939 to prevent confiscation as alien property.<br /><br />
With these Rockefeller concerns having all of these things to sell, plus thousands of the 12,000 drug items described and advocated in medical text-books, it was the most natural thing in the world—human nature and human greed being what it is—for the Rockefeller Foundation to be changed into an instrument for “educating” medical students into the excessive use of drugs.<br /><br />
The Rockefeller Foundation was first set up in 1904, and called the General Education Fund. An organization called the Rockefeller Foundation, ostensibly to supplement the Fund, was formed in 1910 and an effort was made to get a charter from Congress. <br /></span><b><span style="font-size: small;">There is much more to this story as you can most certainly understand. As time allows I will continue this story for you until such time as we can provide access to copies for you. Currently as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007E8QV4/advancedhea09-20/103-7349842-3776653?creative=329585&camp=14573&link_code=as1" target="_blank">Amazon.com </a> explains,this book is "Out of Print". </span></b></span></div>
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<b>OVERVIEW</b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Adoptions and Safe Families Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-89) was signed
into law by President Clinton on November 19, 1997. The new law, which amends the 1980
Child Welfare Act (P.L. 96-272), clarifies that the health and safety of children served
by child welfare agencies must be their paramount concern and aims to move children in
foster care more quickly into permanent homes. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Among the new law’s provisions: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">shortens the time-frame for a child’s first permanency hearing; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">offers states financial incentives for increasing the number of
adoptions; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">sets new requirements for states to petition for termination of parental
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">reauthorizes the Family Preservation and Support Program. </span></li>
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<b>NASW POSITION</b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) did not take an
official position on the Adoptions and Safe Families Act, but strongly supported the
reauthorization of the Family Preservation and Support Program, the expansion of medical
insurance coverage for children with special needs, and development of state standards to
ensure quality services. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">NASW did endorse an earlier version of the legislation, the Safe
Adoptions and Family Environments Act (S.A.F.E. Act; S. 511), sponsored by Senators John
H. Chafee (R-RI) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). Unlike the Adoptions and Safe Families
Act, the S.A.F.E. Act included additional funding for:</span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">family reunification services; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">training and retention of agency staff and cross-agency training; and </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">residential substance abuse treatment programs for parents and their
children. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<b>FUTURE ACTION</b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>U.S. Department of Health and Human Services </u>. The new law
requires various actions by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
including development of: </span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">policy guidance or regulations on implementing the new law;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">outcome measures for state child welfare programs; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">an incentive payment system for Title IV-B and IV-E funding;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">recommendations for restructuring programs under Title IV-B and IV-E; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">a report and policy recommendations on kinship care; and </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">a report and policy recommendations on substance abuse treatment for
families served by child welfare agencies. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Congress</u>. Major supporters of the Adoption and Safe Families Act,
including Senator Rockefeller and Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) have indicated that the new
law merely represents a first step in improving the foster care system and have expressed
a willingness to address other issues, such as the need for training and lower caseloads,
in future legislation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>TITLE I: REASONABLE EFFORTS AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR FOSTER CARE
AND ADOPTION PLACEMENTS </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Child Health and Safety</u>. The new law clarifies that the
child’s health and safety must be of paramount concern when making decisions about
removal of a child from the home, reunification, and implementation of any aspect of the
case plan for children in foster care. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>"Reasonable Efforts" to Preserve and Reunify Families</u>.
States must continue to make reasonable efforts to preserve and reunify families. However,
the reasonable effort requirement does not apply in all cases. The exceptions include
cases in which a court has found that:</span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">a child has been subjected to "aggravated circumstances" as
defined in state law (including, but not necessarily limited to, abandonment, torture,
chronic abuse, and sexual abuse); </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">a parent has killed or assaulted another of their children or has
assaulted the child; or</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">a parent’s rights to a sibling have been involuntarily terminated. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">In cases when reasonable efforts to reunify are not required, states are
required to hold a permanency hearing within 30 days and to make reasonable efforts to
place the child for adoption, with a legal guardian, or other permanent placement. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Concurrent Planning</u>. Reasonable efforts to place a child for
adoption or with a legal guardian may be made concurrently with reasonable efforts to
preserve or reunify the family. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Documentation of Efforts to Adopt</u>. For every child whose
permanency plan is adoption or placement in another permanent home, states are required to
document the steps taken to: </span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">find an adoptive family or permanent home; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">place the child with the adoptive family, a fit and willing relative, a
legal guardian, or in another planned living arrangement; and </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">finalize the adoption or legal guardianship. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">The documentation must include child-specific recruitment efforts, such
as use of adoption information exchanges. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Termination of Parental Rights (TPR)</u>. States are required to file
a petition to terminate parental rights immediately and, concurrently to identify,
recruit, process and approve a qualified adoptive family, in the case of:</span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">a child who has been in foster care for 15 of the most recent 22 months; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">a child who the court has determined to be an abandoned infant (as
defined in state law); or </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">a court has determined that the parent assaulted the child or killed or
assaulted another of their children. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">In addition, states may file for termination of parental rights earlier
than 15 months or for other reasons. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In determining the 15 of the most recent 22 month limit, the clock
starts to run on the date of the first judicial finding of abuse or neglect or 60 days
after the child is removed from the home, whichever is earlier. The requirement applies to
children already in care as well as to children entering care in the future. For children
already in care, states are required to phase in the filing of termination petitions
beginning with children for whom the permanency plan is adoption or who have been in care
the longest. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The only exceptions to the TPR filing requirement above include cases in
which: </span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">the child is being cared for by a relative;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">a state agency has documented in the case plan (available for court
review) a compelling reason that filing such a petition would not be in the best interests
of the child; or</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">family reunification is the goal and the state has not provided to the
family of the child the services in the case plan the state deems necessary for the
child’s safe return. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Participation in Case Reviews and Hearings</u>. Foster and
pre-adoptive parents or relatives providing care for a child are to be given notice and an
opportunity to be heard at any review or hearing held with regard to the child. This
provision does not make any foster or pre-adoptive parent or relative a party to such a
review or hearing, but merely requires the receipt of a notice and an opportunity to be
heard. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Criminal Record Checks</u>. Before granting final approval, states
are required to conduct criminal records checks for any prospective foster or adoptive
parents of a child eligible for federal subsidies. Approval must be denied in any case of
a felony conviction for child abuse or neglect, spousal abuse, crimes against children
(including child pornography), or crimes involving violence (including rape, sexual
assault, or homicide). Approval must be denied for five years after any case of a felony
conviction for physical assault, battery, or a drug-related offense. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">States could opt out of this provision through written notification from
the Governor to the Secretary of HHS or through enactment of state legislation. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Federal Parent Locator Service</u>. Child welfare agencies are
authorized to use the Federal Parent Locator Service to assist in locating absent parents
for purposes of making or enforcing child custody or visitation orders involving such
parents. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>TITLE II: INCENTIVES FOR PROVIDING PERMANENT FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN</b>
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Adoption Incentive Payments</u>. The Secretary of HHS is required to
make adoption incentive payments to states in which adoptions of foster children in FY
1998 exceed the average number during FY 1995-FY 1997 or, in FY 1999 and subsequent years,
in which adoptions of foster children are higher than in any previous fiscal year after FY
1996. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Adoption incentive payments are $4,000 for each adoption of a foster
child above the base number, plus an additional $2,000 for a total of $6,000 per special
needs adoption. For these incentive payments, $20 million is authorized for each of FYs
1999-2003</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Health Care Coverage.</i> To be eligible to receive adoption
incentive payments for FY 2001 or FY 2002, states are required to provide health insurance
coverage to any special needs child for whom there is an adoption assistance agreement
between the state and the child’s adoptive parents. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Performance Measures for State Child Welfare Programs</u>. The
Secretary of HHS, in conjunction with Governors, state legislatures, state and local
public officials responsible for administering child welfare programs, and child
advocates, must develop outcome measures to assess state child welfare programs and rate
state performance according to these measures. HHS must submit an annual report to
Congress on state performance, with recommendations for improvements. The first report is
due on May 1, 1999. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Outcome measures are to be developed, to the maximum extent possible,
from data available from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System
(AFCARS) and are to include: </span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">length of stay in foster care;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">number of foster care placements; and </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">number of adoptions. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">In addition, the Secretary of HHS, in consultation with state and local
public child welfare officials and child welfare advocates, is required to develop and
recommend to Congress a performance-based incentive funding system for payments under
Titles IV-B and IV-E, based (to the extent feasible) on the annual reports required by
this provision. No later than six months after enactment, the Secretary must report to
Congress on the feasibility of conducting a study, and no later than 15 months after
enactment, submit a final report on a performance-based incentive system. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Technical Assistance to Promote Adoption</u>. HHS is authorized, but
not funded, to provide technical assistance to states and localities to promote adoption
of foster children. The technical assistance, at least half of which is to be provided to
courts, may include: </span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">guidelines for expediting termination of parental rights; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">encouraged use of concurrent planning; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">specialized units and expertise in moving children toward adoption; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">risk assessment tools for early identification of children at risk of
harm if returned home; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">encouraged use of fast tracking for children under age one into
pre-adoptive placements; and </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">programs to place children into pre-adoptive placements prior to
termination of parental rights. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Interjurisdictional Adoption</u>. States are required to assure that
they will develop plans for the effective use of cross-jurisdictional resources to
facilitate timely permanent placements for children awaiting adoption. In addition, states
are subject to the loss of all federal Title IV-E funding if the Secretary of HHS finds
that, after the date of enactment, a state with responsibility for handling the case has: </span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">denied or delayed the placement of a child for adoption when an approved
family was available outside the jurisdiction; or </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">denied an opportunity for a fair hearing to an individual whose
allegation of a violation of this provision was denied by the state or not acted upon with
reasonable promptness. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>General Accounting Office Study.</i> The General Accounting Office
(GAO) is required to study and report to Congress on how to improve procedures and
policies to facilitate timely adoptions across state and county lines. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>TITLE III: ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS AND REFORMS</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Reauthorization and Expansion of the Family Preservation and Support
Program</u>. The Family Preservation and Support Program, renamed "Promoting Safe and
Stable Families," is reauthorized through FY 2001 at the following levels: $275
million in FY 1999; $295 million in FY 2000; and $305 million in FY 2001 (increases of
about $20 million each year over the current baseline). Also reauthorized are existing
allocation provisions, including a one percent reserve for Indian tribes, and set-asides
for court improvement grants and for evaluation, training, research, and technical
assistance. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">State plans are required to contain assurances that in administering and
conducting programs, the safety of the children to be served will be of paramount concern.
States are required to devote significant portions of their expenditures (after spending
no more than 10 percent of their allotment for administrative costs) to each of the
following four categories of services: </span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">community-based family support services; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">family preservation services; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">time-limited family reunification services; and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">adoption promotion and support services. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Time-limited family reunification services</i> are defined as
services and activities provided to children (and their parents) who have been removed
from the home and placed in foster care, for up to 15 months, beginning on the date of
their removal from the home. Such services and activities may include: </span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">individual, group, and family counseling; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">inpatient, outpatient, or residential substance abuse treatment; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">mental health services;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">assistance to address domestic violence; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">temporary child care services and therapeutic services for families,
including crisis nurseries; and </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">transportation. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Adoption promotion and support services</i> are defined as pre- and
post-adoption services and activities designed to expedite the adoption process and
support adoptive families. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Permanency Hearings</u>. States are required to hold a first
dispositional hearing, reanamed a "permanency" hearing, within 12 months
(formerly 18 months) of the date the child is considered to have entered foster care.
Entrance is defined as the earlier of the date of the first judicial finding of child
abuse or neglect or 60 days after the child’s removal from the home. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The purpose of the hearing is to determine the child’s permanency
plan, which would include the timetable for: </span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">returning home; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">being placed for adoption; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">being placed with a relative; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">being referred for legal guardianship; or </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">being placed in another planned, permanent living arrangement. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Health Care Coverage for Adopted Children with Special Needs</u>.
States are required to provide health insurance coverage for any child with special needs
for whom there is an adoption assistance agreement between the state and the adoptive
parents and who the state has determined could not be placed for adoption without medical
assistance because the child has special needs for medical, mental health, or
rehabilitative care. Such health insurance coverage can be provided through Medicaid or
one or more state medical assistance programs, if coverage is Medicaid-comparable. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Quality Standards of Out-of-Home Care</u>. By January 1, 1999, states
must certify that they will develop and implement standards to ensure that children in
foster care placements in public or private agencies receive quality services that protect
the safety and health of children. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Eligibility for Adoption Assistance in Cases of Dissolved Adoptions</u>.
Children with special needs who had previously been eligible for federally subsidized
adoption assistance under Title IV-E, and who again become available for adoption because
of the dissolution of their adoption or death of their adoptive parents, continue to be
eligible for assistance under Title IV-E in a subsequent adoption. This provision applies
only to children whose subsequent adoption occurs on or after October 1, 1997. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Eligibility for Independent Living Services</u>. Young people who are
no longer eligible for federal foster care assistance because their savings and other
assets exceed $1,000 will still be eligible for independent living services provided their
assets do not exceed $5,000. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Child Welfare Demonstrations</u>. The Secretary of HHS may approve up
to 10 demonstration projects in each of FYs 1998 through 2002 that are likely to promote
the objectives of the federal foster care and adoption program. In approving
demonstrations, the Secretary must take into consideration the effect of the demonstration
on any court orders in the state for violations of federal requirements under Title IV-B
or IV-E and must consider applications designed to:</span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">identify and address barriers resulting in delays in adoptive placements
for foster children; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">identify and address parental substance abuse problems that endanger
children and result in foster care placements; and </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">address kinship care. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Health Care Coverage.</i> Demonstrations can be approved only for
those states providing health insurance coverage to any child with special needs for whom
there is in effect an adoption assistance agreement between the state and an adoptive
parent or parents. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Kinship Care Report</u>. The Secretary of HHS is required to convene
an advisory panel on kinship care and submit an initial report to the advisory panel on
the extent to which foster children are </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">placed with relatives, no later than June 1, 1998. The advisory panel
will review the Secretary’s initial report and submit comments by October 1, 1998.
Based on these comments and other information, the Secretary will submit a final report by
June 1, 1999 to the Committees on Ways and Means and Finance, containing recommendations. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>TITLE IV: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Coordination of Substance Abuse and Child Protection Services</u>.
The Secretary of HHS is required to submit a report to the Committees on Ways and Means
and Finance on substance abuse services. The report must be based on information from the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Administration for
Children and Families and include: </span><br />
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">the scope of the problem of substance abuse in families served by child
welfare agencies;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">the types of services provided to such families;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">the outcomes resulting from the provision of such services; and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">any recommendations for legislation to improve coordination in providing
services to families. </span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Standby Guardianship</u>. It is the sense of Congress that states
should have laws and procedures permitting a parent who is chronically ill or near death
to designate a standby guardian for their minor child, without surrendering their own
parental rights. The standby guardian’s authority would take effect upon the
parent’s death, mental incapacity or physical debilitation and consent. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Preservation of Reasonable Parenting</u>. Nothing in this legislation
is intended to disrupt the family unnecessarily or intrude inappropriately into family
life or prohibit the use of reasonable methods of parental discipline or to prescribe a
particular method of parenting. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Purchasing American-made Equipment</u>. It is the sense of Congress
that, to the greatest extent possible, all equipment and products purchased with funds
provided under this Act should be American-made. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Funding</u>. $40 million (over four years) is taken from the $2
billion federal Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs, created by the 1996 welfare
reform law. The Secretary of HHS is required to make recommendations to Congress by March
1, 1998 for improving the operation of the contingency fund. </span><br />
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citizens are unaware of this process and involvement is low.<span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"> </span>You are the key to increasing that involvement.<span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"> </span>Remember, once approved, these rules have the
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<span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">A great way you can help control your government is to review proposed rules concerning issues you understand. If you know other citizens or businesses in your district that this rule may affect, please alert them and let them know they can send in a comment or call for a hearing. Thank you for caring and being involved in our Republic!<span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"> </span></span></h3>
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Weights and Measures</div>
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Idaho Commercial Feed Law</div>
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Idaho Fertilizer Law</div>
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Noxious Weed Rules</div>
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Noxious Weed Free Forage and Straw Certification</div>
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Idaho Soil and Plant Amendment Act of 2001</div>
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BOARD OF VETERINARY MEDICINE-Rules of the State of Idaho
Board of Veterinary Medicine provide clarity to continuing education
requirements for certified veterinary technicians; and eliminate an unnecessary
requirement in existing rule regarding membership on the Committee on Humane Euthanasia.
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IDAHO GRAPE GROWERS AND WINE PRODUCERS COMMISSION Rules of
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<b><span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">BUSINESS Committee Rules:</span></b></div>
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DIVISION OF BUILDING SAFETY-Rules Governing Plumbing
Safety Licensing, Rules Governing Civil Penalties for plumbing contractors, </div>
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BOARD OF ACCOUNTANCY- Rules on license “inactive” or
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Rules on Producers Handling of
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Adoption of the International
Fire Code to match the anticipated adoption of the 2015 International Building
Code by the Division of Building Safety.</div>
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Rule to Implement the NAIC
Medicare Supplement Insurance-Minimum Standards Model Act-to require all
Medicare Supplement (aka Medigap) carriers to offer coverage to pre-65 Medicare
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BUREAU OF OCCUPATIONAL LICENSES-Rules of the State Board
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<b><span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">COMMERCE & HUMAN RESOURCES
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Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Administration Rules</div>
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Unemployment Insurance Tax Administration
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JUVENILE CORRECTIONS-Rules of the Custody Review Board</div>
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BOARD OF CORRECTION - Rules of
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<b><span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">RESOURCE & CONSERVATION
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION-Rules Governing the
Administration of Park and Recreation Areas and Facilities increase the maximum
capacity of motorcycles permitted on Idaho State Park campsites from two to
four.</div>
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IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION-Rules for
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Over-legal Permittee Responsibility and Travel
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Safety Requirements of Over-legal Permits in compliance
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Over-legal Permits for Extra-Length, Excess Weight, and
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<b><span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY &
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Control of Air Pollution in
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<b><span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;">HEALTH AND WELFARE Committee
Rules:</span></b></div>
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Emergency Medical Services (EMS) -- Rule Definitions- EMS
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Recognition of Emergency Personnel Licensure Interstate
Compact Act (REPLICA)</div>
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EMS- Data Collection and Submission Requirements</div>
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EMS- Agency Licensing Requirements</div>
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EMS- Personnel Licensing Requirements</div>
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Food Safety and Sanitation Standards for Food Establishments
(The Idaho Food Code)Update the terminology used during inspections of retail
food establishments</div>
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Rules Governing Certified Family Homes</div>
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Align the Rules Governing
Certified Family Homes with Idaho Code,</div>
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Provides an exemption to
certification for VA Medical Foster Homes</div>
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Amends the requirements for
termination of the admission agreement </div>
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Criminal History and Background
Checks</div>
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Updating the Criminal History
and Background Check (CHC) rules </div>
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Amending the list of
disqualifying crimes for unconditional denials to include crimes</div>
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Aligning code with the Idaho
Child Care Program's (ICCP) grant and federal regulation requirements</div>
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Rules Governing Child and Family Services</div>
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These rule changes lower the age
at which foster youth may begin receiving independent living services funded by
the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program. </div>
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Rules Governing the Idaho Child
Care Program (ICCP)</div>
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Idaho State board of Dentistry Rules-</div>
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Eliminate an incorporated
document related to standards for patient records</div>
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Clarify applicability of
timeframe for acceptance of licensure examinations;</div>
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Clarify requirements for renewal
of an active license; </div>
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Authorize a dental hygienist to
administer nitrous oxide under general supervision;</div>
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Revise the unprofessional
conduct rules regarding controlled substances</div>
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Add rule regarding minimum
infection control and sterilization requirements;</div>
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Eliminate continuing education
documentation requirement and require instead an attestation of completion;</div>
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Add rule requiring basic
emergency drugs; </div>
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Clarify requirements for
sedation permit renewal and reinstatement of an expired permit;</div>
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Require dentists to obtain one
hour of continuing education related to the prescription monitoring program.</div>
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BOARD OF PHARMACY-Rules of the Idaho State Board of
Pharmacy rules relating to 2016 Bills: HB 338, HB 373, HB 374, HB 481, and SB
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Expand the venues at which emergency
medication kits can be housed.</div>
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Allow Idaho’s Regional
Behavioral Health Clinics to donate and receive donated medications to dispense
to medically indigent patients.</div>
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Enable delegate access to the
Prescription Monitoring Program.</div>
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Exempt investigational drugs
from the products that necessitate registration as a prescriber drug outlet. </div>
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Allow prescription medications
to be labeled in the name of an authorized entity.</div>
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<b>Update and modernize its telepharmacy rules.</b></div>
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Allow streamlined registration
of remote dispensing sites to applicants who meet certain criteria. </div>
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Broaden technology that may be
used at a remote dispensing site beyond just an Automated Dispensing
System.<span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"> </span></div>
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Remove the requirement that a
remote dispensing site be co-located with a medical care facility. </div>
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Remove the requirement that
business contracts be filed with the Board. </div>
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Update limits on the oversight
of multiple remote dispensing sites.</div>
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Remove duplicative language from
the telepharmacy rules.</div>
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Allow pharmacists to delegate
certain non-judgmental tasks to properly-trained, registered and certified
pharmacy technicians under their supervision. </div>
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Expand verification technician
programs beyond acute care hospitals.</div>
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Enable remote data entry by certain pharmacy
technicians.</div>
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Clarify provisions legal
medication returns for institutional pharmacies and to authorize collection for
destruction.</div>
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Enable broader emergency room
dispensing in conformance with a U.S. Supreme Court decision.<span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"> </span></div>
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Enable pharmacists to better
coordinate refills of medications in order to improve patient medication
adherence.</div>
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Require the timely notification
of medication errors that result in fatal outcomes. </div>
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Update requirements for
licensure applicants.<span style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"> </span></div>
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Clarify prepackaged product labeling
requirements.</div>
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Update the list of required
pharmacy references. </div>
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Update pharmacy delivery
restrictions.</div>
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Substance U-47700 inclusion into
the list of Schedule I controlled substances is necessary to protect the public
health, safety, and welfare. </div>
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Rule 802: Budget Certification Relating to New
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how to compute new construction amounts within urban renewal revenue allocation
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commission whether or not a plan modification has occurred and describes
penalties for non-compliance. This rule provides for a notification process
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-91522275079633849342016-05-24T19:21:00.003-07:002016-05-24T21:35:57.805-07:00JURY NULLIFICATION<img alt="Jury Nullification: The Achilles Heel of the Police State" src="https://www.brettsanders.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/jury-duty.jpg" />
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Jury Nullification: The Achilles Heel of the Police State</h1>
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One of the most powerful rights you have as an American juror is the ability to not only judge the case for which you sit, but to judge the merits of the law. This right is often suppressed by judges and prosecutors as it could render the vast majority of legislation null and void, much to the chagrin of the state.<br />
With Americans facing an alarming risk of criminal prosecution, there is no better time for a mass awakening in the jury box to combat the misinformation trotted out by judges and prosecutors who mislead their “peers” of their constitutional power.<br />
This part of the Police State has a weakness that can be infiltrated. Jury nullification is your right as a juror to decide with your conscience and say no to unjust legislation.<br />
Currently, more than 90% of criminal cases never appear before a jury, people charged with crimes just forgo their constitutional rights and just plead guilty and pay the fine. This changes the game in the justice system, the truth is that the tyrannical government has intentionally designed the system to guarantee that the jury trial system that’s clearly in the Constitution is to be hidden so it’s not used against them.<br />
A Defendant is being tried for disobeying a man-made law, but to their advantage one informed juror is there to say that since there was no victim, there was no crime. Then a person is taken off the road to being fined, locked in a cage, and held against their will by a group of armed authoritarians.<br />
The system of mass incarceration depends entirely on the steady stream of misinformation it imposes on the humans it looks to control. If overnight everyone charged with victimless crimes exercised their constitutional rights, the shortage of judges, lawyers, and cops would be exposed right away in the handling of overflowing jury trial cases.<br />
Can we just Imagine if the number of people demanding their trial rights just doubled or tripled in occurrence? It would be absolute chaos for the justice system. This immediate crisis would ‘bullet train’ mass incarcerations to the number one priority for judges and politicians. They would only be left with the option to either throw out a lot of the ‘criminal’ cases filed, for example drug possession, disobeying unjust laws, and victimless crimes. Or go with the more difficult option and try to amend the Constitution to turn the tables into their favor. Crashing the system by being informed and exercising our rights is an achievable concept. Even the dissolution of the Drug War could be commenced with this powerful tool. Sparing the destruction of innocent lives on the civilian side and senseless overreach on the police side. Leaving it to the individual to decide what to put into their own bodies without being raided, kidnapped, and locked up for a precious portion of their life.<br />
The advocating for jury nullification concerns local prosecutors, therefore supporters of jury nullification in several U.S. cities have raised the ire of many judges and prosecutors. So scared of the distribution of knowledge pertaining to jury nullification being presented judges have had some <a href="http://www.brettsanders.me/2015/07/man-taken-away-by-armed-authoritarians-for-handing-out-informative-literature/">activists arrested</a>. Government fearing ‘We the People’ is the direction that the wind needs to blow.<br />
Jury nullification without a doubt gets under the skin of judges, prosecutors, and all the petty tyrants. The jury nullification process is also one of the last strongholds of Freedom that we have in our technocratic driven society. With this spear, and millions of citizens willing to unleash them, then maybe we’ll really be defined as ‘Land of the Free’.<br />
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Clay Conrad’s book, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3182856-jury-nullification">Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine </a>is described as the most important book on the independence of juries since Lysander Spooner’s <a href="http://www.barefootsworld.net/trial01.html">Trial by Jury in 1852</a>. It is extremely researched and balanced.<br />
The <a href="http://fija.org/">Fully Informed Jury Association </a>also provides a large amount of resources, links, and up to date information on the rights and responsibilities of jury duty.<br />
The Second President of the United States, John Adams said in 1771 “It’s not only ….(the juror’s) right, but his duty, in that case, to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court<br />
In the case (United States v. Moylan, 417F.2d1006, 1969): “If the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by a judge, and contrary to the evidence…If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic or passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision.”<br />
Alan Scheflin and Jon Van Dyke wrote (“Jury Nullification: the Contours of a Controversy,” Law and Contemporary Problems, 43, No.4, 1980): ): “The arguments for opposing the nullification instruction are, in our view, deficient because they fail to weigh the political advantages gained by not lying to the jury…What impact will this deception have on jurors who felt coerced into their verdict by the judge’s instructions and who learn, after trail, that they could have voted their consciences and acquitted? Such a juror is less apt to respect the legal system.”<br />
The late Justice William C. Goodloe (1919-1997) of the Washington State Supreme Court, an advocate of jury nullification, strongly suggested that this instruction be given by judges to all juries in criminal cases:<br />
“You are instructed that this being a criminal case you are the exclusive judges of the evidence, the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given to their testimony, and you have a right also to determine the law in the case. The court does not intend to express any opinion concerning the weight of the evidence, but it is the duty of the court to advise you as to the law, and it is your duty to consider the instructions of the court; yet in your decision upon the merits of the case you have a right to determine for yourselves the law as well as the facts by which your verdict shall be governed.”<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.brettsanders.me/2015/10/jury-nullification-the-achilles-heal-of-the-police-state/" target="_blank">BrettSanders.me</a><br />
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"In any event, the jury is a bottom up <em><strong>check and balance</strong></em>
on the power of the government. If prosecutors and defense lawyers
become aware that certain charges will always be nullified by a jury,
the state will bring fewer of those charges and defense lawyers will
advise their clients to avoid plea bargains. Thus real change will come
to pass.<br />
But the lack of a free education market in this country means most
people will not be exposed to the power of the jury, the historical
justifications of jury nullification, and defendants will continue to be
punished for victimless, incipient, unjust, and immoral crimes. If we
want to change this, we must bring education to the people instead of
advocating for more power to the government to control our wages, what
we eat and drink, whom we can marry, what property we can own, which
cakes we must bake, what plants we can grow…<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Elizabeth Montag</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>April 20, 2016</b></span><br />
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<b>(</b><a href="http://theantimedia.org/" target="_blank"><b>ANTIMEDIA</b></a><b>)</b> <i>Copenhagen, Denmark</i> —Pharmaceutical companies systematically suppress pertinent data showing the increased risk of suicide and aggression in young patients taking antidepressants, a scientific analysis has demonstrated. Researchers analyzed 70 studies assessing the safety and efficacy of the drugs, concluding that “<i>in children and adolescents the risk of suicidality and aggression doubled</i>” — but information of this nature has often been misrepresented and buried in the appendices of studies.<br />
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Though the study was released in January and received a moderate degree of media attention, coverage of the findings tended to highlight the increase in aggression while glossing over the calculated role of pharmaceutical companies and the FDA in suppressing data and supporting faulty science. Some articles <a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/858338#vp_1" target="_blank">acknowledged</a> the poor quality of tests the researchers examined. Others made a point to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/14/antidepressants-can-raise-the-risk-of-suicide-biggest-ever-revie/" target="_blank">highlight widespread misreporting</a>, but most stopped short of recognizing the <i>duplicitous</i> nature of the pharmaceutical giants and <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/catferguson/pharma-side-effects" target="_blank">the FDA</a>, whose willful <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/21/medical-science-has-data-problem-284066.html" target="_blank">complicity</a> and consistent flouting of scientific research are central to the concerns raised in the January study.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i65" target="_blank">analysis</a>, conducted by researchers at the<a href="http://www.cochrane.org/" target="_blank"> Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen</a> and published in the <a href="http://www.bmj.com/about-bmj" target="_blank"><i>British Medical Journal</i></a>, examined 70 clinical study reports — the studies submitted to regulatory agencies like the FDA and EMA (European Medicines Agency) for approval of new drugs. The investigators examined double-blind, placebo-controlled trials conducted on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs). Common SSRIs <a href="http://www.emedexpert.com/lists/antidepressants.shtml" target="_blank">include</a> Paxil, Lexapro, Zoloft, and Prozac. SNRIs <a href="http://www.drugs.com/drug-class/ssnri-antidepressants.html" target="_blank">include</a> Cymbalta and Effexor.<br />
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They concluded that while adults did not experience significant increases in suicidal and aggressive behavior, “<i>despite using clinical study reports, the true risk for serious harms is still uncertain</i>.” They noted “<i>the low incidence of these rare events and the poor design and reporting of the trials makes it difficult to get accurate effect estimates</i>.”<br />
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In addition to poor design and reporting, the Cochrane researchers found those conducting the pharmaceutical studies often mislabeled reactions in patients. Such practices ultimately downplayed the risks of antidepressants, including the links between suicide and violence.<br />
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“<i>Twenty-seven events were coded as emotional lability or worsening depression, although in patient narratives or individual patient listings they were clearly suicide attempts</i>,” the researchers explained. In one instance, a suicide attempt was inexplicably deemed a case of “elevated liver enzymes” after a young patient intentionally overdosed on acetaminophen.<br />
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<i>Scientific American </i><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hidden-harms-of-antidepressants/" target="_blank">detailed</a> how the data was not only manipulated, but suppressed:<br />
“<i>The investigators discovered that some of the most revealing information was buried in appendices where individual patient outcomes are listed. This information, however, was available for only 32 out of the 70 trials.”</i><br />
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They <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i65" target="_blank">noted</a> two pediatric studies they examined had fraudulent data. The body of research had other deficiencies, as well:<br />
“<i>Details were unavailable for non-serious events, as they were either listed in adverse events tables or given in the appendix of individual patient listings without any narratives. These events were increased hostility, aggressiveness, rage, or anger</i>.”<br />
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Further, they found instances of <a href="http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/akathisia" target="_blank">akathisia</a> — restlessness, muscle quivering, and an inability to sit still associated with psychiatric drugs — were more common in those taking certain antidepressants than among those taking placebos. Akathisia is associated with a “jumping out of your skin” feeling and can increase the risk of suicide and aggression. The practices of the 70 studies’ authors, however, obfuscated these concerns. “<i>[O]ur number of akathisia events is likely to be an underestimate, as the event appeared to be have been coded under many other activation terms, such as irritability, agitation, or nervousness</i>,” the <i>BMJ </i>study <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i65" target="_blank">explains</a>.<br />
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The researchers’ conclusions are consistent with a <a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001875" target="_blank">small study</a> published last year in the <i>PLOS Medicine </i>journal that found adolescents taking SSRIs were significantly more likely to commit violent crime. Though those authors cautioned the results needed further validation, the <i>BMJ</i> study may bolster growing concerns the drugs are associated with aggressive behavior — but this has failed to attract concerns from regulatory agencies.<br />
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Tarang Sharma, a Ph.D. student at Cochrane and lead author of the study, discussed some of the problems revealed by her initial findings.<i>“We found that a lot of the appendices were often only available on request to the authorities, and the authorities had never requested them,” </i>she said, alluding to the role of regulatory agencies, which are demonstrably perpetuating bad science and, as a result, the pervasiveness of antidepressant use.<br />
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The researchers themselves struggled to obtain the data on the 70 clinical study reports, which, as the <i>Scientific American</i> notes, “<i>are often withheld under the guise of commercial confidentiality.</i>”<br />
Peter Gøtzche, a researcher at Cochrane and co-author of the study, argues “<i>[a]ll this secrecy actually costs human lives</i>.” Though the EMA eventually provided data after being publicly accused of mismanagement, the FDA has still not complied with researchers’ requests.<br />
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“<i>It’s deeply unethical when patients volunteer to benefit science, and then we let drug companies decide that we cannot get access to the raw data,</i>” Gøtzsche said. “<i>The testing of drugs should be a public enterprise</i>.” This sentiment highlights the concerns raised by the study’s findings. Though misreporting and buried data were acknowledged in media reports, few linked these practices to what is, in many circles, commonly known: pharmaceutical companies <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/01/27/bad_pharma_drug_research_riddled_with_half_truths_omissions_lies/" target="_blank">pay researchers to “discover” outcomes</a> favorable to them — and the FDA, plagued by a <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2014/09/15/the-fda-revolving-door-fosters-conflicts-on-advisory-panels/" target="_blank">revolving door with industry</a>, is evidently <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-15/faster-u-s-drug-approvals-come-at-expense-of-safety-oversight" target="_blank">unconcerned</a> with the validity of such studies. The agency is deserving of further skepticism and blame considering it refused to share its data with the Cochrane researchers.<br />
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Though the <a href="http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/child-and-adolescent-mental-health/antidepressant-medications-for-children-and-adolescents-information-for-parents-and-caregivers.shtml" target="_blank">link</a> between antidepressant use and suicidal tendencies in children and adolescents has long been known — the FDA began issuing black box warnings in 2004 — the Cochrane investigation found the increased incidences of aggression were not previously recognized. The FDA does not issue warnings regarding potential aggression as a result of taking antidepressants, and psychologists have <a href="http://psychrights.org/research/Digest/Misc/FDAPsychDrugApprovalProcessSpielmansKirschARCP2014.pdf" target="_blank">criticized the agency</a> for its weak approval process and low quality standard for scientific research on psychiatric drugs. Though the conclusions of researchers do not prove a definitive causal relationship between antidepressants and aggressive and suicidal behavior, they warrant further study and more data, as the authors caution.<br />
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Joanna Moncrieff, a researcher and psychiatrist at London College who was not involved in the <i>BMJ</i> study, said, “<i>This is obviously important in the debate about school shootings in the [U.S.] and in other places where the perpetrators are frequently taking antidepressants.</i>” Moncrieff has <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14974002" target="_blank">conducted</a> her own research into the efficacy of antidepressants.<br />
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<a href="http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/children-on-psychiatric-drugs/" target="_blank">According to data</a> from the<a href="http://www.cchrint.org/about-us/" target="_blank"> Citizens Commission on Human Rights</a>, “<i>a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health watchdog,”</i> over eight million children in the United States, alone, take psychiatric drugs. Over two million take antidepressants — and nearly 700,000 of them are between the ages of six and twelve. As of 2013, over 45,000 children between ages four and five, and over 46,000 children aged two to three are prescribed antidepressants. Over 26,000 babies younger than a year old are prescribed the pills, as well. This widespread use makes it even more concerning the FDA will not release the studies it uses to approve them.<br />
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Given the complicity of regulatory agencies with behemoth pharmaceutical companies, it is unsurprising that data showing adverse side effects has been suppressed. Considering the Cochrane study’s findings, however, it’s clear independent scientists — as opposed to those funded by pharmaceutical companies — are only beginning to discover the potential hazards of antidepressants.<br />
“<i>My view is that we really don’t have good enough evidence that antidepressants are effective, and we have increasing evidence that they can be harmful</i>,” Moncrieff said. “<i>So we need to stop this increasing trend of prescribing them.</i>”<br />
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As Sharma, the study’s lead author, admitted, “<i>I’m actually kind of scared about how bad the actual situation would be if we had the complete data</i>.”<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-38609811113689687092016-04-15T15:32:00.000-07:002016-04-17T09:15:13.336-07:00Tabby Finn - What Is For LunchAnnyBelle Foundation (ABF) has been focused over the past 15 years in research and publishing. We have discovered enough to know that this planet is in great need of rebalancing. We have discovered there are a great many beings working very hard to make the world a better place. We have discovered there are many simple things each of of can do everyday to help. Thank you to everyone doing their part.<br />
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is one of the most addictive substances in the United States. Many
people have reported getting addicted to meth in as little as one use.
Meth releases more than three times the amount of dopamine that cocaine
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The rush of dopamine from meth abuse is much higher than the natural
amount of dopamine produced in the brain. This reinforces the behavior
of abuse and likelihood of binging. After the reward system is rewired,
the cravings for meth often take over a person’s life.
Overcoming a meth addiction is difficult because the drug hijacks the brain reward system, impairing healthy decision-making.</div>
A burning question I've had over the years.<b> </b><br />
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<b>WHY would anyone begin using a drug like Meth?</b> </div>
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My first encounter with this question came when I was just 30 years old. Upon visiting a long time friend whom I'd admired, loved and felt she was a perfect role-model mom I discovered what the effects of what this chemical cocktail can do.<br />
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When I was still living close to her I recognized how an attentive mother she was, she kept a tidy home, great cook, good listener and close friend. Our family moved and as life gets busy with our own families it had been over 5 years since we'd had contact. <br />
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I do remember how excited I was to pull into her driveway expecting to catch up on where we'd left off. Ready to enjoy sharing the tales of growing our families and ideas. What I found that day as she opened the door was an entirely different person. A person that shared no resemblance to my dear friend. Not only was I in shock, but my heart was broken.<br />
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My first question of course was, What happened to her? That was quickly answered at another friend's house just a few blocks away. They informed me that my friend had taken up with a few people that were meth users.<br />
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Over the years I've witnessed many that have changed significantly after using meth. Old school friends, friends of friends, people in the communities and many stories from others witnessing this change in people. It is almost like they seem to cross over into another place in their mannerisms, their personalities, ideals, and even with a noticeable decline in health.<br />
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It saddens me greatly to lose so many people to something as crazy as using a substance as unstable as this drug. And this heavy heart only directs me back to my question that drives me here today. WHY would someone, anyone, choose to use something as well known to the public to cause so many side effects? Why?<br />
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The following below is what I've come up with so far. Anyone with additional helpful information or resources that can shed light on how best to help others, please feel free to leave your information in the comment section below. Thank You! ~Vickie<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Crystal meth addiction is difficult to kick because it stimulates the
reward centers of the brain. Once away from the drug, patients can
experience extreme depression. </b></span></div>
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<b>Causes and Risk Factors of Methamphetamine Use</b></div>
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<b>Genetic:</b> Since
everyone is a product of their parents, those individuals who have
parents with addiction struggles will be much more susceptible to
addiction. This effect is particularly strong when the relative was
addicted to a stimulant.<br />
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<b>Physical:</b> Dopamine, a chemical
responsible for communication in the brain, has been linked to
experiences of pleasure. Methamphetamine stimulates certain areas of the
brain, causing a large amount of dopamine to be released, leading to
the brain’s reward center communicating a sudden rush of pleasure. This
experience of exhilaration can lead to an addiction.<br />
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<b>Environmental:</b> Sometimes people experience a number of negative life
events in a relatively short period and are unable to cope with them.
Feelings of being overwhelmed may lead to a sense of hopelessness and
cause them to turn toward substances such as meth to make themselves
feel better. Additionally, peer pressure is a huge factor on drug use.
Those children who belong to a social group where drugs are seen as cool
and accepted are more likely to use meth and become addicted.<br />
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<b>Psychosocial:</b> Some research has shown that there are certain
personalities that are more likely to become dependent on meth, such as
having an aggressive personality. Additionally, children who lack
self-confidence and self-esteem are more likely to turn to drugs in
order to fill some type of void.<br />
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Once methamphetamine is abused, it
causes negative changes in personality, which can lead to even more
destructive behavior.<br />
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People may try meth out of curiosity, in search of a high or even to
lose weight. They may continue using it because of the energy and
euphoria it produces, not recognizing its seriously addictive potential.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Crystal meth, also known as crystal methamphetamine, and informally as ice, tina, crystal, redneck cocaine, crank or glass, is a colorless form of d-methamphetamine, a powerful synthetic stimulant which is highly addictive. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Brain Damage Caused By Meth </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Looks a Lot Like Schizophrenia </span></b><br />
<span class="author text-italic">By <a href="https://www.blogger.com/content/john-lavitt">John Lavitt</a> <span class="date">11/20/14</span>
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Australian researchers found that meth caused the same structural damage seen in the brains of schizophrenics.<br />
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A <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr500719f">new study</a> published by Australian researchers from the University of Sydney reveals how the methamphetamine-induced sensitization of the brain looks a lot like schizophrenia. <br /><br />By examining alterations to the prefrontal cortex, the researchers were surprised to find the neurological changes induced by methamphetamine use to be extraordinarily similar to the brains of schizophrenics. The structural damage and protein alterations seen in schizophrenia appeared in the brain after methamphetamine-induced sensitization. <br /><br />Published in the <i>Journal of Proteome Research</i>, the ultimate focus of the study was more focused on the<span style="line-height: 1.538em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">implications for the maintenance of psychotic disorders than </span><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">on methamphetamine treatment. A proteome is the entire set of proteins expressed by a specific organism at a certain time. More specifically, it is the set of expressed proteins in a given type of cell or organism at a given time under defined conditions. By examining the proteome layout in the prefrontal cortex, damage done by genetic psychotic disorders or external abuse factors like drugs and injuries can be gauged. </span></div>
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<br />In the study, the Australian researchers worked with rats. They found that repeat administration of methamphetamine to the rats led to a progressive increase in locomotor activity in the form of a behavioral sensitization. Such a behavioral sensitization is similar to the underlying neurochemical changes driving traditional psychoses like schizophrenia. The behavioral changes are the direct result of alterations to the prefrontal cortex of the brain.<br /><br />The original aim of the current study was to investigate changes to protein expression in the prefrontal cortex in male rats sensitized to methamphetamine. Twenty percent of the neural proteins affected by the methamphetamine have previously been implicated in the neurobiology of schizophrenia. </div>
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From synaptic regulation to mitochondrial function, the changes in the brain caused by methamphetamines had only been seen before in the brains of schizophrenics. Future treatment of schizophrenia could be improved by avoiding the stimulation associated with methamphetamine use.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Source: <a href="https://www.thefix.com/content/brain-damage-caused-meth-looks-lot-schizophrenia" target="_blank">https://www.thefix.com/content/brain-damage-caused-meth-looks-lot-schizophrenia </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Meth and Parkinson's Disease </span></b></span></span><br />
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“We found that meth/amphetamine users had a 76% increased risk of
developing Parkinson’s disease in comparison to a matched
population-proxy control group,” the researchers wrote in a paper
published in the journal <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/506052/description"><i>Drug and Alcohol Dependence</i></a>. ........</div>
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People hospitalised for abuse of methamphetamines like crystal meth
or ice have a 76% higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease compared
to those with no drug addiction, a study has found.</div>
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<a href="http://www.parkinsons.org.au/about-ps/whatps.html">Parkinson’s disease</a>
begins with degeneration of certain brain cells and causes trembling,
stiff muscles and an inability to coordinate body movements normally.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/methamphetamine.html">Methamphetamines</a> produce a feeling of intense euphoria by boosting levels of the neurotransmitter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine">dopamine</a> in the brain.</div>
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Because Parkinson’s disease symptoms appear when dopamine producing
cells stop functioning normally, scientists had long suspected a link
with meth use but had been unable to prove it because Parkinson’s
typically develops in middle and old age. Methamphetamine addiction is a
relatively recent phenomenon.</div>
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Source: <a href="http://theconversation.com/methamphetamine-abuse-linked-to-parkinsons-2532">http://theconversation.com/methamphetamine-abuse-linked-to-parkinsons-2532</a></div>
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Blood is the best way to detect metamphetamine and if possible, muscle
tissues show fairly the same amount of metamphetamine traces as blood.
Over time, meth damages neuron cell endings. In living, one can usually
expect the decaying teeth, respiratory problems, anorexia and paranoia. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-55333093059136452902016-01-22T12:13:00.001-08:002016-01-22T12:13:39.845-08:00Experiment - Deprived Of Modern Technology We must agree that technology continues to expand and much of it is making life easier for many. Sometimes however technology seems to be released so fast it is hard for families to keep up with the latest and greatest. Outside of the many downsides to some of this new found "freedom" like the dangers of the EMF, the death towers and HAARP activities etc many of us are missing some deep-seated unexpected social problems. Our children are growing up in a world that is activated by a cell phone, internet, blue-ray movies, next to real life video games and may be losing some natural abilities they were born with. This study done by Yekaterina Murashova is an eye opener for me, and may well be for too. <i>~Vickie Barker</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A thought-provoking experiment showed what happens when children don’t have the internet for a whole day</span></h1>
Child psychologist Yekaterina Murashova describes an unusual experiment in her book showing what happened when a group of teenagers were deprived of access to the internet and modern technology for a single day. We think it’s well worth checking out — you can consider the implications for yourself.<br />
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Children and teenagers aged between 12 and 18 years voluntarily spent <b>eight hours alone</b> without access to any means of communication (mobile phones; the internet, etc.). They were also forbidden to turn on the computer, any other electronic gadgets, the radio and the TV. But they were allowed to engage in a number of ’classic’ activities by themselves: writing, reading, playing musical instruments, painting, needlework, singing, walking, and so on.<br />
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The author of the experiment, a family psychologist, wanted to prove her working hypothesis that <b>the today’s generation of young people are too often entertained by things not of their making, are incapable of finding ways to keep themselves busy, and are completely unfamiliar with the idea of the world of their imagination</b>. According to the rules of the experiment, the children had to explain the next day how they had coped with being alone under such conditions. They were allowed to describe how they felt at the time of the experiment, and keep a record their actions and thoughts. In the case of excessive anxiety, discomfort or stress the project leaders would recommend stopping the experiment immediately, recording the time and the reason for its termination.<br />
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At first glance, the idea seems rather harmless. That’s why the psychologist who organised it mistakenly believed that the experiment would be absolutely safe. Nobody expected such shocking results. <b>Only three of the 68 participants reached the end of the experiment — one girl and two boys</b>. Three of the participants had suicidal thoughts. Five of them experienced intense panic attacks. Twenty-seven experienced symptoms such as nausea, sweating, dizziness, hot flushes and abdominal pain. Almost everyone who took part experienced feelings of fear and anxiety.<br />
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The novelty of the situation, and their interest and joy at being alone with themselves faded in almost all the participants by the beginning of the second or third hour. Only ten people who withdrew from the experiment started to experience anxiety only after three hours of solitude or more.<br />
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One of those who managed the project recalled: "One heroic girl who made it to the end brought me a diary in which she described in detail how she felt by the eighth hour of the experiment." After reading it, the psychologist began to experience some of the physical symptoms of anxiety which had been felt by many of the participants. For ethical reasons, these records of the participants experiences were not published.<br />
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<b>What did the teens do during the experiment?</b><br />
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<li>Cooked meals and ate;</li>
<li>Read or tried to read;</li>
<li>Did school work (the experiment was conducted during the school holidays, but many of the participants grabbed their exercise books out of desperation);</li>
<li>Looked out the window or strolled around the apartment;</li>
<li>Went outside to go to the store or cafe (it was forbidden to communicate with others according to the rules of the experiment, but they decided that sellers or cashier didn’t count);</li>
<li>Did puzzles or constructed Lego models;</li>
<li>Did art work or tried to draw;</li>
<li>Had a wash in the shower;</li>
<li>Cleaned up in the room or apartment;</li>
<li>Played with a dog or cat;</li>
<li>Worked out in the gym or did gymnastics;</li>
<li>Recorded their feelings or thoughts;</li>
<li>Wrote letters by hand;</li>
<li>Played the guitar, piano etc.</li>
<li>Three wrote poetry or prose;</li>
<li>One boy spent nearly 5 hours riding buses around the city;</li>
<li>One girl did embroidery;</li>
<li>One boy went to an amusement park;</li>
<li>One young boy travelled through the city from end to end (about 25 km in total);</li>
<li>One girl went to a museum; one boy went to the zoo;</li>
<li>One girl prayed.</li>
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<b>Almost all the participants tried to sleep at some point, but none were able to</b> due to the unusual thoughts going round and round in their heads.<br />
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After the termination of the experiment, 14 of the teenagers immediately logged in to social networks, 20 called their friends on their mobile phones, three participants called their parents, and five went to visit their friends in person. Others turned on the TV or plunged into playing computer games. In addition, almost all of them soon thrust their headphones into their ears.<br />
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<b>All the symptoms of stress disappeared immediately after the termination of the experiment.</b><br />
63 teenagers admitted that the experiment had been useful for them in terms of allowing them to learn more about themselves. Six repeated the experiment on their own and claimed that on the second, third or fifth time they managed to last the whole day without serious problems.<br />
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When describing what was happening to them during the experiment, 51 people used phrases like <b>“dependence“, ”it turns out, I can not live without ...“, “dose”, ”withdrawals“, ”I need...",</b> and so on. All of them, without any exceptions, said that they were extremely surprised by the thoughts that were crossing their minds during the experiment, but they were unable to examine them rationally because of the overall deterioration of their psychological state.<br />
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One of the two boys who successfully completed the experiment spent eight hours gluing together a model of a sailing ship, with a break for a meal and a walk with the dog. Another boy first spent the time organising his possessions. These two boys didn’t feel negative emotions at all during the experiment.<br />
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Source: Bright Side<br />
<a href="http://brightside.me/article/a-thought-provoking-experiment-showed-what-happens-when-children-dont-have-the-internet-for-a-whole-day-42855/">http://brightside.me/article/a-thought-provoking-experiment-showed-what-happens-when-children-dont-have-the-internet-for-a-whole-day-42855/</a><br />
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<b>By <a href="http://in5d.com/3-simple-rules-for-protecting-yourself-from-energy-vampires/" target="_blank">Amy B. Scher</a></b><br />
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<b>The human body generates an electromagnetic field. When that field is easily disrupted, it can manifest in many ways including being ‘sensitive’ to people and environments. You might recognize the feelings of being a sensitive soul. Being around a certain someone puts you in a bad mood. Having to go into a crowded party overwhelms you. When someone isn’t happy with you, you feel as if you’re being physically attacked.</b><br />
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<b>Being energetically sensitive means that you’re picking up on and absorbing negative energy from those around you. You’re not just moody! Great news, right?</b><br />
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<b>Having a strong and balanced energy system is the best way I’ve learned to stay protected from <a href="http://in5d.com/how-to-recognize-an-energy-vampire-and-what-to-do-about-it/">energy vampires</a>. Do this daily and you’ll have a little routine that will help strengthen your system so you can be anywhere, at any time, and feel calm and confident.</b></div>
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<b>Make sure your energy system is strong and balanced. There are many ways to do this but one of my favorites is the “thymus thump.” Thumping a gland in the center of your chest, called the thymus gland, gives you an immune system boost and is also effective for calming fear and balancing your entire system quickly. Simply use your fist and “thump” like Tarzan for about 30 seconds and some big deep breaths.</b></div>
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<b>Ground your energy. The more grounded, or connected to the earth’s energies you are, the less shaken you’ll be by your environment. A great way to “ground” is by literally pulling your energy down through your feet.</b></div>
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<b>Place your hands at the sides of your waist. With your thumb in the front and fingers toward the back, slide your hands slowly and firmly down your legs. When you get to your feet, squeeze at the sides of your feet. Doing this on grass, dirt, or sand makes it even more powerful.</b></div>
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<b>By tracing your central meridian, an energy pathway running up the front of your body, also highly attuned to thoughts and emotions, you are able to strengthen it.</b></div>
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<b>Place your hands at the bottom end of the central meridian, which is at your pubic bone. Inhale deeply as you simultaneously pull your hands straight up the center of your body, to your lower lip. Repeat three times. With the electromagnetic force of your hands, you are literally moving the energy in the meridian in the direction of its strength and in turn, the meridian is strengthening you. While doing this exercise, you can also add an affirmation such as “<a href="http://in5d.com/meditation-techniques-what-to-do-before-you-meditate/">I am safe and protected</a>”.</b><br />
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<b>Breathe! Breathing allows energy movement in your body. If you hold your breath in crowds or around difficult people, you are actually preventing any negative energy from movinʼ right through you.</b><br />
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<b>Cross your arms/legs when feeling energetically vulnerable. This actually protects your aura and creates an energetic shield. Negative energy being directed at you will tend to bounce off of you and return to the sender.</b><br />
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<b>Pick your location wisely. Stand by a window or door in crowds and avoid sitting at the front of a class or room where people direct their energy toward you.</b><br />
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<b>Black tourmaline, a crystal that can be purchased for just a couple of dollars, is an excellent negative energy absorber. Put it in your pocket, purse, or just keep it close by when feeling vulnerable.</b><br />
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<b>Now you have lots of minute-or-less tools to keep you balanced, grounded, and protected. Just don’t forget, they only work if you use them.</b><br />
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<b>Ahhh, doesn’t that feel better already?</b><br />
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<b><i>This article was written by <a href="http://www.amybscher.com/" target="_blank">Amy B. Scher</a>. Amy is an expert in mind-body-spirit healing and is often lovingly referred to as an “accidental guru.” She is the bestselling author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AYOOT7W/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00AYOOT7W&linkCode=as2&tag=in5d-20" target="_blank"> This Is How I Save My Life</a> (January 2013) and has been featured in publications such as CNN, Curve magazine, Divine Caroline, and was named one of Advocate’s “40 Under 40″ for 2013. Most importantly, she lives by the self-created motto: “When life kicks your ass, kick back.”</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Source: <a href="http://www.lovehaswon.org/love-blogs/2016/1/17/3-simple-rules-for-protecting-yourself-from-energy-vampires">http://www.lovehaswon.org/love-blogs/2016/1/17/3-simple-rules-for-protecting-yourself-from-energy-vampires</a></i></b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-60889144510700055532016-01-11T10:21:00.001-08:002016-01-15T10:29:31.767-08:00Evolve Out Loud<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">I am posting this because it resonates with my frequency. I have a link at the bottom of this article to the full source and full story. Many are being called together by many different means, I am simply moving forward as I follow the Light. Grateful you are here with me on this journey. ~Vickie Barker</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #00ccff;">The Need For Authenticity</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Since I awakened in 2011, I go through periods of time where I am working on things connected to my self (which is pretty much all the time). We all are. The only difference I’ve noticed is I’m consciously aware of the evolving themes flowing in and out of my life. I’ve noticed that the themes are collective. Everyone is being presented with opportunities to grow and expand, even if they aren’t aware of it. The theme that was really strong in November was authenticity. This theme has been around for awhile. But I’ve noticed that lately it’s been really prevalent and will continue to be so. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">When I watched the “Enlightened Families” video, with every family member being authentic and true to themselves in a respectful way, I couldn’t help but get excited. I have family issues myself. No one in my family is authentic — we maintain so many lies and secrets. ......</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">......The more I take this journey of aligning with my authentic self, the more I can’t hold back — not mean or disrespectful things either, but pretty much the truth. For me to be authentic as possible, I need to speak the truth. By speaking truthfully and being authentic, I feel like I’ve been set free from issues that have followed me my whole life, issues which stemmed from my childhood. I feel like the “Enlightened Family” video showcases what it truly means to be authentic in a world that seriously lacks authenticity. If you really want to kick your evolution into high gear, start being authentic as much as possible. Your life will get better as your align with your authentic self....</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #00ccff;">What Does it Mean to be Authentic? </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">My perception of authenticity is being true to ourselves. Keeping it real in every sense of what realness is. I’ve asked myself many times, what am I being authentic to? The simplest answer I can give is, to my soul. Which I guess really isn’t that simple. But to put in plainly, it means to be in line with the true essence of what makes me amazing, the qualities that showcase greatness. I don’t mean perfection; for as long as I am human, I am perfectly imperfect. I mean being true to ourselves by saying how we feel in the moment and staying true to our word (to the best of our ability, because life happens). It means not lying, manipulating, fuelling our addictions, or doing things we don’t want to do and complaining about it later obsessively… and on and on. So many people are afraid to be authentic out of fear of what people will think of them. Well, I’m here to tell you that it honestly doesn’t matter what people think of you and your fear of this is connected to how you feel about yourself. To let go of that fear is to empower yourself with the amazingness of all that is you. One way to do that is to self-connect and fall in love with who you are. It’s an evolutionary process. At the end of the enlightened family video was Kyle’s website, which was titled very synchronistically for me: Evolving Out Loud. As soon as I read it, I got goosebumps. I immediately went to his website and watched all the transformational videos on it. I learned that Kyle is a comedian and actor. I also learned that he is totally evolving out loud and it’s amazing to be able to watch his journey. He taught me that I should be doing the same, more so than I already am. Here’s a trailer for his Evolving Out Loud show. Watch it and if you feel inspired to, read on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">After I learned more about who he is and why he started to Evolve Out Loud, I came across his 100 day Self Connection Experiment. Self-Connection is the key to becoming truly authentic. One way to self-connect is to meditate. There are many great spiritual, evolutionary, life loving expansion teachers out there and so many of them have taught me amazing things that I use to teach others. Kyle is one of those teachers for me but he is giving me knowledge I already have. It’s been buried inside of me and I’ve forgotten it over the years. He is a beautiful reminder. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Over the course of our life, we’ll have many teachers that will remind us of our inner truths that we tend to forget. His self-work truly resonates with me and I hope it resonates with you as well. Especially if you have been ready for “the next step” in your evolutionary journey or if you’ve been feeling stuck and your life isn’t bringing you happiness. I’ve been ready for “my next step.” Below is a trailer for the 100 Day Self Connection Experiment. If you want a quick link to view the trailer and all the videos of his self-connection journey to date (he’s on day 78), <a href="http://www.kylecease.com/100-day-self-connection-experiment" target="_blank">click here</a>. In the video Kyle talks about how he’s not looking for followers but rather, he’s looking for co-leaders. He speaks about how we all have the power to help ourselves and live the lives we want, and self-connection through meditation, authenticity, and non-resistance is the key. Check it out!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Kyle speaks to me because he portrays this journey in such a light, warm hearted way that it’s very easy to understand and connect to what he’s talking about. Plus he’s funny. I mean, he is a comedian. His work is comedy combined with transformation, and I’m all about that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">I feel that we need to connect to ourselves and each other more so that we can make a true difference in this world. Our planet is in turmoil, that’s apparent, but what I’ve noticed is that many people are in turmoil and crisis internally. Perhaps if we ease the turmoil and chaos inside ourselves, maybe the chaos and turmoil in our world will subside as well. Please share your truths! Speak up! Say what’s in your heart! Do no harm but take no shit! We’re all in this together. Life can be a beautiful journey and I’m excited to take that journey with all of you and all those who are willing to be with me for the ride. Like Bill Hicks once said… “It’s all just a ride.”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/01/11/why-we-need-to-self-connect-evolve-out-loud/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/01/11/why-we-need-to-self-connect-evolve-out-loud/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.kylecease.com/" target="_blank">Kyle Cease – Evolving Out Loud</a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-12636264586666827492015-12-29T11:52:00.000-08:002015-12-29T11:52:47.585-08:00WHAT'S THE WHAT? - Poem<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">"WHAT'S THE WHAT?" <span style="font-size: small;">(By Brian McCarthy)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"What's the what? Where's the where?<br /> Who's the who? <br /> Does anybody care?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> When's the when? Why's the why?<br /> See the See.<br /> The there is there.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> So that's the that---The now is now.<br /> Before was before.<br /> Allow,allow.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Open the open.Close the close.<br /> Run the race----see how it goes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> For today is today---No worry no fear.<br /> Change will Change---The here is here."</span><br />
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POEM: "WHAT'S THE WHAT?" (By Brian McCarthy)<br />
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<br /><span class="_c24 _50f4">Brian McCarthy - "The Most Famous Guy You've Never Heard Of---"<br /> <br /> Website: <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fuser%2Fmrbrianmccarthy&h=8AQGumZth&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">youtube.com/user/mrbrianmccarthy</a></span><br />
<span class="_c24 _50f4">Visit his FaceBook Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/britoven322">https://www.facebook.com/britoven322</a><br /> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-23673508415642770782015-04-01T20:20:00.001-07:002015-04-01T20:20:54.539-07:00The Delphi Perception<h1 class="entry-title">
The Delphi Perception Management Technique</h1>
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WHAT IS A “CONSENSUS” AND WHY IS IT A SCAM?<br />
<i>By AL Whitney © copyround 2015</i><br />
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It is time to look at one of the “CONTROLLER’S” favored method of manipulating the public today: The Delphi Technique! The Delphi Technique is the creation of the nasty private think-tank founded by the Rockefellers, known as the RAND CORPORATION. [1]<br />
Key in identifying the usage of the Delphi Technique is the word <b>CONSENSUS</b><br />
RAND has spread this deceptive strategy across the planet. It is currently and commonly used in academics, government institutions, private regional planning commissions, the military and non-profit organizations.<br />
Two important and notable examples of the use of the Delphi Technique are:<br />
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<li>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change titled <a href="http://ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_cover.pdf" sl-processed="1"><i>Climate Change</i> – </a><i><a href="http://ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_cover.pdf" sl-processed="1">The IPCC Scientific Assessment</a></i> [2]</li>
<li><a href="https://anticorruptionsociety.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/adverse-effects-of-vaccines-evidence-and-causality.pdf" sl-processed="1">Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Science’s: <i>Adverse Effects of Vaccines – Evidence and Causality</i></a></li>
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<a href="https://anticorruptionsociety.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/expert-consensus-report.jpg" sl-processed="1"><img alt="Expert Consensus Report" class=" size-full wp-image-8937 alignleft" height="75" originalw="500" scale="1.5" src="https://anticorruptionsociety.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/expert-consensus-report.jpg?w=500" width="76" /></a>In fact, the National Academy of Sciences boasts their usage of the Delphi Technique in creating mumbo jumbo scientific reports by openly labeling these reports as: Expert Consensus Report. [See: <a href="http://anticorruptionsociety.com/2014/03/14/expert-consensus-reports-are-scientific-mumbo-jumbo/" sl-processed="1"><i>Expert Consensus Reports are Scientific Mumbo-Jumbo</i></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191#_edn2" name="_ednref2" sl-processed="1"></a>]<br />
Most community organizers and so-called government agency employees have been trained in the RAND Corporation’s Delphi Technique. It is taught to facilitators as a method of getting a group of people to believe they have made a group decision. If you have ever attended a meeting whereas those in charge of the meeting break the attendees into working groups or break-out sessions, who are then “tasked” to discuss a topic and bring the results back to the larger group, you have been Delphied! If when the meeting is over you are not scratching your head as to what just transpired, you are indeed a rare exception. The confusion experienced immediately post-meeting is an absolute sure sign that you were Delphied! The facilitators of the gathering generally proceed to report the outcome of this confusion as if a “consensus” of opinion had been reached by the participants. It is unlikely that their version of a “consensus” represents your opinions, thoughts, ideas or concerns. It is far more likely that their version of a “consensus” represents the goal of the facilitators who initiated the meeting in the first place. The outcome was predetermined. Your job was to sign in, fill a chair and allow them to cite you (either individually or as a group) as a supporter of their self-serving goal or agenda.<span id="more-9756"></span><br />
In fact, many times the goals of these organizers are associated with terms and conditions of grants that they have already signed contracts for. This is an extremely important point to remember as you think about this commonly used strategy of falsely attaining public approval.<br />
My conclusion are a result of personally having been Delphied many times, which is how it became so obvious to me that this technique is being taught in all of our so-called institutions. I was Delphied at the following events:<br />
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<li>Medical School faculty retreat</li>
<li>Regional planning commission public meetings</li>
<li>Local land-use non-profit seeking public participation</li>
<li>City government “visioning” workshops for the public (2 times)</li>
<li>Non-profit Executive Director engaged in annual conference planning</li>
<li>Independent organizer trying to get a large number of people to address a shared concern</li>
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The same feeling of post-meeting confusion followed all of these events. The post-meeting conversations that took place by attendees in the parking lot were all the same. We asked each other “What the bleep was all that about?” We all felt that the organizers stated purpose – that enticed us to the meeting in the first place – was just a pretense for an altogether different undisclosed agenda. And we were right.<br />
While the general public remains unaware of these meetings and strategies, the outcomes will most likely directly impact their lives. Often the names of the participants (or participating groups) are then assigned to the outcome (as in the case of the IPCC) and used to enhance the initiating organization’s credibility and help sell their goal to others! Many times these goals become part of public policies that are implemented – again without the knowledge or consent of the general population.<br />
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, a consensus is a “general agreement”. Specifically it means that a group of two or more people have consented to an idea, project, or plan. While one should be able to assume that more than 50% of those that participating in a Delphi program have fully understood the topic and have agreed to support a position or plan – that is not generally the case when the Delphi Technique is implemented.<br />
It is easy to identify the inherent manipulation in the Delphi technique when you break the process down:<br />
<b>Step One</b><br />
A single individual, a group of people, an organization or a corporate government agency establishes a goal – like the initiation of a new policy or the creation of a useful report.<br />
<b>Step Two</b><br />
The initiators invite people (with or without expertise or knowledge of the issue) to a gathering for their input (like a think tank). The invitees generally include a very small group of experts and many non-experts who can be easily persuaded to support the ‘goal’.<br />
Example: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change included many non-scientists. I was introduced to one of them. While he was a nice fellow, he knew nothing about climatology . . . he was the owner of a solar panel company.<br />
<b>Step Three</b><br />
The assigned moderators or facilitators define the goal to the group, generally in very broad terms.<br />
<b>Step Four</b><br />
The facilitators seek group input<br />
a) they break the group into smaller groups or topics for discussion lead by other facilitators<br />
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b) they administer surveys, polls or questionnaires to the group (using carefully ‘worded’ and limited questions).<br />
Have you ever noticed that if you can control the questions, you control the dialogue? Questions like – should we even being considering this issue – are not permitted.<br />
<b>Step Five</b><br />
The facilitators cherry-pick the results (input), format them, and present them as a group decision calling it a “consensus”. Thus – the results ALWAYS support the predetermined goal.<br />
<b>Step Six</b><br />
The names (or number) of the participants or participating organizations are attached to the final report giving it the appearance of credibility; in spite of the fact that the participants are rarely allowed to review and/or approve of the final outcome.<br />
Example: The wonderful documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg" sl-processed="1">The Great Global Warming Swindle </a>includes the testimony of a scientist who participated in the IPCC’s first consensus meeting and was so incensed by the the resulting report on Climate Change that he sued to have his name removed.<br />
This Delphic Technique method of policy making can affect the lives of vast numbers of people – without their knowledge or approval. And, those responsible can escape accountability via a plausible deniability factor that has been intentionally built into the Delphi Technique.<br />
By controlling the following factors, a group can be hand-picked and manipulated into seemingly supporting policies they don’t agree with or reports that they know to be blatantly false:<br />
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<li>facilitator</li>
<li>invitees</li>
<li>questionnaires, polls or surveys</li>
<li>discussion</li>
<li>final report</li>
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All “consensus” results – including consensus scientific reports – should be presumed false . . . based on the usage of the deceptive consensus process itself.<br />
To help educate unsuspecting victims of the Delphi Technique, <a href="https://anticorruptionsociety.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/delphi-brochure2.pdf" sl-processed="1">this brochure</a> can be printed on card stock and trimmed to make 3 brochures per each 8 1/2 X 11 page. Sharing it with other attendees at Delphi events can help undermine this nasty and dishonest strategy of group manipulation.<br />
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[1] Former RAND insider Alex Abella exposes this diabolic ‘think-tank’<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrkLwLTrIg" sl-processed="1">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrkLwLTrIg</a><br />
[2] <a href="http://anticorruptionsociety.com/2013/07/21/insider-admits-that-environmental-orgs-never-reviewed-co2-global-warming-theory/" sl-processed="1">Insider admits that environmental orgs never reviewed CO2 global warming theory</a><br />
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This article explains how it was done. The Delphi Perception has far reaching arms into the heart of each community. Knowledge from the past helps us determine how best to face the future. Here also is a link to how we can all help disarm the delphi technique. <a href="http://anticorruptionsociety.com/2015/03/30/we-can-all-help-disarm-the-delphi-technique/" target="_blank">http://anticorruptionsociety.com/2015/03/30/we-can-all-help-disarm-the-delphi-technique/</a><br />
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Can YOU remove your experiences and judgments and put yourself in
others' feelings, thoughts and experiences? Can YOU truly listen with a
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">SSRI-Induced Akathisia's Link To Suicide and Violence</span></b></div>
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<i><span itemprop="dateline">Washington, DC</span>:</i> <span itemprop="articleBody">Medical
experts have long known that the side effect associated with the class
of antidepressants known as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
most likely to drive people to suicide or violence against others is
"akathisia".<br />
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Akathisia is but one in a long list of side effects that SSRI makers
were able to keep hidden, as they settled thousands of lawsuits out of
court, by obtaining court orders to seal documents produced in
litigation. For instance, a 1984 Eli Lilly document showed akathisia
occurred in at least 1% of patients long before Prozac was approved.<br />
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<img align="left" alt="Akathisia suicidal victim" border="0" src="http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/images/articles/other/ssriakathisialinktosuicideviolence.jpg" style="margin: 0 15px 3px 0;" />In
a paper entitled, "Suicides and Homicides in Patients Taking Paxil,
Prozac, and Zoloft: Why They Keep Happening - And Why They Will
Continue," Dr Jay Cohen points out that, as soon SSRI's arrived on the
market in the late 1980s, reports of sudden, unexpected suicides and
homicides by patients taking the drugs began to come in.<br />
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The DSM-IV acknowledges the association of akathisia with suicidality
and states: "Akathisia may be associated with dysphoria, irritability,
aggression, or suicide attempts."<br />
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According to Dr Cohen, SSRI's can create a combination of side effects
that reduce impulse control and cause severe agitation or restlessness
that may become intolerable. He says, impulsive behavior coupled with
impaired cognitive functioning can be dangerous.<br />
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A 1998 article on akathisia associated with Prozac and its link to
suicidal ideation in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, by Roger Lane,
who was working for Pfizer at the time, states in part:<br />
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"It may be less of a question of patients experiencing
fluoxetine-induced suicidal ideation than patients feeling that 'death
is a welcome result' when the acutely discomforting symptoms of
akathisia are experienced on top of already distressing disorders.<br />
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"Hamilton and Opler (1992) stated that the term 'suicidal ideation' to
describe the apparent suicidality associated with akathisia was
misleading, as the 'suicidal ideation' reported in patients receiving
fluoxetine was a reaction to the side-effect of akathisia (i.e.,
unbearable discomfort and restlessness) and not true suicidal ideation
as is typically described by depressed patients experiencing suicidal
ideation."<br />
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Dr Joseph Glenmullen, author of "Prozac Backlash" and "The
Antidepressant Solution," obtained a Lilly document dated November 13,
1990, from Claude Bouchy, a Lilly employee in Germany, to three
executives at Lilly's Indianapolis headquarters, complaining about
directions to change the identification of events as they are reported
to doctors from "suicide attempt" to "overdose" and "suicidal ideation"
to "depression".<br />
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"I do not think I could explain to the BGA, to a judge, to a reporter or
even to my family," Mr Bouchy wrote, "why we would do this especially
on the sensitive issue of suicide and suicide ideation."<br />
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Dr Glenmullen says akathisia makes people profoundly agitated,
uncomfortable in their own skin and impulsive. It erodes judgment and
can lower their threshold to become violent toward themselves or others,
he states.<br />
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Dr Martin Teicher, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and
McLean Hospital researcher at the time, co-authored a paper with
psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist Jonathan Cole on the link between
Prozac and suicide back in 1990, which found that 3.5% of patients on
Prozac either attempted or committed suicide due to severe agitation
from akathisia.<br />
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In the paper, the authors discussed 6 cases of patients who became
intensely preoccupied with suicide after taking Prozac. Dr Cole said, in
an affidavit submitted in litigation on April 20, 2000, "Our purpose in
writing this article was to alert the profession to an alarming,
probable drug side effect which we had observed."<br />
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"There was a very clear association," he said, "not merely temporal,
between the ingestion of Prozac and the patients' suicidality."<br />
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"I have also seen patients and reviewed cases," Dr Cole stated, "where
an SSRI unmistakably precipitated a driven preoccupation with suicide."<br />
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"The SSRI drugs, as a class," he advised, "clearly have the potential to
cause, and in reasonable medical probability or certainty do cause,
akathisia in some patients."<br />
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"Although in 1997," Dr Cole notes, "practicing physicians undoubtedly
varied in their level of sophistication and knowledge about the
phenomenon, the potential to cause akathisia and its potential, in turn,
to trigger suicidal behavior."<br />
<br />
Additional evidence showing Lilly knew about the akathisia-induced
suicide surfaced in an application for a patent for a second-generation
Prozac pill which claimed that the new-and-improved Prozac would
decrease the side effects of, "inner restlessness (akathisia), suicidal
thoughts and self-mutilation."<br />
<br />
Besides the concealment of this adverse effect by the drug companies,
another major problem in getting the word out, according to Vince Boehm,
who tracks all studies and research published on SSRI's, is that the
FDA refuses to fully acknowledge the role of drug-induced akathisia in
what he refers to as "this hideous equation."<br />
<br />
"Akathisia is up to 6 times more likely to trigger a suicide," he
states, "than any form of depression caused by life's circumstances
alone."<br />
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"The minds inner turmoil is so intense that a person will do anything to escape it," he says.<br />
<br />
"The Brits, the Aussies, Canada, and the European Union," he points out,
"have all gone on record recognizing this phenomenon for all age
groups."<br />
<br />
Judging by internal FDA documents which have surfaced in litigation, Mr
Boehm appears to be correct. For instance, in a September 11, 1990,
memo, FDA scientist Dr David Graham found that Lilly's data on Prozac
was insufficient to prove the drug was safe, stating: "Because of
apparent large-scale underreporting, the firm's analysis cannot be
considered as proving that fluoxetine and violent behavior are
unrelated."<br />
<br />
A more recent study in the September 2006 journal Public Library of
Science (PLoS) has further verified the warnings made by many other
experts, when it reported that, in addition to self-harm, SSRI's cause
some patients to become violent and homicidal.<br />
<br />
Dr David Healy, described as "one of the three most eminent academic
clinical psychiatrists in the UK," professor David Menkes, from Cardiff
University in Britain, and Andrew Herxheimer, from the Cochrane Centre,
did the study to determine the risk of violent behavior in people taking
SSRI's.<br />
<br />
As part of their investigation, the researchers reviewed all available
clinical data on SSRI's and summarized a series of "medico-legal" court
cases involving patients who had became violent on SSRI's.<br />
<br />
One case discussed dated back to 2001, when Dr Healy testified at a
wrongful death trial in Wyoming, after a 60-year-old man on Paxil shot
and killed his wife, daughter and infant granddaughter before turning
the gun on himself in 1998.<br />
<br />
At trial, the jury returned a verdict for the man's son-in-law after Dr
Healy presented the jury with a summary of an unpublished company study
that found incidents of serious aggression in 80 patients on Paxil,
including 25 that involved homicide, and proved that the drug maker knew
about the violence and suicide risks before the 1998 shootings.<br />
<br />
Dr Healy points out a rechallenge study by Rothschild and Locke in
McLean Hospital where the authors found Prozac-induced emergent
suicidality associated with akathisia in several patients. In order to
test whether suicidality was coincidental or associated with Prozac,
they withdrew Prozac, then re-administered it, and in all three cases,
the patients experienced the exact same effect. "All three patients
developed severe akathisia during treatment with fluoxetine and stated
that the development of the akathisia made them feel suicidal and that
it had precipitated their prior suicide attempts."<br />
<br />
However, even more alarming, one set of patients who became suicidal on
Prozac were described as follows: "[n]one had a history of significant
suicidal behavior; all described their distress as an intense and novel
somatic-emotional state; all reported an urge to pace that paralleled
the intensity of the distress; all experienced suicidal thoughts at the
peak of their restless agitation; and all experienced a remission of
their agitation, restlessness, pacing urge, and suicidality after the
fluoxetine was discontinued."</span><br />
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<span itemprop="articleBody">Source: <a href="http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/drugs-medical/ssri-suicide-akathisia.html?utm_expid=3607522-0&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatreallyhappened.com%2F#.UM45tXfNmSr" target="_blank">Lawyers and Settlements.com </a></span><br />
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<b>Akathisia</b>, or <b>acathisia</b>, is a syndrome characterized by unpleasant sensations of inner restlessness that manifests itself with an inability to sit still or remain motionless (hence the word's origin in <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a>: from <span lang="grc">καθίζειν</span> - <i>kathízein</i> - "to sit" with a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Privative a">privative a</a> as prefix expressing negation or absence; literally meaning <i>inability to sit</i>). It can be a side effect of medications, or it can, to a lesser extent, be caused by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Parkinson's disease">Parkinson's disease</a> and related syndromes,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-szabadi_1-0">[1]</sup> and likely other neurological diseases. However, this may be due more to the drugs used in treatment such as <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Sinemet">sinemet</a> (l-<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Dopa">dopa</a>) and less with the Parkinson's disease itself.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2">[2]</sup> Another major cause is withdrawal from almost any physical <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Addiction">addiction</a>, for example, in <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome">benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3">[3]</sup> It was discovered that akathisia involves increased levels of the neurotransmitter <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Norepinephrine">norepinephrine</a>, which is associated with mechanisms that regulate <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Aggression">aggression</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Alertness">alertness</a>, and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Arousal">arousal</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4">[4]</sup> Though no further research has been done as of yet, it may also be involved with disrupted <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="NMDA">NMDA</a> channels in the brain, which have both synergistic and regulatory effects on norepinephrine.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Description">Description</span></span></b><br />
<br />
Akathisia may range in intensity from a sense of disquiet or <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Anxiety">anxiety</a>,
to severe discomfort, particularly in the knees. Patients typically
pace for hours because the pressure on the knees reduces the discomfort
somewhat; once their knees and legs become fatigued and they are unable
to continue pacing, they sit or lie down, although this does not relieve
the akathisia. At high doses or with potent drugs such as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Haloperidol">haloperidol</a> (Haldol) or <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Chlorpromazine">chlorpromazine</a> (Thorazine/Largactil), the feeling can last all day from awakening to sleep. The <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Anticholinergic">anticholinergic</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Procyclidine">procyclidine</a>
reduces neuroleptic-induced akathisia to a certain degree, in addition
to preventing and sometimes eliminating the muscle stiffness that can
occur alongside akathisia.<br />
<br />
Some doctors report an anti-anxiety drug such
as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Clonazepam">clonazepam</a> helps to reduce the anxiety which occurs along with the akathisia.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from December 2011">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>.
When misdiagnosis occurs in antipsychotic neuroleptic-induced
akathisia, more antipsychotic neuroleptics may be prescribed,
potentially worsening the symptoms.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-szabadi_1-1">[1]</sup>
High-functioning patients have described the feeling as a sense of
inner tension and torment or chemical torture. Many patients describe
symptoms of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Neuropathic pain">neuropathic pain</a> akin to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Fibromyalgia">fibromyalgia</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Restless legs syndrome">restless legs syndrome</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5">[5]</sup>
Although these side effects disappear quickly and remarkably when the
medication is stopped, tardive, or late-persisting akathisia may go on
long after the offending drug is discontinued, sometimes for a period of
years—unlike the related <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Tardive dyskinesia">tardive dyskinesia</a>,
which can be permanent. Considering that this is rare, it must also be
noted that it is not unheard of that patients are medicated or given
higher doses without their knowledge.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> <span class="mw-headline" id="Causes">Causes</span></span></b><br />
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Akathisia is most often seen as a side effect of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Antipsychotic">antipsychotic</a> medications, but has other causes as well:<br />
<ul>
<li>Antipsychotics<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13">[13]</sup> such as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Haloperidol">haloperidol</a> (Haldol), <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Droperidol">droperidol</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Pimozide">pimozide</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Trifluoperazine">trifluoperazine</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Amisulpride">amisulpride</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Risperidone">risperidone</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Aripiprazole">aripiprazole</a> (Abilify), <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Ziprasidone">ziprasidone</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Asenapine">asenapine</a> (Saphris). Less common in sedating antipsychotics such as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Zuclopenthixol">zuclopenthixol</a> (Cisordinol) or <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Chlorpromazine">chlorpromazine</a> where anticholinergic and antihistaminergic effects counteract akathisia to a degree.</li>
<li>SSRIs, such as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Fluoxetine">fluoxetine</a> (Prozac).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hansen_14-0">[14]</sup> It has also been documented with the use of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Paroxetine">paroxetine</a> (Paxil).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Healy_11-1">[11]</sup> Akathisia has been studied as the mechanism by which SSRI-induced suicidality occurs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hansen_14-1">[14]</sup></li>
<li>Other antidepressants, such as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Venlafaxine">venlafaxine</a> (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Effexor">Effexor</a>)<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from October 2010">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Tricyclic antidepressant">tricyclics</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Trazodone">trazodone</a> (Desyrel).</li>
<li>Certain <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Anti-emetic">anti-emetic</a> drugs, particularly the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Dopamine">dopamine</a> blockers, such as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Metoclopramide">metoclopramide</a> (Reglan), <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Prochlorperazine">prochlorperazine</a> (Compazine), and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Promethazine">promethazine</a>.</li>
<li>Antihistamines, such as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Cyproheptadine">cyproheptadine</a> or <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Diphenhydramine">diphenhydramine</a>.</li>
<li>Opioid withdrawal.</li>
<li>Barbiturates withdrawal.</li>
<li>Cocaine withdrawal (Mostly in heavy and long-term users).</li>
<li>Amphetamines<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15">[15]</sup> and any <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Stimulant">stimulant</a> (including <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Coffee">coffee</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Tea">tea</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Tobacco">tobacco</a>, etc.).</li>
<li>Benzodiazepine, and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Alcohol">alcohol</a> withdrawal.</li>
<li>GHB- gamma hydroxy butyric acid.</li>
<li>Chondromalacia patellae, resulting in discomfort when knees are bent.</li>
<li>Serotonin syndrome.</li>
</ul>
The 2006 UK study by Healy, Herxheimer, and Menkes observed that
akathisia is often miscoded in antidepressant clinical trials as
"agitation, emotional lability, and hyperkinesis (overactivity)".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Healy_11-2">[11]</sup>
The study further points out that misdiagnosis of akathisia as simple
motor restlessness occurs, but that this is more properly classed as <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Dyskinesia">dyskinesia</a>.
Healy, et al., further show links between antidepressant-induced
akathisia and violence, including suicide, as akathisia can "exacerbate <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Psychopathology">psychopathology</a>." The study goes on to state that there is extensive clinical evidence correlating akathisia with <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="SSRI">SSRI</a> use, showing that approximately ten times as many patients on SSRIs as those on <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" title="Placebo">placebos</a> showed symptoms severe enough to drop out of a trial (5.0% compared to 0.5%).<br />
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Source and FULL Article at: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia" target="_blank">Wikipedia </a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-72116880788822183782015-01-07T10:17:00.000-08:002015-01-08T01:29:13.562-08:00The Ludlow massacre, 1914 <h1 class="title">
The Ludlow massacre, 1914</h1>
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The history of the Ludlow Massacre of striking coal miners, which was one of the most brutal attacks on organised labour in North American history. It was the pinnacle of efforts by the National Guard and local strike-breakers under the command of the Rockefeller family to suppress a strike of twelve thousand workers.<br />
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Issues concerning labour had dogged the United States
for many years preceding World War I and had resulted in widespread strike
action, especially in the West of the country. Tensions rose to a melting
point when a union activist was killed in late 1913 resulting in workers at
the Rockefeller family owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation’s (CF+I)
going on strike. Miners evacuated the coal camps on September 23rd in protest
against low wages, poor working conditions and continued victimisation of
union activists. This was to mark the beginning of what was to be a harsh
seven months of continued brutality and repression at the hands of their bosses.<br />
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Miners of the CF+I were paid $1.68 a day and were forced
to work in extremely harsh conditions, this was particularly true for the
Colorado miners, where fatality rates were often double the national average.
What little wages the miners earned were paid in scrip, which was redeemable
only at the company store where prices were high.<br />
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Attempts of unionisation by the Colorado miners dated
back to the first strike of 1883 in which they tried to join the Western Federation
of Miners, in 1913 they were attempting to organise into the United Mine Workers
of America. (They later joined the Industrial Workers of the World in 1927.) </div>
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Demands of the UMWA to the CF+I were as follows:</div>
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“…Recognition of the United Mineworkers of
America as the bargaining agent for workers in coal mines throughout Colorado
and northern New Mexico, an effective system of checkweighmen in all mines,
compensation for digging coal at a ton-rate based on 2,000 pounds, semi-monthly
payment of wages in lawful money, the abolition of scrip and the truck system,
an end to discrimination against union members, and strict enforcement of
state laws pertaining to operators’ obligations in supplying miners
with timbers, rails, and other materials in underground working places.” </div>
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The demands of the union and the continuing strike action
enraged the Rockefeller family, which through mine ownership effectively ruled
the region. They evicted striking workers from their company owned homes leaving
them (along with their families) to face the harsh Colorado winter months
without shelter. Assisted by UMWA groups across the US, the strikers organised
‘tent cities’ close to canyon mouths which lead to coal camps
(in an attempt to block strike-breakers replacing them) and continued their
strike.<br />
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Through various agencies the company was able to hire men to take a more aggressive
stance against the striking workers, armed guards were supplied to harass
strikers and union organisers. An armoured car with a mounted machine gun
was even built which was appropriately named the ‘Death Special’
by the company guards. As tensions escalated between CF+I and the strikers,
miners dug protective pits beneath their tents to shield themselves and their
families against random sniping and machine gun fire from the company guards.
On October 17th the ‘Death Special’ was used to attack the Forbes
tent colony resulting in the death of one miner. A young girl was shot in
the face and another boy’s legs riddled with machine gun bullets also.
Confrontations between striking miners and scab workers were also resulting
in additional deaths. On October 28th the Governor of Colorado, Elias M Ammons
called out the National Guard to take control of the situation.<br />
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The miners however, persevered. Union members and organisers
were kidnapped and beaten, shots being fired into the camps from strike-breakers
and the National Guardsmen were a constant occurrence and the harsh winter
was taking its toll. Worried about the continuing cost of keeping the National
Guard in the field, Governor Ammons accepted an offer from the Rockefeller
family to put their men in National Guard uniforms.<br />
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On March 10th the body of a strike-breaker was found near
railroad tracks near the Forbes tents and the National Guard’s General
Chase ordered the colony to be destroyed. The strike was reaching a climax,
and National Guardsmen were ordered to evict the remaining tent colonies around
the mines, despite them being on private property leased by the UMWA.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Ludlow was the largest of the colonies, and on the morning
of April 20th 1914, troops fired into the camp with machine guns, anyone who
was seen moving in the camp was targeted. The miners fired back, and fighting
raged for almost fourteen hours. <br />
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<i>Red Cross workers sift through the wreckage of the strikers' camp after the attack </i></div>
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In the afternoon, a passing freight train stopped near the camp and allowed
many miners and their families to escape to east to an area known as the ‘Black
Hills’. After many hours of exchanging fire with the militiamen, the
camps main organiser, Louis Tikas met with Lieutenant Linderfelt (the officer
in charge of the National Guard assault on the Ludlow camp) to arrange a truce.
Linderfelt hit Tikas with the butt of his rifle and soldiers fired several
times into his back as he lay on the ground, killing him outright.<br />
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That evening, under cover of darkness, the militiamen
entered the camp and set fire to tents, killing two women and eleven children
who were sheltering from the shooting in a pit below a tent, thirteen other
people were also shot dead during the fighting.<br />
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As news of the massacre spread, workers from around the
country went on strike to show solidarity with the remaining miners on strike
in Colorado and to express sympathy for those who had lost loved ones in Ludlow.
Several cities in the state were taken over and occupied by miners and some
National Guard units even laid down their arms and refused to fight.<br />
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However, the workers failed to obtain their demands along
with union recognition and many were replaced with non-union workers. No National
Guardsmen was ever prosecuted over the killings, even though sixty-six people
had been killed by the time violence ended.<br />
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In 1918 a monument was erected to commemorate those who
died during the strike. These individuals all died in the Ludlow Massacre,
and are inscribed on the monument as follows:</div>
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Louis Tikas, age: 30 years<br />
James Fyler, age: 43 years<br />
John Bartolotti, age: 45 years<br />
Charlie Costa, age: 31 years<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=99642823871236191" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Fedelina Costas, age: 27 years<br />
Onafrio Costa, age: 4 years<br />
Frank Rubino, age: 23 years<br />
Patria Valdez, age: 37 years<br />
Eulala Valdez, age: 8 years<br />
Mary Valdez, age: 7 years<br />
Elvira Valdez, age: 3 months<br />
Joe Petrucci, age: 4 ½ years<br />
Lucy Petrucci, age: 2 ½ years<br />
Frank Petrucci, age: 4 months<br />
William Snyder Jr, age: 11 years<br />
Rodgerlo Pedregone, age: 6 years<br />
Cloriva Pedregone, age: 4 year</div>
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<span class="smalltext"><i>By Sam Lowry, edited by libcom </i></span><br />
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<span class="smalltext"><i>Source: <a href="http://libcom.org/history/1914-the-ludlow-massacre">http://libcom.org/history/1914-the-ludlow-massacre</a></i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-60837478164400701862014-12-25T12:27:00.002-08:002014-12-25T12:27:27.624-08:00CHRISTMAS TRUCE<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><b>WWI CHRISTMAS TRUCE</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2900ff; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>ONE TIME, CHRISTIANS UNDERSTOOD THEY WERE NOT ENEMIES</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fworld%2F2014%2F12%2F24%2Fshall-never-forget-it-100-years-since-ww1-christmas-truce%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFGBahyGvPVA_5EEPtmfzrE4dnqOg" target="_blank">The World War I Christmas Truce</a></div>
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100
years ago, Christian Germans and Christian allied troops were made to
kill one another by the hundreds of thousands. But in 1914, shortly
after World War I began, those troops looked across their trenches in
realization they were Christian brothers, not enemies, and literally
stopped the war.</div>
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The war and killing resumed a few days later only when
allied leaders ordered the murder of a German, and everyone rushed back
to their trenches.</div>
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Leaders made sure this would never happen--that
people would serve their global ambitions, rather that realize our
common humanity--by making fraternizing with the enemy an offense
punishable by death.</div>
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o The Civil War set Christian Americans against Christian Americans.</div>
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o The Spanish-American War set Christian Americans against Christian Spaniards.</div>
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o World War I set Christian Americans against Christian Europeans.</div>
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o World War II continued to set Christians against Christians, but expanded the killing to Asia.</div>
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o The Mideast wars set Christian Americans and Europeans against Muslims.</div>
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Will
Christians ever learn? It has never been about our defense or
self-interests. It has always been about creating the New World War. Had
Christians actually followed the commandment <i>Thou Shalt Not Kill</i>, we would not be in the situation we find ourselves today. </div>
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We are being used to defeat ourselves.</div>
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I do hope you read the entire article and more of the story here:<br />
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In this image provided by the Imperial War Museum, World War I German and British soldiers stand together on the battlefield near Ploegsteert, Belgium in Dec. 1914. Soldiers who had been killing each other for months climbed out of their soggy trenches to seek a shred of humanity amid the horrors of World War I.<span class="source" itemprop="name"> (AP Photo/IWM)</span></div>
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Hands reached out across a divide the narrow divide, presents were exchanged, and in Flanders Fields a century ago, a spontaneous Christmas truce briefly lifted the human spirit.<br />
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With British and German forces separated only by a no-man's land littered with fallen comrades, sounds of a German Christmas carol suddenly drifted across the frigid air.<br />
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"It was a beautiful moonlit night, frost on the ground, white almost everywhere: and at about 7 or 8 in the evening there was a lot of commotion in the German trenches and there were these lights -- I don't know what they were. And then they sang, "Silent Night" – "Stille Nacht." I shall never forget it, it was one of the highlights of my life. I thought, what a beautiful tune," Pvt. Albert Moren, a British soldier, wrote in a journal.<br />
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Then, during that first Christmas Day during World War I, in 1914, something magical happened, at least in some areas.<br />
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Soldiers, the number is hard to quantify but believed to be around 100,000, who had been killing each other by the tens of thousands for months, climbed out of their soggy trenches to seek a shred of humanity amid the horrors of war.<br />
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Hands reached out across a narrow divide, presents were exchanged, and in Flanders Fields a century ago, a spontaneous Christmas truce briefly lifted the human spirit.<br />
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"Not a shot was fired," Lt. Kurt Zehmisch of the 134th Saxony regiment wrote in his diary that Christmas.<br />
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On the other side of the front line, Pvt. Henry Williamson of the London Rifle Brigade was amazed by the goodwill among his enemies.<br />
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Few could believe their eyes, on this patch of Belgium and northern France where crimson poppies had long ago shriveled in the cold. Peace allowed for dead bodies to be recovered from the fields and given a proper burial.<br />
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Fighting continued in many other places on the front line and some generals ordered the troops to get back into position and feared there was a softening. But it was a momentary peace in a war that would last for nearly four more years.<br />
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Frank and Maurice Wray of the London Rifle Brigade settled in to keep watch when they suddenly heard a German band in the trenches play songs "common to both nations," they later wrote in an article. "Quite understandably a wave of nostalgia passed over us."<br />
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At dawn, a German called out, "We good. We no shoot," and the Wrays noted: "And so was born an unofficial armistice." Men walked out, extremely apprehensive at first, many fearing some deadly trick. Then human warmth cracked the freezing cold.<br />
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Another said that at about 30 scattered points across many miles of Belgium, similar scenes occurred. Others happened across the Western Front, which ran from the North Sea to the Swiss border.<br />
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Apart from talk in a shared language or merely with hands and kindred eyes, the men exchanged gifts, using everything from bully beef and barrels of beer to small mementos. Some played soccer.<br />
The New York Times identified the last survivor of the truce as Sgt. Alfred Anderson, from Scotland. He died in 2005 at 109.<br />
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That same year, The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/weekinreview/25word.ready.html?pagewanted=all"> ran a column</a> noting some soldiers' journal entries<br />
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"We stood inside the circle like street corner orators. … What a sight -- little groups of Germans and British extending almost the length of our front! Out of the darkness we could hear laughter and see lighted matches, a German lighting a Scotchman's cigarette and vice versa, exchanging cigarettes and souvenirs," Cpl. John Ferguson, a Scottish troop, wrote.<br />
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German soldier Werner Keil scribbled his name on a piece of paper and gave a uniform button to 19-year-old British Cpl. Eric Rowden of the Queen's Westminster Rifles on Christmas Day 1914. "We laughed and joked together, having forgotten war altogether," Rowden wrote.<br />
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Source: Kirk McKenzie <br />
<a href="http://silencenomorepublications.com/">SilenceNoMorePublications.com</a><br />
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<br><br><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-72455058199658468292014-03-31T09:58:00.000-07:002014-03-31T11:43:54.845-07:00REMEMBER MEI remember a short video we took of Anny just days before she left us. She was sitting on the couch sideways, cross-legged, wearing her Dallas Cowboys cap and blue sweatshirt, eating her bowl of Ramen Noodles. (she loved that crap, we didn't know about the MSG back then, quite frankly, we didn't know <b>a</b> <b>lot</b> of things back then). We were discussing Valentine's day coming up in February. Her statement was, "everybody better <b>remember me</b>". I never thought at the time those 2 words would ring so loud throughout my heart each and every day.<br />
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So baby girl, here is a post I am sharing on your page today for you, from you to us and right back atcha'. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I
am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It
means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless
years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again,
you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my
face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart. For as long as you
remember me, I am never entirely lost."</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh Anny girl, how I miss you but can't really because your energy still flows within each of us that knew you. Thank you for the time you gave to us while you were here. Love Mom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">P.S. You would love FB, you have so many friends and family on there that certainly remember you :) and are "In the KNOW and the NOW" </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">In fact, if all the FB visitors would please click the FB Like button over there in the right hand column that would be GREAT! And feel free to leave a comment or message if you are so moved.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Liking this site, visiting the site and commenting on the site pulls the page up in a higher rank on various search engines. I will be transferring all the research, facts and findings we have been focused on since 2001. There are some key issues that so many families are not familiar with. I've covered some of the most damaging issues that effect the greatest masses. Some are of course the SSRI's, the GMO's, CHEMTRAILS or as they would rather us call it now, GEO-ENGINEERING (but a rose by any other name is still a rose, right?), VACCINATIONS, FRACKING, HEALTH and now the biggy for health care, THE CANNABIS CURES.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">We will be pulling many of the pages from those sites to this AnnyBelle Blog, getting all the info into one place. Then it is time to DISSEMINATE the facts to the masses wouldn't you say? Time everyone knows what we have learned right?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">MoRE to come!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Live, Love, Laugh and Breathe,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">me </span><b><br /></b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-74119838177696252172013-08-08T14:28:00.002-07:002013-08-08T14:29:34.808-07:00SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT<br><center><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=3771814747852" width="500" height="380" frameborder="0"></iframe></center><br><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99642823871236191.post-73880403328988989512013-07-15T19:35:00.001-07:002013-07-15T19:38:49.818-07:00CONVENTIONAL WISDOM<div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0008a0;"><b>If everybody believes something,
it's probably wrong.</b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We call that Conventional
Wisdom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In America, conventional wisdom that has mass acceptance
is usually contrived: somebody paid for it. Examples:</span><br />
<ul><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">
<li> <span style="font-size: small;">Pharmaceuticals restore health <br />
</span></li>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> Vaccination brings immunity </span><br />
</li>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> The cure for cancer is just around the corner </span><br />
</li>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> When a child is sick, he needs immediate antibiotics </span><br />
</li>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> When a child has a fever he needs Tylenol </span><br />
</li>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> Hospitals are safe and clean. </span><br />
</li>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> America has the best health care in the world. </span><br />
</li>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> And many many more</span></li>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> This is a list of illusions, that have cost billions and
billions to conjure up. Did you ever wonder why you never
see the President speaking publicly unless he is reading?
Or why most people in this country think generally the same
about most of the above issues?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>How This Set-Up Got Started</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In Trust Us We're Experts, Stauber and Rampton pull together
some compelling data describing the science of creating public
opinion in America. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">They trace modern public influence back to the early part
of the last century, highlighting the work of guys like Edward
L. Bernays, the Father of Spin. From his own amazing chronicle
Propaganda, we learn how Edward L. Bernays took the ideas
of his famous uncle Sigmund Freud himself, and applied them
to the emerging science of mass persuasion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The only difference was that instead of using these principles
to uncover hidden themes in the human unconscious, the way
Freudian psychology does, Bernays used these same ideas to
mask agendas and to create illusions that deceive and misrepresent,
for marketing purposes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>The Father Of Spin</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bernays dominated the PR industry until the 1940s, and was <b><span style="color: #0008a0;">a significant force</span></b> for
another 40 years after that. (Tye) During all that time, Bernays
took on hundreds of diverse assignments to <b><span style="color: #0008a0;">create
a public perception about some idea or product</span></b>.
A few examples:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As a neophyte with the Committee on Public Information, one
of Bernays' first assignments was to help sell the First World
War to the American public with the idea to "Make the
World Safe for Democracy." (Ewen) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A few years later, Bernays set up a stunt to popularize the
notion of women smoking cigarettes. In organizing the 1929
Easter Parade in New York City, Bernays showed himself as <b><span style="color: #0008a0;">a force to be reckoned with</span></b>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">He organized the Torches of Liberty Brigade in which suffragettes
marched in the parade smoking cigarettes as a mark of women's
liberation. Such publicity followed from that one event that
from then on women have felt secure about destroying their
own lungs in public, the same way that men have always done.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bernays popularized the idea of bacon for breakfast. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Not one to turn down a challenge, he set up the advertising
format along with the AMA that lasted for nearly 50 years
proving that cigarettes are beneficial to health. Just look
at ads in issues of Life or Time from the 40s and 50s. </span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Smoke And Mirrors</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bernay's job was to <b><span style="color: #0008a0;">reframe an issue</span></b>;
to create a desired image that would put a particular product
or concept in a desirable light. Bernays described the public
as a 'herd that needed to be led.' And this herdlike thinking
makes people "susceptible to leadership."</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Bernays never deviated from his fundamental axiom to "control
the masses without their knowing it." The best PR happens
with the people unaware that they are being manipulated. </span></div>
<div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Stauber describes Bernays' rationale like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"the scientific manipulation of public opinion was
necessary to overcome chaos and conflict in a democratic
society." Trust Us p 42</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">These early mass persuaders postured themselves as performing
a moral service for humanity in general - democracy was too
good for people; they <b><span style="color: #0008a0;">needed to be
told what to think</span></b>, because they were incapable
of rational thought by themselves. Here's a paragraph from
Bernays' Propaganda:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> "Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society
constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling
power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our
tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have
never heard of. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic
society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate
in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly
functioning society. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> In almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of
politics or business in our social conduct or our ethical
thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number
of persons who understand the mental processes and social
patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that
control the public mind."</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Here Comes The Money</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Once the possibilities of applying Freudian psychology to
mass media were glimpsed, Bernays soon had more corporate
clients than he could handle. Global corporations fell all
over themselves courting the new Image Makers. There were
dozens of goods and services and ideas to be <b><span style="color: #0008a0;">sold
to a susceptible public</span></b>. Over the years, these
players have had the money to make their images happen. A
few examples:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<table align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" class="wproGuide " style="width: 90%px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Philip Morris</td>
<td>Pfizer</td>
<td>Union Carbide</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Allstate</td>
<td>Monsanto</td>
<td>Eli Lilly</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>tobacco industry</td>
<td>Ciba Geigy</td>
<td>lead industry</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Coors</td>
<td>DuPont</td>
<td>Chlorox</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Shell Oil</td>
<td>Standard Oil</td>
<td>Procter & Gamble</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Boeing</td>
<td>General Motors</td>
<td>Dow Chemical </td></tr>
<tr>
<td>General Mills</td>
<td>Goodyear</td>
<td></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
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</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: black;">The Players</span></b><br />
<br />
Though world-famous within the PR industry, the companies
have names we don't know, and for good reason.</span></div>
<div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <b><span style="color: #0008a0;">The best PR goes unnoticed.</span></b></span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For decades they have created the opinions that most of us
were raised with, on virtually any issue which has the remotest
commercial value, including:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" class="wproGuide " style="width: 90%px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="50%">pharmaceutical drugs</td>
<td width="50%">vaccines</td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">medicine as a profession</td>
<td width="50%">alternative medicine</td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">fluoridation of city water</td>
<td width="50%">chlorine</td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">household cleaning products</td>
<td width="50%">tobacco</td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">dioxin</td>
<td width="50%">global warming</td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">leaded gasoline</td>
<td width="50%">cancer research and treatment</td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">pollution of the oceans</td>
<td width="50%">forests and lumber</td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">images of celebrities, including damage
control</td>
<td width="50%">crisis and disaster management</td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">genetically modified foods</td>
<td width="50%">aspartame</td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">food additives; processed foods</td>
<td width="50%">dental amalgams</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Lesson #1</b></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bernays learned early on that the most effective way to create
credibility for a product or an image was by "<span style="color: #0008a0;"><b>independent
third-party</b></span>" endorsement. </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For example, if General Motors were to come out and say that
global warming is a hoax thought up by some liberal tree-huggers,
people would suspect GM's motives, since GM's fortune is made
by selling automobiles. </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">If however some independent research institute with a very
credible sounding name like the Global Climate Coalition comes
out with a scientific report that says global warming is really
a fiction, people begin to get confused and to have doubts
about the original issue. </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So that's exactly what Bernays did. With a policy inspired
by genius, he set up "more institutes and foundations
than Rockefeller and Carnegie combined." (Stauber p 45) </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Quietly financed by the industries whose products were being
evaluated, these "independent" research agencies
would churn out "scientific" studies and press materials
that could <b><span style="color: #0008a0;">create any image their
handlers wanted</span></b>. </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Such front groups are given high-sounding
names like:</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" class="wproGuide " style="width: 90%px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Temperature Research Foundation</td>
<td>Manhattan Institute </td></tr>
<tr>
<td>International Food Information Council</td>
<td>Center for Produce Quality</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Consumer Alert</td>
<td>Tobacco Institute Research Council</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition</td>
<td>Cato Institute</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Air Hygiene Foundation</td>
<td><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" class="wproGuide " style="width: 90%px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>American Council on Science and Health</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Industrial Health Federation</td>
<td>Global Climate Coalition</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>International Food Information Council</td>
<td>Alliance for Better Foods</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sound pretty legit don't they? </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: black;">Canned News Releases</span></b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As Stauber explains, these organizations and hundreds of
others like them are front groups whose sole mission is to
advance the image of the global corporations who fund them,
like those listed on page 2 above. </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is accomplished in part by an endless stream of 'press
releases' announcing "breakthrough" research to
every radio station and newspaper in the country. (Robbins)
Many of these canned reports read like straight news, and
indeed are purposely molded in the news format. </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This saves journalists the trouble of researching the subjects
on their own, especially on topics about which they know very
little. Entire sections of the release or in the case of video
news releases, the whole thing can be just lifted intact,
with no editing, given the byline of the reporter or newspaper
or TV station - and voilá! Instant news - copy and
paste. Written by corporate PR firms.</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Does this really happen? Every single day, since the 1920s
when the idea of the News Release was first invented by Ivy
Lee. (Stauber, p 22) Sometimes as many as half the stories
appearing in an issue of the Wall St. Journal are based solely
on such PR press releases.. (22)</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> These types of stories are <b><span style="color: #0008a0;">mixed
right in with legitimately researched stories</span></b>.
Unless you have done the research yourself, you won't be able
to tell the difference.</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><b>The Language Of Spin</b></span></span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As 1920s spin pioneers like Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays gained
more experience, they began to formulate <span style="color: #0008a0;"><b>rules
and guidelines for creating public opinion</b></span>. They
learned quickly that mob psychology must focus on emotion,
not facts. Since the mob is incapable of rational thought,
motivation must be based not on logic but on presentation.
Here are some of the axioms of the new science of PR:</span><br />
<ul><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<li>
technology is a religion unto itself</li>
<li>
if people are incapable of rational thought, real democracy
is dangerous</li>
<li>
important decisions should be left to experts</li>
<li>
when reframing issues, stay away from substance; create
images</li>
<li>
never state a clearly demonstrable lie</li>
</span></ul>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Words are very carefully chosen for their emotional impact.
Here's an example. A front group called the International
Food Information Council handles the public's natural aversion
to genetically modified foods. </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0008a0;"><b>Trigger words</b></span> are repeated
all through the text. Now in the case of GM foods, the public
is instinctively afraid of these experimental new creations
which have suddenly popped up on our grocery shelves which
are said to have DNA alterations. </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The IFIC wants to reassure
the public of the safety of GM foods, so it avoids words like:</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" class="wproGuide " style="width: 90%px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Frankenfoods</td>
<td>Hitler</td>
<td>biotech</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>chemical</td>
<td>DNA</td>
<td>experiments</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>manipulate</td>
<td>money</td>
<td>safety</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>scientists</td>
<td>radiation</td>
<td>roulette</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>gene-splicing</td>
<td>gene gun</td>
<td>random</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Instead, good PR for GM foods contains words like: </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" class="wproGuide " style="width: 90%px;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>hybrids</td>
<td>natural order</td>
<td>beauty</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>choice</td>
<td>bounty</td>
<td>cross-breeding</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>diversity</td>
<td>earth</td>
<td>farmer</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>organic</td>
<td>wholesome</td>
<td></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's basic Freudian/Tony Robbins <b><span style="color: #0008a0;">word
association</span></b>. The fact that GM foods are not hybrids
that have been subjected to the slow and careful scientific
methods of real crossbreeding doesn't really matter. This
is pseudoscience, not science. Form is everything and substance
just a passing myth. (Trevanian)</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Who do you think funds the International Food Information
Council? Take a wild guess. Right - Monsanto, DuPont, Frito-Lay,
Coca Cola, Nutrasweet - those in a position to make fortunes
from GM foods. (Stauber p 20)<br />
<br /><b><span style="color: black;">Characteristics Of Good Propaganda</span></b></span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As the science of mass control evolved, PR firms developed
further guidelines for effective copy. Here are some of the
gems:</span><br />
<ul><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<li>
dehumanize the attacked party by labeling and name calling</li>
<li>
speak in glittering generalities using emotionally positive
words</li>
<li>
when covering something up, don't use plain English;
stall for time; distract</li>
<li>
get endorsements from celebrities, churches, sports figures,
street people - anyone who has no expertise in the subject
at hand</li>
<li>
the 'plain folks' ruse: us billionaires are just like
you</li>
<li>
when minimizing outrage, don't say anything memorable,
point out the benefits of what just happened, and avoid
moral issues</li>
</span></ul>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Keep this list. Start watching for these techniques. Not
hard to find - look at today's paper or tonight's TV news.
See what they're doing; these guys are good!</span></div>
<div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="http://www.advancedhealthplan.com/perceptions.html" target="_blank">Dr. Tim O'Shea</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.advancedhealthplan.com/perceptions.html">http://www.advancedhealthplan.com/perceptions.html</a></span><br />
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