Facebook launched its own political action committee on Monday, a move that will allow the social media giant and its employees to hand out cash to candidates in upcoming elections.
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
The Hidden Tragedy of the CIA's Experiments on Children > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation
The Hidden Tragedy of the CIA's Experiments on Children > Strategic-Culture.org - Strategic Culture Foundation
Bobby is seven years old, but this is not the first time he has been subjected to electroshock. It's his third time. In all, over the next year, Bobby will experience eight electroshock sessions. Placed on the examining table, he is held down by two male attendants while the physician places a solution on his temples. Bobby struggles with the two men holding him down, but his efforts are useless. He cries out and tries to pull away. One of the attendants tries to force a thick wedge of rubber into his mouth. He turns his head sharply away and cries out, "Let me go, please. I don't want to be here. Please, let me go." Bobby's physician looks irritated and she tells him, "Come on now, Bobby, try to act like a big boy and be still and relax." Bobby turns his head away from the woman and opens his mouth for the wedge that will prevent him from biting through his tongue. He begins to cry silently, his small shoulders shaking and he stiffens his body against what he knows is coming.
Mary is only five years old. She sits on a small, straight-backed chair, moving her legs back and forth, humming the same four notes over and over and over. Her head, framed in a tangled mass of golden curls, moves up and down with each note. For the first three years of her life, Mary was thought to be a mostly normal child. Then, after she began behaving oddly, she had been handed off to a foster family. Her father and mother didn't want her any longer. She had become too strange for her father, whose alcoholism clouded any awareness of his young daughter. Mary's mother had never wanted her anyway and was happy to have her placed in another home. When the LSD Mary has been given begins to have its effects, she stops moving her head and legs and sits staring at the wall. She doesn't move at all. After about ten minutes, she looks at the nearby physician observing her, and says, "God isn't coming back today. He's too busy. He won't be back here for weeks."
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Top Anti Drug Researcher Changes Mind, Says Legalize Marijuana « Patients for Medical Cannabis
Top Anti Drug Researcher Changes Mind, Says Legalize Marijuana « Patients for Medical Cannabis:
(Source) For 30 years, Donald Tashkin has studied the effects of marijuana on lung function. His work has been funded by the vehemently anti-marijuana National Institute on Drug Abuse, which has long sought to demonstrate that marijuana causes lung cancer. After 3 decades of anti-drug research, here’s what Tashkin has to say about marijuana laws:
“Early on, when our research appeared as if there would be a negative impact on lung health, I was opposed to legalization because I thought it would lead to increased use and that would lead to increased health effects,” Tashkin says. “But at this point, I’d be in favor of legalization.
Tobacco smoking causes far more harm. And in terms of an intoxicant, alcohol causes far more harm.
UCLA’s Tashkin studied heavy marijuana smokers to determine whether the use led to increased risk of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. He hypothesized that there would be a definitive link between cancer and marijuana smoking, but the results proved otherwise.
“What we found instead was no association and even a suggestion of some protective effect,” says Tashkin, whose research was the largest case-control study ever conducted.
Prejudice against marijuana and smoking in general runs so deep for many people that it just seems inconceivable that marijuana could actually reduce the risk of lung cancer.
But that’s what the data shows and it not only demolishes a major tenet of popular anti-pot propaganda, but also points towards a potentially groundbreaking opportunity to develop cancer cures through marijuana research.
Over and over again, all the bad things we’ve been told about marijuana are revealed to be not only false, but often the precise opposite of the truth.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Ten Reasons Why You Should Start Doing Drugs | Stellarmine
Ten Reasons Why You Should Start Doing Drugs | Stellarmine:
Warning: If you have already made up your mind and consider your self to be a anti-drug zealot. I completely understand. I used to be one. I will highlight some of the important benefits of using drugs in pursuit of mental evolution and advancing oneself toward a life filled with gratitude and happiness. This is intended for all the sober folks who are missing out.
1.) Mary Jane Is A Lot More Fun Than Your Wife
Popular culture likes to depict all marijuana smokers as stoners, as Cheech and Chong types who are eternally glued to their couches with bongs in hand. And yet not everyone who smokes marijuana is a burn-out. Puffing a bit of pot can be likened to having a glass of wine after work: It takes the edge off.
Pot also has plenty of established health benefits. For one thing, it’s been proven to slow down tumor growth in the brain, breasts and lungs. In fact, certain cannabinoids offer natural anti-cancer protection. That seems to be a reason behind our bountiful collection of natural cannabinoid receptors. Some additional medical benefits include stimulating the appetite and relieving symptoms of migraine, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma.
And what about mental burnout? Admittedly, pot can compromise short-term memory. Nonetheless, it does wonders for those who are predisposed to Alzheimer’s disease. THC helps prevent the accumulation of material that robs us of cognitive functions.
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» Let’s Get Out of the Middle East — and the UN Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
» Let’s Get Out of the Middle East — and the UN Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!:
Ron Paul
Infowars.com
September 27, 2011
Infowars.com
September 27, 2011
The Palestinian Authority’s recent announcement that it would seek UN recognition as an independent state dominated the news and the political debate in the United States last week, though in truth it should mean very little to us. Only a political class harboring the illusion it can run the world obsesses over the aspirations of a tiny population on a tiny piece of land thousands of miles away. Remember, the UN initiated this persistent conflict with its 1947 Partition Plan.
Unfortunately the debate is dominated by those who either support the Israeli side in the conflict, or those who support the Palestinian desire for statehood. We rarely seem to hear the view of those who support the US side and US interests. I am on that side. I believe that we can no longer police the world. We can no longer bribe the Israelis and Palestinians to continue an endless “peace process” that goes nowhere. It is not in our interest to hector the Palestinians or the Israelis, or to “export” democracy to the region but reject it when people vote the “wrong” way.
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Legalization
Legalization:
Marijuana legalization
Posted on September 30, 2011.
Since marijuana’s first recorded use dating back five thousand years ago, it has never gained much popularity until the last century with prohibition and antiwar movements. Now, more than ever, propositions to legalize the plant have risen and been subject to controversy and heated debate. Marijuana is the most widely used drug in the United States and considered to be the most harmful by the government with its anti-marijuana stance and laws aimed at curtailing its use. With marijuana use rapidly growing, the United States national debt has never been so high, and the search for seemingly ‘incurable’ diseases raging on, marijuana has the potential to solve many problems if it were to be legalized.
Marijuana has been part of American culture ever since Thomas Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds out of France because he considered hemp vital to America. According to a national household survey an estimated sixty million Americans use marijuana occasionally or regularly. More than 800,000 marijuana users are arrested each year. The main reason marijuana is currently outlawed is money. The government earns revenue from prosecuting users, jobs will be lost in “law-enforcement-judiciary-penal systems” and scientists will lose millions of dollars in grants aimed at searching for the negative effects of marijuana.
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ATF claims it’s illegal to sell guns to users of medical marijuana - Bennington Banner
ATF claims it’s illegal to sell guns to users of medical marijuana - Bennington Banner:
Posted: 09/28/2011 10:59:02 PM EDT
Wednesday September 28, 2011
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Firearms dealers in states that allow medical marijuana can’t sell guns or ammunition to registered users of the drug, a policy that marijuana and gun-rights groups say denies Second Amendment rights to individuals who are following state law.
Federal law already makes it illegal for someone to possess a gun if he or she is "an unlawful user of, or addicted to" marijuana or other controlled substances. A Sept. 21 letter from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, issued in response to numerous inquiries from gun dealers, clarifies that medical marijuana patients are included in that definition.
"There are no exceptions in federal law for marijuana purportedly used for medicinal purposes, even if such use is sanctioned by state law," said the letter by Arthur Herbert, the ATF’s assistant director for enforcement programs and services.
Federal firearm licensees, or FFLs, can’t sell a gun to someone who answers "yes" when a required form asks whether the buyer is a controlled substance user.
Last week’s letter also says that licensed dealers can’t sell a gun or ammunition if they have "reasonable cause to believe" the buyer is using a controlled substance.
That includes if the buyer presents a medical marijuana card as identification, or if the buyer talks about drug use, having a medical marijuana card or a recent drug conviction, ATF spokesman
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Ron Paul Message to Occupy Wall Street: LETS END THE FED!
Ron Paul Message to Occupy Wall Street: LETS END THE FED!:
09-29-2011 • YouTube
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Ron Paul: The Only One We Can Trust
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Couple in shock after drug raid
Couple in shock after drug raid:
09-29-2011 • .
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She said her husband opened the door to multiple officers in raid gear with guns drawn.
"We were completely shocked, upset," she continued. "I was panicked because I've never had anything like this happen to us before, never."
She said the officers demanded to come inside her home.
"And my husband asked, 'Do you have a warrant? Who are you looking for?' and they said, 'Gerald Sentell,'" Parker said. "We don't even know this person."
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Child rapist to get less time than pot grower
Child rapist to get less time than pot grower:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is getting tougher on pot growers than he is on rapists of children. Under the Tories' omnibus crime legislation tabled Tuesday, a person growing 201 pot plants in a rental unit would receive a longer mandatory sentence than someone who rapes a toddler or forces a five-year-old to have sex with an animal.
Producing six to 200 pot plants nets an automatic six-month sentence, with an extra three months if it's done in a rental or is deemed a public-safety hazard. Growing 201 to 500 plants brings a one-year sentence, or 1½ years if it's in a rental or poses a safety risk.
The omnibus legislation imposes one-year mandatory minimums for sexually assaulting a child, luring a child via the Internet or involving a child in bestiality. All three of these offences carry lighter automatic sentences than those for people running medium-sized grow-ops in rental property or on someone else's land.
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Facebook Launches Own PAC
Facebook Launches Own PAC:
09-27-2011 • slatest.slate.com
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Or, as the New York Times puts it: "Facebook wants more friends. And it is willing to pay for them."
The new group, FB PAC, is the latest example of tech companies moving quickly to bolster their influence in Washington amid increasingly complex legislative debates about patents, monopoly status and concerns about the privacy of users.
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Perdue jokes about suspending Congressional elections for two years
Perdue jokes about suspending Congressional elections for two years:
09-27-2011 • projects.newsobserver.com
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Speaking to a Cary Rotary Club today, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election.
"I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that," Perdue said. "You want people who don't worry about the next election."
The comment -- which came during a discussion of the economy -- perked more than a few ears. It's unclear whether Perdue, a Democrat, is serious -- but her tone was level and she asked others to support her on the idea. (Read her full remarks below.)
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Even Those Cleared of Crimes Can Stay on F.B.I.’s Watch List
Even Those Cleared of Crimes Can Stay on F.B.I.’s Watch List:
09-27-2011 • NY Times
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09-27-2011 • NY Times
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the government’s terrorist watch list even if they have been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped, according tonewly released documents.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The Fed Wants To Know What I Think
The Fed Wants To Know What I Think:
09-27-2011 • market-ticker.org
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09-27-2011 • market-ticker.org
This tidbit is good for a chuckle this morning.
A new RFP is out for a "tracking system" that The Fed wishes to bid to...... track the opinions expressed about The Fed in various social media.
Yep.
I'm sure they'll spend millions to discover what I can tell them with two words, and which shouldn't take more than 30 seconds to figure out. So rather than spend those millions, Mr. Fed, let me give it to you short and sweet:
YOU SUCK
There, I just saved you (the taxpayer?) millions of dollars.
Any questions?
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Who Is Secretly Working to Keep Pot Illegal? - Growing Pot Arrests - Conspiracies on truTV
Who Is Secretly Working to Keep Pot Illegal? - Growing Pot Arrests - Conspiracies on truTV:
Growing Pot Arrests
Do you get high? If so, you have a lot of company. Although no country has yet legalized marijuana, almost half of the world’s 147 nations have, to some extent, decriminalized it. In the United States, according to an April 2009 Zogby poll, 52 percent of the population now favors legalization—the largest percentage ever.
Despite marijuana’s growing acceptance, most of our elected officials are still reluctant to advocate for the cause. As Rick Doblin, President of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)—a nonprofit that has advocated on behalf of medical marijuana since the 80s—points out: “Most politicians still won’t come out in favor of medical marijuana because they don’t want to appear pro-legalization. And they’re afraid of appearing pro-legalization, because they’re scared of being accused of wanting to give drugs to children.”
And it’s unlikely things will change anytime soon. Pot’s continued criminalization has been championed, sometimes overtly, often covertly, by powerful groups—among them law enforcement agencies, the alcohol and tobacco industries, pharmaceutical companies and the prison-industrial complex—who have repeatedly shaped laws and public opinion to reflect their views.
So weed remains a crime, albeit a very popular one.
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Atlas Being Revised After Publisher Overestimates Greenland’s Glacial Melt | TheBlaze.com
Atlas Being Revised After Publisher Overestimates Greenland’s Glacial Melt | TheBlaze.com:
Over the last couple weeks, climate scientists have been trying to get ice added back onto the map of Greenland in the latest version of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. Glaciologists came out in force stating the publisher exaggerated the rate of glacial melt and that scientists were not consulted about the figures.
Over the last couple weeks, climate scientists have been trying to get ice added back onto the map of Greenland in the latest version of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. Glaciologists came out in force stating the publisher exaggerated the rate of glacial melt and that scientists were not consulted about the figures.
Penn and Teller Defend Ron Paul vs. Luntz and Fox News
Penn and Teller Defend Ron Paul vs. Luntz and Fox News:
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Frank Luntz is a propogandist tool, who knows the ways the select 25 were acquired in that room and who knows what they were told before Luntz tries to discredit the text message poll Fox had.
Video is taken from Penn + Teller Bullshit: Numbers. Frank tells them how he can manipulate what people think by simply asking the right question the right way. Based on the final clip it sounds like he's pro-Hillary.
If we want a Republican that can actually win against Hillary or Obama we need Ron Paul!
Every time you see a poll that was 'scientifically selected' keep in mind that tha questions themselves may be biased and that Ron Paul wound actually polled higher if it was issue based, not name recognition based.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Prison Planet.com » Perry Caught In Blatant Lie Over Support For Bailouts
Prison Planet.com » Perry Caught In Blatant Lie Over Support For Bailouts:
Denies he ever supported $700 million blank check for Wall St
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Sept 23, 2011
GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry has been caught in an outright lie regarding his previous support for the 2008 Federal bailout of Wall Street.
When asked recently by a reporter about his position on the controversial TARP program and how that tallied with his current position on monetary policy, Perry denied that he had ever expressed any support for the federal bailouts.
“You never supported TARP?” asked the female reporter.
“No ma’am.” Perry replied.
“I thought I saw a letter where you’d written actually encouraging the support of TARP?” the reporter then stated.
“No Ma’am.” Perry once again replied.
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Martial Law Drill Commences as Economy Begins Descent
Martial Law Drill Commences as Economy Begins Descent:
09-24-2011 • www.prisonplanet.com
More than 100 government agencies are taking part in Operation Mountain Guardian, made possible due to a grant from the Department of Homeland Security through FEMA Region VIII and the State of Colorado Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, according to KDVR in Denver.
Mock terror drills will be staged at a mall, an elementary school, a community college, a hospital, and transportation hubs, including the Denver airport.
The exercise is scheduled to begin at 5 a.m. and end by 4:30 p.m., according to ABC 7 News in Denver.
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Windows Phone DOES transmit location information without user consent | ZDNet
Windows Phone DOES transmit location information without user consent | ZDNet:
Summary: Statements made by Microsoft to the US House of Representatives prove to be at odds with how its Windows Phone OS actually works.
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