Why Having The Top Doctors Association Say "YES" to Medical Marijuana is a Historic Endorsement

Does it say anything about the rush to criminalise everything?

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Why Having The Top Doctors Association Say "YES" to Medical Marijuana is a Historic Endorsement

2/20/2008 9:28:30 PM

The American College Of Physicians is the second biggest doctor's organization in America, consisting of 124,000 physicians. Yesterday the college issued a statement pointing to strong evidence that marijuana is useful in treating AIDS wasting syndrome, glaucoma, and easing side effects from cancer.

Here is a summary of their main argument:

"Position 1: ACP supports programs and funding for rigorous scientific evaluation of the potential therapeutic benefits of medical marijuana and the publication of such findings.

Position 2: ACP encourages the use of non-smoked forms of THC that have proven therapeutic value.

Position 3: ACP supports the current process for obtaining federal research-grade cannabis.

Position 4: ACP urges review of marijuana's status as a schedule I controlled substance and its reclassification

Position 5: ACP strongly supports exemption from federal criminal

Israeli MP Blames Gays for Earthquakes

In a time of crisis any spacegoat is handy. Worse, there are many ready to believe

clipped from blog.washingtonpost.com Forget tectonic plates. According to Shlomo Benizri, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish member of the Knesset, homosexuality causes earthquakes. During a committee hearing on disaster preparedness, Benizri, a member of the Shas Party, reportedly urged lawmakers to "stop passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes." Benizri was referring in part to a decision last week by Israel's attorney general granting adoption rights to same sex couples. Israel which decriminalized homosexuality in 1988, experienced at least two tremors measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale last week. "God says you shake your genitals where you are not supposed to and I will shake my world in order to wake you up," Benizri reportedly explained to the parliamentary committee on disaster preparedness.

Aristides Sousa Mendes

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Monsanto's Udder Disgrace

The milk labeling controversy - and other corporate practices of Monsanto - have been issues for years. For a while every time I saw my Senator, I would greet him with the same comment, "Hey Bernie, when are you going to do something about Monsanto?" Senator Bernie would shake his head and raise his hands in frustration.

I often heard him say that no matter how bad you think things are in Washington, they are really much worse. While the Congress is distracted with growth hormones taken by sports figures, our farm animals are being abused with other hormones. Baseball players have a free choice. Cows don't.

None of us have a choice. Not if Monsanto has anything to say about it and they do. Money talks.

clipped from mwcnews.net I won't say that cows suffer painful mastitis because of injections of Monsanto's BGH. I won't say that Monsanto puts profits ahead of the health of all of us. Monsanto, known for its strong-arm legal tactics, is opposing the labeling of ice cream. BGH, otherwise known as Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, is a drug developed to increase bovine milk production. Ben & Jerry's is fighting for the right to continue to label ice cream that is made with milk from BGH-free cows. Monsanto's position, which was supported by the USDA was that consumers did not have the right to that information. The food chain is under worldwide assault by U.S. corporations. The Master Race of corporations has seized control of the very essence of life itself. We are now in the age of Genetically Modified Doomsday Seeds. Why has there been no public discussion on who should have control of the planetary gene pool?

Two mums plus dad made this embryo

There are embryos that are described as 'spare'
It breaks my heart.
It's experimental, with no guarantee of success, and the prospects for abuse by those with no scruples cannot be imagined. There are better ways of doing things, but, in the 21st century, life is a four letter word.

clipped from www.abc.net.au Ben Hirschler Scientists have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for some hereditary diseases. An experimental technique that uses spare IVF embryos could one day be used to treat mitochondrial disease, UK scientists say. But not everyone's so sure this is the answer to curing such serious, hereditary conditions Researchers from the UK's Newcastle University, presented their findings at the recent Medical Research Council Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases conference in London. The IVF embryos were created using DNA from one man and two women. The idea is to prevent women with faults in their mitochondrial DNA passing diseases on to their children. Around one in 5000 children suffer from mitochondrial diseases, which can include fatal liver, heart and brain disorders, deafness, muscular problems and forms of epilepsy. researchers believe they may be able to start offering the technique as a treatment in three to five years.

Mississippi to Ban Feeding the Obese

"Freedom fries." How hollow that sounds.

The time is 7:15. You are under arrest for breach of the Bacon & Cheese Burger Patriot Act. You have the duty to remain silent (and hungry). Anything you say, can and will be tortured out of you. You do not have the right to an attorney. None will be afforded to you. Now lay down those onion rings and put your greasy hands behind your back!!

clipped from www.needcoffee.com Mississippi to Ban Feeding the Obese I'm sure there were some of you out there that thought, "Gee, Widge, things aren't that bad with government. Surely Right. Submitted as Exhibit B: House Bill 282 from the State of Mississippi. The following text has been retyped to actually be in upper and lower case letters so it doesn't look like the bill in question is shouting at you even though, in reality, it is: "An act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health; to direct the Department to prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese and to provide those materials to the food establishments; to direct the Department to monitor the food establishments for compliance with the provisions of this act; and for related purposes." mindless sheep you need to be protected from yourself poor dears.

Jimmy Carter, "Barack Obama extraordinary, a healing force"

Words of praise for Barack Obama, from a man whose morale character towers over republican family values pretenders.

clipped from politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com Carter lavished praise on Barack Obama. One former president has long assumed a very outspoken role in the presidential race. Now another is speaking up the former president lavished praise on Barack Obama, calling his campaign "extraordinary" "Obama's campaign has been extraordinary and titillating for me and my family," Carter told the newspaper Carter was particularly praiseworthy of the Illinois senator's rhetorical skills Carter also said Obama "will be almost automatically a healing factor in the animosity now that exists, that relates to our country and its government Carter, a onetime governor of Georgia and one of only two Democrats to win the White House in the last forty years, also said he thinks Obama's candidacy could put several southern states in play in a general election match up clipped from www.culturekitchen.com Barack Obama clipped from newsfromthegreenroom.blogspot.com former Democratic Virginia Governor Doug Wilder says Obama could shatter the Republican Party's virtual lock on the south. Wilder is the current mayor of Richmond

Lead Linked to Aging in Older Brains

Once we absorb things like Lead, Mercury, Dioxins, Pesticides etc, they cannot be easily eliminated from the system, and can accumulate. Go and have a blood test looking for heavy metals, and toxic substances like dioxins, you may be shocked. Dioxins are in things like DDT (pesticide) Agent Orange (herbicide) Once they are in the environment they permeate the environment. They can be banned, but they will never go away - Some of them are refined Elements. That also includes depleted Uranium, and of course Chronic Lead poisoning (Gunshot Wounds)

clipped from www.mail.com MALCOLM RITTER Could it be that the "natural" mental decline that afflicts many older people is related to how much lead they absorbed decades before? The new work suggests long-ago lead exposure can make an aging person's brain work as if it's five years older than it really is. If that's verified by more research, it means that sharp cuts in environmental lead levels more than 20 years ago didn't stop its widespread effects. "We're trying to offer a caution that a portion of what has been called normal aging might in fact be due to ubiquitous environmental exposures like lead," says Dr. Brian Schwartz of Johns Hopkins University The fact that it's happening with lead is the first proof of principle that it's possible Other pollutants like mercury and pesticides may do the same thing, In fact, some recent research does suggest that being exposed to pesticides raises the risk of getting Parkinson's disease a decade or more later. Experts say such studies in mercury are lacking.

For Non-Americans and ignorant Americans

the most important 2008 elections for the world

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Q&A: US presidential election When is the vote? Who is running? Which party has the best chance? "Most major national opinion trends decidedly favour the Democrats," the Pew Research Centre wrote in October. It went on: "Discontent with the state of the nation is markedly greater than it was four years ago. President Bush's approval rating has fallen from 50% to 30% over this period What are the main issues? Nationwide, polls indicate that voters rate Iraq, the economy, healthcare, education, jobs and national security as the things that are most important to them. However, it varies from state to state. Immigration is a burning issue in some parts of the country. How does a candidate win his or her party's nomination? What happens between the primaries and the vote? Does the candidate who gets the most votes win the presidency? Not necessarily. Voters do not, technically, participate in a direct election of the president Which are the key battleground states? third candidate this time?

U.S. Ranks With China On Privacy Invasion

clipped from www.privacyinternational.org The 2007 International Privacy Ranking Each year since 1997, the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International have undertaken what has now become the most comprehensive survey of global privacy ever published. The Privacy & Human Rights Report surveys developments in 70 countries, assessing the state of surveillance and privacy protection.

URGENT

This is no wish, no remembrance day. Ir is an order, Mr War President

clipped from clesnes.blog.lemonde.fr 09 janvier 2008 Close Gitmo Day    Ils sont encore là eux ? C’est vrai, on a tendance à les oublier. 11 janvier: anniversaire de Guantanamo. 09 janvier 2008 Publié Non classé | Lien permanent | 19 Commentaires

Climate Denialists Get Silver Falsie Award

Exhibit B is the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), whose "heavy-handed" editing "eviscerated" the October 2007 Congressional testimony of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director on the likely health impacts of global warming. Her original testimony described "how many people might be adversely affected because of increased warming and the scientific basis for some of the CDC's analysis on what kinds of diseases might be spread in a warmer climate and rising sea levels." The OMB edits removed these details, cutting her testimony to less than half of its original length.

Exhibit C is the U.S. negotiators for the global warming statement released by the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial countries at their June 2007 summit. Draft documents revealed that the U.S. pressured other G-8 countries to remove commitments to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as well as an assessment that "tackling climate change is an imperative, not a choice."

clipped from www.alternet.org Silver Falsie: "Deleting Heating" Speaking of alternate realities, this year's Silver Falsie goes to determined global warming skeptics who, when faced with evidence of climate change, simply remove it. Exhibit A is Philip A. Cooney, who headed the White House Council on Environmental Quality in between lobbying gigs for the American Petroleum Institute and Exxon Mobil. In March 2007, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released documents detailing "hundreds of instances" where Cooney had edited government reports to downplay the human contribution to and impacts of global warming. Cooney has no scientific credentials.

Selfish Capitalism and Mental Illness

What about us? Total toxity.

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s. As I report in my book, The Selfish Capitalist - Origins of Affluenza, World Health Organisation and nationally representative studies in the United States, Britain and Australia, reveal that it almost doubled between the early 80s and the turn of the century. These increases are very unlikely to be due to greater preparedness to acknowledge distress - the psychobabbling therapy culture was already established. An average 23% of Americans, Britons, Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians suffered in the last 12 months, but only 11.5% of Germans, Italians, French, Belgians, Spaniards and Dutch. The message could not be clearer. Selfish Capitalism, much more than genes, is extremely bad for your mental health. But why is it so toxic?

Proof Google is God - Church of Google

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Why not?

Happy Chrismukkah

Hoping that everybody can join - they are entitled
Chrismukkah officially honored thanks to Sahar Batsry's Tree Menorah

Gore must be doing something right!

Congratulations Mr. President

Gore Derangement Syndrome - New York Times

At last --- congratulations to Doris Lessing

When most people her time had passed, Nobel's juri is apparently making amends - Doris Lessing now, Pinter two years ago.
I am old enough to have read the Golden book when it was a must and I never forgot it until today

clipped from www.amazon.com The 1987--er, 2007--Nobel Prize for Literature: Doris Lessing 12:09 PM PDT, October 11, 2007

what is freedom

Arendt's work is a challenging gift we must humbly accept

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Marxists internet archives

very informative site for those who are not afraid to be contaminated by marxist thought

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Words of Wisdom from Margaret Mead..

Can we still say the same?

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Silence

Does someone know what silence is

clipped from web.ncf.ca Long Room Trinity College Library Dublin, Ireland