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Political Quotes

wolfdeck — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:05:22 +0000

Political Quotes - Found in “Information Clearing House Newsletter” (News You Won’t Find on CNN)

“People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to” - Malcolm Muggeridge
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“Lying is done with words and also with silence.” - Adrienne Rich
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“Can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us?” – Eric Schaub Individualist, writer, activist, speaker Source: The Common Man
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“No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being…” — Benjamin Constant [Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque] (1767-1830) Swiss-born thinker, writer and French politician. Source: Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments (1810) Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, (2003), p. 401-402.
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“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.” – Woodrow Wilson: (1856-1924) 28th US President Speech, 1912
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“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” – Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi - (1869-194
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“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.” –Bertrand Russell
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“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”: - Abraham Lincoln - (1809-1865) 16th US President
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“The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.” — Clarence S. Darrow -1857-1938 Source: Address to the Court, The Communist Trial, People v. Lloyd, 1920
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“The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face.” – Justice Potter Stewart : (1915-1985), U. S. Supreme Court Justice Source: Walker v. Birmingham, 1967
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“We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear — unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called ‘the insolence of elected persons’ — in a word, free men.” — Gerald W. Johnson - (1890-1980) Source: American Freedom and the Press, 1958
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“Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.” — Juvenal [Decimus Junius Juvenalis] (c.55-c.128 AD) Roman satirical poet
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“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.” — John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. Considered the ideological progenitor of the American Revolution and who, by far, was the most often non-biblical writer quoted by the Founding Fathers of the USA. 1693
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“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.” — Major General Smedley Darling Butler (1981-1940) Major General USMC, “Old Gimlet Eye” and “Hell Devil Darling”, most highly decorated military men from the pre-World War II era. Source: from a speech in 1933
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“The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.” - Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945) Nazi Propaganda Minister - Source: The Göebbels Diaries, 1942-1943
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison: Henry David Thoreau:
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.: Clarence Darrow:
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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with: Eleanor Holmes Norton:
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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered: Dorothy Thompson:
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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will: Frederick Douglass:
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None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free: Goethe:
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“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - (1807-1882) American poet
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it - Omar Khayyam
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“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.” — George Mason - (1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington.
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“And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think. And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak. Will risk t’ other half for the freedom to speak.” - James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American author and diplomatist Source: A Fable for Critics, 1848
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“One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic.”- Josef Stalin - (1879-1953) Communist leader of the USSR
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“It may be your intent to be our masters; how can it be ours to be your slaves?” - Melians - Source: Melians to Athenians, Peloponnesian War, 431 BC
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“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”: - Voltaire - [François Marie Arouet] (1694-177
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“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction” : William Osler (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919)
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“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.” Albert Campus: The Plague, Modern Library Edition, p. 120
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War creates peace like hate creates love: David L. Wilson
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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism: Howard Thurman
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“When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe; he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”~Thomas Paine“The Age of Reason” 1793
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“Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves.”: Friedrich Nietzsche - (1844-1900) - Source: Twilight of the Idols, 1888
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“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”: Theodore Roosevelt - (1858-1919) 26th US President - Source: letter 01/10/1917
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“If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.” Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849
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“A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands — even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”: John Stuart Mill - (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
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“This country is not pro-American. It is United States property.”- Juan Bosch - President of the Dominican Republic Source: In 1965, the U.S. invaded the Dominican Republic to prevent the displacement of Donald Reid Cabral by Bosch’s constitutionally-elected government. New York Times, 6 June 1975
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“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”- Voltaire - [François Marie Arouet] (1694-177
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“I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves … too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: ‘Our country-when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.’”-Schurz, “The Policy of Imperialism,” Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, vol. 6, pp. 119-20 (1913).
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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. “ : Ayn Rand in “The Nature of Government”
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Sam Smith: “Those who think history has left us helpless should recall the abolitionist of 1830, the feminist of 1870, the labor organizer of 1890, and the gay or lesbian writer of 1910. They, like us, did not get to choose their time in history but they, like us, did get to choose what they did with it. Knowing what we know now about how these things turned out, but also knowing how long it took, would we have been abolitionists in 1830, or feminists in 1870, and so on?”

“It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us. Perhaps the reason is that rich men are very clever at covering up what they do.”: Andrew Greeley (Chicago Sun-Times, February 18, 2001):
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“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”: Plutarch - Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 AD- 127 AD) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.
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Click NO/NEJ! to ECT Poll in Sweden!

wolfdeck — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:06:15 +0000

SAY NO! CLICK NEJ! SAY NO! CLICK NEJ!

An article on the site of a leading TV channels in Denmark, TV 2, looks at the increasing use of ECT, reporting that the rate of ECT-”treatments” dropped during the 1970’s, after “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” made the brain damage ECT causes known to a broader public. Since then, the rate has steadily increased again, and is today at the same level as it was before the film brought ECT in a disrepute.

In 2006 there were about 3,500 people in Denmark who received ECT-”treatment”, 450 of them involuntarily. Denmark has a population of 5 million.

The tendency of the article, of course, is slightly pro-ECT, although it tries to appear neutral. “It’s (ECT) again for both the patient and the relatives” an “expert” is quoted. “Research has apparently shown, that the brain is not damaged by the form of ECT, that is administered today, and, according to psychiatrists, an ECT-treatment can mean, that there can be an effECT on really severe depression as soon as one week after”, the article claims. - I like the “apparently” and the heap of “can”.

However, at the end of the article it is mentioned that there are some critical voices, such as LAP’s (a Danish user-organization), claiming that the side effects of ECT aren’t sufficiently investigated????????????
In the middle of the page there’s a poll-box where you can have your say:

“What do you think: Is it all right for psychiatry to make use of ECT again?“
It asks (Hvad mener du: Er det i orden igen at bruge elektrochok i psykiatrien?)

Right now, the yes (ja)-sayers are at 51%, while the nos (nej) are at 33%.

Go to the page and make the tide change!

SAY NO! CLICK NEJ!

Thanks, Marian

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The information herein shall not be considered an endorsement of anyone discontinuing psychiatric drugs. If you are stopping taking medication it is advisable to reduce the dose gradually WITH EXTREME CAUTION, as it is difficult to predict who will have problems withdrawing. It is worth getting as much information and support as you can, and involving your doctor wherever possible. You will find withdrawal information HERE: http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Making+sense/Making+sense+of+coming+off+psychiatric+drugs.htm

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WITHDRAWAL:: Get Peter Lehmann’s book, Coming off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers. This valuable resource comes in US, UK, and German editions.

I, Kathleen Maire Hill, present this information in my capacity as a natural person, exercising my natural rights and freedoms. This information represents my private thoughts and beliefs and has been compiled and expressed for peer-to-peer, educational experiences only.

· “Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.” Bodie Thoene

· “Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” – Gandhi

· “(Freedom) is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche

· “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” Jean-Paul Sartre

· “Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.” Marilyn Ferguson

· “Alone with one’s conscience there are no alibis!” Tristano Ajmone

· “Ethical. existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.” Albert Schweitzer

A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment
by David Cohen, Ph.D., and David Jacobs, Ph.D.
http://laingsociety.org/colloquia/polofdiagnosis/modelconsent.htm

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration (5-minute video)
http://tinyurl.com/3y98p7

NEARLY ONE-HALF OF THE NATION’S DOCTORS FAIL TO REPORT INCOMPETENCE OR MEDICAL ERRORS, JOURNAL STUDY REPORTS

wolfdeck — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:01:43 +0000

Vera Sharav

http://www.ahrp.org and http://ahrp.blogspot.com

Excerpted Whole – Commentary by Vera Sharav.

A joint study by Harvard Medical School, Yale University School of Public Health, and the University of MelbourneCenter for Medical Research published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, confirms what critics have noted for some time:

“There is a measurable disconnect between what physicians say they think is the right thing to do and what they actually do.”

Although 96% of 1600 physicians surveyed agreed that physicians should report incompetent or impaired colleagues to relevant authorities, 45% of doctors who had direct knowledge of impaired or incompetent colleagues in their practice did not report them. And 48% of physicians who knew of a serious medical error did not report it to authorities.

Besides the disconnect between physicians’ support for reporting medical errors and the reality that nearly half do not do what they believe is right for the profession, the authors reported other areas where individual physician behavior is at odds with what they believe is best for patients and the profession, including:

Ordering unnecessary medical tests Managing conflict of interest Informing patients of conflict of interest

The survey looked at three main areas of professional norms: competence, self regulation, and moral attributes, using standards developed by the American Board of Internal Medicine and other groups under the 2002 Charter on Professionalism. It also gauged the extent to which specialty focus, practice location, and reimbursement factor into professional behaviors. Researchers examined such areas as honesty with patients, improving access to care, maintaining professional competency, protecting patient confidentiality, fulfilling professional responsibilities, and improving quality of care.

The lead author, Eric Campbell, Ph. D., (Harvard) who (with colleagues) earlier this year published A National Survey of Physician-Industry Relationships (Apr 26, 2007) acknowledges that the findings raise “serious questions about the ability of the medical profession to regulate itself.”

Indeed, since Medicine has come under the ubiquitous influence of the pharmaceutical-biotech industry, the culture of its practitioners has radically shifted. Where once medical practice was patient-centered, guided by the Hippocratic Oath, the focus of current medical practice is geared toward commercial profitability. Patient safety and patient best interest are all too often sacrificed for greater profits.

See Elder Abuse: Rx Antipsychotic Drugs

See: Professionalism in Medicine: Results of a National Survey of Physicians by Eric Campbell, Susan Regan, et al. Annals of Internal Medicine, Dec. 2007 To access a copy of the IMAP Chartbook “Professionalism Among Physicians: Results of a National Survey,” visit http://www.imapny.org .

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav veracare@ahrp.org 212-595-8974
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The following is from - Massachusetts General Hospital and IMAP smonheit@burnesscommunications.com ]

For more information, contact: Janet Firshein and Caroline Broder at 301-652-1558 jfirshein@burnesscommunications.com and cbroder@burnesscommunications.com

First Survey of Its Kind Shows Doctors’ Individual Behavior At Odds With Their Own Ethical Standards for the Profession

(Washington DC) - The first national survey to broadly examine attitudes and behaviors related to medical professionalism finds that U. S. physicians overwhelmingly believe that incompetence and mistakes among peers should be reported. However, when face-to-face with these problems, nearly one-half fail to do just that, which can have harmful and even fatal consequences… (continues)

Full Study Information HERE: Copies of the study “Professionalism in Medicine: Results of a National Survey of Physicians,” to appear in the December 4 Annals of Internal Medicine, is embargoed until 5 p. m. ET on December 3, 2007. To obtain copies contact Susan C. Anderson at 1-800-523-1546, ext. 2653 or1-215-351-2653 or e-mailing sanderson@acponline.org sanderson@acponline.org .

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I, Kathleen Maire Hill, present this information in my capacity as a natural person, exercising my natural rights and freedoms. This information represents my private thoughts and beliefs and has been compiled and expressed for peer-to-peer, educational experiences only.

· “Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.” Bodie Thoene

· “Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” – Gandhi

· “(Freedom) is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche

· “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” Jean-Paul Sartre

· “Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.” Marilyn Ferguson

· “Alone with one’s conscience there are no alibis!” Tristano Ajmone

· “Ethical. existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.” Albert Schweitzer

A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment
by David Cohen, Ph.D., and David Jacobs, Ph.D.
http://laingsociety.org/colloquia/polofdiagnosis/modelconsent.htm

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration (5-minute video)
http://tinyurl.com/3y98p7

Please Look After Dad (BBC One: Panorama)

wolfdeck — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:07:48 +0000

Monday 3 December at 8.30pm (London time) on BBC One

Those outside the UK can access the archived version of this after the show is run at this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/archive/2007/default.stm

Panorama reporter Vivian White presents the evidence that in the long-term, treatment of dementia patients with anti-psychotic drugs has no benefit and can shorten patients’ lives.

Eric Hollingworth died earlier this week. He was 81-years-old and in a care home.

He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s four years ago and was being treated with anti-psychotic drugs.

He would sit slumped in a chair, comatose, unaware of his surroundings, unable to communicate or he would present strangely agitated behaviour.

On one occasion he stood up and sat down 17 times in ten minutes.

His daughter, Cheryl Byrne, is convinced it was not just the disease that reduced him to this state, but the powerful anti-psychotic drugs he was prescribed over the past three and a half years.

She says: “I never thought he was the same again after he’d been prescribed those drugs… I thought something was lost.”

” There were no benefits in behaviour and there were clearly deteriorations in some of the core symptoms”. Professor Clive Ballard

Cheryl tried to get her father off the medication and said that there were alternative ways of caring for him that would remove the need for these drugs.

(Cheryl’s) battle with doctors and care homes over his treatment even led her to film her father undercover, to try to prove her case. Her footage portrayed his state and she claimed the drugs prescribed to him helped to make him zombie-like.

Misguided

For several decades a common way to deal with the behavioural problems of people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias has been to prescribe them a class of drugs commonly known as anti-psychotics.

These drugs were originally designed to deal with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and their associated symptoms of hallucinations or delusions.

But the sedative properties of these drugs have meant that they are often prescribed to dementia patients who show signs of aggression and agitation.

But research reveals that many of these prescriptions have been misguided.

One of the world’s leading experts in dementia, Professor Clive Ballard of King’s College London, has conducted a long-term study comparing the effects of the drugs on dementia patients. He took a group of 165 people with dementia who’d already been on the drugs for some time. Half the group were taken off the drugs, while the other half were left half on.

After a year he found that the (study) group still on the drugs were significantly harmed.

His study shows that the drugs failed to produce any significant benefits and exacerbated difficulties with thinking and communication - the distressing symptoms of Alzheimer’s itself.

And, on top of all this, this class of drugs risks shortening the lives of people with dementia.

Professor Ballard told Panorama: “There were no benefits in behaviour and there were clearly deteriorations in some of the core symptoms of the disease, such as in their ability to think, particularly in their ability to communicate effectively.”

Guidelines from NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) published in 2006 advised clinicians to only prescribe this class of drugs to people with dementia for limited times and after exhausting alternatives first.

However they are still prescribed on a scale that costs the NHS an estimated £80 million per year.

With people living longer, the number of people with dementia is set to increase by almost 40% over the next 15 years and is expected to reach one million people by 2025.

Panorama asks whether some of the medical profession have become addicted to prescribing anti-psychotics and whether many of these patients could be better cared for without such reliance on these powerful drugs?

Panorama: Please Look After Dad, BBC One 8.30pm, Monday 3 December 2007

Story from BBC NEWS: Published: 2007/12/02 © BBC MMVII
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/panorama/7104212.stm

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The scandal of Alzheimers patients given neuroleptics on BBC1 today at 8.30pm London time. You can access the archive of this program after the broadcast at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/archive/2007/default.stm

These lethal drugs have no therapeutic value for this condition but are given as a chemical cosh to put these vulnerable people into “la la land” so those in charge do not have to pay much attention to their needs.

This is doubly outrageous as the average cost of a nursing home in the US today is $70,000 per year. It is £23,400 in the UK.
Vince Boehm

Scandal of the Alzheimers victims given zombie drugs
Article Excerpted Whole from Associated New Media
By EWAN FLETCHER

More than 100,000 people in Britain suffering from dementia are being prescribed drugs by doctors and care homes that at best offer few benefits and at worst are lethal, according to shocking new research.

The controversial drugs, which are often used to sedate patients, have been described as a “liquid cosh” by one expert and the study has provoked a call for stricter limitations on their use.

Professor Clive Ballard from King’s College, London, investigated the effects of anti-psychotic medication, which is given to nearly half of dementia patients in care homes at an annual cost of £80million.

Health risk: He found that those who had been given it were nearly twice as likely, over a four-year period, to die than those who were not prescribed it.

Professor Ballard said: “People who weren’t taking the anti-psychotic drugs had a 62 per cent chance of being alive by the end of the study while the people who were taking the drugs had only a 36 per cent chance of being alive.”

“For the vast majority of people there are no benefits, and considerable harm, from using these drugs. There were clearly deteriorations in some of the core symptoms, particularly their ability to communicate effectively.”

Many elderly people only mildly affected by dementia but prescribed anti-psychotic drugs are reduced to a “zombified” state by them, says the Alzheimer’s Society, which has demanded an end to their blanket use.

The study is featured in a Panorama investigation to be shown on BBC1 tomorrow.

It tells the story of Cheryl Byrne, who spent the past three years battling to have her father, Eric Hollingworth, taken off anti-psychotics.

Mr Hollingworth, who died recently aged 81, was diagnosed with dementia in 2003 and from the outset was prescribed anti-psychotics.

Upset by the rapid deterioration in his health, Cheryl resorted to secretly filming his condition.

The footage shows her father slumped in a chair looking, as she describes, “like a zombie”.

He doesn’t utter a word and gets up and down from his chair 17 times in ten minutes.

Mrs Byrne, a retired bank worker, said: “I never thought he was the same again after he’d been prescribed those drugs. Something was lost. They robbed him, physically and mentally, of what capacity he did have.”

Mr Hollingworth was given a cocktail of drugs after barricading himself in a ward.

Last night Tim Kendall, deputy director of research at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: “I can’t see the justification for this wide range of drugs. It is a liquid cosh.”

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Vera Sharav

http://www.ahrp.org and http://ahrp.blogspot.com

The $122 billion-a-year nursing-home industry’s use of drugs raises complex issues in an aging society. A front page report by Lucette Lagnado in today’s Wall Street Journal about abusive prescribing of antipsychotic drugs that are currently in vogue in America’s nursing homes should provide a topic for debate among the contenders for the US presidency–as it affects millions of Americans. The report should prompt Congress to take action before their own parents or they themselves will become victims of government-supported chemical abuse.

“You walk into facilities where you see residents slumped over in their wheelchairs, their heads are hanging, and they’re out of it, and that is unacceptable,’ says Christie Teigland, director of informatics research for the New York Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, a not-for-profit industry group. Her research, which she believes reflects national trends, shows that about one-third of dementia patients in New York’s nursing homes are on antipsychotics; some facilities have rates as high as 60% to 70%. ‘These drugs are being given way too much to this frail elderly population,’ Dr. Teigland says.”

“a woman listed in New York state health department inspection records as Resident #18. The 84-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who lives at the Orchard Manor nursing home in Medina, N. Y., likes to wander and roll her wheelchair around her unit, according to a report filed earlier this year, and sometimes she nervously taps her foot. To address her behavior, which was considered disruptive, Resident #18 was given a powerful antipsychotic drug called Seroquel, a drug approved for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Resident #18 is not psychotic and Seroquel — like other atypical antipsychotics — carries a “black box” warning that elderly dementia patients using it face a higher risk of death.”

Justification? “She is a handful,” says Thomas Morien, administrator of Orchard Manor.

In Massapequa, N. Y, Parkview Care and Rehabilitation Center (a nursing home) was recently fined $2,000 by the state for injecting 90 doses of Haldol into a 96-year-old Alzheimer’s patient.

“The woman, identified only as Resident #2, enjoyed listening to music and getting her nails polished, according to a state report. But when agitated, she banged her hand on the table and sometimes yelled. One aide found it was possible to calm her by offering ice cream and chatting with her, the report said. But other staff gave her the drug Haldol. Between August 2006 to February of this year, she received 90 doses of injectable Haldol, the report said.

Steve Seltzer, Parkview administrator is quoted stating that resident #2 was “an especially difficult case, who reverted to her native European language, making it hard to communicate.”

One cringes at the UNCARING “care” industry and the callous disregard for human values by health care professionals–in particular those dealing with especially vulnerable populations cannot defend themselves–the elderely and children, both of whom are easy prey.

Drug manufacturers are ruthlessly targeting children and the elderly as easy markets for dumping their most hazardous, incapacitating, life-shortening toxic drugs which should never have been approved for marketing.

Who is kidding who…. how would a $2,000 fine serve as a deterrent to abusive practices for an industry that rakes in $122,000,000,000 billion ??

A punishment befitting the abusive misprescribing of antipsychotics would be to require the abusing “care” givers to be injected with the same drug at the same dose. This might, possibly, lead to their developing human empathy, or else, to seek other employment.

The problem with the medical profession today is that Big Pharma’s influence has blinded physicians even to FDA mandated warnings: Antpsychotics carry Black Box label warnings about drug-induced death in the elderly, yet doctors prescribe them as though they were jelly beans.

Unsupportable increased use of antipsychotics is documented in the US by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid:

2000—–expenditure = $2.14 billion

2003————————- $4.10 billion

2005————————- $5.40 billion

Clearly, the most effective remedy against widespread misprescribing of antipsychotic drugs for off-label uses is for Medicaid / Medicare to stop reimbursing the cost.

Last night, BBC Panorama focused on the same abusive prescribing of antipsychotics in UK nursing homes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/7104212.stm

Just as in the US, healthcare industry–”care” givers– ignore patients’ need, relying on industry generated propaganda to justify unsupportable prescribing of toxic antipsychotics.

Panorama’s report presented the case of Eric Hollingworth an 81-years-old man who died last week in a care home. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s four years ago and was being treated with anti-psychotic drugs. His daughter, Cheryl Byrne, is convinced it was not just the disease that reduced him to this state, but the powerful anti-psychotic drugs he was prescribed over the past three and a half years.

She says: “I never thought he was the same again after he’d been prescribed those drugs… I thought something was lost.”

Cheryl tried to get her father off the medication and said that there were alternative ways of caring for him that would remove the need for these drugs. Her battle with doctors and care homes over his treatment even led her to film her father undercover, to try to prove her case. Her footage portrayed his state and she claimed the drugs prescribed to him helped to make him zombie-like.”

Her suspicion that the drugs cause her father to deteriorate is backed by evidence. The program presented evidence showing that in the long-term, anti-psychotic drugs have no benefit for the treatment of dementia patients–instead, the drugs shorten patients’ lives.

One of the world’s leading experts in dementia, Professor Clive Ballard of King’s College London, has conducted a long-term study comparing the effects of the drugs on dementia patients. He studied the drugs’ effects in a group of 165 people with dementia who’d already been on the drugs for some time. Half the group were taken off the drugs, while the other half were left half on.

After a year he found that the group still on the drugs were significantly harmed.

His study shows that the drugs failed to produce any significant benefits and exacerbated difficulties with thinking and communication - the distressing symptoms of Alzheimer’s itself. And, on top of all this, this class of drugs risks shortening the lives of people with dementia.

If the governments in the US and UK have adopted a public policy for dealing with the elderly by shortening their lives with antipsychotics, then let them disclose that policy–i. e., Euthanasia. If not, laws need to be enacted to stop the government supported abuse under the guise of “care.”

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav veracare@ahrp.org
212-595-8974

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Prescription Abuse Seen In U. S. Nursing Homes Powerful Antipsychotics Used to Subdue Elderly; Huge Medicaid Expense By LUCETTE LAGNADO December 4, 2007; Page A1

In recent years, Medicaid has spent more money on antipsychotic drugs for Americans than on any other class of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, AIDS drugs or medicine to treat high-blood pressure.

One reason: Nursing homes across the U. S. are giving these drugs to elderly patients to quiet symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

Nearly 30% of the total nursing-home population is receiving antipsychotic drugs, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, known as CMS. In a practice known as “off label” use of prescription drugs, patients can get these powerful medicines whether they are psychotic or not. CMS says nearly 21% of nursing-home patients who don’t have a psychosis diagnosis are on antipsychotic drugs.

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The information herein shall not be considered an endorsement of anyone discontinuing psychiatric drugs. If you are stopping taking medication it is advisable to reduce the dose gradually WITH EXTREME CAUTION, as it is difficult to predict who will have problems withdrawing. It is worth getting as much information and support as you can, and involving your doctor wherever possible. You will find withdrawal information HERE: http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Making+sense/Making+sense+of+coming+off+psychiatric+drugs.htm

I, Kathleen Maire Hill, present this information in my capacity as a natural person, exercising my natural rights and freedoms. This information represents my private thoughts and beliefs and has been compiled and expressed for peer-to-peer, educational experiences only.

· “Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.” Bodie Thoene

· “Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” – Gandhi

· “(Freedom) is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche

· “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” Jean-Paul Sartre

· “Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.” Marilyn Ferguson

· “Alone with one’s conscience there are no alibis!” Tristano Ajmone

· “Ethical. existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.” Albert Schweitzer

A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment
by David Cohen, Ph.D., and David Jacobs, Ph.D.
http://laingsociety.org/colloquia/polofdiagnosis/modelconsent.htm

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration (5-minute video)
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The Project for the New American Century

wolfdeck — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:54:11 +0000

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By William Rivers Pitt

02/25/03 — - The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana.

The fundamental essence of PNAC’s ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century.” In it, PNAC outlines what is required of America to create the global empire they envision.

According to PNAC, America must:
* Reposition permanently based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East;
* Modernize U.S. forces, including enhancing our fighter aircraft, submarine and surface fleet capabilities;
* Develop and deploy a global missile defense system, and develop a strategic dominance of space;
* Control the “International Commons” of cyberspace;
* Increase defense spending to a minimum of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, up from the 3 percent currently spent.

Most ominously, this PNAC document described four “Core Missions” for the American military. The two central requirements are for American forces to “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars,” and to “perform the ‘constabulary’ duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions.” Note well that PNAC does not want America to be prepared to fight simultaneous major wars. That is old school. In order to bring this plan to fruition, the military must fight these wars one way or the other to establish American dominance for all to see.

Why is this important? After all, wacky think tanks are a cottage industry in Washington, DC. They are a dime a dozen. In what way does PNAC stand above the other groups that would set American foreign policy if they could? Two events brought PNAC into the mainstream of American government: the disputed election of George W. Bush, and the attacks of September 11th. When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. When the Towers came down, these men saw, at long last, their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy.

Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

PNAC is staffed by men who previously served with groups like Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America, which supported America’s bloody gamesmanship in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and with groups like The Committee for the Present Danger, which spent years advocating that a nuclear war with the Soviet Union was “winnable.”

PNAC has recently given birth to a new group, The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which met with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in order to formulate a plan to “educate” the American populace about the need for war in Iraq. CLI has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to support the Iraqi National Congress and the Iraqi heir presumptive, Ahmed Chalabi. Chalabi was sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court in 1992 to 22 years in prison for bank fraud after the collapse of Petra Bank, which he founded in 1977. Chalabi has not set foot in Iraq since 1956, but his Enron-like business credentials apparently make him a good match for the Bush administration’s plans.

PNAC’s “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” report is the institutionalization of plans and ideologies that have been formulated for decades by the men currently running American government. The PNAC Statement of Principles is signed by Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld, as well as by Eliot Abrams, Jeb Bush, Bush’s special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, and many others. William Kristol, famed conservative writer for the Weekly Standard, is also a co-founder of the group. The Weekly Standard is owned by Ruppert Murdoch, who also owns international media giant Fox News.

The desire for these freshly empowered PNAC men to extend American hegemony by force of arms across the globe has been there since day one of the Bush administration, and is in no small part a central reason for the Florida electoral battle in 2000. Note that while many have said that Gore and Bush are ideologically identical, Mr. Gore had no ties whatsoever to the fellows at PNAC. George W. Bush had to win that election by any means necessary, and PNAC signatory Jeb Bush was in the perfect position to ensure the rise to prominence of his fellow imperialists. Desire for such action, however, is by no means translatable into workable policy. Americans enjoy their comforts, but don’t cotton to the idea of being some sort of Neo-Rome.

On September 11th, the fellows from PNAC saw a door of opportunity open wide before them, and stormed right through it.

Bush released on September 20th 2001 the “National Security Strategy of the United States of America.” It is an ideological match to PNAC’s “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” report issued a year earlier. In many places, it uses exactly the same language to describe America’s new place in the world.

Recall that PNAC demanded an increase in defense spending to at least 3.8% of GDP. Bush’s proposed budget for next year asks for $379 billion in defense spending, almost exactly 3.8% of GDP.

In August of 2002, Defense Policy Board chairman and PNAC member Richard Perle heard a policy briefing from a think tank associated with the Rand Corporation. According to the Washington Post and The Nation, the final slide of this presentation described “Iraq as the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia as the strategic pivot, and Egypt as the prize” in a war that would purportedly be about ridding the world of Saddam Hussein’s weapons. Bush has deployed massive forces into the Mideast region, while simultaneously engaging American forces in the Philippines and playing nuclear chicken with North Korea. Somewhere in all this lurks at least one of the “major theater wars” desired by the September 2000 PNAC report.

Iraq is but the beginning, a pretense for a wider conflict. Donald Kagan, a central member of PNAC, sees America establishing permanent military bases in Iraq after the war. This is purportedly a measure to defend the peace in the Middle East, and to make sure the oil flows. The nations in that region, however, will see this for what it is: a jump-off point for American forces to invade any nation in that region they choose to. The American people, anxiously awaiting some sort of exit plan after America defeats Iraq, will see too late that no exit is planned.

All of the horses are traveling together at speed here. The defense contractors who sup on American tax revenue will be handsomely paid for arming this new American empire. The corporations that own the news media will sell this eternal war at a profit, as viewership goes through the stratosphere when there is combat to be shown. Those within the administration who believe that the defense of Israel is contingent upon laying waste to every possible aggressor in the region will have their dreams fulfilled. The PNAC men who wish for a global Pax Americana at gunpoint will see their plans unfold. Through it all, the bankrollers from the WTO and the IMF will be able to dictate financial terms to the entire planet. This last aspect of the plan is pivotal, and is best described in the newly revised version of Greg Palast’s masterpiece, “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.”

There will be adverse side effects. The siege mentality average Americans are suffering as they smother behind yards of plastic sheeting and duct tape will increase by orders of magnitude as our aggressions bring forth new terrorist attacks against the homeland. These attacks will require the implementation of the newly drafted Patriot Act II, an augmentation of the previous Act that has profoundly sharper teeth. The sun will set on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The American economy will be ravaged by the need for increased defense spending, and by the aforementioned “constabulary” duties in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Former allies will turn on us. Germany, France and the other nations resisting this Iraq war are fully aware of this game plan. They are not acting out of cowardice or because they love Saddam Hussein, but because they mean to resist this rising American empire, lest they face economic and military serfdom at the hands of George W. Bush. Richard Perle has already stated that France is no longer an American ally.

As the eagle spreads its wings, our rhetoric and their resistance will become more agitated and dangerous.

Many people, of course, will die. They will die from war and from want, from famine and disease. At home, the social fabric will be torn in ways that make the Reagan nightmares of crack addiction, homelessness and AIDS seem tame by comparison.

This is the price to be paid for empire, and the men of PNAC who now control the fate and future of America are more than willing to pay it. For them, the benefits far outweigh the liabilities.

The plan was running smoothly until those two icebergs collided. Millions and millions of ordinary people are making it very difficult for Bush’s international allies to keep to the script. PNAC may have designs for the control of the “International Commons” of the Internet, but for now it is the staging ground for a movement that would see empire take a back seat to a wise peace, human rights, equal protection under the law, and the preponderance of a justice that will, if properly applied, do away forever with the anger and hatred that gives birth to terrorism in the first place.

Tommaso Palladini of Milan perhaps said it best as he marched with his countrymen in Rome. “You fight terrorism,” he said, “by creating more justice in the world.”

The People versus the Powerful is the oldest story in human history. At no point in history have the Powerful wielded so much control. At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them, been more absolutely required. The tide can be stopped, and the men who desire empire by the sword can be thwarted. It has already begun, but it must not cease. These are men of will, and they do not intend to fail.

William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times bestselling author of two books - “War On Iraq” (with Scott Ritter) available now from Context Books, and “The Greatest Sedition is Silence,” available in May 2003 from Pluto Press. He teaches high school in Boston, MA. Scott Lowery contributed research to this report.

I, Kathleen Maire Hill, present this information in my capacity as a natural person, exercising my natural rights and freedoms. This information represents my private thoughts and beliefs and has been compiled and expressed for peer-to-peer, educational experiences only.

· “Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.” Bodie Thoene

· “Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” – Gandhi

· “(Freedom) is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche

· “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” Jean-Paul Sartre

· “Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.” Marilyn Ferguson

· “Alone with one’s conscience there are no alibis!” Tristano Ajmone

· “Ethical. existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.” Albert Schweitzer

A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment
by David Cohen, Ph.D., and David Jacobs, Ph.D.
http://laingsociety.org/colloquia/polofdiagnosis/modelconsent.htm

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration (5-minute video)
http://commons.ucalgary.ca/showcasetv/displayVideo?movieID=1000073&videoID=1000023