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  • Bush wants to be able to round up dissenters, the poor, and the sick ASAP for FEMA’s camps and KBR’
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. agency pushes use of electronic health records Wants consumer demand to spur adoption of e-records News Story by Heather Havenstein
    FEBRUARY 13, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - SAN DIEGO — In a new tactic to build support for the use of health care IT, the Bush administration office charged with promoting the use of electronic health records is setting its sights on consumers. The (…)

  • Stability of Mentally Ill Shaken By Medicare Drug Plan Problems
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Some Prescription Denials Have Heightened Distress
    By Susan Levine
    Even among the incident reports crossing Craig Knoll’s desk weekly now, this one stood out: A 43-year-old client of Knoll’s mental health agency, a man who suffers from bipolar disorder, had come from his pharmacy frustrated to the point of meltdown. There were snags in his new Medicare drug plan. Of his four medicines, it would fill only two.
    "I’m not going to take any of them anymore," he yelled, according to the (…)

  • Corrupt Congress: Virtually all of the $40 Billion in spending cuts affect the Poor and Young
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A new year brings new hope. And in this year it would be nice to see in Washington a new commitment to fiscal restraint and a resolve to bequeath a solvent government and robust economy to future generations.
    To listen to many Republican lawmakers, a move in that direction is underway. In the final hours before it wrapped up on Dec. 21, the Senate approved a five-year, $40 billion deficit reduction package. The measure, set to pass the House of Representatives early this year, would cut (…)

  • Pesticide Tests on Humans Approved by EPA
    25 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pesticide Tests on Humans Approved by EPA
    In yet another example of how America’s industrial giants together with Federal Health officials "protect" the safety and health of its citizens, the EPA has now determined guidelines which will allow testing of insect poisons on humans too.
    Shocking? - not really - especially considering how dispensation of various toxins to people has been happening for quite some time in the U.S. Consider the carcinogen Aspartame - although banned in Japan, (…)

  • US Troops told to ignore Opium Crop that is now more than 1/2 Afghan GDP
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Philip Shishkin in Faizabad, Afghanistan, and David Crawford in Berlin, The Wall Street Journal
    The suspicious whirring of a motor came from somewhere in the dark skies above the river separating Northern Afghanistan from Tajikistan. Tajik border guards say they shouted warnings and then opened fire. What fell out of the sky was a motorized parachute carrying 18 kilograms of heroin.
    It was a small drop in a mighty flood of Afghan heroin that is reshaping the world drug market. Once (…)

  • Big Pharma/government persecutes free medicines.
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cannabis Three face jail for helping MS sufferers
    For immediate release
    The adage that a good deed never goes unpunished may well have been written for Mark Gibson, Lezley Gibson and Marcus Davies. These are the people behind THC4MS, an organisation whose sole purpose is to provide Multiple Sclerosis sufferers with a life-altering cannabis medication. A crime for which they due to stand trial at Carlisle Crown Court on the 1st February 2006.
    Over the last five years, THC4MS have sent (…)

  • We Will Educate Our Colleagues, the Policy Community, the Media, and Our Patients
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Physicians for a National Health Program Meet in Philadelphia
    by Andy Coates
    Physicians for a National Health Program held its annual meeting on December 10, 2005. Originally planned for New Orleans, it was relocated to Philadelphia after Hurricane Katrina. Founded in 1987, the organization has over 14,000 members nationally. PNHP advocates and educates for a single national health insurance plan: in the words of PNHP National Coordinator Quentin Young, MD, "everybody in, nobody out." (…)

  • EVO MORALES: WHITE MAN, YOU ONLY HAVE YOURSELVES TO BLAME
    10 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This month, cocaleros (coca farmers) champion Evo Morales was victorious in Bolivia’s presidential elections, with 51% of the vote. His triumph at the polls is a direct challenge to the US’s anti-narcotics campaign in the region, with Morales defending the production of the coca leaf - which, when refined, produces cocaine.
    Cocaine: the white man’s invention
    The coca leaf is traditionally chewed by the indigenous people of Bolivia to alleviate altitude sickness, a practice that predated (…)

  • Programmed To Be Shallow?
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen Giving new meaning to a pyramid scheme, a recent New York Times article discussed how the pharmaceutical industry hires college cheerleaders as its drug representatives. "They don’t ask what the major is," T. Lynn Williamson, a cheering advisor for University of Kentucky, said of the drug companies who turn to the school to find pompom pill pushers. Of course, the pharmaceutical giants would have us believe it’s coincidental that their reps look like runway models. (…)

  • Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Polish Psychologist, Andrew M. Lobaczewski, who lived through the Nazi and Communist occupation of Poland, made a pact with fellow researchers to study the nature of the evil that had fallen on their society. They called the new science “Ponerology” which the dictionary defines: n. division of theology dealing with evil; theological doctrine of wickedness or evil; from the Greek: poneros -> evil’.
    But Dr. Lobaczewski was not proposing a “theological” study, but rather a scientific study (…)