If you think American voters deserve the truth.

In the 2000 election, 22 million registered women voters could have changed the course of history and avoided four years of the most anti–choice president in history - only they never made it to the polls

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At a noon press conference today at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Kazi Toure, co-director of the Criminal Justice Program for the American Friends Service Committee New England Regional Office, asserted that he has been placed under intense surveillance by police agents because of his work to change prison conditions.  For the past two weeks, up to 10 unidentified agents in unmarked cars, and occasionally helicopters, have intimidated his Dorchester neighborhood, and followed Mr. Toure on his daily work routine to and from the AFSC Cambridge office.  Last Friday, four unmarked cars with a helicopter followed him from home to work, where upon arrival they photographed the entire staff who had joined outside to welcome Mr. Toure to the safety of the office.  Several AFSC staff were present at the press conference and verified the Friday incident.  Earlier in the week he was followed as he journeyed to a MA prison and also to an upstate NY prison to visit a friend. 

Mr. Toure has been involved in prison reform issues for over ten years, and recently has helped make the direct connection between army personnel being held responsible for the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and their non-army training as corrections officers in Massachusetts and other states.

The New York Daily News and the Boston Herald carried reports last week from an unnamed NYPD officer that Mr. Toure had been identified as a person who was fomenting violent protest at the Republican National Convention.  No evidence was proffered by the police, nor was any required by the two newspapers in order to publish the derogatory information. 

August 31, 2004

TRENTON, N.J. -- Gov. James E. McGreevey has told legislators and state health officials to design a program that offers drug users clean needles to slow the spread of AIDS and hepatitis C.

Health Commissioner Clifton Lacy was to meet with legislators Tuesday afternoon to work out details of the program, McGreevey spokesman Micah Rasmussen said.

McGreevey met with legislative leaders last week and discussed the issue, Rasmussen said. He told them he wants a proposal by the end of this week and expects the measure to clear the Legislature this fall.

"They all agreed to work on it together and get it done," Rasmussen said.

New Jersey is one of two states with neither a legal needle exchange program nor a law allowing nonprescription sales of needles and syringes.

Critics object to having the government supply the means by which users of heroin and other illegal drugs can inject them. Supporters argue that addicts will shoot up anyway, and that allowing them to do so with dirty needles leads to more infections.

A panel convened several years ago by former Gov. Christie Whitman recommended needle exchanges to curb the spread of HIV and AIDS, but Whitman rejected the recommendation, insisting it would send the wrong message about drug use.

Copyright: 2004, The Associated Press

The study of 40,500 people enrolled in Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest health management organization, found that heart attack rates and sudden cardiac deaths were tripled in patients taking Vioxx in doses higher than 25 milligrams a day compared to those taking a competing drug, Celebrex.

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Winners of the fun shoots win the "pot,"

Look into the problem of anti-biotics.

We are on the brink of not having ANY that work (talk to any Dr.), but the pharms are not interested in spending R&D money on a drug that CURES. Take a close look at the drugs that have been coming out for anything lately. They are all intended to be taken contiuously.

There are lots of good, noble people out there including scientists but they are NOT the ones in charge of things. A good friend of mine is a PhD working on a drug for Alzheimer's and he describes the same thing; their research is not directed at finding a cure, it's directed at finding a pharmaceutical treatment that would be administered over the course of years. He tells me that he would have liked to first do years more of foundational research geared toward understanding the disease more thoroughly, but he has no say because the money that funds the drug research comes from grants by---you guessed it---the feds, and because of that, in a very real way the feds control the agenda of the research. There is no money in simply understanding a disease scientifically; the money is in "treating" it pharmaceutically. This frustrates him greatly and makes him feel like a pawn, and he is a briillant biochemist. However, he does not have tens of millions of dollars to fund research so he cannot control squat. Who has the $$$, controls the agenda.

You are right EJ that there are a lot of good and altruistic doctors and scientists out there, but BigDawg is right that they *aren't* the ones who call the real shots at the higher levels.

Don't you see how the circle is laid out?

Gov't grants ---> pharm research ---> research yields drug ---> FDA grants approval ---> Big Pharm sells drug ---> doctors get kickbacks and other $ benefits for prescribing the drug(s) ---> Big Pharm makes millions to billions ---> Big Pharm lobbyists cozy up to legislators and $ changes hands ---> legislators influence their "colleagues" at FDA ---> FDA talks to the agencies who approve grants

It's enough to make you sick

I guess the people here are just so much better than the rest of the world, it's hard to believe.

Everyone else in the world is just 100% corrupt, stupid and evil?

If things are that bad, why do we even get up in the morning?

Do you ever at any time believe that there are HUMANS in the world other than yourself?

I just don't think so.

If they are not human then how you know we are?

The goal of pharms is to create drugs that need to be taken for ones entire LIFE.

A cure means that you eventually don't need their product any more. And they don't want THAT!

Consume only hemp oil, flax oil, fish oil and occasionally cod liver oil until blood sugar starts to stabilise. Then add back healthy oils such as butter, coconut oil, olive oil and clean animal fat. Read labels; refuse to consume cheap junk oils when they appear in processed food or on restaurant menus. Diabetics are chronically short of minerals; they need to add a good-quality, broad-spectrum mineral supplement to the diet. .. Control blood sugar manually during the recovery cycle. Under medical supervision, gradually discontinue all oral hypoglycaemic agents along with any additional drugs given to counteract their side effects. Develop natural blood-sugar control by the use of glycaemic tables, by consuming frequent small meals (including fibre-rich foods), by regular post-prandial exercise, and by the complete avoidance of all sugars along with the judicious use of only non-toxic sweeteners... Avoid alcohol until blood sugar stabilises in the normal range. Keep score by using a pinprick-type glucose meter. Keep track of everything you do with a medical diary. Restore a proper balance of healthy fats and oils when the blood sugar controller again works. Permanently remove from the diet all cheap, toxic, junk fats and oils as well as the processed and restaurant foods that contain them. When the blood sugar controller again starts to work correctly, gradually introduce additional healthy foods to the diet.

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/DiabetesDeception.html

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MARIJUANA DEBATE: CANNABIS USED ELSEWHERE

It is inaccurate for John Kojis ( "Letter: Marijuana's Illegal" Aug. 24, 2004 ), to assume, the overwhelming population doesn't support legalizing marijuana use for medical purposes." Nationally, citizens do support allowing use of Cannabis for medicinal use, in fact every recent referendum placed before the voter has passed.

Just because the culture of corporations, persecute Cannabis users in America doesn't make it right. In other parts of the world, cultures accept Cannabis, one example is the Ford Motor Company near Pretoria, South Africa. ( http://cannabisnews.com/news/12/thread12948.shtml ) However the best argument for re-legalizing cannabis is because Christ God Our Father told us that he created all the seed bearing plants and said they were all good. If that's not clear enough, he even told us that on the very first page of the Bible.

Biblically, cannabis prohibition is "illegal."