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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><h2>&#8220;Kill Them All, Let God Sort Them Out!&#8221;</h2>
<p><img src="http://www.steinerbooks.org/images/small/9781906999018.jpg" alt="cover book jacket" width="504" height="786" /></p>
<h2>The New Testament says, John 5:22 &#8220;For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,&#8221;"<a href="http://hendersons.net/straitway/2001/03012001.htm">Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset</a>&#8221; or &#8220;Kill them all. God will know His own.&#8221;</h2>
<p>To understand the violence against anyone and any of those who raise the insights and historical connections needed to intuit the Risen Christ and His role as Lord of Karma, <img src="http://uncletaz.com/tazimgz/rep.jpg" alt="Face of the Lord of Karma-Christ" width="534" height="758" />we will need to examine aspects of real history, with real bad guys and real occult events that mirror events that we twistedly teach to students of political science as accepted history.</p>
<p>Our first such example where the Lord Of Karma, with the Christ Being that is active all over the Earth, was observed and documented, and consequently the career and reputation of this individual was severely attacked because he nailed the Christ Event and Lord of Karma artistically, accurately and almost by accident will be Dalton Trumbo.</p>
<p>We find this brilliant excursion into the realm of the Etheric Christ that is active at the Threshold of Human Consciousness in the 16th Chapter of &#8220;Johnny Got His Gun&#8221; by Dalton Trumbo. It is dangerous to the Powers that be to study and meditate on this chapter of the book. Therefore Dalton Trumbo had to be marginalized and his personality crushed and his voice drowned out because that is how the &#8216;beast&#8217; works when the Etheric Christ comes too close to the iron or nuclear grip of his bid to overthrow the Etheric Christ Being. Humanity for long years will worship and fear the nuclear god we have created against the Real King of the I Am, and the King of Light and the Logos itself, the Etheric Christ.<br />
<img src="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo002.bmp" alt="JGHG book cover" width="275" height="465" /></p>
<p>This essay and excursion is all about the Etheric Christ Event, and also about the instinctual and official government forces of human instinct who truly hate when a real issue arises that is a &#8216;game changer&#8217;. &#8220;Johnny Got His Gun&#8221; was a game changer that went against the entire superstructure of the powers that stand against our humanity ever acknowledging and absorbing the human ramifications of the mighty Etheric Christ Experience arising in the 20th and 21st centuries.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tomjoad.org/johnnygothisgun.htm">&#8220;Johnny Got His Gun&#8221;</a> not only placed the reader in a position to understand the &#8216;I AM&#8217; as an isolated force of pure eternal spirit, caught on the wrong side of the sense world, alone as no other human &#8216;I&#8217; has ever been alone, but as a book it also focused a spotlight on the horrific lies and betrayals of the mighty War Machine and War Propaganda, and false heroism that is reduced to ash against the holy alone-ness of the isolated &#8220;I AM&#8221;. But most importantly, it stirred up a hornets nest run by a madman that everyone in the media lifted to national prominence.  Joseph McCarthy.</p>
<p>&#8220;Way Back in the 1950&#8217;s, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy had his own little version of the Spanish <a href="http://www.borndigital.com/tinq.htm">Inquisition</a>,  an hysterical attempt to root out the communism that he thought he saw climbing the walls all around him.&#8221; We could say that part of the extravagant and loose sixties were the extreme counter point and reaction to the artistic freeze and media whores and a typical moronic Congress flexing of power with it&#8217;s new toy, the T.V.  <img src="http://moviegoings.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/mushroom1.jpg" alt="null" />A propaganda freeze of raw fear, that had crept into the soul of the nation in the 1950&#8217;s along with a new global nuclear beast that America had set loose upon the world unleashed a brave new world.</p>
<p>That horrific searing, incinerating light had unlocked the Beast and America had used it on humanity. Not only had Christ been crucified at age 33 but in terms of following the reality of how the Etheric Christ functions in time, Harry Truman the 33rd President of the United States had unleashed this anti-living Light, anti-Etheric Light force as the most potent and darkest guilt to spread through the world and give rise to the plague of fear and national guilt called McCarthyism. 33 was indelibly printed into the etheric structure of the world by the very Crucifixion and Resurrection of the eternal Logos or Cosmic Word of creation.</p>
<p>McCarthyism and Nazism as well as arrogant American Imperialism, dark torture and removal of creative human freedom of expression is what happens when unconscious guilt turns and devours it&#8217;s own national soul. This is what is happening today as well. This is how the freest country, America turns into the very <a href="http://rileybrad.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=5">monster it ingested</a>. America ingested what Heisenberg and Einstein prevented Nazi Germany from attaining. The issue is our failure to understand, treat with higher consciousness, moral and immoral forces of light. Our failure was not recognizing the potent immoral signature of a vast anti-light beast with the capacity to infect the unguarded American psyche and use the entire American Soul as its new playing field. The beast outgrew Germany and was nestled away in the more subtle and naive new American Rome.</p>
<p>Both Heinrich Himmler who demanded a vast karmic understanding for the swath of death and destruction that Germany embarked upon based on the  <em>Bhagavad Gita, </em>from his own SS inner circle; and Oppenheimer and the coterie of Scientists centered at TRINITY, named after the Christ event and a poem by John Dunn hoping forgiveness from The Trinity, (Father-Son-Holy Ghost) <img src="http://content.ll-0.com/apolloartg/apolloartg_e_a000378891.GIF?i=033005120344" alt="The Trinity" width="590" height="657" />were sucked into contemplating the vast Karmic message of Krishna, the Lord of Karma in the Bhagavad Gita.</p>
<p>America, guilty as sin, digested the most horrific anti-human weapon ever devised and the demise of America in the 21st century as it falls into fascism will be the result of a failure to comprehend the Etheric Christ Light vs the Anti-human, anti-etheric light of depleted uranium and horrific destructive, anti-Christ-imbued fallen <a href="http://www.kheper.net/topics/Anthroposophy/Steiner-subphysical.htm">devachan nuclear light</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When chemical action is driven down beneath the physical plane &#8211; into the evil devachanic world &#8211; magnetism arises.  When light is thrust down into the sub-material electricity arises.  If what lives in the Harmony of the Spheres is thrust down further still, into the province of the Asuras, an even more terrible force &#8211; which it will not be possible to keep hidden very much longer &#8211; is generated.  It can only be hoped that when this force comes to be known &#8211; a force&#8230;far, far stronger than the most violent electrical discharge &#8211;  &#8230;that before some discoverer gives this into the hands of humankind, men will no longer have anything un-moral left in them.&#8221; Rudolf Steiner [The Etherisation of the Blood, pp.40-41]</p></blockquote>
<p>In the aftermath of having developed the powerful, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3114467609/">&#8220;Dr. Strangelove&#8221; global poisoning bomb</a>, with <a>fallen light from the fallen devachan</a> itself,  America and the ingested immoral forces it devoured went after the moral light in people like Dalton Trumbo, Ruth Gordon, Zero Mostel, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Jose Ferrer and Orson Welles who were just a few of those who were blacklisted via human demonic witch hunts attempting to shield the beast from brotherhood and the Rise of the Etheric Christ.</p>
<p>But most importantly, in terms of actually looking at the subject matter of the most potent and powerful event that surrounds the core of the &#8221; I AM&#8221; of humanity, Dalton Trumbo confronted the literal roots of Body-Soul and Spirit, in an artistic package that tore away the trappings of the sense world and the lies of the War Machine and revealed a hint of the mighty Etheric Christ behind the scenes of external world happenings. And the beast rose up and attacked innocent personalities exactly like the tale of &#8220;The Crucible&#8221;. &#8220;The Crucible&#8221; was a 1953 play by Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witchcraft trials that took place in Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as a response to McCarthyism.</p>
<p>Trumbo presented for all the world to see in Chapter 16 of his book, &#8220;Johnny Got His Gun&#8221; a window into the Etheric Christ Event of the 20th and 21st centuries.  Trumbo lifted the veil on a Mystery which the very instincts of humanity are terrified to hear. The petty pretty perch of the powers that be were in a position to destroy the fragile human personality and reputation of anyone who might open the door to the coherent and factual activities of the Christ as the Lord of Karma. And this lesson of looking at the subject matter instead of the distractions of the media and political animals in the cages at the zoo of public opinion gets us to the core of the issue of how Christ is active amidst the Angels of each human being, as the Lord of Karma.</p>
<p>Trumbo tripped upon it and opened himself up to a vast pronged attack. &#8220;Johnny Got His Gun&#8221; revealed a human being exiled to the narrow region of the &#8216;I AM&#8217;. Trumbo&#8217;s career was deliberately publicly destroyed and he was in exile, yet nothing as severe as the character of exile he outlined in his book. In &#8220;Johnny Got His Gun&#8221; Trumbo places a human soul in the most difficult philosophical and spiritual isolation ever offered as reality to non-philosophical American minds.</p>
<p>America hasn&#8217;t the strength or depth to enter a<a href="http://www.alcott.net/alcott/home/champions/Fichte.html"> Fichte</a> or <a href="http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA004/English/RSPI1963/GA004_index.html">&#8220;The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity&#8221;</a> by Rudolf Steiner. But Trumbo presented the full experience of the isolation of the &#8220;I AM&#8217; of humanity, so that pragmatic Americans could comprehend it. It is the most frightening and the most profound of considerations when isolating the &#8220;I AM&#8221; alone with it&#8217;s mortality and immortality. In the core of the I AM is the resonating central mystery of the actual Christ Being Himself. And Americans have shown no interest in wanting to get to the core of the I AM. &#8220;Johnny Got His Gun&#8221; is, objectively, terrifying and absolutely true in terms of Initiation Science.</p>
<p>Basically still today, your reputation is ruined or you are murdered if you attempt to speak truth to power. Today there is a science of defaming and destroying a target personality through the willing henchmen of the press and media. Which means that power literally hates the reality of the Etheric Christ in our environment or when a personality comes close to understanding the deceptions we delude ourselves with they become a target.</p>
<p>Fascism in all forms and American styled fascism, lies and deceptions are the M.O.(Modus operandi) of the beasts globally growing Main Stream Media&#8217;s face. The United States Congress, Great Britain, Washington D.C., Wall Street and Israel who refuses to acknowledge violations of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, to name just a few, all torture and have broken the slender line of human decency set in the Geneva Conventions. In other words the M.O. of the beast creates literal war criminals and trusts no one who isn&#8217;t a deceitful, murdering monster like itself.</p>
<p>Our sense world is supposed to be ruled by distractions and disorientations and all education and the entire military budget and the control of human sheeple would come to screeching halt if the Etheric Christ and His activity behind the Threshold of the Sense World were known. <img src="http://www.klisia.net/blog/uploaded_images/christrisen-770696.jpg" alt="Christ amidst the sheeple" width="539" height="648" />Therefore people are murdered and their reputations destroyed through public humiliation and Media Whores who work for the same horrific beast that stands to gain by the denial of the Etheric Christ Event.</p>
<h3><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><strong><em><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT;font-size:large;"><img src="http://theasylum.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/dalton.jpg" alt="Trumbo Johnny as Torso" />Chapter 16</span></em></strong></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;..And then all sound seemed centered in one voice that filled the whole world. He listened to the voice because it had stopped his fall. It had become everything—the world and the universe and the nothingness around them. It was a woman&#8217;s voice crying and he had heard it before. Where&#8217;s my boy where&#8217;s my boy? He&#8217;s under age can&#8217;t you see? He just came up from Tucson about a week ago. They had him in jail for a tramp and I came all the way here to get him back. They let him out of jail if he&#8217;d join the army. He&#8217;s only sixteen except he&#8217;s big and strong for his age he always was. He&#8217;s too young I tell you he&#8217;s just a baby. Where is he my little boy? He just came up from Tucson you see and I came to take him home.</p>
<p>The voice faded away but he knew the whole thing now. That boy was Christ. There wasn&#8217;t any doubt about it. The boy was Christ and he had come up from Tucson and now his mother was hunting and crying for him. He could see Christ coming up from Tucson trembling out of the desert heat waves with purple robes flowing from him like in a mirage. Christ came right into the railway station and sat down with them.</p>
<p>It seemed like there must be a little room somewhere off from the station and they were playing blackjack there waiting for the train to go. He didn&#8217;t know the other guys and they didn&#8217;t know him but it didn&#8217;t seem to make any difference. Outside the crowds were yelling and the bands were playing and here he was with four or five guys in a quiet little room and they were playing blackjack when Christ came up from Tucson and walked in on them. The guy with red hair looked up and said you play blackjack? and Christ said sure and the guy who looked like a Swede said then pull up a chair. Table stakes said the guy with red hair and be sure your bet&#8217;s out before the first card. Christ said okay and fished around in his pocket and pulled out a quarter and laid it down.</p>
<p>The guy with red hair began to deal and everybody began to watch the cards except the Swede who grunted and said Christ I wish we had a drink here. Christ kind of grinned and said why don&#8217;t you drink it if you want it so bad? The guy who looked like a Swede turned and looked at Christ and then he looked down at the table and sure enough there was a glass of whiskey sitting by his right hand and everybody had a drink of whiskey sitting there. They all looked up at Christ and the guy with red hair said how in hell did you do that? Christ just smiled and said I can do anything hit me only not too hard. The dealer hit him and Christ looked at the card like it was bad news. Then he pushed his money toward the dealer. I never could hit a twelve he said in a complaining voice. I don&#8217;t understand it because a twelve shouldn&#8217;t be any harder to hit than a thirteen should it? It shouldn&#8217;t be only it is said the guy with red hair. There is nothing to that it&#8217;s all the bunk said the guy who looked like a Swede a twelve is just like any other number above it only better and anybody tells you any different is filled with superstition. Gosh said a quiet little guy who had been winning and now was sampling the whiskey this stuff is mighty good liquor try it. It ought to be good said Christ still looking at his dough out there on the table it&#8217;s sixteen years old.</p>
<p>All of a sudden the guy with red hair threw down his cards and stood up stretching and yawning. Well he said it&#8217;s all aboard outside I got to go. We all got to go. I&#8217;m going to be killed on the twenty-seventh of June and I got to say goodbye to my wife and kid. The kid he&#8217;s only a year eight months but smart as hell already I&#8217;d like to see him when he&#8217;s five. I can see myself getting killed plain. It&#8217;s just after daybreak all cool and nice with a brand new sun and the air smelling good. We&#8217;re going over and I&#8217;m a sergeant by then so I go over first. Just as I get my head over the edge a bullet hits me like a hammer. I fall back clear across the trench and try to tell the other guys to go on without me only I can&#8217;t talk and they go over anyhow. I lie there seeing only their legs as they run by and climb up and disappear. I kick and squirm for a minute like a chicken and then I snuggle down against the dirt. That bullet got me in the throat so I just snuggle down there peaceful like and watch the blood run out and then I&#8217;m dead. But my wife don&#8217;t know it so I got to tell her goodbye just like I thought I was coming back.</p>
<p>Hell said the little guy who had been winning you talk like you was the only one. We&#8217;re all going to be killed that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re here. Christ he&#8217;s already dead and the big Swede over there is going to catch flu and die in camp and you in the corner you&#8217;re going to get blown so damned high nobody&#8217;ll ever have a souvenir and me I&#8217;m going to get buried in a trench cave-in and smother now isn&#8217;t that a hell of a way to die?</p>
<p>All of a sudden they were all quiet listening and the guy with red hair said what&#8217;s that? Somewhere in the air way far above them there was music. It was high thin music like a ghost passing through the sunlight. It was pale white music so beautiful so very faint and yet loud enough for all of them to hear. It was music like a soft breeze that finds it way out beyond the place where there is air where there is only space. It was music so faint so shivery so sweet that it made them all tremble as they stood and listened. It is the music of death said Christ the high thin music of death.</p>
<p>Everybody was still for a minute and then the little guy who had been winning said what the hell&#8217;s this other guy doing here he ain&#8217;t going to die. And then everybody looked at him. For a minute he didn&#8217;t know what to say he felt like somebody who&#8217;s come to a party he hasn&#8217;t any invitation to and then he cleared his throat and said maybe you&#8217;re right but I&#8217;m going to be the same as dead. You see I&#8217;m going to have my arms and legs blown off and my face shot out so I can&#8217;t see or hear or talk or breathe and I&#8217;m going to live even if I am dead.</p>
<p>They all looked at him and finally the guy who looked like a Swede said Jesus he&#8217;s worse off than we are. There was a little more silence and all of them seemed to be looking at the guy with red hair as if he was the boss. Hell said the guy with red hair after staring hard at him he&#8217;s all right leave him alone. So they all went out to the train.</p>
<p>On the way out to the train the little guy who had been winning said to Christ Christ are you going with us? And Christ said for a little ways but not far I got lots of trains to meet lots of dead men lots of them you wouldn&#8217;t believe it. So they climbed on the train and Christ made just an easy little jump and swung right smack up on top of the engine.</p>
<p>When the train started up everybody thought it was the train&#8217;s whistle made the noise but it wasn&#8217;t it was Christ perched up there and screaming that made the noise. So the train went rushing and screaming away with <img src="http://www.entourages.com/barbs/images/jesuscp.jpg" alt="Christ 1" width="539" height="361" />Christ perched on top of the engine his clothes trailing after him and hollering at the top of his voice. The train went so fast all you could see looking out of the window was a line between the sky and the earth and nothing else.</p>
<p>Pretty soon the train was in the middle of a big desert a hot yellow desert that shivered under the sun. Away off in the distance there was a cloud—a haze that was floating between the sky and the earth but nearer to the earth. And out of the haze was Christ coming up from Tucson.<img src="http://lightcoloranddarkness.org/images/images/orange1.jpg" alt="Christ in the desert" width="598" height="788" /> Christ floated there above the desert with purple robes drifting down and the heat waves swimming up around him.</p>
<p>Looking at Christ there above the desert he couldn&#8217;t stand it any longer on the train. Dead men were on that train dead men or live men and he wasn&#8217;t either so he had no business being there. He had no business being anywhere there was no place for him he was forgotten and abandoned and left forever alone. So he jumped out of the train right through the window and started running toward Christ.</p>
<p>The nightmare train went on through the sunlight its whistle screeching and the dead men inside laughing. But he was alone in the desert running running till his lungs squeaked running toward Christ who floated there in the heat with purple robes. He ran and he ran and he ran and finally he came up to Christ. He threw himself into the hot sand at the feet of Christ and began to cry.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<p>To ask for our thoughtful attention to detail, when the Christ creates a round of drinks for the card players and to comprehend how each year in the life of a sixteen year old is part of the flavor and Spirit of the round of drinks is a wholly new concept of the transubstantiation, the Holy Communion. <em>&#8220;Gosh said a quiet little guy who had been winning and now was sampling the whiskey this stuff is mighty good liquor try it. It ought to be good said Christ still looking at his dough out there on the table it’s sixteen years old.&#8221; </em>The aged and aging process of Christ in the sixteen year old distills and creates a transubstantiation moment of drinking the actual illusion of the taste of someones life.</p>
<p>That which the card players drink around the table are the shot glasses of rich spirit. The distilled spirit of the sixteen year old boy is what they share as a communion together as they prepare to leave the realm of Earth life and Earth destiny, shepherded by the Christ. Guided by Christ the Lord of human Karma, as the hundreds of thousands of dead human beings, the casualties of war, the collateral damages to War Mongers are harvested and prepared to cross over to the Spiritual World. Yes and they toast with the young sixteen year old&#8217;s aged shots.<br />
<img src="http://www.the-ferryman.com/motorferry.jpg" alt="Ferryman takes dead across river" /><br />
It was the FerryMan who used to ferry the souls across the river that divides the earthly world from the spiritual world. Christ the Lord of Karma and each human beings individual Angel now serve as Ferrymen in the service of the Christ Being.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Christ looked at the card like it was bad news. Then he pushed his money toward the dealer. I never could hit a twelve he said in a complaining voice. I don’t understand it because a twelve shouldn’t be any harder to hit than a thirteen should it? It shouldn’t be only it is said the guy with red hair. There is nothing to that it’s all the bunk said the guy who looked like a Swede a twelve is just like any other number above it only better and anybody tells you any different is filled with superstition.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Christ did not fail by having the TWELVE DISCIPLES. Listen very carefully, matter and light, and carbon based life forms, human beings as well as nature combine and are integrated with a Carbon-12 model. <em>&#8220;Carbon-12 is the more abundant of the two stable isotopes of the element carbon, accounting for 98.89% of carbon; it contains 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons. Carbon-12 is of particular importance as it is used as the standard from which atomic masses of all nuclides are measured: its mass number is by definition 12.&#8221;</em> Not only should light the devachan and the atomic table of elements not escape human intelligence in their lack of moral insight, but more importantly is the reality of the THIRTEENTH.</p>
<p>Trumbo lets slip an interesting and fathomless idea, but none of us as casual readers are supposed to catch the drift and catch the meaning are we? When we look at the Last Supper it is always Thirteen we are looking at. When we look at King Arthur and his mythical 12 knights of the Round Table, we always are looking at Thirteen because both Arthur and the Christ are the Thirteenth. But reality does not end at that comparison, The Sun Being, the Christ who transformed the entire physical and genetic form of humanity by using Jesus as the vehicle, was the actual moral kernel of the Sun Itself in human form. The Sun, whether idiotic science stands by the seasons or the procession of the Equinoxes places the Sun in a giant cosmic clock of TWELVE CONSTELLATIONS, from whence the Christ as the central Sun Being, the Logos arrived at the Baptism.</p>
<p>Humanity as slip-shod, goony thinkers have to have 12 hours on every clock face and must account both for the position of the Earth in the cosmos, the 12 months of the year, and finally that the ratio of body weight to blood in the human being is 13/1, must also hold in their consciousness the reality of the Free Functioning Formative Etheric Christ Being as the 13th amidst the twelve constellations. The failure to grasp the rooted depths of a divine being of that magnitude having visited Earth Humanity and plunging itself into the destructive humility of human death is a failure to understand the very roots how Spirit and matter are wed. This is not a little baby Jesus injunction but a Pauline and a Krishna revelation in both Science and vision. Dalton Trumbo, Charlie Chaplin, Oppenheimer, Himmler and Rudolf Steiner penetrated into the region of The Lord of Karma, the Etheric Christ.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/Dates/19130101p01.html">&#8220;So that in what happened at the Mystery of Golgotha</a>, we really have a co-operation of the most important leaders of mankind, a synthesis of spirit-life. When St. Paul had his vision before Damascus, He Who appeared to him then was the Christ. The halo of light in which Christ was enveloped was Krishna. And because Christ has taken Krishna for His own soul-covering through which He then works on further, therefore in the light which shone there, in Christ Himself, there is all that was once upon a time contained in the sublime Gita. We find much of that old Krishna-teaching, although scattered about, in the New Testament revelations. This old Krishna-teaching has on that account become a personal matter to the whole of mankind, because Christ is not as such a human ego belonging to mankind, but to the Higher Hierarchies, Thus Christ belongs also to those times when man was not yet separated from that which now surrounds him as material existence, and which is veiled to him in maya through his own Luciferic temptation. If we glance back over the whole of evolution, we shall find that in those olden times there was not yet that strict division between the spiritual and the material; material was then still spiritual, and the spiritual — if we may say so — still manifested itself externally. Thus because, in the Christ-Impulse, something entered into mankind which completely prevented such a strict separation&#8230;&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>From 1933 onwards the Risen Christ, The Lord of the physics of Human Karma has stood at the Threshold of Human Consciousness as humanity plunged itself into deeper and deeper forces of chaos and darkness. The issue of the physics of Human Karma is centered on the vast core and hub of the Christ Being that sorts out all the billions of human time streams and currents, primitively viewed as a train station by Dalton Trumbo, but far into the future, our current karmic issues have a cause and effect field within the vast Alpha &#8211; Omega structural system of the Light coordinator, the Christ Being. Trumbo allows that his passengers will know the time of their deaths, and will visit their loved ones and realize the results of the immense realities of Time &#8211; Cause and Effect that transcends our current sloppy physics studies of reality.</p>
<p>This vast cosmic I AM is intimate to every single i am that functions. Therefore Physics theory and time theory and studying karmic events of the past and their specific effects out into the future, have created what Steiner understood and Physics is trying to understand as a kind of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, disturbance that reveals a karmic effect sent winging back into the soul of the human being in the present from the future.</p>
<p>In this present and in that future The Etheric Christ Being embraces the full gamut of the divine unfolding of all human beings everywhere including compensation from the past, present and future events within an integrated, creative and cohesive whole. Not one human spirit or event is out of the system ever. This new disturbing capacity is part of the central reality of raising our vision past Krishna to the current Lord of Karma, The Etheric Christ Being currently operating within the etheric region of humanity. We need to know a great deal about the intimacy of our own human biographies within the Angelic and Divine system of compassion, matter, light and love. For our decisions in freedom, in the moment, create intimate alterations to our own and humanities karma in the future.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos648.htm">Russian researcher Anatoly Okhatrin are of definite interes</a>t. They confirm the idea of an ether or universal lepton gas, which contains full information about the material world. Clusters of the lightest particles&#8211;microleptons&#8211;carry people&#8217;s thoughts and feelings; these microleptons are capable of traveling in space and time at tremendous speeds.</p>
<p>The speed of light is a limiting factor only for a continuous stream of speeds, the so-called continuum. However, greater speed levels, in excess of the speed of light, are possible for extremely weak<br />
signals.</p>
<p>Okhatrin&#8217;s experiments and calculations show that people&#8217;s thoughts are carried by the lightest microleptons. And the equations of karma prove that they can travel much faster than light. This justifies<br />
the conclusion that humanity&#8217;s potential in getting to understand the Universe is practically boundless.</p>
<p>Up to now it was considered that our potential in the conquest of outer space is limited by what is known as the pessimistic radius of Poincare-Einstein. If we multiply the speed of light by the human life span, we arrive at the limit that even the most sophisticated spaceships cannot surpass. No generation of spacemen can explore the Universe beyond that radius.</p>
<p>But from the equations of karma it follows that at the level of extremely weak signals we can reach out far beyond the Poincare-Einstein sphere.<img src="http://www.psfk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/SonUmbra-Light-Sculpture-and-Social-Hub-3.png" alt="past-present-future time field interconnections" /> Material thought can travel to distant regions of the Universe at a speed greater than that of light. Man can obtain information about what is happening at any distance from him. This is a fundamental philosophical conclusion that allows humanity to look to the future with optimism.</p>
<p>I arrived at this conclusion by considering the equations of karma. But then, many scientists before me have reflected on the synthesis of science and religion, among them the founders of quantum physics. What are termed the conjugated equations of Schrodinger and Dirac point to the possibility of the existence of anti-particles. Similarly, the conjugated equation of karma suggests that there can be anti-signals as well as anti-particles. Moreover, this equation makes it possible to describe the spectrum of<br />
properties that these anti-signals possess. While ordinary signals travel along the river of time from the past via the present into the future, anti-signals travel in the opposite direction. They originate in the future and pass through the present into the past.</p></blockquote>
<p>We touched upon the issue of how America was preserved and chosen, as the most advanced technical nation, to become the bearer of a truly demonic weapon of mass incineration and destruction. America&#8217;s karma was to ingest and be chosen by the beast, to bring forth FEAR with more intensity than even Nazi Germany did. Both Heisenberg and Einstein prevented Germany from going further down a certain path, but America, as arrogant and malicious and huge as She is would be a far more interesting and enormous win for the seductive forces of the beast and our failure is a failure to think of macro or vast motives and intentions that are part of <a href="http://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigrandchessboard">&#8220;The Grand Chessboard&#8221;</a> that include think-tanks and societies and clubs that have fallen under the brilliant and glittering glare of the beasts most intimate schooling.</p>
<p>This is where the Manhattan Project and Oppenheimer crossed paths with <a href="http://www.iivs.de/~iivs01311/H-B-K/inhalt.hi.en.htm">Heinrich Himmler.</a> Both Oppenheimer and Himmler were immersed in how Krishna answers Arjuna. Human Karma and the Logos or law of the world allowed Himmler to train his ruthless SS officers in moral detachment while fulfilling the job of murdering innocent people. Since murdering masses of innocent people would disturb the individual human moral conscience both Himmler and Oppenheimer resorted to hiding behind the Yogi Karma of detachment by using the  <em>Bhagavad Gita</em> and what the Lord of Karma, Krishna, as a Spiritual Being, brought as justification to the horrific death and destruction that would happen on the battlefield or in the final solution of Concentration Camps.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Krishna is not teaching Arjuna to become ruthless. A choice less person can never be ruthless. Ruthlessness can only happen to a person of attachment, attachment to killing. A ruthless person simply enjoys being ruthless. Krishna will have no attachment to killing; killing has to take place because the value system Dharma is in danger. The law and order has to be maintained.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, it doesn&#8217;t matter if you think you would like things explained very easily to you, what matters is that you raise yourself up to the plateau where you grasp that the Christ, that super divine being that entered Jesus at the Baptism at 29/30 and completed the Resurrection at 33 years of age, was indeed the very <a href="http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/Dates/19121230p01.html">Being of Krishna</a> and that all arguments for murder or karmic justice or detachment from torture or rendition, or sterile annihilation as with un-manned drones or bio-weapons or mere launch codes, are all brought back to the individual I AM and cannot as both Himmler and Oppenheimer imagined, that somehow by lending their destiny to mass murder they would somehow be granted immunity from karma.</p>
<p>You and your affiliations with what you think are the righteous military good boys and girls think that somehow you will be given a pass because you remained nothing but ignorant unconscious pawns, taking orders and all the while imagining our perfect America doing the good. No, what matters is that you treated other I AM&#8217;s as you would have wished to be treated. Not one jot or tittle that caused the horrific murder or removing someones karma from the scope of reality will be left undetected by the Christ the Lord of Karma.</p>
<p>It is a physics impossibility and it is a Logos law and a Logos Being that stands as steady as the order of the Sun in the constellations. Therefore puny human denial is just weary water under the bridge. <a href="http://www.psychovision.ch/synw/pauli_fludd_flood_sync.htm">Christ is the master of the physics</a> of how the entire karma of each and every individual will be woven back into reality and held to account. And this will absolutely cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and psychic distortions and Karmic earthquakes through out the entire system. The Beast plans to vaccine and medicate such disturbances as a cover up against the actual influences of the Etheric Christ Being.</p>
<p>Humanity and the Christ Being who is the I AM of the Light of the World has placed the weight of the moral depths of the world on each and every individual human being. <img src="http://www.hibernia.org.uk/images/karin%27s/angelbig.jpg" alt="Christ and the lone i am" width="624" height="835" />If you pretend to be unconscious or pretend to not understand that an actual Divine Being, the Christ, is actually active now within humanity and that this is not some Eastern Esoteric tangent, but the moral and ethical battle for the very core of each and every brother and sister in protecting the tiniest I AM because in that fragile i am is also the germ of the mighty Christ I AM, you are pretending and hiding from actual reality. We are charged with becoming morally mature or descending deeper into the abyss.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;the saving and redeeming work of <a href="http://adammichaelis.minisite.dk/part-4-59340">Christ as a Sun Being </a>or a spirit connected with the mystery of the Sun, the eternal spiritual and creative light. Christ leads man back to the spiritual domain through the Mystery of Golgotha in which mankind is resurrected from the physical condition and has begun the upwards journey from matter towards light, transubstantiated by the Soul-I connection or the Christ-being of his inner make-up.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Oppenheimer later stated that while watching the display the horrific power of the nuclear test he was reminded of a line from the Hindu scripture the <a title="Bhagavad Gita" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita">Bhagavad Gita</a>: <em>&#8220;Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds&#8221; </em>The Manhattan Project was the perfect circle of research scientists who broke into the lower Devachan world without initiation. The Grail Castle and Grail legends have a collection of souls who have experienced the initiation of the moral light of the Christ Being around the destiny of the blood of a God/human. In the Grail Community Angelic and higher <a href="http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/EthBld_index.html">Devachan Light of the Risen Christ</a> was received as inspiration and communion into the will and courage of the human being.</p>
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<p><img src="http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/images/Reappearance_of_Christ_in_Etheric3.gif" alt="Diagram 3" width="693" height="579" /></p>
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<p>In the Manhattan Project terrified, fearful and scientific patriotic souls of many different nationalities gathered together, during the horrors of WW II with the opportunity supplied by the advances in technology of the west, armed only with superficial intellectual, paper thin, veneer of moral substance and sterile thinking, ready to serve the beast and open the gates of the lower devachan. Decayed or fallen Light appears in magnetism, electricity and in the fatal depleted uranium of nuclear poisoned light that literally eats into the etheric lymphatic system and destroys the light re-generator of the the bone marrow.</p>
<p>The Resurrection and the rise of the Etheric Christ in magnificent stages has been set into the foundations of the world within the tangible number 33. On 17 December 1833 <a href="http://www.monju.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/KH3.htm">Kaspar Hauser</a> is stabbed to death; in 1933 was the burning of the Reichstag and the launch of Nazism and the rise of Hitler. At the approach of 1933 the dawning of the experience of the etheric Christ, at the threshold of our higher consciousness had arrived.</p>
<p>It means to this day and ever since the dawn of the 20th century that anyone who imagines that we shall see parading before the cameras a PHYSICAL CHRIST in a PHYSICAL BODY, has failed to understand the magnitude and intimacy of the Etheric Christ experience. As the 30&#8217;s approached the entire world, Dust Bowel, Nazism, King Kong, The Great Depression, The Gold Standard and the brilliant &#8216;false flag&#8217; deception of the burning of the Reichstag hit exactly on the mark of Feb 27, 1933.</p>
<p>The film <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IvPIWzQcUY">&#8220;The Great Dictator&#8221;</a> by Charlie Chaplin locked into the entire world wide distraction and deception that fully upstaged the intimacy of the Etheric Christ event as it approached and dawned. Chaplin managed to reverse the entire message of Nazism to the true message of global brotherhood.</p>
<p>The entire distorted message that broke the surface on the significant date of Feb 27, 1933, when all the lower forces of Germany erupted and all the backroom political deals were made in the U.S. of funding Nazi Germany via Prescott Bush, and the entire Bush dynasty, set the stage for money, power and the advancement of the war mentality to a science, all of which became part of the beast&#8217;s repertoire.</p>
<p>In 1940 Charlie Chaplin brought out [WATCH CLIP] <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/58651/the_great_dictator/">&#8220;The Great Dictator&#8221;</a> and against all odds presented the true message of brotherhood and humanity and the Etheric Christ event that was rising in the background of the basest human instincts. Real freedom is the ability to cope with intangible and mature elements of reality. Real freedom means digging into the depths of the foundations of the Spiritual and the Material worlds.</p>
<p>Like Dalton Trumbo, Charlie Chaplin and countless others have been pursued by and some murdered and assassinated by the machinations of the Beast. The stratagems of how The Soul of America was to be attacked and prevented from attaining a true insight into brotherhood and The Etheric Christ, was hatched in the crooked and demonic forces of the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover who was a pathological psychopath that held power over Presidents and politicians alike.</p>
<p>All the lower instincts and the lower devachan substance of human behavior were tools for manipulation and redirecting agencies and activities against the true revelation of the Etheric Christ. Tapes, pictures and recordings of Congress, Presidents and leaders are used today with venom to blackmail all those who enter, unprepared in their darkened human instincts to attempt to serve humanity.</p>
<p>Just as Hoover was a gay cross dresser who tried to keep his darker side hidden, so also were the sexual and political crimes, held on file by the FBI, held over the heads of anyone who presumed that they could walk up to the face of Power and pretend they were purely seeking the good of mankind. The best politicians and those who love the lust of power above all else, all have skeletons and hideous deeds in their histories that promote the lies and deception of humanity.</p>
<p>Colin Powell&#8217;s U.N. pile of lies to press for invading Iraq are a very good examples of the manipulation of the beast. Dick Cheney has been one of the finest recent examples of the unmitigated corruption of a human soul by the beast. But America ingested the Anti-etheric light and the naive American soul had no training in higher Devachan moral insights.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAchaplinC.htm">Chaplin</a> became increasingly concerned with politics. A strong supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, Chaplin&#8217;s film, Modern Times (1936), was seen by some critics as an attack on capitalism. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), began compiling a file on Chaplin&#8217;s activities, including his friendship with radicals such as Upton Sinclair, H. G. Wells, Hanns Eisner, Albert Einstein and Harold Laski.</p>
<p>A strong opponent of racism, in 1937 Chaplin decided to make a film on the dangers of fascism. As Chaplin pointed out in his autobiography, attempts were made to stop the film being made: &#8220;Half-way through making The Great Dictator I began receiving alarming messages from United Artists. They had been advised by the Hays Office that I would run into censorship trouble. Also the English office was very concerned about an anti-Hitler picture and doubted whether it could be shown in Britain. But I was determined to go ahead, for Hitler must be laughed at.&#8221; However, by the time The Great Dictator was finished, Britain was at war with Germany and it was used as propaganda against Hitler.</p>
<p>During the Second World War Chaplin played an active role in the American Committee for Russian War Relief. Others involved in this organization included Fiorello La Guardia, Vito Marcantonio, Wendell Willkie, Orson Welles, Rockwell Kent and Pearl Buck. Chaplin was also one of the major figures in the campaign during the summer of 1942 for the opening of a second-front in Europe.</p>
<p>After the Second World War the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began to investigate people with left-wing views in the entertainment industry. In September 1947 Chaplin was subpoenaed to appear before the HUAC but three times his meeting was postponed. Unknown to Chaplin, J. Edgar Hoover, and the FBI, now had a 1,900 page file on his political activities. Hoover advised the Attorney General that when Chaplin left the country he should be allowed to return.</p>
<p>In 1952 Chaplin visited London for the premiere of Limelight. When he arrived back he discovered his entry permit revoked and had been denied the right to live in the United States. As Chaplin pointed out in his autobiography: &#8220;My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chaplin, blacklisted from making films in Hollywood, responded by making A King in New York (1957). The film stars Chaplin as the deposed king of Estrovia who flees to America where he is tormented by McCarthy style investigations. Chaplin was once again accused of being pro-communist and the film was not released in the United States.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Dismissing the depth and Science, education and reality of the Spiritual World without a fight is immaturity first and cowardly second. Ignoring the deeper issues of humanity and how we are connected to the depths of an extended Devachan moral world is a literal failure to understand the message of The Matrix. <img src="http://www.highposition.net/article/wp-content/uploads/matrix.jpg" alt="Mr. Smith and the human electrical Ahrimanic double" width="735" height="414" />Humanity can find itself submerged in the sub-devachan world of electricity and find that they themselves have sentenced themselves to slavery and extinction.</p>
<p>Oh the education and schooling of the schools of the beast started crudely with Nazi Germany. But these schools of the beast quickly grew and when America ingested the terrible potent secret of fallen light and began developing and nursing this beast, the entire social fabric of America slowly, upon slowly, became infected. For the strategy of the beast, was to outgrow the cumbersomeness of Nazi Germany and nestle its motives and agendas slowly and deeply into the lower psyche of the immoral core of America&#8217;s unconscious motives. These immoral American drives of greed and Avarice and Vegas and Wall Street motives have created entire new schools of deception. In these unconscious instincts are the causes and reasons for corruption, death, torture and economic disaster at every turn.</p>
<p>Chief to these schools of deception were CIA, Mossad and British nationals who found all that the beast, against brotherhood, whispered as power and aggression in their souls to be worthy of winning riches, fame and fortune in a superficial and debauched media environment and worthy of the envy of men&#8217;s eyes. And all that mattered was not the moral fabric of humanity, the higher Devachan or the reality of a Sun Being like the Etheric Christ who had walked the Earth as Jesus, all that mattered was the pretense of external success.</p>
<p>The pretensions of what materialism deemed  &#8216;the good life&#8217;. Never mind that there was very little self observation or depth of insight or courage to ask or seek the roots of disturbing questions, Americans became comfortable with convenient lies. JFK, Weapons of Mass Destruction, The Economic Crisis, 9/11, Global Warming, Heroin and Oil, The Stock Markets, Ponzi Schemes, American Health Care, all countless, countless lies, The Big Bang, Creationism, all convenient lies. The beast found the American Soul easy to seduce and America had much more stepping stone potential to paving the way to the Incarnation of the <a href="http://rileybrad.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=20">Anti-Christ</a> because most of the leaders were easy marks and always greedy for short term success.</p>
<p>It does not matter to the self satisfied selfish to trace how the physics of mastering the path and way of each human &#8220;I AM&#8217; in the vast populations of the living and the dead, passed through the world of the stars after death and how the stars themselves and the vast Angelic Community one stage above humanity, helped the Christ organize the incarnation and the lessons of all the billions over the planet. <img src="http://aura.gaia.com/photos/8/75035/large/Disciples_small.jpg?" alt="a gathering around Christ" width="638" height="966" />This was such high Devachan physics that to steal and rob and intrude into the Fallen Devachan Light forces of Magnetism, Electricity and Laser and atomic technology, was a robbery that was recognized by the base instincts of humanity as REAL POWER, not the cognitive power to awaken hidden spiritual capacities and creating a school of wisdom and a wide world of educational principles and insights that could reawaken all that slumbered as the good and healing potential in humanity.<img src="http://skunks.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/mwsnap018-2008-01-14-23_25_09.jpg" alt="Modern Grail School- The Goetheanum" /> To the media and culture, such insights appeared uninteresting, boring. The effort to locate the activity of the I AM in the blood; The astral body in the nervous system; The etheric body in the lymphatic system; and map the brilliant Physical Form and Physical body of Human Beings as a potent IMAGINATION of the gods themselves, was left to Rudolf Steiner and The School of Spiritual Science and the Devachan Grail students to defend.</p>
<p>The rich Science of how the supercharged higher devachan light of the Christ entered Jesus, not as a simple man, but as a complex deed of Initiation Schooling and human karma, entered into the human humility and humiliation of a God&#8217;s sacrifice on Golgotha is all part of the Science of Humanity. The Lord of Karma and the Etheric Christ was charged with lifting the entire genetic Fall of Humanity upwards, so that a Human model of Spirit Man, an advance prototype of what humanity shall become in the distant future, shattered the entire mid-point of human evolution on Earth. Humanity is charged with balancing the depths of its human darkness with the heights of it&#8217;s divine potential by choosing in freedom to walk a line between hellish slavery and the higher education of human Initiation Science.</p>
<h1><strong>Christ in The Spirit Man Phantom Body arising from the Tomb</strong></h1>
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<title><![CDATA[Thursday Morning Cupcheck - Turkey Day in the NHL]]></title>
<link>http://bobhockey.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/thursday-morning-cupcheck-turkey-day-in-the-nhl/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Top of the morning, hockey fans! Here&#8217;s hoping Last week we defended the <a href="http://www.pegasusnews.com/r/38/34841/">snow-white virginal honor</a> of one Bill Belichick; this week, I was planning on penning a paean proposing punitive pressure on pumpkin-punching pain perpetrators &#8211;head shots have gotz to go&#8211; but when my hearing-ear dog Chocolate Satan woke me up this morning, I was reminded of the horrifying abyss that many of you refer to as Turkey Day.</p>
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<p>First, a quick history lesson: the origin of Turkey Day comes from our Founding Fathers, who, in remembrance of their harrowing escape from the dank depths of a Turkish prison, solemnly perform the Throttling of the Fat Brown Bird Ritual every year. This demonic ritual annually reminds us of the nightmarish terror of sinewy half-undead forms being tortured by hairy, sweaty hooded men by forcing us to watch the Detroit Lions.</p>
<p>But Turkey Day isn&#8217;t just about unspeakable suffering; it&#8217;s also about having dinner with your family. Indeed, it&#8217;s said that our Founding Fathers refused to sit at the same table with their in-laws unless it was written in-the-law that it was mandatory to do so; many say the choice of turkey as the centerpiece was chosen specifically for it&#8217;s bland, taste-free repulsiveness. For many early Pilgrims, an Indian massacre was a welcome respite from awkward family conversation.</p>
<p>But enough about ancient history: this Turkey Day, I&#8217;m coming to you <strong>live</strong> (bet you didn&#8217;t think journalists could do that, huh? Well, we can, we simply choose not to for metaphysical reasons) from the table of <a href="http://www.pegasusnews.com/r/38/32486/">one Gary Bettman</a>, who has locked his family in a wooden crate on an icefloe and invited some hockey luminaries to share this special day instead.</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: Thanks for having me over, Gary, I really appreciate the chance to break bread, talk turkey and suck stuffing with you today.</p>
<p><strong>Gary Bettman</strong>: No problem, Todd..er&#8230; did you bring the black tar heroin like I asked?</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: (<em>whips out garbage bag full of discarded Target receipts</em>) Got it right here, my friend!!</p>
<p><strong>Gary B.</strong>: In that case, Welcome to El Casa de Dolor, my palacial estate, built upon the bleached bones of those that would question my decision-making ability. What do you think?</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: (<em>glancing around</em>) There&#8217;s definitely a lot of stuff in here I&#8217;m thinking about stealing.</p>
<p><strong>Gary</strong>: I kno&#8211;wait, what?</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: I said, &#8216;Gary Bettman is a name synonymous with effective, results-driven leadership and shall go down in history with the greatest Napoleon complexes of all time.&#8217;</p>
<p><strong>Gary</strong>: That&#8217;s what I thought! Here, have a seat. (<em>motions me between <a href="http://www.pegasusnews.com/r/38/24653/">Chris Pronger</a> and Brian Burke</em>)</p>
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<p><strong>Me</strong>: Sweet! &#8216;Sup, Li&#8217;l Chris? What it is, B-Dawg? WOOF!!</p>
<p>(<em>Burke throws a haymaker, Pronger launches an elbow as I duck. They belt each other in the face</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: Cool! I&#8217;ve always wanted to do that!</p>
<p><strong>Burke</strong>: I&#8217;d ring-a-ding-ding your coconut, if I could wipe away enough of my own blood to open my eyes!</p>
<p><strong>Pronger</strong>: Why are my elbows covered in ketchup again? Is the food here already?</p>
<p><strong>Burke</strong>: That&#8217;s not ketchup, you imbalanced imbecile! That&#8217;s the Blood of Odin that runs through my veins and on to your Members Only jacket!!</p>
<p><strong>Pronger</strong>: Actually, it&#8217;s a Prongers Only jacket.</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: Speaking of nosebleeds, where&#8217;s the grub? Where are the other guests of honor?</p>
<p><strong>Gary</strong>: My enemies are as ruthless as they are dumb. To ensure that those who disobey me do not come near my dinner, I have set up an intricate series of puzzles and quests, which one must solve in order to pass to the Boss Level&#8230; where they will face the robotic clone I send in my place to all public speaking engagements, press interviews and Stanley Cup-awarding ceremonies. Then they must answer me these questions thr&#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: Waitaminute, why I didn&#8217;t have to go through any of that?</p>
<p><strong>Gary</strong>: <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/The-5-best-5-worst-NHL-decisions-in-the-last-de?urn=nhl,205125">Are you challenging me?</a> Next question!</p>
<p><strong>Pronger</strong>: Me! Me! Pick me!! Hey! Why do they call it &#8220;taking&#8221; a dump, when I&#8217;m only picking it up to fling it at passing motorists and Red Wing forwards?</p>
<p><strong>Burke</strong>: (<em>angrily</em>) So it was YOU that flung feces on my Escalade!! Lemme at &#8216;im!! <em>(jumps over table, picks up serving spoon and starts going to town on Pronger&#8217;s cranium)</em></p>
<p><strong>Pronger</strong>: My brain tickles. I must be thinking about something important.</p>
<p><strong>Gary</strong>: Brian!! Cease your truculence this instant!</p>
<p><strong>Burke</strong>: <em>(decks Bettman in the chin, starts foaming at the mouth)</em> NEEEAAAAAGGGHHHHGGGG!!</p>
<p><strong>Gary</strong>: <em>(twitches on the floor, soils $45,000 pants)</em> Collin&#8230; thhhavve me&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Me</strong>: That&#8217;s my cue. <em>(grabs Burke&#8217;s wallet, containing half of Toronto&#8217;s salary cap in unmarked $100s)</em> If you guys need me, I&#8217;ll be in Tijuana with Thora Birch and four sticks of Land O&#8217; Lakes unsalted butter. Toodles!</p>
<p><strong>Pronger</strong>: Ok, bye!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll update the remainder of my Turkey Day from the El Jefe Airlines flight I&#8217;m on to parts unknown. Tune in next week when I visit some Pittsburgh-area homeless shelters with Sidney Crosby &#8212; their relentless Crys-by taunts may surprise you.</p>
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<link>http://pavanvan.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/dirty-work/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pavanvan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[It looks as though we&#8217;re trolling the Europeans for help on our Afghan problem. You know, the ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>It looks as though we&#8217;re trolling the Europeans for help on our Afghan problem. You know, the one that presents an &#8220;existential threat&#8221; to the United States and all? But I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re biting this time.</p>
<p>From the Times:</p>
<blockquote><p>NATO members and other foreign allies have expressed reluctance to send more soldiers because of the Afghan war’s growing unpopularity in their countries and increasing concerns over corruption in President <a title="More articles about Hamid Karzai." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/hamid_karzai/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Hamid Karzai</a>’s government.</p></blockquote>
<p>Silly NATO! When will they realize that such trivial matters as &#8220;public opinion&#8221; and &#8220;corruption&#8221; have no place when discussing vital <em>defense</em> strategy? Why can&#8217;t they take the United States&#8217; example on this? The US, after all, doesn&#8217;t let a little thing like a <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,658988,00.html">widespread electoral fraud</a> or <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html">massive heroin production</a> by the winners of said fraud affect their decision. We must stay the course, after all!</p>
<p>Later they say that:</p>
<blockquote><p>It remains unclear whether several thousand NATO and other foreign troops are really the equal of a similarly sized American force in terms of military capacity. Some countries may continue to restrict how their forces may be employed. In addition, a force that is cobbled together from too many nations — a few hundred here and a thousand there — might not have the unit cohesion of an American force, military analysts said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah, who needs &#8216;em! The &#8220;military analysts&#8221; are right &#8211; nobody has the &#8220;unit cohesion&#8221; of a good ol&#8217; red-blooded American soldier! It looks like no one at the Times has ever heard of a thing called &#8220;sour grapes&#8221;.</p>
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<link>http://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/sex-beer-heroin-and-cocaine-how-prosecutors-pay-off-criminal-snitches/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kristalklear</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/sex-beer-heroin-and-cocaine-how-prosecutors-pay-off-criminal-snitches/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Twighlight Heroin/SXSW lineup]]></title>
<link>http://stevelovesmusicscience.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/twighlight-heroinsxsw-lineup/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>stevecrossrock</dc:creator>
<guid>http://stevelovesmusicscience.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/twighlight-heroinsxsw-lineup/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not making this up. SXSW is already announcing an initial batch of bands for the 2010 fest]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I&#8217;m not making this up. SXSW is already announcing an initial batch of bands for the 2010 festival. Unbelievable. I mean, I must admit that I&#8217;ve been thinking about it some, but it&#8217;s still about 4 months away! Regardless, some highlights that I noticed: Deer Tick, The Brunettes, The Coathangers, Robyn Hitchcock, We Are Scientists. Decent list, I guess. I&#8217;m pretty sure it will improve drastically when the full lineup finally comes out. SXSW &#8216;09 was literally one of the best trips of my life, so one way or another, I&#8217;m going back next year! Check out the full list <a href="http://sxsw.com/music/shows/bands/" target="_blank">here</a>. (Via <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/37217-initial-flurry-of-sxsw-bands-announced/" target="_blank">Pitchfork</a>)</p>
<p>Twilight has officially gotten out of control. It&#8217;s already sad enough that <em>New Moon </em>had the most successful opening weekend in history&#8230; but now we have people biting other people in the theaters? And to top it all, Twilight-themed heroin was confiscated in Florida! <a href="http://io9.com/5412180/twilight-heroin-and-biting-fans-more-wtf-twilight-stories" target="_blank">See for yourself at io9</a>. WTF?!?!?</p>
<p>So this will probably be my last post till next Monday. Have a great Thanksgiving weekend!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Breaking the Chains of Addiction]]></title>
<link>http://narcononofga.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/breaking-the-chains-of-addiction-2/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>narcononofga</dc:creator>
<guid>http://narcononofga.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/breaking-the-chains-of-addiction-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[NARCONON REALIZATION Here is another Narconon realization.  Whether a person is abusing cocaine, her]]></description>
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<p>Here is another <strong>Narconon</strong> realization.  Whether a person is abusing cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine or pot there is a road out.  Narconon <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.atlantarecoverycenter.com/">drug treatment</a></span></strong> is the new life program.  877-413-3073</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><em>“I am having the biggest win I have had yet by working with my buddy.  To see him change right in front of my eyes is amazing.  At first, he had had reservations about what objectives could potentially accomplish.   Now he has begun to see the light and this is what I’ve really started to live for.  To watch someone who was chained and beaten down by their <strong><a href="http://www.drugsno.com/addiction.htm">addiction</a></strong> break free and climb out of the darkness makes my own light shine even brighter.  So through other people’s recovery I find my own <strong>recovery</strong> strengthen.”</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Milyen reláció létezik Pattinson és a heroin között?]]></title>
<link>http://biankajournal.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/milyen-relacio-letezik-pattinson-es-a-heroin-kozott/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Anka</dc:creator>
<guid>http://biankajournal.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/milyen-relacio-letezik-pattinson-es-a-heroin-kozott/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Drug Addiction Recovery IS Possible]]></title>
<link>http://skinbeautifulblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/drug-addiction-recovery-is-possible/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>frankie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://skinbeautifulblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/drug-addiction-recovery-is-possible/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just read an article about Narconon, a two-phase, Drug Rehab Program, with a distinct series of step]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><code>Just read an article about <a title="Successful Drug Rehab Program" href="http://drugsno.com" target="_blank">Narconon</a>, a two-phase, Drug Rehab Program, with a distinct series of steps to help drug recovery.  Drug addiction not only destroys the lives of the person using the drugs, but also has a huge impact on the family and friends of that person.  Many people do not know where to turn to get help for those they love when it comes to drug addiction.  Drug addicts generally withdraw from the people who know and love them.  This alone is one of the biggest problems that the drug abuser suffers and further increases the users need for drugs creating a catch 22.</p>
<p>The program at Narconon covers all aspects of the patients lives, which is essential to a help fully recover from this addiction.  Helping their patients through the tough withdrawal period, along with organizing and retraining the person in how to live a drug free life is Narconons main purpose.  This comprehensive program has had a huge amount of rehab success.  Phase one consists of Drug Free Withdrawal, Communication, Detoxification, and Learning Improvement.  Phase two includes Communication and Perception, Personal Values and Integrity, Changing Conditions in Life and After Care Planning.</p>
<p>Successful results at the end of the program can include:</p>
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<li>Greater mental acuity</li>
<li>Stronger relationships with "healthy" individuals who are not a liability to the person</li>
<li>Increased sense of well-being</li>
<li>The ability to live independently</li>
<li>Help achieving high personal integrity and honesty</li>
<li>The elimination of the bio-physical drug craving.</li>
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<p>The Narconon program has been around since 1966.  Today Narconon is an international program helping thousands of individuals recover from drug addiction successfully.  Check out <a href="http://www.drugsno.com" target="_blank">http://drugsno.com</a> for more information.</p>
<p><a href="http://drugsno.com">drug rehab</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[It’s Not Easy Being A Heroin Addict]]></title>
<link>http://peglud.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/it%e2%80%99s-not-easy-being-a-heroin-addict/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>peglud</dc:creator>
<guid>http://peglud.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/it%e2%80%99s-not-easy-being-a-heroin-addict/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[. . . but it seems to be something at which my daughter is succeeding.  She’s ‘making it’ in the dru]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[War tax proposed to pay for protecting Afghan opium fields, bribing Taliban]]></title>
<link>http://noworldsystem.com/2009/11/22/war-tax-proposed-to-pay-for-protecting-afghan-opium-fields-bribing-taliban/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>infolution</dc:creator>
<guid>http://noworldsystem.com/2009/11/22/war-tax-proposed-to-pay-for-protecting-afghan-opium-fields-bribing-taliban/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Obama Allies Want New Tax To Pay For Cost Of Protecting Afghan Opium Fields, Bribing Taliban Paul Jo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><font size="4">Obama Allies Want New Tax To Pay For Cost Of Protecting Afghan Opium Fields, Bribing Taliban</font></p>
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<p><font face="arial" size="2"><em>Paul Joseph Watson</em><br />
<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-allies-want-new-tax-to-pay-for-cost-of-protecting-afghan-opium-fields-bribing-taliban.html">Prison Planet.com</a><br />
November 20, 2009</p>
<p>Not content with savaging American taxpayers with two huge new financial burdens during an economic recession, in the form of health care reform and cap and trade, close allies of Barack Obama have proposed a new war surtax that will force Americans to foot the bill for the cost of protecting opium fields in Afghanistan, paying off drug lords, and bribing the Taliban.</p>
<p>Warning that the cost of occupying Afghanistan is a threat to the Democrats’ plan to overhaul health care, lawmakers have announced their plan to make Americans pay an additional war tax that will be taken directly from their income, never mind the fact that around <a href="http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm">36 per cent of federal taxes already go to paying for national defense.</a></p>
<p>“Regardless of whether one favors the war or not, if it is to be fought, it ought to be paid for,” the lawmakers, all prominent Democratic allies of Obama, said in a joint statement on the “Share The Sacrifice Act of 2010 (<a href="http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/Share_the_Sacrifice_Act_of_2010.pdf">PDF</a>),” <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_lawmakers_New_tax_should_pay_for_11192009.html">reports AFP</a>.</p>
<p>The move is being led by the appropriately named House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, Representative John Murtha, who chairs that panel’s defense subcommittee; and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank.</p>
<p>The tax would apply to anyone earning as little as $22,600 per year in 2011.</p>
<p>The proposal is described as “heavily symbolic” with little chance of passing, but it once again illustrates the hypocrisy of an administration that swept to power on the promise of “change” to the Neo-Con imperial agenda and a resolve to reduce U.S. military involvement overseas. In reality, there are more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan now under Obama that at any time during the Bush administration.</p>
<p>At the height of the Bush administration’s 2007 “surge” in Iraq, there were 26,000 US troops in Afghanistan and 160,000 in Iraq, a total of 186,000.</p>
<p>According to DoD figures cited by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101203142.html">The Washington Post last month</a>, there are now around 189,000 and rising deployed in total. There are now 68,000 troops in Afghanistan, over double the amount deployed there when Bush left office.</p>
<p>What precisely would this extra tax be used to pay for? Namely, bribing the Taliban, paying off CIA drug lords, and protecting heroin-producing opium fields.</p>
<p>Numerous reports over the past two weeks have confirmed that the<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6919516.ece"> U.S. military is paying off the Taliban with bags of gold</a> to prevent them from attacking vehicle convoys, proving that there is no real “war” in Afghanistan, merely a business agreement that allows the occupiers to continue their lucrative control of record opium exports while they finalize construction of dozens of new military bases from which to launch new wars.</p>
<p>The Afghan opium trade has exploded since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, following a lull after the Taliban had imposed a crackdown. According to the U.N., the drug trade is now worth $65 billion. Afghanistan produces 92 per cent of the world’s opium, with the equivalent of at least 3,500 tonnes leaving the country each year.</p>
<p>This racket is secured by drug kingpins like the brother of disputed president Hamid Karzai. As a <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/ny-times-afghan-opium-kingpin-on-cia-payroll.html">New York Times report revealed last month</a>, Ahmed Wali Karzai, a Mafia-like figure who expanded his influence over the drug trade with the aid of U.S. efforts to eliminate his competitors, is on the CIA payroll.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&#38;code=CHO20050614&#38;articleId=91">Professor Michel Chossudovsky has highlighted in a series of essays</a>, the explosion of opium production after the invasion was about the CIA’s drive to restore the lucrative Golden Crescent opium trade that was in place during the time when the Agency were funding the Mujahideen rebels to fight the Soviets, and flood the streets of America and Britain with cheap heroin, destroying lives while making obscene profits.</p>
<p>Any war surtax will merely go straight to maintaining the agenda that Obama inherited from Bush, the continued looting of Afghanistan under the pretext of a “war on terror” that, as revelations about bribing the Taliban prove, doesn’t even exist.</font><br />
<a href="http://noworldsystem.com/2009/11/15/u-s-army-paying-the-taliban-not-to-shoot-at-them/">
<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">U.S. Army paying the Taliban not to shoot at them</font></span></a></div>
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<link>http://onemomtalking.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/his-life/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>onemomtalking</dc:creator>
<guid>http://onemomtalking.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/his-life/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dan&#8217;s life is his life.  Dan &#8212; my addict son &#8212; was arrested early this morning.  M]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Dan&#8217;s life is his life.  Dan &#8212; my addict son &#8212; was arrested early this morning.  My phone rang just after 2AM.  So back to jail he goes.  Now it&#8217;s almost 5AM and I&#8217;m still up and he hasn&#8217;t yet called from jail.  Perhaps he won&#8217;t.  Perhaps he is trying to let me rest.  Somehow, he still cares about me beneath the craziness.  I&#8217;m sad, but also numb, and also&#8230;hopeful.  Because God is greater than drug addiction.  Nothing else to say right now.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[sonntagsfilm 57]]></title>
<link>http://murdeltas.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/sonntagsfilm-57/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
<guid>http://murdeltas.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/sonntagsfilm-57/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Heroin Traffic in Afghanistan: Kaum eine Droge macht schneller süchtig als Diacetylmorphin, besser b]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><blockquote><p><b>Heroin Traffic in Afghanistan:</b><br />
Kaum eine Droge macht schneller süchtig als Diacetylmorphin, besser bekannt als Heroin. Mittlerweile bringen die internationalen Drogenkartelle den Stoff in immer reinerer und damit wirkungsstärker Form auf den Markt. Damit wird die Droge, die lange nur in der relativ kleinen Junkieszene konsumiert wurde, für neue Käuferschichten interessant: In den USA ist die Zahl der jugendlichen Heroin-Konsumenten aus der Mittelschicht in den letzten Jahren dramatisch gestiegen. Entwickelt sich Heroin allmählich zur Mainstream-Droge?</p>
<p>NG Inside hat die Wege des Heroins von den USA bis in das Land zurückverfolgt, aus dem heute der größte Teil der Weltproduktion stammt: Afghanistan. Seit dem Ende der Taliban-Herrschaft haben sich hier die Anbauflächen für den Heroin-Grundstoff Schlafmohn vervielfacht. Kann dieser dramatischen Entwicklung Einhalt geboten werden, oder wird das billige Heroin made in Afghanistan weiter den Weltmarkt überschwemmen? Heroin Traffic in Afghanistan. </p></blockquote>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/jowHSxyxyQ4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/jowHSxyxyQ4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span><br />
[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jowHSxyxyQ4">direktlink</a> part1]</p>
<p>[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn7XnP7DY8">direktlink</a> part2]<br />
[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTo9a98ZOkM">direktlink</a> part3]<br />
[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqwsRiMOGWM">direktlink</a> part4]<br />
[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_Pfs7pm2M">direktlink</a> part5]</p>
<p>[via <a href="http://drugs.soup.io/post/34810816/YouTube-Heroin-Traffic-in-Afghanistan-DOKU-Teil">drug soup</a>]</p>
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<link>http://sniffaren.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/de-levde-och-dog-som-de-levde/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Piraten</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sniffaren.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/de-levde-och-dog-som-de-levde/</guid>
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<div align="justify">Det här musikbildspelet tillägnar jag alla dessa unga som hamnade i helvetet redan innan de dog och till alla dem som vi svek eller inte eller inte ens orkade tänka på att hjälpa och till alla dem vi lämnade helt vind för våg i ett värre helvete än det helvete vi ens kan föreställa oss i livet. För alla dessa bröder och systrar som blev döpta men inte konfirmerade har jag gjort den här videon, eftersom alla förtjänar att bli ihågkomna.</p>
<p>Se på min video med en stor ödmjukhet eftersom nästan alla personer i videon sedan länge är döda. Ett litet antal av dem blev mördade. De allra flesta dog av sjukdom, självmord eller överdos. Man kan med säkerhet säga att alla de som dött, dog en missbruksrelaterad död. Några av dem blev gamla, men de flesta blev inte ens vuxna eftersom de dog i unga.</p></div>
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<link>http://peglud.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/from-breastmilk-to-heroin/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>peglud</dc:creator>
<guid>http://peglud.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/from-breastmilk-to-heroin/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I was deliberate and intentional in raising Hayley – wanting her to have every opportunity in life. ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I was deliberate and intentional in raising Hayley – wanting her to have every opportunity in life.  I had an all natural childbirth with Hayley weighing in at 8 ½ pounds.  She took to the breast immediately, and was a vigorous nurser.  And although she was ‘colicky’ the first three months of her life with lots of gastric distress and refusing a pacifier or artificial nipple of any kind, she gained weight well and eventually outgrew her fussiness.  I nursed her for ~ 18 months and she didn’t sleep through the night until she was weaned.  She was a beautiful, delightful baby, who idolized her older brother, Brian.</p>
<p>What better start can you give a child?  I thought I had protected her health and future with breast milk, homemade baby food, no sugar or artificial preservatives/additives until she was almost 4. She was loved, and held, and read to.</p>
<p>Hayley later blamed her so-called ‘oral fixation’ on me – biting her nails and cuticles, smoking, maybe even her eating disorder, who knows?  A mother is always to blame, isn’t she?</p>
<p>So when and where did it go so wrong?  I thought I was being a good mother, but there was obviously some thing Hayley needed that she wasn’t getting.  Who knew?</p>
<p>I had a tortured dream last night that I was kidnapped by heroin addicts and was forced to watch them inject themselves.  Strangely, Hayley was not amongst the group – and, as revolting as they were, I was drawn to ‘these people’.  They showed me a certain level of kindness and compassion – as if I were ‘family’ – yet also seemed to find some perverse pleasure in shocking me.  I was terrified that they would make me shoot heroin myself, and my life would instantly change.  I also was afraid that I would stick myself with one of their carelessly tossed needles and become infected with hepatitis or HIV. I eventually escaped in the night, barefoot, and had to find my way home – miles away, and in an unfamiliar setting.</p>
<p>Babies – their innocence, potential, future . . . nothing is for certain, although I thought I could stack the odds.</p>
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<link>http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/making-somethin-outta-nothing/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/making-somethin-outta-nothing/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I had nothing at all Had to knuckle and brawl They swore I&#8217;d fall Be another brick in the wall]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em>I had nothing at all<br />
Had to knuckle and brawl<br />
They swore I&#8217;d fall<br />
Be another brick in the wall<br />
Another life<br />
Full of love<br />
That lost<br />
That&#8217;s silly<br />
<strong>This Philly</strong><br />
Y&#8217;all really ain&#8217;t stoppin<br />
The boy with the pen</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>As of the 2005-2007 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S Census Bureau for Philadelphia:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-20-at-6-43-14-pm.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1183" title="Screen shot 2009-11-20 at 6.43.14 PM" src="http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-20-at-6-43-14-pm.png" alt="" width="600" height="71" /></a>&#8212;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-20-at-6-57-58-pm.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1184" title="Screen shot 2009-11-20 at 6.57.58 PM" src="http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-20-at-6-57-58-pm.png" alt="" width="600" height="295" /></a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Article: <a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Philly-Police-Make-13M-Heroin-Bust.html">http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Philly-Police-Make-13M-Heroin-Bust.html</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Last January, there was a 1.12 Million Dollar Heroin Bust at 1421 Alcott Street, across the street  from the house I lived in from 6th grade until college (1418 Alcott Street),</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>while I was up in NYU being a Peer Educator for Alcohol &#38; Other Drugs.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Sometimes I feel I should move back to Philly and work there in my old neighborhood,</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">but part of me sees it as this chaotic hopeless mess, especially when you take into account all the racism, on both sides.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">It&#8217;s not just the old Irish Catholic men spewing racism. It&#8217;s also different racial groups mad at one another for truckloads of things.  One of my best friends from Philly is Puerto Rican and many of her family members hated on blacks, while many of my brother&#8217;s friends have been beaten up by black kids for being white. It is sad, because there are a lot of good people too. I babysat for a black family on my block and we always talked about the tension in my neighborhood. The mother of the kids would even tease me that I was fine since I had that &#8220;black girl booty anyway&#8221;.  That mother and my mother sold American flag pins together after 9/11 to fundraise.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">The same thing that is happening in Philly happened in Detroit first, and look how Detroit is now: grim.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">I know I am not doing a very good job of synthesizing all this information right now, but I just want to store it all somewhere to come back to later.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">What makes me most upset is the comments after another <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dncrime/Police_bust_NE_heroin_ring.html">article</a> on the same drug bust. I wish people would stop blaming people for the things they do based on the color of their skin, and think about the socioeconomic reasons that drive people to a life of crime. If you can only afford a lousy education, you are told by people you aren&#8217;t going anywhere, and you see your friends making a lot of money selling weed or heroin or whatever, it might look appealing to you too. I know I am idealistic, but all the energy we spend hating could be spent so much more productively.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Here is a sample:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-20-at-8-07-31-pm.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1186" title="Screen shot 2009-11-20 at 8.07.31 PM" src="http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-20-at-8-07-31-pm.png" alt="" width="600" height="102" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-20-at-8-07-41-pm.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1187" title="Screen shot 2009-11-20 at 8.07.41 PM" src="http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-20-at-8-07-41-pm.png" alt="" width="600" height="63" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a style="text-decoration:none;" href="http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-20-at-8-12-30-pm.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1189" title="Screen shot 2009-11-20 at 8.12.30 PM" src="http://misconceptionoftheoyster.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-20-at-8-12-30-pm.png" alt="" width="600" height="117" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">These are  good short videos. In the section about economics in the second video, the woman mentions literacy issues, which is very true, especially because of the <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/20090914_Libraries_post_notice_warning_of_Oct__2_closing.html">drastic decision to dramatically cut library hours and library programs and the threats to close many of the libraries completely in the near future</a>. I remember waiting in line to use one of the six computers in my local library when I was doing applications for high school because my family didn&#8217;t have a computer yet. This is true for so many kids, even today. I volunteered at the library during high school and because of the high demand, students could only stay on the computer for twenty-five minutes. Imagine trying to type a good book report in twenty-five minutes and do any type of research. Many people would get aggressive and angry about the time limits. Sometimes, people wouldn&#8217;t want to leave the computer, and you would need to confront them or &#8220;tattle&#8221; by getting a librarian&#8217;s attention.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">I agree with one commenter who said, &#8220;I&#8217;m just glad Ben Franklin isn&#8217;t alive to see this.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The first public library in America with circulating materials, </strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The Library Company of Philadelphia, was chartered in 1732 on the initiative of Benjamin Franklin</strong>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[68 - Heroin]]></title>
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<dc:creator>Nescio</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[My heroin you are, my hit of choice: Your needles need no juice to get me high Your looks inject the]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>My heroin you are, my hit of choice:<br />
Your needles need no juice to get me high<br />
Your looks inject themselves into my eye<br />
One sniff of you and all my cells rejoice:<br />
And you&#8217;re not cut with rubbish &#8211; pure Rolls Royce -<br />
And I&#8217;m addicted to you: months go by<br />
With just one thought, which is: how soon can I<br />
See you again, suck on you, taste your voice?</p>
<p>You keep on pushing. Every time I need<br />
A bit more pain to knock me off my face<br />
Your lush plush limo keeps on adding speed<br />
Until my spirit finds itself in space:<br />
And you are such a drug &#8211; your rushes feed<br />
A gap I&#8217;ll never fill, though I still chase.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan: Troops Guarding the Poppy Fields]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Paul Joseph Watson Friday, November 20, 2009 Not content with savaging American taxpayers with two h]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Paul Joseph Watson</p>
<p>Friday, November 20, 2009</p>
<p>Not content with savaging American taxpayers with two huge new financial burdens during an economic recession, in the form of health care reform and cap and trade, close allies of Barack Obama have proposed a new war surtax that will force Americans to foot the  bill for the cost of protecting opium fields in Afghanistan, paying off drug  lords, and bribing the Taliban.</p>
<p>Warning that the cost of occupying Afghanistan is a threat to the Democrats’ plan to overhaul health care, lawmakers have announced their plan to make Americans pay an additional war tax that will be taken directly from their income, never mind the fact that around <a href="http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm">36 per cent of federal  taxes already go</a> to paying for national defense.</p>
<p>“Regardless of whether one favors the war or not, if it is to be fought, it ought to be paid for,” the lawmakers, all prominent Democratic allies of Obama, said in a joint statement on the “Share The Sacrifice Act of 2010 (<a href="http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/Share_the_Sacrifice_Act_of_2010.pdf">PDF</a>),” <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_lawmakers_New_tax_should_pay_for_11192009.html">reports  AFP</a>.</p>
<p>The move is being led by the appropriately named House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, Representative John Murtha, who chairs that panel’s defense subcommittee; and House  Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank.</p>
<p>The tax would apply to anyone earning as little as $22,600 per year in 2011.</p>
<p>The proposal is described as “heavily symbolic” with little chance of passing, but it once again illustrates the hypocrisy of an administration that swept to power on the promise of “change” to the Neo-Con imperial agenda and a resolve to reduce U.S. military involvement overseas. In reality, there are more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan now under Obama that at any time during the Bush administration.</p>
<p>At the height of the Bush administration’s 2007 “surge” in Iraq, there were 26,000 US troops in Afghanistan and 160,000 in Iraq, a total of 186,000.</p>
<p>According to DoD figures cited by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101203142.html">The  Washington Post last month</a>, there are now around 189,000 and rising deployed in total. There are now 68,000 troops in Afghanistan, over double the amount deployed there when Bush left office.</p>
<p>What precisely would this extra tax be used to pay for? Namely, bribing the Taliban, paying off CIA drug lords, and protecting heroin-producing opium fields.</p>
<p>Numerous reports over the past two weeks have  confirmed that the <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6919516.ece">U.S.  military is paying off the Taliban with bags of gold </a>to prevent them from attacking vehicle convoys, proving that there is no real “war” in Afghanistan, merely a business agreement that allows the occupiers to continue their lucrative control of record opium exports while they finalize construction of dozens of new military bases from which to launch new wars.</p>
<p>The Afghan opium trade has exploded since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, following a lull after the Taliban had imposed a crackdown. According to the U.N., the drug trade is now worth $65 billion. Afghanistan produces 92 per cent of the world’s opium, with the equivalent of at least 3,500 tonnes leaving the country each year.</p>
<p>This racket is secured by drug kingpins like the  brother of disputed president Hamid Karzai. As a <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/ny-times-afghan-opium-kingpin-on-cia-payroll.html">New  York Times report revealed last month</a>, Ahmed Wali Karzai, a Mafia-like figure who expanded his influence over the drug trade with the aid of U.S. efforts to eliminate his competitors, is on the CIA payroll.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&#38;code=CHO20050614&#38;articleId=91">Professor  Michel Chossudovsky has highlighted in a series of essays</a>, the explosion of opium production after the invasion was about the CIA’s drive to restore the lucrative Golden Crescent opium trade that was in place during the time when the Agency were funding the Mujahideen rebels to fight the Soviets, and flood the streets of America and Britain with cheap heroin, destroying lives while making obscene profits.</p>
<p>Any war surtax will merely go straight to maintaining the agenda that Obama inherited from Bush, the continued looting of Afghanistan under the pretext of a “war on terror” that, as revelations about bribing the Taliban prove, doesn’t even exist.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-allies-want-new-tax-to-pay-for-cost-of-protecting-afghan-opium-fields-bribing-taliban.html" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
<p><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/38271158_popbbc300.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6045" title="_38271158_popbbc300" src="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/38271158_popbbc300.jpg" alt="" width="390" height="234" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/afghanistan_opium_poppy_cultivation_1994-2007b.png"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6046" title="Afghanistan_opium_poppy_cultivation_1994-2007b" src="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/afghanistan_opium_poppy_cultivation_1994-2007b.png?w=300" alt="" width="416" height="266" /></a></p>
<p>Afghanistan opium poppy cultivation 1994-2007</p>
<p>The Taliban has almost eradicated the poppy fields. No sooner did the war begin and the poppy fields wee reborn.</p>
<p><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/children-work-the-poppy-fields-young-as-8-or-9.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6047" title="Children work the poppy fields young as 8 or 9" src="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/children-work-the-poppy-fields-young-as-8-or-9.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="371" height="267" /></a></p>
<p>Children work the poppy fields young as 8 or 9</p>
<p><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/44615131_poppies1_416.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6048" title="_44615131_poppies1_416" src="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/44615131_poppies1_416.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="216" /></a></p>
<p><img title="afghan-poppy-protection" src="http://thelastcrusade.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/afghan-poppy-protection.jpg" alt="afghan-poppy-protection" width="591" height="335" /><strong> Narco-Nation Building</strong></p>
<p>By Paul L. Williams, Ph.D</p>
<p>July 7 2009</p>
<p>Hey, guys, don’t pick the poppies.</p>
<p>That’s the order from the Obama Administration to the 4,000 Marines presently engaged in Operation Khanjar or “Strike of the Sword,” an invasion of the Taliban infested Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The Marines of Bravo’s Company 1<sup>st</sup> Platoon sleep beside groves of poppies Troops of the 2<sup>nd</sup> Platoon walk through the fields on strict orders not to swat the heavy opium bulbs. The Afghan farmers and laborers, who are engaged in scraping the resin from the bulbs, smile and wave at the passing soldiers.</p>
<p>The Helmand province is the world’s largest cultivator of opium poppies – the crop used to make heroin.</p>
<p><strong>Afghanistan grew 93 percent of the world’s poppy crop last year, </strong>with Helmand alone responsible for more than half of the opium production in the country, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.</p>
<p>Heroin, as it turns out, represents the only staple of the Afghan economy. The country manufactures no domestic products for exportation and the rocky terrain yields no cash crops – &#8211; except, of course, the poppies.</p>
<p>The poppies fuel the great jihad against the United States and the Western world. More than 3,500 tons of raw opium is gleaned from the poppy crops every year, producing annual revenues for the Taliban and al Qaeda that range from $5 billion to $16 billion.</p>
<p>Destroying the fields could very well put an end to terrorist activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.</p>
<p>But the Obama Administration remains intent upon protecting the poppies so that the Afghan farmers and local drug lords can reap the benefits of what purports to be a bumper crop.</p>
<p>Many Marines in the field are scratching their heads over the situation.</p>
<p>Jason Striuszko a journalist embedded with the U.S. Marines in Garmser, reports that many of the leathernecks are scratching their heads at the apparent contradictions — calling in airstrikes and artillery on the elusive Taliban while assuring farmers and drug lords that they will protect the poppies.</p>
<p>“Of course,” Striuszko says, “those fields will be harvested and some money likely used to help fuel the Taliban, and the Marines are thinking, essentially, ‘huh?’”</p>
<p>“It’s kind of weird. We’re coming over here to fight the Taliban. We see this. We know it’s bad. But at the same time we know it’s the only way locals can make money,” said 1st Lt. Adam Lynch, 27, of Barnstable, Mass.</p>
<p>Richard Holbrooke, the Obama Administration’s top envoy in Afghanistan, says that poppy eradication – for years a cornerstone of U.S. and U.N. anti-drug efforts in the country – has only resulted in driving Afghan farmers into the hands of the Taliban.</p>
<p>The new approach, Holbrooke maintains, will try to wean the farmers of the lucrative cash crop by giving them help to grow other produce, like wheat, corn and pomegranates.</p>
<p>Most of the 33,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan operate in the east, where the poppy problem is not as great. But the 2,400-strong 24th Marines, have taken the field in this southern growing region during harvest season.</p>
<p>An expert on Afghanistan’s drug trade, Barnett Rubin, complained that the Marines are being put in such a situation by a “one-dimensional” military policy that fails to integrate political and economic considerations into long-range planning.</p>
<p>“All we hear is, not enough troops, send more troops,” said Rubin, a professor at New York University. “Then you send in troops with no capacity for assistance, no capacity for development, no capacity for aid, no capacity for governance.”</p>
<p>Staff Sgt. Jeremy Stover, whose platoon is sleeping beside a poppy crop planted in the interior courtyard of a mud-walled compound, said the Marines’ mission is to get rid of the “bad guys,” and “the locals aren’t the bad guys.”</p>
<p>“Poppy fields in Afghanistan are the cornfields of Ohio,” said Stover, 28, of Marion, Ohio. “When we got here they were asking us if it’s OK to harvest poppy and we said, ‘Yeah, just don’t use an AK-47.’”</p>
<p><a href="http://thelastcrusade.org/2009/07/07/us-marines-protect-afghan%E2%80%99s-poppy-fields/" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
<p><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/44615530_poppies7_416.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6049" title="_44615530_poppies7_416" src="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/44615530_poppies7_416.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="434" height="207" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/201109top.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6050" title="201109top" src="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/201109top.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="437" height="276" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/610x.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-6051 aligncenter" title="AFGHANISTAN-OPIUM" src="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/610x.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="431" height="320" /></a></p>
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<p>U.S. soldiers inspect a cache of opium that was seized at a border police station on the outskirts of Herat,  October 23 2007. Afghan border police in the western Afghan city have seized 644 kilograms of opium. Afghanistan accounts for over 93 percent of the world&#8217;s supply of opium, the main ingredient in heroin, a lucrative trade whose proceeds in part fund some of the Taliban-led insurgency.    AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)</p>
<p><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/article-1148484-038e5b38000005dc-718_468x295_popup.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6052" title="article-1148484-038E5B38000005DC-718_468x295_popup" src="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/article-1148484-038e5b38000005dc-718_468x295_popup.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="421" height="278" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/afghan-opium.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6053" title="afghan-opium" src="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/afghan-opium.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="436" height="270" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>They don&#8217;t tell you about this, about Afghanistan&#8217;s growing domestic drug problem – an estimated 1.5 million addicts, including 120,000 women, according to the Ministry of Narcotics – all those advocates of legalizing the country&#8217;s robust opium crop – a yield that provides some 93 per cent of the world&#8217;s heroin. This heroin, which is refined opium, ends up on streets across the globe but also is destroying families here. <a href="http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/08/29/afghanistan-s-hidden-heroin-addicts.html" target="_blank">Source</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align:left;">They also fail to mention the problem now in Iran , Iraq,<br />
Russia, Europe and North America.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">There are millions of new heroin addicts around the world.</p>
<blockquote><p>Karima leaned to one side and rubbed her temples with half-painted pink fingernails. The smile that was wide and infectious for her visitors had now surrendered to the internal darkness that ruled her addiction.</p>
<p>The day had started like most in her life: With an opium tea that she drinks to &#8220;feel happy.&#8221; On bad days, she needs it three or four times.</p>
<p>Karima is 13.</p>
<p>She is bright, and confident, but left school during fourth grade. From the two narrow rooms they call home in an otherwise abandoned building, she cannot see a future that is either clean or normal &#8212; a hard assessment for a girl who is barely a teenager.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no one but me to support the family and we have nothing to live easily,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I feel sad most of the time and the tea makes me feel better.&#8221;</p>
<p>Her mother, Najiba, raised five children on a steady diet of narcotics to ease their hunger pains and winter chills and her own grief from losing a son. The whole family has been through drug treatment &#8212; twice &#8212; and Najiba claims to be healthy.</p>
<p>Karima is still addicted. She buys the drugs herself with money from her father and boils the opium tea the way her mother long did for her.</p>
<p>Her wild-eyed youngest sister, Raisa, is three years old and clicks her tongue while fidgeting with a red patent purse. Raisa had opium in her veins before she was born. Najiba cut her off months ago, but Raisa remembers the &#8220;dizzy&#8221; tea and craves it. I asked her why.</p>
<p>&#8220;Because I miss it,&#8221; she said in the tiniest voice. &#8220;I like it.&#8221;<a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090920/Afghanistan_drugs_column_090920/20090920?hub=TopStories" target="_blank"> Source</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?_r=3" target="_blank"> Source </a></p>
<p>Opium production is one of the chief sources of revenue for the warlords that occupy the Afghan parliament and is one of the main reasons why the government is seen as corrupt by the Afghan people. As long as NATO continues to bomb civilians in an effort to extend the control of those warlords, the Afghan people will continue to join the resistance to the foreign occupation.</p>
<p>This reality led to the recent resignation of Matthew Hoh, a former US army captain and Foreign Service official in Zabul province. Hoh resigned because he said that the presence of the foreign troops was the main reason why the resistance was growing and he believed that the war needed to end.  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.html" target="_blank">Source</a></p></blockquote>
<p><strong><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/has-osama-bin-laden-been-dead-for-seven-years-and-are-the-u-s-and-britain-covering-it-up-to-continue-war-on-terror/" target="_blank">They have never connected Bin Laden to 9/11</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/is-osama-bin-laden-still-alive-seems-the-answer-is-no/" target="_blank">Bin Laden has been dead since December of 2001</a></strong></p>
<p>9/11 was just an excuse to go to war in Afghanistan nothing more.</p>
<blockquote><p>The results of the invasion of Afghanistan is devastating to say the least.</p>
<p>The radiation will have a very devastating impact on Afghans. The testing proved the use of radioactive weapons. <a href="http://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/hush-over-afghan-mission-must-end/" target="_blank">Source</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The end result will be as it is in Iraq and other countries Nato and the US have invaded.</p>
<h4><a title="Permanent Link: Doctors report “unprecedented” rise in deformities, cancers in Iraq" rel="bookmark" href="../2009/11/19/doctors-report-unprecedented-rise-in-deformities-cancers-in-iraq/" target="_blank">Doctors report “unprecedented” rise in deformities, cancers in Iraq</a></h4>
<blockquote><p><strong>Kosovo </strong></p>
<p>Since its dealings with the Meo tribesmen in Laos during the Vietnam era, the CIA has protected narcotics traffic in key locations in order partly to finance its covert operations. The scale of international narcotics traffic today is such that major US banks such as Citigroup are reported to derive a significant share of their profits from laundering the proceeds.<a href="http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/Kosovo/kosovo.html" target="_blank"> Source</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm" target="_blank">CIA Drug  Operations</a></strong> a little history</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.serendipity.li/cia/bush-cheney-drugs.htm" target="_blank">Bush &#8211; Cheney and drugs</a></strong></p></blockquote>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[BASED ON A TRUE STORY Screenplay Series Synopsis by: Steven Jeffrey Cull Copyright 2009 Skeeter, the]]></description>
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<p><strong>BASED ON A TRUE STORY</strong></p>
<p>Screenplay Series Synopsis</p>
<p>by: Steven Jeffrey Cull</p>
<p>Copyright 2009</p>
<p>Skeeter, the main character, was born, lived, worked, and conducted business within Campbell County, Kentucky. He is average height, 200 pounds, in his late forties. Muscular in stature; a construction worker. Sandy brown, wild looking shoulder length hair. Dark complexion with facial wriggles from working outdoors. Has country accent. Super bright blue eyes. Short white beard. Loves to laugh; a prankster.</p>
<p>Skeeter owned and operated a residential design and construction company his entire life and was recognized for his unusual and wild house designs. Obtained an Architectural Engineering Bachelor degree from the University of Cincinnati. Worked hard his entire life; would design by night, work hand in hand with contractors by day, and farm in evenings. Skeeter was financial successful and invested entirely in a 300 acre farm where he grew hay and managed cattle. Skeeter’s plan was to develope a residential subdivision on 50 acres increasing the value of the remaining property.  Skeeter planned to invest profits from increase equity in farm into Florida real estate and Florida construction business as his father did. His retirement. His children’s future.</p>
<p>Skeeter lost everything to corruption in Kentucky at the local, State, and Federal levels of the justice system and the legislative system, and their associations with Kentucky organized crime and drug trafficking. Death, murder, embezzlement, and practically every other crime were employed by the corruption against the community and Skeeter. Acquisition of Skeeter’s farm was the center core property necessary for the development of an airport 25 miles from downtown Cincinnati. Airport would determine the route of a new major road bypass. Cross County Highway project. Those involved would profit in the billions of dollars. Their only obstacle was Skeeter. Others, unaware of the airport, were involved strictly to embezzle Skeeter’s monies, funding an illegal drug distribution network, mainly heroin. A local bank chain, established with old Newport, Kentucky mob monies, gives an open cash drawer rights to individuals unaware these individuals are drug dealers. The local bank gives embezzlement rights in order to financially liquidate Skeeter, foreclose on his farm and sell an airport site intact, funded by Federal and State monies.</p>
<p>The Kentucky Hillbilly Drug Cartel managed the murder of children by overdose, with super strength heroin locally.</p>
<p>The old established mob of America, displeased, with the actions of the Hillbilly Crime Networks aid Skeeter in his survival. Kentucky has violated their code of conduct, creating unwelcome publicity.</p>
<p>With the heat on locally from the Federal DEA, and without protection from the “Old Mob”, Kentucky unloads its poisonous heroin throughout the country, killing thousands. America’s drug problem increases ten fold.</p>
<p>Skeeter contacts an old childhood buddy who happened to be high up in the Federal DEA, and together, but separately, they, and federal law enforcement agencies, uncovered the crimes and corruption nationally as well as internationally. The long and involved Federal investigations, in which many law enforcement risk their lives, is shut down to cover up and protect those involved in the corruption and criminal activities at high levels. Some high ranking official were involved with the drugs, others involved with the airport. Kentucky Senators and Congressmen and their federal associates participate in cover up conspiracies. The greed of Kentucky’s governors, legislators, and judges fuels the corruption and death. Some high ranking officials thinking a new airport to be good for the community, unaware of the corruption, become criminally liable, and they themselves must aid in the cover up to protect themselves and those involved.</p>
<p>All  crimes must be covered up. The “Truth” be “Silenced” forever, at whatever cost. The American people must never know such corruption exists otherwise the national security of the country might be at risk. More Americans die from the drugs than died in the 911 attack. Families, unaware of the truth, bury their children. Hundreds of thousands of families across the nation are affected by the criminal greed of Kentucky.</p>
<p>Some crimes are too big to be dealt with. Skeeter knows too much. Skeeter must be destroyed. Skeeter is expendable to some. To others, the only hope for the “truth”, their “hands are tied”. Federal and Florida law enforcement agencies are helping Skeeter and covering his tracks, unofficially, till he can get a foothold and fight back.</p>
<p>From Florida, living on his boat, ”Neptune’s Love Palace”, he constantly must move, leaving behind friends and home. Starting anew at another harbour. This screenplay is the “Fight Back”. God Bless America.</p>
<p>Skeeter</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Withdrawal symptoms from benzos are truly in a league of their own. Unfortunately, here in UK a 6 week detox is the norm, which may be long enough for alcohol, crack and heroin users but not for benzos.  Benzos play with the mind in a way that other substances do not and a 6 week detox is too fast. The brain goes into shock and GABA receptors shut down causing a  protracted withdrawal that, then lasts for years.</p>
<p>The <a title="Ashton taper" href="http://www.benzo.org.uk/manual/">Ashton taper method</a> involves first switching the user from shorter acting benzos, such as Ativan, Xanax or Temazepam et.al. to an equivalent dose of Diazepam. The client then reduces at a rate of no more than 1mg per week. As it is impractical for users to spend the necessary amount of time as an in-patient successful benzo withdrawals must be performed at home. For further information and a support forum on using this technique please refer to <a title="benzo.uk.org" href="http://www.benzo.org.uk" target="_blank">Benzo.uk.org</a>.</p>
<p>I went into an abstinance-based rehabilitation centre a year ago and was reduced much too quickly. Admittedly my habit was ridiculous and the place undoubtedly saved my life, but I was suffering so badly that 6mths down the line I was forced to pick up another diazepam script to stop me going completely mad! I arrived with a 400mg a day diazepam and 12omg a day methadone habit. The heroin, crack and cannabis I was using on top of this were irrelevent.</p>
<p>I was reduced immediately to 20mg diazepam, codeine phosphate(DF118s) and a small dose of Chlopromazine. Unsurprisingly I had a seizure but over the following couple of months I was reduced to 5mg and then none. Although I could handle the physical withdrawals, just, my head was pickled.</p>
<p>I was then put on a course of Buspar to help control my anxiety, amitriptyline for depression and 1 Zopiclone at night to help me sleep.  I struggled on, pretty much oblivious to the rest of the program and after 3mths I was completely clean and moved onto the Secondary stage. Mentally, I was feeling worse and worse so went to see a local GP who put me first on Citalapram, which increased my anxiety and mania. A different GP believing I may be suffering from manic depression refered me for secondary mental healthcare and gave me a strip of the anti-psychotic Respiridone. Apparently, the symptoms of acute benzo withdrawal are often mistaken for bi-polar disorder.</p>
<p>Anyway, the mental health team decided I didn&#8217;t need their support and I was again prescribed amitriptyline. After 6mths my funding was finished and I still felt as bad as ever. I moved out of rehab and into my own room, but soon became completely overwhelmed. I was convinced I had caused myself irreperable brain damage and in utter desperationfell back onto the only coping mechanism I knew. I ordered 1000 diazepam over the internet and felt better immediately.</p>
<p>By now I had discovered a couple of benzo support forums online who explained that I was experiencing protracted benzo withdrawals that would last several years. If I had reduced according to the Ashton taper method I would still be withdrawing, but much less intensely. Forum members with personal experience advised me to obtain another diazepam script and to reduce at the rate of 1-2mg every 2 weeks. I am now down to 8mg a day and with the support of ACT I am finally getting there.</p>
<p>I have been through hell but blame only myself and want to make sure that nobody else suffers unnecessarily to the same extent as I did. It is very unlikely that anyone reading this will ever have to withdraw from 400mg of diazepam a day, but the same principles apply. Benzo users wishing to come off should stick to the Ashton taper plan and seek support from other ex-users or professionals with experience of working specifically in that field.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[La primera canción con la que quiero empezar esta buena lista que os ayuden a pasar un poco mejor el]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Trains in the sky]]></title>
<link>http://galan05.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/trains-in-the-sky/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><em><strong>Why do the Germans have to be such brilliant engineers?  They refuse to let me see the rest of Europe!</strong></em></p>
<div id="attachment_1878" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px"><a href="http://galan05.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/schwebebahn_ueber_strasse.jpg"><img src="http://galan05.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/schwebebahn_ueber_strasse.jpg" alt="" title="Schwebebahn_ueber_Strasse" width="600" height="536" class="size-full wp-image-1878" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A monorail train hangs suspended from a suspension bridge over a street in Wuppertal, Germany.</p></div>
<p>Damn those Germans! Every time I think I&#8217;m done with Germany, they come up with something to pull me back.  </p>
<p>I can&#8217;t help it. <a href="http://wp.me/pyafL-3A">It&#8217;s the geek in me.</a> </p>
<p>First, it was the <a href="http://wp.me/pyafL-jS">Magdeburg water bridge.</a>  Now, I have to work in the northern Rhine city called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal">Wuppertal.</a></p>
<p>At this rate, I&#8217;ll <em>never</em> see the rest of Europe!</p>
<p>Never heard of Wuppertal? Neither had I until very recently.   Population about 350,000 &#8212; slightly larger than New Orleans, slightly smaller than the city of Oakland, built on either side of a river.  Apparently, it&#8217;s very &#8220;green,&#8221; with two-thirds of it being woods, gardens, parks, fields and so on.  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s also got some history to it, being the birthplace of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal"> Friedrich Engels,</a> who co-wrote <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto">The Communist Manifesto</a></em> along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx">Karl Marx.</a>  </p>
<p>And it&#8217;s the birthplace of <a href="http://www.bayer.com/en/Friedrich-Bayer.aspx">Friedrich Bayer.</a> Yes, <em>that</em> Bayer, the aspirin people.  Which makes Wuppertal, among other things, the birthplace of  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin">heroin.</a> </p>
<p>But neither those historical tidbits nor all that greenery is what&#8217;s pulling me to this place.   It&#8217;s the <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn">Schwebebahn</a></em> &#8212; their monorail.</p>
<p>Okay, maybe you rode monorails as a kid at Disneyland or Disneyworld, but this is no amusement ride.   This is how Wuppertal gets around, as this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulg8A1tGbuE">YouTube video</a> shows.</p>
<p>Most monorail trains ride on top of their single rail.  In Wuppertal, they <em>hang</em> from theirs.  </p>
<p>Passengers ride in cars suspended in space, 24 feet over the streets and 40 feet over the river, at speeds around 40 miles per hour.   That &#8220;hang&#8221; allows them to tilt on curves, so the trains never have to slow down for them. </p>
<p>This would be some pretty slick technology even today.  The Germans came up with it in 1901, two years before the Wright Brothers got off the ground.  A century and change later, the system is still moving people  &#8212; 75,000 a day, 25 <em>million</em> a year.  </p>
<p>It even managed to survive the World War 2 bombing that <em>wasted</em> nearly half the town.  </p>
<p>Now you <em>know</em> I have to ride <em>this</em> thing!</p>
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<em><u><strong>FOOTNOTE</strong></u><br />
You may wonder, &#8220;Why couldn&#8217;t Los Angeles come up with something like this?&#8221; </p>
<p>Back in 1963, the Swedish firm <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALWEG">Alweg,</a> which built the monorail in Seattle, offered Los Angeles a 40-mile monorail line.  They&#8217;d keep the fares until the construction was paid for, then hand it to the city. Cost to the taxpayers: zero.</p>
<p>The City Council&#8217;s response: We like our gridlock. We think smog is sexy. Go away. </p>
<p>If you drive around L.A. today, no need to tell you the rest of the story.  You&#8217;re living it.</em></p></blockquote>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Most Dangerous Drugs List]]></title>
<link>http://actinaddiction.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/most-dangerous-drugs-list/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>After publishing the results of research conducted by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/drugs">Drugs,</a> chairman Professor <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/david-nutt">David Nutt</a> was recently forced to resign. He was sacked because the research indicates that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol and tobacco! No surprise to most of us.</p>
<p>I have personally used all these drugs, and despite agreeing on the issue of <a title="cannabis" href="http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis.shtml">cannabis</a>, I still feel the list is misleading. <a title="methamphetamine" href="http://www.nida.nih.gov/InfoFacts/methamphetamine.html" target="_blank">Methamphetamine</a> and <a title="barbiturate_abuse" href="http://www.emedicinehealth.com/barbiturate_abuse/article_em.htm">barbiturates</a> should be at the top of the list.</p>
<p><a title="methamphetamine" href="http://www.nida.nih.gov/InfoFacts/methamphetamine.html" target="_blank">Methamphetamine</a> is now becoming popular in UK, although it has been a serious problem in other countries such as US and South Africa for a decade. Easily manufactured in small, home laboratories, from compounds legally available in most hardware stores, it is usually smoked, but may also be sniffed or injected. The high can last upto 24hrs, which is followed by a <a title="comedown" href="http://www.thesite.org/drinkanddrugs/drugsafety/usingdrugs/copingwithcomedowns">comedown</a> like no other.</p>
<p>Fortunately, old school barbiturates such as tuinal, <a title="nembutal" href="http://www.drugs.com/mtm/nembutal.html">nembutal(pentobarbital)</a>, secanol and sodium amytal are almost impossible to obtain on the street, nowadays. They are still prescribed, occasionally for <em>chronic</em> insomnia and are the drug of choice in assisted suicides. Barbiturates are extremely easy to overdose on and sudden withdrawal can kill. As with benzodiazepines a slow tapered withdrawal is necessary as other common symptoms include <a title="epilepsy" href="http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/main_epilepsy">seizures and epilepsy</a>.</p>
<p>Although the threat of accidental overdose from benzos is relatively insignificant, they are, alongside barbiturates  the hardest drug to withdraw from, both physically and psychologically. By comparison heroin, and even <a title="methadone" href="http://www.drugs.com/methadone.html" target="_blank">methadone</a> withdrawal is like a walk in the park! Withdrawal symptoms following prolonged use (ie. more than 2 weeks) may last for several years and yet, doctors still prescribe them as a quick fix for <a title="anxiety" href="http://www.medicinenet.com/anxiety/article.htm">anxiety</a> and insomnia.</p>
<p>Below is a copy of the original list, first <a title="published in the medical journal the Lancet" href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2807%2960471-1/fulltext">published in the medical journal the Lancet</a> in 2007. It rates substances in descending order from the most harmful and all figures are for England and Wales in 2008 unless stated otherwise.</p>
<p><strong>1. Heroin</strong></p>
<p>Class A drug. Originally used as a painkiller and derived from the opium poppy. There were 897 deaths recorded from heroin and morphine use in 2008 in England and Wales, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). There were around 13,000 seizures, amounting to 1.6m tonnes of heroin.</p>
<p><strong>2. Cocaine</strong></p>
<p>Class A. Stimulant produced from the South American coca leaf. Accounted for 235 deaths – a sharp rise on the previous year&#8217;s fatalities. Nearly 25,000 seizures were made, amounting to 2.9 tonnes of the drug.</p>
<p><strong>3. Barbituates</strong></p>
<p>Class B. Synthetic sedatives used for anaesthetic purposes. Blamed for 13 deaths.</p>
<p><strong>4. Street methadone</strong></p>
<p>Class A. A synthetic opioid, commonly used as a substitute for treating heroin patients. Accounted for 378 deaths and there were more than 1,000 seizures of the drug.</p>
<p><strong>5. Alcohol</strong></p>
<p>Subject to increasing concern from the medical profession about its damage to health. According to the ONS, there were 8,724 alcohol deaths in the UK in 2007. Other sources claim the true figure is far higher.</p>
<p><strong>6. Ketamine</strong></p>
<p>Class C. A hallucinogenic dance drug for clubbers. There were 23 ketamine-related deaths in the UK between 1993 and 2006. Last year there were 1,266 seizures.</p>
<p><strong>7. Benzodiazepines</strong></p>
<p>Class C. A hypnotic relaxant used to treat anxiety and insomnia. Includes drugs such as diazepam, temazepam and nitrazepam. Caused 230 deaths and 1.8m doses were confiscated in more than 4,000 seizure operations.</p>
<p><strong>8. Amphetamine</strong></p>
<p>Class B. A psychostimulant that combats fatigue and suppresses hunger. Associated with 99 deaths, although this tally includes some ecstasy deaths. Nearly 8,000 seizures, adding up to almost three tonnes.</p>
<p><strong>9. Tobacco</strong></p>
<p>A stimulant that is highly addictive due to its nicotine content. More than 100,000 people a year die from smoking and tobacco-related diseases, including cancer, respiratory diseases and heart disease.</p>
<p><strong>10. Buprenorphine</strong></p>
<p>An opiate used for pain control, and sometimes as a substitute to wean addicts off heroin. Said to have caused 43 deaths in the UK between 1980 and 2002.</p>
<p><strong>11. Cannabis</strong></p>
<p>Class B. A psychoactive drug recently appearing in stronger forms such as &#8220;skunk&#8221;. The subject of intense controversy over its long-term effects and capacity for inducing schizophrenia. Caused 19 deaths and there were 186,000 seizures, netting 65 tonnes of the drug and 640,000 cannabis plants.</p>
<p><strong>12. Solvents</strong></p>
<p>Fumes inhaled to produce a sense of intoxication. Usually abused by teenagers. Derived from commonly available products such as glue and aerosol sprays. Causes around 50 deaths a year.</p>
<p><strong>13. 4-MTA</strong></p>
<p>Class A. Originally designed for laboratory research. Releases serotonin in the body. Only four deaths reported in the UK between 1997 and 2004.</p>
<p><strong>14. LSD</strong></p>
<p>Class A. Hallucinogenic drug originally synthesised by a German chemist in 1938. Very few deaths recorded.</p>
<p><strong>15. Methylphenidate</strong></p>
<p>Class B drug. Brand name of Ritalin. A psychostimulant sometimes used in the treatment of attention deficit disorders.</p>
<p><strong>16. Anabolic steroids</strong></p>
<p>Class C. Used to develop muscles, notably in competitive sports. Also alleged to induce aggression. Have been blamed for causing deaths among bodybuilders. More than 800 seizures.</p>
<p><strong>17. GHB</strong></p>
<p>Class C drug. A clear liquid dance drug said to induce euphoria, also described as a date rape drug. Can trigger comas and suppress breathing. Caused 20 deaths and 47 seizures were recorded.</p>
<p><strong>18. Ecstasy</strong></p>
<p>Class A. Psychoactive dance drug. Caused 44 deaths, with around 5,000 seizures made.</p>
<p><strong>19. Alykl nitrites</strong></p>
<p>Known as &#8220;poppers&#8221;. Inhaled for their role as a muscle relaxant and supposed sexual stimulant. Reduce blood pressure, which can cause fainting and in some cases death.</p>
<p><strong>20. Khat</strong></p>
<p>A psychoactive plant, the leaves of which are chewed in east Africa and Yemen. Also known as qat. Produces mild psychological dependence. Its derivatives, cathinone and cathine, are Class C drugs in the UK.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[Every time my folks went ta the beach, my Ma would bring one back. A stoopid glass figurine, ugly cl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Every time my folks went ta the beach, my Ma would bring one back. A stoopid glass figurine, ugly clowns bangin&#8217; cymbals an&#8217; sickly looking flamingoes who look as though their color&#8217;s run&#8230; Thanksgiving rotted pumpkin yellow an&#8217; forest fire red. Ugly clouds billowing beyond their boundaries inside the glass. The smoke had no limits, the dark hues threatening to eat up all the figure, choking it off from the inside&#8230; while the feeble tones just got devoured in turn by the glass. Diffracting them inta nothing. Always there was some battle going on in those glass dolls. I remember starin&#8217; at them for hours as a child.<!--more--></p>
<p>How I hated those dumb ugly figures bursting their banks. It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re made of glass right? An&#8217; glass comes from sand, see I know how that connects up at least. So maybe by taking that home with her, my Ma was taking home a little pieca&#8217; beach with her? Like that&#8217;s all she had to preserve it in her mind&#8230; All I know is, I got me a pieca beach here with me now&#8230;</p>
<p>Well I know I got it round here someplace, just can&#8217;t lay ma hands on it right now&#8230; Got some glass blowin&#8217; color at me I could stare at all day too, an&#8217; hate it! Yeah, here we are&#8230; A little beach of my own. My own beach party.</p>
<p>You know, I always swore I&#8217;d never have me no dumb ornaments round ma apartment. With my Ma an&#8217; her glass dogs an&#8217; seals balancing beach balls on their snouts. Since I realised how it was her tryin&#8217; ta keep it all alive in those dead dolls. Cos I remember now &#8217;bout the beaches, every time we went down the coast. How my Pa&#8217;s away off down the boardwalk bars playin&#8217; rummy cos he likes to meet people an&#8217; have them around&#8230; While Ma, well she&#8217;s on the beach, sat on a towel, under the sun an&#8217; the gaze of all those round her. The women tuttin&#8217; an&#8217; shakin&#8217; their heads cos she&#8217;s on her own with a child. The men starin&#8217; at her hard, cos she&#8217;s jis a woman alone&#8230; Bringin&#8217; their City ways with them ta that beautiful beach&#8230;</p>
<p>Only the beach it ain&#8217;t so beautiful, cos my Pa, well he never even sees it, never touches it, up on the boardwalk sippin&#8217; his scotch an&#8217; ryes. While my Ma, she don&#8217;t feel nothin&#8217; on her towel, &#8216;cept the heat all around. Only me, sittin&#8217; there on the sand&#8230; lookin&#8217; this way an&#8217; then that, this way an&#8217; then that way&#8230; till ma neck hurts an&#8217; I can&#8217;t support it no more. Like now. Like I&#8217;ve got this really clear picture, only I ain&#8217;t in it. Like I&#8217;ve been burned out the middle between them.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m sittin&#8217; on the sand, but I can&#8217;t feel it either. Can&#8217;t feel nothin&#8217;. No happy memories. No memories at all. Just remember comin&#8217; home again an&#8217; starin&#8217; at these grisly statues who&#8217;ve swallowed all that smoke an&#8217; suffocatin&#8217; silently inside. An&#8217; now here, with a promise ta maself against ever having any a&#8217; them of my own, here&#8217;s the glass vial an the works ta remind me. Exactly how it feels. In my glass house inhaling oily smoke, cos I gave myself up ta him! A tired old love junky with empty veins. An&#8217; I&#8217;m right back there now, remembering how it once felt. Him filling me up so I&#8217;m glowing inside. My body dissolving nice. Molten liquid bubblin&#8217; thru an&#8217; I can feel every part of my body tingling. Warm. Turning me back into sand. Smooth to the touch. When he blows off an&#8217; I feel my body turn back into glass on the spot. Only the pressure&#8217;s plenty fierce, stretching me real tight inside. So as I gotta burst&#8230; The banks of my glass body, shatter me into a thousand pieces. Like smashing all of my Ma&#8217;s figurines when she died. Throwin&#8217; them out int&#8217;a box on the floor, hearing them tinkle. An&#8217; throwin&#8217; myself out with them, an&#8217; all the things I ever had. Threw them out when I let him walk out of my life. Leaving the needle waftin&#8217; in my arm. Ya gotta have a hobby in life an&#8217; mine&#8217;s needlepoint.</p>
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