Drugging the Vulnerable: Atypical Antipsychotics in Children and the Elderly

Pharmaceutical companies have recently paid out the largest legal settlements in U.S. history - including the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations - for illegally marketing antipsychotic drugs. The payouts totaled more than $5 billion. But the worst costs of the drugs are being borne by the most vulnerable patients: children and teens in psychiatric hospitals, foster care and juvenile prisons, as well as elderly people in nursing homes. They are medicated for conditions for which the drugs haven't been proven safe or effective - in some cases, with death known as a known possible outcome.

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Terrorist 'pre-crime' detector field tested in United States

Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST), a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programme designed to spot people who are intending to commit a terrorist act, has in the past few months completed its first round of field tests at an undisclosed location in the northeast, Nature has learned.  : Nature News

DHS To Gain Autonomy Under Obama Cybersecurity Plan

The Obama administration's cybersecurity legislative proposal gives the Department of Homeland Security more power than ever to protect federal networks against cyberthreats and breaks down the department's communication barriers with the Department of Defense to do so, officials told a Senate panel this week.  - InformationWeek

A video of the hearing is available online.

The Four Horsemen of Banking (all lead back to the Rothschilds)

If you want to know where the true power center of the world lies, follow the money - cui bono. According to Global Finance magazine, as of 2010 the world’s five biggest banks are all based in Rothschild fiefdoms UK and France.

They are the French BNP ($3 trillion in assets), Royal Bank of Scotland ($2.7 trillion), the UK-based HSBC Holdings ($2.4 trillion), the French Credit Agricole ($2.2 trillion) and the British Barclays ($2.2 trillion).  - BlackListedNews.com

Cell phone could raise cancer risk

Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same "carcinogenic hazard" category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.  Read more...

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• WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk 
• WHO: Cell phones may cause cancer 

Experts say cellphones are possibly carcinogenic

An international panel of experts says cellphones are possibly carcinogenic to humans after reviewing details from dozens of published studies.

The statement was issued in Lyon, France, on Tuesday by the International Agency for Research on Cancer after a weeklong meeting of experts. They reviewed possible links between cancer and the type of electromagnetic radiation found in cellphones, microwaves and radar.  The Associated Press

The Changing Face of the Police and the Death of the Fourth Amendment

by John W. Whitehead

The Fourth Amendment, which assures that "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated," was included in the Bill of Rights in response to the oppressive way British soldiers treated American colonists through their use of "Writs of Assistance." These were court orders that authorized British agents to conduct general searches of premises for contraband. The exact nature of the materials being sought did not have to be detailed, nor did their locations. The powerful new court orders enabled government officials to inspect not only shops and warehouses, but also private homes. These searches resulted in the violation of many of the colonists’ rights and the destruction of much of the colonists’ personal property. It quickly became apparent to many colonists that their homes were no longer their castles.  Read more...

Host Mike Adams: GMO in Your Food Supply

In this special transmission, Mike Adams, editor of Natural News, talks about the TSA and Obama's new-found powers to launch global war. Mike founded a non-profit organization, The Consumer Wellness Center, an online retail center, Better Life Goods, and the popular publishing company, Truth Publishing. He talks with journalist and the editor of Prison Planet.com, Paul Joseph Watson, and Infowars.com

Income Inequality Ignorance

Despite the gap between rich and poor in the United States growing steadily since the 1970's most Americans are not getting angry or protesting in the streets. This could be because most of them are unaware of it, with both lower and upper class people considering themselves to be middle class.

Blacks and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Over time, blacks have become more sympathetic to Palestinians, but they won't express their views loudly -- despite President Obama's plunge into the Middle East conflict.  Read more...

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The Black Civil Rights Movement And Zionism

The author explores Black America’s historical relationships with – and opposition to – Zionism, from W.E.B. DuBois to the demobilization of the Black Freedom Movement. “King’s April 4, 1968 assassination came at a crossroad in his relations with Washington and American Zionism. He was publicly pro-Israel but met with [Stokely] Carmichael against Johnson’s war and for King’s Poor Peoples Campaign.”  Read more...

Questions for Kissinger Go Unasked: Journalists show 'sensitivity' to war-crime suspect’s feelings

While visiting Paris in May, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger received a summons to appear at the French Palace of Justice to answer questions about murders and disappearances in Chile in the 1970s. While the story was carried by major European news outlets, it has received relatively little coverage in U.S. media.

The French wanted to ask Kissinger what he knew about Operation Condor, a consortium of Latin American governments that assassinated dissidents in each other’s countries. Evidence that the U.S. government supported Operation Condor has been available for years (Nation, 8/9-16/99; New York Times, 3/6/01).  Read more...

Elites and Evictions: The Attack On Haiti’s Homeless

For poor people in occupied Haiti, life is a state of siege. Seventeen months after the earthquake, many owners of land on which 1,356 displaced persons camps are located are resorting to force to evict their countrymen. Meanwhile, the cash-rich Haitian reconstruction fund overseen by former presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush is building a luxury, seismically-safe hotel for western visitors.  Read more...

Political Prisoners? Black Lawyers Say Obama Could Free ‘Em All

What can President Obama do to show that he cares, just a little bit, about Black Americans? Since he has done nothing so far in his term, a good a place as any would be to free political prisoners, many of whom have been held for three and four decades. Black lawyers “are calling for the United States to be held to the standards of conduct established by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC) and Convention to End All Forms of Racism and Discrimination (CERD).”  Read more...

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• Over Two Thousand Six Hundred Activists Arrested in US Protests

Biotech company secretly releases millions of GM mosquitoes in Cayman Islands

Scientists at British biotechnology giant Oxitec recently developed a genetically-modified (GM) mosquito that, apart from a specific chemical antibiotic, is unable to successfully repopulate. And the company recently released millions of these GM mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands to see what would happen -- and they did so without proper approval or announcement -- prompting outrage by experts and the public over the unknown consequences of conducting such an irresponsible experiment.  Learn more:

Canadians Fined $5200 for Growing Veggies in Basement

The bylaw enabled the district to inspect homes where there were suspected marijuana grow operations. Because of the climate, however, many residents were using indoor grow setups to grow plants like cucumbers that don’t do well in the chillier northern temperatures. Fortunately, after receiving so many complaints about improper enforcement, Mission suspended the bylaw, but there are still residents who were billed thousands of dollars (before the bylaw’s suspension), even after inspections found no marijuana on site.  Vancouver Sun:

Disbelieving Free Will Makes Brain Less Free

A test of people who read passages discrediting the notion of free will found an immediate decrease in brain activity related to voluntary action. The findings are just one data point in ongoing scientific investigation of a millennia-old philosophical conundrum, but they raise an intriguing possibility.
“Our results indicate that beliefs about free will can change brain processes related to a very basic motor level,” wrote researchers led by psychologist Davide Rigoni of Italy’s University of Padova in a study published in May’s Psychological Science.  Read more...

Honest Criticism (of Pres. Obama) is not Betrayal, it’s Democratic

Anecdotally, as others in the community attempt to engage in informed debate about the dismissals of Van Jones and Shirley Sherrod, allowing the Bush era tax cuts to continue, the escalation from two military endeavors to three (Libya), lack of support for union workers in Wisconsin, and other issues; they are summarily dismissed as traitors, “haters”, crazy, and misinformed. Or, as Professor Harris-Perry describes, “the self-appointed black leadership class that has been largely supplanted in recent years.”  Read more...

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• Black Critics and President Obama

• How Cornel West Did the Obamites a Favor

Hard Work or Hardly Working? How White People Got So Rich Part I

The foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuously on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how Whites gained their wealth and status. A century and a half after slavery the median wealth of White families is $100,000; for Black families, it's $5,000. The belief that Whites achieved this 20-1 wealth advantage by HARD WORK is an absurd and a historical fantasy. Nonetheless, the airwaves are filled with the self-righteous pronouncements of Caucasian commentators anxious to “advise” Blacks to “work hard” and to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” if they want to succeed in America. Not only do they seek to invent a fraudulent fairy tale that whitewashes a very bloody legacy, but they also aim to reaffirm the notion that “non-Whites” are naturally inferior and lazy and are thus responsible for having comparatively nothing. The truth is a whole lot nastier than that.  Read more...

Hitler and the Chinese Internet generation

How did the Chinese Internet generation come to acquire this sense of sympathy for Hitler, and why are they so readily prepared to believe rumors that are so obviously false? In 2007, Chinese author Song Hongbing published a book called The Currency War. It was a hodge-podge of anti-Semitic conspiracies about how the Jews control the money supply and manipulate world events in order to grow their fortunes. - Richard Komaiko  World Prout Assembly

A Declaration of Empire: Proposed law would vastly expand boundaries of US military mission

America's war on terrorism, up to and including its climactic assault on the bin Laden compound, has lain bare this superpower double-standard. Washington is simply above the law. What would Americans make of pilotless drone attacks coming in from Mexico to target, say, drug kingpins holed up in mansions in the hills above San Diego? After the 1979 bombing-murder of Lord Mountbatten, what would Americans have made of British commandos launching a raid in IRA-friendly New York to kill or capture the fugitive Provo chief responsible? No such interventions would be tolerated for a moment. - James Carroll  World Prout Assembly

What It Means to be Black in America: Race and America's Criminal Justice System

Once branded a felon, individuals are permanently relegated to a second class status. Drug felons specifically are banned from receiving subsidized loans for college. All felons are banned from public housing and can be legally discriminated against in private housing. They are also required by law to "check the box" on job applications and employers are entitled to legally discriminate against them. In fact, surveys show the vast majority of employers admit that they will not consider hiring a felon. Barred from affordable housing, educational opportunities, and shut out of the job market, felons also lose the right to eat; they are banned from receiving food stamps for life. In addition to losing the right to possess firearms, felons are completely excluded from serving on juries; because of this, fully 30 percent of black men in America have been automatically excluded from serving on juries. This is in addition to Supreme Court rulings which allow courts to, in practice, systematically exclude blacks from juries for admittedly "silly" and "superstitious" reasons which serve as legal cover for maintaining the all-white jury, which is and always has been a staple institution in American life. Perhaps worse yet, felon disenfranchisement laws deny the right to vote to millions of African Americans across the country. In fact, as of 2004 more black men were disenfranchised than in 1870, which was the year the fifteenth amendment was ratified which outlawed the denial of voting rights to people on the basis of race - Max Kantar  World Prout Assembly

Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing

Egypt lifted a four-year-old blockade on the Gaza Strip's main link to the outside world Saturday, bringing relief to the crowded territory's 1.5 million Palestinians but deepening a rift with Israel since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year. Full Story »

US firm buys "mystery" cargo of Libyan rebel oil

San Antonio-based Tesoro told Reuters on Wednesday it bought the Libyan rebel crude to process in its Hawaii refinery. The deal was first agreed upon in late April, company spokesman Mike Marcy said.  Read more...

Libyan rebels out of oil business?

Not anticipating the emergence of a stalemate and the creation of two Libyas may have thrown an unintended monkey wrench in plans by Western powers and Arab allies' desire to allow Libyan rebels—now called the Interim National Council—to sell captured oil.

According to published reports, the complexity of sanctions of Libya may mean companies wanting to do business with the rebels do so without political or legal cover.  Read more...

Libya under NATO Attack: Stop Bombing Africa and the Poor of the World

While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by the United States in response to the Soviet Union's survival as a Communist state. NATO was the U.S. insurance policy that capitalist ownership and domination of European, Asian, and African economies would continue. This also would ensure the survival of the then-extant global apartheid.  Read more...
 

For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil.

In the past decade, famously mixed-race Brazilians either became prouder of their African roots, savvier with public policies benefiting people of color or are simply more often darker skinned , depending on how you read the much-debated new analysis of the census here.

A recently released 2010 survey showed that Brazil became for the first time a “majority minority” nation, meaning less than half the population now identifies as white.  Read more...

Private Prisons: Idaho Lawsuit Puts Them in Spotlight

As of June 30, 2008, there were 126,249 prisoners in private facilities nationwide, accounting for 7.8 percent of all prisoners, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. That's up from 6.5 percent in 2000. The United States, with 7.2 million prisoners, has the highest incarceration rate in the world.  Read more...

Georgia Farmers Brace For New Immigration Law

Georgia is putting in place a new law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants, and many across the state are nervous. Businesses fear an economic boycott, the Latino community fears police officers will abuse their new powers, and farmers in South Georgia fear the law will hurt them dramatically.  : NPR

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• Farmers tie labor shortage to state's new immigration law, ask for help
• Supreme Court upholds Arizona law designed to thwart illegal workers

Lawmaker: End illegal bombing of Libya

Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich has vowed to go to Capitol Hill to introduce a bill to end the war in Libya based on the “War Powers Resolution” of 1973, a federal law intended to restrict the power of the president to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress.  Read more...

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Live Web TV @ English Version of Libyan Broacast Corporation(http://en.ljbc.net)

Imperialist bombardment, assault on Libya continues (FCN, 05-192011)

Libya Fake Twitter IDs Created to Provide Media With False Information(Mathaba.net, 05-17-2011)

Ten reasons why the U.S. war in Libya is a CIA operation (FCN, 04-28-2011)

Why the West Want the Fall of Muammar Gaddafi (Analysis by Jean-Paul Pougala, 04, 2011)

‘U.S. provoking China and Russia in Libya,Mediterranean' (Tehran Times, 04-28-2011)

West 'getting away with murder' in Libya (FCN, 04-27-2011)

Farrakhan Questioned on Libya (WPFWRadio Interview, 04-03-2011)

Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective (FCN, 03-08-2011)

Bill Would Keep Big Brother’s Mitts Off Your GPS Data

The courts aren’t sure whether so-called “geolocation” data taken from GPS devices or cellphones is covered by the Fourth Amendment, as Wired.com’s blog Threat Level has extensively reported. That ambiguity has largely enabled law enforcement to snatch it up without getting a warrant or showing probable cause. | Wired.com

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• There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says

• Obama Signs Extension To Terrorism-Fighting Bill

Whites in U.S. still live longer than blacks

While life expectancy in the United States has risen from 47 years in 1900 to 78 today, statistics show African Americans, on average, die five years earlier than whites.  Futurity.org

Parts of moon interior contains as much water as Earth's upper mantle

The scientists discovered water along with volatile elements in lunar magma trapped inside of crystals that are trapped inside of tiny volcanic glass beads returned to Earth by Apollo 17.

The discovery, published in the May 26 Science Express, challenges assumptions of how the moon formed and the origin of frozen water at the lunar poles.  Read more...

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• Moon water—and lots of it  

• Scientist Agree With Honorable Elijah Muhammad Who Said a Long Time Ago That a Scientist Blew Up the Moon Using High Explosive

Words of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad from a 1960's lecture:

"And we have also a history of the star which is placed in our flag of the universe, some sixty-six trillions years ago. And we also have a knowledge of the deportation of our planet and the moon which took place sixty-six trillion years ago by one of our own scientists, which taken high explosives...they are trying to find that same explosive today to destroy the planet...he'd taken high explosives drilled a tube into our moon, which it was called moon, and a lot of our ancient people today refer to the earth as moon, it is moon. And filled that tube full of high explosives, set it off and it split our planet in two.

That part that you see up there tonight, that we call moon, it was blasted away from the original bed or pocket that we were in some 12,000 miles and it turned over, dropped all the water of that part on this part. That's why this part, today, it's surface is 3/4 covered under water because we have that water that once was on the moon.

I don't think this is a good thing to be teaching to you, but I want to get to your history, gradually.

Now, a Black Scientist did that sixty-six trillion years ago. He was smart enough to try to destroy us by drilling a tube into our earth's, as we call it today, surface about 4,000 ...miles. He split the planet and this part dropped 36,000 miles from the original pocket and found a pocket and it started rotating. And we are the lucky people who were on this part that we didn't get destroyed with those who were once on the moon. The moon is part of our earth. The astronomers, today, they have learned that and they believe it. And God Almighty has revealed the secret to me and not only the secret of the moon and the earth to me, but has also given to me the secret knowledge of more planets, other than the earth, even to Mars, the civilization on it and they have the language of the people on Mars and they can speak to these people, they can question them. They can make them react to our wicked. But they can not make us react to their will.  Read more...


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• DEPORTATION OF THE MOON

   

Lists of Prescription Meds' Side Effects Keep Growing: Study

Lists of the side effects for prescription medications on drug labels, packaging and advertisements have mushroomed up to an average of 70 per medication, a new study reports. Full Story »

Recent study finds aspirin linked to erectile dysfunction

Recent research has identified daily use of aspirin or other NSAID's with a significant increased risk of erectile dysfunction. The association of aspirin and other NSAID's with erectile dysfunction began with a small study in Finland. The results seen in the Finland study were affirmed in a larger study conducted by Kaiser Permenente Los Angeles Medical Center. The results of these two studies contradicted commonly held beliefs about the cause of erectile dysfunction.  Read more...

Social media harnessed by the far right (Racist and xenophobic people)

"Racist and xenophobic people took over first because they had not been allowed into mainstream media," said Arash Mokhtari, a project manager at Quick Response, a Swedish group monitoring media coverage of migrants.

"Before, they resorted to leaflets but by now they've become very media-savvy, they are very present in blogs and commentary sections," he said.  - Al Jazeera English

Census: Men narrow population gender gap

Women still outlive men, but the gender gap among U.S. seniors is narrowing.

New 2010 census figures, released Thursday, show men are narrowing the female population advantage, primarily in the 65-plus age group. It's a change in the social dynamics of a country in which longevity, widowhood and health care for seniors often have been seen as issues more important to women.  - CBS News

Next time blame bacteria for the bad weather

Scientists report new evidence linking airborne microbes to myriad weather events

Bacteria are everywhere--in us, on us, around us. But they're also floating around in the atmosphere, and researchers cracking open hailstones have now discovered them at the core, lending credence to the theory that bacteria jump-start the atmospheric process of forming snow, hail, and rain as a way to hitch a ride down to Earth.  - CBS News

Life-like robot tests boundaries

Should robots be allowed to fire people or read classroom stories to kids? That's what Danish psychologist Henrik Schrafe is trying to find out with the help of a robot that looks just like him. CBSNews.com's Nick Dietz reports.

Libyan gold rush followed end to sanctions

Some of the world’s most sophisticated banks and investment firms rushed to do business with Moammar Gaddafi’s government in Libya after the United States rescinded the country’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism five years ago, according to an internal financial document obtained by The Washington Post.  - The Washington Post

What is The American Israel Public Affairs Commitee (AIPAC) -(Part1)

There is a growing protest movement in America against AIPAC; The American Israel Political Affairs Committee.

This edition of American Dream studies the AIPAC and reviews the reasons behind these protests.

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The legal license President Obama used to justify U.S. military intervention in Libya expired May 20th, it is now an Illegal War

The illegal war in Libya - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation" -- candidate Barack Obama, December, 2007

Illegal war? Congress doesn't care | Gene Healy | Columnists | Washington Examiner

On Friday the 60-day clock ran out, leaving Obama in clear violation of the War Powers Resolution, passed in 1973 to "fulfill the intent of the framers of the Constitution ... [and] insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities."

It's a Simple Fact: Obama Is Now Waging an Illegal War | World | AlterNet

Regardless of whether one loves or loathes the president, or how one views his intervention in Libya, it is simply a conclusive fact that Barack Obama is now pursuing an illegal conflict. And a timid congress, so inured to our nation's permanent state of war, isn't calling him on its illegality.

Obama’s Folly: The Illegal War in Libya | US Opinion and Editorial Right Side News

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how we missed that little shortcoming of US law. But apparently, we did. And, as a result, Obama just goes ahead and acts as a king would do and issues “commands,” “decrees,” and “edicts.” What’s worse – the Mainstream Media, which lays claim to “watchdog” status for the people, will not call him on it. They just look the other way, totally disregarding illegal and/or unconstitutional actions of the Obama Administration.

US Senate OKs PATRIOT Act extension

Because of strong support from the Obama administration, a bipartisan majority in both the House and Senate is expected to ensure passage this week, preventing a lapse of the federal enforcement powers. The provisions expire Friday.  PressTV

Prisons Ban Books (Except the Bible)

Nationwide, the works of Toni Morrison and Sojourner Truth have reportedly been banned in prisons, even Shakespeare. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a suit against the Berkeley County Jail in South Carolina, because inmates there are allegedly only allowed to read the Bible. And by July this year, the Connecticut Department of Corrections plans to further limit the books inmates there can read over concerns that an ex-con took part in the notorious Petit family murders in 2007 after reading violent books in prison. 
| AlterNet

Study: Whites say they face more racism than blacks

Blacks and white agreed that racism against blacks decreased as the decades progressed. But whites, unlike blacks, felt that anti-white bias had increased along with the drop in anti-black bias.  | The Raw Story

Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West

The liberal class, which attempted last week to discredit the words my friend Cornel West spoke about Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, prefers comfort and privilege to justice, truth and confrontation. Its guiding ideological stance is determined by what is most expedient to the careers of its members. It refuses to challenge, in a meaningful way, the decaying structures of democracy or the ascendancy of the corporate state.  - Truthdig

Test Tube Daddies, Real Men Need Not Inseminate.

The results are in: How did 'Test Tube' Babies turnout? You maybe surprised. (Video)

Israeli Prime Minister Addresses the United States Congress

During his speech to Congress P.M. Netanyahu stated, "As President Obama said, borders will be different than 1967. Israel will not return to 'indefensible' borders." He added "It's absolutely vital that a Palestinian state be demilitarized."  | C-SPAN