trash, tar wars, drug ads, depleted uranium, psychiatry

Wed May 28 21:54:10 EDT 2008

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"Don't Mourn, Organize"

The great Wobbly folk singer has taken the last train out of the station.
Bruce 'U' Utah Phillips passed away late Friday night, May 23.

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A sea of synthetic trash

Globe and Mail, May 19, 2008

Out in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, hundreds of kilometres from
land, Captain Charles Moore stood at the bow of his 50-foot catamaran and
looked toward the horizon. But instead of gliding along calm,
sapphire-coloured waters glistening in the afternoon sun, his
aluminum-hulled Alguita carved through a sea of shiny, modern-day refuse.

For days on end, it was plastic, plastic, everywhere. <snip>

What he discovered at the heart of the deep swirls were miles upon miles
of water bottles, plastic tarpaulins, dolls and furniture that have been
collecting there for as long as 60 years.

This plastic soup, with billions of tiny shards of the synthetic material
floating just below the surface of the water, is estimated to span an area
11/2 times the size of the continental United States. <snip>

Full article:
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080519.wgyre19/BNStory/International/home>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080519.wgyre19/BNStory/International/home

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Scenes From the Tar Wars
Mother Jones, May/June issue

As Canada scrambles to dig up some of the world's dirtiest oil, a bush
doctor tracks mysterious diseases, poisoned rivers, and shattered lives.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/05/scenes-from-the-tar-wars.html

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Check out this online gallery of modern and vintage psychiatric drug
advertising for pharmaceutical drugs such as heroine, cannabis, women,
kids and more...

http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medicineshow.html

The rest of the site is therapeutic too!

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Peter Tabuns, MPP (NDP Energy Critic), has introduced a private members
bill to the Ontario Legislature that would make it illegal to build a
simple-cycle power plant larger than 30 megawatts in Northern York Region
(NYR).  Bill 79 also instructs the Ontario Power Authority to take every
reasonable action to meet NYR’s electricity needs with a combination of
energy conservation and demand management, renewable energy and
high-efficiency natural gas-fired combined heat and power plants.

If passed, the bill will prevent the Ontario Power Authority from
contracting with a power developer for the construction of a low
efficiency 350-400 megawatt power plant in NYR.

You can support Mr. Tabuns’ bill by signing our petition at
<http://www.petitiononline.com/nyr/petition.html>www.petitiononline.com/nyr/petition.html.
 We need to demonstrate that there is widespread support for a more
climate friendly approach to energy planning in Ontario.  Please sign it
today and get your friends and family to sign too!

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Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

<http://www.naturalnews.com/023274.html>http://www.naturalnews.com/023274.html

Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons
by David Gutierrez

(NaturalNews) The use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the U.S.
military may lead to a death toll far higher than that from the nuclear
bombs dropped at the end of World War II.

DU is a waste product of uranium enrichment, containing approximately
one-third the radioactive isotopes of naturally occurring uranium. Because
of its high density, it is used in armor- or tank-piercing ammunition. It
has been fired by the U.S. and British militaries in the two Iraq wars and
in Afghanistan, as well as by NATO forces in Kosovo and the
Israeli<http://www.naturalnews.com/military.html>military in Lebanon and
Palestine.

Inhaled or ingested DU particles are highly toxic, and DU has been
classified as an illegal weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority has estimated that 50 tons of
DU dust from the first <http://www.naturalnews.com/Gulf_War.html>Gulf War
could lead to 500,000 <http://www.naturalnews.com/cancer.html>cancer
deaths by the year 2000. To date, a total of 2,000 tons have been
generated in the <http://www.naturalnews.com/Middle_East.html>Middle East.

In contrast, approximately 250,000 lives were claimed by the explosions
and radiation released by the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.

"More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric
testing [of nuclear bombs] has been released from DU weaponry since 1991,"
said Leuren Moret, a U.S. nuclear scientist. "The genetic future of the
Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed. The environment now is
completely radioactive."

Because DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the Middle East will, for
all practical purposes, be radioactive forever.

The two U.S. wars in <http://www.naturalnews.com/Iraq.html>Iraq "have been
nuclear wars because they have scattered nuclear material across the land,
and people, particularly children, are condemned to die of malignancy and
congenital disease essentially for eternity," said anti-nuclear activist
Helen Caldicott.

Since the first Gulf War, the rate of birth defects and childhood cancer
in Iraq has increased by seven times. More than 35 percent (251,000) of
U.S. Gulf War veterans are dead or on permanent medical disability,
compared with only 400 who were killed during the conflict.

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The province of Ontario is planning an expansion of westbound Highway 402
between Mandaumin Road and the Bluewater Bridge, increasing the number of
lanes from 2 to 4. Those 2 extra lanes would be DEDICATED to truck traffic
only.

Citizens from Sarnia and surrounding area are greatly concerned that the
expanded lanes will concentrate truck lineups into an area that is near
many homes and high density apartments, schools, city parks and sports
fields, etc. Recent air quality studies already suggest that Sarnia has
lower than average air quality on many days of the year.

There is a petition for a bumped-up environmental assessment. Please sign
it here:

http://www.gopetition.com/online/19432.html

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Update from the UN — Canada nominated for most obstructive delegation award
May 23, 2008

At UN meetings under the Convention on Biodiversity, taking place right
now in Bonn, Germany, Canada intervened to directly eliminate the African
request for a UN moratorium on GE trees.

Because of its obstructionist interventions at the meeting, Canada was
nominated for the Greenpeace Golden Chainsaw Award for the most
obstructive delegation.

“Canada should not stand in the way of African and other governments in
establishing a moratorium on GE trees," says Greenpeace Canada’s Eric
Darier. "GE trees endanger forests and Indigenous peoples across the
world. The only way forward is a global moratorium.” 

<http://www.rightoncanada.ca/c.juIZLdMOJrE/b.2517563/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=juIZLdMOJrE&b=2517563&aid=10325>Please
send you letter right away to Canada's Environment Minister, John Baird,
who is representing Canada at the Conference. Tell him to support the
moratorium

Thanks,

Kathleen, Peggy, Pauline and Becky for RightOnCanada.ca

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High gas prices have Americans screaming for HELP! - animation

http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/opinion/walthandelsman/blog/2008/05/animation_high_gas_prices.html

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<http://www.breggin.com/bookordrfrm.html>Brain-Disabling Treatments in
Psychiatry:
Drugs, Electroshock and the Pharmaceutical Complex

by Peter R. Breggin, MD

The scientific premise of the book is that all psychiatric treatments --
drugs, electroshock and lobotomy -- have their "therapeutic" impact by
disabling the brain. They do not improve brain function or correct
biochemical imbalances, they cause brain dysfunction and biochemical
imbalances. These brain-disabling interventions are then considered
effective when the doctor, family, patient or society views impaired brain
dysfunction in the target individuals as a desirable or beneficial effect.
Because psychiatric drugs in reality do more harm than good, the
psychopharmaceutical complex must devote billions of dollars to exerting
its power and influence in the political, professional and public arenas.

"Antipsychotic" drugs such as Risperdal, Zyprexa, Seroquel and Geodon are
used literally to chemically lobotomize millions of adults and children
because the resulting apathy and indifference are seen as an improvement
over their previously distressed and distressing state of mind or
behavior. Millions more adults take "tranquilizers" like Xanax, Ativan,
Klonopin and Valium, suppressing their overall brain function in order to
reduce feelings of anxiety. A large percentage of our nation‚s children
have their spontaneity reduced or even crushed by stimulant drugs such as
Ritalin, Concerta, Adderall and Strattera, causing them to become more
docile and more obsessively attentive to rote work.

Despite all the propaganda, antidepressants such Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft and
Cymbalta have no scientifically demonstrable effectiveness and are proven
to cause suicidality, as well as violence and mania. They too „work‰ by
causing mental disabilities such as apathy and euphoria that are
misinterpreted as improvements. Meanwhile, their continued widespread use
is determined in part by the fact that withdrawal produces severe
psychiatric symptoms, including anxiety and depression. In short, it is
too difficult and painful for people to stop taking them.

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