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It is necessary to take the pink colored glasses off and stare reality in the face. It might not be pretty what we see, but it is real and acknowledging and understanding the reality in which we live is the best protection we can have. Ignorance is not bliss despite it appearing to be a dominant feature of Western society.
"The book is a challenge to the drugging of children, but the heart of the book is really about how to work with and be with young people in a way that is not suppressive." --John Breeding
This timely book calls for a halt to the epidemic drugging of young people in our society today for so-called ADHD. John Breeding is a clear, strong advocate for young people and a great ally to parents wanting support to resist pressure to label and drug their children. He offers a wealth of information and guidance to concerned adults on biopsychiatry, on schools, and on counseling children.
Prior to writing the book, The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses, John wrote an 18-page booklet containing the germ of his thinking on this topic. The entire text of this booklet is included below. If you like John Breeding's ideas, you will probably want to order his book HERE.
This timely book calls for a halt to the epidemic drugging of young people in our society today for so-called ADHD. John Breeding is a clear, strong advocate for young people and a great ally to parents wanting support to resist pressure to label and drug their children. He offers a wealth of information and guidance to concerned adults on biopsychiatry, on schools, and on counseling children.
Prior to writing the book, The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses, John wrote an 18-page booklet containing the germ of his thinking on this topic. The entire text of this booklet is included below. If you like John Breeding's ideas, you will probably want to order his book HERE.
The REAL Norwegian Politician speaks up! (Not the same as this one!)
As reported by Norwegian Secret Military Analysts to their Leak Me a Secret Magazine subscribers.
We recently received a most interesting letter from a real Norwegian politician. Although we wouldn't declare under oath for the authenticity of the manuscript, the elegant handwriting and the numerous footnotes suggest that a great deal of scientific research was carried out to support the claims. Plus, the poor use of the English language proves that we are dealing with a foreigner! Plus, the inability to write a coherent paragraph proves we are dealing with a politician!
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I am a Norwegian politician. Really. I would like to say that difficult things have happened throughout the history of the human race and they will still be happening from the current year (2008) [1] till the year ominously known as 2012 and beyond. All the years in between inclusive.
As reported by Norwegian Secret Military Analysts to their Leak Me a Secret Magazine subscribers.
We recently received a most interesting letter from a real Norwegian politician. Although we wouldn't declare under oath for the authenticity of the manuscript, the elegant handwriting and the numerous footnotes suggest that a great deal of scientific research was carried out to support the claims. Plus, the poor use of the English language proves that we are dealing with a foreigner! Plus, the inability to write a coherent paragraph proves we are dealing with a politician!
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I am a Norwegian politician. Really. I would like to say that difficult things have happened throughout the history of the human race and they will still be happening from the current year (2008) [1] till the year ominously known as 2012 and beyond. All the years in between inclusive.
The first thing I want to say is that there is no al-Qaeda; not in the way we understand it to be. The only al-Qaeda ever found is this one and given the fact that there are now more Al Qaeda outlets than there are McDonald's makes it all the more absurd. On Friday, unknown gunman attacked the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania and once again it was Al Qaeda. A bystander said the colors were melting from the flag flying from the getaway car.
al-Qaeda means The Toilet ...think a little people and add this in to what we know about 9/11.
al-Qaeda means The Toilet ...think a little people and add this in to what we know about 9/11.
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Every generation has its challenges, its wars and its peculiar identity. Every generation replaces the one in front of it and gets replaced by the one behind it. The enemy of each generation is always the same. It changes its clothes and terrain. It moves in and out of political ideologies and religious dogmas but it's the same enemy.
Defining the enemy isn't an easy thing. You're dealing with continuous shape-shifting. You think you are confronting it in front of you when it is actually leaning over your shoulder and advising you. You find that it agrees with you and is on your side only to discover that it has used its seeming alliance to discredit what you believe in; to misrepresent what you believe in.
What is this evil? If we recognize it to be the root of all suffering, then even the Buddha dealt with it in his own way, yet it keeps harassing us. While living in the USA, I had the privilege of meeting Andrzej Lobaczewski, a clinical psychologist who coined the term ponerology from the Greek word for evil. He used this term to describe the results of his many years of research, which can be said to supplement ethics from the psychiatric point of view. Unfortunately he was not always able to get his message through, and the better part of his work was never published as far as I know. Closer contact with Andrzej Lobaczewski encouraged me to familiarize myself with other problematics on similar topics smuggled out of the Soviet Union and Hungary. Since I gave a series of interviews at that time (namely 1984) in connection with the publication of my work The Psychological Roots of Communism, I decided to devote an additional radio interview to this very subject. The statements made therein had been jointly formulated beforehand with Andrzej Lobaczewski, who didn't disclose his name at that time. Although this was all quite a long time ago, I believe the topic deserves wider renown.
Comment: According to the National Institute of Mental Health:
9.5 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older suffer from Mood DisorderAccounting for comorbidity, "An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older - about one in four adults - suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year." Notice that psychopathy and personality disorders such as narcissism and borderline personality disorder, are not even included in this list. Either mental illness is on the rise, or different criteria were used to come up with the figures cited by Wasilewski.
6.7 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older suffer from Major Depressive Disorder
1.5 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older suffer from Dysthymic Disorder
2.6 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older suffer from Bi-polar disorder
1.1 percent of the population age 18 and older suffer from Schizophrenia
18.1 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have an anxiety disorder.
2.7 percent of people age 18 and older suffer from panic disorder
1.0 percent of people age 18 and older suffer from Obsessive-compulsive disorder
3.5 percent of people age 18 and older suffer from Post Traumatic Stress disorder
3.1 percent of people age 18 and over suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder
6.8 percent of people age 18 and older suffer from Social Phobia
0.8 percent of people age 18 and older suffer from Agoraphobia
8.7 percent of people age 18 and older suffer from marked and persistent fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation
0.5 percent to 3.7 percent of females suffer from anorexia
1.1 percent to 4.2 percent suffer from bulimia (The mortality rate among people with anorexia has been estimated at 0.56 percent per year, or approximately 5.6 percent per decade, which is about 12 times higher than the annual death rate due to all causes of death among females ages 15-24 in the general population.)
4.1 percent of adults, ages 18-44 suffer from ADHD
Best of the Web: The Mass Media - Neutral, Honest, Psychopathic: Reviewing David Edwards and David Cromwell's "Guardians of Power"
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David Cromwell is a Scottish writer, activist and oceanographer at the National Oceanography Centre in Britain. David Edwards is also a UK writer who focuses on human rights, the environment and the media. Together they edit an extraordinary "UK-based media-watch project" called Media Lens. It "offers authoritative criticism of mainstream media bias and censorship, as well as providing in-depth analysis, quotes, media contact details and other resources."
Today, the media is in crisis, and a free and open society is at risk. Fiction substitutes for fact, news is carefully filtered, dissent is marginalized, and supporting the powerful substitutes for full and accurate reporting. As a result, wars of aggression are called liberating ones, civil liberties are suppressed for our own good, and patriotism means going along with governments that are lawless.
The authors challenge these views and those in the mainstream who reflect them - the managers, editors and journalists. Their aim in Media Lens and their writing is to "raise public awareness" to see "reality" as they do, free from the corrupting influence of media corporations and their single-minded pursuit of profit "in a society dominated by corporate power" and governments acting as their handmaiden. They note that Pravda was a state propaganda organ so "why should we expect the corporate press to tell the truth about corporate power" and unfettered capitalism when they support it? They don't and never will.
Best of the Web: U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007
Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called "consensus" on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.
The new report issued by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's office of the GOP Ranking Member details the views of the scientists, the overwhelming majority of whom spoke out in 2007.
The new report issued by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's office of the GOP Ranking Member details the views of the scientists, the overwhelming majority of whom spoke out in 2007.
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In this excerpt from his new book, The Iran Agenda, veteran independent journalist Reese Erlich challenges the conventional wisdom on Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Comment: While the author's historical analysis on the relationship between the U.S and Iran is very valuable. he is extremely naive in his recommendations of what the U.S should do. It is imperative that normal people, including the author, understand that most of governments in the world have been infiltrated by psychopaths who have no conscience. Therefore, normal reasoning and moral standards cannot be applied to them.
What we should be doing now is to spread knowledge about the nature of the psychopaths to a majority of human beings in the world. That is the only hope for us. Read the following article for more information: Hope.
Comment: SOTT has heard from a couple of sources that John Breeding is affiliated with Scientology. For example, have a look at THIS BLOG. Another item states: SOTT wishes to state, right up front, that we don't believe in tossing the baby out with the bathwater. We also do not promote "Black and White" thinking - you know, the "you are either with us or against us" type of thinking that has gotten this planet into the shape it is in right now.
There is good, and there is evil, and there is the specific situation that determines which is which.
Whether or not Dr. Breeding is affiliated with the Church of Scientology or not does not seem to interfere with his rational, decent and humane analysis of what is being done to our children. In fact, from the point of view of the "black and white thinkers," you could even say that anyone who attacks John Breeding for exposing psychiatry and the evil experiments being done on America's children via the psychiatric establishment and the pharmaceutical industry, is definitely on the side of the same gang that was behind 9-11. Think about that for a moment.
John Breeding's defense of children against evil psychopathic psychiatrists and Big Pharma puts him squarely on the side of humanity. We could also say that the Church of Scientology, being against evil psychiatry and Big Pharma could also be said to be wearing a white hat. We are not promoting Scientology here, we just assert that they have a right to exist and we note that they do have a pretty good record of doing good works, getting people off drugs, helping them live productive lives, and so on. We also notice that those who attack them have their own axe to grind, the same way those who attack us have an axe to grind.
Having said that, we also wish to note that it is also possible that psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry have, at times, done very beneficial things for humanity, we just can't think of any right off hand.
Nothing is ever easy; there are no clear and simple criteria; the devil is in the details; and you are still required to think.
SOTT thinks that there is a lot of good in the work of Dr. John Breeding, and the critics be damned.