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Mental health study shows 51% of Gaza children, 31% adults suffer from post-war trauma

M. H.
Palestinian News & Info Agency
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:15 UTC
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Gaza Community Mental Health Program's (GCMHP) Deputy Director General for Professional Affairs Taysir Diab Thursday said around 51% of Gaza's children and 31% of its adults suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result to the latest Israeli mass attack on the besieged Gaza Strip.

These results were presented following a series of activities organized by the program to test the psychological condition and mental health of Gaza's community; including children and adults.

Diab along with Head of External Affairs and Resources Development Department Husam El-Nounou met with a delegation from the GIZ, which included the Regional Director of GIZ Rudolf Rogg, accompanied with GIZ Gaza-Representative Wael Safi.

The meeting, held in the GCMHP's headquarters in Gaza, aimed at strengthening the means of joint cooperation between the GCMHP and the GIZ.

GCMHP's Director General Yasser Abu Jamei warmly welcomed the visiting delegation, giving a brief about key activities and services provided by the GCMHP to the Palestinian community through its therapeutic and psychological interventions, in addition to its advocacy efforts, and developing the skills of professionals working in the field of community mental health.

Comment: All by design, thanks to Israel.

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Australian right-to-die doctor will gas audiences on television show to model 'peaceful and reliable means of death'

Paul Gallagher
The Independent, UK
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:15 UTC
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Philip Nitschke, nicknamed Dr. Death, with his new Destiny machine.
Audience members at the Edinburgh Fringe show hosted by the controversial medic known as Dr Death will be 'gassed' as they model how "a peaceful and reliable means of death" is carried out.

Right-to-die campaigner Philip Nitschke, 67, will invite people on stage to inhale gas from his updated version of the Deliverance machine that helped end the lives of four terminally people in the 1990s using intravenous drugs. Dr Nitschke said the move to gas made his new Destiny euthanasia machine much easier to use as no special skills, such as inserting an IV tube, are required.

Destiny asks three questions before delivering a lethal gas made up of nine per cent carbon monoxide and 91 per cent nitrogen through either a face mask, or nasal prongs, to the patient wanting to die. Volunteers at next month's 'Dicing with Dr Death' show, the first public appearance of the new machine, will receive 100 per cent nitrogen.

The new Destiny euthanasia machine is said to be much easier to use than its predecessor Deliverance
Dr Nitschke said the change followed discussions during development in Michigan with Neal Nicol, the assistant of American euthanasia activist Dr Jack Kevorkian, jailed for his direct role in a case of voluntary euthanasia, who died in 2011.

"Suicide is not a crime in the UK, and assistance is not required to use Destiny, which is perfectly legal," Dr Nitschke told The Independent. "The gas that provides the peaceful death is not restricted. Neal Nicol was present at the deaths of over 50 people who died inhaling nine per cent monoxide, and in his opinion, this method is as peaceful and effective as the more difficult administration of intravenous drugs.

Comment: Why have a televised advertisement for assisted suicide? Is that entertainment? While giving people who are truly suffering the choice to move on is a humane thing to do, given our current fascist world and what happened in Nazi, Germany, it may be conditioning toward the idea of eugenics.

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Snakes in Suits

Monsanto's GMO 'dream bill': Anti-labeling law passes House vote


RT
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:23 UTC
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© Stephen Lam / Reuters
A contentious bill that may keep states from enacting local GMO laws, instead creating a federal "voluntary labeling" standard, has passed a House vote. The bill also regulates the use of the term "natural" on food labels.

Following a 275-150 vote on Thursday, the bipartisan bill is heading for the Senate. If enacted into law, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act would create a voluntary GMO-free certification program overseen by the US Department of Agriculture, and override any state and local GMO labeling laws.

The legislation preempts any state and local restrictions and labeling requirements for genetically modified organisms, foods containing GMOs, as well as non-GMO and"natural" food.

Comment: Who benefits? Obviously Monsanto and the other usual suspects don't want the people to know what they're eating. But the info is out there. Official testimony points to the fact that as much as 80% of the food in America contains genetically modified ingredients. The corruption of the food supply is revolting, and it's our responsibility to find healthy alternatives without expecting solutions from corrupt officials.

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GRAPHIC: Activists film horrific slaughter of 250 whales in Faroe Islands


RT
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:46 UTC
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Shocking footage has emerged showing the slaughter of 250 pilot whales in the Faroe Islands. The annual event, known as the grindadráp, sees locals luring the animals to the shore before attacking them with lances and knives.

The brutal scenes were filmed by Sea Shepherd, a non-profit marine conservation society. Five members of the group were arrested while attempting to disrupt the bloody event that has been practiced for centuries.

Comment: What possible justification can we have to kill so many whales? And in such a disgraceful manner with lack of respect for the animals. Nature's wrath is long overdue.

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Crusader

Gitmo nurse who refused to torture inmates faces Navy retaliation


RT
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:19 UTC
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© Mark Wilson / Reuters
Despite a Guantanamo Bay nurse, who refused to force-feed inmates on hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay, receiving recognition from the nursing association for his ethical stand, the US Navy has threatened to revoke his security clearance, his lawyer said.

The nurse, a Navy lieutenant who has never been publicly identified, made headlines last year when he refused to take any further part in force-feeding Guantanamo inmates, calling the practice a "criminal act."

After pursuing administrative punishment for several months, the Navy eventually decided not to bring any charges against the officer. However, the Pentagon is now threatening to revoke the man's security clearance, said his attorney Ronald Meister.

Comment: Being a conscientious objector is not condoned in the US military. Obviously if the video recordings are released, there may be more conscientious objectors. The US is trying to quietly cover this up but hopefully will not be successful.

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Sheriff

Iowa police shot unarmed black man five times; posed no threat, not a suspect, never charged


RT
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:17 UTC
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A newly released video exposes the lie of cops who shot at a black man they said had struck an officer with his car. However, the man had posed no threat, was not a suspect and was never subsequently charged.

On April 5, witnesses of a fist fight at the New World Bar and Grill at 504 Riehl Street in Waterloo, Iowa, called the police. They just wanted the cops to stop the brawl.

However, when officers arrived at the scene, the scuffle was over and participants and bystanders were leaving.

Waterloo citizen Jovan Webb, 27, a black man, who was preparing to pass a commercial driver's license test and had nothing to do with the fight, left the bar to watch the fight and was about to drive off from the parking lot.

"Soon after getting into his car, a man wearing civilian clothes knocked on the driver's side window of Mr Webb's car. It is thought the man was a Waterloo police officer and that he singled Webb out because of his race," Webb's lawyer, Mark Loevy-Reyes, stated in a suit. "Mr Webb pulled out of his parking spot to get away from the man, whom he did not know."

However, the cop wasn't shaken off easily. He chased the car with a handgun at the ready and shot the driver. Webb's suit claims that one "or more" police officers shot at him.


Comment: No matter where you live in America, the same situation plays itself out over and over again. Cops can (and do) maim or kill you for any reason they like. The police are out of control psychopathic murderers that are far more dangerous than any criminal.

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Airplane

After half-dozen passengers fall ill, Denver-to-L.A. flight gets diverted

M. Alex Johnson and Jacquellena Carrero
NBC News
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:35 UTC

A United Airlines jet with 156 people aboard was diverted Wednesday to Grand Junction, Colorado, after at least six people became ill, United and fire officials said.

One person was being treated at a hospital and five others reported nausea and headaches after oxygen masks deployed on UAL Flight 447 from Denver to Los Angeles, an Airbus A320, the Grand Junction Fire Department told NBC News.

Shawn Montgomery, a spokesman for the fire department, said the hospitalization was likely a precaution because of the patient's medical history.

United said in a statement that the diversion was "due to a medical issue onboard." All passengers were evacuated safely and were to be flown to Los Angeles on a different plane, it said.
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Bad Guys

Zero lessons learned: Fannie & Freddie are back and "badder than ever"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:13 UTC
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© Reuters/Molly Riley
Just in case you still harbored any doubt that absolutely zero lessons were learned from the cataclysmic financial collapse of 2008/09. We learn from the New York Times that:
AFTER the financial crisis of 2008, there was one thing that almost everyone agreed on. The government-sponsored mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, had to go. While shareholders and executives reaped the profits from Fannie and Freddie in good times, taxpayers were stuck with the bill in a crisis. President Obama described their dysfunctional business model as "Heads we win, tails you lose."But here we are, seven years after the crisis, and nothing has changed.

In the 2008 crisis, when it looked as if Fannie and Freddie might go bankrupt, Henry M. Paulson Jr., then the Treasury secretary, argued that their fall would cause economic catastrophe. Foreign investors, stuck with their securities, would panic, and the mortgage market would shut down. So Fannie and Freddie were put into something called conservatorship, and are now government controlled, supported by a line of credit from the Treasury.

Comment: Not holding criminals accountable, and in fact encouraging their crimes, is a sure-fire way to ruin a society. Don't be surprised if the inevitable unrest is used to ram a fascist regime down everyone's throats:

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Black Cat 2

Cognitive dissonance personified: George Clooney opposes African war profiteering on behalf of US war profiteers

David Swanson
World Beyond War
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:00 UTC
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George Clooney in the film Syriana
George Clooney is being paid by the world's top two war profiteers, Lockheed-Martin and Boeing, to oppose war profiteering by Africans disloyal to the U.S. government's agenda.

Way back yonder before World War II, war profiteering was widely frowned on in the United States. Those of us trying to bring back that attitude, and working for barely-funded peace organizations, ought to be thrilled when a wealthy celebrity like George Clooney decides to take on war profiteering, and the corporate media laps it up.

"Real leverage for peace and human rights will come when the people who benefit from war will pay a price for the damage they cause," said Clooney — without encountering anything like the blowback Donald Trump received when he criticized John McCain.

Really, is that all it takes to give peace a chance, a celebrity? Will the media now cover the matter of who funds opponents of the Iran deal, and who funds supporters of the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, etc.?

Well, no, not really.

Comment: George Clooney epitomizes the cognitive dissonance so evident in Hollywood today. On one hand he produces and stars in the consciousness-raising film Syriana about the destructive political, economic and social influence of Western oil industry and intelligence agency interests on the Middle East. And on the other, Clooney has now effectively become a paid shill for the military-industrial-complex! Maybe Matt Damon can sit him down and explain the profound hypocrisy and contradictions inherent in Clooney's new criminal advocacy. But how do you explain something to someone who seems so hopelessly out of touch with reality?

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Better Earth

Biosphere Collapse: The biggest economic bubble ever

Dr. Glen Barry
EcoInternet
Sat, 18 Jul 2015 13:54 UTC
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The global environment collapses as in the pursuit of short-term growth, humanity overruns natural ecosystems including the atmosphere that make Earth habitable. Together we urgently address inequity, climate change, overpopulation and natural ecosystem loss or alone we each face the horrors of economic, social, and ecological collapse.
"Horrendous inequity whereby 200 people possess half of Earth's wealth as more than one billion live on less than $1.50/day is evil incarnate and will kill us all." - Dr. Glen Barry

Comment: While the author makes some good points, understanding psychopathy will be required in order to implement any change to our society:

Political Ponerology

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