The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of California opened its traveling exhibit, “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" with a partial display in the state's capitol building on May 22nd. The show is part of CCHR's continuing efforts to warn people about the connection that psychiatric drugs have with increasing rates of suicides and violence, especially among our military and veterans.>> … [Read more...]
Exhibit Warns About Connection of Psychiatric Drugs to Suicide and Violence — Organizers Add Special Reach Out to Military and Veterans
May 26, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Call for Investigation into Elliot Rodger’s Medications
May 26, 2014 by Leave a Comment
With the shocking news of the mass killing by University of Santa Barbara student Elliot Rodger we are once more reminded that we are creating this generation of killers by our irresponsible stance on the use of killer drugs.Every one of the youth killers that have been filling out TV screens for the past 10 years have been on one or more anti-psychotic medications.It's time to stop temporizing. No, it's not that they didn't have the meds they needed--it's that they HAD the meds that … [Read more...]
Scientologists: Prayer is the process towards the divine
May 23, 2014 by Leave a Comment
An article this week in the Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad includes an interview with Scientology spokesperson Anette Refstrupe on prayer in Scientology."In Scientology, we are not so much involved in prayer in the traditional sense of the word, but we are concerned with increasing our understand of ourselves and others around us. This includes raising one's awareness of Mankind, all living things, all spiritually and ultimately an understanding of the Creator of the Universe. So to me, … [Read more...]
Memorial Day: 22 Vets are dying every day. Time for action
May 23, 2014 by Leave a Comment
This Memorial Day, I am remembering a different kind of soldier entirely--one whose death was completely avoidable. One whose death was engineered. The shocking truth is covered in a feature-length documentary produced by Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). The situation is stated clearly on the video embedded above and the CCHR website:In early 2013, the official website of the United States Department of Defense announced the startling statistic that the number of military … [Read more...]
Ethics and the blogosphere, an oxymoron?
May 21, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday's story in the LA Weekly on how Oprah Winfrey's infamous Tom Cruise show was a fabrication of the blogosphere is an eye-opener. … [Read more...]
World Day for Cultural Diversity
May 20, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Mary 21 is World Day for Cultural Diversity.In 2001, UNESCO adopted the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversityand in December 2002, the UN General Assembly, in its resolution57/249, declared May 21 to be the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.In honor of this day, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO wrote:"Our cultural diversity is a stimulator of creativity. Investing in this creativity can transform societies. It is our responsibility to develop … [Read more...]
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