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JMBlog Archive for July, 2007

Psychiatrist Airs his Doubts

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Here are some quotes from Dr. Michael Benjamin, a psychiatrist who’s been practicing for 38 years:

“As a Psychiatrist, I still do not know what our profession is trying to do. It seems we have a series of solutions and now we are trying to find the problems that they can solve….”

“There is no doubt in my mind that children that would not be given Ritalin by experts in the field are receiving it. No one can say with honesty and certainty what the effect of Ritalin use in juveniles will have on their brains as they age. Yet the …

Mania - an article in the Whistle Blower

Monday, July 9th, 2007

World Net Daily has just published an excellent article entitled MANIA The shocking link between psychiatric drugs, suicide, violence and mass murder. Of course, this is nothing new to CCHR, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. In it they detail some of the many instances of psychiatric drugs causing homicidal ideation, particularly mentioning Effexor and Andrea Yates, who drowned her 5 children in a bathtub while under the effects of Effexor.

It’s not too surprising, when you stop and think about it. The purpose of psychiatric drugs is to create numbness and an incapacity to feel certain emotions. They want you numb …

3 Trillion Barrels of Oil

Friday, July 6th, 2007

This is an interesting article about oil reserves and fossil fuel dependency. The gist of it is that if we can get out of our own way, we have plenty of oil to carry us through to a post-petrol economy. But we can’t back away from nuclear power plants if we plan to do that.

I’m no expert on fuel and world affairs, but I do remember being told by my high school science teacher in about 1967 that we were going to run out of fuel by 1975. And yet today there are 3 trillion barrels of oil in known …

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