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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

13 July - Al Jazeera | New Orleans Ladder

Mass psychosis in the US
How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs.
Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses - primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - to treat such symptoms as delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder. Today, it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. Parents are told that their unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once reserved largely for schizophrenics. Americans with symptoms ranging from chronic depression to anxiety to insomnia are now being prescribed anti-psychotics at rates that seem to indicate a national mass psychosis.
It is anything but a coincidence that the explosion in antipsychotic use coincides with the pharmaceutical industry's development of a new class of medications known as "atypical antipsychotics." Beginning with Zyprexa, Risperdal, and Seroquel in the 1990s, followed by Abilify in the early 2000s, these drugs were touted as being more effective than older antipsychotics like Haldol and Thorazine. More importantly, they lacked the most noxious side effects of the older drugs - in particular, the tremors and other motor control problems.
The atypical anti-psychotics were the bright new stars in the pharmaceutical industry's roster of psychotropic drugs - costly, patented medications that made people feel and behave better without any shaking or drooling. Sales grew steadily, until by 2009 Seroquel and Abilify numbered fifth and sixth in annual drug sales, and prescriptions written for the top three atypical antipsychotics totaled more than 20 million.  Suddenly, antipsychotics weren't just for psychotics any more.
As the researchers in one study of the drug industry's influence put it, "the lack of biological tests for mental disorders renders psychiatry especially vulnerable to industry influence." For this reason, they argue, it's particularly important that the guidelines for diagnosing and treating mental illness be compiled "on the basis of an objective review of the scientific evidence" - and not on whether the doctors writing them got a big grant from Merck or own stock in AstraZeneca.

( Counterpoint

Educating Instead of Medicating
CureZone.com
   )


Greed has become a foundational structure of the US economy - exemplified by the pharmaceutical industry. ( 17-Mar-2011 )

 
Featured on Al Jazeera
The Assad government's last strike; and South Sudan - a new nation struggles to build an independent media landscape.
Surge, bribe and run? Or surge, bribe and stay? How US military bases and the energy war play out in Afghanistan.
As US pharmaceutical companies move their operations abroad, India has become a testing ground for trial medicines.
During Reagan's presidency, the US went from a creditor to debtor nation and marked a take-off for financial inequality. 
 

Louisiana’s Bicentennial should be a call for help, not just boosterism ~LaCoastPost

Solar industry, ‘green’ jobs growing in region~Skip Descant

Joffrion Mitts, Represents New Orleans at the HTE Chi Machine Conference

Summer Interview Series (Part Two): Michael D. Smith ~CenLamar
~Editilla Hotellas~Michael D. Smith is one of the founding members and the former President of the New Orleans Food Cooperative, which is preparing to open a community- owned grocery store in an underserved area --mere blocks from Editilla's new old home in the Bywater! I have corresponded with Mr. Smith who, as Lamar's interview illuminates, is one of the brightest people you could meet and a real asset to our growing sense of community since The Flood.

~Hat Tweet ReX Dingler~LOVE WILL WIN
Beer Drinking Style~The Beer Buddha
Hyper-Linked: Herbsaint
~He Said/She Said NOLA


Winesday Special: Cooking With Wine
~Blackened Out


New Yorkers second-line to celebrate the life of d.b.a owner Ray Deter

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Bourbon Street workers rally around police after fatal shooting

Chris Rose: State of the NOPD

UMC Board meets tomorrow: Call for full consideration of the Charity Hospital option! ~SaveCharityHospital.com

TIGER III funds: How NOT to spend these federal transit dollars
~Stephen Crim, The Lens

~Stephen Crim is a board member with Transport for NOLA, an organization that seeks to create a world-class transportation system in the Greater New Orleans region that is based on equity, accessibility, and best practices. For more information visit www.transportfornola.org.

Budget cuts hit Louisiana state parks, museums

House votes to extend flood insurance to 2016

It's Official: Jindal's Signature Moves UNO To Univ. Of La. System~WDSU

Gov. Jindal lists $533 million in projects for BP to finance after oil spill
~Mark Schleifstein
~Also~Coast Guard investigates 2 new reports of oil in Barataria Bay

Too big to jail~Disenfranchised Citizen

FEMA flood buyouts top $2B since 1993

$7 million project to offset erosion in Houma Navigational Canal


New Orleans "desolate"?~Gambit

No Gore, No Foul -The New Orleans Running of the Bulls, in Photos
~Kat Arnold, NOLA DEFENDER

First Look: High Hat~Blackened Out
Tools of the Trade: Curing Burns
~Pauline's Pirates and Privateers


Eye Candy, a short retrospective by Suzanne E. Saunders
~Check out this preview!

Steve Earle and the Dukes recast the House of Blues as a honky-tonk
~Keith Spera

Monday, July 11, 2011

Ivor van Heerden whistleblower lawsuit against LSU's wrongful firing to move forward, says Judge

Harry Shearer Uneasy With Corps in New Katrina Flood Film
~Charles Karel Bouley

~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg
~At Right: Harry Shearer speaks at the dedication of the La. State Historical Marker commemorating the 17th Street Canal Breach. The bottom line is the levees failed the people of New Orleans during the storm and the Army Corps of Engineers failed them years prior.
The Corps, which is immune to prosecution for any negligence brought by flood projects they built thanks to Congress, knew, or should have known that building these levees on substandard soil would lead to catastrophic failure. They should have known that the useless and costly Mr. Go (Mississippi River-Golf Outlet) had a funnel effect that would push water in to the city.
In fact, their total oblivion to the facts was ruled "gross negligence" by a federal court judge in a subsequent lawsuit; but they don't seem to care.
Senators to meet over future of Corps management of Missouri River

Parish OEP Director receives top state award ~Weekly Citizen~Gonzales, La. — Ascension Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Director Rick Webre recently received the President’s Award 2011, which is the highest award given by the Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Association (LEPA).

Shucking Oysters Takes Skill, Strength
City Park Fishing Pier - Grass Planting and Maintenance, Sat. July 16th
~Watershed NOLA


Lake Charles company invests in alga

New federal policy aims to expand U.S. fish farming in coastal waters

Gov. Jindal to announce state projects for BP damage assessment money
~Mark Schleifstein


Probe leaves questions about blowout preventer~Fuel Fix

Invisible~Library Chronicles

Summer Interview Series (Part One): Zack Kopplin ~CenLamar

The Art of the Jailhouse Tattoo
~Dege Legg on the ins and outs of getting inked in the clink ~Gambit
Fundraising for La.'s 2nd bicentennial in a decade

~Hat Tweet Transport for NOLA~HUD "Strong Cities, Strong Communities" pilot to include , transpo. :. What will this mean?

Review: Mayas Restaurant & Bar
~Ian McNulty on the Latin-American flavors at this Magazine Street spot

2011 San Fermin en Nueva Orleans!
I RAN WITH THE BULLS!
~katieRUNSthis


What’s New at Tales of the Cocktail
~Colleen Rush, NewOrleans.com


Checkpoint Charlie’s, The Music Box and DIY Choices
~Disenfranchised Citizen

Does 'Treme' Hate Modern Jazz?
~ Will Layman, PopMatters


~ Hat Tweet ~Today's Events: Steve Earle comes back from the dead at , Paul Sanchez & Swing dance classes on WWOZ~GAMBIT~ANTIGRAVITY ZEITGEIST~NOLAEATS~NOMENU
Support WWOZ online! I renewed my membership online and so can you.
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Please Join OZ Online--:) Thank you! Toll'im Editilla sent'yaz!

Saturday, July 9, 2011

British Petroleum enters debt ceiling fray, demands spending cuts nationwide ~Disenfranchised Citizen
~Editilla does a late-night swig of bullshit in a silver cup~
These limey fucking bastards. They never sleep. That's why the sun never sets on their crumbled empire. I'm tollin'ya... we really should've apprehended Tony Fey Heyward and all of his ilk when they were here on US Soil. Fuck these assholes. So! Do we have a functioning democracy or do we have a Corporate National Socialist State? Well? Americans don't seem to understand that we are pitted against ourselves.

In this episode of Magnum J.D. the conclusion to our two hour special: Pimpin’ ain’t easy so let’s hop aboard the ho’ train ~Slabbed

EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule ~Amy Wold

Launch Day and Aftermath
~Pontchartrain Pete

~Hat Tweet Pontchartrain Pete~Rocket Garden awesome.

One reporter's look back at the space shuttle era~Marcia Dunlap

Wife, son and son's friends help firefighter rescue crash victims in Poland, La.~Alexandria Town Talk

Catfish Fest this weekend in the ''Catfish Capital of the Universe''

Friday, July 8, 2011

BP comes out: says Fuck You All on future loss claims!~Editilla bites a 50 amp fuse~ We should've arrested these criminal bastards when they were here, tarred and feathered them, then dragged their lying limey asses gagging through Barataria Bay.

LSU, Tulane granted millions to study health effects from Gulf oil spill
~Bill Barrow

In oil spill aftermath, Louisiana beaches ranked among America’s dirtiest
Space Shuttle Atlantis's Last Launch: A Look Back At The Most Historic Images
BP oil spill, Katrina/Federal Flood show that we need a technology of thoughtfulness~Fred Commoner

The Big Uneasy Still Rolling Along: to Screen in Five California Theaters ~Levees.org
~Also~Harry Shearer Talks About Tearing Down the Army Corps of Engineers in The Big Uneasy~SF Weekly


Up-Close Look at Louisiana’s Disappearing Marshes
~National Geographic


Not self-evident: Our founding documents weren’t created equal
~Mark Moseley, The Lens


I sense a bunch of pissed off Chalmations are digging dirt on Judge Ginger here on Slabbed.

New Orleans public hospital board scraps federal financing request with HUD, facing opposition

Jindal orders state worker hiring freeze ~Michelle Millhollon

Pedicab policies approved by New Orleans City Council

Causeway again ''world's longest bridge''~WWL

Plant sale Saturday at City Park features roses

2011 New Orleans French Film Festival viewers guide

Meet five Nola fashion bloggers ~~Susan Langenhennig
Leaving Las Vegas...Thank God!
~He Said/She Said NOLA


Beasts and Brass with a Shot of Fernet Branca~Blackened Out

Black Feather Big Chief Lionel Delpit has become an ancestor
~Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Road Home settlement will benefit nearly 1,500 homeowners

Eastern Gulf of Mexico system slightly better organized

Let them eat cake: The GOP Mantra is billions in giveaways for big oil but go f*ck yourselves on that wetlands problem you have ~Slabbed

Obama administration objects to bill with no funding for Louisiana wetlands projects

Corps freshwater project moves forward

As Flood Waters Recede, New Land Appears in West Bay~Delta Dispatches

Final gate on Morganza being closed

Several blame Army Corps of Engineers for MO River flooding

More oil than first stated in Yellowstone River pipeline leak
~Today the Department of Transportation said it took Exxon about twice as long as the company originally reported to plug a pipeline leak in Montana. That means much more oil than Exxon first stated has flowed into the swollen Yellowstone River. Locals complain that useful information is hard to come by.
And this afternoon, state officials walked out of Exxon's command center to establish an independent investigation. From the Marketplace Sustainability Desk, Eve Troeh reports.
Essence Festival Interrupts Racial Segregation in New Orleans
~Caroline Heldman


Sula Foundation summer fundraising drive!

LSU adds electric car chargers

Guest Blogger Arielle Schecter: Weird Shit from the New Orleans Public Library ~NOLAFemmes

Interview: St. Roch art impresario holds forth from Tasmania on the wreckage left behind
~Ariella Cohen, The Lens

~Hat Tweet @ the Pun~Kira “Gutter Gucci” Kaechele’s bagged on d carpet

The Beast Speaks, Interview with Nathaniel Zimet~Blackened Out
Press It Bistrot & Automat opening in CBD~Coleen Rush, NewOrleans.com

Air Sex Season 3: New Orleans
~Humid Beings

Running of the Bulls 2011: red, white and wine all over ~Gambit
Paying Musicians on Frenchmen–How Do We Do It? ~offBEAT 

 
 
USGS~Flood Stage Levels current 'real-time' guage readings. I use the USGS maps to get oriented to the states and their flood gauges. This is active data.
~USGS River Flood Gauge Readings:
~New Orleans,LA
~
Bonnet Carre Spillway, LA
~Morganza Floodway (temporary)
~Old River Outflow Channel, LA
~Atchafalaya River @ Simmesport, LA
~Knox Landing, LA
~Natchez, MS
~Vicksburg, MS
~Greenville, MS
~Wolf River @ Memphis, TN
~Cairo, IL
~Cape Girardeau, MO
~St. Louis, MO~Hannibal, MO
~Grafton IL


~Flood-fight Info from around Louisiana
~Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
~Office of the Mayor, New Orleans
~Office of the Mayor, Baton Rouge
~The Advocate/WBRZ, Baton Rouge

~River Watch, WWLTV
~River Cam New Orleans @Nola.com
~Houma, Daily Comet
~Morgan City, Daily Advertiser~Alexandria, The Town Talk
~Tri-Parish Times


~Wikimapia~Monster Mash'Up
Virtual Globetrotting
~Another Map'Mash Fetish'O'tillas...an atlas of the best satellite, aerial and street view imagery from around the world submitted by community members via Google® Maps, Bing® Maps and Yahoo® Maps!
~SkyTruth
~MarineTraffic.com
~Maitri's Vatul Links~LCN-TV
~Louisiana HAM Radio Network
~GetAGameplan.org
Snake Doctor, Steve Buser

Stitch'hikas

~Dithyrambalina Swoonhouse
~Pontchartrain Pete
~Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame
~moosedenied~Girod Street Endzone
~Chicks in the Huddle
~Canal St. Chronicles
~Ray in Exile
~Bayou Girl Blog
~Barryfest
~The Beer Buddha
~Blackened Out
~eatmenola
~Georgia Pellegrini
~The Frog Pond
~Pauline's Pirates and Privateers
~eaa photo
~NOLA Notes~Notes from New Orleans
~Billy Southern, Imperfectly Vertical
~A Growing Teenagers Diary
~Dissonance
~Champ Superstar
~Uptown Messenger
~Dry Feet
~Levees.org
~The Big Uneasy
~Watershed NOLA
~
Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy
~Dutch Dialogues
~SkyTruth
~John Wathen: BP Oil Slick Fly Overs
~Dirty Cajuns
~
Poke Salad Granny
~Creole Folks
~My Wild Louisiana
~SeizeBP.org
~Darwin Bondgraham
~Green Heritage News
~Horatio Algeranon
~The Lens
~New Orleans Crime Reporter
~Lorin Gaudin's Tasty Blog
~Back of Town
~Bayou Child
~Bayou Creole
~lowernine.org
~Library Thing
~
L'Archivista
~New Orleans Levee
~Hammond A-News
~slabbed
~NOLA Green
~NOLAmotion
~NOLA Eats
~
NOLAFemmes~NOLA Rising
~NOLA Rev
~NOLA-DISHU
~NolaStat
~Nola Nik

~NO Murder Blog
~NO Notes, St James Infirmary~NO Bull
~Inside Art NO
~The Murder of NO
~Historic Green New Orleans
~On Transmigration
~On Levee Failures and Weather Event~Jon Donley
~Jill of Al Trades, Master of One
~Gulf Sails
~West Egg
~Ernie the Attorney
~HammHawk
~Superdeformed
~Afarensis
~Green Innovations
~Open Street Map
~Riverside Nola
~Last Magnolia
~things kevin hates
~Nation of Morons
~Musings of a Dangerous Mind
~Private Symbols
~PTSD Spirituality
~Murphy Law Firm
~Faithful Progressive
~Stop The Lock
~roamin' and ruminatin'
~Angel Fire~ANTIGRAVITY~ZEIYGEIST~WWOZ
~Static Television~NolaFunk NYC
~The Devil's Guitar
~Radio Chaos
~Kosher Computing
~Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog~Louisiana 1976
~Skewed Communications
~MF Korn Louisiana Melancholic
~Science Fictional
~Alas

~Humid Beings
~Humid Haney
~Dirty Coast
~HungryPeople
~Perch New Orleans
~Crescent City Hack
~One Shot Remedy

~New Orleans Music
~Home of the Groove
~
NolaFunk NYC
~Always Growing
~
In the Garden of Awe
~Plutonian Mac
~My Private Casbah
~LOUNGERATI
~Reach Out For New Orleans
~Good Nola~doctorfuckwit
~Drive-By Blogger
~Rock & Roll Hoo-Ha What What
~BeverlyRevelry
~Newspaperearth
~Opinionated Catholic
~Soup Greens
~Suzanne Saunders
~Waterkeeper Alliance
~Americans for Civilizing Engineers
~New Orleans Slate
~Levees Not War

~YatPundit
~First Draft
~Thanks Katrina
~New Orleans Can Thrive
~Odd bits of life in New Orleans
~
Squandered Heritage
~We Could Be Famous
~The Chicory
~Note From The Book
~Cliff's Crib
~Gentilly Girl~Affrodite's Adventures in Nappy Hair
~Huck UpChuck

~People Get Ready
~The Creole Tomato
~How Do We Change New Orleans?

~Nolablogs.org~BlogNetNewsNOLA
~BNN/Louisiana
~Louisiana Now
~Hurricane Radio

~CenLamar
~
Central La. Politics
~Pump to the River
~PWALLY Artist

~Foxessa
~Citizen K

~Robert Frost's Banjo
~Zave Smith Photography
~Susan Powers

~Nola Cuisine
~Po Boy Views New Orleans
~Vermilionaire
~the mosquito coast
~Antigravity
~Minority Weirdos
~New Orleans Hardcourt Bike Polo
~House of Misbelieve

~Court 13~DebiDeaux
~Editor B
~Liprap's Lament
~Your Right Hand Thief
~American Zombie
~Slimbolala
~Ashley Morris: the Blog
~New Orleans Daily Photo
~Musti's Radical Blog
~casa de Charlotte della luna
~Maitri's Vatul Blog
~Welcome to My Bayou
~Mosquito Blog

~Blagueur~Musisngs on Libraries and Madness~Library Chronicles
~ADRASTOS
~Hummingbirdminds
~Ramblings of a River City Resident
~Think Big Easy
~Running 'Cause I Can't Fly
~Aguanomics
~La Coast Post
~Ixolib.com
~Pruned
~Professor Zero
~Rifftides
~Jared Wines Up
~No Dowery
~Pushing Rope
~Kitchen at Colton Project~Elizabeth's Edibles
~
A Drug Called Tradition
~In the Wake of the Swollen Goat

~About Last Night
~Next Big Future
~Jewel Thinks
~Lord David's Skull Club
~Post_Oil_Geography
~Overflowing Brain
~Searching for Liberty
~Watergate Summer
~Angel Dyke
~Thrifting in Oblivion
~bindy fry's itty bitty brain basket
~Communicating Through a Crisis
~Feral Jundi
~Hypersonic Beams
~Nolaphile
~
Down in the Parish
~Gulf Sails
~New American Village
~Prytania Waterline

~Dr. Daisy

~G Manifesto

~beSpacific
~Pistolette

~
Ray in New Orleans
~Music Maven
~Regional Mondernism
New Orleans Archives

~One Stop Thought Shop
~Let's Geaux!
~Did We Survivie Katrina or Not
~Days of Boo Dog
~Nesenkeag Farm
~17 Poets
~Here Comes the Flood
~Rope-a-Dope Press
~Farfalla Press
~Red Bone Press
~Blues Town
~New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund
~LCN-TV
~La HAM Radio
~evacuteer.org
July 10 - July 17 (6) Lots more music links and photos on the site

 

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