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An Open Message to Police & Military
Uploaded by StormCloudsGathering on Dec 5, 2011
This is a message to the Police, to the military, to the TSA, to Homeland Security and to members of every other enforcement arm of the government.
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Nikola Tesla unlimited free energy forever
Nikola Tesla unlimited free energy forever
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Lightworks Video&Audio
Hosted by Bill Jenkins, formerly of ABC Radio, this comprehensive documentary features physicists and inventors who are challenging orthodox science to bring this non-polluting technology forward despite ridicule and suppression. See actual working prototypes that defy classical physics including phenomenal experiments in anti-gravity and the transmutation of metals.
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From Google Videos.
Lightworks Video&Audio
Hosted by Bill Jenkins, formerly of ABC Radio, this comprehensive documentary features physicists and inventors who are challenging orthodox science to bring this non-polluting technology forward despite ridicule and suppression. See actual working prototypes that defy classical physics including phenomenal experiments in anti-gravity and the transmutation of metals.
http://www.lightworksav.com/
BitTorrent Admins Charged in $1.25bn Movie Piracy Case
BitTorrent Admins Charged in $1.25bn Movie Piracy Case
Written by enigmax on July 13, 2010 Following the country’s first ever raid on a BitTorrent site in 2009, Russian authorities have now begun a criminal investigation into the operators of Interfilm.ru. Run by a married couple, the site is now at the center of copyright infringement claim which runs to a staggering $1.25 billion. Reports suggest that the investigation has also traced some of the site’s top users.
Claiming that the site was a major source of pre-release cammed movies with links to piracy groups outside the country, on May 26th 2009 the Russian Federation Ministry of Internal Affairs Investigation Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs carried out a raid on the the Russian BitTorrent tracker, Interfilm.ru.The action followed complaints from anti-piracy group RAPO, a founding member of the MPA which represents the interests of Universal, Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox in Russia.
At Interfilm’s Moscow base the police arrested several staff and also the main targets, husband and wife team Ivan and Irina Podorozhnikovymi.
Just over a year later the Interior Ministry Investigation Committee has now filed criminal charges against the pair, known online as ‘Ripper’ and ‘Nadezhda’. The scope of the accusations are quite incredible. Domestic and foreign film companies claim that the tracker caused 38.7 billion rubles in damages – a mind-blowing $1.253 billion.
Although it has not been revealed how this astronomical figure was reached, if convicted the founders – who the authorities say moved house and took technical measures to keep the site up during the investigation – could be facing up to six years in jail under Part 3 of Article 146 of the Criminal Code.In addition to action against the site’s founders, there is an ongoing investigation into some of the top users of the site. However, in order to prove that regular users committed any crimes, under Russian law it would be necessary to prove they profited from their actions on a large scale.
There are claims that some individuals downloaded fresh movie releases from Interfilm and then uploaded them to their own sites. Police are considering whether to launch criminal investigations in these cases.
Although Interfilm went down after the initial raid, it reappeared at LeaseWeb in The Netherlands. The site remains operational today with a Malaysian host but is perhaps preparing for trouble. In addition to using the Interfilm.ru domain, the site is also in operation from BitHouse.org. Russia’s biggest torrent site, Torrents.ru, recently had to change its name to RUTracker.org after its domain was seized by Russian authorities.
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Psychiatry: An Industry of Death
Psychiatry: An industry of Death 1:47:56 - 1 year ago
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death is a controversial documentary on the horrors of psychiatry, of punishing and persecuting of the innocent and promoting Fascism, racism and atheism.
It was the foundation for the Holocaust, apartheid, for Jim Crow and for Communism. It has lead to many deaths. It denies God, the giver of life and freedom. It stands against the values of freedom, life, liberty and dignity.
There have been allegations that this is a Scientology propaganda film. Although the church of Scientology has had influence on the production of this film, the evil inherent in psychiatry should be of great concern to all people of all faiths especially Christians and Jews.Psychiatrists in Nazi Germany basically branded innocent people as mentally ill including Jews. The concentration camps of Auschwitz and elsewhere were nothing more than psychiatric hospitals for those the Nazi State deemed mentally unfit. IE: Jews Gypsies, Christians, Dissidents, ETC.
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Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 7 of 7
Michael Badnarik's Constitution Class - Part 7 59:33
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
For the rest of the class Videos Please watch this space or See
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Read More... Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 7 of 7
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 6 of 7
Badnarik Constitution Class Part 6 58:42 - 2 years ago
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
For the rest of the class Videos Please watch this space or See
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Read More... Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 6 of 7
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 5 of 7
Badnarik Constitution Class Part 5 55:42 - 2 years ago
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
For the rest of the class Videos Please watch this space or See
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Read More... Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 5 of 7
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 4 of 7
Badnarik Constitution Class Part 4 58:02 2 years ago
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
For the rest of the class Videos Please watch this space or See
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Read More... Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 4 of 7
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 3 of 7
Badnarik Constitution Class Part 3 57:54 - 2 years ago
Michael Badnarik's Constitution Class #3
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
For the rest of the class Videos Please watch this space or See
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Read More... Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 3 of 7
Michael Badnarik's Constitution Class #3
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 2 of 7
Badnarik Constitution Class Part 2 58:02 - 2 years ago
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
For the rest of the class Videos Please watch this space or See
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Read More... Michael Badnarik - Constitution Class 2 of 7
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Constitution Class By: Michael Badnarik Part 1 of 7
Michael Badnarik Constitution Class Part 1 51:53 - 4 years ago
Although there is a lot of controversy surrounding who exactly the founding fathers of the United States were working for, and the reasons why a federal government was created after the revolutionary war on the land commonly known as the United States of America, Michael Badnarik gives a great presentation on what rights man and women are entitled to enjoy at the common law, how these were protected by the Constitution, and how, after 1933, this all changed. Now, default law is commercial, not civil, in nature, governed by international law of the sea. All property, even our bodies, are assumed to be under the control of a global banking government, governed by the Uniform Commercial Code. We are, by assumption considered to be slaves, "bound" by invisible contracts such as the use of paper banking currency of the private Federal Reserve debt servicing corporation, and the registration of our bodies with a Statement of Live Birth, receiving a Certificate of Live Birth and a Birth Certificate in return, possessory titles that do not entitle us to ownership of our body under the law which currently runs the planet.
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
For the rest of the class Videos Please watch this space or See
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Read More... Constitution Class By: Michael Badnarik Part 1 of 7
Although there is a lot of controversy surrounding who exactly the founding fathers of the United States were working for, and the reasons why a federal government was created after the revolutionary war on the land commonly known as the United States of America, Michael Badnarik gives a great presentation on what rights man and women are entitled to enjoy at the common law, how these were protected by the Constitution, and how, after 1933, this all changed. Now, default law is commercial, not civil, in nature, governed by international law of the sea. All property, even our bodies, are assumed to be under the control of a global banking government, governed by the Uniform Commercial Code. We are, by assumption considered to be slaves, "bound" by invisible contracts such as the use of paper banking currency of the private Federal Reserve debt servicing corporation, and the registration of our bodies with a Statement of Live Birth, receiving a Certificate of Live Birth and a Birth Certificate in return, possessory titles that do not entitle us to ownership of our body under the law which currently runs the planet.
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic.
Michael Badnarik teaches a class on the Constitution. Follow his message of freedom, this is a MUST WATCH!!! Most of what you think you know about the United States is wrong. Think you own your Car? Think its your money? Why do we have to register your car and get plates? Think you own Your property? He explains the differences between rights and privileges.
http://www.archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
Global Governance - The Quiet War Against American Independence
Global Governance - The Quiet War Against American Independence
55:39 - 4 years ago
In 1966, a Georgetown University professor published a big book about the elite Network which he said controls America. His book approved of their plan for global, or world, control to supersede our self-government by "We the people." The professor had a profound effect on one of his students. In 1992, that student became President of the United States and Bill Clinton credited Professor Carroll Quigley with forming his vision for the future. In the next several years, he pushed for several United Nations treaties (including some rejected by Presidents Reagan and Bush) which are designed to control human behavior, energy consumption, private property, and natural resources. The President issued a secret order (PDD 25) to place American armed forces under foreign command and in foreign uniform, and he began using U.S. troops as global cops and social workers. His Administration is steadily putting American trade and property under the control of international organizations. "Global Governance: The Quiet War Against American Independence" contains exclusive interviews with national news makers on the front lines of the quiet war. This compelling program documents the treaties and UN conferences that are undermining American independence and paving the way for global control
MAN'S RIGHT TO KNOW: The Wilhelm Reich Story
MAN'S RIGHT TO KNOW: The Wilhelm Reich Story
Designed as both the opening exhibit of the Wilhelm Reich Museum and an educational tool for wider audiences, this video provides a concise overview of Reich's life and work. Comprised of stills, movie footage and computer animation, it is not intended as a substitute for Reich's literature, but as an easy-to-understand introduction to Reich's discovery and investigations of orgone energy. The video also provides a succinct and dramatic account of the FDA's campaign to destroy Reich's work.
The following comments were made by writer/producer Kevin Hinchey at Orgonon on July 15, 2002 at a presentation of the Museum’s new biographical video about Wilhelm Reich:
Twenty-eight minutes and thirty seconds is barely enough time to even begin to grasp the life and work of Wilhelm Reich. And that's all this video purports to do: provide a beginning. It is not a definitive documentary. Neither is it, nor was it ever intended to be, a substitute for reading Reich's literature or spending several hours at Orgonon which I believe are essential to educating one's self about Reich. Ideally the video will serve as a preliminary first step in a larger process: the video introduces ideas; the Museum amplifies them; and Reich's literature elucidates them.
Man's Right to Know was produced primarily to replace the existing slide show, which was essentially the first exhibit in the Museum tour. When Mary Higgins and I began to discuss the project, we asked ourselves, "Who is our audience?" This question proved to be a springboard for a much broader conversation about the purpose of the Museum, an analysis of its visitors, and how we might enrich the experience of those visitors.
For visitors with little or no knowledge of Reich, the exhibits in the Museum can be difficult to comprehend. After all, orgonomy is a young and largely unknown science, and there's little in a typical visitor's experience to prepare them for the range and epic quality of Reich's life and work. And in a short period of time, even the best informed tour guide simply cannot convey the magnitude of Reich's work nor sufficiently explain the connectivity from psychology to biology to physics—what Reich called the crucial "red thread."
Consequently, for many visitors, their image of Reich remains disjointed, and they're only able to focus and respond to isolated fragments of his legacy. Sometimes, if we're lucky, this response will translate into the purchase of books or other items at the bookstore. Sometimes it will translate into a life-long exploration into Reich's work. And sometimes visitors simply leave Orgonon to take in the other sights of Rangeley.
It seemed logical, then, that if the Museum could provide every visitor—from the uninitiated to the more knowledgeable—with a coherent and compelling image of Reich from the start of their tour in the screening room, then perhaps their response would translate into more book sales, increased membership and greater support of the Museum, more involvement with its programs, and more people personally committed to further exploring Reich's work.
As a result, our ambitions and expectations for the video began to expand, as we asked ourselves: "Could we present a concise overview of Reich's life and work that would be relatively easy to understand; that would quickly bring the viewer to a much higher level of understanding; that would touch the viewer emotionally; that would acclimate them in a practical way to the Museum exhibits; and that would introduce them to some of Reich's quotations and literature?"
And so, for visitors with little or no knowledge of Reich, this video is designed to be a compressed, concise introduction. It is intended to quickly and succinctly provide a rudimentary understanding of Reich that will better orient visitors to the Museum's exhibits and the offerings at the bookstore. Hopefully, visitors will recognize the parallels between the chronological organization of the material in the video and in the Museum, so that their tour becomes richer and more meaningful. After watching the video and taking the tour, we hope that visitors will be intrigued by the breadth of Reich's life...outraged by its tragedy...and inspired to learn more.
For those with more than a cursory knowledge of Reich, hopefully the video will confirm what the viewers already know, clarify certain areas of confusion, and perhaps fill in some gaps. For viewers well-versed in Reich's life and work, it's unlikely that this video will provide any new knowledge or insights. But at the very least I hope that its visual elements-many of them never before seen-will deepen the viewers' appreciation of Reich and his achievements.
Man's Right to Know was also deliberately designed to serve a broader mission of the Museum, to be used beyond the confines of Orgonon as a means of reaching and educating an even wider audience. In addition to being on sale in the bookstore, it will be available as an educational tool for lectures, seminars, classrooms, fund-raisers, open houses, and other events, providing audiences with a background and a context in which to further explore Reich's life and work.
From the inception of this project, the structure of the video was self-evident: follow "the red thread." The red thread itself provides a lean, muscular, logical storyline by which we can follow the chronology of Reich's life and the evolution of his work.
I decided to establish at the very beginning the historic concept of "Life Energy," then follow Reich's investigation of the energy principle from the libido, with its psychological and social implications, to his biological experiments that led to the discovery of orgone energy, to his medical work, and on into the area of orgone bio-physics. To me, this is the only way to grasp the immensity of Reich's achievements; whether it's in a twenty-eight minute video, a two-hour documentary, or a Hollywood movie, this is the structure to follow.
With the red thread as the structural backbone, I wanted to emphasize from the start, both narratively and visually, that Wilhelm Reich was a scientist. Toward that end, I relied heavily on movie footage and photographs of Reich and his co-workers in the laboratory, visuals of scientific equipment, select quotations about his energy work, and titles that conveyed the documentation of that work.
It is unfortunate today that Reich's detractors fail or refuse to recognize the disciplined, rigorous, empirical nature of his experiments. It is equally regrettable that many of Reich's admirers mysticize his work or rush to lump it together with all kinds of pseudo-sciences. Consequently, I felt that suffusing this video with scientific imagery was thematically appropriate.
Given the time constraints in terms of the length of the video and my desire to maintain a terse muscular storyline, I decided to omit any references to Reich's personal life except for the segment devoted to his early years. I felt that any discussion about his wives, children and friends in the body of the program would disrupt the flow, and was not essential to understanding his work. Furthermore, a curious viewer could always get that information from a museum tour guide.
I also saw Man's Right to Know as an opportunity to clarify and correct some common misconceptions. Even among those favorably disposed to Reich, we constantly find inaccuracies, untruths, misstatements, and carelessness with facts. Obviously it would take a presentation several hours to begin to address all the rumors, slanders, and vilifications during Reich's life and afterwards. But I felt it was essential to set the record straight on several key issues: the orgone energy accumulator, for example; so pivotal to Reich's work, so central to the ultimate tragedy of his life, and the subject of much slander and honest misunderstanding. Without a basic scientific understanding of the accumulator, a person simply cannot grasp all that follows in Reich's life.
Since the essence of orgone energy is movement and pulsation, I didn't feel that static drawings would convey the scientific principles which govern the orgone accumulator. And so I opted for some rather basic computer animation to illustrate these concepts. And wherever appropriate, I tried to reinforce our discussion of the accumulator's experimental and medical usage with titles from Reich's bulletins and journals.
The notion that the orgone accumulator is a sexual device used to enhance one's orgastic potency is a common misconception that one hears even today, and often from people who genuinely admire Reich's work. Because this notion proved so destructive to Reich, I felt it was crucial to pinpoint its origin to a specific quotation in a specific article by Mildred Edie Brady.
Similarly, the cloudbuster is an object of much fascination and misunderstanding, among those for Reich and against him. For example, many people think that the cloudbuster emanates orgone energy into the atmosphere during weather operations. So, again, I felt a brief and basic explanation was necessary for a fuller appreciation of Reich's work.
Let me paraphrase what I said at the beginning: none of the content here, none of these brief illustrations of the accumulator and the cloudbuster can substitute for the fuller explanations found in Reich's literature. Again, I hope that viewers—whether they're Museum visitors; attendees at a lecture, in a classroom, or at some other event—will be sufficiently intrigued so that they'll want to read Reich's literature and learn more about his life and work.
While there's certainly no way to evade the tragedy and sadness of Reich's death in prison, Mary and I didn't want to end the video on that note. We felt that after we mention Reich’s death might be a good opportunity to do what we hadn't done in the body of the program: focus on the human side of Reich. This is how the final montage evolved, with photographs of Reich with his wives, children, and friends, away from work and the laboratory.
Early on, Mary and I knew that we wanted to hear Reich's voice somewhere during the program. We felt that for those who have never heard him speak, his voice would confer an added dimension to our portrayal of Reich. But where would his voice be appropriate? What would be the specific sound-bite? And how would it integrate into the overall content?
After spending hours listening to tapes and poring over transcripts, we finally came across a few sentences which we felt provided a moving summation of Reich’s commitment to his work. And, as such, was the most fitting way to conclude Man’s Right to Know.
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(the following quotes are taken from: http://www.orgone.org/ )
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
Wilhelm Reich, on Sigmund Freud's hope
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The emotional plague is not an expression of conscious ill will or designed brutality. The structural character of the plague made its effects the more dangerous. Emotional plague is a character trait like cleanliness or deligence or truthfulness. It is biopathic behavior lived out on the social scene in interhuman relationships.
The energy source of the emotional plague reactions is basically sexual
frustration combined with a keen aggressiveness.
Wilhelm Reich
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Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.
Wilhelm Reich -- April 19, 1951
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Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is."
Wilhelm Reich -- end of Orgonotic Pulsation
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Some Dangerous Thoughts Concerning "Freedom" and "Responsibility"
" The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will never cease as long as man feels himself to be trapped.No matter how different the cries for freedom may be, at bottom they always express one and the same thing: the intolerableness of the organism's rigidity and the mechanical institutions of life, which are sharply at variance with the natural sensations of life. If there should ever be a society in which all the cries for freedom fade away, then man will have finally overcome his biological and social deformity and have achieved genuine freedom. Not until man acknowledges that he is fundamentally an animal, will he be able to create a genuine culture.
Man's 'upward strivings' are nothing but the biologic development of vital powers. Such strivings are conceivable only within the framework of the laws of biologic development and not in opposition to them.The will to freedom and the capacity for freedom are nothing the will and the capacity to recognize and promote the unfolding of man's biologic energy (with the aid of the machine). It is out of the question to talk about freedom if man's biologic development is choked and feared.
Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty.This is passing the buck. The responsibility for war falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anybody else. To stress this guilt on the part of masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously. On the other hand, to commiserate masses of people as victims, means to treat them as small, helpless children. The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom-fighters; the latter the attitude held by the power-thirsty politicians."
--Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism.
Wilhelm Reich was a psychologist and author who came to the United States in order to escape Fascism and the ravages of the Second World War. The American authorities showed their subsequent appreciation for his work by burning many of Dr Reich's books in 1950s. (Not unlike how the Nazis did twenty years before.)
He died on November 3rd 1957 in Lewisburgh Penitentiary. In his will, Reich stated that his unpublished papers were to be locked away until the year 2007, 50 years after his death, when as he put it,
"man would be ready for his concepts."
Read More... MAN'S RIGHT TO KNOW: The Wilhelm Reich Story
Designed as both the opening exhibit of the Wilhelm Reich Museum and an educational tool for wider audiences, this video provides a concise overview of Reich's life and work. Comprised of stills, movie footage and computer animation, it is not intended as a substitute for Reich's literature, but as an easy-to-understand introduction to Reich's discovery and investigations of orgone energy. The video also provides a succinct and dramatic account of the FDA's campaign to destroy Reich's work.
The following comments were made by writer/producer Kevin Hinchey at Orgonon on July 15, 2002 at a presentation of the Museum’s new biographical video about Wilhelm Reich:
Twenty-eight minutes and thirty seconds is barely enough time to even begin to grasp the life and work of Wilhelm Reich. And that's all this video purports to do: provide a beginning. It is not a definitive documentary. Neither is it, nor was it ever intended to be, a substitute for reading Reich's literature or spending several hours at Orgonon which I believe are essential to educating one's self about Reich. Ideally the video will serve as a preliminary first step in a larger process: the video introduces ideas; the Museum amplifies them; and Reich's literature elucidates them.
Man's Right to Know was produced primarily to replace the existing slide show, which was essentially the first exhibit in the Museum tour. When Mary Higgins and I began to discuss the project, we asked ourselves, "Who is our audience?" This question proved to be a springboard for a much broader conversation about the purpose of the Museum, an analysis of its visitors, and how we might enrich the experience of those visitors.
For visitors with little or no knowledge of Reich, the exhibits in the Museum can be difficult to comprehend. After all, orgonomy is a young and largely unknown science, and there's little in a typical visitor's experience to prepare them for the range and epic quality of Reich's life and work. And in a short period of time, even the best informed tour guide simply cannot convey the magnitude of Reich's work nor sufficiently explain the connectivity from psychology to biology to physics—what Reich called the crucial "red thread."
Consequently, for many visitors, their image of Reich remains disjointed, and they're only able to focus and respond to isolated fragments of his legacy. Sometimes, if we're lucky, this response will translate into the purchase of books or other items at the bookstore. Sometimes it will translate into a life-long exploration into Reich's work. And sometimes visitors simply leave Orgonon to take in the other sights of Rangeley.
It seemed logical, then, that if the Museum could provide every visitor—from the uninitiated to the more knowledgeable—with a coherent and compelling image of Reich from the start of their tour in the screening room, then perhaps their response would translate into more book sales, increased membership and greater support of the Museum, more involvement with its programs, and more people personally committed to further exploring Reich's work.
As a result, our ambitions and expectations for the video began to expand, as we asked ourselves: "Could we present a concise overview of Reich's life and work that would be relatively easy to understand; that would quickly bring the viewer to a much higher level of understanding; that would touch the viewer emotionally; that would acclimate them in a practical way to the Museum exhibits; and that would introduce them to some of Reich's quotations and literature?"
And so, for visitors with little or no knowledge of Reich, this video is designed to be a compressed, concise introduction. It is intended to quickly and succinctly provide a rudimentary understanding of Reich that will better orient visitors to the Museum's exhibits and the offerings at the bookstore. Hopefully, visitors will recognize the parallels between the chronological organization of the material in the video and in the Museum, so that their tour becomes richer and more meaningful. After watching the video and taking the tour, we hope that visitors will be intrigued by the breadth of Reich's life...outraged by its tragedy...and inspired to learn more.
For those with more than a cursory knowledge of Reich, hopefully the video will confirm what the viewers already know, clarify certain areas of confusion, and perhaps fill in some gaps. For viewers well-versed in Reich's life and work, it's unlikely that this video will provide any new knowledge or insights. But at the very least I hope that its visual elements-many of them never before seen-will deepen the viewers' appreciation of Reich and his achievements.
Man's Right to Know was also deliberately designed to serve a broader mission of the Museum, to be used beyond the confines of Orgonon as a means of reaching and educating an even wider audience. In addition to being on sale in the bookstore, it will be available as an educational tool for lectures, seminars, classrooms, fund-raisers, open houses, and other events, providing audiences with a background and a context in which to further explore Reich's life and work.
From the inception of this project, the structure of the video was self-evident: follow "the red thread." The red thread itself provides a lean, muscular, logical storyline by which we can follow the chronology of Reich's life and the evolution of his work.
I decided to establish at the very beginning the historic concept of "Life Energy," then follow Reich's investigation of the energy principle from the libido, with its psychological and social implications, to his biological experiments that led to the discovery of orgone energy, to his medical work, and on into the area of orgone bio-physics. To me, this is the only way to grasp the immensity of Reich's achievements; whether it's in a twenty-eight minute video, a two-hour documentary, or a Hollywood movie, this is the structure to follow.
With the red thread as the structural backbone, I wanted to emphasize from the start, both narratively and visually, that Wilhelm Reich was a scientist. Toward that end, I relied heavily on movie footage and photographs of Reich and his co-workers in the laboratory, visuals of scientific equipment, select quotations about his energy work, and titles that conveyed the documentation of that work.
It is unfortunate today that Reich's detractors fail or refuse to recognize the disciplined, rigorous, empirical nature of his experiments. It is equally regrettable that many of Reich's admirers mysticize his work or rush to lump it together with all kinds of pseudo-sciences. Consequently, I felt that suffusing this video with scientific imagery was thematically appropriate.
Given the time constraints in terms of the length of the video and my desire to maintain a terse muscular storyline, I decided to omit any references to Reich's personal life except for the segment devoted to his early years. I felt that any discussion about his wives, children and friends in the body of the program would disrupt the flow, and was not essential to understanding his work. Furthermore, a curious viewer could always get that information from a museum tour guide.
I also saw Man's Right to Know as an opportunity to clarify and correct some common misconceptions. Even among those favorably disposed to Reich, we constantly find inaccuracies, untruths, misstatements, and carelessness with facts. Obviously it would take a presentation several hours to begin to address all the rumors, slanders, and vilifications during Reich's life and afterwards. But I felt it was essential to set the record straight on several key issues: the orgone energy accumulator, for example; so pivotal to Reich's work, so central to the ultimate tragedy of his life, and the subject of much slander and honest misunderstanding. Without a basic scientific understanding of the accumulator, a person simply cannot grasp all that follows in Reich's life.
Since the essence of orgone energy is movement and pulsation, I didn't feel that static drawings would convey the scientific principles which govern the orgone accumulator. And so I opted for some rather basic computer animation to illustrate these concepts. And wherever appropriate, I tried to reinforce our discussion of the accumulator's experimental and medical usage with titles from Reich's bulletins and journals.
The notion that the orgone accumulator is a sexual device used to enhance one's orgastic potency is a common misconception that one hears even today, and often from people who genuinely admire Reich's work. Because this notion proved so destructive to Reich, I felt it was crucial to pinpoint its origin to a specific quotation in a specific article by Mildred Edie Brady.
Similarly, the cloudbuster is an object of much fascination and misunderstanding, among those for Reich and against him. For example, many people think that the cloudbuster emanates orgone energy into the atmosphere during weather operations. So, again, I felt a brief and basic explanation was necessary for a fuller appreciation of Reich's work.
Let me paraphrase what I said at the beginning: none of the content here, none of these brief illustrations of the accumulator and the cloudbuster can substitute for the fuller explanations found in Reich's literature. Again, I hope that viewers—whether they're Museum visitors; attendees at a lecture, in a classroom, or at some other event—will be sufficiently intrigued so that they'll want to read Reich's literature and learn more about his life and work.
While there's certainly no way to evade the tragedy and sadness of Reich's death in prison, Mary and I didn't want to end the video on that note. We felt that after we mention Reich’s death might be a good opportunity to do what we hadn't done in the body of the program: focus on the human side of Reich. This is how the final montage evolved, with photographs of Reich with his wives, children, and friends, away from work and the laboratory.
Early on, Mary and I knew that we wanted to hear Reich's voice somewhere during the program. We felt that for those who have never heard him speak, his voice would confer an added dimension to our portrayal of Reich. But where would his voice be appropriate? What would be the specific sound-bite? And how would it integrate into the overall content?
After spending hours listening to tapes and poring over transcripts, we finally came across a few sentences which we felt provided a moving summation of Reich’s commitment to his work. And, as such, was the most fitting way to conclude Man’s Right to Know.
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(the following quotes are taken from: http://www.orgone.org/ )
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
Wilhelm Reich, on Sigmund Freud's hope
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The emotional plague is not an expression of conscious ill will or designed brutality. The structural character of the plague made its effects the more dangerous. Emotional plague is a character trait like cleanliness or deligence or truthfulness. It is biopathic behavior lived out on the social scene in interhuman relationships.
The energy source of the emotional plague reactions is basically sexual
frustration combined with a keen aggressiveness.
Wilhelm Reich
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Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.
Wilhelm Reich -- April 19, 1951
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Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is."
Wilhelm Reich -- end of Orgonotic Pulsation
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Some Dangerous Thoughts Concerning "Freedom" and "Responsibility"
" The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will never cease as long as man feels himself to be trapped.No matter how different the cries for freedom may be, at bottom they always express one and the same thing: the intolerableness of the organism's rigidity and the mechanical institutions of life, which are sharply at variance with the natural sensations of life. If there should ever be a society in which all the cries for freedom fade away, then man will have finally overcome his biological and social deformity and have achieved genuine freedom. Not until man acknowledges that he is fundamentally an animal, will he be able to create a genuine culture.
Man's 'upward strivings' are nothing but the biologic development of vital powers. Such strivings are conceivable only within the framework of the laws of biologic development and not in opposition to them.The will to freedom and the capacity for freedom are nothing the will and the capacity to recognize and promote the unfolding of man's biologic energy (with the aid of the machine). It is out of the question to talk about freedom if man's biologic development is choked and feared.
Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty.This is passing the buck. The responsibility for war falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anybody else. To stress this guilt on the part of masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously. On the other hand, to commiserate masses of people as victims, means to treat them as small, helpless children. The former is the attitude held by genuine freedom-fighters; the latter the attitude held by the power-thirsty politicians."
--Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism.
Wilhelm Reich was a psychologist and author who came to the United States in order to escape Fascism and the ravages of the Second World War. The American authorities showed their subsequent appreciation for his work by burning many of Dr Reich's books in 1950s. (Not unlike how the Nazis did twenty years before.)
He died on November 3rd 1957 in Lewisburgh Penitentiary. In his will, Reich stated that his unpublished papers were to be locked away until the year 2007, 50 years after his death, when as he put it,
"man would be ready for his concepts."
Wilhelm Reich - The Mass Psychology of Fascism
At the time when this book was originally written, fascism was generally regarded a "political party" which, like any other "social group," was an organized representation of a "political idea." According to this concept, the fascist party "introduced" fascism by force or by "political manoeuvre."
Contrary to this concept, my medical experience with individuals from all kinds of social strata, races, nationalities and religions showed me that "fascism" is only the politically organized expression of the average human character structure, a character structure which has nothing to do with this or that race, nation or party but which is general and international. In this characterological sense, "fascism" is the basic emotional attitude of man in authoritarian society, with its machine civilization and its mechanistic-mystical view of life. It is the mechanistic-mystical character of man in our times which creates fascist parties, and not vice versa.
Even today, as a result of fallacious political thinking, fascism is still being considered a specific national characteristic of the Germans or the Japanese. The stubborn persistence of this fallacy is due to the fear of recognizing the truth: fascism is an international phenomenon which permeates all organizations of human society in all nations. This conclusion is confirmed by the international events of the past 15 years.
From the Wilderness
The CIA Connection
2:17:37 - 3 years ago
Uncovering the Truth and Lies of 911 by Mike Ruppert
Michael Ruppert is the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. Published in September 2004 and is one of the three best-selling books globally and in the US about the attacks of 9/11. Rubicon is the only book to show that Vice President Richard Cheney, the US government and Wall Street had a well-developed awareness of Peak Oil before the 9/11 attacks and that US policy since then has been consistent with Peak Oil imperatives. In May, 2006 Crossing the Rubicon was added to the Harvard School of Business library and released in a French version with distribution throughout all major book stores in France. Mike is also the publisher/editor of From The Wilderness, a newsletter read in more than 50 countries around the world. Its subscribers include 60-plus members of the US congress, professors at more than 40 universities around the world, and major business and economic leaders. Since 9/11 Mike has been in demand as a university lecturer and has spoken on Peak Oil and 9/11 in nine countries. Recently, at the request of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, he served as an official questioner during a Congressional briefing looking into unanswered questions and the unaddressed flaws of the Keane Commission report. Having concluded that the US government and markets will be useless in preparing American citizens for the coming crisis, Mike's current focus is on individual and community preparedness for the coming challenges and the development of a reliable news service to quickly identify and track breaking developments around the world
BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
Surviving Police Encounters April 28, 2007
First a few words from the Clash.
This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights!
All three of them
Number 1
You have the right to stay alive
Murder is a CRIME!
Whoever does it..
Except policemen
Or aristocrats
Catch that billionair
Number 2
You have the right to fish money
With a little compulsary computer investagation
Some ordinary human humiliation
And... if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation!
Know these rights!
These are your rights!
Young offenders Know your rights!
Number 3
You have the right to free
Speech as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it!
Ha!
Now
These are your rights
Study these rights.
These are your rights!
Know your rights!
All three of them!
Be warned
In most places even these
Are thought to be excessive!
So..................
Get off the streets!
Run!
Finally then I will read you your rights..
You have the right to remain silent
And you are warned that anything you say
Can, and will be taken down!
And used as evidence against....
You!
Listen to this... Run!!!!!
Read More... BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
First a few words from the Clash.
This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights!
All three of them
Number 1
You have the right to stay alive
Murder is a CRIME!
Whoever does it..
Except policemen
Or aristocrats
Catch that billionair
Number 2
You have the right to fish money
With a little compulsary computer investagation
Some ordinary human humiliation
And... if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation!
Know these rights!
These are your rights!
Young offenders Know your rights!
Number 3
You have the right to free
Speech as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it!
Ha!
Now
These are your rights
Study these rights.
These are your rights!
Know your rights!
All three of them!
Be warned
In most places even these
Are thought to be excessive!
So..................
Get off the streets!
Run!
Finally then I will read you your rights..
You have the right to remain silent
And you are warned that anything you say
Can, and will be taken down!
And used as evidence against....
You!
Listen to this... Run!!!!!
BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
Enjoy the movie
Nikola Tesla - Tesla Death Ray Reconstruction Postulate - Ebook
Tesla Death Ray Reconstruction Postulate - Ebook
The death ray or death beam was a theoretical particle beam or electromagnetic weapon of the 1920s through the 1930s that was claimed to have been invented independently by Nikola Tesla, Edwin R. Scott, Harry Grindell Matthews, and Graichen, as well as others. By 1957 the National Inventors Council was still issuing lists of needed military inventions that included a death ray. The concept was never put into action, but it fueled science fiction stories and led to the science fiction concept of the hand held ray gun used by fictional heroes such as Flash Gordon. Nikola Tesla claimed to have invented a death ray using what he termed "teleforce" in the 1930s and continued the claims up until his death.
Tesla had 3 objectives for his tower:
1.Worldwide wireless communication.
2.Worldwide transmission of electricity.
3.A shield to protect the U.S. from foreign invasion.
Tesla's wireless and communications system did not use Hertzian waves to broadcast but rather used the earth as a carrier for the electromagnetic and high frequency waves. Tesla was a man of peace and he envisioned using electricity as a shield to protect any nation from an invading force ...and thus end all wars... To accomplish this he designed a "peace ray" which the media quickly dubbed a "death ray".
Read More... Nikola Tesla - Tesla Death Ray Reconstruction Postulate - Ebook
The death ray or death beam was a theoretical particle beam or electromagnetic weapon of the 1920s through the 1930s that was claimed to have been invented independently by Nikola Tesla, Edwin R. Scott, Harry Grindell Matthews, and Graichen, as well as others. By 1957 the National Inventors Council was still issuing lists of needed military inventions that included a death ray. The concept was never put into action, but it fueled science fiction stories and led to the science fiction concept of the hand held ray gun used by fictional heroes such as Flash Gordon. Nikola Tesla claimed to have invented a death ray using what he termed "teleforce" in the 1930s and continued the claims up until his death.Tesla had 3 objectives for his tower:
1.Worldwide wireless communication.
2.Worldwide transmission of electricity.
3.A shield to protect the U.S. from foreign invasion.
Tesla's wireless and communications system did not use Hertzian waves to broadcast but rather used the earth as a carrier for the electromagnetic and high frequency waves. Tesla was a man of peace and he envisioned using electricity as a shield to protect any nation from an invading force ...and thus end all wars... To accomplish this he designed a "peace ray" which the media quickly dubbed a "death ray".
Medical Marijuana Laws Don't Increase Teen Marijuana
Medical Marijuana Laws Don't Increase Teen Marijuana Use
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS — State medical marijuana laws do not increase teen use of marijuana, a new analysis of government data shows. Contrary to claims made by opponents of medical marijuana legislation in Minnesota, the report finds that no state with laws protecting medical marijuana patients has experienced a statistically significant increase in teen marijuana use.
In fact, teen use of marijuana has generally declined in medical marijuana states -- in some cases dramatically. Overall teen marijuana use in these states has decreased at greater rates than the national average.
"I think it's time to put to rest the notion that protecting seriously ill Illinoisans who might benefit from medical marijuana would have any negative impact on efforts to keep marijuana away from our kids," said Ray Warren, director of state policies for the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. "As legislators consider this sensible, compassionate measure, they should be aware that we have the benefit of more than 10 years of experience with state medical marijuana laws. And that experience proves that marijuana is good medicine for a number of conditions and patients, and that we can protect their right to good treatment while protecting our kids from drugs."
"Marijuana Use by Young People: The Impact of State Medical Marijuana Laws," prepared by researcher Mitch Earleywine, Ph.D. of the State University of New York and policy experts at the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C., compiles and analyzes government data regarding rates of adolescent marijuana use. In California, for example, where teen marijuana use was increasing prior to adoption of the state's medical marijuana law in 1996, use dropped dramatically from 1996 to 2006 -- by nearly half in some age groups.
The report, available for download at www.mpp.org/teens, finds that marijuana use among teens has decreased across the country. Overall, states with medical marijuana laws had slightly more favorable trends than the national rates. Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, and Nevada all had slightly greater decreases in teen marijuana use than the national average, and California and Washington experienced significantly greater decreases.
New Mexico recently became the 12th state to establish medical marijuana laws, joining Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
With more than 21,000 members and 100,000 e-mail subscribers nationwide, the Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. MPP believes that the best way to minimize the harm associated with marijuana is to regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol.
For more information, please visit www.MarijuanaPolicy.org.
BTW!
* For the record, I do not have, have not ever had, and don’t plan to have, marijuana growing, or used, in or near my home or any other location familiar to me that I may or may not have access to. Any posting I make on any forums like this one are for purely entertainment purposes and anything other then this paragraph should not be considered truthful or reality based. Any pictures that I post have been created by artificial means from images gathered from, but not limited to, the World Wide Web...
Read More... Medical Marijuana Laws Don't Increase Teen Marijuana
| *BUBBLEHASH!! |
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS — State medical marijuana laws do not increase teen use of marijuana, a new analysis of government data shows. Contrary to claims made by opponents of medical marijuana legislation in Minnesota, the report finds that no state with laws protecting medical marijuana patients has experienced a statistically significant increase in teen marijuana use.
In fact, teen use of marijuana has generally declined in medical marijuana states -- in some cases dramatically. Overall teen marijuana use in these states has decreased at greater rates than the national average.
"I think it's time to put to rest the notion that protecting seriously ill Illinoisans who might benefit from medical marijuana would have any negative impact on efforts to keep marijuana away from our kids," said Ray Warren, director of state policies for the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. "As legislators consider this sensible, compassionate measure, they should be aware that we have the benefit of more than 10 years of experience with state medical marijuana laws. And that experience proves that marijuana is good medicine for a number of conditions and patients, and that we can protect their right to good treatment while protecting our kids from drugs."
"Marijuana Use by Young People: The Impact of State Medical Marijuana Laws," prepared by researcher Mitch Earleywine, Ph.D. of the State University of New York and policy experts at the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C., compiles and analyzes government data regarding rates of adolescent marijuana use. In California, for example, where teen marijuana use was increasing prior to adoption of the state's medical marijuana law in 1996, use dropped dramatically from 1996 to 2006 -- by nearly half in some age groups.
The report, available for download at www.mpp.org/teens, finds that marijuana use among teens has decreased across the country. Overall, states with medical marijuana laws had slightly more favorable trends than the national rates. Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, and Nevada all had slightly greater decreases in teen marijuana use than the national average, and California and Washington experienced significantly greater decreases.
New Mexico recently became the 12th state to establish medical marijuana laws, joining Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
With more than 21,000 members and 100,000 e-mail subscribers nationwide, the Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. MPP believes that the best way to minimize the harm associated with marijuana is to regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol.
For more information, please visit www.MarijuanaPolicy.org.
BTW!
* For the record, I do not have, have not ever had, and don’t plan to have, marijuana growing, or used, in or near my home or any other location familiar to me that I may or may not have access to. Any posting I make on any forums like this one are for purely entertainment purposes and anything other then this paragraph should not be considered truthful or reality based. Any pictures that I post have been created by artificial means from images gathered from, but not limited to, the World Wide Web...
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