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LSD and psychotherapy
When LSD was first introduced in the United States in 1949, it was well received by the scientific community. Within less than a decade the drug had risen to a position of high standing among psychiatrists. LSD therapy was by no means a fad or a fly-by-night venture. More than one thousand clinical papers were written on the subject, discussing some forty thousand patients. Favorable results were reported when LSD was used to treat severely resistant psychiatric conditions, such as frigidity and other sexual aberrations. A dramatic decrease in autistic symptoms was observed in severely withdrawn children following the administration of LSD. The drug was also found to ease the physical and psychological distress of terminal cancer patients, helping them come to terms with the anguish and mystery of death. And chronic alcoholics continued to benefit from psychedelic treatment. One enthusiastic researcher went so far as to suggest that with LSD it might be possible to clean out skid row in Los Angeles.“The rate of recovery or significant improvement was often higher with LSD therapy than with traditional methods. Furthermore, its risks were slim compared to the dangers of other commonly used and officially sanctioned procedures such as electroshock, lobotomy, and the so-called anti-psychotic drugs. Dr. Sidney Cohen, the man who turned on Henry and Clare Booth Luce, attested to the virtues of LSD after conducting an in-depth survey of US and Canadian psychiatrists who had used it as a therapeutic tool. Forty-four doctors replied to Cohen’s questionnaire, providing data on five thousand patients who had taken a total of more than twenty-five thousand doses of either LSD or mescaline. The most frequent complaint voiced by psychedelic therapists was ‘unmanageability.’ Only eight instances of “psychotic reaction lasting more than forty-eight hours” were reported in the twenty-five thousand cases surveyed. Not a single case of addiction was indicated, nor any deaths from toxic effects. On the basis of these finding Cohen maintained that ‘with the proper precautions psychedelics are safe when given to a selected healthy group.’“By the early 1960s it appeared that LSD was destined to find a niche on the pharmacologist’s shelf. But then the fickle winds of medical policy began to shift. Spokesmen for the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Food and Drug Administration started to denounce the drug, and psychedelic therapy quickly fell into public and professional disrepute. Granted, a certain amount of intransigence arises whenever a new form of treatment threatens to steal the thunder from more conventional methods, but this alone cannot account for the sudden reversal of a promising trend that was ten years in the making.“One reason the medical establishment had such a difficult time coping with the psychedelic evidence was that LSD could not be evaluated like other drugs. LSD was not a medication in the usual sense; it wasn’t guaranteed to relieve a specific symptom such as a cold or a headache. In this respect psychedelics were out of kilter with the basic assumptions of Western medicine. The FDA’s relationship with this class of chemicals became even more problematic in light of claims that LSD could help the healthy. Most doctors automatically dismissed the notion that drugs might benefit someone who was not obviously ailing.“In 1962 Congress enacted regulations that required the safety and efficacy of a new drug to be proven with respect to the condition for which it was to be marketed commercially. LSD, according to the FDA, did not satisfy these criteria…”
by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain
Copyright 1985
pages 89-90
BOMBSHELL: Inside Canada-USA “Refugee” Trafficking Ring
This vid jump starts to 15:56 to make a point about MSM but the whole vid is well-worth watching. ABN
Susan Rice – straight to the point
Hannity: Susan Rice has a lot of explaining to do
Edit 3:30: Judge Napolitano on if Susan Rice did anything illegal. His take on what she did is it might be espionage.
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This scandal can and should be compared to Watergate, though it is vastly worse.
Watergate was a break-in of one office to get info on the campaign. This scandal is about undermining the incoming president of the USA through the use of America’s intelligence agencies.
If the unmasking of American names was done by Rice, that action is not in itself technically illegal as far as I understand. If Rice unmasked for any reason other than “national security,” it is illegal. Similarly, Obama’s lowering the secrecy status of that unmasked information so that more eyes within the intelligence community would be on it is not in itself illegal as far as I understand.
Leaking those names to the press is illegal. Since both Rice and Obama were responsible for setting up the conditions to make those leaks possible, it does seem that there is very significant moral culpability on both of their parts.
Here is a reasonable back-and-forth on this issue: Rice unmasked as Team Trump unmasker: What it really means.
An important point missed by Carlson in this discussion is: Not only is there no evidence of Russian hacking but the DNC refused multiple times to allow the FBI to examine the hacked server.
Stephen Cohen on Russia “hacking the election”
Five months of this story and still not a shred of evidence. Cohen is a Russian expert. Hear what he has to say in the video below.
In tandem with the false Russian hacking claims, is the truthful claim that people within the Obama administration illegally leaked and illegally “unmasked” illegally gathered intelligence on Trump and members his campaign.
(See this for a good wrap up on the Obama spying story: Former intel officer: Nunes WH meeting was done right)
Stephen Cohen on the false Russian hacking claims:
The following short piece is not directly related to the issues above, but will give you a whole new perspective on Russia and thus on those issues. Highly recommended: Searching for Russia.
The NSA database
I wrote the piece below on July 5, 2013. I am reposting it today because I think it is right. A major issue is who controls the database and how do we know who that is and how do we control them?
At the bottom is a video with whistleblower Bill Binney, who worked at the NSA for thirty years. He brings up these same questions. ABN
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Firstly, that database is a sociologist’s wet dream. It is without question the greatest sociological analytical tool ever to come into existence.
The NSA database—using just metadata alone—is capable of discovering and describing in near-perfect detail nearly all social networks in the world.
It is possible that some very secretive groups figured out which way the wind was blowing twenty years ago and have kept away from all electronic surveillance since then, but I doubt that even they can be certain that their membership is not known, or knowable, to the NSA.
In addition to being able to find and analyze all, or virtually all, groups and networks in the world (secret or otherwise), the NSA almost certainly has the capability to reach back years into the content of those groups’ phone calls and other forms of communication.
This makes the database even more than a sociologist’s wet dream. It is also a tool for exceptional good or evil.
First, the evil—anyone with access to the database can spy on virtually anyone anywhere and use the information gained to blackmail, steal inventions or investment ideas, bribe, intimidate, or otherwise do bad stuff behind the scenes.
For the good, the database has the power to figure out groups that are doing bad things and stop them. The database could be used as a massive national and international “lie-detector” or “shit detector.” Just about any group of people up to anything unsavory should be discoverable through the database.
So who controls it? Is there one person at the top? Or a group? Who watches the group?
I am all but certain we will never be rid of that database. If by some miracle the US destroys the NSA database, some other country will surely set one up.
So liberty and goodness now mean that we have to figure out how to make sure the people controlling the database are good people. That they will never do bad things with the information available to them.
How do we do that? Is there any conceivable politics that can bring that about? We need databases watching databases all of which are controlled by groups that are watched by other groups. If we have perfectly reliable lie-detectors, could we establish groups like that? Is there any way forward other than massive transparency of everyone’s life?
It looks to me like our traditional political system is finished. Checks and balances and individual rights are meaningless in the face of that database.
This is not meant as humor
Trey Gowdy questions FBI Director James Comey
Mark Levin DESTROYS Obama On TowerGate
Did Obama break the law to get Trump?
Social media is still producing good analyses well-worth reading. Here is an example:
In summary: the Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained, authorization to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then relaxed the NSA rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media. (Source)
The link above has a long and very well-presented analysis on the wiretapping, Syria, the gas pipeline from Iran, the role of Saudi Arabia, and alleged deep corruption within and between the Obama and Clinton camps concerning all of this.
Many sources are cited and the reasoning is clear. Highly recommended. Obviously, draw your own conclusions.
The left is a totalitarian subculture
Totalitarian means “relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.”
When I say the left is a totalitarian subculture, I mean that it has become a subculture with very conspicuous totalitarian elements. These include newspeak, PC proscriptions, intolerance of differing views, and a willingness to break laws or engage in violence to prevent the free exchange of ideas and or to further only their own ideas.
I could post many links every day to back up these claims. Here are just two from the morning news:
- Professor Allison Stanger suffered a neck injury at Middlebury College Thursday
- GOP wants to eliminate shadowy DOJ slush fund bankrolling leftist groups
The second link is very serious. It alleges that the Obama DOJ illegally funneled taxpayer funds to leftist groups, including La Raza.
The first link details yet more leftist intolerance of diverse views. Did funding for the “outside agitators” ultimately come from taxpayers through the DOJ slush fund?
The American legal system has excellent protections for individual rights. But this same system is lacking in protections against nefarious groups that work in concert to undermine it.
That the left has become such a group is easily proved by the fact that academia is 90% leftist as is MSM. Both groups have become totalitarian institutions within the overall totalitarian subculture of the left.
Pizzagate and the IC war against Donald Trump
The following interview is from an anonymous DHS insider, so grain of salt.
The insider says of Pizzagate (PedoGate, as he calls it):
PedoGate is only a modern term associated with a long history of Pedo-blackmail connected to both Israel and the Intel community. There is a full court press to stop PedoGate from being looked at because if people knew the true motives behind the pedophilia epidemic, they would do more than march on Washington. They could actually seed a revolution…
See the full interview here: HUGE Exclusive Interview With DHS Insider!
This interview is not news in the sense that we know who the source is or can prove their claims. But it is news in the sense that the information has internal consistency and fits well with what is going on in the country today—the IC’s war with Trump, the MSM frenzy of lies aimed at Trump, panic among top politicians, both Dems and GOPs.
Here is another sample from the interview:
Q. So an ex-CIA senior agent named Robert Steele is on record saying Epstein’s island was a honey trap to lure our most powerful politicians into a extortion scheme?
A. Yes. There are videos of some of the most powerful players in the most humiliating positions. If this gets out, not only are the politicians ruined, but the extortion game is over and suddenly, the influence CIA and Mossad wield over Washington, is gone.
As mentioned in other posts, I have some personal experience with a very bad group. Most people would be astounded to know what I know from first-hand experience. A good part of why Pizzagate is staying in the (alternate) news despite MSM and establishment derision of the subject is there are many people like me.
The IC war against Donald Trump
Some part of the Intelligence Community (IC) is obviously at war with Donald Trump.
A friend wrote that he hopes the Trump team is prepared and that they know what is happening.
Someone replied:
they have to know and are surely prepared, but they can’t know everything or prepare for what they don’t know. I am optimistic. cleaning up IC and DC is a huge project. you know, our side can lose. it’s a real battle. look at Germany, much of Europe – on the ropes. Merkel is worse than HRC. Sweden has become a joke. France is already lost. I doubt Le Pen will win. it took only thirty years for Chinese commies to utterly destroy Chinese civilization. the soviet union did the same in about the same time-frame. civilizations are fragile. look what happened to the “civilization” of American academia. that also took about thirty years to destroy. not completely hopeless yet but it’s bad. this is a real battle, an epic battle
He answered:
I do see how it could be lost. For example judge Nap this am was saying that it will be impossible to find the IC leakers. He says they are pros. Hope he’s wrong but if Trump can’t govern without worrying about a leak then we do have a shadow govt. No doubt about it. I bet the White House is bugged top to bottom. Maybe even Mar Lago. Trump may have to buy another compound and limit who can outfit it and use that for meetings etc. I’m not even sure that’d work as you still need the most trusted people to work with. Plus all phone calls are recorded. One thing that is interesting is how we’ve been talking about spying and being careful for decades. Big brother is watching but most laughed it off. Now it’s cocktail party talk. In some ways the emergence of the deep state is good in that it’s waking people up to the spying. Shits real and they can do anything they want to anybody.
The basic problem is that even the president cannot prevent attacks by IC officers and even he cannot know who they are, how many they are, what their goals are.
Eisenhower warned of this. JFK tried to stop it. Bobby would have tried harder. Some say Reagan tried but backed off after the attempt on his life. This is what Donald Trump is now facing.
See this for more: The NSA database.
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