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From the Wiki Main Page this Morning

The anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany was the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history. Anti-tobacco movements grew in many nations from the beginning of the 20th century, but these had little success except in Germany where the campaign was supported by the government after the Nazis came to power. It was the most powerful anti-smoking movement in the world in the 1930s and early 1940s. The Nazi leadership condemned smoking and several of them openly criticized tobacco consumption. Research on smoking and its effects on health thrived under Nazi rule and was the most important of its type at that time. Hitler's personal distaste for tobacco and the Nazi reproductive policies were among the motivating factors behind their campaign against smoking, and this campaign was associated with both antisemitism and racism. The Nazi anti-tobacco campaign included banning smoking in trams, buses and city trains, promoting health education, limiting cigarette rations in the Wehrmacht, organizing medical lectures for soldiers and raising the tobacco tax. The Nazis also imposed restrictions on tobacco advertising, tobacco rationing for women, and smoking in public spaces, and they regulated restaurants and coffeehouses. The anti-tobacco movement did not have much effect in the early years of the Nazi regime and tobacco use increased between 1933 and 1939, but smoking by military personnel declined from 1939 to 1945.

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ASA AARP MedMar Dox

Gee, I ran across a gold mine:

Cancer: http://www.scribd.com/doc/294756/Medical-Marijuana-cancer-brochure

Arthritis: http://www.scribd.com/doc/294731/Medical-Marijuana-arthritis-brochure

Chronic Pain: http://www.scribd.com/doc/294899/Medical-Marijuana-pain-brochure

GI Disorders: http://www.scribd.com/doc/294822/Medical-Marijuana-GI-brochure

MS: http://www.scribd.com/doc/294874/Medical-Marijuana-MS-brochure

Muscular Dystrophy: http://www.scribd.com/doc/294862/Medical-Marijuana-MD-brochure

AIDS: http://www.scribd.com/doc/294724/Medical-Marijuana-AIDS-brochure

Aging: http://www.scribd.com/doc/294722/Medical-Marijuana-aging-brochure

and the AARP document:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/294717/Medical-Marijuana-AARP-medical-marijuana

medical marijuana: a surprising solution to severe morning sickness

http://parentsendingprohibition.homestead.com/Mothering.html

medical marijuana
a surprising solution to severe morning sickness

By Erin Hildebrandt - Photos by Lloyd Wolf

Like many young women's, my indulgence in recreational drugs, including alcohol and caffeine, came to an abrupt halt when my husband and I discovered we were pregnant with our first child. To say we were ecstatic is an understatement. Doctors had told me we might never conceive, yet here we were, expecting our first miracle. I closely followed my doctor's recommendations. When I began to experience severe morning sickness, I went to him for help. He ran all the standard tests, then sent me home with the first of many prescription medicines.

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Zero-Sum Games

I was watching Mika Brzezinski take on 'Morning Joe' this morning, and Joe made a point about how now that Barack had seen the actual security threats, all those campaign promises about stopping warrantless wiretaps would be out the window.

Now, the absolute idiocy of what these people have kept and still listen to aside, let's just look at the mechanism. Let's use the human body as an example.

If we were to achieve real 'surveillance' of the world, it would be very similar to our brains taking on the intercellular conversations, and managing all of them.

In the real world, our brains work hard to allow us to NOT think about things like buttons and shoelaces. We never have to beat our own hearts, or move the food through our guts, let alone figure out what our endocrine levels are.

Spy-states fall of their own hierarchy, eventually. If it doesn't fall from its own weight, then it's complexity will render the 'sensible' senseless and it will just unravel.

If you recall, there WERE intercepted transmissions regarding 911 that hadn't yet been assessed before the event. This was 'pre-Orwellian' info, too (just ignored).

Collecting data is easy. Interpreting it is hard.

These bozos are stuck on the low hanging fruit aspect of collection.

Back in the nineties, there was a movement afoot (quickly squashed) to fix international banking so that the 'bad guys' couldn't use it to transfer their illicit wealth.

Unfortunately, it's the same mechanism that our spies use to transfer THEIR illicit wealth, so it never got fixed.

If we were to fix that ONE thing, the need for spies would decrease dramatically. Everyone needs MONEY. It's easy to track it most of the time, except when it goes underground in the Caymans or Switzerland.

If someone actually DOES buy nuclear shit (or bioterror shit, or whatever), the one thing we can be almost entirely sure of is that it WON'T BE FREE.

So, when are we going to fix that little oversight?

Or are we going to just let it ride like Bill Clinton did?

We've increased the capacity for gathering information.

We haven't increased the capacity for understanding it, however.

I think it's a much surer bet to make the stream go aboveground than to try to discern where the underground rivulets go.

But then, I'm cheap.

In Flanders Fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.