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Disabled Christian Author Speaks Against Million Dollar Baby” Movie: May 6, 4:42pm 1 review humanities
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International Task Force - False Light: May 6, 4:14pm 1 review humanities, life-and-death
http://www.internationaltaskforce.org/false_light.htm; Palliative care on the `slippery slope' towards euthanasia? http://www.eapcnet.org/download/forEuthanasia/PM200317(5)Materstvedt.pdf Euthanasia: False Light http://www.internationaltaskforce.org/false_light/false_light_sm_flash.htm Palliative Care versus Euthanasia. The German Position: The German General Medical Council's Principles for Medical Care of the Terminally Ill The circumstances under which this title is published have changed: Reason for change: Changed Publisher Now published by: Oxford University Press Date of change: 2008 n September 1998 the Bundes,,rztekammer, i.e., the German Medical Association, published new principles concerning terminal medical care. Even before publication, a draft of these principles was very controversial, and prompted intense public debate in the mass media. Despite some of the critics' suspicions that the principles prepared the way for liberalization of active euthanasia, euthanasia is unequivocally rejected in the principles. Physician-assisted suicide is considered to violate professional medical rules. In leaving aside some of the notions customarily used in the euthanasia debate, e.g., passive euthanasia, the principles emphasize the obligation of physicians to offer and the right of patients to receive palliative care. The principles explicitly list modalities of basic treatment that are indispensable in all cases, such as the obligation to satisfy hunger and thirst. This statement is meant to resolve the dispute on nutrition and hydration at the end of life, as it shifts the focus of care from maintaining physiological parameters to satisfying subjective needs. For patients in a persistent vegetative state, artificial feeding is held to be obligatory. Yet, the principles make reference to recent German jurisdiction which permit the stopping of artificial feeding if it is in accordance with the patient's presumed will. Additionally, the wording concerning this issue is found to remain unclear. Patients' autonomy is strengthened by explicitly welcoming advance directives as a means to ascertain patients' wills. The principles mark some changes compared to earlier documents. They deserve careful analysis and should be considered in the international debate on issues concerning the end of life. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/252395680-99614107/ content~content=a714016968~db=all~order=page

Euthanasia suicide mercy-killing right-to-die physician assisted suicide living …: May 6, 3:27pm 1 review humanities, life
http://www.euthanasia.com/page10.html; Dr Death In the UK, a House of Lords Select Committee recently reviewed the evidence that has been submitted following a private bill on assisted dying for the terminally ill that would legalise both euthanasia and PAS, physician-assisted suicide- providing certain criteria were met. In November 2005, an amended Bill was introduced to allow PAS only. It is worth noting that in June 2005 the British Medical Association dropped its long-standing opposition to euthanasia and PAS, and adopted a neutral position. There is mounting pressure towards legalisation in other European countries too. The EAPC position paper is therefore timely. In addition to the English version, there is also a French, Italian, Hungarian, German, Greek and Finnish translation of the paper. We are hopeful that others will follow and direct anyone wishing to get involved to www.eapcnet.org/projects/ethics.asp, physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Recent developments The European perspective includes quite different laws on euthanasia and PAS, and most states uphold a ban - despite the fact that in 2002, euthanasia and PAS were legalised in the Netherlands Belgium. what if, hypothetically, we were to produce a statement defending euthanasia? We conjectured, with good reason, that they would reject such a document. In any case, there was consensus within our group that we wanted to take a stand against legalisation. But the question remained: how strong should that standpoint be? Here there were diverging views. Some wanted quite a strong message to come across in this respect, whereas others aimed for a more lenient position. However, we managed to agree on a definition that is in line with the Dutch understanding of euthanasia - the hallmark of which is that only physicians carry out euthanasia; that euthanasia is both voluntary and active by definition; and that it is performed by lethal injection.

Psychiatrys Electroconvulsive Shock Treatment (ECT): ACrimeAgainst Humanity: May 4, 11:35am 3 reviews humanities, psychiatry
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/ect.htm; Psychiatry's Electroconvulsive SHOCK TREATMENT A Crime Against Humanity What used to be called electroshock or electric shock treatment (EST) is now usually called "electroconvulsive therapy", often abbreviated ECT. The term is misleading, because ECT is not a form of therapy, despite the claims of its supporters. ECT causes brain damage, memory loss, and diminished intelligence. An article in the March 25, 1993 New England Journal of Medicine says "ELECTROCONVULSIVE therapy is widely used to treat certain psychiatric disorders, particularly major depression" (p. 839). The March 26, 1990 issue of Newsweek magazine reports that "electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) ... is enjoying a resurgence. ... an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Americans now receive shock therapy each year" (p. 44). Other recent estimates go as high as 100,000 per year. In his textbook Psychiatry for Medical Students, published in 1984, Robert J. Waldinger, M.D., says "ECT's mechanism of action is not known. ... As with the other somatic therapies in psychiatry, we do not know the mechanism by which ECT exerts its therapeutic effects" (pp. 120 & 389). Psychiatrists claim unhappiness or so-called depression is sometimes caused by unknown biological abnormalities in the brain. They say by some unknown mode of action ECT cures these unknown biological abnormalities. There is no good evidence for these claims. Other than by causing mental disorientation and memory loss, ECT does not help eliminate the unhappy feeling called depression. This is true even though currently unhappiness or "depression" is the only "condition" for which ECT is a recognized "therapy". Indeed, rather than eliminating depression, the memory loss and lost mental ability caused by ECT has caused some subjected to ECT so much anguish they have committed suicide after receiving the "treatment". ECT consists of electricity being passed through the brain with a force of from 70 to 400 volts and an amperage of from 200 milliamperes to 1.6 amperes (1600 milliamperes). The electric shock is administered for as little as a fraction of a second to as long as several seconds. The electrodes are placed on each side of the head at about the temples, or sometimes on the front and back of one side of the head so the electricity will pass through just the left or right side of the brain (which is called "unilateral" ECT). Some psychiatrists falsely claim ECT consists of a very small amount of electricity being passed through the brain. In fact, the 70 to 400 volts and 200 to 1600 milliamperes used in ECT is quite powerful. The power applied in ECT is typically as great as that found in the wall sockets in your home. It could kill the "patient" if the current were not limited to the head. The electricity in ECT is so powerful it can burn the skin on the head where the electrodes are placed. Because of this, psychiatrists use electrode jelly, also called conductive gel, to prevent skin burns from the electricity. The electricity going through the brain causes seizures so powerful the so-called patients receiving this so-called therapy have broken their own bones during the seizures. To prevent this, a muscle paralyzing drug is administered immediately before the so-called treatment. Of course, the worst part of ECT is brain damage, not broken bones. Electricity is only one of several ways psychiatrists have induced seizures in people for supposedly therapeutic purposes. According to psychiatrists, seizures induced by chemicals or gas inhalants are just as effective, psychiatrically speaking, as ECT. In September 1977 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, psychiatry professor Max Fink, M.D., said: "Seizures may also be induced by an anesthetic inhalant, flurothyl, with no electrical currents, and these treatments are as effective as ECT" (p. 992). On the same page he said seizures induced by injecting a drug, pentylenetetrazol (Metrazol), into the bloodstream have therapeutic effects equal to seizures induced with ECT. It's interesting, to say the least, that any of these three very different seizure producing agents - flurothyl gas inhaled through a gas mask, Metrazol injected with a hypodermic needle, or electricity passed through the head - could be equally psychiatrically "therapeutic". Psychiatrists say that it is the seizure that is "therapeutic", not the method of inducing the seizure. But why would seizures induced by any of these three very different methods be equally "therapeutic"? One theory is they are all equally horrifying to the victim (the "patient") who receives the "treatment". In his book Against Therapy, published in 1988, psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, Ph.D., asks: "Why do psychiatrists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rabbit-Proof_Fence_movie_poster.jpg: Apr 23, 6:18pm 0 review humanities
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http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/97/nuclear/reactor/calendar/java/javacal.htm…: Mar 21, 4:30pm 1 review humanities, preserving-life
http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/97/nuclear/reactor/calendar/java/javacal....; 1997: Some 20,000 demonstrators gathered next to the Gorleben radioactive waste dump site to protest against a transport of nuclear waste to the dump (Germany) 1994: Breakdown of cooling system at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia) 1992: Technical failure at Novovoronezh nuclear power plant (Russia) 1977: Kozloduy nuclear power plant affected by an earthquake (Bulgaria) 1981: Startup of Soviet satellite �Kosmos-1249� with a nuclear reactor on board. Satellite destroyed after 105 days. 1985: Emergency cooling system out of order at the Grohnde nuclear power plant (Germany) 1989: Manual shutdown due to technical failure at McGuire nuclear power plant (USA) 1972: Radioactive water has to be pumped out of the Indian Point nuclear power plant (USA) 1992: Fire at Kola nuclear power plant (Russia) 1991: Equipment malfunction at Darlington nuclear power plant 11 1990: Equipment malfunction at Bruce nuclear power plant (Canada) 1997: Explosion and fire at the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Tokai-Mura (Japan) 1980: Technical fault causes incident at Saint Laurent des Eaux nuclear power plant (France) 1993: Hundred of litres of contaminated water gush from a leaking steam generator tube at Palo Verde nuclear power plant (USA) 1989: Technical failure of fuel roads at Pickering nuclear power plant (Canada) 1994: Cable fire on unit Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant (Ukraine) 1997: After attempted cover-ups, the Japanese Science and Technology Agency finally officially declare Tokai-Mura accident as the worst nuclear accident ever in Japan 1987: Fire and release of radioactivity at Australian nuclear research facility 1988: Leaks at Brunswick nuclear power plant (USA) 1977: Accidental temperature increase at Rancho Seco nuclear power plant (USA) 1993: Workers exposed to high levels of radiation during 3 accident at Kuosheng nuclear power plant (Taiwan) 1975: Fire in reactor at Browns Ferry nuclear power plant (USA) 1994: Release of radiation at Mayak reprocessing plant (Russia) 1992: Incident with radiation leakage cause shutdown at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia) 1992: Technical failure at Leningrad nuclear power plant (Russia) 1991: Refuelling accident at Wuergassen nuclear power plant (Germany) 1995: Leak of radioactive water from primary circuit causing reactor shutdown at Ringhalls nuclear power plant (Sweden) 1979: Partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant (USA) 1992: Failure of shutdown system at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania) 1988: Pipe rupture at Ignalina nuclear power plant (Lithuania) 1992: Automatic shutdown due to failure of pump system at Kalinin nuclear power plant (Russia) click

NO BLOOD FOR OIL: US OUT OF AFGHANISTAN: Mar 3, 5:02pm 1 review humanities
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/terrorism/noblood.html; There is another good practical reason the US is invading Central Asia: control of oil. Whether it's Unocal's pipeline project, or some other elaborate scheme cooked up by the Carlyle Group makes no matter--Afghanistan has the misfortune to lie between the last big oil reserve on the planet (Turkmenistan) and the sea. Afghanistan is ruled by a rude, anti-Western, uncooperative rabble whose domestic policies are so brutal that even US oil companies shrink from the bad publicity of dealing with them (bad publicity which US feminists have done much to stir up, and good for them!). When you consider what US and Euro oil companies haven't shrunk from, in Nigeria, in Colombia, in the Gulf States, that's really saying something. Afghanistan has to be tamed: made just acceptable enough for the oil transnationals to do business with (i.e. sweep the Taliban under the rug and pretend that everything is just fine now), and ruled by a regime more friendly to the US, to Western business interests, and to Big Oil. The reserves under Turkmenistan might support the Euro oil habit for, wow, another 11 years or so--that's worth killing a few tens of thousands of people for, isn't it? So much for all that talk and sentimentality about the loss of lives of "innocent citizens," eh? In a reiteration of a now well-known claim by one of George W Bush`s former business partners, the BBC said he made his first million 20 years ago on the back of a company financed by Osama`s elder brother, Salem. But it added the more disturbing assertion that both presidents Bush had lucrative stakes along with the bin Ladens in Carlyle Corporation, a small private company which has gone on to become one of America's biggest defense contractors. Persuading the Pentagon to reduce its reliance on heavy tanks will not be easy. I realized this when I discovered in the last paragraph of a long story in The New York Times that Donald Rumsfeld is an old friend of Frank Carlucci whose firm, the Carlyle Group, is a leading financial backer of the Crusader heavy tank, a $13.7 billion Pentagon program. Carlucci told the Times this about his relationship with the Secretary of Defense: "I know Rumsfeld extremely well. ... We've been close friends throughout the years. We were college classmates." Even if appeals to alumni collegiality fail, the Carlyle Group has another managing director whose advice might be heard by the new administration: James A. Baker, George Bush senior's secretary of state and leader of W.'s effort to prevent a recount in Florida. If Baker can't do the job, Poppy Bush himself is a senior advisor to the Carlyle Group.