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		<title>Comment on &#8220;Civil Wars&#8221; ignores the political lessons by Jacob Richter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jacob Richter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kudos for emphasizing the fundamentals of independent political organization and the &quot;merger of socialism and the worker movement.&quot;</description>
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		<title>Comment on Support the Egyptian Revolution! by Linda Page</title>
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		<dc:creator>Linda Page</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s great to see workers recognizing their power. As Rudolf Dreikurs said, &quot;No task is an impossible task when it&#039;s seen as a common task.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s great to see workers recognizing their power. As Rudolf Dreikurs said, &#8220;No task is an impossible task when it&#8217;s seen as a common task.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on $19 billion stolen annually from US workers&#8217; wages by erich (Bert) Keser</title>
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		<dc:creator>erich (Bert) Keser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Susan,
A whole other dimension of this criminal process is the way that the Canadian (Un) Employment Insurance system was gutted and re-jigged by Paul Martin, and further distorted by succeeding Conservative juntas to disentitle large sections of the very workers for whom it is invariably a compulsory deduction.  At one point, if memory serves, 58 billion dollars of &quot;surplus&quot; funds had been collected.

Perhaps the most objectionable part of this situation is the almost unbelievably harsh and restrictive legislation and case law around &quot;voluntary leaving&quot;, which turns workers into virtual slaves of their bosses.

This is, of course, a Canadian situation, and I imagine that US legislation and EI are worse.  But I am not sure.  The late spouse of an American friend, Jill Leppert, familiarized me with the Women Infant Child program there which they tired, and failed, to export to Canada because it was better than anything we have here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Susan,<br />
A whole other dimension of this criminal process is the way that the Canadian (Un) Employment Insurance system was gutted and re-jigged by Paul Martin, and further distorted by succeeding Conservative juntas to disentitle large sections of the very workers for whom it is invariably a compulsory deduction.  At one point, if memory serves, 58 billion dollars of &#8220;surplus&#8221; funds had been collected.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most objectionable part of this situation is the almost unbelievably harsh and restrictive legislation and case law around &#8220;voluntary leaving&#8221;, which turns workers into virtual slaves of their bosses.</p>
<p>This is, of course, a Canadian situation, and I imagine that US legislation and EI are worse.  But I am not sure.  The late spouse of an American friend, Jill Leppert, familiarized me with the Women Infant Child program there which they tired, and failed, to export to Canada because it was better than anything we have here.</p>
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		<title>Comment on One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics by franco_american1962</title>
		<link>http://susanrosenthal.com/articles/1-million-kids-on-anti-psychotics/comment-page-1#comment-728</link>
		<dc:creator>franco_american1962</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What has not been sucked into the orbit of psychiatrization in our culture? Psychiatry has led itself down a path of moral and ethical bankrupcy, all in the name of &quot;therapy&quot;. 

There isn&#039;t anything that escapes the scrutiny of a thoroughgoing medicalization of everyday life. 

The manufacture and promotion of the myth of mental illness, somehow lurking in every individual, has, thus far made good therapeutic sense and paid handsome dividends.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What has not been sucked into the orbit of psychiatrization in our culture? Psychiatry has led itself down a path of moral and ethical bankrupcy, all in the name of &#8220;therapy&#8221;. </p>
<p>There isn&#8217;t anything that escapes the scrutiny of a thoroughgoing medicalization of everyday life. </p>
<p>The manufacture and promotion of the myth of mental illness, somehow lurking in every individual, has, thus far made good therapeutic sense and paid handsome dividends.</p>
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		<title>Comment on One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics by Mulga Mumblebrain</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mulga Mumblebrain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Einstein&#039;s wise, and, I would say, self-evident truths illustrate just why he was a socialist. The ability to empathise with others, to not be indifferent to their fate, and to share their joys and sorrows, has always been seen by religions and philosophies as amongst the highest manifestations of morality and humanity.

On the other hand, to see other human beings, other animals and the natural world, as totally &#039;other&#039; and alien, and hence fearful and hostile, is the mark of the little man, the scared, alienated and aggressive outsider whose ego refuses to allow itself to be subsumed by existence. 

This type is the bedrock of what we euphemistically call &#039;the Right&#039; and of the business caste and their flunkies. They hate and fear everything outside their own ego, because the notion of a surrender to the rest of the cosmos so fearfully reminds them of their mortality,of how brief and tenuous is their span on earth. They pile up loot, insatiably, stolen from other people and the natural world, as a sort of existential security blanket to protect themselves from the horrors of death and decay. This necessity is, of course, open-ended and unslakeable, hence the ever growing greed of the kleptocrats.

The essential antipathy of this type to others is nowhere more poignantly destructive than in their assaults on children. Not only do they drug them, or sexually exploit them,or kill them for their organs,or spray them with white phosphorus,or depleted uranium, but they also pollute their minds and souls with violent &#039;entertainment&#039;, pornography carelessly made accessible and the psychological child abuse of manipulative advertising. 

Children have been prematurely and destructively sexualised by the amoral advertising seducers, just to have them become a new &#039;demographic&#039; to keep those lovely profits rolling in. And, cap in hand with the advertising molesters are the dietary and physiological abusers who peddle the addictive poison of junk food. These drug pushers, unlike those who supply cocaine or ecstasy, but like those tempting us with alcohol and tobacco, are not punished for their crimes, but richly rewarded and advantaged by the politicians that they buy and sell with their political contributions. 

All in all, in a capitalist pathocracy, child abuse is ubiquitous, conscienceless and immensely profitable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Einstein&#8217;s wise, and, I would say, self-evident truths illustrate just why he was a socialist. The ability to empathise with others, to not be indifferent to their fate, and to share their joys and sorrows, has always been seen by religions and philosophies as amongst the highest manifestations of morality and humanity.</p>
<p>On the other hand, to see other human beings, other animals and the natural world, as totally &#8216;other&#8217; and alien, and hence fearful and hostile, is the mark of the little man, the scared, alienated and aggressive outsider whose ego refuses to allow itself to be subsumed by existence. </p>
<p>This type is the bedrock of what we euphemistically call &#8216;the Right&#8217; and of the business caste and their flunkies. They hate and fear everything outside their own ego, because the notion of a surrender to the rest of the cosmos so fearfully reminds them of their mortality,of how brief and tenuous is their span on earth. They pile up loot, insatiably, stolen from other people and the natural world, as a sort of existential security blanket to protect themselves from the horrors of death and decay. This necessity is, of course, open-ended and unslakeable, hence the ever growing greed of the kleptocrats.</p>
<p>The essential antipathy of this type to others is nowhere more poignantly destructive than in their assaults on children. Not only do they drug them, or sexually exploit them,or kill them for their organs,or spray them with white phosphorus,or depleted uranium, but they also pollute their minds and souls with violent &#8216;entertainment&#8217;, pornography carelessly made accessible and the psychological child abuse of manipulative advertising. </p>
<p>Children have been prematurely and destructively sexualised by the amoral advertising seducers, just to have them become a new &#8216;demographic&#8217; to keep those lovely profits rolling in. And, cap in hand with the advertising molesters are the dietary and physiological abusers who peddle the addictive poison of junk food. These drug pushers, unlike those who supply cocaine or ecstasy, but like those tempting us with alcohol and tobacco, are not punished for their crimes, but richly rewarded and advantaged by the politicians that they buy and sell with their political contributions. </p>
<p>All in all, in a capitalist pathocracy, child abuse is ubiquitous, conscienceless and immensely profitable.</p>
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		<title>Comment on One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics by franco_american1962</title>
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		<dc:creator>franco_american1962</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As our culture&#039;s social engineer, the mental health enterprise (and what an enterprise it is) has made its principal mission of transforming moral issues into health issues, with the respective &quot;treatment&quot;. 

In effect, the paradigmatic approach is one of altering the individual, thereby altering the social. 

Such an &quot;therapeutic&quot; approach ultimately leaves many of the social, economic, and political questions unanswered, and makes for continued profits and professional prestige. 

But it must be asked: cui bono? (who profits?)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As our culture&#8217;s social engineer, the mental health enterprise (and what an enterprise it is) has made its principal mission of transforming moral issues into health issues, with the respective &#8220;treatment&#8221;. </p>
<p>In effect, the paradigmatic approach is one of altering the individual, thereby altering the social. </p>
<p>Such an &#8220;therapeutic&#8221; approach ultimately leaves many of the social, economic, and political questions unanswered, and makes for continued profits and professional prestige. </p>
<p>But it must be asked: cui bono? (who profits?)</p>
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		<title>Comment on One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics by Daniel Haszard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel Haszard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The use of atypical antipsychotics for children should be banned.

A report by Dr. Cooper at Vanderbilt University states that 2.5 million children are now taking atypical antipsychotics. Over half are being given them for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. 
  
Zyprexa was pushed by Lilly Drug Reps. They called it the &quot;Five at Five&quot; (5 mg at 5 pm to keep nursing home patients subdued and sleepy) and &quot;VIVA ZYPREXA&quot; (Zyprexa for everybody) campaigns to off-label market Eli Lilly Zyprexa as a fix for unapproved usage

WARNING- 
If a drug (Zyprexa) lists anything about the pancreas among the side effects, it probably means it can cause diabetes. Unlike your liver, the pancreas does not regenerate itself. If it gets damaged, diabetes is very likely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The use of atypical antipsychotics for children should be banned.</p>
<p>A report by Dr. Cooper at Vanderbilt University states that 2.5 million children are now taking atypical antipsychotics. Over half are being given them for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. </p>
<p>Zyprexa was pushed by Lilly Drug Reps. They called it the &#8220;Five at Five&#8221; (5 mg at 5 pm to keep nursing home patients subdued and sleepy) and &#8220;VIVA ZYPREXA&#8221; (Zyprexa for everybody) campaigns to off-label market Eli Lilly Zyprexa as a fix for unapproved usage</p>
<p>WARNING-<br />
If a drug (Zyprexa) lists anything about the pancreas among the side effects, it probably means it can cause diabetes. Unlike your liver, the pancreas does not regenerate itself. If it gets damaged, diabetes is very likely.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Should Physicians be Activists? by kalidas</title>
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		<dc:creator>kalidas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tell me about it.
Last year I pulled two of my own teeth.

Since I really am not a masochist, what other reason could there be besides economics.

(I have gums like an alligator)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tell me about it.<br />
Last year I pulled two of my own teeth.</p>
<p>Since I really am not a masochist, what other reason could there be besides economics.</p>
<p>(I have gums like an alligator)</p>
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		<title>Comment on Should Physicians be Activists? by rosemarie jackowski</title>
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		<dc:creator>rosemarie jackowski</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good article. Good topic. Here is a link to one of mine
http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/size-matters/

Right here in Vermont a doctor/dentist could be arrested for giving free humanitarian medical service.   

It took me a while to figure all of this out but now I finally &#039;get it&#039;.  Maintaining the medical monopoly and restricting humanitarian care makes it easy to charge $1000 to repair a tooth filling.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good article. Good topic. Here is a link to one of mine<br />
<a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/size-matters/" rel="nofollow">http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/size-matters/</a></p>
<p>Right here in Vermont a doctor/dentist could be arrested for giving free humanitarian medical service.   </p>
<p>It took me a while to figure all of this out but now I finally &#8216;get it&#8217;.  Maintaining the medical monopoly and restricting humanitarian care makes it easy to charge $1000 to repair a tooth filling.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Should Physicians be Activists? by Mulga Mumblebrain</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mulga Mumblebrain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wong did the correct thing, so his conscience is clear. 

Being a morally upright person is nowadays the exception in the capitalist world, where the parasitic and psychopathic elite&#039;s mentality of absolute antipathy towards other human beings (and the rest of existence outside the capitalist&#039;s ego)has been relentlessly inculcated by generations of brainwashing. This indoctrination has not just been by mainstream media, now almost entirely in the hands of ruthless propagandists in the Murdoch mould, who employ vast armies of unscrupulous ideologues whose sole purpose in life is to foment fear,loathing and paranoia to suit their owners&#039; ends, but also by the advertising industry.This pernicious evil, a species of parasitism upon the parasitic system, has,in its efforts to stimulate pointless consumption of useless junk, through crude and vicious manipulation of peoples&#039; feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness (a form of spiritual molestation), has twisted the individual and collective psyches so grossly that greedy, self-interested consumption has been raised to the highest point of human existence. 

The infinitely avaricious, self-centred individual, brainwashed to see others as competition or enemies, is fertile ground for the promotion of racism, xenophobia and generalised hatred, as we see every day. 

Dr Wong apparently remains human, rather than robopathic, so the evil ones, the living dead whose souls have long since fallen to dust, will not rest until they have purged this non-conformist, and punished him for the effrontery of acting decently.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wong did the correct thing, so his conscience is clear. </p>
<p>Being a morally upright person is nowadays the exception in the capitalist world, where the parasitic and psychopathic elite&#8217;s mentality of absolute antipathy towards other human beings (and the rest of existence outside the capitalist&#8217;s ego)has been relentlessly inculcated by generations of brainwashing. This indoctrination has not just been by mainstream media, now almost entirely in the hands of ruthless propagandists in the Murdoch mould, who employ vast armies of unscrupulous ideologues whose sole purpose in life is to foment fear,loathing and paranoia to suit their owners&#8217; ends, but also by the advertising industry.This pernicious evil, a species of parasitism upon the parasitic system, has,in its efforts to stimulate pointless consumption of useless junk, through crude and vicious manipulation of peoples&#8217; feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness (a form of spiritual molestation), has twisted the individual and collective psyches so grossly that greedy, self-interested consumption has been raised to the highest point of human existence. </p>
<p>The infinitely avaricious, self-centred individual, brainwashed to see others as competition or enemies, is fertile ground for the promotion of racism, xenophobia and generalised hatred, as we see every day. </p>
<p>Dr Wong apparently remains human, rather than robopathic, so the evil ones, the living dead whose souls have long since fallen to dust, will not rest until they have purged this non-conformist, and punished him for the effrontery of acting decently.</p>
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