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Deep Brain Stimulation, LSD and Other Fake Cure-Alls

Posted on: December 18, 2017, in: , , , , , , , ,

greed pixabayMaybe you’ve noticed lately that “scientific research shows” that electricity and LSD cures almost everything. There are many factors pushing this stupidity, among which are:

  1. Pharmaceutical company miracle cures such as antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs don’t cure anything and don’t work any better than placebos.
  2. Those miracle cures have side effects such as mass shootings and suicide.
  3. Those miracle cures are being replaced by generics thus threatening the $1 trillion (with a T) BigPharma revenues.
  4. “Scientific research” isn’t very scientific, as it is influenced by vested interests which either show that BigPharma works or are quietly disposed of, and can’t be replicated when done objectively.
  5. So BigPharma, loaded with jewels and treasure, is hopping off the sinking USS Antidepressant, and onto the luxury yacht “PsychoWire” powered by deep brain stimulation and psychedelics.

First, Deep Brain Stimulation

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) puts electrodes into the brain at various places. When the current is turned on, fingers tap, legs jerk, faces twitch, a charging bull screeches to a stop. Supposedly, depression departs, autism and anxiety evaporate, Parkinson’s stops and such diseases as diabetes, asthma, COPD, arthritis, heart conditions, and gastrointestinal diseases are cured. One variety called “electroceuticals” is pioneered by GlaxoSmithKline, the same company that in 2012 paid $3 billion to the Department of Justice for fraud, phony research studies and pushing drugs off label for kids even though those drugs increased suicides in kids. Nice ethical company has your best interests at heart, let them put some wires in your head, right? Oh and the $3 billion was small change. Right after their $3 billion payout, their stock went up, didn’t even make a dent in the stock price. So they can cheat, steal etc. and even if they’re caught, so what?

  1. Deep brain stimulation was already used in the CIA’s MKULTRA mind-control project in the 1950s. That was secret, but even though CIA Director Richard Helms tried to burn all records of the project, he missed some and the project was exposed. The military was worried about North Korean brainwashing and secretly funded research to keep up with the communists. Today the military is funding electroceutical research this time out in front of God and everybody, because it is camouflaged as help for PTSD, crazy people, etc. But hey, it’s the military, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
  2. There’s another kind of electrical stimulation of the brain called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) kind of a little sister to implanting wires in the head. It has the advantage of being non-invasive, meaning it’s stealthy and doesn’t require the operator to drill through the skull which can sometimes be detected by the person. So it could be hooked up to a doorframe and magnetically stimulate the brains of anybody coming through the door. Make you buy BigPharma stock, or vote to raise taxes for psychiatric research.
  3. And then of course there’s the nuclear option when it comes to electricity and brains, just give the person electroshock, roll the dice and maybe the person will be so stunned he’ll forget to be nuts, or he might – as Ernest Hemingway did after 15 electroshocks – go home and put a shotgun in his mouth and blow his head off. These days they give muscle relaxants so not so many teeth or spines are broken. It’s a kindler-gentler type of electroshock but it causes brain damage and that – like suicide – brings on many changes.

And Then There’s Psychedelics

Have you noticed the promotion of psychedelics recently? Since most Baby Boomer druggies can’t remember the 1960s, many have forgotten – except in vivid flashbacks – the downside of dropping acid and lots of other psychedelic concoctions. Little things like hallucinations and going nuts for a while or forever, and “scorched brain syndrome.”

Timothy Leary told us to “turn on, tune in and drop out,” but later said that LSD got into the public arena and was abused. Poor guy, he had it all figured out that it would only be used by PhDs and above, and then the unwashed masses got hold of it and used it to hallucinate. The CIA used it to drive soldiers crazy and to suicide, and stupid people who grew up watching Superman thought they could fly off tall buildings wearing meat bodies.

OK, so that was then. Today we also have stupid people – who exist in every generation – telling us that LSD, Ahuasca, DMT and other psychedelic substances can cure addiction, PTSD, depression,   anxiety, eating disorders,smoking, OCD, crime, toe fungus, warts,  and every other mental illness formerly treated by pharmaceuticals which have proven ineffective or for which the patents have expired.

But using LSD, for example on those with mental illness can make things worse, according to some sources Stupid people in academia — there are such people, after all Leary was a Harvard professor –  in the military, medicine, psychiatry and government seem to have decided that psychedelics, electroshock and mental health pharmaceuticals are useful, at least to the extent that “we don’t know why they are troubled, and we don’t know what these treatments do, so we’ll just roll the dice, blast their brains  with electricity or pickle them with drugs and see what happens. After all, this isn’t rocket science.”

So a bunch of states have legalized marijuana for medical use, and eight states have legalized it for recreational use. And as evidence it is truly a “gateway drug” small amounts of hard drugs have now been decriminalized in Oregon – stuff like  LSD, heroin, methamphetamine, etc, and initiatives are under way in California  and Oregon to legalize psychedelic mushrooms.

Now the The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies  (MAPS) is also trying to legalize psychedelics and marijuana, and other stupid people are already hard at work on legislation to legalize bad trips and drug-induced psychosis. With all these extravagant claims for psychedelics, these magical mystery cures, one might be advised to consider where these wild claims are coming from and who stands to profit from a nation on drugs.

After all, most of the studies, that all these reports of wonderfulness depend on, can’t be reproduced, meaning they are either sloppy or influenced by their funding to get a specific result. So look for yourself and don’t go dropping acid to cheer up, because you may end up stuck in Nightmare Town with a lot of burnouts from the 1960s.

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The Return of  Government Mind Control Programs

Posted on: September 14, 2017, in: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

CIA Director Richard Helms, who in 1973 tried to destroy all trace of MKULTRA.

CIA Director Richard Helms, who in 1973 tried to destroy all trace of MKULTRA.

Back during the Cold War, the government – worried about Soviet, Chinese and North Korean brainwashing – began experimenting with mind control techniques. One of the worst was MKULTRA. According to government records:  “Between 1953 and 1966,” said the Supreme Court, “the Central Intelligence Agency financed a wide-ranging project, code-named MKULTRA, concerned with ‘the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior.’ The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the Agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and similar institutions. At least 80 institutions and 185 private researchers participated. Because the Agency funded MKULTRA indirectly, many of the participating individuals were unaware that they were dealing with the Agency.”

Unfortunately, in 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA records destroyed. Fortunately, some 20,000 documents were later discovered, and in 2001 some surviving information was declassified and thus much of the impact of this program became public record.

What was discovered were horrific experiments – many conducted with unwitting subjects – using drugs such as LSD, electroshock, and unconsciousness to eliminate memories or to plant false ones. “Psychic driving” by Dr. Ewen Cameron, killing an elephant with LSD by Louis Jolyon West and electrical and chemical brain implants by Manuel Rodriguez Delgado.

Recently, Rodriguez Delgado’s work with implants that delivered electricity and chemicals directly to the brain (which he called stimoceivers and chemitrodes respectively) have returned with more advanced technology, disguised as help and healing. “Electroceuticals,” developed by GlaxoSmithKline and other drug firms, are electronic brain implants to replace the heavy hand of psychopharmaceuticals with their no-better-than-placebo results, skyrocketing costs, unpredictable and sometimes lethal side effects, and competition by generic drug equivalents.

Pharmaceutical companies, the military and psychiatry are again hard at work to recreate the same mind-control techniques supposedly abandoned almost 70 years ago. Consider that DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency predicts that within a few years, scientists will gain the ability to wipe out a PTSD-causing memory and replace it with something else. Flowers and sunny days, perhaps. DARPA’s “Electrical Prescriptions” program (ElectRx) seeks to develop “… real-time biosensors and novel neural interfaces using optical, acoustic, electromagnetic, or engineered biology strategies…” Like MKULTRA, mind control experiments are targeted on veterans – in World War II they were afflicted with “shell shock” or “battle fatigue,” and in recent times, it’s “PTSD.” It seems that veterans in trouble are convenient targets for experiments in mind control.

And Louis Jolyon West’s psychedelic druggings are back again as well. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) seeks to use MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, and similar drugs to “treat” PTSD and other conditions.

So can the government, big pharma and psychiatry be trusted with mind control? In the 1950s they secretly implemented a mind control agenda with MKULTRA using drugs, electrical stimulation and electroshock. Do they deserve a second chance with the latest and greatest technology? Have they reformed?

In 2013 Edward Snowden exposed a secret NSA surveillance program called Prism. Twenty years earlier, the Clinton Administration tried to implement the Clipper Chip that would put a government backdoor in all computers and networks. That flopped amid public outrage, but it seems now that the government went ahead anyway snooping into phone records, Internet, email and other communications.

The FDA just decided to lower the risk category of electroconvulsive “therapy” so children can receive it, and pharmaceuticals are now a $1.5 trillion dollar economic giant. So no, these psychedelic, electrode implanting, pill pushing electroshocking cretins cannot be trusted and must be stopped.

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Deja VooDoo: 12-Step Program to Get America Off Drugs

Posted on: June 19, 2017, in: , , , , , , , , , , ,

“Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it,” the saying goes. We have and we are.

In the 1960s we slid down a slope greased with drugs. Marijuana, LSD, speed, and so on. A few guys still out there driving VW vans smoking weed wearing  tie-dyed shirts – hippies stuck in the 1960s. Far out man. But we haven’t heard anything from the creative geniuses of the time – Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and others – who died of overdoses.

The CIA brought LSD to American universities to develop a way to make people crazy – enemy soldiers, people dumb enough to want to hallucinate, that sort of thing. MK ULTRA was the program, started back in the 1950s, but when the public got wind of it, the CIA burned all the records, so in the absence of information, conspiracy theories sprang up and we all know that conspiracy theory people are nuts. Too much LSD in college.

One only has to look into MKULTRA to plumb the depths to which psychiatrists and intelligence agencies can sink. Using LSD to drive men insane. Using curare to immobilize patients and subject them to weeks of electroshocks and drugs in an attempt to “wipe their minds and reprogram them.”

By 1952 MKULTRA psychiatrist José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado was implanting electrodes into human brains in behavior control experiments. He later wrote Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society  that basically paints humans as stupid dangerous animals that should be controlled by psychologists and psychiatrists.

Well, today we’re sliding down the same slope only this time, it’s steeper and deeper. We live in a psychopharmaceutical wild west. No cures, huge profits, marketing gone mad, billions to be made. Electro-Convulsive Therapy has risen from its grave to walk the Earth again, with the FDA deciding recently to lower the risk category of ECT,   allowing even children to receive the barbaric “therapy.”

Rodriguez Delgado’s electrode implantation has likewise been exhumed. Researchers are now working on implanting electronic devices directly into the brain in a sort of aping of Star Trek’s “Borg Collective,” from which was born the phrase “resistance is futile.” And pharmaceutical companies whose proprietary psychopharmaceutical patents will eventually expire, have turned to “new” methods of enhanced mind control called “electroceuticals” – which can remotely control bodily systems, altering the electrical paths and enhancing or limiting bodily functions, thoughts and impulses. Rodriguez Delgado’s concept of a “chemitrode” – an implantable device to release drugs into specific areas of the brain – is back in electroceuticals as well, armed with modern technology.

And now in our infinite ignorance, states are beginning to legalize recreational marijuana because they want tax income for their favorite social programs – addiction counseling, psychiatric drugs for the homeless and veterans and foster children.

Only the United States and New Zealand allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription pharmaceuticals, and according to the World Health Organization the practice skyrocketed in 1997, when the FDA relaxed the requirement to provide detailed information on side effects. Today drug companies spend nearly $5 billion per year in the United States in direct-to-consumer advertising of their prescription-only products.

Got restless legs? Felling depressed? Can’t sleep? Too old for sex? Ask your doctor.  We’ve been down this road before, but if you can remember the 60s you weren’t there, as the saying goes.

So what’s up with the FDA, which is supposed to protect us from this fraud? The FDA, with a long history of collusion with pharmaceutical companies is now funded directly by big pharma thanks to the Prescription Drug User Fee Act.

The FDA also last year approved a project to use MDMA (ecstasy) as a treatment for PTSD  even though MDMA is also known as a “date rape drug” and  is known to cause mental illness with prolonged use.

And to top it off, the new head of the FDA, Dr. Scott Gottlieb – who is supposed to be our watchdog over drugs and medical devices – has been an advisor to pharmaceutical giants such as GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb   and Daiichi Sankyo. According to the New York Times, products regulated by the FDA account for 20 cents of every dollar spent by American consumers each year, and yet Gottlieb is an advocate of FDA deregulation.

Gottlieb will also be in charge of implementing the 21st Century Cures Act — which the LA Times calls “a huge deregulatory giveaway to the pharmaceutical and medical device industry” — aims to speed up drug approvals and enforce mental health parity with physical health.

ACTION STEPS

So what can we do to fix this mess? Here is a 12-step program:

  1. Rescind the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or have drug companies pay into a US Treasury account to remove the FDA from the direct receipt of pharma fees for drug evaluations.
  1. Make direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription pharmaceuticals illegal.
  1. Make off-label use of prescription pharmaceuticals illegal, including prescribing drugs to children which are approved only for adults.
  1. Clearly label any drug whose action is mental as a psychopharmaceutical. Physicians who administer psychopharmaceuticals to patients as “something to relax you, or make you more comfortable,” without informing the patient that the drug’s action is primarily mental (example Versed administered prior to colonoscopies to induce amnesia) will be charged with a criminal act. psychopharmaceuticals are now prescribed by primary care physicians off label for pain, insomnia, stomach disorders, etc.
  1. Require the FDA to collect data on the effectiveness of drugs, especially psychopharmaceuticals, and if they are no more effective than placebos, they must be removed from the market.
  1. Reduce the proprietary period of a pharmaceutical from 17 years to 7 years, and make it a crime to pay drug manufacturing companies to not create a generic equivalent of a proprietary drug after the 7-year period has elapsed.
  1. New drugs similar to ones already established as safe and effective must prove they are safer and more effective than the established one. Manipulating a molecule is not enough.
  1. Make it a crime for a physician or an FDA employee to receive gifts, stipends, speaker fees, etc., from pharmaceutical companies or regulated medical industries, or to invest in pharmaceutical stocks.
  1. Make the FDA follow its mission, and treat any FDA collusion with regulated industries as a criminal offense.
  1. Make pseudoephedrine and related drugs – which are used to manufacture methamphetamine – available by prescription only as a schedule III drug. Oregon and Mississippi have already done this with spectacular effects in reducing meth arrests and crimes.
  1. Require the makers of pharmaceuticals which are showing up in the water supply (examples: birth control hormones, antidepressants, etc) to develop ways to clean them from sewage and water supplies and fund the removal efforts.
  1. Require pharmaceutical companies to educate physicians and patients on how to stop taking a drug, and develop ways to mitigate the withdrawal symptoms of patients who wish to stop taking a drug such as an antidepressant or antipsychotic.

 

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