"Started on the streets of Chicago protecting the working people"-hope for a struggling new nation, within a nation-
Race baiting, is a way to get elected, Willie Horton or will he not get elected on TELEVISION, the drug of the Nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation......

Cast from the mould of many great gangsters, windbag from the windy city, new hope for Nuevo Nacion....fuuuuuuuuck!

Television:The Drug of the Nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

Same goes for puter games.....one day, you will have developed such acute motor skills with the thumbs, and unsurpassed hand-eye coordination, that you will be a valuable addition to the Matrix....and have something of unparalleled value, to share with your children, as you sit on the sweat-soaked, ass-shaped, couch, and create a lasting and meaningful relationship.......where's the unabomber when ya need him????

http://www.videosift.com/video/Television-The-Drug-of-the-Nation


different -yet the same

lov
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absorbed in its world it's so hard to find us
it shapes our mind the most
maybe the mother of our nation
should remind us that we're sitting too close to...

My first post (which got canned) was:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hashish-The-Drug-of-a-Nation
(Too bad too; I still think that vid has great music and cool retro-druggie and co-opted video clips)

First published post was:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Q-How-is-Kevin-Smith-like-Marilyn-Monroe

(A run-of-them-mill Kevin Smith Q&A video; but still funny)

"Willie Horton or will he not get elected..on TELEVISION-the drug of the nation.....this guy's voice is irritating-where's my talking head!!!

I'll offer you two bits of info here to consider before we go any farther, yaroslavvb. Please take the time to read, they'll help.

First an excerpt from the Lancet medical journal report I'd mentioned above. As I'd said above and as repeated in their findings, unattractive for young people now. It isn't market theory that drives this. The climb in use is in the years before the program started and why they started it, they had one of the worst abuse rates in the area. The fall started shortly after the program did.

Summary

Background Switzerland has been criticised for its liberal drug policy, which could attract new users and lengthen periods of heroin addiction. We sought to estimate incidence trends and prevalence of problem heroin use in Switzerland.

Methods We obtained information about first year of regular heroin use from the case register of substitution treatments in the canton of Zurich for 7256 patients (76% of those treated between 1991 and March, 2005). We estimated the proportion of heroin users not yet in substitution treatment programmes using the conditional lag-time distribution. Cessation rate was the proportion of individuals leaving substitution treatment programmes and not re-entering within the subsequent 10 years. Overall prevalence of problematic heroin use was modelled as a function of incidence and cessation rate.

Findings Every second person began their first substitution treatment within 2 years of starting to use heroin regularly. Incidence of heroin use rose steeply, starting with about 80 people in 1975, culminating in 1990 with 850 new users, and declining substantially to about 150 users in 2002. Two-thirds of those who had left substitution treatment programmes re-entered within the next 10 years. The population of problematic heroin users declined by 4% a year. The cessation rate in Switzerland was low, and therefore, the prevalence rate declined slowly. Our prevalence model accords with data generated by different approaches.

Interpretation The harm reduction policy of Switzerland and its emphasis on the medicalisation of the heroin problem seems to have contributed to the image of heroin as unattractive for young people. Our model could enable the study of incidence trends across different countries and thus urgently needed assessments of the effect of different drug policies.

Introduction

Switzerland has been criticised for its liberal drug policy. Specifically, the implementation of harm reduction measures, such as drug consumption rooms, needle-exchange services, low-threshold methadone programmes, and heroin-assisted treatments, have been thought to make potential users think that harm will not arise from use of illicit drugs. According to this critique, such a policy would lead to a growing number of new users of street drugs and lengthen the period of heroin addiction. Contrary to this belief, stable prevalence of heroin use since 1994 has been reported in Switzerland.

http://www.sharemation.com/Rubin/H/swiss.heroin.summary_lancet.367.1830-4_2006.html

Second we'll deal with the idea that any of this had to do with health or safety to start with. It was more control, politics. The following link is to a speech derived from The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition by Professor Richard J. Bonnie & Professor Charles H. Whitebread, II, and given by Charles Whitebread, Professor of Law, USC Law School.

It is the history of non-medical use of drugs in this nation, how and why the laws developed and when. No, he's not just some activist. He had done some research on his own that impressed the Government enough that he was a part of a team given access to government archives to research the issue. That's what he was there for. It's a bit long and reads odd at times since it was meant to be spoken instead of read, but it's a good bit of history we won't see much elsewhere. It wasn't to keep the kids safe. It was politics.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm

Is any of what we've got so far perfect? Probably not. What we do should be decided by research and trial studies, even when we are doing better than we're doing now we shouldn't stop looking. It should always be pursuit of a better method. Much of what we're considering today seems better than what we've done so far, and where they've been tried the fears of what could happen often turn out to be misplaced. If in some case they aren't we trash that method and try again, that's why we start in trial study instead of widespread use. That's how the Swiss went from needle park, a failure, to the maintenance program, a success. It's a process, not a simple "we do it this way" answer. We do what works, and if we're lucky we do it without politics or special interests getting in the way.

It has only gotten worse since Electric Company and Sesame Street. The tools they have on staff at PBS nowadays, probably only remember history back to the 50's, and their politics are akin to the fervor of fans at an American football game, or a coffee-shop in San Francisco's Castro district. Television: The Drug of the Nation, breeding ignorance, and feeding radiation......

westy, back on yer meds, dude...
boneyd, shaped Thermite charges are placed that way on supports to control the direction of the collapse. One can wrap a piece of thermite cord around a tree, and bring it down-check some structural demo play-by-plays, there are many on the web. The clean-up, and the news coverage that followed, was controlled as well.
Television: The Drug of the Nation.

Happy Halloween

"Absorbed in its world, it's so hard to find us, it shapes our minds the most;
maybe the mother of our nation should remind us, that we're sitting too close, to the
TELEVISION: The drug of the Nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.....


Would love to see this get a hundred votes-this song is more and more relevant every day that passes-would love to se veryone throw their tellies out the window, the day it all goes to high definition....
would love to see a mountain of xbox 360's, playstations,wii's,gamecubes,etc. stacked as high as the pile of shit that is in the brains of most putties WITH a TV

in choggie's ideal world, there are no fat, pasty children, whose only skills involve hand/eye coordination and eating shit, they call food.......

Is it the reflector or the director?
Does it imitate us or do we imitate it?

- The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy,
"Television, the Drug of the Nation"

(And swampgirl, if it wasn't obvious from the premise and the content, the series' creator is a card-carrying Republican. I don't think "24" has any illusions that it's much more than propaganda.)

SURE-YA WANNA LIST? Muckraldo Rivera, Orca Windfree, Ellen Degenerate, Groady O'Donald and all the broads on The View, the collective anchors of their prospective sinking ships of all the "Good Morning shows, The low-lifes and no-lifes of all the Anti-tainment shows("E", "Inside Abortion," etc.), Christine Mammonpoor of CNN, Agreegious and C-lee,
every Sheeple's Court knock-off, ....shall I go on?

"Trapped in its world, it's so hard to find us,
it shapes our minds the most;
Maybe the mother of our nation should remind us, that wer'e sitting too close, tooo the
Television,the drug of the Nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.
ok I'm Done.