Tantra-Induced Delusional Syndrome ("TIDS")

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http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/07/23/48617.htm

VA Must Disclose Veteran Drug Test Documents

By ANNIE YOUDERIAN

(CN) - Veterans won another court order requiring the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to hand over more documents about its Cold War-era drug experiments on thousands of Vietnam veterans.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in Oakland, Calif., said the documents requested were "squarely relevant" to the claim that the government failed to adequately notify veterans of the chemicals they were exposed to and what that exposure might do to their health.

The Army and the CIA, with the help of Nazi scientists, used at least 7,800 veterans as human guinea pigs for testing the effects of up to 400 types of drugs and chemicals, including mescaline, LSD, amphetamines, barbituates, mustard gas and nerve agents, the Vietnam Veterans of America and individual soldiers claim in a 2009 class action.

The government covered up the true nature of its experiments, which began in the 1950s under code names such as "Bluebird," "Artichoke" and "MKUltra."

In "Project Paperclip," the Army and CIA allegedly recruited Nazi scientists to help test various psychochemicals and develop a new truth serum using its own veterans as test subjects.

"Over half of these Nazi recruits had been members of the SS or Nazi Party," according to the class action. "The 'Paperclip' name was chosen because so many of the employment applications were clipped to immigration papers."

Veterans say the government was trying to develop and test substances that could trigger mind control, confusion, euphoria, altered personality, unconsciousness, physical paralysis, illogical thinking and mania, among other effects.

The experiments in Army compounds at Edgewood Arsenal and Fort Detrick, Md., left many veterans with debilitating health problems for decades. Veterans say the government has since refused to provide proper medical care.

In their latest bid for disclosure, the Vietnam Veterans of America sought documents revealing the VA's processes of identifying and notifying soldiers who were potentially exposed during the chemical and biological tests.

The department claimed the documents were shielded by the deliberative process privilege, which protects the decision-making processes of government agencies.

As in previous rulings, Corley ordered the VA to turn over most of the documents requested. She said the privilege either did not apply to the documents sought, or the veterans "have demonstrated a sufficient substantial need to overcome the qualified deliberative process privilege."

Corley rejected the VA's claim that the plaintiffs already have "an abundance of information and documents" about its notification and verification processes.

"The Court agrees that considerable discovery has been provided on this subject; however, having reviewed the thousands of pages of documents submitted for in camera review, the Court notes that these processes are far from clear or consistent, and in fact, seem to have undergone numerous modifications over time," Corley wrote (italics in original).

She ordered the VA to disclose more than 40 documents, which she deemed "both relevant and unavailable from other sources given that the documents reflect processes which have evolved over time."

However, Corley ruled that the VA need not reimburse the plaintiffs for the costs of resuming two depositions.

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"You’re right. I am crazy. But you know what else? I don’t give a fuck."

-Tupac Shakur

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Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.

— David R. Hawkins

[Hammer of Los]

...

That is Agape in its purest form.

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nothing stays the same. the humyn condition is fluid. moving like the ebb and flow of the sea….this is how we get to revolution. how we build love and liberation….this is how we decide what dances us through the rising tides and what we can wash into the ocean without….

-moon

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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.

— Audre Lorde

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[my experiments with truth]

it’s true that i am a muddle of contradictions
and a palette of contrasting colors
it’s true that all the history i learned up to age eighteen was bullshit
just like the rest of my wonder years of education
it’s true it’s easier for me to lie than be vulnerable
and break hearts than be heartbroken
it’s true shadows from my childhood still haunt me
and present themselves in the worst of nightmares
it’s true my pride gets in the way…sometimes
and i struggle with ridding ego
it’s true my body has been bruised and swollen
by hands i should have been able to trust
it’s true i’ve been beaten into submission
and learned at seven, the police aren’t not there to help
unless you fit onto a very narrow list of privilege
it’s true i have gotten by on my whiteness
and for years, didn’t even notice
but learned how to check
and deconstruct
…still learning
it’s true i am a product of capitailist conditioning
and a commodity of labour
it’s true i had breasts when i was eight
and my period when i was eleven
and suffered the consequences of both
it’s true i have fallen in love
a few times
most of which have ended badly
but i grew
evolved
it’s true art has the strength
to move mountains
and we have more power than we think
it’s true i am a communist
a warrior artist
for the revolution
it’s true my vagina is a temple
and will never again be treated as anything but sacred
it’s true i like to fuck loudly
and be on top
it’s true i have seen other dimensions
riding on caps and stems
it’s true i’ve walked on rain drops
and danced with the wind
it’s true i like to smoke that green
and lay under city stars
wishing i was a crater on the moon
it’s true i’ve pimped the system
and so should you
it’s true i feel the spirits
of the barefoot gypsies in my family line
who fought to not leave their home for false promises in amerikkka
with the blood of resistance running through my veins
it’s true i love womyn
so profoundly words have yet to be invented
it’s true i admire my mother
because the truth is, she tried her best
with what this society allows for a sweet womyn stripped of self-esteem
it’s true community is everything
and i surround myself with the best
spaces that make magic happen
on the regular
it’s true we survive more than we live
and the people have the right to bash back
and it’s true we can get free
and settle these contradictions
-moon ☭





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kush and wine



in a world where you clock in to clock out

where wages fall and business moves

where schools close to make pig stations

where you can’t walk down the street without intrusion

where you have to check over your shoulder

and carry a knife

in a world where the people are starving

and banks flourish off the carcasses of the working class

where we don’t have time to read

because rent is due

where we don’t have time to live

because we’re too busy trying to survive

in a world where the innocent are massacred for the crime of skin

and in the name of profit

where little girls fear men and hide in shadows

where children are not people

and womyn are not worthy

in a world where the color is white

and it’s best to have a dick

where they fear our power

and fight full force

in a world where art is stifled

and there isn’t enough sun touching the daisies

some days…

some days we need to lay in bed and fuck

letting the light hit our backs

light the paper

and burn slow…

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Only the strong go crazy.

The weak just go along.

— | Assata Shakur

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An amazing best/worst of Right Wing Watch video compilation
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‘A Polished Shaft’: The most insane and ironic video clip of Pastor Jack Schaap you will ever see

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