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"As the pamphlet Elderly Abuse, Cruel Mental Health Programs, a public service report from Citizens Commission on human rights states, "What is the sense of prescribing a senior citizen a tranquilizer that is more lethal and harder to withdraw from than heroin, one that leads to a 45% increase in the risk of having a car accident within seven days of taking it? Why give them an antidepressant that could increase the risk of their falling by 80%, or could cause them to become agitated or aggressive or even suicidal?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"As she explains, she "became a human rights activist, knowing first hand that when an innocent, harmless person gets behid those walls under psychiatric care, nothing they say is taken seriously. Everything is considered an illness." As founder of Citizens Rescuing Youth, Everett was one of many people organizing against Goal 2000, a law signed into effect by President Clinton. This law actually mandates that a mental health clinic be established in every school. Among her concerns were that everything was being labeled as a mental illness?" - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "The Citizens Commission on human rights reports that a review of US school shootings from 1998 to 2007 indicates that 38 percent of the perpetrators were taking psychiatric drugs. In Columbine, Colorado, Eric Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox when he and Dylan Klebold killed twelve classmates and a teacher, wounded twenty-three others, and killed themselves. Six years later, in 2005, Jeff Weise was taking Prozac when he shot and killed nine people before committing suicide." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Citizens Committee on human rights 6362 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite B Los Angeles CA 90028 Tel: (727) 723-2176 AUBREY M. WORRELL, JR., M.D., is a board-certified allergist/immunologist with special interests in clinical ecology, environmental medicine, and nutrition. RAY C. WUNDERLICH, JR., M.D., is a graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He practices nutritional and preventive medicine. 8821 MLK Street North St. Petersburg FL Tel: (727) 822-3612 JOSE A. YARYURA-TOBIAS, M.D., is the medical director at the Institute for Bio-Behavioral Therapy and Research." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Dennis Clarke, chair of the Executive Advisory Board of the Citizen's Commission on human rights, expands our understand of drug-induced violence to include some well known mass murderers. "In Austin, Texas in 1966, Charles Whitman went up into the Texas Tower, the first school shooting in the United States. Forty-eight hours later, the FBI held a press conference and said no drugs were found in Whitman's body. This is the same report that we got on the incident at Columbine High School with Eric Harris. No drugs were found in the body." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Their human rights violations became legion. For decades, United Fruit resolved labor disputes with armed confrontations. Using brute force as their main negotiating tactic, representatives of the United Fruit Company opened fire on striking workers in the Santa Marta Massacre of Colombia. Their "Great White Fleet" was used in the world wars to transport soldiers and supplies. They funded the Bay of Pigs invasion to protest Castro's nationalization of plantations. They engaged the Hon-duran army to bulldoze villages to make way for processing plants and banana fields. They were caught by the U." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Robert MULLER film actor/director educator/activist Sir Peter USTINOV+ Gillo PONTECORVO actor/writer/director film director Vigdis FINNBOGADOTTIR Jean-Pierre RAMPAL+ political leader musician Richard von WEIZSACKER Mary ROBINSON statesman political and human rights leader Dr. Elie WIESEL Mstislav ROSTROPOVICH writer/Nobel Peace laureate orchestra director Betty WILLIAMS Sir Josef ROTBLAT+ activist/Nobel Peace laureate scientist/activist/Nobel Peace Dr." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "And in November 2004, the same group of laureates declared, "Only by reaffirming our shared ethical values—respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms?and by observing democratic principles, within and amongst countries, can terrorism be defeated. We must address the root causes of terrorism—poverty, ignorance and injustice—rather than responding to violence with violence." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"These principles also have to be broadened to include consideration of how megadisasters infringe on human rights. Some works have been published on impact of disasters on human rights.44 These warrant further efforts. Collaboration among human rights organizations, disaster relief organizations such as the Red Cross, and forward-looking organizations such as the Foresight Institute, the World Future Society, and the Union of Concerned Scientists might start us on the path to defining such a transhuman rights movement." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) "One candidate is the human rights movement, which is effective at combining practical goals with fundamental principles. Yet human rights principles also have to evolve to encompass the rights of artificially intelligent machines. The nongovernmental organizations are best positioned to begin thinking about this. These principles also have to be broadened to include consideration of how megadisasters infringe on human rights. Some works have been published on impact of disasters on human rights.44 These warrant further efforts." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"Steroids, famous for enhancing athletic 116 "Elderly Abuse, Cruel Mental Health Programs," Citizens Commission on human rights, 2004 117 Ibid. 118 Ibid. 119 Akathisia is a movement disorder characterized by a feeling of inner restlessness and a compulsion to be in constant motion. Often a side effect of certain drugs. 120 Reported by Japanese researchers in The Lancet, the Journal of the British Medical Association in 1998. performances, are also prescribed for arthritis, kidney conditions and other uses. Warfarin is designed to keep blood from clotting." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Francis had also become so well-known for his passion for human rights that the Harvard University Carr Center for human rights Policy accepted him as an intern during the summer. He was the only high school student selected. After Harvard, Francis went to Saint Lawrence University where he studied government and business. His freshman year flew by, and before we knew it he was home for the summer. The first week or two Francis was unusually tense. Finally he started talking about how coming home brought back all the memories and reawakened his unresolved anger." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Recently, the Times of London reported on "legal challenges using the human rights Act to defend the right to life . . . Laurence Oates, the Official Solicitor, is expected to argue on behalf of two brain-damaged clients that withdrawing their feeding via tubes breaches their right to life which is guaranteed under the European Convention on human rights."25 Singer supports his medical-ethical proposals by pretending that the new concept of brain death has displaced, or is about to displace, the old concept of organismic death. This is not true." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"One such organization is MindFreedom International, which unites one hundred grassroots groups and several thousand members to, as it puts it, "win campaigns for human rights of people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities. . . . Where mutual support meets human rights activism . . . and where democracy meets the mental health system." Even among those survivors resigned to less than a joyous existence, they reject the idea of having less than a meaningful life. That's why many of them speak out—especially against forced treatments." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Francis had also become so well-known for his passion for human rights that the Harvard University Carr Center for human rights Policy accepted him as an intern during the summer. He was the only high school student selected. After Harvard, Francis went to Saint Lawrence University where he studied government and business. His freshman year flew by, and before we knew it he was home for the summer. The first week or two Francis was unusually tense. Finally he started talking about how coming home brought back all the memories and reawakened his unresolved anger." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Harming Youth, Psychiatry Destroys Young Minds," Citizens Commission on human rights, 2004 164 Vicodin is indicated for the relief of moderate to moderately severe pain. 165 OxyContin is in a class of drugs called narcotic analgesics. It is a pain reliever. 166 http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/children/articles/2003/08/20/ most_ drugsnevertestedforsafetyinchildren/ 167 http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/joumals/mdd/v07/i03/pdf/304rules.pdf We didn't talk about the under-dosing, overdosing and ineffectiveness of many drugs given to our children." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, since utilitarian calculations are impossibly difficult to perform, whereas analysing a situation in terms of human rights is often feasible, it may be worth using a 'human rights' analysis in preference to any specific theory of what the happiness implications of a particular action are. If all this were true, it could be that the concept of 'human rights' is not expressible, even in principle, in terms of 'happiness' - that it is not a utilitarian concept at all. We may call it a moral concept." - David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications (Get the book.)

"This study came out of the House Subcommittee on human rights and Wellness. The results showed calcium supplements could prevent 734,000 hip fractures in the 65-and-over ages, which could save $13.9 billion. The use of folic acid could prevent neural tube birth defects and save $11.3 billion in lifetime costs by preventing around 3,000 of these birth defects. These are only two of all the very important supplements our bodies need each and every day to stay healthy. Just think what could happen if we started using more supplements! Dr." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Where mutual support meets human rights activism . . . and where democracy meets the mental health system." Even among those survivors resigned to less than a joyous existence, they reject the idea of having less than a meaningful life. That's why many of them speak out—especially against forced treatments. The medical profession, with some outstanding individual exceptions, has had no great history in Western society of standing in opposition to totalitarianism and dehumanization." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"In our discussion above we saw how the values of traditionalism provide a new vision of right and wrong, and how the values of modernism provide a new vision of the material universe and human rights, and now with postmodern consciousness we can also see how its emerging values provide a new kind of perception. Postmodern consciousness sees with fresh eyes the value of what had been previously ignored or discarded in modernism's advance." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"The fact that the Nazi public health ethic demanded not only respect for the health of the greatest numbers (of Aryans) but also for the health of animals (except "bugs") illustrates the connections between the love of pharmacracy and animal rights, on one hand, and the loathing of human rights and the lives of imperfect persons, on the other hand, as the writings of bioethicist Peter Singer illustrate." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Her traditional traje (clothing), a red and blue woven huipil (blouse) and black cortes (skirt), made a strong statement as she accompanied me to register as an observer at the modern downtown office of the Ombudsman for human rights. Our timing was good; the ombudsman was wounded the next day by right-wing gunmen. Pressing my new credentials into my hand, Roberta wished me luck in Solola, the department capital for the Atitlan region where I would be working." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"An integral world federation would have the authority to protect human rights and the world's environment, inaugurating the kinds of safeguards that are currently impossible in a world of competing nation-states. It will almost always be morally illegitimate for one sovereign country to attack or dominate another sovereign country, regardless of the context." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"For example, it might explain on epistemological grounds why respect for human rights can be expected to promote the growth of knowledge, which is itself a precondition for solving moral problems. If the explanation seems good, it might be worth adopting such a theory. Furthermore, since utilitarian calculations are impossibly difficult to perform, whereas analysing a situation in terms of human rights is often feasible, it may be worth using a 'human rights' analysis in preference to any specific theory of what the happiness implications of a particular action are." - David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications (Get the book.)

"I continued to provide free legal work to indigenous peoples in the areas of environmental protection and human rights. Word-of-mouth among those communities brought me meaningful opportunities for service and adventure in several countries. In 1987 I gave a lecture at the University of Rhode Island on the many causes of rain-forest destruction. Afterward I was approached by Professor David Abedon. He asked me if I could talk to a friend of his who had a coffee shop and who wanted to create an organization to help coffee farmers." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Within hours, one father was in school threatening the headteacher with (a) violence and (b) a trip to the European Court of human rights if he didn't reinstate his daughter's right to eat junk. But schools in poorer areas of the USA and UK, where healthy eating campaigns have been successful, report considerable improvements in children's behaviour. It seems the best way to make a real change in the eating habits of under-privileged children would be for the government or individual schools to be heavy-handed about school meals." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Similarly, many of those with a postmodern worldview may be persuaded into seeing the wisdom of global governance because of the obvious benefits for human rights, the environment, and other postmodern concerns. But we can, of course, expect that very few of those with a traditionalist worldview will ever be convinced about the desirability of a world federation." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "Constitution's Bill of Rights keeps the subordinate governments its constituent states from discriminating against their citizens, so too would a universal bill of human rights act as a safeguard that would allow more control to be invested in smaller, regional political entities." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"We can be responsible travelers by minimizing our impact on a community's environment, building environmental and cultural awareness and respect, contributing financially to conservation and to local people, and supporting human rights and labor agreements. Whereas ecotourism is restricted to travel to natural areas, sustainable tourism applies these social, environmental, and economic considerations to all areas of tourism. Sustainable tourism could mean reducing water usage at a large hotel." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"From "Arbeit macht frei" to "Codex Alimentarius" Just fifteen years after they were convicted in the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, Bayer, BASF and Hoechst were again the architects of the next major human rights offences. In 1962, they established the Codex Alimentarius Commission. This dark period of German history is inextricably bound to one man, Fritz ter Meer: He was a member of the Managing Board of IG Farben from its inception to its dissolution. As the Wartime Manager, he was responsible for IG Auschwitz." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

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