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"By now, the idealist was really getting wound up: "From now on, the order for every Peronista, alone or in a group, is to respond to an act of violence with another act of violence. And whenever one of us falls, five of them will fall."23 Soon, he had gone too far. He was inciting his prole followers to mob violence—the very thing the military most feared. The army rose up against him. On September 16, 1955, the Cordoba garrison broke out in open revolt. Navy warships blockaded Buenos Aires and threatened to blow up the oil refineries on the Rio Plata." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"CSF serotonin metabolite (5-HIAA) studies in depression, impulsivity, and violence. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1990. 51(4 [suppl.]): 31-41. 24- Virkkunen, M., M.D., Brain serotonin, type II alcoholism and impulsive violence. Journal of the Study of Alcoholism, 1993. ll(suppl.):163-69. 25. Hrdina, R, et al, Serotonergic markers in platelets of patients with major depression: Upregulation of 5-HT2 receptors. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 1995. 20(l)(Jan.):ll-19. 26. Wurtman, R. J., and ]. ]. Wurtman, Brain serotonin, carbohydrate-craving, obesity, and depression." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"Would the murder rate decrease, perhaps because violence would no longer beget violence. Maybe, as conservatives maintain, it would increase with the loss of deterrent punishment? Maybe the rate would remain unchanged, arguably because there is little connection between state and individual action. Each of these possibilities could be considered with theoretical and analytical care, with special consideration given to comparative-historical designs. What if cigarette sale and consumption were made illegal?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"And on the other hand, if the hero, instead of submitting to all of the initiatory tests, has, like Prometheus, simply darted to his goal (by violence, quick device, or luck) and plucked the boon for the world that he intended, then the powers that he has unbalanced may react so sharply that he will be blasted from within and without—crucified, like Prometheus, on the rock of his own violated unconscious." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"This damage contributes to increasing crime, vandalism, violence, terrorism (sanctioned as well as unsanctioned), militarization, war, drug abuse (legal as well as illegal), police harassment, divorce . . . and on and on. Stress can also have negative effects on our environment. Eighty percent of accidents are caused by "human error," and the more stressed a person is, the more prone they are to error. And the consequences of human error in a nuclear power station, a chemical plant, or a tanker full of crude oil are familiar to us all." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"In the span of one school year, the students' fitness levels improved dramatically, and counselors reported that the number of incidents involving violence at Woodland decreased from 228 to 95 for the year. For an inner-city school to go through such a rapid transformation, and for such a depressed town as Titusville to come alive as it has, is remarkable. McCord's community rallies around the Stephanies of the world rather than just the football team, and as the schoolchildren grow up, a larger percentage will continue to move and be active." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Is it possible, for example, that the state, which after all has (and must by definition have) exclusive rights to the legitimate use of violence, could not even exist without a criminal justice system? Or what about disappearing the institution of medicine—the subject of this book. In posing such questions, social scientists are really engaging in "thought experiments," without the label and, as a consequence, without theoretical or methodological rigor. In considering the use of thought experiments in sociology, we are doing nothing more than taking method seriously." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "The protagonist, Tony, was a Mafia boss who on occasion murdered people—with considerable violence and little remorse. He had normal (which is to say problematic) relations with his teenage children. He loved his wife, though regularly cheated on her. He also—here the plot thickened—was being treated by a psychoanalyst. What was Tony's problem? Was he a psychopathic personality or merely narcissistic? Perhaps "depression" was a more appropriate diagnosis. Were his fainting episodes an expression of panic disorder?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Combined with widespread popular fear of 'foreign' competition for jobs, these convictions and anxieties could easily erupt into violence against the most visible ethnic groups or enclaves—like the Chinese and Chinatowns. A rash of anti-immigration measures broke out across the destination countries of the West at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, affecting Chinese and Japanese migration particularly harshly." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "Fit of the Gout, to take a small quantity of it, and form it into a figure, broad at the bottom as a two-pence, and pointed at the top; To set the bottom exactly upon the place where the violence of the pain was fixed, then with a small round perfumed Match ..." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"It also has been associated with a number of negative psychiatric side effects (including violence and aggression, thought to be related to disinhibition), especially in the elderly, for which it received bad publicity and due to which it fell out of favor. Other benzodiazepine medications that are longer acting and that are still sometimes used in the treatment of insomnia include oxazepam (Serax), lorazepam (Ativan), chlordiazepoxide (Librium), clorazepate (Tranxene), halazepam (Paxipam), prazepam (Centrax), quazepam (Doral), estazolam (Prosom), diazepam (Valium), and flurazepam (Dalmane)." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"I have not done violence to any man. ... I have not committed theft. ... I have not slain man or woman. . . ." The book concludes with addresses of praise of the gods, and then: the "Chapter of Living Nigh unto Re," the "Chapter of Causing a Man to Come Back to See his House upon Earth," the "Chapter of Making Perfect the Soul," and the "Chapter of Sailing in the Great Sun-Boat of Re." 7 7 Based on the translation by E. A. W. Budge: The Book of the Dead, The Papyrus of Ani, Scribe and Treasurer of the Temples of Egypt, about b.c. 1450 (New York, 1913)." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"In fact, her investigation into a wide range of popular, teen-rated games found that "players were being rewarded for committing acts of violence. So, basically, violence becomes just a part of how you move on in the game." THE INDUSTRY SPEAKS Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, which represents the video gaming industry, calls the new review "little more than a rehash of old papers repackaged as 'new findings.'" We do know that when it comes to kids and games, learning happens. So you really have to ask, just what is it they are learning?" - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"In Constantinople, the road that led from formal debate to sloganeering to abusing officials to street violence was a short one. By the time of Justin's accession, the Blues and Greens each had shock troops, called Partisans, who resembled nothing so much as modern urban street gangs. They sold contraband, extorted money from merchants, vandalized the city, and raped women. The Partisans wore color-coded uniforms consisting of short blue or green coats, in the style of the Huns, rather than more modest Constantinopolitan tunics." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Incestuous libido and patricidal destrudo are thence reflected back against the individual and his society in forms suggesting threats of violence and fancied dangerous delight—not only as ogres but also as sirens of mysteriously seductive, nostalgic beauty. The Russian peasants know, for example, of the "Wild Women" of the woods who have their abode in mountain caverns where they maintain households, like human beings. They are handsome females, with fine square heads, abundant tresses, and hairy bodies." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Roderick Warren, a research fellow in diabetes at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, said he thought it was very unlikely that violence or aggression was related to the insulin treatment. Aventis said side effects, such as violence, aggressive behavior, joint problems, and feeling unwell could be associated with low blood-sugar levels. This was a symptom of diabetes, not the drug. Mark's Account From: Mark, Sunday, 27 February 2000 Hello. I found your sight [sic] fascinating..." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Some of the greatest Maya cities dissolved in violence and social revolution within a few generations. Atmospheric circulation changes far from the Maya homeland delivered the coup de grace to rulers no longer able to control their own destinies because they had exhausted their environmental options in an endless quest for power and prestige. The survivors of the disaster did what the Anasazi Indians of the American Southwest did two centuries later during another catastrophic drought. They dispersed into small, self-sustaining villages where their descendants live to this day." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Deaths due to violence and car accidents were not included in the data.) The low ranking of Americans' health reported in this article was so disparate from what I had believed that I started to look for other sources of comparative data to see if this was right. An extensive comparison of the health of the citizens of industrialized countries done by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) confirmed the conclusions presented in Dr. Starfield's article." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Because these nations had embraced violence against their own citizens as a matter of national policy and law, turning to the law to provide redress against this violence made no sense. If persons in charge of major firms today learn that chemicals their workers are using will shorten their lives, and they fail to act on this knowledge, are these actions no less morally wrong than those of the South African leaders, Nazi supremacists or Japanese imperialists?" - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"There's certainly a violence and desperation to the produce industry. While in Shanghai's enormous wholesale fruit market, I was accosted by a young pineapple wholesaler from Hainan Province. "Fruit is a dangerous business," he said. He didn't believe I was a journalist, and was convinced that I was there as a fruit importer. He gave me a piece of cardboard with his contact info on it: "Pay attention to me!" he wrote at the top of the card. "Remember me," he yelled out as I was leaving. "Introduce me!" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"A tendency to violence has been reported in 1 out of 16 SSRI users • In 70% of all murder/suicides involving women and children, the women were on SSRIs The Columbine Tragedy, et al • Specialized testing during the autopsy of Eric Harris, one of the Colombine shooters, showed "therapeutic" levels of an SSRI in his blood. In addition, he was also taking cough syrup." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Many of the symptoms that children are medicated for are more appropriately dealt with by treating the root causes, such as childhood abuse and other traumas, lack of appropriate two-family parenting, lack of supervision, lack of role models, exposure to violence in the schools, and the failure of social service agencies to appropriately provide for these children. Diet and Behavior The topic of children and nutrition is a huge one that is beyond the scope of this book. I urge you to seek out credible nutritional information if you have a child, particularly one who has behavior problems." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Calling them "cells that read minds," the Times seems to think there is little they are not capable of: "Mirror neurons reveal how children learn, why people respond to certain types of sports, dance, music and art, why watching media violence may be harmful, and why many men like pornography."34 The delivery of this information is unprecedented and relentless." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"TV programming is filled with more sex, violence, death, destruction and humiliation than ever before in its history and it's getting worse. As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has expanded the foundation of what is acceptable for the airwaves, TV networks have pushed the envelope on language, nudity and violence. Since these things had long been TV taboo, small tastes left us hungry for more. The more they feed us, the more we watch. The more we watch, the higher the ratings for the networks. The higher the ratings, the more advertisers pay to manipulate the masses." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"In both cases the ego is afraid of being damaged—in the latter case by the libido and in the former by external violence.27 By the time the war ended, the Freudian perspective on speaking bodies was no longer—at least in the eyes of some—just about sex and fantasy. Bodies that speak with a German accent And it would soon no longer be just about the hysterical body either. By the 1920s, Freud himself had become less interested in hysteria and more interested in the unconscious roots of more transparently "mental" disorders like anxiety and obsession." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Creating incoherence through unnecessary aggression, violence, and irrational fragmentation and polarization is a uniquely human trait. It is not part of the nature of other entities: nonhu-man species are generally coherent, and the behavior of their members is instinctively oriented toward maintaining or improving community and species' coherence. As we have seen, higher apes clearly manifest instinctive behavior that promotes the integrity and well-being, and hence the coherence, of their groups, tribes, and communities." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Applied to today's world, this would be disastrous: • There is deepening insecurity in countries both rich and poor and greater propensity in many parts of the world to resort to terrorism, war, and other forms of violence. • Islamic fundamentalism is spreading throughout the Muslim world, neo-Nazi and other extremist movements are surfacing in Europe, and religious fanaticism is appearing the world over." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "States to avoid cooperation and mutual accommodation, the tendency of national States (or factions within national States) to use war (and otherwise unspeakably dark-minded violence) as a method for achieving the goals of national and otherwise culturally idealized policies ..." The list could be continued; it is long and somber. As we have seen, this scenario of business as usual leads to a dead end. Other species went toward and into extinction through little or no fault of their own: the environment around them changed, or other species invaded their niche." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.) "Depending on the evolution of the dominant civilization, society either breaks down in violence and chaos or breaks through to a more adapted sustainable civilization. This four-phase process is the reality of the world we live in. Two of the phases are behind us, and the last phase is ahead of us. We live in the third phase: the critical phase of a societal bifurcation. The challenge is not to enter phase 4(a), the breakdown phase, but phase 4(b), the breakthrough phase (fig. 7)." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

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