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Widely prescribed anti-psychotic drugs do not help most Alzheimer's patients with delusions and aggression and are not worth the risk of sudden death and other side effects, the first major study on sufferers outside nursing homes concludes. The finding could increase the burden on families struggling to care for relatives with the mind-robbing disease at home. "These medications are not the answer," said Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, which paid for the study. He said better medications are at least several years away. Three-fourths of the 4.5 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease develop aggression,...

Terrified drug dealers committed a serious error by calling police for help with their hallucinations. A group of friends were partying on drugs when they saw a group of tiny, white men coming up out of the fjord. This terrified them so much they rang police to ask for protection, newspaper Bergensavisen reports. Police responded to the call from a cabin in Fusa. They found no little white men, but rather three confused Bergen residents and a pile of drugs. Police also found the three-year-old daughter of the woman present at the Fusa party, so child services was called and...

Friday, February 04, 2005 Hallucinatory Neurophysics Everyone knows what it's like to experience the hallucinations that accompany certain kinds of drug use (among other mind-altering contexts) -- if not from direct experience, at least from depictions in movies and literature. We've seen the colorful, swirling patterns, or the illusory tunnels stretching before us. It turns out that hallucinations are by no means random; there are certain recurrent patterns reported by people who experience them. These patterns were studied by Heinrich Kluever in the 1920's and 30's, and classified into four different structures: spirals, spokes, honeycombs, and cobwebs. Subsequent work has...

The following are excerpts from an interview with Yemeni Professor Ahmad Muhammad Al-'Ajal on Yemen TV that aired on January 13, 2005 Al-'Ajal: As for the issue of child abduction in places hit by the earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia this is what the organizations of global Zionism are accustomed to, and this is what they do. But it is done in secret. They commit a crime and then place the blame on the Arab and Islamic nation. Of course, the capital of many of the companies that invested there belongs to Zionist companies. Now they are playing a...

Okay I guess that indymedia is not wanted? so i will not post all of it, I have never heard of the site and apparently it is a troll haven so view it at your own risk. you can check my registration date i am not a troll. "George W. Bush apparently is wearing a medical device for "persons at risk of cardiac arrest." It is a LifeVest wearable defibrillator. He started using it sometime after his January 2002 fainting spell, which was attributed to choking. Based on photos showing him wearing the device, one can conclude the fainting was...

Posted tonight 11/30 >>WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS, I GUARANTEE YOU.... Kerry will be in the White House as long as we keep up the pace we have been at the last few weeks. We need to keep the emails going, keep the protests going...as long as we do this more and more leaders will fall in line as they see the movement grow. I can't say this enough: 1) Protest, Protest, Protest If you have time to attend any protest in your area, DO IT. Get out there. Especially in Ohio and Florida. We did one in CO...

Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish. But you should hear what he's saying in private. Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity. His prediction: America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic ``armageddon.'' Press were not allowed into the meetings. But the Herald has obtained a copy of Roach's presentation. A stunned source who was at one meeting said, ``it struck me how extreme he was - much more, it seemed to me, than in public.''...

Posted on Wed, Sep. 22, 2004 IraqThe candidates offer different visions With six weeks left before Americans choose a president, the war in Iraq has emerged as the overriding campaign issue.The two candidates laid out starkly different views of the war this week in back-to-back speeches -- and offered voters a clear choice.Sen. John Kerry, speaking Monday at New York University, said clearly -- for the first time -- that, knowing what we know now (no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, no ties with al-Qaida), he would not have waged a war to topple Saddam Hussein. "We have traded...

TACOMA, Wash. -- A veteran reporter for The News Tribune of Tacoma resigned after editors questioned whether sources quoted in some of his stories existed. Bart Ripp resigned two weeks ago, the newspaper said. He had been a journalist for 32 years, the past 15 with The News Tribune as a feature writer, historian and restaurant critic.

Today, January 27th 2004, the world as we know it changed. NASA's Mars rover "Opportunity" sent back to earth near absolute proof of life on mars . . . life of a form NOBODY ever expected. It would be monumental if the rovers geological tools and microscopic cameras sent back evidence of primitive life . . . and they may indeed do just that. But we do not have to wait. "Proof" is right there in panoramic photos received today . . . . DUCKS . . . GIANT MONSTER DUCKS ROME THE SURFACE OF MARS!!! . . . Either...