Dutch Prove Legalizing Drugs Reduces Crime

Holland just closed 8 major prisons because of a lack of crime while we continue to build more prisons to house non-violent drug offenders.

Swedish Prosecutors Reopen Rape Investigation Against WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

September 01, 2010 CNN

Video of woman throwing live puppies into river sparks online outcry

(CNN) — A video apparently showing a young woman throwing live puppies into a river has sparked outrage across the Internet.

And now it has also led to an animal rights group offering a bounty for the arrest of the people behind it.

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Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds

By JOHN CLOUD John Cloud – Mon Aug 30, 6:55 am ET

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One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don’t drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as abstainers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking.

But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that – for reasons that aren’t entirely clear – abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one’s risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers’ mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers. (See pictures of booze under a microscope.)

Moderate drinking, which is defined as one to three drinks per day, is associated with the lowest mortality rates in alcohol studies. Moderate alcohol use (especially when the beverage of choice is red wine) is thought to improve heart health, circulation and sociability, which can be important because people who are isolated don’t have as many family members and friends who can notice and help treat health problems.

But why would abstaining from alcohol lead to a shorter life? It’s true that those who abstain from alcohol tend to be from lower socioeconomic classes, since drinking can be expensive. And people of lower socioeconomic status have more life stressors – job and child-care worries that might not only keep them from the bottle but also cause stress-related illnesses over long periods. (They also don’t get the stress-reducing benefits of a drink or two after work.)

But even after controlling for nearly all imaginable variables – socioeconomic status, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on – the researchers (a six-member team led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin) found that over a 20-year period, mortality rates were highest for those who had never been drinkers, second-highest for heavy drinkers and lowest for moderate drinkers. (Watch TIME’s Video “Taste Test: Beer With Extra Buzz.”)

The sample of those who were studied included individuals between ages 55 and 65 who had had any kind of outpatient care in the previous three years. The 1,824 participants were followed for 20 years. One drawback of the sample: a disproportionate number, 63%, were men. Just over 69% of the never-drinkers died during the 20 years, 60% of the heavy drinkers died and only 41% of moderate drinkers died.

These are remarkable statistics. Even though heavy drinking is associated with higher risk for cirrhosis and several types of cancer (particularly cancers in the mouth and esophagus), heavy drinkers are less likely to die than people who have never drunk. One important reason is that alcohol lubricates so many social interactions, and social interactions are vital for maintaining mental and physical health. As I pointed out last year, nondrinkers show greater signs of depression than those who allow themselves to join the party.

The authors of the new paper are careful to note that even if drinking is associated with longer life, it can be dangerous: it can impair your memory severely and it can lead to nonlethal falls and other mishaps (like, say, cheating on your spouse in a drunken haze) that can screw up your life. There’s also the dependency issue: if you become addicted to alcohol, you may spend a long time trying to get off the bottle. (Comment on this story.)

That said, the new study provides the strongest evidence yet that moderate drinking is not only fun but good for you. So make mine a double.

See the top 10 long-forgotten liquors.

Read “Why Nondrinkers May Be More Depressed.”

View this article on Time.com

Skinheads attack Russian concertgoers

A large group of alleged skinheads attacked a group of concertgoers in central Russia on Sunday.

Russian news channel, Rossiya-24, is reporting that dozens of people were attacked with clubs Sunday night at a music festival in Miass, about 1,400 kilometres east of Moscow.

The TV channel reported that at least 30 young men with shaved heads attacked the crowd.

Local police said at least 11 people were injured and had to be hospitalized. At least 14 ambulances were reportedly sent to the science.

There are conflicting reports on fatalities, with some local media reporting that a 14-year-old girl died.

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Obama’s Taxpayer Funded Global Eugenic Initiative Will Focus on World Pregnancy Control

Anytime you hear the Global Elite talk about birth control it means Eugenics!
The same for super rich types like Gates and Buffet who ‘donate’ Billions for
Vaccines.

Plan Parenthood through the UN ‘encourages’ foreign governments to adopt birth control laws through a carrot and stick method of linking future aid to compliance.
This is what Mrs Clinton meant by ecouragement.

Targeting aborton of blacks and other races that are ‘less farvourable’ and providing suspect vaccines to developing countries goes back to Darwin (check the full title of his spieces book), and is part of the Global elites eugencis plan to bring the world population to under 1/2 Billion as stated on the Georgia Guidestones.

And guess what YOUR PAYING FOR IT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!

Osama bin Laden, a CIA agent, says Fidel Castro

Havana, Aug 29: Former Cuban President and Communist leader Fidel Castro told that the al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden was a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent.

Castro also told that the recent releases by WikiLeaks suggest that the Osama bin Laden was a CIA agent who always popped up when former US President George W Bush needed to scare the world.

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Ottawa a terrorist target

OTTAWA — Ottawa was one potential target of an alleged terrorist bombing plot involving at least three Muslim men in an al-Qaida-linked cell that was just months away from carrying out attacks, police said Thursday.

At the same time, money was being raised locally to fund attacks against Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, police revealed at a press conference.

“This group posed a real and serious threat to citizens of the National Capital Region and Canada’s national security,” said RCMP Chief Supt. Serge Therriault. “Our criminal investigation and arrests prevented the assembly of any bombs and the terrorist attacks from being carried out.”

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Inside Job? Iraqi govt ‘involved in deadly bombings to get US troops to stay’

More than 40 people have been killed in a string of bombings that have rocked Iraq. In Baghdad alone, over 20 bombs exploded in at least 12 separate incidents. Today’s bombings are raising questions the Iraqi government’s ability to deal with an ongoing insurgency. Sabah Al-Mukhtar from the Arab Lawyers Association says the bombings may actually be the Iraqi government’s way to get US troops to stay…

New Case of Civilian Killings Investigated in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — A team of investigators from the American-led forces here headed to a volatile corner of northeast Afghanistan on Tuesday after local officials reported that a nighttime raid by NATO commandos there had left eight civilians dead and 12 wounded.

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