Dolphin: Marijuana Blocks PTSD Symptoms in Rats

Marijuana blocks PTSD symptoms in rats: study (AFP) – 21 September 2011 JERUSALEM — Marijuana administered in a timely fashion could block the development of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in rats, a new study conducted at Haifa University has found. The study, which was conducted by researchers at the university’s psychology department and published in …

John Robb: China’s Growing Spy Threat + China RECAP

China’s Growing Spy Threat Alex Newman The Diplomat, 19 September 2011 The Chinese government’s ‘vacuum cleaner’ approach to espionage is worrying foreign governments, companies and overseas dissidents. They’re right to be concerned. Read 5 screen article. Phi Beta Iota:  China graduates more honors students from high school than the USA graduates from high school across …

Mini-Me: Twitter Censors #OccupyWallStreet

AmpedStatus))) Knowledge is Power #TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice On at least two occasions, Saturday September 17th and again on Thursday night, Twitter blocked #OccupyWallStreet from being featured as a top trending topic on their homepage. On both occasions, #OccupyWallStreet tweets were coming in more frequently than other top trending topics that …

Howard Rheingold: News Filters for the Future – Technical Services or Human Networks?

Everyone wants to be a news filter now Mathew Ingram Gigaom.com, 21 September 2011 As the avalanche of information coming through social networks and real-time tools like Twitter continues to grow, the need for filters to make sense of that tsunami of data also increases, and it seems as though everyone has a different way of …

Graphic: Blog Breakdown

Source Tip of the Hat to Mini-Me, who also points out that this is consistent with the findings on the myth of digital democracy, and the cry from the heart of George Soros on “The Enlightenment Fallacy.”  The fact that it also resembles the US Intelligence Community is a mere sidenote. See Also: Graphic (3): …

Robert Steele: US Day of Rage = Electoral Reform & Integrity Plus General RECAP on Purple Public & Third Party Rising

I’ve been driving the 1964 MGB (my last remaining possession, it needs $5,000 of underbody work to survive the winter) around New England and am in New York now.  I’ve been following the US Day of Rage plans (they were also announced here) but have been surprised to find a number of normally intelligent middle-class …