Thursday, March 6, 2008
Asylum Song
Footage from the inside and the outside of Northampton State Hospital.
"Follow me here..." 1856.org, Anna Schuleit's Northampton State Hospital project
Canada: $110 Million for a STUDY on the Homeless
$110,000,000 will pass from one branch of the government to a sub-branch which answers to no one.
$110,000,000 - not for housing, or medical care, or clothing, or food... for a study.
Which does not know how to find its subjects and does not seem to have a methodology.
link
$110,000,000 - not for housing, or medical care, or clothing, or food... for a study.
Which does not know how to find its subjects and does not seem to have a methodology.
link
Naomi Klein: The Commericalization of War - and mental health care
Image of electroshock (ECT) treatment from the 1950's. A single ECT treatment lasting seconds may give a doctor a fee over a thousand dollars - and leave the patient with permanent intellectual damage.
Naomi Klein video at The Guardian
The Shock Doctrine. When we or family members are ill, we may be misled, take bad advice and pay more for treatments than we would if we were well-informed.
Dubai may not save Sir Win Bischoff's CitiBank
With apologies to Richard Brazier
When we think of Sir Win Bischoff, it is usually as the head of Eli Lilly. But he is in charge of Citi, too. And now both are in trouble.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Wellstone Bill Passes: More Money for Meds
Wellstone bill passed
The mental health industry will claim this will mean better care; it certainly will mean more money for pharmaceuticals. As VeraCare/AHRP notes, much of what passes for care is merely
a front for pharmaceutical interests.
Wellstone, a famous "friend" of NAMI, was no saint, no champion of the little guy; the four workers on his ill-fated flight were illegally uninsured.
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