Thursday, 24 February 2011
Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, falls for phone prank
Scott Walker is currently embroiled in a dispute over public sector pay Photograph: Pool/REUTERS
The Republican governor at the centre of the union-busting protests in the US has been embarrassed by a prank call that he believed was from one of his billionaire backers.On the recording of the call, which has been released online, the Republican governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker tells a caller impersonating one of the rightwing Koch brothers that he is looking forward to flying to California to celebrate with them once the battle with the unions was won, and jokes about taking a baseball bat to slug Democratic leaders.
Walker is under siege in his office in the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin, in a backlash against his proposed legislation to remove unions' right to collective bargaining and cut public sector workers' pay.
Ian Murphy, who calls in pretending to be David Koch, suggests planting troublemakers among the protesters, who have been peaceful through 11 successive days of demonstrations. Walker says he has thought about doing that but decided against.
The prankster says: "I'll tell you what Scott, once you crush these bastards, I'll fly you out to Cali and really show you a good time."
Walker replies: "Alright, that would be outstanding. Thanks for all the support and helping us move the cause forward. We appreciate it and we're doing the just and right thing for the right reasons and it's all about getting our freedoms back."
The Koch brothers have given millions to the Americans for Prosperity campaign group, which has previously campaigned against Barack Obama's healthcare reforms and tightening environmental controls. It is launching a major advertising campaign supporting Walker in Wisconsin.
Records for the state show that the brothers' Koch Industries was one of the largest contributors to Walker's election campaign.
Ewan MacAskill @'The Guardian'
More on Koch Industries
Prescribed Amphetamines May Up Risk of Parkinson’s Disease
The study involved 66,348 people in northern California who had participated in the Multiphasic Health Checkup Cohort Exam between 1964 and 1973 and were evaluated again in 1995.
The average age of the participants at the start of the study was 36 years old. Of the participants, 1,154 people had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease by the end of the study.
Exposure to amphetamines was determined by two questions: one on the use of drugs for weight loss and a second question on whether people often used benzedrine or dexedrine.
Amphetamines were among the drugs commonly used for weight loss when this information was collected.
According to the study, those people who reported using benzedrine or dexedrine were nearly 60 percent more likely to develop Parkinson’s than those people who didn’t take the drugs.
There was no increased risk found for those people who used drugs for weight loss.
“If further studies confirm these findings, the potential risk of developing Parkinson’s disease from these types of amphetamines would need to be considered by doctors before prescribing these drugs as well as be incorporated into amphetamine abuse programs, including illicit use,” said study author Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, Ph.D.
Van Den Eeden said amphetamines affect the release and uptake of dopamine, the key neurotransmitter involved in Parkinson’s disease. He explained that more research needs to be completed to confirm the association and learn more about possible mechanisms.
@'PsychCentral'
Inside LSD
Could LSD be the next drug in your doctor's arsenal? New experiments have a few researchers believing that this trippy drug could become a pharmaceutical of the future.
Outlawed in 1966 in the US, the street drug developed a reputation as the dangerous toy of the counterculture, capable of inspiring either moments of genius or a descent into madness.
Now science is taking a fresh look into this psychedelic world, including the first human LSD trials in more than 35 years.
LSD's inventor Albert Hofmann called it medicine for the soul. The Beatles wrote songs about it. Secret military mind control experiments exploited its hallucinogenic powers.
Can it possibly enhance our brain power, expand our creativity, or cure diseases?
Franklin De Costa – Process part 250
This mix was originally done for my friends at the Greta Cottage Workshop. They do a regular radio show on Soundart Radio, a local station from the UK. In 1999, I produced a dark ambient album that was never released. They heard it and wanted to release a special limited edition as the first release on their new sublabel, Greta Cottage Woodpile. The album was only given out to my friends. I´m kind of excited that it will finally see the public after all this time. So, the music here is a journey through contemporary electronica with a hint of the stuff I loved in the 90’s. I edited some of the tracks to make them fit better to the mix.
Note: Many of the tracks are edited in arrangement and with additional production.
(Franklin De Costa)
01. John Carpenter & Alan Howarth – Arrival At The Library
02. Darkstar – Ostkreuz
03. Emeralds – The Cycle Of Abuse
04. Cluster – Fotschi Tong
05. Actress – Maze
06. Darkstar – Videotape
07. These New Puritans – Time Xone
08. The Black Dog – Delay 9
09. Autechre – Yuop-Snook
10. Lukid – Child Of The Jago
11. Lone – The Twilight Switch
12. Teebs – Humming Birds
13. Coil – 5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyltryptamine: (5-MeO-DMT)
14. Hauschka – Nadelwald
15. Broken Social Scene – Never Felt Alive
16. Bvdub – The Past Disappears
17. Toro Y Moi – Fax Shadow
18. Memory Tapes – Run Out
19. Phonophani – C
20. Oneohtrix Point Never – Ouroboros
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