From the desk of Sean Kelly
An Instagram exposes your privacy when the police get involved.
It seems that privacy, as we knew it, has changed. Judge says police can create fake Instagram accounts to see photos.
FAKE PEOPLE
Do you know anyone who is fake and has an inferiority complex? If you liked this video, tell me and I'll make more! I have lots to talk about :) My new instagram...
Many would argue that cops cross the line when theyimpersonate people on social networks to catch suspects, but that doesn't mean that fake accounts are always off the table. In a recent opinion, New Jersey district judge William Martini contends that police don't need search warrants to create bogus Instagram accounts for the sake of seeing a suspect's photos. As Martini explains, it's 'consensual sharing' -- the perpetrator is both making these pictures public and willingly providing access to others. That's bad news for Daniel Gatson, an alleged burglar who insisted that law enforcement needed probable cause (that is, reasonable belief that there's evidence of a crime) to peek at an Instagram feed laden with shots of cash and jewelery. Read More...
Just kind of keep in mind that what you see so can prying eyes. An instagram ssearch is done everyday by thousands of surfers. A Judge says police can create fake Instagram accounts to see photos. Santa checks his list twice. Well now the law can use instagram hashtags to find you.
PTSD, Post Traumatic stress disorder, is not new to the vets. PTSD has been called a lot of things in the past. Every war the United States was involved in had it's own term.
Shell Shock
Combat Fatigue
Combat Disorder
Battle Fatigue
Combat neurosis
The list could go on but for now this should give you a fair idea of what a veteran is up against. There are all sorts of theories on how to recognize PTSD Symptoms and how it should be treated. However, the National Center for PTSD requires a lot of money that seems to be short of thanks to some members of the current GOP Congress.
American soldiers and veterans diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are often given a duffle bag of drugs, from antidepressants like Zoloft and Paxil to any number of highly addictive opioids. Doctors who work with these soldiers in Veterans Affairs clinics are encouraged to prescribe such medications, and any thought of prescribing alternative medicine that has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration is generally forbidden.
But some doctors break the chain. Sue Sisley is a psychiatrist who's worked with veterans for 20 years. While she has never smoked marijuana herself, she's heard how it can work from some of her patients who use it on their own to treat PTSD. "Nobody is claiming it's a cure, but they report they have been successfully managing their symptoms," she says. Sisley was set to begin studying the benefits of using medical marijuana to treat symptoms of PTSD at the University of Arizona – until she was fired in July, which she suspects happened for political reasons.
Sisley has now been nominated for a $2 million grant by Colorado's Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council to fund her triple-blind study into how marijuana can help treat PTSD. (The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's health board will approve or deny the grant on December 17th.) Sisley hopes to treat half of the 76 veterans participating in the study in Arizona, as well as cooperating with doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for the other half. "Johns Hopkins has a long history of doing high quality marijuana research," she says. Even so, the university has thus far only looked at possible harms of marijuana, because that's the only thing the government wanted to hear about.
One obstacle the study still faces is getting government-approved research marijuana.
According to Sisley, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which provides research marijuana, won't have enough until April or May 2015. They've known about the study since 2011, and it definitely doesn't take that long to grow weed, so the veterans she knows worry that the government is stalling.
...via PTSD and Pot: The Fight to Get Veterans Some Weed - RollingStone.com
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PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is taking it's toll on vets and needs to be dealt with ASAP. Putting off the necessary help just because congress is tightening up the purse strings is not acceptable..
The harsh torture tactics that the CIA used to try and get information from the 911 attack prisoners at GITMO have proven time and time again to not work. The information they gathered
was/is actually unreliable at best.
The pressure and abject hatred for
the detainees is understandable. In their eyes (the CIA) the prisoners were
responsible for thousands of innocent people dying. That doesn't excuse their actions, but it is understandable.
WASHINGTON — In a damning indictment of CIA practices, Senate investigators on Tuesday accused the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond America's legal boundaries and then deceiving the ... on Zubaydah and two other detainees, the report emphasizes, was far different from anything the U.S. military does in training and more brutal than the careful procedures laid out in Justice Department memos authorizing the tactic.
In a damning indictment of CIA practices, Senate investigators on Tuesday accused the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond America’s legal boundaries and then deceiving the nation with narratives of life-saving interrogations unsubstantiated by its own records.
The Senate Intelligence Committeereleased a mountain of evidence from CIA files suggesting the treatment of detainees in secret prisons a decade ago was worse than the government described to Congress or the public. It was the first official public accounting after years of debate about the CIA’s brutal handling of prisoners.
At the White House, President Barack Obama declared the practices, used on detainees after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to be “contrary to our values.” He pledged, “I will continue to use my authority as president to make sure we never resort to those methods again.”
The report doesn’t call the tactics torture. But committee chairman Dianne Feinstein, commanding the Senate floor for an extended address, declared that “under any common meaning of the term, CIA detainees were tortured.”
Besides the now-well-known practice of waterboarding, tactics included weeks of sleep deprivation, slapping and slamming of detainees against walls, confining them to small boxes, keeping them isolated for prolonged periods and threatening them with death.
Harsh CIA Torture Tactics Do Not Work now nor will they work in the future.I think that the CIA is probably redirecting their mind set toward the backwards thought patterns of al-Qaida and now ISIS.
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