Army Personnel may be more vulnerable to Macromineral Deficiencies – Depression and Suicide
Army personnel may be more vulnerable to macromineral deficiencies caused by high levels of stress and sleep deprivation over long periods of time. Macromineral deficiencies can cause neurological disorders such as insomnia and depression.
Alcohol and homelessness just makes the macromineral depletion worse.
[The deficiency of Macrominerals such as potassium, magnesium, and calcium due to stress can cause serious disorders. Some psychological and neurological disorders are depression, emotional disturbances, personality changes, hallucinations, confusion, loss of memory, seizures, and coma. Some physical symptoms (disorders) are muscle pain, muscle cramps, muscle spasms, tremors, and complications of the heart such as cardiac arrest or heart failure. Deficiencies in Macrominerals can also cause or lead to Acid-Base disorders.]
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-264110 Macromineral Deficiencies and Acid-Base Disorders
Part of the solution is in what Lynn Hughes said “he wants me to fight the fight”. Army personnel and veterans are in another war too, a psychological one. Army personnel are trained to overcome all enemies and challenges, psychology plays a key role and an important factor in accomplishing this. Not only does God want you to fight the fight, you need to use psychology to fight for yourself, for your loved ones, and for your country.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-264108 Depression and Suicide Prevention
[According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, about one in three homeless adults in the country has served in the armed forces; current population estimates suggest that more than 150,000 male and female veterans are homeless.
"I limped around for a long time, depressed," "I felt guilty and wanted to kill myself." .. "Maybe that's why God let me live ... because he had this in mind for me. He wants me to fight the fight." Lynn Hughes.]
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/05/25/cnnheroes.lynn.hughes/index.html
Psychology and Suicide factors
Feeling of purposelessness and hopelessness can also lead to depression and are suicide factors. When a person loses their employment they may suddenly have feeling of purposelessness. When people are faced with unemployment, feel trapped, envision a hopeless future, or feel they are in a hopeless situation these are suicide factor.
Psychology is needed to find and have a sense of purpose and to remember that as army personnel, you have been trained to overcome all challenges, fight the fight, and envision a positive future. You need to learn about psychology to use it and take action. Taking action will also give you a sense of control.
Push back in the opposite direction. If something or a situation is pushing you towards purposelessness or hopelessness, you need to take action and push in the opposite direction.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-264109 Suicide Factors and Depression
Army Psychology Philosophy Example
In a war, win or lose, you fight. If hopelessness is affecting you or if your enemy wants to use hope and hopelessness against you, as a weapon or to break you, to defeat you, take those words out of your mind. Hope and hopelessness have nothing to do with anything, you are to fight and defeat your enemy. You just do, hope and hopelessness do not apply.
It may sound easy but it isn’t when a person is overwhelmed by feelings of hopelessness and despair, and affected by neurological disorders. Prevention and awareness is key.
[If the Army is serious about addressing the problem, it needs to address the stressors common to soldiers, including financial problems, marital problems, frequency of deployments, length of deployments, deployments to hostile environments, exposure to extreme stress and service-related injuries, he said.
The role of alcohol too must be addressed if the rate of suicide is to be lowered, he said.]
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/27/army.suicides/index.html
[A major United States military post is shutting down for three days following a rash of suicides
Combat stress manifests itself in different ways, he said, citing the case of a U.S. soldier charged with killing five of his comrades at a mental-health clinic in Iraq earlier this month.
A record number of soldiers committed suicide last year -- at least 133, the Army said.
More soldiers killed themselves in January of this year than died in battle, Army statistics suggest.]
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/27/kentucky.army.suicide/index.html
PTSD
PTSD - High levels of stress and sleep deprivation, macromineral deficiency, and high levels of cortisol can lead to PTSD.
PTSD is similar to fear conditioning. It involves high levels of stress, fear, and cortisol. The cortisol levels imprints areas of the brain that are also associated to fear, so what happens is that when you experience similar sounds, images, or environment you can re-experience those emotions of high stress or fear.
Fear de-conditioning involves people being exposed to the same experience without fear.
www.psychologicalharassment.com
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Dick Cheney and Torture - Torture is an International and US Crime
Torture is an international and US crime.
Does the United States want to be or look like the street thug, an international bully, or an international criminal to alienate allies, used for propaganda to recruit terrorists and increase terrorism?
Or
Does the Unites States stand for Justice, with the justification to go after international criminals where ever they hide, with the support of allies and the international community?
Dick Cheney advocates torture for his own gain, and that of the Bush administration, and not that of the United States.
"The ends justify the means and Dick Cheney protected us." No, Dick Cheney tried to “cover his ass”, and the Bush administrations, and tried to obtain false confessions linked to Iraq. Dick Cheney lied to you the same way the Bush administration lied to invade Iraq.
The psychological manipulation of, the pretense or deception of, wanting a false confession; the threat of wanting false or pretense of wanting false confessions, to prevent exposure. In other words, wanting or using the deception of wanting a false confession has the opposite or reverse effect, the victims ceases all communication or cooperation. You would believe or think that torture is used to obtain the truth, but it's actually used in many cases to do the opposite.
There’s a reason why law enforcement can’t beat false confessions out of prisoners, it’s because it does not work and the information obtained is invalid. The other point is that during a war, if your enemy captures troops that have information about an incoming attack, you're most likely to change your plans or where you'll attack, given the fact that your attack plans have been compromised.
Dick Cheney’s Reasoning and Argument Example
I know for a fact that Dick Cheney claimed the United States would be attacked again, because he was hoping that the United States would be attacked again, so that he could somehow be vindicated and gain politically. He should be handed over to a special unit for “advanced interrogation techniques” for a few months. After he’s confessed to this fact, he can be sentenced and sent to “limbo Guantanamo” forever. Given the fact that he’s now confessed, the special unit cannot be prosecuted for using “special discussion techniques”, and saved us from Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney a Threat to US National Security
After 911 the Republicans gained politically and they used this power to violate and justify actions that violated US laws and international laws too. Fear was also used extensively to manipulate the US population, a rhetoric of fear and isolation, which was used to reduce their rights or gain more power over them. One of the ways they were manipulated was with impending threats of attacks and alert levels that fluctuated.
Dick Cheney is now also continuing his rhetoric of fear and impending attack, while the Obama administration is making progress internationally, and has endangered the United States. In the world of shadows, the enemies of the United States may actually attack now to give the Republicans, who are at an all time low and under political turmoil, a boost politically. Given the economic, international, and domestic harm the Republicans have done over the years, the enemies of the United States would gain, by a gain in popularity for the Republicans. An attack would also permit some Republicans, and Dick Cheney himself, the possibility to escape any prosecution or justice.
“Security and Authority - attacks to increase power
Security authorities or organizations will sometimes provoke and welcome attacks on themselves or those they are sworn to protect, and in some cases they may even attack themselves, so that they can obtain more power and authority over those they are said to protect.”
Justice Dept and CIA
Possible prosecution revolves around those who sanctioned these decisions that violated international laws, not what information was obtained, and Dick Cheney sanctioned and advocates torture. Reports of success can easily be fabricated through interrogations that produce false confessions and false information. The use of torture it’s self discredits and renders any possible information that Dick Cheney would like to protect himself or his actions with, invalid. The information obtained is similar to the information that “justified” the invasion of Iraq.
Those in the justice department that supported and complied with the demands of the Bush administration were “rewarded” while those who did not were “dismissed”.
The CIA is also often used to take the blame for different actions or demands from current administrations; in this case it is the Bush administration.
The United States has no problem on waging war on enemies or criminals, but when a US administration commits crimes or tries to circumvent international laws or US laws, it “loses” in more ways than one.
Bush Administration Legal Dept and US Army Personnel
Lawyers were drafting "legal mambo jumbo" memos.
With things being "legal", when subordinates do not do what they are told, the result is usually dismissal. For army personnel dismissal and the repercussions of not following orders or dismissal are not the same as simply losing your job, it can result in court-martial and prison time.
"To violate the statute, an individual must have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering," "Because specific intent is an element of the offense, the absence of specific intent negates the charge of torture. ... We have further found that if a defendant acts with the good faith belief that his actions will not cause such suffering, he has not acted with specific intent,"
The intent is to use force and harm, torture, and claim that there is no specific intent to escape prosecution. Another intent is to use people’s ignorance that psychological torture is not harmful or does not inflict suffering.
Torture and Water boarding
Psychological torture is usually used because of its invisibility, and to try to escape prosecution, but it has serious mental and physical effects.
The difference between me and you water boarding each other is that the stress and fear level is not the same, it isn’t real or real torture. To give you an example, I’ve seen people drive nails into their hands for entertainment, and laugh at it. Now use the same torture practice, on the same person, will produce a different reaction on this person.
Another example of torture “real and not real” is that some people love getting scared. They’ll go on a roller coaster ride or watch horror movies. Now take this same person and pretend you are going to kill them every day, in some way. With a gun with no bullets “click” in back of the head execution style, that you are burring them alive, or that you are about to throw them over a cliff. This same person will not appreciate the fear and torture.
Degrading themes and humiliation were used in this example. “Other memos allowed the use of such tactics as keeping a detainee naked and in some cases in a diaper, and putting detainees on a liquid diet…"Detainees subject to sleep deprivation who are also subject to nudity as a separate interrogation technique will at times be nude and wearing a diaper,"”
Sleep deprivation and a liquid diet do affect the body physically and can lead to very serious illnesses, one of them being acid-base disorders.
High levels of stress, sleep deprivation, and liquid diets all reduce macrominerals like potassium in your body which leads to acid-base disorders. The reduction in macrominerals and higher levels of cortisol can also lead to PTSD.
PTSD is similar to fear conditioning. It involves high levels of stress, fear, and cortisol. The cortisol levels imprints areas of the brain that are also associated to fear, so what happens is that when you experience similar sounds, images, or environment you can re-experience those emotions of high stress or fear.
Fear de-conditioning involves people being exposed to the same experience without fear.
Does the United States want to be or look like the street thug, an international bully, or an international criminal to alienate allies, used for propaganda to recruit terrorists and increase terrorism?
Or
Does the Unites States stand for Justice, with the justification to go after international criminals where ever they hide, with the support of allies and the international community?
Dick Cheney advocates torture for his own gain, and that of the Bush administration, and not that of the United States.
"The ends justify the means and Dick Cheney protected us." No, Dick Cheney tried to “cover his ass”, and the Bush administrations, and tried to obtain false confessions linked to Iraq. Dick Cheney lied to you the same way the Bush administration lied to invade Iraq.
The psychological manipulation of, the pretense or deception of, wanting a false confession; the threat of wanting false or pretense of wanting false confessions, to prevent exposure. In other words, wanting or using the deception of wanting a false confession has the opposite or reverse effect, the victims ceases all communication or cooperation. You would believe or think that torture is used to obtain the truth, but it's actually used in many cases to do the opposite.
There’s a reason why law enforcement can’t beat false confessions out of prisoners, it’s because it does not work and the information obtained is invalid. The other point is that during a war, if your enemy captures troops that have information about an incoming attack, you're most likely to change your plans or where you'll attack, given the fact that your attack plans have been compromised.
Dick Cheney’s Reasoning and Argument Example
I know for a fact that Dick Cheney claimed the United States would be attacked again, because he was hoping that the United States would be attacked again, so that he could somehow be vindicated and gain politically. He should be handed over to a special unit for “advanced interrogation techniques” for a few months. After he’s confessed to this fact, he can be sentenced and sent to “limbo Guantanamo” forever. Given the fact that he’s now confessed, the special unit cannot be prosecuted for using “special discussion techniques”, and saved us from Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney a Threat to US National Security
After 911 the Republicans gained politically and they used this power to violate and justify actions that violated US laws and international laws too. Fear was also used extensively to manipulate the US population, a rhetoric of fear and isolation, which was used to reduce their rights or gain more power over them. One of the ways they were manipulated was with impending threats of attacks and alert levels that fluctuated.
Dick Cheney is now also continuing his rhetoric of fear and impending attack, while the Obama administration is making progress internationally, and has endangered the United States. In the world of shadows, the enemies of the United States may actually attack now to give the Republicans, who are at an all time low and under political turmoil, a boost politically. Given the economic, international, and domestic harm the Republicans have done over the years, the enemies of the United States would gain, by a gain in popularity for the Republicans. An attack would also permit some Republicans, and Dick Cheney himself, the possibility to escape any prosecution or justice.
“Security and Authority - attacks to increase power
Security authorities or organizations will sometimes provoke and welcome attacks on themselves or those they are sworn to protect, and in some cases they may even attack themselves, so that they can obtain more power and authority over those they are said to protect.”
Justice Dept and CIA
Possible prosecution revolves around those who sanctioned these decisions that violated international laws, not what information was obtained, and Dick Cheney sanctioned and advocates torture. Reports of success can easily be fabricated through interrogations that produce false confessions and false information. The use of torture it’s self discredits and renders any possible information that Dick Cheney would like to protect himself or his actions with, invalid. The information obtained is similar to the information that “justified” the invasion of Iraq.
Those in the justice department that supported and complied with the demands of the Bush administration were “rewarded” while those who did not were “dismissed”.
The CIA is also often used to take the blame for different actions or demands from current administrations; in this case it is the Bush administration.
The United States has no problem on waging war on enemies or criminals, but when a US administration commits crimes or tries to circumvent international laws or US laws, it “loses” in more ways than one.
Bush Administration Legal Dept and US Army Personnel
Lawyers were drafting "legal mambo jumbo" memos.
With things being "legal", when subordinates do not do what they are told, the result is usually dismissal. For army personnel dismissal and the repercussions of not following orders or dismissal are not the same as simply losing your job, it can result in court-martial and prison time.
"To violate the statute, an individual must have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering," "Because specific intent is an element of the offense, the absence of specific intent negates the charge of torture. ... We have further found that if a defendant acts with the good faith belief that his actions will not cause such suffering, he has not acted with specific intent,"
The intent is to use force and harm, torture, and claim that there is no specific intent to escape prosecution. Another intent is to use people’s ignorance that psychological torture is not harmful or does not inflict suffering.
Torture and Water boarding
Psychological torture is usually used because of its invisibility, and to try to escape prosecution, but it has serious mental and physical effects.
The difference between me and you water boarding each other is that the stress and fear level is not the same, it isn’t real or real torture. To give you an example, I’ve seen people drive nails into their hands for entertainment, and laugh at it. Now use the same torture practice, on the same person, will produce a different reaction on this person.
Another example of torture “real and not real” is that some people love getting scared. They’ll go on a roller coaster ride or watch horror movies. Now take this same person and pretend you are going to kill them every day, in some way. With a gun with no bullets “click” in back of the head execution style, that you are burring them alive, or that you are about to throw them over a cliff. This same person will not appreciate the fear and torture.
Degrading themes and humiliation were used in this example. “Other memos allowed the use of such tactics as keeping a detainee naked and in some cases in a diaper, and putting detainees on a liquid diet…"Detainees subject to sleep deprivation who are also subject to nudity as a separate interrogation technique will at times be nude and wearing a diaper,"”
Sleep deprivation and a liquid diet do affect the body physically and can lead to very serious illnesses, one of them being acid-base disorders.
High levels of stress, sleep deprivation, and liquid diets all reduce macrominerals like potassium in your body which leads to acid-base disorders. The reduction in macrominerals and higher levels of cortisol can also lead to PTSD.
PTSD is similar to fear conditioning. It involves high levels of stress, fear, and cortisol. The cortisol levels imprints areas of the brain that are also associated to fear, so what happens is that when you experience similar sounds, images, or environment you can re-experience those emotions of high stress or fear.
Fear de-conditioning involves people being exposed to the same experience without fear.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
WHO “it’s really all mankind that’s at stake” – Biden causes airline exec panic
The Head of the WHO stated that “it’s really all of mankind that’s at stake” because when a new virus comes around, especially one jumping from different species and mutating, it is unpredictable and its effects are unpredictable.
VP Joe Biden who stated "I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now," as in limiting air or subway travel advise for his own family, caused a bit of a panic for airline exec who demanded an apology. With the effects of the virus still unknown, the reasoning is that when in crowed areas, when one person sneezes, it can infect 10 to 20 or more people instead of just one or two.
The good news is that the WHO and US government have moved aggressively towards this virus and another good news is that some people have already recovered from it. The virus also responds to anti-virals.
The bad news is that the virus has already caused deaths, like other flu’s, and deaths have now accord in the US also. The chances are, like 1000’s of people that die of the flu each year, that more people will die of this flu.
VP Joe Biden who stated "I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now," as in limiting air or subway travel advise for his own family, caused a bit of a panic for airline exec who demanded an apology. With the effects of the virus still unknown, the reasoning is that when in crowed areas, when one person sneezes, it can infect 10 to 20 or more people instead of just one or two.
The good news is that the WHO and US government have moved aggressively towards this virus and another good news is that some people have already recovered from it. The virus also responds to anti-virals.
The bad news is that the virus has already caused deaths, like other flu’s, and deaths have now accord in the US also. The chances are, like 1000’s of people that die of the flu each year, that more people will die of this flu.
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