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[Cain]

The Australian Right just simply cannot get over the fact they have a female, social-democratic PM.

And it's making the Liberals look bad overseas.  Francois Hollande, Obama and several other leaders have complimented Gillard on how she handles the constant attacks against her due to her gender.

[Junkenstein]

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/12/meet-israel-palestine

Seventeen-year-old Amin Manna takes to the stage at the Google Campus. Full of a natural confidence, he's at ease under the microscope of a room full of investors that includes Index Ventures' Saul Klein. Without hesitation, the young Palestinian captures their attention, eloquently explaining what Middle East Education through Technology (better known as Meet), a decade-old organisation that brings together and trains Palestinian and Israeli school children in computer science and entrepreneurship, has meant to him.

"It was the quality of the Meet programme that attracted me," he says. "Three years ago I joined because I thought this was an amazing opportunity to learn. I wasn't there to make friends with Israelis."

"But," he pauses, "even though I came from this cynical point of view, thinking 'these people want to make me like Israelis' -- it still worked."

Excellent article, probably one of the few real efforts to actually make shit better here.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

More Drugs and Drugs to ignore.

http://gazette.com/medicinal-marijuana-stops-seizures-brings-hope-to-a-little-black-forest-girl/article/1502070

After years of watching a cruel, incurable genetic disorder called Dravet Syndome rob their daughter of her basic bodily functions and send her into convulsions that caused head injuries and broken teeth, they had reached the end.

"We really thought, this is a horrible existence; she's not going to live much longer." Paige says. "This is not a life for her. This is torture. She is suffering all day. I'm not OK with this. She wasn't even human anymore. She'd lie in my arms drooling, seizing, screaming and crying."

Then, in an act of desperation, or inspiration - or maybe both - Matt called Paige from overseas, where he was working, and suggested a radical approach to Charlotte's treatment.

"We need to try cannabis for Charlotte," he told Paige. "We live in a compassionate state."

Fifteen months later, the little girl with the DNR order is standing in the kitchen of their Black Forest home with her mother getting her Pull-Ups changed, cuddling in the arms of a visitor, playing with toys and strategically pushing the buttons on her "talker," an electronic device that communicates when Charlotte can't.

Her seizures have dropped from 1,200 a month to three, and the ones she has are shorter in duration and less severe. She's off all the other medications with their troubling side effects. And, as one of the youngest medical marijuana patients in Colorado, her dramatic turnaround is starting to draw national attention, with a CNN report on the horizon.

Carry on. Please, I regret posting this already.

Wow, I missed this before. That is really amazing, and moving. My friend's kid has severe seizures, and the medication they put him on has wretched side effects. I wonder if cannabis treatment would be effective for him.

[Junkenstein]

Possibly, but trying to find out means the terrorists win.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Possibly, but trying to find out means the terrorists win.

Luckily, Oregon has medical marijuana. He won't be able to get the low THC stuff they're growing in Colorado due to Federal laws, but he could at least try the regular stuff and I'm sure there are some growers in Oregon raising low-THC varieties.

[Junkenstein]

The Australian Right just simply cannot get over the fact they have a female, social-democratic PM.

And it's making the Liberals look bad overseas.  Francois Hollande, Obama and several other leaders have complimented Gillard on how she handles the constant attacks against her due to her gender.

Tone of articles I've seen of late seem to suggest that she's not going to do well at the upcoming elections.

Shit like this makes me think it may be considerably closer, if not outright wrong. I tend to assume any news I read about Australia is already Murdoched twice before I read it.

[Junkenstein]

Possibly, but trying to find out means the terrorists win.

Luckily, Oregon has medical marijuana. He won't be able to get the low THC stuff they're growing in Colorado due to Federal laws, but he could at least try the regular stuff and I'm sure there are some growers in Oregon raising low-THC varieties.

I recall some link between CBD(?) levels and general alleviation of a list of ills. That may be more relevant for you?

[Junkenstein]

ah, yes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol

Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of at least 85 cannabinoids found in cannabis.[2] It is a major constituent of the plant, second to THC, and represents up to 40% in its extracts.[3] Compared with THC, cannabidiol is non-psychoactive, and is considered to have a wider scope of medical applications than THC,[citation needed] including to epilepsy,[4] multiple sclerosis spasms,[5] anxiety disorders, schizophrenia,[6] nausea, convulsion and inflammation, as well as inhibiting cancer cell growth.[7] CBD may decrease the rate of THC clearance from the body, perhaps by interfering with the metabolism of THC in the liver.

[Cain]

The Australian Right just simply cannot get over the fact they have a female, social-democratic PM.

And it's making the Liberals look bad overseas.  Francois Hollande, Obama and several other leaders have complimented Gillard on how she handles the constant attacks against her due to her gender.

Tone of articles I've seen of late seem to suggest that she's not going to do well at the upcoming elections.

Shit like this makes me think it may be considerably closer, if not outright wrong. I tend to assume any news I read about Australia is already Murdoched twice before I read it.

Well, the economy is going down the shitter.  Mining industry has collapsed due to problems in China, and that was pretty much the only thing keeping the economy afloat.

On the plus side, the cost of living in Australia was reaching ridiculous levels, so this may improve things a bit in regards to pricing.

[Junkenstein]

CHINA

Also, will be kind of interesting to see how that plays out. What do you reckon to her chances?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

ah, yes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol

Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of at least 85 cannabinoids found in cannabis.[2] It is a major constituent of the plant, second to THC, and represents up to 40% in its extracts.[3] Compared with THC, cannabidiol is non-psychoactive, and is considered to have a wider scope of medical applications than THC,[citation needed] including to epilepsy,[4] multiple sclerosis spasms,[5] anxiety disorders, schizophrenia,[6] nausea, convulsion and inflammation, as well as inhibiting cancer cell growth.[7] CBD may decrease the rate of THC clearance from the body, perhaps by interfering with the metabolism of THC in the liver.

Yeah, I was talking about the strains that were mentioned in the article, that are low THC/high CBD. But since the ratios tend to have an inverse relationship I didn't really feel the need to spell it out again in my post.

[Junkenstein]

Ah, slipped up there. Sorry.

[Junkenstein]

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/meet-the-aussie-boyband-who-sexually-harass-women-for-lulz-then-put-it-on-youtube

One of their favourite things to do is fake wank videos, like the one at the top of this blog. They follow people, mostly women, round public places and pretend to masturbate behind them, just like real sexual harassers would! The only difference is...oh wait, there isn't one. It's about as funny as holding a gun to a child's head, making them cry and shit their pants, and then going LOL, IT'S ONLY A REPLICA. One scene in particular has one of them pretending to MASTURBATE IN FRONT OF A BABY while shouting "Your baby's sexy, don't let it grow up".

[Doktor Howl]

Burning Ethylene:  Not dangerous.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/13/18936624-explosion-at-louisiana-chemical-plant-25-people-reported-injured?lite

[P3nT4gR4m]

Man reports ugly hooker to the bizzies