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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Police Confiscate 100's of perscription Drugs

MARATHON COUNTY (WAOW) -
Prescription drug abuse is a problem police see across Marathon County. One of their latest tactics to put a stop to it -- collecting items that clutter up your medicine cabinet and getting rid of them.
"We encourage people to bring in any unused, expired or medications they're no longer using, particularly the prescription drugs," said Wausau police department detective Nathan Cihlar.

Twice a year, the Drug Enforcement Administration puts on a "drug take-back" program. Five police departments in Marathon County take part.

"It's really amazing and we figure we're one department out of five in this county that accepts these and we had 145 pounds since our last drop," said Kronenwetter police chief Dan Joling.

In Kronenwetter, a 24-hour drop box gives people in the area the opportunity to safely throw away drugs. Authorities said it's a better alternative than trying to trash them yourself.

"As these that people dispose of, let's say through their septic system or just dropping them in any kind of disposal, storm sewer, that all permeates all those drugs and they don't necessarily go away," said Joling.

Police said the drop boxes could also cut back on crime.

"Someone outside the family, that's a target for home break in and burglaries if people know that there's prescription drugs in the house," said Cihlar.

Wausau police said they've seen their piles of prescriptions growing during the past two years since they started as word gets out about the program -- and people in the community get involved.

"It's a lot considering what we got the first six months that we were here, we maybe got 100 pounds," said Cihlar. "It's definitely gone up from 100 to almost 400 pounds over a six month time span."

Authorities said if you plan to drop off old prescriptions, you can take your name off the labels. But they ask that you keep the rest of the label on -- to make it easier to sort them.
 
 
 

"Experts" find "New AIDS"

Experts have dubbed it the “new AIDS of the Americas.”
A parasitic infection called Chagas Disease has similarities to the early spread of HIV, according to research published recently in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Like AIDS, Chagas is hard to detect and has a long incubation period before symptoms emerge, the study said, according to the New York Times.
As many as 8 million people are infected in the Western Hemisphere, mainly in Bolivia, Mexico, Colombia and Central America, as well as some 30,000 people in the U.S., the newspaper reported. Chagas infects people in areas of poverty, and most U.S. cases are found in immigrants.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-05-29/news/31890809_1_trypanosoma-parasitic-infection-heart-failure

Bilderberg Meetings Start a Buzz

A dull office park near Virginia's Dulles International Airport took on the sheen of a Hollywood thriller this week when an invitation-only cadre of global leaders gathered for a secretive meeting known as the Bilderberg conference.

Henry Kissinger and Bill Gates were chauffeured in. Fairfax County police established a security perimeter around the Westfields Marriott and prohibited a Washington Post photographer from snapping pictures from the public street.

Outside the barriers, dozens of protesters and conspiracy theorists - convinced that Bilderberg is a global cabal that runs the world - waved signs and shouted into a bullhorn.

"Honk if you hate the new world order!" they blared, hooting at drivers passing by. Fairfax County police have made three arrests for a variety of misdemeanor offenses such as obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct, a police spokesman said.

"This is the true power structure, the shadow government," said Shawn Flinchbaugh, 29. The machinist from York County, Pa., stood outside the conference center clutching a handmade sign lettered "Bilderberg Scum." "They say they don't exist, but they do."

According to its website, the Bilderberg meeting was organized by leaders from Western Europe and North America in the early days of the Cold War, and is named for the Dutch hotel where the first enclave was held in 1954. The current chairman of its steering committee is a French count. Others include the neoconservative scholar Richard Perle, the billionaire Peter Thiel, and financiers such as Roger Altman and Kenneth Jacobs, chairman and chief executive of Lazard.

About 120 people participate in "nearly three days of informal and off-the-record discussion about topics of current concern" in economics and foreign affairs, with the crisis in Syria, the euro zone and the U.S. presidential election likely taking center stage this time.

Attendees are encouraged not to discuss the proceedings, which fuels the secrecy concerns. Many adopt a Fight Club approach to answering questions afterward. In other words, the first rule is, you do not talk about Bilderberg.

Over the years, conspiracy buffs have embraced such notions that the group is behind the creation of the euro and meets to select the winners and losers in the U.S. presidential election -- or at least endorse the candidate's vice presidential pick. A speech by then Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., during Bilderberg in 2004 helped cement his vice presidential bid.

Vin Weber, a Washington lobbyist and former Minnesota congressman who has been a presenter at Bilderberg twice, laughs at such talk. He recalled a vigorous disagreement over presidential politics at one Bilderberg meeting, with Obama supporter James Johnson advocating for his guy and former Bill Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan speaking up for Hillary Clinton.

"Everybody talks about this great conspiracy, but it's really not. It's fun to be able to talk about it," said Weber, who is a Romney adviser.

So as the motorcades come and go, are they talking of Marco Rubio?

"Yesterday I saw three billionaires. These are the kingmakers. Whoever we see here is likely to be the vice presidential candidate," said Mike Peachman, 24, a linguist from New York. He was keeping an eye out for Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a scheduled presenter sometimes mentioned as a Romney vice presidential pick. (Also on the invitation list was Donald Graham, chairman of the board and chief executive of The Washington Post Co.)

Every once in a while a van with tinted windows would drive through the gate, and the crowd of protesters would chant "Scum, scum, scum!" as it sailed by. But then the sky darkened and severe thunderstorms came sweeping through, ruining everything. The timing couldn't have been more perfect if the Lords of Bilderberg had arranged it themselves.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120603/NEWS02/706039898

Crazy New "Zombie" attacks

Saturday night's "naked zombie" cannibal attack in Miami shocked the nation, but it's not the first time a seemingly uncontrollable incident has been attributed to a drug known as "bath salts."
Far from making your luxurious soak more pleasant, bath salts is the street name for a drug containing synthetic stimulants such as mephedrone or methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV). It has no relation to "actual" bath salts. The drug can be snorted, injected, or swallowed. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, bath salts have similar effects to amphetamines, cocaine, and LSD. High dosages can cause panic attacks and hallucinations.
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The drug is sold online and in certain adult bookstores, head shops, and convenience stores under brand names such as "Lady Bubbles," "Ivory Gold," and "Ivory Wave." Sometimes the drug is sold as a form of plant fertilizer with warnings such as "not for human consumption" or "for novelty use only." According to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, most commercial bath salts are made in India or China and can retail for as little as $40 a gram—less than half the price of cocaine.
Late last year, the DEA took emergency measures to make the drugs temporarily illegal, and last week the U.S. Senate voted 96-1 to ban the chemicals used to make bath salts and other synthetic drugs. Several states, including Florida, have already banned bath salts, but according to Paul Melton, an investigator with Florida's Pinellas County Justice Coordination, manufacturers can simply make a new compound that skirts the law. This quasi-legal status makes it an attractive option for people addicted to prescription drugs but unable to procure hard street drugs, he says.
"We're seeing more strict measures coming down on prescription drugs. As you tighten the legislation there, people turn to other drugs," he says. "Bath salts are sold in head shops, convenience stores—when people try to buy [cocaine or heroin], they can get shot or robbed. It's easy to go to a store and buy this stuff."
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In a press release, Susan Collins, the Maine Republican senator who sponsored the federal bill that would ban synthetic drugs, said bath salts and other chemical compounds are a "national threat that requires national action." That became clear Saturday, when Miami police shot and killed a man who was found eating the face of a homeless man—the victim of an alleged bath salts high.
But according to various news reports, people high on bath salts have been arrested in various fits of violence over the past 18 months. Bath salt-users have been found barricaded in attics, stealing cars, attacking priests, and staying conscious through several stun-gun blasts. One man in Pennsylvania told police that he thought he was being chased by electricity while on the drug.
"A common effect of these synthetic products is that they cause psychotic episodes—anxiety, paranoia, they're all documented effects," Melton says. In his county, he "regularly" deals with synthetic drug cases and that there have been an increasing number of people abusing bath salts over the past year.
"Does it cause someone to eat someone's face, I can't say that," he says. "But it certainly could cause anxiety and delusions that could lead to something like that."
According to CNN, the DEA found two reports of the drug in 2009. In 2011, they fielded more than 900 cases in 34 states.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/05/30/miamis-naked-zombie-proves-need-to-ban-bath-salts-experts-say