THE POLITICS OF FEAR: "The Gift That Keeps Giving" Thomas Friedman New York TImes Column Comment Response By The Ninth Amendment

       Wednesday, 3 December 2014, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The Ninth Amendment editorial board submitted the comment below to the New York Times in response to OP-ED columnist Thomas Friedman's column entitled "The Gift That Keeps Giving" reflecting on the culture of fear that has permeated the United States since 9/11/2001 as the result of a conscious choice of the not-really-elected "President" George "little shrub" Bush to play the "fear" card and lead the United States in that direction in which the country unfortunately has kept moving with such momentum that it has left President Obama with little room to maneuver even after six years to higher aspirations than caving to the irrational fears that is the only goal of "terrorists" who actually have very little power unless they get very lucky and get noticed.
       A true and correct copy of the text of the Ninth Amendment comment follows. It is now known at this time that a new milestone for the Ninth Amendment has been achieved along with our diabolical master plan in the spirit of Vincent van Gogh and so many other great talents shunned in their lifetimes to see our entire audience eliminated but to keep both our ears (except through one or two "mistake" or "sympathy" pageview hits from our non-existent brother) either through lack of reader interest and/or knock-off sites that after a few site visits today from the New York Times administration it has decided the following Ninth Amendment comment for the first time in history has and will not be digitally published by the New York Times along with the couple hundred comments that did pass muster following "The Gift That Keeps Giving" column:

"How ironic. FOX-TV for the first and only time gets the scoop and calls it "right", "little shrub" loses both popular and electoral votes but the GOP Court steps on in and voila Bush v. Gore effectively names Bush 43 President sends it back to FLA where Bush family Governor and GOP election official pull the lever and coup d'etat! President of these United States. Do not follow the Constitution knows best and Osama bin Laden gets the fool of his dreams for the big day in September. And again begins the Politics of Fear as that is the way Dick Cheney makes a killing as it were. Mr. Friedman the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com could not agree with you or your commenters as of now more. A heartfelt thank you for this rare opportunity to make a somewhat relevant comment which in conclusion consists of three of our favorite quotes. One from our existentialism teacher at Exeter: "Thank you for belaboring the obvious." Two from a Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." And three from a U.S. President on the occasion of his first inaugural address before a remarkable first week in office in which he accomplished more than the House of Representatives has in a year, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/opinion/thomas-friedman-the-gift-that-keeps-giving.html?ref=opinion

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BMJ Study "Links" Benzodiazepine Anxiety And Related "Z-Class" Sleeping Medication Use To Increased Risk For Alzheimer's Disease

       Friday, 26 September 2014, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The Ninth Amendment editorial board sincerely urges that readers not become unnerved nor anxious by the above heading to this post. Although the heading is accurate to its New York Times source which concerned readers may go to directly at any time via the link provided below the Ninth Amendment finds a few introductory words in order as literally millions of Americans suffer from anxiety and/or insomnia a great many of whom at some time(s) or even for quite extended periods of up to many years have taken or take one or more of the above two groups of drugs which together are known to the medical community as "sedative-hypnotics". The "benzo" primarily anxiety drugs include ones such as Xanax, Ativan, Valium and Klonopin which are of similar composition but differing periods of action. The "z-class" sleep medications include Ambien and Lunesta.
      The last thing the Ninth Amendment wants to do is make any readers anxious or lose sleep so please relax and allow us first to convey a few points. The above headline refers to a summary article in the New York Times describing a study by Canadian and French medical researchers recently published in the well-regarded British Medical Journal (BMJ). Because of the high degree of reader interest in this area the Times article so far has generated well over three hundred comments and counting in the digital edition.
       Although it is important for our interested readers to be aware of the content of this article (which itself links directly to the full study for those interested) because it could prove lucrative fodder for media hype the truth of the matter is that a great many of the commenters including physicians weighing in on the Times article make seemingly valid points calling into question several aspects of the study done on the basis of medical records rather than dedicated study participants which make any suggestion of a conclusion based on everything from the lack of value of information presented which did not contain dosage information to a lack of evidence of other factors which may have affected the "control group".
       One commenting M.D.,Ph.D. whose comment was the second published in the digital Times following the article went so far as to observe that "there is a fairly large scientific literature showing benzodiazepines reduce the deposition of amyloid as well protect from the toxicity of the abnormal protein. Thus there is substantial basis to believe that this class of medications might actually be protective from Alzheimer's. . . ." This statement is consistent with the observation by the physician chief editor in the Harvard Medical Newsletter a few years past that despite the recent large-scale demonization (largely among physicians who never had experienced ongoing severe anxiety or used them) of benzodiazepines especially in any longer-term use that his lifetime of medical practice experience showed that long-term and even lifetime use of this class of medications was indicated in some patients for whom they had meant a huge improvement in quality of life for persons who might otherwise forever be virtually immobilized or unable to interact with others and society overall without constant overwhelming anxiety.
       This extended to the seemingly incomprehensible math used to reach any conclusion other than one that was unproven and premature at best. None of the physicians commenting found the study to be persuasive of the assertion of any causal "link" as implied in the Times headline reflected above. At best they concluded the demonstrated relationship might be stretched to the limit as an "association".  Many also took the Times to task for publishing an article of such personal medical interest to so many readers on this topic which was written by one with no recognized nor noted medical credentials at all must less a physician specializing in this field.
       Many of these points are touched on in the Ninth Amendment's comment to the Times article published earlier today in the Times digital edition. It is followed immediately by a link to the article itself which includes the 300+ comments published as of this posting as well as incorporating a direct link to the full study as published in the BMJ.
       THE NINTH AMENDMENT CANNOT AND DOES NOT PROVIDE NOR PURPORT TO PROVIDE ANY MEDICAL ADVICE TO ANYONE AT ALL. READERS MUST SEEK ALL MEDICAL ADVICE FROM A PROPERLY LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WHICH THE NINTH AMENDMENT IS NOT.

Ninth Amendment New York Times Digital Published Comment:

BigMartin

 waronnothing 27 minutes ago

With all due respect if the New York Times wishes to publish a medical column which greatly concerns a vast portion of the population who are ill and often suffer relentlessly even to the point of incapacity to interact or even meaningfully function at all with no other effective treatment available in this country the Ninth Amendment log at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com (which has no formal medical training whatsoever) respectfully suggests that rather than having it authored by one with apparently no formal medical credentials at all much less being a physician yet herself describes the subject as "a study designed with particular care" lasting for years yet then attempts to summarize in a few brief paragraphs that the Times has made a rather poor choice of one with authority meaningfully to interpret and present the information before ending the scant piece with an ominous quote from a physician making the pithy comment essentially that "Hey it's your life if you want to end it prematurely in a tragic mental void to pop a few sleeping pills be my guest". This is unhelpful just the type of medical advice a patient presumably would run from but for their suffering if it sounds as if they might get a prescription and some relief now that in the United States if one wishes to practice medicine there seems little point in enduring medical training and associated staggering debt to get an M.D. when one can get a G.E.D. join the DEA and "practice" medicine with no license at all.

Ninth Amendment New York Times SUBMITTED Comment 2 :

BigMartin
 waronnothing Pending Approval

The Ninth Amendment log at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com (which has no medical expertise whatsoever) weighs in again on observing that comments here appear to be "all over the map". This confirms our earlier concern that this medical summary overall is not very helpful and should be presented ideally by a physician recognized as specializing in this area such that more readers might be left with a better more consistent understanding of what the underlying study did or did not conclude with some reasonable degree of assurance of the causal relationship of these drugs if any to the onset or course of Alzheimers Disease. This charged topic clearly is a matter of some importance to much of the population. The apparent lack of authority and consistent understanding here then seems to be addressed by the practice akin to opening "forums" where the value of each contribution is basically anyone's guess. We suggest that the Times consider following up this piece by one who might give readers more assurance of what was learned and most importantly what practical use they might make of that information. This is probably most helpful for those suffering from the underlying conditions the drugs are meant to treat to a degree of severity and for such a duration that those who have not experienced such extreme symptoms may not comprehend that they may drive one mentally into a hopeless condition regardless of their predisposition to depression when there seems no viable relief in sight.

New York Times Article:

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/study-links-anxiety-drugs-to-alzheimers-disease/#commentsContainer

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LAST DAY PLEASE COMMENT NOW! Stop FCC Stealth Kill Of Your Internet For Big Business Control! Hands Off Our Internet Public Utility Of, By, And For The People! Drown the FCC in NO THANK YOU! Comments By Today Tuesday, 15 July 2014

       Sunday, 13 July 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - UPDATED. Fascinating if not so blatantly corrupt how the State never fails to "allow" the People the absolute least time possible to stand up and stop the biggest giveaways of the most valuable public property of our lifetimes. No excuses internet users indeed all Americans must now stand up to the corrupt State and Big Business thieves by the Tuesday, 15 July 2014 arbitrary deadline today and utterly drown the FCC with comments like those below NO THANK YOU! FCC State scum no killing off our internet public utility for one more huge permanent Big Business giveaway just like the State did with our TV and radio airwaves and railroad rights of way before that and so many other public resources that belong to the People alone. Stop these greed-crazed bums right here right now or we all surely will regret not taking but a minute to act now so as not to spend out our painfully slow lives idly waiting like slaves on blank screens while Big Business just keeps getting richer ripping us all off as it rams its "priority" trash through our internet that we let go. The reliable and WORKING internet EQUALLY accessible to all has come to define the great present-day public utility at the heart and core of our modern-day uncensored free network it holds us together and powers the unfettered exercise by all the People of the rights of religion, free speech, assembly and all our others with direct worldwide connection to all Peoples of our world as never before seen. But the very fear of the People claiming their vast freedoms which are their true birthright under the Constitution such that the State and Big Business cannot control and run roughshod over them makes the false of spirit weak at the knees and shake in their boots for they finally are exposed. The truth sets the People equal and free. And that drives the State and its Big Business bedfellows to madness. Do not let them steal one more public resource that is so vital. Do not let them steal your internet.

URGENT: Tell the FCC: Don’t kill the Internet Tom Wheeler, President Obama's newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), recently proposed adopting rules that will end Net Neutrality and kill the Internet as we know it. The fate of the Internet at stake, and we have three days to speak out by submitting public comments to the FCC before the July 15 deadline. Dear Martin, Tom Wheeler, the president's newly appointed FCC chair, recently proposed rules that would allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to divide the Internet into fast lanes for wealthy corporations and slow lanes for the rest of us. If adopted, these rules would amount to nothing less than the corporate takeover of the Internet and the death of Net Neutrality. However, because of a massive public backlash from open Internet supporters like you, Chairman Wheeler was forced to keep the door open for the change we really need -- reclassifying the Internet as a public utility, which is the only way to establish Net Neutrality regulations with teeth. The FCC is now accepting public comments on this proposal, but the current comment period ends this Tuesday. We need to make sure Chairman Wheeler and the rest of the FCC commissioners feel overwhelming pressure from the public to take the necessary step of reclassifying the Internet as a public utility. Click here to submit a public comment today. Net Neutrality is important because the Internet is an essential service Americans rely on to conduct our most basic daily affairs, from applying for a job to finding a home, to running a small business. And our right to communicate freely and be heard lies at the heart of our ability to participate equally in our democracy. A string of federal court cases has made it abundantly clear that the FCC has the power to enforce strong Net Neutrality rules, but only if the FCC goes through the process of undoing a terrible Bush-era decision to deregulate broadband instead of treating it like the vital public utility it has become. Chairman Wheeler says that he wants to preserve the open Internet. But his proposal explicitly states a preference for not reclassifying broadband -- the one and only thing that will allow the FCC to protect Net Neutrality and ban discrimination on the Internet. The public can’t be silent in the face of this. You can bet that Chairman Wheeler will be hearing from the army of lobbyists who work for the big telecoms intent on destroying Net Neutrality. We need to make sure he also hears from us. Don't delay. Click the link below to submit a public comment today. http://act.credoaction.com/go/5117?t=5&akid=11166.5397176.2sAwTE Thank you for speaking out to stop the corporate takeover of the Internet. Becky Bond, Political Director CREDO Action from Working Assets Add your name: Learn more about this campaign Share on Facebook Post to your wall Tweet this Post to Twitter © 2014 CREDO. All rights reserved.

George Clooney Continues To Slam Trash English Tabloid The Daily Mail Online Mail New York Times Article Reports - Times Digital Publishes Ninth Amendment Editorial Board Comment

       Saturday, 12 June 2014, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The New York Times edition today reported in the article linked below that the normally publicly reserved George Clooney remains unmollified by what he apparently regards as insufficiently half-hearted insincere efforts of the English trash tabloid The Daily Mail's Web Publication Mail Online to worm its way out of an incendiary article it published making untruthful assertions including about Mr. Clooney's Lebanese fiancee and her family's relationship with him which seemingly have incensed Mr. Clooney.
       The tabloid already has acknowledged  its online piece was factually incorrect and withdrew it within hours of Mr. Clooney's publication of his first response in USA Today reportedly hammering the tabloid for what Mr. Clooney claims to have been its extreme recklessness in publishing a piece which could expose his fiancee and/or her mother and their far-flung families potentially to serious danger in a world which already presents more than enough real dangers.
       Preceding the link below directly to the Times article concerning Mr. Clooney's continuing apparent outrage at The Daily Mail's Web Publication Mail Online while that tabloid's Web Publication has continued to enjoy a surge of readership in its expansion into the United States' market is a comment submitted to the Times on behalf of the Ninth Amendment editorial board in response to the Times article which Ninth Amendment comment is here below reproduced verbatim (with one spelling error corrected) having been just hours ago published in today's same digital edition of the Times along with other comments directly responding to the Times article.

BigMartin

 waronnothing 1 hour ago

The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com expresses its full sympathy and support for Mr. Clooney, his fiancee, and all their families and loved ones. Mr. Clooney both in his life on and off the set is a living example of the very finest qualities of decorum and compassion far beyond what we ourselves could ever hope to achieve in our lifetimes. We are completely unfamiliar with the offending "tabloid" which would by all accounts seem to aspire to all the very worst qualities antithetical to what Mr. Clooney and his work both professional and humanitarian represents to all of us as the very finest example of the highest qualities which persons of every race might only aspire to achieve. Should the offending "tabloid" purport to hold itself out as a "news" organization given the most copious resources reported to be at its disposal might we suggest, including in recognition of and in respect for the scores of journalists who have given their lives in the field in just the past year to report the news, that it follow the example of news organizations such as CNN, the New York Times, le Monde and so many others and get some of its people off the streets of SoHo and Los Angeles and out there to the front lines of the Middle East and perhaps eastern Ukraine, for starters. These are serious times which is all the less excuse for spurious and infantile behavior by those who would hold themselves out to be members of the noblest of professions

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