Students Partying On ‘ADHD’ Drugs

A new kind of drug abuse is sweeping university campuses in North America, Canada and Austrailia and is expected to come to Britain.
Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta and other stimulant drugs that are used for ‘treating’ children diagnosed with the controversial disorder ‘ADHD’ have found a ready black market among students.
In Britain, drug agencies say reports suggest abuse of these drugs is just starting and British campuses should be prepared.

Some students have reported ‘ADHD drug’ parties where the drugs are crushed to a powder and snorted, giving the user an amphetamine-like boost.
But in most cases it has been used to help students stay awake during last-minute studying or while writing essays.

Research has shown that in some American schools up to a third of boys are on ADHD drugs although many of them do not have ‘ADHD’.
Parents are choosing to give the drug to their well-behaved but under-achieving children believing it will enhance their performance.
More than 8 million children in the US are said to be taking ADHD drugs.
Reports suggest that more than a million mothers in the US are having their children diagnosed with ‘ADHD’ so that they can use the drugs themselves.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has classified these drugs as a schedule II drug – comparable to Cocaine.
Reports claim that four children are dying every week in the US from ADHD drugs.
It is also claimed that many more have committed suicide or have attempted to commit suicide – one of the ‘side effects’ listed by the drug makers.
And our doctors continue to prescribe these psychotic drugs to children from the age of 5.

The UK and the US do not release figures for the number of children dying nor the number of children who have suffered from serious side effects.
I wonder why?
Is it because the drug makers ‘sponsor’ many of our medical facilities and organizations?

1,430 Murders In Jamaica Last Year

For years Jamaica has maintained the contradiction of being one of the most beautiful and welcoming islands in the Caribbean, with friendly people and the legacy of Bob Marley, while also having one of the highest murder rates per capita in the world.
In 2010 there were 1,430 murders in Jamaica, all unseen from the fenced-in, luxury hotels visited by over 100,000 British holidaymakers.
Attracting mounting international concern, as well as the attention of the UN, is the increasing number of extrajudicial killings by the Jamaican Constabulary Force (JCF), which has adopted a heavy-handed approach to combating violence.
Last year officers shot dead 382 people.

After Man Came Woman….

Red sky at night – shepherd’s house on fire.

Happiness is chatting up a girl for ten minutes and then finding out she’s fancied you for twenty.

I need to lose a few pounds –
If I look at you long enough it will kill my appetite.

To the greedy, the selfish, the wicked and the evil people in the world –
I suggest that you take up space travel.
Offer yourself to the Americans next time they’re planning a one-way trip to Mars.

If you fail the intelligence test to become a road sweeper, you can always apply to be a traffic warden.

After man came woman –
And she’s been after him ever since.

Mistletoe – a parasitic, poisonous evergreen plant, which I’d rather eat than kiss you.

What Is Greater Than God

What is greater than God,
More evil than the devil,
The poor have it,
And the rich don’t need it?

NOTHING.

Red-Blooded Males

It is genetically compulsory for red-blooded males between the ages of 15 and 108 to ogle all females who are over 16 and under 70.

A survey carried out by sausage salesmen in Frankfurt, and due to be published in the weekly journal Breasts And Legs, concludes that any man who does not look at women is either blind, insane, drives a Volvo estate car, or dead.

Drugs Are ‘Legal’ When Prescribed

Now there is no more crime on our streets,
Now that robberies and burglaries no longer take place,
Now that rape and murder and child abuse are unknown,
The police have very little to do.
So, to keep them busy, they put all their efforts in hunting for people who choose to smoke or consume ‘illegal’ substances.
Regardless of your age or how mature or intelligent you are, you may be put in prison for selling, purchasing or consuming these ‘illegal’ substances.
The prison sentence you receive is usually longer than that given for mugging and beating an old lady or abusing a child.
Cigarettes, tobacco, alcohol, and psychotic drugs prescribed for children from the age of 5, are deemed to be ‘legal’.

Love Comes Back Again

Light in the eyes again
Strength in the hand
A spirit dares, dies, forgives
And can understand.
Love comes back again
After grief and shame
And along the wind of death
Throws a clean flame.

An Indian Princess Tortured And Killed By The Nazis

On September 13, 1944, a beautiful Indian princess lay dead on the floor at Dachau concentration camp.
She had been brutally tortured by the Nazis then shot in the head.
Her name was Noor Inayat Khan.
The Germans knew her only as Nora Baker, a British spy.
The first female radio operator to infiltrate occupied Paris, she was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre and the George Cross.
When a bust of Noor goes up in London’s Gordon Square in 2012, it will be the first statue to an Indian woman in Britain, and the first to any Muslim.

Noor’s journey from her birthplace in Moscow to London was in many ways part of her exotic upbringing.
A descendent of Tipu Sultan – the famous 18th century ruler of South India, known as the Tiger of Mysore – she was brought up a fierce nationalist by her father, Hazrat Inayat Khan, a Sufi preacher and musician.
Inayat Khan left his hometown of Baroda in western India to take Sufism to the West.
Deeply spiritual, he gave concerts and lecture tours in America where he met Noor’s mother, Ora Ray Baker.
Soon the two moved to London where they were married, Ora taking the name of Ameena Begum.
In 1914, Inayat Khan was invited to Moscow and It was there that Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan was born.
She had the title of Pirzadi, daughter of the Pir.
Moscow at the time was rife with political discontent and Inayat Khan soon moved back to London.
The family spent the next six years in a house on Gordon Square.
But the British government was suspicious of Inayat Khan, who was a friend of Nehru and Gandhi and a strong nationalist, so the family went to France.
They began life again on the outskirts of Paris in a house called Fazal Manzil or House of Blessing.
It was here Noor spent most of her life.
Educated and genteel, she went to the Sorbonne to study child psychology.

When England declared war on Germany, Noor and her brother Vilayat decided it was a crime to stand by and watch, even though as Sufis they believed in non-violence.
They went to London to be part of the war effort.
In November 1940, Noor volunteered for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force.

Officers of the Special Operations Executive, Churchill’s secret army, were looking for people with language skills.
Noor – fluent in French and now a trained wireless operator – fitted the bill.
At an interview, she was told she would be sent as an agent to Paris – and shot if she was caught.
She took the job.
Over the next few months, Noor was trained as a secret agent, given arms training, taught to shoot and kill, and finally flown to Paris under the code name of Madeleine, carrying only a false passport, a clutch of French francs and a pistol.
Despite her spy network collapsing around her, Noor stayed in France for three months, until she was betrayed.

What followed in October 1943 was arrest, imprisonment in chains, torture and interrogation.
Noor bore it all.
She revealed nothing to her captors, not even her real name.
When the end came on September 13, 1944, it was not swift or painless.
All night long an SS officer kicked and tortured Noor.
Defiant till the last, she shouted “Liberte” as she went down to a bullet fired at the back of her head.

Preserve The Good Memories

Your past will always be an important part of your life.
Don’t try to forget anything.
Lock those thoughts and experiences away safely in your memory so that you can get on with your life.
Preserve the good memories, taking them out to enjoy them from time to time, and allow the bad memories to fade away.

The Wonderful Legacy Of Our Fallen Heroes

300,000 British men were killed in the 1939 – 1945 world war.
Mine is the generation after that one.
I wasn’t born until 1948, long after the guns were silenced, but I grew up with those who were there, listening to their stories.
As new generations come along the link is weakened.
Events that tore into our parents lives fade away to nothing among the children who never met them.
This makes people feel hurt and forgotten.
And yet I think we should look at it another way, as a victory, as a triumph and as the most lasting and wonderful legacy our fallen heroes could wish to have.
The kids who think nothing of the war dead do so because they think nothing of war.
They mark three generations, so far, free from the threat of world war – the freedom for which soldiers gave their lives.
Now, as those soldiers rest in that corner of a foreign field – do they really ask for more?