Topic: DRUGS - on April 6, 2008 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
Psychedelic Research: Past, Present, and Future - Stanislav Grof
The use of psychedelic substances can be traced back for millennia, to the dawn of human history. Since time immemorial, plant materials containing powerful, consciousness-expanding compounds were used to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness or, more specifically, an important subgroup of them, which I call "holotropic" (Grof 2000). These plants have played an important role in shamanic practice, aboriginal healing ceremonies, rites of passage, mysteries of death and rebirth, and various other spiritual traditions. The ancient and native cultures using psychedelic materials held them in great esteem and considered them to be sacraments, "flesh of the gods" (Schultes, Hofmann, and Raetsch 2001).
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 6, 2008 at 12:41:00 PM CEST
Sechs Millionen Dollar bar in Lastwagen entdeckt
Auf der Suche nach Drogenschmugglern haben mexikanische Soldaten eine Überraschung erlebt: Nahe der Grenze zu den USA erwischten sie fünf Verdächtige - und fanden sechs Millionen Dollar in bar.
Mexiko-Stadt - Ein Drogenkommando der mexikanischen Armee im nördlichen Staat Tamaulipas fand das Geld in acht Koffern versteckt. Die Fahnder hatten zuvor einen Traktoranhänger und einen kleineren Lastwagen untersucht, die an einer Schnellstraße geparkt waren.
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 6, 2008 at 12:39:00 PM CEST
Cyberwar threat way down the agenda at NATO conference
For all its hype the threat cyberwarfare merited less than 100 words in a summary of discussions between heads of state at NATO conference last week.
The three-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Romania last week focused on discussing NATO operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan, and plans for the further expansion of NATO, particularly in the Balkans. Cyber defense got a briefest of look-ins, as point 47 of a 50 point declaration by heads of state and government meeting at the conference. The policy statement (below), which might have been drafted by Yes Minister's Humphrey Appleby, doesn't give too much away beyond saying the NATO allies might - on request - intervene to help an ally under attack.
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