Technical Difficulties

Stephan:  Stephan is in Pau, France speaking at a conference, and we are experiencing connectivity issues which do not allow him to logon to the site where he prepares SR. He send his apologies, and plans to return home on the 1st, when SR will resume.
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Over $1 Trillion Spent Since Nixon Began The War On Drugs

Stephan:  The social policies of the U.S. are a disaster. We have 17 million children with hunger issues. We have somewhere between 400,000 and a million rape kits sitting untested in police evidence rooms around the country -- only 3 per cent of rapes in the U.S. result in arrests and conviction. And tens of thousands of vets are homeless. We don't have the money we are told to solve those problems. But we have had over a trillion dollars to bust people for drugs, mostly marijuana.

Drug-War-NazisWASHINGTON — The “war on drugs” costs Americans a staggering amount of money every year that it persists. Despite the billions they receive, federal, state and local law enforcement have a proven inability to stem the flow of drugs on the nation’s streets.

Since Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in June 1971, the cost of that “war” had soared to over $1 trillion by 2010. Over $51 billion is spent annually to fight the drug war in the United States, according to Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting more humane drug policies.

It’s also taken a massive toll on human lives. In 2013, at least 2.2 million people were incarcerated in the U.S., with some estimates reaching 2.4 million, making the U.S. home to the world’s largest prison population. A vast number of those prisoners are victims of the war on drugs, reported Alejandro Crawford in U.S. News and World Report in March:
“Still, we should take comfort in the fact that these are mostly violent criminals and hardened drug kingpins, right? […]

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Silicon Valley professionals are taking LSD at work to increase productivity

Stephan:  For years LSD research was forbidden territory to science. But things are changing, and very unusual insights are beginning to emerge. Do you know about Micro-dosing? Probably not. Here's the story.
Jim Fadiman, PhD

Jim Fadiman, PhD

Could taking LSD at work make your more productive? “You’re doing a task you normally couldn’t stand for two hours, but you do it for three or four. You eat properly. Maybe you do one more set of reps. Just a good day. That seems to be what we’re discovering,” says psychedelics researcher Dr James Fadiman,

According to Rolling Stone, a growing number of people are experimenting with “microdoses” of psychedelics to help them work.

A microdose of LSD is around 10-15 micrograms, approximately a tenth of a “normal” dose.

At that dosage, Rolling Stone describes the drug’s effects as “subperceptual”: ” ‘Enough, says Rick Doblin, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, ‘to feel a little bit of energy lift, a little bit of insight, but not so much that you are tripping.’”

Psychedelics researcher […]

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Japan’s Leadership in LENRs Continues

Stephan:  Most people in the U.S. think Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) technology is crap science, and the mainstream media doesn't touch the story. But my reading over the years convinces me that this is just another area in science in which we are falling behind, and that LENR is a potential game changer. And other countries seem to agree. Here is the latest.

20151002132955!Nissan_LogoOne more Japanese auto company, Nissan, is researching low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs), New Energy Times has learned.

The information comes from an e-mail sent today by LENR researcher Akito Takahashi to other LENR researchers. Takahashi is a former professor at Osaka University and is affiliated with Technova, a member of the Toyota Motor Corp. family of businesses.

Takahashi’s e-mail confirms that the Japanese government’s initiative to fund LENR research — for the first time in two decades — has moved forward. The LENR research is sponsored through the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a national research and development agency. New Energy Times first reported the NEDO story on Aug. 24, 2015.

“The nano-metal hydrogen energy project (NEDO-MHE),” Takahashi wrote, “has been adopted, conditionally, by NEDO for one of leading projects of eco-energy innovation. The NEDO-MHE project started on Oct. 26, 2015, officially.

“The joint research team (Nano-METS) comprises six institutions: two companies, Technova and Nissan; and four universities, Tohoku, Kyushu, Nagoya and Kobe.”

The experimental program will involve four areas, according to Takahashi: a) development of a new calorimetry system at […]

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