Twitter mania

      Yeah, I just signed up for two twitter feeds, @GlobalRevLive,
and @HongPong, where I am reminded to  @OccupyWallSt.
       Ah the scent of People Power in the morning...
       It smells like... a lot of hungry people waking up in the streets of North American cities, searching for truth... searching for justice..food would be good too...
       Previously I mentioned the article by Chris Hedges, 'Why Revolution Must Start In America', published in the July/Aug issue of Adbusters magazine, which says: "Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and former international correspondent for the New York Times.  His latest book is 'The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress'."  Well I am an unabashed fan of Adbusters, and its editor Kalle Lasn.  They of course have a video feed of the occupation of Wall St. on their website.
      I don't recall seeing a word on this in my local Postmedia publication...
      So it's up to us humble bloggers, us community-minded netizens, to speak truth to power!!!
      Have a look at the summer edition of Adbusters, the one with both Justin Bieber and Louis Riel on the cover, and go ahead and read such articles as "Will The Revolution Begin In London?", "The Spark That Lights Up Australia" and,  "Unleashing Canada's Revolutionary Potential".
      Joel Bakan has a new book that made the Edmonton best seller list, called 'Childhood Under Seige'.  (Thanks Edmonton Journal. There are some things you do well!).  But again, Adbusters is well ahead of the curve, and publishes a letter from a young student that is well worth reading.
      To summarize, this student (Ian S.) picked up a copy of Adbusters in the students union.  He came across an article on "bipolar disorder", which made him cry.   He writes that a few months ago he was diagnosed as "bipolar" after a 45 minute session with a psychiatrist and a printed questionnaire.
      Upon this basis, the psychiatrist prescribed three powerful psychotropic drugs, consisting of an anti-anxiety drug, an anti-depressant drug, and an anti-psychotic drug.
      After taking the pills for a week, he decides to read up on them, and consults a therapist, who says there were no grounds to diagnose him as "bipolar", and that dangerously little is known about the anti-psychotic drug he took.
       The letter writer further states that the therapist confirmed his wariness over the relationship  between psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical lobby, and that {they} were at the mental health facility weekly.
        After taking the said medications, he attempted suicide four times in five months and nearly flunked out of college.  He goes on to curse the pharmaceutical companies, their lobbyists, and the psychiatrists they lobby.
        He states that {they} nearly killed him, and reminds us of the death of a little girl after psychiatric treatment  (Rebecca Riley?).   He concludes, "For doing that to a little girl, they deserve the worst punishment that society can offer.".
        I haven't read Joel Bakan's current best selling book, but I believe this distinguished professor of Law at UBC covers this horrifying trend of labelling children and prescribing to them powerful and addicting psychotropic drugs.
        On my Twitter feed, I'm following those who try to enact change, for revolution is needed throughout our world.  I'm especially concerned about corporate lobbyists bringing death to innocents with their corrupt practices.  Adbusters has continuously covered this blight on society, and has a very special term for it: "The Culture Of Death".