When Stephen Harper launched his high-profile National Anti-Drug Strategy in the fall of 2007, he took aim at critics who were already saying his new Conservative government was putting too much emphasis on more drug arrests and longer prison sentences, and not enough on helping addicts. "This approach will be tough on crime and compassionate for victims," the Prime Minister said in a speech in Winnipeg announcing the policy. "If you're addicted to drugs, we'll help you, but if you deal drugs, we'll punish you."
The blueprint Harper unveiled that day would bring more than $500 million in spending by a dozen federal departments and agencies under one umbrella. Spending was mapped out for five years, the period that ended this past spring. Now, a plan for the next five years of anti-drug program, again worth more than half a billion dollars, has been drafted. Despite Harper's early emphasis on balance, though, the planning and priorities report tabled with the federal Treasury Board for the next five years reveals deep cuts in Health Canada's budget for drug treatment - but hefty increases in budgets for drug enforcement by police and prosecutors.
The spending squeeze that's likely to be most demoralizing for groups running street level rehabilitation programs for addicts is the reduction of Health Canada's Drug Treatment Funding Program to $80 million for the next five years, down from $122 million in the previous five years. In sharp contrast, the RCMP will see its five-year funding for investigating marijuana growers and clandestine drug labs rise to $113 million, up from $85 million in the previous five years. As well, support for the federal Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions will rise to $61 million for the coming five-year stretch, up from $43 million for the strategy's first half-decade (John Geddes, "Drug Money. Ottawa's revamped anti-drug strategy focuses more on busting drug users than helping them", MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE, August 6, 2012).
Guys, please, enough. Gun bans are the left's equivalent of mandatory minimum sentences. It's embarrassing ("In search of easy answers", NATIONAL POST, Thursday, July 19, 2012).
RUSSIA BACKSLIDING ON RIGHTS: UN OFFICIAL
Geneva United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay on Wednesday said the new administration of Russian president Vladimir Putin was sliding back to Soviet practices in its handling of dissent and free speech. In a statement issued from her Geneva office, Ms. Pillay said laws being passed in Moscow on freedom of assembly, of speech and of information would have a detrimental of the Russian Federation to avoid taking further steps backwards to a more restrictive era," she declared, in a clear reference to the more than seven decades of communist rule, which collapsed in 1991. Reuters (NATIONAL POST, Thursday, July 19, 2012).
Rosyjskie Ministerstwo Obrony oswiadczylo, iz cztery z jego bombowcow strategicznych Tu-22M3 wykonywaly we wtorek loty nad Baltykiem i Morzem Czarnym, by podniesc umiejetnosci pilotow w lataniu nad terenem bez naprowadzania i wykonac szereg zadan we wspoldzialaniu z zalogami mysliwcow Su-27 ("Rosyjskie bombowce nad Baltykiem", WIADOMOSCI, 19 lipca 2012).
MAJA RUSZPEL: W Polsce problemy z prawem maja najczesciej osoby posiadajace male ilosci narkotyku na wlasny uzytek, a nie dilerzy.
KATARZYNA MALINOWSKA-SEMPRUCH: Tak. Statystyki dotyczace uzywania narkotykow, odkad weszlo restrykcyjne prawo, caly czas ida w gore. Tymczasem nadal scigamy ludzi, ktorzy zazywaja substancje psychoaktywne, posiadaja je na wlasny uzytek albo sa od nich uzaleznieni. To im fundujemy wyroki, ktore przez lata zawezaja ich mozliwosci. Nie da sie racjonalnie wytlumaczyc, dlaczego to robimy ("Joint a spoleczenstwo obywatelskie", PRZEKROJ, 18 czerwca 2012).
The Modern Slavery project is a direct successor to previous C.A.L. Press projects. These include the magazine Anarchy: Journal of Desire Armed (published since 1980, and now produced by an independent collective since 2006), the North American Anarchist Review (published for a few years in the '80s), the Alternative Press Review (another magazine, published from 1993 well into the 2000s, with a web site that's still occasionally updated at both www.altpr.org & www.alternativepressreview.org), and the C.A.L. Press book publishing project (with titles including Future Primitive, Anarchy after Leftism and Elements of Refusal).
The original idea for this new journal was to provide a space within the libertarian and anarchist milieu for the publication of some of the really important, critical and creative material that has too often fallen into cracks between what will fit into the inadequate spaces available in libertarian periodicals and what has been publishable in book form ("New journal on the planet!", MODERN SLAVERY, Spring-Summer 2012).
Dla rosyjskich wladz Bialorusini i Ukraincy byli tak naprawde Rosjanami, ktorym w glowach mieszali polscy panowie (Piotr Zychowicz, "Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodow dzieki swoim Ziemiom Wschodnim byla europejskim mocarstwem. III RP jest tylko jej cieniem", UWAZAM RZE HISTORIA, Lipiec 2012).
The problem facing advocates today isn't that we lack the objective scientific evidence needed to craft a rational public policy on cannabis and its many potential health benefits. The problem instead is that our existing public policy remains 180 degrees removed from where the science now tells us it should be.
So how do we change that? For starters, by educating public-policy leaders on the existing research - which overwhelmingly confirms that cannabis is sufficiently safe and effective - and by rejecting the notion that we as a society "just don't know enough" about its health effects.
Because we already know plenty. And, most of all, we know there is no valid scientific reason to justify the continued targeting, prosecution and incarceration of Americans who consume cannabis responsibly (Paul Armentano, "Science Says: Legalize! But how much does cannabis research matter if the federal government isn't listening?", HIGH TIMES, September 2012).
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00:56 Hrs. Budzi mnie sie siusiu.
04:12 Hrs. Budzi mnie siusiu.
06:42 Hrs. Budzi mnie siusiu + wstaje. Na dworze 21-stopniowo. Odczuwalne 27C. Temp. w kuchni 22C.
06:47 Hrs. Mierze stezenie cukru we krwi na czczo. 8.0 mmol/L.
06:51 Hrs. Pije wode z cytryna + czestuje sie czekoladka Xocai POWER.
06:53 Hrs. Lektura tronowa. "Gazeta Polska".
W polskich warunkach blog corki premiera moze spelniac specyficzna funkcje - Jestesmy spoleczenstwem postchlopskim, postfeudalnym, w ktorym plotki z dworu wladcy, takze te na temat jego rodziny, zawsze budzily szerokie zainteresowanie w stanie trzecim. Dzis za pomoca bloga niektore z nich stawac sie moga elementem kultury masowej.
W spontanicznosc Kasi Tusk nie wierza niektore jej konkurentki kreujace mode wsrod rowiesniczek. 18-letnia poznanianka Jessica Mercedes-Kirschner, nazywana "dyktatorka mody" wsrod nastolatek, napisala na swoim blogu:
"Pomijajac juz fakt, ze jej tata jest premierem, a ona tanczyla w tancu z gwiazdami, nie porownujcie nas do niej, my nie mamy sztabu specjalistow, ktorzy zajmuja sie naszym PR-em, zamykaja kawiarnie, w ktorych 'pijemy kawe', aby zrobic nam zdjecia, ktorzy za nas odpisuja maile i za nas dodaja wpisy na facebooku. My jestesmy dla Was i z Wami. My zaczynalismy od poczatku, bedac nikim, na wszystko same pracujemy, my blogierki modowe i nie zaslugujemy na porownanie do Kasi Tusk" (Piotr Lisiewicz, "Kasia Tusk w butach Moniki Jaruzelskiej", GAZETA POLSKA, 27 czerwca 2012).
07:30 Hrs. Wskakuje na wage APSCO. 74 kg.
07:38 Hrs. Biore 2 tabletki chemii + popijam mlekiem.
07:43 Hrs. Odpalam maszyne. Zachmurzenie male z przejasnieniami + sloneczne okulary. Petro-Canada na rogu bierze za litr paliwa $1.28.9.
07:56 Hrs. W kosciele Sw. Kazimierza.
"Pan mym pasterzem nie brak mi niczego"
09:05 Hrs. Kupuje 3 male chlebki z makiem w Benna's ($4.77).
09:16 Hrs. W domu. Na dworze 23-stopniowo. Odczuwalne 29C. Temp. w kuchni 23C.
09:20 Hrs. Mierze stezenie cukru we krwi. 10.2 mmol/L + jem pol owocu smoka.
11:18 Hrs. Mierze stezenie cukru we krwi. 8.9 mmol/L + jem 100 g. kubeczek greckiego jogurtu OIKOS.
12:46 Hrs. Mierze stezenie cukru we krwi. 7.8 mmol/L + jem awokado.
13:38 Hrs. Jem 3 morelki + 2 zolte sliwki z jadrami pestek.
16:17 Hrs. Po obiedzie + Rysiek doglada swoja kolekcje egzotycznych drzewek na tarasie. Miedzy innymi 2 drzewka cytrynowe, 2 pomaranczowe, 1 litchi + jakis nieznany owoc.
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16:24 Hrs. Zerwala sie ulewa + swieci slonce.
16:44 Hrs. Biore pastylke RAPHACHOLIN C dla wspomozenia watroby.
17:26 Hrs. Badam stezenie cukru we krwi. 9.4 mmol/L + uczucie laknienia + 4 tabletki chemii popite woda + piernik.
18:00 Hrs. Jem jedna swieza morele z jadrem pestki + biore garstke (18) jader pestek moreli, suszonych z torebki.
19:38 Hrs. Badam stezenie cukru we krwi. 9.2 mmol/L + krackersy z maselkiem z orzeszkow ziemnych + mleko.
Gdzie sa ci mezczyzni, ktorzy po zatrzymaniu auta biegli na jego druga strone by otworzyc drzwi swej pani i podac jej reke przy wychodzeniu? Ja kiedys takim bylem, z szacunku dla kobiety prowadzilem ja po prawej stronie, otwieralem drzwi, calowalem w raczke. Przestalem calowac Polki juz poza Polska, bo kilkakrotnie zuwazylem spojrzenie calowanej w strone swej przyjacolki, a z niego mozna bylo latwo wyczytac przeslanie: "Co za stary ramol, zapomnial, ze nie zyje w XIX wieku". Przestalem calowac rece nie-Polek, bo to wywolywalo szok, a niekiedy zdziwienie czy wprost rozczulenie. Jedna z takich pan obcalowala moja reke z wdziecznosci, ze tak ja uhonorowalem. Od tego momentu nie ma juz jednostronnego czy obopolnego calowania. Drzwi nie otwieram, bo jakos wolniej teraz wychodzi mi sie z auta, a gdy sie z niego wreszcie wygramole, pani juz czeka na mnie na chodniku. Niektore panie, pchane jakims odruchem warunkowym, nawet biegna do drzwi kierowcy, by mi pomoc wygramolic sie z auta. Wyglada na to, ze starzenie sie nie pomaga mi byc dzentelmenem. Prawdziwa mizeria! (W. Pomaranski, "Wymierajaca rasa - dzentelmeni", GAZETA GAZETA, piatek - czwartek, 20 - 26 lipca 2012).
21:12 Hrs. Czestuje sie czekoladka Xocai POWER + masaz szyi balsamem konopnym.
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