http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23763767-gordon-brown-im-right-to-overrule-drug-advisers.do

Witness the gall and audacity of this grotesque, fat, half blind cunt in all its glory (link above).

Science is all well and good, but only when it agrees with corrupt government policy apparently. Otherwise it’s bad, naughty science, and needs to be put in its place by the likes of postman Johnson.

Maybe Gordon should ease up on the booze, doesn’t seem to be working out for him (apart from in the taxation sense, of course)

Alan Johnson – ex postman. David Nutt – professor of psychopharmacology at Bristol University and head of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London. Clearly Alan Johnson is vastly more qualified to make this decision…

The government’s former chief drug adviser today accused the prime minister, Gordon Brown, of tightening the law on cannabis for political reasons.

Professor David Nutt warned that other experts on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) could resign in protest at his sacking by the home secretary, Alan Johnson, yesterday.

Nutt was forced to quit after he accused ministers of “devaluing and distorting” the scientific evidence over illicit drugs when they decided last year to reclassify cannabis from class C to class B against the advice of the ACMD.

Nutt told the BBC today that Brown had “made up his mind” to reclassify cannabis despite evidence to the contrary.

“Gordon Brown comes into office and, soon after that, he starts saying absurd things like cannabis is lethal… it has to be a class B drug. He has made his mind up.

“We went back, we looked at the evidence, we said, ‘No, no, there is no extra evidence of harm, it’s still a class C drug.’ He said, ‘Tough, it’s going to be class B’.”

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Nutt said: “He is the first prime minister, this is the first government, that has ever in the history of the Misuse of Drugs Act gone against the advice of its scientific panel.

“And then it did it again with ecstasy and I have to say it’s not about [me] overstepping the line, it’s about the government overstepping the line. They are making scientific decisions before they’ve even consulted with their experts.

“I know that my committee was very, very upset by the attitude the prime minister took over cannabis. We actually formally wrote to him to complain about it,” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them stepped down. Maybe all of them will.”

Nutt’s sacking is likely to raise concerns among scientists over the independence of advice to the government and may trigger further resignations. The Home Office describes the ACMD as an independent expert body that advises on drug-related issues, including recommendations on classification under the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act.

It is not thought that the home secretary spoke directly to Nutt before requesting his resignation in writing.

Johnson accused the professor of going beyond his remit as an evidence-based scientist and accused him of “lobbying for a change in government policy” rather than giving impartial advice.

“It is important that the government’s messages on drugs are clear and as an adviser you do nothing to undermine the public understanding of them,” Johnson wrote to Nutt.

“As my lead adviser on drugs harms I am afraid the manner in which you have acted runs contrary to your responsibilities.

“I cannot have public confusion between scientific advice and policy and have therefore lost confidence in your ability to advise me as chair of the ACMD.”

The decision followed the publication of a paper by the Centre for Crime and Justice at King’s College London, based on a lecture Nutt delivered in July. He repeated his familiar view that illicit drugs should be classified according to the actual evidence of the harm they cause and pointed out that alcohol and tobacco caused more harm than LSD, ecstasy and cannabis.

He accused the former home secretary, Jacqui Smith, of distorting and devaluing scientific research when she reclassified cannabis, and repeated his claim that the risks of taking ecstasy were no worse than riding a horse.

The charity DrugScope’s director of communications, Harry Shapiro, said: “The home secretary’s decision to force the resignation of the chair of an independent advisory body is an extremely serious and concerning development and raises serious questions about the means by which drug policy is informed and kept under review.”

Richard Garside, the director of the Centre for Crime and Justice at King’s College London, accused Johnson of undermining scientific research.

He said: “I’m shocked and dismayed that the home secretary appears to believe that political calculation trumps honest and informed scientific opinion.”

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, chief executive of the Medical Research Council (MRC), said: “It is crucial that UK policy is based on evidence and that scientists are able to offer unfettered advice without the fear of reprisal. This principle should be the backbone of scientific engagement with government.”

Neuroscientist Professor Colin Blakemore, former chief executive of the MRC, said he believed Prof Nutt was trying to “inform debate”.

“If ministers decide to go against the recommendations of their own experts, I really think the public is entitled to know why,” he told Sky News.

…because he wouldn’t lie for them.

The UK’s chief drugs adviser has been sacked by home secretary Alan Johnson after criticising government policies.

Professor David Nutt had been critical of the decision to reclassify cannabis to Class B from Class C.

He accused ministers of devaluing and distorting evidence and said the drugs classification system was being used in a “political way”.

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which he headed, is the UK’s official drugs advisory body.

The reaction of Jacqui Smith is typical of a government populated by the intellectually incompetent whose only reaction is to shoot the messenger when faced with facts they dislike. This stinks of the way they managed the David Kelly affair.

http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/estimatingdrugharms.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2009/10/nutt_faces_sack.html

What a CUNT.

Just look at the CUNT.

I wonder what it would feel like to rape him and then cut his throat. I wonder.

The latest incarnation of UCSniff allows one to listen to conversations live, unlike previous versions which captured the content for replay later.

Get it here…

http://ucsniff.sourceforge.net/

Used to be Blackwater. You know. Thick fucks with guns, paid to murder largely innocent people.   Erik Prince could be a complete fucking moron. Who knew?

Dirty, cowardly,  murderous fucking parasites.  When their time comes, as it surely will, may it be slow and horrific, as they have made it for so many.

16 Year old Girl Murdered by Ayatollah Khamenei and his murderous perverse regime.

IRAN Cyberwar guide for beginners, spread it about;

1. Do NOT publicise proxy IP’s over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag.  Security forces are monitoring this hashtag, and the moment they identify a proxy IP they will block it in Iran.  If you are creating new proxies for the Iranian bloggers, DM them to @stopAhmadi or @iran09 and they will distributed them discretely to bloggers in Iran.
2. Hashtags, the only two legitimate hashtags being used by bloggers in Iran are #iranelection and #gr88, other hashtag ideas run the risk of diluting the conversation.
3. Keep you bull$hit filter up!  Security forces are now setting up twitter accounts to spread disinformation by posing as Iranian protesters.  Please don’t retweet impetuosly, try to confirm information with reliable sources before retweeting.  The legitimate sources are not hard to find and follow.
4. Help cover the bloggers: change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30.  Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches.  If we all become ‘Iranians’ it becomes much harder to find them.
5. Don’t blow their cover! If you discover a genuine source, please don’t publicise their name or location on a website.  These bloggers are in REAL danger. Spread the word discretely through your own networks but don’t signpost them to the security forces. People are dying there, for real, please keep that in mind.
6. Denial of Service attacks. If you don’t know what you are doing, stay out of this game. Only target those sites the legitimate Iranian bloggers are designating.  Be aware that these attacks can have detrimental effects to the network the protesters are relying on.  Keep monitoring their traffic to note when you should turn the taps on or off.
7. Do spread the (legitimate) word, it works!  When the bloggers asked for twitter maintenance to be postponed using the #nomaintenance tag, it had the desired effect. As long as we spread good information, provide moral support to the protesters, and take our lead from the legitimate bloggers, we can make a constructive contribution.

Please remember that this is about the future of the Iranian people, while it  might be exciting to get caught up in the flow of participating in a new meme, do not lose sight of what this is really about.

…and spot on,  Jon la Joie…

Girl, I’m a sexually attractive man
That makes me a good artist
This is my new single
I hope you like it

Wealthy men hired me, to sing
this song that they wrote for me, they’re investing
in this pricey music video, and they’re paying
to get it played on the radio (on the radio)
and they’re gonna sell a million (a million)
yes, it’s gonna go platinum

‘Cause they’ll market this song to
young, impressionable, and
insecure teenage girls
‘Cause all you gotta say is
“ooh baby”, “i love you”, or
“girl, i need you in my world”.
Yes, they’ll market this song to
young, impressionable, and
insecure teenage girls
‘Cause all they gotta do is find
a sexually attractive man that can sing
all the words

And now the token rap verse
that doesn’t make any sense
but helps it get a small percentage
of the urban music market

Hey baby, baby i can tell
that you are crazy, crazy
shake that ass girl,
my rhymes are gettin lazy, lazy
these things i’m talkin bout have
nothin to do with the song baby
it don’t matter
won’t you show me that thong baby?
That’s how it works
in the pop music industry
2009 mother fucker
that’s just how it be

‘Cause they’ll market this song to
young, impressionable, and
insecure teenage girls
‘Cause all you gotta say is
“ooh baby”, “i love you”, or
“girl, i need you in my world”.
Yes, they’ll market this song to
young, impressionable, and
insecure teenage girls
‘Cause all they gotta do is find
a sexually attractive man that can sing
all the words

Now I’m singing with my gay voice
to let you know i am sensitive
Oh yea, i’m singing with my gay voice
teenage girls love a sensitive voice (sensitive voice)
and you know i wanna

(make money money, make money money, make money) x3
Rich men makin money off of
their investments
ooo it’s so sexual baby

Girl, i love you so much.
I wish we could be together
unfortunately we can’t cause
im rich and famous and you’re not
but why dont you just go buy my album?
…and tell your friends about it to
so they also go out and buy it.