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Our Addictive Culture, Chemical Use & Misuse and the Magical Host the Human Brain & Body, Pt II

This is part II of a series of shows entitled Our Addictive Culture, Chemical Use & Misuse, and the Magical Host the Human Brain & Body.

What you will discover if you tune into Bringing Light Into Darkness this Monday 1/22/21 at 6pm CST at koop.org –

1. That the Real War on Drugs occurs every time you take a drug whether it is an aspirin, alcohol, marijuana, or a prescription drug.

2. Important insights into brain chemistry, pharmacology, and the ‘Drug Trek’ a drug takes inside the brain and/or body once ingested.

3. The role of the liver and kidneys in the metabolism and excretion phases of drug use.

4. We define the major pharmacological categories of mind-altering drugs.

5. review some of the different drug use modes of administration and the relative speed in which they reach the blood and are then delivered to the brain.

6. we discuss the brain physiology and the magical brain ecology that each one of us has between our ears.

7. we describe how with drug abuse brain cells adapt in a process called neuroadaptation.

8. we share a detailed example of the mode of action cocaine has and how with regular use neuroadaptation occurs and is the basis of physical dependence that will occur with prolonged and recurrent use.

9. basic human brain physiology and its unique capacities relative to all other living creatures’ brains is defined and explains the functionality of what distinguishes the human brain from the brains of all other species that inhabit the wonderous world we are a part of.

10. We close out the show with a short segment on the revolutionary potential of recovery and the primacy of the ‘recovery work ethic’ required, to develop the new and healthy synaptic pathways needed to supplant and replace the well-worn ruts of addictive behaviors and addictive thinking that recovery seeks to overcome.

‘Pgatos [email protected] 11/22/2021

Our Addictive Culture, Chemical Use & Misuse and the Magical Host the Human Brain & Body, Pt II

This is part II of a series of shows entitled Our Addictive Culture, Chemical Use & Misuse, and the Magical Host the Human Brain & Body.

What you will discover if you tune into Bringing Light Into Darkness this Monday 1/22/21 at 6pm CST at koop.org –

1. That the Real War on Drugs occurs every time you take a drug whether it is an aspirin, alcohol, marijuana, or a prescription drug.

2. Important insights into brain chemistry, pharmacology, and the ‘Drug Trek’ a drug takes inside the brain and/or body once ingested.

3. The role of the liver and kidneys in the metabolism and excretion phases of drug use.

4. We define the major pharmacological categories of mind-altering drugs.

5. review some of the different drug use modes of administration and the relative speed in which they reach the blood and are then delivered to the brain.

6. we discuss the brain physiology and the magical brain ecology that each one of us has between our ears.

7. we describe how with drug abuse brain cells adapt in a process called neuroadaptation.

8. we share a detailed example of the mode of action cocaine has and how with regular use neuroadaptation occurs and is the basis of physical dependence that will occur with prolonged and recurrent use.

9. basic human brain physiology and its unique capacities relative to all other living creatures’ brains is defined and explains the functionality of what distinguishes the human brain from the brains of all other species that inhabit the wonderous world we are a part of.

10. We close out the show with a short segment on the revolutionary potential of recovery and the primacy of the ‘recovery work ethic’ required, to develop the new and healthy synaptic pathways needed to supplant and replace the well-worn ruts of addictive behaviors and addictive thinking that recovery seeks to overcome.

‘Pgatos [email protected] 11/22/2021

How We are Blinded from the History of the Oppressive Nature of ‘Free Trade’

Democracy implies equal access to material success where success, as a head of household, is defined as providing a decent quality of life for your family. If you work hard enough measurable success and a decent quality of life will be yours. There is no reason that all families and their head of households cannot provide a viable and fairly comfortable quality of life for its next generation.

Tonight’s show juxtaposes ‘Free Trade vs Fair Trade’ and in doing so describes for listeners the backdrop, the world environment if you will that each of us are born into and find ourselves placed, through no volition of our own. It is a roll of the die that I am born into a wealthy or non-wealthy family system which then seals the probability of success or lack of success much more than my own personal responsibility or irresponsibility in pursuit of it.

We describe that it is the profitability and privilege that ‘Free Trade’ affords a small minority, and that ‘Fair Trade’ would eliminate such an undeserved and unfair advantage. Yet how is it that our culture promotes so successfully that it is Free Trade that is natural and inevitable, which is a big lie? That instead, because of Free Trade astounding inequality in wealth distribution has a long time ago emerged and reproduced itself in a way that has wrought unnecessary rates of poverty and misery worldwide.

Tonight’s show first defines these staggering levels of wealth inequality that make such a dream to provide for your family an unrealizable pipe dream for the majority populations of our country and the world.

We briefly but importantly bring to light: the empirical facts and proof:

1. That the concentration of media ownership, inherent in such levels of wealth inequality, that long ago abandoned the representation of ‘free press’ independent of gross influence by outside forces and how it has promoted ‘the abandonment of reason and critical thinking’. And that the inordinate rates of poverty it creates also creates with it significant losses of life expectancy

2. of how such wealth accumulation and the great wealth divide come to be. What enabled such a reality and how did we get there as a human species? We do so by recounting the colonization of the ‘New World’ by European and then burgeoning US imperial domination following the 1823 Monroe Doctrine

3. of how in the evolution of ‘Free Trade’ colonialism evolved into neocolonialism and along the way provided the substrate of ‘oppression’ that built the fortunes of the ‘international power structure’ European and US states off the backs of ‘others.’

4. Specifically, how Central America in particular, eventually became an appendage of US foreign policy hegemony as it paved the way & provided a cash cow for US multinational interests, while generating the violent environment that remains the real unaddressed stimulus for what we call the ‘immigration crisis’

Pgatos [email protected] 11/15/2021

How We are Blinded from the History of the Oppressive Nature of ‘Free Trade’

Democracy implies equal access to material success where success, as a head of household, is defined as providing a decent quality of life for your family. If you work hard enough measurable success and a decent quality of life will be yours. There is no reason that all families and their head of households cannot provide a viable and fairly comfortable quality of life for its next generation.

Tonight’s show juxtaposes ‘Free Trade vs Fair Trade’ and in doing so describes for listeners the backdrop, the world environment if you will that each of us are born into and find ourselves placed, through no volition of our own. It is a roll of the die that I am born into a wealthy or non-wealthy family system which then seals the probability of success or lack of success much more than my own personal responsibility or irresponsibility in pursuit of it.

We describe that it is the profitability and privilege that ‘Free Trade’ affords a small minority, and that ‘Fair Trade’ would eliminate such an undeserved and unfair advantage. Yet how is it that our culture promotes so successfully that it is Free Trade that is natural and inevitable, which is a big lie? That instead, because of Free Trade astounding inequality in wealth distribution has a long time ago emerged and reproduced itself in a way that has wrought unnecessary rates of poverty and misery worldwide.

Tonight’s show first defines these staggering levels of wealth inequality that make such a dream to provide for your family an unrealizable pipe dream for the majority populations of our country and the world.

We briefly but importantly bring to light: the empirical facts and proof:

1. That the concentration of media ownership, inherent in such levels of wealth inequality, that long ago abandoned the representation of ‘free press’ independent of gross influence by outside forces and how it has promoted ‘the abandonment of reason and critical thinking’. And that the inordinate rates of poverty it creates also creates with it significant losses of life expectancy

2. of how such wealth accumulation and the great wealth divide come to be. What enabled such a reality and how did we get there as a human species? We do so by recounting the colonization of the ‘New World’ by European and then burgeoning US imperial domination following the 1823 Monroe Doctrine

3. of how in the evolution of ‘Free Trade’ colonialism evolved into neocolonialism and along the way provided the substrate of ‘oppression’ that built the fortunes of the ‘international power structure’ European and US states off the backs of ‘others.’

4. Specifically, how Central America in particular, eventually became an appendage of US foreign policy hegemony as it paved the way & provided a cash cow for US multinational interests, while generating the violent environment that remains the real unaddressed stimulus for what we call the ‘immigration crisis’

Pgatos [email protected] 11/15/2021

Our Addictive Culture, Chemical Use & Misuse & the Magical Host, the Human Brain & Body Pt I

Bringing Light Into Darkness (BLID) has done a couple of shows over the last 18 years on the air that are connected to addiction and substance/chemical use misuse health issues. However, our interest here is to pivot to a series of shows we will be producing around a topic we feel touches on one of our society's greatest health issues, namely those around drinking and drugging (chemical use) and the potential of developing problematic or chemically dependent substance abuse health issues (chemical misuse).

We introduce Patricia Bucko, a college graduate who majored in neuroscience, who joins us as our guest host to initiate and navigate us through a series of BLID shows connected to its theme “Our Addictive Culture, Chemical Use & Misuse & the Magical Host the Human Brain & Body.” Our first show in the series will include:

1. establishing that we have legitimate expertise in these areas

2. assessment recommendation experience of thousands of DWI offenders and other alcohol and other drug (AOD) related offenders, leading to the patent submission and ultimate approval by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) of the assessment invention “A Method for Assessing the Severity of Non-Addictive and Addictive Psychoactive Chemical Relationships” - the case management and referral side of that connected experience

3. The nature and connectedness of ‘addictive culture’

4. We will present a state-of-the-art Chemical Dependency Model of understanding in order that listeners can develop a high-level understanding “What is ‘Chemical Dependency” and what signs and symptoms help describe the disorder.

Pgatos [email protected] 11/8/2021

Our Addictive Culture, Chemical Use & Misuse & the Magical Host, the Human Brain & Body Pt I

Bringing Light Into Darkness (BLID) has done a couple of shows over the last 18 years on the air that are connected to addiction and substance/chemical use misuse health issues. However, our interest here is to pivot to a series of shows we will be producing around a topic we feel touches on one of our society's greatest health issues, namely those around drinking and drugging (chemical use) and the potential of developing problematic or chemically dependent substance abuse health issues (chemical misuse).

We introduce Patricia Bucko, a college graduate who majored in neuroscience, who joins us as our guest host to initiate and navigate us through a series of BLID shows connected to its theme “Our Addictive Culture, Chemical Use & Misuse & the Magical Host the Human Brain & Body.” Our first show in the series will include:

1. establishing that we have legitimate expertise in these areas

2. assessment recommendation experience of thousands of DWI offenders and other alcohol and other drug (AOD) related offenders, leading to the patent submission and ultimate approval by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) of the assessment invention “A Method for Assessing the Severity of Non-Addictive and Addictive Psychoactive Chemical Relationships” - the case management and referral side of that connected experience

3. The nature and connectedness of ‘addictive culture’

4. We will present a state-of-the-art Chemical Dependency Model of understanding in order that listeners can develop a high-level understanding “What is ‘Chemical Dependency” and what signs and symptoms help describe the disorder.

Pgatos [email protected] 11/8/2021

The Cost of US Wars vs Their Profits

We are reminded time and time again how we cannot burden future generations with debts for massive social and infrastructure improvement plans. Yet a huge portion of our national debt comes from the cost of war in the form of compensating our troops for psychological and physical injuries since 9/11 ‘War on Terror’ and increasing US Pentagon military expenditures. The fact that we have done more to enable than to defeat terrorism worldwide has been the subject of other shows. Tonight, we examine the portion of the cost of war to the US economy and to our servicemen and women since George Bush declared the Global War of Terrorism (GWOT).

Additionally we examine the privatization and concurrent profiteering that the war industry has employed that makes war profitable for an elite few regardless if the war is won or lost therefore creating the incentive as was done in Afghanistan to continue endless wars that destroy lives of millions but because of their profitability go on despite their known ‘unwinnable’ profile.

Our guest Jeremy Kuzmarov, historian, professor and Managing Editor of Covert Action Magazine and the author of four books on U.S. foreign policy we discuss the implications of his article "Distancing Acts": Private Mercenaries and the War on Terror in American Foreign Policy", published in The Asia-Pacific Journal, that speaks to how the outsourcing of war and the corruption within its subcontracting has made windfall profits for those that benefit from the horrors of war. He also leads us through a discussion of systemic methods that new forms of colonialism has taken in its quest to sustain the great wealth divide at the direct cost of majority populations throughout the world including our country..

Pgatos [email protected] 11/1/2021

The Cost of US Wars vs Their Profits

We are reminded time and time again how we cannot burden future generations with debts for massive social and infrastructure improvement plans. Yet a huge portion of our national debt comes from the cost of war in the form of compensating our troops for psychological and physical injuries since 9/11 ‘War on Terror’ and increasing US Pentagon military expenditures. The fact that we have done more to enable than to defeat terrorism worldwide has been the subject of other shows. Tonight, we examine the portion of the cost of war to the US economy and to our servicemen and women since George Bush declared the Global War of Terrorism (GWOT).

Additionally we examine the privatization and concurrent profiteering that the war industry has employed that makes war profitable for an elite few regardless if the war is won or lost therefore creating the incentive as was done in Afghanistan to continue endless wars that destroy lives of millions but because of their profitability go on despite their known ‘unwinnable’ profile.

Our guest Jeremy Kuzmarov, historian, professor and Managing Editor of Covert Action Magazine and the author of four books on U.S. foreign policy we discuss the implications of his article "Distancing Acts": Private Mercenaries and the War on Terror in American Foreign Policy", published in The Asia-Pacific Journal, that speaks to how the outsourcing of war and the corruption within its subcontracting has made windfall profits for those that benefit from the horrors of war. He also leads us through a discussion of systemic methods that new forms of colonialism has taken in its quest to sustain the great wealth divide at the direct cost of majority populations throughout the world including our country..

Pgatos [email protected] 11/1/2021

Is US Drone Warfare an Illegal & Immoral Extension of a Bellicose US Foreign Policy that Demands Ethical Accountability?

Our guest Nick Mottern is a Vietnam veteran and has worked as a reporter, researcher, writer, and political organizer over the last 30 years. He manages a website devoted to education and organizing to stop drone warfare and surveillance www.KnowDrones.com. He was director of the 2012 national ‘Know Drones Tour’ and was an organizer of the 2013 April Days of Action and 2014 Spring Days of Action, and he publishes “The Drone Organizers Bulletin”. He provides stunning revelations & concerns.

Our show focus includes the immorality of drone warfare, the psychological trauma associated with drone operators, and the US public that is so abstracted from the realities of the victims and communities worldwide that are subject to such attacks.

The Afghan War our guest argues would have been over a long time ago if it had not been for drones.

The prosecution and inhumane conditions now facing Daniel Hale who despite the presiding judge recommendation resulted in him being sent to a supermax Marion prison. The prison conditions he faces is not commensurate with his ‘crime’.

Daniel Hale is a whistleblower who did not put at risk US national security by releasing ‘confidential’ papers. He revealed to the US public:

1. for the first time the “kill chain,” the bureaucratic process by which targets are selected to be summarily executed.

2. information that helped to expose the existence of the secret programs & that drone strikes killed many more innocent people than their supposed “targets”, &

3. that US citizens have been killed extrajudicially by drone strikes in violation of their constitutional rights to a trial.

The reason Hale cited for pleading guilty is because the Espionage Act charges prevent a public interest defense. In other words, Hale’s lawyers were barred from arguing that the need of the public to be made aware of the criminal activities of the US government was more important than his obligation not to disclose classified information to anyone. Essentially Hale was forced to plead guilty in order to avoid potentially spending decades in federal prison. Whistleblowers are gagged from explaining their actions. Defense attorneys are barred from uttering the words “whistleblower” or “First Amendment” within earshot of the jury. Since all that matters for sustaining a conviction is that a defendant gave classified information to someone not entitled to receive it, that’s all the jury is allowed to hear. The result is often absolutely no accountability of US foreign policy crimes against humanity.

Pgatos [email protected] 10/25/2021