I’ve noticed this, too, when I don’t erase my history–ads of sites I’ve visited suddenly pop up. Even worse, yahoo has now made it their business to track me and show me articles their software has decided I want to see. Sorry, yahoo, f_cebook, and the rest–your software cannot read my mind and cannot begin to understand what or why I might look at a site. Your software makes a lot of assumptions…most of which are wrong.
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Glucuronidation: one of the body’s detox pathways
I am forever in awe of our bodies and how they perform every day miracles of protecting itself from toxins.
Today, I learned another term from the wonderful mercury support group: glucuronidation. It’s apparently another chemical reaction in the body that helps the detox pathways to work properly. Isn’t this fascinating?
Note how your everyday drugs can interfere with the body’s own design to take care of itself.
I’ve recently started taking ibuprofen to head off a migraine. It worked a couple of times last month, and I took some this morning because I felt another one coming on. It’s the only time I will take it anymore–because it can cause damage to the intestines, and it damages kidney cells. So I have to really feel that migraine is coming on in order to risk the harm to my body. I figure that a migraine is much, much more harmful and devastating. I feel so weak afterwards, it has to be doing some damage…especially when I lose five pounds with them (and then gain it back).
I cringe at the thought that I used to take ibuprofen almost on a daily basis, back in the day. With being exposed to mercury via coal dust, and amalgam in baby teeth, and being gluten intolerant, I had been taking ibuprofen for symptoms that would go away with proper detox. It’s that slippery slope–where the body is damaged, resulting in pain, and the man-made drugs help for a time, but with interfering with detox pathways, make everything worse–and the person takes more of the drugs to relieve the increasing symptoms…and on…
Now, with the glucuronidation knowledge, there is even more reason not to take these FDA approved drugs unless there is an overwhelming reason to do so.
And Big Pharma thinks it’s quite all right for you to get worse on their drugs…more profits for them.
Hope my dear readers find this as fascinating as I do. Isn’t the body wonderful?
Domestic abuse without raising a hand…
Order of the White Feather has a sobering post up on using technology to continually abuse and control a partner seeking to get away from her abuser. It is just astounding that someone could think up this sh*t (probably an abuser himself), and then be able to sell it without worry of prosecution.
The companies market the tools as “safety features” to monitor your kids….it always starts out that way–marketed for something good when it’s used for something evil. I don’t buy mSpy’s assertion that they have no knowledge or responsibility for their product being used for abuse.
Here’s why:
MSpy has a step-by-step guide — with screenshots — on how to download the app onto an iPhone or Android device, how to activate it, and then how to delete any visible trace of it. It’ll just hang out in a hidden folder, with a nondescript name like “Android.sys.”
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Why would you need to hide it if you were using it for innocent reasons? I don’t understand the parents-as-stalkers mindset, either. Good Grief, the poor children with such controlling parents, monitoring every single thing they do! Suffocating.
And the online banking thing…one of the reasons I will not do it is because of security. I had to close my free account recently because the bank insisted on a $500 balance, or I could switch to online banking and not deal with the humans at all (putting another person out of work is not my idea of doing unto others as I would have done to me…).
This story drives that point home–no matter how much they would like to assure us that technology = security…the facts speak differently. Paper is still more secure, with less ability of someone gaining access to information that is none of their business.
And in this case, someone’s life depends on it.
In this rape culture, women are still seen as extensions of men. As objects to be owned and possessed. The domestic abuse represents that sense of entitlement.
Remembering Rachel Corrie: Letters from Palestine.
Rachel Corrie’s words reflect her passion and the utter destruction of Gaza by the Israelis. After being denied access, denied food, denied a way to make a living, watching an eight year old be killed by Israelis…violence was inevitable. What’s sad, when I read Rachel’s posts is that she understood white privilege, but misunderstood that she was not invincible by her whiteness. In the end, Israel did to her what they had done to the people of Gaza…white skin or no.
Rachel Corrie was an American peace activist and a member of the International Solidarity Movement. She was killed in 2003 (at the age of 23), by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) armored bulldozer in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, during the height of the second Palestinian intifada.
After her death, Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner edited and directed the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie, based on Corrie’s diaries and e-mails home. The play was censored (put off stage) several times by some theaters. “Rachel Corrie lived in nobody’s pocket but her own. Whether one is sympathetic with her or not, her voice is like a clarion in the fog and should be heard,” Rickman said then.
In his article for The Independent Robert Fisk wrote:
“An American heroine, Rachel earned no brownie points from the Bush administration which bangs on about courage…
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Letters of Young Somali Refugees to Syrian Refugee Children.
Out of the mouths of babes….
Peace to you all.
Young Somali refugees living in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya (the world’s largest refugee camp, home to nearly 400,000 refugees) have sent letters of encouragement to Syrian refugee children who have also had to flee their homeland.
In their letters, they write to to their „brothers and sisters“ with great kindness, encouraging them in their hours, days, months of darkness, emphasizing the importance of education and studying.
Hibo Mahamed Dubow wrote:
„I am really encouraging you not to lose hope, you will get peace and stability. I am encouraging you, I personally , to go to school and learn, in future you can rebuild your country, you will get peace and no longer be a refugee…“
Dahir Mohamed wrote:
„Our beloved brothers and sisters, go and work hard in schools, be the stars and the new presidents of Syria.“
Abshir Hussein wrote:
„Don’t become hopeless, have less worry…
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The Memory Fairy
This post really hits close to home with my mother’s alzheimer’s. What a cruel condition to rob one of one’s life by erasing one’s memories…
God Bless my mother and all those who suffer.
Father and daughter recover Japanese tsunami boat from B.C.’s north coast
Wow, what a testament to how well the boat was built. And the dreaded plastic bottles. Ugh. A sea of plastic, people….we’re creating a sea of plastic.
Michigan ACLU Exposes Educational Catastrophe in Gov. Rick Snyder’s Takeover of Detroit’s Schools
Metro Detroit Times has just published an extraordinary expose of the software-based curriculum that was imposed in 2012 in 12 Detroit, Michigan schools. These were the bulk of schools in Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s new Education Achievement Authority (EAA), a state agency created to take over Michigan’s schools with the lowest test scores. “In all, about 10,000 students—largely poor, predominantly African American, often lagging years behind in terms of academics—would be the test subjects.”
According to the report’s author, Curt Guyette, an investigative reporter with the Michigan American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Snyder’s state school takeover was intended to originate with a number of low-scoring schools in Detroit and then take over so-called failing schools across the state; however, the legislation to expand the Education Achievement Authority beyond Detroit never passed in the legislature. Snyder is known to have modeled his idea on the Louisiana Recovery School District, that took…
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Petcoke, the Koch brothers and the 10th Ward.
Susan Sadlowski Garza talks to her neighbors at last night’s meet-and-greet in the 10th Ward.
I took a drive to the 10th Ward last night.
I could have taken the Dan Ryan to the Skyway and gotten off just before Indiana.
But I took my old route. South Lakeshore Drive and then followed US41 through the east side to South Chicago.
I drove past the what used to be U.S. Steel’s South Works.
Back in the 70s I worked in the 96″ plate mill.
11,000 steelworkers once had jobs in the various mills that made up South Works.
It’s empty land now. Just prairie.
There is talk of condo development. That talk has been going on for years.
I drove to 108th and Avenue J where there was a meet-and-greet for Susan Sadlowski Garza. Susan is running for 10th Ward Alderman.
She is a school counselor and a south side leader…
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Change afoot in N. Korean capital? In fashion, yes
Well, this is sad news….why does affluence and women wearing high heels, tight dresses go together?
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