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DN has this today.

Fukushima released twice as much radiation as was reported. *yawn* tell us something we didn’t already know…

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Further down, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are suspected of playing a shell game.  *yawn* tell us something we didn’t already suspect…a banker possibly involved in making a profit off of a false front…now that’s not something you hear every day./snark

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Pentagon PR company admits to creating a misinformation campaign (only it’s with American journalists this time).  *really*, folks, this yawning thing is getting monotonous…

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A woman with a pro-choice shirt was forced to cover up before she could catch her connecting flight….Freedom of Speech…well, only if we agree with you…

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Lastly, this on the Philadelphia public schools crises, which was self-created by the cut in funding.  Both Romney AND Obama both want to destroy public schools…they steadfastly hold onto “No Child Left Behind” and promotion of charter schools, which both have been shown to NOT improve education.

Margaret Spellings, a Bushee, is immersed in this–a red flag.

Romney’s knock on teacher’s unions is another red flag. You notice that he doesn’t name who this long time president of the teacher’s union…(Amy Goodman said Albert Schenker–and his words were meant in another way).

It is a slap in the face that teachers don’t care about children nor their education.  I’ve been in the schools (unlike Obama or Romney, who went to private schools) and all of the teachers were dedicated to educating kids even within the shitpile of No Child Left a Mind…

You might recall the quotes from craniologists the other day–how “science” was being used to discredit women (and blacks)…well, that is where IQ testing came from–they developed questions to assess if someone needed help in certain areas. But what started out as a beneficial way to help became a tool for those who seek Power Over.

Protests against chemicals

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The stroller brigade went to DC to protest the non-transparency of chemicals on our health and the environment. Link to info here.

Glad to see it.  I am dumbfounded on a daily basis at the apathy by those around me to the onslaught of toxins and how much damage they are doing not only to us but the environment.

People will tell me they’re taking x amount of prescription drugs, while drinking cokes, eating junk food, etc., while their bodies are already being assaulted.    One resident of the building  came outside, saying he wanted to “get some fresh air”….while dragging on a cigarette…

…I had to stifle myself to keep from cracking up laughing…

It’s just mindboggling how they don’t see any connection between how poorly they feel and the chemical soup we’re in.

I’ve noticed a change in people’s behavior when they saturate the skies with chemtrails…is anybody investigating that?

Here is a link exploring that.  There aren’t a lot of credible sources out there on this issue–but just from my personal observation, I think they are affecting people’s health.  Mercury poisoning makes one much, much more sensitive to toxins–car exhaust, perfumes, chemical cleaners, electro-magnetic fields (at one point, I couldn’t talk on a cell phone without getting a migraine the next day)etc.–and when they spray this junk in the air, I have a reaction to it.

One link I read said that the chemtrails contain aluminum and barium–those two metals are hazardous to one’s health–so I went looking for more info on it and found this.

I’m afraid that it will be like the onslaught of diseases after  introduction of chemicals–mainly cancer that takes many years to manifest.  I can say, as a canary in the coal mine, my reaction is a warning of how it is affecting folks who are not mercury toxic…

 

The funny side of mercury poisoning

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…if there is such a thing…

This was posted by one of the group’s members, Brian McBlain.  Since mercury toxicity causes chronic fatigue, severe memory loss, loss of coordination, personality changes, etc., many folks have lost their jobs because of it.

*** Employability: A few of us are approaching sufficient memory, stress, and general functionality to re-enter the work force.

Explaining the employment gap is going to be fun…

10. Took some time off to test my metal.
9. Wanted to get in touch with my inner ore.
8. Heavy metal toxicity made me allergic to work.
7. My memory got so bad I couldn’t remember appointments like work.
6. I kept getting lost in my driveway.
5. It is hard to dress for success when you can’t get out of bed.
4. I thought I get in touch with my asocial side.
3. I tried putting pants on one leg at a time and kept falling over.
2. I’d drive to work and not find it.
1. Eye kudn’t tiepe wurth sh

(Reprinted with permission from the author.)

Funny because it’s so true, especially to the more toxic of us.

When my brain was saturated with mercury, I got to the point where my hands were shaking, as in Parkinson’s. I could not hold a thought in my head.  Even though I loved to read, it was torture because I had to keep re-reading the same passages over and over because of the severity of ADD and memory loss.

The worst day–the lowest point–was when I couldn’t remember my own children’s names.  It was then that I knew that something was terribly wrong–and no freaking doctor could diagnose the  root cause.  Thanks to my guardian angel for leading me to the answer and not giving up on me.

GAPS

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I finally was able to get a copy of the Gut and Psychology Syndrome book by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride from the library.

(A little warning here–a little gross, so if you’re eating breakfast or lunch, probably not the time to read this.:)

p. 11-12

…in 1998 Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London and his team published their research, suggesting a connection between chronic inflammatory bowel disease and autism.

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Dr. Wakefield and his team have identified a condition in the bowel of those children, which they named Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia and Non-specific Colitis. […] Ileum is a name given to the last three-fifths of the small intestine. […] The major function of the small intestine in general is food absorption.  However, not much food absorption happens in the ileum.  The walls of this part of the small intestine are packed with large numbers of lymph nodes, called Peyer’s patches, which are small, round or bean shaped structures, ranging in size from 1 to 25 mm.

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We know two major functions they fulfill:

1.  The first function is filtering the lymph (tissue liquid) coming from the ileum and removing bacteria, viruses, fungi, dead cells  (including cancer cells) and various toxins from it.  It is a good place to look at what particular infectious agents might be lurking in your intestine because the lymph nodes are like a prison from these viruses, bacteria, dead cells, and fungi–if they cannot destroy them, they imprison them.  So, when gastroenterologists perform endoscopies, they always try to get a sample of these lymph nodes to be examined under the microscope.  This is what Dr. Wakefield’s team had done.

2.  A second function of lymph nodes is production of lymphocytes–a large group of immune system cells, a major function of which is fighting infections.  In fact lymph nodes themselves are made primarily of lymphocytes, together with some other cells.  So, when the lymph nodes are faced with an infection, they start producing a lot of lymphocytes to fight the infection, which makes the lymph nodes large and inflamed, sometimes painful.  This enlargement of the lymph nodes is called lymphoid nodular hyperplasia and this is what Dr. Wakefield has found in the ileum of autistic children.

Because many of the children from his study have developed autistic features after MMR vaccines, this is the direction Dr. Wakefield pursued when looking at what particular infection may have caused this enlargement of the lymph nodes.  Suspecting that it might be the measles virus, he involved in his research a well-known virologist Dr. John O’Leary, a professor of pathology from Dublin.  Sure enough, Dr. O’Leary has found the same measles virus used in the MMR vaccine in the ileal lymph nodes of the autistic children.  This particular part of Dr. Wakefield’s research concerning the measles virus and MMR vaccine, casued a lot of controversy and vigorous resistance from government and the medical establishment which distracted attention from the main issue.  The main issue is:  autistic children have enlarged and inflamed lymph nodes in their gut wall, which is a clear sign of a fight with some infection going on there.

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[…]  Dr. Wakefield’s team has found various stages of the mucous membranes of the colon and intestines, abscesses filled with pus, ulcers, and plenty of faecal compaction.  In some places the gut wall was so inflamed with such enlargement of the lymph nodes, that it almost obstructed the lumen of the gut.  In some ways this inflammation resembled ulcerative colitis, in some–Crohn’s disease, when some features were completely unique to these autistic children.

[…]  the findings of Dr. Wakefield and his team…have been independently supported by…Buie, et al; Uhlmann et al; Furlano, et al; Morris, et al; …[and by] practicing doctors around the world [through clinical observation].

 

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The autism connection to heavy metal poisoning is talked about quite a bit on the support group–the anecdotal evidence is to voluminous to be ignored.  However, Dr. Campbell-McBride makes a point later that there are children with inflamed guts whose parents have not had them vaccinated.  Then the questions turn to what else could be causing it?  She touches on our toxic environment and how our bodies are already being assaulted by chemicals daily and it’s destroying our immune systems.  It doesn’t take a whole lot to tip them over the edge so that one starts having problems such as “leaky gut”.

I do think it’s significant that the same measles virus injected into these kids is the same one found in the inflamed gut.  Huge red flag.  Dr. McBride still believes that children should be vaccinated, however, which just blows me away.  She has a list of cautions–like children of parents with compromised immune systems, siblings with immune system issues or epilepsy, schizophrenia, autism, etc., should not be vaccinated at all.  Next, she recommends vaccines in one single dose–she makes the point that we don’t get measles, mumps and rubella all at once, so why should we be exposed to all of them at once?  Same with the Diptheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus vaccine.

However, Dr. McBride fails to acknowledge that there is a huge controversy about how people’s health was improved with better hygienic practices, not by vaccination.

Here’s a resource center on vaccines.

What I don’t get is this:  I had ALL of the diseases they’re now vaccinating for–both kinds of measles, mumps (both sides at the same time, ugh), and chicken pox at six months of age–and I survived. OMG! It’s a miracle!

I mean, measles are scary for a pregnant woman because it can lead to mental retardation…but this idea struck me as I read about all the mental issues associated with the measles vaccine (and leaky gut).  Although it didn’t cause mental retardation, was it behind the other mental issues?  Which is worse–taking a chance for mental retardation on a few or causing so many to suffer their entire lives?  That gets into a huge ethics question.

And there is so much about the immune system that is not understood.  If there’s no profit in it, the medical establishment isn’t interested.

I still think information is the key–give people the information and let them make up their own minds to whether they want to risk it or not.  For me, if I knew all that I know now, I would take that risk.   I feel guilty even now for giving my kids antibiotics when they were young–it’s another drug that is not fully understood and they do not count destruction of the “good” bacteria as a problem, even though it causes serious problems for people’s immune system.

The pain of Bain

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…and playing the game…

Yeah, it’s not really news, either.

I can’t figure out why all that money that was raised at Clooney’s party couldn’t have been better placed behind a third party candidate?  Harry Braun, anyone?  Yeah, I don’t think he’s perfect, but it is so refreshing to see an intelligent discussion of the serious issues facing us right now. And not part of the financial/big oil crowd….

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Related to this, is this incident with Romney and John Lauber.  I’d heard about this, but couldn’t get to it until now. Wow.  The rightwing host here was having a fit over the publishing of this story–he was saying that this was old news and that the Post was in a conspiracy because it was published the same day that Obama came out for gay marriage.  As if…

The rightwing host went on to say that “this was 1965–nobody wore their hair long then. Nobody.”  Um, yeah, I have a different recollection.  Even though I was only 4 years old at the time, I remember how irate my father was at the “long hairs” and “weirdos”.  So guys were starting to wear their hair long–it just wasn’t acceptable by the anal retentives.  To express your individuality with long hair was verboten–as Herr Romney illustrated.

Anyway, the rightwing host failed to recognize the bullying aspect and how wrong this was.  Romney had no right to impose his will on another.  None.  He was violent towards another individual.  I think that is very relevant to his character and whether we want such a person leading this country.

Let’s see…contempt of the poor, bragging about paying 13% of a normal 35% in taxes, wants to destroy public schools,…and now bullying…sounds like a stand up kinda guy. /snark

 

 

 

The Past is…Present

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…and you thought that sexism was a thing of the past…

…lest we think that history is in the past…or that it doesn’t affect the present…

From Gloria Steinem’s book, Revolution from Within, a Book on Self-Esteem:

“Freud, for instance, was actually very clear about his adversarial stance to women’s equality.  “We must not allow ourselves to be deflected…by…the feminist,”  he wrote to his colleagues, “who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.’ Yet his theories have been cited for most of the last century as objective.”

This is significant because the psychiatric profession is based on Freud’s misogyny.  Now, they’ll tell you that he has been discredited, but from what I read of the Diagnostic Manual (DSM), the misogyny is very much a part of diagnosis and treatment.  There was one “disease” that was particularly disturbing–it described the patient as “being emotional, moody” and other symptoms I can’t remember, that pretty much described women.  If only women could just be more like men!

I remember picking up one of my children’s high school textbooks and saw where they devoted nine pages to discussing Freud.  Of course, they said that he had been discredited, but then they devote nine pages to him?  Then I looked at the number of pages devoted to the women’s rights movement…not even two complete pages.  They pretty much condensed it all.  It was something like “women fought for the right to vote…”  And not much more, if I recall correctly.

There’s more from the book  that I thought was significant:

“It is a modern compendium of the scholarly, scientific, and popular evidence–ranging from comparative measurements of skull sizes and arm lengths to anthropological surveys and popular caricatures–that had been originated by 19th century scientists and popularized by journalists to “prove” a respectable and popular thesis:  the Irish had descended from apes only a few generations before, while the English were descendants of man created in God’s image and thus “angels.”

Gees o pete, talk about self-serving “science”…This “theory” was also used against blacks, too, and pretty much any member of a group that was deemed “less than”.  And being Irish, I’m more than a little offended at this characterization, as anyone should be.

…there’s more…

“…neuroanatomists believed that higher mental activities were located in the frontal lobes of the brain.  Not surprisingly, craniologists confirmed that those areas were larger in male skulls than in female ones, and that the less important, parietal regions at the top and sides of the skull were smaller in females.  Toward the turn of the century, however, neuroanatomists revised their opinion:  higher intellectual abilities were located in the parietal regions after all.  Soon, craniologists had discovered that their earlier measurements had been inaccurate:  males actually had larger parietal lobes than females, and the newly important frontal regions were smaller.”

Um-hmmm…as if you could prove anything by brain size.  It’s so ridiculous that this was taken as “science” and not discounted for the biased and subjective work that it is.

How does one measure intelligence?  Is it the ability to do complicated math?  Or is it the ability to recognize plants and their healing abilities? What about the ability to communicate effectively?  What about “street smarts” aren’t they a sign of intelligence?   See my point—who gets to decide what intelligence means? And doesn’t the meaning of intelligence change with changing situations?

Lastly, here’s this humdinger:

By 1879, G LeBon, a French craniologist, had no doubt:  “In the most intelligent races, as among the Parisians, there are a large number of women whose brains are closer in size to those of gorillas than to the most developed male brains.  This inferiority is so obvious that no one can contest it for a moment, only its degree is worth discussion.  (From research work by scholar Elizabeth Fee).

See…anytime someone says that you can’t contest their findings, it’s a good guess that they’re full of it.  Take into account that at this time, the “scientists” were saying that learning “shrunk”  a woman’s uterus.  They drew this conclusion after observing that women who went to college were less likely to have children.    So, naturally, it must be the dreaded education of women that caused their uteruses to shrivel.  Geesh.

As recently as the eighties, when I learned that doctors drew the conclusion that Endometriosis was a “career woman’s disease” because they only diagnosed it in women in their thirties who had put off childbirth while they pursued careers.  When they were ready and tried to conceive, they were unable to and sought help.   Thus, doctors drew the conclusion that it was because these women had pursued careers…not that the condition was caused by medical reasons. (I wonder now if Endometriosis is caused by environmental toxins?)

And don’t forget the video I had linked to in earlier blogs of the psychiatric “profesisonals” who blamed the mother for her child having autism.  Pure prejudice.

 

Magnifying glass

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Well, now it’s even easier for spying on and shooting innocent people.   Coming to FW in October…can’t wait.  (The city was on Fire Friday–three deadly shootings over night with a state police officer shooting someone dead.)

More from the NATO summit–Iraq Veterans Against the War give back their medals.  Good for them.  It’s not easy for them, I’m sure, as it is hard for anyone in this society to speak out against war–with the media promoting war as patriotic (all you protestors are just dirty commie hippies) and the use of media by the Defense Dept to promote it, as well.

Here’s a good clip from PRWatch on FakeNews.

And, lastly, is this.  Talk about turning the technology around…

Double Meanings

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I was doing a little research on the group Tenacious D...and came upon the song “Fuck Her Gently”.

I can’t get access to the page now, but I had looked at the link where Jack Black stated that the song was written in response to p_rnos where guys are rough and the gals are supposedly enjoying that treatment.  Black stated that the song was something of a, for want of a better word, tutorial.

Um…yeah…if you believe that, I have some oceanfront property in Indiana I want to sell you…

See, the song is about doing something TO her….

…it’s as if she doesn’t have a brain or mouth to tell the guy what she prefers. The song gives this away with the final lines–“fuck her hard”…yeah, you pretty much lose all credibility with that line.

Secondly, Black assumes that people who watch p_rnos actually care what their partner wants—-not likely.  P-rnos objectify not only women, but men as well…it’s all about the physical, not the spiritual.  It’s devoid of connection….it diminishes the worth of each human being.  Not to mention the voyeuristic aspect…it’s like spying on a couple in the most intimate encounters.

It’s devoid of the spiritual and anytime one does that, without consideration of another human being, you’re going towards the dark side.