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Of Brains, Beauty And Suspicious Wives

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Too bad she couldn’t have invented an instrument of peace…

Andy's avatarCity Jackdaw

I was reading a biography of Heddy Lamarr. For a while my wife, Jen, showed no interest. She thought it was a book about a man named Eddie.

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Then she glimpsed the close-up of the face on the cover.

“Have you got that book to perv?”

“Of course not. I picked it up at the library. You know I like old movies, and I was intrigued that she was also an inventor.”

She picked the book up, immediately confronted by the title:

Heddy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman In Film.

“Hmmm . . .” 

She seemed prepared to give me the benefit of the doubt. But it seems the Fates were working against me.

She opened the book, and out of 281 pages, she happened on the very one that informed her that Lamarr acted out the first female orgasm on screen.

“She was a porn star?”

No, I explained…

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The Rapid steps up intimidation tactics against ATUGR members and supporters

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Jeff Smith (GRIID)'s avatarGrand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy

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In late January we posted a story about the Day of Action organized by members of the local bus drivers union (ATUGR) and students from the GVSU chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). 

Those who participated in the Day of Action hung banners, passed out flyers on buses and engaged in a sit in during the monthly Rapid Board meeting. The Rapid decided to call the police and police told the sit in participants that if they didn’t leave they would be arrested. Everyone complied and left the Rapid Board meeting. End of story, or so it would seem.

The ATUGR and students with the GVSU chapter of USAS are now reporting that, “Grand Rapids police detectives went to the homes of students and workers, threatening them with charges of disturbing the peace for their participation in the January sit-in to protest the proposed fare increases, the termination…

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Secwepemc Elder ‘Wolverine’ Ignace, 84, died Tuesday surrounded by family on home territory

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Zig Zag's avatarWarrior Publications

Wolverine Mt Polley Secwepemc elder Wolverine.

by Jorge Barrera, APTN National News, March 23, 2016

Secwepemc Elder William Jones “Wolverine” Ignace, who gained international recognition after the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff, died early Tuesday evening surrounded by family in his Adams Lake Indian Band home on Secwepemc territory.

He was 84, said his widow Flora Sampson.

Sampson said in an interview Wednesday that Jones, who is known as Wolverine, was suffering from cancer and had been seriously ill since December.

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Another piece to the puzzle: glutamates in food **edited again

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Doing more research for the connection between what we ingest (toxins and food) and how bad we feel, I’ve discovered some interesting links with MTHFR gene and the inability to detox. I’ve blogged on MSG (monosodium glutamate) in the past, but my thinking was that it was an artificial ingredient, not something that occurred naturally in food and that foods high in glutamate would have the same effect as MSG.  ::does head slap::

First, I’ll start with MTHFR.  I had heard about this defect, but Dr. Cutler was of the mind that if you got the heavy metals out, you would take care of the problem.  He felt that too much focus was placed on MTHFR and methylation defect.  So…although I had heard of it, I didn’t pay much attention.  However, I also believe in people being put in my life for a reason — sometimes the reason is quite obvious as this, but other times, the reason is subtle or isn’t as evident until later.

That someone recently mentioned MTHFR to me….so I did some exploring, and found that I exhibited characteristics associated with it. And I haven’t been eating as much greens lately — instead eating beans for my B vitamins.  It doesn’t do one a lot of good eating the B’s if your body is missing the enzyme necessary for the body to extract the vitamins out and use them.

Here are some good links on it:

Wellness Mama

Loving Our Guts

Good Foods for MTHFR

Next, we have foods naturally high in glutamates.  The glutamates act as excitotoxins in the brain, and that in turn causes inflammation.  Inflammation is the body’s way of mounting a defense…but when the body is consistently bombarded, the inflammation response does not give your body a rest, and then cells begin to die.   This is why it is important to take it seriously.  Allergies, too, cause inflammation and should be taken as a potentially serious condition, not dismissed as most calcified medical professionals will do.

Here are some good websites on glutamates:

Peeling back the onion layers  Note the two links at the bottom of the page for Dr. Blaylock and Dr. Yasko.  An issue I have with Dr. Yasko is the part about males having higher glutamates than females.  Knowing the biases of the medical profession and particularly, medical instructors/schools, and that women have not been historically part of research, I take what she wrote about females not having as much incidence of autism as men with a grain of salt.  I know that the heavy metals severely impacted my speech and being sociable.  I didn’t completely shut down, but I was close.  Women might have better abilities of communication, and therefore, the autistic symptoms may not be as apparent.  This was my case.  I’m willing to bet that this is true for a lot of women impacted by heavy metals who may not completely shut down as males, but are still severely impacted.  Also, autism is just one aspect of this, as seizures and migraines are also indicators of high glutamates.  More women suffer from migraines than men.  Just wanted to put that out there.

Another thing I’ve learned this morning while reading is that fasting can cause a rise in glutamates.  *sigh*  It’s a benefit for the gut, to allow it to rest, but apparently not good for those susceptible to high glutamates.  Another piece to the puzzle…

Dr. J — Foods to Avoid, Foods to Enjoy — high glutamate foods

 

Self Nutrition Data List of foods high in glutamine.

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Another good link here to Dr. Yasko’s list of excitotoxins and foods that damage the nerves.

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Reading Dr. J’s page on letters from grateful readers, he is also gearing the low glutamate diet towards animals.  I read of pets that were suffering from epileptic seizures and I think about my doggie, Cooper, who suffered from seizures (circa 1990), and one night went into a seizure and never came out of it.  His body burned up from inflammation…just another warning on how serious this is and how little the FDA truly cares about our health by allowing MSG and aspartame in foods.

Be well, my friends.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

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Carol A. Hand's avatarVoices from the Margins

Carol A. Hand

This morning, it occurred to me that it might be helpful if I provided some background for my previous reblog, Go FISH!

In designing a critical ethnographic study of Ojibwe child welfare, I gave some thought to the meaning of “critical” in this context. Where should one focus a “critical gaze” if the purpose is to discern the ways in which hegemony over Native American tribal communities has been imposed and perpetuated? Most research only considers contemporary consequences rather than the complex historical structural forces that have left a distressing legacy of harm. Many “blame” tribes, counties, or states for the continuing over-use of child removal and non-Native placements as the preferred responses to situations of child neglect and abuse.

I decided it was crucial to consider the federal government’s past and present role as well, and interviewed Theresa Edwards (not…

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Blackfish

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eagle's avatarEagle

Dave Neiwert has this up on the documentary “Blackfish” that exposes the truth behind captive whales.

Back in the 70s, the TV Show “The Partridge Family” had an episode called “Whale Song”  with a recording of a whale.  I was flipping through the channels recently, and saw it again.  I don’t know why, but the whale’s song makes me cry.   It’s on youtube, (partridge family whale song) but I don’t think it’s official, so can’t post it here.  Unfortunately, it’s at a Sea World type park, and it’s not advocating letting the whales go free. Or better yet–not capturing them to begin with.

My blog here on the orangutan Fu Manchu whom left no doubt he wanted to be free…and not only himself, but his cage mates, as well.  How can anyone argue against something so blatantly obvious?

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Blackfish backlash

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eagle's avatarEagle

Members of Congress have paid attention to the orca documentary, Blackfish, and are now asking Secretary Vilsack for updated guidelines on marine mammals in captivity.

Well…it’s a start…but I would much rather see the whole practice abandoned entirely.  It is inhumane to take these animals from their natural habitat for our entertainment.

It’s sad to see that the Sea World employee lashing out at people speaking out against Sea World.  It was troubling to see Dawn Brancheau’s family speaking out against them, too.  Mindboggling.

My other posts on Blackfish and orcas.

Puget Sound group helping orcas.

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Blackfish

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Reblogging this on the good news today that Sea World has announced it will discontinue the horrible practice of capturing live animals and making money off of their captivity. Of course, Sea World makes the spin that they were *cough* educating the public about Orcas and it was because of them that the public learned of orcas. Yes and no. They did not inform the public that orcas are not known to kill in the wild, but only in captivity, as Tillikum did. They also did not inform the public of the forced breeding. Or why the dorsal fins flopped over in captivity and were not that way in the wild. Sea World’s sincerity is in question at their PR push after the film Blackfish spurred public outcry.
And yes, I still think they should release Tillikum back into the waters they captured him. He may not last. but what if he did only for a week of freedom? I’m willing to bet that he would take it. I know that I would.

eagle's avatarEagle

CNN has aired the Orca documentary Blackfish–specifically the captive Tillikum that killed trainer Dawn Brancheau.  Not only did he kill her, but another trainer twenty years before, and there was a dead man found on Tillikum’s back, mysteriously appearing one morning.  As the researcher states during the documentary, orcas are not known to attack human beings while they are free–it’s only in captivity that they have attacked humans.  My recent post on OSHA (or Sea World) refusing to release information on their protocol.

Before, when I commented on the Blackfish doc, I remarked how the “whale song” made me cry.  I didn’t understand why at the time….but now I am wondering that this whale’s cry is from being separated from its family and/or a mother whale being separated from her child….knowing that these mother whales cry as a human mother would after having her child taken away….it makes sense.

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Communications 101 – Class 2

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Reblogging this due to the nuclear energy/radiation they now want to foist upon South Dakota…one of the few states that does not have nuclear reactors. It’s interesting that they want to get at the states that don’t have nuclear power plants. And it’s not that South Dakota (read: Native Americans) haven’t been exposed to radiation…there is exposure from uranium mines: http://www.defendblackhills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=3

**edited to add:  another link on trying to turn South Dakota into a nuclear dump (I swear I didn’t know of this site before mentioning Yucca Mountain in the previous blog):

http://dakotafreepress.com/2015/10/27/feds-considering-south-dakota-for-deep-borehole-nuclear-waste-disposal-test/

eagle's avatarEagle

Here is another good video on spotting fake nooz.  CNN and MSNBC are so bad now that it’s hard not to laugh at the hysteria they are trying to create.  If it weren’t so serious, I would be laughing…but, alas…

They touch on Ebola, the time in which this tape appears to have been made.  At the time, it was alarming to me how cavalier the medical professionals involved were acting — now I understand why.  It never occurred to me that they would fake a medical event like this.  Vaccine hysteria I could see, but I gave them waaaay to much credit for ethics in that they would *never* fake a medical emergency.  It is too important, I thought.  But as they analyze it, I start to think about the nurse that refused to stay quarantined and how the nurse who contracted Ebola at the Presbyterian hospital did so…

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