I found this video when looking up 5 Broken Cameras.  Guy Davidi is one of the producers of the documentary–it is a poignant look at Palestinian and Israeli women trying to get past their prejudices and fear towards peace.  But the video says sooo much more.

It’s very hard to break away from prejudice.  You’ll be thought of as a traitor by family, friends, and community, as both the Israeli and Palestinian women discovered–being called sluts and collaborators.  But they want to coexist badly enough that they stuck their necks out to try to move towards it by educating one another.

This video also features the rape crisis centers, where women can find support from other women.

In this rape culture, women who are raped are likely to be blamed for that rape by not only men, but by women, as well.  They are likely to downplay the rape– especially if it is date rape or spousal rape.

They degrade other women right along with the men.  Indeed, in the university I was at, I remember a terrible practice by one of the sororities.  The girls were talking about an initiation where the initiate was made to stand either naked or in her bra and panties while the other women took magic markers and drew circles around her “fat”.

My thoughts to the blog of a few days ago about infiltration of rape crisis centers popped in my head…

For some women, this will be the first time that they have experienced support from other women.  They have sought help and perhaps found the barriers are down.  It is a safe place in a society that has erected so many barriers to validation of women’s pain and camaraderie that is absent, but only in the most superficial ways.

So my instincts are telling me that my hunch is correct:  for those that degrade women and view them as beneath them, a rape crisis or domestic violence center is a threat.  It is a place where, if it is run well, women will begin to see that they are not responsible for another’s actions.  They will begin to see that not all women will betray them.  They will begin the long journey of healing their spiritual wounds.

Story here.

What happened to James Tracy highlights all that is wrong with education from kindergarten clear through college and the country, as well:

1. Silencing dissenters.  James Tracy has a right to his opinion, especially when he can back that up with a sound theory.  There are enough facts disputing that this actually happened to question the official narrative.  The school being closed due to asbestos and other environmental hazards is a huge clue.
2. Not only silencing dissent, but causing people who dissent to lose their means of providing for themselves.
3. Denying the exchange of ideas through education.
4. Denying students their voice and  influence of their own educations.

The Communications major is especially dear to my heart, so I understand the gravity of removing Prof. Tracy from a position where he could have any influence to the students, and therefore inspiring them to think critically about what information is spoonfed to them and always check facts and other sources of information to get at the truth.

The blog about the Israeli influence on academics and the discussion of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict here.     came to mind as I was reading about the students of Tracy.  This gangstalking was to quell dissent.  As I said in the previous blog, in the 60s, students were engaged with their educations and actively debated topics with their professors and other students.  This was one of the things that I looked forward to when I began my college education.  I was sorely disappointed at how they had changed the active role of students to passive roles.  Classes were mostly formatted to be lectures in huge halls that discouraged active debate and exchange of ideas.

Of the few small classes I had, when the instructor allowed debate and exchange of ideas, it was an enriching experience.  One of the topics that got heated was one debate on a current protest of students in the middle of campus.  They were protesting the use of sweatshops to produce the university’s official sportswear and clothing sold on campus.  They had pitched tents and went on a fast.  One of the students in the class was openly laughing about how she and her friends put up grills next to the protesters, and grilled steaks.  She thought it was a riot and also, more dangerously, thought that the protesters had no right to protest.  Her hostility towards them was palpable.

I was just beginning my journey and I believe I was vegetarian at that time (but went back to eating meat after being advised that I needed to), and I remember saying something about the sweatshops, but it escapes me at the moment.  I do remember a few times getting into shouting matches with one of my kids about buying clothing made by someone being paid $1 per day.    This is another thing about education — I probably would never had been exposed to the information about sweatshops had it not been for not only the official education — but the ripple effect of intelligent, thoughtful people coming together and exchanging ideas inside and outside of the classroom.

Here is an update to 5 broken cameras:

Removing Tracy from his position speaks more to his impact.  If he were a sheep, and blindly followed what was spoonfed by the Military Industrial Complex media, he would not only still have his position, but would likely be rewarded financially for going along with the haux, as the talking heads whom have sold their souls have…

(hat tip Mike the Mad Biologist)  Story here.

From this report, we know:

1. Scientists will lie.
2. Scientists can and do skew their findings towards results that are favorable towards the corporations funding their research.
3. Scientists who speak the truth can be targets, and if it goes far enough, gangstalking as this scientist found out when he and his students were barred from the chemistry building, he was made the target of a fraud investigation, and the rumors degrading his reputation were so bad that he was continually asked to prove that he did not steal what research he had done.

My Research Dean promptly forbid me from submitting any publications. I had to spend two months making the case to legal counsel and the research integrity officer to establish that I had the right to publish. (The letter eventually appeared in JACS.)

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My reputation was destroyed within the institution. I have been investigated by the NSF for grant fraud based on a trumped up charge over a memo that contained a clerical error. The charges were dismissed the same day federal agents came to NCSU to investigate, but I still had to endure the interrogation by two persistent agents who were trying to get a confession.  I was investigated in secret at NCSU for supposedly taping meetings without permission; I did not do this, but I could not defend myself since the allegation was kept secret.

Perhaps gangstalking is not the proper word, but when so many come together to destroy someone, gangstalking came to mind….especially the secrecy part. This is against the 6th Amendment:

Further down, the question is asked how he would handle the whistleblower process.

I think the question is misdirection.  It should be asking why the hell are corporations funding research, when universities used to be funded by the government so that research was somewhat independent? (Although now, with revolving doors from gov’t to corporations would probably lead to the same pay to play.)  Integrity and morality have taken “the last train for the coast…”

 

 

Story here.

The American public has spoken for these standards….you know, those people Congress members like to say they’re representing? /snark

In the Federal Register notice, AMS states that having a strong, clear, consumer-friendly labeling standard “does not facilitate the marketing of agricultural products in a manner that is useful to stakeholders or consumers” because a different USDA agency, the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), must approve meat labels and “there is no guarantee that an USDA-verified production/marketing claim will be approved by FSIS.”

Why is another agency approving meat labels?  Can you say bureaucracy?  I knew that you could.  Wow, talk about passing the buck…

Okay…since the USDA is washing its hands of doing anything to guarantee consumers the right to know how their food is raised, it is up to farmers to create their own system.  Family farmers, that is, because we all know where this is going for the abusive factory farms…

To my friends in South Dakota — have your ears “on” for another mass shooting or some other *cough* terror event.

It’s nothing concrete, just a feeling that I have that something is up and I wouldn’t be surprised if something occurred in Rapid City, since it is home of an air base.

Be careful, my friends.

 

This poor young woman  lays it out there on what she and her mother have been going through.  Note that they are single, intelligent women.  They are 70 percent of the known targets.

If I were listening to her without prior knowledge of what is going on, I would think she was nuts when she mentions them talking about the kind of underwear she was wearing and the conversations she was having.  They absolutely have the power to do all of this– they have the technology now to look through buildings and look through your clothing.  Remember the “news” report on TSA employing equipment that could see through travelers’ clothing?  That’s what I’m talking about.   These people are  predators.