DN! has the attacks on Gaza. I wanted to link to it because it shows that not all Israelis are supportive of the bullying of the Palestinians. Also–I wanted to be clear that Israel does have a right to defend itself–which it was doing with intercepting the rocket fire. They don’t have a right to kill innocent people, despite what Netanyahu states.
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Your ability to know what is going on in the world depends on the press being able to gather information without threat of jail.
A democracy cannot survive without the press revealing the facts that politicians and government officials would rather you not know. The press has the right to keep their sources secret….especially in this age of no privacy, as we saw with the previous story on Brian Williams. The ability to obtain information from sources without them being compromised is already in jeopardy without the threat of jail for reporters who managed to keep their sources secret from the NSA/CIA spying.
So… was Brian Williams surprised by this? If a news person is surprised by all that NSA/CIA is doing, then we’re in serious trouble, folks….
…and it shouldn’t surprise Williams that Snowden was “cagy”….Williams, et al, apparently can’t move about without detection, so Snowden is smart to keep information to a minimum.
Definition of a Bully:
Israel is pummeling the Palestinians…for what? It’s like one kid throwing pebbles at another and the other pulling out a gun and shooting.
The death toll in Gaza jumped overnight, doubling to 80 dead and more than 500 injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The latest fatality was 5-year-old Abdullah Abu Gazal, who was killed in a midmorning Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia.
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80 people dead, including children. People watching the soccer games, minding their own business, struck dead. And once again, members of the media are targeted. Not all Palestinians are in Hamas, yet Israel is shooting at anyone and anything.
And how many Israelis have been hurt? No serious injuries reported. None dead. Repeat that–NONE dead. There is absolutely no justification for the fierceness of the Israeli attacks.
Netanyahu said Wednesday Hamas was to blame, because it was “hiding behind civilians.”
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Stunning.
In other words….”it’s not my fault if stupid civilians get in the way of my bombs…”
Let them be. Let them have their small parcel of land. Treat them as you wish to be treated.
I was watching CNN’s coverage of the hearing for Justin Ross Harris, the Georgia father who left his child, Cooper, in a car during a hot Georgia day, claiming he “forgot” his child.
The hearing barely began and this guy’s actions revealed a depraved person.
As police officer Stoddard described Ross’ actions–he was more worried about how this death affected him, instead of how his poor child suffered. Same reaction in the courtroom that day–he sat emotionless as the police officer described Cooper’s condition upon arrival. Nothing from this guy…until a witness began describing Justin’s reactions that day–which I’m leaning towards as staged–especially after learning that both Justin and his wife were doing internet searches on kids left in hot cars.
When I was watching Alex Hall testify, I was struck by his lack of emotion, also. I mean, this is the son of your buddy, wouldn’t that make you cry that this poor child suffered and is now dead?
I have not been for the death penalty for a long time, but this case is making me reexamine that–as they described poor Cooper with his eyes and mouth open and claw marks down his face as he evidently was suffering and unable to escape that oven–I want Justin and his wife to suffer as Cooper did. I know I’m just being emotional right now, but God, I want them to be locked in a car with no ability to escape and suffer as he did.
I cannot even wrap my brain around such depravity.
Why not give the child up for adoption if you no longer wanted to parent him? No, these narcissist sociopaths could not allow that…they wanted the life insurance money.
Just wanted to give you a head’s up on something the mercury group has posted~
Vitamin Research Products (vrp.com) is no longer stocking DMSA, one of the chelators of mercury and lead. They just suddenly stopped stocking it and have even removed the page from their website.
This is not good news. They were the main supplier of DMSA. Theories are abound that Big Pharma is behind this–buying out the competition. And if they can buy out natural cures, they can force sick people to buy their side-effect-laden crap.
There are also allegations that Obamacare is limiting natural methods of healing, such as chelation supplements, making it harder for folks to get well. I don’t know this for fact, but it is one of the reasons I have not signed up for the health care. Another reason is the link to the insurance industry instead of single-payer, which would have been more palatable, being like Medicare for All.
I can tell you that many of us on the group lost jobs as a result of mercury–therefore, we had lost the ability to pay for medical insurance and the ability to pay for supplements that insurance didn’t cover. But at least the supplements were available…and cheap. I would have not gotten well without that. So once again, the poor take a hit for the uber wealthy to make even more profits….
I suspected that Big Pharma would try to grab this part of the market again, because they had in the past and continually try to get some twerp in Congress to do their bidding with making supplements illegal.
With billions of dollars and high-priced lawyers, they have gotten away with trying to take credit for natural healing herbs and methods, such as those used in India. These were used for thousands of years…and Big Pharma comes along and tries to claim a patent. Utterly mindboggling. More here on Big Pharma’s battle to get a share of the market in India. An even better explanation of it here.
Big Pharma tries to claim that compulsory licenses aren’t available for cancer drugs – a lie; or that they are only available for national emergencies – another lie; or that India is establishing a general exception to patents for pharmaceuticals – an even bigger lie. Sovereigns retain the right under TRIPS to issue compulsory licenses or to allow public, non-commercial use of patented products or processes. As long as the correct procedures are followed and adequate remuneration is paid, the patent holder has nothing legitimate to complain about – unless, of course, it is a U.S. multinational who doesn’t want an emerging country like India to get in its way.
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…or for a group of U.S. citizens who want natural methods to heal their bodies to get their way….
And unfortunately, that’s not all that the greedy are trying to patent.
Lastly, here is a good segment on DN! with Vandana and Mira Shiva–two “uppity” women I admire for fighting the good fight~~
Vandana brings up the point of liability. It would seem that none of the chemical companies — be it Dow/Union Carbide or any Big Pharma — want to take responsibility for the harm that they cause. All the profits. None of the guilt.
She also highlights the attitudes towards the poor–they don’t matter so let’s poison them or use them as guinea pigs.
It was great to hear of them speak of their strong mother in the end~~no junk food in the house. My father, too, did not allow junk food in the house when I was growing up–a parent who cares is not going to feed their child junk. I heard the other day of parents of my children’s generation feeding their kids nothing but junk…and they don’t see anything wrong with that. Very unsettling. Regretfully, I didn’t appreciate my Dad’s wisdom until recently. I always felt deprived because other kids got to have a “treat” of junk food on Friday night. Just before the divorce, my sister would make Chef Boy-ar-dee pizzas on Friday night. I felt happy at getting that “treat”. Pfft. The “treat” that kills.
Food is medicine. Weeds are medicine. When will we learn to value that which is not valuable by profit-making and make that available to all, not just those with cash in hand??
Well, now…CNN still has some chops:
The former video of Elliot Rodger has been made “private” now, so one cannot view his rant on how deserving he is of women’s attention and sex. One cannot see the blatant sense of entitlement. Nor his viewing women as objects for his personal pleasure.
I love that CNN explored this topic–one that women deal with on a daily basis, but has been ignored by mainstream media…well, ANY media, be it liberal or conservative. Women’s concerns, up to now, have been ignored or if any attention is given to it, their concerns are belittled to be insignificant. Elliot Rodger is a product of the rape culture–I’ll take what I want if she won’t give it to me willingly.
My other posts on rape culture:
A father is harassed after his daughter is not only raped, but bullied afterwards.
Promoting rape culture in popular media. And...joking about raping others….
The police ask “why didn’t you try to get away?” when she is beaten within an inch of her life.
In India.
In France.
In Australia.
Native American women, who, until very recently, could be raped without retribution.
Boasting about rape on social media.
They’re only raping prostitutes…
The alleged abuse of Terry Richardson….and how he’s allowed to get away with his predatory behavior by those that employ him and even praise him.
Lastly, the alleged abuse of Dylan Farrow by Woody Allen.
(Side note~Migraine is gone…weird. I felt like I was getting one Tuesday, and then it went away. Probably due to the new stress of job and getting away from all grains and chocolate….it’s going to be interesting to see how my body re-adjusts, if my migraines are any clue.)
I got the rare chance of watching Melissa Harris-Perry this morning. I don’t always agree with her conclusions, but do enjoy the stimulating program. She talked about the Santa Barbara shootings and the gender bias of the shooter, Elliott Rodger. She mentioned a video by him, but refused to play it, so I went looking for it on youtube:
Wow. Just Wow. Two minutes into this video, and you can see why women rejected this guy. Narcissistic. Self-absorbed. Playing the victim. Shallow. Entitled.
Over and over again, he claims rejection by women and doesn’t understand why. Over and over again he says “these beautiful blonde women” are out with “douchebags”….when they should be out with “wonderful” him. Women have great intuition (which they don’t always listen to) and probably could see this guy’s warped view of himself and the world and his negative energy towards them…as is now known by his murdering people.
MHP’s guest stated that this guy had a sense of entitlement. I can see that in the video. By his view, he was such a “terrific” guy, and was entitled to the beautiful women, but couldn’t get them….so he killed them.
There are so many things tied to Elliott Rodger’s view –one of which is the society’s rape/violence culture against women.
Rodger focuses on rejection by beautiful women. I would lay bets that there were women who liked Elliott…but they weren’t “beautiful” on the outside. He probably treated them badly…as he claims he was treated. It’s okay, you see, to treat women who are “ugly” by society’s standards in a disrespectful and dismissive tone. This makes me so angry I could spit nails right now.
They brought up that Elliott was autistic. Okay, you all know what I’m going to say next…he was a high functioning autistic, with apparent aggression and rage — both tied to mercury poisoning. Will anyone explore that possibility while investigating this case? Probably not. And another chance at recognizing mercury/heavy metal poisoning/toxicity’s influence in crime is ignored.
From the first link:
Studies involving a large sample of autistic and schizophrenic patients found that over 90 % of those tested had high levels of the milk protein beta-casomorphine-7 in their blood and urine and defective enzymatic processes for digesting milk protein(92,93,83), and similarly for the corresponding enzyme needed to digest wheat gluten(92,94)
Due to the large number of vaccinations that are now containing mercury thimerosal, most children have been documented to receive mercury exposure far above the government health guideline for mercury, and the number of causes of autism has increased over 600% in the last decade[81,A,43b].
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A group of violent criminals had signif. higher levels of hair lead and cadmium levels than non violent controls(62b)
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Studies at the Argonne National Laboratory found that the majority of delinquents and criminals had high metals levels such as cadmium and lead, and to fall into 2 categories. One group with high copper and low zinc, sodium potassium tended to have extreme tempers, while another group with low zinc and copper, but high sodium and potassium tended to be sociopathic(115). But it was found that treatment of delinquent or violent prone individuals for metals related problems including nutritional therapy usually produced significant improvements in mood, violent behavior, and functionality- with complete cure in the majority of cases (115,119,120).
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A note here about hair analysis–Dr. Cutler is of the belief that hair levels are helpful, but not 100% indicators of toxicity. Time and again, mercury poisoned folks have tested low mercury on hair tests — NOT because they are not poisoned, but rather, because their bodies are not secreting mercury. They lack the ability to efficiently rid the body of mercury. Once they began to chelate, and their poor bodies were able to function half-way decently, their hair tests have changed to high mercury levels.
It is almost a rule that on the mercury support group, that we are gluten and dairy intolerant–lack of enzymes since mercury interferes with it.
It will be interesting to see the developing story. God Bless the parents and loved ones who lost someone.
Well, this is sad news. I hope folks think of this the next time someone spouts off that we need to nuke Iran…there are people of peace all around the world who just want to live their lives…and be happy…
In relation to my other post on our loss of civil rights…this is one of the things that happen when “intelligence” is used to track down someone expressing Free Speech.
Abby Zimet has a post up on the vulgarity of the 9/11 museum commercialization. It’s more like an enterprise than a solemn memorial to those who experience the horror of that day.
And, as is brought up–the end of our civil rights, specifically, the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment is hardly reason to “celibrate”…or perhaps one should say, bank upon…
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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Violation of our right to peacefully assemble:
And, of course, the violation of our right to privacy against government intrusion unless there is a court warrant with justifiable cause.
Perhaps it should be called the Museum of Lost Civil Rights…
And like a couple of commenters, I take exception to the dismissive tone of Abby on the Architects and Engineers –who are not claiming to know if 9/11 was an inside job, but rather, they are stating that Building 7 was not hit, but nevertheless collapse as one does in a controlled demolition. THAT is what they’re saying.
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