A young woman collapsed into a coma after working 30 hours straight. She later died. She apparently was drinking the Thai equivalent to redbull to stay awake on the job.
The NY Daily News has a good write up on her hectic life.
It just emphasizes that health is precarious at best. We need sleep, not energy drinks designed to thwart the body’s mechanisms for rest, in order to fulfill impossible demands.
Dying for a living…
A self-fulfilling prophecy by AT&T.
This article must have been written by AT&T….or perhaps it’s *cough* nooz placed by their PR dept.
AT&T has failed to maintain the land lines in a way that we were accustomed to before the push for cell phones.
This article barely touches on the problems rural folks would face if land lines are phased out. The service where I’m at is spotty at best. It is in no way as reliable as land lines are. I’ve wondered how many calls I’ve missed. What if an employer tried to call for an interview and kept getting “service not available”?
The elephant in the room that the article fails to mention is the devastating effects of Electro-Magnetic Fields (EMF) on people. As I’ve stated before, mercury poisoned folk are especially sensitive to them. When I was really sick, I could not talk on a cell phone for any length of time without getting a migraine the next day. I can now talk on them for longer periods, but knowing how it impacts me, why would I want to risk that exposure?
Mercola has an article on it here.
Links from the references —
Effects of EMF on rat brains
Cell phone effects on the young.
Europeans take stance on EMF technology.
The truth about wireless technologies.
Cell phones affect neuological and behavioral aspects of mice.
**edited to correct glaring spelling error. Stupid dyslexia.
Wisconsin, bless their little hearts, have drafted a resolution that they are a “TPP-free” zone. The negotiations have been shielded from public scrutiny but the article states that bits have leaked out and…it’s scary as hell–a Monsanto lobbyist is leading the negotiations.
From the article:
Countries, including those in the European Union, could also find it increasingly difficult to ban, or even require the labeling of, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) if biotech companies determine that those countries’ strict policies restrict fair trade and infringe on the companies’ “rights” to profit.
To top it off, corporations would be allowed to resolve trade disputes in special international tribunals, effectively wiping out hundreds of domestic and international food sovereignty laws. Products labeled fair trade, organic, country-of-origin, animal-welfare approved, or GMO-free, could all be challenged as “barriers to trade.”
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It’s an attack on local autonomy….the right to decide what is best for your community.Good Grief, these corporations can.not.get.enough.profits. Greed, greed, greed.
Those of you not from the Midwest won’t get this post, but an icon of the 70s has passed–Larry Lujack who dominated the radio during the 70s, has passed. We lived three hours away from Chicago, but the powerful WLS reached our little town and much of northern Indiana. (There is a great youtube of Lujack broadcasting in May 1971. I don’t think it’s “official” , though, so I can’t link to it. But just listening to it is a great toss back to those days–the fun we had (describing oil cans as “beautiful” *snort* ) and the times–Vietnam updates /protestors are featured on the news and I’m not sure, but I think they are announcing officers being investigated for shooting Vietnamese, but I’m not sure if it’s related to the My Lai massacre.)
We loved listening to Lujack on our school bus as we made the trip into school, laughing at programs like the “Tooth Fairy”…complete with background noise like doors opening/closing, footsteps, and all that made radio great. I feel sorry for my kids’ generation, because they never got to experience that part of our culture.
I had the name “boogiecheck” for awhile as a log on name. People thought it was something dirty–it wasn’t. It was in reference to a program on WLS with John Records Landecker, where he made short bits of callers’ conversations into a hilarious soundbyte. The program was so popular that when Landecker went to a local high school to speak at a convocation, he was greeted with the crowd chanting: “Boogie Check, Boogie Check, ooh aah! Boogie Check, Boogie Check, ooh aah!” This was the intro to the program from that moment on.
Landecker once told a story of one Friday, a payday, in the olden days where they actually handed out paper checks that one took to the bank to deposit. He said he picked up his check, and started to walk towards the bank, and with each step, he felt more tired. His arm hurt. By the time he got to the bank, he could barely put one foot in front of another. When he got to the bank teller, he found the reason why: he was carrying Larry Lujack’s paycheck instead of his own. Haha. Must have been soooome big ole’ paycheck. 🙂
Peace and comfort to Larry’s family on his passing…
Okay, so this is a rough time of year if one is poor…and it is especially hard for children.
I am more keenly aware of that and try to counteract it by asking kids what kind of gifts they could give without it costing money…
One said that they could cook a meal for someone (provided they furnished their own ingredients). Another said you could pick up trash for someone. I suggested that they could shovel snow for someone in their neighborhood–perhaps an elderly person, as a gift.
I asked if they knew about “Pay It Forward”…they did. We talked about the people paying it forward for customers at fast food restaurants. I mentioned the movie, but warned them that the movie had a sad ending…half wanted to know what happened and the other half didn’t want me to tell.
I related a story I had read once where a couple had purchased a brand new car. It was their pride and joy and they took good care of it over the years. The husband died, however, and as the lady got older, the car was too much for her to care for it. One night, a couple of boys from the neighborhood waited until the older lady went to bed, and then they washed the car and cleaned it all up until it gleamed. The boys continued to do this over the years. The lady didn’t know who her little car angels were, but she was grateful.
I told the kids they could wash a car as a gift, too. (Of course, this would have to wait until better weather.)
And as I sit here and type, I can think of so many everyday things that could be gifts that don’t cost a thing.
I think it’s important for the poor not to feel they have nothing to contribute…that they can give gifts, too, that are just as appreciated as something bought in a store.
Look at this segment on ABC News on the ruling that what the NSA is doing is Unconstitutional.
Just the wording alone is alarmist:
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The segment states that this is a victory for Edward Snowden. (!)
Wow. Just wow. Journalists…er, um, people who get a paycheck pretending to be journalists…who didn’t do their job in the first place, making it imperative for someone else–in this case Edward Snowden–to do what they should have been doing are putting this as a victory for him.
Instead, they should be saying this is a victory for our democracy.
This is a victory for upholding our Constitution.
They frame it as a blow to the war on terror when, as the judge states, there is no evidence that this has saved lives.
And eavesdropping on friendly countries…? How is that helping the war on terror? Is Angela Merkel a terrorist?
Idle No More has a virtual “teach-in” up on the web (scroll down) by Sharon Venne. It’s a really interesting piece on the historical treatment of the indigenous and how s-l-o-w-l-y their culture and their land has been “disappeared”.
As she says in her talk, it goes on over such a slow period of time, that one doesn’t realize what is happening until it’s almost too late….like the frog put in a pan of water that the heat is turned up so slowly that the frog doesn’t realize it’s being boiled to death.
It’s really worth watching it all the way through–she has such a good story to tell of her own struggle to get an education. She tells the story of not being able to read until going to university. (By the way, Literacy Volunteers are out there to help folks learn to read–check with your local library). She was continually kept in stress mode by them not sending her monthly stipends on time so she could pay her rent. God Bless the administrator who helped her.
She makes an important point at about 29:00 minutes in– of what sounds like the precursor to “corporations are people, too”. If anything, we need to pay better attention to what is going on in other countries…especially to the poor and minorities…because it seems to be a worldwide power grab–given that there have been austerity measures all over the globe and attacks on teacher’s unions and such. More here.
And here.
I found this piece so interesting. It perfectly illustrates how much the so-called feminine crafts impacted...created.…cultures. Would we not all look alike but for our unique sense of style, color, texture in our cultures? Sooooo boring…
Without the warmth of blankets and solid clothing, wouldn’t we have perished long ago?
…and the creativity of the feminine…is awesome….
And yet, the feminine is still treated–historically as well as today–as if it was not that important for survival…even by women who claim to be pro-woman.
If women had not had the ingenuity to gather nuts, berries, and seeds to eat, would humanity survived? (likely not–men weren’t that good at hunting before tools came along). How about their intuition in cooking…?
What about their intuition for using plants for medicine? And yet we have been dumbed down to not trust our instincts that were once keen….
Medical professionals will intimidate a women into dismissing what she knows to be true…because….well, because he’s the doctor and he’s had all these years of schooling and he has that certificate on the wall saying that he is smarter than she…
Deutsch29 has an excellent blog up on the *cough* Center for Union Facts (CUF) running a full page ad in the NY Times. Upon closer examination, our old friend, Rick Berman, gun for hire, is behind CUF, among other organizations. Note the letter from his son, David. Pretty sad, eh?
AFT has a short video up on the 5 myths about school performance.
…next, they’ll discover that water is wet….just a little snarky, there…
So, they’re talking about Bravo products for making yogurt on the support group. I checked the website and OMG, they want 550 euro for a three months’ supply! I started to smell a rat.
I found this blog with a video of the lead scientist. I stopped the video about half way through when he starts with the arrogant attitude that this can’t be given to the general public…because it’s just too, too, complicated a product….that needs a scientist to direct the stupid person taking it….Pshaw.
Anyway, I thought I’d pass this along. I don’t know if it will help, but I do know from the GAPS diet that all health begins in the gut, and anything that helps restore normal gut flora would help that person’s overall health and immune system.
Eagle 
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