The War on Fand The Normalisation of Misogyny in Australia

This is so freaking outrageous I can’t even get beside myself. We already live in a rape culture and this is putting gas on the fire.
In the last month, I have seen a woman with two black eyes, another woman with a black eye and missing front teeth; another woman with a bruised cheek and missing front teeth; others whose scars are spiritual wounds and are hidden from view….
So, no, I don’t want to give this piece of work more publicity that he craves…please do what you can to counteract the rape culture. Educate yourself on verbal abuse (a good book is this: http://www.powells.com/book/verbal-abuse-survivors-speak-out-on-relationship-recovery-9781558503045/7-5 ); read books on boundaries….we have been conditioned to ignore boundaries and respecting others’ rights to be let alone and to have their own space and their own privacy. And if you are able, please help domestic violence shelters. A good one in need is White Buffalo Calf Woman Society in Mission, South Dakota. They need your donations.

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gender_equality_scale_450Since I was a young girl I believed I lived in a world where my gender made no difference whatsoever.  I was raised to see myself as a person whose worth was measured by my deeds, my achievements and my failures.

As I grew older I continued to see the world through this lens.  As a someone who attended a girls only private school those teachings were re-enforced.  The subject of whether or not I was in anyway less capable or deserving than my male counterparts was so unheard of that it didn’t even bear mentioning.

While studying history I learnt about the long fight for women’s rights and their battle to be seen as equal in our society but to me that was all it was History.  Even at university where I was introduced to a much deeper appreciation of the legacy that those who have come before us let…

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Alberta failing aboriginals in the oilsands area: unreleased report

The last line pretty much says it all. They pretend they are helpless because they didn’t cause the mess…so it gives them an out to any responsibility to take action.

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Tar Sands aerial factory Tar Sands factory complex in Alberta.

‘What Alberta said it would do and what it actually did are very different things,’ report says

By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press, Feb 2, 2016

The Alberta government’s attempt to balance competing interests in the oilsands region has failed to protect aboriginal
rights, lands and health from industrial development, says an unreleased report.

Instead, the document concludes the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan, which came into force in 2012, has been used by both industry and government to erode traditional land use in favour of economic interests.

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Oh beautiful, for spacious skies…

Do you have any idea how beautiful this country is….?

I mean that, seriously.

Do you take the time to take in the environment when you’re outside –seeing what wildlife is around you?

So…I was just taking in the beauty of this land today and felt such awe that I live in such a place.  I saw two eagles today and it is so rare that I don’t buy that they are out of danger of extinction…

And worry that it all is going to be lost forever if we don’t wise up pretty damn fast…

…we have to go back to the natural ways if we want to save this beautiful place.  We are killing the earth.

Viruses are Not Inherently Bad

Marco also has a previous post on how Zika virus was SUSPECTED of being connected with babies born with small heads…and the mass media hysterical machine went into action by claiming that it was DEFINITELY the cause and that this virus is something to be terrified of…
Post link here: https://idsent.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/jumping-the-gun-on-the-zika-microcephaly-connection/

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One of the problems with the current and evolving discussion within the media about the Zika virus (… Have you seen all those cockeyed headlines?) is the assumption that the virus is dangerous and we should all be worried about its spread. This is similar to what has occurred with the polio virus, when the fact is that the vast portion of the people who have either of these viruses exhibit no symptoms or have very mild symptoms.

In the case of polio, 95% of the people who have the polio virus show no symptoms at all. They just go about their lives as if nothing. In other words, it is harmless. According to the CDC, “Less than 1% of polio cases result in paralysis… ” And yet, the virus has been made out to be a monster which we must attack and destroy. “Oh dear God, we need drugs…

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An Epidemic of suicides/homicides and anti-depressants

Ireland is currently in the midst of an unprecedented suicide/homicide epidemic. Parents are uncharacteristically killing their children; husbands are killing their wives; brothers are killing their brothers; mothers are killing themselves and their babies, all at an alarming rate.

This quote from this post.

What seems shocking, to me at least, is that all of these cases involved knifes. Another common denominator in every one of these cases, is that the perpetrators were receiving recent ‘care’ from irish psychiatric services. By its very nature, particularly in Ireland, the ‘care’ provided involved psychiatric drugs. That these drugs double the risk of suicide and violence, can lead to mania, psychosis, worsening depression and akathisia, is almost always overlooked.

….overlooked because Big Pharma has them convinced that popping  a pill is the cure.  I mean, why let a little thing like devastating effects deter ignorant, lazy doctors from prescribing these powerful drugs?

It is sooo much easier to look the other way…especially if a doctor is invested in Big Pharma and stands to gain $$ from these horrible drugs.

…but you won’t hear that from the Big Pharma sponsored media.

People are dying.  And they’re looking the other way while they pick up their million dollar salaries.

When Anna Byrne, a woman heavily pregnant with twins, jumped off Howth Head killing herself and her two unborn boys, the fact that her medication had been recently changed wasn’t seen as a mitigating factor. Despite this report in the Irish Independent that Anna was deemed to be “low risk given that she did not indicate that she was suicidal and had made future plans”, her psychiatrist doubled her dose of Sertraline (aka Zoloft and Lustral), a few days before she jumped to her death.

Given that these are Irish, there is a good chance that the depression may be caused by toxicity.  Irish are known to be lacking the gene that helps rid the body of heavy metals.  Heavy metal toxicity causes anxiety and depression.

That is in combination with the tendency towards Celiac disease….and all the issues associated with it – such as leaky gut, seizures, and in extreme cases, schizophrenia.  Anne may have been suffering neurological issues due to the stress on her gut–resulting in serious inflammation.  This is especially true if she were eating a diet full of wheat and genetically modified organisms (GMO).

And I can bet my last dollar that the doctor never looked at diet before prescribing these horrible drugs.    Diet has been shown to be extremely important to resolve issues that appear to be mental issues which are in fact physical issues manifesting as neurological.

You might recall the book Potatoes Not Prozac, by Kathleen Desmaisons, where she was able to help alcoholics conquer the addiction by changing their diet.  She had counseled alcoholics but she had a group that really wanted to quit, but just couldn’t seem to beat it.  She began to inquire on diet, and realized that they reacted strongly to sugar spikes.  That is, if they saw a plateful of cookies out of the oven, they would want to eat all of them.

She developed a low-glycemic diet for them to follow, which allowed them to overcome the addiction.

I have to say from my own perspective, I think candida is a factor in this, since candida overgrowth will make one crave sweets.

The coffee enemas and fasting have been reported to also help with addictions, as well as detox the liver.  I remember on one site, a gal who had given up cigarettes some years before, suddenly began tasting cigarettes (nicotine) after beginning the detox.  Interesting, eh?

Another tie-in to diet is from my personal experience with eating high-sulfur foods when I was really toxic.  I could eat a cup of green beans and be depressed within a couple of hours.  Amazing, isn’t it?

 

Stories from the Grocery Store

What a powerful post! As I’ve stated on my own blog, Indiana has adopted draconian measures such as docking food stamps for every $100 one earns…thereby keeping people in perpetual poverty.
And thank you, Carol, for the excellent excerpts of Obama care that will take away ALL assets of anyone asking for assistance. So the antidote to this is to grow as much of your own food, with heirloom seeds, that you can. Food is medicine and organic food is the means to obtain health. Then you won’t need Obama care. 🙂

Minister of Justice responds to call for inquiry into Gustafsen Lake standoff

I don’t understand why there has to be a choice between one or the other? I’m not in Canada, so I don’t know the budget constraints, but surely an 83 year old man deserves justice…as do the Native women.

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11672445 Federal justice minister and British Columbia MP Jody Wilson-Raybould speaks at SFU in Vancouver, BC Saturday, January 23, 2016. Photograph by: Jason Payne , Vancouver Sun

Says it’s not a priority

Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she will look into a call for an inquiry into the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff, but the issue is not a top priority.

Wilson-Raybould, who is also the Liberal MP for Vancouver-Granville and Canada’s first aboriginal minister, delivered her first official speech since being appointed justice minister at Simon Fraser University’s Woodward campus on Saturday in downtown Vancouver.

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And They Say I Am Changing The World

There’s just something about this that bugs me…there is still an air of privilege. It reminds me of the song they keep playing at Christmastime with the words “well, tonight, thank God it’s them instead of you…” Do you have any idea how smug and self-important that makes one? And how that feels to the poor…who do not “deserve” to be in their positions any more than the rich “deserve” to be in theirs?? What did he do to help the homeless woman, instead of pitying her? Why not see about sustainable housing like Earthships for her so she won’t be homeless?

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On the way to visit one of my schools, As I sat back on my rickshaw enjoying the wind playing with my hair; The man pulling me towards my destination wiped the sweat off his brows.. And they say, I am changing the world.

Looking the other way, As I yet again walked past the homeless lady that they all claim to be mad;  A CNG driver stopped and offered her apples that he had exclusively bought for her. And they say, I am changing the world;

After clearing the coveted IIT examination, As I went to buy sweets to celebrate; The sales boy, the same age as myself, while handing me the sweets congratulated me on my achievement. I walked out of the shop with the sweets in one hand and the realization of my privilege in the other.. And they say, I am changing the world.

Travelling through the…

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The Book To Read: The French Intifada.

…not to mention the French also colonized Haiti and Vietnam…with disastrous results, as well.

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Aulnay-sous-Bois-Nov-2005-Photo-by-Leopold-Lambert/Danger Effondrement (Danger Collapse) in Aulnay-sous-Bois (North-Eastern Paris banlieue), photo © Léopold Lambert, 2005/

I was really looking forward to reading Andrew Hussey’s new book The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and its Arabs, and it didn’t dissapoint me, on the contrary – it held up to my expectations.

To fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France – and all of Europe – as well as major events from the Arab Spring in the Middle East to the tensions in Mali, Andrew Hussey argues that we have to look beyond the confines of domestic horizons.

As much as unemployment, economic stagnation, and social deprivation exacerbate the ongoing turmoil in the banlieues (the urban hotspots for tension and bouts of rioting), Hussey describes how the root of the problem lies elsewhere: in the continuing fallout from Europe’s colonial era.

In banlieues in Paris, Hussey writes…

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