Here’s a pretty good article on the toxic environmental causes of man boobs.  I rather doubt that a calcified physician is going to tell his/her male patients that the very drugs the doc is giving them will cause this (or if they do, they will likely dismiss this side effect as being *necessary* so that the drug can *fix* the patient.  Pfft.

Neither will the calcified medical professional tell his/her patient that environmental toxins from their cookware to detergents are also causing moobs.

They’d much rather make some more moula doing surgery or having the patient return for umpteen medical appointments to *get to the reason* for the gynecomastia.   Or worse, the physician has invested in the stock of the pharma drug he/she is prescribing for the gynecomastia.

And I’m willing to bet that somewhere along the line, the calcified professional will hint that the man has some psychological issue resulting in the growth of breasts.  I can’t say that I have actual knowledge of this…just a hunch.  And if so, I would not be surprised to learn the physician has invested in psych drugs.

Seriously, I think every patient needs to not only do their own homework before ever entering a physician’s office, but come with a warrior attitude and ask questions of how much  a doc has invested in pharmaceuticals or how much they know of environmental toxins.  The answers will tell you what you need to know about the physician’s true interests — is it in making bucks and going along with Big Pharma; or is it a true healing physician?

And ladies, don’t think that this only applies to men.  Everything that affects hormones affects both sexes in different…but significant ways.

Be well, my friends.

So, there’s a town with an emblem that looks to some of us as an aggressive action of a white guy towards a Native American.  They say in this article that it’s not what it appears, yada, yada, yada.

When I was viewing it this morning, I wondered if people would be so complacent if it were a black man?  Given the history of aggression towards the Native Americans, it comes across as a symbol of victory for the White Europeans.  Just my take.

I asked a young Native American if it bothered her.  She said it didn’t bother her as much as the commercialization of Native Americans.  She specifically mentioned the dreamcatchers now available in WalFart and Penneys, and so forth.  She feels that her culture is being taken away from them.  That it is disappearing.  I agree.

Commercialization is all about making a profit.  It is not about spirituality.  It diminishes the significance of the culture.  It is a subtle reduction of powerful connectedness.

I’m sorry, but I can’t help but draw parallels to this report of holistic/naturopath doctors who were unknowingly given a hallucinogenic drug without their knowledge….and MKUltra, a CIA program that gave LSD and other hallucinogens to unsuspecting people, then observed them behind double mirrors.  But it’s all good, because it was done in the name of science and trying to counteract bioweapons….um-hmmm.

I swear that I did not know of this when I posted on MK Ultra. All of these deaths, including Dr. Jeffrey Bradstreet (still no answers yet), came about at the same time.  I don’t care if I’m called a conspiracy theorist…especially now that we know it was a CIA creation to make those of us who ask questions and don’t settle for pat answers out to be idiots or tinfoil hat wearers…

…and it bothers me that people like Erin Elizabeth feel the need to state “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but…”

I’m a conspiracy theorist when I see things start to connect.

That doesn’t make me a tinfoil hat wearer, but an observant, intelligent person who thinks independently.

Here’s a report that states there is STILL OIL in Kalamazoo River, FIVE YEARS after the spill.  Not only that, but the Great Lakes area has become a magnet for Big Energy.  Indiana, for one, doesn’t give a rat’s behind about the environment.  They have actually appointed an energy industry insider to the Indiana Department of Envronmental Mis-Management (IDEM)…and the governor’s brother.  What a joke.  They must have been guffawing behind closed doors at that one.

(And once again, I am shocked, shocked, at a reporter actually practicing journalism.)

The problem with this story is this sentence:

Since then, cleanup crews have returned to his property about eight times and recovered about 50 pounds of the material.

The reader is lulled into believing that the waste has been taken away and the fear of nuclear waste is…gone.  Tra-la-la…

Only it isn’t.

Now it’s been moved to another area (probably a poor/minority neighborhood) to be forgotten.  Out of sight, out of mind.

We’ve been under this delusion that either we can move radioactive/hazardous material away from us, over *here* to someone else over *there* (who doesn’t have the resources to fight it.

And like the Kalamazoo spill, the people affected by it “just moved to another location”…and there was yet another oil pipeline close by.

Can we admit to ourselves that there really is no safe solution to nuclear or hazardous waste?  That we have been far too willing to believe that nonsense because it was conveeeenient?  That there are less and less spaces without contamination?

FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY!  A news service that actually does journalism!  Will the wonders never cease?  /snark

McClatchy has this up on what you, your dentist, and others in the dental office breathe in every single freaking time a mercury dental amalgam is drilled.  The ADA should be ashamed.  And the public should be up in arms about this hazardous waste being put into their mouths!