Month: June 2019

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Save Our Native Forests!

Land Clearing

Data obtained through freedom of information laws has just revealed that logging and land clearing in NSW ramped up 80% in two years to mid-2017 and now the laws have been weakened further. The NSW Government has let the bulldozers run wild. Call on your MP to urgently act to protect our forests and koalas.

(This is what I wrote to my MP:

G’day Jamie,

I know I contacted your office about this only in the last month but I am doing so again so you can honestly quote numbers to those who say it is not a hot issue.

I consider destruction of native habitat is not only a hot issue, it is a RED hot issue! We have too much to lose by continuing our present course of action when viable alternatives abound. Hemp grows faster and has a better yield than conventional timber forests. Hemp also has the capacity to provide plastic free bags that will decompose in a fraction of the time as does plastic. We should be planting the stuff where we have torn down forests, not tearing down more native forests!
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https://www.nature.org.au/get-involved/take-action/tell-your-mp-to-stop-the-bulldozers/

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Wild Idea Number Three

Wild Idea Number Three

Here’s a Wild idea: number three

Part of the agreement is a recognition that no government may sign any agreement that binds its people to it forever and that any such a treaty must be reviewed, say, every five years and voted upon by the people in a referendum. That way we can put an end to some bozo in government signing some daft treaty that creates problems for every future generation of the country.

We draw up a Code of Conduct for Governments. This is a new idea all by itself, I think. We have codes of conduct and standards of behaviour for people but we really, really need to have one for governments as well. The behaviour of many governments, by any rational decent standards, is often a total disgrace. If a person behaved the way many a government behaves, we’d lock the bastard up sand throw away the key!

This operates as a sort of moral code by which each government abides. It would, for example, include precepts such as (see above) not signing treaties that are binding in perpetuity upon people who are not even born let alone never voted on it.

The Code would also include common sense precepts such as NO arbitrary arrest or incarceration of ANYONE for ANY reason without a fair, impartial hearing in a court of law and then only based upon criminal ACTIONS that cause harm (murder, rape, arson etc etc) and NOT expressing an opinion, being a bit weird and so forth.

The European dream got hijacked by knobheads
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Antidepressants use among young Australians has soared, so has the suicide rate

An explosion in the use of antidepressants has been linked to the tragic rise in the number of youth suicides in Australia.

As a result, experts in the field — and the nation’s leading suicide prevention organisations — stand accused of getting the management of depression “horribly wrong”.

Suicides among young Australians have leapt by nearly 40 per cent since 2009 at the same time as the use of antidepressants has surged by 60 per cent in this age group, research shows.

More than 430,000 Australians aged under 27 (up from 149,538 in 2008) are now using antidepressants including over 100,000 under the age of 17 (up from 29,773 in 2008), Health Department figures show.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/lifestyle/health/antidepressants-use-among-young-australians-has-soared-so-has-the-suicide-rate/news-story/79d0d4357595d4d2e081b1f289fb8b40?fbclid=IwAR0f7qoUdH1_7FFRNyOt_sl3duNNcLUoWy06YCqQZy10CcxnBeUSzP9R5hE

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Science Says Silence Is Much More Important To Our Brains Than We Think

Shhhhh

(Tom’s note: Please bear in mind these researchers do not take into account that you are a spiritual being, they think of you only as a body, so they are missing the key element in the big picture, the elephant in the china shop if you will. So in the article when they refer to structure, accept their label of the brain but when they refer to function, they would be more accurate to refer to the mind or you, the spirit.)

A 2013 study on mice published in the journal Brain, Structure and Function used differed types of noise and silence and monitored the effect the sound and silence had on the brains of the mice. The silence was intended to be the control in the study but what they found was surprising. The scientists discovered that when the mice were exposed to two hours of silence per day they developed new cells in the hippocampus. The hippocampus is a region of the brain associated with memory, emotion and learning.

https://www.lifehack.org/377243/science-says-silence-much-more-important-our-brains-than-thought

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Don’t Buy Chevon’s Lies

Every year, a larger band of human rights and environmental activists show up at the Chevron shareholders meeting to stubbornly speak truth to power.
Only a week after “Anti-Chevron Day” when protests took place in five different countries, activists came out once again to target the “worst corporate actor on the planet.” This year Chevron won another award for being the “Corporate Bully of the Year.”
From deliberately dumping 16 billion gallons of toxic oil waste in the Amazon (which it refuses to clean up) to criminally neglecting safety measures leading to its Richmond refinery exploding and sending 15,000 local community members to the hospital, Chevron is in a class of its own.

https://amazonwatch.org/news/2019/0530-the-chevron-way-admit-nothing-deny-everything-make-counter-accusations