Having heard successive Australian governments insist for almost twenty years that “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” from their increasingly totalitarian “national security” laws, it’s tempting to laugh at the news that former Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott had fallen afoul of the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (FITS) his own party introduced in 2018. But in truth, it is no laughing matter. The pursuit of Abbott over a speech to a conference convened by a conservative American political group may be the result of even-handed enforcement of a bad law, but is more likely intended as a message to the foreign-policy dissidents who have always been the scheme’s real targets. Either way, it vindicates the warnings of the Citizens Electoral Council and many others that the FITS is an unacceptable affront to the freedom of speech and association that are supposed to be cornerstones of our so-called democracy.
Trees are scientifically proven to be WAY more intelligent than we ever imagined!
“They can feel pain, [and] have emotions, such as fear. Trees like to stand close together and cuddle. They love company and like to take things slow.” These are just some of tree-whisperer Peter Wohlleben’s findings. Peter is a German researcher who not only enjoy being surrounded by trees, he has devoted his life to studying them.
“There is in fact friendship among trees,” he says. “They can form bonds like an old couple, where one looks after the other. Trees have feelings.”
Intelligent Trees is a new documentary is by German forester, author, and tree expert, Peter Wohlleben, along with Suzanne Simard, who is an ecologist from the University of British Columbia. Watch the trailer below to get a glimpse into it.
Not only that, but trees are also believed to have something similar to what we would call a heartbeat.
Dr András Zlinszky at Aarhus University, Denmark, used a laser scanning technique to measure the exact location of branches and leaves of 22 tree and shrub species. Last year he published observations of substantial unexpected movement cycles. Science has found some trees raise and lower their branches several times in the course of the night, indicating a cycle of water and sugar transportation, like their own version of a heartbeat.
“We detected a previously unknown periodic movement of up to 1 centimeter (0.4 inches) in cycles of two to six hours,” Zlinszky said in a statement. “The movement has to be connected to variations in water pressure within the plants, and this effectively means that the tree is pumping. Water transport is not just a steady-state flow, as we previously assumed.”
During the night some trees lower their branches by up to 10 centimeters (4 inches) before raising them again with the Sun. The process is so slow and subtle until recently we thought only certain families do it, but we are now learning it is more widespread.
Most distinctively, a magnolia (Magnolia gradiflora) goes through three full cycles of adjusting its branches, indicating changing water pressure and therefore pumping during the course of a night.
Pretty simple, really. Start by banning psychiatry and its practice. After all, the rot started from them. As all bad conditions do. The then president of the world federaton of mental health, one Brock Chisholm, said in 1947 that the goal of psychiatry was the eradication of the concepts of right and wrong, good and evil. And that to achieve their objectives they needed to infiltrate the professions, which they did.
We see the result of their handiwork at every turn. Rapidly declining moral and ethical standards, rampart drug use, illiteracy, inability to communicate or think clearly and assign correct cause to situations… …all these can be traced directly back to psychiatry.
The polar vortex has kept Lake Michigan frozen throughout the winter. And in Chicago, temperatures dropped up to -30C (-23F) during the peak of the cold season, causing ice shelves to form on the lake.
The ice shelves were formed when water waves underneath crashed over the existing piles of ice in the lake. But the lake will soon return to its usual form.
Spring is bringing warmer weather throughout the region, melting the ice and transforming the lake into a magical spectacle.
The moving water beneath the ice is pushing the ice plates to the surface, and breaking them into attractive patterns which are visible from the South Haven’s pier.
There’s probably not a single parent in the western world who’s missed the fact that it’s challenging to raise a drug-free kid to adulthood. The environment makes it hard, with so many drugs on the illicit market and new distribution methods making it so much easier to acquire them. And kids themselves make it so very hard simply because they lie about their drug use.
Every young person who yields to temptation and reaches for drugs or alcohol for the first time has their own reasons. It could make them feel grown-up or more adventurous. Maybe they feel like their own life is boring or they resent the restrictions that school, teachers and parents place on them so they’d love to feel rebellious. Maybe they are socially uncomfortable or lack confidence and think drinking or drugs will help them relax. There are so many reasons. The key point here is that once a teen or young adult yields that first time, they now have a secret to keep.
Top quotes from article:
“ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing is no longer merely a vehicle only for so-called socially responsible investors. Increasingly, the process goes to the heart of investing fundamentals.”
According to the B of A report, “ESG is the best measure we’ve found for signaling future risk,” superior to leverage or other risk and quality factors. Moreover, “90 percent of bankruptcies in the S&P 500 between 2005 and 2015 were of companies with poor Environmental and Social scores five years prior to the bankruptcies,” the analysts wrote.
“Because if the goal is to fix the broken food system, as stated by the CEO of Mars, the truth is you can’t fix a broken food system with a broken financial system.”
From a newsletter by The Healing Miracle (about Stem Cells).
Dairy is a confusing topic for many people, and so many “gurus” out there make things even more confusing with contradicting advice for the average person simply trying to eat healthy and improve their health. But in this email, I want to briefly talk about yogurt and the effect on your blood sugar and a few studies in relation to type 2 diabetes as well…
In a report published in 2014, by Frank Hu, a Harvard researcher, included about 459,000 participants in 3 studies, and showed that yogurt intake was associated with a 17% reduction in type 2 diabetes risk.
However, it’s important to note that the type of yogurt must NOT be sugar-sweetened or artificially sweetened yogurt… It’s vitally important to eat PLAIN, FULL-FAT yogurt (grass-fed preferably) for the most benefits.
Sweetened yogurts will do more harm than good, but a good plain full-fat yogurt has relatively low amounts of natural sugars, while also containing high quality protein and healthy fats, both of which help to control your blood sugar levels, appetite, and balance hormones. In addition, the beneficial probiotics in a good plain full-fat yogurt help to improve gut health, and can benefit diabetics in many ways due to improved digestive health.
To make your plain full-fat yogurt taste better if you like things a little sweeter, just add a little stevia or monk fruit sweetener, and a handful of fresh or frozen berries and maybe some pumpkin seeds or nuts for a delicious and balanced lunch or snack that keeps blood sugar controlled and boosts fat loss too.
