Death at School: Parents Protest Dangerous Discipline

Seriously, just how messed up are Americans in positions of authority? If school officials did any of this to my children, nothing would protect them from me.

Why do my muscles hurt

Second day of P90 done. Some exercises are hilarious, it's like my body is going:

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE!"

Aaand we're switching to P90

My body is giving me very clear signals, in the form of muscle soreness from my legs to my neck, that P90X is a little too intense for me. I'll probably need a few days before I can pick up my weights again. I think I had a misconception that anyone could jump into this but you seem to need to be a lot fitter than me to start the program. I was just doing some dumbell workouts for 3 muscle groups and 20 minute heavy interval sessions every 2 days before I started this.
So as soon as my body doesn't feel like pain molded into a person I'm gonna switch to P90. I don't know what I was thinking, if doing my half-assed 3 muscle groups routine everyday instead of leaving a day in between was leaving me sore why did I think an hour workout everyday wasn't going to destroy me lol. I guess I had a little too much faith in the notoriety of the program. It doesn't mean I'm giving up, I'm just using my head!

DON'T DRINK THAT! It has artificial sweetener

via Relaxed Focus

Two Chaos Magic Practices by Jonathan Zap

Unfortunately, "vibrations," like  "inner child" (a potent archetype and subpersonality), has, for many, taken on the cheesy, Celestine taint of New Age cliché. But looking at the world in terms of vibration is as valid as looking at it from the point of view of mathematical relationships, systems analysis, and energetic transaction. Physics tells us that there are no solid objects, that everything is vibratory. Einstein said that solid matter is just a special case of energy.
Everything we think is solid is actually patterned energy, the stuff that dreams are made of.  Even black holes don't sit still and can spin at 84% of the speed of light.

Everything seems to be vibratory, and obviously there are vibrations of varying frequencies.  I vibrate, therefore I am, says the cosmos.

 Read it all at Reality Sandwich

Monsanto protest - in Belgium, 80 people got fined for it

Here are pictures of the worldwide protests against Monsanto, in backwards Belgium, 80 people got fined by this new fascist bullshit fine they invented, a GAS fine, which is a fine sanctioned by the city and they can go from 50 to 250 euros. No trial, no nothing, just pay up and shut up. Nice use of language btw, calling it a "fine".



Monsanto news:

• Millions March Against Monsanto: A Global Awakening Covered Up By The Media
• Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in Landmark Case
• GM foods not served in Monsanto cafeteria

Jeffrey Smith interviews Dr. Stephanie Seneff about Glyphosate

The average sentence for a first time non violent drug offender convicted under federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws is now longer than the average sentence for rape, child molestation, bank robbery, and manslaughter

Read the article Massachusetts reviews Mandatory Minimums, and reddit comments here.

"I never imaged that I would end up in prison for 10 year never imagined that could happen because I didn’t murder anyone. I didn’t rape anyone I’m not a child molester. I was a woman who had a drug problem and was doing illegal activities didn’t expected to get a longer sentence than people who do violent crimes. I never expected that."

The war on drugs is fucking stupid & evil.

See if you can wrap your head around this

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/16376/Treinramp-Wetteren/article/detail/1633473/2013/05/15/Parket-legt-bewarend-beslag-op-bloedstalen-Wetteren.dhtml

(google translate - not optimal, "parket/parquet" just means something like district attorney or prosecution)

The authorities have confiscated blood samples of the people who lived close to the chemical train disaster in Wetteren "so they would not get lost." Everyone realizes this means the opposite. Again, never trust the government when something terrible happens. The media is just as guilty reporting this shit with a straight face. At least the comments on the article are near unanimous - this stinks to high heaven. Incredible.

Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging - Full Documentary

"Before these drugs were introduced in the market, people who had these conditions would not have been given any drugs at all. So it is the branding of a disease and it is the branding of a drug for a treament of a disease that did not exist before the industry made the disease."

Psychotropic drugs. It's the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human terms is even greater-these drugs now kill an estimated 42,000 people every year. And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims and the survivors themselves, this riveting documentary rips the mask off psychotropic drugging and exposes a brutal but well-entrenched money-making machine. (Excerpt from website)

Please visit the official website for more information:
http://www.cchr.org

Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle

There is no scientific evidence that psychiatric diagnoses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are valid or useful, according to the leading body representing Britain's clinical psychologists.

In a groundbreaking move that has already prompted a fierce backlash from psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society's division of clinical psychology (DCP) will on Monday issue a statement declaring that, given the lack of evidence, it is time for a "paradigm shift" in how the issues of mental health are understood. The statement effectively casts doubt on psychiatry's predominantly biomedical model of mental distress – the idea that people are suffering from illnesses that are treatable by doctors using drugs. The DCP said its decision to speak out "reflects fundamental concerns about the development, personal impact and core assumptions of the (diagnosis) systems", used by psychiatry.

Dr Lucy Johnstone, a consultant clinical psychologist who helped draw up the DCP's statement, said it was unhelpful to see mental health issues as illnesses with biological causes.

"On the contrary, there is now overwhelming evidence that people break down as a result of a complex mix of social and psychological circumstances – bereavement and loss, poverty and discrimination, trauma and abuse," Johnstone said. The provocative statement by the DCP has been timed to come out shortly before the release of DSM-5, the fifth edition of the American Psychiatry Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

The manual has been attacked for expanding the range of mental health issues that are classified as disorders. For example, the fifth edition of the book, the first for two decades, will classify manifestations of grief, temper tantrums and worrying about physical ill-health as the mental illnesses of major depressive disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder and somatic symptom disorder, respectively.

Some of the manual's omissions are just as controversial as the manual's inclusions. The term "Asperger's disorder" will not appear in the new manual, and instead its symptoms will come under the newly added "autism spectrum disorder".

The DSM is used in a number of countries to varying degrees. Britain uses an alternative manual, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) published by the World Health Organisation, but the DSM is still hugely influential – and controversial.

The writer Oliver James, who trained as a clinical psychologist, welcomed the DCP's decision to speak out against psychiatric diagnosis and stressed the need to move away from a biomedical model of mental distress to one that examined societal and personal factors.

Writing in today's Observer, James declares: "We need fundamental changes in how our society is organised to give parents the best chance of meeting the needs of children and to prevent the amount of adult adversity."

But Professor Sir Simon Wessely, a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and chair of psychological medicine at King's College London, said it was wrong to suggest psychiatry was focused only on the biological causes of mental distress. And in an accompanying Observer article he defends the need to create classification systems for mental disorder.

"A classification system is like a map," Wessely explains. "And just as any map is only provisional, ready to be changed as the landscape changes, so does classification."

From The Guardian

"Government is not a separate sinister entity at the root of all our problems" Obama tells students, about a week after he signed the Monsanto protection act

the Monsanto protection act.

Via Ludi & Relaxed Focus

Never trust your government when a disaster happens

You may have heard that in Wetteren in Belgium, a train carrying poisonous chemicals derailed and exploded. People were evacuated who live as close to 250 meters to the explosion. There was an official helpline by the government people could call for information, and I have to give a lot of credit to the public tv station that showed this on the evening news: someone who lived 300 meters away called and the helpline told him that he doesn't need to keep his windows and doors closed and the air is absolutely not poisonous and completely safe, LOL! His expression was priceless. "What kind of bullshit is this! I live 50 meters away from the evacuated houses!"

Yesterday people were allowed to go back but this morning they had to be evacuated again after new measurements taking. People are understandably annoyed at being evacuated again but man, priorities... do you want comfort or do you want to stay healthy? If something like this happened close to me, I'd be off to my folks house in a heartbeat and wouldn't go home until I was sure it was safe, which would probably mean a fair bit later than officially declared. Remembering the bs the Japanese government pulled during the Fukushima disaster.

Walking Between the Worlds: Links between Psi, Psychedelics, Shamanism and Psychosis An Overview of the Literature

Interesting article I got linked by a friend, read all of it (there's a lot!) here.

Sharing the intro and two excerpts here:

In folk lore there is a belief that many people who have an acute psychotic breakdown exhibit signs of psychic ability. Research into this folk lore is virtually non-existent, but some interesting work by Neppe (1980) and Persinger (Persinger & Makarec, 1987) psi suggests that there might be some foundation for it. My research into the pineal gland is now exploring this same area from a neurochemical perspective.

The pineal gland makes a neurohormone called melatonin which is one of the key regulators of the circadian and seasonal biological rhythms. It also makes a mono-amine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor called pinoline (Methoxytetrahydrobetacarboline (MeOTHBC)) which acts on the GABA receptors and whose chemical structure is virtually identical with the harmala alkaloids, which are key ingredients in the ayahausca drink used by Amazonian people specifically for inducing a state of consciousness in which they state that they go out-of-body, experience travelling clairvoyance, divination and shamanic healing. The suggested neurochemistry for these effects implicates serotonin. Serotonin (5 Hydroxytryptamine (5HT)) has frequently been implicated in certain aspects of psychoses. Pinoline is a neuromodulator which prevents, amongst other effects, the breakdown of serotonin. This results in an accumulation of physiologically active amines including dimethyltryptamine (DMT) within the neuronal synapses which may lead to hallucinations, depression or mania depending on the amines being affected (Strassman, 1990). DMT is the other main ingredient in ayahuasca. There are also interesting links with the serotonergic activation by psychedelics such as LSD, psilocybin and MDMA which have all been implicated in triggering psychotic episodes, and more specifically with inducing a state of consciousness which has many similarities with both an acute psychotic breakdown and with shamanism, which traditionally uses psychedelic plants in order to achieve the desired state of consciousness.

A key link between all of these various experiences is the dream state of consciousness. Psychologically, both the shamanic initiation experience and that of an acute psychotic breakdown share many similarities with the dream state. It appears that the normal every night experience of all human beings is connected with the more extreme experiences of psychosis and shamanism through the same neurochemical pathways that underlie all these experiences. And, as the research at Maimonides (Ullman et al, 1975) and since has shown, the dream state is a psychic state of consciousness par excellence. This suggests that the anthropological reports of psychic abilities being exhibited by shamans may have some foundation, and suggests that some people who have experienced a psychotic breakdown could be seen in other cultures as people with a particular and highly valued gift - the gift of walking between the worlds.

Geomagnetic Fields, Depression and the Role of Melatonin
One of the key factors in linking the pineal with psychosis is the work of Kay (1994). Admission to mental hospital varies with season and time of the month, and mental illness is more common the further north you go, i.e., into long light summers, and long dark winters.
Seasonal variation in the incidence of depressive illness has been recognised since Hippocrates (Lewis, 1934). Onset of depressive illness, admission to hospital, prescriptions of antidepressant medication and incidence of suicide have all been found to show a bimodal annual distribution with peaks in spring and autumn.
Kay (1994) has found, in a 10 year study of admission rates to Lothian psychiatric hospitals, that two weeks after a geomagnetic storm there was a significant rise (36.2%) for male admissions for depression phase of manic-depression and a smaller non-significant rise for women with psychotic and non-psychotic depression. There was no correlation between intensity of storm and admission rates, i.e. if any sort of storm happens, mild or severe, you get increased admission rate, which is consistent with a threshold event affecting predisposed individuals. The effect of geomagnetic storms could range from mild irritability to full-blown depression. Monthly total psychiatric admissions have been positively correlated with solar radioflux levels and indices of geomagnetic ionospheric disturbance.
Kay suggests that geomagnetic storms partly account for the bimodal annual distribution of depression by acting either through desynchronisation of pineal circadian rhythms, or via an effect on 5HT-ergic and adrenergic systems leading to depressed mood and secondary disruption of pineal melatonin synthesis. Alteration in geomagnetic field (GMF) activity is associated with decreased serotonin NAT activity and decreased melatonin synthesis. Geomagnetic storms in spring enhance the suppressing effect of increasing daylight on melatonin synthesis, leading to a phase advance in the circadian rhythm, while the effect of storms in autumn tend to be partially compensated by the pineal response to decreasing light intensity. This is consistent with a Southern Hemisphere peak for psychotic depression admissions in September and October, and a peak in Sweden in April.
The main innervation of the pineal is via adrenergic systems so magnetic fields may affect pineal functioning via this mechanism. Sandyk (1990a) associates depression with decreased melatonin secretion and suggests that melatonin regulates dopaminergic, cholinergic and GABA-ergic functions.
It is also possible that the association between geomagnetic storms and depression could be due to an indirect association with changes in meteorological factors. Atmospheric ionisation and barometric pressure have been shown to affect measures of 5HT activity. Prolonged exposure to abnormal magnetic fields may also have an effect, acting through a similar mechanism to geomagnetic storms. Depression admissions have been associated with exposure to 50Hz e-m fields in the home.

Role of Circadian Rhythms, Melatonin and Manic-Depression
We have two circadian clocks - one is a biological clock which includes the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus, the locus ceruleus and the dorsal raphe nucleus - food is the zeitgeber for this clock; the second clock includes the retina, hypothalamic suprachalasmic nuceus (SCN) and pineal gland - light is the zeitgeber for this clock. The two clocks are normally in synchrony but in view of the independence of the two clocks asynchrony is possible, and the affective disorders may be caused by such a dysfunction (Maurizi, 1984).
Disturbances of the noradrenergic activity of the central nervous system (CNS) have been related to affective disorders, which are also accompanied by depressed melatonin secretion and sleep disturbances. Manic-depression is associated with a sleep disorder: in the manic phase the person suffers from insomnia, in the depression state they sleep too much.
Melatonin is mainly secreted at night through noradrenergic stimulation of beta-receptors on the pinealocoytes. Melatonin secretion can therefore be inhibited by beta-blocking drugs. Melatonin secretion is depressed in mental disorders with sleep disturbances such as the manic phase of certain affective disorders, alcoholic abuse and dts with hallucinations.
There are mixed results regarding melatonin secretion in affective disorders - some find decreased nocturnal melatonin secretion in unipolar depressed adults, others do not. Lewy et al (1979) reports increased melatonin levels in bipolar subjects through a 24 hour cycle. Lam et al (1990) report decreased nocturnal melatonin production in bipolar patients compared with unipolar depressed and control subjects. Reiter (1982) suggests that manic-depressives have a low melatonin concentration during suicidal episodes and a high melatonin concentration during manic episodes.
Affective disorders involving circadian dysregulation may respond to interventions that restore a normal sleep-wake cycle. Robertson & Tanguay (1997) describe a boy with bipolar disorder. A trial of melatonin led to rapid relief of insomnia and aborted manic episodes for at least a two year period. Insomnia can be both a symptom and a precursor of mania (Wehr et al, 1987; Leibenluft et al, 1995). On the other hand, sleep deprivation therapy for depression is thought to exert its effect by resynchronising circadian rhythms, while antidepressants and lithium lengthen the pineal circadian cycle period re-synchronising a phase advanced cycle.
In addition, melatonin administration to clinically depressed patients gives negative effects (Carman et al, 1976). The treatment of psychotic depression with daytime melatonin increases psychotic symptoms and abolishes diurnal mood variation. The timing of this treatment would tend to exacerbate a desynchronised rhythm. De-synchronising circadian rhythms is therefore a possible mechanism for mood switching in manic-depressive illness, and manic-depressive patients have been found to be supersensitive to the suppressing effect of light on night-time melatonin synthesis, suggesting that in these people the pineal gland may be generally supersensitive to environmental factors including geomagnetic storms.
Brismar (1987) studied people on beta blockers because of angina, hypertension, etc. and found that those with depressed nightly urinary melatonin excretion suffered from CNS symptoms such as nightmares and hallucinations. Not many people suffer these effects. Another possible site of action for melatonin is the dorsal raphe nucleus. (LSD also acts on the dorsal raphe nucleus.) Melatonin could enhance 5HT levels by acting as a MAO inhibitor in the synapses of the dorsal raphe nucleus.
Abnormalities in circadian rhythm organization are consistent features in manic-depressive illness (Wehr & Goodwin, 1980). Wetterberg et al (1981) suggest pineal involvement. Manic-depressives have an earlier onset of melatonin secretion during depression, with this secretory onset being even earlier in mania (Lewy & Kern, 1984). Manic depressives are also super-sensitive to light with 50% reduction in melatonin production on exposure to 500 lux. Normally one needs 2500 lux for this suppression whereas manic-depressives have complete melatonin suppression at 1500 lux (Lewy & Kern, 1984). It is possible that supersensitivity to light with alteration in retinal perception of light could contribute to a phase advance of those rhythms that are entrained to the light-dark cycle and thus lead to alterations in those function that are influenced secondarily by such rhythms (for review see Kripke & Risch 1986; Rosenthal, 1986; Thompson, 1987).

Thus melatonin, as an integral aspect of our circadian rhythm is implicated in manic- depression.

Ten procent of the Belgian population is on antidepressants

A recent news article stated that 1.1 million Belgians are on antidepressants, there are little over 11 million Belgians... The price of these vile drugs was dropped by ten procent to bait more weak fish... Unbelievable, ten procent, how sad is that? The problem I have with these drugs is, they have a small side effect that cause people on them to go on... violent rampages like shootings (This website SSRI stories features over 4800 cases where people on SSRI's exhibited extreme violence, including 66 School shootings... good luck with that gun control Obama...). What kind of messed up side effect is that... and why is it being muted in the media...

From 2011 to compare here are antidepressant stats from the US: "The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics found that 11 percent of Americans over the age of 12 takes an antidepressant, with about 14 percent taking the medication for more than 10 years."

But hey psychiatry, let's not work on causes or helping people through it, let's ignore Neurolinguistic Programming exists which can erase some traumas in a half hour session, let's not be responsible for our own consciousness and just take pills, cause goddamn those drugs must make you so... much... money. You have to hope that this isn't the death of the mental health sector, which to be fair never really was alive. I'd rather have ten procent of the population work on their problems actively WITHOUT having the increased chance that they go on a violent rampage causing more mental health problems in the world. What a world...

Miss South Korea Candidates

Brought to you by plastic surgery, slightly depressing.

John Stewart describes how the Monsanto Protection Act was snuck in under our noses

Some sound issues with the clip though. Here's the video at the official site but it's 2 minutes shorter.

Pretty baffled they did this, baffled anytime money > food...

...anonymously! "ooooh!" Holy shit

Let's promote... Sugar

The "flemish union of food specialists and dietists" in Belgium is causing a bit of an uproar because it's running campaign for the promotion of Sugar in a healthy diet... Yay for our national health association in that doesn't agree this is necessary because people are eating too much sugar already. Cherry on top, the campaign is sponsored by... Coca-Cola.

Who! can believe you?

1 out of 2 women in Seoul have undergone plastic surgery

In this picture is a belgian pop singer Axelle Red on the left before her surgery, on the right is the freakish appearance she has now. It's fucking scary.

Just saw a piece on tv claiming how one in two women in Seoul have undergone surgery and how "doctors" are making a fortune of these misguided people whose views have been warped by the media. Personally I find asian women to be among the most beautiful on the planet and really don't understand the longing for bigger eyes and lower cheekbones. I really hope this trend stops in Asia as I can't even understand it. I also have a big nose myself and would never change it as it's an awesome help to keep superficial people out of my life! Finally, I find people who've undergone plastic surgery to usually be... let's face it... hideous. They often end up looking like freaks, and that's no understatement. Wether it's lips, noses, cheeks, whatever, I usually find you can recognize someone who's done it and my god I hope they have the common sense and eyesight to at least regret it. I really hope the bad kind of plastic surgery dies out really fast.

Another retard on medication goes on a shooting spree

My NLP blogpost was about a month old when another fucking retard on medication went on a shooting spree in a school in Connecticut. Congratulations to the mental health sector for giving drugs to halfwits that apparently take away all empathy and do even worse as what the fuck would compell anyone, no matter how retarded, to go kill a bunch of kids. Special congratulations go to the media for identifying the wrong person as the killer first and yay for the gun laws. Really, a nice slow clap for society. Let's all keep dishing out these wonderdrugs to retards because it makes companies and "doctors" easy money instead of helping people, and let's keep the gun laws as they are cause clearly nothing is needed to change, see you in a few weeks for another tragedy... (If my language offends you, go reorganize your priorities.)

Balance

Thanks again to Relaxed Focus for these. 

Just wanna share, two of my buddies who do power training as I do, are both injured because they were (really) pushing it. One threw out his back, the other his shoulder, they liked to jest at me a bit cause I take it (very) easy. I knew I'd have the last laugh. I never do more than the exercises alotted tell me to and I won't work out a day if I feel I it's best left till tomorrow, I haven't been injured so far and any progress is progress. They will be losing a lot of their lead now that they're benched from doing anything and meanwhile my body is healthily developping on several fronts, which is all I care about.