"The Monstrosity of Being Alive" Stephen Fry and Ellen Degeneres

Ellen Degeneres faced a crisis after coming out. At the "The Beginning"  she talks about it in a very beautiful and theatrical dance she did.
The picture is when the sadness and confusion because of many people talking. discussing and gossiping about her. It was not easy and she says that when we are in this emotional state we feel that we'l never recover."

But we do. Stephen Fry speaks about depression as a disease. Our lives are perfect and for no reason... we can not function anymore because... there is no explanation.

"I'ts horrible to contemplate a futureless future" he says in the video.

Rio de Janeiro's street children disappear: cleaning up the city for the Olympiads

Cleaning the city to the Olympiads is making poor people, especially children. disappear.
We are used to meet at least three homeless children when we get out in Rio de Janeiro. I've noticed that they disappeared,
In the streets of Copacabana they were everywhere. Not anymore. I don't know what has happened?
I don't know but it I wouldn't be surprised if these children are being given drugs so that they become
"police case". But it's just a speculation. Facts:



Officials Consider Radical Measures against Brazil's "Crackland"

"Rio de Janeiro city officials are considering passing a law which would make the compulsory treatment of crack cocaine users legal as the nation's infamous "cracklands" grow.

In Rio de Janeiro, crack users were driven out to outlying favelas after a 2008 initiative saw police take over the city's main shantytowns, or favelas.

Now, in an effort to "clean-up" the city ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, officials are pushing for the compulsory treatment of crack-cocaine addicts living in the streets.

Health officials, assisted by armed police, would try to convince crack-cocaine users into getting treatment - or take them away forcibly if they resist.

The measure is hugely polarizing.

Some don’t believe in the one size fits all solution.

[Leonardo Pecoraro Costa, President of Drug Policy Council of Rio de Janeiro]:
"We don't support the treatment, either compulsory or involuntary, as a model to be applied to all drug addicts. In specific cases, properly followed by health professionals, that can be an option, but it has to be part of a bigger plan.”

An addict, who declined to give his name, also disagreed.

[Anonymous, Cocaine Addict]:
"I decide if want to go or not (to get treatment). I have gone many times."

But according to Silvia Tedesco, a Psychologist Professor at the Federal Fluminense University, in Rio de Janeiro, the country's politicians are trying to find a short-term solution for a very complex issue.

[Silvia Tedesco, Psychologist Professor, Federal Fluminense University]:
"(Compulsory treatment) doesn't work, what happens is that they will go into treatment for months, then they will come out and after a few months, sometimes even weeks, they will be back using it. The number of success stories is very small and insignificant to justify the use of compulsory treatment.”

Tedesco would like to see the problem tackled from a public health perspective rather than from a public safety standpoint.

Since March 2011, more than 5,000 crack-cocaine users have been taken off the streets of Rio de Janeiro by city authorities. Only 10 percent have accepted treatment."

Source: NTD.

On avoidance

Forced treatment for poor Brazilians drug addicts in São Paulo

All the news the world is receiving from Brazil depicts the wonders of
the country that has reached a paradise era.
It's not like that and there are numerous human rights violations being committed every five minutes.
I wrote a post at my blog justAna about a drug dealer who was arrested in a mental institution.
At the hospital drug addicts can have illegal and legal drugs that they are prescribed allegedly to "help them keep away from the illegal drugs". They end up addicted to both.

Now this:

"The state government has created an Anti-Drugs Commission comprised of judges and lawyers in order to allow the involuntary internment of adults addicted to crack,"


If a crack user is picked up and refuses treatment, a judge can order immediate hospitalization if doctors attest that the user is no longer in control of their actions.

Rio de Janeiro tried to adopt a similar measure last year, but human rights groups fought the move on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. Mandatory treatment is generally reserved for minors in the state*.

The Sao Paulo government launched the initiative as part of a drive to eliminate open air drug markets known as "cracolandias," or "crack lands," that have sprung up throughout the city due to the increasing use of the drug.


Human Rights activists are trying hard to stop this absurd and Nazi treatment of people who are fragile.

Social movements protesting as expected compulsory admissions

 "Social movements do early on Monday (21) an act in front of the Reference Center of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (Cratod) in the center of the state capital, to protest against the move of the state government that intends to become more agile measures of compulsory hospitalization or involuntary addicts in Sao Paulo. For organizations concerned with human rights and combating anti-asylum, the initiative would be more efficient, in fact, if there was the political strengthening of psychosocial care.

They are beginning the end and not the beginning. Today, if you have a situation of involuntary commitment in Cidade Tiradentes, mothers go where? Coming from there to here [in Cratod]? What we need is to have a social democratic, universal and scope of these families, the priest explained Lancelloti Julius, a member of the Archdiocese Pastoral de Rua de São Paulo. He advocates the installation of Psychosocial Care Centers Alcohol and Drugs (Caps AD) in all districts of the city.

The novelty of the measure assert that begins today is the partnership between health professionals of the state, prosecutor and Court of São Paulo. It will be installed on the same Cratod on duty daily, from 9h to 13h, to streamline the processes of involuntary or compulsory drug addicts, especially those who attend Cracolândia in central

According to the secretary of the Justice and Defense of Citizenship, Eloisa Sousa Arruda, protocols are being adhered to the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as human rights."


* These  minors are treated in the most dreadful way staying at places where they learn nothing but to be exposed to criminal activities.

Il Viaggio di Miss Timothy by Giovanna Zoboli e Valerio Vidali

The blog Animalarium dazzles me  numerous times. Laura always choose amazing artworks with animals.
Today she published a post about animals in public transport and I don't know why I loved this drawing by Valerio Vidale for the book "Il Viaggio di Miss Timothy"/ "Mis Timothy trip".

I wanted to take a look at this book. It's for kids but we can always find a friend's child to read for them,can't we?
The problem is that I don't speak Italian. I hope they translate it to Portuguese, French or English.
I wanna thank Laura Ottina for this moment of joy I'm having watching this work.

Language and Culture trivia

Quiz Show - Language Trivia from Andrew Jeppesen

Trivia questions related to the language and culture of France, Germany and Japan

I hope you have fun. Remember it is "trivia" but who knows when one has to know Kazakhstan capital for instance?
You're walking and someone appears with a mic and pop the question saying the correct answer
will have one million dollars.
Who knows? Stop being pessimist.

I liked "SlideShare". I'm doing something to share.

High school students are learning dangerous versions of history

How High School History Books Lie About 9/11, PATRIOT Act, and the Iraq War
Julian Sanchez,

November 24, 2012

"Some time ago, I got curious about what the high school kids are reading these days in history class. A quick consultation with a few teacher friends led me to The American Vision by Professors Joyce Appleby, Alan Brinkley, Albert Broussard, James McPhereson, and Donald Ritchie. It’s one of the most popular American history textbooks aimed at eleventh grade students. As I understand it, the 2003 copy I hold in my hands would’ve been used in a typical classroom for five to eight years. In other words, this is the American history book that shaped a lot of the young people who’ve recently joined the ranks of adult society, or at least eligible voters.

How have they been taught our shared past?

As I flipped through the table of contents, pondering where to begin, I suddenly felt foolish, for I hadn’t anticipated that the last chapter would be titled, “The War on Terrorism.” Do you mean to tell me that history didn’t end when I last studied it — that today’s history textbooks include stuff that happened years after I graduated from high school? Intent on feeling wiser if I was doomed to feel older, I decided to start there. How better to begin assessing a tome of history than by reading how its authors describe the major national events that I witnessed as an adult?

Here is the first paragraph that I read:

"The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, killed all 266 passengers and crewmembers on the four hijacked planes. Another 125 people died in the Pentagon. In New York City, nearly 3,000 people died. More Americans were killed in the attacks than died at Pearl Harbor or on D-Day in World War II."

That’s a confusing way to compare the events for any student whose touchstone is Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers. It makes it seem as though 9/11 cost more lives than the invasion of Normandy. It’s true that an estimated 2,499 Americans died on June 6, 1944 itself, a slightly lesser figure than the victims who died on September 11, 2001. But add up all Allied deaths on D-Day and the figure reaches 4,414 killed... (keep reading)

Dining etiquette

On health and the care of the body

Because sometimes we forget that it's our body that connects us with the world and with others.

At Bloggers there are many people from all over the world that we can get in touch. I left a topic about health and some people are discussing it.
This is what I just wrote:

"I feel guilty because I should have payed close attention to my body but for two years I didn't.

Eckhart,
Thanks,

I'm already getting better. The burning in my feet went away and that is very good.

Rumpunch,

Yes, We can live the most healthy life and end up in serious problems. It's like this with most people.
I think that God, if it was really him, was wrong in creating diseases.
Life is hard. And we have to cope with diseases that makes it harder.

How can someone keep living with members that had to be amputated is a mystery for me.
I don't know why I always feel sorry when I see someone having to live without legs or hands, arms that was there.

They are very strong! I remember a girl I saw 35, 36 years a girl walking with a mini-skirt and had part of her leg under the knees amputated.
Her image is printed in my mind. She was using crutches.
It seems to me she was learning and was in emotional pain.

Why? Why does she has to go through this? I know this is not the question to be done but... I ask...

Dunno... I pay attention in humans that are suffering. I remember many people I met that was in pain.

They have no idea I have them in my mind without knowing who they are.

I'm a little strange. lol

I hope you get better soon too. :)

Moonomo,
I'm recovering. Yes. Today I can feel my feet so much better! I can feel them against the sole of the shoes.

This is great!!!!

I'll do all the exercises and more!
I'll never turn my back on my body again.

I'm glad you pay attention on your routine and don't forget to break it from time to time. :)"

TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF! Love yourself, your body no matter what!!!!!!

He is a commie and she, a lefty! Capitalism and democracy are safe words

Oh My God! What a terrible combination.
Please, how can it be that these words are still being used to put people in jail?
We remember the sixties and seventies and in my country "communist" was a word people
could not say aloud.
This is ridiculous. As if  "capitalist" assures us that no crime is committed and human rights are respected.
Capitalism and democracy are the two lethal words. It is under a capitalist democracy that US and allies
are committing the crimes against humanity in the name of humanitarian aid or safety.
This is hypocrisy.

Did you know that homeless people are human beings?

Spotted on a Los Angeles street corner.

It's amazing that we have to remember that people under certain circumstances are
HUMAN BEINGS. When someone is diagnosed a mental illness s/he loses humanity. This is appalling and criminal.

R.I.P. Emory!

Bush's birthplace sign

Israel civil war? Haredim Jews vs Zionists

Israel’s Coming “Civil War”: The Haredi Jews Confront the Militarized Secular Zionist State
By Prof. James Petras
Global Research, February 21, 2013
Excerpt:

Haredim and the Zionist Colonial State

Even before the forcible imposition (‘founding’) of the state of Israel , the Haredim were opposed to Zionism.  Today the vast majority of Haredim in Israel remain staunchly opposed to the Zionist state for religious, ethical and political reasons.  Haredi religious teaching claims that the Jewish people are bound by three oaths: (1) not to settle in Israel by using force or violence, (2) not to make war with other nations and (3) not to act as if the other nations of the world would persecute Israel .

Haredim opposed Israel ’s violent ethnic cleaning of over 850,000 Palestinians in the course of establishing the Israeli State and continues to oppose Israeli settlers’ violently land grabs against Palestinians.  Unlike other so-called ‘ultra-Orthodox’ sects, who support Zionist colonialism and bless the Israeli military, the Haredim maintain that militarism corrupts the spirit and that Zionists have transformed Jews from righteous followers of the Torah into rabid ethnocentric supporters of a militarist state.  For the Haredim, ‘state worship’, especially the waving of the Israeli flag in the temple, is a sacrilege comparable to the renegade Jews condemned by Moses for worshipping the Golden Calf.

The majority of Haredim boycott elections, organize their own schools (Yeshivas), encourage students to deepen their religious studies, emphasize community and family values (of a profoundly patriarchal sort) with numerous children and strongly reject the Zionist state’s efforts to conscript Haredi youth into their colonial occupation army, the so-called Israeli Defense (sic) Force (IDF).  All major Zionist political parties and the ruling colonial regime unite to demonize the Haredim, claiming they are shirking their patriotic military responsibilities. Via the mass media and public pronouncements Zionist politicians and the state incite Israeli hatred against the Haredim:  A study in 2006 claimed that over a third of Israeli Jews identified the Haredim as the most unpopular group in Israel .

The Haredim, on the other hand, have reason to fear and loath the secular militarist Zionist state and politicians:  They claim that after World War II in the Zionist-controlled relocation camps for refugee Jewish children in Teheran, the Jewish Agency imposed Zionist ideology and militarist anti-religious policies in order to cut Haredim children off from their spiritual roots.  According to one Haredim report many religious Jewish youth from Poland , mostly survivors of the Holocaust and Soviet Russia, were subjected to “unimaginable mental and physical cruelty with one goal in mind: (the) obliteration of Judaism”.  Given the Israeli drive today to harness a corrupted form of Judaism to serve colonial militarism, the Haredim have every reason to believe that the conscription of their sons and daughters will be accompanied by cruel, systematic Zionist brainwashing to ensure they make efficient (brutal) occupation soldiers.
(entire article here)

More about the Haredim here.

Arthrosis traumatic experience: all of a sudden I could not walk

I didn't know how incapacitating arthrosis is. I didn't even know about the disease.

I was  feeling this burning in my legs and the pain thinking that it was due to the disc herniation in the lower back I deal with for more than two decades.

I noticed that I am walking slower but only last week I realized I couldn't elevate my leg to climb a step to enter a shop. It was when I went straight to the hospital and discovered the new diagnosis: arthrosis.

I spent four hours at the hospital and when I had to climb the stairs to the X ray room I couldn't do it and someone brought a wheelchair.

I felt terrible and impaired. A woman touched the wheelchair and I looked at her in a very angry way because it was as if it she was touching me.

I always respected people in wheelchair and would never touch one. I never look at the person because I think they don't want us to intervene in their life.

I spent most of the time at the wheelchair with my face covered cause I didn't want to face others and I was extremely nervous. When there were only two persons I finally looked up.
It was when an old lady asked: "You don't walk, do you?" I looked at her and she repeated the question to my amazement. I said in a very loud voice: "I do walk! I do walk. I just have a problem now."

I did the rest of things out of the wheelchair. I walked and felt better.
Now I'm adjusting my life to the new symptoms and trying to find a physiotherapy and a good doctor.
I felt exasperating pain and I hope I have strength to cope with the limitations and improve my health.
It's being a hard time. People say I'm strong. Yes. We are all, aren't we?
Yes we are.

Update:
Lady Gaga is dealing with arthritis. I'm not a big fan of her, I even dislike her but I hope she gets better soon.
She had to cancel a show.

Mesmerizing stick horse acrobat

Merck scientist admits vaccines contaminated with leukemia and cancer viruses

(Merck helped Nazis)

Merck vaccine scientist Dr. Maurice Hilleman admitted presence of SV40, AIDS and cancer viruses in vaccines
Thursday, September 15, 2011
by Mike Adams


(NaturalNews) One of the most prominent vaccine scientists in the history of the vaccine industry -- a Merck scientist -- made a recording where he openly admits that vaccines given to Americans were contaminated with leukemia and cancer viruses. In response, his colleagues (who are also recorded here) break out into laughter and seem to think it's hilarious. They then suggest that because these vaccines are first tested in Russia, they will help the U.S. win the Olympics because the Russian athletes will all be "loaded down with tumors." (Thus, they knew these vaccines caused cancer in humans.)

This isn't some conspiracy theory -- these are the words of a top Merck scientist who probably had no idea that his recording would be widely reviewed across the internet (which didn't even exist when he made this recording). He probably thought this would remain a secret forever. When asked why this didn't get out to the press, he replied "Obviously you don't go out, this is a scientific affair within the scientific community."
(read entire article)

"I never forget the patients I lost for drugs I prescribed"

Today I had a terrible reaction pf two medicines prescribed by a GP. I'm dealing with arthrosis and thou I was diagnosed this week I have already been prescribed four drugs. Today I was also diagnosed as having labyrinthitis. I was prescribed Labirin and Trental 400 mg.
I had numerous reactions and couldn't even feel my legs.

I don't know where to find a doctor. I can trust. Maybe I would have to listen: "Everyday I think about the 12 patients that took their lives because of drugs I prescribed." Never, that's too much to ask thou I'm sure that it's usual.

Of course it'll never happen and the title is fiction.

The green parasol

feel free to caption

Fashion and advertisement imposing behaviors and shaping characters

I always payed attention in advertisements and fashion in a very critical way and the fact that people buy without questioning any ideology fashioners and advertisers sell amazes me.

I was going to publish a post I did but decided to take a look on what others were thinking about this phenomenon and came across with this post at the blog Comu1000 by Judy Griffiths.
She is not updating but I hope she comes back because she has a very good collection of posts.
This is one of them:

Ideologies

"Dear readers,

The time has come for me to attempt to shine a light upon the generalised and stereotypical fortresses of ideology that advertising constructs itself behind. Through the construction of ideologies, advertisers create a paradigm that we as receivers of a text feel we need to accept and adhere to. It is a powerful marketing tool, influencing consumers to believe that they are a piece of the puzzle without giving them the time to consider whether they even want to be a part of the puzzle.

Take my first example here, Lamborghini Tractors. It may come as a surprise to some people that the luxury car brand Lamborghini manufactures tractors, but in fact that is how the brand began. The brand Lamborghini itself is an ideology that produces connotations aligned with luxury, reputation, prestige, design, style and expense. What this advertisement attempts to do is transfer this ideology onto its tractors. The woman in the picture aligns with the mainstream connotations of the Lamborghini brand, while she stands next to a farmer that represents the utility of the tractors.

In my second example, the fashion brand Sisley depicts a rather controversial image. The advertisement is built upon the fashion ideology, however also borrows ideology from the drug world. This advertisement constructs itself to lure receivers into a world of high fashion and drug abuse as though it is an elite world. As ideologies do, this advertisement orients viewers to accept this behaviour as fashionable without giving an option otherwise. The sender offers the receiver of this text to interprellate the role; the image offers the viewer an invitation into a very ‘exclusive’ world.

Ideologies assume a lot from us as consumers, and more often than not we are oblivious to the social relations that are pushed upon us; we allow ideologies to shape our thoughts and distort our opinions. It is important for us, as consumers, to step back from this stereotypical chaos and attempt to disengage with ideologies at times in order to make better informed decisions and opinions. So my question to you this week is: Do you think that you are easily influenced by ideologies constructed in advertising?"

Take care friends.
J

Accurate news source! My kingdom for accurate news source!

Someone shared this piece at FB a while ago but I cannot find who is the author.

I decided to share it because this is the way we feel sometimes. Fortunately there are some good sources at the internet now, some of them at my sidebar

My kingdom for accurate news? Irony. Those who have a kingdom to trade are the liars that create fictitious news, false flag events and stage disasters that that kill innocent civilians to manipulate hearts and minds so that they can do whatever they want with the most evil intentions.

Information is power.