Vaccinations at Gun Point, Live Born Aborted Babies, Necks Broken! Business as Usual! By Mrs Vera West

     The ruling elites have known for thousands of years, that the plebs will take a lot before they crack, and will only be a problem if there is some Spartacus (111-71 BC) to lead their slave revolt. That is why much energy of the elites is put into humiliating President Trump, to make an example of him, and why various smaller Alt Right figures are getting their sites closed down, and some imprisoned. See, resistance is impossible, just lie back and decay.  You can’t win, they say:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-27-serious-question-when-will-the-first-vaccine-enforcers-be-shot-by-parents-defending-their-children.html

“The political Left in America today now openly advocates the murder of living human babies, even after they’re born. This is part of the new abortion legislation that has been passed and signed into law in both New York and Vermont… and the entire idea of killing human babies in the name of “women’s rights” is spreading to more states, much to the applause of Democrats who cheer the new “right” to kill babies with your bare hands. One abortionist recently told a former patient they would, “break the baby’s neck” if it survived an abortion attempt, reports LifeSiteNews: The woman said she asked the two abortionists, “If you guys were to take him out right now while he’s still, his heart rate is still, you know, going, what would you guys do?” She said one of the abortionists looked at the other one, then looked back at her, “and she told me that we don’t tell women this, and a lot of women don’t even ask this question, but if we was to proceed with the abortion and the baby was to come out still alive and active, most likely we would break the baby’s neck.”

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NSAID Pain Killers and Heart Attacks By Mrs Vera West

     If you have a bad back like me, then this is something that should concern you:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-25-common-painkillers-are-associated-with-heart-attacks.html

“Overuse of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are associated with a higher incidence of coronary health risks. Did you know that taking too much Motrin, Aleve, and Advil can put you at increased risk of having a heart attack? A new study warns against overuse of over-the-counter pain killers such as diclofenac, naproxen, and ibuprofen. The five-year study out of Denmark monitored 100,000 people who had recently suffered a heart attack. About half of the patients were prescribed an NSAID and the other half were not. The researchers followed the patients for one year and found out that the NSAID users were 60 percent more likely to die from a second heart attack in a year’s time, compared to the patients who did not take an NSAID. For every 100 patients who took an NSAID, there were 20 deaths within one year. For every 100 who didn’t take a pain drug, there were 12 deaths. The correlation continued into the fifth year, with 9.5 deaths per 100 NSAID users and only 6 deaths per 100 in the non-medicated group.

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More on the Poison of Television, the Plug in Drug By Mrs Vera West

     The lead article in this week’s On Target is by Arnie and Beata Luks on television as the opiate of the masses, and that is certainly true. In fact, I found this article which indicates that the metaphor is perhaps even more appropriate than the dynamic duo thought:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6756181/Over-50s-watch-3-5-hours-TV-day-10-likely-suffer-memory-loss.html

“People over-50 who watch more than three-and-a-half hours of television a day are more at risk of memory loss, research suggests. A study of more than 3,600 older adults revealed watching too many soaps, documentaries or reality shows reduces their ability to recall words by up to ten per cent. Overindulging in your favourite shows could trigger a 'cognitive stress' that leads to memory loss, the researchers claim. It may also take away from activities that keep older people sharp, such as reading or playing educational games online. The research was carried by University College London and led by Dr Daisy Fancourt, senior research associate in the department of behavioural science and health. 'There has been interest for over a decade in the effect of television viewing behaviours on cognition, but much of this literature has concentrated on children,' Dr Fancourt said. 'Much less attention has been paid to the effects of television viewing at the other end of the lifespan, despite it being hypothesised for over 25 years that watching excessive television could contribute to the development of dementia.'

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Green New Genocide By James Reed

     Boy, do I hate environmentalists. Not the old school who loved nature and saved wildernesses, but these new socialist types, like flavour of the month US Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). Her Green New Deal to deal with the myth of climate change, will involve basically dismantling the entire economy and killing all Americans, which, I suppose does achieve some reduction in carbon creation! Anyway, even the co-founder of Greenpeace has mocked her:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/03/greenpeace-co-founder-aoc-pompous-little-twit-green-new-deal-would-cause-mass-death/

“Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace who left the organization he said has been “hijacked by eco-fascists,’ weighed in on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal resolution calling her a “pompous little twit” on social media.

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Under Labor There will be No More Labour! Abortion Clinics on (Almost) Every Street Corner!! By Mrs Vera West

     No, not false news, only a metaphorical flourish from an increasingly exasperated old girl. But it is almost correct, as Labor, when they inevitably get in, as the sheeples turn with disgust from the Libs, will ensure that public hospitals provide free abortions. Apparently, there are not enough abortions now, and access must be made even easier than it already is:
  https://www.sbs.com.au/news/public-hospitals-to-provide-free-abortions-under-labor

“Public hospitals will have to consistently offer abortion services as part of commonwealth funding agreements under a federal Labor government. If it wins the upcoming election, the party would also build a new Tasmanian reproductive health hub so women don't have to travel interstate for abortions and other medical care. And it would look at making sure the contraceptive pill, long-acting removable contraceptives, and medical terminations are more widely available to Australian women. Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek said every Australian woman should be able to access health services in the place and time they need them. At the moment, there is a patchwork of service provision, with some women turned away from public hospitals when they need to end a pregnancy and then not being able to access or afford to go to a private clinic, or having to travel hundreds of kilometres for care. "Choosing to terminate a pregnancy is difficult enough," Ms Plibersek said on Wednesday.””

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The Cannabis Curriculum By James Reed

     Thanks to Mrs West for emailing me this one, which while dealing with health issues shows once more the insanity of he universities. Yes, now there are courses on dope:
  https://apnews.com/111fc6b22d4f4301bceaa6f4576b98be

“Grace DeNoya is used to getting snickers when people learn she’s majoring in marijuana. “My friends make good-natured jokes about getting a degree in weed,” said DeNoya, one of the first students in a new four-year degree program in medicinal plant chemistry at Northern Michigan University. “I say, ‘No, it’s a serious degree, a chemistry degree first and foremost. It’s hard work. Organic chemistry is a bear.’” As a green gold rush in legal marijuana and its non-drug cousin hemp spreads across North America, a growing number of colleges are adding cannabis to the curriculum to prepare graduates for careers cultivating, researching, analyzing and marketing the herb. Research shows there are high times ahead for all kinds of careers in cannabis , ranging from greenhouse and dispensary operators to edible product developers, marketing specialists, quality assurance lab directors and pharmaceutical researchers. Arcview Market Research, which focuses on cannabis industry trends, projects the industry will support 467,000 jobs by 2022. And even in states where recreational marijuana remains illegal, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, some colleges have launched cannabis studies programs in anticipation of legalization or to prepare students for jobs in other states.

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Faster than Speeding Socialism! By Richard Miller

     You know how bad things are when a man can race 200 miles and get to his injured mother before an ambulance:
  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-47146518

“A man who travelled nearly 200 miles to reach his injured mother arrived before an ambulance reached her. Mark Clements caught a bus, tube and two trains from London to Exmouth, Devon on Saturday after his 77-year-old mother fell and broke her hip. The initial 999 call was made at 09:00 GMT but paramedics did not arrive until seven hours later. South Western Ambulance Service apologised and said it was experiencing "an unprecedented rise in demand". Mr Clements said he and his family - some of whom were waiting with his mother - were "appalled" by what happened. "My mother was lying in an awkward position on a cold conservatory floor and was unable to move," he said. Mr Clements took three hours and 40 minutes to travel from London to Exmouth, arriving at his mother's home at 15:10, about 50 minutes before the ambulance crew. He said relatives called 999 on six different occasions but it was seven hours before an ambulance arrived. "An ambulance station is less than 10 minutes from my mother's home," he added. When paramedics eventually arrived, Mr Clements said they were "equally appalled and astonished" at the delay.”

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What More Proof of Censorship is Needed? By Chris Knight

     Natural News.com, has been publishing a series of articles, basically making the case that the establishment is literally Satanic, that there is a connection between paedophilic activities and the elites. Maybe all this goes too far, but who knows? We certainly won’t know unless we can debate this. Now, here comes the censor:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-11-apple-demands-natural-news-stop-writing-about-abortions-or-satanism.html

“In a series of shocking “demand” emails containing screen captures showing lists of Natural News articles, Apple has demanded Natural News stop publishing articles critical of abortions or Satanism, threatening to block the Natural News app from all Apple devices if Apple’s demands are not met. This is the first time that a dominant tech company has overtly come out in defense of Satanism while threatening to censor a prominent publisher that exposes the evils of Satanic influence. Many people will see this as yet more proof that Apple, along with other tech giants, is literally aligned with Satan and is exploiting its power of censorship to silence those who criticize Satanism. With Democrats now openly pushing infanticide and the legalization of the serial killing of infants, tech giants like Apple are serving as the censorship “speech police” to silence all criticism of the gruesome practice. In threatening Natural News over our coverage of infanticide and abortions, Apple is staking out the position of being pro-infanticide, and anyone who dares to speak up for innocent children is deemed by Apple to be engaged in “hate speech.”

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Dealing with Psycho-Political Warfare Stress; Forest Bathing By Mrs Vera West

     Having one’s race, place and nation subjected to passive genocide, can be stressful for the few remaining individuals who are not brain dead. So, what can be done for the individual to mentally survive? The Japanese have an answer, and it is known as “forest bathing,” and it can be done without getting wet:
  https://blueheronhealthnews.com/site/2019/01/12/forest-bathing-cures-high-blood-pressure-and-other-diseases-2/?tt=newsletter

“Forest therapy refers to the practice of walking in a forest and soaking up the atmosphere, smelling the trees and air, looking at the flowers, listening to the streams and the wind through the trees, noticing the individual bird species, feeling the leaves and roots under your feet, and so forth. The Japanese call this forest bathing, not because you swim in a forest stream, but because you immerse yourself in nature. Aside from being a pleasant pastime, many studies are now concluding that it might be a useful medical therapy for a wide range of conditions. Some Japanese doctors even prescribe it as an adjunct treatment for diseases, such as high blood pressure and diabetes. Since stress contributes to so many diseases, one of the most frequently studied effects of forest therapy is its effects on stress reduction. For example, Japanese researchers published a study in the journal Public Health in 2007 that investigated the psychological effects of this therapy. They surveyed 498 volunteers twice on the forest-walking day and twice on the control day, during which they did not visit the forest. They concluded that forest walking reduced stress; the higher the stress levels, the larger the reduction.”

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Facebook Shows Where it Stands on Free Speech By Mrs Vera West

     It was only a matter of time, given all of the other censorship adventures, but now Facebook turns its attention to censoring anti-vaxx comments. Not a stone must be left unturned:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6708375/Facebook-start-removing-anti-vaxx-posts.html

“Facebook is considering taking action against harmful and misleading content posted by 'anti-vaccination' activists on the social network. Democrat US Congressman Adam Schiff had written to Facebook, as well as Google, asking them to address the issue of 'anti-vaxx' content on the platform. In its response to Schiff, Facebook wrote that it is looking into removing misinforming content about vaccinations from recommendations to its users and to 'demote' it in searches on its platform. In a letter to t Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's CEO Sundar Pichai, Schiff wrote: 'As a Member of Congress who is deeply concerned about declining vaccination rates, I am requesting additional information on the steps that you currently take to provide medically accurate information on vaccinations to your users, and to encourage you to consider additional steps you can take to address this growing problem. In a statement released in response to Schiff, Facebook said it is 'exploring additional measures to best combat the problem,' according to Bloomberg.”

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Update on the 5G Health Threat By Mrs Vera West

     I know nothing about computers, do not have a mobile phone, and will never send a text. I only recently got on email, Gmail or something, to keep in touch with grandchildren. It takes me about three hours to log in, typing with arthritic hands and a mind full of confusion. Why then should my brain, or what remains of it, be fried by the 5G, whatever that is:

“Experts are warning that superfast broadband known as 5G could cause cancer in humans, and the usage of 5G is nothing more than a “massive health experiment.” 5G could very well be a global catastrophe that kills wildlife, gives people terminal diseases, and causes the Earth’s magnetic field to change, according to shocking claims by a technology expert. Arthur Robert Firstenberg is an American author and an activist for electromagnetic radiation and health. In his 1997 book Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution, he claimed: “The telecommunications industry has suppressed damaging evidence about its technology since at least 1927.” Firstenberg has also founded the independent campaign group the Celluar Phone Task Force and since 1996 he has argued in numerous publications that wireless technology is dangerous.

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The Fish and Vegetables Diet By Mrs Vera West

     To lose weight and get that blood pressure down, the fish and vegetables diet strikes me as the best. It is palaeo, and Mediterranean combined, dropping the heavy grains   and pasta and carbo-laden stuff like that. Simply fish and a plethora of high anti-oxidant rich vegetables.
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-19-compound-found-in-veggie-and-fish-promotes-heart-health.html

“A Polish study advises people with hypertension to eat a lot more fish and vegetables. Both types of food contain trimethylamine oxide (TMAO), a natural compound that supports the healthy functions of the heart.
Trimethylamine oxide is metabolized by the liver. It is synthesized from trimethylamine, which is produced by the action of beneficial bacteria in the gut. People who are at risk for heart diseases often display high levels of trimethylamine oxide in their blood. But the exact process that increases plasma TMAO is vague. The effect of the compound on the circulatory system is also uncertain. Some studies reported that trimethylamine oxide appears to harm the circulatory system. A 2014 rat model by the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) found that the hypertensive effects of a vasoconstrictor lasted much longer in healthy rats that experienced a 10,000 percent increase in blood TMAO during the course of two weeks. However, researchers also found that TMAO plasma levels significantly increased after eating fish and vegetables. These foods are neutral or even beneficial to the cardiovascular system. TMAO also protects deep-sea fish from the harmful effects of immense water pressure. Finally, it acts as a protein stabilizer.”

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The Great Infanticide Debate By Chris Knight

     There was an entertaining piece, if we can describe such a ghoulish topic in such terms, at Natural News.com, saying that, hypothetically, the New York laws allowing infanticide of babies born from botched abortions, had a surprising consequence. If, magically such babies could use a handgun, then the babies would have the right, by self-defense laws to shoot the abortionist, or whoever was about to kill them! Yes, this is a bit silly, but that is the nature of thought experiments, which draw out the consequences of positions. Clearly there is something very wrong with such laws, even if one supported limited abortion. It is felt that a slippery slope has been created leading to possible death camps at the end. Here is where the American debate now lies:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/06/house-republicans-re-introduce-born-alive-act-to-protect-babies-from-infanticide/

“Missouri Republican Rep. Ann Wagner re-introduced a bill Wednesday that would protect babies born alive after abortion from infanticide. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would ensure any infant born alive following an abortion receives the same medical care and protection the law gives any newborn baby. Republican Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana – who originally co-sponsored the legislation when it was introduced previously – will bring a resolution that provides for floor consideration of Wagner’s bill. The two Republicans would force a vote in the House after 30 legislative days if no action is taken. “Innocent life must be defended and protected at every stage, and that includes babies born alive during an abortion,” said Scalise in a statement. “We must immediately extend legal protections to these vulnerable newborns and prosecute any doctor who would leave them to die.” Scalise added he began the process of forcing a vote on the bill “especially after horrific actions taken in New York and Virginia to permit infanticide.”

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Wi-Fi On the Brain By Mrs Vera West

     The mania of IT, phones, social media, the whole kettle of rotting fish, it just makes me cry tears of blood. Can the ordinary people rise to be more than just being mind-controlled puppets, insanely consuming at the suggestions of the media? Do they even use this media to try and find out if the very new gods that they now worship, are even safe? Apparently not.
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-07-science-is-clear-wi-fi-increases-risk-of-brain-cancer.html

“Studies have shown Wi-Fi increases your risk of brain cancer and a host of other serious illnesses. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF/EMF) as a possible carcinogen, meaning it ranks right up there with lead, chloroform and DDT. The highly respected group, which is part of the World Health Organization, made its classifications after careful assessment of extensive scientific evidence. While all this exposure to cell phones, smart meters, smart devices, and other Wi-Fi technologies is undoubtedly bad for us, it’s even worse for children. An analysis of studies that was printed in the Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure found that children, teens and infants have a higher cancer risk than adults from such devices, with some estimates placing children’s likelihood of developing brain cancer from exposure to RF/EMF at four times that of adults. Unfortunately, children simply don’t have as much protection from this exposure as adults do as their bodies are smaller and their skulls are thinner. In addition, their brain tissue is more absorbent. Not surprisingly, unborn children are the most vulnerable, so pregnant women need to use extreme caution when it comes to their exposure.”

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Push Ups, or Push Up Daisies By Brian Simpson

     Probably most of us are getting too old for this sort of exercise, but we have children and grandchildren who need to keep fit. A good way of doing this is pushups, which have a spinoff in helping heart health:
  https://www.livescience.com/64789-pushups-men-heart-health.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190218-ls

“The ability to do a lot of pushups may be a sign not only of strength, but also of good heart health, a new study suggests. The study tested the stamina of middle-aged male firefighters. It found that those who could do more than 40 pushups in a row had a 96 percent lower risk of being diagnosed with heart disease or experiencing other heart problems over a 10-year period, as compared with those men who could do fewer than 10 push ups. However, because the study looked at only male firefighters, who have very active jobs, it's unclear if the findings apply to average Joes.”

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Perils of the Pill By Mrs Vera West

     The Pill, or combined oral contraceptive pill, was made available in the US in 1960, and Australia, not long after. It is widely admitted now that it was a catalyst for the sexual revolution of the 1960s, as well as giving biochemical backing to feminism, as women, they say, could control their fertility, meaning, not have babies, and instead, work like slaves in the capitalist, Satanic paper mills. None of the enormous social consequences that came from this piece of evil technology were discussed, let alone debated at the time; this technology was simply marketed, like most technology. However, it would only take one seminar discussion group in 1959, to see that this chemical would turn traditional society upside down. Of course, that was the plan. Nothing has contributed more to the crashing White birth-rates than the Pill. If one wanted White genocide, done passively, this was the way to go. But, as well, the Pill has had a major impact of Black birth-rates as well, so the agenda is wider than White social control and eradication. What may not have been anticipated, beyond the demonic social ethno-racial agenda, was health side effects, and these have been not merely physical:
  https://www.medicaldaily.com/contraceptive-pills-have-mental-side-effects-too-study-finds-429751

“More than 100 million women around the world use oral contraceptives. Over the years, research has been able to explore and identify much of their physical effects, but what about their psychological effects? Dr. Alexander Lischke of the University of Greifswald, Germany, notes how "remarkably little" is known about the effects of birth control pills on emotion, cognition, and behavior. As part of a new study, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, Lischke and his research team recruited 95 healthy women — 42 of whom were on the pill and 53 who were not — for an emotion recognition task. The aim was to find out if using the pill could have any sort of impairment on their ability to recognize emotions. "We assumed that these impairments would be very subtle, indicating that we had to test women's emotion recognition with a task that was sensitive enough to detect such impairments," he explained. "We, thus, used a very challenging emotion recognition task that required the recognition of complex emotional expressions from the eye region of faces."

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The Truth about Vaccine Safety: How Robert F. Kennedy jr. Sued the US Government and Won By Mrs Vera West

     With shutdowns of sites dealing with anything critical of vaccinations, we had better get a few “shots” in before all goes black, forever. Hence, the document below may be of interest, detailing how the Informed Consent Action Network and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sued the US government and won on a vaccine safety issue. It was disclosed from the action that Health and Human Services had not filed any vaccine safety reports in over 30 years!  So, how can any banning of internet criticism of vaccination be made, justifiably, when all of the data is not in?
  https://www.aimintegrativemedicine.com/aim-integrative-medicine-blog/why-kennedy-sued-the-government-over-vaccine-safety-won

“In May 2017, ICAN Founder, Del Bigtree, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.. as well as other parties concerned about vaccine safety were selected by the White House to conduct a meeting with the Counselor to the Secretary of HHS, the heads of the National Institute of Health, NIH, the Center for Disease Control, CDC, and Food and the Drug Administration, FDA. Del Bigtree and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspected that HHS was not fulfilling its critical vaccine safety obligations as required by Congress in The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. "The 1986 Act granted unprecedented, economic immunity to pharmaceutical companies for injuries caused by their products and eviscerated economic incentive for them to manufacture safe vaccine products or improve the safety of existing vaccine products. Congress therefore charged the Secretary of HHS with the explicit responsibility to assure vaccine safety. Hence, since 1986, HHS has had the primary and virtually sole responsibility to make and assure improvements in the licensing, manufacturing, adverse reaction reporting, research, safety and efficacy testing of vaccines in order to reduce the risk of adverse vaccine reactions. In order to assure HHS meets its vaccine safety obligations, Congress required as part of the 1986 Act that the Secretary of HHS submit a biennial reports to Congress detailing the improvements in vaccine safety made by HHS in the preceding two years."

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The West is Best By Peter West

     I have said all of this before, but here is a spin on this theme by Jeff Sanders, blogging at P J Media.com, which is the most concise summary I have come across in, well, the last 30 minutes:
  https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/five-reasons-why-western-civilization-is-good/

“Some cultures are superior to others. Would you rather live in a civilization that takes care of widows or burns them to death? Would you rather live in a culture that believes women are equal to men, or in a society that believes females are intrinsically inferior and can be bought, sold, and have horrible procedures inflicted on them (female genital mutilation)? Some cultures have a framework of just laws with the presumption of innocence for the accused and the basic right to a trial by a jury of peers. Other cultures like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea, and Iran have barbaric judicial systems and often just make up the rules as they go along, in order to further the agenda of the regime.

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Impure Thoughts: Now a Gushing Sewer into British Homes By Mrs Vera West

     This story made me a bit ill in the stomach, and I hope that no-one is eating right now, but basically some woman who was sex-crazed, and should have got help, is getting a TV series made of her ravings.
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6623637/My-thoughts-obscene-contemplated-suicide-Woman-reveals-trauma-havingsexual-OCD.html

“A woman whose teenage years were plagued by thoughts so x-rated she contemplated taking her own life has seen her story turned into a Channel 4 drama. Rose Cartwright, 32, suffers with pure O, a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that causes constant intrusive sexual and violent thoughts about people including children, friends, teachers and family members. After enduring years of anxiety and isolation about the condition after her first panic attack at the age of 15, Cartwright finally sought treatment and her book, Pure, published in 2015, was the inspiration behind a new Channel 4 drama of the same name. The series, written by writer Kirstie Swain, doesn't hold back - there's a scene where central character Marine (Charly Clive) endures a dream-like thought that sees her performing oral sex on her own mother. As the six-part drama, which took two-and-a-half years to make opens, central protagonist Marnie shares that she can spend a whole day with rational thoughts hijacked by shocking sexual experiences that range from bestiality to incest.”

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The Typical Austalian Diet is a Health Threat! By Mrs Vera West

     A recent article at Natural News, argued the the typical American diet is a disease threat, and even a short exposure to a high sugar, high saturated fat, low vitamin diet can cause numerous health problems. The same could be said for the fast food diets that Australians are eating:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-27-western-diet-is-a-disease-vector-on-par-with-influenza.html

“In fact, the Western diet is so bad that studies have shown that even a short amount of exposure to it can raise your chances of cardiometabolic disorders like heart disease and diabetes. In a study that was funded by the American Heart Association, female rats were fed the equivalent of a typical American diet, and those mice showed common symptoms of diabetes like high blood pressure and blood vessel damage, even after a short time, when compared to a control group. In addition, these rats had four times more fat in their abdominal area than those in the control group, despite some of them not appearing to be obese. This indicates that the negative effects of this way of eating might set in long before traditional disease markers become obvious. In a human clinical study, participants who ate hamburgers quickly experienced pathological changes in blood vessels, including oxidative stress, inflammation, and vasoconstriction. Interestingly, the mere act of adding avocado to the burger canceled these effects out in a different group. It’s easy to see how giving one’s diet a complete overhaul could have a significant positive impact on their overall health.”

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