theblacksophisticate:

aninvisibleman:

Christopher Dorner, race, and media construction

THIS!

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eco-before-ego:

The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men by Jon Clinkenbeard

If I were going to describe the perfect contraceptive, it would go something like this: no babies, no latex, no daily pill to remember, no hormones to interfere with mood or sex drive, no negative health effects whatsoever, and 100 percent effectiveness. The funny thing is, something like that currently exists.

The procedure called RISUG in India (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance) takes about 15 minutes with a doctor, is effective after about three days, and lasts for 10 or more years…

Oh, and when you do decide you want those babies, it only takes one other injection of water and baking soda to flush out the gel, and within two to three months, you’ve got all your healthy sperm again.

The trouble is, most people don’t even know this exists. And if men only need one super-cheap shot every 10 years or more, that’s not something that gets big pharmaceutical companies all fired up, because they’ll make zero money on it (even if it might have the side benefit of, you know, destroying HIV).

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hjaybee:

“Dear Ahki! What’s the problem with wheat!? Whole wheat used to be good for us!”

That’s true. Wheat used to be good for us.

However, it is important to understand that the plant we call “wheat” today is extremely different from what our grandparents recognized as wheat.

The vast majority of “wheat” on the market today is an 18 inch plant created in a test tube by genetic research in the 1970’s. 

This new strain of “wheat”, Dwarf Wheat (because it grows much shorter than natural strains), was introduced into the market in 1975. 

It became the dominant strain of wheat in the food supply because it yields nearly 10 times the quantity of wheat per acre than older strains of wheat not subject to artificial genetic manipulation.

More yield means more profits for the food conglomerates that own the patents on this genetically engineered crop.

The problem is this new Frankenstein strain of wheat has something in it older strains of wheat did not have: Gliadin.

Gliadin is a protein found in Dwarf Wheat that happens to be 1) an opiate and 2) an appetite stimulant.

Gliadin binds into the opiate receptors in your brain and in most people stimulates appetite.

It gets you high … and it makes you hungry.

The more you eat, the more you want to eat.

If you wanted to make a laboratory animal obese, one of the fastest ways would be to feed it wheat.

The obesity epidemic didn’t just fall from the sky. It is coming from the food supply.

I encourage you to check out the work of preventive cardiologist Dr. William Davis and his incredible book “Wheat Belly”

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kateoplis:

MORE than one million people in the Chinese city of Handan awoke last week to the alarming news that an essential source of their drinking water, the Zhouzhang River, had been dangerously contaminated by a 39-ton chemical spill in the nearby city of Changzhi. What made the news even more shocking was that the leak, from a factory pipe, had started at least five days earlier but had been kept secret by government officials, who allowed millions of their neighbors to keep drinking. …

For me, reading about Handan prompted a sick feeling of déjà vu. For the last five years I have been writing a history of the chemical industry’s egregious 60-year involvement in the New Jersey shore town of Toms River, which gained unwanted notoriety in the late 1990s thanks to a remarkably well-documented cluster of childhood cancer cases and a long history of often hidden industrial pollution.

You should read on: A Cancer Cycle, From Here to China 

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kateoplis:

MORE than one million people in the Chinese city of Handan awoke last week to the alarming news that an essential source of their drinking water, the Zhouzhang River, had been dangerously contaminated by a 39-ton chemical spill in the nearby city of Changzhi. What made the news even more shocking was that the leak, from a factory pipe, had started at least five days earlier but had been kept secret by government officials, who allowed millions of their neighbors to keep drinking. …

For me, reading about Handan prompted a sick feeling of déjà vu. For the last five years I have been writing a history of the chemical industry’s egregious 60-year involvement in the New Jersey shore town of Toms River, which gained unwanted notoriety in the late 1990s thanks to a remarkably well-documented cluster of childhood cancer cases and a long history of often hidden industrial pollution.

You should read on: A Cancer Cycle, From Here to China 

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