Know Your Rights!

1. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TALK TO THE POLICE OR

INVESTIGATORS. You do not have to talk to them on

the street, if you've been arrested, or even if you're in

jail. Do not talk about illegal actions with fellow “inmates”

in holding as they may be plants.

2. YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET CSIS OR THE POLICE

INTO YOUR HOME OR OFFICE UNLESS THEY

HAVE A SEARCH OR ARREST WARRANT. Demand

to see the warrant. It must specifically describe the

place to be searched and things to be seized. It must

be authorized by a judge and should bear a signature.

3. IF THE POLICE DO PRESENT A WARRANT, YOU

DO NOT HAVE TO TELL THEM ANYTHING OTHER

THAN YOU NAME, ADDRESS AND BIRTH DATE.

Carefully observe the officers; you're in your own

home you're not required to stay in one room. You

should take written notes of what they do, their

names, badge numbers, and what agency they're

from. Have friends who are present act as witnesses.

It's risky to let cops roam around alone in your place.]

4. IF THE POLICE TRY TO QUESTION YOU OR TRY

TO ENTER YOUR HOME WITHOUT A WARRANT,

JUST SAY NO. The police are very skilled at getting

information from people, so attempting to outwit them

is very risky. You can never tell how a seemingly

harmless bit of information can hurt you or someone

else.

5. ANYTHING YOU SAY TO THE POLICE MAY BE

USED AGAINST YOU AND OTHER PEOPLE. Once

you've been arrested, you can't talk you way out of it.

Don't try to engage cops in a dialogue or respond to

accusations.

6. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REVEAL YOUR HIV STATUS

TO THE POLICE OR JAIL PERSONNEL. If

you've been arrested you should refuse to take a blood

test until you've been brought before a judge and

have a lawyer of your choice.

7. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO TELEPHONE A LAWYER

OF YOUR CHOICE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. This

means after you've been arrested, charged and booked

into jail. This does not mean however, that you'll be

given the right to speak with you family and friends.

This is left up to the discretion of the police involved in

your case.

8. LYING TO THE POLICE IS A CRIME.

9. IF YOU ARE NERVOUS ABOUT SIMPLY REFUSING

TO TALK, YOU MAY FIND IT EASIER TO TELL

THEM TO CONTACT YOUR LAWYER. Once a lawyer

is involved, people will know more about your state i.e.

charges, bail, court date, etc.

Crispin Glover "Clownly Clown Clown" ‌‌ - Bohemia Afterdark

What's He Building?

Damien Rice - Cheers darlin'

It’s Time to Let Go of Your Childhood Trauma

Dean Griffiths 23 November 2017

 

As we navigate the seas of life we will inevitably encounter rough seas. As an African proverb says, ‘Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.’ It’s how we deal with the changing swirls and waves on our journey that determines how we reach each milestone towards our final destination.

Though how you start your journey can impact how you deal with the challenges that you will face later along the journey. Life in the womb and throughout childhood has been shown to have a major influence on physical and mental health later in life.

In a large-scale study by Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention along with other researchers probed the child and adolescent histories of 17,000 participants, comparing their childhood experiences to their later adult health records.

Nearly two-thirds of the subjects had encountered one or more what Felitti and Anda coined as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). These included growing up with a depressed or alcoholic parent; losing a parent to divorce or other causes; or enduring chronic humiliation, emotional neglect, or sexual or physical abuse.

What the results showed were:

• Individuals who had faced 4 or more categories of ACEs were twice as likely to be diagnosed with cancer as individuals who hadn’t experienced childhood adversity.
• For each ACE Score, a woman had, her risk of being hospitalised with an autoimmune disease rose by 20%.
• Someone with an ACE Score of 4 was 460% more likely to suffer from depression than someone with an ACE Score of 0.
• An ACE score greater than or equal to 6 shortened an individual’s lifespan by almost 20 years.

The brain capable of creating new pathways.

It’s important to remember that the brain is constructed and continues to form during a process that begins before birth and continues into adulthood. So going through traumatic experiences while in the womb and/or during infancy and childhood can affect the quality of the brain by establishing either a strong or a fragile foundation for all of the learning, habits, and behaviours that will follow.

This means that those people can be more likely to overreact to the everyday stressors they meet in adult life, such as an unexpected bill, losing a job, an argument with a partner, or someone pulling out in front of them in traffic.

Statistics show that 60% of adults report experiencing abuse or other difficult family circumstances during childhood. Though here’s the beauty of life. Even if you started life under this kind of circumstance, you can change it.

With breakthroughs in neuroplasticity, there is now plenty of evidence to show that damaged brain circuitry as a result of early life trauma can be corrected. Not only is the brain capable of creating new pathways, it is designed to do so. The brain is highly resilient and desires flexibility.

But remember to make this kind of change in the brain whereby new neural pathways can be created requires awareness, mindfulness and acknowledgement of the present. Yet, with a good amount of patience and persistence, these new pathways will eclipse the old ones.

With interventions such as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, Thought Field Therapy (TFT), and Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) you can over time let go of your past in order to create a better future.

Lastly, in order to heal from psychological and emotional trauma, you will have to effectively manage the unpleasant feelings and memories you have long avoided, discharge pent-up ‘fight-or-flight’ energy, learn to regulate strong emotions, and rebuild your ability to trust other people.

---

Dean Griffiths is the Founder and CEO of Energy Fusion, the first interactive online platform to subjectively assess employee physical and mental health for medium-sized companies and individuals. Everything they do is based on over 30 years of experience and backed by science and clinical research. Dean is also known as The Soul Whisperer, an intuitive coach working with women to live a life of purpose through his Inner Journey Coaching Programme. Find out more by visiting his website.

SOurce

Comcast deleted net neutrality pledge the same day FCC announced repeal

Three-year-old "no paid prioritization" pledge was suddenly removed.

Jon Brodkin - 11/29/2017, 10:01 AM

Enlarge

Mike Mozart

129

We wrote earlier this week about how Comcast has changed its promises to uphold net neutrality by pulling back from previous statements that it won't charge websites or other online applications for fast lanes.
Comcast spokesperson Sena Fitzmaurice has been claiming that we got the story wrong. But a further examination of how Comcast's net neutrality promises have changed over time reveals another interesting tidbit—Comcast deleted a "no paid prioritization" pledge from its net neutrality webpage on the very same day that the Federal Communications Commission announced its initial plan to repeal net neutrality rules.
Starting in 2014, the webpage, corporate.comcast.com/openinternet/open-net-neutrality, contained this statement: "Comcast doesn't prioritize Internet traffic or create paid fast lanes."

Further Reading

Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal

That statement remained on the page until April 26 of this year, according to page captures from the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.
But on April 27, the paid prioritization pledge was nowhere to be found on that page and remains absent now.
What changed? It was on April 26 that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced the first version of his plan to eliminate net neutrality rules. Since then, Pai has finalized his repeal plan, and the FCC will vote to drop the rules on December 14.
Here's what Comcast's net neutrality promise looked like as late as April 26:

MORE

PEOPLE - WHAT A BUNCH OF BASTARDS

I want to fuck you like an H.R. Giger painting

Sid wielding his ax

The Most Beautiful Suicide

Evelyn McHale (20 Sept 1923 - 1 May 1947) dead of suicide by jumping from the Empire State Building, Photo by Robert C. Wiles published in LIFE magazine. A note found in her make up kit addressed to her sister read:

“I don’t want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don’t have any service for me or remembrance for me. My fiance asked me to marry him in June. I don’t think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother’s tendencies.”⁸

Read more at Codex99 

Some Bunnymen Under the Killing Moon

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” 
― William S. Burroughs

Jump They Say

Transfiguration

The Space shuttles main engine produces a force of two million newtons

To Do List:

Mail Anne's letter
Fix the garbage disposal
do the dishes
clean the kitchen
mop the floor
vacuum the living room
call your mom
spray paint the grass
water the chicken
Fold the laundry
spy on neighbors
organize garage
feed the gator
paint a moose
groom the orangutans
remove nails
put away teeth
steal a cart with only one wheel
rub ants on your thighs
order a mink monkey mask
glue more flowers
stack the Nixon papers (4x10)
smash the bedroom lamp
butter the books
bake a pillow
laughtil you cry
yell at the kids on the lawn
put on three suits
summon azreal
jog
that a nap on the highway
jump until your nose bleeds
hold a hand unwillingly
buy and return condoms
milk a rat
organize a rave
sell all you hair
play darkside of the moon backwards
BUY MILK

The human circus

The human circus

talk is cheap, when spent casually,
frugality of words means more time to listen,
laughter is the soul speaking genuine delight,
tears a leak in the dam holding back pure emotion,
sadness is a drug and joy a chore,
things half remembered from youth,
the source of feeling in our adulthood,
we regress when we truly feel,
revealing honest emotion is to drop your facade
not cutting you down but opening you up
its hard to give yourself over, and let go the reigns
remove the mask and end the charade,
to be seen, unfiltered, and reveal a naked soul,
but seeing an honest reflection even harder,
looking with foreign eyes, honest, real,
seeing past our defense delusons,
Its painful, the deepest pain you can feel
it is your fantasies realized
and your fears unanswered
admitting what you could not believe.


 laugh and cry
Through the windowside

the shadow

I have to appease the shadow in me that seeks to either rule and conquer or else desires to undo itself completely, to implode and dissolve in on itself like a black hole and take with it this whole messy world. End on all that is my small myopic world. The shadow whisper, “it’s all you, it’s only ever been you” —all  I touch, I taste, smell, hear, feel, every truth I have ever known,  every coordinate of my perceived reality has only ever been me, just an endless dream … they say that everyone you encounter in your dreams are only fragments of yourself that you are only ever talking to yourself, that every monster, every horror chasing you down endless corridors, and every little epiphany and comfort that is espoused and enlightens in that nowhere world is only ever you, echoed from somewhere deep inside of yourself, how then is it that such Angels and Demons can reside side-by-side and sleep within us, torture us and heal us and feel an utter truth and such normalcy until the break of dawn and then suddenly fade away “like tears in the rain”, and I am to believe that this awakening is into the one true world, how? there is no evidence no point of undeniable proof that this reality will not fold away into a far deeper truths and all I thought I knew would evaporate into Reality, the logic of my current being would become laughable and I might, chuckle silently at this world and how it seemed so real, seemed to make so much sense, as it slowly fades away to nothing.