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December 12, 2019

The nuclear family is the site of oppression, coercion and abuse for so many people, especially female people, worldwide, and yet “the family” is rarely discussed in political (or radical) terms.  Last year around this time, I wrote about various familial abuses traditionally suffered by girls and women and suggested that oppression, coercion and abuse is the reason “the holidays” are such a stressful time for people, especially women.  In my observation, the refusal of most people to address the horrors of what really happens in families just leads to confusion and avoidance — and massive cognitive dissonance — where people express dread, anxiety and other negative emotions around family-focused holidays, but only manage in reducing this common experience to a joke/meme and avoiding unpleasant sensations by drinking (or eating, or shopping, or fucking, or cleaning, or decorating, or otherwise medicating) heavily until it’s over.  

That message was generally not taken well, where I gently (and tangentially, it was literally a parenthetical) suggested that a guaranteed way to stop familial oppression, coercion and abuse (of mostly females) was to stop creating so-called nuclear families at all.  Antinatalism, basically.  I know, right?  Antinatalism wasn’t even the dominant theme of that post but I’m such a misogynistic, baby-hating bitch for letting my mind lady-brain wander there, even parenthetically, how dare I (use the internet to talk about the female experience and female oppression).   How very damn dare I.

Sticking with the holiday theme of oppression, coercion and abuse — because it’s fucking relevant — those things are known to cause so-called psychiatric symptoms in people, particularly women as they are its primary targets under a more or less global patriarchy.  In large numbers, girls and women (female human beings) experience anxiety, depression, disassociation and other uncomfortable and debilitating states as a result of being oppressed, coerced and abused, and a lot of women are prescribed and take psychiatric drugs so that these uncomfortable states go away, or have less of an impact on our lives.   And by “lives” I of course mean our ability to show up and be ab/used by our capitalistic, patriarchal overlords including (almost always male) partners, employers and other authority figures.  Mother’s Little Helper and all that.

If these medications actually worked — that is, if they did what they say on the tin and relieved us of our agony — they still wouldn’t be beyond reproach.  There are compelling political and indeed medical arguments against treating people with dangerous Big Pharma medications to ease uncomfortable states of being.  For example, the debilitating and often permanent physical and mental “side effects” of prescription medications, otherwise known as iatrogenic illness and injury that are often just as bad or even worse than the original disease.  As usual, Big Medicine offers suffering people the chance to trade one illness for another, and another, and another, and to pay through the nose for the privilege.

Many times it’s not even a proper trade because the drugs are unable to cure the original disease and the new, treatment-induced injuries and illnesses are just added on.  (This is the case with Crohn’s disease for example which is known to be an incurable disease.)  Either way, the misery is compounded.  Well, it appears to be an open secret within the psychiatric community that psychiatric medications don’t do what they say on the tin.  Women are taking anti-anxiety, anti-depressant, anti-psychotic and other psychotropic medications to treat the effects of political and interpersonal oppression — and are being asked to concurrently swallow the cultural fiction that their discomfort is not political and originates in their own biochemistry — and the medications don’t even work, because they can’t work, because there is nothing chemical to treat, get it?

As discussed below, it appears as if the theory that a chemical imbalance in the brain causes psychiatric symptoms has been thoroughly debunked, yet application of this flawed theory continues: people continue to be medicated for “mental” conditions that are not biochemical and therefore are not amenable to chemical therapies.  These medications also cause frightening and severe negative outcomes long-term and psychiatrists know all of that but they keep prescribing them anyway.

Here are some clips that illustrate what seems to be the situation in which we find ourselves.  Namely, that oppression, coercion and abuse are unavoidable in this system; families are the original and main exposure to those things for most women globally and familial exposure in particular cannot be avoided; oppression, coercion and abuse cause the symptoms we know as mental illness; and every medication in Big Medicine’s arsenal is known to not work to treat it and to even make patients’ physical and mental conditions worse over time.  More videos and discussion below the fold.

Bruce Levine, above, is a Ph.D. and clinical psychologist who writes about oppression and coercion causing so-called psychiatric symptoms and relatedly, the medicalization and pathologization of antiauthoritarianism.  I cited his work in a previous article on this blog entitled Antiauthoritarianism: Illustration via Juxtaposition.

While generally debunking his professional field as a self-described apostate, his specific mission appears to be to “out” as having been disproven the theory of a brain “chemical imbalance” causing so-called psychiatric symptoms like anxiety, depression and even psychosis, which theory implies that people suffering from these symptoms will positively respond to psychiatric/psychotropic drugs.  The chemical imbalance theory has apparently been debunked and rejected for years by the highest psychiatric authorities but the general public hasn’t gotten been given the memo.  I invite my readers to think about that shit a minute.

There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in the brain, or at least none that cause things like anxiety and depression, and thus, there is no legitimate medical reason to treat these symptoms with mind-altering drugs.  There may be other reasons for doing so, but they are not legitimate medical reasons.  This has apparently been an open secret in the field for years, information that is well known in the upper echelons of the mental health hierarchy (for example, since at least 2013 the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and its director have distanced themselves from the “Bible” of psychiatric diagnoses, the DSM, and the NIMH now preferentially funds research unfettered by DSM ideological constraints) but millions of people continue to be prescribed and take these side-effect riddled Big Pharma poisons anyway.

As if that weren’t bad enough, Big Pharma psychotropic drugs actually make people more psychologically unstable and more physically and mentally unwell than they were before over time.  This has been shown where antiauthoritarian psychotics who “go off their meds” have better long-term outcomes than the goody two-shoes (authoritarian) psychotics who stay on their meds (and those who are subjected to so-called “forced care” and are literally physically forced and/or psychologically coerced into taking the drugs whether or not they are a bona fide actor on their own care team).

Below are clips from psychiatrist and patient advocate Peter Breggin explaining the profoundly troubling origin and history of Western psychiatry, as well as what psychotropic drugs actually do to your brain, why the effects are read as “improvement” by caretakers and others, and the long-term effects of psychiatric drug treatment including permanent iatrogenic illness and injury, particularly grossly shortened life expectancy, and increased — not decreased — mental and physical disability including increased psychosis.  Happy Holidays y’all!

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Editing the DNA of human embryos could protect us from future pandemics

We may edit our genes to make us extra resistance to viruses. Natali_ Mis/Shutterstock

Hollywood blockbusters comparable to X-men, Gattaca and Jurassic World have explored the intriguing idea of “germline genome enhancing” – a biomolecular method that may alter the DNA of sperm, eggs or embryos. When you take away a gene that causes a sure illness in an embryo, not solely will the child be freed from the illness when born – so will its descendants.

The method is, nonetheless, controversial – we will’t make certain how a toddler with an altered genome will develop over a lifetime. However with the COVID-19 pandemic exhibiting simply how weak human beings are to illness, is it time to think about shifting forward with it extra rapidly?

There’s now good proof that the method works, with analysis usually carried out on unviable embryos that may by no means lead to a residing child. However in 2018, Chinese language scientist He Jiankui claimed that the primary gene-edited infants had certainly been born – to the common shock, criticism and intrigue of the scientific group.

This human germline genome enhancing (hGGe) was carried out utilizing the Nobel-prize successful CRISPR system, a kind of molecular scissors that may reduce and alter the genome at a exact location. Researchers and coverage makers within the fertility and embryology house agree that it’s a matter of “when” and never “if” hGGe applied sciences will turn into accessible to most of the people.

In 2016, the UK turned the primary nation on the planet to formally allow “three-parent infants” utilizing a genetic method known as mitochondrial substitute remedy – changing unhealthy mitochondria (part of the cell that gives power) with wholesome ones from a donor.

COVID-19 safety

Scientists are actually discussing genome enhancing within the gentle of the COVID-19 pandemic. For instance, one may use CRISPR to disable coronaviruses by scrambling their genetic code. However we may additionally edit folks’s genes to make them extra immune to an infection – for instance by concentrating on “T cells”, that are central within the physique’s immune response. There are already CRISPR scientific trials underway that look to genome edit T cells in most cancers sufferers to enhance anti-tumour immunity (T cells attacking the tumour).

One of these gene enhancing differs to germline enhancing because it happens in non-reproductive cells, that means genetic modifications should not heritable. In the long run, nonetheless, it could be simpler to enhance T-cell responses utilizing germline enhancing.

It’s simple to see the attract. The pandemic has uncovered the brutal actuality that almost all of nations the world over are utterly in poor health outfitted to cope with sudden shocks to their, typically, already overstretched healthcare techniques. Considerably, the healthcare impacts should not solely felt on COVID sufferers. Many most cancers sufferers, as an illustration, have struggled to entry remedies or prognosis appointments in a well timed method through the pandemic.

This additionally raises the potential of utilizing hGGe strategies to deal with critical ailments comparable to most cancers to guard healthcare techniques in opposition to future pandemics. We have already got a wealth of knowledge that means sure gene mutations, comparable to these within the BRCA2 gene in ladies, enhance the chance of most cancers improvement. These illness genetic hotspots present potential targets for hGGe remedy.

Chemistry Nobel Prize award recipients Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier. J.L. Cereijido/EPA

Moreover, healthcare prices for ailments comparable to most cancers will proceed to rise as drug therapies proceed to turn into extra personalised and focused. At this level, wouldn’t gene enhancing be less complicated and cheaper?

Local weather change and malaria

As we method the mezzo level of the 21st century, it’s truthful to say that COVID-19 may show to be simply the beginning of a string of worldwide well being crises that we encounter. A current report by the UN Intergovernmental Science-Coverage Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Providers (IPBES) emphasised the clear connection between world pandemics and the lack of biodiversity and local weather change. Importantly, the report delivers the grim future prediction of extra frequent pandemics, which might be deadlier and extra devastating than COVID-19.

It isn’t simply extra viral pandemics that we would need to face sooner or later. As our world local weather modifications, so will the transmission charges of different ailments comparable to malaria. If malaria begins presenting itself in places with unprepared healthcare techniques, the impacts on healthcare provision might be overwhelming.

Apparently, there’s a method to shield folks from malaria – introducing a single defective gene for the sickle cell anaemia. One copy of this defective gene offers you a degree of safety in opposition to malaria. But when two folks with a single defective gene have a child, the kid may develop sickle cell anaemia. This exhibits simply how difficult gene enhancing will be – you’ll be able to edit genes to guard a inhabitants in opposition to one illness, however doubtlessly inflicting bother in different methods.

Regardless of the primary hGGe people already having been born, the truth is that the method received’t be getting into our mainstream lives any time quickly. The UK Royal Society just lately said that heritable genome enhancing is just not able to be tried in people safely, though it has urged that if nations do approve hGGe therapy practices, it ought to give attention to particular ailments which are brought on by single particular genes, comparable to sickle cell anaemia and cystic fibrosis. However, as we’ve seen, it could not make sense to edit out the previous in nations with excessive charges of malaria.

Different main challenges for researchers is unintended genetic modifications at particular websites of the genome which this might result in a number of additional issues to the genome community. The equitable entry of therapy supplies one other sticking level. How would hGGe be regulated and paid for?

The world is just not at present prepared for hGGe applied sciences and any progress on this subject is more likely to happen at a really incremental tempo. That being stated, this know-how will ultimately come to characteristic in humanity for illness prevention. The large query is solely “when?”. Maybe the reply is determined by the severity and frequency of future well being crises.

Yusef Paolo Rabiah doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or group that may profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their tutorial appointment.

from Growth News https://growthnews.in/editing-the-dna-of-human-embryos-could-protect-us-from-future-pandemics/ via https://growthnews.in

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Everything You Need to Know About Solar in Arizona

Arizona is known as the solar industry’s pioneer state and with good reason. Considering that the sun shines 85% of the year, Arizona and solar are like two peas in a pod. It’s no wonder, then, that the state is one of the top in the country in solar energy generation.

Solar use in Arizona goes back a long way. The history is colorful and surrounded by influential people and technology that made solar power the clean, efficient energy generator that it is today.

Now, innovations in solar technology have allowed regular homeowners in Arizona and around the globe access to this money-saving, carbon footprint reducing way to produce power in their homes. This economic change has catapulted solar energy to the highest levels it has ever been worldwide.

For residents of Arizona, it has major implications, too.

A Quick Timeline of Solar Power

Solar power has been harnessed for millennia when people used the strategic placement of openings in their homes to keep them warm, light up the interior, and even cook or start fires. We’ve come a long way since then, but the idea is the same – we want to use solar energy to completely power our homes.

In the 1800s, solar technology began being developed. In 1839 the idea that voltage can be created when a material is exposed to light, or the photovoltaic effect, was discovered. This laid the foundation for the first solar cell, at 1% efficiency, to be created. Fast forward to the 1950s and that little, inefficient solar cell was the catalyst for the birth of photovoltaics by David Chapin, Calvin Fuller and Gerald Pearson of Bell Labs. They were able to create a machine that was 4% efficient and later increased the efficiency to 11%.

Because of the inefficiency in these solar cells and the expense that was required to create them, the idea of solar power was intriguing, but the process of rolling it out for public use was not feasible. However, wealthy businesses and homeowners were purchasing solar systems for use, allowing developers and researchers to continue to study this clean energy resource and tweak it for continued improvements.

By 2015, Australia, who had much earlier let the world know that they were going to be a world leader in solar power, had improved the technology to the point that it was now cheaper to use solar energy than fossil fuels. Solar technology was now commonly found in airplanes, luxury vehicles, homes, and businesses, and the effect began to spread across the globe.

Solar Power’s Influence Rushes into Arizona

The government of Arizona quickly took notice. If Australia could harness the power of solar energy on such magnitude, why couldn’t they? The mountains of Arizona are a naturally absorbent material of the sun, and there is a constant supply of this renewable resource, so why not figure out how to make the best of it?

This journey became more economically viable back in 2006 when the Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff was enacted. This piece of legislation regulated utility companies and required them to utilize renewable sources to generate a minimum of 15% of their power by 2025. They also had to generate at least 30% of their power from renewable distributed sources such as solar panels. The race was on to find ways to make this happen, and it quickly became apparent that without the help of the millions of Arizona residents, it wouldn’t be possible.

For this reason, utility companies began coming up with rebates and other incentives to offer homeowners and businesses as a carrot to switch to solar power. Between these financial offerings and the impressive state and federal tax credits, solar energy use in Arizona skyrocketed, sending it to its current spot now as the top third state in the nation for solar power generation.

In fact, Arizona currently has over 3,300 megawatts of solar capability in use. This may not sound like much, but it’s enough to power over 500,000 homes just by using the sun’s rays that come every day without any side effects or labor to make it happen. And Arizona is ready to increase that solar capability annually.

With the price of solar almost 55% cheaper than it was five years ago, the state is going to need that extra capacity to account for all of the new installations on the agenda and the rest to come as more people learn about the incredible benefits of turning to solar energy for their homes and businesses.  

The solar industry has boomed, creating over 7,000 jobs just in Arizona alone – the 7th highest in the nation, and still climbing. A recent clean energy overhaul proposal by Arizona Corporation Commission member Andrew Tobin, if passed, would lead the state to surpass all others in renewable energy and grid modernization. This proposal takes the old 25% target and increases it to 80% by 2050.

With some of the top sunniest cities in the country right in Arizona, like Yuma, Phoenix, and Tucson, this figure is not even intimidating. Arizona could easily generate enough energy to power millions of homes, more than double its current usage.

The Effects are More Than Financial

Solar power absolutely puts money in your pocket, and with all of the incentives, rebates, tax credits, and other financial perks that come with installing a solar system, it becomes the smartest investment you can make in terms of renovating your home. But there are benefits far beyond your wallet that lead many people to choose to make the switch to solar.

Solar energy is renewable and abundant. Instead of drilling for fossil fuels like coal and natural gas, the use of solar energy requires no work once the initial equipment is installed. Because of the ease of using it, solar power is much less expensive. There are no harmful impacts on the environment, and there’s no danger of it running out.

In fact, there’s so much solar energy available that one hour of all of the sun’s rays would be enough to provide everyone in the world with enough power to last them over a year. And unlike other clean energy fuels like wind, solar power is consistent and predictable.

Solar energy reduces the dependence on fossil fuels for power. Electricity generated by fossil fuels creates a massive abundance of greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide. These gases are produced during the burning process of turning fossil fuels into energy. Concerns of increasing temperatures across the globe and climate change have been attributed to the build-up of these gases.

Every home that goes solar reduces the demand for fossil fuels – a non-renewable resource that is disappearing quickly – and, at the same time, diminishes greenhouse gas emissions. You can shrink your carbon footprint while you save money. In fact, statistics show that the average American home can save approximately 150 trees each year simply by moving to solar (not to mention the significant reduction on your energy bill)!

Using solar energy can improve your health. No, we are not just talking about the decreased stress level you’ll feel knowing you don’t have to pay those hefty utility bills every month. Your physical health can improve, too.

Solar energy emits a miniscule amount of pollutants into the air. By adopting solar power on a widespread level, like the one that is already in effect in Las Vegas, Nevada, the reduction in dangerous gases and pollutants could significantly reduce the amount of chronic health problems Americans currently suffer from.

These pollutants are known to cause respiratory and cardiovascular health conditions such as chronic bronchitis. The implications of these illnesses go beyond the physical, too. Costs for treating these conditions can run into millions of dollars each year and the individuals suffering from them can lose thousands of dollars annually in missed work or lose their jobs completely if they become permanently disabled from their condition.

By turning to solar power, you are reducing your carbon footprint, saving money, and helping to improve the overall health of the world for generations to come.

Unlike many other benefits to the environment, solar power does not come at a great financial expense. With this type of clean energy, you get all of the benefits of helping the environment at the same time as you reap all of the financial perks that come with having a solar system installed in Arizona.

Keep Up with the Changing Times

While modern society has always been dependent on fossil-fueled power, the times they are a-changing. Fossil fuel is becoming an increasingly expensive and inefficient use of resources. With the buildup of greenhouse gases destroying our environment and the abundance of clean energy sources, it simply makes no sense any longer to keep using this outdated form of electricity in our homes.

Residents of Arizona are blessed with living in a state where solar energy is abundant. It’s only logical, then, to utilize this resource to its optimal extent. You can join in with the millions of others who know that harnessing the power of solar energy is the way of the future by calling the experts at Nationwide Solar Pros.

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