Civil Liberties, Environment, Immorality, Nonviolent Activism, North America

Indigenous people in Canada are giving the world a demonstration of the power of nonviolent action. The justness of their cause — defending the land from those who would destroy it for short term profit and the elimination of a habitable climate on earth — combined with their courage and the absence on their part of cruelty or hatred, has the potential to create a much larger movement, which is of course the key to success.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Cambodia's authoritarian leader Hun Sen is not
panicking about the possibility of the deadly coronavirus killing
anyone in his Southeast Asian nation.

And he's not evacuating Cambodians trapped in China where more than
1,000 people have perished from the disease.

Instead, Prime Minister Hun Sen told Cambodians to stay and experience
Wuhan's dystopian lockdown.

He also allowed more than 2,000 people, including about 600 Americans,
to dock in Cambodia's port after their Westerdam cruise ship was
turned away by five countries amid unsubstantiated fears that it might
carry a coronavirus victim.

"Westerdam is now sailing for Sihanoukville, Cambodia, arriving at 7am
local time on February 13 & will remain in port for several days for
disembarkation," Holland America Line announced on February 12.

"All approvals have been received & we are extremely grateful to the
Cambodian authorities for support," it said on @HALcruises, the ship's
official Twitter site.

Today, attitudes towards sexual health are more enlightened than they’ve ever been. Experts understand how STDs occur, how they are transmitted, and even how to cure many of them efficiently. Yet, according to the CDC, cases of syphilis gonorrhea, and chlamydia reached an all-time high in 2018.

Rising cases of STDs aren’t necessarily a bad thing. On the one hand, it means that more people are getting tested and treated on a regular basis. However, the figure is also a reminder of the stigma that still surrounds STDs and how underreported they may still be.

In today’s world, getting tested and treated for an STD is easier than ever, at least in terms of the medicine involved. At the same time, STDs still suffer from a stigma — and that stigma can be as damaging as the infection itself.

“Please don’t be my bullies, too.”

These words echoed loud against the salmon-pink walls of room 114 of the Ohio Statehouse. They concluded the testimony of 11-year-old Sean Miller, a transgender girl offering her story of fighting bullying and discrimination, at a proponent hearing for the Ohio Fairness Act (or HB 369). The state representatives on the House Civil Justice Committee watched sympathetically, but under the surface a familiar fight was brewing.

The Ohio Fairness Act would amend the state code to expand its protected groups and outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. While 28 localities in Ohio have some form of LGBTQ protection, those only cover about a fourth of people in the state. In most places in Ohio, it is still legal to fire an employee, deny a renter a lease, or refuse to give a homebuyer a loan on the basis of their sexuality or gender identity.

Autoimmune disorders are an important and under-appreciated issue that desperately needs the attention of every autoimmune disorder awareness group and autoimmune disorder support group, especially in the case of Type 1, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (T1D), an established autoimmune disorder whose treatment teams and T1D patients themselves are often unaware of or are in denial.

What medical teams - and their autoimmune disordered patients - often aren’t aware of is the fact that most autoimmune disorders are caused by commonly-injected aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines.

There is a large variety of autoimmune disorders (see partial list further below) and many of them begin months or years after the heavy early vaccination years when so many cocktails of vaccines are injected into the muscles of babies and young children. Many autoimmune disorders only manifest themselves when a final vaccination tips the patient’s immune system over into its clinical manifestation.

Autoantibodies