Afghan Child Bride Traded to Pay Opium Debt | Womens eNews

Afghan Child Bride Traded to Pay Opium Debt

By Fariba Nawa

WeNews guest author

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Afghanistan's opium trade impacts the daily lives of Afghans like nothing else, says Fariba Nawa in her book "Opium Nation." In this excerpt she shares the story of Darya, a girl who was sold into marriage to settle an opium debt...

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"America Has Woken Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters" by Bill Moyers & Michael Winship/ Alter Net

While police have cleared many Occupy encampments, a collective cry, loud and clear, has gone up from countless voices across the country: Enough's enough.......

READ THIS: America Has Woken Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters | Take Action | AlterNet

"10 Signs of Emotional Abuse"--YouTube

Dirty Minds: How the Brain Evolved to Glorify Monogamy Yet Make Screwing Around Irresistible / AlterNet

With so many of these same cultures putting a premium on monogamy, why do huge numbers of people around the world still cheat?

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The Most Corrupt Members Of Congress ~ Business Insider

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"Why Are Republican Prudes Still Desperate to Control Your Sex Life?" | AlterNet

The GOP's leading candidates are becoming more sexually conservative as the rest of America heads in the opposite direction.


Why Are Republican Prudes Still Desperate to Control Your Sex Life? | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet

4 Creepy Ways Big Pharma Peddles its Drugs | AlterNet

Big Pharma uses ads that sow hypochondria, raise health fears and sell diseases to adults and their children....

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"Your Gut Has a Mind of Its Own... Literally" by Ross Pomeroy

Tummies talk to us. Whether it is from pangs of hunger or a sensation of satiety, our guts like to keep in contact. For the longest time, I considered this "communication" to be no more than intelligible mumbling. But a somewhat recent discovery has got me thinking about those burps, bubbles, and gurgles in a whole new light. Because, as it turns out, your gut has a mind of its own......

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Mitt Romney's Test of Moral Fiber

I was surprised when Mitt Romney's son, Matt,resuscitated the "birther" issue in New Hampshire on December 29. Speaking at a campaign event, the young Romney deflected a question about his father's refusal to release his income tax return by citing a proposal that President Barack Obama should first release his own birth certificate. Mr. Romney, who has since retracted his statement, apparently did not realize that, at White House urging, the state of Hawaii released the president's long form birth certificate on April 25, 2011.......

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Chemtrails VS. Contrails / You Tube/Discovery Channel

"What Will Love Give You?" Dr. Margaret Paul

Did you grow up believing that if only someone REALLY loved you in the way you needed to be loved, then you would feel happy, safe, lovable and worthy?

Certainly being truly loved by parents goes a long way toward supporting children in feeling safe and lovable, but it is not the whole story. Even if your parents did love you the way you needed to be loved, if they didn’t role-model loving themselves, then it is likely you absorbed their forms of self-abandonment – judging themselves, turning to various addictions to manage their feelings, and making others responsible for their feelings and sense of worth....

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Chemtrails Validated by History Channel Video

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5 Things You Should Know About the FBI's Massive New Biometric Database | Civil Liberties | AlterNet

Civil libertarians worry about the roll-out of Next Generation Identification, a massive expansion of the agency's current biometric database.

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Why You May Be Drinking Soda That Contains a Dangerous Flame Retardant Banned in Europe and Japan / AlterNet

Some soda drinkers may be getting a dose of a synthetic chemical called brominated vegetable oil, or BVO.

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"The Making of the 99%"| The Nation

“Class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs.” —E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class   The “other men” (and of course women) in the current American class alignment are those in the top 1 percent of the wealth distribution—the bankers, hedge-fund managers and CEOs targeted by the Occupy Wall Street movement. They have been around for a long time in one form or another, but they began to emerge as a distinct and visible group, informally called the “superrich,” only in recent years.

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Post-Menopause Sex Is Great in So Many Ways | Womens eNews

By Marie Cameron

WeNews commentator

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Sex after menopause brings more than pleasure. It lowers blood pressure, boosts immunity and reduces pain, according to a mass of evidence that has been piling up in recent years.

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Intimacy Intensifies in Women's 'Second Adulthood' | Womens eNews

By Suzanne Braun Levine

WeNews guest author

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Despite conventional wisdom dictating that intimacy ends at midlife for women, Suzanne Braun Levine says this is untrue in her new book "How We Love Now." In this except, she describes how love actually changes and deepens.

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How Doctors Choose to Die – The Sweet Pursuit – Utne Reader

Doctors have the very best medical care at their fingertips. They read journals that publish the latest medical findings; they know the most up-to-date treatments for various ailments and diseases; they might even play golf with a top surgeon or two. And yet, when faced with death, many physicians forgo intensive medical treatment..........

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WINDS OF CHANGE for Republicans, Independents, and Democrats ~ Warren Buffet

This morning I received an email being passed around, from Warren Buffet, written in October.  After verifying it through Snopes.com, and discerning that it was refreshing (especially when written by the 1%!), I decided to post it.  It is, as follows:

Winds of Change....

   Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
 
  In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
 

   Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1. No Tenure / No Pension.
  A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.                     

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congressmen/women made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
 
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Don't you think it's time? 

  THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!
  

"7 Reasons America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity" ~ Bruce Levine

Drug industry corruption, scientifically unreliable diagnoses and pseudoscientific research have compromised the values of the psychiatric profession.

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