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SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - Stress is Not the Best so Give it a Rest!


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Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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It seems everyone these days is experiencing some level of stress, with most of us having what we'd probably classify as too much stress. But despite the common goal of a stress-free existence, a certain level of periodic stress is actually necessary for the organism to function properly.

Anything can be a stress on the body, whether it's work, relationships, toxic exposure, injury or even poor eating habits or lack of sleep. But much of the negative effects of stress have more to do with how we experience and react to these stressors. Why is it that some people seem to thrive in highly stressful environments, while others seem to be crushed by relatively minor stressors?

How is it that stress gets under our skin? What affect does it have on our brains and bodies? How can we help to mitigate our stress?

Join us on this episode of Objective:Health as we talk about the biology of stress and what you can do about it. And stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment as she explores the phenomenon of dogs knowing when their owners are coming home.


Links to check out:
Bruce McEwan - When is stress good for you?
Elliot Overton - If You've Got "Adrenal Fatigue", There's Likely Nothing Wrong with Your Adrenals

For other health-related news and more, you can find us on:
♥Twitter: https://twitter.com/objecthealth
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♥And you can check out all of our previous shows (pre YouTube) here.

Running Time: 01:22:17

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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: How Universities Are Destroying Young Minds With Pathological Thinking

Harrison Koehli, Corey Schink, Elan Martin
Sott.net
Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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How has it come to be that our universities, societal norms and cultural values have taken a sharp turn down the road of instilling stupidity - instead of intelligence? When we see that the most tried and true (and ancient) approaches to the use of mind and emotions are being relegated to the dung heap, when we notice that many of the most advanced ideas put forth from cognitive behavioral therapy are being ignored - and indeed, inverted - what are we to make of this? On this week's MindMatters we look at these questions and make use of Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt's recent book The Coddling of the American Mind.


Running Time: 01:28:31

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SOTT Focus: 'Call for Justice' - Investigative Report on Gaping Holes in The Official Story of MH17


Bonanza Media
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:27 UTC
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Five years on from the MH17 terror attack, an investigative team from Bonanza Media has published the following half-hour video report comprising footage from exclusive interviews they've conducted in the intervening years with - among others - one of the suspects in the downing of MH17, the Malaysian prime minister and a Malaysian colonel who recovered black boxes from the crash site.

Their report includes testimony from eyewitnesses, evidence from experts, and footage of large sections of the downed plane still lying around in eastern Ukraine, leaving viewers with no doubt that the official JIT investigation is incomplete at best, corrupt at worst...

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SOTT Focus: The 'Squad' Earns Another Nickname: 'Four Horsewomen of The Apocalypse'

David Badash
AlterNet
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:58 UTC
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© Gage SkidmorePresident Donald Trump

Comment: Rather than present "just the facts, ma'am", we bring you this news item - a new Trump tweet - as reported by a left-wing political activist 'news' site, i.e. AlterNet. Be warned - you're about to encounter numerous examples of labeling, dichotomous thinking, mind-reading, and negative filtering.


President Donald Trump is not letting go of his latest obsession: the four progressive Democratic freshmen Congresswomen who are also women of color.


Comment: Oy. Nothing like starting out with a bang. More accurately, Omar, Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley are obsessed with Trump. Just check their twitter feeds. Not only that, these upstart freshmen (women?) are leading an open rebellion against their own Speaker of the House, claiming that Pelosi is also a racist. Generally, that's political suicide, but this lot doesn't seem to care. The next election may bring a dose of reality.


In an early Wednesday morning rant Trump quoted Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy, a chameleon who likes to appear as a moderate on MSNBC, then take off his mask and reveal himself as strongly conservative.


Comment: "Strongly conservative" = anywhere to the right of Karl Marx.


Comment: So much wrong in so few paragraphs. Mr. Badash is very free in his accusations of white supremacy. But then, you can be very free with such accusations when you don't feel the need to provide any kind of substantiation to support them. That's far-left journalism in a nutshell.

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SOTT Focus: Did Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Work For Mossad?

Philip Giraldi
The American Herald
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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The extent of Israeli spying directed against the United States is a huge story that is only rarely addressed in the mainstream media. The Jewish state regularly tops the list for ostensibly friendly countries that aggressively conduct espionage against the U.S. and Jewish American Jonathan Pollard, who was imprisoned in 1987 for spying for Israel, is now regarded as the most damaging spy in the history of the United States.

Hollywood Producer & Israeli Spy Arnon Milchan

Last week I wrote about how Israeli spies operating more-or-less freely in the U.S. are rarely interfered with, much less arrested and prosecuted, because there is an unwillingness on the part of upper echelons of government to do so.

I cited the case of Arnon Milchan, a billionaire Hollywood movie producer who had a secret life that included stealing restricted technology in the United States to enable development of Israel's nuclear weapons program, something that was very much against U.S. interests. Milchan was involved in a number of other thefts as well as arms sales on behalf of the Jewish state, so much so that his work as a movie producer was actually reported to be less lucrative than his work as a spy and black-market arms merchant, for which he operated on a commission basis.

Arnon Milchan flanked by Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg at the 2016 Oscars
Arnon Milchan flanked by Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg at the 2016 Oscars
That Milchan has never been arrested by the United States government or even questioned about his illegal activity, which was well known to the authorities, is just one more manifestation of the effectiveness of Jewish power in Washington.

Comment: See also:

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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Words As Weapons: The Postmodern Political Strategy

Corey Schink, Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin
Sott.net
Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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Groucho Marx defined politics as "The art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." One could hardly come up with a better definition of postmodern politics. On today's show we discuss the psychological roots of this postmodern mayhem, which is manifesting in radical racial/gender politics in classrooms and universities, Antifa mobs on the streets, and mass censorship in Silicon Valley.


Running Time: 01:06:46

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SOTT Focus: La-La-Land: US Media Cites Fake News Disinfo Site to Prove 'Russia' Behind 'Theory' Clinton Hitmen Killed Seth Rich


RT
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:12 UTC
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Top: the actual Yahoo! News graphics and title for their 'World Exclusive'. Below, the HuffPo variant.
The man who first reported on the discredited Steele dossier has a brand new conspiracy theory about Russia. The idea that DNC staffer Seth Rich was killed on the order of Hillary Clinton was invented by - guess who?

Yahoo News Chief Investigator Michael Isikoff, who is also the co-author of hit Russiagate book 'Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,' has a new example of how the nefarious Russians supposedly subverted democracy in the US. According to him, it was Russian intelligence that started a conspiracy theory about the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich on July 10, 2016 during an apparent botched robbery.

The supposed Russian disinformation showed up three days after Rich's death on a website called WhatDoesItMean.com. Befitting of the site's '90s design, it is, well, a badly written thriller fiction about Rich trying to expose the corruption of the Clinton campaign to the FBI, and instead being ambushed by her hit team. It is complete with a gun battle "just blocks from the White House" - all based on a 'report' by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).


Comment: We've long known that whatdoesitmean.com is a loopy disinfo site - probably run by US and/or affiliated intelligence - to derail people, but could never have imagined mainstream US journalists actually citing it - nay, basing a theory on it and splashing it across front pages!

And this goes without saying to most readers, but Hannity wasn't 'peddling' anything; he was outlining a realistic scenario, that US spooks - at the behest or otherwise of the Clinton crime syndicate - offed Rich in vengeance for mortally wounding her election chances. So Hannity was indeed 'forced to retract the story', if he wanted to live...

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SOTT Focus: Objective:Health: #22 - ‌Poisoned Agriculture, Poisoned World


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Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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The 'Green Revolution' marked a turning point in the progress of our civilization. While it was, and still is, hailed as a triumph of technology, utilizing chemistry to revive over-farmed soils and increase crop yields worldwide, it took us down a path that has lead us to where we are now. There are 34,000 pesticides currently registered for use in the US by the EPA and modern agriculture has become completely reliant on their use.

This increasing reliance on technology, and the movement away from nature, has cost us dearly. Our soils have been poisoned, our air is toxic and the entire planetary ecosystem suffers from mass death and destruction, while our foods become increasingly depleted of nutrition. It's an entirely unsustainable practice, yet with the introduction of GMOs, there is no sign of it letting up. We're on a runaway train that is heading for an inevitable crash.

But not all hope is lost. Recent movements towards sustainable and regenerative agriculture, that work within the rhythms of nature to benefit both the environment and ourselves, are gaining momentum. Many groups are achieving impressive results with farming methods that build rather than destroy.

Will the Big Ag monocroppers continue their path of destruction toward inevitable planetary collapse, or will the growing movement be able to convince the world we need to change? Join us on this episode of Objective:Health for a lively discussion on the future of agriculture and our planet.


Running Time: 01:06:06

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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: "Everybody Knows That!" - Mass Beliefs and the Ideas That Shape Them

Harrison Koehli and Carolyn MC
Sott.net
Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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If you're human, then chances are you believe something that "everybody knows" to be true. And if you're a thinking human, then chances are you know that such beliefs can turn out to be not so true after all. Everybody knew saturated fat is bad for you, after all. But now they don't and the opposite is true. Fancy that! Whether it's beliefs, emotions, or behaviors, social contagion is a real thing, and it's the shared nature of these phenomena that hold communities together in one relatively cohesive whole. Good, bad, or ugly, we all have to deal with trends, fads, memes, and world views.

But every mass belief has to start somewhere. How do we account for the source of new ideas? If two or more people come up with the same new idea at the same time, with no knowledge of each other, how do we account for that? Coincidence? Or something more? On a more general level, where do ideas even come from? What is creativity? How to trends propagate? And what is it that gives them their stubborn power to resist change?

Tune in today to MindMatters, where we tackle the age-old conflict between stability and change, repetition and novelty, order and chaos - and the mass beliefs that hold them all together.


Running Time: 00:55:34

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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - June 2019: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


Sott.net
Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:45 UTC
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All over the world last month massive and sudden deluges swept away land, homes and people. Although it's the start of 'summer' in the Northern hemisphere, the Lake Baikal region in Siberia saw its worst flooding in living memory, flooding occurred in the deserts of Yemen, Libya, New Mexico and Mongolia, while cities from southern Mexico to southern Italy were hit with massive quantities of hail.

The manifestation of back-to-back extremes, in both space and time, is the defining characteristic of this 'age of transition' we have entered. The first half of June brought wet and wild with weather to Europe, with violent storms inundating the region with rain, cold and hail... but in the second half of the month an extreme heatwave struck, causing all-time record high temperatures in France and raging wildfires in Spain.

Strong earthquakes in China, Japan and Indonesia were accompanied by major volcanic eruptions along the Ring of Fire. The massive quantities of ash and dust they pump into the atmosphere, likely significant factors driving climate change, along with the 'meteor smoke' from trails of meteor fireballs, were 'reflected' last month by the major outbreak of 'night-shining' clouds at unprecedentedly low latitudes.

All that, and more, in this month's SOTT Earth Changes Summary...

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