FORCED RELIGIOUS PRACTICE IS CHILD ABUSE

I just had a very deep and philosophical discussion with a dear friend close to the centre of the current 'terrorism' related actions. No classified information was exchanged, merely a desperate desire to find a solution.

The only real solution is that a child's religion should be a free choice, something that should not be forced upon them by a family or community.

Religion needs to be like voting, buying tobacco and alcohol, taking out bank loans, driving a car etc etc etc

You MUST be of an age where your decision to follow a particular faith or religion is a decision you make as a FULLY INFORMED adult.

Our religious/faith options should be the subject of education of all the choices available to human beings, including the option of having none at all.

How can something so powerful, so polarising, so controversial be thrust upon a child at birth? It is child abuse to condition a young child into a particular doctrine or faith without first equipping that child will the full knowledge of all the options available to them, and then allowing them to take a fully informed decision as an adult to follow a particular religion or to abstain from religious practice altogether.

We pour so much of societies resources into education and career planning and pathways for VET etc because we value earning an income over the value placed on the faith we choose as a free thinking fully informed adult. Surely our soul/heart/values are worth more consideration and education than how we ultimately chose to derive an income.

Isn't our moral compass the most important adult decision we ever take? This should be a decision a human being takes as an adult and a fully informed adult.

ENDOMETRIOSIS - IT'S A KILLER - SERIOUSLY

Petition for Women suffering Endometriosis in Australian & New Zealand to be able to access Vissane

I suffered from Endometriosis from the beginning of puberty until I was 45 years old.

When I was 45 I had my 9th and final surgery for this disease. By the time I was 45 the Edometriosis had reached a critical stage, literally a life and death stage. The endometrial tissue had spread to almost every part of my body.

The endometrial tissue continues to have the same cycle it would have had it remained as the lining of your uterus. However unlike the tissue that remains in your uterus, this tissue that finds it's way inside of your body has no exit when a women has her 'period' or for those of you who like for more formal turn of phrase, when a woman menstruates. This tissue merely releases more tissue into your body, it can't escape, it often cause infections which create horrific scar tissue, also known as adhesion's.

In my case, and many other women's cases, this scar tissue goes on to attach itself to your bowel, your bladder, other organs in your abdomen. By the time they were able to operate on me I had eight endometriomas (literally balls of endometrial tissue and scar tissue) these were each the size of Grapefruits. My left Fallopian tube was the size of a Chipolata Sausage and my bladder was literally bound by the adhesion's as were most parts of my bowel.

Even my female friends would write off Endometriosis as a 'Women's time of the month thing', only those female friends who didn't suffer from Endometriosis themselves.

Many people are unaware of the extreme risk of ovarian cancer for sufferers of Endometriosis.

Most people are aware of the fertility issues faced by Endometriosis, in fact it often renders many women completely infertile. In this regards I was damned lucky! I managed two natural pregnancies, albeit both utter suprises to me given the state of my Endometriosis was thought to be highly improbable.

The quality of life for a woman suffering Endometriosis without an effective treatment is massively decreased.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sign this petition and share it with your friends and networks.

Also, if you don't know about Endometriosis or you don't fully understand this horrific and deadly disease, just take some time to google it, you'll quickly develop and appreciation of the dangers of this disease and the desperate need for a cure/treatment.

DO NOT BUY INTO THE ANTI-MUSLIM RHETORIC THE ABBOTT GOVERNMENT IS DELIBERATELY MANUFACTURING

I am in tears this morning for all my Muslim friends and family.

I'm terrified for them while this government feeds utter bullshit into the media and the community whipping up a fire storm of anti-Muslim sentiment. This anti-Muslim mob mentality is terrifying me.

BEFORE YOU JUMP on the Anti-Muslim bandwagon and start buying into this bullshit - STOP AND ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION - If our government can create this fear of innocent Muslim's, then what else and who else can it target in a similar manner?

PLEASE BE OBJECTIVE.

Terrorists are MERELY CRIMINALS, our Nation is filled with Organised Crime Groups, yet none of these horrific, violent, ruthless crime groups have us targetting human beings based on their religious beliefs.

And for those who keep the war cry of 'if you come to our country live the way we live' ... check your FACTS:

1. Firstly the British stole this land from the many Aboriginal nations that were the lawful owners/occupiers.

2. Go to the lists of those who arrived on the First Fleet and CHECK THEIR RELIGIONS ... you'll find lots of Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Pagans, Agnostics, Atheists and an assortment of various incarnations of the so called Christian religions, the religions responsible for for the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades and the IRA, just to name a few.

PLEASE USE RATIONAL THOUGHT AND FACTS - NOT MOB MENTALITY THAT IS BEING MANIPULATED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

DO NO START DOWN THE ANTI-MUSLIM PATH - Educate yourselves with the true facts..

The whole mob mentality they are whipping up will PREVENT THEM GETTING THE INTELLIGENCE THEY DESPERATELY NEED to stop any actions of the criminals (terrorists). In this regard the Australian Muslim community are the BEST SOURCE of Intelligence, and yet we are making them terrified to come forward with the information we desperately need to protect the whole community, Muslim, Christian, Jewish etc etc. 


Sadly I saw this happen FIRST HAND when the AFP Arrested Dr Mohamed Haneef. The Mosque Congregation from the Gold Coast had all the evidence the AFP needed to have the FULL STORY on Dr Haneef, but they were TOO FRIGHTENED OF THE AFP TO BRING THAT INFORMATION TO THEM. It was only that one of the mosque congregation actually worked for me and knew I was ex-AFP that she was nominated to ask my advice by the Elders (Men) of the Congregation. 

They didn't know who to take the intelligence to, they were terrified to speak up, literally, they thought they would be locked up by the AFP just for knowing anything at all. 

This is how I met Stephen Keim, by passing the evidence/intelligence to him on their behalf, safely. 

What is our country coming to when whipping up fear of a sector of the Australian Community is deemed a more rational approach to crime prevention than the correct approach, which is identifying the individuals ACTUALLY committing the offences then safely cultivating the very informants we need to protect our country? 

Not to mention that every ignorant Australian will now be flooding the intelligence agencies with reports of irrelevant information, that these agencies will be forced to wade through regardless of its' relevance.

This approach by the Australian Government and it's Security Intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies is not only counterproductive by directly contributes to the threat we face because they are effectively silencing those who can help us but terrifying them.

Australian Governments Failure to Fund Dept of Immigration Investigations Leads to Increased Extremist Activity

RAISING THE TERROR THREAT TO AUSTRALIA - ABBOTT GOVERNMENT DISTORTING THE FACTS TO SUIT THEIR AGENDA!

Raising of Terror Threat to Australia & full disclosure required methinks


I guess the slanting of news or at least the 'increase in threat' levels is convenient now the Federal Government is seeking to justify military actions in relation to both the Syrian and the Iraqi situations.


HOWEVER an explanation of the 'imported threat levels' that accompany many countries attending high profile major international events should also be declared as significant factors that influence threat levels in Australia, in particular the upcoming G20 meeting in Brisbane!

Let's not supply the real story that will explain in a 'terror free' manner the true causes for the likely upgraded Aussie Threat Levels ....


MAN OH MAN OH MAN ....

surely Australian citizens deserve transparency in regards to these threat assessment process, at least where the information is PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AND BROADCAST WIDELY by the very Government who supports these threat assessment processes and level allocations!!!!!


G2O EVENT SCHEDULE

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT CONTINUING TO FAIL IN ITS DUTY OF CARE TO OUR YOUNG DIGGERS

The Australian Government has much to answer for when a brave Young Digger is less afraid to sleep 'outside the wire' in the dangerous reaches of Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan, than he is in his own Nation.

Even if you view the treatment and actions of the Australian Government, and by proxy the ADF, from a completely economical rationalist view, we permit them to literally spend millions of dollars training, arming, kitting out, housing, paying and deploying each individual Young Digger.

Each one of our amazing young people, we colloquially refer to as 'Young Diggers' represents a MASSIVE FINANCIAL investment by Australian tax payers. Yet to the Australian Government, and by proxy the ADF, these assets are merely disposable inanimate objects, literally cannon fodder for the ADF bosses. Also remember these young men and women are human beings who are integral parts of their own families, who are valued and loved beyond anything that can be equated in financial terms.

Everyone of us should be DEMANDING URGENTLY that our Young Diggers are protected, cared for and honoured as the valuable human beings they are, and that this protection, care and honour MUST commence immediately.

My heart goes out to the hundreds and thousands of Young Diggers whose lives were lost in Wars over the history of the ADF, my heart also goes out to the families who suffered the tragic loss of their valued, loved and irreplaceable, sons & daughters who've taken their on lives as a result of the Australian Governments complete failure in their Duty of Care to these much loved Young Diggers.

The sad, sad state of our modern day society!

Had the most odd, yet sad, experience yesterday during Mend & Make Do Workshop.

I went outside to have a cuppa and a cigarette (yes I'm an addict again as of last October).

There was a chap waiting at the bus stop for his bus. So I struck up a conversation with him. Lovely fellow. We chatted about the weather, how lucky we were to live in such an amazing little community spirited town i.e. South Grafton.

After a while he looked quizzically at me and said 'are you a religious person?'. Not in a manner to strike a conversation down this path, but in a manner that left me in no doubt he meant ... 'why would you want to have a conversation with me?'. He was visibly startled when I responded with 'f*ck no, I'm here running a Mend & Make Do Workshop, you're welcome to join us any Thursday even if it's just for a free cuppa, and I'll even make it for you!'.

No prizes for guessing that this beautiful human being was a member of our First Nations community here in South Grafton  how sad it is to think we've become a society where friendliness and genuine interest in others is viewed as having an ulterior motive!

Australian Governments: focus on the Human Rights Abuse you inflict inside OUR country FIRST.

Hmmmm... so the privileged 'white fulla's' of Australia are preening themselves and patting themselves on the back for their intervention in human rights abuses outside our borders, and yet not attending to their own human rights abuses in our country!!! NOT GOOD ENOUGH Aussie Governments! Nowhere near good enough! What's that saying 'people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?'

http://thestringer.com.au/australias-aboriginal-children-the-worlds-highest-suicide-rate-926#.VAYyIcWSzd0