Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

The Russian architect agency Alice.ru plans to build an underground ecological city in an abandoned mine in Siberia. Underground cities might be the cities of the future especially in colder areas. They are much easier to heat and can potentially be heated by the warmth of the earth itself.

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But there are some huge obstacles to the idea. One is the immense effort of the digging and support of the city. Another is water management. A third one is earthquakes, which are even far more dangerous to underground cities than to normal cities. No one wants to be squeezed between two earth platters.

Then there is the problem of fresh air, and the problem of lack of sunlight and thus lack of Vitamin D. To live ones life only in artificial light is not healthy. There’s a challenge: could it be somehow possible to invent a light source that is not artificial but completely mimics the qualities of real sunlight?

I am doubtful about the entire news item now, since I was unable to trace any architecture agency in Russia named ‘Alice’. So it probably a hogwash story. Nice stuff to think about though and nice imagery, wherever it came from!

Or could the Russians really plan to go underground, perhaps as a counter-move to the illustrious ‘rocket shield plan’ of the US which got even more ridiculous by now because they now claim to only install short and middle range rockets – check the fly-path of a missile from Iran to Europe and see if it somehow crosses Poland…

It sounds unlikely, but then again this city is one of the most unlikely places on earth anyway: there’s an official butterfly plague going on in Istanbul. Yesterday I saw to my amazement that there were hundreds if not thousands of butterflies flying through the neighbourhood where I live. My wife told me it was all over the turkish news too. There’s a butterfly plague. I have never even heard of the possibility. What could have caused it?

It must have been that some natural enemy of the butterfly has been wiped out in some ecological disaster. Or could there be another explanation? Who are the natural enemies of butterflies anyway? Wasps perhaps. Haven’t seen a wasp in ages! And wasps are known to feed on butterfly larvae. But as butterflies also do pollination, they might be the solution for a lack of pollination due to bee or wasp starvation which is a huger ecological problem than most other ones. Once plants and flowers cant pollinate any more they are finished and you can say goodbye to crops, fruits and vegetables.

Meanwhile, I cant say this is the worst plague I have witnessed so far. The sight of hundreds of butterflies surrounding my house is a spectacular sight. My stomach feels differently, luckily, for falling in love must be one of the worst things that could happen to a writer. Or to anyone else, really. A writer should be jaded like the butterfly – spreading the golden dust of youth to intoxicate others but hardly touching it himself.

Eduardo Gold is a Peruvian ‘inventor’ that won no less than 200.000 dollars for a local project he had invented from a Worldbank Finance project for young innovations. The project? Eduardo is going to paint the entire Andes mountaintops white.

If you didn’t fall out of your chair yet, let me help you somewhat. The idea is that ‘by painting the entire mountaintops white’ the glaciers and snow ‘will melt less quickly’ which as we all supposedly know they do really fast now because of Global warming.

Can you picture the bureaucrats at the Worldbank gloating over this brilliant idea? Lets give this guy a lot of money to save the Glaciers! Never mind that you actually cant paint under a thick layer of snow, its the idea that counts! Never mind that paint is highly toxic, never mind that you are destroying the entire ecosystem on these mountains, we have found the solution to the melting glaciers problem! Just paint it! He’s a genius and so are we at the World bank!

Those poor Peruvians will lose their tourist industry, their local ecosystems and their wonderful view because some idiot gets a lot of money form the World bank to pollute the environment. Why? Well maybe the glaciers will melt a day later. An applause please for these brilliant minds, after bio-diesel they found another way to fuck up our environment with incompetent, absurd and highly spurious and costly measures.

Please, please, please get some competent people in control. People that actually have some knowledge about science and the environment. People who can think for more than 3 seconds in a row. People who do not love to waste everyone’s money with totally idiotic ideas.

So I decided that, since these people love to waste money, I’d just as well send them a mail with my own brilliant proposition. If they ever reply, I’ll let you know. Here’s the mail I have send:

Dear Worldbank,

Mr Platinum aka Martijn Benders
www. loewak.nl

Let me, as an original Dutchy, speak a few words about what it really means to me to be Dutch. I means besides having been born in a country you could only point out on a map if you squint your eyes, and where the houses when you visit look like carboard boxes and you are just not sure if the plane didn’t land in Madurodam.

Okay, we do play some nice soccer. I dont know how its even possible that we always end up amongst the final eight countries in the world. Maybe its the milk or the cheese, who knows. But of course as a dutchman I am proud of our boys and I think there must be something about the ‘dutch way’ that actually works.

But there is another side to Holland. A side foreigners know little about, a side so ridiculous a sane person can do nothing else but conclude its sheer manifested evil. It’s the insane overplanned bureacracy of the Dutch I am talking about.

Yesterday on the news: The National Heatplan was now in effect. The National WHAT? Is there an emergency? What’s going on? I read the article. There’s actually a government agency that made a NATIONAL HEATPLAN that comes in effect, dig this, ‘when its over 27 degrees Celsius for more than 4 days’.

Over 27 degrees Celcius? 80 degrees Fahrenheit and a Government Agency starts up an Emergency plan from tax payers money? Is this an episode of Monthy Python? Did we land in an episode of Groundhog day? No, this is the Netherlands, the country where even sexual intercourse would be taxed if they ever had any.

The institute that governs the National Heatplan is called ‘Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu’ meaning the ‘State institute for Public Health and Environment’. When the National Heatplan is executed this institute informs all the ‘GGD’ (Municipal Health Services) to start inform everyone about how to behave. And what information does this Municipal Health Service spread?

You should stay in the shadow. You should drink water. A cold shower could also help.

Serious! This is the advice they spread around using taxpayers money when the temperature rises above 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Can you even for a second imagine what it feels like to live in such a country, that according to a recent investigation has 10 ‘advisors’ and ‘consultants’ for every existant journalist? So for every person that asks questions, there are about 10 persons employed to think of possible answers in the Netherlands.

So you wonder why the Dutch are angry? I can tell you why. They are treated like little kids by a totally incompetent elite of mediocre people. And that seems a rather Global phenomenon, but in case of the Dutch its effects are, well, just a tid bit more absurd.

Admirers of bureaucratic inanities can download the National Heatplan here

What is wrong with a psychiatric industry that is financed by drug companies? Well isn’t that very obvious: they will try and try to classify more and more mental conditions as ‘diseases’ simply because their financers want them to do so. Nowadays children can’t behave like children anymore or they are ‘hyperactive’ or diagnosed as ‘ADHD’ and pumped full of drugs of which no one knows what the long term consequences of their use are.

At the same time, digg this, there was a recent research into which jobs have the highest suicide rates. Guess what? Yes, doctors and Psychiatrists rank amongst the highest, the most number of suicides take place in that job catagory.

Ask yourself this: why do these rather suicidally depressed people want to drug everyone? Because that’s basically what the new ‘Psychiatric Manual’ named ‘the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

“With DSM-V, American psychiatry is headed in exactly the opposite direction: defining ever-widening circles of the population as mentally ill with vague and undifferentiated diagnoses and treating them with powerful drugs,” Professor Shorter of the University of Toronto writes in the Wall Street Journal.

New diseases in the thick manual include the ‘Psychosis Risk Syndrome’ which is a particular type of ‘disease’ that can be streched to encompass half the world population. Twitch your eye? Behave a little weird? Have a stutter? Well, those might be signs of you having PSR which basically means you have the potential to become psychotic and, according to the manual, must be treated with drugs.

Symptoms of “psychosis risk syndrome” include vague descriptors as “disorganized speech.”

“Minor neurocognitive disorder” describes a reduction in cognitive function over time, such as that normally experienced by people over the age of 50, while “temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria” refers to children who suffer from outbursts of temper.

The psychiatric industry has become a drugdealer culture. All these drugs do not just effect the people that take them but dissapear and mix with the environment. So ALL OF US are effected by these billions of tuns of chemical drugs that are pumped into the various water systems.

You cannot solve a problem with drugs. Psychiatric problems are PROBLEMS, not ‘chemical inbalances’, the people who want you to believe they are physical necessities are idiots. A chemical markup is an endresult, not a cause. Anyone can simply change the chemical balance in their body. Dont believe me? Sport all day and laugh at and greet everyone you see. At the end of the day the chemical balance of your body will be completely different. To put the chemical balance as the cause rather than the effect of a problem is only good for one thing: druglords.

So we have a bunch of drug companies, a bunch of depressed suicidal doctors, a manual and an entire population of ‘chemically inbalanced people’. Is that the result of the last 100 years of psychiatric ‘research’?
Aren’t these people ashamed of themselves?

A poll of 1,000 pregnant women for the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists found that many pregnant women often wear high heels or stilleto type shoes nowadays. And since 7 out of 10 pregnant women complain about swollen ankles, swollen feet and arch and heel pain there seems a significant link between both.

The same survey also suggests half of those polled actually feel pressure to keep looking like the celebrities while pregnant.

It’s hard to think of a more silly line of logic. Here we have women who are potentially ruining their entire feet by putting heavy weight on its muscle and bone structure in the vain hope they still look like some celebrity while being pregnant.

What kind of person wants to look like a celebrity anyway? Especially when one is pregnant. This should be called the ‘silly ego syndrome’. In my opinion all current psychological and psychiatrical diseases should be scrapped out of the shrinks handbooks, all pills destroyed, because all these people suffer from one disease only: the silly ego syndrome.

The silly ego syndrome

What is the silly ego syndrome, you ask Dr Benders? Well wanting to risk your childs health (because you could fall and injure yourself and the baby) just because you think someone else might be tricked into thinking you are a celebrity (don’t these people get it – being cool is not about being worried what others think!) certainly classifies as having a very silly ego.

Everyone who has a silly ego has the silly ego syndrome.

Ok, so how do i know if I have the silly ego syndrome?

You probably do, I know very few sane people.

Right so how can we actually cure the silly ego syndrome?

I have seen no one that got cured of this horrible disease yet. In fact it has just been discovered, today, by me through sheer mental observation. I just might compose a special CD people can listen to with music specially devoted to cure the silly ego syndrome, but I’m afraid Phil Collins and Bono already did so abundantly.

So what advice do you have to offer Dr Benders?

Get real.