author.liv.adams

Romantic Suspense Author, Coffee Connoisseur, Lover of Inappropriate Humour.

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[The Scarlet Nurse (Retired) @NarelleMacPher1]

@belungerer @SusanLouiseCar1 @MFWitches @SkillenAlex I’m sick of hearing not all men. The most dangerous thing to women is men! Be wary of them until proven otherwise is what the stats are telling us!

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@therealSIR3 Merry Christmas 🎄

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Yesterday was both just another day and a million years for the Australian media. Because in just 24 hours, we all discovered:

- Rupert Murdoch paid Bruce Lehrmann to make Bruce’s defamation claim against them go away;

- Murdoch then punished Lehrmann by releasing a damning video once it became clear Bruce wouldn’t protect them further;

- Murdoch then sent a senior barrister to the defamation court to ensure the terms of their settlement with Lehrmann didn’t become public;

- Kerry Stokes/Channel 7 paid Lehrmann’s rent for a year to the tune of around $130,000, in order to try to claim Lehrmann “wasn’t paid” for his Spotlight interview;

- Channel 7 appear to have lied in their Walkley application, by also claiming Lehrmann “wasn’t paid” for his interview (even though the application process clearly states any “benefit” paid to an interviewee must be declared, not just cash payments);

- Kerry Stokes appears to now be responsible for virtually the full cost of Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation case, which is estimated to run into tens of millions of dollars;

- The ABC is currently protecting both Murdoch and Stokes by largely suppressing information on all the above issues, for reasons they won’t reveal but which obviously include the protection of their mates and colleagues; and

- If the credibility of the Australian media wasn’t completely destroyed before now (along with the reputations of the owners of its biggest players) it would be now … except that because these same people completely control what most people know about them and because our politicians and public institutions appear unable or unwilling to control them, nothing will fucking change.

There’s more, but so much went on it’s hard to summarise it all. It’s fucking depressing, isn’t it?

The ONLY silver lining is that dozens of people have contacted us overnight wanting to do something about all these disgraceful facts. And you can.

Contact Channel 7’s advertisers to ask them if they’re happy to fund the defamation actions of a credibly accused rapist, and his luxury harbour accommodation.

Just go to https://t.co/igA7ByRwpQ, then the #ToYourBrooms page and advertiser lists, then the #SevenSucks tab. There you’ll find all the Channel 7 advertisers who are currently on our lists (most are from the Spotlight TV show).

Get going.

This matters.

And fuck them all.

How dare they all continue to protect, support, prop up and assist this disgusting, predatory, misogynist and deceptive excuse for a human being. How fucking DARE they.

#ToYourBrooms

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@Frwolf33 @LqLana Don't give them ideas.

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@misplacedcomma2 Yep. Don't mess with my mug. 🤣

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Robert De Niro’s full statement on Trump. Please read and let me know your thoughts:

I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong.  Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world. We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.
The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.
So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House.  They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it.  Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity.  Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world.  Safety for our families.  Decency.  Let’s welcome them back.  We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

[Aleksandra Huk @HukAleksandra]

I rang my bank & preordered £25,000 cash for the following day with a time slot

Went to the bank and said to the cashier I’m here to collect my money

The cashier says: that’s a lot of money what do you need it for?

I said it’s all relative and that I’m purchasing a car

He proceeds to repeatedly ask: what kind of car? Did anybody make you withdraw this money? Have you seen the car? Why in cash? Have you seen the advert?

Afterwards he knocked on his manager’s window and said he is not comfortable giving me the money, he’d rather someone sat down with me. So he asked me to take a seat and wait

I sat there and nobody approached me for a while

Eventually I went back to the desk and
in the end the manager told him to hand over my money

The whole ordeal took place in front of all the other customers (who were in disbelief) and took over an hour until they eventually handed over MY money which I PREORDERED

They make you feel criminal for withdrawing your own money

BANKS SUCK

[Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley]

NBC Runs Hit-Piece on Women for Sharing Facts from a Peer-Reviewed Study on Birth Control
There is no question about it: hormonal birth control increases the risk of depression, suicidal ideations, and suicide for women. But NBC is labeling me and other women who speak about birth control pill research “alarmists.” Why? Because telling women the truth about the birth control pill threatens their “greater good” agenda.

For anybody who knows the history of birth control, this secrecy and deliberate concealment of the dangers of the pill have characterized the pill from its conception, no pun intended. One History Channel piece calls the birth control pill’s past “one intertwined with eugenics and colonialism,” and that’s no exaggeration. Puerto Rican women were given the pill en mass without being told they were participating in a trial and without any warning of the side effects. The deaths of the women during these trials were never investigated.

In fact, Margaret Sanger, who is responsible for the creation of the birth control pill, chose Puerto Rico specifically because of its overpopulation and poverty “issue”. Others such as Procter & Gamble heir and American eugenicist Clarence Gamble, had already been working on the sterilization of Puerto Rican women, “Ultimately, approximately one-third of Puerto Rican women were sterilized.”

Decades later, male birth control studies had to be discontinued when men experienced the same side effects as women. The side effects that millions of women are enduring every day were deemed “too intense” for men. Yet, much like the Puerto Rican women used as guinea pigs, millions of U.S. women are placed on birth control for decades with little to no education on the short and long-term side effects, including suicide. Not to mention many the ever-growing number of children being placed on the pill.

I was placed on the pill at just 14 years old for acne. A few months later, I saw my first-ever therapist despite no prior history of depression. Shortly after that, I was placed on an SSRI. In retrospect, after being on the birth control pill for nearly a decade, being placed on the pill for “acne” was akin to killing a mouse with a rocket launcher. Though my personal anecdote is a story for another time.

Other women are placed on birth control for conditions like cysts and endometriosis, which is a nonissue if those women feel like the trade-off is worth it. However, that trade-off is impossible to analyze without informed consent. That brings us back to this NBC article by Kat Tenbarge, who, on the surface, appears to be advocating for "women's rights" by protecting the sacred birth control pill.

So Kat, this is a message for you, and for the millions of other women duped into propping up a system that has led to the decline of women's unhappiness.

Many individuals, including myself, who have been outspoken about the risks of birth control, have been highlighting a 2018 Dutch study that emphasizes the increased risk of depression and suicide. NBC even consulted a doctor for their hit piece who couldn’t ignore the reality of the research, saying the 2018 Dutch study referenced on this was “really important and well-done.”
NBC then goes on to take the position that anybody speaking out against the effects of birth control is “weaponizing research.” The fact of the matter is, most women are NOT told about these risks when they get on the pill. Instead, most women are placed on hormonal birth control as teenagers or young adults for issues like acne, or painful periods, and they don’t get off for decades. You’re given the box, with a massive insert, which is basically IRL terms of service-- nobody is reading this:
NBC’s minister of health they consulted then suggests that the risk of suicide with hormonal birth control is moot because the suicide risk during pregnancy may be higher. She also suggests that merely acknowledging the side effects will "scare people out of using birth control":
The issue with this argument is that if it were the condition of pregnancy itself that leads to suicide, we would see those numbers relatively stable throughout the decades, even centuries. After all, women have been pregnant throughout all of history. Instead, we’re seeing a significant increase in suicidality among childbearing women in the U.S., nearly tripled compared to the decade prior.

“Maternal suicidality overall increased from 0.2 to 0.6% among people giving birth. That could translate to nearly 24,000 individuals among the estimated 4 million who give birth a year.” -- JAMA Psychiatry study

Both the rise in suicidality in pregnant women and the vitriol in this article against any warnings against birth control, highlight a harrowing question: Have we created a culture and society that is becoming increasingly hostile towards mothers and children? The angle this NBC expert went with seriously suggests such a sentiment, that the only thing worse than being suicidal on birth control, is being pregnant.

A doctor, a self-proclaimed health expert, believes that hiding the dark and deadly risks of birth control is a net good so that more women use hormonal birth control, and consequently, have less children. Derailing the conversation about the adverse side effects of hormonal birth control is inherently anti-woman and strips women of the prospect of informed consent, of the ability to truly weigh the costs and benefits of birth control versus acne, painful periods, ovulation tracking, alternative pregnancy prevention, or abstinence. Why is the burden of preventing pregnancy unduly placed on women? Are women too stupid to weigh these risks? Do they need to be shielded from education on the risks of birth control in order to prevent pregnancy? I personally have more faith in the intellectual and rational capacity of women than that.

I do believe that most women, whether they take the pill for a condition or as a contraceptive, are not educated, by design, on the mental health risks associated with the pill. I’m all for women choosing the birth control pill but I don’t believe it to be a fully autonomous choice unless women have completely informed consent.

I believe the birth control pill conversation needs to occur in tandem with the discussion of women’s overall well-being. Women’s subjective well‐being has fallen both absolutely and relatively to that of men. One Yale study states that “The ratio between these two estimates suggests that the relative decline in the subjective well‐being of U.S. women over the past 35 years is roughly comparable to the effects of an 8.5 percentage point rise in unemployment rates.”

Despite perceived “progress” for women, and celebrations over social and legal changes that give women more autonomy over marriage, children, birth control, and abortion, U.S. women are more unhappy than ever before. That same Yale study argues that men may have disproportionately benefited from this “progress” for women:

“Men may have been able to disproportionately benefit from these increased opportunities: Akerlof, Yellen, and Katz (1996) argue that sexual freedom offered by the birth control pill resulted in women being pressured into having sex outside of marriage and no bargaining power to force a shotgun marriage in the face of an unwanted pregnancy. The relative decline in women’s well‐being is ubiquitous, and holds for both working and stay‐at‐home mothers, for those married and divorced, for the old and the young, and across the education distribution…Did men garner a disproportionate share of the benefits of the women’s movement?”

Despite this coming from Yale, we never hear this discussion being had out in the open or by the Media.

Among women 25-34 years of age, suicide is the second leading cause of death and has been steadily increasing over the last two decades.

Maybe it’s time that we take a look at the culture we’ve created. Rather than hiding the risks of things like hormonal birth control, we should be totally transparent with the general public about what they’re putting in their bodies. We should reject emphatically the notion that we must be shielded from reality for the “greater good.” The best way to achieve "greater good," is not from the obfuscation of reality but with transparency and good-faith dialogue.

While many women are placed into the birth control pill mill during adolescence for reasons outside of pregnancy prevention, many stay on it once they become sexually active. It’s time to start discussing the impacts of the sexual revolution, on both men and women, and whether or not a culture of hormones and casual sex has been good for society.

Why are we not providing free ovulation tests to women? Why are we not focusing on better education for women to take control of their own bodies and cycles truly? Why are we not encouraging women to be completely and totally in tune with their femininity and natural functions? If what the Yale study suggests is accurate, that women feel more pressured to have premarital sex now, what you’re really telling women is that the risk of depression and suicide on the pill are far better outcomes than the side effects than telling a man “no.” And maybe that is the case, but regardless, that’s an important conversation and women are getting the short end of the stick here because even beginning that conversation leads to an onslaught of “slut shaming.”

I personally believe that for decades now, women have been sold a pipedream of what it means to be happy, to be empowered, and what it means to be a woman. We’re told that the only way we’re as valuable as men is by sacrificing ourselves and becoming them. I've been discussing the dangers of birth control for half a decade now for this reason. If birth control works for you, I’m glad. I hope the women who read this walk away with more curiosity than they started with at the very least. It's time for women to start questioning everything sold to us as “progress,” because whatever this progress is, has never made us more unhappy.

SOURCES:
NBC: Conservative influencers are pushing an anti-birth control message https://t.co/y1oaesWYHZ

2018 Dutch study: Association of Hormonal Contraception With Suicide Attempts and Suicides https://t.co/wxNleWC53f

The First Birth Control Pill Used Puerto Rican Women as Guinea Pigs https://t.co/2y54OTGWDd

JAMA Psychiatry study: Suicide risk during pregnancy, after childbirth on the rise https://t.co/QDCZFaE8mO

YALE: The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness https://t.co/GGKxc4ZFaU

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@JHartley2 @lporiginalg This isn't true. My daughters 7 & 9 know two. Their great-grandparents. In their 90's now and going strong. They are across the basics. Obviously still too young for in-depth details, but they understand the horrors.

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@YxNG_DxMB_GxTH @lporiginalg JFC. This is why history is doomed to repeat.

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@IntrovertProbss If my phone rings, it's not being answered. You need me? Text me. Who calls people these days? Nope. Not happening.

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@AuthorJFuller Always end up subtracting. I can be verbose at times, and when I go back, I'm like — I can say that in way fewer words. Plus, I'm constantly deleting the word THAT. omg

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@AutumnK2022 Don't review books I don't finish. Sometimes I read the first 20 pages, and I'm not in the mood for it, doesn't mean it's not a good book. Just wasn't good for my current state of being.

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