Quite some years ago I worked in a prison. A Maximum Security Male Prison. As a female Officer, I had this crazy idea that I could make a difference.
It was a new prison. State of the Art. A wonder of technology.
One day changed my life. I became a prisoner. For ONE DAY.
Read more: When experiments go wrong - One day changed my life
When a fellow commenter wrote his article about his days as a dispensing chemist all those years ago, little did I realise that it would excite such commentary on the many social media channels I belong to.... how a chemist is now a drug dealer and a doctor is a pimp for Big Pharma.
It did open an interesting dialogue. The loss of the local Chemist and Doctor and the creation of the pharmaceutical god that now rules our lives. And the clock is ticking down.
Read more: When dispensing chemists weren't drug dealers and Doctors weren't their pimps
There’s been some talk recently about events sixty or so years ago, concerning the disastrous result of the release on to the market of a medication designed as a solution for sleeping difficulty.
I remember it well, being in my twenties and having, just prior to this, qualified in pharmacy and opened a small pharmacy in a country town,
Ayr, in the Burdekin district in North Queensland where I was born in 1932.
Read more: The way things used to be - a prescription from the past
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I am of a fairly pleasant and easy-going nature.
But when I am aroused by the injustices of this world, my wife would be first to attest to my ability to rise like a wildfire. I am not a man to rise to anger easily.
At the recent protests against vaccine mandates in Canberra, police deployed long-range acoustic devices (LRADs), which transmit at high volumes and frequencies. A spokesperson for the ACT Police has confirmed that LRAD's ( long range acoustic devices ) were deployed.
Canberra protesters, including women and children, were badly burned by directed microwave energy beams, complaining of blisters on their faces, arms, and torsos. Concentrated microwave radiation can inflict painful burns on the skin from long distances away.
Jewish enclave, home of a deported nation, a present for the Ukrainians: The difficult history of Russian Crimea.
In March, it will be eight years since the day Crimea returned to the Russian Federation. This ended its 60-year history as part of Ukraine, which began, not on February 19, 1954, but a little earlier.
Read more: How Crimea became part of Russia and why it was gifted to Ukraine
We are at the showdown folks. This will be showdown. This is the thing that will sort out who Australia is, what Australia is and the future that Australia can look forward to.
Read more: I remember when... it was all so nice in the nuthouse!
On the 19th of February 1942, the isolated northern city of Darwin in Australia was bombed by the Japanese. Back then, it was a small isolated outpost at the top end of Australia and represented the last post of defence of Australia against the Japanese.
It is probably still the last post in Australian Defense.
Read more: The bombing of Darwin - 19th February 1942 - Lest We Forget
Once in a while, a voice you’ve never heard seems to come out of nowhere. The voice punches you in the gut with concision and force. When that happens, you know you’re hearing the voice of a leader. Not a ruler. A leader. And a leader is someone you follow because it’s the right thing to do, not because you are compelled to do so by other voters or fiat appointers.
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