UTL COMMENT:- Yes, I remember 1988, I was living in beautiful Brisbane!!! I remember EXPO88!!! The fireworks, the best times!!! Yes, no friggin' mobile phones. People were chilled, more happier, layed back. Loved listening to Aussie music - INXS, Icehouse, Cold Chisel - absolutely loved 80s music. Yes, those were the days!! Bring back those days!! For those that weren't around then--- well you missed the BEST TIMES when we actually LOVED OUR COUNTRY!! And the future looked GOOD!! We were also at least ~95% WHITE!!!! No mass shit skin immigration! No woke crap. Now ---- I don't feel so much for my country at all. I'm going to blame ALL things that have fucked up Australia on the jews. Prove me wrong. Scratch the surface and deep down it's always the jews.

UTL COMMENT:- Sorry for her but she clearly pushed the poison. Obviously didn't get the memo.... With thanks to Bootcamp

ALBO REPLACING US The creature is the destroying our country. I can’t even look at the vile little worm. I just can’t. ???? How many more UBER drivers and 7-11 workers do we need? The prick is even walking barefoot with them...

Does the Govt respect those rights? Yes we have no 'Bill of Rights' which is a major issue. UTL COMMENT:- I would suggest that Mike if these 5 are respected in Australia anymore. I'd say another right is to not be genocided in your own country? Which we are by the 'vaccine' bioweapons. With thanks to Aussie Prepper YT channel.

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Photographer James Balog and his crew were hanging out near a glacier when their camera captured something extraordinary. They were in Greenland, gathering footage from the time-lapse they'd positioned all around the Arctic Circle for the last several years.They were also there to shoot scenes for a documentary. And while they were hoping to capture some cool moments on camera, no one expected a huge chunk of a glacier to snap clean off and slide into the ocean right in front of their eyes. A glacier falls into the sea.Exposure Labs Massive swells created by large chunks of glacier falling away. Exposure Labs It was the glacier calving event ever filmed.For nearly an hour and 15 minutes, Balog and his crew stood by and watched as a piece of ice the size of lower Manhattan — but with ice-equivalent buildings that were two to three times taller than that — simply melted away. A representation demonstrating the massive size of ice that broke off into the sea. Exposure Labs As far as anyone knows, this was an unprecedented geological catastrophe, and they caught the entire thing on tape. It won't be the last time something like this happens either.But once upon a time, Balog was openly skeptical about that "global warming" thing.Balog had a reputation since the early 1980s as a conservationist and environmental photographer. And for nearly 20 years, he'd scoffed at the climate change heralds shouting, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!""I didn't think that humans were capable of changing the basic physics and chemistry of this entire, huge planet. It didn't seem probable, it didn't seem possible," he explained in the 2012 documentary film "Chasing Ice."There was too much margin of error in the computer simulations, too many other pressing problems to address about our beautiful planet. As far as he was concerned, these melodramatic doomsayers were distracting from the real issues.That was then. The glacier ice continues to erode away.Exposure Labs In fact, it wasn't until 2005 that Balog became a believer.He was sent on a photo expedition of the Arctic by National Geographic, and that first northern trip was more than enough to see the damage for himself."It was about actual tangible physical evidence that was preserved in the ice cores of Greenland and Antarctica," he said in a 2012 interview with ThinkProgress. "That was really the smoking gun showing how far outside normal, natural variation the world has become. And that's when I started to really get the message that this was something consequential and serious and needed to be dealt with."Some of that evidence may have been the fact that more Arctic landmass has melted away in the last 20 years than the previous 10,000 years.Watch the video of the event of the glacier calving below: - YouTube youtu.be Balog has continued documenting changes in the Earth's seas, ice sheets, and other environmental indicators of climate change and spoke with CBS about his work in 2024. "When I started the extreme ice survey, climate change was still seen as a pretty abstract thing," Balog said. "It was something that was going to happen 20 or 30 or 50 years from now and my god when you could start to realize no, it's happening right now right in front of us. It put a real marker in time to say this is now, this is real."Balog hopes that his photographic record will serve as a record of the present and a message to the future."I want to be able to say to those people of the distant future look not everybody in this time in you know 2024 was terribly conscious or cared about climate change," he said, "but I want to be able to say that this mind, these eyes, and this heart was paying attention." - YouTube www.youtube.com This article originally appeared 10 years ago and has been updated.

Why do some people feel they are devoid of creativity, while others are bursting at the seams? A new study published by The Conversation has found that creativity is closely related to how people were raised and that there are two wildly different upbringings that produce creative adults.The first type of creative person is raised in stable circumstances and has support from their parents to pursue their craft. They are given lessons and have ample resources to learn more about what they love. The other type of creative person is someone who endured trauma at a very young age and developed a deep inner world to help them combat persistent anxiety.Does trauma result in creativity?It makes sense that many of the creative giants of our time, Vincent van Gogh, Charles Dickens, John Lennon, Oprah Winfrey, Beethoven, Michael Jackson, and Frida Kahlo, all endured difficult childhoods, and it may be the catalyst for their incredible creativity. In Donald Winnicott’s 1971 book Play and Reality, the famed psychoanalyst notes that when children are young and have separation anxiety from their parents, they cling to “transitional objects” and specific behaviors. When the absence is prolonged and difficult, the behaviors transform into creativity.“Some academics have proposed a model to explain this phenomenon,” Carlo Valerio Bellieni, Professor of Pediatrics, Università di Siena, writes at The Conversation. “Up to a certain level of separation or neglect from parents, the capacity to develop talents grows, but beyond a certain limit this decreases and alterations in social behaviour become more acute.”Bellieni says that when young people experience trauma, it causes them to create a “parallel mental world” to shield themselves from the outside world. “The conclusion is that, paradoxically, children raised in an unfavourable environment can develop their own inner creative world to survive the stress, but in several cases, at the cost of producing mental health disorders,” Bellieni writes. A child pretending to be a pilot.via Canva/PhotosHow does childhood adversity result in creativity?To put it simply, when young children experience trauma, they develop a more robust imagination than those who do not, which gives them a fertile ground for the creative process.Bellieni’s findings are echoed in a 2018 study by California State University, Northridge that analyzed 234 professional performers. The study found that the performers experienced a higher rate of childhood trauma and neglect than those who were not in the performing arts. The performers who experienced adverse childhood experiences were found to be more absorbed by the creative process and more receptive to art. A woman dancing.via Canva/Photos"Lastly, [this] group identified greater appreciation for the transformational quality of creativity, in particular, how the creative process enabled a deeper engagement with the self and world. They recognised that it operated as a powerful force in their life," the researchers wrote, "So many participants in our sample have experienced poly-traumatization and yet they also embrace their passion for performance and creativity. They are embracing ways to express all that is human."Ultimately, creativity can stem from two very different places: support or neglect. But whether it is shaped by love or loss, creativity helps propel our world forward and is a wonderful gift that helps us all better connect to the world around us. Let’s hope that as these wounded creatives share their gifts, they also find healing along the way.