This (Past Four) Week's Favourite Things! Monday May 30th - Sunday June 26, 2016

Calgary has it going on!

1.  Grow Calgary - "Canada's largest urban agricultural farm".   this is a non profit 11 acre farm in urban Calgary (accessible by transit) where volunteers grow food for local food banks.  What a great idea!

2.  The Calgary Homeless Foundation and Calgary's RESOLVE Campaign.  Resolve is a partnership of Calgary non profits and developers who have decided to end homelessness in Calgary.  Kudos to the developers that are giving back to their community, by donating cash and expertise towards constructing various buildings to provide housing for people who are in greatest need.  For example, here's a very touching youtube video about the early planning stages of Stepping Stone Manor - where the houses to be redeveloped became a site for community art for a period of time.  And here is an article about the completed Stepping Stone Manor, the first RESOLVE campaign building.  Calgary also has nonprofits dedicated to providing housing for low-income seniors, such as Silvera for Seniors and Bishop O'Byrne Housing.   This is something Halifax could use, what with all the seniors waiting for affordable housing.   

3.  "Housing First"  I hadn't heard of "housing first" before speaking with someone from the Calgary Homeless Foundation to learn more about their buildings.   But it makes sense: the idea being instead of rewarding addicts for being clean with housing, provide them with housing first so that they can feel secure enough to want to get off of drugs.  Medicine Hat has had great success with this program, here's a CBC 'as it happens' article/radio interview describing how Medicine Hat became the first city in Canada to eliminate homelessness.  

4.   Chris Martenson interviews that I found on youtube! Never heard of this guy before but I like his thoughts on the economy and what to do about it, we seem to be on the same page - he's a biologist turned business guy.

Peak Prosperity The Crash Course

and

 Here he is with Robert Kiyosaki discussing today's economy and the coming crash.

5.  This Infinite Waters youtube video:  Why Artists Get Depressed.  I've been loving watching how many subscribers this guy has been getting over the months, good for him! 

6.  This Amerika Now interview by Barb Adams with Stefan Verstappen:  Invasion of the mind snatchers.

7.  The Northern Lights Lantern Festival.  I had no idea Halifax's North end has a lantern fest, it looks really nice!  This year's is Saturday August 13th 2016 with a rain date of  Thursday August 18th. 

8.  This Abraham Hicks video

9.  This amazing written interview "The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade:  Make Us Believe That Evil Comes From Others".  It is a about a book which describes how psychopathy is rampant in political systems:  "Political Ponerology, A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes".   I found this interview at the end of this annotated version of a favourite article:  Empathic people are natural targets for sociopaths, protect yourself.  Another interesting article recommended by this article is "The Way of the Psyschopath".

10.  This blog post:  Are you an insight junkie? A history of Tai Lopez.   I've been seeing a lot of ads for Tai Lopez stuff on various 'personal development' youtube channels I like to watch, so I checked out a longer video about him.  Something about him really rubbed me the wrong way, so I googled his name with the word 'psychopath' and found the above post which I liked a lot, kudos to the author for calling out people on psychopathic behaviour.  

Earlier on my blog I decided I'd quit posting psychopath articles, for fear of people thinking I am one.  But as other bloggers on this topic have posted, who cares what people think, it's so important that the masses be educated on the existence of conscienceless,  predatory people in our society.  They are ruining lives and entire political systems, and their behaviours are contagious.  Maybe by shedding more light on it they can start feigning more empathy and improve the world for the other 95 -  99% of people who do have a conscience.    Further to point #5 in this list, I think my keeping quiet has led to me being depressed and less productive.  So from now on, ya, if I see something I like on this topic for sure I'll share it, if spreading awareness has a chance of helping others, why not.  Time to make some crows!