(Healingtalks) Oklahoma Senator Ralph Shortey has introduced legislation in his home state to prohibit the unethical practice of using aborted fetal cells to create artificial chemical additives for use in processed foods.
Senomyx
A specialized food-favor-creating biotech company, Senomyx, uses such cells, called HEK 292, to create “isolated human taste receptors” for the production of chemicals to be used in foods. The company has partnered with major food manufacturers of the likes of Kraft, PepsiCo, and Nestle
(http://www.naturalnews.com/032043_human_fetal_cells_artificial_flavors.html).
HEK 293
HEK 293 is a scientific nomenclature which hides the fact that this is really human embryonic kidney cells taken from dead fetuses. The company is using these cells despite the fact that they could substitute them for animal cells instead.
Fortunately the aborted fetal cells are not necessarily in the final products, those marketed by PepsiCo, Kraft, and Nestle. The cells rather appear in the production of their artificial flavors. As we reported previously, the Campbell Soup company used to be a Senomyx partner until CGL contacted them about the fetal cell issue. Shortly thereafter, reports indicate that Campbell’s officially cut ties with Senomyx, which in 2003 filed a patent for “recombinant (genetically modified) methods for expressing a functional sweet taste receptor.”
(Healingtalks) Our planet is being graced with enough solar energy to fuel all our needs.
The sole question that remains is how quickly can we harvest this energy economically.
How fast are prices dropping
Over the last 30 years, we have seen solar energy prices drop dramatically. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy has reported solar photovoltaic price trends since 1980. Their records show that the price per Watt of solar modules has dropped, on average, from $22 to under $3 in the last 30 years. But you can find even better prices. A quick look on the Internet shows prices for as little as $1.08 a watt. Conserving energy, if a home were to use 10,000 kWh per person. The same company sells a get-off-the-grid complete system for $11,000 and producing approximately 4500 kilowatts annually. This is half of what we commonly saw a few years ago.
What is causing this drop in prices
Solar cell manufacturers have been lowering their production costs while the solar cells themselves have become more efficient. Many more cells are coming from China where labor is cheaper and government subsidies are ample. Also efficiencies now range from 20-40%, which are far above the levels of decades ago.
Explosive rise of the industry
As prices are falling, the solar industry has explosively expanded. Between just 2006 and 2011 the demand for solar installations has increased eight-fold. While distributors and installers are doing well, manufacturers are struggling to survive amid a highly competitive international market, and with China undercutting most manufacturers.
Great future solar projections
Given present trends, by 2030, a conservative projection is that PV cells should cost around 50 cents a watt. First Solar already claims internal production costs of 75 cents per watt. It expects to reach 50 cents per watt by 2016.
Factor in solar installation costs
Usually adding in the cost of installation results in a total cost of about twice that of the solar panels themselves. Installation costs have also dropped to maintain this ratio. With this knowledge, we then can calculate the cost of a solar system to produce so many kilowatts over its useful life. With that in mind, it is projected that in and around the year 2018, given a modest rise in conventional electricity prices, the cost of solar installations will be competitive without subsidies. So sunnier climates, this may happen in 2015 or just a few years pending.
A “sunny solar future”
Add another 10 years to our projections, and solar will cost 1/2 of what coal electricity does today. This is why it also makes little sense to develop dangerous nuclear generators of electricity. With mass production, prices can fall even more. Being dependent on a grid and that uses coal to produce the electricity, with carbon emissions, will become a matter of history.
So finally there is some great and “sunny news” about where our world is headed.
(Healingtalks) Kids love to have pets and tend to more actively caress them However certain diseases can be passed on from those pets to kids, and then the rest of the household. Here is a somewhat exhaustive list:
CATS
Toxoplasmosis – It is a good idea to have kids wash their hands after cleaning kitty litter and not to get infected y this micro-organism. It can trigger headache, fever, sore throat and muscle pain.
Scratch Fever – Cats can be infected with Bartonella henselae bacteria which causes cat scratch fever,. Symptoms included swollen lymph nodes, fever, headaches and fatigue.
Plague – A rare condition where cats can become infected with Yersinia pestis, the rodent bacteria that creates bubonic plague.
DOGS
Dog Rabies – A stray dog that has not been vaccinated can carry and transmit rabies.
BIRDS
Giardia – Giardia lamblia is a bacteria that grows in the intestines of birds and can cause diarrhea in humans.
MONKEYS
B-Virus infections– Macaque monkeys, sometimes sold as pets, carry a virus called herpesvirus simiae or B-virus. Most adult macaques are infected in a mind way. However, a bite from an infected monkey can cause meningoencephalitis.
Tuberculosis – African and Asian pet monkeys can develop and transmit strains of tuberculosis.
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(Healingtalks The last few days I was reading my local newspaper’s coverage of the Occupy movement, using AP or Associated Press, and was aghast at how the demonstrators, who were attacked by the police with hundreds arrested, were the problem and not offering any solutions. They were causing disturbances, property damage, harming police, etc. All of this is, of course, what I call corpknuz. I like the term because it rhymes with snooze, taking a nap or falling asleep. Corpknuz is not real news. It is slanted propaganda to keep us asleep, and I got me frustrated enough reading such prostituted writing that I wanted to take some action, even if in a small way. By the way, Associated Press is similarly known, from time to time, for attacking the natural health movement.
Great awakening
In a previous article called Great awakening or a police state? – Our free America is in grave danger we posted a form flyer that our readers can take to their local community centers to distribute, and to those 95% or more of the population who fail to read the alternative press. This synopsizes, with short bullet points, some of the most ominous events that everyone should know about – and which our mass media fails to report on in a concerted blackout.
Why is this important to know? The reasons are obvious because so many signs point to our moving toward a police state, but also these same forces promote Big Pharma, and the many ploys of our processed food industry, of conventional medicine and of genetic engineering to take control of our seeds and food supply.
Letter to the editor
Taking action for me meant that I composed a “Letter to the Editor” which is included in this post, again as a sample for what others can do as well. For our local paper, the Daily Star of Oneonta, this letter was limited to 300 words. Others may require or be limited to more or less words. The letter asked the local paper to not use such corporation-controlled newswires.
Purpose
Will the local papers act on that recommendation? Of course not, just based on that letter. But if followed up by a local petition, signed by subscribers who will cancel their subscription if the paper doesn’t allow broader coverage, they will listen. The local reporters too are part of the 99%. If enough people make these small, decentralized efforts it will make a difference. There is something called a tipping point in our society. For the resistance to GMOs in Europe it was just 5% of consumers not wanting to buy such products that largely took them off the shelf.
So if the 1-2% of our population that knows what is really going on reaches out to a few more, that tipping point will be reached.
Importance of the alternative media
As Mike Adams writes
“We are honored to be part of the extremely important alternative media — perhaps the last place on the planet where intelligent journalism is still taking place on issues such as liberty, the coming economic collapse, vaccines, health freedomand other similar topics. While there is a lot of diversity (and even disagreement) among the sites in the “alternative media,” here at NaturalNews we feel that the presence of the alternative media is absolutely vital to freedom — especially since the mainstream media has, for the most part, abandoned real journalism in favor of corporate-scripted “agendalism.” (There are exceptions, of course, but most conventional media reports are scripted by profit-driven corporations and packaged for consumption with a particular profit motive in mind…)”
Top alternative news sites
According to a recent tracking study, first, in terms of web traffic overall, is Infowars.com and its sister site Prisonplanet.com Second and third we find “Above Top Secret” and “Dr. Bruce Maccabee Research Website.” Continuing down the list are Naturalnews.com, AlterNet, The Raw Story Rense.com
Mainstream absence of independent, alternative and free media
According to Wikepedia, the concentration of media control is a worldwide phenomenon, and in the US it is no different. However, “data on ownership and market share of media companies is not held in the public domain. Academics, for example at MIT Media Lab and NYU, have struggled to find data that show reliably the concentration of media ownership.” Still there are about a dozen publicly held corporations that own a significant share.
Who controls the top newswires
Reuters – the number on newswire is owned by Thompson Reuters, and among its board of directors is Sir Deryck Maughan Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. – one of the top players on Wall Street specializing in leveraged buyouts for which they aggregate funds from institutions around the world. Thompson Reuters has also partnered with Merrill Lynch in some of their ventures and provides ML with many of their information technologies.
In short, Reuters is Wall Street connected.
Associated Press – Some of this data is publicly available and among what we know, it is significant that AP or Associated Press is a not-for-profit cooperative working for the behest of some 15o0 American newspapers. But this leaves open the question, who owns those newspapers. In an article entitled Who owns newspaper companies? The banks, funds, and investors and their (big) slices of the industry, Martin Langeveld details how the top publicly-held newpaper-owning corporations are, in turn, owned institutionally. The key players are all institutional firms that anyone familiar with Wall Street knows well, like Berkshire Hathaway, J.P. Morgan Chase and Vanguard. J.P. Morgan has a long history of buying newspapers to influence the press, stretching back to the beginning of the 20th century. See our Letter to the Editor below for the details. This has been documented in the Congressional Record (February 9, 1917, page 2947)
In short, Wall Street indirectly controls Associated PressOther newswires
As to other international newswires, the list includes Bloomberg, The New York Times News Service, ABC News, CBS News, NBS News, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Jones News (Wall Street Journal) and so on – most of which tend to, again, be institutionally owned or controlled. Thus they tow the line in terms of conventional coverage.
More info on where to get independent news
Here are a few sites that list alternative news resources and these resources have been growing, as part of larger awakening of the public:
So here is the 300 word text of the newsletter sent to my local paper and readers are encourage to copy some of the same to initiate similar local activism and consciousness raising:
Sample letter to the editor
Part of the current great awakening of the American public is reflected in the Occupy movement that has rapidly spread all around the country and even around the world. It exhibits the deep realization that the average person’s interests are no longer represented in Washington (and elsewhere). Here at home it has literally and unabashedly become a “democracy for billionaires” and with a vastly widening gaps of relative net worth and income.
What has allowed this abomination to proceed is not just economic maneuvering. The independence of the national press has been co-opted big time. One would think this is something entirely new, but it isn’t.
Back at the beginning of World War I, Wall Street’s J.P. Morgan purchased controlling interest in 25 major newspapers to promote America’s entering the war (after investing heavily in military contracting companies). Worse yet, they inserted their editors to ensure this control was airtight. Sounds unreal? Maybe. But it’s historically true. Yet this pales in comparison to what is happening nowadays. Back in the 1980′s about 50 corporations owned the major US mass media. Currently we are down to just 6 major corporations owning well over 90% of the US mass media. These are also the same corporations that spent 150 million dollars to urge Congress to censor the Internet. Shocking? But what else is new.
On the positive side, our local media, like the Daily Star, offers a wonderful service we respect and value. So isn’t it high time to live up to that reputation, that our local newspapers drop the affronting so-called national “newswires” that report “corpknooz” – like the Associated Press – or that dish out eerie fairy tales about national and international events and rather than reporting naked truth.
Times are changing and an awakened public deserves better.
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(Healingtalks) We put together this summary of information about how in 2012 America is in grave danger.
Hand out flyer below
The summary is designed to fits on a 8 1/2 by 11 page as a flyer to hand out to the public.
It tells, in as few words as possible, the whole picture of America’s plight.
It can be distributed not only on the web and to friends, family and fellow workers but on the streets of America – at local stores, police stations, army recruiting stations, to politicians, local newspapers, radio and TV stations, civil rights groups, and to anyone and everyone else.
We encourage YOU to hand out this or a similar flyer and thus to become actively enlisted as a pro-liberty info-war fighter.
Please print and copy this information freely. Give it the widest possible distribution.
Why YOUR help is so critically important?
Mass media, most of which is owned and controlled by just a few corporations, is deliberately keeping this vital information from most Americans. In our times, checking the alternative press on the Web is only means left knowing daily what is really going on. However, it reach just 2-5% of the population.
NAACP example
A flyer like the one below was recently given out at a meeting of the NAACP on Martin Luther King’s Day.
Before handing it out, the crowd was asked “how many of you know about the recent passage of the NDAA?” Only two people out of a hundred or 2% raised their hands! Mind you this was among an organization dedicated to fighting for civil liberties! This shows just how powerful and pervasive the current mass media blackout is.
What can we do to remedy this?
We can do the leg work on the streets of America to let people know.
We can do our parts, while there is time and the means – and while seriously citizen printing presses are not yet outlawed.
Future generations will ask: what did YOU do for our country in these critical times.
Call to action:
Download & print the summary above
as a 8 1/2 by 11 flyer
Click the “download” link below.
Let family, friends and everyone else know what is happening to America!
Spread the word to all you know: that in 2012 our free America is in grave danger
NDAA – Signed into law Jan 2012, it allows the government to arrest, holding indefinitely, torture and kill US citizens, you and me, without due process. The Patriot Act took away property rights. NDAA shreds the Bill of Rights, taking away our sacred right to life. Obama has promised not to enforce NDAA against US citizens, but a companion bill strips US citizenship and reveals a hidden agenda.
Activated FEMA detention camps – Activated on 72 hour notice after FDAA’s passage, designed to detain millions of Americas. About a 1000 camps exist for supposedly emergency housing. But why then do they have one-way turnstiles & barbed wired turned inward?
SOPA and PIPA – Two laws designed to obliterate free speech and dissent on the Internet. Internet responded with a GREAT AWAKENINGand the establishment backed down. But right after backing down, the administration secretively signed an executive order ratifying the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (yet more dangerous for the Internet) even though it is unconstitutional to sign such agreements without Senate ratification. They also are negotiating a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreementto further tighten the noose.
Media – Media delivering 90%+ of news (3 decades ago controlled by 50 corps) are now controlled by 6 corporations (the very same ones pushing SOPA/PIPA), and which in turned are owned by a few elites. Mainstream news is mostly thus propagandized. Alternative web coverage alone is free of these ties. It brings truth to lies. However it only reaches about 1-5% of population. Let’s turn 2-5% into 100%. Spread the word for a GREAT AWAKENING.
Mass Conscriptions – Our administration wants to conscript a civilian labor force and domestic military as large as our regular military. Homeland Security currently has the second largest budget already next to the military.
Militarized Youth – Congress passed a law in 2009 to plan to form a conscripted national militarized youth corp – one that very precisely mimics Germany’s infamous and indoctrinated youth groups of the 1930’s.
“Posse comitatus” – A separation of military and police forces which was overturned by Congress in 2011. A step also critically necessary for Nazi rule in the 1930’s. About half a billion dollars of military weaponry has already been sent express to local police forces – and the means for military control of local forces is massively in place when engaging protesters in 2012.
Executive orders for marshal law – Past presidential executive orders enable the future shutdown of all civil liberties – with a nationalized control of all means of transportation, communication, media, energy and even food and water.
Civilian spying – In 2011 a vast military spying network has been redirected towards Americans, including journalist. Surveillance technology has also grown at unprecedented pace and don’t think its not being applied to all of us.
American military turned inward – Segments are being retrained and armed to torture and kill American citizens who protest.
Worst Scenario – Why the push to marshal law? The elites are seriously losing. Their lock on mass media is failing due to their being exposed on the Internet. We see this with Ron Paul’s rise, Occupy Wall Street & 14 States debating whether to label “genetically messed-up foods.” Undermining GMOs is not negotiable – losing control of the global food supply, critical to the elites. To stop this rebellion, military marshal law is necessary now. Otherwise their plans will fall apart. Worst scenario a “false flag event” surpassing Twin Towers, where Americans are blamedto justify a military takeover. Billionaire George Soros, in the know among elites, predicts something of this kind will happen soon.
Best Scenario –We see a GREAT AWAKENINGto reclaim all our lives and liberty. Turn off the TV and start reading the alternative press: www.infowars.com, www.naturalnews.com, or www.healingtalks.com
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(Healingtalks) Because federal laws do not require genetically messed-up food to be labeled, 14 states are debating whether to legally require such labeling. The debate is taking place from NY to California, as legislators consider the impact of also the first genetically messed-up animal (salmon) for our dinner plates
Genetically messed-up food and messed with organisms
By the way I decided to stop using the terms genetically modified, altered or engineered because such terms were invented to sell us on the notion that the use of gene guns to alter genetic codes, or genetic violence is something either positive or equivalent to foods in their natural state.
Genetic codes have evolved consciously over millions of years and now suddenly are being messed up or at least seriously messed with. That something serious will eventually go wrong is so obvious. But where huge sums of money are at stake, many can’t see that obviousness.
Again the terms modified, altered and engineered – or even enhanced – were themselves engineered to deliver the false connotation and propaganda that all is well. But its not. And the evidence is climbing higher than Everest.
Labeling frankenfish
In four states — California, Oregon, Vermont and Alaska - lawmakers are considering just the issue of frankenfish. We encourage you to contact your state legislatures in support these efforts.
Labeling all GMOs
In ten other states the labeling of all GMO-ingredient products is on the table. Contact your state legislators and encourage them to do the same.
(Healtingtalks) US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published a study that recommends women should stop breastfeeding before having their children injected with vaccines.
Bizare conclusion
The report put together by ten researchers was called the Inhibitory effect of breast milk on infectivity of live oral rotavirus vaccines. It claims that the immune-boosting effects of breast harms the workings of vaccines.
Reason for the vaccine research
The CDC researchers sought to find out why children in underdeveloped countries do not respond as well to the live oral rotavirus vaccines. They then blamed breastmik’s immune-building immunoglobulin A (IgA), lactoferrin, lysozyme, and other immune factors
Obvious truths
Breastmilk is rather a newborn’s nutritional lifeline and that naturally builds up, and when necessary, restores immunity. It provides nature’s most perfect nutrition as necessary for human growth in its early inception. But let’s replace that with toxic vaccines loaded with chemicals like mercury and that have been known to cause autism!
What a brilliant research conclusion!
Breast milk powerfully prevents a host of infections
Listen to the powerful video below and you will learn how breast milk has been repeatedly proven to prevent a variety of major infections – making vaccines unnecessary and why Big Pharma does find it necessary to spend millions to bring many researchers together to try to convince us to not use the power of nature. Essentially we are being lied to and deceived.
Synthetic chemistry as superior to nature
Chemistry for better living is the typical and common religious liturgy of modern medicine, that supposedly they can ever outperform nature with synthetics.
As Ethan Huff writes for Naturalnew.com:
“Oral rotavirus vaccines contain live viruses, they have questionable efficacy to begin with, and they are even known to cause rotavirus. They are also linked to causing a variety of negative side effects, including diarrhea, which is a condition the vaccine is supposed to prevent!”
So let’s starve babies of real nutrition so the cash register can ring up ever more for drug and vaccine sales and Wall Street Big Pharma stock values can rise.
(Healingtalks) Are genetically modified foods safe? The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM)doesn’t think so.
AAEM’s report
The Academy reported that animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food including
Infertility
Immune and food allergy problems
Accelerated aging
Faulty insulin regulation
Changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system.
The AAEM asked physicians to advise patients to avoid GM foods.
FDA’s own scientists ignored for political reasons
Before the FDA decided to allow GMOs into food without labeling, FDA scientists had repeatedly warned that GM foods can create unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects, including allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems.
They urged long-term safety studies, but were ignored.
Animal studies
Since then, new findings among animals fed GMOs include:
Thousands of farm animals died after grazing on Bt cotton in India
Mice eating GM corn also had fewer and smaller babies. Manyof these babies died within three weeks.
Testicular cells in mice and rats also changed significantly
By the third generation, a GM soy-fed hamster study showed they lost their ability to have babies altogether
Rodents fed GM corn and soy showed immune system responses.
Cooked GM soy contains as much as 7-times the amount of a known soy allergen
Soy allergies skyrocketed by 50% in the UK, soon after GM soy was introduced
Stomach linings of rats fed GM potatoes showed excessive cell growth, a condition akin to cancer.
Organ lesions appeared, along with altered liver, pancreas cells and changed enzyme levels
Human study
Unlike safety evaluations for drugs, there are no human clinical trials of GM foods. The only published human feeding experiment revealed that the genetic material inserted into GM soy transfers into bacteria living inside our intestines and continues to function. This means that long after we stop eating GM foods, we may still have their GM proteins produced continuously inside us. This could mean:
If the antibiotic gene inserted into most GM crops were to transfer, it could create super diseases, resistant to antibiotics
If the gene that creates Bt-toxin in GM corn were to transfer, it might turn our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories.
Although no studies have evaluated if antibiotic or Bt-toxin genes transfer, that is one of the key problems.
The safety assessments are too superficial, and dangerously so.
(Healingtalks) Why do some people survive drug and alcohol abuse, while others don’t? No one has a simple answer.
One thing is for sure. Addictions tend to be tragic. They can totally disturb and even end or destroy the life of a person.
Some addicts look and act so differently, when comparing before and after, it is as if they have become another person, or someone whose soul have been taken over. The life has been sucked out of them by the drug. This is why drug dealers who push addiction commit a crime.
When it begins
Usually the experimentation with drugs starts in adolescence. Though nowadays more children are mothers to mothers who are addicted during pregnancy and this may begin a cycle that spins out of control during the teen years.
According to the 2008 National Survey of Drug Use and Health, 46 percent of Americans have tried illegal drugs at some time in their lives. 8 percent have used them in the past thirty days. That means roughly one person out of 12.
Most who experiment with drugs do so briefly for the thrill of it and do not get addicted. So who then becomes most at risk and for a life-long addition,or life-shortened addiction?
Mental illness factor
Those with certain types of psychiatric illnesses — including mood, anxiety and personality disorders — are more likely to become addicts. According to the National Institute of Mental Health’s Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study, patients with mental health problems are nearly 3x more likely to become addicted. This is greatly aggravated by explosive trends to promote legal dependency (the equivalent of addiction to pharmaceutical drugs). The latter helps to legitimize using chemical substance regularly and is largely hypocritical in regard to psychotropic drugs.
60 percent of people with substance abuse disorders suffer from mental illness, or developed a condition from taking prescription drugs. So it becomes unclear, and depends on the individual, whether the addiction or mental illness came first.
Ego-weak individuals who constantly battle feelings of inadequacy, are drawn to drugs that give them a sense of enhanced power. People with borderline personality disorder might resort to drugs and alcohol for a different reason, to soften their extreme moods.
Dopamin factor
Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse used brain-imaging studies with addicts cocaine, heroin and alcohol have fewer dopamine receptors in the brain’s reward pathways than non-addicts.
But did this phenomenon happen before or after becoming an addict?
When Dr. Volkow compared the responses of addicts and normal controls with an infusion of a stimulant, she discovered that controls with high numbers of D2 receptors, disliked the drug while addicts with low receptor levels found it addictive.
Various chemical imbalance theories, however, have repeatedly been refuted.
Nutritional deficiencies
There has hardly been a time in human history when our food supply has been more adulterated. Modern “phudes” that fill supermarkets are often so synthetically altered they can hardly be called “foods” anymore. They are full of chemical poisons, with genetically modified organisms, and ever more intensely preserved and processed. This means building healthy cells of all kinds, including brain and hormone cells, is impeded. The body-mind then gets so weak and unhealthy it is unable to resist the addictive pull of drugs – taking one on a further downward slide.
Family and social environments
Family and social interactions may be stressful, conflictual and even violent. Living in such an environment can make one depressed, and even suicidal. This allows the use of drugs to be a means of escape.
Job, career, and financial stress
Our economy has impoverish an ever higher percentage, and has devastated the middle class. With these life changes, a person may turn to recreational drugs and then end up hooked to the feeling of euthoria, and again an escape from facing the reality of one’s conditions.
Who among us is most susceptible?
There is no one or simple answer. When trying to help someone who is addicted, it is thus important to treat each person as a precious individual, and to uncover their life stressed and to provide them with loving care and nutritional and overall healing and spiritual support to put their lives back together again.
In those who are most vulnerable, substance abuse ought to be brought to the light of day, confronted and stopped in adolescence – or before it leads to a life-long pattern of substance addiction or dependency.
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(Healingtalks) Do we have a free and uncensored Internet anymore ? Not really after the recent take down of Megaupload. If our government can wield that kind of power, it may someday threaten every other giant site on the Web, including Youtube, Twitter, and actually all alternative news sites as well.
It is unconscionable that our mass media, and who represent the old guard, of course neglects to tell us the significance of this event.
Instead we are told Megaupload’s shutdown is all about its highly criminal violation of copyright laws.
Megaupload’s extermination
Our US Justice Department’s audacious taking down of Megaupload, without any due process (assuming guilt by accusation) and the imprisonment of its founder Kim Dotcom, with his managing associates, sent a chilling message to all on the Internet – don’t mess with us. Also the warning was international as Megaupload’s base operations has been nowhere near the US.
The message included the proviso that there is no safe haven for those who brazenly attempt to challenge the status quo. The latest news is that a New Zealand judge has refused even bail, so Kim Dotcom has nowhere now to flee to.
Since then, smaller sites got the message. They have been intimidated to change their essential business models to survive.
Back in the 1930′s Hitler arrested Communists and Socialists in the Reichstag, or anyone who could possibly threaten his power. This sent a frightening message to everyone else. He also controlled the media to spin the story about whatever he did as being justified.
If you think what’s happening now is much different, listen up.
Who is in charge
After an Internet blackout of about 7000 sites protesting the proposed law in SOPA (the attempt to censor the Internet) and where over 10 million people contacted their US elected officials, key Congressional sponsors of SOPA withdrew their support. Yet Megauploads was shut down that very same week! This was done under the ruse that supposedly this was all about “Internet piracy” or copyright infringement, and as the old-guard media has reported via a hypnotic mantra. But then who, except the gullible, can trust anything that’s spun as truth by mass media? Of course the FBI anti-piracy warning indicates the same.
Secondly, one might think the timing of this massively significant event (given little or no attention in traditional media) was arbitrary rather than intentional. Never before has such a vast international site been shut down by a monolithic government at its whim. While millions contacted their Congressmen and Senators, this sent a chilling and powerful message to all at the same time – namely don’t mess with us. We don’t really care that you can gather the forces of 10 million people to challenge us. With or without SOPA, the US government and globalists has shown their extended hand – their ability, strength and willingness to unleash international forces to take control of the Internet before its too late for them.
In the cyber war over who will globally control our minds, the old guard won out this round, this time. They torpedoed mega Meagupload.
Only Anonymous struck back at the FBI, RIAA, and many other perpetrators in a cyberwar.
How big was Megaupload?
It ranked among the top 75 websites in the world according to Alexa and some say much higher. It reported a billion visitors, 180 million users, with about 50 million cyber-citizens coming there daily. Supposedly it gathered 4% of the entire traffic of the Internet.
Imagine that our government decided to close down IBM, Apple, Sears or Ford Motors, and to arrest its key executives. Wouldn’t that be a headline for weeks? Or what if it closed down all of Rupert Murdoch’s operation, or the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, and CBS News – the establishment media that produces our standard American diet of “Orwellian knuz”- and without any due process, jailing athe key executives and sending them off to FEMA camps, perhaps for indefinite detention.
Wouldn’t that cause an uproar?
But the targeted “assassination “of Metaupload’s vast international service is apparently fair game – as long as the FBI and the White House give the go-ahead.
So this pivotal event, after a day or so, remains hardly mentioned in the establishment mass media because they really don’t want you to think about its meaning and consequences.
Why Megaupload taken down
In a few words, it got too powerful and too threatening too quickly.
Megaupload’s downfall probably had little, if nothing, to do with online piracy.
On line piracy was something the old guard media uses as an excuse. They actually created the software that enabled online piracy to be possible.
These posed potentially multi-billion dollar threats to the establishment’s bottom line. More so they involved the establishments fundamental control of our culture’s mindset. Taking away that control would return us to the media freedom of the 1960′s, which absolutely can’t be allowed to be.
Megamedia took on the ultimate powers of the old guard media gatekeepers, and who are the truly root foundation of the overall power of our global elites.
The fact of the matter is that early in December 2011, Megaupload beta tested Megabox, and with the listed partners of 7digital, Gracenote, Rovi, and Amazon. Megaupload was battling RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America). The site had just sued Universal Music Group for wrongly blocking Megaupload’s YouTube campaign.
The quiet launch of Megabox seemed the last straw the old guard could tolerate.
Dotcom described Megabox as Megaupload’s iTunes competitor, which would even eventually offer free premium movies via Megamovie in 2012. This would take Megaupload from being a digital storage site to a potent digital content player.
Megabox was attracting unsigned artists who would get a better deal with them than virtually anywhere else in the music industry. This would allow anyone to sell their works while allowing the artist to retain 90% of their earnings. Artists could also offer songs free of charge while being paid through Megakey. Megakey’s business model has been thoroughly tested.
In short, Megabox was planning on bypassing the major labels, RIAA, and the media establishment.
They had the nerve to threaten the whole industry and they had the means to do so successfully!
Matt Burns reporting for TechCrunch
“You can expect several Megabox announcements next year including exclusive deals with artists who are eager to depart from outdated business models,” said Dotcom late last year. But that’s probably not going to happen. Kim Dotcom and several other Megaupload executives are now awaiting trial on various charges including racketeering, money laundering, and various counts of piracy. It seems they flew too close to the sun. High on success and a half a world away in New Zealand and Hong Kong, they attempted to take on the music industry head-on.
Now they’re in jail.”
Megaupload’s fatal mistake
In the lightening -fast world of the Internet upstarts, Megaupload didn’t bother to first muster and congeal key alternative corporate and political support and alliances for their revolutionary ventures, what turned out to be a very fatal mistake.
Taking on Big Pharma and Monsanto
A word to the wise, be careful with other, seemingly unrelated causes that involve the mega-elite.
It is better at first to make incremental changes, carefully building political alliances, rather than go forth as a loner and in dynamite fashion, upsetting the foundation, the whole power structure of our ill, money-corrupted society.
The globalist try to foster changes on us incrementally, with the intent of those changes being almost unnoticed, and which eventually become overwhelming. Then suddenly we wake up cognizant of living in a police state.
Perhaps we need to do the same to them at times in retaliation. They know that given a little more incremental growth of a free Internet, they are cooked.
Bear in mind that there are movements afoot to outlaw the majority of natural supplements and therapies on the market (as there are to shutdown alternative media sites). There is the attempt by Monsanto to also overtake all organic foods and to control our world’s entire seed and food supply – the foundations of life.
Thus a first step is to hold back this evil.
We are in a cyber-battle for the soul and consciousness of modern culture.
(Healingtalks) When U.S. regulators approved Monsanto’s genetically modified “Bt” corn, they knew it would add a deadly poison into our food supply. That’s what it was designed to do.
GMO Bt-corn
The corn’s DNA is equipped with a gene from soil bacteria called Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) that produces the Bt-toxin. It’s a deadly pesticide that breaks open the stomach of certain insects and kills them.
False claims
But Monsanto and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) swore that it was only insects that would be hurt. The Bt-toxin would be completely destroyed in the human gut and would have no impact on consumers. They were wrong
Quebec findings: the toxins are inside of us
Research doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found that the corn’s Bt-toxins made their way into the blood of pregnant women and their babies, as well as in non-pregnant women.i It was found in 93% of 30 pregnant women, 80% of umbilical blood in their babies, and 67% of 39 non-pregnant women. The study has been accepted for publication in the peer reviewed journal Reproductive Toxicology.
Links to many widespread disorders
Evidence shows that Bt-toxins produced in GM corn and cotton plants trigger immune system responses and this helps explain the huge rise in many food-based disorders in the US since this was introduced so widely since 1996.
Upper dark spots indicate Bt reactions in mice; lower represent the control for comparison
Italian mice study shows clear and strong immune response
In g Italyii, mice were fed Monsanto’s Bt corn and soon showed a wide range of immune responses – and after having ingested the same Bt-toxins that were found in the blood of women and fetuses:
Elevated IgE and IgG antibodies associated with allergies and infections
Increase in cytokines associated with allergic and inflammatory responses
Interleukins, a form of cytokines, were elevated as they are in humans suffering with disorders from arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, to MS and cancer
Elevated T cells (gamma delta), associated with asthma, children’s food allergies, juvenile arthritis, and connective tissue diseases.
Elevated interleukins associated with
Rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, various cancers (multiple myeloma and prostate), allergic rhinitis, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease)MIP-1bAutoimmune disease, colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and multiple sclerosis
Rats fed another form of BT also had such an immune response
When rats were fed another of Monsanto’s Bt corn varieties called MON 863, their immune systems were also activated, showing higher numbers of basophils, lymphocytes, and white blood cells. These can indicate possible allergies, infections, toxins, and various disease states including cancer. There were also signs of toxicity in the liver and kidneys.iii
Natural Bt is harmful to mammals
When natural Bt-toxin, far less toxic, was used on mice and their affects were also studied in relation to farmers, it was found that
the mice had tissue damage
their immune systems responded as powerful as if exposed to cholera toxinv
the mice started reacting to other foods that were formerly harmless.vi
The Scientific Advisory Panel of the EPA said that these mouse and farm worker studies “suggest Bt proteins could act as antigenic and allergenic sources.”viii
Synthetic Bt is far more dangerous
Farmers have used Bt-toxin from soil bacteria as a natural pesticide for years. But they spray it on plants, where it washes off and biodegrades in sunlight.
The GM version is built-into; every plant cell. The toxin doesn’t wash off. It goes into our digestive juices.
GMO version of Bt is thousands of times more concentrated than the spray; it is designed to be more toxic and actually fails the World Health Organization’s allergen screening tests.iv
The biotech companies ignore any data that doesn’t fit their financial agenda. Then the politically corrupted EPA also ignored the warnings. They overlooked studiesix showing that about 500 people in Washington state and Vancouver showed allergic and flu-like symptoms when they were exposed to the spray used to kill gypsy moths.
Indian farm workers are suffering from rashes and itching and other symptoms after coming into contact with Bt cotton.
Bt cotton linked to human allergies
Now thousands of Indian farm laborers are suffering from the same allergic and flu-like symptoms as those in the Pacific Northwest simply from handling genetically engineered cotton plants that produce Bt-toxin.
All thirteen buffalo of a small Indian village died after grazing
for a single day on Bt cotton plants.
Bt linked to animal deaths
When they allow livestock to graze on the Bt cotton plants after harvest, thousands of sheep, goats, and buffalo have died. I visited one village where for seven to eight years they allowed their buffalo to graze on natural cotton plants without incident. But on January 3rd, 2008, they allowed their 13 buffalo to graze on Bt cotton plants for the first time. After just one day’s exposure, all died. The village also lost 26 goats and sheep.
One small study in Andhra Pradesh reported that all six sheep that grazed on Bt cotton plants died within a month, while the three controls fed natural cotton plants showed no adverse symptoms.
Do we want living Bt pesticide factories inside us?
Bt-toxin now circulating in the blood of North American adults and newborns—how did it get there? The study authors speculate that it was consumed in the normal diet of the Canadian middle class. They even suggest that the toxin may have come from eating meat from animals fed corn
Another monstrosity – roundup-ready GMOs
The only human feeding study every published on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) was conducted on Roundup Ready soybeans. Scientists found bacteria growing in a chemical waste dump near their factory, surviving the presence of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. The herbicide normally kills bacteria, but this organism had some special gene that allowed it to survive. So Monsanto scientists figured, “Let’s put it into the food supply!”
By forcing that genes from that bacterium into soybean plants’ DNA, the plants then survive an otherwise deadly dose of Roundup herbicide.
In the human studyx, some of the subjects were found to have Roundup Ready gut bacteria! This means they ate one or more meals of GM soybeans, and with the gene that had been discovered in the chemical waste dump and forced into the soy. This had transferred into the DNA of bacteria living inside their intestines—and continued to function there. That means that long after they stopped eating GMOs, they still had these dangerous GM proteins being produced continuously inside.
Are we becoming living pesticide factories?
When the results of the study emerged, the funding from the pro-GMO UK government study mysteriously dried up. Thus they were not able to see if the same type of gene transfer happens with Bt GMOs. If it does, it means that eating Bt corn might turn our intestinal flora into living pesticide factories—continually manufacturing Bt-toxin from within our digestive systems!
Nature designs us so that if we fast, the body naturally detoxes. What bioengineering apparently does is to flip the coin or do the diabolical opposite, namely to remake us into biotoxic living factories.
The Quebec study seems to be pointing in that direction—where Bt-toxins are found in the blood of a very high percentage of people. If the “living pesticide factory” hypothesis is correct, we might speculate that if Bt-toxins break open the stomach of insects then they could similarly damage our digestive tracts.
More false claims
The biotech companies insist that Bt-toxin doesn’t bind or interact with the intestinal walls of mammals, and therefore humans. But here too they ignore peer-reviewed published evidence showing that Bt-toxin does bind with mouse small intestines and with intestinal tissue from rhesus monkeys.xi In the former study, they even found “changes in the electrophysiological properties” of the organ after the Bt-toxin came into contact.xii
What this likely results in
If Bt-toxins were causing leaky gut syndrome in newborns, the passage of undigested foods and toxins into the blood from the intestines could be devastating. Scientists speculate that it may lead to
autoimmune diseases and food allergies
toxins entering the brain causing serious cognitive problems such as autism
an increase in gastrointestinal problems, autoimmune diseases, food allergies, and childhood learning disorders
Physicians indeed are seeing such an increase since these crops were introduced in 1996.
Call to action
Healingtalks joins the Institute for Responsible Technology and other organizations worldwide calling for an immediate ban on GM food crops, and the commencement of rigorous independent scientific research on the safety of GMOs in general, and Bt-toxin in particular. We also give a deep perspective of why GMOs, based on the mechanical vision of nature, are intrinsically harmfuland cannot serve a beneficial role to humanity or nature.
i Aris A, Leblanc S. Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically modified foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. Reprod Toxicol (2011), doi:10.1016/j.reprotox.2011.02.004 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21338670
ii Finamore A, Roselli M, Britti S, Monastra G, Ambra R, Turrini A and Mengheri E. (2008). Intestinal and peripheral immune response to MON810 maize ingestion in weaning and old mice. J Agric Food Chem, 16 November 2008
iii Seralini GE, Cellier D, Spiroux de Vendomois J. 2007, “New analysis of a rat feeding study with a genetically modified maize reveals signs of hepatorenal toxicity”. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol. 2007;52:596-602; and Vendômois, JS, François Roullier, Dominique Cellier and Gilles-Eric Séralini. 2009, “A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health” . International Journal of Biological Sciences 2009; 5(7):706-726
iv Gendel, “The use of amino acid sequence alignments to assess potential allergenicity of proteins used in genetically modified foods,” Advances in Food and Nutrition Research 42 (1998), 45–62. See also: G. A. Kleter and A. A. C. M. Peijnenburg, “Screening of transgenic proteins expressed in transgenic food crops for the presence of short amino acid sequences indentical to potential, IgE-binding linear epitopes of allergens,” BMC Structural Biology 2 (2002): 8–19; H. P. J. M. Noteborn, “Assessment of the Stability to Digestion and Bioavailability of the LYS Mutant Cry9C Protein from Bacillus thuringiensis serovar tolworthi,” Unpublished study submitted to the EPA by AgrEvo, EPA MRID No. 447343-05 (1998); and H. P. J. M. Noteborn et al, “Safety Assessment of the Bacillus thuringiensis Insecticidal Crystal Protein CRYIA(b) Expressed in Transgenic Tomatoes,” in Genetically modified foods: safety issues, American Chemical Society Symposium Series 605, eds. K.H. Engel et al., (Washington, DC, 1995): 134–47.
Bt protein failed to break down quickly in a simulated digestive solution. In fact, it left fragments that were typically the size of allergens. The Bt also failed the heat stability test, and had shared 9–12 amino acid sequences of vitellogenin, an egg yolk allergen.
v Vazquez et al, “Intragastric and intraperitoneal administration of Cry1Ac protoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis induces systemic and mucosal antibody responses in mice,” 1897–1912; Vazquez et al, “Characterization of the mucosal and systemic immune response induced by Cry1Ac protein from Bacillus thuringiensis HD 73 in mice,” Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 33 (2000): 147–155; See also L. Moreno-Fierros, N. Garcia, R. Lopez-Revilla, R. I. Vazquez-Padron, “Intranasal, rectal and intraperitoneal immunization with protoxin Cry1Ac from Bacillus thuringiensis induces compartmentalized serum, intestinal, vaginal, and pulmonary immune responses in Balb/c mice,” Microbes and Infection 2 (2000): 885–90.
vi Vazquez et al, “Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac protoxin is a potent systemic and mucosal adjuvant,” Scandanavian Journal ofImmunology 49 (1999): 578–584. See also Vazquez-Padron et al., 147 (2000).
vii I.L. Bernstein et al, “Immune responses in farm workers after exposure to Bacillus thuringiensis pesticides,” Environmental Health Perspectives 107, no. 7(1999): 575–582.
viii EPA Scientific Advisory Panel, “Bt Plant-Pesticides Risk and Benefits Assessments,” March 12, 2001: 76.
ix Washington State Department of Health, “Report of health surveillance activities: Asian gypsy moth control program,” (Olympia, WA: Washington State Dept. of Health, 1993); and M. Green, et al., “Public health implications of the microbial pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis: An epidemiological study, Oregon, 1985-86,” Amer. J. Public Health 80, no. 7(1990): 848–852.
x Netherwood, T. (2004) “Assessing the survival of transgenic plant DNA in the human gastrointestinal tract”. Nature Biotechnology, 22, 204-209.
xi Noteborn et al, “Safety Assessment of the Bacillus thuringiensis Insecticidal Crystal Protein CRYIA(b) Expressed in Transgenic Tomatoes,” 134–47.
xii Vazquez et al, “Cry1Ac protoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis sp. kurstaki HD73 binds to surface proteins in the mouse small intestine,” 54–58.
(Healingtalks) The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals maintain a status quo that includes doing the bidding of drug company corruptions which establish “standard of care” – and that is routinely harmful and occasionally killing of young children. A field once dominated by the humble analysis of patients’ inner world, now is being dominated by the art of toxic and dangerous drug pushing.
If that sounds far too harsh, you probably haven’t heard the story of Rebecca Riley, as an example.
Story of Rebecca Riley
Rebecca Riley, when 28 months old, was treated by a psychiatrist due to the complaints of her mother that Rebecca was too “hyper” and had difficulty sleeping. The psychiatrist was Kayoko Kifuji, of Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He diagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Kifuji prescribed clonidine, a hypertensive drug with sedating properties, a drug Kifuji also prescribed to Rebecca’s older sister and brother.
Goal of parents
The goal of the Riley parents, something now common, was to attain psychiatric diagnoses that would qualify them for disability payments, with the “bonus” of sedating their children making them easy to manage.
Additional diagnosis
At age 3, Kifuji gave Rebecca the additional diagnosis of bipolar disorder and prescribed two additional heavily sedating drugs, the antipsychotic Seroquel and the anticonvulsant Depakote.
At age 4 Rebecca was dead
At the time of her death, Rebecca had a life-threatening amount of clonidine—enough to kill her—in her body, according to the former director of the Massachusetts toxicology lab and the medical director of a regional poison control center. The medical examiner who performed the autopsy concluded that Rebecca died from intoxication of clonidine, Depakote and two over-the-counter cold and cough medicines that led to heart failure, lungs filled with bloody fluid, coma, and then death. Rebecca’s abusive parents went to prison for the over-drugging that led to their daughter’s death.
Kifuji’s fate?
The establishment supported Kifuji, enabling her to return to Tufts Medical Center practicing child psychiatry. After Rebecca’s death, Tufts-New England Medical Center defended him vigorously. A Tufts spokesperson told “60 Minutes” in 2009, “The care we provided was appropriate and within responsible professional standards.”
Apparently, psychiatric care that is considered appropriate and responsible include:
Diagnoses of ADHD for a two-year-old
Diagnosis of bipolar disorder for a three-year-old
Prescribing three heavily sedating drugs that have not been approved by the FDA for child psychiatric treatment
Ignoring the warnings from a school nurse about over-dosages
Making diagnoses based almost entirely on the accounts of Rebecca’s mother, and who herself was diagnosed with mental illness and heavily medicated to the point of falling asleep in Kifuji’s office.
So what is wrong with all of this?
1. Corruption of doctors by Big Pharma
Congressional hearings in 2008 revealed that many leaders in the industry were paid to toe the line by drug companies. On June 8, 2008, the New York Times reported about Joseph Biederman: “A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.”
Due in large part to his influence, the number of American children and adolescents treated for bipolar disorder increased 40-fold from 1994 to 2003. Pediatrician and author Lawrence Diller notes about Biederman, “He single-handedly put pediatric bipolar disorder on the map.”
He is similarly a force behind the mega-diagnosing of ADHD. Congressional investigators also discovered Biederman conducted studies of Eli Lilly’s ADHD drug Strattera that were funded by National Institute of Health at the same time he was receiving money from Lilly. We must note the following:
Biederman is not exceptional
Most major mental health institutions are financially interconnected with Big Pharma
American Psychiatric Association, psychiatry’s main professional organization, is on the take. Big Pharma provided 30 percent of the APA’s $62.5 million budget in 2006. The APA is the publisher of the psychiatric diagnostic bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and thus the APA is the institution responsible for creating mental illnesses and disorder names and categories.
2. Manufactured Illnesses and Disorders
Psychiatry’s first DSM (1952) and its DSM-II (1968) listed homosexuality as a mental illness. Only because of a fierce political fight waged in the 1970s by gay activists, APA abolish homosexuality as an illness and eliminate it from its DSM-III (1980). This was not only a victory for themselves but a service for everyone else, as it made public the important scientific problem of psychiatric disorder invalidity. Specifically, are psychiatric disorders valid, or simply behaviors put together to sell drugs?
While homosexuals resisted, other passive groups could be readily victimized – most notably children. They now are routinely given psychiatric diagnoses to rationalize the handing out of dangerous drugs – to the likes of Rebecca. The symptoms of bipolar disorder include rapidly changing moods, severe temper tantrums, defiance of authority, agitation, sleeping too little and so on, or what virtually every child her age exhibits in one way or another. Hear the cash register ringing out of control for Big Pharma? It is similar situation with symptoms for ADHD. Today, children and teens are also diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), the symptoms of which include “often argues with adults.”
3. Unreliable Diagnoses
A generation ago, psychiatrists admitted that their diagnoses were unreliable. So in 1980, in an attempt to eliminate this embarrassment, they created the DSM-III with concrete behavioral checklists and formal decision-making rules, but they failed to correct the problem. Psychiatric diagnoses remain unreliable, but now psychiatry is no longer talking about it – a cover up for easily selling drugs.
A major 1992 study, conducted at six sites with 600 prospective patients, was done to examine the issue of reliability. <ental health professionals were given extensive training in how to make accurate DSM diagnoses. Herb Kutchins and Stuart Kirk summarize the study in Making Us Crazy (1997)
“What this study demonstrated was that even when experienced clinicians with special training and supervision are asked to use DSM and make a diagnosis, they frequently disagree, even though the standards for defining agreement are very generous. . . . [For example,] if one of the two therapists made a diagnosis of Schizoid Personality Disorder and the other therapist selected Avoidant Personality Disorder, the therapists were judged to be in complete agreement of the diagnosis because they both found a personality disorder—even though they disagreed completely on which one! So even with this liberal definition of agreement, reliability using DSM is not very good.”
Kutchins and Kirk conclude: “Mental health clinicians independently interviewing the same person in the community are as likely to agree as disagree that the person has a mental disorder and are as likely to agree as disagree on which of the over 300 DSM disorders is present.”
4. Biochemical Mumbo Jumbo
What sells drugs is the assurance that biochemical brain imbalances cause mental illnesses. By declaring, for example, that depression was caused by a serotonin imbalance analogous to diabetes being caused by an insulin imbalance, depressed Americans could be prescribed “selective-serotonin-reuptake inhibitors” (SSRIs) Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft.
But the truth is serotonin levels are not associated with depression. Difficult life circumstances are. But giving life-counseling involves time and there is no money in it!
Elliot Valenstein, professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan, reviewed the research in his book Blaming the Brain (1998) and reported that it is just as likely for people with normal serotonin levels to feel depressed as those with abnormal serotonin levels. So the serotonin theory is a sham, again to sell drugs.
In 2002, the New York Times reported: “Researchers knew that antidepressants seemed to raise the brain’s levels of messenger chemicals called neurotransmitters, so they theorized that depression must result from a deficiency of these chemicals. Yet a multitude of studies failed to prove this precept.” Yet even now, many psychiatrists and other mental health professionals continue to promulgate the serotonin imbalance theory, and polls show that most Americans believe it.
5. Pseudoscientific Drug Research
There are multiple tricks that psychiatric drug manufacturers and their researchers can use to make their drugs look falsely effective. One of the most common depression measurements used by researchers paid by drug companies is the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression. The higher the point total, the more depressed someone is, or so we are told. The HRSD is loaded with what is affected by drugs, and so that too is a sham.
Researchers often use what are called inactive placebos such as sugar pills (which don’t create side effects). Independent research shows that inactive placebos can be guessed in relationship to getting the actual drug. In order to make it more difficult to guess correctly, an active placebo with side-effects is needed. In 2000, a Psychiatric Times article concluded: “In fact, when antidepressants are compared with active placebos, there appear to be no differences in clinical effectiveness.” All such tricks, quite commonplace, help to predetermine results and thus to sell drugs. We see the same kind of fraud conducted by Monsanto in selling genetically modified foods to the public.
Independent researcher Irving Kirsch and his research team at the University of Connecticut used the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to all 47 studies that had been sponsored by drug companies on Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Celexa, and Serzone. Kirsch found the majority of the trials for antidepressants failed to outperform a sugar pill placebo (and in the trials where the antidepressant did outperform the placebo, the advantage was slight and eschewed by giving an inactive placebo!
6. Psychotropic Drug Hypocrisy
Chemists consider psychiatric prescription drugs and illegal mood-altering drugs all to be psychotropic or psychoactive. Cocaine and ADHD drugs such as Adderall and other amphetamines affect the neurotransmitters dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine; and antidepressants used in combination also affect the same neurotransmitters. Not only are prescription psychotropics and illegal psychotropics chemically similar, they are used by people for similar reasons. The hypocrisy surrounding illegal and legal prescription psychotropic drugs is harmful.
At one level, people are being misinformed about the realities of prescription psychotropic drugs, they are legitimized to give them to children. This has helped create a tragic phenomenon detailed by investigative reporter Robert Whitaker in his book Anatomy of an Epidemic (2010). Psychiatric drug turn mild episodic conditions into severe and chronic ones. They hugely increase severe mental illness, especially among children.
Then the illegal psychotropic drug hypocrisy allows for criminalizing and incarcerating millions of people who are using psychotropics – and while psychiatrists literally get away with murder
7. Diversion from real causes
When we hear the words disorder, disease or illness, we think of an individual in need of treatment. Mental illness expansionism diverts us from examining a dehumanizing society to giving out pills. This is similar to what the medical profession does in general. If you have a toxic skin condition, don’t go on a detox diet to get to the cause. Rather ingest some symptom suppressing pharmaceutical or have the boil or tumor biopsied, irradiated or cut out – obliterating the effect and the need to deal with the cause. But the cause will come to bite one later.
Today, a handful of dissident mental health professionals resist their profession’s toxic and dehumanizing practices.
Important root cause
Ultimately the problem is so much deeper and with wide impacts.
Pharmaceuticals are math-designed.
Mathematics is the unique symbolism for the universal separation of elements of consciousness.
The essence of consciousness, unbeknownst to the modern world, is a universal relationship of connection in nature.
Thus we have polar opposite inner stances – universal separation and connection – the mathematical and the purely conscious view, and with the former glorified and the latter not.
The mathematical approach works well on the surface, or with the surface appearance of things (separations/cutting things apart brings forth surfaces/surface appearances) and for designing things mechanical or made of separate parts.
But when you drive this not-well-thought-out 17th century, math-based vision of nature too deeply, you oppose (contrary to the view of physics, bioengineering and chemistry) the very depth and core essence of nature – and of ourselves. Healing is connection to wholeness so you also oppose real healing. This are revolutionary statements. This is why a large random mix of chemicals (math-designed) will make a compost heap that once produced life into a dead, super-toxic waste site. You also corrupt and undue living consciousness (which is why Big Pharma and biotech companies concentrate public consciousness deceptions, corrupting scientists as well as promoters and their sales forces). The end result is that we study not the overall effect of chemicals, and the underlying math-based vision driven too deeply (taking in drugs orally and intravenously as deep as possible) but rather isolated chemicals and symptoms in lab-isolations to totally fool us. Whatever goes wrong is just a minor “side-effect.” The foolery is made deeper because we are told this is “hard science to trust” and medical doctors symbolize that trust.
But when senior patients are given designer multiple drugs they end up walking the halls of nursing homes like unconscious Zombies. A darkness of understanding brings this about.
Children die from being given such multiple drugs.
In short, the problem is really very deep. It involves principally our taproot worldview.
This implicates the very vision that led us all to our modern industrial world in the past 400 years.
It had its merits. Technology and machinery offered their benefits. But driven too deeply into living terrains, this vision, this ideology of nature intrinsically corrupts the collective and individual fabric of our inner consciousness. It thereby undermines life, why our world is now non-sustainable. The further misleads the standard-bearers of modern medicines, among others, and as to how best to treat our body and/or our innermost spirit.
Real Solutions
The reader should research our many articles under the tags of mind-body, consciousness, raw-wisdom, andglobal mind change. They deal with not only the symptom but the root cause for why our medical/psychiatric healthcare delivery system is itself in a shambles, misleading, ineffective and seriously ill.
(Healingtalks) The Chinese microblog called Sina Weibo posted a disturbing short message about a high speed train that had slowed to a crawl. It was typed by a young girl with the handle Smm Miao. Within 5 days the message went viral.
Triggering tragedy
The train outside Wenzhou in coastal Zhejiang Province had rammed into another killing 39 people and injuring 192. In short order, China’s microblogs or weibos posted an astounding 26 million messages on the event embarrassed officials to explain how this could have happened. It broke through the quiet of the Railways Ministry.
Attempts to control the Internet failing
This signal the weibos as a social force, despite attempts to control the Internet’s influence.
The government censors can not keep up with millions of tiny posts that spread far faster than censors can monitor. Their popularity also makes controlling them a difficult matter.
Train accident example
As state television was busy covering a murder story in Norway, Sina Weibo weighed in four minutes after the train accident. They reported the power outage, the collision, and stories of children crying and no attendant – and the need for blood transfusions. Within nine minutes over a 100,000 repostings occurred and the local hospital was flooded with calls for blood. All the while, the state media was silent. Then government officials ordered local attorneys not to accept cases from victim families without government permission. After the microblogs exposed this, the order with withdrawn with an apology. Lastly officials tried to bury evidence of the train, including the first car of the oncoming train. When accused of a cover up, the train was unearthed and analyzed.
Signs of a microblog or weibo revolution
This a clear sign of the rising power of microblogs, as we have also seen in the Middle East and now even in the US – influencing Congress and elections.
“I call it the microblogging revolution,” Zhan Jiang, a professor of international journalism and communications at Beijing Foreign Studies University. “In the last year, microbloggers, especially Sina and Tencent, have played more and more a major role in coverage, especially breaking news.”
Domination by two sites
Sina Holdings Ltd.’s Sina Weibo has 140 million users and who are more interested in current events.
Tencent Inc.’s weibo hosts 200 million users and who appear more interested in socializing.
They are similar to our Twitter accounts in that posts are limited to 140 characters but can also include photos and files.The Chinese use these instead of Twiter and Facebook which are blocked. The govenment has not shut down the native microblogs which many see as a steam valve to relieve public frustrations in a safely venting way.
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Based in part on an article by Jonathan Ansfield for the NY Times
(Healingtalks) Far infrared rays emulate the rays of the sun, about 80% of which are infrared. Far infrared are the most healing rays. This was discovered after a decade of testing in Japan
Deeper detox
The light and heat rays of an infrared sauna penetrate more deeply into our skin. As a result, we sweat more and also the detoxification effect is 5-10x more. It is the most powerful antidote I know of for a continuous protection in our polluted world. It especially helps remove heavy metal deposits, and instead of using expensive chelation therapies.
Weight loss
Infrared saunas are a means to lose weight as 400-600 calories are burnt up with a 30 minute far infrared sauna.
Clears the mind
This is the part that I like the most, why I take a home sauna for 15 minutes or more every morning and evening in my relax infrared portable sauna.
Improves energy
Some see this immediately, and for me it took three months of continuous use to experience a huge energy improvement. Gabriel Cousens would say that to go through life with a toxic body is like driving a car with the brakes on.
Beautifies
Saunas can clear the pores of our skin and help remove excess fat deposits and blemishes. Within the first couple of weeks of using our sauna, we had boils break out and then clear up as part of the detoxification- ultimately yielding smoother and more radiant skin.
Increases Circulation and speeds would healing
This is a big one. We have seen diabetic leg ulcers cleared up in seven weeks by using the same infrared technology – and largely because it dilates and re-conditions circulation. This is why NASA astronauts used infrared technologies in lieu of exercise because otherwise their muscles would atrophy due to weightlessness in outer space.
Relieves aches and pains
This is because of the combination of toxin removal and enhanced circulation.
Promotes sound sleep
This is why I also do a short sauna every night before going to bed, and in order to sleep like a baby.
Simulates a work out
For those who are physically challenged, an infrared sauna simulates the sweating and increased circulation of a workout. For athletes it helps remove lactic acid and speeds recuperation during exercise rest periods.
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(Healingtalks) Use of the term “organic” in a personal care product apparently does not ensure that they meet USDA-NOPstandards (or of the US Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program. Personal care products labeled “organic” either
Are purely organic
May contain ingredients considered organic but not certified organic
Contain absolutely no organic content at all.
Contain harmful and toxic ingredients.
Initial consumer campaign
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has started a “Coming Clean Campaign” to limit organic claims on personal care products to only those certified to USDA organic standards. Over 600 companies have joined the campaign since 2004.
New bans
Earlier in 2010, key retailers including Whole Foods Markets and National Cooperative Grocers Association stores announced a banning of products bearing false organic labels. It will force these brands to either change their labels or reformulate their products.
USA Seal
Currently, the USDA certifies personal care products with 95–100% organic ingredients and for companies that comply with its standards. These products are allowed to bear the USDA Organic seal.
The Organic Consumers Association, natural channel retailers and major body care companies are pressuring on the USDA to regulate this label in the same way they do for food and beverage products.
Growing statistics
According to SPINSscan Natural and SPINSscan Conventional data (for natural supermarkets excluding Whole Foods, Conventional Food/Drug/Mass excluding WalMart), sales of 100% organic body care products rose37.8% over the past year to $2,930,719.
Natural body care items labeled 95–99% organic experienced a 33.1% growth during the same timeframe (total sales of $8,383,609). These data represent the 52-week period ending October 2, 2010, compared with the prior year (52 weeks ending October 3, 2009).
II – GMOs
GMOs are not living up to their claims and offer us huge health and environmental hazards.
False hype plus dangers of GMOs
A growing body of scientific evidence shows that GMO crops do not produce increased yields, are not really drought tolerant, create more expenses for the farmer and ultimately yield deficient crops. In short, there is a deception. Moreover, animal studies have found GMO foods to pose serious health risks including abnormal changes to major organs with stomach ulcers, enlarged livers, precancerous conditions and reduced fertility.
Human research study of GMOs
To date, there has only been one published study on the effects of GMO foods on humans. The study found potential health hazards that were never further examined (1).
Labeling of GMOs and non-GMO products
In response to consumer concerns, retailers helped to start the Non-GMO Project, a non-profit organization that aides shoppers to identify which products are not genetically modified. This created a third-party verification program with its own uniform seal for products that do not have GMO ingredients. The Non-GMO trend is taking root among retailers and shoppers.
Common GMO produce
GMO crops to be on the look out for are canola, cotton, corn, sugar beets, Hawaiian papaya, zucchini and crookneck squash. Many more are in the future pipe lines.
GMO trend statistics
The Non-GMO Project’s label is the first one indicating a third-party verification or testing for GMOs. During the 52-week period ending October 2, 2010, sales of Non-GMO Project-certified foods were $343,201,976. This is a 14.4% growth compared with the previous year (52 weeks ending October 3, 2009), according to SPINSscan Natural and SPINSscan Conventional (natural supermarkets excluding Whole Foods, Conventional Food/Drug/Mass excluding WalMart).
Awareness and controversy grows
As the awareness of the dangers of GMOs increases, so does the legal and legislative controversy. Several states are considering laws that will mandate GMO labeling. Also individuals and organizations are filing lawsuits, to fight back. The recent lawsuit against the USDA over the agency’s decision to allow the immediate planting of genetically modified sugar beets (2) is a case in point
III – Gluten Free
Another hot issue and major consumer trend is Gluten-free foods. This address the needs of shoppers with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity.
Celiac Disease
Celiac disease is a serious autoimmune reaction. It damages the small intestine, potentially leading to malnutrition and deficiency diseases. This disorder is found in genetically disposed individuals who eat gluten, a protein found in many grains including wheat, rye and barley. About 1% of the US population has celiac disease (3). The majority remain undiagnosed for the percentage is likely much higher. It is not common to test for celiac disease or gluten sensitivity.
Growing awareness
Mounting awareness, self-diagnosis and going to alternative health practitioners has hotly moved this issue into the limelight.
Statistics on Gluten free products
In the natural and conventional FDM channels, gluten-free foods experienced a 16.3% growth in the 52-week period ending October 2, 2010 (source: SPINSscan Natural, SPINSscan Conventional, powered by Nielsen). SPINs estimates gluten-free sales during this period reached over $2.5 billion.
Reading Labels
Reading labels has gotten easier where there are new verification programs in place with readily identifiable seals. More stringent labeling laws are coming to assist consumers.
(Healingtalks) SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) has not been enacted, a ploy to censor and control the Internet by the US government, has been shelved for the time being in Congress. But several key Congressmen have promised it will be back on the agenda as soon as next month.
“Cyberwar”
In the meantime, and without the teeth of SOPA, there was a raid earlier yesterday that shut down the file sharing service Megaupload
At least 20 warrants were served and seven arrests made internationally.
Hactivists’ response
Hacktivists responded quickly. The websites for the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group , US Copyright Office, Warner Music, BMI, and RIAA were frozen. At around 7:40 PM ET, FBI.gov finally went down. Ongoing attacks have also been waged against WhiteHouse.gov, the official site for the Executive Branch of the United States.
More coming
“It was in retaliation for Megaupload,” Barrett Brown confirms to RT. A frequent collaborator with Anonymous, he is part of a campaign aimed at attacking Congressmen who support the SOPA and PIPA legislations.
“We can expect a great deal of havoc of the sort we saw today. We’re going to see it in a stepped up fashion,” adds Brown.
(Healingtalks)Bernando LaPallo of Mesa, Arizona is turning 111 years old this year.
He tells his secrets for not only longevity but vitality – a long life without cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, asthma, brittle and bent bones, and a host of common disabilities.
What does he do to accomplish that?
Does he use high tech drugs, surgery, radiation and/or genetic therapies? No! In fact staying as far away as possible from such militaristic medical approaches is part of his secret.
This author and role model advises us to keep it simple and with that offers a few easy to follow tips:
Longevity suggestions
Here are a few of his natural approaches to add the following to your life, and organic whenever possible
Cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil: as a skin lotion; for salad dressing
Dark chocolate: reduces stress, depression; lowers blood pressure
Garlic: helps the immune system
Cinnamon: antibacterial and antifungal
Honey: antioxidant and antibacterial properties.
Raw vegetable juice: A decent juicer costs less than $100
Exercise daily
Nature really provides us with all we need to lead a long and healthy life, if we don’t get side-tracked. Nature provides us with what can build a strong bones, muscles and a protective immune system.
Keep it simple
That is why we advocate the most simple of principles – take the best in, get the worst out, circulated both processes the best, and make sure your mind keeps you on track – thus using nutrition, detoxification, exercise and mind/body therapies. Juicing is a good way to both nourish and detox your body simultaneously. Certain foods can put us in a good mood and then we just need to get a little daily exercise to keep it all pumping.
Don’t be fooled by “advanced” and complex modern medical scams holding up the scavenging of the old and sick to reap billions of dollars of profits.
To live long and vitally, we can follow Bernando LaPallo’s example.
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(Healingtalks) SOPA or “Stop Online Piracy Act” and PIPA or “Protect IP Act” are attempts to give the government the unconstitutional power to shut down any site it sees fit, and thus to censor and control the Internet and without due process or judicial review.
We at Healingtalks will be shut down too
If these bills become the law of the land, Healingtalks.com will be endangered.
Your favorite sites will undoubtedly disappear.
In fact, Section 105 of SOPA allows the U.S. government to shut down websites it deems as “endangering public health.” Most major alternative health and news sites will likely be the first targets to set a fearful example. In fact, there is hardly are more blatant step the government can take to shutdown our democracy and the creation of a corporate police state.
Seriousness of what is at stake
Make no mistake about the seriousness of this issue: If SOPA or PIPA there will be a seizure and shutdown of virtually all alternative news websites — especially those that disagree with the criminal corruption of Washington and its agents.
Imagine what life would be like if you couldn’t get real news and information on the Internet and had to rely on the sanitized and manipulated news of the major media, now mostly controlled and coordinated by six corporations
Battle between freedom and tyranny
The battle between freedom and tyranny will be won or lost on the major highways of truth that are left open to us, principally the Internet. It is what the global elite corporatists, bankstersand the military industrial complex can’t run and control. So they want to shut its free expressions down as this poses a grave threat to th
The run mainstream media, Congress, and much of the flow of wealth. All that stands in the way of a complete takeover is the Internet’s exposing them.
Your opposition is critically important
They are desperate to crush internet freedom and SOPA is the tool they need to accomplish that. This is why your opposition to SOPA is absolutely crucial. It’s also why internet giants such as Wikipedia and Reddit have joined in this one-day protest against the tyranny of SOPA and what is fast becoming a government-sponsored “information terrorism” campaign against free speech.
Take action NOW before its too late
We can’t afford to lose our greatest avenue of free speech. Take action NOW to express your opposition to SOPA and PIPA
Click to email your House Representative: http://house.gov/htbin/findrep (Use the little envelope icon that appears to the right of the picture to send them an email.)
Click to email your U.S. Senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm (Use the “web form” link.)
Send your representatives and Senator a short but strong message that covers the following…. You urge them to oppose and vote against SOPA and PIPA otherwise you will vote against any candidate who supports and/or votes for these bill.
Alternatively call the capitol switchboard at: (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected with your representatives office.
Even if Obama says he will oppose SOPA and PIPA, don’t put too much trust in that
. Such deception has been the norm lately.
Don’t be fooled.
Too much is at stake
Obama also promised he would veto the NDAA, and then signed a worse version he lobbied for, and quietly on New Years Day
After the uproar dies down, we have to be doubly alert.
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(Healingtalks) Thar news stories have died down about honeybee die-offs doesn’t mean the problem of “colony collapse disorder” has disappeared. It’s happening ever more with a vengeanc and the growing use of pesticide.
Growing extent of bee colony die offs
Commercial beekeepers have seen average population losses of about 30 percent annually since 2006, said Paul Towers, of the Pesticide Action Network. Towers brought together beekeepers and environmental groups at a recent conference to tacke on the challenges facing the beekeeping industry.
“We are inching our way toward a critical tipping point,” said Steve Ellis, secretary of the National Honey Bee Advisory Board (NHBAB) and a beekeeper for 35 years. Last year his bee die-offs qualified him for disaster relief from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Bee colony disappearances
Another mysterious phenomenon in that entire bee colonies, probably too poisoned and disoriented to be able to return to their hives, will literally disappear.
Bee populations also suffering from:
Poor health in general
Shorter life spans
Diminished vitality.
Chief cause of bees dying
While parasites, pathogens, and habitat loss can affect bee health, research increasingly points to pesticides as the primaryculprit.
“In the industry we believe pesticides play an important role in what’s going on,” said Dave Hackenberg, co-chair of the NHBAB and a beekeeper in Pennsylvania.
Pesticides being studied
Of special concern among pesticides are the following
A group called neonicotinoids (neonics for short), especially one called clothianidin. Neonics are used to treat seeds, thus being absorbed by the plant’s who blood stream and then attacking the central nervous systems of bees that come to collect pollen.
Virtually all of today’s genetically engineered Bt corn is treated with neonics. Research shows bees collect pollen feast on corn plants and have other exposures to neonics.
Importance of bees
One out of every three bites of food on our plates comes directly from plants that need bee pollination.
So action needs to be taken, before its too late.
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(Healingtalks) Most readers proably know that the NDAA act passed by Congress on December 15, 2011 allowed for the arrest of any US citizen on US soil, just by accusation of being a so-called “terrorist,” without any rights to an attorney or hearing in any Court, and for indefinite detention, brutalization and possible murder. This shreds the Bill of Rights. And the only way a government can get away with such crimes is by not having free press. What are corporate-controlled mass media do not serve as such a free press. However, they are being challenged by the Internet.
A Worst or Likely Scenario?
Into this picture comes the following:
FEMA camps activated – We find there is not a minor but vast effort now to start to man FEMA camps on 72 hours notice, and where several are designed to house millions of inmates. Who might those inmates be?
War is declared with Iran – This war is already underway, and can easily be pretext for marshal law to protect America (but actually destroying what is left of America.) The recent economic embargo of Iran is an act of war. In addition, American and European military forces are rapidly being deploy for a military confrontation with Iran. British, Russian, French and American warships are all actually headed for waters in the vicinity of Iran. China and Russia have pledged to defend Iran. So a war with Iran equates to a Third World War. If that happens, oil prices shoot will go through the roof. This may cause more economic stresses and possible riots in the streets. If not, undercover and sinister elements in government can stage riots (as undercover agents tied amidst Occupy Wall Street protesters).
Presidential Executive Orders kick in – These call upon the president having the authority, via delegation, to take over just about everything and anything in the event of marshal law. See Alex Jones, Police State 4. The presidential executive order also allow for the enlisting of millions into forced work camps via conscription, which the nearly 1000 FEMA camps around the country are designed to accommodate.
Our free press is shutdown – This is the most critical element to make all of the above work. What are the signs of that happening. First SOPA and PIPA are two acts before Congress that could effectively destroy the Internet. The first vote on these bills is scheduled for later in January. If they pass, you can kiss Internet freedom goodbye. Lastly, imagine there is the monitoring the media for FEMA camp arrests. Homeland “Security” began this kind of monitoring of media personalities and activist websites in 2010.
The last step is actually the most important toward establishing a police state.
This is exactly what Hitler did in 1933, after the false flag burning down the Reichestag, (the equivalent of 9/11) then requesting huge powers to destroy citizen’s rights in order to make “secure” the Heimland. First a few prominent news media people were then arrested, and as examples. Most all the rest were then intimidated into silence or else also “eliminated.”
Journalist and social media monitoring
Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has written permission to now gather and store information on social media and online networking sites and the individuals who run them.
Specifically, the Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) can collect personal information from news anchors, journalists, reporters or anyone who uses traditional media or “social media in real time to keep their audiences… aware and informed.”
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s own proclamations, such data can be used to identify individuals were gave out certain information to the public. In short,any reporteror blogger can be victimized.
Government officials and others also can be spied upon
Also included in the roster are government officials. “persons known to have been involved in major crimes of Homeland Security interest,” which to itself opens up the possibilities even wider.
Why does the government needs to spy on us
Without legal warrants, our government, which no longer represents us, now gathering data on those who bring “uncontrolled” news to the public. Are they any real threat to national security? Or more really are they a threat to an elite who have totally trashed our Constitution, and vastly raped the public economically?
During the governments bank-bailout, Congress was threatened with a market meltdown which was pure fear-mongering, as well as a possible marshal law in the US if Congress did not enact that bailout! And this bailout gave the bankers trillions of dollars of support, funded by US taxpayers who are being bankrupted and left homeless.
More signs of a looming police state coming
Last month the Boston Police Department and the Suffolk Massachusetts District Attorney subpoenaed Twitter over details pertaining to recent tweets involving the Occupy Boston protests. The website Fast Company reports that the intel collected by the Department of Homeland Security under the NOC Monitoring Initiative has been happening as early as 2010.
(Healingtalks) Research reveals that processed and sugary foods have an addictive impact on the brain, and with withdrawal symptoms similar to that of drug addictions.
This is based on the investigative reports of Bloomberg’s Robert Langreth and Duane Stanford. They discovered and compiled studies that provided cumulative evidence that high sugar diets are essentially unhealthy and addictive. However, it is in the manufacture’s best interest to sell products of that strongly lure consumers and in order to achiever higher profits
Furthermore, the attempt to conceal this fact mimics the behavior of tobacco companies.
Overwhelming data
According to a National Library of Medicine database, and verifying the addictive nature of high-sugar-laden foods, a whopping 28 scientific studies and papers have been published on this, and in just this year alone. These findings reveal exactly how high refined sugar and fructose corn syrup ingredients do cause brain changes and addictive behavior. Here is a sample:
University of Texas – A career of overeating causes blunted reward receipt, the same symptom of chronic drug abuse.
Princeton University – Sugar addicts suffer withdrawal symptoms including anxiety, shakes and tremors. In addition physiological damage to dopamine receptors in the brain, similar to those seen in animals on addictive drugs.
University of Bordeaux – Researches were stunned when rats prefer sugar water sweetened to hits of cocaine
University of Florida – Viewing images of sugary drinks caused areas of the brain to become hyperactive in the same way an alcoholics does when anticipating a drink.
Scripps Research Institute in Florida – Found damage to the brain’s reward centers may occur when people eat excessive quantities of food.
Harvard University researcher – Highly processed foods may cause rapid spikes and declines in blood sugar, increasing cravings.
National Institute on Drug Abuse - We are finding tremendous overlap between drugs in the brain and food in the brain.
Journal Nature Neuroscience – Results produced the same brain pattern that occurs with an escalating intake of cocaine.
Obesity epidemic
In the U.S., 1/3rd of adults and 17 percent of teens and children are obese, and the numbers are increasing (Langreth & Stanford, 2011). Obese individuals are addicted to foods that are carefully designed to deceive the palate and thus to cause excessive cravings that are impossible to satisfy.
Sugar Addictions
As a result, our modern diet is really creating dependent “food-patients” who become sick and lack the knowledge or will to change their ways.
‘Modern processing creates food with concentrated levels of sugars, unhealthy fats and refined flour, without redeeming levels of fiber or nutrients. Constant stimulation with tasty, calorie- laden foods may desensitize the brain’s circuitry, leading people to consume greater quantities of junk food to maintain a constant state of pleasure’ (Langreth & Stanford, 2011).
Selling shallow happiness
Manufactures use science to create products that intentionally overstimulate taste buds. They then sell those products to the public, especially children, and using millions of dollars for savvy marketing. They offer up images of ‘happiness’ to an otherwise bored, stressed or depressed population – and which often affects young adults and children the most.
The resulting food addictions then become clear early on, as when a mother sees her children all crying in a supermarket due to their latest craving for a candy or ‘sugar fix’.
Changing our diets
A time will come when food manufactures will come under stricter regulations, those that can balances taste and nutrition, plus to provide consumer ample information to make educated choices. Until that time, ‘buyer beware’ when choosing various foods and snacks. When weaning off processed sugar products, one should know, and deeply process that fact that the health benefits of getting off this sugar addiction exceed by far the pleasure of a‘quick ‘sugar fix.’
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(Healingtalks) It may come as a startling surprise that fluoride is really a recognized toxic industrial waste chemical that is dumped irresponsibly into our public water supply to save certain mining industries millions of dollars. This is done under the pretense of helping the public to reduce their tooth decay.
Numerous studies, however, have concluded that fluoridated water is not safe to drink because the “consumption of sodium fluorideresults in brain and neurological damage,” according to Kurt Nimmo from Prison Planet.
A false ploy
American Water, representing the industry’s view, claims that by adding a so-called ‘safe’ amount of fluoride into our public water supply we will see a significant decrease in tooth decay (even though it may cause a minor side-effect of teeth discoloration). Putting aside such clever Machiavellian propaganda, 37 cities and communities across the US and Canada decided to do away their public fluoridation programs in 2011.
What is fluoride?
What is fluoride and what makes it so harmful to the brain?
It turns out that “fluoride” is fluorosilicic acid, a highly toxic waste byproduct of the phosphate mining industry. So if it wasn’t being dumped into the water supply, it would have been disposed as a hazardous toxic waste product or chemicalunder EPA rules (Adams, 2011).
There is no ‘safe level’ when it comes to consuming a hazardous chemicals either directly or indirectly.
Studies of fluoridated water
Numerous studies of fluoride show its dangers. These include the following
American study – Harvard’s Dr. Phyllis Mullenix discovered that fluoride caused motor dysfunction, IQ deficits and learning disabilities in humans.
Indian study- A recent study of fluoride and its dangers was published by K. Pratap Reddy of the University College of Sciences at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, on January 10, 2011.Fluoride resulted in neuro-degenerative changes or nerve damage that was observed in the neocortex, hippocampus and cerebellum areas of the brain and also in the spinal cord and sciatic nerve. Damage to the hippocampus often results in hyperactivity as well as difficulty in learning and with concentration.
Chinese study - A recent Chinese study concluded that low dose sodium fluoride in water diminishes IQ, especially among children. Actually the above are the 23rd and 24th such international studies with the same conclusion.
What happens at reduced, supposedly ‘safe’ levels
In January 2011, the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a report that admitted 2 in 5 children in America show signs of fluoride poisoning (streaking, spotting or pitting of teeth due to dental fluorosis). But instead of calling for an end to fluoridation of our public water supplies, the agency the levels should just be reduced. They acceptable fluoride levels went down to 0.7 milligrams per litre from 1.2 milligrams per litre (Adams, 2011).
Renegade cities
Not following the feeble efforts of corrupt government regulators, 37 cities in the US and Canada decided to put an end on their own to water fluoridation. From small towns like Tellico, Tenn, with 900 residents, to cities like Calgary, Alberta, with over 1.3 million residents, these locales rid themselves of this outrageously harmful poison in the public water supply (Huff, 2011). Thanks to groups such as the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), devoted to exposing the truth about the toxicity and dangers of fluoride, more bans are on the way.
Hopefully this steady momentum will continue through 2012 until every city in the nation has a truly clean and pure water supply, uncorrupted by such harmful influences.
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(Healingtalks) Learning the best of core exercises is vitally important for many vital reasons. Among them are the following.
A strong core will:
Stabilize your spine
Maintain an alignment between your pelvis and your spine
Protect you against too much stress when you use your arms and legs
Provide energy that originates in your torso, which is then transferred to your arms and legs
Strengthen every other exercise or physical challenge you may encounter
Or in the negative your core is weak, every other exercise you might do will be sub par.
Training the core thus becomes vital. But how best do you work the core?
There are a lot of options.
Are common core exercises the best?
Most core workouts include sit ups and crunches.
That may not be the best choice for you.
Creating stress on the spine
The following exercises put a lot of stress on your spine:
Traditional sit-up imposes approximately 730 pounds of compression on the spine.
Back extensions create 890lbs of compression on the spine.
Floor exercises such as the “Superman” inflict over 1300lbs of spinal load and compression.
That equals a lot of stress on your spine, but there are alternatives.
Better approaches to core strength
You don’t need to do millions of crunches to get your rock hard abs. Check out the video below from Nathane Jackson and you’ll see what we mean. It is wise, more fun and less exausting to get his kind of abs without the stress to your spine.
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(Healingtalks) This article was taken from Infowars.com and is a serious warning of things on the horizon – namely the suppression of political dissent and the establishment of the equivalent of a police state. The text and videos powerfully support each other. Don’t be caught be surprise later this year.
Nathan Batalion Global Health Activist
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Infowars.com has received a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provides details on a push to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States. Entitled “Project Overview and Anticipated Project Requirements,” the document describes services KBR is looking to farm out to subcontractors. The document was passed on to us by a state government employee who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.
Services up for bid include catering, temporary fencing and barricades, laundry and medical services, power generation, refuse collection, and other services required for temporary “emergency environment” camps located in five regions of the United States.
Internment Camp Services Bid Arrives After NDAA
KBR’s call for FEMA camp service bids arrives soon after the Senate overwhelmingly passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which permits the military to detain and interrogate supposed domestic terror suspects in violation of the Fourth Amendment and Posse Comitatus.
Section 1031 of the NDAA bill declares the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allows American citizens to be arrested on U.S. soil and incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay.
A number of civil liberties groups have come out in strong opposition to the legislation, most notably the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the nation’s oldest and largest Asian American civil and human rights organization.
In 2006, KBR was awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security, allegedly to support its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency, Market Watch reported.
The contract was effective immediately and provided for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said. The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company explained.
The regions indicated in the KBR document.
Army Releases Civilian Inmate Labor Program Document
Soon after KBR’s announcement, a little-known Army document surfaced. Entitled the “Civilian Inmate Labor Program,” the unclassified document describes in detail Army Regulation 210-35. The regulation, first drafted in 1997, underwent a “rapid act revision” in January 2005 and now provides a policy for the creation of labor programs and prison camps on Army installations.
In 2009, the National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645 was introduced in Congress. It mandates the establishment of “national emergency centers” to be located on military installations for the purpose of providing “temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster,” according to the bill.
In addition to emergencies, the legislation is designed to “meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security,” an open ended mandate which many fear could mean the forced detention of American citizens in the event of widespread rioting after a national emergency or total economic collapse, as Paul Joseph Watson noted in January of 2009. Video on the “highly sensitive” subject of suspending the Constitution
Also in 2009, the Army National Guard began posting advertisements calling for Internment/Resettlement Specialists, a fact noted by Infowars.com, Prison Planet.com and other alternative media outlets but ignored by the establishment media.
Precursor: Rex 84 Mass Detention Operation
Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was established under the pretext of a “mass exodus” of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican/US border, the same pretense used in the language of the KBR request for services.
During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, however, it was revealed that the program was a secretive “scenario and drill” developed by the federal government to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government to be “national security threats.”
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Rex 84 was devised by Col. Oliver North, who was with the NSC and appointed liaison to FEMA. John Brinkerhoff, the deputy director of “national preparedness” programs for FEMA, and North designed the plan on a 1970 report written by FEMA chief Louis Giuffrida, at the Army War College, which proposed the detention of up to 21 million “American Negroes” in the event of a black militant uprising in the United States.
DHS Coordinating Occupy Arrests
Following a crackdown by police on Occupy Wall Street protesters around the nation, Oakland, California, mayor Jean Quan mentioned during an interview with the BBC that she was on a conference call with leaders of 18 US cities shortly before a wave of raids broke up Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country. It was later discovered that the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal police agencies had coordinated the often violent response to the protests.
New York Rep. Peter King, who heads up the House Homeland Security Subcommittee, signaled a sense of urgency when he said the federal government has “to be careful not to allow this movement to get any legitimacy. I’m taking this seriously in that I’m old enough to remember what happened in the 1960′s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.”
The federal government responded similarly in the 1960s and 70s when the FBI organized and unleashed its unconstitutional secret police under the covert banner of COINTELPRO.
In addition to the DHS characterizing Americans supporting states’ rights and the Constitution as terrorists, the Defense Department’s Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course in 2009 advised its personnel that political protest amounts to “low-level terrorism.”
The KBR document is more evidence that the federal government has established internment camps and plans to fill them with dissidents and anti-government activists that have been demonized consistently by the establishment media.
The NDAA was crafted precisely to provide the legal mechanism for tasking the military to round up activists it conflates with al-Qaeda terrorists. The plan was initially envisioned by Rex 84 and in particular Operation Garden Plot, an operational plan to use the Army, USAF, Navy, and Marine Corp. in direct support of civil disturbance control operations. It has since added numerous elements under the rubric of Continuity of Government, the overall war on terror, civil disturbance and emergency response.
The government has patiently put into place the crucial elements of its police state grid and overarching plan for the internment of political enemies.
We are quite literally one terror event away from the plan going live. As the DHS and the establishment media keep telling us, the next terror event will be on American soil and not the work of al-Qaeda but domestic patriot political groups. The FBI has specialized in creating domestic terrorists – or rather patsies – and shifting the blame over to their political enemies.
(Healingtalks) Mike Adam’s of naturalnews offers his annual predictions. Many are of a startling if gloomy kind – except for a few bright spots.
Bright spots
The bright spots include an expansion of the alternative press and some breakthroughs in alternative energy and other technologies – which we certainly are on the cusp of.
Gloomy predictions
Some of his gloomy predictions may be exaggerated and too negative. But I like to be aware of the worst possible scenarios so that some preparation is made- if at a minimum psychologically. Who would have predicted the current economic downturn. Actually a few savvy economists and futurists did. So listen up.
I come from a holocaust-surviving family
Remember I was born to a Holocaust surviving family, and there are dozens of horrid signs that America is copying, step by step exactly what Hitler did in 1933 to subvert a long-standing, healthy and vibrant democracy.
Oh It can’t happen here. Well, know the facts.
Marshal law and preparations for war with Iran
Right now America is preparing for a war with Iran and which can be a pretense for declaring marshal law in the US come this fall. So many preparations for this are in place, especially the NDAA act just passed, that to ignore such facts is foolish.
An incredible year ahead of us
Thus I am passing this on to our readers. Many are likely to be accurate. Hopefully most are not.
So be prepared for one of the most incredible years ever.
Nathan Batalion
Global Health Activist
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Mike Adams:
I’ve been posting predictions each year for the last three years, usually with a 3-year window.
2010 predictions that came true:
In 2010, I posted a list of 36 predictions for 2010 – 2012, many of which have already come true, including:
• War on health freedom ramps up, targeting raw milk (the FDA targeted Rawesome Foods in 2011, making it the biggest raw milk raid in history) (http://www.naturalnews.com/033220_R…)
• New attempts made to destroy internet freedoms (SOPA act introduced in 2011, a total internet censorship law). (http://www.naturalnews.com/034407_a…)
These predictions were made nearly two years ago. Of course, many predictions on that list did not come true, and some may yet come true in 2012 (http://www.naturalnews.com/028167_p…).
• New attacks on internet freedom (SOPA act happened in 2011)
• Rapid rises in food prices (now widely reported as happening throughout 2011)
• Acceleration of the economic downfall of America, along with possible debt downgrades (already happened).
• Within a generation, many of the people raised on GMOs and vaccines will discover they are giving birth to mutants or not able to have children at all. (Infertility is already on the rise, and more evidence of this will emerge in the years ahead…)
25 new predictions for 2012 – 2015:
Carrying on with this new year tradition, here’s a new round of predictions for 2012 and beyond. Before you read these, keep in mind that while these are primarily “negative” predictions, there will always be a positive backlash in terms of the awakening of the People who need to be shaken back to reality in order to do three things:
1) Realize what’s coming.
2) Take precautions to get through it.
3) Play a constructive role in the rebuilding of society and the advancement of human civilization.
Despite what you read here, I am an optimist for 2012 and beyond. In fact, I recently wrote about 2012 being the “Year of Consciousness” in which all the economic collapse events, the wars, the loss of freedoms and other similar events will only accelerate the awakening that’s necessary for global change to occur. (http://www.naturalnews.com/034554_c…)
So as you read these predictions, keep in mind that for every negative action, there is an equal and opposite positive backlash (reaction) that must follow. In the end, those who honor freedom, liberty, the protection of life and the sacredness of the divine will be victorious against the dark servants of destruction, deception and greed.
#1 – The European Union breaks apart – the financial strain will not be bearable, and even though both the ECB and the Federal Reserve will try to bail out the debt of major banks, they will be unable to cover the tens of trillions in bad debt, and several global banks will fail, followed by the partial or complete breakup of the EU itself. Germany, tired of carrying the debt of nations like Greece, will lead the way back to national sovereignty and away from the EU.
#2 – Israel attacks Iran, then blames Iran – This event will almost certainly be justified based on fabricated intel or false flag events that drag the USA and much of the western world into this conflict. Expect this to happen as early as October, 2012, just in time to prop up Obama for the U.S. Presidential election. Expect tactical, low-yield nuclear weapons to be used in this war.
#3 – Oil prices briefly surpass $200 a barrel – Due to the war on Iran, oil prices will briefly spike above $200 / barrel, sending shockwaves across the U.S. economy and causing food prices to rapidly rise.
#4 – Social unrest spreads across America – expect a record increase in mall riots, street fights, city protests and general thuggishness across America as the out-of-work masses become increasingly perturbed.
#5 – A new crime wave sweeps across western nations as unemployed, desperate men turn to stealing and looting to put food on the table. Expect to see record thefts of metals such as copper, and watch as the attacks increasingly target previously unthinkable targets such as churches, hospitals and nursing homes.
#6 – Gun sales beat all previous records – Sales of firearms were already sky-high in 2011, thanks to Obama’s clever attacks on the Second Amendment (Operation Fast & Furious, pulled off by Eric Holder). In one day alone, Black Friday, a whopping 129,000 firearms were sold across America. Daily gun sales will continue to escalate all through 2012, and I predict that we will see a whopping 20 million guns sold across America in calendar 2012. Most of these sales will be to “preppers” — people who realize something’s coming down and want to protect themselves and their families against the inevitable rise of armed looters. Remember, these are gun sales to legal owners who are going through proper background checks and legally acquiring firearms for self defense.
#7 – Gold prices break through $2500 / ounce – At first, gold prices will likely fall in 2012. This will happen as the EU financial system implodes, causing a rush into dollars and a corresponding fall in gold prices. But this will be short-lived, and gold will then trend all the way to $2500 / ounce (or beyond). Once the U.S. dollar starts getting hammered in a global debt breakdown (which might still take several years to occur), expect gold to head into the stratosphere, possibly $5,000 / ounce or more.
#8 – Real unemployment exceeds Great Depression era levels – Expect real unemployment in America to hit 25% or even higher. It’s already at 22% if you count unemployment the old-fashioned way (i.e. what percentage of adults are out of work) instead of playing statistical smoke and mirrors like the paperwork weasels in Washington. I think we’ll actually see unemployment hitting 30% or higher following the global debt collapse (which may still take several years more to fully unravel).
#9 – The collapse of food pollinators continues – The collapse of both honeybee and bat populations will continue to decline as the world is poisoned with cell phone towers, chemical pesticides and GMOs. This, in turn, will decrease food production capacity and cause food prices to rise even further. Scientists will continue to study the issue, but political pressure from chemical pesticide manufacturers will suppress the real science and try to deflect blame away from pesticides.
#10 – Major bank failures rock the world – Expect to see a major bank such as Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, or Wells Fargo to go belly-up as its debt burden becomes unbearable. The Fed, of course, will try to bail out these banks with new money creation, but some of these banks have tens of trillions of dollars in debt. That’s too large for the Fed to just print up.
#11 – FDIC goes bankrupt – Following the failure of a major FDIC-insured bank (see above), the FDIC will be immediately bankrupt, requiring a huge bailout effort from Washington. This could quickly cascade into bank run fears that cause the government to order bank holidays until the panic eases. A bank holiday is a fancy way for the government to stage bank closings so that you can’t get your money out. By the time they reopen the banks, most of your money will be history.
#12 – The rise of the real media (alternative media) – The real media (i.e. the alternative media) will explode in popularity in 2012 and beyond as more and more people wake up to the reality that mainstream media is purely fabricated news served up for the sole purpose of keeping people brainwashed, hypnotized, and buying more stuff that will kill them (sodas, prescription medications, toxic personal care products, etc.). NaturalNews.com, which is heading toward 4 million unique visitors a month, will surge to 5 or 6 million.
#13 – Local Sheriffs and police rage against the machine – Led by patriots such as Sheriff Richard Mack, more local sheriffs and police are going to assert their Constitutional rights against federal tyranny. This may result in clashes or even armed standoffs between the feds and local law enforcement.
#14 – US troops refuse to fire on Americans – Thanks to Obama’s signing of the NDAA, you can eventually expect US troops to operate on American soil (http://www.naturalnews.com/034537_N…). Many of those troops, however, will refuse to arrest or fire upon American citizens.
#15 – There is a small chance of a military coup in America as the U.S. military gets totally fed up with the criminals in Washington who lie to them, send them into battle and then deny them health care benefits when they return as veterans. Although this is a relatively small chance right now, it would increase substantially if the President orders U.S. troops to arrest and fire upon American citizens on the streets of America. This is more of a 5-10 year prediction, actually.
#16 – Mainstream media desperately tries to smear Ron Paul – This prediction is a no-brainer, of course. Ron Paul will be viciously and repeatedly attacked through the use of completely fabricated mainstream media lies. This is all part of the last-ditch effort to keep Ron Paul out of the White House, where he would start dismantling Big Government, the military industrial complex, and even the FDA.
#17 – The TSA will stage a terror event in order to justify its own existence – Under fire for molesting travelers and strip-searching elderly women in wheelchairs, the TSA is looking hard for some way to justify its own existence (and expand its budget, of course). This will culminate in a TSA-run false flag attack on U.S. soil, involving numerous fatalities. As the TSA wants to expand its authority to train stations, bus stations and stadiums, you can fully expect such an attach to prioritize those targets.
The most likely place to stage an attack is either a bus station or a stadium, and the likely mode of attack will be a chemical weapon (poison gas, like happened in Japan’s subway attacks) or an explosive device. While overall the FBI is staffed with honorable men and women, certain rogue elements of the FBI may also be involved in plotting these attacks, as they have already plotted numerous “terrorism” attacks and even supplies the weapons to the terrorists! (http://www.naturalnews.com/034325_F…)
#18 – The next pandemic will be spread by scientists working for the vaccine manufacturers – This sounds like a bold prediction, I realize, but there is significant evidence pointing in this direction. For example, Baxter got caught shipping vaccines containing live viruses (http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.html), and the IOM has now openly admitted that measles vaccines actually cause the measles (http://www.naturalnews.com/033447_I…). Vaccines, it turns out, are the perfect way to infect the population with a pandemic resulting in the fearful masses seek out more vaccines! (Gee, talk about repeat business…)
And, of course, there is a long, long history of vaccine manufacturers using human beings as guinea pigs for medical experiments (http://www.naturalnews.com/019189.html), so have no illusions about their total lack of ethics and human compassion. They will murder a child with a smile on their face if it makes them an extra dollar in profits.
#19 – Fukushima will produce another massive radiation release as the reactor buildings suffer structural failures. This could easily be initiated by another earthquake, tidal wave or hurricane. It could also happen just by wind, rain and gravity. Once it happens, the media will try to downplay the incident, claiming the radiation release is inconsequential. Even now, recently released scientific data says that 14,000 deaths in America can be attributed to Fukushima radiation.
#20 – (Wildcard) Ron Paul drops the Republican party and runs as a libertarian, where he ends up splitting the vote among those on the right, and ultimately putting Obama back in the White House for another four years.
#21 – The U.S. government will stage an online hacking attack against a hospital or other critical institution such as a nuclear power plant or air traffic control system. The point of all this will be to blame it on “internet terrorists” and crack down on internet freedom. It’s just like 9/11 and the Patriot Act, but this time they’re targeting the internet.
#22 – Martial Law will be declared in America – Regardless of who gets elected President in 2012, expect Martial Law to be eventually declared in America as the economic downturn really hits home and waves of disgruntled masses take to the streets, wondering why all their money disappeared (the bankster crooks at the Fed and Goldman Sachs stole it, they will discover). This will lead to prediction #22…
#23 – Economic collapse will lead to FEMA camps cranking up – As the economic unraveling of the world reaches the shores of the USA (which technically may take beyond 2015 to fully unravel), the FEMA camps will transition to full operation. Masses of the “new homeless” will be rounded up under martial law and relocated to those camps, which will be advertised as “refugee camps.” At first, these camps may focus on providing food, shelter and medical care to the new class of economic refugees in America. But before long, they may be twisted by tyrants into something more like concentration camps.
#24 – A false flag terror attack will attempt to place blame on veterans or farmers – This is all part of the effort to turn farmers into suspected criminals because they are too self-reliant according to those who demand centralized control over the masses. Veterans are also a threat to the controllers because veterans know how to use rifles and they know the difference between fighting for freedom vs. fighting for the political interests a bunch of self-serving tyrants and politicians.
#25 – The rise of ANONYMOUS as a global force to be reckoned with. Anonymous, which is really a network of online activists who despise government censorship and the military industrial complex, recently hacked STRATFOR, a military intelligence hub, and released tens of thousands of documents, passwords and credit card numbers onto the ‘net. This is just one small example of what Anonymous is truly capable of doing, and in 2012 – 2015, you can expect Anonymous to carry out many more such acts of “hactivism” against the dishonest corporations, war-mongering industries and any institution that tries to enslave the masses while threatening liberty.
As explained on Wikipedia:
Anonymous has no leader or controlling party and relies on the collective power of its individual participants acting in such a way that the net effect benefits the group. “Anyone who wants to can be Anonymous and work toward a set of goals…” a member of Anonymous explained to the Baltimore City Paper. “We have this agenda that we all agree on and we all coordinate and act, but all act independently toward it, without any want for recognition. We just want to get something that we feel is important done…”
The Big Unknown
In addition to those 25 predictions, there’s always The Big Unknown. Something really big seems likely to happen in 2012 – 2015 that’s so far out of left field that nobody could foresee it. We’re talking game-changing big, such as (perhaps) the invention of a bonafide free energy device, or contact with a non-human civilization from another planet. Maybe it’s a the invention of a new microscope device that can see bioenergy, or perhaps the planet gets struck by an asteroid, sending tidal waves crashing into the coasts of every continent.
Many people feel something big is going to happen in 2012, and while I don’t think it has anything to do with the Mayan calendar (see below), I do agree that the world beyond 2012 will be changed in profound ways due to some game-changing events (either positive or negative). Hopefully such events will be found in the realm of either consciousness or the sciences, where innovation results in real breakthroughs that help humanity live in greater harmony with each other and with the planet. See my article on consciousness here: http://www.naturalnews.com/034554_c…
Five things that will NOT happen in 2012 – 2015
#1 – The world will not end on December 21, 2012. The Mayan calendar holds no special sway over the physics of the universe. We’ll all still be here on December 22nd, probably realizing we have yet to get our Christmas shopping done.
#2 – There will not be any sustained economic rebound. The depression is only going to get worse over the next three years, and the money supply will become even further diluted by the Fed’s money creation addiction. By 2015, unemployment will be far worse than it was in 2010 or 2011.
#3 – The U.S. government will not protect you from terrorism. Any apparent terrorism that actually happens will be little more than fabricated theater. Yes, the fatalities may be real, but the terrorists aren’t brown men from the Middle East. They’re fat white guys in Washington who are trying to hold on to power by scaring people into compliance.
#4 – The U.S. dollar will not hold its value. The money you’re currently earning and saving will be worth less and less over the next three years. While it may seem like it’s holding value compared to European currencies (which are themselves on the verge of collapse), in reality your U.S. dollars have less and less purchasing power each day.
#5 – The Biblical Rapture will not occur in 2012. Those who literally claim the Rapture will take place in 2012 and all good people will vanish from the planet while the bad ones are “left behind” will be sorely disappointed. I’ve already received a lot of flack about this prediction from some who follow this, but the belief in the Rapture as an “escape” from this world is a whole lot like the New Age prophecies surrounding the Mayan calendar (or other similar events). They are all based on the idea that the “enlightened” people will be spirited away from the Earth, while those who are unenlightened are left behind.
I believe that the Divine Creator put us here on this planet to solveour problems rather than magically escape them through some supernatural exit. So in a year from now, we’ll all still be here, believe me. Every year, there’s another prediction of the coming of Christ or the end of the world from a prominent preacher or Biblical teacher, and every year they’re wrong. 2012 will be no different. This doesn’t mean the Bible is wrong, or that those who follow the Bible are wrong, by the way. I’m just saying that the idea of a Rapture happening in 2012 and taking all the enlightened people away from the Earth is not going to happen. And no, the Bible doesn’t even say it will happen in the first place.
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When Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in the 1960’s, she detailed how humanity had suddenly turned its great knowledge against nature, as with the invention and proliferation of deadly pesticides. The end result was that species of birds were dying, their heavenly songs silenced.
Actually living nature as such or globally on Earth was threatened.
Deeper silence
Half a century later, we find a yet greater absence of the symphony of nature’s songs.
We hear less of the chirping of crickets, of frogs and less also of the buzzing of bees or the faint flapping of butterflies. The sterility of sound is increasingly deafening. Birds are dying in larger numbers and more quickly.
Can we reverse this engulfing stillness, this ever deepening Silence of Spring?
Here we’ll explore definitively how.
This helps greatly to move past a depressive and collective sense of helpless that gripped the environmental movement for decades.
Machines on the rise while increasingly life forms go extinct
Modern “progress”
Through Carson’s poetic writings, a new awareness blossomed, one that gave birth to the modern environmental movement. Her observations challenged the thesis that our contemporary world is but moving along a path of rising progress. As a naturalist rather than mechanical engineer, her contrary observations served as a cultural shock. In an age of countless new and exciting inventions and where a man had just been put on the moon, people didn’t know that our powerful modern technology could also create great harm. This is reminiscent of when, in the 19th century, Karl Marx began to look at dismal factory conditions – and where the Industrial Revolution had symbolized a “nothing possible going wrong” and the promise of but pure and endless progress – as this was idolized.
What Carson brought to light, however, involved something much bigger going amiss.
She dealt with the fate of all of life on Earth intertwined.
Such a larger problem is also not as easy to fix. Carson herself was dying of cancer. She was a part of the same calamity involving all of life in an interwoven web.
Carson’s failing
Despite a love for Carson’s great poetic revelations, they exhibited one major failing.
There was her failure to point clearly to an underlying root cause.
If one fails to grab firmly onto the deep underlying cause, it is like not pulling a plant by its taproot. If the plant is a perennial invader, and not pulled by its root, it will come up each season and may take over a garden.
Annually we face ever more environmental problems.
Human beings are intimately involved when cancer rates rise. What Carson railed most against, the use of pesticides, has actually exploded since.
Enhanced genetic engineering has implanted pesticides more deeply into the core of life (as with Monsanto’s Bt-technologies).
It has also allowed more intense spraying of millions of fields to accommodate Monsanto’s Roundup-ready seeds.
This might showcase how we have not pulled at the root cause – not enough to turn our conditions around.
Taproot causes can never be find on the surface…
When found they are hardest to uproot
Mechanical causes are superficial as symbolized by billiard balls colliding with each other by hitting each other’s surfaces. There is a different kind of causality that is inner. For example, if a runner on a track gets a cell phone call from a loved and decides from within to stop running, this appears to violate Newton’s mechanical law of inertia. Newton told us such laws are cosmic or universal. Thus in our modern world we tend to have trouble imagining inner causality as being a predominant force. This violates his vision.
So we are in the habit to look elsewhere or back to the surface levels of causality – and not within. Thus we never find the cause and are left feeling helpless.
Cause deepest within
With something as huge as our civilization’s whole posture towards all of living nature, imagine that indeed the cause is not just within but deepest possible within. A metaphor for this is a flower radiating pedals in universal directions and from a unifying core. We then have to extend that physical metaphor as symbolizing something that happens deepest inside at the core of ourselves.
What then lies so deepest within? We can surmise it is our subconscious beliefs, formed early on by our elementary education, and such psychological roots are hard to dislodge. Going further, there can exist collectively subconscious beliefs, showing up in our education, and established early on culturally – and far harder yet to dislodge than personal beliefs.
This is because the view is re-instilled by almost everyone and almost universally.
Newton’s Principia
The Renaissance’s core beliefs
For our modern world, we have commonly shared root beliefs about nature have come out of what we call the “Renaissance.”
These involve some arrogantly presumed principles or “principia” supposedly forming the unifying order of nature. As expressed by Sir Isaac Newton, this was said to be mechanical and mathematical. His vision became culturally dominant or epitomized and represented the core beliefs of the Renaissance. This further catapulted the development of the Industrial Revolution and on must say, with explosive excitement. It was believed that this shouldand must lead all of humanity toward glorious progress.
A shock deepens
If things are now going wrong, and seriously (as with the invention of atomic weapons that could destroy all of life) as to where we have arrived, it’s only logical that we need to go back to re-examine what has led us here from the get go. We have planted a powerful seed vision long ago. Now we face several major and unexpected” black flowerings and fruitions.”
Could this mean that our glorious Renaissance vision, promoted passionately by Newton, is flawed in its guidance?
If so, what is that flaw? Given more insight, we might then be able to find a new seed to plant with. Otherwise we will keep using the old seed, not breaking the mechanical habit, not seeing anything wrong at all nor envisioning any other vision-directions.
We then destine ourselves to harvest not shinning progress, but a looming series of inventions and developments leading to our collective demise.
My own planting of a different seed vision within
In my youth I was a math prodigy. This was evidenced by one summer before high school picking up my first algebra book, and by the end of that summer passing a comprehensive calculus exam at Fairleigh Dickenson University. I afterwards won a regional math competition by a wide margin. However, at the age of 17 I had a high fever and probably a stroke. This caused my left-brain, housing mathematical abilities, to shut down. This experience shook my whole life to the core. I barely mustered the will to stay alive. My inner world essentially fell apart. But decades later I was hugely grateful for the experience. It woke me up where before I had been asleep. It helped me to retie my inner universe back together on a far more solid foundation. I no longer believed, however, in the math-based vision of nature that Newton had told us naively was “cosmically right” and divinely true. Armed with this inner revolutionary insight and shift, I reconstructed my whole consciousness of life. I gathered a new seed vision that also saved my life, rescued my spirit, and revived my soul. It was incredibly healing. It inspired me to become a naturopath wanting to heal others. Let me share only a few initial steps of what followed. It is a way of explaining to the rational mind, stuck in its ways, what a life-centered vision of nature looks like, and using a simpler language devoid of mythological or metaphorical images as expressed in ancient times.
Compared to the Essene vision
The Essenes and other ancient cultures came to very similar conclusions. Their seed visions, however, was often expressed in poetic and right-brain languages as written down on parchments known as the Dead Sea scrolls. This makes it difficult for the modern rational mind to grasp and agree with their view. It can dismiss such visions as nonsense or just lovely poetry or comforting imagination, rather than rational and solid truths. Here an intentional effort is made to explain a life-centered vision more in a more left-brain way, simply showing it to be the more logically and rationally solid view – one which when planted leads us to harvest what is not rotting.
An outline
FIRST PRINCIPLE - At the core of nature is life. The American Indians, before the arrival of Europeans, lived in only natural terrains brimming with life and so it was much easier for them to take on this view. They had bows and arrows, not machine guns. They had rawhide teepees, not homes made of plaster. Today we are surrounded by endless synthetic creations. We retrofit nature to accommodate machines, as with asphalted streets. When we walk into a supermarket, 90% or more of the food there is often no longer as nature provided it on her table. We not only live in homes made of unnatural construction materials that outgas but wear synthetic clothes and use toxic chemical cosmetics directly on our skin. Plastic plants replace living plants. Our foods especially are cooked to death and our medicines engineered.
SECOND PRINCIPLE– Imagine that the core of life, in turn, is consciousness (and not mystically or religiously understood but rationally) – as nature’s universal actual and matter-of-fact relationship of connection. Imagine that when so understood and with logical integrity, this is a pointing to connection in every direction and this allows for nature to be authentically and rationally One.
How to experience it -When we are conscious of something, we connect with it. When we are unconscious, we disconnect ourselves from experiences. A diabetic sufferer having neuropathy may step on a nail, and though physically connecting, will inwardly not. An Alzheimer’s sufferer can’t connect past memories well to present consciousness or often can’t tie together facial features enough to recognize the whole face of a life-long loved one.
THIRD PRINCIPLE –At the core of the mechanical seed vision is mathematics – and pointing oppositely to universal relationships of separation in all of nature.When we count three apples they are separate as 1,2, and 3. Blend them together to make applesauce and they can no longer be counted or mathematized.As a result, our “vision harvest” is a literal separation of all elements of consciousness. Our world’s core essence cannot be filled with consciousness and life and, at the same time, be essentially mechanical, separate-part-like or dead – which is what connects best with all of consciousness being separated. This is why we cry out in pain when cut, because life is connected through consciousness as a whole. A roasted almond will not grow to become an almond tree.
Reconciliation with the life-centered view dominant
Opposites, however, can form a connected continuum. Thus the mathematical view can be salvaged within such a continuum. We can direct mathematical understandings to surface views. When we separate things, we indeed bring out the view of the surface – of things separated and thus what can easily be quantified. But imagine that the living/conscious view takes us much more to nature’s depths.
A symbol for this integration of surface and depth, dead and alive elemental functions is a turtle.
The hard and relatively dead or calcified shell is on the surface, and in a protective role while the life is within.
If the core of nature houses this life and consciousness, then we must take serious and diligent care never to use mathematics driven too deeply – and literally never. Otherwise, the opposite of life and consciousness, death and unconsciousness, will predictably prevail – and will dominate our lives and that of all of surrounding nature.
Signs and symptoms
This is why patients falsely given multiple drugs in nursing homes tend to walk the halls like unconscious zombies expressive of their inner darkness. They follow the directives of Newton’s seed vision to their unconscious deaths. This is why no drugs as being math-designed can reverse Alzheimer’s disease. None have. Newton himself died a schizophrenic.
This is why patients falsely given multiple drugs in nursing homes tend to walk the halls like unconscious zombies expressive of their inner darkness. They follow the directives of Newton’s seed vision to their unconscious deaths. This is why no drugs as being math-designed can reverse Alzheimer’s disease. None have. Newton himself died a schizophrenic.
Once we make a vision change, however, we can make far greater sense of our universe and not to be as easily misguided in our senior years and throughout life.
Knives vs and glue
In ever day life, we have enough common sense not ever to use our sharpest knives to try to either glue things together or to heal a cut finger. We are likely to cut the finger more. We similarly wouldn’t use glue in a kitchen to cut our veggies all apart. Nothing would be in pieces.
Maybe in an unconscious zombie state we could so confuse things. But the mathematical view is more like a chainsaw. If you are in a zombie state and don’t know the chainsaw is dangerous, you are in for a surprise.
Overall it would irrational to effect the contradictions of gluing things together with sharp and electrified objects. It would be mentally ill to seriously hold onto such a view.
Cultures can be mentally ill.
Our most prized mathematical worldview is actually not a mentally healthy vision of reality.
It tries to very, very irrationality connect a vision of nature using but abstractions of separation.
It is impossible to effect.
Because of this supposedly sanest of vision is actually insane (sorry with all due respects to Newton), no minor but rather great harm proceeds and on a global scale.
This vision mistake is profound.
It is unprecedentedly colossal and stupid.
It is deeply embarrassing for the human race that it could be so fooled in such a presumably advanced age.
And the fact that we create brilliant technology thereby, hides the fact of this mistake.
There is more to this because we are dealing with reversal illusions.
And so there are reversal applications of mathematics that work, which tends to deepen the fact that we are fooled. We build machines to avoid mechanical chores. A double negative yields a superficial positive.
Without any shred of doubt, one absolutely cannot however connect a rational sense of our world using the universal abstractions of mathematics – or for separating all elements of consciousness.
Newton made more than a fundamental mistake with great arrogance and stupidity.
Unfortunately when a huge cultural lie of this proportion is repeated trillions of times, it appears as if it cannot but be true.
But repetition does not make a false statement true.
Understanding this, means we must change our vision paths to survive.
Vision dementia
When individuals have car accidents that cause their right brains to become damaged (leaving them only their left-brains for guidance (and where this side of the brain mathematizes), they inevitably become schizophrenic. In essence their inner world falls apart. This is because they have lost the tie to connective consciousness housed in the right brain. In about 15% of the population this switches sides. But the principle involved remains the same.
Global mind change
It is a revolutionary idea to overturn the supposed rationality of Newton’s Principia, the foundation for modern physics, chemistry, astronomy, mechanical engineering, behaviorist psychology, and derivatively biotechnologyor gene theory…and so on and so forth.
Ultimately if we continue to follow but Newton’s guidance faithfully, the end results will predictably become more disastrous, as with the continued proliferation of atomic bombs, growing chemical pollution, and the promotion of terminator GM technologies.
Key points
To turnaround the Silencing of Spring, we might:
Searching for a taproot cause
Looking within - from inside-out we can make a transition to an organic lifestyle and to powerfully convince others
Looking deepest within = to the core worldview. Here we unseat its unquestionable truth, its supposed highest “rationality” – to prepare for the planting of a new vision and with strong confidence
Admitting stupid mistakesin our innermost view is tough – It hurts the pride of the human race. Newton’s vision was so deeply mistakenly it is embarrassing. It has near fatally has misguided us toward an ever greater extinguishing of life on earth.
A math-based view of reality is, at the same time, the highest left-brain view (of separative consciousness). But that skill needs to become the servant, not the master.
Wisely correcting our mistakes allows us to shift from a death to a life-centered vision of nature
Then it is possible to help our intuitive and rational minds see the identical universe – in a rescuing way.
Then we can stop being in conflict or terribly subject to a mixed up vision with irreconcilable and contradictory ways of seeing reality.
We also stop vastly corrupting our consciousness, as with the purest mathematics or pursuit of money.
Naturopaths as natural pharmacists?
Naturopaths typically avoid using chemical drugs.
But they often lean on chemical explanations (math-based) to justify and guide alternative therapies.
Occasionally a natural physicians office can look like that of a pharmacist’s, with but natural pills and prescribing no whole foods, no sprouts, no green juices and other deeper food connections to nature. Of course some pills can help in a supplementary way. That is why they are called “supplements.” But when they become our primary and core treatment, we are in trouble.
When a patient then gets better with a particular chemical substance or isolate, or as symptoms improve, it does seem to justify the approach. But that doesn’t mean there is any deep healing at all.
It simultaneously re-instill a belief in the root math-based vision of nature to be dominant – and which stands in the way of a far, far greater healing of ourselves via a global mind change.
It doesn’t grasp the underlying reason why 99% of medical practitioners are allopathic (doctors with stephoscopes, looking at the heart as but a machine-like pump) and only 1% are naturopathic – and as the former are much more in step with the dominant core separative-consciousness (mathematical and left-brain) vision and the latter not.
It is a contradiction to prescribe drugs and yet to justify results chemically.
The naturopath then may think he or she is giving a better explanation for how a patient to be healed, while re-instilling the very vision that most undermines our us and threatens life on earth.
For those who can’t bring themselves to such counter-cultural postures, try looking straight into the face of an atomic bomb, math-designed.
It is short-sided to not make a mind change. But shortsidedness is in the nature of any vision built on separative consciousness.
This is symbolized by the microscope’s tunnel vision and by the little closed-in office cubicles on Wall Street – cut off from knowing the effect of one’s actions have on the rest of the world.
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Note in the picture above how Trinity Church on Wall Street, and with its steeple pointed to God, was once the tallest building in NYC ( in the 17th century, built by the Church of England, it represented the dominance of the medieval vision). George Washington prayed at Trinity Church to overturn precisely rule of medieval, monarchical England. That church is now dwarfed by the buildings owned by banking, real estate,and brokerage and insurance firms, in boxy form, representing in architectural designs what is separative consciousness inside those office cubicles and peering down microscopes at dead isolates.
A mew global mind change is what is really needed to re-expand and newly heal us and all of life – reoccupying the consciousness of Wall Street and our laboratories.
It the prerequisite for far greater cultural changes and shifts.
It brings us to a “vision healing”
It delivers us to a healing of consciousness itself.
To corrects a universal contradiction and is thus vastly curative.
It mends the highest of high paradigms .
It helps the mind finally to think rationally, not steeped in self-created cultural illusions
It is powerfully transformative.
It is rescuing.
Connective, life-supportive, conscious vision of nature
We can better support the natural healing arts, by nurturing organic justifications (which involve a new learning process) for organic therapies …or from outside the mechanical/chemical view which we are accustomed to. This is even though chemistry claims to know that living nature via “organic chemistry” – which is a tremendous sham and illusion.
To reconnect us integrally
Making this shift, we are more empowered inwardly to use optimally alive, organic, whole foods as nature provided them….and their green juicing…the liquid being the connective medium of life that carries life …along with exercise, detoxing and mind/body therapies… in synergistic ways to reconnect or ….to heal us and make us whole.
Not to disconnect us systemically or most deeply
A robotic hand made of separate machine parts (math-designed) and is thus symbolic of something not alive and therefore disconnected-into-parts rather than healed as a whole. Only living things pull together deeply as a whole through their living consciousness.
It thus makes no rational sense at all – past the penultimate deception of multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical testing (chemicals tested in isolation and used to modulate isolated symptoms) – to ingest math-designed drugs or technologies in a effort to heal.
The medical and pharmaceutical industries claim the higher ground in that their approach is more “scientific” and rational – all of which is untrue.
It is a con that harms us.
By their very nature, drugs as math-designed can, at best, superficially help us or be used in extreme emergencies (in the moment, the “surface of time”). They more often suppress surface symptoms to foster an illusion process while on a deeper level the so-called “side-effects” are killing us.
They disconnect us inside being mechanically designed.
They lower the level of our inner consciousness systemically.
They ultimately induce cancers, other chronic illnesses and on a road toward death.
It is somewhat evil to deceive the public to become mass addicted to pharmaceutical drugs. The same holds true for the majority of non-emergency “cutting-apart” surgery and “micro-disintegrative” use of radiation.
In summary
Planting a clearly more rational, true and securely guiding
core-seed vision
will effectively reverse our ever exploding health pandemics
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(Healingtalks) Turning a product around to read the ingredients is a smart practice. In the case of soft drink, besides the high caloric content or high sugar intake, there is another substance to beware of and add to our ‘avoid list.’ About 10% of all soft drinks in the US contain a substance patented as a flame retardant and banned throughout Europe and in Japan as a food ingredient. This apparently “cost efficient” ingredient is called brominated vegetable oil (BVO), an emulsifier that recent research suggests is unsafe for consumption in even small quantities.
Which drinks contain BVO and why
Mountain Dew, Fanta Orange, and Squirt, along with Gatorade and Powerade, among fruit-flavored beverages, contain brominated vegetable oil (BVO) (Green, 2011). According to CocoCola’s ingredients glossary the flame retardant “stabilizers help to prevent the citrus flavoring oils from floating to the surface in beverages”.
For the looks
LuAnn White, director at the Center for Applied Environmental Health at Tulane University states that “U.S. consumers have a long history of wanting their food to look a certain way, so additional dyes, chemicals and preservatives are used in our food to maintain a certain look (Conley, 2012). This practice is moving people further and further away from foods with natural origins. We are fed less o organic food ingredients by manufacturing who also promote addictive taste sensations, and even if the consumer eventually suffers deadly health consequences.
Past & present BVO research and politics
Brominated vegetable oil is derived from soybean or corn and contains bromine atoms. BVO was removed from the FDA’s “Generally Recognized as Safe List” for flavor additives in 1970. The Flavor Extract Manufacturers’ Association subsequently petitioned to get BVO re-approved, and this time as a stabilizer rather than a flavor additive. The submission of industry-generated studies showed that BVO was supposedly harmless and when present in soft drinks within “safe limits” (Green, 2011)
However 30 years later, re-examining the status of BVO, the FDA unfortunately claimed it “is not a public health priority for the agency at this time” (Israel, 2011).
Examples of BVO health impacts
After extreme soda binges, and as symptoms of overexposure to BVO, health professional have noted the following:
Individuals have shown skin lesions, memory loss and nerve disorders.
Studies suggest that BVO may be accumulating progressively in human tissues
It may find its way into breast milk.
In mouse studies, big doses caused reproductive and behavioral problems (Israel, 2011).
Both animal research and human studies of bromine have demonstrated its toxicity, finding links to lowered fertility
Early puberty onset and impaired neurological development have also been noted for children.
The art of an unbalanced diet
The food economy is geared to making billions by selling the most highly processed (nutritionally-stripped) and addictive (sugary) foods – creating not only an epidemics of obesity and diabetes, plus also the four A’s – asthma, autism, allergies, and attention deficit ills.
Stark evidence for soft drinks being implicated includes the following:
85 % of kids drink a beverage with sugar and/or artificial sweetener at least once a week in the US.
Sodas are the largest source of calories for teenagers between the ages of 14 to 18.
For adults, soda, energy and sports drinks are the fourth largest source of calories, a federal study found (Israel, 2011).
They have penetrated our school systems with automatic soda pop and junk candy machines.
Now about 30 per cent of children and teens suffer from the four A’s.
Add to those statistics the impacts of obesity and diabetes, and guess what?
The end result is that nearly 50% of all children and teens in the US are chronically ill (HealingTalks).
Avoiding soda
BVO used as a food ingredient is another reason, in a long list, to avoid drinking soda. This is in addition to the high-fructose corn syrup content of “regular” sodas or the aspartame in diet drinks – both of which bring a host of health risks (Green, 2011).
Turning to fresh juices for real energy
We would recommend taking up something entirely different, the integrally healthy habit of drinking freshly-made, unpasteurized and organic juices which provide real life energy to fulfill our body’s needs and to remain healthy and strong. If you drink the juices within 20-30 minutes of making they will provide the greatest life-energy boost. Otherwise we recommend storing the juice in air-tight containers for up to a day and with an anti-oxidant like Vitamin C added.
(Healingtalks)Wildpoldsried There is German town that now produces 321 percent more energy than it needs and is generating $5.7 million in annual revenue. Wildpoldsried has achieved a remarkable accomplishment for a modest farming community.
Testament to good government
The landmark year was 1997. The newly elected Mayor and the village council in Wildpoldsried wanted to build revenue, get rid of debt, and to keep local business humming. Several goals such as the construction of a new sports hall, theater stage, pub and retirement house were considered in their 30 year plan. However once the community focused on sustainable energy production, it met its goals in far less time.
In May 2011, 14 years later, Mayor Arno Zengerle announced the community’s massive accomplishments. These included:
9 new community eco buildings (including the school, gym and community hall) complete with solar panels
4 biogas digesters with a 5th in construction
7 windmills with2 more on the way
190 private households equipped with solar
A district heating network with 42 connections
3 small hydro power plants
Ecological flood control
A natural wastewater system
Wildpoldsried (pop. <2,600) now produces 321% more energy than it needs. It is generating 4.0 million Euro (US $5.7 million) in annual revenue. The remarkable transformation is a superb testament to how we call can balance our life with the impact on our environment.
Truly Sustainable
In order to became truly sustainable the vision had to encompass all parts of life. The energy consumption of council infrastructure, local business and household would require a collective focus to make a difference. Here are some statistics and achievements by the Bavarian town:
Wind – 12.0 MWh/year from five community windmills, Emissions reductions of 12 million kg CO2/year
Biogas Energy – Three biogas companies are operating four anaerobic digesters that produce a total of 320,000 kWh/year
Natural Wastewater Treatment Plant – A sedimentation tank, a filtration system and clarifier for sludge removal supplies residents with wastewater and helps reduce flooding.
Feed in tariffs from solar – Over 190 households in Wildpoldsried have solar panels producing 3300 kWp or nine municipal buildings are producing 390 kWp
More rebates for Energy Efficiency – Wildpoldsried will pay new homeowners 15 euro/m2 toward the cost of the land if they construct sustainable homes.
Making a difference
The village Wildpoldsried has taken a vision and achieved astonishing results. As of 2010, CO2 emissions have been reduced by 65 percent, and it aims to reach 125 percent by 2012. The unprecedented success of the town is gaining attention from the Agency for Renewable Energies and other local towns.
Wildpoldsried is not shying away from the limelight. The council is hosting tours to teach other village councils how to start their own “Klimaschutz” program with plans to introduce Eco-Energy Tourism to the region by next year. This is a chance to educate others in: Biogas, solar and windmills, environmental education, renewables education, sustainability and nature. The current targeted emissions reduction for the country is 40 percent by 2020, as set forth in Germany’s Climate Initiative.
In this case Wildpoldsried, and kudos to them, the ittle village has made a huge accomplishment to go a whole lot farther.
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) In September of 2010 the FDA approved the first genetically animal safe for eating. The “product” is a genetically modified Atlantic salmon developed by AquaBounty Technologies named AquaAdvantage Salmon (AAS).
“Improved” salmon
AAS can incredibly grow twice as fast, which is an economic boom. More $$ are to be made, which blinds consciousness not to look at the likely negative impacts.
How this was accomplished
This growth rate was gained by modifying the salmon’s genome, the addition of a growth hormone gene, and an antifreeze gene. AquaBounty claims its salmon is an environmentally sustainable alternative . With AAS, the unnatural modification occurs in that two proteins are being introduced into the salmon’s genetic makeup are from other fish.
Supposed benefits of huge and hugely profitable frankensalmon
Presumed benefits include:
Enviro impact – AAS will be raised in land-based facilities to reduce the environmental impact on coastal areas
Diseases – May eliminate the threat of disease transfers.
Transport – Will allow the harvesters to live near these landbased food facilities, reducing some of the costs of fish transport and the use of fossil fuels, again helping the environment.
Ploy to sell harmful frankensalmon
The above ignores the following:
Health impacts – First there is the issue of safety in eating genetically modified salmon is “are they safe to eat?” There is amply evidence that other genetically modified foods have ill health effects – including causing allergic reactions, digestive disturbances, infertility, and an overall weakening of the immune system. There have been no long term studies, as usual.
Environmental impacts – Then there is the issue of an ultimate environmental impact, especially if the AAS salmon are accidently introduced into the wild. While AAS are designed for land facilities, precautions can never be fool-proof. This is why he Fish and Wildlife Service opposes frankenfish.
AAS salmon are all triploid females, which means that they are not only all female, but sterilized. Sometimes this sterilization doesn’t work. There is a failure of sterilization in .1 to 1% of fish, which is a pretty small number, except fish farms usually contain up to a 1 million fish – and many of these farms are to be established.
Given the size of Frankensalmon
How this could impact wild fish populations is unknown. But given their size, they may be more attractive for mating then a natural Atlantic salmon, which could negatively impact wild salmon populations.
Ultimately these farms should be outlawed. But is established, knowing the industry’s history and arrogance, it is unlikely there will be adequate monitoring to make sure these salmon mutants none escape to the wild. Also the US government has had a nonchalant attitude toward such environmental threats, as evidence by the growing of GMO crops in wildlife preserves. This is especially important in areas where a salmon population is now already present. As the video below shows, there is a real potential for destroying the natural salmon population.
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Advocate, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) To add to all the food hazards in the marketplace, it is not surprising that the typical microwave popcorn you find in fast food chains has a chemical additive to give it a buttery flavor. It is better known as diacetyl.
Popcorn lung among factory workers
Diacetyl is such an extremely toxic chemical that it terribly harms the lungs of microwave-popcorn factory workers. Their disease is debilitating and technically known as bronchiolitis obliterans. It is also known as constrictive bronchiolitis because the inflammation is accompanied by fibrous buildups that obstruct or block the lung’s functioning. The condition is further known to be irreversible (unless one has a lung transplant) and potentially even fatal. It is more commonly known as “popcorn lung.”
Animal studies
A reaction similar to “popcorn lung” has been noted in mice fed with Diacetyl. This is according to a study conducted by researchers from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences as published in the journal Toxicological Sciences. The same researchers exposed the mice to diacetyl with air-concentrations similar to those in factories and after only three weeks the mice developed lymphocytic bronchiolitis, which precedes the more serious obstructive illness.
“Popcorn lung” also found to affect consumers
The risk of getting this disease among factory workers had been known for decades. However, the assumption was that no one outside of that highly-populated factory air environment would ever be affected. Then in 2007, they first discovered a man who consumer two bags of microwave popcorn every day and was diagnosed with popcorn lung. This refers to Wayne Watson of Centennial, Colorado who ended up suing the food chain who sold him the product. Tests by the National Jewish Hospital of the air in his kitchen showed concentrations of diacetyl only slightly less than those found in the popcorn factories. This demonstrated that diacetyl can affect the lungs of consumers when the popcorn is regularly prepared at home in a microwave oven.
Several other cases of consumers have been known, with lawsuits filed in New York and California. There is also the case of Elaine Khoury, a Blockbuster employee who for five years worked as a store manager and twice a week would pop 30 bags of microwaved popcorn in a small back room, and then empty them into a popcorn machine to give the false appearance of them having been freshly popped. As a result she developed obstructive bronchiolitis, as indicated by a biopsy at Mayo Clinic where she is awaiting a lung transplant!
“No one knows how many cases of consumers injured by the flavoring vapor for the microwaved popcorn because no one has really looked,” said Dr. David Egilman, a specialist in internal and occupational medicine.
Industry’s deceptive reaction
To reassure their customers, several major microwave popcorn companies, including ConAgra and Weaver, got rid of their diacetyl. They did this as a marketing ploy, only to replace it with chemicals that show the same consequences or worse.
Today, you can still find a few brands of microwave popcorn with diacetyl – and even in some “natural” foods sections because that title is largely meaningless and a basic fraud.
A second toxic impact
A report by the FDA indicates that a common chemical coating used in microwave popcorn bags breaks down in the microwave oven into what are called perfluorooctanoic substances (PFOA). The EPA views this as a carcinogenic agent. Some studies point to it causing infertility or hampering fetal development.
Still another major concern, using GMO corn and GMO canola/corn oil
Most all popcorn (about 90%+) comes from genetically modified corn kernels. The oil or butter added may include GMO canola or corn oil. Animal studies point to the potential of significant health harms when ingesting GMO foods.
Can you make healthy popcorn?
Sure. We recommend you
First buy only the organic kind (often found in health food stores or natural sections of supermarkets).
Don’t cover the popcorn with any synthetic additives. Use only a small amount of organic oils, and preferably non-dairy. If you are have any history of cardiovascular disease, we recommend avoid all oils. Otherwise for the best of organic oils, see if you like a pinch of coconut oil (which is the most heat stable oil to not tend to clog vessels).
Add your favorite healthy organic spices, like garlic, cayenne/pepper, Celtic or Himalayan, or kelp salt – all rich in healthy nutrients and minerals.
Finally avoid the microwave at all costs and make the popcorn more traditionally in either a popcorn maker or steamer.
Safeguarding your health
With a lack of federal regulations to safeguard us, it becomes our responsibility to safeguard our own health. This can begin by reading the ingredients of any food we want to buy, serve and consume. Always veer toward organic. If more this is a little more expensive, in the long run it isn’t. Don’t forget the huge cost of medical treatments when you get sick.
Thus it becomes a good idea to avoid microwaving as such, due to that technology’s own hazards – and to avoid most other foods made for microwaving, being often highly processed and chemicallized.
Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) The use of engineered nano-materials in foods should be openly debated or otherwise we risk the same fate as what we have with genetically modified (GM) foods, according to a leading group of UK experts.
Call for public debate
Speaking at an open workshop, experts from industry and academia put forward their views. stated that told FoodNavigator.com the workshop brought to light a number of interesting issues with regard to consumer responses and “If there is no communication, we’re left with a vacuum. And if there is a vacuum, then that is open for other voices to fill that vacuum,” warned Chesson.
Professor Clare Mills, of Manchester University, UK – also a member of the ACNFP committee – echoed that:
“Consumers have a responsibility to educate themselves and to understand the issues … but also we must communicate the science and safety assessments of these technologies with them effectively,” she said.
Industry openness
Leading the group discussion on ways to create a more open debate, Professor Andrew Chesson, a member of the UK Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP), argued there needs to be greater openness from manufacturers or food processors:
“If food companies don’t share what they are doing, and keep it all behind closed doors, then that starts rumor mill going. And because of that we will get those who are not as familiar with the science putting out scare stories.”
Maybe we actually need scare stories
On the other hand because nanotechnology takes mechanical science to a far deeper level than GMOs (which have been proven to generate serious health and environmental hazards). We ought to consider scare stories because the potential harm may be astronomical – and we should know that before charging forward like a bull in a china closet.
The need is yet greater because of the explosion of applications to our food supply – to extend food shelf life, improve tastes, textures, and nutrition, as well as todetect bacterial contamination.
Extent of food applications
There are already up to 600 nano food ingredient and 500 nano food packaging applications on our store shelves.
Examples
Toddler Health is a nutritional supplement containing nano iron particles claims to offer toddlers increased bioavailability.
Canola Active cooking oil contains NutraLease, a nutraceutical technology that uses nano-capsules to enhance the delivery of nutrients.
A preservative known as AquaNova contains nano capsules of water insoluble substances to increase absorption in the body.
McDonald’s burger packages contain nano-spheres that require less water and less time and energy to dry.
Miller Beer bottles are made from Imperm, a plastic imbued with clay nanoparticles that are as hard as glass but stronger and provide longer shelf life.
Nano-tech packaging
Major food companies, like General Mills, Kraft, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Cadbury-Schweppes, and Unilever, are developing nano food and food packaging applications. They expect to generate a $6 billion market for such packaging materials by 2010.
Agricultural applications
There are also numerous nano agricultural applications.
Syngenta has developed a plant growth treatment, PrimoMaxx nano emulsion.
Cornell scientists developed a cloth with saturated nano fibers that slowly release pesticides and herbicides when it is planted with seeds.
Other agricultural giants conducting nanotechnology research include Dupont, BASF, and Cargill, but, surprisingly, not Monsanto.
Health risks
Like genetically modified foods, nanotechnology poses huge risks to human health and the environment.
Nanopaticles are more chemically reactive. They are so small, they have greater access to the human body because they can be inhaled, can penetrate skin, can gain access to tissues and cells, and can cross the blood-brain barriers.
“There is virtually no data on chronic, long-term effects on people, other organisms or the wider environment,” wrote British scientist John Lawton, author of a report from the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
Nano Clothing Technology
Many clothing products are being manufactured. and without labels, even though the particles may easily seep into our blood streams and brains.
Red Flags
A recent study published in Nature showed that carbon nanotubes may exhibit the same cancer-causing potential as asbestos.
In tests on rats, nanosilver has also been shown to be toxic to liver, brain, and stem cells and may harm beneficial bacteria.
Calls for Action
Given the above, the National Research Council has called for more research on the health and environmental impacts of nanotechnology.
The Action Group on Erosion, Technology, and Concentration and Friends of the Earth are calling for a moratorium on products containing nanoparticles until safety laws are established and the public is involved in decision making.
Like genetic engineering, nanotechnology is viewed as a techo-fix to solve the worlds’ food challenges. Don’t believe the hype. The technology, instead, may have devastating impacts – including and not limited to health harms, adding to species extinctions, encouraging more reliance on large monoculture farms, and the thereby the loss of food biodiversity.
(Healingtalks) The freedoms we take for granted have recently been eroding at a pace that is increasingly stunning and alarming. The recently passed laws that try to shred the Bill of Right is something Americans will have to wake up to sooner or later, and here is another such such assault.
Several western states set a precedent
Utah, Washington and Colorado have now outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their personally owned properties. According to government officials, this is because the rainfall supposedly doesn’t belong to them. Such laws have actually been on the books for sometime but only recently have come into the public limelight.
Finding out the hard way
Mark Miller of Mark Miller Toyota of Salt Lake City, Utah “had the nerve” to construct a rainwater collection unit for washing his cars only to be told that this project was an “unlawful diversion of rainwater.” The rights to that water was instead being claimed instead by agencies of the State of Utah!
Salt Lake City officials finally arrived at an arrangement where Miller was allowed to still use “their” rainwater. Thus access to rainwater has become another freedom that is in the process of receding in America.
Other states follow suit
Colorado and Washington have laws as well on the books to claim ownership rights for rainwater.
In Colorado, two recent laws did exempt the kind of smaller collection system that a homeowner might built, but still the government’s arrogance is offensive.
Does rainwater collection affects public water supplies?
A study conducted in Colorado on how rainwater collection affects public supplies essentially found out that it doesn’t. Letting people collect rainwater actually will reduce demand on public water facilities. The vast majority of the rainfall ended up evaporating or being used by plants. Thus rainfall collected hardly impacted public reservoirs. Why then are government officials after rainwater rights?
Taking away our freedoms
It is a matter of control. And people have to be compliant and unaware to allow this to happen. Restrictions have been on the books for more than a century, and have recently eased because of greater public awareness. The key issue is if we can’t free collect water, what’s next. See the video below on trying to take over the right to grow, collect and share food as well! This is no joke. Can we not freely drink water and share a cup with a friend or loved one?
Will the government prevent rain collection and then ration water at its sole whim and behest? This highlights the overall problem of vastly increased government control.
We have posted also several articles on how America is moving inch by inch, and increasingly, to take away our liberties and to institute control. Our country was guided by our forefathers to be a shining beacon on light, a refuge for those seeking liberties – and lately it does not look that way at all. The Patriot Act and more recently the laws declaring America a battleground of terrorism where Americans can be just charged with being a terrorist, and without a trial, put away for indefinite confinement and even torture. This is frightening, and again our country was not designed to function that way. A few loin skinned bandits in the hills of Afghanistan don’t poise any real threat to America’s trillion dollar security forces. Anyone really paying attention, and not in denial, knows that we have a controlled media whose Orwellian message of fear (when there is no reason to fear) was designed to systematically take away our liberties at the behest of an elite.
Waking up call
At the same time people of waking up. They know they have a right to clean unadulterated and non-toxic food, thus the citizen’s initiative in California to have genetically modified foods labelled. But to accomplish this has meant circumventing the two sources of power to control of the elite – a) consolidated and corrupt mainstream media (instead getting the message across on the decentralized Internet) and b) likewise our corrupt Congress (getting the initiatives passed more locally).
We also have a right to clean water, without fluoride added that actually makes teeth rot, among other poisonous effects – and the right to water as such. If we want to avoid our children being forced to take dangerous vaccines, we should have a right to say no. If we don’t want our milk pasteurized because it makes the milk denatures and relatively unhealthy (and only is in the market place to add profits to large dairy corporations) we should have the right say no more of that and to buy raw milk. Instead raw milk is being outlawed and those who sell it have even been charged with felonies. Something is deeply wrong when this happens in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Rights to liberty and the pursuit of health and happiness
When government restricts our freedoms rather than the other way around, we restrict the control of government, we become essentially slaves. If we allow this to happen progressively, what freedoms our forefathers let us to enjoy will no longer be.
We have a right to land, water and air that is not polluted by industrial chemicals, and yet our government enacts bills like the Clean Air Act designed to give the “green” light to corporation to pollute the air. With that we find a resulting epidemic of asthma in the US. And no doubt after polluting our air, they may next want to pass an air tax, demanding we pay for the right to breathe and be alive – for a short time that government allows us to be, if we avoid lung cancer and asthma as a result.
Government owning our air, home, and bodies
As Mike Adams, the Health Ranger writes about an air tax:
“Think it couldn’t happen? Just give it time. The government already claims it owns your land and house, effectively. If you really think you own your home, just stop paying property taxes and see how long you still “own” it. Your county or city will seize it and then sell it to pay off your “tax debt.” That proves who really owns it in the first place… and it’s not you! How about the question of who owns your body? According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark office, U.S. corporations and universities already own 20% of your genetic code. Your own body, they claim, is partially the property of someone else.”
Mind control by government and corporations in cahoots
The only thing left is to try to control your mind and soul. When 5 major corporations own more than 90% of the mass media in the US, what do you think they are up to behind closed doors or under political and monetary pressure from their controlling advertisers and regulators? Something as insanely impossible and unbelievable, defying all laws of physics as 9-11 was, this could not have be sold to the American and world public without vast means of mind control.
Make no doubt about it, (most are in denial that our government could become so evil) but 9-11 was staged to set the stage for the Patriot Act, the unleash Homeland Security forces and thereby to serve the plans of a controlling elite seeking more control
Standing up for our freedoms
Unless we stand up against tyranny and control, it will creep upon us until we wake up one day with no essential liberties left at all in our lives. After the ownership of everything of value has been stripped away from us, without a standing up for our freedoms, others can enforce their will upon us at gunpoint and using local police or the military.
It is up to all of us to become keenly aware of issues of liberty, wherever they pose themselves, and to take a stand before there are no liberties left. If you vote for a political candidate, remember that the old divisions of democrats, republicans or independents becomes meaningless if none of them stand up for the defense of liberty and freedom. And if they don’t, and are too corrupted, then is is awoken citizens and their initiatives that will rescue us from these straits.
Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food
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(Healingtalks) Every year, nearly 2.5 million people go under the knife for unnecessary surgery, often with devastating consequences (Prevention). Hospitals often engage in practices that are not just profit generating but also life threatening. In fact doctors and hospitals in the United States receive a financial incentive to perform surgery on dying seniors because Medicare is guaranteed to pay for it 100% (Wells, 2011).
This policy is putting seniors at risk whenever non-emergency surgery is conducted that could potentially be life-threatening or crippling.
Under the surgeon’s knife
Colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health reported that 1.8 million Medicare beneficiaries age 65 or older died in 2008, and over 34% were operated on during their last year, 25% in their last month, and 10% in their last week of life (Wells, 2011). During an operation, the patients life and consciousness are put in jeopardy – and just by the use of anesthetic only (things do go wrong with anesthetics) and via a deep penetration of the knife.
Mechanical view of life
The prevalence of surgery as a primary healthcare modality is the result of a mechanical view of life (machines are made of separate., exchangeable mechanical parts and in surgery the body is viewed in that light). The mechanical view became the dominant vision of nature in the 17th century.
It was initially applied to the healing arts by William Harvey who wrote a book about human circulation of blood whereby the heart was seen as nothing but a pump, akin to the part of a machine. Thus one could have a heart transplant to make the body work better, just as a mechanic might replace an auto pump. This mechanical view symbolizes modern medicine, why doctors wear stethoscopes in icon postures.
This mechanical view became dominant through the rise in the math-bound vision of nature. Why? Because math symbols mostly clearly and precisely abstract separation. Thus a mathematical world is modeled by machines made of separate parts. But what if the life in nature (and thus ourselves) functions differently than according to this mechanical model?
What if consciousness forms a universal relationship of connection (manifesting at the core of life) and is what keeps our bodies whole? This would make surgery an essentially a non-healing art, useful mostly in double negative roles – to not cut apart but rather help sew back together a severed part.T
he mistaken prominence of surgery in the “healing” arts if modern allopathic medicine is then made still more prominent, when financial incentives are added (another mathematical focus) or when this forms a marriage with this mechanical approach to our bodies. High price tags are put on the skill of cutting our bodies apart. Ultimately a great danger begins to loom, however, for the real health of those who are subject to unnecessary, vulture-like or predatory practices. Pockets are emptied, insurance policies are milked, and real people die.
Gabriel Bross, the beloved step-dad of Nathan Bross Batalion, and who died suddenly after two unnecessary surgeries performed on him in his 90s
What happens to vulnerable seniors
Nathan Batalion, our senior editor, tells the story of his step-father, who had raised him for most of his life, who was subjected to back-to-back operations in his 90′s – both of which were unnecessary. They resulted in the immediate death of his sweet dad, and a windfall of evil profits to the hospital and performing surgeons. The surgery was not even done with the medical surrogates’ permission and approval.
For seniors, with their immune (wholeness) system compromised, often then suffer from ‘post surgery pneumonia,’ similar infections and ‘heart attacks’ – right after the invasive surgical operations (Wells, 2011).
Unnecessary surgical procedures are more than common
It has been estimated that 7.5 million unnecessary surgical and other medical procedures are performed each year! So writes Gary Null in Death by Medicine (Black, 2005).
The most frequently performed unnecessary surgeries include hysterectomies, cesarean sections and coronary artery bypass surgeries (Black, 2005).
“Bypasses are the single most commonly performed unnecessary surgery in the country,” write Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. Mark Liponis in Ultraprevension. There operations are not targeting the issue which is likely due to their nutritional health, lifestyle and consciousness. It is giving the patient larger wound to a suffering body and larger profits to a corrupt doctor.
Here are Four Core Approaches that can help you begin that transformation and use the healing energy of natures consciousness.
Optimal Nutrition – 80% or more living food, alkaline diet, low glycemic
Optimal Detoxification – Avoid chemicals or follow an organic lifestyle; cleansing impurities periodically, juice and water fast, sweat using exercise or saunas, skin brush, colon cleanse, etc.
Exercise – Improve blood circulation, metabolism, sleep ; exercise helps both move along both optimal nutrition and detoxification
Mind Body Soul – Settle the busy mind, reflect and gain a holistic understanding, keep on track, meditate to instill higher consciousness, inner peace and a healing consciousness transformation
By integrating these four approaches, we develop the means to prevent and reverse diseases.
(Healingtalks) The criminal and widespread extent of corruption in Washington, DC is unprecedented. It is nurtured by a group of lobbyist, among them those representing major pharmaceutical companies, and who buy elections and the bills they need to pass. Today there are few morals, ethical or other restrictions in this process. Washington has been bought. Longer and more costly elections insures the deepening of this corruption.
A dramatic example of Washington no longer representing us
Here we can consider the stunning case of Jack Abramoff.
He was a Washington lobbyist convicted in 2006 of serious mail fraud and conspiracy. His work in bribing Congressional representatives and their staff his involved some 100 or more US Congressmen offices!
Abramoff’s conviction led to the further conviction of prominent White House officials – including J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and Congressional aides.
Abramoff spills the beans
Abramoff served about 3 1/2 years of a 6-year sentence in federal prison. This was before being released early and to the custody of a Baltimore halfway house in 2010 (Wiki). Abramoff now tells the story of what happened, including the huge and alarming depth of systemic corruption in Washington.
Abramoff interviewed
60 Minutes Special on Abramoff is a rare look by an outlet of mainstream media, and from behind the scenes at what is a decaying US political system.
‘CBS News correspondent, Lesley Stahl, was so visibly shaken, she was furious and besides herself (Mercola). The new report reveals how in return for gifts and special treatments, countless Congressional members lined their pockets, being obligated then to vote yes for legislation and tax breaks that were favorable to the clients of lobbyists.
CBS News Special
’60 Minutes’ Blows The Lid Off Congressional Insider Trading
How the political corruption is tied to Big Pharma and our health
The pharmaceutical industry is the largest lobbying force in the U.S.
Last year, the industry spent over $244 million to influence legislation or obtain tax breaks. There can be little doubt that their zenith profits are, in large measure, due to the vast control they wield over Congressional members – and other federal agencies (Mercola).
What can be done?
Overall we need new legislation to have only publicly funded elections, helps to take the lobbyists out of the picture, stripping some of their influence. It is not a cure-all but a step in the right direction. According to Wikipedia, some form of “clean election” legislation has been adopted by ballot initiative in Maine, Arizona, North Carolina, New Mexico, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts. It was also adopted by legislative action in Connecticut and at the municipal level in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Portland, OR. However, the systems in Massachusetts and Portland were later repealed, while Vermont’s was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds.
The following organizations and their websites help to explain and offer support for The Fair Elections Now Act :
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Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor
(Healingtalks) As with GMOS, many food companies are now using unregulated and undisclosed nanomaterials in agriculture, processing, and packaging.
Food Navigator reports that experts are demanding public debate and regulation of nanomaterials in foods. Without that, they warn, nanotechnology risks “facing the same fate as genetically modified (GM) foods in consumer perceptions.”
What is Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is about manipulating materials on the scale of atoms or molecules, measured in nanometers (nm), one billionth, or 10−9, of a meter. Many companies are already using nanomaterials in agriculture, food processing, food packaging, and supplements. Food companies themselves often don’t know whether they are using these materials or not!
Another unregulated technology
Nanotechnology science is new and unregulated. The FDA’s only guidance is to try to tell companies how they can find out whether they are using nano-materials or not. Jumping into that gap, As You Sow has issued a manual on Products Containing Nanomaterials. As You Sow says:
” Not only is this technology unregulated and untested for its implications on public health but companies may not even be aware if they are using products made with nanomaterials. In consultation with food companies such as: Kraft, McDonald’s (which has adopted a “no nano” policy), Whole Foods, Yum! Brands, and Pepsi, the non-profit organization As You Sow developed this practical tool which clearly outlines what companies should ask their suppliers regarding the safety of products containing nanomaterials.”
The report fills an important gap. Companies using this technology should be telling the public more about it. Nanotechnology is technical, difficult to grasp intuitively, “foreign,” and not under personal control. This places it high on the scale of “dread-and-outrage.”
Are there health threats to nanotechnology?
Who knows if there are health threats? The sooner we do know, the better. Otherwise nanotechnology products risks become the new GMOs of our time. The answer is a likely yes because this is the product of another mechanical (dead) view of nature, with the vision projected ever more deeply onto the fabrics of nature.
Based on an article by Marion Nestle, Atlantic Monthly website
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