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TROMSØ -- It has given hope where there was no hope. People with almost every known health problem seem to benefit from it. Even the most sceptical have been forced to take a second look. However sixteen years ago, no one, not even its inventor, Dr. Jan Raa, a highly respected marine microbiologist, imagined that his amazing fish medicine would eventually help so many sick humans.
At that time, Dr. Raa wasn't thinking of sick humans he was thinking of sick salmon. In Norway, farmed salmon is an enormous industry, second only to oil, pumping billions into the economy. However, one of the problems with farmed salmon is they are extremely vulnerable to deadly infections, especially when they are young.
Prior to Dr. Raa's breakthrough discovery, if farmed salmon became infected they were treated with antibiotics. But antibiotics only achieved limited success because infecting microbes can quickly develop resistant strains.
Dr. Raa discovered an amazing natural substance that could dramatically increase resistance to infections without any of the negative consequences of using antibiotics. It's called beta (1,3/1,6) glucan, a powerful immune enhancing molecule extracted from the cell wall of baker's yeast.
So effective was his discovery for keeping farmed salmon healthy that Dr. Raa formed a company (Biotec AS) to produce large quantities of beta glucan to be used as a natural immune enhancing feed ingredient. What wasn't known at that time was just how extraordinary his discovery actually would be for human health!
Healing Dust?
The first clue came from Marit, a technician in the Biotec AS research lab. She was responsible for preparing dry samples of beta glucan for various immune related studies. During her work she naturally came in contact with the powder and dust that comes from the drying process.
For years Marit suffered from debilitating health problems, not the least of which were frequent colds and flu that could take weeks even months to get over. Suddenly her health problems disappeared! She hadn't caught a single cold or flu since the day she began working in the lab! Actually she never felt better. Could this all be due to simply breathing in small amounts of the beta glucan dust?
She shared her experience with Dr. Raa, who, as coincidence would have it, had just experimented with beta glucan on himself, achieving similar dramatic healing results!
Dr. Raa suffered from recurrent joint pain, sometimes so severe that he was hospitalized. Drugs were prescribed; explanations were given… none to his satisfaction.
During the course of his own research about his condition he learned that some scientists believed arthritis could start from subclinical (undetected) infections in the intestines, stomach, gums or mucus membranes.
Dr. Raa reasoned that if his horrible joint pain actually came from an undetected infection, then he might already have the cure! After all, it was now an established fact that his discovery could significantly prevent infections. (At least in salmon!) Maybe, just maybe, beta glucan could do the same for humans, namely himself!
He knew beta glucan was totally safe and non toxic, so he decided to try it. He simply calculated the correct dosage by his body weight, and took a daily dose by mixing the powder in orange juice. The results were stunning! His joint pain disappeared…completely!
Marit's healing experience further confirmed to him that his discovery could have profound and widespread health benefits for humans. He didn't have to wait long before he had more proof.
Incredible Recovery
Peter M, a resident of Tromsø, Norway, had suffered most of his adult life with a non-specific gut infection. He had been given numerous drugs, had several exploratory operations, and by the time Peter heard about beta glucan he was so weak he could hardly get out of bed. Facing yet another exploratory surgery, which he was sure would end his life, Peter was desperate!
Luckily three weeks before Peter's next scheduled operation, his wife was told by a friend about the miraculous healing powers attributed to Dr. Raa's fish medicine. Tromsø is a small town. Apparently the word was out.
Peter called Dr. Raa, who immediately came to see him. He gave Peter a small plastic bag of beta glucan powder and instructed him to take one teaspoon a day which he could mix in orange juice as Dr. Raa had done. The powder itself did not taste bad. In just one week Peter's energy was soaring. He no longer vomited after his meals and his diarrhea had subsided. Within two weeks his chronic stomach problems, a condition Peter had suffered from for more than 20 years, had vanished! Like Marit, Peter felt healthier than he ever felt before! Three weeks later Dr. Raa heard from Peter by post card sent from India. Peter was on vacation!
Dr. Raa already knew from his own experience that subclinical infections are almost impossible to cure with drugs and can be at the root of many serious health problems. He was convinced that beta glucan worked for Peter because it was able to fully activate his immune system, the most powerful healer in the world!
Word spread. More stories of life long ailments gone! Conditions as seemingly unrelated as allergies, shingles and gum disease either improved or simply vanished. Colds and flu appeared to be a thing of the past. More and more friends and associates of Dr. Raa were taking the fish medicine that "worked miracles on humans!" Soon there was such a demand for the product that Dr. Raa's company, Biotec AS, began to encapsulate beta glucan and offer it to the general public.
From its inception, Dr. Raa's discovery has changed the lives of people who have lost all hope that they would ever be healthy again. Dr. Raa's miraculous fish medicine does indeed work miracles, and the miracles continue today in many countries including the USA.
A good example is Beth W., 55, who suffered from CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome), periodic internal bleeding, IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), multiple low grade infections and searing pain in her legs which could only be controlled with the strongest pain killers.
Beth had been to more physicians than she cared to remember. She hadn't felt even remotely well for years. Because of her poor health, she was clinically depressed and taking antidepressants along with her largely ineffective medications. Three months ago she started taking beta glucan. Beth is now nearly symptom free, off all of her medications including antidepressants, and, like so many people who have been saved by Dr. Raa's discovery, totally grateful.
Biotec AS (now called Biotec Pharmacon), has grown into the largest commercial manufacturer of immune related products for both animals and humans on the planet!
Dr. Raa's original fish medicine has evolved into several renowned products. The human product is called IMMUTOL®. It contains highly purified Norwegian beta glucan (NBG) that is substantially more powerful. In fact, IMMUTOL is now considered to be the most powerful natural immune enhancer in the world, dwarfing the effectiveness of products like echinacea and mushroom extracts.
IMMUTOL® is supported by rigorous clinical testing, and recommended by doctors worldwide. So, if you suffer from the horrors of a weak immune system, which can include cancer, viral syndromes (chronic fatigue, Epstein Barr, herpes, HIV), parasitic and bacterial infections, or any other immune problems such as colds, flu, and allergies, help your immune system! Get IMMUTOL! And, if you're not sick and would like to ensure your good health, there's no better way to maximize your immunity than with daily use of IMMUTOL®.
Now Sold In America
IMMUTOL® is now sold in the United States. It can be purchased directly from IMMUNOCORP (a wholly owned subsidiary of Biotec Pharmacon). Simply call 1-800-446-3063, Ext. 225B. Order with your credit card 24/7. If you prefer to order by mail, simply send a check or money order to: IMMUNOCORP, 1582 W. Deere Ave., Suite C, Dept. 225B, Irvine, CA. 92606. You can also order on-line at: www.immunocorp.com.
Normally, A 60 capsule bottle of IMMUTOL® cost $59.95, plus $5.95 for S&H. A 30 capsule bottle of IMMUTOL® cost $34.95, plus $5.95 for S&H. However, if you enroll in IMMUNOCORP'S Immunity For Life (IFL) program you can try a full 60 capsule bottle of IMMUTOL® for only $9.95 (discounted 83%!) and you don't have to pay for shipping and handling! After 30 days, if you experience a remarkable improvement in your health (most people do!) you will then receive automatic monthly shipments of IMMUTOL® at a 30% discount ($41.97) plus you'll never pay for shipping and handling.
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Probiotics, Prebiotics and Immunostimulants etc...
Written by Gordon A Chalmers
Wednesday, 17 November 2004
'You never really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother'- Albert Einstein.
Probiotics
Probiotics consist of health-promoting bacteria that improve the balance of organisms in the intestines by selectively suppressing harmful bacteria. Although the means by which probiotic bacteria work are not completely known, they may:
modify the local bacterial community in the intestines,
insure the improved use of feed or by enhancing its nutritional value,
improve the response of the bird toward disease,
improve the quality of the environment.
A wide range of organisms including different species of algae, yeasts, and various species of bacteria are used in probiotics.
It is known that probiotic bacteria can compete with and exclude disease-producing bacteria in the intestine, ie, probiotic bacteria actively prevent the colonisation of potential disease-producing bacteria in the intestines by the production of lactic acid, and by competing with the disease-producers for attachment sites in the intestines (hence the expression, 'competitive exclusion').
As well, they may well stimulate immunity in the bird or animal; they may stimulate appetite and improve nutrition by the production of vitamins, by detoxifying compounds in the diet, and by the breakdown of indigestible components.
There is more and more accumulating evidence that probiotics are effective in inhibiting a wide range of disease-producing bacteria and even some viruses in certain species of animals. Although probiotics may not cover all situations, they are nevertheless a more positive approach to controlling disease, compared with the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in the sport.
For those interested in competing in futurity races for young birds, whether they are one-loft or multi-loft events, and even club and Fed events, it is a good idea to get your birds on a good probiotic several days a week (mine are on a probiotic almost every day of the year), or a probiotic + apple cider vinegar well ahead of the breeding season and continue it in your YBs prior to shipping. Those receiving these YBs for these special races should also have them on a probiotic for the duration of the summer and into the racing season, all to try to protect these YBs against bacterial infections. Several probiotics and competitive exclusion products are available for pigeons.
Several years ago, I used and began recommending plain yogurt to supply probiotic bacteria to pigeons. Later on, I read that the bacteria in yogurt did not colonise the digestive tract of pigeons very well, and that an avian source of probiotic bacteria was much better. However, in a very recent book from Europe, the author, a veterinarian, recommends the use of yogurt in addition to other sources of probiotic bacteria, to try to cover a number of situations that might occur in pigeons. So maybe yogurt is back in favour and could also be added to the drinkers or feed, at reduced cost compared with the commercial probiotics.
I was asked the following question by a veterinary colleague who uses a popular probiotic and races pigeons himself: 'If you had your birds on a probiotic and an outbreak of disease such as paratyphoid or E. coli occurred, would you continue to rely on the probiotic alone, or would you intervene and treat the condition with an appropriate antibiotic?' My reply was that I would temporarily discontinue the probiotic, then treat with an appropriate antibiotic until the condition was eliminated, and then return to using a probiotic for the future.
Prebiotics
Prebiotics refer to a group of natural sugars such as oligosaccharides ('oligo' = little, scant or few; 'saccharide' means sugar) that are resistant to digestion by the host animal or bird but are used exclusively by specific probiotic organisms, allowing them to compete with and thereby exclude disease-producing organisms in the intestines. Thus, prebiotics are nutrients for probiotic organisms. This may be another role for small sugars such as glucose or fructose, in addition to the quick source of energy they provide for the birds themselves. One commercial product available for pigeons in North America contains mannan-oligosaccharides.
Immunostimulants
Immunostimulants are chemical compounds that aid in bolstering the immune system by activating white blood cells, and thereby may render animals and birds more resistant to infections by a variety of infectious agents. Included among these compounds are: vitamins, trace minerals, fatty acids, glucans, yeasts, and others such as lactoferrin (see 'Whey'), chitin (which makes up the hard outer skeleton of creatures like lobsters and crabs), levamisole, probiotics, Spirulina, etc..
Vaccination is likely the best-known method of specific immunostimulation, and the use of the several other compounds just mentioned, are examples of non-specific immunostimulants.
It seems that the most promising and potent immunostimulants are the beta glucans, because they have a well-defined chemical structure and mode of action on the immune system. In addition, these compounds are non-toxic universal 'alarm signals' that activate the immune system by the same basic mechanism in all groups of animals from the simplest invertebrates to humans. The beta glucans occur naturally in the bran of grasses such as common cereals used routinely in the loft. The bran of barley contains about 7%, oats 5%, rye grain 2% and wheat, 1% beta glucans. Note that these levels are in the bran, not in the hull that can be removed with your fingers.
However, the richest and most concentrated source of beta glucans is found in the cell walls of common baker's or brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cervisiae). Since fanciers have used brewer's yeast for decades, there is really no need to buy the much more expensive commercial sources of beta glucans. Regardless of the source, however, all beta-glucans are carbohydrates formed by a string of glucose units. When taken orally, they are then absorbed into the body through the intestines.
The beta glucans bind specifically to a receptor site on the surface of certain inflammatory cells (defensive cells) called macrophages (macro = large; phage = to eat; hence, macrophages are large cells that engulf, destroy and digest foreign material such as bacteria). These inflammatory cells play an essential and pivotal role in initiating and maintaining the immune response.
From an evolutionary point of view, macrophages are the oldest and most consistently preserved immune-competent cells known. In order to function in an immune capacity, macrophages must pass through a stage of activation that involves certain physical changes but also, most importantly, an entire sequence of metabolic or internal chemical changes. Activation can be initiated by a variety of different stimuli, such as endotoxins, bacteria, viruses, or chemicals. Beta glucans are not only effective orally, they are also completely nontoxic and safe, but are one of the most potent stimulators of the immune response known.
The receptor site for beta glucans on macrophages has been retained during evolution and is found in all animal groups from invertebrates to humans. There is now evidence to show that, from an evolutionary point of view, glucan is the most widely and most commonly observed macrophage activator in nature. When the receptor site is engaged by beta glucans, these inflammatory cells become more active in engulfing, killing and digesting bacteria, and at the same time, they secrete signal substances that stimulate the formation of new white blood cells.
In animals that have specific immune mechanisms (fish and animals higher on the evolutionary scale), in addition to non-specific defences, the activated inflammatory cells produce substances called cytokines that, in turn, also activate antibody-producing white blood cells. For this reason, beta glucans enhance the efficacy of vaccines. Because of the basic mode of action of beta glucans, products in this category affect a number of different biological processes, including not only resistance to disease, but also growth, wound healing, repair of cells damaged by ultraviolet light, skin care, arthritis, etc.. Beta glucans are active not only when injected, but also when administered in the feed.
As an aside, it is interesting that for humans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ruled that cereal companies can make the claim that their products help to reduce the risk of heart disease in humans-but with certain stipulations. A serving must contain at least ¾ of a gram (a gram is about 1/30th of an ounce) of beta glucan; the product must be used as part of a low-saturated-fat, low-cholesterol diet; and it has to contain no more than 3 grams of fat and no more than 1 gram of saturated fat. Many oatmeal and oat bran cereals and other products now meet the beta glucan and other qualifications as heart disease preventers. Clinical trials have even shown that the higher the beta-glucan content of the oat cereal (hot or cold), the greater the cholesterol-lowering effect. However, there is still only limited evidence that beta-glucans taken in pill form can have this cholesterol-lowering effect.)
Levamisole
This is a common wormer (Tramisol, Levasole, Ripercol, etc.) that in a dosage of 50 mg for 4 litres of water seems to have a useful effect in stimulating the immune system.
Vitamins, Minerals
Vitamins A, C, E and the trace mineral selenium are very important in the development and maintenance of the immune system. The use of a water-soluble multi-vitamin mix once or twice a week, plus a wide-ranging mineral mix containing selenium can supply these nutrients. A pelleted livestock feed is also a good source of both vitamins and minerals. Be aware that vitamins are powerful substances and a little goes a long way.
Vitamin preparations for birds usually don't contain vitamin C (also called ascorbic acid) since most birds, except for some species of aviary finches, produce it in their kidneys. However, during periods of stress (breeding, racing), extra amounts of vitamin C can be useful, and can be added to the drinkers. Extra vitamin C appears to be especially useful in dealing with heat stress, and can be used ahead of races that occur during the hottest months of the year. In a study in chickens, the use of vitamin C was found to be highly useful in dealing with stress, and improving resistance to respiratory and E. coli infections.
Like vitamins A and E and the trace mineral selenium, vitamin C is closely involved with the immune system, so birds can be placed on a multi-vitamin mix so birds can be placed on a multi-vitamin mix plus extra vitamin C crystals obtained from a feed mill or livestock supply business, in the drinkers prior to and following vaccination or during an outbreak of disease. Use a teaspoon of vitamin C crystals per 4 litres of water.
Not only granite grit and oyster shell, but also a wide-ranging mineral mix containing the trace mineral selenium at officially approved levels -- plus salt -- should be available to the birds throughout the year. However, I find that many mineral preparations for livestock here in Canada contain such high levels of salt (20-25% salt) that birds will avoid eating sufficient amounts of the mineral. My solution: I buy one bag of mineral that contains salt and another bag of salt-free mineral, both containing selenium. I mix one can of the salt/mineral mix with 5 or 6 cans of salt-fee mineral. This effectively lowers the salt content and encourages the birds to eat the mineral.
Also, because antibodies that develop in response to vaccination or exposure to a disease are composed of protein, young birds in particular should be on a ration of about 18% protein to ensure that they have a wide ranging supply of the essential and nonessential amino acids that make up proteins and thus, antibodies.
Dimethylglycine (DMG). (Also called vitamin B15, and pangamic acid)
DMG can increase oxygen utilisation and thereby decrease lactic acid levels in animals under extreme stress.
lactic acid values following training were significantly lower in DMG-treated horses than in untreated horses.
in human research, it was found that DMG produced a 27.6% increase in the time it took trained athletes to become exhausted, compared with the use of a placebo (an inactive substance used to compare the effects of a substance, in this case DMG, being tested).
DMG has been shown to enhance the immune response both by antibody production and generation of lymphocytes, a kind of white blood cell.
DMG has been found to increase resistance to respiratory disease, enhanced athletic ability, reduced shipping stress, and general reduction of stress.
In athletics, DMG has been found to improve performance, stamina, cardiovascular function, oxygen utilisation, recovery of muscle, reduced buildup of lactic acid, improved resistance to disease, increased calmness and more settled disposition, and increased production of ATP.
Dosage for pigeons - according to popular UK scribe Bilco, no more than 2 level teaspoons of the pure product (not a product cut with glucose, etc.) for 4 liters of water.
Whey
Whey is the thin serum of milk that remains after the curd and cream have been removed, and is one of two major proteins found in milk (the other is casein). Whey is actually a very complex protein made up of many smaller protein subfractions called peptides. Many of these subfractions are found in very small amounts in cows' milk, usually at less than 1%. For example, one of the subfractions is lactoferrin which makes up approximately 0.5% - 1% or less of whey protein derived from cows' milk (whereas human milk may contain up to 15% lactoferrin). The importance of lactoferrin is that it appears to be the subfraction of whey that has anti-viral, anti-microbial and immune modifying and enhancing effects.
Whey also contains a high level of the milk sugar lactose. The importance of lactose in pigeons is that it is a nutrient for a number of bacteria that make up probiotics, and thus, aids in the production of lactic acid by these organisms. Because a number of disease-producing bacteria such as Salmonella spp. (paratyphoid) prefer to exist in an alkaline environment in the intestines, the production of lactic acid by probiotics shifts conditions in the intestine to the acid side of normal and can drop the numbers of paratyphoid organisms by as much as 97% and more. Just as importantly, paratyphoid bacteria are unable to use lactose as a nutrient in their life processes, so the use of lactose in outbreaks of paratyphoid may be very useful to probiotic bacteria in their production of lactic acid but not at all useful to the paratyphoid organisms.
However, when dealing with Young Bird Sickness [adenovirus + E. coli(?) + circovirus (?)] in which E. coli may be involved, I would not recommend the use of whey, simply because E. coli organisms actually use lactose in their life processes. In my view, it is important to avoid the use of whey if E. coli is suspected to be a part of Young Bird Sickness. To me, there is just no point in supplying food for a bacterial organism that may well be part of a major disease problem. One more point - according to the writings of Bilco in the British Homing World, it seems that he has found a substance that has the remarkable ability to deal effectively with Young Bird Sickness, and is currently in the process of arranging to market this product.
Apple Cider Vinegar
As an aid in shifting the normal alkalinity of the intestines to the acid side, apple cider vinegar (ACV) can be another help in reducing numbers of paratyphoid, E. coli and other potential disease-producing bacteria in the intestines. Some fanciers use a probiotic every other day and on the alternate days, ACV throughout the week.
The acidic taste of ACV often causes birds to back away from the drinkers, especially in the beginning stages of its use. At time such as this, I would not use it on shipping day, to insure that birds drink an adequate amount of water. However, I am told that once birds become used to it, there is no problem adding ACV to the drinkers on shipping day. Half an ounce to one ounce (15-30 cc) per gallon of water should be fine.
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A general word of caution in the use of immune stimulants: It seems to me that there have to be limits to the amount of stimulation the immune system can handle before it collapses under the strain of attempting to respond to multiple stimulating products. For this reason, I'd suggest limiting the number of immune stimulants to only a few to avoid exhausting the system.
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Other Products Used in the Loft
Carnitine
The main function of carnitine in muscle is to transport fat (in the form of fatty acids) into structures called mitochondria where it is metabolised (broken down) to carbon dioxide and water. During the production of carbon dioxide and water, a major energy-producing compound known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), is produced. ATP provides the energy to allow the wings to beat on the average of 5 beats per second for the duration of the training toss or race, whether the distance flown is 50 or 500 miles or more. Since fat is the major fuel for sustained flight in pigeons and migratory birds, it is highly important that it is transported efficiently into the mitochondria in muscle for the production of energy. Carnitine also appears to be useful in decreasing the rise in heat production during flight.
The best form of carnitine is L-carnitine - DON'T buy D-carnitine or combinations of D and L-carnitine!! D-carnitine can be very dangerous to use.
It appears that carnitine supplementation is beneficial in maintaining normal aerobic metabolism and in decreasing damage to muscle during prolonged flight (as determined by studies at the University of Ghent, Belgium). Such supplementation in pigeons also improves the efficiency of the utilisation of fat during heavy exercise.
Also in breeders, it was found that L-carnitine supplemented pigeons grew at a faster rate than those not supplemented. As well, the speed of growth rose from the first to the third round of youngsters.
Dosage: 90-100 mg per bird per day. For racing birds, Dr Warren Shetrone of California recommends 100 mg L-carnitine per bird Monday to Wednesday starting 3 weeks ahead of the first race + supplementation with vitamin C, iron, amino acids, niacin (a B vitamin) and magnesium. For breeders, he recommends the use of 100 mg L-carnitine per bird starting 3 weeks before pairing and throughout the breeding season.
Electrolytes
'Electrolyte'is a medical/scientific term for various salts in the body. The term 'electrolyte' means that these chemicals are electrically-charged and move to either the negative (cathode) or positive (anode) pole.
The major electrolytes are as follows:
sodium (Na+)
potassium (K+)
chloride (Cl-)
calcium (Ca2+)
magnesium (Mg2+)
bicarbonate (HCO3-)
phosphate (PO42-)
sulfate (SO42-)
Electrolytes are important because they are chemicals that cells, especially nerve, heart, and body muscle, use to maintain voltages across their cell membranes and to carry electrical impulses (nerve impulses, muscle contractions) across themselves and to other cells. Kidneys work to keep the electrolyte concentrations in the blood at a constant level despite changes in the body.
As an example, when humans exercise heavily, they lose electrolytes, particularly sodium and potassium, in sweat. These electrolytes must be replaced to keep the electrolyte concentrations of the body fluids constant. So, many sports drinks have sodium chloride or potassium chloride added to them. They also have sugar and flavourings to provide the body with extra energy and to make the drink taste better.
The use of electrolytes is a controversial subject in pigeon racing. In my opinion, if birds have daily access to a good wide-ranging mineral mix (that includes the trace mineral selenium) and an adequate diet, there should be no need for electrolytes in the days prior to a race. Such use of electrolytes could induce unwanted thirst.
I have discussed this matter with a number of veterinarians including several in the USA, the UK and Belgium. Both they and Dr Wim Peters of South Africa believe there is no need at all for electrolytes for healthy racing birds. As one example, this is Dr Peters's reasoning, used with his permission (some of my added comments are in brackets), quote:
"Electrolytes are often included in a vitamin preparation. I do not think that their use in pigeons is necessary; as a matter of fact I believe that they could be harmful, particularly to the dehydrated pigeon returning home from a long race on a hot day. Imagine this scenario: it's a hot day and the race is from 800 km (500 miles). A bird makes it back just before dark. What has happened to it during the day? Flying requires muscular activity which rapidly builds up heat, particularly with high (environmental) temperatures. The bird must dispose of this heat, otherwise it will be unable to continue. Too much heat will kill it! The only way to rid itself of enough heat is via respiration. (Some is lost through the legs and skin but the eventual effect is the same). Respiration causes water loss from the mouth and respiratory system. Note well: water only, no salts. Increased respiration causes increased water loss. The pigeon becomes dehydrated from all this loss but manages to reach home. We now have a flown out and dehydrated pigeon and wish to restore its physiological equilibrium as quickly as possible. Water was lost from the system (from blood and body tissues) but the salts (electrolytes) are more or less unchanged - in other words the concentration of electrolytes is higher than normal (because of the loss of water).
Giving more electrolytes now would worsen the condition. What is needed is plain water - as soon as possible. Warm it up, by all means, but do not add electrolytes. The usual feed can be given. But I prefer pellets, as they are semi-cooked, turn into mash after intake which means that they do not first have to be ground to pulp, have a large surface area exposed to the digestive enzymes and are pretty much balanced in their proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. All this means they provide a rapid supply of essential food stuffs with which to build up the pigeon as quickly as possible. The electrolytes that the pigeon did lose via its kidneys and bowels are easily replaced by the salts normally contained in a balanced diet. It does not need extra replenishment.
I am fully aware of the controversial opinions held by various people, drug firms and organizations with respect to electrolyte supplementation of racing pigeons. There have been, as far as I'm aware, unfortunately no adequate studies done on the necessity of their inclusion in the diet of actively racing pigeons. The often-quoted work done in Belgium by the University of Ghent, came to the conclusion that electrolyte replenishment was not necessary in the diet of post-race pigeons. But their work measured the pH of the birds' blood before and after a race and the speed with which pH (a measure of the acidity or alkalinity in the blood) equilibrium was restored both in the pigeons that received post-race electrolytes and those that did not. (They found that there was no difference between the two groups). It's not quite same as measuring the levels of the various blood electrolytes. The study of whether electrolyte levels alter after prolonged exercise and how quickly they can return to normal would be a valuable undertaking and put to an end the often-disputed question of electrolyte supplementation.
Pigeon racing should be a relaxing pastime. The competition in most countries has however become so fierce and the lure of big money for important winners so enticing that every effort is made to ensure success. Commerce has spotted this hunger for winning and has responded by producing hundreds of remedies, pills and potions. To say that the huge array of preparations is confusing to the fancier, would be putting it mildly. To purchase these is not necessary for success and success is most definitely not guaranteed if these preparations are given. The right (read good!) pigeons, effective management, an efficient loft and lots of roadwork, as well tenaciously sticking to the guiding principle of KISS - Keep It Simple Sam - will see the desired results. I wish you luck." Unquote.
(The comment about using warm drinking water for returning birds has been questioned by several veterinarians, and like me, most believe that returning birds should receive cool water rather than warm water.)
In birds with prolonged diarrhoea, electrolyte powders or solutions could be useful in replacing the various electrolytes that are lost with the excess fluids passed as droppings. When mixed according to package directions, the concentration of these solutions is very close to their normal levels in the bloodstream - hence it is very important to mix them correctly.
A suggested 18% protein ration can be mixed as follows: 30-35 parts peas and other legumes, 25 parts corn, 10-15 parts pellets (18-28% protein), with the balance made up of wheat, safflower, barley, etc. for a total of 100 parts.
The point is there are many things that can go wrong with "opt-out" parental consent. That is why any federal legislation or bureaucratic rules and regulations must define parental consent as meaning "opt-in."
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D. August 1, 2005 NewsWithViews.com
In the struggle to keep children from having mental health screenings without parental consent, there is a "slight" bit of good news. On July 22, 2005, an 84-page federal document was released, titled "Transforming Mental Health Care in America The Federal Action Agenda: First Steps." This is the "Action Agenda" developed by the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFCMH) following its "Achieving the Promise" report of July 22, 2003.
Regarding the "Action Agenda" document released July 22, 2005, the NFCMH states: "Neither 'Achieving the Promise' nor this 'Action Agenda' recommends mandatory and/or universal screening of children. The Commission recognized that parents are the decision-makers in the care for their children and if screening appears to be an appropriate action, parental consent must be obtained before it occurs."
At first glance, this appears to be very good news. However, the reason I said it is a "slight" bit of good news is that bureaucrats have a way of "interpreting" words which must be carefully watched. For example, when the "Action Agenda" refers to "parental consent," is that "opt-in" or "opt-out" consent? The dangers with bureaucrats saying parental consent is "opt-out" are several. First, what if parents are not notified a screening is about to occur? How would they know to "opt-out" of it? Or what if the school sends a notice to parents that their child is going to be screened unless the parents "opt-out," and for some reason the child forgets to give the notice to the parents?
Or what if the child forgets to give the parents' "opt-out" letter to the school? Or what if the mail loses the notice going to the parents or being returned from the parents to the school? Or what if the parents misplace, or forget to respond to, the notice?
The point is there are many things that can go wrong with "opt-out" parental consent. That is why any federal legislation or bureaucratic rules and regulations must define parental consent as meaning "opt-in." This means quite simply that unless a school system has in-hand a signed letter from parents giving their permission ("opt-in") for their child to undergo a specifically designated mental health screening, the school may not conduct such screening.
Perhaps at this point it would be helpful to give a specific example as to why the difference between "opt-out" (passive) parental consent and "opt-in" (active) parental consent is important. According to Evelyn Pringle in "Parental Consent---TeenScheme Sets the Record Wrong" (INDEPENDENT MEDIA TV, July 14, 2005), the Fall 2003 TeenScreen newsletter indicated that "if your local mental health program is approved by the Board of Education as part of the educational program, you are not required to get active parental consent under PPRA (Protection of Pupil Rights Act). Passive consent is sufficient in this circumstance....If the screening will be given to all students, as opposed to some, it becomes part of the curriculum and no longer requires active parental consent."
The power elite want to use "mental health" as one of the tools in pursuing their globalist agenda of population control. And relevant to controlling or managing people, just before former Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle's diary entry (see NAVIGATING THE RAPIDS, 1918-1971) regarding his work with Henry Kissinger on a report for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Berle on March 27, 1957 wrote about the Committee on Human Ecology with Cornell Medical College neurologist Harold Wolff as president. Begun in 1955 as the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, the Committee was funded and controlled by the CIA for studies and experiments in behavioral sciences. Berle was one of the Committee's board members, and on March 27 wrote that the Committee "is really an attempt to see whether behavior and science can be brought together in economic matters. I am frightened about this one. If the scientists do what they have laid out for themselves, men will become manageable ants."
In a similar view the next decade, Roderick Seidenberg in 1964 wrote ANATOMY OF THE FUTURE, describing how a master race of "administrators" controls the masses of human beings "by the ever increasing techniques and refined arts of mental coercion" to the level of mindless guinea pigs.
The 1960s was the decade in which one began to hear the term "generation gap." This referred to the gap between the values and views of the young people of the 1960s and their traditional-minded parents. What most people do not realize is that this gap was deliberately created. For example, David Crosby (of Crosby, Stills & Nash) is quoted in ROLLING STONE, vol. 1, as revealing about this period: "I figured the only thing to do was to steal their kids. I still think it's the only thing to do. By saying that, I'm not talking about kidnapping. I'm just talking about changing young people's value systems which removes them from their parents' world effectively."
And in 1968, leading educator Warren Bennis (friend of 1967 Humanist of the Year Abraham Maslow) authored THE TEMPORARY SOCIETY, in which he explained: "One cannot permit submission to parental authority if one wishes to bring about profound social change....In order to effect rapid changes, any such centralized regime must mount a vigorous attack on the family lest the traditions of the present generations be preserved. It is necessary, in other words, artificially to create an experiential chasm between parents and children to insulate the latter in order that they can more easily be indoctrinated with new ideas. The desire may be to cause an even more total submission to the state, but if one wishes to mold children in order to achieve some future goal, one must begin to view them as superior, inasmuch as they are closer to this future goal. One must also study their needs with care in order to achieve this difficult preparation for the future. One must teach them not to respect their tradition-bound elders, who are tied to the past and know only what is irrelevant."
In case you think Bennis was out of the mainstream of American intellectual life, just 3 years after he authored THE TEMPORARY SOCIETY, he became president of the University of Cincinnati (1971-1977). And more recently, Bennis wrote the editor's Preface to MANAGING GLOBALIZATION IN THE AGE OF INTERDEPENDENCE (1995), in which communitarian author George C. Lodge (CFR member and son of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.) claimed that "the old systems of governance, centered on the nation-state, are inadequate....An erosion of national sovereignty...seems inevitable."
As related in an earlier Part of this series, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), in the decade after Bennis' book was published (1970s), tried to develop a model plan for child health services. And shortly thereafter, the State of Maine formed the Governor's Task Force on Maternal and Child Health, which developed a 62-page document of recommendations. It provided for "home health visitors," whose training "would not be overly technical or require an excessive amount of time." These "visitors" would be expected to "bring children into the health system; assess family functions, parent-child relationship and developmental status of the child; provide health education; teach parenting skills; provide primary, home-based preventive mental health services; and act as family advocate within the system." The Maine plan also set up K-12 mandatory Human Sexuality courses in schools.
Of course, for the power elite to control people, they have to identify and obtain information on each of us. Relevant to this, the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH (July 19, 2005) published "Missouri issues ID numbers to pupils" by Carolyn Bower. The article begins by stating that "Missouri is assigning a 10-digit identification number to its public school students." And then Leigh Ann Grant-Engle, data manager for Missouri's education department, is quoted as saying "All states in the country are in the process of putting in place a student identification system." Information concerning each student can then be connected by computer to her or his identification number, and can be accessed by a variety of people.
Beyond information in school systems, the government is also interested in collecting certain other information about people. For example, several years ago, an FBI agent from Oklahoma called Dr. Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty and asked if Dr. Monteith believed we are living in Biblical End Times. Why would the FBI want to know this about Dr. Monteith or about you or anyone else? Think about the implications of the federal government checking on your religious beliefs!
A favorite tactic of the power elite in getting people to accept being monitored and controlled is to use people's reactions to critical events. For example, after a school shooting, there immediately is a call for more gun control, even though far more children die each year in backyard and other swimming pools than are killed by guns. Have you heard any clamor to ban swimming pools? Similarly, prior to the terrorist attacks of 9-11, people believed surveillance cameras in public places were an invasion of their privacy. However, a poll released by CBS News on July 16, 2005 found that 71% of the public now support such surveillance. Most recently, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 257-171 on July 21, 2005 to reauthorize the USA Patriot Act (H.R. 3199) only hours after members of Congress saw television images of the second terrorist attack on London. H.R. 3199 also includes 10-year extensions allowing roving wiretaps and searches of library and medical records. This comes less than a month after FBI director Robert Mueller and Attorney-General Alberto Gonzalez on June 29 announced the formation of a new domestic intelligence department that will be able, according to NBC (June 29, 2005), to "spy on people in America suspected of terrorism or having critical intelligence information, even if they are not suspected of committing a crime."
Besides using the public's reaction to critical events like school shootings and terrorist attacks to further its agenda, the power elite also uses economic means to stimulate globalization. For example, shipping more and more manufacturing jobs from the U.S. to China (even America's famous Buster Brown socks are now made in China) has helped the Chinese to acquire more than $600 billion in foreign exchange reserves. The Chinese investment in U.S. Treasury bonds has not garnered much in the way of return, so the Chinese are now trying to take over UNOCAL, and on July 18, 2005 NBC News reported they are trying to buy Maytag. In the past, Americans would have objected to having our industries taken over by Communists who torture and kill innocent people. However, NBC News reporter Anne Thompson at the Maytag plant in Newton, Iowa, said the people there are putting "pragmatism over patriotism," caring primarily for a better economic deal for themselves. This is even if the deal comes from the ruthless murderers of babies and others in Beijing.
We know with absolute scientific certainty that no truck bomb caused such extensive damage to the Murrah Building. If it wasn't the Ryder truck that killed the building, what did?
Since I will be completely tied up for the next few weeks on a special project and won't be able to do new columns, I have pulled a piece off my fabulous CD (how's that for self-promotion!) that I believe Americans will find interesting. McVeigh's Second Trial is not an endorsement of Timothy McVeigh or in his defense. Most Americans haven't had access to the truth about OKC and the subsequent, massive cover up of that bombing. Most Americans were fed only the most inflammatorily rhetoric about Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. While Patrick Briley has the most extensive knowledge about all the players, their roles and this cover up, I wanted to take a good hard look at two questions about this bombing and former soldier, Timothy McVeigh.
We know with absolute scientific certainty that no truck bomb caused such extensive damage to the Murrah Building. If it wasn't the Ryder truck that killed the building, what did? If the Ryder truck bomb didn't cause the bombing and the deaths of all those precious lives, how could McVeigh be tried and convicted for using weapons of mass destruction?
In McVeigh's Second Trial where I have asked you, the reader, to be the jury, you will read the testimony of a victim of the bombing from another trial who spoke with a McVeigh outside the Murrah Building at 9:35 am. It would have been impossible for the real McVeigh to be have been outside that building at 9:35 am and get picked up outside Perry, Oklahoma by Trooper Hanger at the time specified. This woman was a victim and had no reason to lie. Her testimony completely destroys the government's time line, yet McVeigh's defense attorney, Stephen Jones, ignored this critical witness.
There is no question in my mind that Timothy McVeigh had a look alike and that he also had a bio chip in his rear end, courtesy of the U.S. Army. For those who think this is silly stuff or conspiracy theories, in McVeigh's Second Trial, you will read excerpts from the actual Senate hearings by Adm. Stansfield Turner on the government's mind control projects (MK ULTRA). In the book, Bluebird: Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality by Colin A. Ross, MD, you will read the proof based on 15,000 pages of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the CIA, which prove the Manchurian Candidate was not fiction, but fact. Bluebird is a frightening book based on reality.
If McVeigh "wasn't himself," how could he really defend himself? Again, this is not a defense of McVeigh, but rather a very intense look at the defendant and certain known facts. I also felt so strongly about this, I filed a FOIA to obtain McVeigh's medical records. Dead people have no privacy rights, but the Department of the Army fought me, so I filed a lawsuit.
Over three years of battling and as predicted, the federal judge ruled against me. Despite the inconsistencies by the Army in their responses, protect the cover up at all costs. I decided not to waste any more time and money on an appeal. However, I did scan the entire lawsuit for you to read. Please keep in mind that I am not an attorney or an expert in the complicated morass of federal laws and procedures. But, I try my best to get answers. In any event, I think you will find the Army's documentation as full of holes as I did and how shameful is the lying and deceit by those who supposedly call themselves Americans.
McVeigh's Second Trial is broken down into several parts as well as the lawsuit due to the fact that it's more than 250 pages. We tried to make it easy and convenient for readers to tackle as they have time while I'm on my special project. Please bear in mind that these are pdf files that are slow and annoying if you use dial up. It can take several minutes displaying a blank screen before the text pops up. Patience! Please click here for the index.
The question is no longer which side has more support, but rather what party will have the most dysfunctional voting cards on any given day of the month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote, “In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, ‘Make us your slaves, but feed us.’” Such words would seem to describe the state to which modern proponents of constitutionalism and individualism have been relegated.
The most recent example of this is the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). CAFTA passed the U.S. House on July 28th by a vote of 217-215. It’s a treaty that, as the name alleges, makes us a freer nation. Unfortunately, freedom today has been defined by bureaucrats as being large numbers of convoluted regulations. As one lobbyist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in justifying CAFTA, "We as a country are a party to a very small number of trade agreements globally, particularly compared to the EU (European Union).”
So the European Union is ahead of us in terms of economic entanglements. We must be doing something wrong.
The United States shouldn’t have to consign its sovereignty to international bureaucrats, as it did in CAFTA, to achieve “freedom.” Perhaps if our own legislators weren’t so incompetent at governing this nation, they wouldn’t need to ask foreigners to do it for them.
I also found what inhibited the two non-voting Republicans of the House from acting to be interesting. The first, Rep. Charles Taylor of North Carolina, thought he had voted against CAFTA. However, a problem with his voting card prevented the House’s computerized tallying system from recording his vote. He was told of the problem the morning after the vote.
The other, Rep. Jo Ann Davis, missed the vote by about half an hour because she was attending a Boy Scout Jamboree. That was after House leaders had to keep the vote open longer than usual to keep from losing.
So in the spirit of our democratic and somewhat sovereign Republic, CAFTA was approved by the House on account of a computer that disregarded the vote of one representative and a leadership that managed to block the vote of another.
Our government’s method of legislating has become more like a game than a serious legislative process. The question is no longer which side has more support, but rather what party will have the most dysfunctional voting cards on any given day of the month. Vladimir Putin was right when he said the United States lacked credibility in criticizing other brands of democracy.
Though the CAFTA vote may be over, that debacle should have served as an illustration of the extent to which we can trust our current elected officials to honor our liberties. The next big issue we might expect them to fail on is President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court, John Roberts. We don’t know much about him, but it’s been purported that he has Hillary Clinton’s vote. That probably isn’t a good sign. As Ann Coulter wrote, “Republican presidents – especially Republican presidents named ‘Bush’ – have lost the right to say ‘Trust me’ when it comes to Supreme Court nominations.”
Why is the Republican leadership so plagued by liberals who always manage to do the wrong thing on major issues? They’ve made their constituency look like it has no objectives, no ideals and no vision. Of course, many people don’t have those qualities; they think freedom and constitutionalism sound like good ideas, but they’ll refuse to accept that their favorite welfare programs contradict those ideals. They’ll lay their freedom at the feet of anyone who promises to feed them with government money and flowery speeches about liberty.
The rifts in the Republican Party are a result of the people who have a purpose versus the people who don’t have a purpose. Members of the prior group are devoted to unwavering ideals, and they work within a political party to realize them. Members of the latter group are committed to nothing more than talking points; they don’t care what effect legislation will have so long as the proper jargon about God and compassion is used in justifying it.
As a result, we have a party that doesn’t know where it’s going or why it exists. This can be made no more evident than by the recent spectacle of Senate majority leader Bill Frist breaking with his own president over stem cell research. Our highest Republican officials don’t know what their party stands for.
Those who accept euphemisms as a substitute for action only encourage our leaders to shirk their Constitutional obligations. It’s nice to have so many politicians talking about the role of God in their lives, but when their actions are nothing more than a detriment to American freedom and sovereignty, their alleged motivations are irrelevant. Until that fact is realized, the ascendancy of our bureaucracy’s size and corruption is not going to cease.
Rudy Takala is 16 years old and lives in Minnesota. He was homeschooled for nine years, and is currently attending a local community college.
His columns appear regularly on NewsWithViews.com, MensNewsDaily.com, NationalLedger.com, SierraTimes.com. Newspapers he's written for include The North Carolina Conservative, The Recumbent, and The American Eagle.
Currently, he spends his free time laboring over a book concerning the American government's school system.
At the last minute, Jon changed topics in this newsletter to deal with two items in the news: Echinacea and bird flu. Before we go there, though, I want to let you know about this month's special at Baseline Nutritionals gives you one free bottle of Jon’s MegaGarlic pathogen destroyer when you buy 3 or more Echinacea Plus. Keep in mind this special runs from August 1st - 31st.
And now, Jon.
Echinacea and Bird Flu Jon Barron
They’re Baaaack!
As if one flawed study "proving" that Echinacea didn’t work was not enough, they’re back with another study released just a few days ago. In this version, now all over the news, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine dosed students with Echinacea and then sprayed cold viruses up their noses. Their conclusion was that Echinacea did nothing to prevent or alleviate colds. So what was wrong with the study?
Well first, the researchers prepared their own Echinacea extract. Please!! What expertise do University researchers have in making herbal extracts or in determining which batch of Echinacea to use in the first place? The arrogance is mind boggling. Just imagine their outrage if someone from the alternative health community decided to manufacture their own version of prescription drugs for testing.
The dosage they used was one third normal. Why one third? Because that’s the dosage set by the German government -- the government, incidentally (with the encouragement of the German corporations Hoechst, Bayer and BASF, the largest exporters of pharmaceutical products in the world), at the forefront of the movement to have Codex Alimentarius throttle down dosage levels for all vitamins, minerals, and herbals used throughout the world. Geez! That makes total sense…to use their recommended standard for testing Echinacea!
Their subjects, college students, tend to be at an age where they have highly competent immune systems to begin with, so the effects of immune system boosting would be less noticeable than in many other groups.
Look, here’s a simple test if you truly want to test the ability of Echinacea to boost the immune system. Find a test group that has below normal white cell counts. Supplement with high quality Echinacea extract. (Heck, I’ll supply the extract for free for any qualified research group.) Test to see if the white cell counts go up.
There are over 30,000 published studies that demonstrate Echinacea’s ability to boost the immune system. I have personally seen a number of cases where patients with already compromised immune systems took a high-quality Echinacea formula even as they commenced chemotherapy. Instead of going down, and to their doctor’s utter amazement, their white cell counts doubled to near normal levels in a matter of days. That’s pure demonstrable, repeatable science. For seven years now I’ve been trying to get researchers to run that simple objective white cell count test. Instead, they opt for creating their own Echinacea extracts and blowing rhino viruses up student’s noses. What’s wrong with this picture?
So, does Echinacea work for everyone? No, of course not. Are some people allergic to Echinacea? Yes, as with any plant based food or supplement. But does properly-dosed, high-quality Echinacea dramatically help boost most people’s immune systems? Absolutely! And shame on the New England Journal of Medicine for once again publishing yet another blatantly flawed study -- just because it’s anti-alternative health.
Asian Bird Flu, Initial Report
I wasn’t planning to visit this issue until sometime in the fall -- if needed then. However, thanks to the press, the buzz has already begun, and we have received at least a dozen questions concerning H5N1 bird flu over the last two weeks. So, to save Cathy Gaines and rest of the staff at the Foundation from having to address each request individually (they already handle 2-3 thousand emails a month), let’s talk about it now.
Back in April of 2003, I wrote a newsletter on SARS. At that time, I stated that because of the nature of SARS, the panic associated with it was grossly exaggerated -- far beyond the ability of the virus to spread and inflict harm. That assessment turned out to be correct. In the end, less than 8,000 people contracted SARS worldwide, and only around 560 died from it -- not a small thing for them or their families, but not a big deal in terms of world epidemics.
And now, shades of SARS, we are starting to hear about Avian (Bird) Flu as the next big health crisis. Unfortunately, based on the failure of the SARS epidemic to live up to its hype, many people are likely to now be dismissive of the threat posed by bird flu. That would be a mistake. The threat from H5N1 bird flu is very real. It may not happen now. It may not happen this year. And it may not even be a strain of the current bird flu at all, but at some point, according to experts, we will experience a major flu epidemic the likes of which the world has never seen before. Not to be a scaremonger, but it will change life as we know it -- throughout the world.
Flu Pandemics in General
Forget bird flu for the moment; your regular garden variety flu is already one of the world’s great killers. Every year, it’s responsible for some 1.5 million deaths worldwide. In fact, of the some 1,700 bacteria and viruses known to cause disease, historically, the flu virus has been the leading cause of death -- only recently being surpassed by the AIDS virus. As it turns out, movies like Outbreak missed the mark. They were so busy trying to convince you that the threat was coming from some new exotic military virus, they totally missed the fact that it’s actually coming from a variation of the virus next door, and with far more devastating consequences. How devastating? Devastating enough to make AIDS look almost benign by comparison.
The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19 killed some 50-100 million people worldwide. Based on current population densities, however, that would translate into some 2.5 billion people being infected and some 300-350 million people dying if the same circumstances were repeated today -- with close to 2 million of those deaths, incidentally, in the US alone. But as astonishing as that is, it’s not the worst part. The worldwide disruption would be unimaginable. Just look at the disruption SARS caused to worldwide travel, border restrictions, food supplies, etc. with less than 8,000 cases. In Canada alone, which recorded just 440 total cases of SARS (and just 43 deaths), the costs were estimated at over $700 million dollars in Ontario province alone. Total costs were estimated at well over $1 billion dollars. That’s over $2.25 million dollars per incidence of SARS. Multiply that times 2.5 billion (the number of people likely to be affected in the next pandemic), and the financial consequences are beyond imagining. And don’t think that we’re just talking money. We’re talking about total disruption to world food supplies, water, emergency services, and employment -- virtually every aspect of your life.
And thanks to medical cost cutting, the number of available hospital beds has been drastically reduced over the past 10 years. Health care systems would be unimaginably overwhelmed in a large scale pandemic. The simple fact is that the odds are probably close to 10:1 that you and everyone you love are likely to be on your own in a major pandemic; this is virtually guaranteed if you live in one of the world’s poorer economies.
Why Is H5N1 Bird Flu Different?
Of the three strains of flu virus, Type A, which originates in birds, kills the most people and is the only one capable of causing a pandemic. The pandemic of 1918-19 was caused by a Type A virus. (As a side note, SARS is not a flu virus, but a coronavirus -- related to the common cold.)
Because of their relatively simple genetic structure, flu viruses have a remarkable ability to mutate rapidly, allowing them to move up and down in terms of virulence and cross-species communicability.
Most flus have a mortality rate of about .008%. H5N1 avian flu, on the other hand, currently has a mortality rate of 20-36% -- briefly hitting 68% in 2003. (But look for that to drop some as it continues to mutate.) Incidentally, a dropping mortality rate is not necessarily a good thing. If mortality rates are too high (like the 80% seen with the Ebola virus), it actually "helps" prevent the spread of the disease since so many of the victims die before they can transmit it to others.
In most years, large percentages of the world’s population have at least some immunity to the current circulating flu strains (or more precisely their variants) because they have encountered similar strains before. With H5N1, that’s not the case. This is an entirely new strain -- at least within the current experience of every living human’s immune system. That means that virtually every single person on the planet would be susceptible.
In 2004, H5N1 became super-virulent, capable of killing a wide range of species beyond birds -- including humans. In other words, due to mutation, it finally crossed species.
H5N1 has mutated in ways never before seen in flu viruses making it incredibly difficult to contain.
Most strains of flu are not deadly by themselves. Death occurs primarily as a result of secondary bacterial infections in those with weakened immune systems: the very young, the very old, and those already suffering from immune system compromising diseases such as AIDS. The use of widely available antibiotics can dramatically lower mortality rates for these strains of flu. But as with the Spanish Flu, avian flu shows evidence of killing directly, and it kills those in the prime of health. Antibiotics will not be of much help in an H5N1 pandemic.
Having a good immune system alone will not protect you. Again, as with the 1918-1919 pandemic, H5N1 seems to claim almost half its victims by using their own immune systems against them through a condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome in which the victims own immune system unleashes a cytokine storm that literally chews up their lung tissue, ultimately causing the victim to suffocate.
In a cytokine storm, the immune system sees a virus that it has never seen before (which in this case will be true for every single person living on the planet), and it goes nuts, whipping itself into a frenzy in response to the invading virus. A biochemical cascade of immune cells and immune system bio-chemicals such as interferon, interleuken, monokines and cytokines literally pours into the lungs. The subsequent damage to the lung tissue caused by these cells and bio-chemicals leads to the condition mentioned above called acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The net result is that the victim suffocates as a result of their own disease-fighting chemistry.
You can’t rely on the flu vaccine to protect you. First, because no one knows what mutated form the virus will actually take when it reaches its ultimate "person to person" mutation. That means that no one knows, at this point in time, what to inoculate for. Also, flu vaccine production is limited. The world only produces about 300 million doses a year, which would hardly make a dent in the world’s population of 6.4 billion. And based on past performance, in a pandemic, governments would direct the limited doses they have to key government personnel, the military, and health workers. Anything left, would go to the very old and young. The bottom line is that there won’t be much left for the average person. And unfortunately, with H5N1, it is the average person who appears to be the most vulnerable. (People living in the USA might be at particular risk since most flu vaccines are currently manufactured outside of the United States. In a major pandemic, governments are likely to insist that manufacturers provide protection for people in their own country before exporting to the US.)
Theoretically, antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu could help. But, so far in real life application, it has not shown much benefit in helping those infected with avian flu. Also, even if ultimately proven effective, supplies will most likely be limited.
Before You Panic
At the moment, H5N1 is merely a potential threat. Although it has mutated to the point where it can infect animals other than birds (including humans), there is one final step that it has not yet taken.
Every person infected by H5N1 has required direct contact with infected animals. There is no conclusive evidence yet that H5N1 can be transmitted from person to person. (Yes, there are 3 cases in one family in Indonesia that initially raised some concern, but evidence of bird flu in chicken droppings around the home has subsequently allayed much of that concern.) This is the big one. Unless and until H5N1 mutates to the point where it can easily transmit from person to person, it will never be a concern for the vast majority of the world’s citizens, let alone present the potential for a pandemic of Biblical proportions.
The moment you see evidence that H5N1 has done this, then you should worry. When will that happen? It may already have happened (but waiting for conclusive evidence). It may happen later this year. It may happen next year. It may not happen with H5N1 at all. But make no mistake; for all the reasons mentioned above in this newsletter, it will eventually happen with some form of the Type A flu virus. It doesn’t happen often. It’s been almost 90 years since the last pandemic, but it definitely will happen, and despite all the advances seen in medicine in the last century, the world is no better prepared to handle a pandemic today than it was in 1918.
What Can You Do
If and when avian flu definitively demonstrates that it has mutated to the point where it can pass from person to person, we have a problem. You will want to take steps to protect yourself and your family.
Although I am not a fan of flu vaccines in general, if they do announce that they have a vaccine that specifically protects against the particular strain of avian flu in question (the variant that is being transmitted from person to person), it would be worth getting a vaccination -- assuming you can get one. As I said, normally, I question the value of flu vaccines because the risk reward ratio is not favorable. If H5N1 breaks free, however, that ratio could flip dramatically. Quite simply, just having a good immune system will not protect you.
In fact, as discussed above, having a good immune system could be a major contributing factor in mortality rates. Does that mean I’m saying that you are better off weakening your immune system? Absolutely not!! It just means you can’t rely on a healthy immune system alone. You still want the best immune system you can get, but you must take some of the burden off of your immune system so that it doesn’t overreact and trigger a cytokine storm. You need to find a way to kill off most of the flu virus directly so that your immune system is only required to clean up a weakened virus, rather than take it on entirely by itself. In other words, you will want to stock up on and use natural pathogen destroyers.
For more information on how to optimize your immune system and what pathogen destroyers to use check out the 10/25/04 newsletter, Your Immune System and the Flu, Part II. Briefly, however, some of these include:
Immune boosters
Echinacea (Despite the latest study)
Pau d’arco
Suma
Astragalus
Medicinal mushrooms
Beta glucans
Aloe vera
Alkygycerol
Lactoferrin
Bovine colostrums
Glutathione
Mangosteen
Pathogen destroyers
Garlic
Olive leaf extract
Oil of wild mountain oregano
Grapefruit seed extract
Stock up on life’s essentials. Think earthquakes, major snow storms, floods. Think of major disruption to many of life’s essentials. In other words, stock up on basics such as food and water. You may need them.
Bottom line
Are we there yet? No.
Do you need to panic yet? No.
Do you need to be concerned and watchful? Yes, absolutely. But understand, just because a buzz has started doesn’t mean we’re having a pandemic this year, or next -- or even in your lifetime. Store up on some immune boosters and pathogen destroyers. They’re useful additions to your medicine kit independent of bird flu. As a side note, and purely by coincidence (bird flu was not even the planned topic of discussion until late fall), as Kristen mentioned at the top of the newsletter, Baseline Nutritionals is running a special on an immune boosting/pathogen destroying combo. (They were targeting summer colds.)
And finally, you can be sure we’ll notify you at whatever point the risk from avian flu becomes imminent.
Please note. Despite claims to the contrary on the internet, Jon Barron is not associated with Healing America and does not oversee their formulas or their ingredient sourcing, and no longer licenses the use of the Barron Effect in the processing of their herbal tinctures.
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Subject: {SPAMFILTER} [FoodHerbHealth] Echinacea NEXT on the INTENTIONAL REMOVAL list of alternatives?
Several hours ago, I made a post in our group about Echinacea- about how the so-called 'research study' now is claiming that Echinacea actually does NOTHING for health claims. That is a LIE. It warned about CAFTA, CODEX, and the probability of them INTENTIONALLY REMOVING ECHINACEA next from our list of natural, inexpensive and easily accessible alternatives. So stock up! Anyway, hopefully the message I posted WILL go on, otherwise I will try to remember to repost.
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ALSO BELOW, a POSSIBLE alternative for Echinacea!?????
Vitality Works - Wild Oregano Oil - 1 fl oz Oregano Oil works like tea tree oil and grapefruit seed extract all in one. ... It is not a booster like Echinacea, but a killer for acute inundation and ... www.mothernature.com/shop/detail.cfm/sku/51001/S/98931 - 23k
Echinacea - Thread Echinacea works like an antibiotic by simulating the immune system and has none of the side effects of antibiotics. • This herb is especially effective in ... vitanetonline.com/forums/1/Thread/365 - 50k
Echinacea information page. All about echinacea and the role it ... echinacea can be a helpful ingredient in helping to combat certain problems. ... any herb of the daisy family you may have an allergic reaction to echinacea ... www.anyvitamins.com/echinacea.htm - 16k
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The genus Echinacea, indigenous to North America, belongs to the aster family
Plants of the Aster family will have either disk flowers or ray flowers, or both.
aster family - definition of aster family by the Free Online ... Meaning of aster family. What does aster family mean? aster family ... Noun, 1. aster family - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; ... www.thefreedictionary.com/aster%20family - 28k -
Echinacea stimulates the body's defenses against disease. ... ten-thousand nutritional products. Uncover the benefits of Echinacea 40 Box (FORM: BoxQTY: 40). The same great brands at great prices...WHY PAY MORE? ... www.taoherbfarm.com/herbs/herbs/echinacea.htm - 81k -
Greenridge - Greenridge Cold Relief Children 100ml offers the same benefits of two Echinacea's but in a non-active Glycerol base, with no alcohol so offers a gentle way to relieve children's symptoms. ... www.greenridge.com.au/product_detail.asp?productID=25 - 14k
Echinacea has the ability to raise the body's resistance to bacterial and viral infections.
Major effects: Stimulates the white blood cells that help fight infection. Enhances the body's ability to dispose of bacteria, infected and damaged cells and harmful chemicals. Promotes general cellular immunity. Interferon-like-action - helps prevent and control viral infections.
Contra indications # Do Not Use If allergic or sensitive to the Daisy family.
(THIS IS WHAT I AM WONDERING, since it seems that the DAISY, also in the same aster family as ECHINACEA, is closely related, would it have the same benefits????--"Cheyenne Cin")
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Better Nutrition: Bundle up with botanicals to boost your immunity ... Find similar results using these terms Related Searches ... The genus Echinacea, which includes nine species, is native only to North America. ... www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m0FKA/is_n11_v58/ai_18841040 - 32k -
Dr. Murray Online | Articles The best assurance for consumers to get the full benefit of Echinacea is to use a ... members of plants in the daisy family (daisy, ragweed, marigolds, etc. . www.doctormurray.com/Articles/Echinamide.htm - 28k
THIS has pictures of the oxeye daisy and the places in America where it grows WILD-- I have a sneaking hunch it MAY just be along the same lines of beneficical as ECHINACEA! --"Cheyenne Cin"
Irish Name - Nóinín mór Daisy Family - Compositae/Asteraceae
Northern Ireland Distribution
Flower Type
Habitat
Height
30–90cm
Description
Ox-eye Daisy flower
The Ox-eye Daisy is a familiar native wildflower seen across Northern Ireland in many fields, roadside verges, railways and riverbanks. The name ‘ox-eye’ was a flattering name affectionately given to Hera, the Queen of Olympian gods in Greek mythology, the name was later given to this pretty Daisy. Early Christians dedicated this flower to Mary Magdalen which is how the name Maudlin Daisy originated and the name Dun Daisy arose from the flower being connected with the god of thunder. Celtic legend told how daises were the spirits of young children that died during birth.
This hardy perennial grows from 30cm to 90cm in height. The stem is long, thin and hard with occasional branching along the stem. Positioned at the end of the stem is an apparent yellow and white flower. Each “flower” is actually composed of many hundreds of flowers or florets. The yellow centre, “disc florets” and the white edges are called “ray florets”. The flower comes into bloom in the middle of May and continues to flower until the end of October although it is at its peak towards the end of June. The leaves are small with a rough toothed edge and those near the root are more round in shape with long stalks.
Many insects don’t like Ox-eye Daisy as the whole plant has a bitter, pungent juice within it. For this reason in older times the juice of the plant was often mixed with the bedding of farm animals as a repellent to insect pests. Some people believe that it repels flies if it is planted near the house. Although some farm animals such as sheep, goats and horses will graze on Ox-eye Daisy, cows and pigs will not touch it. It is thought that cows that do eat this plant produce bitter tasting milk.
Despite having a bitter taste, young leaves of Ox-eye Daisy are eaten in salads in parts of Italy although the plant is not renowned for this use. There are many medicinal uses that have been derived from this plant throughout the ages. The whole plant was said to have medicinal benefits and was used in many ways including tonics to ease the effects of whooping cough, night sweats, asthma and nervous conditions. The herb was also taken as a cure of jaundice. Externally Ox-eye Daisy was used to treat ulcers, bruises, cuts and conjunctivitis, although it can be an irritant to the skin. It should be noted that although Ox-eye Daisy was used in the above ways, to what extent it proved effective is unclear and a recognised herbalist should be consulted for correct usage and doses.
Propagation
From seed Ox-eye Daisy is very simple to grow from seed. Each floret on a flower head produces a seed. Seed is often 70-80% viable and will produce many plants with little effort or skill required. In either spring or autumn fill a seed tray with a soil based compost and simply scatter the seed onto the surface. When the seed has been sown, lightly cover with more compost. Soil should be kept moist and seed should then germinate within two weeks. Seedlings can then be pricked out and potted up to be planted out when a little bigger.
Ox-eye Daisy growing on top of an old wall
By division Ox-eye daisy can also be propagated vegetatively by splitting large plants in spring or early autumn.
Permission from the landowner - and, if the site holds any kind of designation, from Environment & Heritage Service too - must be sought before collecting plant material (including seeds).
Several hours ago, I made a post in our group about Echinacea- about how the so-called 'research study' now is claiming that Echinacea actually does NOTHING for health claims. That is a LIE. It warned about CAFTA, CODEX, and the probability of them INTENTIONALLY REMOVING ECHINACEA next from our list of natural, inexpensive and easily accessible alternatives. So stock up! Anyway, hopefully the message I posted WILL go on, otherwise I will try to remember to repost.
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ALSO BELOW, a POSSIBLE alternative for Echinacea!?????
Vitality Works - Wild Oregano Oil - 1 fl oz Oregano Oil works like tea tree oil and grapefruit seed extract all in one. ... It is not a booster like Echinacea, but a killer for acute inundation and ... www.mothernature.com/shop/detail.cfm/sku/51001/S/98931 - 23k
Echinacea - Thread Echinacea works like an antibiotic by simulating the immune system and has none of the side effects of antibiotics. • This herb is especially effective in ... vitanetonline.com/forums/1/Thread/365 - 50k
Echinacea information page. All about echinacea and the role it ... echinacea can be a helpful ingredient in helping to combat certain problems. ... any herb of the daisy family you may have an allergic reaction to echinacea ... www.anyvitamins.com/echinacea.htm - 16k
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The genus Echinacea, indigenous to North America, belongs to the aster family
Plants of the Aster family will have either disk flowers or ray flowers, or both.
aster family - definition of aster family by the Free Online ... Meaning of aster family. What does aster family mean? aster family ... Noun, 1. aster family - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; ... www.thefreedictionary.com/aster%20family - 28k -
Echinacea stimulates the body's defenses against disease. ... ten-thousand nutritional products. Uncover the benefits of Echinacea 40 Box (FORM: BoxQTY: 40). The same great brands at great prices...WHY PAY MORE? ... www.taoherbfarm.com/herbs/herbs/echinacea.htm - 81k -
Greenridge - Greenridge Cold Relief Children 100ml offers the same benefits of two Echinacea's but in a non-active Glycerol base, with no alcohol so offers a gentle way to relieve children's symptoms. ... www.greenridge.com.au/product_detail.asp?productID=25 - 14k
Echinacea has the ability to raise the body's resistance to bacterial and viral infections.
Major effects: Stimulates the white blood cells that help fight infection. Enhances the body's ability to dispose of bacteria, infected and damaged cells and harmful chemicals. Promotes general cellular immunity. Interferon-like-action - helps prevent and control viral infections.
Contra indications # Do Not Use If allergic or sensitive to the Daisy family.
(THIS IS WHAT I AM WONDERING, since it seems that the DAISY, also in the same aster family as ECHINACEA, is closely related, would it have the same benefits????--"Cheyenne Cin")
=========================================
Better Nutrition: Bundle up with botanicals to boost your immunity ... Find similar results using these terms Related Searches ... The genus Echinacea, which includes nine species, is native only to North America. ... www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m0FKA/is_n11_v58/ai_18841040 - 32k -
Dr. Murray Online | Articles The best assurance for consumers to get the full benefit of Echinacea is to use a ... members of plants in the daisy family (daisy, ragweed, marigolds, etc. ... www.doctormurray.com/Articles/Echinamide.htm - 28k
THIS has pictures of the oxeye daisy and the places in America where it grows WILD-- I have a sneaking hunch it MAY just be along the same lines of beneficical as ECHINACEA! --"Cheyenne Cin"
Irish Name - Nóinín mór Daisy Family - Compositae/Asteraceae
Northern Ireland Distribution
Flower Type
Habitat
Height
30–90cm
Description
Ox-eye Daisy flower
The Ox-eye Daisy is a familiar native wildflower seen across Northern Ireland in many fields, roadside verges, railways and riverbanks. The name ‘ox-eye’ was a flattering name affectionately given to Hera, the Queen of Olympian gods in Greek mythology, the name was later given to this pretty Daisy. Early Christians dedicated this flower to Mary Magdalen which is how the name Maudlin Daisy originated and the name Dun Daisy arose from the flower being connected with the god of thunder. Celtic legend told how daises were the spirits of young children that died during birth.
This hardy perennial grows from 30cm to 90cm in height. The stem is long, thin and hard with occasional branching along the stem. Positioned at the end of the stem is an apparent yellow and white flower. Each “flower” is actually composed of many hundreds of flowers or florets. The yellow centre, “disc florets” and the white edges are called “ray florets”. The flower comes into bloom in the middle of May and continues to flower until the end of October although it is at its peak towards the end of June. The leaves are small with a rough toothed edge and those near the root are more round in shape with long stalks.
Many insects don’t like Ox-eye Daisy as the whole plant has a bitter, pungent juice within it. For this reason in older times the juice of the plant was often mixed with the bedding of farm animals as a repellent to insect pests. Some people believe that it repels flies if it is planted near the house. Although some farm animals such as sheep, goats and horses will graze on Ox-eye Daisy, cows and pigs will not touch it. It is thought that cows that do eat this plant produce bitter tasting milk.
Despite having a bitter taste, young leaves of Ox-eye Daisy are eaten in salads in parts of Italy although the plant is not renowned for this use. There are many medicinal uses that have been derived from this plant throughout the ages. The whole plant was said to have medicinal benefits and was used in many ways including tonics to ease the effects of whooping cough, night sweats, asthma and nervous conditions. The herb was also taken as a cure of jaundice. Externally Ox-eye Daisy was used to treat ulcers, bruises, cuts and conjunctivitis, although it can be an irritant to the skin. It should be noted that although Ox-eye Daisy was used in the above ways, to what extent it proved effective is unclear and a recognised herbalist should be consulted for correct usage and doses.
Propagation
From seed Ox-eye Daisy is very simple to grow from seed. Each floret on a flower head produces a seed. Seed is often 70-80% viable and will produce many plants with little effort or skill required. In either spring or autumn fill a seed tray with a soil based compost and simply scatter the seed onto the surface. When the seed has been sown, lightly cover with more compost. Soil should be kept moist and seed should then germinate within two weeks. Seedlings can then be pricked out and potted up to be planted out when a little bigger.
Ox-eye Daisy growing on top of an old wall
By division Ox-eye daisy can also be propagated vegetatively by splitting large plants in spring or early autumn.
Permission from the landowner - and, if the site holds any kind of designation, from Environment & Heritage Service too - must be sought before collecting plant material (including seeds).
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Apricot Cinnamon (Herbal Tea) - Flavors of apricot, cinnamon sticks, cloves, hand picked marigolds and rare Honey Bush is blended together to produce a wholly unique taste with a tinge of spiciness. Honey Bush is grown in the region of the Cape of Good Hope and is rich in trace elements such as
coumesans, xantones and flavones that research has confirmed has anti inflammatory and anti-cancer properties.
Apricot Cinnamon (Herbal Tea) - Flavors of apricot, cinnamon sticks, cloves, hand picked marigolds and rare Honey Bush is blended together to produce a wholly unique taste with a tinge of spiciness. Honey Bush is grown in the region of the Cape of Good Hope and is rich in trace elements such as coumesans, xantones and flavones that research has confirmed has anti inflammatory and anti-cancer properties.
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NOTE IN INFO BELOW- I don't know if the XANTONES are contained in the apricots, the cinnamon, the cloves, the marigolds or in the honeybush--but am only putting the honeybush info below:
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Syngenta’s GM maize linked to dead cows linked to GM DNA in milk and scientist involved in what appears to be a major cover-up on behalf of big dairy producer. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
There are several published studies on the transfer of genetically modified (GM) DNA from animal feed to milk, all of them methodologically flawed; nevertheless they indicate that it is possible for DNA from GM feed to transfer to milk. And this is confirmed in an unpublished study from the Weihenstephen Institute of Physiology and the Technical University of Munich. Astonishingly, the lead author of the unpublished study from Weihenstephen Institute, which found positive evidence of GM DNA in milk - Prof. Rolf Espanier - is also the lead author of the statement on behalf of the company Mueller, claiming there is no transfer of genetically modified components from animal feed to milk. Furthermore, that unpublished study was done on milk collected from dairy cows in a farm in Hesse Germany where, between 2000 and 2001, 12 cows died after eating Syngenta’s GM maize Bt 176 (Cow ate GM maize and died, SiS 21). No proper autopsies were carried out; while this crucial study dated 20 October 2000 remained under lock and key for more than three years before it was leaked to Greenpeace [1].
A handful of studies
The first study in the laboratories of Einspanier, Jahreis and Falchowsky [2] detected “faint signals” of the abundant plant chloroplast DNA in milk, but not the GM DNA. However, the limit of detection, i.e., the sensitivity of the detection method, was not reported. This would involve spiking the milk with increasing amounts of DNA from the GM feed until a positive signal is obtained.
A second study in another laboratory [3] failed to detect any GM DNA in milk. But the limit of detection was 30 ng GM soya DNA added to the milk, which is equivalent to 16 200 copies of the GM soya genome, or the same number of copies of the GM DNA insert, assuming there is a single insert in the genome. This is unacceptably high compared to the standard limit of detection of 10 copies or less; and it indicates that the method used was far from sensitive enough. A follow-up investigation [4] did detect plant chloroplast DNA, but not the GM DNA in milk. Chloroplast DNA outnumbers GM DNA by up to 50 000 copies to 1. The limit of detection in this study was still unacceptably high; it required the presence of 2 700 copies of the GM soya genome and 602 copies of the GM maize genome in 330 microlitres (about three drops) of milk. Another limitation of these studies was that the feeding trials [2, 3] were of short duration, lasting only several weeks.
The fourth published study [5] established the limit of detection as between 5 and 10 genomic copies of the GM DNA, but not by adding the GM plant DNA to milk, which is necessary, as inhibitors of the detection reaction are often present. Nevertheless these researchers found plant chloroplast DNA in high proportions, possibly all, of the milk samples from dairy cows: 86% positives while the rest were ‘indeterminate’. They claim to have found “no statistically significant” presence of GM DNA in milk. No information on the length of the feeding trial(s) was given.
Positive evidence for the transfer of GM DNA into milk was presented in the unpublished report [6] from Weihenstephen Institute referred to earlier. Two milk samples were analysed, and in both of them, positive signals for GM DNA were found. These studies used a wider range of probes for different plant DNA: Ubiquitin and zein (about 20 and 40 copies respectively in the maize genome); EPSPS, single copy gene specific for GM soya; rubisco gene in chloroplast genome (about 10 000 to 50 000 copies); and Bt (CrylA), single copy gene specific for GM maize The first milk sample was probed for ubiquitin, rubisco and Bt; the second sample was probed for all five gene-sequences. The milk was separated by centrifugation into the cell fraction at the bottom, fat at the top and solution in between. The first sample showed that ubiquitin DNA was present in all the cell and fat fractions, but not in solution. The chloroplast rubisco DNA could be detected in all cell and fat fractions. The Bt DNA was detected in all the fractions that were positive for chloroplast DNA, with a rather similar pattern.
The summary stated, “It was not difficult to prove the existence of general plant DNA (chloroplasts) in this milk. In addition, positive signals for the presence of Bt-maize fragments were obtained. This data indicates the presence of small quantities of Bt-maize gene fragments in the tank milk.” (emphasis added)
However, the authors made the unjustified assumptions that the Bt-maize gene fragments came from other sources than the animals producing the milk and that they have no biological significance, “The presence of Bt-maize material in the milk supplied is not necessary due to endogenous factors (i.e., via the animal itself). Thus, the presence of many different kinds of feed in the tank milk is likely and almost inevitable in spite of stringent hygienic conditions. The PCR analysis will also detect dust or aerosols from neighbouring feeding areas. On the basis of the biological knowledge available to us, the presence of the very small quantity of Bt-maize DNA identified has only analytical but no biological relevance whatsoever.” In the second sample, not only was the Bt gene fragment from GM maize detected in milk, the EPSPS gene fragment from GM soya - contained in the animal feed - was also detected. The summary stated, “In this milk, it was possible to identify sporadic traces of general plant DNA (chloroplasts) as well as zein and EPSPS gene fragments. As well as this, slightly positive signals indicating the presence of Bt-maize fragments were also contained. This data indicates minor contamination with Bt-maize gene fragments in the tank milk.”
Again, this “contamination” was deemed to have “no biological relevance whatsoever.”
GM DNA in milk is a cause for concern
The presence of GM DNA in milk is a cause for concern, regardless of whether it originated in the animal producing the milk, or by contamination from “dust or aerosols” containing GM feed, which according to the authors of the unpublished report [6] “is likely and almost inevitable in spite of stringent hygienic conditions.”
GM DNA is unlike natural DNA in many respects [7]. It contains new combinations of genetic material that have never existed in billions of years of evolution, including genes sequences that are completely synthesized in the laboratory, differing significantly from their natural counterparts. GM DNA is designed with recombination sequences in order to break and insert into genomes; it also contains other changes to overcome genetic differences between species. GM DNA inserting into genomes causes mutational and other genome rearrangements including cancer. In addition, GM DNA contains a high proportion of viral and bacterial DNA, known to cause a range of immune reactions in human [8].
Another source of hazard from GM DNA comes from the gene products encoded, which have never been part of our food chain. For example, one study found that two-thirds of all the transgenes have similarities to known allergens [9, 10] and should be regarded as potential allergens until proven otherwise.
Campaign against GM animal feed
Greenpeace Germany began campaigning against GM animal feed in March 2005. Their main target is Mueller, one of Germany’s biggest dairy producers and also number one in Britain in yogurt sales. Greenpeace exposed Mueller’s use of GM soya to feed their dairy cows, which Mueller does not deny. But the company tried to stop Greenpeace’s campaign, and especially the use of the term “GE-milk” through the law court. The company claims it is scientifically demonstrated that no GM DNA could transfer into the milk, and produced a statement signed by six German scientists with the title, No transfer of genetically modified components from animal feed to milk. Greenpeace contacted me for help in producing a counter-statement. The counter-statement, Transfer of genetically modified DNA from animal feed to milk cannot be ruled out, and is a cause for concern, was eventually signed by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Dr. Arpad Pusztai, Dr. Susan Bardocz, Prof. Joe Cummins and Prof. Peter Saunders on behalf of the Independent Science Panel (www.indsp.org).
On 5 July 2005, the court of Cologne decided in favour of Greenpeace, refusing to grant Mueller an injunction. The court stated that as since Mueller is using genetically modified plants for animal feed, the products are connected with genetic engineering and therefore the term GE-milk is perfectly justified. Mueller claimed that GM-DNA fragments are not present in milk, but Greenpeace countered by saying it was not yet scientifically decided. “The report of the ISP was vital to support our arguments!” says Greenpeace activist Ulricke Brendel. Unfortunately, that’s not the end of the matter. Mueller has filed a new case against Greenpeace, going for the highest court in Germany, to prevent Greenpeace from using the term, “GE-milk”, and also asking for €500 000 in damage compensation.
“For the next 3 to 5 years, that is as long it might take, we will keep arguing the case,” Ulricke added. So what’s the current status of the evidence? Is there or is there not GM-DNA in milk?
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IT IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE EVIDENT THAT we will have to take responsibility for OUR OWN HEALTH, to the best of our abilities.
We also demonstrate here how "CAFTA" is meant to remove our rights to cheap non-prescription vitamins, minerals and nutrients, the removal of access to over-the-counter cold and flu meds, the planned 'epidemics', forced quarantines and vaccines meant to remove your rights and even to kill you.
We dealve into natural cures and preventatives for our good health.
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Flavay™ Normalizes Reactivity ("Stickiness") of Blood Platelets
Flavay™ improves nitric oxide levels which causes muscles surrounding the blood vessels to relax, and blood platelets to return to their normal, smooth condition.
Flavay™ protects the cardiovascular system in another way. Considerable research demonstrates that Flavay™ causes blood platelets to return to their normal, smooth condition; helping to keep the blood platelets from becoming "sticky" and developing a tendency to unnecessarily clump together. Research shows that Flavay™ improves nitric oxide levels produced by cells that line the arteries. Nitric oxide controls the muscles surrounding the blood vessels and causes them to relax. At the same time, nitric oxide causes blood platelets to return to their normal, smooth condition. This can reduce the dangerous formation of the blood clots which cause coronary thrombosis resulting in myocardial infraction. Thus, we can see two important ways in which Flavay™ can help prevent the primary causes of heart attack and stroke. But that isn’t all.
Antioxidants: The Sum is Greater Than the Parts
Until recently, scientists believed that each antioxidant worked separately in the body, independently of the others. We now know that isn't true. Current research demonstrates that antioxidants work as a team, in sequence and in a complementary fashion, even "recycling" each other for a more powerful, synergistic effect. Harvard researchers found in a study of 87,000 female nurses that a combination of antioxidant vitamins (beta-carotene and vitamins C and E) provided far greater protection from cardiovascular disease than the single antioxidants. Flavay™ is a powerful antioxidant that recycles and potentiates vitamin C, a key player in the antioxidant army, and Flavay Plus™ thereby optimizes the synergy created by these antioxidant soldiers.
Synergistic Help for Cardiovascular & Circulatory Health
Vitamin A (Beta-carotene and cartenoids): Flavay Plus™ contains the preferred form of Vitamin A, beta-carotene (Betatene™). Beta-carotene is converted by the body into vitamin A only as the body needs it and what isn't converted remains as a powerful antioxidant, shown to benefit the cardiovascular system. The beta-carotene in Flavay Plus™ is the highest quality, full-spectrum, patented Betatene™, a complete array of plant-derived, antioxidant cartenoids: beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, cryptoxanthin, zeaxanthin, lutein, and lycopene.
Vitamin C: Flavay Plus™ also contains vitamin C: water-soluble, a potent free radical scavenger, recycles vitamin E, plays a primary role in the formation of collagen, essential for vascular health and a strong immune system. Controlled studies prove the contribution of vitamin C in the manufacture of white blood cells and interferon.
In 1998, several well-controlled studies showed that vitamin C enables the arterial system to expand and contract with youthful elasticity. Cardiologists often prescribe nitroglycerine and longer-acting nitrate drugs to dilate the coronary arteries and relieve angina pain. Nitrate drugs not only improve coronary blood flow, but they also lower the oxygen demand of the heart by reducing peripheral vascular resistance.
When vitamin C is administered to coronary artery disease patients, the vasodilating effects of the nitrate drugs may be significantly prolonged and the energy producing capacity of the cells maintained.
Unfortunately, nitrate drugs also produce negative effects. The main limiting factor to the nitrate drugs is tolerance, i.e., the vascular system stops responding to the dilating effects of the drugs and angina is no longer controlled. Nitrate drugs may also cause a progressive weakening of the heart muscle cell's ability to produce energy. When vitamin C is administered to coronary artery disease patients, the vasodilating effects of the nitrate drugs may be significantly prolonged and the energy producing capacity of the cells maintained.
A double-blind study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (1998; Vol. 31(6), pp.1323-1329) compared the effects of nitrate drugs in people receiving vitamin C to a placebo group not receiving vitamin C. The doctors concluded the study by stating "These results indicate that combination therapy with vitamin C is potentially useful for preventing the development of nitrate tolerance."
Flavay™ recycles and significantly extends the lifetime of vitamin C, potentiates vitamin E, and thereby creates a more powerful, synergistic antioxidant effect in the body.
Flavay Plus™ uses Ester-C™, a patented, revolutionary form of vitamin C that gets into the blood stream faster than ordinary vitamin C, in larger amounts with less waste, stays in the body longer, and is used more efficiently by cells and connective tissues. Ester-C™ is also buffered and stomach-friendly.
It's also important to note that Flavay™ dramatically extends the activity of vitamin C in the body.
Vitamin E: The body’s principal fat-soluble antioxidant and must be obtained through food or supplements. Much of the body’s free radical damage occurs in fats and in fatty membranes of cells—exactly where vitamin E protects the body. Many cardiologists now recommend vitamin E supplementation.
Flavay Plus™ uses only natural, cold-water dispersible (dry) vitamin E because it is efficiently absorbed even when taken on an empty stomach or with a low-fat meal. The other forms of natural vitmain E, the non-cold water dispersible (oil) forms, may be poorly absorbed unless taken with several grams of fats or oils.
The National Academy of Science officially recognized natural vitamin E (d-alpha) as twice as potent and retained twice as well as synthetic (dl-alpha). This means twice as much natural vitamin E reaches the blood and organs compared to synthetic versions.
B-Vitamins: Flavay Plus™ is also formulated with many B-vitamins as they have been shown to be vital for the cardiovascular system. Pyridoxine (vitamin B-6) is needed for healthy blood and blood vessels. Many studies indicate that vitamin B-6 helps prevent arteriosclerosis and that low levels of vitamin B-6 may increase the risk of heart attack. Vitamin B-6 is required by the body to turn iron into hemoglobin, and to produce red blood cells and antibodies. In a recent study of men and women from nine European countries, researchers concluded that regardless of homocysteine levels, a blood deficiency of vitamin B-6 was still "a very powerful risk factor for heart disease and stroke."
Selenium:Flavay Plus™ includes selenium, as it is necessary for the body's production of glutathione peroxidase, which destroys free radicals that trigger the formation of plaque that clogs arteries leading to the heart. Also, human platelets contain more selenium than any other tissue, suggesting that the high concentration of selenium in platelets may prevent blood clots. Selenium is also necessary for the body’s production of glutathione (an antioxidant produced by the body which protects the brain and nerve tissue from the harmful effects of free radicals) and thioredoxin reductase which recycles vitamin C. Selenium also has a synergistic effect with vitamin E, which means that the two combined are more powerful than either alone. Many Americans do not consume even the small RDA of selenium in their diet.
Zinc: Zinc is a necessary part of the body’s production of DHA and a constituent of many vital enzymes, including superoxide dismutase (SOD), which is a critical cellular antioxidant enzyme that is responsible for mopping up peroxynitrate, the highly toxic free radical produced in abundance in the normal course of immune system battles (as in viral or bacterial infections) and plays a powerful role in immune system inflammation. Together with the B vitamins, zinc assists in the utilization of insulin and glucose. There is a growing body of evidence to indicate that zinc is needed for the proper maintenance of vitamin E levels in the blood and aids in the absorption of vitamin A. Other important functions of zinc include the promotion of glandular and reproductive health; and there is strong evidence that zinc is essential for cell repair and cell growth. There is evidence that zinc levels fall after physical and mental stress. Flavay Plus™ uses zinc orotate, a high-quality, highly bioavailable form of zinc.
Ginkgo biloba leaf: Used as a medicinal treatment in China since 2800 B.C. for problems related to brain function, heart disease, and other circulatory disorders. Recent research has shown that ginkgo biloba extract can help speed up recovery after a heart attack. Flavay Plus™ includes ginkgo biloba leaf extract that has been standardized to 24% gingko flavone glycosides and 6% terpene lactones—the clinically proven optimum rations used in the breakthrough studies published in a mainstream medical journal.
Phosphatidyl serine:Flavay Plus™ is formulated with phosphatidyl serine (Leci-PS™), a complex of amino and fatty acids extracted from soy lecithin, which has proven to be a safe, potentially effective therapeutic agent in treating memory deficit disorders. Phosphatidyl serine has been the subject of many human clinical trials regarding memory loss, mood, cognitive performance, learning ability and stress.
Phosphatidyl serine is a phospholipid that is vital to brain cell structure and function. Phospholipids are molecules containing both amino and fatty acid components, which are found in every cell membrane in our bodies. Phosphatidyl serine plays an important role in our neurotransmitter systems, in metabolism levels of the brain, and in maintaining nerve connections in the brain. It appears to help reestablish the normal down-regulation of cortisol secretion that is increased in chronically stressed individuals.
Flavay Plus™ is a synergistic blend of phosphatidyl serine with Flavay™ and other antioxidants and B vitamins because researchers show that phosphatidyl serine works with other nutrients such as the B vitamins and antioxidants.
Research has shown that phosphatidyl serine works to keep the brain’s processes within normal limits, raising them when they are low and lowering them when they are high. So phosphatidyl serine boosts the weak stress response in the elderly person and calms down exaggerated stress in the healthy young person. Both physical and mental stressful conditions cause stress hormones to be released into circulation, even in the young and healthy. Phosphatidyl serine given to athletes prior to starting exercise produced an impressive degree of down-regulation of the stress hormones. Phosphatidyl serine may have the capacity to normalize the stress-induced activation of the "fight or flight response." In a double-blind, placebo-controlled study conducted in Italy, phosphatidyl serine lowered stress hormone (cortisol) production by 30 percent.
Two more recent placebo controlled studies confirmed the earlier double-blind trials; young, university students experienced significantly less stress from tests when they took phosphatidyl serine (300 mg daily for 30 days), they stayed more clear-headed and composed, and kept a more stable mood.
Aging process itself increases coagulability which leads to clot formation and subsequent coronary artery occlusion.
Increase in blood viscosity can create ischemia (low blood flow) which leads to apoptosis, inflammation and platelet aggregation. Acute phase reaction, particularly a high c-reactive protein, is related to vascular inflammation and or infection. Coumadin affect prothrombin/thrombin activation. Natural products like Vitamin E complex with mixed Tocopherols400-1600IU/day and Magnesium300-1600mg/day have similar properties. Platelet hyperactivity is minimized by aspirin and similarly by natural products like Ginkgo Biloba60-120mg/day. Natural substances that have similar reaction to heparin is Omega-3 5000mg/day, N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC) 500-2000mg/day and arginine 2000-6000mg/day (ArginMax).
EDTA (ethylene diaminetetracetic acid) inhibits aggregation to all of the substances above with the exception of collagen. EDTA oral or rectal suppository - dose varies depending on renal function. However, the efficacy of chelation therapy for CAD is still controversial.
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October 22, 2000 - Excerpts from Miracle Cures By Jean Carper
The medicine called ginkgo biloba is derived from the leaves of the ginkgo tree, an ornamental tree growing in temperate climates. The plant's reputed most active chemicals, the ginkgolides, are generally extracted from the leaves and turned into tablets of various potency. These potent ginkgolides are unique to the ginkgo tree and are not found anywhere else in nature.
What's the Evidence?
Some experts call ginkgo the most important of all botanical medicines. Since the 1950s, more than 400 papers on ginkgo, most from German investigators, have appeared .in the medical literature. More than fifty controlled clinical trials confirm ginkgo biloba as a treatment for diminished memory and concentration, increased absentmindedness, confusion, energy loss, tiredness, depression, dizziness, and tinnitus (ringing in the ears.) Specifically, researchers have documented the use of ginkgo in treating dementia, including Alzheimer's.
The impact of ginkgo can be enormous, revitalizing brain activity and stopping or reversing a constellation of symptoms due to poor blood flow. According to one German study, blood flow increased 57 percent one hour after ginkgo was taken, as measured in subjects' capillaries. Two other recent well-conducted German studies showed impressive effects after regular use of ginkgo. One found that ginkgo improved brain function by a striking 72 percent on average after three months of use by ninety-nine older patients who had suffered brain disturbances for about two years. In another study of 200 patients, average age sixty-nine, who had endured memory problems for about four years, 71 percent improved after three months on ginkgo, compared with 32 percent on placebo.
A compelling endorsement of ginkgo came from Drs. Jos Kleijnen and Paul Knipschild at the University of Limburg in Maastricht, the Netherlands. In 1992, as reported in a leading British medical journal, The Lancet, they examined forty controlled human studies of ginkgo and concluded that ginkgo was every bit as valid a treatment for "cerebral insufficiency" (decreased blood circulation in the brain that can lead to dementia) as the pharmaceutical drug co-dergocrine, widely prescribed in Europe for that condition. In fact, the Dutch researchers were so convinced of the efficacy of ginkgo that they vowed they would take it themselves if they ever began to lose their memory or experience other symptoms of "cerebral insufficiency." Moreover, they pronounced ginkgo free of serious side effects. The typical effective dose used in the studies: 120 milligrams daily. Improvements were generally noticeable after four to six weeks.
A New Treatment for Alzheimer's
A common cause of age-related intellectual decline is the mysterious and dreaded disease Alzheimer's, in which brain cells are gradually destroyed. New, exciting research shows that ginkgo can help arrest the progression of dementia from Alzheimer's as well as from other causes. This does not mean the botanical drug cures the underlying cause of brain destruction or reverses brain damage, but several studies find much improvement in Alzheimer's patients taking ginkgo. In a large, very tightly structured study, published in 1996, German investigators at the Free University, Berlin, observed the use of ginkgo on 222 outpatients at forty-one study centers around the country. The subjects, all over age fifty-five, had been diagnosed with mild to moderate Alzheimer-type dementia or dementia caused by a series of mini strokes, known medically as multi-infarcts. For six months the patients were given either a dummy pill or a daily dose of 240 milligrams of standardized ginkgo biloba extract (EGb 761), taken twice a day before meals.
Undeniably, those getting ginkgo did much better. As judged by specific tests, overall condition, including improvement in "memory and attention. functions," was about three times better in ginkgo takers than in those on the inactive pills. The plant medicine was more effective after six months than after three months. Moreover, side effects were infrequent and almost entirely minor, such as allergic reaction, upset stomach, or headache of the type related to any drug therapy; only one possible serious side effect occurred, a stroke, although the relationship to ginkgo was not confirmed. Using ginkgo to treat dementia could have monumental benefits for both the individual and society, the researchers concluded, by improving the patients' quality of life and postponing as long as possible the loss of independence and necessity for full-time care.
How Does It Work?
First, ginkgo is a very strong antioxidant, meaning it protects cells from damage, an underlying cause of all bodily disintegration, including dysfunctional brain cells and clogged blood vessels in the brain, heart, and extremities. Ginkgo's main pharmacological agents are thought to be, flavone glycosides and terpene lactones, mainly unique chemicals called ginkgolides. Ginkgo discourages blood platelet stickiness, reducing formation of devastating blood clots and plaque build-up. Also critical may be ginkgo's anti-inflammatory activity, which can protect diseased arteries from further damage, new research suggests. French experiments show that ginkgo can actually restore the ability of brain cells to transmit and receive signals from neurotransmitters that govern brain activity. Whether the direct therapeutic effects on the brain are ultimately the result of better blood circulation is unknown. Dr. Itil notes that ginkgo increases glucose (sugar) metabolism in the brain, thus increasing "brain energy. We don't know why this happens. It might be due to increased blood circulation in the brain, but I can't say for sure."
How Much Do You Need?
The well-tested effective dose for age-related loss of short-term memory and other mild signs of brain disturbances a total of 120 milligrams daily, divided into three doses of 40-milligram pills. However, a higher dose is more effective, according to new research, on people with more serious dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The tested dose in such cases is a total of 240 milligrams daily. But it's not necessary to take the highest dose right away, say experts. It's better to start with a lower dose, look for improvement, and then work up to a higher dose if needed, says Dr. Itil.
How Quickly Does It Work?
Usually improvement in memory occurs in four to six weeks; although ginkgo has an instant effect on the brain: It revs up brain wave activity within an hour after it is taken, according to EEG studies on humans. Sometimes users become more coherent within an hour or so, according to reports.
However, ginkgo's benefits appear to accumulate over time and are greater at six months than at three months in cases of dementia, one large study found. "Be patient. The most dramatic changes may not appear for up to six months," says Dr. Itil. He also finds that ginkgo stays active in the brain for a long time. "We have seen up to nine,, hours' effect after a single dose of ginkgo," he reports.
The Safety Factor Occasionally takers have complained of very mild and reversible side effects, such as upset stomach and headaches. One-half of 1 percent in a large study of 8,500 persons had such reactions. High doses of ginkgo may cause some dizziness at first. If dizziness occurs, experts recommend starting with a lower dose and building up to the higher dose.
Dr. Itil has never seen a serious side effect in about 300 patients he has treated with ginkgo; he considers it safer even than vitamin E, a vitamin with an excellent safety record. However, two new cases have been reported in the medical literature linking ginkgo with increased bleeding behind the eye and in the brain. Although the cause of these incidents has not been confirmed, ginkgo does prolong bleeding time and increase blood flow, and high doses might be contraindicated in those who are on anticoagulant medications or have uncontrolled high blood pressure, bleeding problems or a history of hemorrhagic stroke. In such cases medical supervision is advised when taking ginkgo.
Caution: If you have noticeable memory disturbances, consult a doctor immediately. It could be due to other causes, such as a brain tumor, that require medical treatment. Do not automatically assume you are suffering age-related memory decline that can be self-treated with ginkgo.
Consumer Concerns
Which type ginkgo is best?, Not all ginkgo has the same potency Of three brands tested by Dr. Itil, only Ginkgold had the potency of a pharmaceutical drug. All three samples bought in U.S. stores were properly standardized to contain 24 percent flavone glycosides and 6 percent terpenes.
Regardless, Ginkgold displayed greater bioavailability and pharmacological activity. Ginkgold is identical to EGb 761, a standardized ginkgo product, widely tested in Germany and France and approved by the German government for treating the symptoms of vascular and degenerative dementia, including memory deficits and disturbances in concentration, as well as tinnitus and intermittent claudication (leg pain from poor circulation). It is also sold in the United States under the brand name Ginkoba, from Pharmaton Natural Health Products.
What Else Is It Good For?
According to research, ginkgo appears to help ameliorate other neurological problems, such as head trauma, tinnitus of vascular origin, age-related depression, and certain cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia. Ginkgo has also been used to treat various cardiovascular problems, presumably by increasing blood flow; these include atherosclerosis, varicose veins, intermittent claudication, and impotence.
The effects of increasing blood circulation with ginkgo can have far-reaching benefits. German urologists recently found ginkgo a good treatment for male impotence; the herbal treatment stimulated blood flow through penile arteries, promoting erections. Indeed, 78 percent of fifty men suffering from "arterial erectile impotence" improved after taking 240 milligrams of ginkgo biloba extract daily for nine months, researchers found. Blood flow to penile arteries generally improved after three months. Twenty men regained spontaneous erections after six months. Nineteen men regained potency when ginkgo was given with certain drug injections. Eleven remained impotent. In a previous study, the researchers had found some Improvement from daily doses of only 60 milligrams of ginkgo. Neither dose caused any side effects.
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By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor (Filed: 29/07/2005)
A man who is terminally ill and fears that doctors may allow him
to die of thirst said he was "disappointed" yesterday after the
Court of Appeal overturned an earlier judgment in his favour.
Last July, the High Court granted a challenge by Leslie Burke, 45, and declared that key sections of General Medical Council guidance on withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment were unlawful.But yesterday three appeal judges allowed an appeal by the GMC against the ruling, setting aside six declarations by the trial judge. Permission to appeal was refused.Mr Burke suffers from cerebellar ataxia, a progressively degenerative brain condition that follows a similar course to multiple sclerosis.In an unusual move, Lord Phillips, the Master of the Rolls, issued a press release saying that "the fact that the appeal has been allowed does not mean that Mr Burke has lost". Mr Burke will need artificial nutrition and hydration - known as ANH - when he loses the ability to swallow. Lord Phillips explained that Mr Burke appeared to fear that ANH would be withdrawn before the final stages of his disease, when it would not be capable of prolonging his life. "If this is Mr Burke's fear, there is no reason for him to have it," Lord Phillips said."There are no grounds for thinking that those caring for such a patient would be entitled to or would take a decision to withdraw ANH in such circumstances."The GMC's guidance did not suggest to the contrary, added Lord Phillips, who was sitting with Lords Justice Waller and Wall.The judges added that, "where a competent patient indicates his or her wish to be kept alive by the provision of ANH, any doctor who deliberately brings that patient's life to an end by discontinuing the supply of ANH will not merely be in breach of duty but guilty of murder".But they stressed that "in the last stage of life" ANH - far from prolonging life - may even hasten death."It is only in this situation that, assuming the patient remains competent, a patient's expressed wish that ANH be continued might conflict with the doctor's view that this is not clinically indicated."Mr Justice Munby ruled in the High Court that the patient had the right to insist on ANH but the Court of Appeal disagreed."A patient cannot demand that a doctor administer a treatment which the doctor considers is adverse to the patient's clinical needs. That said, we consider the scenario that we have just described is extremely unlikely to arise."The judges believed Mr Burke might have been persuaded by others to challenge aspects of the GMC guidance that had no relevance to someone in his position.His solicitor, Paul Conrathe, said the ruling was a "technical victory for the GMC" but a "significant and practical victory for Leslie Burke and those in his situation".Prof Sir Graeme Catto, the GMC president, said: "We have always said that causing patients to die from starvation and dehydration is absolutely unacceptable practice and unlawful. Today the court has reinforced our position."law@...
This is not for occasions when you can't breathe! For that, check into the Heimlich Maneuver or Tracheotomy on the internet.
Occasionally, a piece of candy or a potato chip - even a large ice cube can slide down into before being chewed. Given time, most food will dissolve on its own. Meanwhile, this does hurt. Run the water from the tap until it is pretty hot (but not hot enough to burn) then fill a small cup with it. Drinking the hot water will dissolve stuck foods such as these, and one swallow may be all that is necessary. A few more sips will help be sure that the food can get to your stomach safely and without pain.
When trying to dissolve the stuck food doesn't work, taking a few big drinks might help. Or, swallowing a rather large bite of something really substantial, like a burger, to push it down. Sometimes a piece of food goes slightly up the back of the throat so swallowing doesn't reach it. For that, you could try taking in a large amount of water and not swallowing, instead swish it around in your mouth while pointing your head up then down so the water might reach the food. If that doesn't dislodge the food, you could try to reach it with your finger or toothbrush.
Sometimes the piece of food might be up so high that it actually has to come out your nose. That would take a lot of blowing or snorting, and having food come up through your nose feels really gross.
If nothing else works, what you feel is probably not food at all but an injury from food that was hot enough to burn that area or hit just right to scratch that area. The best thing to do for this is to gargle with salt water, a little hydrogen peroxide in water, or a tablespoon of honey in water. All three are good germ killers so your throat won't get infected, but the salt water might hurt.
Natural Ways to Ways to Deal With Acid Reflux or GERD - More Than Home Remedies
Obviously, you should avoid spicy foods and any food that bothers you. Below are a few more things that will help tremendously. • Don't lie down until at least 3 hours after eating. • Sleep with your head at least 8" higher than your stomach to let gravity help keep stomach acids from coming up into your esophagus. Using a Comfort Wedge makes this very easy. • Don't bend over or do exercises until long after eating. • Eat 6 small meals instead of 3 large meals. • Don't drink carbonated beverages. • Cut out fatty foods (they increase the time food remains in the stomach). • Quit smoking (nicotine relaxes the LES). • Cut out chocolate (it relaxes the LES). • Don't drink alcoholic beverages (alcohol relaxes the LES). • Eliminate caffeine (it relaxes the LES). • Eat properly so you don't develop constipation - that pushing will also push food or stomach acids upward. • Lying on your left side can help relieve heartburn by keeping the stomach below the esophagus and acid-free. • Avoid stress and anger. • Mix 1 tablespoon of Natural Apple Cider Vinegar in a glass of water, and sip this during your meal. • Yogurt contains beneficial digestive bacteria, as do Acidophilus caplets, Children's Acidophilus chewable tablets, Acidophilus Strawberry Liquid, and Children's Acidophilus Powder. • Eat dried figs, fresh pineapple*, and dried or fresh papaya. These foods are loaded with digestive enzymes. Or you could take Digestive Enzymes in capsule form. *Pineapple will help most people, and it bothers some - if it bothers you, eliminate it from your diet.
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THE SUGGESTION ABOUT SEEING A DOCTOR WHEN THE DOCTOR WANTS TO TORTURE YOU TO DEATH BY DEHYDRATION AND STARVATION won't be very helpful!--"Cheyenne Cin"
If you're a smoker and you are having trouble eating or swallowing, you should get checked out by your doctor. Also, any suspicious swallowing symptom that you cannot connect to stress, the air or your personal habits should be brought to the attention of your doctor. But for those things that you can control, here's what to do.
De-stress yourself. Stress and tension can sometimes make life itself hard to swallow. Anything that brings on relaxation—exercise, massage, meditation, yoga, deep breathing—can all release the pressure on your throat, says Michael Benninger, M.D., chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Putting a warm compress on your throat during tense moments can also ease the uneasiness in your throat.
Humidify and hydrate. Because many swallowing problems are caused or made worse by dryness in the throat, putting extra moisture—both inside and outside the body—can be helpful, says Dr. Benninger. Most experts recommend drinking at least eight full glasses of water daily. "And check your furnace gauge," says Dr. Benninger. "You need about 35 to 40 percent humidity in the air. A bedroom humidifier will help. Though the benefits of warm and cool humdifiers are still being debated, the cool-mist models feel better to the throat."
Treat the reflux. If you suspect you have acid reflux, there are plenty of things you can do to control the condition, including cutting out caffeine, alcohol, chocolate, wine and tobacco, says Dr. Benninger. (For other tips on banishing reflux, see Heartburn on page 249.)
Examine your anatomy. Although physical abnormalities are rare, your doctor may want to put you through a few tests to rule them out, says Charles Krause, M.D., chief of medical affairs at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. In one test you drink a chalky liquid containing barium so that your throat and esophagus can be x-rayed. If the cause proves to be a spasm of the esophageal sphincter muscle, the first approach would be a prescription for muscle relaxants, says Dr. Krause. Next, the muscle can be relaxed by insertion of a stretching instrument, a procedure that's usually done in the doctor's office.
This is TRUE- I've done it for years- just get a glass of water and let it trickle slowly down your throat for as long as it takes, and the hiccups go away!--"Cheyenne Cin"
Instructions for Natural Hiccup Cure
Step 1. Fill a glass with water. Step 2. Take small sips, one right after the other, for 60 seconds. Step 3. There is no Step 3. That’s all there is to it!
Simple isn’t it? A mild case of hiccups will be relieved in under 60 seconds. If your hiccups persist, keep taking small sips until they are relieved. Even a heavy case of hiccups should be cured after just a few minutes.
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Just what I want and need here, another BEETLE, a Chinese one brought in! -- The newspaper article has a picture of all the places where this beetle is to be released, and Cheyenne, Wyoming (the whole state of Wyoming, in fact) is included. -- and to KILL OFF OUR TAMARISK trees! --'Cheyenne Cin'
GRAND JUNCTION - Researchers are set to release an army of small Chinese beetles along river bottoms in Mesa, Yuma and Adams counties next week to attack the water-sucking tamarisk, an invasive import from Eurasia once promoted by the federal government but now despised.
Beetles to be released along rivers to attack invasive tamarisk
By Ellen Miller, Special to the News July 29, 2005
GRAND JUNCTION - Researchers are set to release an army of small Chinese beetles along river bottoms in Mesa, Yuma and Adams counties next week to attack the water-sucking tamarisk, an invasive import from Eurasia once promoted by the federal government but now despised.
The tiny soldiers are known as Diorhabda elongata deserticola Chen, or the tamarisk leaf beetle for short, and their release has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, officials say.
"The beetle offers a great opportunity to thwart tamarisk, also known as salt cedar, the thirsty plant that has invaded waterways and riparian areas throughout the West," said Mel Lloyd, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
A single tamarisk tree can drink up to 300 gallons of water per day.
An acre of the tamarisk plants uses 1.3 million gallons of water a year.
In the water-short West, that gluttonous consumption has made tamarisk public enemy number one, at least in the plant world.
The beetle feeds only on tamarisk, and because tamarisk don't have any close relatives in North America, the leaf beetle is proving to be an "excellent biocontrol candidate," said Jude Sirota, entomologist in the Mesa County division of pest management.
"They have a predator-prey relationship with tamarisk, so they won't go after anything else we've got," Sirota said Thursday. "They'll never eat themselves completely out of house and home, so it won't completely eliminate tamarisk but can cut it back to occasional plants."
The beetles also can fly three to four miles, farther if the wind is right, "so they'll go for more prey."
Researchers at Colorado State University and the state insectary in Palisade worked with pest experts in Mesa, Yuma and Adams counties as well as the Colorado State weed coordinator, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service and Tamarisk Coalition.
There are seven species of tamarisk growing in Asia, Eurasia and the Mediterranean, Sirota said, and researchers selected the Chinese tamarisk beetle because of its effectiveness in controlling tamarisk in areas of similar latitude and climate, roughly around the 38th parallel.
Field work started in 1997 in secure field cages in Pueblo, along with other sites scattered in the West, Lloyd said.
Open field releases in 2001 showed "noticeable defoliation of salt cedar," said Debra Eberts, a Bureau of Reclamation scientist.
At a release site in Nevada, researchers released 1,300 beetles in 2001.
Two years later, 400 acres of tamarisk were defoliated, their leaves stripped bare by the beetles, Lloyd said.
Andrew Norton, a CSU professor, said in materials prepared for Lloyd that the tamarisk leaf beetle "has undergone more pre-release testing than any other biological control agent in U.S. history."
Sirota said the federal government's heavy involvement in the beetle project is ironic because it was that same government, back in the early days of soil conservation, "in all its wisdom planted tamarisk for erosion control on western riverbanks."
Other tamarisk plants were brought into the country for ornamental use.
Current tamarisk fighting has concentrated on removing and eradicating it, a labor-intensive, slow and costly method that runs from $1,500 to $3,000 per acre, research found.
Experts have estimated the cost of removing the water guzzler from Colorado as at least $43 million.
Tests so far indicate the tamarisk leaf beetle could do the job for less than $10 an acre.
The three Colorado release sites may provide researchers with information about how long defoliation is required before the tough tamarisk dies and what to do with standing dead tamarisk plants once the beetles have vanquished them.
Lloyd said careful monitoring will be required to make sure the nasty tamarisk isn't replaced with another invading weed and more docile plantings can be made.
The BIBLE mentions ten world divisions (under the jurisdiction of the beast, which I believe to be the UNITED NATIONS, with the coming ANTICHRIST at the head helm position, and ten people under him! Wonder if the 'representative for America will now be a MEXICAN?) at the end times, and CAFTA is providing ONE OF THE TEN DIVISIONS, the one with the USA in it's middle!--"Cheyenne Cin"
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Most importantly, CAFTA works to erase borders and merge the United States with Western Hemisphere nations to create a European-style union, facilitating the end of the nation state.
Understand the trade agreements – aka NAFTA, GATT-WTO, and the pending CAFTA – and you’ll understand why America is on its way to becoming a Third World country. You’ll know why illegal immigration has exploded and why the U.S. government refuses to halt it. You’ll know why millions of jobs have been outsourced and why remaining positions, whether unskilled, technical, or professional, increasingly go to foreigners, legal and illegal.
You’ll realize that many of America’s biggest problems, seemingly unrelated, have either been caused by the trade pacts or severely worsened, largely for two reasons: (1) in signing on to the agreements, the United States ceded huge chunks of sovereignty to international bodies; and (2) the trade agreements govern much more than matters of trade.
We can blame both policy directions for the latest attack on Americans’ freedom of choice. The villain is Codex, an international body that says its main purposes are to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair trade practices. The target is alternative health care, and the very survival of the health food industry is at stake
Carolyn Dean, author, medical doctor and president of Friends of Freedom International, describes this developing disaster in a July 23, 2005 article "Kiss Your Health Goodbye."
"Just before several members of Friends of Freedom International (FOFI) left for Rome we were aware that neither the U.S. nor the Canadian delegations to Codex were going to intercede to stop a restrictive and compulsory guideline on vitamins and minerals to be adopted that could overrule U.S. law and Canadian regulations with regard to dietary supplements.
And then the moment we were all waiting for.... In a stuffy, sweltering room holding about 500 delegates from 85 countries and many trade groups.... In that instant history was made and health was unmade - Codex adopted (their) restrictive vitamin and mineral guidelines."
What is "Codex" that it should hold such immense global power over health and nutrition? The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by the United Nation’s World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization. (WHO/FAO) to develop food standards and guidelines. They want all countries to "harmonize" their food laws and adopt internationally agreed standards; Codex standards, that is.
Critics insist, however, that Codex strategies are designed to benefit the European Union (EU) and eliminate competition for international pharmaceutical firms. "Follow the money", Dr. Dean says. She believes the enormous popularity of dietary supplements is hurting the drug industry, which wants to keep its monopoly over all aspects of health and disease. The new mandates would "set up framework to allow BIG Pharma to take over the supplement market as a new form of drugs where prices can be jacked up outrageously and doctors dole them out for a fee."
The EU has already embraced the BIG Pharma agenda. A July 12 Evening Standard article (www.thisislondon.com) reports that the European Court of Justice has cleared the way for "controversial new laws which could outlaw thousands of vitamins and mineral supplements." Under the EU directive to be effective August 1, health food companies will have to submit natural remedies, vitamin supplements and mineral plant extracts – many of them in long-established regular use – for approval. But that’s just the beginning.
In a worst case scenario, Codex Guidelines will decimate the health food industry. Not only will many vitamins, minerals, dietary supplements, and herbs be outlawed or made available by prescription only, others will be reconstituted, stripped of effectiveness. Codex standards will dictate content, source, nutrient quality, packaging, and labeling.
If the U.S. chooses not to comply with the new standards, it will be violating contract terms it has agreed to uphold. The EU will simply file a complaint with the 148-nation World Trade Organization (WTO) and, based on recent history, the WTO dispute panel will find the U.S. guilty of taking unfair advantage or creating unfair barriers to trade; punitive penalties will be imposed, and the U.S. will succumb. Already, Codex warns that measures taken by some countries to insure the safety of imported food, animals, and plants could constitute trade barriers.
No wonder U. S. pharmaceutical firms love NAFTA, GATT-WTO, and CAFTA. No wonder the all-powerful Business Roundtable – major lobbyist for CAFTA – is chaired by Henry McKinnell, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc., the giant pharmaceutical company. This is the same Pfizer Inc. that prompted the Kelo lawsuit resulting in the infamous U.S. Supreme Court decision that decimates Americans’ property rights but allows Pfizer to bulldoze private homes and build its own massive development.
In NAFTA (Annex 703.3), the U.S., Canada, and Mexico pledge allegiance to Codex. GATT (Part III) and CAFTA (Section 6) build on that pledge. The Codex issue is reason enough to kill CAFTA but there are countless others. Most importantly, CAFTA works to erase borders and merge the United States with Western Hemisphere nations to create a European-style union, facilitating the end of the nation state.
Scheduled for a vote in the House of Representatives this week, CAFTA’s fate may be decided before you read this. Nevertheless, call your Congressman toll free at 1(877)762-8762 and demand to know how he or she will vote or did vote. A July 25 survey of Southern California. Republican congressional offices produced dismal results, especially because these politicians claim they’re opposed to against illegal immigration. Hah!
In the highly implausible "don’t know" category: Congressmen Dana Rohrabacher, Ed Royce, Christopher Cox, Gary Miller, Jerry Lewis;
Voting "yes" (according to a July 12 survey) – Darrell Issa, David Drier, Mary Bono, and Ken Calvert;
Voting "no" in all surveys – only one Republican – San Diego Congressman Duncan Hunter. Thank you, Congressman Hunter.
Congressman Bill Thomas [R-CA], chairman of the powerful Ways & Means Committee, is supporting legislation that would allow American companies to petition Congress for tariffs against China or Chinese products if they have evidence the products were subsidized by the Chinese government...
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(NOTE WITH THE TWO SUBJECTS IN LINKS BELOW- CATHOLICISM is being PROMOTED IN THE USA with CAFTA and the FTAA! But the "COLORFUL MONEY FOR THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE" is DEFINITELY MOST SINCERELY RELATED TO CAFTA and the FTAA! UNTIL THE MARK OF THE BEAST COMES, this is now a DEFINITE REALITY- ONE CURRENCY FOR THE USA ALONG WITH OUR NEIGHBORS TO BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH! CAN YOU IMAGE OUR VERSION OF "PESOS" INFILTRATING A NEW DOLLAR BILL DESIGN? WHAT MALE "HERO" WILL BE PLACED ON THE PICTURE? CEASAR CHAVEZ???? FIDEL CASTRO??? --"Cheyenne Cin")
The news this week has been dreary on the jobs front in the United States as more and more American companies are relocating to Southeast Asia. The New York Times reported on July 19 that Hewlett Packard is laying off 14,500 American workers—or 10% of its present work force. The jobs being cut are all in the area of information technology and internal support operations.
HP's new CEO Mark Hurd said he did not know which countries would be impacted by the cutbacks even though he later admitted that the information technology "layer" that was being trimmed was in the United States. In addition, the company announced it would no longer contribute to the pension plans of its employees in the United States. Hurd told reporters that they were also eliminating the division that sells business customers, but those employees were being moved into the server, PC and printer units. "We're eliminating layers," Hurd said. "It will make us simpler, nimbler and quicker." What he really meant was the HP can no longer compete with Dell's low-cost computers and IBM's appeal to business. Trying to compete with them over the last few years cost both market share and profits. Added to that, HP did another number on their employees by eliminating their HP-funded pension plan and converting it to a contributory 401K. That change alone is expected to save HP $1.9 billion per year.
On the heels of the HP announcement, both Eastman Kodak and Kimberly Clark announced plant closings and job cutbacks in the United States as well. Hewlett-Packard is an American company, created in a small garage behind Bill Hewlett's parent's house in San Francisco in 1939. His partner in the venture was Dave Packard. Both entrepreneurs are Americans. Historians claim that Silicon Valley was created in Bill Hewlett's garage. The garage is now a part of Americana. Too bad Hewlett-Packard has chosen not to be.
The sweat equity of Hewlett-Packard's employees transformed the ideas of two electronic geeks into one of the most respected electronics firms in the United States. That company, like many of America's Fortune 500 companies have now put their companies on wheels and are now searching for those elusive consumers of the 21st century, certain in their mind, that those consumers will be found only in the human capital rich third world nations and not in the United States. Yet, HP and the other industry giants who are closing their American plants as they transfer jobs to the third world still expect the American consumers to buy their products as they screw America. The American consumer needs to learn how to say "no."
Like Hewlett-Packard, Eastman Kodak also announced it was shedding 10,000 dead weight jobs in the United States as the century-plus old American company struggles to compete in a global market where "price" is everything—and American products are no longer valued at a premium. This is the second jobs cut at Kodak this year. Earlier this year, the company laid off 15,000 employees bringing to 25,000 the number of jobs lost in 2005. Like Hewlett-Packard, Eastman-Kodak was American born and grew through the sweat equity of immigrant workers in Rochester, New York where it was born in 1881. Kodak is one of those names like Chevrolet and apple pie—its 100% American. But Kodak—struggling to claimstake a share of booming digital photography market— began its slow departure from America shortly after then-President Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law in 1993.
Rochester, New York was the city Eastman-Kodak built—and then deserted, destroying the dreams of thousands of upstate New Yorkers who, generationally, worked only for Eastman Kodak. Rochester, like many of the industrial cities of the northeast and the textile cities of the south, have become virtual ghost towns. The factories left. Stores closed. And finally, with no jobs—or hopes of them—the homeowners, with no buyers for their homes, ultimately saw their dreams of the future turned into the fruitless nightmares of today. With their homes assumed by banks and mortgage companies that didn't want them, the unemployed had no choice but to pack what was left of their dreams and, in virtual caravans, to seek work in areas of the country that the Clintonesque nightmare of NAFTA had not yet affected the economy.
Kodak is one of those companies that is caught in the limbo between two technologies, so most of its job losses this year are due not to outsourcing but the reality that digital photography is rapidly replacing film. Even though digital revenues grew by 43% during the second quarter, Kodak posted losses of $146 million at the end of June. It's stock fell to $28.11 when news of its second quarter losses were made public. That resulted in the job cut announcement. Kodak also said that it had now suspended its practice of giving earnings forecasts. Interestingly, when Kodak began having problems they went to financially troubled Hewlett-Packard and hired a new CEO, Antonio Perez whose approach to increasing the per share value of Kodak's stock dovetails the approach used by the new Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd. I guess every corporation uses the same playbook. They eliminate payroll not because its the proper solution, but because it impacts the bottom line the fastest.
Dallas, Texas-based Kimberly Clark's which has been hemorrhaging its bottom line in red ink over the last couple of years closed 20 plants last week and fired 30,500 American workers. CEO Tom Falk, speaking to investors through the Financial Times of London, said that the job cuts initiated thus far has cost the company $775 million in severance packages—a chargeback that would be spread out over three years. Falk said the cutbacks were being made from a "position of strength," and not weakness because even though sales had grown substantially— the company's profit margins had not. "We're doing it now from a position of strength," he said. "We've been achieving our plan with the notable exception of our profit margins, so this allows us to stay the front foot while having the momentum going from a [sales] volume standpoint."
Amy Low Chasen, a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs (which is trying to leverage Unocal for China), said: "This [step by Kimberly Clark ] shows management is aggressively taking action to fix its business. This is a major, and welcome, change from recent years." Falk went on to say that Kimberly Clark, founded in 1872 in Neenah, Wisconsin as a newsprint paper company, is now pushing more rapidly into the developing markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China, Indonesia and Turkey. Kimberly Clark, like hundreds of other American companies, are closing the door in the face of the consumers of made them giants in search of the human capital in the third world that only need jobs to become the primary consumers of the 21st century.
Falk admitted that such countries account for only 4% of its sales today. They are targeting these countries because they contain roughly 50% of the world's population and Falk, like the heads of the world's largest corporations, recognize that without new consumers, they are serving only a replacement market in the industrialized nations—which have reached product saturation levels. Their new corporate growth, and new profits will come only from the emerging markets—but only if they can provide that human capital with the jobs needed to generate income producing consumers.
The transfer of the job base of the United States and the other industrialized nations in Europe to the third world is taking its toll on the American workforce. Today 5.01% of the American work force is without a job. At the end of June, the official "unemployed" total stood at 7,486,100, with 1.6 million additional Americans viewed as being "marginally employed" (people who are not drawing unemployment benefits but who are working one, two or more days a week in some part-time income-producing endeavor. The population of the United States is approximately 220,000,000. Those not in the labor force are 76,787,100. This number includes non-working spouses and children.
Currently, 4.31% of job-seeking adult males are unemployed and 4.61% of job-seeking adult females are unemployed. The unemployment rate for job-seeking teenagers (many of whom are school dropouts) stands at 16.41%. Looking at the unemployed through an ethnic prism, African Americans have the highest unemployment rate nationwide—10.31%. The unemployment rate for Hispanics is 5.81% and Caucasians have an unemployment rate of 4.31%.
And while job growth in June across the country exceeded job losses, the reality is that in the areas where job devastation strikes, there are no replacement jobs. Workers who are losing career positions in companies where they have been employed for ten or twenty years or more, are not finding replacement jobs in those areas. To find work, they must relocate to growth areas and start over—sometimes within ten or fifteen years of when they had expected to retire. Adding insult to injury, many of the transient transnational companies are taking their former employees to court to terminate benefits those employees were promised—including corporate contributions to the pension plans that were arbitrated by the unions representing those factory workers. Both Hewlett-Packard and Kimberly Clark, announced that they would no longer contribute to the pension plans of any American workers. HP converted their pension plan into a contributory 401K that would save HP just under $2 billion per year. The bottom line savings, however, are dollars deftly removed from the pockets of their employees—the expendable ones in the United States.
This is the reality facing the American worker. The reality facing the corporate giants who are kicking the dust of the United States off their their shoes as they use NAFTA to export their factories, bringing the goods made in other countries back into this country—without tariffs—to be sold to the most affluent consumers in the world, the American consumer. And just why are we buying these goods? What's wrong with us?
When American companies export our jobs and lay us off, we need to join together in a nationwide boycott of all products made in foreign countries by those corporations. Anytime we have a choice between products made by wholly American companies and those who have sold out the American worker and the American economy, we need to buy American—even if the wholly American made product costs more. Let tomorrow's third world consumers buy their goods, or those products rot in a warehouse. It is the only way to slow the jobs drain that will intensify when Bush signs CAFTA into law—although CAFTA legally took effect when the Central American Free Trade Agreement was initially signed by the Central American governments and the Bush Administration.
Blame Bill and Hillary Clinton for the jobs lost to date. Blame George W. Bush for the jobs that are about to be lost. But, make the transnational corporations pay for those job losses through their corporate pockets—do not buy any goods made outside the United States. If you can't tell from the labels, stop buying goods made by any American company that has exported American jobs to foreign lands (determined by massive layoffs of American workers and/or closed plants in the United States).
In a nutshell, a law by definition is the removal of a freedom because it states that there's something you must or must not do. Thus, the more laws we have the less free we are.
OUR FREEDOM SIREN SONG
by Selwyn Duke July 29, 2005 NewsWithViews.com
While most platitudes become tiresome, there's one in use currently that irks me more than any other. It's not the nauseatingly ubiquitous "Our strength lies in our diversity," although, admittedly, that is vying for the top position. No, what animates my pen this fine evening was spawned by 9/11 and has finally assaulted my neurons to a point of critical mass. What has me so exercised? It's the tripe that the Islamo-imperialists in whose crosshairs we find ourselves target us because, mercy me and get the Digitalis, Ma, they hate our freedom.
I heard this sentiment uttered just recently by Martin Gross, one of the chief shysters in our most powerful home-grown terrorist organization, the American Criminal Liberties Union. And if you believe it, I have some land in the Whitewater Development to sell you.
But since free-association derived geopolitical explanations seem to be all the rage, allow me to join the fray. I submit the following possible explanations for why the modern-day Moors loathe us so:
1. We're too chaste.
2. Our government is too small.
3. We're too tough on criminals.
4. Our taxes are too low and our tax code too simple.
5. We eat too little.
6. We're working too aggressively to infuse our public square with religion.
7. Our lifestyles are too ascetic.
8. Our kids are too well behaved.
9. Our politicians are too honest.
10. We don't give homosexuals enough TV airtime.
Now, I don't expect the pundits who could double their IQs with one serving of fish to start parroting my top ten list like they do the freedom fiction, but they might as well. It makes just about as much sense.
For starters, Islam has a history of consistent use of aggression that dates back to shortly after its inception around 610 A.D. [ACLU, that means "Anno Domini"; take note], a time that greatly predated the ascendancy of what we loosely call "free nations." And the Muslim hordes used that aggression to great effect. Palestine, Syria and Egypt all fell before their onslaught. During the ensuing three centuries they were followed by North Africa, Spain, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and most of the Byzantine Empire (the remnant of the Roman Empire). Of course, despite the fact that all those areas had been ruled by potentates, I assume that they were free regions that Muslims hated because of their freedom, too. Hey, you learn something new every day.
Pay attention, though, class is not yet dismissed. Since Muslims are or have recently been on the warpath in places like the Phillippines, Nigeria, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kashmir, India, Indonesia, the Middle East and Sudan, by the same logic they must be lands where liberty reigns supreme as well. Funny, though, not too many made it onto Freedom House's list of free nations/regions. But, hey, most of those areas have non-white populations. Must be discrimination.
Then, I can just envision the momentous day when the Islamo-imperialists finally became fed up with our being a free nation. Perhaps Osama bin Laden was sitting at table with his inner circle and the exchange went something like this:
bin Laden: "I have gathered you here today, Brethren, to address a problem that Allah the Beneficent can no longer abide. We must take action against the Great Satan."
Almost in unison they chant: "The Great Satan! The Great Satan will taste the steel of the sword of Islam! Allah Akbar!"
Omar: "Elder Brother, What has Allah the Beneficent so incensed? Is it the Great Satan's support of Israel?"
bin Laden: "No"
Abdul: "Elder Brother, is Allah the Beneficent calling on us to vanquish the Great Satan because she has come to our lands?"
bin Laden: "No"
Mahsoud: "Elder Brother, is Allah the Beneficent displeased with the Great Satan's decadence?"
bin Laden: "No"
Farooq: "Elder Brother, then why does Allah the Beneficent want us to now utterly destroy the Great Satan, rend the flesh from the bones of her women and children, scorch her earth and leave no remnant of her existence?"
bin Laden: "It is because she is free."
Awad jumps up and exclaims with unbridled passion: "Yes! Yes!! I've always hated that freedom, Elder Brother!"
Overcome by the infectious exuberance, the others jump up and join in the revelry. And from the cabal can be heard: "My father used to warn me about freedom!" And, "Freedom, death to freedom!" and other such exclamations. Then they all commence a chant, "Freedom bad, tyranny good! Freedom bad, tyranny good! Freedom bad, tyranny good . . . free . . . do . . ."
Their voices trail away and they quickly fall silent, as they notice that bin Laden is still sitting placidly and studying them with a supercilious, contemptuous stare. They quickly take their seats. There are some uncomfortable moments of silence.
Farooq: "Pass the hummus."
All in unison once again: "Allah Akbar!"
And the rest, I suppose, is history.
Now, in the words of Richard Nixon, let me make myself . . . perfectly clear. I can't disprove scientifically the thesis that the Islamo-imperialists despise us because we're free. I suppose that coming from a frontal-lobotomy, I-just-checked-my-brain-at-the-door-of-PC-University perspective, it's a possibility that while they have attacked all the peoples previously mentioned for other reasons, we Americans are singular in that they hate us because ostensibly we're free. Hey, coming from that perspective it's possible that they hate us because our teenage girls dress too modestly. So, no, I can't disprove it like a mathematical equation.
But I can say this: it's stupid.
You see, when analyzing such a situation with an eye toward actually understanding it, those who don't want to bury their heads in Mideast sand look for patterns, for common threads. There is no pattern of attacking only "free" nations. But here's one pattern that does exist: most all the victims have been non-Muslim. Here's another pattern: most all the victimizers have been quite Muslim.
Another crucial element of your analysis is recognition of your enemy's stated beliefs. In traditional Islam two realms exist: the Abode of Islam and the Abode of War. And guess what? If you ain't in one, you're in the other. Non-Muslim states are to be destroyed and brought under Muslim dominion.
This all reminds me of a MAD Magazine comic strip I saw as a boy. Two men were standing next to each other, while behind them was an octopus-like monster. One man said to the other (I'm paraphrasing), "What makes you think this creature intends to eat Dr. Malcolm?" The humor lay in the fact that the behemoth held the doctor suspended in midair in one tentacle, held a fork and knife in two others, while it seasoned him with huge salt and pepper shakers it held over his head. Those who don't perceive what confronts us have to be like the three monkeys who hear, speak and see no evil.
Lest you think that mere caprice has me unsheathing my literary saber, let me assure you that there's method to my madness. There are three reasons why I take exception to the freedom nonsense. Firstly, it's motivated by political-correctness, cowardice and intellectual laziness.
You see, attributing terrorism to hatred of freedom is a nice, tidy, non-offensive, universally acceptable explanation that helps you avoid dealing with or even acknowledging the real issues. Speak the truth and say that we're being targeted largely because we're non-Muslim and someone just might get the idea that Muslims are an intolerant lot. Why, the Machiavellian media and pandering politicians can't have that. But say that our adversaries are dastardly "freedom-haters" and that's okay. We're free to hate freedom-haters.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention something that dovetails with the above. Do you think that the media would have their whitewashing crew pulling double-shifts if virtually all the terrorists targeting the civilized world were Christian? The initiated might believe that - the folks who are content to remain deaf, dumb and blind monkeys. As far as everyone else goes, though, I'd like to share a little more history.
You might remember that I mentioned Palestine, Syria, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, Asia Minor and most of the Byzantine Empire. I told you that they were the first non-Muslim lands to fall to the sword of Islam, and that is one way to say it. Another way to say it is that they were largely Christian lands that fell to the sword of Islam. Yet another way of saying it is that they were largely Christian lands that fell to the sword of Islam while most of Christendom turned the other cheek for four-hundred years, taking it on the chin until they finally mounted a major response. What was that response? The Crusades.
But I guess no good deed goes unpunished. For having the unmitigated gall to put their lives on the line to save Western Civilization (ACLU, that means our civilization; take note) from extinction, those Medieval Christians are painted as naked aggressors and barbarians. But again, the politically-correct crowd can't have it any other way. Teach real history and people might get the fanciful idea that embracing different religions - which espouse different values - might actually have a bearing on the values of civilizations.
The second problem with the freedom thesis smokescreen concerns knowing thy enemy. How can we feel overly sanguine about prevailing in the so-called war on terror - which is actually a war against Islamo-imperialists - when we won't even be honest with ourselves about what our enemy's true motivation is? It blinds us to our foe's true nature.
Then, too, and this is what bothers me most, the freedom thesis blinds us to our true nature. Sure, it may feel great to pound our chests and deliver pep talks in which we wax proud about our freedom; it makes us feel all the more like a gallant knight on a white steed. But the reality of the matter, as I discuss in detail in my piece The Barometer of Freedom, is that we're not nearly as free as we might fancy. And we're losing more freedom all the time.
In a nutshell, a law by definition is the removal of a freedom because it states that there's something you must or must not do. Thus, the more laws we have the less free we are. And every year in our nation we enact a multitude more laws while rescinding hardly any. This means that as time marches forward we become progressively less free.
Don't get me wrong, we still have some important freedoms left - the fact that I can write this piece bears witness to that. So I know the press is free, even free to spoon-feed the monkeys the latest propaganda. And I know that we'll probably retain our main freedom for some time: the freedom to choose the next statist who'll oversee our gravitation toward tyranny. But, I'm sorry, when I see the walls closing in around us, when I know that we have more than 250,000 laws in our nation, enough to ensure that every American is a criminal, posturing about how "they hate us because we're free" is going to stick in my craw.
I wrote to my Republican congresswoman in Wyoming, and thanked her for voing NO on CAFTA--
May I suggest you write to YOUR congresspeople, too, and either thank them for "NO" or TELL THEM OFF FOR THEIR "YESSES" and their betrayal of America. You can use the links below that I sent to my representative. --
Thank you for sharing your views! Your information was recorded as:
Name:
Ms. Cynthia D.
Address:
(I removed this info for posting the message here in this group.--"Cheyenne Cin")
Phone:
Email:
Area of Interest:
Homeland Security
Correspondence:
Dear Rep. Cubin, I AM SO PLEASED WITH YOU that you voted NO ON THIS HORRIBLE "CAFTA" - thank you, even though AMERICA is being SOLD OUT -- Cindy
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pretribbersonly/message/3313 THIS ONE TELLS HOW YOUR CONGRESSPERSON VOTED ON CAFTA, so you KNOW it's NOT JUST BUSH AND CHENEY SELLING US OUT AS TRAITOROUS RINOS- it's a whole PLOT-- List of CAFTA votes;Lorrona's Links,Gary Bauer;religionjournal.com,m CAFTA PASSED HOUSE! NewsWithViews:Dental Lies;Schools;CAFTA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pretribbersonly/message/3309 UNDER CAFTA, your rights to vitamins, minerals and cold meds will be threatened. For a great group to join FOR YOUR HEALTH: http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/FoodHerbHealth/ ======== Also see MORE LATEST PROPHETIC NEWS: MORE FOREIGN TROOPS INVADING "REORGANIZING" USA MILITARY,Israel Today,more http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pretribbersonly/message/3310 =============== Subject: fee.org,Lorrona's Links,more-HOMOSEXUAL BILLBOARD, with PICTURES! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pretribbersonly/message/3311
THIS ONE TELLS HOW YOUR CONGRESSPERSON VOTED ON CAFTA, so you KNOW it's NOT JUST BUSH AND CHENEY SELLING US OUT AS TRAITOROUS RINOS- it's a whole PLOT--
THE HORRIBLE CAFTA HAS PASSED- (secret meeting yesterday, probably behind-the scenes bribery and payoffs with our own tax money)- OUR CALLS AND OBJECTIONS mean nothing anymore!--"Cheyenne Cin"- P.S. If ANYONE still believes Bush is a 'good guy' conservative or America is free, or is even sovereign anymore, forget it! The only hope we have left is that it is ONLY the HOUSE which has passed it so far, but that's slim hope indeed!)
ADVICE: AT LEAST STOCK UP ON VITAMINS, NUTRIENTS, MINERALS and COLD MEDS NOW!
Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and Elissa Meininger July 28, 2005 NewsWithViews.com
In a federal courtroom in Connecticut on July 14, 2005, history was made when Mark Breiner, DDS, won the right to publish in the public press, the dangers of mercury-laced dental fillings. At his side was his Connecticut Civil Liberties Union lawyer, Lou Blumenfeld, who eagerly took on the dental, and by its association, the allopathic medical monopoly, in the longtime fight over the dangers of the use of mercury in medicine.
The use of mercury as part of the allopathic medical armament in healing the sick is no doubt, the longest and most heated debate in the history of western medicine. It was Paracelsus, 16th Century Swiss doctor, who first recommended the use of minute doses of mercury to treat syphilis. However, it was also Paracelsus who railed against using too much mercury in the treatment as he was also the first to diagnose mercury poisoning of miners and metal workers. Miners’ sickness he explained, was a disease of the lungs due to the air miners breathed and from minerals taken in through the lungs or the skin. As for exposure to mercury, He knew the difference between acute and chronic poisoning and he developed a special detox therapy for mercury poisoning based on principles still used today by health practitioners who treat this malady.
Mercury was known to be so toxic, that the first laws regarding the hours of work in mercury mines were passed in Austria in1665 and over time, laws restricting women and young children from working with mercury were passed in the Netherlands, Japan, France, Switzerland and Greece. It was British hat makers who used mercury in making felt hats in the 1800’s, who were accused of being “mad as hatters” based on the mental deterioration they suffered from exposure to mercury.
Despite concerns over exposure to mercury in the workplace, a variety of mercury compounds were looked upon as all-purpose elixirs for all manner of diseases in the allopathic medical community. German chemist and medical doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, was so disgusted with the illness mercury treatments caused, he broke ranks with his pro-mercury colleagues to establish what he referred to as “the new school” of medicine, which he named “homeopathy”.
In 1844, two years after Hahnemann died, the American Homeopathic Institute was founded by his American followers, forming the oldest professional medical society in the US. Homeopaths, then and now, continue to be outspoken in their condemnation of the use of mercury in any form of medical and dental practice and specialize in the treatment of those whose health has deteriorated due to its use. Other medical groups, most notably eclectic physicians (those who used both allopathic and botanical therapies) and Thomsonians (akin to today’s traditional naturopaths) were also highly critical over the use of mercury back then. In 1845, the public concern over the use of mercury prompted a group of Pennsylvania citizens to petition their state legislature to ban its use. The legislature declined.
In response to such public condemnation, and presumably due to a loss of business because of it, the allopathic medical community organized the American Medical Association in 1847 to protect their interests.
A similar professional fight over mercury raged in the dental community. The first mercury fillings were used in 1818. In 1840, the American Society of Dental Surgeons (ASDS) organized and required its members to sign pledges that they would not use mercury in their practice. That same year, 11 New York dentists were charged with malpractice for using mercury fillings. In 1859, after disputes within the ASDS, the American Dental Association (ADA) was founded and has aggressively promoted and defended the use mercury fillings since. Seven out of 10 dentists today are members of the ADA.
The dirty little secret in the dental community these days is that the ADA, some years ago, established a gag rule to forbid dentists, under penalty of loss of licensure, to inform their patients that mercury fillings could cause serious health problems and possibly death.
Dr. Mark Breiner represents a rare breed of dentists whose consciences will not let them abide by this gag rule.
At the same time, under “right to know” laws, MDs have a duty to disclose to the patient the contents of a prescription as well as any potential side effects – whether they do that is fodder for a future column. At any rate, a doctor could be sued for failure to disclose key information that would allow a patient to make an informed decision. In addition, manufacturers of these products are required to provide significant information as dictated by law. These consumer protections were put into place so that a person considering using these products is provided with the information necessary to make an informed decision as it is presumed that given a choice, the average person would want to consider all options.
No such “right to know” exists regarding dental materials. Since the dental patient never sees the packaging and the ADA has a decades’ old gag rule banning dentist from providing such information, patients are literally left with their mouths hanging open with no options. Ironically, while removal of mercury fillings for health reasons is considered malpractice, and subject to loss of license, removal of these same fillings and replacing them with the same materials an anti-mercury dentist might recommend, done for cosmetic purposes is considered state-of-the-art dental practice.
So-called “silver” dental fillings are an amalgamation of 50% pure elemental mercury, 35% silver, 13% tin, 2% copper, and a trace of zinc - thus the name amalgam fillings. While mercury fillings are classified as a hazardous material in the work place by the federal government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and dentists can get shutdown if they get caught throwing old mercury fillings down the sink by the Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies, somehow, magically, these same fillings are perfectly safe in our teeth.
I briefly touched on the various aspects of mercury in dentistry and medicine, in my book, Death by Modern Medicine, and have a manuscript underway to broaden the discussion, but the real expert on mercury poisoning is my writing partner for my News With Views columns, Elissa Meininger, who almost died of dental mercury poisoning two decades ago.
Elissa’s bout with the problem spanned over 30 years of her life and by the time she was properly diagnosed and put on the road back to health, she had become virtually bedridden and unable to carry on a coherent conversation.
In an effort to do something about this horrible situation, in 1990, after learning there was to be an FDA hearing about the safety of dental amalgams the following year, Elissa contacted the Defense Against Mercury Syndrome (DAMS), a 20,000 member victims’ support group. She asked for their help in conducting a nationwide survey among mercury filling victims so that witnesses at the upcoming hearing could spell out, in human terms, the real cost for not acknowledging the problem.
There were seven areas of questions each participant was to answer in essay style so survey respondents could provide as much unique information as possible. Unlike most surveys that are designed to narrow the questions to simple check offs for statistical purposes, and in many cases, limited for political reasons, to safe areas of discussion, Elissa’s survey was designed to give victims a real chance to talk about how this devastating malady actually affected their lives.
If you have the stomach for it, here are just some of the things victims of dental mercury fillings suffer:
Extreme fatigue: Many describe an inability to get up, stay up, function during the day, drive cars, hold pencils, or keep jobs. They describe a frailty so severe, they can’t walk well, can’t judge spatial relationships and have poor eye-hand coordination. Some experience tremors, muscle weakness and spasms, and aching muscles all from feelings of extreme exhaustion.
Memory problems: Many describe an inability to remember things, memorize songs, carry on coherent conversations, read or watch TV due to lack of ability to concentrate. Many tend to get confused easily.
Eye problems: Some describe erratic vision, temporary blindness (until fillings removed), light sensitivity and blurred vision.
Emotional problems: Many describe erratic behavior, inability to have good judgment or make rational decisions, suffer hyperactivity, nervousness, crying jags, inability to cope with problems at work or at home, experience irritability, depression and sudden anger for no apparent reason. Many feel just plain overwhelmed by noise, too much going on around them and having demands made upon them to make decisions or function in the normal world.
Physical ailments: Many describe allergies, sinus problems, sounds of roaring in their heads, chronic infections, injuries that are slow to heal, headaches and all manner of other maladies.
Many of the survey participants talk about the pain and frustration of being accused by the allopathic medical community of making up all these symptoms just to get attention. Others find themselves victims of all manner of costly tests that find nothing wrong, unnecessary drugging to suppress symptoms, unnecessary hospitalizations (including in mental hospitals) and unnecessary surgical procedures that do nothing to relieve them of their suffering.
All of the participants report suffering a large number of the symptoms listed above over many years and many more maladies not listed here. Almost none of them find their answers by going to allopathic physicians practicing standard medicine. All of them have some knowledge of natural healing arts practices and it is obvious from the reports of success, removal of the fillings is the first step toward restoring health. The second part of the process is to use any number of different methods to detox the body of mercury.
Since this has become a very personal issue to me, I would like to point out that my colleague, Elissa, now enjoys instant recall of just about everything she has ever seen or heard, she is quick-witted and is obviously quite intelligent. It is hard to imagine that right after she had her first mercury filling placed at age six, she came close to being diagnosed as retarded and spent many years in school struggling to keep up with classroom work. Lack of full mental function is just one of the many symptoms Elissa suffered for years.
And, much to my surprise, in recent days, Elissa has informed me that two of our closest colleagues in our work for health freedom are also victims of mercury poisoning and can also attest to the fact that removing mercury fillings and following the advice of natural health practitioners is the road back to health. I wonder, now, how many other people I know who are recovered victims of mercury poisoning from dental fillings.
And now to the brave Dr. Mark Breiner…what exactly did he win in that federal courtroom in Connecticut?
Under his right to free speech, he is now allowed to state his views in advertisements for his practice without fear of losing his license to practice dentistry, but due to an earlier consent decree he must add the caveat that his opinions “are not shared by traditional dentists and physicians, the Connecticut Department of Public Health, the Connecticut State Dental Commission or the American Dental Association, all of whom have concluded that there is insufficient scientific evidence to establish tat the removal of amalgam fillings cure and/or alleviates symptoms of any or disease or condition.”
How this court decision will affect dentists in the 49 other states remains to be seen. Maybe its time to ask your dentist what the political climate is in your state. Better yet, check out the following websites for more detailed information, then contact your dentist.
Watch for my Ebook on mercury with a special section on safe removal protocols. If you are having your mercury amalgams removed you have to make sure your doctor uses the right procedure to do so -during unsafe removal very high levels of toxic mercury can enter your body.
ACT FOR HEALTH FREEDOM NOW:
Go to www.friendsoffreedominternational.org and click on your elected representatives and tell them to Say NO to CAFTA and Don't Touch DSHEA in Any Way! Purchase "Death by Modern Medicine" and view and purchase the new movie on Codex and Free Trade called "We Become Silent" by Kevin Miller. Proceeds from the sale of these products are crucial to help fund our health freedom action.
Dr. Carolyn Dean is a medical doctor, naturopathic doctor, herbalist, acupuncturist, nutritionist, as well as a powerful health activist fighting for health freedom as president of Friends of Freedom International. Dr. Dean is the author of over a dozen health books, the latest of which is "Death By Modern Medicine".
Elissa Meininger, is Vice President of Friends of Freedom International and co-founder of the Health Freedom Action Network, a grassroots citizens' political action group. She is also a health freedom political analyst and can be heard on the natural health radio show SuperHealth, broadcast weekly on station WKY (SuperTalk AM 930) in Oklahoma City.
I have very little hope for this nation. The bulk of the populace is still clueless as to the Executive Orders, Acts, and partnership bureaucracy system that have turned our Constitutional Republic into a new banana republic. The ongoing ignorance of the masses is beyond all comprehension and reason.
The Southwestern U.S and the West Coast have become a foreign and illegal nation. Every Constitutional right is under perpetrated and highly orchestrated attack, and still the masses watch TV, sports, drink beer, and do and say nothing. Most don’t even know that anything has changed. And why is that? Because public education has changed American people into silent, sacrilegious, non-reading, pleasure-seeking, group-thinking morons – that’s why.
I remember reading a study about 30 years ago on the educational effects of computers coupled with television. The study concluded that the TV-computer combo, and the over stimulation of visual senses, was detrimental to reading and writing skills. Gee, do ya think?? However, the public school system was to be the saving grace. Pour more money into the public schools, incorporate computer technology into classrooms, and American schools could guarantee the best public education in the world. And for the past 30+ years, American schools have choked on their promises to deliver.
Today, illiteracy is commonplace. The first two years of college repeat high school basics, and the last 2 years teach group dynamics and Socialist theory. In today’s world, a four-year, $100,000.00 college degree is as useless as a high school diploma. To even think of getting a job, people are forced into master degree programs, which are also rapidly becoming useless in American society. In today’s America, if you want a good job with good pay, you need to spend about $200,000.00 on higher education and obtain a doctoral degree in the sciences. Then, your job opportunities with the government will be abounding.
So, let’s get this straight once and for all – Socialism requires ignorance in mass numbers. Intelligent, well-read people do not choose to be lowly paid employees who are subservient to multi-millionaires and their purchased politicians. Intelligent people do not desire to be socially and culturally controlled by dictatorial-governmental elites. Knock-knock, America - is anyone home??
The U.S. citizenry has been incrementally dumbed down by the Federal government, the NEA, the AFT, and idiot teachers who are still largely unaware of the Socialist curriculums and agendas imposed in their classrooms. I have talked to at least 50 teachers who were totally unaware of the New Freedom Initiative on Mental Health and TMAP, Goals 2000, Outcome-Based Education, Agenda 21, or social re-engineering educational strategies that enforce global citizenship. Our teachers are clueless. It is, therefore, guaranteed that our children are educational victims of government, unions, and ignorance.
Equally, all American citizens under the age of 40 are educationally victimized, which is why they, in mass, are unaware of the dismantling of their nation. They can’t see it, they don’t believe it, and they are lost – literally lost – in televised propaganda and social group manipulations. In mass, they are dumbed down Socialist worker bees and permanently indebted to the elite and their corporations. They don’t make waves. They don’t make noise. They just keep making high interest payments to creditors. They sense no responsibility to their nation – only to creditors. What a perfect scenario for the corporate elite, and what a clever educational system they imposed to create the perfect non-thinking and debt-ridden slave.
This August, America’s children will return to the public schools. They will be taught about Gaia, the invented religion of the globalists. They will be educated in consensus-style groups. Students will be profiled using quizzes and tests, assessment and proficiency exams, and they will be force-taught global government citizenship. American history will be twisted to reveal the founding principles as ineffective, and they will be taught that the Constitution is irrelevant in today’s world.
American children will be taught to accept homosexuality, youth sex, and they will be taught to disregard parental authority and traditional religious doctrines. They will be prepared for compulsory military service and compulsory volunteerism (as in field trips to nursing homes). Math and reading skills will be lowered, and “advocates” will speak to your children behind closed doors. These advocates will administer “questionnaires” to seek out and drug students who are seemingly non-compliant with globalist Socialist mindsets. Medicaid dollars will be funneled to schools who force-deliver children into the hands of the pharmaceutical industry, thanks to our New Freedom Initiative and “advocates.”
Also keep in mind the first attempt to RFID American school children. The outcry from parents was heard, but also keep in mind that RFID is being force-fed to the public as a security device. Let a kidnapping or a “terrorist” act occur in an American school, and I suggest to you that RFID will reappear in or upon our children under the guise of proper parenthood governmental strategies.
The condition of the American public school system, which has been completely overtaken by the Federal government, the NEA and AFT Socialists, is the last hope for the damaged masses to see the big picture. If parental instincts still function to any degree, American parents will not allow their children to step foot in any public school. Any parent who allows their children to be profiled, manipulated, incrementally dumbed down, and set up to be U.N. soldiers is a traitor to this nation, an idiot, and an unconscionable parent. If you can’t stand up for and protect your children, it is clear why you have refused to stand up for your Constitutional rights. Equally, any American citizen who votes for any public school levy is a Socialist stooge and an enemy of America’s future.
If you are not homeschooling your children in the 2005-2006 school year, then you are no parent, nor should you be. If you refuse to protect your children from Socialist-Communist indoctrination, then you are not a true citizen of this nation. If you use your employment as the excuse to send your beloved children into governmental indoctrination centers, you will get what you deserve when your children stand against you. (And sadly, they are also dangerous to the REST OF US-- and this is one of the tragic results of WOMEN being FORCED into the work force, because MEN are not marrying as virgins, conceiving biological children WITHIN MARRIAGE, staying married for life to ONE WOMAN, and providing complete financial support. "SINGLE" MOTHERS, you STILL NEED TO GET YOUR CHILDREN OUT OF "PUBLIC" SCHOOLS. Not only are you abusing THEM, but they are a danger to ALL OF US!--"Cheyenne Cin")
Nancy Levant is a life-long writer, a believer of God, country, Constitutional and individual rights. She resides in rural Southwestern Ohio. She has worked professionally with children since 1974 and is an ardent supporter of home schooling.
Nancy Levant has done radio and television interviews, has been a guest speaker in many venues including college campuses, schools, Indian reservations, human service organizations, and has been the president of a youth sports organization.
Ms. Levant just completed 'The Collapse of Intuition', a non-fiction book about the decline of instinctual and intuitive abilities in American women. Equally, she is a writer for freedom and land rights issues and opposes the United Nation's Agenda 21 implementation in America.
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas has pointed out, CAFTA will only further erode the American middle class as big business moves more and more jobs to Central American via the CAFTA agreement.
When one views the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), one can’t help but ask, who is the real benefactor of this agreement? Let’s take a look at the countries other than ours that are involved. We have Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Researchers have documented that these six countries have a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $85 billion. To put in perspective, as James Gass points out in the American Conservative, this is approximately the same GDP as the city of New Haven, Connecticut.
A few other interesting points to be aware of. Over 35% of their combined population is under age 14, approximately 60% live in poverty and 70% are illiterate, illegitimate, live in rural areas and die avoidable deaths. The average minimum wage is $30 per week or $1560 per year. The higher paid workers can make as much as $7.00 for their 12 hour day as long as they produce their 400 daily pairs of blue jeans that are sold in Wal-Mart and other import heavy stores. That’s $7 per ay, not per hour. To make a long story short, these countries abound in worker sweat boxes, thrive on child labor and expect maximum results for a pittance, none of which would be tolerated here in this country. Sounds like a great place in which to conduct business or is it a great place for businesses to further exploit at the expense of middle class Americans.
As a Republican and one of the few conservative Constitutionalists left in our government, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas has pointed out, CAFTA will only further erode the American middle class as big business moves more and more jobs to Central American via the CAFTA agreement. It’s a plan and simple fact, the more manufacturing jobs moved out of the country, the lower the overall standard of living will go for those of us remaining. Yes, some businesses will increase their handsome profits to the stockholders, at least until they cycle through their slave labor in Central America and beyond, but at what cost?
Big business is whole-heartedly behind CAFTA as it offers them the ability to manipulate their business practices, thus circumventing our current law. To further expound on this, Rep. Paul recently said;
“Pharmaceutical companies have spent billions of dollars trying to get Washington to regulate your dietary supplements like European governments do. So far, that effort has failed in America, in part because of a 1994 law called the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Big Pharma and the medical establishment hate this Act, because it allows consumers some measure of freedom to buy the supplements they want. Americans like this freedom, however-- especially the health conscious Baby Boomers. This is why the drug companies support WTO and CAFTA. They see international trade agreements as a way to do an end run around American law and restrict supplements through international regulations.
The largely government-run health care establishment, including the nominally private pharmaceutical companies, want government to control the dietary supplement industry-- so that only they can manufacture and distribute supplements. If that happens, as it already is happening in Europe, the supplements you now take will be available only by prescription and at a much higher cost-- if they are available at all. This alone is sufficient reason for Congress to oppose the unconstitutional, sovereignty-destroying CAFTA bill.”
Bottomline, there is nothing good about CAFTA. It destroys the American dream and weakens our country. Understand, those supporting this devastating bill don’t have your best interest at heart. Just as NAFTA made the first sucking sound, number two isn’t far behind with CAFTA. Our country is slowly being dismantled right before our eyes. Hopefully enough of us open them before it is too late.
John Newby is currently the Circulation Director and Columnist for the Moline Dispatch Publishing Company. Prior to his current 15 year career in the media industry, he served his country as a Weather Forecaster in the Air Force. He's a regular speaker at industry training sessions and enjoys the opportunity to present his ideas.
While not adored in most newsrooms, his columns consistently generate excellent response as he concentrates on media biases, fact-less reporting and the ongoing attacks on the Constitution. John is happily married to his eternal partner Kathy and have been blessed and kept busy with their nine wonderful children.
Heavy bleeding, Fibroid tumors, Endometriosis are caused by high estrogen and low progesterone levels, and side effects can be anemia (iron loss) and even cancer. What you need are natural progesterone and GLA regulators-- not pills. Birth control pills are often the cause of this, as is reaching the menopausal years. The doctors like to take your uterus (hysterectomy), but that can generally be avoided, with proper self treatment, if you are willing. After menopause, the extreme symptoms often disappear, but the need for natural progesterone continues. --"Cheyenne Cin"
P.S. Other symptoms can include pain (possibly from blockage when the eggs (from ovaries) are released into the fallopian tubes) and breast lumps.
Two best, most potent cures are Wild Yam Root (Or Mexican Yam Root)taken orally and a GOOD (pure) Wild Yam Root or Progesterone cream to rub on externally.
If you don't like the taste of the Wild Yam Root, you can substitute Sarsaparilla, but the natural hormone (testosterone, progesterone) levels are lower.
That covers your natural progesterone, or anti-estrogen natural hormones.
Now, for regulating your GLA levels- Evening Primrose or Black Current Oil. Borage Oil is also included in this category, and Flax oil is sometimes recommended.
If you have lumps, tumors or pain, and wish to add some anti-cancer agent, my recommendation is bitter almonds or apricot kernels. (Natural cyanide, to kill the toxic cells but leave your healthy cells alone.)
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The dietary changes recommended, while not a cure, did help alleviate a good bit of my pain. I found the explanation of the role of essential fatty acids fascinating. It doesn't work overnight, but implementing them for a good month helped me with cramping and bloating that I continued to have after my surgery.
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Then let's not pretend that diet has anything to do with the severe pain associated with endometriosis.
I followed the recommendations in this book for a 1-month trial (note: I'm already very physically active, so I only followed the dietary recommendations). Result? No effect whatsoever on my longstanding severe endometriosis. The more I read, the more I'm convinced that Dr. Redwine in Oregon has the real answer -- meticulous surgery as the only real cure for endo. Hormonal treatments are only temporary, and many women cannot bear the adverse effects associated with them, including depression, mood swings, decreased intelligence, etc. Pain medication works, but who wants to be drugged for the rest of one's life? Medicinal cannabis helps the most of any nonsurgical treatment I've had. Each of my 4 surgeries has reduced the pain -- I hope that that my next surgery, which will focus on the bowel, bladder, and diaphragm implants, will be my last.
Oh, I've gotten away from the point of this review. Anyway, I checked this book out of the library to see if it said anything worthwhile, but it didn't. It's easy to prescribe "good nutrition" for a chronic condition; who among us couldn't stand to eat a little better? But this sort of approach is really a form of blaming the victim -- if you women would only eat properly, you wouldn't have this terrible condition. Nonsense! Endometriosis is just like cancer, except it doesn't invade the bone or lymph system (that we know of) and doesn't lead as quickly to death (although some women suffering the intense pain of endometriosis sometimes briefly think that death would be preferable). Worst of all, endometriosis can really ruin a relationship between a husband and wife (because sex usually makes the symptoms far worse), especially if the wife's physicians aren't sufficiently educated and think the problem is "all in her head."
Imagine 16,000 tons of powder. The weight of 10,600 cars approximately equals 16,000 tons, so we're talking about a LOT of powder.
But not just any powder. About 16,000 tons of aspartame is produced for worldwide consumption each year. In other words, people are consuming enormous quantities of this artificial sweetener, which is better known by its commercial names, such as NutraSweet and Equal.
The day may come when our grandchildren, or perhaps their grandchildren, look back on the decades around the turn of the century and wonder how so many people, year after year, could ingest such huge quantities of something that appeared to be such an obvious enemy of good health.
And what may be most baffling to our heirs: The warning signs are numerous. And they just keep coming.
The most recent aspartame findings come from a large animal study conducted by Italian researchers at the Ramazzini Foundation, which specializes in oncology and environmental sciences.
For more than three decades, researchers simulated daily human intake of aspartame on 1800 rats (equal amounts of males and females). Each rat was assigned to one of eight dosage levels: zero mg per kilogram of body weight, 4 mg/Kg, 20 mg/Kg, 100 mg/Kg, 500 mg/Kg, 2,500 mg/Kg, or 5,000 mg/Kg. Rats began receiving aspartame at eight weeks of age, continuing throughout their lives.
The results (reported in a recent issue of the European Journal of Oncology) showed a "statistically significant" increase in leukemias and lymphomas among female rats who received as little as 20 mg/Kg per day. Current European regulations place an acceptable daily intake (ADI) of aspartame at 40 to 50 mg/Kg of body weight. That ADI is for humans, of course, not rats.
But the research doesn't end there. The Ramazzini data, with full pathology reports, have been submitted to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Union's counterpart to our FDA. A panel of experts (oh brother!) will then evaluate the findings "in the context of the previous extensive safety data available on aspartame."
In other words: Expect absolutely nothing to happen. Because the EFSA so far has done exactly what the FDA has done with the current available safety data: Nothing. But that's fine. You and I and other concerned citizens will take it from here with a little Water Cooler Regulation.
In the world of harmful food additives, aspartame may turn out to be the most notoriously harmful of them all. Research shows that aspartame may mimic or worsen diseases such as Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, arthritis, lupus, fibromyalgia, and depression.
In 1994 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a list of 61 reported adverse reactions to aspartame, including: chest pains, asthma, arthritis, migraine headaches, insomnia, seizures, tremors, vertigo, and weight gain. The surprising item on that list is "weight gain," given the fact that aspartame is the sweetener used in most diet sodas. In fact, according to one study, aspartame may actually STIMULATE appetite, prompting cravings for calorie-rich carbohydrates.
But weight gain is nothing compared to some of the horror stories out there.
Aspertame is made by combining two amino acids with methanol. According to an article by Dr. Joseph Mercola, methanol is the probable trigger for most of the adverse reactions associated with aspartame. When aspartame is combined with the enzyme chymotrypsin in the small intestine, methanol is released and breaks down into formaldehyde, a potent neurotoxin. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers methanol to be a "cumulative poison" and recommends a safe consumption of no more than 7.8 mg per day. If you drink a one-liter beverage containing aspartame, you body creates seven times that amount - about 56 mg of methanol.
But it gets even worse. Because if the product containing aspartame is heated to a temperature above 86 degrees Fahrenheit, "free methanol" is created, speeding up the absorption of methanol, and magnifying the effects of the neurotoxins. Nevertheless, in 1993 the FDA approved the use of aspartame in food items such as gelatin desserts that require heating well over the 86-degree range.
The result? People are hurting. According to the FDA's Adverse Reaction Monitoring System, approximately 75 percent of all complaints received about food additives are aspartame-related: 3 out of every 4! And yet the FDA still refuses to acknowledge the evidence that aspartame could be endangering public health.
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In spite of the clear dangers of aspartame, FDA officials have ignored calls for a ban and have resisted efforts to establish a warning label for aspartame, stating (completely contrary to all the evidence) that complaints against the sweetener aren't sufficient to warrant such a warning.
But really, what good would a warning label do? Does the average consumer actually read the fine print on his can of diet Mountain Dew?
What's needed here is not an FDA regulation, but rather some Water Cooler Regulation. Tell your friends and family about the potential dangers of aspartame. Spread the word. And as always, feel free to share this e-Alert with them.
By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press WriterMon Jul 25, 5:18 PM ET
At least half a million New Yorkers have diabetes, many of them at risk for blindness, kidney failure, amputations and heart problems because they are doing a poor job of controlling their illness. The question is, how much privacy are they willing to give up for a chance at better health?
A century after New York became the first American city to track people with infectious diseases as a way to halt epidemics, officials here propose a similar system to monitor people with diabetes, a non-contagious foe.
Conceived after a sharp rise in diabetes deaths over the past 20 years, the plan would require medical labs to report to the city the results of a certain type of test that indicates how well individual patients are controlling their diabetes.
"There will be some people who will say, 'What business of the government is it to know that my diabetes is not in control?'" said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city's health commissioner.
The answer, he said, is that diabetes costs an estimated $5 billion a year to treat in New York and was the fourth leading cause of death in the city in 2003, killing 1,891.
By pinpointing problem patients, then intervening ever so slightly in their care, Frieden said the city can improve thousands of lives. "I don't think we can afford not to do anything," he said.
The Board of Health vote on the proposal isn't likely until at least September, but it has already attracted attention from other public health experts and privacy advocates.
The list of illnesses reported to public health authorities has grown over the years, but it still is almost entirely contagious diseases, like HIV, or conditions related to environmental toxins, like lead poisoning.
Diabetes is different, threatening no one but the people who have it.
"This isn't smallpox," said James Pyles, an attorney who represents health care groups concerned with medical privacy. "The state, or the city in this case, does not have a compelling interest in the health of an individual that overrides that individual's right to privacy."
Pyles praised the intent of the program, but said unless diabetics are asked for their consent, it would be "an outright violation of the constitutional right to privacy" for the government to obtain their identities.
The city's program wouldn't initially get consent to collect data, but would allow patients to opt out later. The database would also be tightly controlled, off limits to anyone but department staff, the patients and their doctors, health officials say.
Over time, doctors could receive letters, telling them whether their patients have been getting adequate care. People who skip checkups might get a note from their doctors, reminding them of the dangers of untreated diabetes.
The plan is akin to the surveillance system put in place in 1897 to fight tuberculosis. At first, doctors were outraged they had to report TB cases to the government, but it became a model after deaths plummeted.
The American Diabetes Association supports New York's plan. It could be a great tool for doctors who find it difficult to track patients over long periods, said the ADA's Dr. Nathaniel Clark.
Currently, he said, people who aren't aggressive about their care can easily fall through the cracks. Some switch health care providers, and many people living in poor neighborhoods where diabetes is common don't have a regular doctor.
Dr. Paul Simon of Los Angeles County's public health department, said other big cities could follow New York's lead.
"Some people are uncomfortable with public health departments expanding their scope beyond infectious disease, but I would say we have to do it," he said. "Chronic disease really accounts for the major portion of years of life lost to illness, these days."
New York's program would involve collecting the results of A1c tests, which indicate blood glucose control over a few months, unlike the daily glucose tests diabetics give themselves. The A1c test is given for both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, the latter linked to obesity and accounting for about 90 percent of American diabetics. The program would cost between $1 million and $2 million a year, the health department said.
Dr. Amy Fairchild, an expert on public health ethics at Columbia University, said disease monitoring programs have historically been able to overcome privacy worries if the health threat is sufficiently frightening.
"We respond with surveillance when we believe something has reached epidemic proportions," Fairchild said. "And this may fit the profile. Have we become a nation of obese people who are all going to get diabetes?"
The program's success, she said, may depend partly on how patients respond. "It's not necessarily that someone has that information. It's that they're pestering you. 'The next thing I know, you'll be telling me what I can and can't eat,'" she said.
Nationally, diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It afflicts about 18.2 million Americans.
Sandye Poitier-Johnson, 57, a public school principal in Harlem who was diagnosed with diabetes a few years ago, said most people could use help monitoring their condition.
"People say, diabetes is serious, but they don't take it seriously," she said. "I wouldn't think that this was Big Brother or Big Sister watching me. I would welcome the help."
She urged the city, though, to get patient consent first. "There is enough privacy invasion already in our society," she said.
How Eating Affects Learning from Focus on Your Child Health and learning go hand in hand. That's why it's important to know what's best for your child to eat.
What’s a good lunch for your child? A meal from the school cafeteria? A traditional peanut butter and jelly sandwich? It’s a more important matter than you might suspect.
Children’s health and learning go hand in hand, and what we feed our children can contribute to their success. The brain is directly affected by what we eat.
Kelly Hammer is a pre-school teacher and the founder of Hammer Nutrition — Working to Build Healthier Families. Vicki Caruana, former public school teacher and adjunct professor, is now a writer and inspirational speaker who has made it her mission to encourage teachers.
Dietary Fats There are different types of dietary fats in most foods. Some of these fats are necessary for optimal health and others are not, and thus the confusion.
There are different types of dietary fats in food. Some of these fats are necessary for optimal health, and others are not — thus the confusion.
Fat is a necessary nutrient needed for some of the body's most basic functions, such as cell membrane production, and it is a fundamental building block for the body's ability to manufacture some hormones necessary for life. Without dietary fat our body would not be able to absorb and utilize the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K from food. On the other hand, too much fat is unhealthy and contributes to weight gain leading to obesity and diseases like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, gallstones, osteoarthritis and sleep apnea.
Healthy fats are monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. These fats lower blood cholesterol by reducing total cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins (LDL — sometimes referred to as "lethal" cholesterol) and increasing high-density lipoproteins (HDL — sometimes referred to as "healthy" cholesterol).
Monounsaturated Fats. These fats remain liquid at room temperature, but may solidify if refrigerated. They are found in avocados, most nuts, and olive, canola and peanut oils.
Polyunsaturated Fats. At refrigeration and room temperatures, these fats usually remain in the liquid form. Omega 3 fatty acids, known to reduce heart disease, are found mostly in seafood such as salmon, herring and mackerel, but are also in flaxseed, flax oil and walnuts. Other examples of this type of fat include safflower, corn, sunflower, soy and cottonseed oils.
(OF THESE FATS listed above, CANOLA and COTTONSEED oils are listed as questionable or even bad by many. --"Cheyenne Cin"-- P.S. Remember, too, that fish with fins and gills are good, shellfish (and pork) bad.)
Unhealthy fats are saturated and "trans" fats. They increase blood cholesterol by raising total cholesterol and LDLs.
Saturated Fat. Typically found in animal products, saturated fats are most often solid or "waxy" at room temperature. Examples include cheese, cream, butter, whole milk, red meat, pork, lamb and poultry. Saturated fats are also found in coconut, palm and tropical oils.
"Trans" Fat. Also known as trans-fatty acid, these fats are created by a process known as hydrogenation: hydrogen molecules are added to vegetable oil (liquid) under pressure, resulting in a solid. Shortening and some margarines are examples. Hydrogenated or "trans" fats are common in commercial baked goods (crackers, cookies, cakes and muffins), fried foods (doughnuts and french fries), and some margarines. A good clue to determining if a food contains trans fat is to read labels and look for the words "hydrogenated," "partially hydrogenated" and "trans fat." Some food manufacturers already state the grams of "trans" fats on food labels, and by January 1, 2006, food manufacturers will be required to provide this information on their labels.
Vicki L. Dihle, PA-C, is a medical research analyst for Focus on the Family.
ICE - In Case of Emergency. A campaign encouraging people to enter an emergency contact number in their mobile phone's memory under the heading ICE (In Case of Emergency), has rapidly spread throughout the
world as a particular consequence of last week's terrorist attacks in London.
Originally established as a nation-wide campaign in the UK, ICE allows paramedics or police to be able to contact a designated relative / next-of-kin in an emergency situation.
The idea is the brainchild of East Anglian Ambulance Service paramedic Bob Brotchie and was launched in May this year. Bob, 41,
who has been a paramedic for 13 years, said: "I was reflecting on some
of the calls I've attended at the roadside where I had to look through the
mobile phone contacts struggling for information on a shocked or injured
person. Almost everyone carries a mobile phone now, and with ICE we'd
know immediately who to contact and what number to ring. The person
may even know of their medical history."
By adopting the ICE advice, your mobile will help the rescue services quickly contact a friend or relative - which could be vital in a life or death situation. It only takes a few seconds to do, and it could easily help save your life. Why not put ICE in your phone now? Simply select your person to contact in case of emergency, enter them under
the word 'ICE' and the telephone number of the person you wish to be
contacted.
Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book, it won't take too many 'forwards' before everybody will know about this.
It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest.
For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.
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ICE Your Cell Phone
Paramedics wiParamedics will turn to a victim's cell phone for clues to that person'sll turn to a victim's cell phone for clues to that person's identity. You can make their job much easier with a simple idea that they are trying to get everyone to adopt: ICE.
ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. If you add an entry in the contacts list in your cell phone under ICE, with the name and phone number. of the person that the emergency services should call on your behalf, you can save them a lot of time and have your loved ones contacted quickly. It only takes a few moments of your time to do.
Paramedics know what ICE means and they look for it immediately.
IF you can do so quickly, e-mail the link to this page to all on your e-mail list... www.ki4u.com/guide.htm ...with the brief message from you urging them to "Print and Read Now!"
Your top priority right now, though, is preparing for your own immediate family survival!
WHAT TO DO IF A NUCLEAR DISASTER IS IMMINENT!
This guide is for families preparing for imminent terrorist or strategic nuclear attacks with expected severe destruction followed by widespread radioactive fallout downwind.
IF ONLY A 'Dirty Bomb' Attack (Not the vastly more devastating nuclear weapon blasts with fallout discussed below.) - You can expect localized and downwind contamination from the explosion and dispersed radioactive materials. If you are near enough to see or hear any local bomb blast, assume that it includes radiological or chemical agents. You should move away from the blast area as quickly as possible. If the wind is blowing toward you from the direction of the blast, travel in a direction that keeps the wind to your left or right as you move away from the blast area. If possible cover your face with a dust mask or cloth to avoid inhaling potentially radioactive dust. Upon reaching a safe location, remove your outer clothing outside and shower as soon as possible. Refer to local news sources for additional instructions about sheltering or evacuation. The government is better prepared to direct and assist the public in a 'dirty bomb' incident, unlike an actual nuclear weapon attack discussed below.
In a national crisis of imminent nuclear weapon attacks, read all the way through this guide first,
THEN TAKE EFFECTIVE PROTECTIVE ACTION WITH CONFIDENCE...FAST!
#1 - STAY OR GO?
You must decide FIRST if you need to prepare where you are, or attempt evacuation. The nature of the threat, your prior preparations, and your confidence in your sources of information should direct your decision. If you know already you will be preparing to stay at your own home or, at least, the immediate local area, go now to #2 below.
If you are considering evacuation, your decision requires a very high confidence that it is worth the risk. You do not want to get stuck between your current location and your hoped for destination, as there will probably be no easy getting back. If you fail to get to your destination, you may be exposed without shelter, in a dangerous situation with little effective law enforcement, perhaps among panicked hordes of refugees. Whatever supplies you have may be limited then to what you can carry on foot. IF you are in a big city or near a military target, AND you have relatives or friends in the country that you know are awaiting you, AND the roads between you and them are clear, AND the authorities are not yet restricting traffic, AND you have the means and fuel, evacuation may be a viable option for a limited time. DO NOT attempt evacuation if all of the above is not clearly known, or if the situation is deteriorating too quickly to make the complete trip. You do not want to get stuck and/or become a refugee being herded along with panicked masses.If evacuation is truly a viable option, do not wait - GO NOW! Do so with as many of the supplies listed on the last page as possible. Better to be two days too early in arriving than two hours too late and getting snagged mid-way, potentially exposing your family to a worse fate than having stayed where you were. Because of the very real danger of getting caught in an evacuation stampede that stalls, almost all families will be better off making the best of it wherever they currently are.
#2 - WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FIRST
Because time is of the essence, you need to first delegate and assign to different adult family members specific tasks so they can all be accomplished at the same time. Your first priorities to assure your family survival are Shelter, Water, and Food/Supplies. While some are working on the water storage and shelter at home, others need to be acquiring, as much as possible, the food and supplies.
#3 - FOOD/SUPPLIES
Because much of the food and supplies listed on the last page of this guide may quickly become unavailable, quantities restricted, and/or the streets and stores may become un-safe soon, you need to assign someone NOW to immediately go to the stores with that list! Get cash from the bank and ATM's first, but try and use credit cards at the stores, if at all possible, to preserve your cash.
#4 - WATER
With one or more adults now heading to the stores with the list on the last page, those remaining need to begin storing water IMMEDIATELY! Lack of clean water will devastate your family much more quickly and more severely than any lack of food. Without water for both drinking and continued good sanitary practices in food preparation and for bathroom excursions (which will inevitably be much less sanitary than normal), debilitating sickness could rampage through your household with little hope of prompt medical attention. That is a highly likely but, avoidable, disaster, ONLY IF you have enough water.
Every possible container needs to be filled with water RIGHT NOW! It will be very hard to have stored too much water. When the electricity/pumps go down or everybody in your community is doing the same thing, thus dropping the water pressure, that's it, what you've got is all you might be getting for a very long time. Empty pop bottles (1-3 liter) are ideal for water storage, also filling up the bathtub and washing machine. (Remember, later you'll have some in your hot water tank.) If you have any kiddie pools or old water beds, pull them out and fill them up, too. (Water from a water bed should be used only for bathing or cleaning, not for drinking as it may contain traces of algicide and/or fungicides.) Anything and everything that'll hold water needs to be filled up quickly RIGHT NOW!!
One of the shopping items listed on the last page is new garbage cans and liner bags which you'll also use for storing water. If you can't get any more new cans, you could clean out an existing garbage can and scrub it throughout with bleach, then put in a new garbage bag liner and fill it with water. (Use two liners if they are very thin/flimsy.) Choose well where you fill up garbage cans with water because they won't easily be moved once full and many of them together could be too heavy for some upper floor locations. Ideally, they need to be very near where your shelter will be constructed and can actually add to its shielding properties, as you'll see below. BE ASSURED, YOU CANNOT STORE AND HAVE TOO MUCH WATER! Do not hesitate, fill up every possible container, RIGHT NOW!
#5 - SHELTER
The principles of radiation protection are simple - with many options and resources families can use to prepare or improvise a very effective shelter. You must throw off the self-defeating myths of nuclear un-survivability that may needlessly seal the fate of less informed families.
Radioactive fallout is the particulate matter (dust) produced by a nuclear explosion and carried high up into the air by the mushroom cloud. It drifts on the wind and most of it settles back to earth downwind of the explosion. The heaviest, most dangerous, and most noticeable fallout, will 'fall out' first close to ground zero. It may begin arriving minutes after an explosion. While the smaller and lighter dust-like particles will typically be arriving hours later, as they drift much farther downwind, often for hundreds of miles. As it settles, whether you can see it or not, fallout will accumulate and blow around everywhere just like dust or light snow does on the ground and roofs. Wind and rain can concentrate the fallout into localized 'hot spots' of much more intense radiation with no visible indication of its presence.
This radioactive fallout 'dust' is dangerous because it is emitting penetrating radiation energy (similar to x-ray's). This radiation (not the fallout dust) can go right through walls, roofs and protective clothing. Even if you manage not to inhale or ingest the dust, and keep it off your skin, hair, and clothes, and even if none gets inside your house, the radiation penetrating your home is still extremely dangerous, and can injure or kill you inside.
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear explosion, though very dangerous initially, loses its intensity quickly because it is giving off so much energy. For example, fallout emitting gamma ray radiation at a rate of 500 R/hr (fatal with one hour of exposure) shortly after an explosion, weakens to only 1/10th as strong 7 hours later. Two days later, it's only 1/100th as strong, or as deadly, as it was initially.
That is really very good news, because our families can readily survive it IF we get them into a proper shelter to safely wait it out as it becomes less dangerous with every passing hour.
What stops radiation, and thus shields your family, is simply putting mass between them and the radiation source. Like police body armor stopping bullets, mass stops (absorbs) radiation. The thicker the mass, the more radiation it stops. Also, the denser (heavier) the mass used, the more effective it is with every inch more you add to your fallout shelter. The thickness in inches needed to cut the radiation down to only 1/10th of its initial intensity for different common materials is: Steel 3.3", concrete 11", earth 16", water 24", wood 38", etc. The thickness required to stop 99% of the radiation is: 5" of steel, 16" of solid brick or hollow concrete blocks filled with mortar or sand, 2 feet of packed earth or 3 feet if loose, 3 feet of water. You may not have enough steel available, but anything you do have will have mass and can be used to add to your shielding - it just takes more thickness of lighter wood, for example, than heavier earth, to absorb and stop the same amount of radiation. Increasing the distance between your family and the radiation outside also reduces the radiation intensity.
The goals of your family fallout shelter are:
To maximize the distance away from the fallout 'dusting' outside on the ground and roof
To place sufficient mass between your family and the fallout to absorb the deadly radiation
To make the shelter tolerable to stay in while the radiation subsides with every passing hour
While a fallout shelter can be built anywhere, you should see what your best options are at home or nearby. Some structures already provide significant shielding or partial shielding that can be enhanced for adequate protection. If you do not have a basement available, you can still use the techniques shown below in any above ground structure, but you'll need to use more mass to achieve the same level of shielding. You may consider using other solid structures nearby, especially those with below ground spaces, such as commercial buildings, schools, churches, below ground parking garages, large and long culverts, tunnels, etc.. Some of these may require permissions and/or the acquiring of additional materials to minimize any fallout drifting or blowing into them, if open ended. Buildings with a half-dozen or more floors, where there is not a concern of blast damage, may provide good radiation protection in the center of the middle floors. This is because of both the distance and the shielding the multiple floors provide from the fallout on the ground and roof.
Bottom Line: choose a structure nearby with both the greatest mass and distance already in place between the outside, where the fallout would settle, and the shelter inside.
If you have a basement in your home, or at a nearby relatives' or friends' house that you can use, your best option is probably to fortify and use it, unless you have ready access to a better/deeper structure nearby.
For an expedient last-minute basement shelter, push a heavy table that you can get under into the corner that has the soil highest on the outside. The ground level outside ideally needs to be above the top of the inside shelter. If no heavy table is available, you can take internal doors off their hinges and lay them on supports to create your 'table'. Then pile any available mass on and around it such as books, wood, cordwood, bricks, sandbags, heavy furniture, full file cabinets, full water containers, your food stocks, and boxes and pillow cases full of anything heavy, like earth. Everything you could pile up and around it has mass that will help absorb and stop more radiation from penetrating inside - the heavier the better. However, be sure to reinforce your table and supports so you do not overload it and risk collapse.
Leave a small crawl-through entrance and more mass there that can be easily pulled in after you to seal it up. Have at least two gaps or 4-6" square air spaces, one high at one end and one low at the other. Use more if crowded and/or hotter climate. A small piece of cardboard can help fan fresh air in if the natural rising warmer air convection current needs an assist moving the air along. This incoming air won't need to be filtered if the basement has been reasonably sealed up, however any windows or other openings will require some solid mass coverage to assure they stay sealed and to provide additional shielding protection for the basement. More details on this in the next (#6) section.
With more time, materials, and carpentry or masonry skills, you could even construct a more formal fallout shelter, such as the lean-to shown to the right, but you should pile up much more mass than what little is shown here.
An effective fallout shelter constructed in a basement may reduce your radiation exposure 100-200 fold. Thus, if the initial radiation intensity outside was 500 R/hr (fatal in one hour), the basement shelter occupants might only experience 5 R/hr or even less, which is survivable, as the radiation intensity will be decreasing with every passing hour.
Adding mass on the floor above your chosen basement corner, and outside against the walls opposite your shelter, can dramatically increase your shielding protection. Every inch thicker adds up to more effective life-saving radiation shielding.
As cramped as that crawl space fallout shelter might seem, the vital shielding provided by simply moving some mass into place could be the difference between exposure to a lethal dose of radiation and the survival of your family.
The majority of people requiring any sheltering at all will be many miles downwind, and they will not need to stay sheltered for weeks on end. In fact, most people will only need to stay sheltered full-time for a few days before they can start coming out briefly to attend to quick essential chores. Later, they can begin spending ever more time out of the shelter daily, only coming back in to sleep. As miserable as it might seem now, you and your family can easily endure that, especially compared to the alternative.
It's really not so difficult to build an effective family fallout shelter, not to get it done... RIGHT NOW!
#6 - ESSENTIAL DETAILS
If you've accomplished the above; securing your supplies, stored water, and built your family fallout shelter, CONGRATULATIONS! You have now succeeded in improving the odds of survival for your family 100-fold, or more! Now, you need to expand your knowledge and fine-tune the tactics that will make the most of your family survival strategy.
Government information and guidance is a vital resource in your response to a nuclear crisis, but for many reasons it may be late, incomplete, misleading or simply in error. While evacuation might be prudent for individuals who act quickly in response to a threat, governments will be slow to call for mass evacuations because of their potential for panic and gridlock. As the recent government calls for duct tape and plastic sheeting led to sold-out stores, anxiety, and derision from the press, there will be great reluctance to issue similar alarms. If you want to assure that you have adequate food and supplies for your family you must act BEFORE the panic without first waiting for government instructions that may never come or as urgently as warranted. You alone are ultimately responsible for your family.
Filtering the air coming into your basement shelter won't be required. Air does not become radioactive, and if your basement is reasonably snug, there won't be any wind blowing through it to carry the radioactive fallout dust inside. Simply sealing any basement windows and other openings prevents significant fallout from getting inside. To improve both the radiation shielding inside the basement, and to protect the windows from being broken and letting fallout blow in later, you should cover them all with wood, and then with sandbags or solid masonry blocks or earth, etc. on the outside and inside too, if possible. If the basement air gets seriously stale later on, you could re-open a door into the upper floors of the still closed house, or secure a common furnace air filter over an outside air opening leading into your basement.
Regarding fallout contamination, any food or water stored in sealed containers, that can later have any fallout dust brushed or rinsed off the outside of the container, will then be safe to use. As long as the fallout dust does not get inside the container, then whatever radiation penetrated the food/water container from the outside does not harm the contents. If you suspect that your clothes have fallout on them, remove your outer clothing before you come inside and leave them outside. A cheap plastic hooded rain poncho that can be easily rinsed off or left outside is very worthwhile. Have water and baby shampoo near the entrance (hose and containers) to wash and thoroughly rinse any exposed skin and hair. Exposure to fallout radiation does not make you radioactive, but you need to assure that you don't bring any inside. If any are stricken with radiation sickness, typically nausea, it is when mild (<100 Rads) 100% recoverable and cannot be passed on to others. Before fallout arrives, you might also try to cover up items you want to protect outside for easier rinsing off of the fallout dust later when it's safe to come out and do so. For instance, if you have a vegetable gardening spot, you might try covering much of it with plastic or tarp and weighting them down.
If without sufficient time to acquire radiological instruments of your own, like Geiger counters and dosimeters, you'll need to be extra sure that your portable radios function properly from inside your shelter and that you have plenty of fresh batteries stocked for them. Without radiological instruments, listening for official guidance about the radiation threat levels in your particular area will be the only way you'll know when it's becoming safe to venture out. It might also be the only way you'll know when you first need to take your initial maximum protective action. When not in use, they should not be attached to any outside antenna or even have their own antenna extended. And, they should be wrapped in any non-conducting insulation, like layers of paper or bubblewrap plastic and then stored in a metal container or wrapped in aluminum foil to minimize the potential of EMP ruining the electronics. Having back-up radios would be very prudent. With extra radios, you can have one always tuned to the closest likely target city and, if it suddenly goes off the air, that could be your first indication of an attack.
If close to a target, your first indication of a nuclear detonation may be with its characteristic blinding bright flash. The first effects you may have to deal with before radioactive fallout arrives, depending on your proximity to it, are blast and thermal energy. Promptly employing the old "Duck & Cover" strategy will save many from avoidable flying debris injuries and minimize thermal burns. Those very close will experience tornado strength winds and should quickly dive behind any solid object or into any available depression, culvert, basement, etc. A 500 kiloton blast, 2.2 miles away, will arrive about 8 seconds after the detonation flash with about a 295 mph wind blast that lasts about three seconds. An even larger 1 MT (megaton) blast, 5 miles away, will arrive in about 20 seconds. Hopefully, you are not near any target area 'ground zero' and will only, like the vast majority, have to deal with just the fallout later.
When fallout is first anticipated, even though it has not yet arrived, have anybody still outside begin wearing their dust protector filter masks and hooded rain ponchos. Everyone should begin taking their Potassium Iodide (KI) or Potassium Iodate (KIO3) tablets for thyroid protection against cancer causing radioactive iodine, a major product of nuclear weapons explosions. If no tablets available, you can topically (on the skin) apply an iodine solution, like tincture of iodine or Betadine, for a similar protective effect. (WARNING: Iodine solutions are NEVER to be ingested or swallowed.) For adults, paint 8 ml of a 2 percent tincture of Iodine on the abdomen or forearm each day, ideally at least 2 hours prior to possible exposure. For children 3 to 18, but under 150 pounds, only half that amount painted on daily, or 4 ml. For children under 3 but older than a month, half again, or 2 ml. For newborns to 1 month old, half it again, or just 1 ml. (One measuring teaspoon is about 5 ml, if you don't have a medicine dropper graduated in ml.) If your iodine is stronger than 2%, reduce the dosage accordingly. Absorption through the skin is not as reliable a dosing method as using the tablets, but tests show that it will still be very effective for most. Do not use if allergic to iodine. If at all possible, inquire of your doctor NOW if there is any reason why anybody in your household should not use KI or KIO3 tablets, or iodine solutions on their skin, in a future nuclear emergency, just to be sure.
When you know that the time to take protective action is approaching, turn off all the utilities into the house, check that everything is sealed up and locked down, and head for the shelter. You should also check that you have near your shelter additional tools, crow bars, and car jacks for digging out later, if required. Also, any building supplies, tools, sheet plastic, staple guns, etc. for plugging any holes from damage. Your basement should already be very well sealed against fallout drifting inside. Now, you'll need to seal around the last door you use to enter with duct tape all around the edges, especially if it's a direct to the outside door.
You don't need to risk fire, burns, and asphyxiation trying to cook anything in the cramped shelter space, if you have pre-positioned in your shelter enough canned goods, can opener, and other non-perishable foods, that are ready-to-eat without preparation. More food, along with water, can be located right outside your crawl space entrance that you can pull in quickly as needed when safe to do so.
For lighting needs within the shelter have many small LED flashlights or LED head-lamps to stretch your battery life. Try not to have to use candles if at all possible. Bring in some books for yourself and games for the children. Maybe throw in a small/thin mattress, some cushions, blankets, pillows, etc.
Toilet use will be via the 5 gallon bucket with a seat borrowed from one of the house bathrooms, if you did not purchase a separate one. Garbage bag liners, hopefully sized for it, should always be used and a full-size and bag lined garbage can should be positioned very close to the shelter entrance for depositing these in when it is safe to do so quickly. Hanging a sheet or blanket will help provide a little privacy as shelter occupants 'take their turn'. The toilet needs to have its new 'deposits' sealed up tight with the plastic liner after each use. Use a very secure top on the bucket and position it near the wall with the outgoing upper air vent.
Pets, and what to do about them, is a tough call. Letting dogs run free is not a humane option, both for their potential to die a miserable death from radiation exposure outside and/or to be a danger to others, especially if they get diseased and/or run in the inevitable packs of multitudes of other abandoned pets. Caring for them is ideal, if truly realistic and not a drain on limited resources, while 'putting them down' might eventually become a painful, but necessary reality.
Boiling or bleach water treatments will be used for cleaning your stored water later for drinking. (This is for killing bacteria, not for radiation contamination, which is never a concern for any stored and covered water containers or even sealed food.) Tap water recently put into clean containers won't likely need to be purified before using. To purify questionable water, bring it to a roiling boil and keep it there for 10 minutes at least. If you don't have the fuel to boil it, you can kill the bacteria by mixing in a good quality household bleach at the rate of 10 drops per gallon, and letting it sit for at least 1/2 an hour. The bleach should be at least 5.25% pure, like Clorox, but be sure it has no additives such as soap or fragrance. You can later get rid of the flat taste from boiling, or some of the chlorine taste when using bleach, by pouring it from one container to another several times.
There's much more that can be learned to better understand what you are up against and to acquire to help your family survive and endure it. While time permits, and if the Internet is still up & running, task somebody with getting and printing out additional prep information.
If there is not enough time to order/receive a radiation meter, then print out the plans for the home-makable KFM (Kearny Fallout Meter) that shows how to build at home, from materials commonly found there, an effective fallout radiation meter. Get the free plans for the KFM here...
If there is enough time to both order, and be shipped, your own radiation detection and monitoring instruments, potassium iodide anti-radiation tablets, Nuclear Survival handbooks, etc., check first for remaining availability at these links...
For readily understandable, practical and more detailed information on nuclear bomb blast, thermal, and radiation effects, EMP, radioactive fallout, radiation health effects and first-aid, nuclear survivability and myth-busting facts, along with livestock protection and numerous Do It Yourself fallout sheltering tips, print out all three parts of this web site below, which is where this guide originated from...
If at all possible, also check out this live prep forum, as they will be covering all the latest crisis news, interpreting the government pronouncements, and discussing the best practical survival preparations families can still do...
When the TV or radio program switches abruptly to an terse announcement saying: "We Interrupt This Program For This Special Bulletin!", and your kids look up to you with questioning wide-eyes and eager for assurances, know then that you are confidently ready for them with your own Plan of Action ready to go! That's what this is all about... our children!
This guide was purposely designed with the sober realization that the overwhelming majority of our fellow Americans would not be compelled to read such a guide until a nuclear crisis was imminent and, unfortunately, their preparation options and time to prepare then would be very limited. At www.ki4u.com/who.htm we know that, at that time, we will again be quickly sold-out, as we were after 9/11, both by the public and the Federal govt., and that this guide then will be the best/only help that we can offer. If you are fortunate enough to be exploring your family preparation needs and options before such a future national crisis, there is much more that you can and should do now to insure that they are even better prepared.
If stores are still at all stocked, and safe to go to, try to buy as many of the following items as possible... IMMEDIATELY! There are no quantities listed here on the food items below as family size varies and because, as the emergency and panic widens, many items will become quickly sold-out or quantities restricted and you'll need to try to get more of what does remain on the shelves. At a minimum you should be looking at two weeks of provisions, but much better to be aiming for two months or more. The reality is, if/when we get nuked, it will be a very long time before anything is ever 'normal' again, especially at any grocery stores. Florida hurricane victims can attest to the prolonged misery and disruptions from even a localized disaster, even with the rest of the country still able to help out. Nobody can begin to imagine how bad the suffering will be, and for how long, if nukes have gone off... and in multiple locations!
The half-dozen top listed and UNDERLINED food items below are primarily for use while in the shelter. They are mostly ready-to-eat that requires no cooking or preparation, just a can opener at the most. (The iodine solution is included here because of its importance for its thyroid-blocking topical use detailed above, but it's NEVER to be ingested or swallowed.) The other foods listed below there are better cost/nutrition staples for later use during the extended recovery period. Then follows general non-food supplies, tools and equipment.
Go Acquire It All Now QUICKLY!
It's much better to risk being a little early when securing your families essential food and supplies, rather than a few hours too late...
Canned goods (pasta, soups, chili, vegetables, fruit, tuna, meats, lots of peanut butter, etc.) Ready-to-eat foods (pop-tarts, raisins, cheese, granola/energy/protein bars, snack-paks, etc.) Some perishable foods (breads and fruits like bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, etc.) Assorted drink mix flavorings (with no cold drinks, just plain water, kids will appreciate it!) Plenty of potent Multi-Vitamins, Vit C, etc. Iodine solution, like Betadine (16 ounces)- NOT TO BE INGESTED OR SWALLOWED!
Multiple big boxes of dried milk (Could include/use some inside shelter, too.) Multiple big boxes of pancake and biscuit mix & syrup Largest bags of rice Largest bags of beans Largest bags of flour Largest bags of potatoes Largest bags quick oats and other grains Largest bags of macaroni Large bag of sugar Large jar of honey Large 2 gallons or more of cooking oil Baking powder & baking soda & spice assortment pack Bottled water (especially if home supplies not secured yet)
Paper or plastic plates/bowls/cups/utensils Quality manual can opener, 2 if you don't already have one at home Kitchen matches and disposable lighters New garbage cans and lots of liner bags (water storage & waste storage) 5 gallon bucket and smaller garbage bags sized for it (toilet) Toilet seat for the bucket (or use one from inside the house) Toilet paper and, if needed, sanitary napkins, diapers Baby wipes (saves water for personal hygiene use) Flashlights (ideally LED) and more than one portable radio Plenty more batteries, at least three sets, for each of the above Bleach (5.25%, without fragrance or soap additives) Alcohol and Hydrogen Peroxide Aspirin/Tylenol/Motrin, Pepto Bismol, etc. Prescription drugs filled, and as much extra as possible First aid kits Fire extinguishers Plenty of dust mask filter protectors Cheap plastic hooded rain ponchos for everyone Water filters and all other camping type supplies, such as Coleman cook stove and fuel, ammo, etc., if any sporting goods stocks still available. And, of course, rolls of plastic sheeting, duct tape, staple guns, staples, etc.
Everyone is invited to copy, post, print, and distribute this 'WHAT TO DO IF A NUCLEAR DISASTER IS IMMINENT!' guide anywhere, as long as they do so without charging anything for it. It must be reproduced in entirety, including this notice, and not be altered or edited. To contact the author with comments and suggestions, e-mail: Shane Connor atwebmaster@.... This guide will be continually 'fine-tuned' so, before distributing it, download it fresh from http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm or to print out, use this PDF version here http://www.ki4u.com/guide.pdf Last Update: 7/16/2005
Subject: Health-Happy Apples - RealAge Tip of the Day
Wednesday, July 27
Health-Happy Apples
Reach for the right apple to get ahead of the nutrition game.
Researchers recently assessed the antioxidant capacity of eight different apple varieties and found Red Delicious apples to be highest in two powerful flavonoids, epicatechin and procyanidin. These flavonoids are especially abundant in apple peels, so wash them well and eat the skins.
RealAge Benefit: Getting the right amount of antioxidants through diet or supplements can make your RealAge 6 years younger.
Fifty years ago, a malaria outbreak occurred among Borneo’s Dayak people. The World Health Organization came to the rescue. They sprayed the people’s thatch-roofed huts with DDT—and set in motion a life-and-death illustration of the importance of respecting the natural order.
The pesticide killed the mosquitoes, but it also killed a parasitic wasp that kept thatch-eating caterpillars under control. The result? People’s roofs began caving in.
And then things really got bad. The local geckos feasted on the toxic mosquitoes—and got sick. Cats gorged on sick geckos—and dropped dead. And then, with no cats, the rats began running wild, threatening the people with deadly bubonic plague.
The World Health Organization was in a quandary. What unexpected disasters might occur if it now poisoned the rats?
U.S. doctors said they have identified the patient who is the source of a mystery strain of human immunodeficiency virus that sent waves of alarm through the AIDS community last February. Public-health officials in New York City issued a warning because the patient apparently had developed a virulent form of HIV -- the organism that causes AIDS -- that was resistant to virtually all drugs and caused a rapid destruction of the man's immune system. The original source of the infection is a patient in Connecticut who infected the New York man during anonymous rectal intercourse at a sex club in the city on Oct. 22, 2004. Within three months, the New York man was diagnosed with HIV, and his CD4 blood-cell count -- a marker of the health of his immune system -- had been reduced to double digits. A CD4 count above 500 is considered normal for healthy individuals. Dr. Gary Blick, a private-practice physician in Norwalk, Conn., reported that his patient, identified as CT01, is the so-called "Patient Zero" -- the source of the New York man's infection.
HEALTH
Can Chocolate Lower Blood Pressure? ~ NewsMax.com
Dark chocolate may help lower blood pressure and keep blood sugar levels down in patients with high blood pressure, a new study reveals.
An earlier study showed that eating dark chocolate reduced blood pressure and increased insulin sensitivity in healthy subjects.
To find out if this effect applies to patients with high blood pressure, Dr. Jeffrey B. Blumberg from Tufts University and colleagues had 20 volunteers with untreated high blood pressure consume dark or white chocolate for 15 days.
Dark chocolate contains flavonoids, which are believed to be responsible for the beneficial effect, while white chocolate does not. Subjects ate a 3½-ounce bar each day.
Patients who ate the dark chocolate had a "clinically meaningful decline" in their blood pressure, according to Dr. Blumberg, while those eating the white chocolate showed no such result.
Dark chocolate also reduced LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels, enhanced insulin sensitivity to keep blood sugar levels down and improved blood vessel function.
All these effects would likely decrease the risk of heart attack and stroke.
But the authors of the study, which appears in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, warned that patients with high blood pressure should not begin eating lots of dark chocolate, since the bittersweet candy contains high amounts of fat, which could offset the benefits.
Unsweetened COCOA POWDER-flavonoid antioxidants,w/Xylitol or Stevia
Unsweetened COCOA POWDER--
with Xylitol or Stevia, and (at least with Xylitol powder sugar) mixes great with KEFIR- and grains mixed with Xylitol even make one extra and fantastic probiotic bacteria -- so you get the benefits of unsweetened cocoa powder and not bad sugar, the benefits of Xylitol or Stevia as sweetener (or Agave necter, whatever), and the benefits of kefir. However, if you heat it, it probably will effect your good bacteria from the kefir.
I personally went out and stocked up on cocoa powder- not the 'dutch kind', but the regular, today, and you can also add cinnamon to the mix, which is good for health, and even a pinch of natural mineral salt!
Cocoa powder: General term for the portion of chocolate liquor that remains after most of the cocoa butter has been removed by a process that presses the chocolate liquor to extract the butter. The paste that results from this pressing is then cooled, ground, and sifted.
Cocoa powder
Cocoa powder is either alkalized or nonalkalized. Alkalized cocoa powder contains potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, or magnesium, all of which neutralize the naturally occurring acids and make the powder easier to dissolve in liquids. Cocoa powder may also contain added starch (e.g., corn starch) to keep it from caking during storage. Unsweetened cocoa powder is used primarily in baking.
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Chocolate is made from the beans of the cocoa tree. The Swedish botanist Linnaeus named the cocoa bean Theobroma cocoa, meaning “food of the gods,” to reflect its spiritual and social importance to the Mayans and Aztecs. The Mayan and Aztec people believed that chocolate, which they consumed in a bitter drink called “tchocolatl,” provided spiritual wisdom, energy, vitality, and sexual power. The beverage was served at festivities and given to men going into battle.
Unsweetened chocolate: is pure chocolate liquor, also known as bitter or baking chocolate. It's unadulterated chocolate: ground roasted chocolate beans with no other added ingredients imparts a strong, deep chocolate flavor in all the sweets you add it to. However, with the addition of sugar, it's used as the base for American style layer cakes, brownies, confections, and cookies.
Cocoa powder: there are two types of unsweetened baking cocoa available: natural cocoa (like the sort produced by Hershey's and Nestle) and Dutch-process cocoa (such as the Hershey's European Style Cocoa and the Droste brand). Both are made by pulverizing, partially defatted chocolate liquor (unsweetened chocolate) removing nearly all their cocoa butter. Natural cocoa is light in color and somewhat acidic with a strong chocolate flavor. In baking use natural cocoa in recipes which call for baking soda (because it's an alkali). Combining the two creates a leavening action that allows the batter to rise during baking. Dutch-process cocoa has been processed with alkali to neutralize its natural acidity so it's darker often with a reddish cast. Dutch cocoa is slightly milder in taste and deeper in color than natural cocoa. Use Dutch cocoa in recipes that call for baking powder as its leavener (raising agent).
The flavanol content of unsweetenedpowderedcocoa is actually double that of dark ... I would equate the healthbenefits of chocolate to those of red wine. ...
The primary components of chocolate are sugar and fat, in roughly equal amounts. According to government standards, true chocolate must derive its fat solely from cocoa butter, unless it's milk chocolate, in which case 80% of the fat must be from cocoa butter and 20% from milk.
At the center of chocolates health benefits are flavonoids. These plant pigments are responsible for many of the health benefits of many fruits and medicinal plants, but chocolate may be a much more sensually pleasing vehicle and there is evidence that not only is chocolate rich in flavonoids, but that factors in chocolate somehow dramatically increase the absorption of these compounds.. The key flavonoids are proanthocyanidins (also called procyanidins) similar to those found in grape seed extracts, apples, berries, and pine bark extract. Chocolate is very well endowed with these compounds. In fact, procyanidins constitute from 12% to as much as 48% of the dry weight of the cocoa bean. Cocoa powder can contain as much as 10% flavonoids on a dry-weight basis with dark chocolate being the best source of flavonoids.
Flavanol content and Antioxidant Capacity of Chocolate and other Foods and Beverages
100 grams (3.5 ounces)
Flavanols + Procyanidins, mg
ORAC, mmol Trolox equivalents†
Dark semisweet chocolate
170
40.0
Milk chocolate
70
6.7
Hot chocolate†† (1 cup)
35
3.4
Apples
106
0.2
Red wine
22
0.7
Brewed black tea (2 tea bags)
40
1.6
† Antioxidant activity is reported as oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) and expressed as mmol Trolox equivalents.
†† The flavanol content of unsweetened powdered cocoa is actually double that of dark chocolate, but when made into a cup of hot chocolate, the cocoa is diluted with water or milk and sugar, so its flavonoid total per serving drops to half that found in milk chocolate.
One of the key areas of research into the benefits of chocolate consumption is its effect on cardiovascular disease. A growing amount of recent research suggests that:
Chocolate can be a rich source of flavonoid antioxidants that are especially important in protecting against damage to cholesterol and the lining of the arteries.
Chocolate flavonoids prevent the excessive clumping together of blood platelets that can cause blood clots.
Unlike the saturated fats found in meat and dairy products, the saturated fats found in chocolate do not elevate cholesterol levels.
Cocoa butter contains small amounts of the plant sterols, sitosterol and stigmasterol, which may help inhibit the absorption of dietary cholesterol.
Chocolate can provide significant amounts of arginine - an amino acid that is required in the production of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide helps regulate blood flow, inflammation, and blood pressure.
Although chocolate is primarily sugar and fat, it does not appear to adversely affect cholesterol levels (as long as total fat and calorie intake is held constant) based on recent studies. For example, in one study participants experienced no rise in cholesterol levels despite the fact that they were eating 10 ounces of chocolate per day. In another study, 23 healthy volunteers were placed on two diets in succession: a typical American diet or the same diet plus about four tablespoons of cocoa powder and 1/2 ounce of dark chocolate daily for four weeks. While on the chocolate diet, not only did the volunteers experience 8% less oxidative damage of their LDL (bad) cholesterol, but their levels of HDL (good) cholesterol actually increased by 4% compared to when they were on the chocolate-free diet.
Chocolate, specifically its cocoa butter, contains stearic acid - a medium chain triglyceride that although is a saturated fat does not appear to adversely affect cholesterol levels. It also contains small amounts of the plant sterols, sitosterol and stigmasterol. These sterols, which compete with cholesterol for absorption from the gut, can contribute to improved blood lipid profiles by inhibiting the uptake of dietary cholesterol. Although the amounts of plant sterols present in cocoa butter are so small their impact is likely to be small as well, these sterols are still yet one more component of chocolate with potential cardiovascular benefit.
Chocolate flavonoids also work like a very low dose of aspirin to prevent blood platelets from aggregating. When blood platelets are too sticky, they tend to clump together and form a blood clot. A blood clot can become dislodged leading to a heart attack, stroke, or pulmonary embolism. In one study, the effect of flavonol-rich cocoa drink containing 25 grams (a little less than an ounce) of semi-sweet chocolate compared to an 81 milligram dose of aspirin (i.e., a baby aspirin) showed that the two were similar in their effects on preventing platelets from clumping together or clotting. However, aspirin's effects are longer-lasting than those produced by chocolate flavonoids, so unlike aspirin, which can be taken once daily, a dose of flavonoid-rich chocolate would need to be consumed every 6 to 8 hours.
Chocolate -- an Aphrodisiac, Love Potion, and Antidepressant?
Chocolate has long been associated with love. Scientists have discovered a possible chemical connection. Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA) - a neurotransmitter that is released by neurons at moments of emotional euphoria including the feelings of love. It may be that one of the reasons that chocolate is by far the most common cause of food addition is that people are actually getting minute quantities of PEA from chocolate reaching their brains. Although chocolate cannot compete with the real thing, it is clear that chocolate does in fact produce feelings of love. What is curious, however, is why we don't have similar affection to a number of foods-such as salami, pickled herring and cheddar cheese- that actually contain significantly more PEA than a comparable serving of chocolate.
In addition to PEA, controversial findings suggest that chocolate contains pharmacologically active substances with the same effect on the brain as marijuana. In marijuana, the pharmacologically active substance is THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). Brain cells have receptors for THC. A receptor is a structure on the surface of the cell's outer membrane that will lock onto certain molecules, allowing them to transmit a signal through the cell wall, triggering a reaction inside the cell. In the case of THC, the reaction would make someone feel "high."
THC is not found in chocolate, but another neurotransmitter called anandamide is. Like THC, anandamide is naturally produced in the brain and binds to the same receptors, which may help explain why, while eating chocolate will not make you high, it's likely to engender some pleasant feelings or at least make you feel more relaxed and less anxious. Like other neurotransmitters, anandamide is broken down quickly after it's produced, but other chemicals in chocolate inhibit the natural breakdown of anadamide, allowing it to remain in the brain longer, making us feel good when we eat chocolate.
Some Practical Suggestions
In order to provide the most healthful choices of chocolate products I offer the following suggestions:
For the biggest flavonoid bang for your caloric buck, choose high quality semisweet dark chocolate.
Avoid chocolate candies and treats made with hydrogenated fats or refined flour, neither of which promotes health.
Also pass on products labeled "artificial chocolate" or "chocolate flavored." These imitations are not even close to the real thing in flavor, texture or health benefits.
Since the chocolate's beneficial polyphenols have been removed from white chocolate, it cannot be considered as a healthful food.
Choose low carb chocolate products sweetened with a polyol like sorbitol, xylitol, maltitol, etc.
Moderate consumption of chocolate seems to be able to promote improved health. However, liberal consumption is certainly not a wise health practice. I would equate the health benefits of chocolate to those of red wine. In other words, moderation is the key.
Safety Concerns
Chocolate can produce a stimulant effect and lead to feelings of nervousness and anxiety in some people. If these effects are noted, then chocolate consumption should be avoided.
Chocolate is a common food allergen. Chocolate, along with red wines and aged cheeses, has been linked with tension as well as migraine headaches. All contain compounds known as vasoactive amines that can dilate brain vessels, triggering headaches in susceptible individuals.
Since chocolate contains oxalic acid, a compound that can bind to calcium in the urinary tract to form kidney stones dark chocolate should be avoided in individuals prone to kidney stones. According to a study conducted in Brazil, while consumption of dark chocolate caused a 20% increase in urinary oxalate excretion, no such increase was observed in the group receiving milk chocolate, suggesting that as long as enough calcium is also present, it will bind to the oxalates in the gut, preventing the formation of kidney stones.
A cup of hot cocoa has more antioxidants than a cup of tea or a glass of wine, according to Cornell University researchers.
They compared the antioxidant content of four different beverages--a cup of hot water containing two tablespoons of pure cocoa powder, a cup of water containing a standard size bag of green tea, a cup of black tea, a glass of California Merlot red wine.
The cocoa had an antioxidant concentration that was close to two times stronger than the red wine, two to three times stronger than the green tea and four to five times stronger than the black tea.
The researchers noted that drinking the cocoa hot might be the preferred way, as a hot cocoa beverage tends to release more antioxidants than a cold one.
This doesn’t mean that everyone should run out and get some Hershey's chocolate and think you are doing yourself some good. I reviewed the benefits of chocolate several weeks ago, and while it does appear that dark chocolate has antioxidant properties, which can actually help to protect the body from damaging oxidative stress, there are other factors to consider.
The researchers in this study used pure cocoa powder. If you want the same benefits you will have to use the relatively bitter, unsweetened cocoa powder. Once you add all the sugar to the drink, the balance of antioxidant protection is likely outweighed by the damage due to insulin abuse.
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Dark chocolate has more antioxidant power than milk chocolate because the dark contains more cocoa-bean liquor and therefore more flavonoids. A 40-gram serving (1.4 ounces) of milk chocolate typically contains around 400 milligrams of antioxidants, about the same as a glass of red wine. A serving of dark chocolate contains more than twice that. And unsweetened powdered cocoa has almost twice as many antioxidants as dark chocolate.
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(BY THE WAY, THE WEED WE DISCUSSED the other day, gumweed- (WITH SELENIUM AND CAMPHORY TASTE, etc.)-- I've been eating it and I really believe it's doing great things (against stuffiness, etc...even the summertime variety!) ---
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Septoria ruborum (rubi) (closely related to Septocyta
This (above) is the blackberry fungus, and it's dangerous to them, because it keeps them from spreading, reproducing.
Cabrio is a fungicide in the. family called strobulurins
This appears, from the info I found online, to be the fungicide of choice to treat blackberry fungus, and it appears to also be dangerous or potentially toxic to humans. Looks like a bad situation all the way around....
anyway, I went on to secure some more info about fungicides, you can take it or leave it-- just FYI! --'Cheyenne Cin'
--P.S. One interesting herb to note is again goldenseal (used in combo with echinacea) as a fungicide and antibiotic! (See below)
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A deadly fungus used to control the spread of unwanted varieties of blackberries overseas has landed in the United States, infecting the capital of America's blackberry industry. First spotted this spring on the southern Oregon Coast, the rust fungus has spread to seven counties, said officials with the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Initially, the species was only spotted on the Himalayan blackberry, a weed. Now it's also been reported in virtually all of the fields of the commercially grown evergreen blackberry, the No. 2 blackberry crop in Oregon, accounting for roughly 9 percent of the state's $30 million blackberry industry. The fungus - which prior to its appearance in Oregon had never been detected in North America - has not attacked the marionberry, Oregon's state berry and one of the region's most lucrative berry crops, said Bruce Pokarney, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Officials said it was too early to estimate the potential economic damage. "We're at an early stage with the potential for serious economic damage, but we're not at the stage where that serious damage has happened," said Tom Peerbolt, a researcher with the Oregon Raspberry and Blackberry Commission. The fungus has been used since at least the 1990s as a biocontrol agent to tame the growth of wild blackberries in Australia, New Zealand and Chile. As recently as last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approached blackberry growers in Oregon to discuss the possibility of introducing the fungus into the United States to control invasive varieties of blackberries - but the plan did not move beyond the discussion stage, said Pokarney. Agriculture officials are meeting this week to begin discussing possible remedies. Once infected, the leaves of the blackberry bush become stained with a mosaic of purple spots. Underneath, the foliage is tainted with yellow pustules. "It's a huge problem because it's something that can be battled and fought, but it takes a pretty rigorous spray program to do that," said Mark Hurst, owner of Hurst's Berry Farm in Sheridan. While the disease has so far only been confirmed in Oregon, scientists and growers say it's already crossed into southwestern Washington, where samples taken from several fields are currently being tested for the fungus. --- COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - The prolonged drought that has struck most of Missouri's 114 counties will likely lead to a request for federal disaster relief should the parched conditions continue, state and federal officials said. Gov. Matt Blunt has asked the Missouri Farm Service Agency to assess drought damage in 106 counties. Though formal reports won't be complete until later this week, early indications are troubling, said Tim Kelley, the agency's executive director. "I think it's going to be significant," he said at a Monday morning panel discussion hosted by Sen. Kit Bond at the University of Missouri-Columbia's Life Sciences Center. Should the federal government declare parts of Missouri a disaster area, farmers in the affected areas would be eligible for emergency loans, income tax relief and other short-term aid, said Judy Grundler, a program administrator with the state Department of Agriculture.
Here are some additional uses: (OBVIOUSLY referring at the top to BIRD CARE):
One of the uses for which I like most is cleaning up babies after syringe feedings. It gets their feathers and down squeaky clean and kills the bacteria caused by formula that might soil their feathers during feeding. I add a few drops to a bowl of warm water to wet the cleaning cloth.
may be used for cleaning brooders, incubators, and for sterilizing pipettes, spoons, and syringes.
If you put 3 or 4 drops of GSE per gallon of reservoir water into the water reservoir of your incubator or your humidifier, the slimy algae will not grow. This will work wherever standing water is present.
For the drinking water of parrots, place one drop in the water dish to prevent the growth of pathogens and to remove existing parasites. There have been claims that cured several parrots of stubborn cases of Giardia, but there is no documentation for those claims.
makes an excellent decontaminant for wood surfaces such as perches. Apply full strength, just a few drops o the cleaned wood while still wet. Let stand for half an hour. As an alternative method, you can also mix a strong solution, a tablespoon in sixteen ounces of clean water, and spray or dip perches, leaving on for 1/2 hour. Rinse and dry thoroughly.
is such a broad-spectrum solution, it is becoming the first-line of defense for many farmers and veterinarians. Our four-legged friends can benefit greatly from use. It is an excellent remedy for skin diseases and external injuries. It stimulates the immune systems of animals and aids in the absorption of nutrients by eliminating undesirable micro-organisms in the gut. It is compatible with most antibiotics. does not produce the negative side effects associated with antibiotic use. Intestinal flora remains in balance with the use.
For external use, like skin fungi or bacterial diseases of the skin: Mix 30 to 40 drops of liquid extract in a quart of water, and spray on the infected area. If advisable, mix into a shampoo solution and leave on the skin or fur for a few minutes, then rinse well. This same dilution can be used as a general antiseptic for cages or any other contact areas.
For internal use, the rule of thumb for gastrointestinal disorders, including bacterial, fungal, parasitic, or viral, is to use one drop of liquid concentrate per 10 pounds (5kg) of live weight.
Make your own organic Kitchen & Bath Spray by adding one or two drops per ounce of distilled water. Rinse vegetables and fruits well, or for a more thorough treatment, soak them for fifteen minutes and rinse thoroughly.
Hospitals add to their carpet shampoo machines. It is reported that ten to fifteen drops per gallon in the reservoir is effective in killing staph, strep, aspergillus, salmonella and many other pathogenic organisms that are present in hospital carpets.
Numerous clinics and medical practitioners consider the availability of grapefruit seed extract to be a major therapeutic breakthrough for patients with chronic parasitic and yeast infections. One doctor reports treatment failures in only two cases out of 297!
Gargling with and water will handle the most resistant Strep germs. The necessary dilution against Streptococcus faecalis is only 1:80,000 in vitro. In vivo, doctors are recommending gargling with two or three drops in five ounces of water. This gives an effective and potent dilution ratio of about 300-500 ppm.
Grapefruit seed extract can be used to clean fungus and mildew off swimming pools and birdbaths. It is user-friendly, and environmentally safe.
can be used in the garden to control aphids, snails, fungus, mildew, and algae. Use in hot-tubs or Jacuzzis (one to two ounces per hundred gallons) or less if you are also treating with ozone. When you compare the cost pool chemicals, both monetarily and in medical costs that can result from the exposure to chemical vapors, it compares favorably to other forms of disinfection.
Drinking Water can be made safe by ten drops for each gallon of clear water. Agitate or mix vigorously and let it rest for a few minutes. It may be used as a prophylactic agent for those who travel abroad.
A very small amount will keep a covered bottle of clean distilled water safe for a very long time. It is an extremely stable product.
After 25 years in use by naturopathic physicians, clinics and the general public grapefruit seed extract has been proven to be a safe and effective multipurpose (broad spectrum) compound with countless uses.
Grapefruit seed extract is being used successfully in humans and animals alike to fight many types of internal and external infections caused from parasites (single and multi-celled), viruses, bacteria, fungus and more!
The greatest benefit is due to it's multipurpose (broad spectrum) effect. It is effective even if the causes of the infections are known, unknown or misdiagnosed. Grapefruit seed extract naturally detoxifies, enhances and supports the immune system.
Grapefruit seed extract contains high levels of vitamin C and E, and bioflavonoids. The important substances have an antioxidant action and can neutralize free radicals that damage cells and cause a number of illnesses.
Another important benefit of grapefruit seed extract is that it is helpful in alkalizing the blood. Alkalizing the body fluids (raising pH) is one of the single most important health regeneration benefits available as disease causing microforms (fungi, bacteria, virus etc.) cannot survive in an alkaline oxygenated environment. Though lemons, limes, and grapefruits are chemically acid, tests show that when they are metabolized in the body they actually have an alkalizing effect. They have very little sugar and they contain an abundance of oxygen. This is a plus for anyone fighting candida or any other disease. Conclusion: Eat more fresh vegetables and less processed foods as most all vegetables are alkaline forming in the body.
Grapefruit seed extract is effective at very low concentrations. During 1989-90, an international research team (reported in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 5, No. 3, USA, 1990) examined the effects of GSE and compared this with 30 effective antibiotics and 18 proven fungicides. GSE was found to perform as well as any and all of the tested agents. Without the harsh side effects. It is a natural alternative to strong antibiotics.
Grapefruit seed extract is nontoxic. According to an independent laboratory testing "Acute Oral Toxicity", it would take at least 4,000 times the normal dose of gse to produce a 50% chance of poisoning (called LD50).
Because grapefruit seed extract does not exhibit the harsh side effects and high cost of pharmaceuticals it is becoming the alternative health choice for naturopathic physicians, clinics and the general public.
Internal uses include but not limited to : Digestive Upsets: Gastrointestinal Disorders, Diarrhea and Food Poisoning. Infections from: Parasites (single and multi-celled), Bacterial, Viral and Fungal. Candida Yeast Infections, Thrush and Chronic Fatigue. Oral Infections: Tooth Plaque, Gum Disorders, Breath Freshener and Mouthwash. Colds and Flu, Sore Throats, Strep Throat, Ear Inflammation / Pain, Gassiness, Sinusitis and much more!
External uses include but not limited to: Acne, Athletes Foot, Nail Fungus Infections. Skin Infections: Fungal / Bacterial / Parasitic / Viral / Ringworm, Cuts / Wounds. Warts, Poison Ivy/Poison Oak, Rashes, Jock Itch, Shaving Itch, Dandruff, Cold Sores / Herpes, Head Lice, Chickenpox, Cracked Lips, Toothbrush Cleaning and much more!
Physicians have observed that the herpes simplex virus becomes inactive just ten minutes after the application of grapefruit seed extract.
One of the most important applications for grapefruit seed extract is in the support and protection of individuals with chronic immune system problems (AIDS, Chronic Fatigue, and Candida patients). See more: benefits of grapefruit seed extract.
How Does Grapefruit Extract Work?
According to studies, the activity of the active ingredient of grapefruit seed extract appears to develop in the cytoplasmic membrane of the microorganisms. The active ingredients of the extract disorganize the cytoplasmic membrane, thereby preventing the uptake of amino acids.
At the same time, there is a leakage of the cellular contents with low molecular weight through the cytoplasmic membrane. The pathogen is then inactivated. The time for this is generally shorter than that of most comparable preparations.
Grapefruit seed extract does not allow germs to build up a resistance.To date there is no evidence that any type of organism has ever built up a resistance to grapefruit seed extracts active ingredient. Due to the mode of its activity it is believed that this resistance is impossible as grapefruit seed extract disrupts the organisms cytoplasmic membrane.
What is not known is how GSE can affect the cell membranes of such a diverse group of microbes with virtually no toxicity toward animal life (The "Acute Oral Toxicity Study" performed by an independent laboratory concluded that you would have to take 4,000 times the normal adult dose to risk a 50% chance of poisoning). And to complicate matters further, since viruses do not have a cell membrane of their own, how is it that GSE can act as a remedy as it does.
Grapefruit Seed Extract and Protozoan Infections
Louis Parish, M.D., investigator for the department of health and human services, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, reported in his prospectus for the FDA that grapefruit seed extract is "...as effective as any other preparation now available, perhaps more effective ... it does not cause the side effects."
For intestinal problems, including dysentery he believes that grapefruit seed extract, "Gives more symptomatic relief than any other treatment."
Nearly 200 patients were treated for Entamoeba histolytica and giardia lamblia by Dr. Parish and his associates over a two month period. Dr. Parish went on to say "it (grapefruit seed extract) gives symptomatic relief more than any other product. It would be hard to overstate the value of grapefruit seed extract to my medical practice. It has no inherent toxicity.
Grapefruit Seed Extract
Candida Yeast Infections & Parasitic Infections
By Dr. Leo Galland
There's something unique about this particular substance (grapefruit seed extract). Whatever it does, it does without the debilitating side effects. It has the advantage of being very safe. In the treatment of candidiasis it appears as effective as nystatin, caprylic acid, and other non-absorbed intestinal antifungal agents.
Dr. Galland considers the availability of grapefruit seed extract to be "...a major therapeutic breakthrough for patients with chronic parasitic and yeast infections..."
Many drug sensitive individuals find GSE to be much better tolerated than other antifungal preparations, and I have several patients in whom this product alone helped control chronic candidiasis when no other medication was tolerated or effective. In a test of 20 patients with vaginal yeast infection, 15 had relief of their symptoms in only 3 days after douching with grapefruit seed extract every 12 hours.
Grapefruit Extract Safety
Grapefruit seed extract has been extensively tested and proven safe and effective by many laboratories and research centers throughout the world.
Grapefruit seed extract has no inherent toxicity and exhibits no negative impact on beneficial intestinal bacteria. There are no known side effects or interactions. Grapefruit seed extract can be taken for long periods of time with no ill or toxic effects.
It is non-allergenic. Even people who are allergic to citrus have had no adverse reactions. This is largely due to its harmonizing effects to cope with body stress. Although about 3 to 5 per cent of all people are allergic to citrus fruit and could therefore also display a sensitive reaction to grapefruit seed extract. These people should start with a low dosage and perform a patch test to be sure.
Grapefruit seed extract can be used safely by most people. Even infants and the elderly, as well as those with compromised health. Pets and animals of all types and sizes can benefit greatly using grapefruit seed extract.
Grapefruit seed extract has been safely used worldwide for over 25 years by countless doctors, alternative health care practitioners and veterinarians.
How is Grapefruit Extract Made?
Grapefruit extract (GSE) is made by first converting grapefruit seeds and pulp into a very acidic liquid. This liquid is loaded with polyphenolic compounds, including quercitin, helperidin, campherol glycoside, neohelperidin, naringin, apigenin, rutinoside, poncirin, etc.
The polyphenols themselves are unstable but are chemically converted into more stable substances that belong to a diverse class of products called quaternary ammonium compounds. Some quaternary compounds, benzethonium chloride and benzalkonium chloride, for example, are used industrially as antimicrobials, but are toxic to animal life. The B vitamin choline is also a quaternary compound, but is nontoxic and even essential for maintaining healthy neurological function and fat metabolism.
Grapefruit extract features the best of both worlds. While evidencing none of the toxic side-effects of chemically-derived quaternaries.
The finished product is a viscous, yellow-amber colored liquid that features a taste that is both bitter and acidic. Pure vegetable glycerin is added to reduce the bitterness and acidity to a tolerable level and to reduce the possibility that incidental contact could cause irritation to the skin or mucous membranes. Grapefruit seed extract has a slight citrus smell.
This unlikely herbal infection-fighter is synthesized from the seeds and pulp of the grapefruit. It was farmers who first used grapefruit seed extract (GSE) to inhibit the growth of mold on their equipment; later, cosmetic companies added it to their products as a preservative.
Then, claims that GSE could fight infections in people spurred interest within the dietary supplement industry, and in the 1980s, GSE products started to appear in health-food stores. It is sometimes also called citrus seed extract.
Grapefruit seed extract has been most heavily promoted as a treatment for Candida albicans, a yeast naturally present in the human body. Candida can cause complications when it grows out of control, however. GSE is particularly popular for controlling vaginal yeast infections caused by Candida, and in treating a poorly understood intestinal condition called Candida overgrowth syndrome (COS).
Some nutritionally oriented doctors continue to recommend GSE capsules, liquids, and powders for bacterial, viral, and fungal infections, including COS. However, aside from hopeful speculation, there's no sound scientific evidence to indicate that GSE can actually eliminate any infection in human beings.
Specifically, GSE may help to:
Control vaginal yeast infections. One study reported that 20 women with chronic vaginal itching and other discomforts apparently due to overgrowth of the organism Candida albicans responded well to GSE douches. The study, done in Mexico, is frequently cited in the support of GSE for vaginal yeast infections. No other research on the subject appears to have been done, however.
Fight Candida overgrowth syndrome. Although no studies have proven the efficacy of GSE for this condition, it is a popular product among some alternative practitioners because of its antifungal effect.
--Given its bitter taste, the liquid extract is usually mixed with a sweet fruit juice to make it more palatable.
For yeast infections (vaginal): When purchasing a GSE douche, follow package instructions. For capsules, liquids, or powders, take the equivalent of 130 mg GSE twice a day.
For Candida overgrowth syndrome: Follow package instructions.
Don't confuse GSE with grape seed extract, a powerful antioxidant derived from red grapes.
GSE is occasionally sold under such names as "Standardized Extract of Grapefruit," "Grapefruit Extract," and "Citrus Seed Extract." Unless otherwise indicated on the label, these products are all usually made from grapefruit seeds only.
No drug or nutrient interactions have been reported for GSE. However, research is limited.
A number of medications should not be taken with grapefruit juice, including certain immunosuppressants, cholesterol-lowering drugs, and antihistamines. It's not clear whether an extract of the grapefruit's seeds and pulp pose the same risks. Consult your doctor if you have any questions.
Many of the types of infections for which GSE is recommended--vaginal yeast infections and intestinal parasites, among others--can cause potentially serious health problems if not treated properly. Consult a doctor if you suspect you have an infection.
Grapefruit seed extract (GSE) is a substance extracted from grapefruit seeds.
GSE has been shown to exert significant antibiotic effects in test tube studies.12 However, one study concluded that these effects were due to the chemical preservatives used to stabilize the grapefruit seed extract rather than to any particular compound found in the extract.3
Human research using grapefruit seed extract is very limited. In one study, 25 patients with symptoms associated with irritable bowel syndrome such as intermittent diarrhea, constipation, flatulence, bloating, and abdominal discomfort were treated with either 2 drops of a 0.5% oral solution of grapefruit seed extract twice daily or 150 mg of encapsulated grapefruit seed extract three times daily.4 After one month, symptoms had improved in 20% of those taking the liquid, while all of the patients taking capsules noted definite improvement of constipation, flatulence, abdominal discomfort, and night rest. These results need confirmation in double-blind studies.
Where is it found?
Grapefruit seed extract is available in liquid concentrate and in capsules and tablets.
Grapefruit seed extract has been used in connection with the following conditions (refer to the individual health concern for complete information):
Reliable and relatively consistent scientific data showing a substantial health benefit. Contradictory, insufficient, or preliminary studies suggesting a health benefit or minimal health benefit. For an herb, supported by traditional use but minimal or no scientific evidence. For a supplement, little scientific support and/or minimal health benefit.
Who is likely to be deficient?
Grapefruit seed extract is not an essential nutrient and no deficiency states have been reported.
How much is usually taken?
The typical recommendation for the liquid concentrate is 10–12 drops in 6–7 ounces of water one to three times daily. For capsules and tablets containing dried grapefruit seed extract, the usual recommendation is 100–200 mg one to three times daily.
Are there any side effects or interactions?
No side effects are known.
At the time of writing, there were no well-known drug interactions with grapefruit seed extract.
Top Ten Reasons You Should Fear the Transit Searches in New York City – Even if You Don't Live There, Never Plan to Visit, and Think New York's Noxious Nuts Are Finally Getting What They Deserve
by Becky Akers
1) It's Starting Small. On Thursday, July 21, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that all passengers using New York City's transit system are subject to search by the City's police. So far, only their bags – not their persons – can be violated. Because His Majesty zips about town in a limousine, he had to rely on his imagination to console commuters. "We just live in a world where, sadly, these kinds of security measures are necessary. Are they intrusive? Yes. A little bit."
2) It Began This Way At the Airports. After a couple of skyjackings in the late 1960's, the Federal government decided that it had an "interest" in "protecting" aviation. Congress had so little respect for the Constitution that it simply ignored the Fourth Amendment, rather than formally abolishing it, by decreeing that passengers' bags would be rifled at airports. The judiciary connived and read our minds. Judges solemnly informed us that we consider airport searches not "a resented intrusion on privacy, but, instead, a welcome reassurance of safety." About 25 years passed before ransacking luggage progressed to pawing passengers.
With this precedent easing their way, New York's cops will be feeling up commuters in a matter of weeks, not decades.
There are other eerie parallels. Both the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and New York's rulers blame passengers for the delays and harassment that characterize searches. The TSA's website warns, "Taking a few minutes to prepare for security before you pack for your trip can save you and your fellow travelers precious time when you arrive at the airport." Meanwhile, Ray Kelly, New York's Commissioner of Pork, sorry, Police, laments that passengers make searches necessary. "Ideally, people wouldn't carry any backpacks or bulky packages on the transit system." For sure Kelly never does: he's got swarms of underlings who tote things for him.
3) According to the Courts, You Consent To Being Searched By Flying – And Now Riding. I kid you not. Grown adults wearing silly gowns have seriously argued that because we "choose" to fly, we "choose" to be manhandled. Warrantless searches are part of flying. If you dislike them, don't buy a plane ticket.
New York's rulers have already trotted out this blatherskite to justify their rifling of commuters' belongings. Our Man Kelly says, "You have a right to turn around and leave..." rather than submit to the search. But he offered no advice on how secretaries, nurses, and other workers dependent on the subway could get to their jobs. These folks typically live in the outer boroughs, miles from midtown, because of the exorbitant rents Manhattan's landlords charge to cover exorbitant real estate taxes.
4) The Searches Purport To Be Random, But Cops Are Picking on "Suspicious" Folks. They define "suspicious" behavior as making a fist, apparently because that's the preferred method among suicide bombers for clutching detonators. No word on whether babies clasping Cheerios will also be considered threats. People wearing "heavy coats inappropriate for the summer weather" rouse cops' curiosity as well. Someone warn the elderly that if they're cold because of poor circulation, they'd better stay home. And anyone prone to sweating when it's hot should avoid the subways: the NYPD is gunning for such miscreants because terrorists sweat. One fears New York's Brightest will one day realize that terrorists breathe, too, but let's not hold our breath.
5) It's Spreading Like Wildfire. Boston inaugurated transit searches last year at the Democratic National Convention. There was little outrage: few protests, no riots. Rulers in cities across the country perked up. New York's latest adventure in fascism fascinates them as well. They are studying the sheeple's submission. Keenly. Before rush hour had even ended that first evening, New Jersey and Connecticut announced that they, too, would begin ransacking bags.
Transit searches easily translate to suburban and rural areas. They're called "roadblocks."
6) NYC Officials Have Been Scheming About This For 3-1/2 Years. But they were waiting for the right moment to spring it on us, as Ray Kelly confided to the New York Times. "The reality is, you need an event such as London for people to realize this is a procedure put in place for their safety...The issue is what the public will accept. You still need an event to get public support."
I wonder what else they're plotting, what "event" will unleash it on us, and how they'll manipulate public opinion. Yo, guys, those plans for the camps: have you ordered the razor-wire yet?
7) It Has Nothing to do With Security. New York City's transit system is the country's largest. At street level, almost 4500 busses traverse about 2000 route-miles in the five boroughs. Underground (and occasionally above ground, too) there are 468 subway stations with multiple entrances, over 31,000 turnstiles, and 656 miles of track for carrying passengers. About 4.7 million patrons ride the City's mass transit each day.
Our Rulers actually want us to believe that 40,000 New York City cops – not all of whom will be deployed to the transit system: after all, someone has to pester pedestrians and ticket drivers – can identify and intercept a suicide bomber lost in this vastness.
Additionally, the gaps in this "security" yawn so prodigiously that even dumbed-down public-school graduates could exploit them. The cops and their "checkpoints" will rove from subway station to station, depending on the time of day. They will search a certain percentage of passengers.
Let us suppose for sake of argument that suicide bombers are actually waiting to blow commuters sky-high. Let us further grant that these terrorists are of sufficient intelligence to construct a bomb and plot its effective detonation. Yet, when they come upon a search at one entrance to the subway, it will not occur to them to "turn around and leave" so they can hunt a different entrance. And men eager to die for their cause would never consider walking 7 or 8 blocks to the next station.
"The public wants to feel safe, as well as be safe," says William W. Millar, president of the American Public Transportation Association, "So this has a benefit of perception." Yep. It's also invaluable to Our Rulers for the cover it provides.
8) Your Fellow Citizens Think It's Dandy. Johnny Eggz, 31, exclaimed to The New York Post, "Cool!" Kinda makes you wonder what Johnny does for entertainment of an evening, doesn't it? He continued, "We're at war. What are you going to do – cry about being searched or cry about being blown up?" Michael Schultz at least recognizes that "it's an invasion of privacy," but, as he concluded in The New York Sun, "if you're not carrying anything illegal, you've got nothing to hide." Eve Holbrook, 35, volunteered to be searched. "It gives me a sense of comfort," she told The New York Times. "I went up there of my own free will." We can only hope the terrorists among us are as amenable.
The few sheeple who object do so on PC grounds: they fear "racial profiling," not unConstitutional, general searches. The Times quoted Hani Judeh, 24, a Palestinian-American living in Brooklyn. "They should check bags, but they can't discriminate. You can't tell Indian from Pakistani, you can't tell West Indian from black, you can't tell Arab from Mediterranean."
On the bright side, Gene Russianoff, a lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, understands what's really going on. "Riders being randomly searched is what they do in Communist regimes," he told the Post. Ironically, the article in which his comment appeared began, "Call [the searches] freedom frisks."
9) Contraband Will Get You Arrested. In another parallel with the airports, anyone found with drugs, weapons, or the myriad other things on which Our Rulers frown will be arrested.
10) Larry D. Hiibel, Petitioner v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Humboldt County, et al. This case, decided last summer by the Supreme Court, held that citizens must identify themselves to cops. Refusal can result in arrest.
At some point, Our Rulers will revoke the "freedom" to leave the transit system rather than be searched. And searching will spread to streetcorners: if one consents to being frisked by riding in planes and busses, one consents as well by stepping onto a sidewalk. Those who don't cooperate, who complain or hesitate or perhaps don't raise their hands overhead as quickly as ordered, will immediately rouse suspicion. Names will be demanded and compared against lists of "protestors." It won't be difficult to join those lists. Writing letters critical of Our Rulers to one's congressman or a newspaper editor will be enough. Having written one probably will be too: computers have long memories. And we all know the patience police states extend to dissidents.
Are you scared yet?
July 25, 2005
Becky Akers [send her mail] writes primarily about the American Revolution.
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Subject: Pressure on U.S. to use more surveillance
WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration violated privacy protections by secretly collecting personal information on at least 250,000 people, congressional investigators said Friday.
The Government Accountability Office sent a letter to Congress saying the collection violated the Privacy Act, which prohibits the government from compiling information on people without their knowledge.
The information was collected as the agency tested a program, now called Secure Flight, to conduct computerized checks of airline passengers against terrorist watch lists.
TSA had promised it would only use the limited information about passengers that it had obtained from airlines. Instead, the agency and its contractors compiled files on people using data from commercial brokers and then compared those files with the lists.
The GAO reported that about 100 million records were collected.
The 1974 Privacy Act requires the government to notify the public when it collects information about people. It must say who it’s gathering information about, what kinds of information, why it’s being collected and how the information is stored.
Disclosure required And to protect people from having misinformation about them in their files, the government must also disclose how they can access and correct the data it has collected.
Before it began testing Secure Flight, the TSA published notices in September and November saying that it would collect from airlines information about people who flew commercially in June 2004.
Instead, the agency actually took 43,000 names of passengers and used about 200,000 variations of those names who turned out to be real people who may not have flown that month, the GAO said. A TSA contractor collected 100 million records on those names.
Justin Oberman, the TSA official in charge of Secure Flight, said that was a highly instructive test.
“When you cannot distinguish one John Smith from another, you’re going to get records from John Smiths who aren’t boarding flights on an order of magnitude we can’t handle,” Oberman said.
He said the testing is designed to find out what kind of data airlines will need to get such as passengers’ birthdates so they can turn it over to the government to check against watch lists.
GAO: Agency shifted plans The GAO letter said that the TSA also said originally that it wouldn’t use and store commercial data about airline passengers. It not only did that, it collected and stored information about the people with similar names.
“As a result, an unknown number of individuals whose personal information was collected were not notified as to how they might access or amend their personal data,” the letter said.
It was only after meeting with the GAO, which is overseeing the program, that the TSA published a second notice indicating that it would do the things it had earlier said it wouldn’t do.
Oberman said it’s not unusual to revise such notices.
“We are conducting a test,” he said. “I didn’t know what the permutations would be.”
Oberman also said that the test has no impact on anyone who travels and that the data will be destroyed when the test is over.
Friday’s GAO letter shed new light on how the TSA expanded the testing of Secure Flight well beyond its original scope and why it had to publish the second notice.
The letter drew a sharp rebuke from Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman Susan Collins, R-Maine, and the ranking Democrat, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff dated Friday.
“Careless missteps such as this jeopardize the public trust and DHS’ ability to deploy a much-needed, new system,” the letter said, citing the project’s “unfortunate history.”
I point out that what Bush is implementing in this hemisphere is the same communist regional system (regionalism is communism) and can be similarly referred to as The New American Soviet.
Since this vote is so very crucial relative to continued USA sovereignty, not only am I calling my two congressmen, I am calling ALL the Republicans who are committed to voting YES and those who are wavering on how to vote. In my case, I point out I worked in the Reagan Administration, am an author, and I leave my name, address, website, tel. no. etc. and ask that my message be put on the congressman's desk.
It's great to have the Liberty Committee's list of congressmen in favor, opposed, and on the fence. We must use it. All you need to do is to print out the list found at thelibertycommittee.org and then get to work by calling the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121. I have found the staff in the first three Republican Congressmen's offices, Barton, Bass, and Beauprez, very cooperative and understanding. However, I was unusually polite (for me, that is, on an issue like this!). The old saying about catching flies with honey rather than vinegar applies. They promised to put my message on congressman's desk.
The following is my pitch:
I inform them of the following remarkable comment by former President of the Soviet Union MIchael Gorbachev:
During a visit to London in March 23, 2000, former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev, referred to the emerging European Union (EU) as 'the new European Soviet.'
I point out that what Bush is implementing in this hemisphere is the same communist regional system (regionalism is communism) and can be similarly referred to as The New American Soviet. All regions being created internationally are modelled on The European Union.
This scenario is quite similar to the three-stage plan outlined by Stalin at the 1936 Communist International. At that meeting, the official program proclaimed:
"Dictatorship can be established only by a victory of socialism in different countries or groups of countries," after which there would be federal unions of the various groupings of these socialist countries, and the third stage would be an amalgamation of these regional federal unions into a world union of socialist nations. (quote courtesy of Prof. Dennis Cuddy)
In closing I ask them to consider some of the reasons why Holland and France rejected the European Union Constitution, thus slowing down the loss of sovereignty in Europe and the move towards a Soviet system, and point out that the CAFTA vote is similar in its importance, and is thus the most important vote ever taken by the U.S. Congress.
I apologize for bothering them with a request from outside their congressional district/state, but emphasize my decision to do so is based on my deep, deep concern for our country and our children's futures, and the threat posed by all international treaties, but especially CAFTA, since its passage will represent the end of our nation's sovereignty and the political/economic and social freedoms to which Americans have become accustomed.
Please keep me posted regarding whatever reactions you get. Also, please forward to your lists.
Thanks for listening and God bless all of you who take this last ditch stand!
Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America's classrooms. Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa.
Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.
Under the NEA's uniform certification, every teacher leaving the training institutions and entering the profession will be an anti-American socialist with the goal of becoming "an agent of change."
On Feb. 23, 2004, at the National Governor's Association meeting in D.C., United States Secretary of Education Rod Paige called the National Education Association "a terrorist organization."
Before the NEA gets up on their soap box about being called a terrorist organization, they should remember that they and many of their liberal members have spent years hurling insults at moms, dads, taxpayers and teachers that have been fighting for traditional academics is in direct contrast to the state goals of the NEA. In fact, I have been on the receiving end of such rabid attacks and name calling by the NEA and their supporters and mouthpieces.
In March of 1996, I was invited by the Hamilton County School Board in Tennessee to offer the conservative opinion to a very liberal education plan that was being considered. The group that was pitching the plan to Hamilton County had ties to Hillary Clinton.
My appearance at this school board meeting was so well advertised by parents who were also opposing the liberal education plan of which I would be speaking, that the event had to be moved to the largest school auditorium in the county.
That night, I spoke for more than 1 hour to over 1,000 taxpayers and I received several standing ovations as I aggressively criticized the liberal left's wacky education plan.
The proposed plan had next to nothing to do with academics and a lot to do with the promotion of outcome-based education, moral relativism, political correctness and the goal of turning local schools into job-training centers. This plan went so far as to give a new diploma to students who achieved the desired humanist and socialist worldview. In fact, first hiring preference would be given to these students by the local businessmen who were looking for a dumbed-down, low-paid workforce that could perform menial tasks.
Though I was well received by the common-sense parents and taxpayers, I was viciously attacked by local liberals culled from the ranks of the NEA and their sister organization, the PTA.
The next morning in the newspaper, the local PTA president and NEA mouthpieces said, "Mr. Howse is an extremist comparable to that of the Klu Klux Klan and the black listings of the 1950s." Another NEA mouthpiece said, "Who will be the next speaker who comes to town, a terrorist with a gun in his belt?"
For the next several days in the local newspaper, television and radio, the NEA lovers went after me with all they could. Of course, I wear that as a badge of honor.
Shortly after stepping off the stage that night to a standing ovation, I was given a message from an angry supporter of the liberal education plan I was opposing. "You can count on an audit by the IRS," I was told.
I really did not take the comment seriously but, to my amazement, within a matter of a few short weeks, I had my IRS audit notice.
This isn't surprising when you realize that I was opposing the very education plan that the Clintons where pushing on a national level. Hamilton County was being used as the test site and one of the first school districts in America to implement the Clinton education plan that Hillary and her friends had been writing and speaking about when she was in charge of education in Arkansas. The organization trying to implement the plan in Hamilton County also had ties to Hillary Clinton and the National Center on Education and the Economy, of which Hillary was a board member prior to becoming first lady. NCEE and Hillary had been promoting the very same plan now being pitched to the taxpayers of Hamilton County, Tenn.
And since I was not only being critical of the Clinton's education agenda, but also the NEA and PTA, should I have been shocked to be the recipient of extreme and untrue insults, much less the harassment of an IRS audit?
Bill Clinton told the NEA candidate screening panel in December 1991: "If I become president, you'll be my partners. I won't forget who brought me to the White House."
Clinton kept his promise, and in 1993 while addressing the NEA delegates, Clinton thanked the NEA for "the gift of our assistant secretary." Clinton was making reference to former NEA staffer Sharon Robinson who became the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. "I believe that the president of this organization [Keith Geiger] would say we have had the partnership I promised in the campaign in 1992."
Before you disagree with the comment by Secretary Paige, I think you need a crash course on the NEA, their history and their worldview.
One of the NEA's formative leaders, John Dewey, an avowed humanist socialist, was made honorary president of the NEA in 1932. In 1933, Dewey was one of the signers of the "Humanist Manifesto."
John Dewey, who traveled to Russia in the 1930s to help organize and implement the Marxist educational system there, today is known in America as the "Father of Progressive Education." In 1935, Dewey became the president of the League of Industrial Democracy, which was originally called the Intercollegiate Socialist Society.
What does this tell us about the National Education Association?
In 1940, a California Senate Committee was assembled to investigate how various foundations were using their resources to promote certain philosophies and control teacher training. The committee discovered that the Rockefeller Foundation had spent millions of dollars rewriting current history books and creating new history books that undermined patriotism and a free enterprise system.
The California committee was shocked to discover that the curriculum, which was funded by the Rockefellers and promoted by the NEA, taught socialist ideas. The committee stated:
It is difficult to believe that the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Education Association could have supported these textbooks. But the fact is that the Rockefellers financed them and the NEA promoted them very widely.
Why would the NEA promote the removal of traditional history from our schools? If children do not know where they came from, they will not know where they are headed. Karl Marx said, "Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily persuaded."
The NEA has actively promoted the United Nations and its global education plan. The United States version is called Goals 2000.
In the January 1946 NEA Journal, editor Joy Elmer Morgan wrote an editorial titled, "The Teacher and World Government," which stated:
In the struggle to establish an adequate world government, the teacher ... can do much to prepare the hearts and minds of children for global understanding and cooperation ... At the very top of all the agencies which will assure the coming of world government must stand the school, the teacher and the organized profession.
In the December 1933 NEA Journal, editor Morgan wrote an editorial calling for government control of corporations. We have only to study the words and writings of NEA's leaders to be convinced of their socialist-communist leanings. On June 29, 1938, the New York Herald Tribune published a story on the NEA Convention being held in New York City and reported the following:
Dr. Goodwin Watson, Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, begged the teachers of the nation to use their profession to indoctrinate children to overthrow "conservative reactionaries" directing American government and industry ... [He] declared that Soviet Russia was one of the most notable international achievements of our generation.
The NEA's main objective has always been to assume national political power and control much more than education.
The NEA has publicly boasted of its plan to seize control of the agencies and boards that decide who is allowed to teach and what is to be taught. The NEA has become the most powerful special-interest group in the United States. Their lobbying has brought about a 17-fold increase in federal education spending in the last 20 years.
What does the NEA – the most powerful union and special-interest group in the United States – plan to do with all this power?
The NEA strongly supports hiring of homosexual teachers. The NEA believes that union contracts with local school boards should require all teachers to pay dues or fees to the union. The NEA is opposed to merit pay for teachers. The NEA is opposed to voluntary prayer in schools. The NEA opposes tuition tax-credit legislation. The NEA is opposed to the use of school facilities after school for voluntary religious meetings. The NEA opposes any effort to amend the Constitution requiring a balancing of the federal budget. The NEA favors socialized medicine. The NEA spent millions of dollars in 1992 to elect Bill Clinton president and supported other liberal candidates for Congress.
What does the NEA think about traditional teachers who went to college and obtained a teaching degree in order to impart true cognitive, academic knowledge to their students? Not much.
In 1971, the NEA publication, "Schools for the '70s and Beyond: A Call to Action," the NEA declares:
Teachers who conform to the traditional institutional mode are out of place. They might find fulfillment as tap-dancers, or guards in maximum security prisons or proprietors of reducing salons, or agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation – but they damage teaching, children and themselves by staying in the classroom.
This is a slap in the face to the many outstanding teachers who are gifted in the art of teaching.
In 1970, the then-president of the NEA, George Fischer, told NEA representatives during an assembly. "A good deal of work has been done to begin to bring about uniform certification controlled by the unified profession in each state ... With these new laws, we will finally realize our 113-year-old dream of controlling who enters, who stays and who leaves the profession. Once this is done, we can also control the teacher training institutions."
If the NEA had its way, our nation's colleges and universities would be using cookie cutters to create American teachers.
Under the NEA's uniform certification, every teacher leaving the training institutions and entering the profession will be an anti-American socialist with the goal of becoming "an agent of change." The goal of every teacher under NEA control would be interested in indoctrination not education.
Former NEA president, Catherine Barrett in the Feb. 10, 1973, issue of the Saturday Review of Education makes clear the objective of this powerful organization:
Dramatic changes in the way we will raise our children in the year 2000 are indicated, particularly in terms of schooling ... When this happens – and it's near – the teacher can rise to his true calling. More than a dispenser of information, the teacher will be a conveyor of values, a philosopher ... We will be agents of change.
Education is not the goal of the NEA – it is indoctrination, and the NEA will take whatever steps needed to accomplish their goal, including intimidation of teachers, parents and taxpayers who disagree with their agenda and worldview.
What does that make them? I think former Secretary Paige knows.
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them;" -- Frederick Douglas
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is pimping for implanted microchips. Big flipping deal! Sigmund Freud advocated cocaine. Freud was an early advocate of cocaine, recommending it for a great many ailments, physical and mental, including, of all things, heroin addiction; latter, he reluctantly (and begrudgingly) admitted that this was perhaps not the wisest thing he ever did.
Thompson reportedly plans to promote sub dermal biochips, by having one implanted in his arm.
Thompson’s promotion, linked no doubt by his joining the board of directors of VeriChip, is an abomination.
I’ve been complaining about sub dermal biochips since 1998. In addition to itching and moaning on the radio about the dangers of implanted biochips I have written tens of thousand words explaining the evisceration of the very concept of privacy. “Privacy—the very concept of privacy—becomes an anachronism”.
There is a long list of alleged ‘benefits’ of biochip implants. And like the list of ‘benefits’ Freud touted for heroin and cocaine, they are wrong.
Implanted biochips can help locate downed pilots, kidnapped children and escaped prisoners. They can also track political adversaries and target location and movements, and function as a virtual ‘lojack’ for people.
The classic mantra is, “Hey, it is ‘voluntary’”…yeah, for now…the standard retort to critics is, “If you don’t have anything to hide what do you care?” Yeah, kinda like, “we’re from the government we’re here to help you.”
The Incrementalism finesse starts by mandating biochips for specific publics. First they implant prisoners, then high value military assets, then the entire military, then government workers, then anyone receiving government money…
Eventually, when more people have implants than don’t…they no longer are ‘voluntary’ but mandatory. THEN, the unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat class has total control.
Incrementalism, unintended (or intended) consequences, abuse of power under the color of authority, metastasizes into a cancer that eats at the very essence of freedom and liberty. That is a very bad thing!
Only some 2,000 medical chips have been implanted worldwide to date, and two hospitals in the U.S. are already equipped to scan them. However, they are just getting started.
Last year the FDA approved the chip. By that time more than 1,000 chips had been implanted in patients in Mexico. And nearly 200 people working in Mexico’s attorney general’s office were implanted with I.D. chips to access secure areas containing sensitive documents.
Scott McDonald of the Website Scan This News has warned: "All movement, transactions, and interactions can be recorded and monitored once everyone has their own unique identifier. Every detail of a person’s life will be finally accessible to authorities through the widespread use of implanted chips.”
Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush wrote, "It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
I am not the Lone Ranger decrying a Brave New World devoid of privacy. However, here's what Scott suggests:
"OK, there'll be some opposition at first. There'll be those who'll put up a small amount of resistance. Some will holler: 'The Constitution this, and the Constitution that.' But only those social misfits, kooks, and rebels with something to hide will hold out strongly. Little will they know, the very act of objecting, in itself, will suffice to 'identify' them as troublemakers. They can then be arrested and force-chipped as part of the booking process! Besides, most Americans -- after they've been reminded of all benefits and services they will sacrifice if they refuse -- will soon acquiesce. This is how it worked when Congress enacted laws to coerce parents into numbering their children at birth. A few grumbled for a short while. But, once the threat of no longer being able to claim their children on tax returns set in, they got right in line down at the Social Security Administration and had their children numbered."
Kiss my Airborne fourth point of contact! If you fail to subscribe to the gospel according to McDonald you are a “social misfit, kook, and rebel”?
The key goal and objective of the tyrant is to CONTROL. Whether it is gun control, smoker control, tax control, or control of the ability to freely move, control is the objective.
Unless there is a huge outcry from the American public, what will happen in the near futere you will be stopped by a cop demanding to see what's inside your briefcase while walking home from work down your city's sidewalk.
Last week, once again, Americans have been targeted for random searches. This time in the NYC subways under the guise of 'the war on terrorism' because of the recent bombings in London. Sadly, some actually believe this invasion of their unalienable rights will somehow help catch a terrorist. "It doesn't bother me," said Davon Campbell, age 24, "I can understand why they're doing it. It's important." Ron Freeman, a 25 year old stockbroker who had his backpack searched said, "They should have done this a long time ago, ever since 9/11."
These are comments from a news web site of yet more Americans who falsely believe the government has the power or authority to take away their rights by calling them "civil liberties" and that somehow, taking away their "civil rights" will stop a bomb:
"Given that the number of people who ride subways and buses is many times those who travel by plane, this may seem like an invasion of civil liberties. But I fail to see the technical difference between surface and air mass transit with regards to random searches. The real test will be in the ability of the transit workers conducting their searches to avoid other constitutional issues as to what constitutes as random."
"I think the NYPD safety precautions are necessary. In fact, I believe that these safety precautions are not stringent enough. Instead of randomly checking people with book bag and backpacks, I submit that EVERYONE who carries any type of oversize bags or backpacks should be checked. In addition, I believe that racial profiling should be used to determine whom to search. Think about it, are you willing to risk the lives of hundred of people for the sake of not being accused of racial profiling?"
"Security will always take a back seat to convenience and public opinion. The mob will protest and the searches will stop. Then when bombs start exploding in our subways the mob will cry out for a scapegoat."
A question one should ask about this newly instituted 'random search' exercise is why is it only for the subways of New York City? We know there are terrorist cells in such unlikely places as Lodi, California (a small rural area 40 miles south of Sacramento) and that terrorists have been flooding across the Mexican border at will. Why is there no call for Americans to be searched for Chicago's CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) subways or the San Francisco Bay Area which offers BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) whose trains run through an under the ocean tunnel connecting Oakland to San Francisco? If this mode of transportation is such a hot target, why only the call for searches in NYC?
The answer is simple: This is just another test to see how much tryanny the American people will submit to in exchange for the illusion of safety - just like WACO. After the government used the military in violation of Posse Comitatus, gas and burned almost 100 Americans, including children to death, the sheep out in America were satisified the government did the right thing to keep them safe from the David Koresch's of the world. If there were to be a huge blacklash - 50% of those who normally use the subway in NYC - said no way, we would see this further destruction of our rights dropped. However, as long as people will tolerate abuse in the name of 'securuty' abuse will continue. Also, if they are so anxious to keep us safe from the terrorists, then why aren't they securing the borders? The whole thing is a scam.
Unless there is a huge outcry from the American public, what will happen in the near futere you will be stopped by a cop demanding to see what's inside your briefcase while walking home from work down your city's sidewalk.
Bear in mind that no government official can guarantee your safety! Government can only guarantee you a police state!
Thankfully, those who fought against horrendous odds to birth this constitutional republic (we are not a democracy) had more courage than we see in America today, or we would still be licking the British boots:
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." -- Benjamin Franklin
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams
Random searches of Americans and their possessions is not going to stop terrorists, but it might give them a good laugh. It's not wise strategy to let the enemy know what and when you're doing something you hope will deter them. As Dr. Edwin Vieira stated in one of his recent columns: homeland security is the responsibility - the solemn duty - of every American and that means reinstating the constitutional militias under the jurisdiction of the sovereign states of the this republic. Study these writings of wisdom from this learned man, you will be glad you did.
Law enforcement across this country should remember their oath to uphold, preserve and protect the Constitution of these united States of America. While it is noble of local law enforcement to put forth that extra effort that is greatly appreciated to protect local citizenry, they should not automatically knee jerk to totalitarianism cloaked by government goons as some sort of "terrorism prevention." If you serve in uniform, please step back and take a good look at your role in the unprecedented attempts to control and subdue the American people by the federal government to strip Americans of their rights and do you want to be a part of it?
I encourage all Americans to reject consenting to searches whether of their body or their possessions. As someone who came to these united States of America from Yugoslavia and proudly became an American citizen, I know what communism is and how people are seduced by it.
Reject these so-called "safety" and "security" mechanisms being forced upon the American people because they will not keep you safe, they will only prolong the day you finally wake up too late to discover you have become little more than a slave under the complete control of the state.
Paul Walter was born in socialist Yugoslavia in 1945. He and his family emigrated to America in 1959. He served 3 years in the U.S. Armed Forces and became a U.S. citizen in 1963. Owner of Walter Publishing & Research, Inc., he republished a 100 year old book titled The Coming Battle, the true history of our national debt. The book is currently in its 5th printing.
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