Tuesday, May 31, 2011
New study claims 83 autism cases caused by vaccinations - ksl.com
New study claims 83 autism cases caused by vaccinations - ksl.com
New study claims 83 autism cases caused by vaccinations
New study claims 83 autism cases caused by vaccinations
Monday, May 30, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Nuclear Super Typhoon? Massive storm may approach Fukushima this weekend — Current gusts of 195 mph
Nuclear Super Typhoon? Massive storm may approach Fukushima this weekend — Current gusts of 195 mph
Giant Storm With 195 mph Winds Approaching Fukushima
Giant Storm With 195 mph Winds Approaching Fukushima
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
TSA to oversee searches at Santa Fe prom | KOB.com
TSA to oversee searches at Santa Fe prom | KOB.com
Saturday night, a certified TSA official will be at the Santa Fe High School prom to oversee student searches.
This all comes after two Capital High School students, sisters, filed a lawsuit saying they were groped by a security agent at Capital High School's prom last month. On Friday, the court ordered Santa Fe Public Schools and the security company ASI to provide at least one TSA certified person at the Santa Fe High School prom and the Capital High School graduation.
The restraining order also spells out the specific ways security can perform searches. It says a pat-down is only to be used if there are reasonable grounds and that pat-downs should not be used as a first approach for every student.
KOB Eyewitness News 4 talked to one of the sisters suing the district earlier this week. Candice Herrera said, "She grabbed my breast and shook the inner part of my bra and shook it and then picked up the front of my dress to mid thigh and she was patting down my bare legs."
Capital's Principal told us she was standing right there when students were searched and doesn't remember any students complaining about the pat downs.
Saturday night, a certified TSA official will be at the Santa Fe High School prom to oversee student searches.
This all comes after two Capital High School students, sisters, filed a lawsuit saying they were groped by a security agent at Capital High School's prom last month. On Friday, the court ordered Santa Fe Public Schools and the security company ASI to provide at least one TSA certified person at the Santa Fe High School prom and the Capital High School graduation.
The restraining order also spells out the specific ways security can perform searches. It says a pat-down is only to be used if there are reasonable grounds and that pat-downs should not be used as a first approach for every student.
KOB Eyewitness News 4 talked to one of the sisters suing the district earlier this week. Candice Herrera said, "She grabbed my breast and shook the inner part of my bra and shook it and then picked up the front of my dress to mid thigh and she was patting down my bare legs."
Capital's Principal told us she was standing right there when students were searched and doesn't remember any students complaining about the pat downs.
USDA fines family four million dollars for selling bunny rabbits Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032476_rabbits_USDA.html#ixzz1NE6tHvM5
(NaturalNews) When the Dollarhite family of Nixa, Mo., first started raising and selling bunnies as part of a lesson to teach their teenage son about responsibility and hard work, they had no idea they would eventually meet the heavy hand of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). According to a recent article covered in Breitbart's Big Government, the USDA recently ordered the Dollarhite family to pay more than $90,000 in fines because they sold more than $500 worth of rabbits in a year -- and if they fail to pay the fine by Monday, May 23, the fine will multiply to nearly $4 million.
It all started back in 2006 when John Dollarhite and his wife Judy rescued two rabbits that ended up breeding. The family cared for and raised the new rabbits, and eventually began to sell them to neighbors, friends, and others for $10 or $15 each. Having started by first selling the animals for meat, and later for show, the Dollarhites carefully and humanely raised the small creatures on their three-acre homestead, all while teaching their son honest values in a business environment similar to running a small lemonade stand.
Eventually, the Dollarhites developed such a highly-respected reputation across Missouri that the popular Branson, Mo., theme park Silver Dollar City, and even a local pet store, Petland, began purchasing bunnies from the family in 2009. And according to John, individuals from both Silver Dollar City and Petland, as well as a rabbit competition judge, told him that the family's bunnies were among the best they had ever seen -- healthy, beautiful, and very well-cared for.
All seemed well until a USDA inspector showed up at the family's home in the fall of 2009, and asked to do a "spot inspection" of the rabbitry. The inspector made no indication that anything was amiss, but only that she wished to see the facility. After meandering the premises, the inspector claimed that a few very insignificant aspects of the raising facility were in violation of USDA standards, even though the Dollarhites were not USDA certified, nor were they required to be. She then asked if the Dollarhites wished to be part of the voluntary USDA certification system, upon which they told her they would look into it.
After the inspector left, the Dollarhites heard nothing more from the USDA until January 2010 when a Kansas City-based USDA inspector called the family and said he needed to have a meeting with them because they sold more than $500 worth of rabbits in a single year. When the Dollarhites asked why this was a problem and what law this violated, the man refused to offer an explanation over the phone.
Upon meeting in person, the inspector said he was only there to investigate the rabbitry and take notes for a report, upon which he instructed the family to contact another USDA office if they failed to hear anything further from the USDA after six weeks. As the eighth week arrived without any communication, John called the office and was redirected to the Washington, DC, office where a lady shockingly and bluntly explained to him that she had his report, and that the USDA planned to prosecute him and his family "to the maximum that we can" in order to "make an example" out of him.
Shortly thereafter, the Dollarhites received a letter from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) ordering them to pay a fine of $90,643 for supposedly violating a mystery law that prohibits the selling of more then $500 in rabbits within a year, even though the Dollarhites were in full accordance with Missouri state law, did not sell their rabbits across state lines, and raised their rabbits humanely and in excess of minimum requirements. The letter outlined that the Dollarhites had until May 23 to pay the exorbitant fine, or else face additional fines totaling nearly $4 million -- all for selling about $4,600 worth of rabbits that netted the family a mere $200 in profits.
The whole scenario proves, once again, that the USDA is nothing more than a tag-team terrorist duo with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Both agencies' insatiable lust for power and control over private affairs is never satisfied, as they continue to prowl around like bloodthirsty predators seeking whoever and whatever they can devour. When will Americans finally stand up to their tyranny and say enough is enough?
To read the full account of the Dollarhite saga, visit:
http://biggovernment.com/bmccarty/2...
To contact the APHIS division of the USDA responsible for this mess and express your thoughts on the matter, write, call, or email:
USDA/APHIS/AC
4700 River Road, Unit 84
Riverdale, MD 20737-1234
ace@aphis.usda.gov
(301) 734-4978
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032476_rabbits_USDA.html#ixzz1NE5DyjTJ
It all started back in 2006 when John Dollarhite and his wife Judy rescued two rabbits that ended up breeding. The family cared for and raised the new rabbits, and eventually began to sell them to neighbors, friends, and others for $10 or $15 each. Having started by first selling the animals for meat, and later for show, the Dollarhites carefully and humanely raised the small creatures on their three-acre homestead, all while teaching their son honest values in a business environment similar to running a small lemonade stand.
Eventually, the Dollarhites developed such a highly-respected reputation across Missouri that the popular Branson, Mo., theme park Silver Dollar City, and even a local pet store, Petland, began purchasing bunnies from the family in 2009. And according to John, individuals from both Silver Dollar City and Petland, as well as a rabbit competition judge, told him that the family's bunnies were among the best they had ever seen -- healthy, beautiful, and very well-cared for.
All seemed well until a USDA inspector showed up at the family's home in the fall of 2009, and asked to do a "spot inspection" of the rabbitry. The inspector made no indication that anything was amiss, but only that she wished to see the facility. After meandering the premises, the inspector claimed that a few very insignificant aspects of the raising facility were in violation of USDA standards, even though the Dollarhites were not USDA certified, nor were they required to be. She then asked if the Dollarhites wished to be part of the voluntary USDA certification system, upon which they told her they would look into it.
After the inspector left, the Dollarhites heard nothing more from the USDA until January 2010 when a Kansas City-based USDA inspector called the family and said he needed to have a meeting with them because they sold more than $500 worth of rabbits in a single year. When the Dollarhites asked why this was a problem and what law this violated, the man refused to offer an explanation over the phone.
Upon meeting in person, the inspector said he was only there to investigate the rabbitry and take notes for a report, upon which he instructed the family to contact another USDA office if they failed to hear anything further from the USDA after six weeks. As the eighth week arrived without any communication, John called the office and was redirected to the Washington, DC, office where a lady shockingly and bluntly explained to him that she had his report, and that the USDA planned to prosecute him and his family "to the maximum that we can" in order to "make an example" out of him.
Shortly thereafter, the Dollarhites received a letter from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) ordering them to pay a fine of $90,643 for supposedly violating a mystery law that prohibits the selling of more then $500 in rabbits within a year, even though the Dollarhites were in full accordance with Missouri state law, did not sell their rabbits across state lines, and raised their rabbits humanely and in excess of minimum requirements. The letter outlined that the Dollarhites had until May 23 to pay the exorbitant fine, or else face additional fines totaling nearly $4 million -- all for selling about $4,600 worth of rabbits that netted the family a mere $200 in profits.
The whole scenario proves, once again, that the USDA is nothing more than a tag-team terrorist duo with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Both agencies' insatiable lust for power and control over private affairs is never satisfied, as they continue to prowl around like bloodthirsty predators seeking whoever and whatever they can devour. When will Americans finally stand up to their tyranny and say enough is enough?
To read the full account of the Dollarhite saga, visit:
http://biggovernment.com/bmccarty/2...
To contact the APHIS division of the USDA responsible for this mess and express your thoughts on the matter, write, call, or email:
USDA/APHIS/AC
4700 River Road, Unit 84
Riverdale, MD 20737-1234
ace@aphis.usda.gov
(301) 734-4978
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032476_rabbits_USDA.html#ixzz1NE5DyjTJ
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Activist Post: Tutorial: How To Get Around Government Censorship Of YouTube Videos
Activist Post: Tutorial: How To Get Around Government Censorship Of YouTube Videos
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/tutorial-how-to-get-around-government.html
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/tutorial-how-to-get-around-government.html
Thursday, May 19, 2011
How to Can, Freeze, Dry and Preserve Any Fruit or Vegetable at Home
How to Can, Freeze, Dry and Preserve Any Fruit or Vegetable at Home
http://www.pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm
http://www.pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Third-World Mechanics Paid $2 Per Hour For Boeing, Airbus Jet Repairs - News Story - KIRO Seattle
Third-World Mechanics Paid $2 Per Hour For Boeing, Airbus Jet Repairs - News Story - KIRO Seattle
Updated: 11:47 am PDT May 18, 2011
SEATTLE -- From engine overhauls, to drilling out rivets to fixing faulty flaps, Boeing and Airbus-made passenger jet repairs are increasingly being done in third-world countries. The outsourcing is definitely an economic threat to U.S. union workers, but KIRO Team 7 Investigators also found it's raising new concerns over safety.
Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne, recently visited El Salvador to find out more about a multimillion dollar jet repair shop called Aeroman.
El Salvador wants to rid itself of its guerilla war reputation and glean a new image: fruit-filled jungles, coffee plantations, Pacific beaches and the multimillion dollar business of repairing Boeing-made jetliners.
Updated: 11:47 am PDT May 18, 2011
SEATTLE -- From engine overhauls, to drilling out rivets to fixing faulty flaps, Boeing and Airbus-made passenger jet repairs are increasingly being done in third-world countries. The outsourcing is definitely an economic threat to U.S. union workers, but KIRO Team 7 Investigators also found it's raising new concerns over safety.
Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne, recently visited El Salvador to find out more about a multimillion dollar jet repair shop called Aeroman.
El Salvador wants to rid itself of its guerilla war reputation and glean a new image: fruit-filled jungles, coffee plantations, Pacific beaches and the multimillion dollar business of repairing Boeing-made jetliners.
Are you a Sheeple? Take the Sheeple Quiz and find out
Are you a Sheeple? Take the Sheeple Quiz and find out
(NaturalNews) Have you herd about the Sheeple Quiz? Although most NaturalNews readers will easily beat it, it's a fun quiz to find out how smart (or gullible) your friends really are. So let 'em take the Sheeple Quiz! And then you'll know whether they're independent thinkers or just zombie-minded sheeple like the rest of the flock.
Here's the quiz. Choose "A" or "B" as the answer for each question, then check your score below.
The Sheeple Quiz
#1) The purpose of the mainstream media is to:
A) Keep you informed.
B) Feed you misinformation while keeping you distracted from the real issues our world is facing.
#2) Social Security is:
A) A financial safety net that makes sure people have a retirement income.
B) A government-run Ponzi scheme that requires more and more people to keep paying in just to stay afloat and will ultimately collapse into total bankruptcy.
#3) The fluoride dripped into municipal water supplies is:
A) A naturally-occurring mineral.
B) An industrial chemical waste byproduct.
#4) When you donate money to find the cure for cancer, that money goes:
A) To fund research programs that assess actual cancer cures for the purpose of freely sharing them with the public.
B) To fund mammogram campaigns that actually irradiate women's breasts, causing the very cancers that earn huge profits for the cancer treatment industry.
#5) The national debt is:
A) Under control and will be paid off in a few years.
B) Out of control and will spiral into a runaway debt collapse.
#6) GMOs will:
A) Feed the world and prevent starvation.
B) Threaten the future of life on our planet through genetic contamination and widespread crop failures.
#7) The FDA protects:
A) The people from dangerous medicines.
B) The financial interests of the drug companies.
#8) The EPA's real agenda is to:
A) Protect the environment.
B) Protect the financial interests of the chemical companies whose toxic products destroy the environment.
#9) The Federal Reserve functions to:
A) Stabilize the economy and keep America strong.
B) Loot the economy and control America's economy for the interests of the few.
#10) The purpose of TSA checkpoints at airports is to:
A) Keep air passengers safe and secure.
B) Indoctrinate Americans into surrendering to police state invasions of their privacy.
#11) The practical function of the U.S. Supreme Court is to:
A) Protect the constitutional rights of the citizens.
B) Legitimize federal tyranny over the People by ignoring the Constitution and its Bill of Rights.
#12) Vaccines are based on:
A) Gold standard science that conclusively proves their safety and effectiveness.
B) Quackery and fraud combined with a persistent medical mythology that utterly lacks a factual basis.
#13) Herbs and superfoods:
A) Are medically useless and cannot treat, prevent or cure any disease.
B) Contain powerful plant-based medicines that can help reverse and prevent disease.
#14) In Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq, America:
A) Led a humanitarian effort to save innocent people from tyranny.
B) Waged an illegal imperialist war to occupy foreign nations and control their oil.
#15) The U.S. Bill of Rights
A) Grants you rights and freedoms.
B) Merely acknowledges the rights and freedoms you already possess.
Score your Sheeple Quiz
To score your Sheeple Quiz, simply count the number of times you answered "A" to the questions above.
If you answered "A" 10 times or more...
You are a total news-watching, gullible fairytale swallowing Sheeple! Be sure to keep taking those medications and watching more network news. Don't bother thinking for yourself because you seem to be incapable of accomplishing that.
If you answered "A" fewer than 10 times...
You are sadly Sheeple-minded but there is hope for your rescue. Learn more about the world around you and train yourself to think critically so you can depart from the herd mentality.
If you answered "A" fewer than 5 times...
You are an unusually intelligent free-minded thinker who questions the world around you and doesn't buy into the usual propaganda. You still got suckered on a few items, so there's more yet to learn. But you're on the right track!
If you answered "A" exactly zero times...
You are the complete opposite of a Sheeple. You're independent minded, well informed and probably a regular reader of NaturalNews.com. Stay on track and question events in the world around you. Eat more superfoods to maintain your healthy immune system and cognitive function. Avoid the toxic chemicals in foods, medicines and lawn care products. Keep reading the alternative press and voice your intelligent views to others willing to listen. (But don't waste your time on those who aren't.)
Thank you for taking the Sheeple quiz here on NaturalNews.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032415_sheeple_quiz.html#ixzz1Ml1N9kpv
(NaturalNews) Have you herd about the Sheeple Quiz? Although most NaturalNews readers will easily beat it, it's a fun quiz to find out how smart (or gullible) your friends really are. So let 'em take the Sheeple Quiz! And then you'll know whether they're independent thinkers or just zombie-minded sheeple like the rest of the flock.
Here's the quiz. Choose "A" or "B" as the answer for each question, then check your score below.
The Sheeple Quiz
#1) The purpose of the mainstream media is to:
A) Keep you informed.
B) Feed you misinformation while keeping you distracted from the real issues our world is facing.
#2) Social Security is:
A) A financial safety net that makes sure people have a retirement income.
B) A government-run Ponzi scheme that requires more and more people to keep paying in just to stay afloat and will ultimately collapse into total bankruptcy.
#3) The fluoride dripped into municipal water supplies is:
A) A naturally-occurring mineral.
B) An industrial chemical waste byproduct.
#4) When you donate money to find the cure for cancer, that money goes:
A) To fund research programs that assess actual cancer cures for the purpose of freely sharing them with the public.
B) To fund mammogram campaigns that actually irradiate women's breasts, causing the very cancers that earn huge profits for the cancer treatment industry.
#5) The national debt is:
A) Under control and will be paid off in a few years.
B) Out of control and will spiral into a runaway debt collapse.
#6) GMOs will:
A) Feed the world and prevent starvation.
B) Threaten the future of life on our planet through genetic contamination and widespread crop failures.
#7) The FDA protects:
A) The people from dangerous medicines.
B) The financial interests of the drug companies.
#8) The EPA's real agenda is to:
A) Protect the environment.
B) Protect the financial interests of the chemical companies whose toxic products destroy the environment.
#9) The Federal Reserve functions to:
A) Stabilize the economy and keep America strong.
B) Loot the economy and control America's economy for the interests of the few.
#10) The purpose of TSA checkpoints at airports is to:
A) Keep air passengers safe and secure.
B) Indoctrinate Americans into surrendering to police state invasions of their privacy.
#11) The practical function of the U.S. Supreme Court is to:
A) Protect the constitutional rights of the citizens.
B) Legitimize federal tyranny over the People by ignoring the Constitution and its Bill of Rights.
#12) Vaccines are based on:
A) Gold standard science that conclusively proves their safety and effectiveness.
B) Quackery and fraud combined with a persistent medical mythology that utterly lacks a factual basis.
#13) Herbs and superfoods:
A) Are medically useless and cannot treat, prevent or cure any disease.
B) Contain powerful plant-based medicines that can help reverse and prevent disease.
#14) In Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq, America:
A) Led a humanitarian effort to save innocent people from tyranny.
B) Waged an illegal imperialist war to occupy foreign nations and control their oil.
#15) The U.S. Bill of Rights
A) Grants you rights and freedoms.
B) Merely acknowledges the rights and freedoms you already possess.
Score your Sheeple Quiz
To score your Sheeple Quiz, simply count the number of times you answered "A" to the questions above.
If you answered "A" 10 times or more...
You are a total news-watching, gullible fairytale swallowing Sheeple! Be sure to keep taking those medications and watching more network news. Don't bother thinking for yourself because you seem to be incapable of accomplishing that.
If you answered "A" fewer than 10 times...
You are sadly Sheeple-minded but there is hope for your rescue. Learn more about the world around you and train yourself to think critically so you can depart from the herd mentality.
If you answered "A" fewer than 5 times...
You are an unusually intelligent free-minded thinker who questions the world around you and doesn't buy into the usual propaganda. You still got suckered on a few items, so there's more yet to learn. But you're on the right track!
If you answered "A" exactly zero times...
You are the complete opposite of a Sheeple. You're independent minded, well informed and probably a regular reader of NaturalNews.com. Stay on track and question events in the world around you. Eat more superfoods to maintain your healthy immune system and cognitive function. Avoid the toxic chemicals in foods, medicines and lawn care products. Keep reading the alternative press and voice your intelligent views to others willing to listen. (But don't waste your time on those who aren't.)
Thank you for taking the Sheeple quiz here on NaturalNews.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032415_sheeple_quiz.html#ixzz1Ml1N9kpv
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
In public statement, TSA lies about the Constitution – Tenth Amendment Center
In public statement, TSA lies about the Constitution – Tenth Amendment Center
Round two of the battle for travel freedom is well underway.
The first round, which garnered national attention in the fall of 2010, focused primarily on the TSA implementing new procedures…pat downs, body scanners….and the public outcry against it….boycotts, protests, calling congress to demand change.
But, as the public response failed to stop the scanners and searches, round two has moved to state legislatures around the country. Most prominently, Texas, where the state house just passed a bill banning TSA searches without probable cause. Click here to read the Tenth Amendment Center’s report on the bill.
This time, the TSA is on the defensive, and published an official statement about the Texas bill on their blog:
What’s our take on the Texas House of Representatives voting to ban the current TSA pat-down? Well, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article. VI. Clause 2) prevents states from regulating the federal government.
The problem here? The statement is false. Ignorance from the TSA is unlikely, so I’ll call a spade a spade. They’re lying.
The supremacy clause says nothing of the sort. Here’s the full text:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
So, in simple terms, what does the supremacy clause mean? Just what it says. The constitution is supreme. And any federal laws made in line with the constitution is supreme. Nothing more, nothing less.
Notice there’s not one single word in the actual text that says anything about states regulating the federal government as the TSA claims. They’re just making things up as they go.
SUPREMACY CLAUSE EXAMPLES
MORE HERE: http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/05/14/in-public-statement-tsa-lies-about-the-constitution/
Round two of the battle for travel freedom is well underway.
The first round, which garnered national attention in the fall of 2010, focused primarily on the TSA implementing new procedures…pat downs, body scanners….and the public outcry against it….boycotts, protests, calling congress to demand change.
But, as the public response failed to stop the scanners and searches, round two has moved to state legislatures around the country. Most prominently, Texas, where the state house just passed a bill banning TSA searches without probable cause. Click here to read the Tenth Amendment Center’s report on the bill.
This time, the TSA is on the defensive, and published an official statement about the Texas bill on their blog:
What’s our take on the Texas House of Representatives voting to ban the current TSA pat-down? Well, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article. VI. Clause 2) prevents states from regulating the federal government.
The problem here? The statement is false. Ignorance from the TSA is unlikely, so I’ll call a spade a spade. They’re lying.
The supremacy clause says nothing of the sort. Here’s the full text:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
So, in simple terms, what does the supremacy clause mean? Just what it says. The constitution is supreme. And any federal laws made in line with the constitution is supreme. Nothing more, nothing less.
Notice there’s not one single word in the actual text that says anything about states regulating the federal government as the TSA claims. They’re just making things up as they go.
SUPREMACY CLAUSE EXAMPLES
MORE HERE: http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/05/14/in-public-statement-tsa-lies-about-the-constitution/
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Cannabis cure stories keep coming out
Cannabis cure stories keep coming out
(NaturalNews) Cannabis was used for two recently publicized cures of serious disease. Both treatments were done surreptitiously in the USA. Fifteen states have legalized medical marijuana minimally and twelve others are considering the same. But the Obama administration is unleashing their Fed dogs on those legal medical marijuana outlets.
Few or no deaths have occurred from hemp remedies over the centuries. Yet over 100,000 die annually from correctly prescribed pharmaceutical prescriptions in the USA alone. Go figure!
Legal Medical Marijuana
In states that permit medical marijuana, smoking weed eliminates glaucoma symptoms. But its legal use is more often relegated to soften side effects of toxic chemicals such as chemo or to help cancer and AIDs cachexia patients regain their appetites. In other words, it's allowed more as a comforting adjunct to mainstream medicine than as a cure.
The most famous pioneer of cannabis hemp oil, Rick Simpson, who is exiled in Europe, has said smoking weed doesn't cure much. Instead, THC hemp oil needs to be produced and ingested. This achieves miraculous results. He used his oil topically to fully cure his skin cancer when the medicos couldn't in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Then he gave it freely to fellow local citizens who needed something the medical system wasn't providing, complete cures for cancer and heart disease. Keep in mind that Canadians don't have to pay out of pocket for medical expenses. So they weren't looking for a cheap fix. They were seeking complete recoveries. And they all got that from ingesting small amounts of Rick's free cannabis hemp oil.
Two Amazing Stories
The most recent involves a two year old boy and his father. This story was picked up by the London Daily Mail. The boy had brain cancer and was totally debilitated. Brain surgery removed only ten percent of the tumor, so in came the chemo. The boy got worse and worse. He couldn't eat at all. The dad found out about hemp oil and he got some legally in Montana.
The father knew the doctors wouldn't let him use it, so he surreptitiously fed it to his son through the boy's physically attached feed tube. Improvement began within days. Within a few months, the boy was cancer free. A year later, he is still cancer free. The father never told the doctors about the oil. The docs were probably high-fiving over their medical efforts while oblivious of the cannabis.
Then there is a young woman, Shona Banda, whose book Live Free or Die is based on her recovery from Crohn's disease using hemp oil. Until she discovered cannabis, she had undergone 15 surgeries and had "every removable organ removed". Her condition only worsened.
She was using a water cooled bong to smoke her weed at first because she couldn't find a hemp oil source. Then she noticed an oily film collecting inside the bong's glass globe. She began scrapping it off and ingesting it daily. She had stumbled upon a lighter version of cannabis hemp oil. Nevertheless, it cured her.
History and Research
Hemp cannabis extracts were prescribed by MDs and sold in pharmacies before hemp was banned in the USA. Actually, cannabis cure-all use goes back centuries.
Recent research in Japan, Italy, and the USA has proven THC cannabis destroys cancer cells without harming others. Why doesn't this information get out more? Here's an example of why. The NIH (National Health Institute) funded a Virginia study to prove weed damages the immune system. When the lab demonstrated cannabis was safe and killed cancer cells, the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) shut it down.
You are encouraged to examine the sources below for more information:
Rick Simpson's website featuring his famous documentary video "Run from the Cure"
http://phoenixtears.ca/
Video: Easy instructions for making cannabis hemp oil http://healthmaven.blogspot.com/201...
Text instructions from the master - Rick Simpson http://phoenixtears.ca/hemp-oil/mak...
Shona Banda tells her story on video http://healthmaven.blogspot.com/201...
Video: Meet the Dad and his baby boy cured from brain cancer http://healthmaven.blogspot.com/201...
A list of states allowing medical marijuana or proposing such http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032381_cannabis_cures.html#ixzz1MMdL0ZNJ
(NaturalNews) Cannabis was used for two recently publicized cures of serious disease. Both treatments were done surreptitiously in the USA. Fifteen states have legalized medical marijuana minimally and twelve others are considering the same. But the Obama administration is unleashing their Fed dogs on those legal medical marijuana outlets.
Few or no deaths have occurred from hemp remedies over the centuries. Yet over 100,000 die annually from correctly prescribed pharmaceutical prescriptions in the USA alone. Go figure!
Legal Medical Marijuana
In states that permit medical marijuana, smoking weed eliminates glaucoma symptoms. But its legal use is more often relegated to soften side effects of toxic chemicals such as chemo or to help cancer and AIDs cachexia patients regain their appetites. In other words, it's allowed more as a comforting adjunct to mainstream medicine than as a cure.
The most famous pioneer of cannabis hemp oil, Rick Simpson, who is exiled in Europe, has said smoking weed doesn't cure much. Instead, THC hemp oil needs to be produced and ingested. This achieves miraculous results. He used his oil topically to fully cure his skin cancer when the medicos couldn't in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Then he gave it freely to fellow local citizens who needed something the medical system wasn't providing, complete cures for cancer and heart disease. Keep in mind that Canadians don't have to pay out of pocket for medical expenses. So they weren't looking for a cheap fix. They were seeking complete recoveries. And they all got that from ingesting small amounts of Rick's free cannabis hemp oil.
Two Amazing Stories
The most recent involves a two year old boy and his father. This story was picked up by the London Daily Mail. The boy had brain cancer and was totally debilitated. Brain surgery removed only ten percent of the tumor, so in came the chemo. The boy got worse and worse. He couldn't eat at all. The dad found out about hemp oil and he got some legally in Montana.
The father knew the doctors wouldn't let him use it, so he surreptitiously fed it to his son through the boy's physically attached feed tube. Improvement began within days. Within a few months, the boy was cancer free. A year later, he is still cancer free. The father never told the doctors about the oil. The docs were probably high-fiving over their medical efforts while oblivious of the cannabis.
Then there is a young woman, Shona Banda, whose book Live Free or Die is based on her recovery from Crohn's disease using hemp oil. Until she discovered cannabis, she had undergone 15 surgeries and had "every removable organ removed". Her condition only worsened.
She was using a water cooled bong to smoke her weed at first because she couldn't find a hemp oil source. Then she noticed an oily film collecting inside the bong's glass globe. She began scrapping it off and ingesting it daily. She had stumbled upon a lighter version of cannabis hemp oil. Nevertheless, it cured her.
History and Research
Hemp cannabis extracts were prescribed by MDs and sold in pharmacies before hemp was banned in the USA. Actually, cannabis cure-all use goes back centuries.
Recent research in Japan, Italy, and the USA has proven THC cannabis destroys cancer cells without harming others. Why doesn't this information get out more? Here's an example of why. The NIH (National Health Institute) funded a Virginia study to prove weed damages the immune system. When the lab demonstrated cannabis was safe and killed cancer cells, the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) shut it down.
You are encouraged to examine the sources below for more information:
Rick Simpson's website featuring his famous documentary video "Run from the Cure"
http://phoenixtears.ca/
Video: Easy instructions for making cannabis hemp oil http://healthmaven.blogspot.com/201...
Text instructions from the master - Rick Simpson http://phoenixtears.ca/hemp-oil/mak...
Shona Banda tells her story on video http://healthmaven.blogspot.com/201...
Video: Meet the Dad and his baby boy cured from brain cancer http://healthmaven.blogspot.com/201...
A list of states allowing medical marijuana or proposing such http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032381_cannabis_cures.html#ixzz1MMdL0ZNJ
Organic Consumers Association takes aim at Whole Foods over labeling of GM foods
Organic Consumers Association takes aim at Whole Foods over labeling of GM foods
(NaturalNews) Whole Foods customers have a love/hate relationship with the natural and organic foods giant. They have run afoul of their customer base before - remember the mass outcry and call for boycott as a result of comments thrown about by the CEO regarding health care rights (http://www.naturalnews.com/026906_f...)? Now there is the issue of mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods being bandied about in a variety of state legislatures - an effort that recent polls indicate 90 percent of America is in favor of - and Whole Foods is again being called upon to make a decision that is aligned with their espoused business mission.
The problem is a recently leaked internal memo that doesn't indicate their readiness to do so. The memo, in short, acknowledges the dangers of genetically modified foods, yet falls of any real commitment, stating "the reality is that no grocery store in the United States, no matter what size or type of business, can claim they are GE-free..."
Critics are insisting that this isn't enough. The Whole Foods brand is built upon the basic tenant that their products are natural or organic and a good choice for the eco-organic conscious consumer. So for them not to pick up and unquestionably support the movement for mandatory labeling of GE food is for some another disappointing move.
The nonprofit consumer powerhouse the Organic Consumer Association certainly thinks so. They are taking Whole Foods to task for not making the effort to ensure that the foods they sell are not blighted with the toxic taint of genetic modification. Genetically modified foods have been tied to a host of health problems, ranging from liver/kidney problems to immune dysfunctions (http://www.naturalnews.com/028245_G...); not to mention environmental ones like genetic contamination, (http://www.naturalnews.com/024154_c...) where non-GMO crops are tainted by pollen from GMO crops.
The European community has been successfully battling the widespread planting and importing of GM crops for years. However, the FDA greenlighted GMO foods for U.S. consumption at the bequest of heavy lobbying by companies like Monsanto who over the years has switched their business efforts from creating toxins like Agent Orange to having a stronghold on the manufacture of various genetically engineered seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides.
If the FDA won't step up to protect the American public, then it's time for the companies that reap huge profits from the sale of organic and natural goods to do so. That is what the OCA is trying to get across to stores like Whole Foods. They can't have it both ways - either these companies stand against genetically engineered foods and refuse to allow them on our grocery shelves without clear labeling, or face the public relations and economic consequences.
Sources:
http://www.naturalnews.com/028388_G... http://www.naturalnews.com/organic_... http://www.naturalnews.com/029183_G... http://www.organicconsumers.org/art...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032384_Whole_Foods_GM.html#ixzz1MMcjSeqJ
(NaturalNews) Whole Foods customers have a love/hate relationship with the natural and organic foods giant. They have run afoul of their customer base before - remember the mass outcry and call for boycott as a result of comments thrown about by the CEO regarding health care rights (http://www.naturalnews.com/026906_f...)? Now there is the issue of mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods being bandied about in a variety of state legislatures - an effort that recent polls indicate 90 percent of America is in favor of - and Whole Foods is again being called upon to make a decision that is aligned with their espoused business mission.
The problem is a recently leaked internal memo that doesn't indicate their readiness to do so. The memo, in short, acknowledges the dangers of genetically modified foods, yet falls of any real commitment, stating "the reality is that no grocery store in the United States, no matter what size or type of business, can claim they are GE-free..."
Critics are insisting that this isn't enough. The Whole Foods brand is built upon the basic tenant that their products are natural or organic and a good choice for the eco-organic conscious consumer. So for them not to pick up and unquestionably support the movement for mandatory labeling of GE food is for some another disappointing move.
The nonprofit consumer powerhouse the Organic Consumer Association certainly thinks so. They are taking Whole Foods to task for not making the effort to ensure that the foods they sell are not blighted with the toxic taint of genetic modification. Genetically modified foods have been tied to a host of health problems, ranging from liver/kidney problems to immune dysfunctions (http://www.naturalnews.com/028245_G...); not to mention environmental ones like genetic contamination, (http://www.naturalnews.com/024154_c...) where non-GMO crops are tainted by pollen from GMO crops.
The European community has been successfully battling the widespread planting and importing of GM crops for years. However, the FDA greenlighted GMO foods for U.S. consumption at the bequest of heavy lobbying by companies like Monsanto who over the years has switched their business efforts from creating toxins like Agent Orange to having a stronghold on the manufacture of various genetically engineered seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides.
If the FDA won't step up to protect the American public, then it's time for the companies that reap huge profits from the sale of organic and natural goods to do so. That is what the OCA is trying to get across to stores like Whole Foods. They can't have it both ways - either these companies stand against genetically engineered foods and refuse to allow them on our grocery shelves without clear labeling, or face the public relations and economic consequences.
Sources:
http://www.naturalnews.com/028388_G... http://www.naturalnews.com/organic_... http://www.naturalnews.com/029183_G... http://www.organicconsumers.org/art...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032384_Whole_Foods_GM.html#ixzz1MMcjSeqJ
GM soy destroying children
GM soy destroying children
(NaturalNews) Soy, once touted as a medical miracle, has been outed. Ninety-one percent of the soy we consume is tainted by the filth of the GMO machine, literally the most quietly kept epidemic of our lifetime. Soy makes up a large portion of the diet for the chickens, pigs, and cows some of us eat. Even the vegetarian/vegan community is exposed as a number of meat substitutes list soy as a main ingredient. Soy and soybean oil have wiggled their way into a wide array of processed foods including salad dressings, peanut butter, tamari, mayonnaise, crackers, baby formula, baked good mixes, textured vegetable protein, and the list goes on. So unless you are eating an organic version of any of the above, there is a good chance you are exposing yourself to GMO soy.
Genetically engineered crops are destroying the environment, the health of indigenous communities, and ultimately our health as end of the chain consumers. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine has reported a number of studies. Their results? Frightening. Think major issues like infertility (http://www.responsibletechnology.or...), immune problems, accelerated aging, and even changes in the cellular structure of major organs (http://www.responsibletechnology.org/). Also, as a result of the antibiotic resistant genes within GE food, they are the highly suspected culprits behind the new "superbug." The animals involved in the studies ended up deformed, sterile, and dead.
Children are the most susceptible to these harmful effect, since they are constantly in a state of high growth; parents should take care. GMO foods, and especially soy, have been tied to an increase in allergies, asthma, and a propensity to get antibiotic resistant infections.
None of this would surprise any of the individuals in various South America countries that live near GM crops. South America is the world's largest provider of soy (http://www.naturalnews.com/031382_G...).
A recent story in the UK Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea...) revealed that the herbicides used on GM soy are so toxic that direct contact often results in severe illness and sometimes death. Petrona Villasboa is one of those that has faced direct loss. Her son was accidenatlly sprayed by one of the machines that are often spraying Monsanto's Roundup on the surrounding crops. Silvino Talavera died that same day - and it was a horrible death (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea...). That's not all - Non GMO farmers are being displaced, and those that stay run a calculated risk. Mothers living close to GM farmland are twice as likely to have a fetus with a birth deformity.
The industry doesn't want this information out there. Monsanto provides over 90 percent of GMO soy seeds and related herbicides to farmers worldwide (http://www.smdp.com/Articles-c-2011...).
Agent Orange was one of Monsanto's first herbicides and the resulting effect to U.S soldiers and Vietnamese citizens was reprehensible( http://www.organicconsumers.org/mon...).
Scientist who push to hard to get a widespread scientific inquiry about the devastating effects of GE foods have had subtle and not-so-subtle pressure applied and been forced to back off their findings (http://www.responsibletechnology.or...).
Just as efforts are underway to assist these farmers in seeing the benefits of growing organic food as a means of survival and commerce, the end consumer must also make a change. Soy purchases must be viewed in a whole new light. The best way to protect your family from these potential harmful effects is to remove it from your diet or stick to strictly organic soy and organic processed foods.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032370_GM_soy_children.html#ixzz1MMYFVl9G
(NaturalNews) Soy, once touted as a medical miracle, has been outed. Ninety-one percent of the soy we consume is tainted by the filth of the GMO machine, literally the most quietly kept epidemic of our lifetime. Soy makes up a large portion of the diet for the chickens, pigs, and cows some of us eat. Even the vegetarian/vegan community is exposed as a number of meat substitutes list soy as a main ingredient. Soy and soybean oil have wiggled their way into a wide array of processed foods including salad dressings, peanut butter, tamari, mayonnaise, crackers, baby formula, baked good mixes, textured vegetable protein, and the list goes on. So unless you are eating an organic version of any of the above, there is a good chance you are exposing yourself to GMO soy.
Genetically engineered crops are destroying the environment, the health of indigenous communities, and ultimately our health as end of the chain consumers. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine has reported a number of studies. Their results? Frightening. Think major issues like infertility (http://www.responsibletechnology.or...), immune problems, accelerated aging, and even changes in the cellular structure of major organs (http://www.responsibletechnology.org/). Also, as a result of the antibiotic resistant genes within GE food, they are the highly suspected culprits behind the new "superbug." The animals involved in the studies ended up deformed, sterile, and dead.
Children are the most susceptible to these harmful effect, since they are constantly in a state of high growth; parents should take care. GMO foods, and especially soy, have been tied to an increase in allergies, asthma, and a propensity to get antibiotic resistant infections.
None of this would surprise any of the individuals in various South America countries that live near GM crops. South America is the world's largest provider of soy (http://www.naturalnews.com/031382_G...).
A recent story in the UK Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea...) revealed that the herbicides used on GM soy are so toxic that direct contact often results in severe illness and sometimes death. Petrona Villasboa is one of those that has faced direct loss. Her son was accidenatlly sprayed by one of the machines that are often spraying Monsanto's Roundup on the surrounding crops. Silvino Talavera died that same day - and it was a horrible death (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea...). That's not all - Non GMO farmers are being displaced, and those that stay run a calculated risk. Mothers living close to GM farmland are twice as likely to have a fetus with a birth deformity.
The industry doesn't want this information out there. Monsanto provides over 90 percent of GMO soy seeds and related herbicides to farmers worldwide (http://www.smdp.com/Articles-c-2011...).
Agent Orange was one of Monsanto's first herbicides and the resulting effect to U.S soldiers and Vietnamese citizens was reprehensible( http://www.organicconsumers.org/mon...).
Scientist who push to hard to get a widespread scientific inquiry about the devastating effects of GE foods have had subtle and not-so-subtle pressure applied and been forced to back off their findings (http://www.responsibletechnology.or...).
Just as efforts are underway to assist these farmers in seeing the benefits of growing organic food as a means of survival and commerce, the end consumer must also make a change. Soy purchases must be viewed in a whole new light. The best way to protect your family from these potential harmful effects is to remove it from your diet or stick to strictly organic soy and organic processed foods.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032370_GM_soy_children.html#ixzz1MMYFVl9G
savethemales.ca - Where Have all the Real Men Gone?
savethemales.ca - Where Have all the Real Men Gone?
"I've been a mother for 16 years......now a single one....struggling like everyone to keep from going completely under. Have been a massage therapist since 92.......My son is 16 and my daughter is 11. I 'm quite upset about the change that's been brought from feminism. We women CANNOT be everything.......I am instinctively a nurturer, trying to play two roles as a mother is impossible to do."
by Maureen Smith
(henrymakow.com)
I for one would like to know just where the real men went?
Now, you might look around and say they haven't gone anywhere! Bull, I'm talking about real men. Men with integrity. Nobody wants to stand for anything! Not for their God! Not for their God-given rights! Not for their Families! Not for Love!
What happened to the instinct to protect families and loved ones? I see energy going into trivial pursuits...sports....drugs....sexual conquests......competition over the superficial. I see the world crumbling around us and ask why no one cares enough to consider where all of this is taking us....
Now, before you start getting upset I won't leave out the women's role.
It makes me sick to see women today who are so consumed with worldly things that in order for a man to even rate, he needs to have money and be able to supply them with petty things they deem important.
Can I say.... demand people! Demand drives production of even attitude. Perhaps we would see a change in what men put as their priority's if women had a value system that consisted of more than trying to impress other people with how they look or what they own and needing to fit in.
If women were attracted to men that stood for something other than the love of money, like, say GOD....family...... our children ....our rights ......we would certainly see a well needed change. We must as women support men in the endeavors of such.
.. ..
Something is missing ......and yes you guessed it, it is God!
If you were to look at the Bible and then at the rack of magazines and compare. One promotes love and security about one's self ...the other promotes self-hatred, jealousy and trivial and unrealistic ideals.
And if you don't possess the money to do as they do.....well you're on your own. Do we truly believe that someone is worthless as a human being because they may be overweight or do not look like people in the magazines?
MORE HERE: http://www.henrymakow.com/where_have_all_the_real_men_go.html
"I've been a mother for 16 years......now a single one....struggling like everyone to keep from going completely under. Have been a massage therapist since 92.......My son is 16 and my daughter is 11. I 'm quite upset about the change that's been brought from feminism. We women CANNOT be everything.......I am instinctively a nurturer, trying to play two roles as a mother is impossible to do."
by Maureen Smith
(henrymakow.com)
I for one would like to know just where the real men went?
Now, you might look around and say they haven't gone anywhere! Bull, I'm talking about real men. Men with integrity. Nobody wants to stand for anything! Not for their God! Not for their God-given rights! Not for their Families! Not for Love!
What happened to the instinct to protect families and loved ones? I see energy going into trivial pursuits...sports....drugs....sexual conquests......competition over the superficial. I see the world crumbling around us and ask why no one cares enough to consider where all of this is taking us....
Now, before you start getting upset I won't leave out the women's role.
It makes me sick to see women today who are so consumed with worldly things that in order for a man to even rate, he needs to have money and be able to supply them with petty things they deem important.
Can I say.... demand people! Demand drives production of even attitude. Perhaps we would see a change in what men put as their priority's if women had a value system that consisted of more than trying to impress other people with how they look or what they own and needing to fit in.
If women were attracted to men that stood for something other than the love of money, like, say GOD....family...... our children ....our rights ......we would certainly see a well needed change. We must as women support men in the endeavors of such.
.. ..
Something is missing ......and yes you guessed it, it is God!
If you were to look at the Bible and then at the rack of magazines and compare. One promotes love and security about one's self ...the other promotes self-hatred, jealousy and trivial and unrealistic ideals.
And if you don't possess the money to do as they do.....well you're on your own. Do we truly believe that someone is worthless as a human being because they may be overweight or do not look like people in the magazines?
MORE HERE: http://www.henrymakow.com/where_have_all_the_real_men_go.html
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Healthy Intestinal Flora Prevent and Cure Intestinal Ailments
Healthy Intestinal Flora Prevent and Cure Intestinal Ailments
(NaturalNews) Healthy intestinal flora bestows resistance to intestinal disorders such as constipation, diarrhea, diverticulitis, irritable bowel disease, ulcerative colitis (UC), Crohn's Disease, leaky gut syndrome, autoimmunity, and colon cancer. However, due to massive use of antibiotics in modern medicine, water chlorination, antibiotics in agriculture, environmental heavy metals, mercury amalgam fillings, sterilized foods, and recommendations to eat unnatural amounts of fiber, our gut flora are continuously under attack. This assault ultimately leads to dysbacteriosis*, leaving us susceptible to all the intestinal diseases listed above.
Over 400 distinct species of microorganisms inhabit the human digestive system, comprising over four pounds. This diverse internal ecosystem influences and directs our health in many ways. The benefits include:
-Broad-spectrum anti-microbial activity to protect the bowel from pathogens.
-Enhancing intestinal barrier function.
-Regenerating intestinal mucosal lining and lymphoid tissue (involved in immune surveillance and response to pathogens).
-Modulating the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
-Modulating the immune system by interacting with the lymphoid tissue, priming macrophages and natural killer cells, and increasing anti-body (IgA) production.
-Facilitating absorption of minerals.
-Creating nutrients: Vitamin K, Vitamin B12, biotin, and Folate.
-Converting thyroid hormone to its active form.
Intestinal disorders stem from some degree of dysbacteriosis. Years of intestinal abuse usually starts with constipation and progresses to more serious intestinal disorders. Unfortunately, the current model of care treats intestinal diseases once they are fully realized and the chances for improvement are diminished. Standard treatments are misguided because they do not fully bear in mind the importance of intestinal flora.
As an example, UC is a chronic, inflammatory disease with ulcers of the mucosal lining in the colon. The condition is characterized by low hemoglobin count, low serum potassium, and irregular mucosal structure- exactly the conditions caused by dysbacteriosis! However, standard medical treatments rely heavily on pharmaceuticals like steroids, salicylates, anti-inflammatories, and broad-spectrum antibiotics. When standard treatments ultimately fail, surgical resection of the colon (colostomy) is ordered.
A study published in the Journal of Gastroenterology used a novel approach to treat UC called fecal bacteriotherapy (FBT) based on its success with other intestinal disorders. For this procedure, stools were collected from healthy individuals, and then injected deep into the large intestines of chronic UC patients.
Throughout the trial and the long follow-up period, for the first time, all subjects had a total disappearance of disease without the need for maintenance treatments. These findings were described as "unprecedented" by the researchers and "strong evidence" for further research. However, these results are not very surprising when one understands the inimitable role that healthy flora plays in the colon.
Here are some ways to maintain healthy intestinal tracts:
1.Probiotics:
-Cycle through brands or take different brands in combination in order to get as much diversity as possible.
-The supplement should contain a prebiotic like inulin or FOS to help the bacteria colonize and proliferate in the large intestines.
-Consider FBT if oral supplementation does not produce satisfactory results.
2.Identify and eliminate foods that provoke allergies or intolerances, which can weaken the intestinal barrier, prevent nutrient absorption, and create inflammation (wheat proteins are the biggest offenders).
3.Moderate fiber consumption.
4.Consume raw, cultured foods regularly.
5.Stay away from antibiotics unless undeniably and unavoidably necessary. Just one course of antibiotics can wipe out GI flora. Reestablishing flora is extremely difficult.
6.If possible, remove mercury amalgam fillings and avoid overuse of silverware.
7.Filter tap (including shower) water.
* sterile gut
Sources:
1."Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis using Fecal Bacteriotherapy" (Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2003).
2. Pathophysiology: The Biological Basis for Disease in Adults and Children (4th ed).
3."Food Allergy" (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1999).
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032349_intestinal_flora_health.html#ixzz1M6fO20hJ
(NaturalNews) Healthy intestinal flora bestows resistance to intestinal disorders such as constipation, diarrhea, diverticulitis, irritable bowel disease, ulcerative colitis (UC), Crohn's Disease, leaky gut syndrome, autoimmunity, and colon cancer. However, due to massive use of antibiotics in modern medicine, water chlorination, antibiotics in agriculture, environmental heavy metals, mercury amalgam fillings, sterilized foods, and recommendations to eat unnatural amounts of fiber, our gut flora are continuously under attack. This assault ultimately leads to dysbacteriosis*, leaving us susceptible to all the intestinal diseases listed above.
Over 400 distinct species of microorganisms inhabit the human digestive system, comprising over four pounds. This diverse internal ecosystem influences and directs our health in many ways. The benefits include:
-Broad-spectrum anti-microbial activity to protect the bowel from pathogens.
-Enhancing intestinal barrier function.
-Regenerating intestinal mucosal lining and lymphoid tissue (involved in immune surveillance and response to pathogens).
-Modulating the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
-Modulating the immune system by interacting with the lymphoid tissue, priming macrophages and natural killer cells, and increasing anti-body (IgA) production.
-Facilitating absorption of minerals.
-Creating nutrients: Vitamin K, Vitamin B12, biotin, and Folate.
-Converting thyroid hormone to its active form.
Intestinal disorders stem from some degree of dysbacteriosis. Years of intestinal abuse usually starts with constipation and progresses to more serious intestinal disorders. Unfortunately, the current model of care treats intestinal diseases once they are fully realized and the chances for improvement are diminished. Standard treatments are misguided because they do not fully bear in mind the importance of intestinal flora.
As an example, UC is a chronic, inflammatory disease with ulcers of the mucosal lining in the colon. The condition is characterized by low hemoglobin count, low serum potassium, and irregular mucosal structure- exactly the conditions caused by dysbacteriosis! However, standard medical treatments rely heavily on pharmaceuticals like steroids, salicylates, anti-inflammatories, and broad-spectrum antibiotics. When standard treatments ultimately fail, surgical resection of the colon (colostomy) is ordered.
A study published in the Journal of Gastroenterology used a novel approach to treat UC called fecal bacteriotherapy (FBT) based on its success with other intestinal disorders. For this procedure, stools were collected from healthy individuals, and then injected deep into the large intestines of chronic UC patients.
Throughout the trial and the long follow-up period, for the first time, all subjects had a total disappearance of disease without the need for maintenance treatments. These findings were described as "unprecedented" by the researchers and "strong evidence" for further research. However, these results are not very surprising when one understands the inimitable role that healthy flora plays in the colon.
Here are some ways to maintain healthy intestinal tracts:
1.Probiotics:
-Cycle through brands or take different brands in combination in order to get as much diversity as possible.
-The supplement should contain a prebiotic like inulin or FOS to help the bacteria colonize and proliferate in the large intestines.
-Consider FBT if oral supplementation does not produce satisfactory results.
2.Identify and eliminate foods that provoke allergies or intolerances, which can weaken the intestinal barrier, prevent nutrient absorption, and create inflammation (wheat proteins are the biggest offenders).
3.Moderate fiber consumption.
4.Consume raw, cultured foods regularly.
5.Stay away from antibiotics unless undeniably and unavoidably necessary. Just one course of antibiotics can wipe out GI flora. Reestablishing flora is extremely difficult.
6.If possible, remove mercury amalgam fillings and avoid overuse of silverware.
7.Filter tap (including shower) water.
* sterile gut
Sources:
1."Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis using Fecal Bacteriotherapy" (Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2003).
2. Pathophysiology: The Biological Basis for Disease in Adults and Children (4th ed).
3."Food Allergy" (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1999).
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032349_intestinal_flora_health.html#ixzz1M6fO20hJ
Long-term storable superfoods launched by preparedness company StorableOrganics.com
Long-term storable superfoods launched by preparedness company StorableOrganics.com
(NaturalNews) Today we're announcing the launch of Storable Organics (www.StorableOrganics.com), the world's first company offering a full line of preparedness superfoods and organic foods packed in steel cans for long-term shelf life. We have inventory right now, and we're shipping 17 products in these cans, including spirulina, chlorella, chia seeds, quinoa, rice bran and much more.
Click here to see the full list in our store or see more details on our website at www.StorableOrganics.com
Most conventional storable foods are made with pesticides or GMOs
Why do we need Storable Organics? It's simple: Have you ever tried to find organic storable food? Or storable superfoods? Until now, they virtually did not exist. Nearly all storable foods available today (with a few exceptions) are conventionally grown foods farmed with chemical pesticides and GMOs. Many of the "camping" foods you'll find at retail stores are made with textured vegetable protein, GMO soy and food additive chemicals such as yeast extract (a form of hidden MSG).
That's nasty stuff. In an emergency, the last thing I want to do is start poisoning my body with pesticide residues, GMOs and chemical food additives.
So six months ago, I approached several of the top preparedness food companies in the industry and asked if they wanted to partner with NaturalNews to launch a line of organic, storable superfoods. They replied that they were all too busy filling orders to even think about adding a line of storable organics! (Seriously, they all blew us off because their business was already at their maximum capacity, it seems...)
That's when I knew the only way to make this project a reality would be to launch it ourselves.
No BPA in your food!
So we developed a special system for packing and shipping #10 steel cans. Our system is unique because your food never touches the BPA enamel in the cans.
You see, there is no such thing as a BPA-free lined can in the food industry today. All lined food cans contain BPA, without exception. So the solution for avoiding the BPA is to pack the food inside a BPA-free bag inside the can, so that the bag protects the food from the can enamel. That's what we do at Storable Organics - we pack food into BPA-free bags with moisture absorbers for long-term shelf life. These bags are placed into a #10 steel can containing an inner enamel that blocks moisture and prevents oxidation of the steel. This can is then sealed with an industrial seamer. At no point does the can enamel ever come into contact with your food.
From there, the cans are placed in a rugged, double-walled cardboard case with extra double-walled dividers between the cans, then shipped to you. Each can ships with a plastic lid, and even after you open the can and use the product, you have a high-quality BPA-free bag that you can use for any purpose in the future.
The result is the world's first line of storable foods that use organic, non-GMO, pesticide free raw materials and superfoods. This is unique in the industry and it's a solution that NaturalNews readers have been asking for over the last two years.
No one else is offering this! We also have an affiliate program (see below) so that you can offer this solution to your own readers and earn an affiliate percentage.
Now you can stock up on food preparedness without buying chemicals
Thanks to StorableOrganics, you can now stock up on preparedness foods without buying chemicals, food additives, GMOs or foods containing pesticides.
And the best part? Our bulk pricing is so good that it turns out these steel cans are a better value than buying the superfoods in smaller quantities. In other words, ounce for ounce, these products are a better value for your dollar (on all except the Boku Superfood in the steel cans, which is the exact same price per ounce as buying it regularly).
So this is actually a bulk pricing value on storable superfoods that can last from 2 - 10 years on your shelf! (Depending on the item...)
And YES, we even have Boku Superfood packed in steel cans! How's that for long-term storable superfoods in a format that can't be beat! The next time an earthquake strikes, while your friends are living (dying?) on toaster pastries and toxic canned soups, you can whip out a giant can of Boku Superfood and actually keep people alive with good nutrition! :-)
Steel cans are mouse-proof and critter proof
#10 steel cans, by the way, are slightly larger than a typical large coffee can. Why do you need steel? Because mice can easily eat through plastic, Mylar and even hard plastic buckets!
I've been active in food storage and preparedness for nearly fifteen years now, and in those years, I've seen ants eat right through plastic bags, and I've seen mice eat through 5-gallon plastic pails! (When mice are hungry, they can eat through even thick plastic...)
I have never seen any animal eat through a steel can. That's why steel cans are the very best method for long-term storable foods. They're also just the right size for portability. Five-gallon pails are heavy when filled with grains (they can weigh over sixty pounds!), but #10 cans are smaller, more portable and completely resistant to mice. They're also completely shatter resistant (unlike glass) and the weight / size ratio makes them perfect for portable food supplies, too.
Click here to see the full list of what's available in our store.
Right now we have Himalayan pink crystal salt, palm sugar, quinoa, spelt, brown rice, Boku Super Protein, Spirulina, Whole Wheat Fettuccine and a whole lot more. They're available for immediate shipping from our warehouse.
What will keep you alive in an actual emergency?
Do you remember the Katrina aftermath in New Orleans? People were living (and dying) on junk food snack chips, candy bars and convenience store processed foods. To many people, "storable" foods means canned soups (loaded with MSG and processed salt) and camping foods (often made with MSG and GMO soy byproducts).
I don't know about you, but I don't want to survive the disaster only to be killed by the food!
Emergencies create huge stress in the body, and that stress demands high-density nutrition to keep your body functioning at a higher level. If you're in an actual emergency and you aren't getting high-density superfoods, you're losing ground. Stress destroys your immune function, while nutrition can help support a healthy immune response! Emergency situations are precisely when you need more nutrition, not less.
That's why our storable chlorella, spirulina and chia seeds are three outstanding superfoods that can quite literally help keep you alive when other processed junk foods might actually fail you.
By the way, I also recommend Living Fuel (www.LivingFuel.com) which offers their Living Fuel superfoods in large cans that are about the same size as the #10 cans. Living Fuel cans are steel, but they are made with a metal inner lining that offers far more shelf life than a typical off-the-shelf superfood product.
I personally am stocking up with Living Fuel products plus a large assortment of Storable Organics superfoods (including the Boku Superfood in the cans). And because the prices on most of these are better than the usual pricing, I know that even if there's no emergency, I'm still saving money by just eating these products as I normally would anyway!
Affiliate program now available
If you wish to promote these storable superfoods on your own website or email newsletter, we have an affiliate program that pays you 5% of all sales. That may not sound like much, because margins are pretty tight on most of these items, but when people order storable superfoods and organic foods, the order sizes tend to get larger because people are stocking up. So the affiliate program can really be worthwhile if you have a sizeable reach.
Sign up for our affiliate program at:
http://tnn.checkoutsolutions.net/in...
Storable Organics available by the pallet
If you're interested in large-scale storable superfoods (hundreds of cans), we offer these products by the pallet, shipped via freight. Pricing is also slightly better due to the high volume, and you'll save quite a bit on shipping. Contact us at reply@naturalnews.com or chat with our store representatives during normal business hours using the live chat box at http://store.naturalnews.com
We are happy to quote you storable superfoods in quantities of hundreds or thousands of cans. (We currently have over 25,000 steel cans on hand and ready to be packed, sealed and shipped.) Turnaround time for pallets of storable foods runs from 5 - 15 business days, depending on your order.
What's missing from Storable Organics?
We currently do not offer storable organic freeze-dried fruits or herbs, but we are working on adding that to the lineup soon. We'll be expanding our line of storable superfoods each month!
We also may put together a serious preparedness kit in a steel can that contains serious preparedness items and not the usual "toy compass", fishing line and whistle you get in typical low-end survival kits. Instead, we're looking at putting together a serious water filter, high-end compass, tactical LED flashlight with batteries, some tools, a quality knife, high-density superfood pouches and a few other serious items that you can just toss in your car and go. Watch NaturalNews for that announcement later on.
The bottom line is that we are only interested in offering you quality preparedness goods that really work for your nutrition, health and personal safety. We don't deal in junk. We don't sell GMO crap. We don't offer foods with chemical pesticides or soy protein. We only offer stuff that will help keep you alive during hard times. (Of course, the thing that will really keep you alive is that noggin between your ears... if you use it properly, anyway...)
Storable Organics is what I'm storing right now; it's the stuff my family is buying; and it's the stuff I'll be opening and enjoying when the next big emergency strikes our world. While everybody else is living on Cheetos and Pop-Tarts, you can be chowing down on organic chlorella superfoods that will keep you healthy, alert and fully energized to handle whatever stresses are coming your way!
Superfoods will help keep you alive, and StorableOrganics.com will help keep you stocked with those superfoods. Order now BEFORE the next crisis hits, because I can absolutely guarantee you that once the next earthquake, hurricane or tsunami strikes, we'll be back-ordered for weeks. But today, right now, we're shipping promptly!
Check us out at www.StorableOrganics.com
And thank you for your ongoing support.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032331_storable_organics_preparedness.html#ixzz1M6dT9F33
(NaturalNews) Today we're announcing the launch of Storable Organics (www.StorableOrganics.com), the world's first company offering a full line of preparedness superfoods and organic foods packed in steel cans for long-term shelf life. We have inventory right now, and we're shipping 17 products in these cans, including spirulina, chlorella, chia seeds, quinoa, rice bran and much more.
Click here to see the full list in our store or see more details on our website at www.StorableOrganics.com
Most conventional storable foods are made with pesticides or GMOs
Why do we need Storable Organics? It's simple: Have you ever tried to find organic storable food? Or storable superfoods? Until now, they virtually did not exist. Nearly all storable foods available today (with a few exceptions) are conventionally grown foods farmed with chemical pesticides and GMOs. Many of the "camping" foods you'll find at retail stores are made with textured vegetable protein, GMO soy and food additive chemicals such as yeast extract (a form of hidden MSG).
That's nasty stuff. In an emergency, the last thing I want to do is start poisoning my body with pesticide residues, GMOs and chemical food additives.
So six months ago, I approached several of the top preparedness food companies in the industry and asked if they wanted to partner with NaturalNews to launch a line of organic, storable superfoods. They replied that they were all too busy filling orders to even think about adding a line of storable organics! (Seriously, they all blew us off because their business was already at their maximum capacity, it seems...)
That's when I knew the only way to make this project a reality would be to launch it ourselves.
No BPA in your food!
So we developed a special system for packing and shipping #10 steel cans. Our system is unique because your food never touches the BPA enamel in the cans.
You see, there is no such thing as a BPA-free lined can in the food industry today. All lined food cans contain BPA, without exception. So the solution for avoiding the BPA is to pack the food inside a BPA-free bag inside the can, so that the bag protects the food from the can enamel. That's what we do at Storable Organics - we pack food into BPA-free bags with moisture absorbers for long-term shelf life. These bags are placed into a #10 steel can containing an inner enamel that blocks moisture and prevents oxidation of the steel. This can is then sealed with an industrial seamer. At no point does the can enamel ever come into contact with your food.
From there, the cans are placed in a rugged, double-walled cardboard case with extra double-walled dividers between the cans, then shipped to you. Each can ships with a plastic lid, and even after you open the can and use the product, you have a high-quality BPA-free bag that you can use for any purpose in the future.
The result is the world's first line of storable foods that use organic, non-GMO, pesticide free raw materials and superfoods. This is unique in the industry and it's a solution that NaturalNews readers have been asking for over the last two years.
No one else is offering this! We also have an affiliate program (see below) so that you can offer this solution to your own readers and earn an affiliate percentage.
Now you can stock up on food preparedness without buying chemicals
Thanks to StorableOrganics, you can now stock up on preparedness foods without buying chemicals, food additives, GMOs or foods containing pesticides.
And the best part? Our bulk pricing is so good that it turns out these steel cans are a better value than buying the superfoods in smaller quantities. In other words, ounce for ounce, these products are a better value for your dollar (on all except the Boku Superfood in the steel cans, which is the exact same price per ounce as buying it regularly).
So this is actually a bulk pricing value on storable superfoods that can last from 2 - 10 years on your shelf! (Depending on the item...)
And YES, we even have Boku Superfood packed in steel cans! How's that for long-term storable superfoods in a format that can't be beat! The next time an earthquake strikes, while your friends are living (dying?) on toaster pastries and toxic canned soups, you can whip out a giant can of Boku Superfood and actually keep people alive with good nutrition! :-)
Steel cans are mouse-proof and critter proof
#10 steel cans, by the way, are slightly larger than a typical large coffee can. Why do you need steel? Because mice can easily eat through plastic, Mylar and even hard plastic buckets!
I've been active in food storage and preparedness for nearly fifteen years now, and in those years, I've seen ants eat right through plastic bags, and I've seen mice eat through 5-gallon plastic pails! (When mice are hungry, they can eat through even thick plastic...)
I have never seen any animal eat through a steel can. That's why steel cans are the very best method for long-term storable foods. They're also just the right size for portability. Five-gallon pails are heavy when filled with grains (they can weigh over sixty pounds!), but #10 cans are smaller, more portable and completely resistant to mice. They're also completely shatter resistant (unlike glass) and the weight / size ratio makes them perfect for portable food supplies, too.
Click here to see the full list of what's available in our store.
Right now we have Himalayan pink crystal salt, palm sugar, quinoa, spelt, brown rice, Boku Super Protein, Spirulina, Whole Wheat Fettuccine and a whole lot more. They're available for immediate shipping from our warehouse.
What will keep you alive in an actual emergency?
Do you remember the Katrina aftermath in New Orleans? People were living (and dying) on junk food snack chips, candy bars and convenience store processed foods. To many people, "storable" foods means canned soups (loaded with MSG and processed salt) and camping foods (often made with MSG and GMO soy byproducts).
I don't know about you, but I don't want to survive the disaster only to be killed by the food!
Emergencies create huge stress in the body, and that stress demands high-density nutrition to keep your body functioning at a higher level. If you're in an actual emergency and you aren't getting high-density superfoods, you're losing ground. Stress destroys your immune function, while nutrition can help support a healthy immune response! Emergency situations are precisely when you need more nutrition, not less.
That's why our storable chlorella, spirulina and chia seeds are three outstanding superfoods that can quite literally help keep you alive when other processed junk foods might actually fail you.
By the way, I also recommend Living Fuel (www.LivingFuel.com) which offers their Living Fuel superfoods in large cans that are about the same size as the #10 cans. Living Fuel cans are steel, but they are made with a metal inner lining that offers far more shelf life than a typical off-the-shelf superfood product.
I personally am stocking up with Living Fuel products plus a large assortment of Storable Organics superfoods (including the Boku Superfood in the cans). And because the prices on most of these are better than the usual pricing, I know that even if there's no emergency, I'm still saving money by just eating these products as I normally would anyway!
Affiliate program now available
If you wish to promote these storable superfoods on your own website or email newsletter, we have an affiliate program that pays you 5% of all sales. That may not sound like much, because margins are pretty tight on most of these items, but when people order storable superfoods and organic foods, the order sizes tend to get larger because people are stocking up. So the affiliate program can really be worthwhile if you have a sizeable reach.
Sign up for our affiliate program at:
http://tnn.checkoutsolutions.net/in...
Storable Organics available by the pallet
If you're interested in large-scale storable superfoods (hundreds of cans), we offer these products by the pallet, shipped via freight. Pricing is also slightly better due to the high volume, and you'll save quite a bit on shipping. Contact us at reply@naturalnews.com or chat with our store representatives during normal business hours using the live chat box at http://store.naturalnews.com
We are happy to quote you storable superfoods in quantities of hundreds or thousands of cans. (We currently have over 25,000 steel cans on hand and ready to be packed, sealed and shipped.) Turnaround time for pallets of storable foods runs from 5 - 15 business days, depending on your order.
What's missing from Storable Organics?
We currently do not offer storable organic freeze-dried fruits or herbs, but we are working on adding that to the lineup soon. We'll be expanding our line of storable superfoods each month!
We also may put together a serious preparedness kit in a steel can that contains serious preparedness items and not the usual "toy compass", fishing line and whistle you get in typical low-end survival kits. Instead, we're looking at putting together a serious water filter, high-end compass, tactical LED flashlight with batteries, some tools, a quality knife, high-density superfood pouches and a few other serious items that you can just toss in your car and go. Watch NaturalNews for that announcement later on.
The bottom line is that we are only interested in offering you quality preparedness goods that really work for your nutrition, health and personal safety. We don't deal in junk. We don't sell GMO crap. We don't offer foods with chemical pesticides or soy protein. We only offer stuff that will help keep you alive during hard times. (Of course, the thing that will really keep you alive is that noggin between your ears... if you use it properly, anyway...)
Storable Organics is what I'm storing right now; it's the stuff my family is buying; and it's the stuff I'll be opening and enjoying when the next big emergency strikes our world. While everybody else is living on Cheetos and Pop-Tarts, you can be chowing down on organic chlorella superfoods that will keep you healthy, alert and fully energized to handle whatever stresses are coming your way!
Superfoods will help keep you alive, and StorableOrganics.com will help keep you stocked with those superfoods. Order now BEFORE the next crisis hits, because I can absolutely guarantee you that once the next earthquake, hurricane or tsunami strikes, we'll be back-ordered for weeks. But today, right now, we're shipping promptly!
Check us out at www.StorableOrganics.com
And thank you for your ongoing support.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032331_storable_organics_preparedness.html#ixzz1M6dT9F33
Use comfrey to quickly grow plants for backyard gardening
Use comfrey to quickly grow plants for backyard gardening
(NaturalNews) As the food supply becomes more and more poisoned, a lot of people are moving toward growing their own food in backyard gardens. And if there's one thing every backyard gardener should know about - it's comfrey. Comfrey is an herb that makes things grow - and using it in the garden can easily and dramatically increase the size, heartiness, and productivity of your plants.
The key constituent in comfrey is allantoin which encourages the growth of cells in both plants and humans. It's long been used in the natural health world to quickly regrow bones and even heal problems like torn ligaments. And in the garden, using some comfrey can boost the size of many plants and encourage lackluster plants to grow.
There are many ways to use comfrey in the garden - and of course the amount you'll need depends on the size and number of plants you have. An easy way to use comfrey in the garden is simply to use some dried, finely shredded leaves and soak them in water to make a tea. You can use a half cup of leaves of so per gallon of water - just let them sit for about 24 hours until it becomes a tea. Then, just water your plants with the tea and let the leaves fall around your plants too. You can water every few days or as desired - and smaller plants may just need a cup or so of the tea per watering, while larger plants can use a bit more. Generally, you'll start to see the difference in a month or so, with regular use.
Of course, comfrey can also be used on large farms, in place of chemical-based fertilizers. It's actually an ideal substitute - along with some basic composting - to add nutrients back into the soil. Comfrey teas have been shown to be comparable or richer in key nutrients for plants - like phosphorus and nitrogen - than manure or commercial liquid plant foods.
Comfrey also grows easily and it's mineral dense. In fact, it grows so easily that it's sometimes considered an invasive plant. However, for that reason, it's ideal for large farms because supply isn't an issue - and for smaller gardens it's best to grow it in large pots. Comfrey leaves can also be harvested every couple of weeks for an ongoing supply and a plant can be easily started from a root cutting.
More:
http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetab...
http://www.livestrong.com/article/1...
http://www.the-organic-gardener.com...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032325_comfrey_gardening.html#ixzz1M6cqlRTi
(NaturalNews) As the food supply becomes more and more poisoned, a lot of people are moving toward growing their own food in backyard gardens. And if there's one thing every backyard gardener should know about - it's comfrey. Comfrey is an herb that makes things grow - and using it in the garden can easily and dramatically increase the size, heartiness, and productivity of your plants.
The key constituent in comfrey is allantoin which encourages the growth of cells in both plants and humans. It's long been used in the natural health world to quickly regrow bones and even heal problems like torn ligaments. And in the garden, using some comfrey can boost the size of many plants and encourage lackluster plants to grow.
There are many ways to use comfrey in the garden - and of course the amount you'll need depends on the size and number of plants you have. An easy way to use comfrey in the garden is simply to use some dried, finely shredded leaves and soak them in water to make a tea. You can use a half cup of leaves of so per gallon of water - just let them sit for about 24 hours until it becomes a tea. Then, just water your plants with the tea and let the leaves fall around your plants too. You can water every few days or as desired - and smaller plants may just need a cup or so of the tea per watering, while larger plants can use a bit more. Generally, you'll start to see the difference in a month or so, with regular use.
Of course, comfrey can also be used on large farms, in place of chemical-based fertilizers. It's actually an ideal substitute - along with some basic composting - to add nutrients back into the soil. Comfrey teas have been shown to be comparable or richer in key nutrients for plants - like phosphorus and nitrogen - than manure or commercial liquid plant foods.
Comfrey also grows easily and it's mineral dense. In fact, it grows so easily that it's sometimes considered an invasive plant. However, for that reason, it's ideal for large farms because supply isn't an issue - and for smaller gardens it's best to grow it in large pots. Comfrey leaves can also be harvested every couple of weeks for an ongoing supply and a plant can be easily started from a root cutting.
More:
http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetab...
http://www.livestrong.com/article/1...
http://www.the-organic-gardener.com...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032325_comfrey_gardening.html#ixzz1M6cqlRTi
DARPA's Automated Video Surveillance Will End Public Anonymity
DARPA's Automated Video Surveillance Will End Public Anonymity
To be in public is to be on camera, but most video footage is discarded, as only so much can be sorted and analyzed -- until now. DARPA has created a technology that can index and analyze video in real-time, marking the end of anonymity in public places.
In 2008, DARPA, the US military's elite group of pocket protector warriors, began soliciting the tech industry to develop technologies that would allow computers to sort through and index surveillance footage from the military's fleet of drones, satellites, and miscellaneous other super secret spy cameras. This was all part of the Agency's proposed Video Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) that would be able to describe specific human activities in real-time. This automated index would allow for searchable queries (i.e. "how often did an adult male taller than six-foot get in a car in the early morning between November 1st and December 22nd in this compound in Abbottabad?") or flag behavior such as when someone carries a large package towards a car on the side of a road in Basra, but walked away empty handed. .....more
To be in public is to be on camera, but most video footage is discarded, as only so much can be sorted and analyzed -- until now. DARPA has created a technology that can index and analyze video in real-time, marking the end of anonymity in public places.
In 2008, DARPA, the US military's elite group of pocket protector warriors, began soliciting the tech industry to develop technologies that would allow computers to sort through and index surveillance footage from the military's fleet of drones, satellites, and miscellaneous other super secret spy cameras. This was all part of the Agency's proposed Video Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) that would be able to describe specific human activities in real-time. This automated index would allow for searchable queries (i.e. "how often did an adult male taller than six-foot get in a car in the early morning between November 1st and December 22nd in this compound in Abbottabad?") or flag behavior such as when someone carries a large package towards a car on the side of a road in Basra, but walked away empty handed. .....more
Cameras capture what kids eat in school cafeteria
Cameras capture what kids eat in school cafeteria
SAN ANTONIO -- High-tech cameras are photographing what San Antonio kids eat in school. It's part of a $2 Million dollar research project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to better monitor children's nutrition.
W.W. White is one of five S.A.I.S.D elementary schools that will help get the new pilot program off the ground. Over the next four years, nearly 200 students who participate will essentially be the guinea pigs for the entire country. The new technology aims to cut down on childhood obesity and diabetes.
Cameras in the cafeteria will snap a shot of the food kids pile onto their trays, and a second shot of the their trays before kids throw them into the trashcan.
(WHAT ABOUT THE SCHOOL STOP SERVING GARBAGE AND THEN THE CAMERAS WILL NOT BE NEEDED !!!! THE $ 2 MILLION CAN GO TO BOOKS AND TEACHERS !! ..... BUT NO, IT'S NOT ABOUT EATING HEALTHY, IT'S ABOUT GETTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SHEEPLE USED TO THE IDEA THAT THE "GOVERNMENT" WILL MONITOR EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE !!)
SAN ANTONIO -- High-tech cameras are photographing what San Antonio kids eat in school. It's part of a $2 Million dollar research project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to better monitor children's nutrition.
W.W. White is one of five S.A.I.S.D elementary schools that will help get the new pilot program off the ground. Over the next four years, nearly 200 students who participate will essentially be the guinea pigs for the entire country. The new technology aims to cut down on childhood obesity and diabetes.
Cameras in the cafeteria will snap a shot of the food kids pile onto their trays, and a second shot of the their trays before kids throw them into the trashcan.
(WHAT ABOUT THE SCHOOL STOP SERVING GARBAGE AND THEN THE CAMERAS WILL NOT BE NEEDED !!!! THE $ 2 MILLION CAN GO TO BOOKS AND TEACHERS !! ..... BUT NO, IT'S NOT ABOUT EATING HEALTHY, IT'S ABOUT GETTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SHEEPLE USED TO THE IDEA THAT THE "GOVERNMENT" WILL MONITOR EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE !!)
Monday, May 9, 2011
NC school district to give away iPod, laptop to children who participate in vaccination contest
NC school district to give away iPod, laptop to children who participate in vaccination contest
(NaturalNews) The Chapel Hill - Carrboro City School (CHCCS) district in North Carolina has launched a shocking new vaccination contest that offers prize incentives to students who get vaccinated. According to the CHCCS district website, for each vaccine a student receives, he or she will also receive an entry into a drawing to win an Apple iPod or a laptop computer -- and students that get the entire recommended vaccine schedule, which includes the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for both boys and girls, will be allowed extra entries into the contest and more chances to win than other students.
According to the CHCCS website, the three vaccines being promoted are the Meningococcal vaccine, the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) combination vaccine, and the HPV vaccine. Between April 1, 2011, and May 31, 2011, students are encouraged to get one or all of these vaccines, and present proof to their school nurse before June 1. Those that do will receive individual entries for each vaccine, and four entries total if they get all three.
The stunt is taking place under the leadership of superintendent Neil Pedersen, and is being promoted by both school nurses and the Orange County Health Department. The CHCCS information page explains that the contest was made possible by a donation from a family whose daughter allegedly died from meningococcal disease, but it does not explain why the Tdap and HPV vaccines are also included in the vaccine drive.
The Tdap vaccine, of course, is a highly dangerous vaccine that has been implicated in causing permanent brain damage and other serious injuries. Just a few months ago, a Texas man explained to My FOX Houston that the Tdap vaccine caused his otherwise healthy and bright young daughter to basically turn into a vegetable, suffering hundreds of seizures daily as a result (http://www.naturalnews.com/031469_v...).
And the HPV vaccine is widely known to cause neurological damage, seizures, heart problems, autoimmune diseases, vision and hearing loss, chronic fatigue, paralysis, and death (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/). NaturalNews has an extensive archive of reports about the HPV vaccine that you can explore here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/HPV.html
That the CHCCS school district has chosen to push a series of high-risk vaccines on young students using alluring prize incentives is both irresponsible and unethical. In fact, it is borderline child abuse, as the HPV vaccine in particular has absolutely no proven benefits, and only an extremely high risk of serious injury and death.
To help speak out against this vaccine drive, please check out this informative Action Alert which provides details on who to contact, as well as some helpful talking points:
http://movingstronglyforward.typepa...
Sources for this story include:
http://www2.chccs.k12.nc.us/educati...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032330_vaccines_iPod.html#ixzz1LtwYKIYC
(NaturalNews) The Chapel Hill - Carrboro City School (CHCCS) district in North Carolina has launched a shocking new vaccination contest that offers prize incentives to students who get vaccinated. According to the CHCCS district website, for each vaccine a student receives, he or she will also receive an entry into a drawing to win an Apple iPod or a laptop computer -- and students that get the entire recommended vaccine schedule, which includes the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for both boys and girls, will be allowed extra entries into the contest and more chances to win than other students.
According to the CHCCS website, the three vaccines being promoted are the Meningococcal vaccine, the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) combination vaccine, and the HPV vaccine. Between April 1, 2011, and May 31, 2011, students are encouraged to get one or all of these vaccines, and present proof to their school nurse before June 1. Those that do will receive individual entries for each vaccine, and four entries total if they get all three.
The stunt is taking place under the leadership of superintendent Neil Pedersen, and is being promoted by both school nurses and the Orange County Health Department. The CHCCS information page explains that the contest was made possible by a donation from a family whose daughter allegedly died from meningococcal disease, but it does not explain why the Tdap and HPV vaccines are also included in the vaccine drive.
The Tdap vaccine, of course, is a highly dangerous vaccine that has been implicated in causing permanent brain damage and other serious injuries. Just a few months ago, a Texas man explained to My FOX Houston that the Tdap vaccine caused his otherwise healthy and bright young daughter to basically turn into a vegetable, suffering hundreds of seizures daily as a result (http://www.naturalnews.com/031469_v...).
And the HPV vaccine is widely known to cause neurological damage, seizures, heart problems, autoimmune diseases, vision and hearing loss, chronic fatigue, paralysis, and death (http://truthaboutgardasil.org/). NaturalNews has an extensive archive of reports about the HPV vaccine that you can explore here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/HPV.html
That the CHCCS school district has chosen to push a series of high-risk vaccines on young students using alluring prize incentives is both irresponsible and unethical. In fact, it is borderline child abuse, as the HPV vaccine in particular has absolutely no proven benefits, and only an extremely high risk of serious injury and death.
To help speak out against this vaccine drive, please check out this informative Action Alert which provides details on who to contact, as well as some helpful talking points:
http://movingstronglyforward.typepa...
Sources for this story include:
http://www2.chccs.k12.nc.us/educati...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032330_vaccines_iPod.html#ixzz1LtwYKIYC
EU To Greece: "We Want To Help You Help Yourself"... And We Want To Own You After You File For Bankruptcy
EU To Greece: "We Want To Help You Help Yourself"... And We Want To Own You After You File For Bankruptcy
Well, nobody is leaving the eurozone (as expected), but EU is merely ratcheting up the rhetoric one notch seeing full well what happens to countries that continue to endorse unlimited banker bail outs. And it is likely that the war of words will simply continue escalating until such time as the Greek restructuring becomes inevitable, which will likely happen not sooner than a year from now due to Greek bailout liquidity availability and nobody will push the country to do the inevitable until there is even one spare euro in the coffers for fears of what will happen to Deutsche Bank and the European financial domino. So for those wondering what happened at last night's secret finance minister meeting, one one hand, as Dow Jones reports, Greece "asked its euro-zone partners to ease the country's deficit targets as it struggles to comply with strict austerity terms set under last year's financial bailout agreement, a senior euro-zone government official said Saturday. The senior official said Greece acknowledged that it is unlikely to be able to return to the bond market next year and might need to tap the European Financial Stability Facility, the EU's new bailout fund, for funding. A German proposal to possibly extend the maturities of Greek debt falling due in 2012 also was discussed, this person said. Athens has a long-term borrowing requirement of EUR27 billion in 2012. "Greece has asked for the deficit targets to be eased, specifically to push the budget deficit target of 3% of GDP in 2014 forward by at least two years."" Alas, as expected the latest panhandling attempt by Greece was met with abject failure: "No decisions were taken, according to the Commission's statement. Greece's request for easier terms didn't win the assent of Germany and other participants in Friday's meeting, according to a senior European official." In other words, the country is on autopilot, and possibly worse. Per Bloomberg: "European Union officials may require Greece to provide collateral for aid as policy makers struggle to prevent the euro area’s first sovereign debt restructuring, said a person with direct knowledge of the situation."In other words, for the first time since Weimar, a country may soon be forced to collateralize superpriority debt issuance to foreign creditors: an exercise not really seen in international politics since the Weimar war reparations... and at least Germany had its own currency back then. Summary: the EU just told Greece to prepare for Debtor in Possession loan issuance. Basically should Greece default, and it will, the Parthenon will go to Germany, Santorini will go to Luxembourg, Piraeos will likely end up in IMF hands, and the Chinese will own the rest. Welcome to sovereign debt restructurings for the 21st century.
From Dow Jones:
The ECB, the European Commission, France and others remain opposed to any rescheduling of Greek debt, fearing it could spark worsening capital flight from other indebted euro members and damage the Greek banking system.
"There is strong opposition to this by Trichet," one euro-zone official said, adding that the Greek issue will be "extensively discussed" at the May 16-17 meeting of European Union finance ministers.
These meetings precede the June audits of the Greek government's budget to measure the sustainability of the country's debt load, seen as a key hurdle for Greece's recovery plan.
The Eurogroup's Juncker told journalists after the Luxembourg meeting Friday night that it was decided that Greece needs a further adjustment program, but he excluded restructuring the country's sovereign debt.
The president representing the 17 countries using the euro joined other officials in firmly denying press reports that Greece was considering a withdrawal from the euro zone altogether.
But Juncker said Greece needs a further adjustment program, without furnishing details.
"We are not discussing the exit of Greece from the euro area, this is a stupid idea and an avenue we would never take," Juncker said Friday.
Asked if rescheduling Greek debt to extend maturities also had been excluded, Juncker said: "we have excluded any restructuring of Greek debt."
Some more from Bloomberg with the quote du jour:
Well, nobody is leaving the eurozone (as expected), but EU is merely ratcheting up the rhetoric one notch seeing full well what happens to countries that continue to endorse unlimited banker bail outs. And it is likely that the war of words will simply continue escalating until such time as the Greek restructuring becomes inevitable, which will likely happen not sooner than a year from now due to Greek bailout liquidity availability and nobody will push the country to do the inevitable until there is even one spare euro in the coffers for fears of what will happen to Deutsche Bank and the European financial domino. So for those wondering what happened at last night's secret finance minister meeting, one one hand, as Dow Jones reports, Greece "asked its euro-zone partners to ease the country's deficit targets as it struggles to comply with strict austerity terms set under last year's financial bailout agreement, a senior euro-zone government official said Saturday. The senior official said Greece acknowledged that it is unlikely to be able to return to the bond market next year and might need to tap the European Financial Stability Facility, the EU's new bailout fund, for funding. A German proposal to possibly extend the maturities of Greek debt falling due in 2012 also was discussed, this person said. Athens has a long-term borrowing requirement of EUR27 billion in 2012. "Greece has asked for the deficit targets to be eased, specifically to push the budget deficit target of 3% of GDP in 2014 forward by at least two years."" Alas, as expected the latest panhandling attempt by Greece was met with abject failure: "No decisions were taken, according to the Commission's statement. Greece's request for easier terms didn't win the assent of Germany and other participants in Friday's meeting, according to a senior European official." In other words, the country is on autopilot, and possibly worse. Per Bloomberg: "European Union officials may require Greece to provide collateral for aid as policy makers struggle to prevent the euro area’s first sovereign debt restructuring, said a person with direct knowledge of the situation."In other words, for the first time since Weimar, a country may soon be forced to collateralize superpriority debt issuance to foreign creditors: an exercise not really seen in international politics since the Weimar war reparations... and at least Germany had its own currency back then. Summary: the EU just told Greece to prepare for Debtor in Possession loan issuance. Basically should Greece default, and it will, the Parthenon will go to Germany, Santorini will go to Luxembourg, Piraeos will likely end up in IMF hands, and the Chinese will own the rest. Welcome to sovereign debt restructurings for the 21st century.
From Dow Jones:
The ECB, the European Commission, France and others remain opposed to any rescheduling of Greek debt, fearing it could spark worsening capital flight from other indebted euro members and damage the Greek banking system.
"There is strong opposition to this by Trichet," one euro-zone official said, adding that the Greek issue will be "extensively discussed" at the May 16-17 meeting of European Union finance ministers.
These meetings precede the June audits of the Greek government's budget to measure the sustainability of the country's debt load, seen as a key hurdle for Greece's recovery plan.
The Eurogroup's Juncker told journalists after the Luxembourg meeting Friday night that it was decided that Greece needs a further adjustment program, but he excluded restructuring the country's sovereign debt.
The president representing the 17 countries using the euro joined other officials in firmly denying press reports that Greece was considering a withdrawal from the euro zone altogether.
But Juncker said Greece needs a further adjustment program, without furnishing details.
"We are not discussing the exit of Greece from the euro area, this is a stupid idea and an avenue we would never take," Juncker said Friday.
Asked if rescheduling Greek debt to extend maturities also had been excluded, Juncker said: "we have excluded any restructuring of Greek debt."
Some more from Bloomberg with the quote du jour:
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Conventional medicine finally admits MS caused by vitamin D deficiency
Conventional medicine finally admits MS caused by vitamin D deficiency
(NaturalNews) Is it true that those who suffer from Multiple sclerosis (MS) just need a little sun? Researchers at the University of Oxford seem to think so. In 2006, a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested higher levels of vitamin D might decrease overall risk of developing MS. Now researchers at the University of Oxford are backing that study with further evidence while also suggesting a link between lack of sunlight and how the body responds when faced with an infection. The research concludes that MS is caused by several factors working in combination but clearly correlates to a lack of vitamin D.
Is it really as simple as soaking up some rays?
While the phenomenon of vitamin D deficiency is seen all over the world, countries in the northern hemisphere have been linked to significantly higher rates of MS. Scotland, for example, has one of the largest populations of MS sufferers, while the disease is "virtually unknown" in Africa. Even in sunny areas of the globe, it's not uncommon for people to become vitamin D deficient during the winter, as the sun's rays aren't often high enough to penetrate atmospheric layers.
The research put forth by the University of Oxford suggests that, while those who already have MS may not benefit exponentially simply by increasing levels of vitamin D, getting more sun could be an effective preventative measure against developing the disease and managing symptoms.
More importantly, MS sufferers may be able to boost immunity to other conditions with an increase in vitamin D. A recent study by Anticancer Research affirms that typical adults need much more than the daily dosage recommended by the U.S. Government. According to that research, 4,000-8,000 IUs of vitamin D every day could not only help prevent MS but also several types of cancer and Type 1 diabetes.
The health care industry, of course, won't promote a natural and safe preventative measure for degenerative diseases. Instead, people are warned about the dangers of UV exposure and the risks of vitamin toxicity. With vitamin D deficiency afflicting 90% of the U.S. population, however, it may be time to get a tan. Here are some interesting facts about the relationship between vitamin D and health:
1. It's free. Five to thirty minutes of sunlight a couple of times a week is usually sufficient for helping the body create enough vitamin D
2. Getting enough vitamin D from food is virtually impossible
3. Sunscreens may block the body's ability to generate vitamin D
4. Vitamin D is essential for the absorption of calcium in the body
5. Those who live further from the equator generally require longer periods of sun exposure to generate enough vitamin D
6. A lack of vitamin D can affect bone strength. One theory suggests that women who are deficient in vitamin D can suffer from contracting pelvises, which can result in the death of babies during labor
7. Vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed quickly. It takes months for the body to increase and regulate vitamin D levels. This is why short periods of sun exposure are not only safe but also necessary for the synthesis of this important substance
For those with MS, increased sun exposure may be an easy and safe preventative measure against further cognitive and physical degeneration. As a direct threat to the medical establishment, however, it remains to be seen whether further government warnings and regulations about vitamin D will eventually ban people from sun bathing.
Sources for this article include
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13...
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/hea...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032244_multiple_sclerosis_vitamin_D_deficiency.html#ixzz1LiFYmrfH
(NaturalNews) Is it true that those who suffer from Multiple sclerosis (MS) just need a little sun? Researchers at the University of Oxford seem to think so. In 2006, a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested higher levels of vitamin D might decrease overall risk of developing MS. Now researchers at the University of Oxford are backing that study with further evidence while also suggesting a link between lack of sunlight and how the body responds when faced with an infection. The research concludes that MS is caused by several factors working in combination but clearly correlates to a lack of vitamin D.
Is it really as simple as soaking up some rays?
While the phenomenon of vitamin D deficiency is seen all over the world, countries in the northern hemisphere have been linked to significantly higher rates of MS. Scotland, for example, has one of the largest populations of MS sufferers, while the disease is "virtually unknown" in Africa. Even in sunny areas of the globe, it's not uncommon for people to become vitamin D deficient during the winter, as the sun's rays aren't often high enough to penetrate atmospheric layers.
The research put forth by the University of Oxford suggests that, while those who already have MS may not benefit exponentially simply by increasing levels of vitamin D, getting more sun could be an effective preventative measure against developing the disease and managing symptoms.
More importantly, MS sufferers may be able to boost immunity to other conditions with an increase in vitamin D. A recent study by Anticancer Research affirms that typical adults need much more than the daily dosage recommended by the U.S. Government. According to that research, 4,000-8,000 IUs of vitamin D every day could not only help prevent MS but also several types of cancer and Type 1 diabetes.
The health care industry, of course, won't promote a natural and safe preventative measure for degenerative diseases. Instead, people are warned about the dangers of UV exposure and the risks of vitamin toxicity. With vitamin D deficiency afflicting 90% of the U.S. population, however, it may be time to get a tan. Here are some interesting facts about the relationship between vitamin D and health:
1. It's free. Five to thirty minutes of sunlight a couple of times a week is usually sufficient for helping the body create enough vitamin D
2. Getting enough vitamin D from food is virtually impossible
3. Sunscreens may block the body's ability to generate vitamin D
4. Vitamin D is essential for the absorption of calcium in the body
5. Those who live further from the equator generally require longer periods of sun exposure to generate enough vitamin D
6. A lack of vitamin D can affect bone strength. One theory suggests that women who are deficient in vitamin D can suffer from contracting pelvises, which can result in the death of babies during labor
7. Vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed quickly. It takes months for the body to increase and regulate vitamin D levels. This is why short periods of sun exposure are not only safe but also necessary for the synthesis of this important substance
For those with MS, increased sun exposure may be an easy and safe preventative measure against further cognitive and physical degeneration. As a direct threat to the medical establishment, however, it remains to be seen whether further government warnings and regulations about vitamin D will eventually ban people from sun bathing.
Sources for this article include
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13...
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/hea...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032244_multiple_sclerosis_vitamin_D_deficiency.html#ixzz1LiFYmrfH
EPA, Army Corps draft new Clean Water Act guidelines that threaten to seize control of all water supplies
EPA, Army Corps draft new Clean Water Act guidelines that threaten to seize control of all water supplies
(NaturalNews) On Wednesday, April 27, the Obama administration's US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) jointly released a new draft guidance for the federal Clean Water Act that aims to dramatically expand both the scope of what constitutes a "water source," as well as the legal power federal agencies can exert over those water sources.
If enacted, the proposal will basically allow the EPA and ACE to control any stream, pond, or even puddle that they determine "has a physical, chemical or biological connection" to any larger body of water, which includes even privately-owned water sources.
One of the biggest impacts of the guidance will be to reverse previous Supreme Court decisions that have established the proper constitutional limits on the scope of federal government regulatory authority over not only water, but other natural resources.
By undoing these decisions, the EPA and ACE will essentially be giving themselves a free pass to arbitrarily develop and establish their own rules, and they will be able to do so without proper congressional approval.
"Under this new guidance, a bureaucrat at the EPA will be able to dictate radical new rules," said US Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ). "This is just another example of the Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to circumvent Congress and develop rules and regulations that far exceed the authority granted to the agency under existing public law."
The EPA and ACE, of course, claim that expanded jurisdiction is needed to protect water from pollution and other contaminants. But given how the EPA has already given pollution exemptions to companies like Monsanto in the past, as well as allowed millions of gallons of toxic COREXIT to be dumped into the Gulf of Mexico during the BP disaster, it is clear that protecting water is not necessarily the EPA's primary agenda. Instead, the draft actually takes more control away from individual citizens, and gives it to corrupt bureaucrats -- all in the name of protecting water quality and promoting public health.
"Through vague definitions and broad interpretations laid out in this draft guidance, EPA and the Corps have once again shown little regard for the practical implications of their actions or Congress' intentions under the CWA," said Ashley Lyon, Deputy Environmental Counsel for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. "Despite a letter from 170 members of Congress opposing the guidance, EPA and the Corps have crowned themselves kings of every drop of water in the country - except maybe a backyard swimming pool."
The agencies are accepting public comment on the proposal for 60 days:
http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guida...
You can also read the entire proposal for yourself here:
http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guida...
Sources for this story include:
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle...
http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guida...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032278_water_supplies_EPA.html#ixzz1LdlOpYZa
(NaturalNews) On Wednesday, April 27, the Obama administration's US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) jointly released a new draft guidance for the federal Clean Water Act that aims to dramatically expand both the scope of what constitutes a "water source," as well as the legal power federal agencies can exert over those water sources.
If enacted, the proposal will basically allow the EPA and ACE to control any stream, pond, or even puddle that they determine "has a physical, chemical or biological connection" to any larger body of water, which includes even privately-owned water sources.
One of the biggest impacts of the guidance will be to reverse previous Supreme Court decisions that have established the proper constitutional limits on the scope of federal government regulatory authority over not only water, but other natural resources.
By undoing these decisions, the EPA and ACE will essentially be giving themselves a free pass to arbitrarily develop and establish their own rules, and they will be able to do so without proper congressional approval.
"Under this new guidance, a bureaucrat at the EPA will be able to dictate radical new rules," said US Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ). "This is just another example of the Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to circumvent Congress and develop rules and regulations that far exceed the authority granted to the agency under existing public law."
The EPA and ACE, of course, claim that expanded jurisdiction is needed to protect water from pollution and other contaminants. But given how the EPA has already given pollution exemptions to companies like Monsanto in the past, as well as allowed millions of gallons of toxic COREXIT to be dumped into the Gulf of Mexico during the BP disaster, it is clear that protecting water is not necessarily the EPA's primary agenda. Instead, the draft actually takes more control away from individual citizens, and gives it to corrupt bureaucrats -- all in the name of protecting water quality and promoting public health.
"Through vague definitions and broad interpretations laid out in this draft guidance, EPA and the Corps have once again shown little regard for the practical implications of their actions or Congress' intentions under the CWA," said Ashley Lyon, Deputy Environmental Counsel for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. "Despite a letter from 170 members of Congress opposing the guidance, EPA and the Corps have crowned themselves kings of every drop of water in the country - except maybe a backyard swimming pool."
The agencies are accepting public comment on the proposal for 60 days:
http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guida...
You can also read the entire proposal for yourself here:
http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guida...
Sources for this story include:
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle...
http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guida...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032278_water_supplies_EPA.html#ixzz1LdlOpYZa
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Army Corps of Engineers to blow up Birds Point levee near New Madrid as 500-year flood slams Midwest
Army Corps of Engineers to blow up Birds Point levee near New Madrid as 500-year flood slams Midwest
(NaturalNews) In what is shaping up to be the worst flood situation in nearly a century, the swelling Mississippi and Ohio rivers have now breached their "flood stages" as persistent and torrential rains continue to pummel the Midwest states of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Many areas of these states have already been flooded, and many more are threatened by emerging sand boils and falling levees that have reached or exceeded capacity.
And unbeknownst to many Americans, the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) recently filled 11,000 feet of pipe at the Birds Point levee near Cairo, Ill., with 265 tons of explosives, which it plans to detonate later this evening (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...) in an alleged attempt to divert flood waters from the blighted town into 130,000 acres of rural Missouri farmland located right over the New Madrid Seismic Zone (http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/wea...).
Recent severe weather events throughout the Southeast and Midwest have already ravaged many areas throughout this region, and more threats are on the way as severe storms continue to develop, particularly across areas near the New Madrid Seismic Zone.
This little-known fault actually has the "highest earthquake risk in the United States outside the West Coast," and its destruction zone is 20 times that of major West Coast fault lines due to its unique underlying geology -- so anything significant that disrupts this area could have devastating consequences (http://www.scchealth.org/docs/ems/d...).
For those who are unaware, the New Madrid Seismic Zone is highly active, measuring more than 200 seismic events per year, and about 20 per month. Earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.0 or higher occur approximately once every decade in this zone, and the region is said to be due for another big one at any time.
And when factoring in the ongoing severe flooding caused by excessive rains, last year's BP oil disaster that agitated this seismic region, and the potential detonation of the Birds Point levee within the next few days, the likelihood of a mega-quake is potentially even further intensified.
"Right now the Mississippi River is in the process of going through what we call an epic flood, meaning it's more than historic; it's more than a 100-year flood, it's more like a 500-year flood," said Gene Rench from the National Weather Service, to My Fox Memphis last Thursday. "We could flood many homes, businesses, close down factories, people could drown."
Since the time of Rench's statement, the situation has only gotten progressively worse. And yet this emerging disaster has received little attention from the mainstream media, which has instead chosen to focus on other events that, to the discerning individual, appear more of a distraction than actual news.
People living all around the flood zone are being evacuated, and ACE is planning to blow up a 64-foot levee, but most Americans are too busy focusing on meaningless royalty weddings and flimsy tales of the supposed capture of dead terrorists.
Meanwhile, the ACE plan to help mitigate the flood situation involves literally blowing up the Birds Point levee in Missouri's Mississippi County to protect the blighted town of Cairo, whose population is less than 3,000, while at the same time destroy the land and economy of southeastern Missouri. If destroyed, the levee will send a massive deluge of water right into the plains over the New Madrid fault area.
After deliberation, ACE has just announced that it will, indeed go through with the detonation (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...). But up until Sunday, the group had been prohibited from blowing up the levee, as many in opposition had fought against the proposal. But a Supreme Court ruling paved the way for ACE to blow up the levee, declaring that it has the right to detonate the levee if it determines that course of action to be most appropriate (http://www.timesunion.com/news/arti...).
According to reports, the explosives have already been loaded into the pipes near the levee, and are ready to go (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...). And Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh, the man in charge of making the decision, has now ordered that they be detonated.
Earlier this morning, Jim Pogue, the Public Affairs Office Chief for ACS, explained to a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the details of the detonation and how it will go down. You can view that video interview here:
http://www.stltoday.com/youtube_941...
Sources for this story include:
http://www.mvm.usace.army.mil/publi...
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/nation...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032259_New_Madrid_fault_flood.html#ixzz1LEyKU08Y
(NaturalNews) In what is shaping up to be the worst flood situation in nearly a century, the swelling Mississippi and Ohio rivers have now breached their "flood stages" as persistent and torrential rains continue to pummel the Midwest states of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Many areas of these states have already been flooded, and many more are threatened by emerging sand boils and falling levees that have reached or exceeded capacity.
And unbeknownst to many Americans, the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) recently filled 11,000 feet of pipe at the Birds Point levee near Cairo, Ill., with 265 tons of explosives, which it plans to detonate later this evening (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...) in an alleged attempt to divert flood waters from the blighted town into 130,000 acres of rural Missouri farmland located right over the New Madrid Seismic Zone (http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/wea...).
Recent severe weather events throughout the Southeast and Midwest have already ravaged many areas throughout this region, and more threats are on the way as severe storms continue to develop, particularly across areas near the New Madrid Seismic Zone.
This little-known fault actually has the "highest earthquake risk in the United States outside the West Coast," and its destruction zone is 20 times that of major West Coast fault lines due to its unique underlying geology -- so anything significant that disrupts this area could have devastating consequences (http://www.scchealth.org/docs/ems/d...).
For those who are unaware, the New Madrid Seismic Zone is highly active, measuring more than 200 seismic events per year, and about 20 per month. Earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.0 or higher occur approximately once every decade in this zone, and the region is said to be due for another big one at any time.
And when factoring in the ongoing severe flooding caused by excessive rains, last year's BP oil disaster that agitated this seismic region, and the potential detonation of the Birds Point levee within the next few days, the likelihood of a mega-quake is potentially even further intensified.
"Right now the Mississippi River is in the process of going through what we call an epic flood, meaning it's more than historic; it's more than a 100-year flood, it's more like a 500-year flood," said Gene Rench from the National Weather Service, to My Fox Memphis last Thursday. "We could flood many homes, businesses, close down factories, people could drown."
Since the time of Rench's statement, the situation has only gotten progressively worse. And yet this emerging disaster has received little attention from the mainstream media, which has instead chosen to focus on other events that, to the discerning individual, appear more of a distraction than actual news.
People living all around the flood zone are being evacuated, and ACE is planning to blow up a 64-foot levee, but most Americans are too busy focusing on meaningless royalty weddings and flimsy tales of the supposed capture of dead terrorists.
Meanwhile, the ACE plan to help mitigate the flood situation involves literally blowing up the Birds Point levee in Missouri's Mississippi County to protect the blighted town of Cairo, whose population is less than 3,000, while at the same time destroy the land and economy of southeastern Missouri. If destroyed, the levee will send a massive deluge of water right into the plains over the New Madrid fault area.
After deliberation, ACE has just announced that it will, indeed go through with the detonation (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...). But up until Sunday, the group had been prohibited from blowing up the levee, as many in opposition had fought against the proposal. But a Supreme Court ruling paved the way for ACE to blow up the levee, declaring that it has the right to detonate the levee if it determines that course of action to be most appropriate (http://www.timesunion.com/news/arti...).
According to reports, the explosives have already been loaded into the pipes near the levee, and are ready to go (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...). And Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh, the man in charge of making the decision, has now ordered that they be detonated.
Earlier this morning, Jim Pogue, the Public Affairs Office Chief for ACS, explained to a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the details of the detonation and how it will go down. You can view that video interview here:
http://www.stltoday.com/youtube_941...
Sources for this story include:
http://www.mvm.usace.army.mil/publi...
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/nation...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032259_New_Madrid_fault_flood.html#ixzz1LEyKU08Y
Sunday, May 1, 2011
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