Marine Kidnapped Over Facebook Posts: ‘I Am Scared For My Country’

Brandon Raub makes first public comments following ordeal

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

In his first public comments since being kidnapped by authorities over political posts on Facebook, former Marine Brandon Raub tells John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute that he is scared for his country.

Raub’s case went viral on the Internet earlier this month when on August 16, the former Iraq and Afghanistan veteran was kidnapped from his home by police, FBI and Secret Service agents and forcibly incarcerated in a psychiatric ward by authorities in Virginia in response to Facebook posts which the FBI deemed “terrorist” in nature.

Raub was released after a week when a judge concluded that the original petition ordering him to be detained contained no information whatsoever on the reasons behind Raub’s incarceration.

Raub explained that one of his main concerns in being publicly vocal about his concerns with the activity of the U.S. government was executive orders that allow the state to seize dictatorial power in a time of crisis, including the seizure of private property, communications and the institution of forced labor camps.

Raub explains how he set up a Facebook group with his brother and sister which was based on the Illuminati card game, which contextualizes some of the comments that the FBI dubiously claimed were “terrorist” in nature, including a reference to Raub ‘sharpening his axe’.

Raub said the quote was a metaphor, adding, “The truth is very powerful and it has the ability to cut, truth is not always nice,” pointing out that Jesus would have probably also been investigated as a terrorist for encouraging his followers to sell their cloak and buy a sword.

Relaying the sequence of events that led to him being kidnapped by authorities, Raub said that two FBI agents initially came to the door to talk to him while police who looked like they were attempting to conceal their presence lined the road.

“At the beginning it was very vague, it was almost as if they wanted me to volunteer information,” said Raub, adding that he had to draw out of them the reason for the visit, which eventually turned out to be the content of his Facebook posts.

Raub then stepped outside to speak to a Secret Service agent who quizzed him about his political beliefs.

“I mentioned the Bilderberg Group and their violation of politicians in this country meeting with them and specifically the Logan Act,” said Raub, adding that the Secret Service agents were taking notes to research the topics further at a later time.

After around 15 minutes of conversation, the police surrounded Raub and grabbed him, failing to read him his MIranda rights. When Raub appealed to the police to allow him to put some clothes on, even at gunpoint, the cops refused.

“I realized that they weren’t going to read me my rights and they weren’t arresting me, so I basically just decided to make it more difficult for them to take me,” said Raub, explaining why the video shows him dropping to the floor.

After his detention, Raub was given a hearing date and moved to a psychiatric ward three hours away from his family and legal team. Shortly before his eventual release, a psychiatrist threatened to forcibly medicate Raub in order to “brainwash” him.

Asked what he thought of the whole experience, Raub responded, “It made me scared for my country, the idea that a man can be snatched out of his property without being read his rights should be extremely alarming to all Americans.”

John Whitehead emphasizes how 20 people in the same county as Raub have been similarly “disappeared” so far in the month of August alone.

Raub responded by referring to George Orwell’s 1984 and how former President Bill Clinton recently called for a ministry of truth similar to that depicted in Orwell’s dystopian classic to monitor content on the Internet.

It remains to be seen whether the authorities will again target Brandon Raub given the outpouring of support he received from the Internet community. However, as we highlighted last week, Americans across the country and particularly veterans are being targeted for psychiatric kidnappings and evaluations by the state as part of a system that increasingly resembles the infamous psikhushka psychiatric prisons in the former Soviet Union, where dissidents were sent to be isolated, brainwashed, and have their political ideas discredited amongst the general public.

Just In Case: State of Alaska to Stockpile Mass Amounts of Food and Supplies in Giant Warehouses

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Aug 30, 2012

With its remote location and dependence on the uninterrupted flow of supplies from the lower 48 states, the Governor of Alaska has made disaster readiness a hallmark of his administration.

Gov. Sean Parnell worries a major earthquake or volcanic eruption could leave the state’s 720,000 residents stranded and cut off from food and supply lines. His answer: Build giant warehouses full of emergency food and supplies, just in case.

For some in the lower 48, it may seem like an extreme step. But Parnell says this is just Alaska.

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“We have a different motivation to do this, because help is a long ways away,” said John Madden, Alaska’s emergency management director.

The state plans two food stockpiles in or near Fairbanks and Anchorage, two cities that also have military bases. Construction on the two storage facilities will begin this fall, and the first food deliveries are targeted for December. The goal is to have enough food to feed 40,000 people for up to a week, including three days of ready-to-eat meals and four days of bulk food that can be prepared and cooked for large groups. To put that number into perspective, Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, has about 295,000 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and Juneau, its third largest, about 31,000.

It’s not unusual for states that routinely experience hurricanes or other large-scale disasters to have supplies like water, ready-to-eat meals, cots and blankets. But Alaska is interested in stocking food with at least a five-year shelf life that meets the nutrition, health and cultural requirements of the state’s unique demographics.

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An estimated 90 percent of commodities entering Alaska are delivered through the Port of Anchorage. Air service is also a critical link to the outside world and generally the only way to reach many rural communities. A volcanic blast emitting a large amount of smoke and ash could disrupt supply lines by air and water for an extended period, Madden said, and an earthquake could knock out airport runways or ports. Those are just some of the disasters that might require emergency supplies.

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State officials have been working to encourage individual responsibility, with talks at schools and public gatherings. Emergency management officials plan to have a booth at the Alaska State Fair. A statewide disaster drill is planned for October.

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Over the past year, the state has acquired or purchased water purification units and generators designed to work in cold climates, including units that could power facilities like hospitals, Madden said. Officials also are determining what the state needs in terms of emergency medical supplies and shelter, he said.

Source: Business Week

Alaska’s Governor understands the fragility of modern just-in-time supply lines, and rather than leaving his state completely unprepared for a disaster as Louisiana did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he is taking steps to have at least the bare necessities on hand in the event of a worst-case scenario.

Of note is that the State will only be stockpiling about five days worth of food and critical supplies for its population. Definitely a good start, but certainly not enough for any prolonged disaster that may strike their ports or the Continental United States. That’s why they are urging individuals to take it upon themselves to prepare as well.

As we have seen with every major disaster in the world over the last century, when an emergency strikes the government will be overwhelmed. Help will not be on the way – police, medical personnel and local government could potentially disappear in a serious emergency as first responders would go home to be with their families, or simply be out of contact due to downed communication lines.

Like Alaska, every American should prepare for the absence of government assistance and create a well rounded preparedness plan to deal with the aftermath of a disaster, whether natural or man-made.

Gates Foundation Funds ‘Anti-Vaccine Surveillance and Alert System’ and ‘On-Demand Vaccine Delivery via Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’

Cryptogon
August 30, 2012

Via: TechNet21:

An anti-vaccine surveillance and alert system
Seth Kalichman of the http://www.uconn.edu/ in the USA will establish an Internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analysing, and counteracting communication campaigns containing misinformation regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts.

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On-demand vaccine delivery via low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles
George Barbastathis of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in the USA will lead a team to develop unmanned aerial vehicles that can be deployed by health care workers via cell phones to swiftly transport vaccines to rural locations and alleviate last-mile delivery problems and improve cost, quality, and coverage of vaccine supplies.

COMMENT: Additionally, the B&M Gates Foundation is funding plenty of other vaccine related programs (as usual), giving away their larger attempt to fight back against vaccine skeptics and push for total global saturation of vaccines, including numerous measures for inventory & distribution improvements (READ HERE):

A “bulletin board” for broadcasting vaccine supply and demand
A mobile cloud system to achieve universal vaccination
A passive solar thermal standard for vaccine storage rooms
An anti-vaccine surveillance and alert system
A geospatial optimization tool (for vaccine tracking)
Compostable vaccine packaging
Net-zero energy warehousing systems for drugs and vaccines
On-demand vaccine delivery via low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles
Phase change material freeze-prevention liner for vaccines
Profitable vaccine distribution in emerging markets
Remote monitoring of the cold chain distribution of vaccines
Single-vial system
SMS mobile technology for vaccine coverage and acceptance
Use of bar codes for vaccine introductions in poor countries
Vaccine freeze-damage assessment for improved supply systems

Texas Students Revolt Against Mandatory RFID Tracking Chips

Spy tags track kids even after they leave school

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, August 30, 2012

Students and parents at two San Antonio schools are in revolt over a program that forces kids to wear RFID tracking name tags which are used to pinpoint their location on campus as well as outside school premises.

Students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School will be mandated to wear the tags from today which will be used to track them on campus as well as when they enter and leave school.

Andrea Hernandez is leading a group of students who refuse to wear the tags because in her words, “It makes me uncomfortable. It’s an invasion of my privacy,” she told KSN.com.

Hernandez is being backed by parents and privacy experts like Dr. Katherine Albrecht who point out that the spy chips are more about making money than keeping students safe, as the schools claim.

By reducing truancy and tardiness, the school stands to net $2 million dollars in state funding.

Hernandez points out that the system is all but useless because students will just leave their tag in their locker or hand it to a friend to avoid being monitored.

Parents and students have rallied to organize a protest against the spy chips which is set to take place today.

Hernandez also fears that the RFID chips could be used to track students outside of school, a valid concern given past examples of how such technology has been abused by school officials.

In 2010, the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania used school-issued laptops to spy on kids in their own home. The controversy ignited after student Blake Robbins was disciplined for “improper behavior in his home”. It turned out that school officials had installed software on the laptops that used the computer’s webcam to send images back to the school server every 15 seconds.

Hernandez also pointed out that sexual predators could use the tracking system to stalk children because the RFID tag continues to send a signal even after students have left school premises.

“With a smart phone you can use the option to use your locator but this I can’t turn it off,” Hernandez said.

As we reported earlier this week, similar programs where students are tracked both inside and outside school are already in operation across the country.

Children in nine Austin schools are being forced to carry around GPS tracking devices everywhere they go under the justification of preventing truancy. The kids are also assigned a “mentor” with whom they must check in several times a day.

Such a system is hardly much different from prisoners who are mandated to wear a GPS ankle bracelet and regularly check in with parole officers.

Indeed, treating schoolchildren like prisoners in anticipation for their introduction into outside world, a surveillance state in which they are also expected to acquiesce to an omnipresent big brother, is seemingly the ultimate goal of such programs.

Video Shows Cop Kicking Defenseless Man in the Throat

New police brutality clip hits You Tube

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, August 30, 2012

A new police brutality video shows a St. Paul police officer kicking a defenseless man in the throat while he lay on the ground.

The clip, which was uploaded to You Tube yesterday, begins with the man prostrate on the floor. According to the man filming the footage, he has already been tased and maced in the face.

The victim asks the cop over and over again what he is being arrested for but the officer refuses to answer.

“Can you tell me what’s going on? You don’t have a warrant for my arrest,” the man pleads as he coughs as a result of being pepper sprayed.

At the 1:15 mark in the video, the cop kicks the man in the throat for no apparent reason.

The man is then handcuffed before the officer punches him in the head. He is then slammed onto a patrol car and held down as his hair is pulled back.

As officers struggle to put the man in the patrol car, other cops try to intimidate the man recording the video.

From the video it appears as if around ten police officers are involved in the arrest of one man.

Details surrounding the incident, which took place at the corner of Woodbridge and Milford streets, have now been released. The victim of the assault was named as 30-year-old Eric Hightower, who was arrested for terroristic threats, damage to property and obstruction of the legal process, but crucially has not been charged.

The officer responsible for the assault – Jesse Zilge – has been placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated.

St. Paul Police Chief Tom Smith told CBS Minnesota that the department has “serious concerns” about the officer’s use of force in the video.

This footage again illustrates how police brutality has become endemic in America – particularly targeting black people.

Earlier this month we reported on the case of 21-year-old Chavis Carter, who Jonesboro Police claim shot himself in the head while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car.

Despite being placed in double-lock handcuffs and having been searched, police claim Carter took his own life with a .380 caliber handgun, an explanation the man’s mother claims is a cover-up for murder.

As police brutality in America escalates to new heights of violence and abuse, more and more unprovoked deaths are occurring, but punishments for officers who shoot victims dead are often miniscule.

In January 2009, 22-year-old Oscar Grant was shot in the back by policeman Johannes Mehserle as he lay on a platform at a railway station in Oakland California. Mehserle was charged with involuntary manslaughter after he claimed he had meant to use his Taser and not a gun and ended up serving just two years in jail for killing Grant.

Citigroup whistleblower awarded $31 million after exposing lending fraud

Citigroup whistleblower awarded $31 million after exposing lending fraud

(NaturalNews) Growing up, small-town, rural Michigan girl Sherry Hunt said she never thought she'd ever be near the top of a major Wall Street bank.

In fact, at age 16, she got married and had no plans to go to college. She was more concerned about finding a job when, at age 17, she had her first child.

A friend helped her: She got a job in 1975 processing home loans at a small bank in a place about as far away as you can get from Wall Street - Alaska.

Over the next three decades, Bloomberg Magazine reports, Hunt managed to grow in the banking industry. She moved - from Alaska and up the corporate ladder - to higher banking positions in Missouri, Minnesota, and Indiana.

And though she left the country, the country never left her; on days off, when she and her husband weren't spending time fishing or doing other things outdoors, she would often ride her horse in Wild West shows, sometimes dressing up as the legendary Annie Oakley.

And always, she enjoyed the home mortgage business. She enjoyed helping people buy homes, the magazine said.

Moving on up

In November 2004, Hunt had an opportunity to join Citigroup and, at 55, became a vice president in the firm's mortgage division.

It was high times for the housing market; it was booming, with Citigroup - the nation's sixth-largest U.S. lender, accounting for 3.5 percent of all of the country's home loans. Hunt's role was supervising 65 underwriters at CitiMortgage's extensive, upscale headquarters in O'Fallon, Mo., near St. Louis.

Hunt and her team were financial goalies, of sorts; their job was to protect Citigroup from fraud and bad investments.

"She and her colleagues inspected loans Citi wanted to buy from outside brokers and lenders to see whether they met the bank's standards. The mortgages had to have properly signed paperwork, verifiable borrower income and realistic appraisals," said the magazine.

Citi was to vouch for the loans, to make sure they were of good quality before selling them to investors or approving them for government mortgage insurance. Citi's approval meant that investors were assured the banking giant would back the mortgages if borrowers stopped paying their notes.

But because housing was indeed booming, demand from investors was incredibly strong for mortgages packaged into securities, leaving Citi unable to process them quickly enough.

In O'Fallon, Hunt was essentially supervising an assembly line operation of approval that helped the hyperinflation of the housing bubble whose implosion would eventually rock U.S. - and global - financial markets to their core.

Hunt says the factory-like pace was so fast it was impossible to examine every loan.

Go along to get along?

By 2006, the bank was buying bad paper: mortgages from outside lenders containing doctored paperwork, missing signatures, bogus appraisals. Hunt's job was to identify these defects and report them to bosses, which she did regularly in written reports.

But her warnings were buried - before, during and even after financial collapse, clear into 2012, she told the magazine.

In March 2011, after Citigroup was handed $45 billion in taxpayer-funded bailout money via the U.S. government, in addition to billions more from the Federal Reserve, Hunt and a colleague were asked by Jeffery Polkinghorne, an O'Fallon executive in charge of loan quality, to remain in a conference room following a meeting.

Hunt says that meeting was brief, fierce and to the point: Polkinghorne was telling them a number of loans classified as defective would have to fall, or else "your asses will be on the line."

She says it was clear what she and her colleague were being asked to do.

And she said she'd have no part of it.

"All a dishonest person had to do was change the reports to make things look better than they were," she told the magazine. "I wouldn't play along."

Rather, she took Citigroup to court instead - and she won.

"I set up an appointment with human resources and ethics and told them everything," she told Reuters. "They did some cursory investigation. The sad part is, they never ever told me, 'Sherry, you were right,' or 'Sherry, you're looking at this wrong.' There were no assurances."

No regrets

In fact, Citigroup didn't dispute her case at all. The banking giant didn't even mount a defense. So, on Feb. 15, 2012, the bank agreed to pay $158.3 million to the U.S. government to settle the case, said the magazine.

And, as a reward for not playing along with her employer, Hunt received $31 million of that settlement.

The fact that Citigroup was still behaving badly as late as 2012 just demonstrates how a big bank that got into big trouble still hasn't learned the lessons of the credit crisis, despite tens of billions in bailout money paid for by taxpayers, said Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.

"This case demonstrates that the notion that the bailed-out banks have somehow found their conscience and have reformed their ways in the aftermath of the financial crisis is pure myth," he said.

Hunt is reflective of her time at Citigroup.

"Citi is full of wonderful people, conscientious people," she said.

In the end, she said she made the right decision.

"I didn't care if I lost my house, and I knew I would risk my career, but I was willing to go forward even if we had to start over in an apartment and I had to get a job outside the mortgage industry," she said. "And I have no regrets."

Sources:

http://www.bloomberg.com

http://www.huffingtonpost.com

http://www.stltoday.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036991_Citigroup_whistleblower_financial_reward.html#ixzz24zhJLssz

Chinese fluoride chemical factory workers attack German TV crew

Chinese fluoride chemical factory workers attack German TV crew

 (NaturalNews) A German television crew was the target of a recent attack by workers at a Chinese fluoride production factory who thought the crew members were spies trying to steal company secrets. The U.K.'s Guardian reports that a team of armed Chinese police officers had to physically stop the mob of employees at Do-Fluoride Chemicals Co., Ltd., from potentially trying to kill the four-person film crew after first holding its members hostage for nine hours.

Do-Fluoride manufactures a number of different fluoride chemicals, including sodium fluoride, sodium fluosilicate, and industrial hydrofluoric acid, all of which are exported to the U.S. and forcibly added to public water supplies throughout the nation for the stated purpose of preventing tooth decay. Producing fluoride chemicals is extremely toxic; however, this is why the film crew was there trying to capture footage for a video documentary on pollution.

But when the film crew from ARD in Germany arrived at Do-Fluoride's main facility in Jiaozuo, fluoride workers went irate and began snatching the crew's video cameras and recording tape. After barricading the crew in a company cafeteria, many of the fluoride workers reportedly went outside the room and began chanting "kill the foreign spies," until local police finally arrived nine hours later to safely escort the film crew out of the building.

According to reports, senior officials at the Do-Fluoride factory were actually the ones responsible for provoking the workers to initiate the fight in the first place. They presumably did this by giving the workers false information about why the film crew had come to the facility, for the apparent purpose of trying to hide what was really taking place at the plant.

"We were considered spies who had tried to gather intelligence regarding Do-Fluoride's technology," said the film crew to reporters. "Factory officials appeared to have misinformed workers and agitated (them) against us."

Similar incidents involving violence and threats of murder against journalists have taken place in other parts of China in recent months as well. A reporter covering an environmental protest in Nantong back in July; for instance, says he was pushed to the ground and beaten by as many as 20 Chinese police officers after they stole his camera and recording equipment. Following the incident, the reporter's paper, Asahi Shimbun out of Japan, filed a formal complaint with the Chinese government. (http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201207290022)

"We cannot excuse it because it is extremely malicious, obstructive behavior against the reporter's legitimate news gathering activity," said Tsutomu Watanabe, the Tokyo-based international news editor for Asahi Shimbun. "We protest to the Chinese government and demand an apology and return of his camera and press ID."

Sources for this article include:

http://www.guardian.co.uk

http://www.businessinsider.com

http://www.foxnews.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036977_fluoride_chemical_factory_China.html#ixzz24zgZHdnm

Natural strategies to beat multiple sclerosis

Natural strategies to beat multiple sclerosis

 (NaturalNews) Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease in which the myelin sheath on the nerve endings gets inflamed and damaged. This leads to scarring of the neurological tissue in the brain and spinal cord. While the medical model has very little support, many individuals have found ways to beat multiple sclerosis with natural lifestyle strategies.

MS is a condition in which the body's own immune system attacks the fatty myelin sheaths that insulate nerve tissue. This results in scar tissue plaques that disrupt neurological signals throughout the body. MS actually means multiple scars/plaques/lesions. One of the major areas that is affected is the white matter of the brain and spinal cord which is mostly myelin.

MS is a sign of a hyper responsive, mal-coordinated immune system. The keys to stabilize and re-coordinate the immune response are to optimize vitamin D3 levels, avoid inflammatory foods and repair the gut and neurological processing.

One of the major epidemiological factors associated with MS is its striking difference in the number of cases based on geography and climate. Those living close to the equator have significantly lower risk of MS. This is due to the beneficial effects of regular sun exposure and vitamin D intake in modulating healthy immune responses.

In the Northern hemisphere, most people have increased vitamin D3 levels in the fall after a full summer of increased UV light exposure. January-April are usually when the lowest levels are reached. A 2009 study showed that more individuals who develop MS and other auto-immune related conditions are born in May than in November. This would indicate that low motherly D3 levels lead to developmental and maladaptive immunological responses in the child. D3 levels should be between 70-100 ng/ml for optimal immunological expression.

Heal the gut

Chronic auto-immune and other inflammatory-based issues are very often associated with a damaged gut lining. This leaky gut causes undigested food particles to pass into the bloodstream where they are tagged by the immune system and attacked with massive inflammatory processes that have the ability to affect nearly every system in the body.

The most common food-based culprits include all processed foods, artificial sweeteners/preservatives and products containing gluten. Soy, peanuts, pasteurized dairy, eggs and other heavy proteins are often not tolerated well.

An anti-inflammatory lifestyle is very important for full recovery from MS. The most important anti-inflammatory foods include good fat sources such as coconut, avocado, olive oil, grass-fed butter and purified fish oils. Phytonutrient-rich fruits and vegetables that are low in sugar such as green leafy veggies, onions, garlic, herbs, citrus & berries are vital for recovery.

Fermented raw dairy from grass-fed cows or goats in the form of amasai, kefir and raw cheese along with an abundance of cultured vegetables should be a staple part of the diet. Cultured veggies include non-processed sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, etc. Additionally, fermented drinks such as coconut water kefir, fermented whey and apple cider vinegar should be used in abundance.

High quality protein sources such as grass-fed beef, wild game, wild fish and organic eggs contain loads of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids. Individuals with MS should consume very high amounts of these omega-3 rich foods along with vegetables and anti-inflammatory herbs such as turmeric, ginger, rosemary, oregano, thyme, cinnamon and clove.

People with autoimmune related disorders such as MS are likely to have neurological dysfunction in their upper neck. Neurological interference at the occipital region along with C1-C2 affects immunological coordination. Well trained chiropractors can analyze these regions and give specific adjustments and exercises to restore balance and optimal neurological expression to re-coordinate the immune system.

Sources for this article include:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis
http://www.jabfm.org/content/22/6/698
http://www.naturalnews.com/032341_Crohns_disease_prevention.html
http://www.naturalnews.com
http://www.naturalnews.com/035840_fibromyalgia_remedies_solutions.html

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036983_multiple_sclerosis_natural_remedies_inflammatory_disease.html#ixzz24zfXkjN8

Are cigarette smokers inhaling fumes from plastic?

Are cigarette smokers inhaling fumes from plastic?

(NaturalNews) Cigarette filters may look like harmless cotton bound up in a tight little roll surrounded by yellow paper, but filters are specifically designed and manufactured with a plastic called cellulose acetate, used to accumulate smoke components and toxic chemicals. First of all, nicotine cannot be delivered in its pure form to the smoker, since it is among the deadliest of all insecticides, so this insidious plastic is used to absorb some of the lethal vapors and also to prevent tobacco from entering the smoker's mouth. Nobody would smoke if their teeth turned brown after one pack. Lastly, the filter serves as a mouthpiece that won't collapse. That's the good news.

The bad news is that the vapors from the plastic are more detrimental to the body than all of the other 3,999 chemicals in a cigarette. Other materials have been tried, tested, surveyed and manipulated, but all are rejected in favor of the "roasty toasty" flavor acetate produces. In fact, some research shows that the MAIN REASON for cigarette manufacturers continued use of cellulose acetate IS THE TASTE. Tobacco companies spend millions, even billions, researching the best filters.

On top of all that bad news, a polyvinyl acetate emulsion is used as the glue that seams the wrapper. Add to the equation carpet glue from the new "fire safe" cigarettes and you're guaranteed to be inhaling fumes from burning plastic with every puff. And now, thanks to indoor smoking bans, millions more cigarette butts are accumulating outside of buildings and thus polluting the environment even more. Cigarette butts accumulate because they do not disintegrate for up to 15 years. If one person smokes a pack and a half a day, he/she will consume more than 10,000 cigarettes in just one year. This number of filters would fill five liters. Worldwide annual consumption of cigarettes leaves enough filters around the earth to fill nearly three billion liters. In Australia, cigarette butts account for 50 percent of all litter.

Photo film plastic is burning holes in your lungs

Three broad types of materials are used for making photo film: cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetates, and polyester. These materials have been used as a "base" or support for negatives, positive transparencies, microfilm, and many other photographic products. Both cellulose nitrate and cellulose acetates are unstable, which means their degradation poses serious health and safety hazards. (http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/5Photographs/01ShortGuide.php)

Better known as cellulose acetate "tow fibers," at least 95 percent of commercial cigarette filters are made this way. The white fibers are thinner than sewing thread, and when packed tight in a little bundle, resembles cotton. But if a cigarette filter was simply made of cotton, and you threw it in the street or the grass, it would be gone after a couple good rain storms. (http://www.longwood.edu/cleanva/ciglitterarticle.htm)

It all started back in 1952, when a company called Eastman, now a leading global manufacturer of acetate, introduced the "acetate tow" to the commercial cigarette industry. These "tows" are also used for fiber-tip pens. (http://www.eastman.com/Markets/Tobacco/Pages/Introduction.aspx)

That awful, uneasy feeling drives the next "nic" fit

That awful, uneasy feeling that you get from smoking plastic is what drives the need for a fix of nicotine, which is only the temporary relief (like aspirin) from a chemically induced cigarette "hangover." (http://www.naturalnews.com/036175_smoking_addiction_hangover.html)
It's a three for one deal now, ever since the late 1960s, when two icons of Big Tobacco, Marlboro & Kool, started adding ammonia to the plastic and nicotine, and the combo works so well that 45 million smokers (that's one in every five adults) in the United States are completely hooked. (http://www.rkmc.com/Minnesota_Tobacco_Litigation_Case_Result.htm)

The CDC analyzed the 2010 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data to describe U.S. adult smokers' interest in quitting and found that over 68 percent of current smokers want to stop smoking, at least 52 percent made a "quit attempt" in the past year, and only about six percent successfully quit in the past year. (http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/)

But the CDC language shows that government "scare tactics" don't really offer realistic ways to help smokers quit, all they offer is scary advertising, which is proven to fail miserably (less than five percent success rate). (http://www.everydayhealth.com)

Zero U.S. regulations on cigarette "lethality"

If you look at the label of a bottle of whiskey or wine, you will see what is called "alcohol by volume" and "proof" indicators, so you know how much you're getting and can (hopefully) regulate how much and how fast you drink what you CHOOSE to drink. Yet, somehow, with cigarettes, there's no indication of how much nicotine you are getting, not to mention how much ammonia and plastic is used to juice up the kick and the taste. Where are the regulations? (http://www.pmi.com)

The last time I checked, nicotine was WAY more addictive than alcohol, and caused far worse short and long term health implications. If someone were to eat 10 cigarette butts out of a dare, they would die of a nicotine overdose.

Cellulose acetate may absorb a large proportion of the harmful components of tobacco smoke, but the end result is chemical addiction for smokers, beyond just nicotine. (http://www.springerlink.com/content/j1n44512356x0313/) Imagine for a moment if smokers all walked around referring to their habit this way, "We're going outside to smoke some ammonia and photo film, care to join us?" Would you still partake? Would you ask if it was "menthol" photo film, or if it was your favorite brand of ammonia? What if everyone said that it gets rid of your nervousness, your anxiety, your headache, and STRESS? Would you be tempted, even if you weren't a smoker? I don't think kids at school would think it was so cool anymore.

There are many programs, patches, hypnotherapy, and even e-cigs (electronic cigarettes) that serve as a way out of the commercial "plastic" smoking madness, but most people, if given the chance to change their habit in any way, would prefer to just go cold turkey when the "time is right." The only problem is that the time never "seems right." Since the U.S. government does NOT HELP smokers quit with their horror stories, you might try to be realistic about it and use a positive approach, or pass along the cure to your friend, spouse, co-worker or neighbor who speaks of quitting.

14AndOut helps smokers "get out" in 14 days or fewer

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Sources for this article include:

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/

http://www.cdc.gov

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http://www.longwood.edu/cleanva/cigbuttfilters.htm

http://www.springerlink.com/content/j1n44512356x0313/

http://www.eastman.com/Markets/Tobacco/Pages/Introduction.aspx

http://www.pmi.com

http://www.everydayhealth.com

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Antioxidants from food - The five best sources

Antioxidants from food - The five best sources

(NaturalNews) Cells need oxygen to metabolize minerals and vitamins to survive and thrive. When cells cannot use oxygen to metabolize, they resort to fermenting glucose for their energy.

That's what cancer cells are about. That's why anything that oxygenates cells works to cure cancer, and that's why cancer patients should avoid sugar.

The paradox of cellular oxidation is that incompletely utilized oxygen can cause cellular damage. What happens is oxygen molecules can form free radicals when interacting with certain problematic molecules, such as heavy metals and toxins.

Free radicals are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired or odd numbers of electrons that become reactive trouble makers, causing cellular and DNA damage.

This sudden rush of free radicals can start a chain reaction of damage to healthy cells causing them to function poorly or even die. A chain reaction of cellular oxidative stress in a particular organ can cause that organ to not function properly or become cancerous.

Fortunately, the body comes equipped with an antioxidant defense system. Antioxidants are molecules that can safely interact with free radicals and stop the chain reaction from continuing or even starting. There are many enzymes that can be part of an antioxidant defense system.

But when too many of those problematic molecules from our toxic environment overwhelm our naturally existing antioxidants, oxidative stress chain reactions will break through the overwhelmed antioxidant defense system.

Many of those protective free radical scavenging enzymes depend on support from micronutrient minerals such as selenium and vitamins E, C, and beta-carotene. Those nutrients are not manufactured by the body, so they must be supplied by food and/or supplements.

The fact that we live in a toxic environment requires more antioxidants now than over a century ago. If you exercise regularly, you do increase the potential for oxidative stress, making consumption of antioxidants even more important.

ORAC daily consumption up to 50,000 units is recommended if you're physically active.

Five excellent food sources for antioxidants

The level of antioxidant capacity in a food is measured as Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC). ORAC values are measured per 100 grams of weight, or 3.5 ounces. Here are five high ORAC food types, which are best eaten fresh from organic sources.

Fruits and Berries: The Himalayan goji berry and tropical Acai berries rank highest with ORAC ratings of 25,000 and 18,000 units respectively. Blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, raspberries, pomegranates, and strawberries have high ORAC ratings.

Almost any berry will provide a good amount of antioxidants. Cherries and apples are top ORAC providers also. Deeper colors indicate richer antioxidant bioflavonoid content.

Dried fruits rank high as well. Raisins (dried grapes) come in with a 10,000 unit ORAC rating with prunes close behind at 8,000.

Vegetables: Cooked veggies that have greens leading, especially spinach, kale, and broccoli. Artichokes have the highest ORAC rating, between 9,000 and 10,000. A surprise entry is the Russet potato.

Legumes: Black beans and kidney beans have the highest ORAC ratings. It's best to buy them dry from bulk organic bins, soak them overnight and cook the next day. Legumes also provide a good deal of fiber to help your digestion.

Nuts and grains: Pecans have the highest ORAC rating at 18,000, with walnuts and almonds following. Steel cut oats are high in antioxidants along with quinoa and whole grains.

Miscellaneous: Chocolate and coffee lovers rejoice, they are both high ORAC foods. Chocolate should be unprocessed, dark and high in cacao content. Cacao, the basis of chocolate, has an ORAC rating over 50,000 per 100 grams. Coffee is between 15,000 and 18,000 ORAC units .

The master internal antioxidant glutathione recycles and rejuvenates most antioxidants. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027114_glutathione_antioxidant_GSH.html)

Sources for this article include:

http://www.lifed.com/10-best-food-sources-of-antioxidants

http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/antiox.html

http://www.everydiet.org/diet/o2-diet

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Hot Mic Catches Republican Praising Censorship of Ron Paul

“Well done! Whoever controlled the microphone did a great job”

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

During a roll call of states at the Republican National Convention yesterday, an attendee was caught on a hot mic praising the moment where Ron Paul’s delegate result was accidentally censored as a result of an audio failure.

As representatives of Georgia read out their delegate results, Ron Paul’s name and result was lost as a result of a microphone failure.

“Well done! Whoever controlled the microphone did a great job,” one of the RNC attendees standing nearby was caught saying as others around him snickered.

The results were repeated, proving that the act of censorship was not deliberate, but the attitude of establishment Republicans in welcoming the sidelining of the Texas Congressman is emblematic of how Paul and his delegates have been treated by the GOP establishment at every turn.

Paul-nominated delegations were intentionally seated in the bleachers and on the fringes of the convention center so as to limit their vocal influence as much as possible in Mitt Romney’s home city.

“Delegates from U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Northern Marianas Islands get better seats than Ron Paul’s supporters,” reported the Houston Chronicle.

Ron Paul’s campaign manager Jesse Benton, who many have accused of sabotaging the Paul campaign in order to advance his own political career, failed to kick up a fuss and in fact all but welcomed the situation, stating, “I am glad so many of our delegates get to sit close together.”

Representative Justin Amash (R-Mich.) reacted somewhat differently, calling for an audit of the Republican National Committee.

However, Paul supporters were not to be completely silenced, expressing their fury at a last minute rule change which greased the skids for an unchallenged anointment of Mitt Romney by chanting “let him speak” and “point of order” during the convention, while others walked out in protest.

As the New American explains, “The RNC’s rule change effectively disenfranchised Republicans supporting anyone other than the Establishment’s man and left 10 of Maine’s 24 delegates locked out of the process, preventing them from casting votes for Ron Paul.”

This meant Paul was robbed of a chance to speak at the convention in a move that will effectively nullify any future effort for any grass roots candidate to influence the GOP.

The rule change now forces delegates to side with the winner of the popular vote cast at state caucuses or primaries.

“It’s a disgusting, disgusting display of a hostile takeover from the top down,” Maine delegate Ashley Ryan told the L.A. Times.

“If they vote for Romney and he’s democratically elected, then he’s democratically elected. We just want a choice,” said Minnesota delegate Gary Heyer, who confirmed that his state along with Nevada, Minnesota, Iowa, Oregon, Alaska, and the Virgin Islands had all submitted documents nominating Ron Paul.

DHS Source: “It’s going hot”

“It’s going hot.” Those were the ominous opening and closing words from my source inside the Department of Homeland Security in two separate contacts we had within the last 72 hours. Readers to this website and listeners to my radio program know this source as “Rosebud,” a source with access to high levels within the DHS administration.

Readers of this website and listeners to my radio program are familiar with this DHS insider from previous leaks detailing alleged plans by members of the Obama administration to keep him in power beyond the 2012 elections. One could argue that any person of reasonable sensibilities would certainly find this a delusional prospect and tinfoil hat conspiracy nonsense. After all, we have a Constitution, or what’s left of it, that dictates our election process, at least for now. As such, one might logically ask how any sane person can even entertain the prospect of not having normal elections in November.

I would feel the same, and did so as well until the last few years. Today, things are much different than they were four years ago, or even last year at this time. Judi McLeod, award-winning founder and editor of Canada Free Press and not one to succumb to delusion or fantasy, points this out and provides a solid foundation for this possibility in her column published on August 27, 2012 titled “Staged crisis leading to suspended elections could happen on our watch.” What a difference four years can make.....................

US Veterans Forcibly Sequestered in Mental Hospitals is Indefinite Detention

Susanne Posel
Infowars.com
August 27, 2012

After Special Justice Walter Douglas Stokes sentenced former US Marine Brandon Raub to 30 days detention in the psychiatric ward of the Veterans Hospital, Circuit Court Judge Allan Sharrett dismissed the case citing that the original petition was “devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy.”

John Whitehead, attorney for the Rutherford Institute and Raub has stated that since the former Marine’s detention case, he has received numerous stated from other veterans who are being discriminated against. The latest trend is to have our former US service men and women declared mentally ill and detained against their will.

Just as Raub was forcibly detained in a mental ward, another veteran has been taken without charge or criminal activity. His firearms were confiscated and he was given a court date.

In a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, collaborating with the VA Medical Center, an estimated 1/3rd of veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq were determined to be mentally or psychologically ill.

Touting post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD), more than half of returning veterans are considered suffering from a war-related mental disorder.

The authors of the study explain: “Our results signal a need for improvements in the primary prevention of military service-related mental health disorders, particularly among our youngest service members . . . because they are young, they are more likely to be of lower rank and more likely to have greater combat exposure than their older active-duty counterparts.”

However, the authors do admit that “our results may overestimate the burden of mental health disorders because veterans with mental health disorders may be more likely to seek treatment at a VA facility than those without.”

Most recently is the inception of oppositional defiance disorder (ODD) which is described as a mental disease wherein free thinkers, non-conformists, civil disobedience supporters, those who question authority and are perceived as being hostile toward the government are labeled mentally ill.

Psychiatrics claim that sufferers have “a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that persists for at least 6 months” which includes:

• Persistent stubbornness
• Resistance to directions
• Unwillingness to go along with the crowd
• Deliberately annoying others
• Testing limits by ignoring orders

The RAND Corporation asserts that the cost of caring for mentally ill veterans was more than $12 billion in 2007. Katherine Watkins, senior natural scientist for RAND said: “With some changes, the VA could provide even better and more cost-effective care for the nation’s veterans, as well as serve as a model for other health care systems.”

The RAND Corporation paints US veterans as dangerous because of the degree to which they are mentally affected by their service exposure to war and war-like conditions. The globalist think-tank says veterans are suffering from “schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, major depression, and substance use disorders.”

Doctors have classified Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) as an incurable brain disease that soldiers returning from war suffer from. After having injured the brain during battle, soldiers are being touted as displaying large bursts of anger and depression while having their vital motor skills and memory impacted.

Symptoms of CTE are recognized as memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, depression, and, eventually, progressive dementia.

US veterans, being diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are being tracked by the Department of Defense (DoD) because they may display personality changes that could come on without warning and effect their ability to acclimate back into American society.

Researchers are claiming that even mild TBI can develop into CTE, which will cause veterans to possibly become a danger to themselves and those around them.

In 2009, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis published a report entitled Rightwing Extremism, wherein domestic extremists were proposed to be the newest and most dangerous threat to the US since al-Qaeda.

While admitting that they did not have definitive proof that “domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, [however] rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.”

The DHS wanted to instill the idea that veterans were being recruited to become “right-wing extremists” upon returned from Iraq and Afghanistan. Janet Napolitano intimated that military veterans could become instruments of domestic terror. When Napolitano’s comments were met with public distain, the DHS amended their assertion that extremist groups were highly-marked; but rather it was a lone wolf type that would carry out the biggest act of domestic terrorism.

Mainstream media has spun the propaganda perfectly by asserting that “the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.”

A plan is unfolding that connects US veterans to the probability of committing horrendous acts of violence. The MSM provides the social dialogue while various federal agencies in collaboration with the US Army are using a medical condition to justify the coming accusations. We have seen this before.

When the US government rolls out marital law, the biggest threat to their total lockdown of America will be the US veteran. Former active duty soldiers are trained in tactical procedures and pose a real risk because they can easily combat the US military that will show up in every city across the entire nation.

In May of this year, Federal Court Judge Katherine Forrest ordered that the US military could not arbitrarily imprison Americans based on alleged terrorist activity in regard to the indefinite detention clause in the NDAA. Although Obama’s lawyers appealed the ruling, the decision still stands.

However, committing an individual to a mental hospital is not illegal. This may be why we are seeing our US veterans being targeted, called mentally ill, and forcibly removed from their homes. Coinciding with the growing number of mentally ill US veterans we are seeing the removal of their firearms and right to even own firearms. This is another scheme the Obama administration is implementing to set the stage for their complete takeover of America after marital law is declared.

Abortion Survivor Rips Obama On Infanticide Support in New Ad

Abortion survivor Melissa Ohden hits President Barack Obama on the issue of abortion in a new pro-life television commercial sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony List that will run in the battleground state of Missouri.

Missouri has recently been at the center of the conversation on abortion thanks to controversial comments from its U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin concerning women, abortion and rape.

But pro-life advocates say Obama is more extreme than Akin on abortion because of his record as a state senator from Illinois, when he refused to support a law that would provide medical protection for survivors of late abortions.

“I was aborted, and my body discarded…like I didn’t exist,” Ohden says in the ad. “But a nurse heard me crying…and cared enough to save my life.”

“There’s something else you may not know…when he was in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama voted to deny basic constitutional protections for babies born alive from a failed abortion. Not once, but four times,” Ohden continues. “I know that it is by the grace of God I am alive today…if only to ask America this question: Is this the kind of leadership that will move us forward? Leadership that would discard the least and the weakest among us?”

Big Sis Begins Releasing Biological Agents Into Boston Subway

Assures public safety, despite government history of dangerous biological testing on the American public

Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Aug 28, 2012

The Department of Homeland Security will begin releasing a dead bacteria into the Boston subway tomorrow in an operation it says will test sensors designed to detect biological agents that could be released as part of a terrorist attack.

Little is known about what exactly the bacteria consists of, and the DHS has not been very forthcoming with information, saying only that it is a “non-infectious” material that has been “approved as a food supplement”.

The Boston Globe reports:

The tests will begin Wednesday and will be held periodically over the next year at the Harvard and Porter Square stations in Cambridge and the Davis Square station in Somerville.

“A rapid alert from a detection system can locate and identify these materials and provide for immediate and appropriate response to protect people and contain the hazard,” stated DHS scientist Anne Hultgren in the agency’s press release.

“This detection system will be one of the first such installed in the country, and, if it proves to be effective, could serve as a model for other mass transportation venues throughout the nation and the world,” said MBTA Transit Police Chief Paul MacMillan in the joint press release Monday.

Back in May when the plan was announced, Federal officials said that they were to release a bacteria called B-subtilis, noting that it “has been rigorously tested and has no adverse health effects for low exposure in healthy people.”

What effect the tests will have on unhealthy people or those exposed to higher doses is unknown.

The DHS has released a 28-page summary entitled ‘Environmental Assessment for Bacillus subtilis Particles to Challenge Bio-Detection Sensors in Subway Stations’ (PDF).

Given the federal government’s ominous record in releasing biological agents into subway systems and other transport hubs, it’s no surprise that this latest example is sure to cause consternation.

During a Senate hearing in 1977, it was revealed that the Pentagon had conducted numerous secret germ “attacks” on cities without public knowledge in an effort to test the threat posed by biological agents. These tests “may have caused outbreaks of disease which occurred in some of the test areas,” writes Leonard A. Cole, citing the Senate inquiry.

These “attacks” included a 1964-65 program carried out by the U.S. Army which involved unsuspecting travelers being sprayed with bacteria-laden mist at Washington’s National Airport.

Another example involved light bulbs containing Bacillus globigii that were dropped in the New York Subway by government scientists and allowed to contaminate the air. Similar tests were also conducted in the Chicago subway system, but when people started falling ill the connection with the tests was fudged because the government refused to keep track of the health effects of the released substance.

The hidden U.S. history of germ testing in general also serves as a warning that allowing the government to experiment with biological agents in public which it claims are perfectly safe has not always been a wise choice.

Project SHAD, a Cold War-era Department of Defense program in which veterans were exposed to deadly chemical weapons without their knowledge or consent, also represents a dark chapter in the U.S. government’s use of dangerous biological agents against its own people.

Since the 1940′s, the military and the CIA have conducted numerous “tests” on the American people, including the release of dengue fever carrying mosquitoes in Georgia and Florida, biological warfare tests on the civilian population in Puerto Rico, the release of bacillus globigii from a submarine on the port of Oahu, Hawaii, and dozens of other incidents, most of them classified.

There are countless other examples of the US having illegally tested and used bio-weapons on its own citizens. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and The Program F fluoride study being two more notable examples.

The Pentagon’s biowarfare program has long been in operation and US citizens have never been spared from experimentation. As we have previously noted, the government has admitted and apologized for such programs, but only after the facts are fully exposed. They are not sorry for carrying out the experiments, rather they are merely sorry for getting caught.

The history of U.S. government and military experimentation on American citizens and the innumerable deaths and illnesses that occurred as a result underscore the fact that trusting the Department of Homeland Security, which has proven itself to be one of the most corrupt and secretive federal agencies in existence, to carry out such tests in public, no matter how “safe” the DHS claims them to be, is the height of stupidity.

Indeed, the DHS also claims its naked body scanning machines are “safe” despite being linked with cancer by numerous health authorities, and refuses to allow them to be independently tested, so why on earth should the federal agency be believed when it claims the bacteria it plans to release is harmless?

RUN FROM THE CURE: The Rick Simpson Story - A Film by Christian Laurette

Home remedies and homeopathic solutions for the prevention and treatment of West Nile and other flu-like viruses

Home remedies and homeopathic solutions for the prevention and treatment of West Nile and other flu-like viruses

 (NaturalNews) West Nile virus and other infectious, flu-like illnesses produce symptoms such as fever, headache, body aches, upper respiratory effects, fatigue, skin rash, and swollen lymph nodes. In rare cases, a severe form of West Nile may develop producing neuroinvasive symptoms affecting the nervous system.

One of the keys to stopping any virus from progressing is prevention; and then, halting it in its early stages before it has a chance to overcome the immune system. There are numerous medicinal foods and herbs with antiviral properties; however, this article focuses on homeopathic remedies, which are especially effective against viruses when used judiciously and according to directions.

General prevention

Influenzinum nosode in low potency such as 6C used once a week during flu season will prevent flu-like viruses. Mix one pellet in four ounces of water and sniff. Don't inhale the water. This is called an olfactory dose and helps prevent side effects. You may experience mild aches and pains for a few hours as a reaction to the remedy.

Oscillococcinum also prevents flu from taking a foothold. If you know you've been exposed or at the first sign of symptoms, dissolve a pellet in the same manner as mentioned above and sniff the remedy once or twice a day for three days to boost your immune system.

Colloidal silver is not a homeopathic remedy; however, it's an effective prophylactic and treatment for any virus. Prophylactic treatment involves adults taking a teaspoon or two daily during flu season. Children can take one-half to one teaspoon daily depending on age and weight. If you think you've contracted the flu, West Nile virus, or you've been stung by a mosquito, immediately take a tablespoon of colloidal silver three times daily for several days to knock it out of your system.

Preventing West Nile virus

Staphysagria specifically acts as a prophylactic protecting against being stung by mosquitoes. If you're sensitive to being bitten by mosquitoes, take a dose every week during mosquito season as a prophylactic. If you know you're going to be outdoors -- especially in the woods -- take a dose before leaving. Taking Staphysagria after being bitten may reduce redness and itching at the site of the bite.

Ledum is used to antidote the effects of stinging insects such as mosquitoes. Take two to three doses over the first day or two immediately after being stung. Carry some with you in your pack if your going out into the woods. Simply open the container and sniff to take a dose.

Neuroinvasive West Nile diseases

In rare cases West Nile virus develops into a severe neurological disease such as encephalitis, meningitis or poliomyelitis. Symptoms are similar to the former description; however, they may also include stiff neck, paralysis, tremors, coma, disorientation and muscle weakness. There are a variety of useful homeopathic remedies for the treatment of neuroinvasive West Nile diseases; however, discussions regarding them exceeds the scope of this article. See a knowledgeable homeopath and don't self-treat in these cases.

Flu remedies

Gelsemium -- Indicated for general flu symptoms, weakness, aches and pains, dizziness, trembling, headache in the back of the head and neck, drowsiness, drooping eye lids, paralysis.

Belladona -- Sudden onset of symptoms, high fever, hot, red face, pulsating veins with throbbing headache worse on the right side, stiff neck, glassy-eyed, delirious, thirstless, intensity of symptoms is a keynote.

Bryonia -- Extreme body pain made worse with movement, fever, headache, tremendous thirst for large quantities of cold water, dryness of mucus membranes, painful cough.

Find U.S.A. Homeopathic Pharmacies at this link:
http://www.homeopathyhome.com/directory/usa/pharmacies.shtml

Sources for this article include:

Boericke, William; Materia Medica and Repertory; Jain Publishing, 1998
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Marijuana and Radiation Protection

Marijuana and Radiation Protection

 (NaturalNews) Marijuana offers strong protective qualities against radiation exposure. Since fewer and fewer people have the financial resources to continually purchase all the helpful things they will need perhaps growing weed in our backyard will offer the public one of the best anti-radiation solutions in the long run. Instead of it being just relaxing it might become very necessary to intake marijuana to increase ones defenses against radiation exposure. Might as well get your brownies ready but one has to be careful about radiation getting into everything, even your marijuana plants, which will actually thrive nicely in radioactive environments.

Dr. Ben Whalley, middle, with Dr. Gary Stephens and Dr. Claire Williams at their secret cannabis farm near London. These researchers have discovered that three compounds found in cannabis leaves can help to reduce and control seizures in epilepsy. Dr. Whalley, who is leading the research at the department of pharmacy at the University of Reading, said tests in animals had shown the marijuana compounds effective at preventing seizures and convulsions while also having fewer side effects than existing epilepsy drugs.


Photo: Geoff Push

Cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit
tumor growth in laboratory animals and also kill cancercells.
Their use in the case of childhood cancer is compassionate.

And lucky for us, cannabis is also an excellent treatment for radiation sickness and exposure.

Radiation Symptoms
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Weight loss
- Loss of appetite
- Weakness
- Red itchy skin
- Sore throat
- Hair loss
- Recurrent infections
- Bleeding
- Anemia

Benefits of Medical Marijuana
- Reduced Nausea
- Increased appetite
- Reduced vomiting
- Weight gain
- Sleeping aid

With all the radiation that is now entering our atmosphere, it is urgent that we now all start ingesting a list of natural medicinals to diminish our reactions to radioactive particles the damage this radiation will cause.

One of my favorite people, Rick Simpson, the man in Canada that has helped many cancer sufferers with THC-laden hemp oil, has a lot to say to people as we go into our increasingly irradiated future.

Simpson says:

"If used properly, high quality hemp oil can provide a solution that will be of help to mankind in alleviating the effects of increasing radiation. Through my experience with the use of this oil, I have found that there is nothing more effective or more harmless that can reduce the damage caused by radiation.

"I have seen patients suffering from cancer who were badly damaged by the effects of radiation treatments and who were able to completely eliminate the damage in a short time. Some who have come to me that had radiation treatments were burned so badly by its effects that their skin looked like red leather. After ingesting the oil treatment their skin went back to its normal healthy state and the radiation burns disappeared completely. If the oil can do this for someone that was badly damaged by such so-called medical treatments, would its use not be effective to combat the effects of the radiation now emanating from Japan? Now with the menace that all this escaping radiation presents, we would have to be insane to turn our backs on the use of hemp extracts to help us all deal with this situation."

Video prooving that cannabis can cure certain forms of cancer.

Marijuana cuts lung cancer tumor growth in half, a 2007
Harvard Medical School study shows.The active ingredient
in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half
and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread.

Scientific trials have for decades documented the anti-cancer properties of cannabis and its constituents. Yet it took until this week for the website of the National Institute of Cancer, a component of the U.S. government's National Institutes of Health, to finally acknowledge the herb's therapeutic utility for patients living with disease or suffering from the adverse side effects of cancer treatment.

In test-tube experiments, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. exposed rat nerve cells to a toxin that is typically released during strokes. Cannabidiol reduces the extent of damage reported the National Academy of Sciences. More effective than vitamins C or E, strong antioxidants such as cannabidiol will neutralize free radicals and so might limit the damage and reduce the severity of radiation.

Hemp Oil Dosage Information
By Rick Simpson

It takes the average person about 90 days to ingest the full 60-gram treatment. I suggest that a person start with 3 doses per day about half the size of a grain of dry rice. A dose such as this would equal about 1/4 of a drop. After four days at this dosage, increase your doses every four days until you are at the point where you are ingesting about 1 gram in 24 hours, so each dose should equal 1/3 of a gram.

It takes the average person about five weeks to get to the point where they can ingest a gram per day. Once they reach this dosage they can continue at this rate until the cancer disappears. A gram is just slightly less than 1 milliliter.

Using this method allows the body to build up its tolerance slowly; in fact, I have many reports from people who took the oil treatment and never got "high". We all have different tolerances for any medication. Your size and body weight have little to do with your tolerance for hemp oil.

Be aware when commencing treatment with hemp oil that it will lower your blood pressure, so if you are currently taking blood pressure medication, it is very likely that you will no longer need it.

When people are taking the oil, I like to see them stay within their comfort zone, but the truth is, the faster you take the oil the better the chance of surviving. At the end of their treatment most people continue taking the oil but at a much reduced rate. Six to 12 grams a year would be a good maintenance dose. I do not like to see people overdosing on the oil, but an overdose does no harm. The main side effect of this medication is sleep and rest, which play an important role in the healing process. Usually, within an hour or so of taking a dose, the oil is telling you to lie down and relax. Don't fight the sleepy feeling, just lie down and go with it. Usually within a month, the daytime tiredness associated with this treatment fades away but the patient continues to sleep very well at night. The only time I would recommend that people start out with larger doses would be to get off addictive and dangerous pain medications. When people who are using such medications begin the oil treatment, they usually cut their pain medications in half. The object is to take enough oil to take care of the pain and to help the patient get off these dangerous pharmaceutical drugs. Taking the oil makes it much easier for the patient to get off these addictive chemicals.

I simply tell people the oil will do one of two things; it will either cure their cancer or in cases where it is too late to affect a cure, the oil will ease their way out and they can at least die with dignity. Hemp oil has a very high success rate in the treatment of cancer; unfortunately many people who come to me have been badly damaged by the medical system with their chemo and radiation, etc. The damage such treatments cause have a lasting effect and people who have suffered the effects of such treatments are the hardest to cure. It should also be mentioned that the oil rejuvenates vital organs like the pancreas. Many diabetics who have taken the oil find that after about six weeks on the oil that they no longer require insulin since their pancreas is again doing its job.

Properlymade hemp medicine is the greatest healer on this planet bar none. Once you experience what this medication can do you will understand why history and I call hemp medicine a cure-all.

Hemp Oil Home Production
Rick Simpson



I recommend that you grow your own hemp either in a small indoor grow system or outdoors. Growing it yourself will eliminate the high cost associated with buying hemp from drug dealers. The cost of hemp can vary greatly from dealer to dealer and so can the quality of the hemp. For anyone new to growing hemp, a good book or video on the subject is a necessity. If you go to Cannabis Culture, the good people there should be able to point you in the right direction.

Caution:

Oils that drug dealers sell can have many contaminants and often little or no THC. From my experience, most hemp oil available on the street should be avoided for medicinal use. Make your own oil or have someone you trust produce the oil to assure a very pure, high-quality oil is produced.

How much to make and take?

One pound (500g) of bone-dry hemp buds will usually produce about two ounces (55-60 mL) of high-grade oil. This amount of oil will cure most serious cancers; the average person can ingest this amount in about three months. This oil is very potent so one must begin treatment with small doses. A drop of oil about half the size of a grain of rice, two to four times a day is a good beginning. After four or five days, start increasing your daily dosage very gradually. As time goes on the body builds a tolerance to the oil and more and more can be taken. In cases where people are in a great deal of pain, I recommend that their dosage be quickly increased until it kills the pain. High quality hemp oil will stop pain even when morphine is not effective. The oil can be applied to external injuries for pain relief in minutes.

Will I get high?

Following the dosage previously described, many people can take the full treatment and never get high. In regards to hemp, getting "high" is a joke; even if a person does take too much oil the effect wears off quickly and no harm is done. No one has ever died from the use of hemp medicine.

Will I become addicted?

Hemp oil does not cause your body to crave more. It is non-addictive, harmless, and effective for practically any medical condition.

Is this the same as hemp seed oil?

No! This is hemp oil, made from the bud and small leaves of the hemp plant. It is the essential oil of the hemp plant. Health food store sells oil made from hemp seed that is often mislabeled as hemp oil. Although seed oil is very beneficial, it does not contain enough THC to have any effect on cancer and other serious illnesses.

Are hemp and marijuana the same?

The word marijuana is one of over four hundred slang terms used worldwide to describe the cannabis and/or hemp plant.

Are all hemp plants the same?

When buying or growing hemp, procure a strain that has the highest possible THC content. To energize someone suffering from depression, I recommend a good Sativa strain. For most other medical conditions, I strongly suggest that Indica strains be used. Indicas relax a person and provide them with more rest and sleep.

How do I use it?

High quality hemp oil can be vaporized, ingested or used topically. Add the oil to creams and salves for external use.

Where can I get information about making the oil?

For someone new to making the oil I suggest that you go to "Run from the Cure". There you can watch our documentary in seven segments. Segment #4 shows how the oil can be produced at home or one can go to http://www.PhoenixTearsMovie.com and download the full documentary. You will need a high-speed internet connection and there is no charge. The process in the video could only be described as crude at best, but the oil that is produced will cure cancer. In reality, this medicine should be produced in a controlled environment, using distilling equipment, etc. to reclaim the solvent and to purify the oil. Most people do not understand distilling and do not have access to the required equipment. This is the reason such a simple method is described in the documentary, so if need be just about anyone can produce the oil. As in the video, again we stress that this process, if not done properly can be dangerous and we bear no responsibility if this educational information is misused.

My process:

Starting material: I generally work with a pound or more of good grade hemp starting material. You can use just one ounce. An ounce will usually produce 3 or 4 grams of oil. The amount of oil produced per ounce of hemp will vary from strain to strain, but it all has that wonderful healing power.

1 - Place the completely dry starting material in a plastic bucket.

2 - Dampen the material with the solvent you are using. Many solvents can be used. I like to use pure naphtha but it costs $500 for a 45-gallon drum. You can use 99% isopropyl alcohol, which you can find in your local drug store. Alcohol absorbs more chlorophyll from the plant material than naphtha does. This gives oils made with alcohol a darker color but does not diminish the potency of the oil to any noticeable degree. Ether, naphtha or butane and many other solvents can produce oils that are amber and transparent. Granted these clear oils do look better but dark oil can be just as potent. If the process is done properly, little or no solvent residue is left in the oil. I have been consuming oils produced using different solvents for eight years with no harmful effects. You will require about two gallons of solvent to strip the THC off one pound of dry starting material. 500 milliliters of solvent should be more than enough to strip the THC from one ounce of hemp starting material.

3 - Crush the plant material using a stick of clean untreated (chemical free) wood or some such device. Even though the starting material has been dampened with the solvent, you will find that the material can be readily crushed.

4 - Add solvent until the starting material is completely covered. Use the stick to work the plant material. As you are doing this, the THC dissolves off the plant material into the solvent.

5 - Continue this process for about 3 minutes.

6 - Pour the solvent-oil mix off the plant material into another bucket. You have just stripped the plant material of about 80% of its THC.

7 - Second wash -- again add solvent to the plant material and work it for another 3 minutes to get the other 20%.

8 - Pour this solvent-oil mix into the bucket containing the first mix that was poured off previously.

9 - Discard the twice-washed plant material.

10- Pour the solvent-oil mix through a coffee filter into a clean container.

11- Boil the solvent off. I have found that a rice cooker will do this boil off very nicely. The one I have has two heat settings -- high and low -- and will hold over a half gallon (2.5 liters) of solvent-oil mix.

12- Add solvent-oil mix to the rice cooker until it is about 3/4 full.

Make sure you are in a very well ventilated area and set up a fan to carry the solvent fumes away. The fumes are very flammable. Be sure to stay away from red-hot elements, sparks, cigarettes etc. that could ignite the fumes.

13- Plug the rice cooker in and set it on high heat.

14- Continue adding solvent-oil mix as the level in the rice cooker decreases until it is all in the cooker.

15- Add a few drops of water to the solvent-oil mix as the level comes down for the last time. The amount of water added depends on how much starting material you had in the beginning. If I am producing oil from a pound of good bud, I usually add about ten drops of water.

16- When there is about one inch of solvent-oil-water mix left in the cooker, put on your oven mitts, pick the unit up and gently swirl the contents.

17- Continue swirling until the solvent has been evaporated off. The few drops of water help release the solvent residue and protect the oil somewhat from too much heat. When the solvent has been boiled off, the cooker that I use automatically goes to low heat. This avoids any danger of overheating the oil. At no time should the temperature of the oil go over 290°F (140°C).

18- Put on your oven mitts and remove the pot containing the oil from the rice cooker.

19- Gently pour the oil into a small stainless steel container.

20- Place this container in a dehydrator or put in on a gentle heating device such as a coffee warmer. It may take a few hours but the water and volatile turpentine will be evaporated from the oil. When there is no longer any activity on the surface of the oil the medicine is ready for use.

21- Pour the hot oil into a bottle; or as in the video suck it up into a plastic syringe. Putting the oil in a plastic syringe makes it very easy to dispense the medicine.

When the oil cools off it has the consistency of thick grease. Some strains will produce very thick oil and you may have trouble squeezing it out of the syringe. If this happens, place the syringe in warm water a few minutes prior to use.

To anyone starting to use hemp oil as a medication, here are some simple facts. Hemp oil will lower blood pressure and if you are on blood pressure medication, you may find that this medication is no longer needed. The same is true for diabetics. I have seen hemp oil control blood sugar to the extent that insulin was no longer needed.

I am not a doctor and I do not have the right to tell people what they should do. Personally, I would not consider taking any cancer treatments currently in use by our medical system; I do not recommend that hemp oil be taken along with chemotherapy. What would be the sense of making your own cure and then allowing the medical system to give you massive doses of poison?

From my experience with hemp medicine, I have found that most pharmaceutical medications are no longer needed once a person starts using hemp oil. Hemp oil seems to mix well with most natural medications but I have had a few reports frompeople trying to take hemp oil and pharmaceuticals who experienced stomach pain etc. All problems ceased when they stopped taking the prescription drugs.

To anyone who is going to act on this information to help a loved one, I welcome you to the world of real medicine. Again, I caution you to be very careful when boiling the solvent off. The fumes are very flammable. Be sure to stay away from red-hot elements, sparks, cigarettes, etc. That could ignite the fumes.

I wish you the best luck and health.

Warmest regards,

Rick Simpson

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Dr. Sircus was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and at the School of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla in Mexico, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the first nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr. Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.

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