I am very sad with what has happened to my country.  Last week I met with a Spanish tutor from Ecuador.  There are two largest cities in Equador: Guayaquil and Quito.  Her family is from Guayaquil.  To drive to Quito from Guayaquil takes eight hours through steep and winging mountain roads.  There is nothing equivlent to the interstate highway system.  There is poverty in Equador.  Yet she told me that 3 or 4 times a year her family drives or takes the eight hour bus trip from Gauyaquil to Quito just to have fun, shop and eat in the cafes and bars.  Can you imagine an American family taking a vacation 3 or 4 times a year?  There is such a sense of family and an emotional solidarity that comes with that.  Do Americans just not know how to relate to each other.  I was talking with an activist yesterday and she was telling me the differenct way Spain dealt with their terrorist attacks than we did here.  She had lived in Spain and had some insight into the culture.  This is what she said, “When they are not working, they are with friends and family talking.  If you aren’t at work, you are with friends and family talking, talking, talking.”  Much of this takes place in bars, or cafeterias as they are called.  It is not uncommon for families after they have had dinner to go to loud smokey bars.  Many Americans would cry “abuse” if they heard about fathers dragging their wives and infants out to loud smokey bars after 11pm, but in Spain that is the norm.  Many other things are different in Latin American countries as well.  Last year my Spanish teacher told me that when she was five years old, her mother started giving her large canasters of coffee and milk when she would go out and play with her cousins.  “You will say bad mother,” she said, “No, it is cultural.”  People from those cultures may see American poor families treating their kids to sodas and candy bars and think it is abuse.  It is not surprising that most people in the global south want to have socialism and have the state control most of the resources and large companies.  We are so politically immature here.  Neomi Klein, in her new book The Shock Doctrine, gives an alternative between authoritarian communism on one side and complete free-market capitalism on the other.  She shows that it is possible to have a public sphere that is safe from the free-market.  She shows that countries do better for all people when tarruffs are charged in all imports.  I went and saw her speak Friday night and there were AT LEAST 800 people there.  I got up an asked a question about 9/11 because her book is about 9/11 and other crises that bring in “disaster capitalism.”  I was really nervoues and couldn’t say just exactly what I wanted to say, though people afterwards said I’d done a good job.  One of the reasons I was so nervoues was right before I asked my question Barry had disrupted the meeting and started yelling, “Look at the evidence,” and holding up a sign that said, “9/11 truth now.”  This Barry, for a few readers, is not the legendary left-wing hoboe who comes around my church.   The whole lead up to the question and answer period saw very subtle refernces to “conspiracy” and “the lively question and answer period that is going to come up.”  After Michael asked challenged her about 9/11, she said, “But there’s not proof.  I only report on things I can prove and there’s not proof and if there is, I haven’t seen it.”  That’s when Barry stood up and said loudly, “There is Neomi, there is!  Look at the evidence!”  She said, “Okay, you’re being rude.  I’m not being rude, but you’re being rude.”  Afterwards Barry and some others told me they missed me at the group and wanted me to come back.  “We need you,” they said.  After my conflict with some of the senior members of the group, I had made myself scarce.  Now I realize how much I missed those friends I had made, some of which are deep thinkers and students of the bible as well.

There are some in the Portland who think these heavy-handed tactics are very bad and discredit us.  I’m not one of those.  It’s not my style, but it sure gets our point across.  There is nothing more important right now than the crime of 9/11 and its cover up.  Any attempt to get the truth out into the public should be commended.

I may be going to Ecuador in the new year.  I have had a series of few job interviews recently and am debating weather I want to just work full-time in the new year and save up money to go.  I don’t feel right about going to Mexico to study.  Ecuador is the cheepest Latin American country right now and cheeper than PSU.  One of the problems I face, however, with work is the pain that I have in my feet which even a walk to the bus stop aggrivates.  They are much better since starting super-feet insoles but the insoles need now to be replaced and they are expensive.  I am worried that so much time on my feet as these jobs require (both interviews were for clothing stores) would cause the pain to be unbearable.  I don’t feel safe in this country and would wish to immigrate, yet there are problems.  Although it is very easy for Americans to get into universities in Ecuador and I already have a one-year visa promised me, there is no Orthodox church there and this would create extreme conflicts of interests.  On the other hand, I don’t want to have to choose between going to jail or vaccinating my children.  Or paying for private school because my future children aren’t allowed to go to public school without being vaccinated with mercury and strains of sexually transmitted deseases.  I no longer feel safe in this country and would like to go away for just a few years to watch how things turn out.  When I am talking about politics on the phone, it invariably cuts off.  This never happens to me except when I am talking about politics on the phone.  Something is happening and may happen that is very bad.  Why is the military buying tens of thousands of tents and trailers?  Could these be used to potentially vaccinate people?  Vaccinations cause sterility, which fits in well with the Bilderberg agenda of eugenics and mass birth control.  Having healthy children is the best way to give the finger to these Bilderberger tyrants. 

STAY AWAY FROM ANTI-DEPRESENTS

I am not a doctor.  I am a health journalist.  I report what doctors are saying.  Most of the time medical science deals in half truths and when people have problems they are somewhat effective in treating them.  Certain things stand out, though as obvious frauds, like mercury in the vaccines and flushots and flouride in our water.  SSRI drugs is one of these obvious frauds.  SSRI drugs, of which prosak and most anti-depresents and anti-anxiety medications are a class, are bad, bad bad and cause depression.  Certain psychological medications like vallume, amphetamines and pain-killers are “okay”.  The person who created these seretonin based drugs later said, “I’ve created monsters.”  My research has slowly led me to the conclusion that these drugs should be considered a continuation of the CIA mind control experiments of the 50’s and 60’s.  They have some of the same ingredients as LSD and PSP, created in CIA labs, and dislocate the soul.  100 percent of the school shootings, Columbine, the recent shopping mall masacre last week, 100 percent of the university shooting sprees.  100 percent of the time these people are on SSRI drugs like prosak and paxal and zoloft.  No exceptions.  Everytime a mother drowns her kids in a bathtup or a father guns down his whole family, 100 percent of the time they are on SSRI seritonin drugs.  The evidence is out that these drugs cause depression.  In Utah, where Morminism prevents people from drinking alcohal and coffee, they eat a lot of sugar and it is the highest state for depression.  Alcohal and coffee are actually good because they prevent sugar cravings.  Women in south america take their babies to loud smoky bars after midnight.  We need to get over our puritanical sensibilities, excersise and stop eating sugar and this will prevent depression.

One of the worst things anyone can do is to go off SSRI drugs cold turkey.  One needs to go off these drugs with the supervision of a doctor.  It took me years to understand certain experiences I had in southern California.  It didn’t help that the doctors at the time wanted to pressure me into a diagnosis and even threatened me with violence.  I now believe it can be explained through my abrupt stopping of SSRI drugs.  No matter how bad people feel, these drugs should never be taken and the old-fashioned vallum and pain killers, even though they are addictive, are better.

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say ‘no’ to vaccinations and mercury flu shots

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO
September 14, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

By way of introduction, I like to tell people I’m a physician by training and a compulsive researcher by inclination. To be specific, I’ve invested more than seven-thousand hours investigating the under-reported health hazards associated with vaccinations, along with the attendant ethical and legal issues.

What started as a fairly modest research exercise has turned into a second full-time career. I’ve discussed vaccination hazards on more than 50 radio and television programs, addressed hundreds of professional, political, and trade groups, produced two informational DVDs, and authored numerous articles for both print publications and Internet sites. In addition, I’m scheduled to produce two books relating to the subject over the next year.

 

The risk of vaccination must be considered as important—and potentially more serious—than the risk of a childhood disease. Years of experience and thousands of hours of research have lead to conclusions that are not uniformly accepted: the importance of legally ensuring vaccine exemptions in each State and the right to refuse Nationally mandated vaccinations.

 

Vaccination is a procedure and vaccines are medications….and both have risks and side effects which are often ignored by the media and, worse, by many in the medical profession. As a population, we are against being forcibly medicated. We value our right to choose what is done to our bodies.

 

Humans are intrinsically healthy and tend to remain so if they are given nutritious, non-GMO foods, fresh air, and clean water. We have been blessed with God-given protective barriers against infectious diseases, including our skin and immune system.

 

Knowing that these facts are true for all members of the human species, how did we come to embrace the idea that injecting solutions of chemically-treated, inactivated viruses, parts of bacteria, traces of animal tissue and heavy metals, such as mercury and aluminum, was a reasonable strategy for keeping human beings—babies, children and adults—healthy?

 

If a “dirty bomb” exposed a large segment of US citizens simultaneously to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, Haemophilus influenza B, three strains of polio viruses, 3 strains of influenza viruses, measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, the chickenpox virus, and 7 strains of Streptococcus bacteria, we would declare a national emergency. We would call it an “extreme act of BIOTERRORISM”. The public outcry would be immense and our government would act accordingly. And yet, those are the very organisms that we inject through vaccines into our babies and our small children, with immature, underdeveloped immune systems. Many are given all at the same time. But instead of bioterrorism, we call it “protection.” Reflect a moment on that irony.

 

Vaccine injuries are reported to be “rare”, but only because very few reactions are “accepted” by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as being caused by vaccines. I have frequently said that when a vaccine is given, and a bad reaction occurs, “ANYTHING BUT” the vaccine is “blamed” for the reaction.

   

Here is a direct quote from the 6th edition of Epidemiology & Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases called “The Pink Book”, published by the CDC: “There is no distinct syndrome from vaccine administration, and therefore, many temporally associated adverse events probably represent background illness rather than illness caused by the vaccine…The DTaP may stimulate or precipitate inevitable symptoms of underlying CNS disorder, such as seizures, infantile spasms, epilepsy or SIDS. By chance alone, some of these cases will seem to be temporally related to DTaP.” I have to admit, the first time I read that, I cried. Instead of blaming the vaccine for causing the problem, we blame the children for somehow being defective and the “defect” shows up after we inject them. Another example of not blaming the vaccine for a reaction comes directly from the National Vaccine Injury compensation table. Only a handful of injuries are covered by this program; if your injury isn’t on the table, you don’t qualify for compensation. The government says “there is no proof”—no causal association—that the problem that was experienced, the seizure, for example, was caused by the vaccine. And timing of the injury is important too. For example, the Injury Compensation Table states that if the baby manifests the symptoms of encephalopathy –or brain swelling—within 3 days of being given a DTaP shot, the injury is probably related to the vaccine. If the complication develops on the 4th day—or the 5th, 6th or 7th day—it is not considered to be “causally related” and the parent is ineligible to apply for compensation. Sort of like saying the black and blue foot you have today had nothing to do with the frozen turkey you dropped on it last week, because the discoloration didn’t show up within the time allowed to “prove causation.” Side effects and complications from vaccines are considered inconsequential because their numbers are supposedly “statistically insignificant.” This conclusion comes from epidemiological research involving large numbers of participants and has nothing to do with the individual person. Population-based conclusions go against one of the most basic tenants of all of medicine: to treat each person as an individual and believe them when they tell you something went wrong after a vaccine. A “one in a million” reaction may be rare, but if you are “the one”, it is 100% to you. And even if the one-in-a-million reactions are considered “rare” by the CDC, the health care costs associated with those “rare” reactions are not insignificant. Here’s one example. One recognized complication of the flu shot is a condition called Gullian-Barre Syndrome (GBS). Guillian-Barre is disorder characterized by progressive paralysis, beginning in the feet and advancing up the body, often causing paralysis of the diaphragm and breathing muscles within a matter of hours or days. Nearly all patients with GBS are hospitalized because of paralysis. The prognosis of GBS varies. Up to 13 percent die and 20 percent more are left significantly disabled, defined, for these purposes, as unable to work for at least a year. The CDC reports this side effect to be “rare, perhaps 1 or 2 per million flu shots given.” Using the numbers determined from a variety of sources—including medical journals and government documents, it can reasonably be assumed that the flu shot may cause 40 cases of GBS per year. The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) database reveals that the average hospital charge per person for GBS is nearly $70,000. Add another $40,000 per person for rehabilitation costs after months of paralysis. Therefore the cost to healthcare for this “rare” complication can be approximated to be at least $4.4 million. This conservative estimate doesn’t include lost wages, reduced standards of living for patients who returned to work but had to take a lower paying job because of their illness. And of course, there is no price tag for the “human cost” of being paralyzed and away from your family for months. The advantageous cost-benefit relationship is one of the main rationalizations given for supporting the national vaccination program at all levels, infants through the elderly. But has anyone seriously analyzed the cost of caring for vaccine complications? This example of Guillian-Barre represents the cost of just ONE complication. What if the costs for healthcare from all acknowledged side effects were calculated and added to the cost of the National Vaccination programs? What if we add in the parent-observed complications, such as refractory seizures? Are we getting our money’s worth financially? Are we getting our money’s worth in terms of a “healthier” nation? What about other not-so-obvious costs incurred by vaccine mandates—increased taxes and increased health insurance premiums to pay for the shots? Increased administrative costs to track that they have been given?

   

There are many others, but I’ll stop there. There are three things to take away from this introduction: 1. Low infection rates and high vaccination rates should not be the cornerstone of our public health policy. Vaccine reactions should not be discounted, whatever their numbers. Further, the true cost-benefit of the vaccination program must be considered, and what has been presented is barely the tip of the iceberg.2. Parents, and all adults, must retain their right to refuse vaccines. They are not without risk, and those “rare” complications can result in significant costs, both economic and in terms of human life.3. Children, and all adults, who refuse to be vaccinated are being discriminated against. They are losing their rights:a. Rights and access to a public education.
b. Rights to access to health care, as doctors discharge them as patients.
c. Rights to food because often moms on Medicaid are refused food stamps.These rights—including the right to refuse—must be ensured. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us—and force us to vaccinate and medicate our children in the name “health” and “policy” and for “the greater good” we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies, and, apparently, our children.[To order Dr. Sherri Tenpenny's latest video, click here: "Vaccines, The Risks, The Benefits, The Choices

A declined invitation: an example of paradmigmatic thinking

Recently I wrote to an Orthodox mission organization in Mexico which runs an orphanage.  I asked if I could volanteer for a good long time and offered to pay my way.  The administrator asked me to come and seemed excited about the prospect.  He explained that they lived near a town and it was quite easy to take a bus into the city to go shopping.  I explained to him that I had some food intolerance’s and would need to do my own cooking.  I explained that I grew extremely silk if I had milk products, wheat, soy, and even rice.  I said I was used to buying and preparing my own food wherever I went.  He said everyone eats together and so basically not an option, don’t come.  Wow!  This is an extreme example of paradigmatic thinking.  With many people I know, vegetarianism and veganism is an ideology that goes beyond common sense.  Because it is assumed a-priori that meat is bad, they reason, soy is good.  The assumption is: meet is bad and let all the discussion bafterwards be based on that assumption.  So why are these friends and acquaintances getting so sick all the time?  All I hear about within these circles is one illness after another so that sometimes monasteries are forced into hospitals.  Soy causes homosexuality and makes men effeminate and unable to have children or think clearly.  Americans are deprived of fat.  In Buenos Aires where they eat steak every night, usually very rare—they are relatively free from the deaseses which plague Americans.  I ate cow throat last weekend with Gregory and it was unbelievable.  It is a delicacy in Argentina but cheep here because it’s only being discovered.  Some naturalpathic physicians give cow throat, pig eyes and cow brains to people who have week throats and week brains and week eyes.  This form of therapy is extremely effective.  The medicine that is practiced at the conventional doctors offices and hospitals is based on the scientific method, on statistics and on math and science and you know what…it doesn’t work.  It is not effective for treating people.  I know from personal experience.  There are alternative ways of treating people but you have to search.  The administrator for the Orthodox orphanage in Mexico who didn’t want me to come if I wasn’t going to eat bread, soy and milk products is an example of paradigmatic thinking.  I’ve often heard people say, “Americans eat so much more meat and fatty foods than other people.”  So not only is it a spectacular propaganda achievement that fat is bad, it also that Americans prefer meat and fat.  It goes against all common sense and yet people actually believe this. Compared with countries like Argentina, we are a relatively fat-free society.  Yet I’m not able to bring this up around my many friends and acquaintences (getting sicker and sicker and sicker) who advocate the health effects of veganism.  Maybe if more people spent time getting to know eachother in bars and cafes, we would be able to have these discussions without people attacking the messenger.          I have now heard back from the administrator and he welcomed me to come.  They don’t check their emails so often in south American and Mexico, I have noticed.  The words COULD be relevent, though, with people who don’t understand about food intolerences and many of the other observations are relevent and so I am keeping this up.  Nobody reads my blog anyway.

Turn off that electricity!!!

Yesterday afternoon and evening the electricity went off over all Northwest Portland.  I walked down to the busy intersection where I lived and watched traffic.  The streetlights were all off.  No horns were blowing, no cars crashing.  I was impressed by how polite everyone suddenly became and how quiet my neighborhood was.  The traffic was self-moderating.  Benjamen Franklin, who, invented the traffic lights had a lot of strange ideas, like everyone needing to show up on time.  He thought time was money, advocated tough love and a bunch of other nonsense.   He wrote many maxims to illustrate his philosophy, the most quoted one being ”Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”  Franklin’s autobiography was quoted a lot in the famous book by Max Webber The Spirit of Capitalism and the Protestant Work Ethic because it seemed so perfect an example of the ideology Webber was calling out.  Hard work is good, don’t get me wrong, but there are limits.  For example,  I live in a neighborhood where after work everyone comes home and sits in front of their computers and telivisions.  In South America, women go to bars at night with their babies and stay up late.   Bars are family affairs.  In Spain, after the family has dinner, they hit the streets for a drink and some discotecas don’t even open until sunrise.  There might be another reason, though, why everyone started being so relaxed and considerate when the electricity went off yesterday.  Our bodies were not fitted for the extreme amount of electric stimulation that is always present.  We cannot see electromagentic polution but it is present…increasingly so now with the advent of cell phones and wireless internet (so called “Wi FI”).  One of the first things I noticed was how RELAXED I felt.  I got out my candles, played the piano and had a blast.  The electricity should stay off!!  But then all our satalites would be out of commission and there would be bacteria in the water, someone might say.  Well, would that really be so bad.  Perhaps the least known cause of electromagnetic pollution is outside Fairbanks Alaska, the covert HAARP project which has as its sole purpose the goal of bouncing billions of watts of electricity off the ionosphere every single day.  Is is called an Ionospheric Heater and maybe doing more to contribute to global warming in a month than all the C2 ommsisions cars put out in ten years.  It has been speculated that HAARP, and other devises like it, around the world are involved in manipulation the weather. One thing is certain: Are bodies were not designed to withstand the stress brought about through so much exposure to electromagnetic waves.  Mozart wrote his music by candle-light.  Through simple changes, like watching less television and going out at night with friends, we can put more positive energy into the world.

Germboys, Executive Orders and Vaccines

—-A beautiful baby!  

John and Samantha were so excited when they brought their baby home from the hospital.  Samantha was Canadian and so, even though John had a job in the United States, they traveled to Canada to have the baby.  They were poor and couldn’t afford the high costs of hospital fees.  Their new daughter was named Sarah, after the most beautiful women in the bible.  When home, Sarah drank unpasteurized milk from her mother, made all the more nutritious by the quality food from their garden Sarah’s mother ate.  There was always a smile on Sarah’s face which caused John and Samantha to wonder if their baby might not be the happiest one of all their acquaintance. Whenever she did cry, they changed her or nursed her until she was happy again. When Sarah was six months old, they took her to church to be baptized.  Everything seemed complete.  Five years later John and Samantha were told Sarah couldn’t enter public school.  Why…because she hadn’t been vaccinated. 

Sound like fiction?  This is exactly what is facing 2,300 parents in Maryland where, according to the Washington Post, they may now face jail time and costly fines for refusing to have their children vaccinated.  The children are not allowed to start school until the inoculations take place.  The jail time for the parents is for “truancy”, although this has been identified as vaccination through the backdoor.  Some colleges and universities are now making childhood vaccines a requirement for entry while the sheer number of vaccines now being recommended is steadily growing.  Parents aren’t taking it quietly.

 

“Doctors are charging parents extra for bringing up the subject,” says Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, who heads up the Osteo Med II clinic in Ohio, a center providing alternative and traditional medicine.  Speaking on the popular radio program Coast to Coast am this week, she said  “Doctors have adopted a paternalistic attitude towards their patients,” she said.  “They complain that parents think they know best and have started fining them—or walking out—for bringing up vaccines.”  [this is a paraphrase of her words based on memory]

 

Time Magazine and Newsweek have said parents think they know better than their doctors. Parents who choose a diet for their children, even if not an ideal diet, are more informed about health than those families which do not eat consciously at all. Conversely, parents who decide which vaccines they want their children to have, and which ones they don’t, are going to be more informed than parents who don’t ask any questions at all. Moreover, our whole legal system relies on the ability of lay people to evaluate claims of competing experts.  There is simply no basis to assert that parents—or journalists—-are incapable of educating themselves on this matter and making an informed decision.

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny has been working for years to educate parents about the dangers and health risks associated with vaccines.  She says that vaccines often do not work, contain dangerous chemicals (formaldehyde) and metals (mercury and aluminum), and work to suppress the immune system.  She writes:

If a “dirty bomb” exposed a large segment of US citizens simultaneously to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis A, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, Haemophilus influenza B, three strains of polio viruses, 3 strains of influenza viruses, measles, mumps, and rubella viruses, the chickenpox virus, and 7 strains of Streptococcus bacteria, we would declare a national emergency. We would call it an “extreme act of BIOTERRORISM”. The public outcry would be immense and our government would act accordingly. And yet, those are the very organisms that we inject through vaccines into our babies and our small children, with immature, underdeveloped immune systems. Many are given all at the same time. But instead of bioterrorism, we call it “protection.” Reflect a moment on that irony.

   —-Do vaccines contain mercury?   

Dr. Joseph Mercola, who runs a natural health website and is the author of Take Control of Your Health, has repeatedly stated that flu vaccines contain mercury and urged people not to receive flu shots, which many still do annually.  Other health experts have repeated similar concerns about the way mercury is used in medical science, including its widespread use in dentistry.  Many of the ingredients in vaccines are proprietary and new legislation has legalized pharmaceutical company’s determination to never disclose the ingredients.  New laws make them immune from lawsuits.  For this reason, it is hard to say exactly what is in many of the vaccines.  But are they helping?  Are grade-school children now free from contracting Hepatitis B (a disease only associated with sexual intercourse and intravenous drug use)? 

 

According to an article in the Oregonian this year, one in every 150 kids is now born with some form of Autism.  Some argue that these numbers, astonishing if they are to be believed, are because of the expanding definition of autism and the autism spectrum disorders.  If this is so, it is only because we now seek words to explain a disease that was unheard of 100 years ago.  We now have to seriously ask if vaccines are maybe creating an emergency unprecedented in our nations history.  Is a health emergency facing us because of the medical establishment’s obsession with getting everyone inoculated? Many books and articles have been written on the mercury/autism connection and the vaccines that perhaps facilitate autism although categorical evidence is lacking.  But there are other diseases associated with getting vaccinated.

 

Gulf war syndrome is a generic word describing a whole host of symptoms plaguing our armed forces from chronic fatigue to multiple chemical sensitivity.  It is interesting that military men and women receive many vaccines, lining up in a row to receive one after the other, including inoculations against anthrax.  There have been many cases of sudden and serious illness following these shots.  The amount soldiers’ children born with autism and birth defects is shocking.  Gulf War Syndrome is not, however, a recognized medical ailment as that would make these soldiers eligible for free care in VA hospitals.

 

 

—–Germboys and Bolsheviks

 

 

It is ironic that parents are not now allowed to choose what is best for their children after educating themselves, and depicted as fools in the corporate media when they do, but politicians are. New laws passed by congress and executive orders passed by the White House, allow for mandatory vaccines in the event of an unspecified emergency or bird-flu.  The legislation states clearly that an emergency is one that is defined by the executive branch and those who refuse these potential vaccines, as these parents do now in Maryland, can be quarantined.  Similar proposals by members of Bush Administration, such as one put forward by the now indicted Lewis I “Skooter” Libby, allow for low flying aircraft to administer vaccines to whole cities in the new American century.  This aid to the Vice President was so obsessed with getting everyone immunized that he was known to Bush’s cabinet as Germboy.  He even wrote a novel about a smallpox epidemic which required governments to take action and implement a mass vaccination program.  Scooter Libby advocated—along with others in the present government, using race based bioweapons as a tool of warfare, in a secret document that was leaked to the New York Times, after which Scooter Libby did not deny being one of the signatories.   Libby was present, along with New York Times reporter Judith Miller—who went to jail in the case which finally indicted Libby, when the Vice President oversaw a war game dealing with a bioterror attack.  The possibility of a pandemic is real and caution is needed.  But only after we face the hazard arising from the many bioweapons labs and disease experiments that go on in this country will we be in a position to deal effectively—or even talk—about any pandemic mother nature may send.  We have just finished a couple years hype about bird-flu.  It faded just as quickly as the SARS scare.  The weekend before a possible bird-flu first hit the news, and Eastern Europeans started slaughtering their birds in response, there was a front page article in the New York Times, which might as well have been on the last page.  It said that United States government scientists had travelled to Alaska to dig up the frozen remains of some men who had died in the great flu epidemic of 1917 and were preparing to recreate the virus in a laboratory.  It is a truth that our government has, in the past, experimented on its people.  That is admitted now in declassified documents. There is no basis to assume our government isn’t capable of unleashing a virus to consolidate its power.  And when you look at this present government, there is every reason to believe they could—and would—be capable of creating a problem to bring in the predetermined solution.

 

 

 —A New Paradigm in Health 

 

 

Weston Price, when he traveled around the world looking at the diets of various healthy cultures known for their longevity, found that the unchlorinated, unfluoridated water the children drank had trace amounts of polio and other childhood diseases which acted as a natural inoculation.  Alternative health experts have observed that our immune systems are too pure and need the stimulation from bacteria and germs found in unpasteurized dairy products and water from many third world countries.  A recent study printed in National Geographic confirmed this.  It found that children who had grown up with barnyard animals in the house had fewer cases of adult illness and the flu.  Moreover, the basis of good health, according to naturopathic physician and yoga instructor Laura Washington, who practices in Portland, OR—where I live, is the autonomic nervous system.  The established medical community doesn’t even recognize the existence of the autonomic nervous system, but it is the basis for feeling good.  She has explained to me that having an autonomic nervous system on track allows everything else to freely function.  It could be as simple as giving up a food, or naturally correcting some deficiency in the endocrine system.  Oftentimes people assume that they just don’t feel good because of other factors, such as depression or temperament, and don’t look further.  The presupposition of the prevailing medical doctrine is that illnesses and mental afflictions have no real cause and cannot be treated.  This ignorance even prevails among many alternative health professionals.  The Paradigm of health that Weston Price discovered and wrote about is the answer to all the illnesses facing us today, and it is enjoyable.  He says that animal fat is good and that meet is good, along with everything that is natural.  We can have death by diet, or health by diet, according to Weston Price.  Real food, however, is becoming scarce.

 

 

It will be uphill work for anyone who wants to implement Weston Price’s findings in their lives. The case in Maryland may be a test for the resolve of these parents who now face jail time for refusing to have their children vaccinated.  New hurdles await even after a possible victory in this Maryland case, which is by no means yet certain now that colleges and universities are requiring students to show vaccinations before entry and the immigration requirements in this regard are also becoming more strict. 

 

 

Recently a similar case arose in Texas when Governor Rick Perry signed an executive order demanding all 11 and 12 years old girls to get vaccinated for cervical cancer, a sexually transmitted disease.  He was forced to rescind the directive after a popular outcry.  That laws are now being passed mandating vaccination of children against sexually transmitted diseases (cervical cancer and hepatitis B); that healthy college kids should be required to go back and receive childhood vaccines, shows an inoculation ideology separated from any real health concerns.

 

 

This worries me.  Will my future children not be able to attend public school unless they are first vaccinated?  I don’t want any vaccines for my future children.  Will I go to jail for feeding raw goats’ milk to my children?   Already the Environmental Protection Agency shows up on organic farms with guns to close down the raw milk operations.  What about the rights of the consumer?  Will I have to raise my children in another country because the land of my birth has grown unsafe?  Do we even want to live in a country so Leninist?  Is the idyllic story of John and Samantha bringing their baby home and allowing God and nature to do the rest only a pipe dream?  American people are too quiescent.  Laws such as Congress’ Biodefence and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005 and the many Executive orders dealing with the subject, to which I have alluded, only occur if we let them.  These laws should not be surprising in a country where the President says to members of congress that he thinks “the constitution is just a god-damn piece of paper.”  The reaction of the American people, or non-reaction, however, is quite shocking. We have the power.  For example, if the American people had have started demanding raw milk when health food stores first become in-vogue, there might now be a thriving raw milk industry.  The same is true for vaccines. It is time to stand up and demand our rights. 

best chocolate in the world

http://www.lowcarbspecialties.com

 For a bar, this is the best.  But I still prefer raw chocalate.

health notes

Chances are you’ve never tasted the ham that many consider the best in the world. Called Ibérico, after its region of origin in Spain, it has a firmer texture and a more intense, gamier, flavor than other well-known cured hams. It’s also illegal in the United Stated — until 2005. While Italians take ham, most notably their Prosciutto di Parma, very seriously, the Spanish raise ham-devotion to a whole new level, consuming double what the Italians eat. “For the Spanish, ham is everything,” says Don Harris, owner of Tienda.com, a purveyor of Spanish products in Williamsburg, VA. “I once saw a truck driver buy a whole ham at a truck stop to snack on along the way.”

that was taken from www.tienda.com

Considering the fact that American “farmers’ feed cows to cows and chicken manure to chickens and then those dead chickens back to cows (we have confessions from farmers), complaining of Spanish slaughterhouse standards is more than a little hypocritical.  The same would hold true for French cheese, some of which is illegal in the United States become of fear of germs.  Pasturizing milk destroys the raw quality of the food and also takes away the enzymes which are crucial for digesting lactose.  This is the French sin.  I can’t remember the reference, but a quote I read once by a South American author is aprapo.  “You to the north of us who lecture us about drugs.  Take a look at your food choices and then come and talk to us.”

I’ve heard that Spanish ham is the best in the world, smooth as butter.  Some of it is now legal, after they Spaniards brought their slaughterhouses up to US standards.  Spain is also famous for its olive oil.  They fry everything in olive oil, including cows’ testicles and lamb intestines.  But they are not an obese people.  Fat doesn’t make people fat.  That is a myth that was started by big business in the early 80’s.   What makes people fat?  Sugar.  Pure and simple.  Refined sugar is the culprit.  So load up on the butter and the fatty ham guilt free next time you watch a movie.  Actually the more butter the better, just as long as its not milked from cows in torture chambers feeding off each other.  The more butter one eats the more fat one burns.  If you have difficulty believing me, just accept it.  When I was a teenager, I struggled with acne.  I was running a lot and a friend suggested I stop eating so much fat.  I noticed that my acne increased.  Whenever I started eating my favorite food again, cream and butter, the acne decreased.  I didn’t know about the corelation with sugar but could have quickly figured it out.  Even now, when I have refined sugar in the form of chocolate bars, the next day my face breaks out with acne.  Think of all the people who spend lots of money and effort trying to get rid of acne with the answer is so simple: eat more fat. 

Bilberry, found also in our Wildberry nectar, is a wild blueberry that cannot be cultivated and only grows wild at high elevations. Bilberry jam was given to Royal Air Force pilots who flew at night during WWII as they noticed it improved their night vision. European studies confirm bilberry’s incredible effect on vision. Bilberry is also helpful in preventing and treating urinary tract infections and is an anti-inflammatory herb. www.bionaturae.com 

Billberry jam is popular in the UK and Scotland but often goes by the name Whortleberry.  It is great for eyes and much less expensive than the herbs, but also very hard to find.

naturalpathic physician

Last week I had an appointment with my naturalpathic physician just as a checkup.  Before I saw her, I had tried so many things that I was skeptical if one more thing could work.  This is called paradigmatic thinking and, in this area, I was a victim of it.  I actually knew her for a few years before I made use of her services.  Last week I told her how highly I thought of the muscle testing she did and how great it was that she was able to bypass method.  I remarked that it seemed so many in the medical profession became more concerned with procedure than outcome and that having something be “scientific” trumped helping people.  Then she said something very profound.  “Also, when they treat people,” she said.  “They see you as a statistic.  So they know that most people who have high blood pressure react in a certain way to a certain medication.  But the human body is not a statistic.  And with this system I am able to treat each body differently according to its needs.” 

 Many people I know from the Christian tradition are skeptical of medicinal practices that have yoga influences or have the appearance of anything psychic.  It may behoove us to take a look at the philosophical roots of western (alopathic medicine).  Much of it is based in scientific materialism, such as the preoccupation with method over outcome—and the preference of chemicals made in laboratories rather than food treatments.  It is also based on Freudianism.  The idea is that mental illnesses are conditions that just exist in people and that they were either born with them or contracted by a chemical imbalance.  It  is this idea that conditions don’t have any causes but just exist in the ether somewhere.  When I was visiting the monastery recently, I met a young man who had this ideology and nothing that I said about health really sank in.  I know, because I had this ideology to for a long time and it almost ruined my life.  “It’s really hard being bi-polar,” he said.  “But many bi-polars are in denial and won’t get treatment.”  The doctor I know works with a totally different paradime, that of the autonomic nervous system.  She is very good at finding weather there is some confusion or obstruction in the autonomic nervoes system and treating it accordingly.  The supplements she prescribes are really just food.  I have a feeling, although I don’t know for sure, that many people who see her wind up not really taking her advice because they think they’re conditions are things that cannot change. 

Ott lites

I have gradually been replacing my light bults with Ott lites.  The Ott lite was developed by Doctor Ott for a Hollywood movie set that needed lites indoors that looked most like sunlight.  It offers full-spectrum light and is the closest thing to reproducing the sun’s rays.  It cost 40 dollars online.  But, in the long run, it saves money because it lasts much, much longer than regular 160 Watt light bulbs and does not use near as much electricity.  Everyone would save money with Ott lites.  Techinically it is a florescent light.  But it is a soft and visually appealing light.  California is considering banning conventional light bulbs for various reasons.  The Ott lite is eco-friendly.  Everyone should buy an Ott light so they would feel better and save money.  The same reasoning would hold true for the C-Craine light bulbs, although I haven’t tried them yet.  Thankfully they can all be ordered from home by punching these words into google.

soy causes homosexuality

This article on the dangers of soy is in five parts.  Even if men do not develop effeminate tendencies as a result of eating soy, as this article suggests, I would like to suggest that it can make them develop right-wing tendencies and, because they are taking in feminine energy—in the form of estrogen, cause these men to have an over-reactive aversion to anything, often wrongly, perceived as feminine and/or feminist.  In such cases, the dislike of women these men have as a result of eating soy, causes them to label normal things as feminist.  This is known as projection.  Because these troubled men are eating food which simulates and stimulates estrogen, they go overboard trying to strip away from around themselves anything external that they think, again often mistakenly, is feminist.  In them causes them to vote against their better interest.  They think they are voting for “the Daddy party” when they support republican candidates when, in fact, this party has been responsible for destroying the middle-class for the last twenty-seven years by shipping manufactoring jobs overseas .  Therefore, right-wing tendencies, should be viewed as a result of pathology, as well as lack of education, rather than a difference in ideology.  No doubt the writer of this article would disagree with me.  But that’s maybe just because it’s a right-wing website that publishes his material.  On the other hand, true conservatives like Ron Paul, Alex Jones, Jim Marrs and Jerome Corsi are really doing a great thing to expose how the television pundits and radio talk-show hosts are, in reality, very far from a philosophical position that remotely resembles traditional American conservatism.  These men are also more vigilent than the left on such issues as The North American Union, Illuminism and the proposed NAFTA superhighway.  These men show how the naratives put forth on television, which average people are slaves to, do not allow any debate outside a very narrow and rigid ideological framework, all the time giving the appearance of debate and the appearance of dissent.  When Bill O’Reily takes to task The New York Times for media bias, for example.  Well who cares.  In European media, there is something that is considered far worse than media bias: not telling the truth and not reporting the important stories.  In our narrow political framework, the disagreements between politicians are more like battles between rival mofia dons.  They may kill each other, but the underlying assumptions remain the same. 

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The trouble with soy – part 5

Yoga with Paul

I think this short clip on U-tube of Yoga with the ex-Beatle is really great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00XqvNwYMoc

Babar’s Yoga for Elephants

 this book review is from www.santosha.com.  Unfortunately, there are no pictures online of Babar doing yoga.   

by Laurent de Brunhoff

Babar narrates this lighthearted guide to yoga for pachyderms (and people). He begins by explaining that archeologists working in a cave near Celesteville recently discovered ancient drawings revealing that woolly mammoths not only practiced yoga they invented it. Since then, yoga has become “tremendously popular” in Babar’s hometown; it “helps us all to relax and draw strength from our inner elephant.” In straightforward prose, this thoroughly relaxed elephant outlines yoga movements, stretches and exercises to improve balance and to strengthen the back and stomach. (Yoga lovers will recognize his opening Salutation to the Sun, and all that follow, as the real McCoy.)

Though these instructions include playful touches (at one point Babar notes, “I find wrapping my trunk around my feet helps to stretch”), aspiring yoga practitioners can easily follow de Brunhoff’s directives and imitate the movements in his signature watercolor renderings of the earnest narrator. A comical concluding sequence of pages shows Babar and pals putting their yoga positions to the test as they stretch in the airport during a delay, relax on the median at Times Square or imitate landmarks (e.g., a Head Stand in the Place de la Concorde next to the obelisk; a Standing Head to Knee in Venice’s Piazza San Marco). This diverting volume conveys de Brunhoff’s passion for his subject both the star and his practice. All ages.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

mastectomy a form of prevention…what?

On the 16th of September, the New York Times ran a front page article about a women who is considering having a mastectomy a a form of “prevention”, even though she is completely cancer free and has never had breast cancer.  As I read it, I thought, This has to be a joke, right?  Unfortunately, the medical establishment has women so worked up about this disease that they think cutting their breasts off is actually a form of prevention.  Scary huh. 

power yoga with margo

I thought I was devoted to yoga, until I discovered Power Yoga and then it became truly the joy of my life.  I really loved taking classes from Margo.  And I wasn’t alone.  Her classes were always packed to capacity at Yoga Pearl (40 students).  That is why I was disappointed to hear she was moving to Las Angeles to open her own studio to see if she could do on a larger scale what she had been able to do in Portland.  Thankfully she is coming back to Portland in a couple weeks for a workshop.  One of the things I liked so much about her classes was the absense of any intellecutalizing of the poses.  I have never been able to understand the yoga teachers who philosophize constantly throughout the class and try to impose a perfectionistic attitude on their students.  She always played nice music for us during the class and then read from books at the end of class.  She has such magic and repore with students that I am sure she will be very successful in LA.  I was reading over her biography recently as was surprised to learn that she has only been teaching yoga for a few years and practicing yoga for not much longer.  The fact that she has such passion for the practice and is able to communicate that passion to her students is far and away better than any amount of technicle expertise (of which she is by no means lacking).  Everyone in Portland should try to take a class by Margo whenever she is in town, but should register early.  Her positive energy is contagious.

new ballet studio

There is a new ballet studio that just opened on 23rd street very near my apartment.  One thing that caught my eye was a tango class.  But it was tango with a ballet emphasis.  Ask any tango teacher and they will tell you that teaching tango steps to students is very difficult.  Most college tango classes consist mostly of learning how to walk.  On the other hand, every ballet class, anywhere in the world, starts with going through the steps at the ballet bar, the idea being that when you are on the dance floor you will already be grounded in the steps from doing them so often.  The tango class which starts at this studio next week is exactly that.  She said she would go through sacadas, ochos, gyros etc, etc and unpack them without a partner.  It seems that this is the sort of class every beginning tango dancer should take. 

almonds for almond milk

I have been enjoying Bob’s Redmill Cream of Buckwheat cereal every morning for breakfast, which I sprinkle with four tablespoons of hempseeds.  Recently I came across a recipe for almond milk which looked really interesting.  So I went out to buy almonds at my local Co-op.  I found that the organic almonds were almonds 20 dollars a pound.  One cup cost me 9 dollars.  The cashier informed me that this was because of the great die-off of bees around the country.  But the almond milk was the best I’d ever made and I was very pleased.  The recipe called for four cups of water to one cup of almonds, soacked overnight, two dates for sweetener, and half a teaspoon of vanilla.  The next day I went to Whole Foods to see if they had any conventional almonds that were a reasonable price.  They did.  And a new notice was put on all the bulk almond containers informing customers that as of Sep 1st 2007, a new FDA law required  all almonds to be steamed before going to market.  This is in effect pasturization of almonds and makes even less sense than pasturizing cows milk.  In what sense can we then say that these almonds are raw?  The point of making your own almond milk is to keep the vital nutriants intact. 

 I settled for brazil nuts and I have to say that milk this morning was extremely tasty.

miracles in the holy land

This from www.holyfire.org

The ceremony, which awes the souls of Christians, takes place in the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem. The date for Pascha is determined anew for every year. It must be a first Sunday after the spring equinox and Jewish Passover. Therefore, most of the time it differs from the date of Catholic and Protestant Easter, which is determined using different criteria. The Holy Fire is the most renowned miracle in the world of Eastern Orthodoxy. It has taken place at the same time, in the same manner, in the same place every single year for centuries. No other miracle is known to occur so regularly and so steadily over time. No other miracle is known to occur so regularly and so steadily over time. It happens in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the holiest place on earth[2], where Christ was crucified, entombed, and where He finally rose from the dead.

In order to be as close to the Sepulchre as possible, pilgrims camp next to it. The Sepulchre is located in the small chapel called Holy Ciborium, which is inside the Church of the Resurrection. Typically they wait from the afternoon of Holy Friday in anticipation of the miracle on Holy Saturday. Beginning at around 11:00 in the morning the Christian Arabs chant traditional hymns in a loud voice. These chants date back to the Turkish occupation of Jerusalem in the 13th century, a period in which the Christians were not allowed to chant anywhere but in the churches. “We are the Christians, we have been Christians for centuries, and we shall be forever and ever. Amen!” – they chant at the top of their voices accompanied by the sound of drums. The drummers sit on the shoulders of others who dance vigorously around the Holy Ciborium. But at 1:00 pm the chants fade out, and then there is a silence. A tense silence, charged from the anticipation of the great demonstration of God’s power for all to witness.

Shortly thereafter, a delegation from the local authorities elbows its way through the crowd. At the time of the Turkish occupation of Palestine they were Muslim Turks; today they are Israelis. Their function is to represent the Romans at the time of Jesus. The Gospels speak of the Romans that went to seal the tomb of Jesus, so that his disciples would not steal his body and claim he had risen. In the same way the Israeli authorities on this Holy Saturday come and seal the tomb with wax. Before they seal the door, they follow a custom to enter the tomb, and to check for any hidden source of fire, which would make a fraud of the miracle.

“I enter the tomb and kneel in holy fear in front of the place where Christ lay after His death and where He rose again from the dead… (narrates Orthodox Patriarch Diodor – ed.). I find my way through the darkness towards the inner chamber in which I fall on my knees. Here I say certain prayers that have been handed down to us through the centuries and, having said them, I wait. Sometimes I may wait a few minutes, but normally the miracle happens immediately after I have said the prayers. From the core of the very stone on which Jesus lay an indefinable light pours forth. It usually has a blue tint, but the colour may change and take many different hues. It cannot be described in human terms. The light rises out of the stone as mist may rise out of a lake — it almost looks as if the stone is covered by a moist cloud, but it is light. This light each year behaves differently. Sometimes it covers just the stone, while other times it gives light to the whole sepulchre, so that people who stand outside the tomb and look into it will see it filled with light. The light does not burn — I have never had my beard burnt in all the sixteen years I have been Patriarch in Jerusalem and have received the Holy Fire. The light is of a different consistency than normal fire that burns in an oil lamp… At a certain point the light rises and forms a column in which the fire is of a different nature, so that I am able to light my candles from it. When I thus have received the flame on my candles, I go out and give the fire first to the Armenian Patriarch and then to the Coptic. Hereafter I give the flame to all people present in the Church.”

While the patriarch is inside the chapel kneeling in front of the stone, there is darkness but far from silence outside. One hears a rather loud mumbling, and the atmosphere is very tense. When the Patriarch comes out with the two candles lit and shining brightly in the darkness, a roar of jubilee resounds in the Church.

The Holy Light is not only distributed by the Archbishop, but operates also by itself. It is emitted from the Holy Sepulchre with a hue completely different from that of natural light. It sparkles, it flashes like lightning, it flies like a dove around the tabernacle of the Holy Sepulchre, and lights up the unlit lamps of olive oil hanging in front of it. It whirls from one side of the church to the other. It enters some of the chapels inside the church, as for instance the chapel of the Calvery (at a higher level than the Holy Sepulchre) and lights up the little lamps. It lights up also the candles of certain pilgrims. In fact there are some very pious pilgrims who, every time they attended this ceremony, noticed that their candles lit up on their own accord!his divine light also presents some peculiarities: As soon as it appears it has a bluish hue and does not burn. At the first moments of its appearance, if it touches the face, or the mouth, or the hands, it does not burn. This is proof of its divine and supernatural origin. We must also take into consideration that the Holy Light appears only by the invocation of an Orthodox Archbishop.

The miracle is not confined to what actually happens inside the little tomb, where the Patriarch prays. What may be even more significant, is that the blue light is reported to appear and be active outside the tomb. Every year many believers claim that this miraculous light ignites candles, which they hold in their hands, of its own initiative. All in the church wait with candles in the hope that they may ignite spontaneously. OOften unlit oil lamps catch light by themselves before the eyes of the pilgrims. The blue flame is seen to move in different places in the Church. A number of signed testimonies by pilgrims, whose candles lit spontaneously, attest to the validity of these ignitions. The person who experiences the miracle from close up by having the fire on the candle or seeing the blue light usually leaves Jerusalem changed, and for everyone having attended the ceremony, there is always a “before and after” the miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem.

The first writtenaccount of the Holy Fire (Holy Light) dates from the fourth century, but authors write about events that occurred in the first century. So Ss. John Damascene and Gregory of Nissa narrate how the Apostle Peter saw the Holy Light in the Holy Sepulchre after Christ’s resurrection. “One can trace the miracle throughout the centuries in the many itineraries of the Holy Land.” The Russian abbot Daniel, in his itinerary written in the years 1106-07, presents the “Miracle of the Holy Light” and the ceremonies that frame it in a very detailed manner. He recalls how the Patriarch goes into the Sepulchre-chapel (the Anastasis) with two candles. The Patriarch kneels in front of the stone on which Christ was laid after his death and says certain prayers, at which point the miracle occurs. Light proceeds from the core of the stone – a blue, indefinable light which after some time kindles unlit oil lamps as well as the Patriarch’s two candles. This light is “The Holy Fire”, and it spreads to all people present in the Church. The ceremony surrounding “The Miracle of the Holy Fire” may be the oldest unbroken Christian ceremony in the world. From the fourth century A.D. all the way up to our own time, sources recall this awe-inspiring event. From these sources it becomes clear that the miracle has been celebrated on the same spot, on the same feast day, and in the same liturgical frame throughout all these centuries.[

One can ask the question of why the miracle of the Holy Fire is almost unknown in Western Europe. In Protestant areas it may, to a certain extent, be explained by the fact that there is no real tradition of miracles; people don’t really know in which box to place the miracles, and they rarely feature in newspapers. But in the Catholic tradition there is vast interest in miracles. Thus, why is it not more well known? For this only one explanation suffices: Church politics. Only the Orthodox Churches attend the ceremony which is centered on the miracle. It only occurs on the Orthodox date of Easter and without the presence of any Catholic authorities.