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As
some of you might have noticed, we’ve been closed since
June. Our computers went down nearly losing everything.
As a retired IT professional, I cannot tell you how
important it is to keep your data backed up.
Having said this, we first lost our backup drive, and
two days later, we lost the main drive. It’s taken this
long to recover most of our data. I now have a triple
backup system in place, and have purchased another
computer (a network of three) with which I will do my
photography and videography. I swore I would not go into
debt to keep this here project alive, but, again, I
broke my promise.
Additionally, since I volunteered for Simply the Best to
do their accounting and email on this system, they too
were down, but we handled it the best we could manually
and only made a kazillion errors. On
the plus side, with the new computer setup, I can now
photograph weddings, special events, and high school
portraits. All the proceeds will go to the International
Wellness Directory and keep this little hobby up and
running. When
the new system is installed, I’ll be posting some of my
latest photography on the web, so keep your eyes pealed
to David’s
PhotoArt.
I’ve also been doing some more experimental photography
using only a flashlight as my light source. Because of
the crash, and catching up on my work, I’ve not yet even
had a chance to put them on my computer, but after the
holidays, I will, and I’ll post them.e
holidays, I will, and I’ll post them. And if anyone out there wants to buy me a gift for Christmas, check out the flashlight below:
EpiCore Update In our last newsletter, I offered to send any interested readers a pound of my own personal stash of Diamond V XPC (I used it on my chicks this past summer, and I did not lose one to disease) for a donation of $15.00. We got three takers, and that was acceptable. However, Dr David Williams, who writes the newsletter Alternatives, published a little piece about EpiCor and how he decided to buy the 90 pound bag of Diamond V XPC. He suggested to his readers to locate the product online, and suddenly I was inundated with hundreds of orders. I am
not equipped to pack up that much of anything, my supply
ran out, my suppliers could no longer furnish it, and I
finally found one supplier over two hours away that
carried it. So
if you, like Dr David Williams’ readers wish to try it
(I’ve filled capsules with it; you can find a little kit
for doing this), then you’ll have to go here:
Diamond V
XPC. You will notice that I’ve had to raise the
price of the donation. However, those using it are
reporting that so far, they’ve not caught any dreaded
winter bugs. Don't Forget the
Troops This
newsletter has been rushed to beat the holiday traffic.
We have some great gift ideas, and don’t forget our
soldiers in
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the next thing we can all do is get our troops home as
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last thing: the reason I do this web site, the books,
and the directories (yes, I’m so far behind I don’t know
where to start). Why We Do This This
is a letter I got from a reader: I wanted you to know that your
web site helped to save my dad's life. : ) With info I got there, info I got
from my docs and info I've read in books my dad's
prostate cancer is undetectable. His type of cancer
rated an 8 on the Gleason scale and his PSA levels got
up to a 45. When it got that high he went ahead and had
localized radiation which brought his PSA down to 11. He
finally agreed to do the things I was suggesting to him
and now his PSA is down to a .06 and at his physical
exam yesterday the doc said he couldn't even feel the
prostate anymore. He eats a cup of raspberries
every day. I got him to shift his diet to a more
alkaline one. He takes green magma every day, beta
glucans 1/3,1/6, zinc, saw palmetto, selenium
etc.,etc.etc. He's 88 and counting! Just thought I'd say thanks. This
is what keeps me going. In
future issues, we’ll be reviewing lots of books, CDs,
you name it. We’re really behind, but we’ll catch up
soon. Oh,
and if you want to make a donation to our cause this
Holiday Season, please do. The software we use to create
our directories and find alternative physicians,
naturopaths, etcetera for our readers jumped from
$200.00 per year to $1,000.00 per year.
I
awoke one night with this terrible burning pain in my
chest. I felt like I was having a heart attack. But
could it be heartburn? I’ve never had debilitating
heartburn. The
next night, I awoke to the same thing. I thought my
chest was going to explode. Only one thing to do: call
the VA and set an appointment.
When I arrived at the VA, my doctor called me right in.
I told her the problem, and she typed at her computer,
told me to go directly to the lab for blood tests and
then next door to get an EKG. A
lot of people complain about socialized medicine. Most
of them are the ones making lots of money in our money
based system of medicine. They say that there are long
waits, the service is poor, etc. etc.
Within ten minutes I was back in my doctor’s office
where she told me: It’s heartburn.
Apparently, if you you’ve had a heart event, they will
find specific enzymes in your blood stream. So,
it was quickly ruled out. In ten minutes, with no waits.
At the lab I was taken straightaway, and ditto at the
EKG lab. The
VA system is an example of how well socialized medicine
can work. Yes, there are exceptions (e.g., Walter Reed)
but they’ve been caused by budget cuts (during a time of
war when vets are returning in droves). My
doctor wanted me to get an esophagogastroscopy. She
explained that the procedure lasted less than five
minutes; that they would insert a tube with a camera
attached to take pictures.
I’ve always had a fear of suffocation since I was a kid.
I told her this and she responded: "They give you this
new drug, Versed. Once they give it to you, no matter
what they do, it won’t affect you, and afterwards you’ll
forget everything.
“Oh,” I said, “like high school.” I
remember the doc inserting the IV, and I felt a cool
liquid entering my vein. I asked if they’d just given me
the anesthesia, and he replied, “It’s not
really an
anesthesia.”
“Oh,” I said, “then you’re not an anesthesiologist.” He
said, “No,” and began to tell me all about the drug, but
that’s as much as I remember. Now I can’t wait for my
next Colonoscopy. It
turns out that there was nothing wrong with my stomach,
I did not have a hiatal hernia, but they did find
Candida on my esophagus. My
doctor sent me Tagamet® and an anti-fungal medicine, but
I decided to use a less harsh therapy. I like the fact
that my body digests food. I don’t need an acid blocker.
And the anti-fungal meds had side effects I wasn’t
interested in exploring. I
began a daily routine of 10 drops of
Magnascent (it’s antifungal) in the morning, upping
it from the usual 3 drops per day. Then I followed that
by a squeeze of Grapefruit Seed Extract in the back of
my throat. It’s horrid. Getting it down is difficult,
but in the back of your throat, you can swallow and
quickly wash it down.
Symptoms vanished within three days, but I continued the
protocol till my bottle of Grapefruit Seed Extract was
finished.
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I’ve
been a fan of Dr Sears’ a long time. I’ve read some of
his work in one of the horde of newsletters that trample
down my mailbox (both physical and electronic). One day
his people came to me asking if we would review one of
his books. It’s
called the Pace® Program. I
began reading it, and the more and more I read, the more
it seemed if I’d already written this. You see, the
first chapters tore into aerobic exercise, revealing the
myths so many still kneel to. It was so close to our
findings, that we asked him if we could publish his
first two chapters in our next edition of Bypassing
Bypass. In exchange, we would link to his site so you
could get the rest of the story. I’ll
give you a hint. You
work out hard, then soft, then hard, then soft, then… At
this pace, you’ll teach your body to burn more fat while
resting. Oh, I should tell you that there are side effects:
your heart becomes stronger, and your lung capacity
grows. Yes,
it does all those things that we’ve been told aerobic
exercise does. Only, research shows, it (aerobic
exercise) does not. You
see, our bodies haven’t evolved much since we were
hunter gatherers. The life of a hunter/gatherer was
spent walking long distances, sometimes carrying great
loads, interspersed with running at breakneck speeds
either trying to capture something to eat, or trying to
escape something that wanted to eat him. We were born to
be hunter/gatherers.
Whether you jog, run, walk, swim, jump rope, or ride a
bike, you can do the Pace® Program. I
chose the bike. At
this same time, I discovered Dr Hyman (he’s yet to
contact us). His book
Ultrametabolism caught my eye. I
read it and liked it. Eating to boost our metabolism.
What a concept. Some reviews say that his theories go
beyond the research, but he’s done his homework. Nothing
he claims has been disproven in any study. Far from it.
Studies back him up. One
thing that keeps Americans fat is that we skip
breakfast, and then snack at night. That is the first
thing you’ll learn to reverse when you pick up this
book. The
PACE® Program and Ultrametabolism
We received a letter from a person with contacts in
I immediately contacted John Brookshire and got both parties together.
John not only gave them the instructions, he created a video showing them
the entire process.
John is an angel. I hope you will all support his work, because, suddenly
the FDA has defined iodine as a controlled substance,
and John spent some $2,000.00 to get a license to make
his nascent Iodine.
Additionally, I discovered an error in our reports on Iodine that I will
try to clear up here, and later, I’ll repair the
articles.
What is sold as Atomidine today is not nascent iodine.
From 1926 to 1935, it was nascent iodine. However, today, there are forms
out there made with iodine trichloride, which is simply
a dangerous form.
Edgar Cayce gave two readings on how to make Atomidine. He gave both to
Sunker Bisey who decided, because of cost, to make the
second form (from reading 358-2, rather than the first
form (from reading 358-1) since the cost of this first
process was prohibitive. This all occurred during the
Great Depression, and the first recipe, which sold for a
dollar a bottle, was preferred by the manufacturers over
something no one could afford.
The difference between the two iodines is that the weaker method charged
the molecules putting them into an energetic state,
while the stronger method, true nascent iodine, broke
the bonds holding the molecules together. The mild form
is often referred to as Atomidine or Detoxified Iodine.
The stronger form is true nascent iodine, or called, by
John Brookshire, Magnascent.
The results from Magnascent are astounding. It is just a darn good
product.
Here is a testimonial we received from one of the people who used his
iodine:
My
name is Terri B. and I was diagnosed with Small Cell
Cancer in June 2002. The tumor was wrapped around my
coronary artery. The Dr’s told me I would live a year,
maybe less, because the small cell cancer would keep
coming back. Sure enough, within a year I started
jumbling my words and losing my balance. The MRI found a
tumor the size of a lemon inside my brain. It was around
this time that I bumped into John Brookshire again. He
suggested I try [Magnascent] to help with the numerous
side effect from chemotherapy and radiation. I was very
impressed.
I
would put 3-5 drops of [Magnascent] in a glass of water
in the morning and at night, and I could tell a big
difference in my energy level within a week. I was able
to get up more and even wanted to get out of the house
to go somewhere besides to the Dr or for tests. I also
read a great book on the effects of not enough iodine in
our bodies, and was shown how much this wonderful potion
was helping women with Breast Cancer.
Here it is 2007 and I haven’t had any symptoms for over
two years. I still use the [Magnascent] daily and I
thank John for helping me get stronger
We’ve not yet put Iodine in our list of Alternative Cancer Therapies, but
when I get the time, I will.
We will also review a book by Dr Brownstein on iodine in the near future,
but in the meanwhile, you can order it yourself. Dr Guy
Abraham has been testing iodine on breast cancer and
prostate cancer, and he and Dr Brownstein are thoroughly
convinced that when the body gets enough iodine, these
cancers simply start to melt away.
Additionally, a lack of iodine (suffered by upwards of 85% of our
population) affects our intelligence. In an article from
the New York Times,
December 16, 2006, entitled
In Raising the World’s
I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt,
experts suggest raising
the quantity of iodine in our salt (to levels first
proposed by a Dr Marlin – as we reported in an earlier
article on iodine) would increase our intelligence.
“For 5
cents per person per year, you can make the whole
population smarter than before,” said Dr. Gerald N.
Burrow, a former dean of
Yale’s medical school and vice chairman of the
iodine council.
A reader sent us an interesting take on this:
I
thought this was really interesting, though it doesn't
mention iodine specifically. Since we know that mothers
who don't get enough iodine tend to have dumber kids, it
is interesting that mothers who eat a lot of fish tend
to have smarter kids (even if the fish have mercury).
This fits in interestingly with the "mermaid" hypothesis
. . . . People living by the shore usually eat a fair
bit of seaweed, which chelates mercury [bonds with
mercury so it can pass], so even if the fish did have
extra mercury, it might not be an issue. But the fetus
would get all that nice iodine and omega-3 fatty acids
to create a nice big brain. The
Thyroid Foundation of Canada published a paper on
Iodine Deficiency Disorders in which they claim that
“iodine deficiency currently represents a significant
public health problem for 1575 million people (almost
30% of the world's population) in 110 countries. 655
million are affected by goitre, 20 million are believed
to be significantly mentally handicapped as a result of
iodine deficiency which is therefore the most prevalent
preventable cause of impaired intellectual development
in the world today.” They
go onto say:
Severe
iodine deficiency may manifest itself by Cretinism i.e.
children born with severe hypothyroidism. Neonates and
young infants constitute the target population for the
effects of iodine deficiency because, from a public
health viewpoint, the most important complications of
iodine deficiency are irreversible brain damage and
mental retardation which result from iodine deficiency
and thyroid failure during fetal and early postnatal
life.
Other
naturally occurring goitrogens can aggravate or simulate
iodine deficiency, and these include such foods as
cassava, maize, bamboo shoots, sweet potatoes, lima
beans, and the Brassica group of vegetables. Iodine
deficiency and/or these goitrogens interfere with the
production of thyroid hormone, thus causing an increase
in TSH, an increased size of the thyroid gland (goitre),
and hypothyroidism.
The
consequences of iodine deficiency even in developed
areas such as
Elevated thyroid uptake due to iodine deficiency
aggravates the risk of thyroid irradiation and
development of thyroid cancer in the case of a nuclear
accident. Even in
Iodine is an essential nutrient. Period. The simple fact
that our government demands that our salt be iodized in
a dosage that simply keeps us from developing goiters,
while still keeping us iodine deficient means that each
of us must get enough in our diet on our own. John
is working with a physician in
I’m
sorry for taking so long to reply on your e-mails.
I took leave for a month and went to
I do
not mind if you use my name in the newspaper.
I am still experimenting with the Iodine with
lots of good results although you do not get the same
results with all the medicines with everyone.
Overall it seems to work very well for Ostio-arthritis,
Rumatoit-arthritis and even Gout.
I also use it for Septicemia and I find it very
effective to put the undiluted drops on warts.
It also worked very well on kidney failure.
Yesterday I gave it to someone with full blown
HIV on anti-retroviral treatment that failed, so I am
waiting to see the response.
It is important that you mention that this study
is in (it’s) experimental phase and the results were
found with only a few patients.
It will take a few years and lots of patients to
really come to a conclusion.
So far I had no side-effects or allergic response
but, I am very positive that you can treat many
illnesses with great success with this very inexpensive
medicine.
I will
keep you updated on my results all the time.
Unfortunately most of my patients are (rural)
black, so when they get cured, they do not come back to
inform me about it.
They have no contact numbers, which means I can’t
get into any contact with them to find out.
I do believe that God had not brought this
medicine to me all the way from We
also got a letter from a woman with breast cancer who is
under the care of Dr Guy Abraham. She writes: “It’s
saving my life!” Here
is another letter:
Just
good health info to pass on. 3 months ago my
doctor tried to prescribe thyroid medicine to me.
I convinced him to let me try liquid iodine in my water
morning and night before committing to the pills.
I just got my results in today and good news. My
thyroid went back up to normal.......no thyroid
prescriptions. What
can you do? Help yourself and your family by supporting
John’s work. To
order Magnascent, Click Here:
Magnascent, from Simply the Best.
Additionally, here are two books you really need to
read.
Posted on: WACCOBB.NET Not long ago I read a report that made the astonishing claim that the leading cause of death in the US is the American medical system. Medicare's recent announcement that it will no longer reimburse hospitals for the cost of treating certain "serious preventable events," such as an object left in a patient's body after an operation or giving a patient the wrong kind of blood, and particular infections amounts to a frightening acknowledgement of how bad things have gotten in mainstream health care. Authors of the report on causes of death, published in Life Extension magazine, attributed nearly 800,000 deaths each year to medical interventions, in contrast to approximately 650,000 deaths from heart disease and 550,000 from cancer. The methodology they used to calculate that number didn't stand up to our analysis, so I don't think the numbers are quite so high. However, it did get my attention since the figures came from credible sources including peer-reviewed medical journals, citing for instance, 106,000 deaths annually from adverse drug reactions, 98,000 from medical errors and 88,000 from infections. This compares with 160,000 deaths from lung cancer anticipated for 2007, for instance. Death can't be held off forever, of course -- but preventable deaths from hospital-acquired infections, especially if due to poor hygiene such as those transmitted by not washing hands, are particularly egregious. For greater insight into the risks we face, I spoke with David J. Sherer, MD, a board-certified anesthesiologist in Falls Church, Virginia, and the coauthor of Dr. David Sherer's Hospital Survival Guide: 100+ Ways to Make Your Hospital Stay Safe and Comfortable (Claren). He said that although this report is controversial and somewhat alarmist, it has elements of truth. Numbers can always be crunched and interpreted in different ways, but the indisputable point here is that medical errors and complications or adverse effects from medical interventions have reached a crisis point in this country -- one that needs to be addressed. That's beginning to happen. Dr. Sherer and I discussed what's behind this alarming trend and how we can protect ourselves. BEHIND THE RISE IN MEDICAL-RELATED DEATHS First of all, the problem is not that medical practitioners have suddenly and inexplicably become sloppy and careless. That's far too simplistic an explanation. Instead, Dr. Sherer chalks up the alarming statistics to a number of different factors:
HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF Forewarned is forearmed: There are many proactive steps you can take to shield yourself and your loved ones from this epidemic of deaths related to medical interventions. At the doctor's office or in the hospital, Dr. Sherer recommends...
No doubt we will continue to hear more about this vitally important health topic -- and I'll continue to cover it in upcoming issues of Daily Health News. Given that hospitals will now have to absorb the costs of their mistakes due to Medicare's refusal to provide coverage for "serious preventable events," with a stipulation that prevents billing patients for them, too, it's clear that they will focus intently on reducing these events, which can only be good news. And meanwhile, Medicare's new hospital inpatient provisions will result not only in an estimated savings for the government of more than $20 million annually -- but, we can only hope, the saving of many lives as well. Source(s):
Author Rob van
Overbruggen PhD shares his expertise and utilizes the
power of the human mind to influence the cancer process
in Healing Psyche From the Author: After decades
of research and billion dollars spent biomedical science
has not yet discovered the cause for breast cancer.
Every 13 minutes someone dies of breast cancer. Even if
biomedical methods and technologies have enormously
improved, health care costs have risen at a very high
rate synchronistically.
Tony Isaacs, a good friend of our work, and author of Cancer's Natural Enemy, sent me a couple of bottles of Advanced Colloidal Silver. I used it for a few infections and it worked. How It
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New research has uncovered a gene that can increase lifespan dramatically, as much as 100 percent in one study.1 All living things carry it – including humans. Even more exciting is the discovery that natural substances found in certain foods have the power to activate this gene. We first discovered evidence of this “longevity gene” about twenty years ago. If you starve mice, giving them a nutritionally balanced diet with very few calories, their lifespan increases dramatically. Later studies revealed that this strange effect wasn’t limited to mice: calorie-restricted diets produced similar results in many life forms, from single celled organisms to plantVery recently, we found the explanation for this mysterious phenomenon. They isolated a family of genes called sirtuins (“silent information regulator proteins”). Sirtuins kick in under conditions of severe stress, bringing about a miraculous transformation. They transmit signals to every cell in your body that literally cancel out the effects of aging. The processes that lead to cell death slow to a crawl, buying your body more time. o a crawl, buying your body more time. The discovery of sirtuins pointed to another amazing fact. Most folks think of genetics as written in stone. You have the genes you inherited, and that’s it. What sirtuins show is that certain genes can be awakened and called upon to change your body in the course of a single lifetime. You’re probably saying to yourself, “Do I have to starve myself to live longer?” Good point. The problem of how to “wake up” sleeping sirtuin genes had scientists stumped for years. They had to find some other way to flip the “off switch” on aging. That’s where foods come in. Turns out some contain a natural compound that unleashes the anti-aging power of sirtuins as effectively as calorie restriction. It’s called resveratrol. Nature’s Solution
As if that weren’t enough, resveratrol also acts as a potent antioxidant, binding with “free radicals,” the molecules that cause cell damage and lead to death over time. The list of resveratrol’s many health benefits is long indeed. Let’s start with the heart. Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too Back in the 80’s, researchers stumbled on a mystery they called “the French Paradox.” Conventional wisdom had long held that if you eat a lot of saturated fats, your arteries would clog up, putting you on the fast track to a major heart attack. But when they compared the average diets among people in different countries, their theory went out the window. The French were eating all the fat they wanted – cheese, cream, meat, buttery pastries, cakes, and desserts, even foods made out of pure fat like pâté – and yet they had much lower rates of heart disease than Americans, who ate just as much fat. In other words, the French were having their cake and eating it, too. Why? Further analysis offered a clue: the French love wine as much as they love fatty foods. Something in wine, they realized, was highly beneficial. So they performed more testing in the lab and uncovered the one of the main causes: the grapes used to make wine were rich in resveratrol. It turns out that different wines have different levels of resveratrol. Wines made from Muscadine grapes have the highest levels.
Meet One of Your Heart’s Best FriendsI’ve been studying ways to boost heart health for thirty years, and I’ve never come across anything more powerful than resveratrol. There are actually two kinds of resveratrol, “cis-“ and “trans-resveratrol.” It’s the second kind appears to be the most beneficial. One way it protects your heart is by preventing blood clots, a major cause of heart attack, particularly in older folks. In one study, researchers gave healthy male subjects a blood-clotting factor along with high doses of trans-resveratrol. They found that trans-resveratrol prevented their blood platelets from sticking together.3 Not only does this help your heart – it also prevents strokes, another effect of clotting. Another way it powers your heart involves miraculous capability called “angio-genesis,” a fancy term for blood vessel growth. Trans-resveratrol acts a bit like bypass surgery by creating new blood vessels to deliver more oxygen to your heart when it’s not getting enough. Finally trans-resveratrol drives down levels of bad fats called triglycerides. These are the fatty acids that clog your arteries. Scientists have been able to lower triglyceride levels as much as 15 percent in pre-menopausal women using concentrated grape powder.4 It’s this particular property that helped to explain the “French Paradox.” The French were eating fat, but it wasn’t clogging their arteries as fast as in Americans. A “His-and-Hers” Cancer Fighter and Natural Sun Block Resveratrol is a major weapon in the battle against cancer – in both men and women. Someday, doctors may turn to resveratrol instead of drugs or surgery as a first-line defense and treatment for prostate cancer. In mice, it’s been shown to reduce prostate cancer risk as much as 87 percent. And in those who’d already developed prostate cancer, resveratrol slowed tumor growth up to 49 percent.5 For women, resveratrol may prove just as powerful in the fight against breast cancer. Another study on mice found that it slowed tumor growth and killed off cancer cells and the blood vessels they need to grow.6 This is truly amazing, if you think about it. Resveratrol acts just like chemotherapy in mice, but naturally and without any of the horrific side effects of chemo. And while it stimulates blood vessel growth to benefit the heart, it kills the blood vessels that feed tumors. When it comes to preventing cancer and heart disease, it’s you’re guardian angel. What’s more, a number of studies suggest that resveratrol may prevent leukemia, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, and lung cancer. Plants use resveratrol to protect themselves from the harmful effects of too much sun. It may be able to do the same thing for humans. Scientists looked at resveratrol’s effects on skin tumor development in mice caused by harmful UVB rays.7 They used it just like a lotion, applying it to the skin twice weekly for 28 weeks. Not only did it prevent skin cancer; it also slowed tumor growth significantly. Ramp Up Your Physical Strength and Vitality Resveratrol may also turn out to be for humans what spinach was for Popeye. In one study, it turned mice into Mighty Mice, granting them extraordinary strength and stamina. Once fed resveratrol, they ramped up their aerobic capacity, lengthened their running time, and burned more oxygen. Researchers also noticed that resveratrol enhanced their muscles’ ability to turn fuel into energy. Adding icing to the cake, the same study confirmed resveratrol’s power to enhance overall health and vitality: it boosted the immune system, protected the nervous system, and optimized liver, muscle, and fat cell function. It also prevented diabetes and obesity by lowering insulin resistance, the main cause of type 2 diabetes.8 Unlock Your Body’s Native Power Resveratrol taps into your body’s natural, life-giving force, unleashing vitality, energy, strength, and stamina. It can literally add years to your life. The problem is how to get enough of it. Nearly all the experiments I mentioned used quantities of resveratrol well beyond what you’d be able to get from drinking a lot of wine or eating plums all day. So this is a case where supplements are a better option. They’re inexpensive and safe. You can find them in health food stores or on line. I recommend around taking 10 mg per day. I’ll also be formulating my own mix of resveratrol in the coming months. Once it’s ready, I’ll let you know. ____________________ 1. Howitz et al, “Small molecule activators of sirtuins extend Saccharomyces cerevisiae lifespan,” Nature, 2003, 425(6954):191-6. 2. Sinclair DA, Guarente L, “Unlocking the secrets of longevity genes,” Scientific American, 2006, 294(3): 48-57. 3. Wang et al, “Effects of red wine and wine polyphenol resveratrol on platelet aggregation in vivo and in vitro,” International Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2007 9(1):77-9. 4. Zern et al, “Grape polyphenols exert a cardioprotective effect in pre- and postmenopausal women by lowering plasma lipids and reducing oxidative stress,” The Journal of Nutrition, 2005, 135(8):1911-7. 5. Harper et al, “Resveratrol suppresses prostate cancer progression in transgenic mice,” Journal of Carcinogenesis, 2007 28(9):1946-1953. 6. Garvin et al, “Resveratrol induces apoptosis and inhibits angiogenesis in human breast cancer xenografts in vivo,” Cancer Letters, 2006, 231(1): 113-22. 7. Aziz et al, “Chemoprevention of skin cancer by grape constituent resveratrol: relevance to human disease?” The FASEB Journal, 2005, 19(9):1193-95. 8. Lagouge et al, “Resveratrol improves mitochondrial function and protects against metabolic disease by activating SIRT1 and PGC-1alpha,” Cell, 2006,127(6):1109-22. To get Dr Sears' Health Confidential Newsletter, click here.
I never get tired talking about Ron Salley’s line of
creams. Ron has gotten orders from around the world
because of our efforts to promote them. As many of you
know, if it’s good, if it works, we’ll promote it, and
if we receive negative lots of negative feedback, we’ll
drop them and erase every mention of them found at this
site.
Simply the Best started up because of the unique
products we’ve discovered in this journey to perfect
health. Simply the Best is the only site on the web
handling Ron’s amazing creams.
Diabetic Wounds: Ron has received tons of letters from
his customers who have used HealonPF™ for their diabetic
wounds. I am currently researching products that can
help these nearly untreatable inflictions for a future
article, but the findings are slim. I cannot even tell
you the number of people who’ve told Ron that his
HealonPF™ saved a limb.
One recent customer had a team of doctors working on his
foot for more than six months only to tell him that it
would, in all probability, have to come off. He got a
bottle of HealonPF™, used it twice a day over a six week
period, and it healed right up. His doctors claimed it
to be a “miracle” and then went on to take full credit
for the event.
We expect to receive photographs (before and after
soon), so stay tuned.
Two cases of spider bites (by the Brown Recluse) healed
completely with no rotting flesh.
One young man in
Personally, I’ve found that when I have a sinus
inflammation, I first put a few drops of
Magnascent
into a netipot and thoroughly clean out my nasal
cavities. I then spray some
SinusBuster up
there with a bit of
Colloidal Silver. Finally, I do the procedure
mentioned above, and it’s gone.
Ron has created an ointment from his HealonPF™, and it’s
currently being tested by Dr Hall (who is one of his
admirers). For deep core diabetic wounds (that go right
down to the bone), the doctor has found that he can pack
the wound, which has saved some limbs that had,
according to the medical world, not a chance of ever
healing. Ron is not currently manufacturing this new
product; it’s in the testing phase. His products are
expensive to make, and he wants more clinical studies
before it goes into production. We’ll be the first to
tell you when this happens.
It seems that beauticians have been using the HealonPF™
for sever acne with great results. Ron also makes an
Acne Formula, and used together, he’s not seen an acne
condition that can’t be cleared up.
Ron is also working with veterinarians. Hot spots on
dogs can clear up in two weeks with HealonPF™. One of the
top horse Vets in
For third degree burns, nothing seems to compare to
HealonPF™. Even blisters clear up quickly.
Ron recently got a large order from
So, if you don’t have a bottle of HealonPF™ in your first
aid kit and one in your car, this Christmas Ron will
send you a free bottle of HealonPF™ for any orders over
$100.00.
Additionally, I convinced Ron to market his amazing lip
balm. Most lip balms contain petroleum products (which
have been linked to cancer, in fact, Vaseline Petroleum
Jelly® has been outlawed in
The process to make his Lip Balm is long, tedious, and
expensive and he never wanted to market it. I told him
you have to sell this stuff, so why not sell it for
$15.00? He said that’s awfully steep for a Lip Balm. I
said, “No, it isn’t. Not for this stuff!”
Finally, Ron’s Psoriasis formula has help a lot of
people, but on some, it’s done nothing. Psoriasis is a
weird condition. There are a lot of products out there,
and like Ron’s formula, sometimes they work, sometimes
they don’t. We could easily publish only the positive
testimonials here, but that’s not our style. Just click on the link below to go to the only site on the web supplying these amazing products.
Aside from the fact that we’re six months behind in our work, we do plan to review a lot of CDs on meditation and hypnosis. HoloSync™ is just one of the recording schemes we will investigate in depth in a future newsletter. We get a lot of letters here, and one subject we get often is: I CAN’T MEDITATE! Our society runs at a ridiculous pace. The American Dream has become a nightmare. Most families have both parents working full time, and far too many have to maintain two jobs. Finding a peaceful space (or time) to meditate is difficult. Trying to clear one’s mind seems impossible. This is where HoloSync™ comes in. As you read this, your brain is sending the words you see through your brain in electrical impulses. The speed at which these impulses travel is called frequency. Brain frequencies are measured in cycles per second, or hertz. Let’s take a look at these frequencies:
It is possible to alter your brain frequencies. We do this by finding a quiet place and entering a meditative state. However, as most report to me, they just can’t do it. In meditation, we try to focus on nothing. Many techniques tell you to focus on your breathing. When something comes into your mind, acknowledge it, and push it to the side, and continue to focus on your breathing. Meditation slows the brain waves and synchronizes both hemispheres. (Yes, one side can be running at a different frequency than the other.) When you reach a state of consciousness where the Theta phase takes over, and both hemispheres are in sync, you reach a place of peace and well being. However, many people tell me they just cannot do this. The moment they sit down, begin to breathe and center, thoughts of taking the kids to the dentist, getting to the supermarket, the laundry in the basket, a meeting with the PTA, or an upcoming holiday just begin to bombard them. Again, this is where HoloSync™ comes in. HoloSync™ is a process used to synchronize both hemispheres of the brain at a desired frequency by playing audio patterns containing binaural beats or tones. Binaural means “two tones.” All mammals are binaural, in that we have two ears. The secret behind HoloSync™ is that, using earphones, one ear gets one tone, while the other gets another, but the brain hears a third tone created by the two combining. In one set of CDs we will review (someday), they gave a great demonstration. First they played one tone in my left ear. Then they played another (very similar) in my right ear. Then they played them both together, and it was amazing: I heard this fluctuating “wawa” sound in my brain. It was a great demonstration. The HoloSync™ CDs aim at bringing you slowly into the Theta or Delta states. While first using the CDs, I and others with whom I shared the experience, found that focusing on nothing became quite easy. When something intruded our thoughts, they automatically vanished and again we were focused and centered. I’ve heard reports from a Buddhist Monk who spent years learning to attain higher forms of consciousness that he was absolutely amazed at this recording process that helped so many get instantly what he’d been working on for years. So, to all my readers, if you want to get the gift of peace, tranquility, and well being for Christmas this year, this is one gift to give your self (or a loved one). Learning Strategies has a series of CDs called Euphoria. Check it out by clicking here: Euphoria. This is a large package with advice from some of the top experts in the field of self-empowerment, including Chunyi Lin, my qigong instructor. Other CDs at this site are called Paraliminals. We've reviewed their Smoke-Free CD in the past (in our article on Quitting Smoking. Other's we've been privilaged to review are: Deep Relaxation, Ten Minute Supercharge, Ideal Weight, and New Behavior Generator. All of them can be viewed by clicking here: Learning Strategies Paraliminals. They make an excellent Christmas gift to yourself or a loved one.
I have a very eclectic taste in movies and audio CDs. In fact, since my retirement, I've become a movie nut, and often contribute to the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com). My collection of movies is way over the 3,000 mark now and still climbing. But even with 500 channels on your TV, it's amazing how many kids today don't know who Laurel and Hardy were or have never seen a Charlie Chaplin film. Charlie Chaplin Hollywood knows Charlie Chaplin. Movies today even steal many of his gags. For the best introduction to Charlie Chaplin that will give you hours of pleasure, I suggest the Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection. However, if that's a bit too spendy for you, then I would suggest this "must have" two DVD collection: The Chaplin Review.
All of the films in this little collection are priceless, but one, The Idle Class, has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. One of the first gags in the film has Charlie, an upper-class drunk, forgetting his pants and entering the lobby of his hotel. As he makes his way to the phone booth, the characters upstage of him perform their functions coincidentally covering his trouserless body. This gag has been subsequently lifted by the writers of the Spy Who Shagged Me. However, the way Charlie, once he realizes his situation, gets back to his room is pure Chaplin. Another scene to watch for is when he gets a letter from his wife that she's not coming back till he quits his drinking. I've not found anyone who can keep a straight face watching this gag. The product is sold by a seller for whom we are not an affiliate, but heck, it's Christmas. Laurel and Hardy This
comic duo has no equal. Stan Laurel was a comic genius.
All comic duos have their problems, but Laurel and Hardy
never quibbled about a gag, since Hardy trusted Laurels
sense of comedy explicitly. Though their work is old,
their gags are timeless, and often
lifted by
contemporary
Hardy helped write just one movie,
Sons of the Desert. They
were awarded an Academy Award for only one short film:
The Music Box, and Stan did receive a special lifetime
achievement Oscar shortly before his death. Only
recently has Turner Classics started showing their work,
though in the mid eighties, local channels still ran a
Laurel and Hardy Comedy Hour (which I recorded to video
tape religiously). Sadly, today many people have never heard
of them.
I’ve
introduced this duo to teens of friends, and at first
they respond with something like, “Oh, black and white,”
but within minutes, they’re rolling with laughter. Stan
Laurel’s comic timing is impeccable.
Firesign Theater As a
child of the sixties (yes, with flowers in my hair
and roaming the strip in I
was first introduced to the word “hologram” in their
work. These fellows are all degreed from top
universities, and their allusions to history, science,
literature, and pop culture are wide, varied, and deep. When
youngsters hear them today, they think: “Oh, that’s
really old.” However, the clichés heard were not clichés
when recorded. Some of their lines have made it
firmly into our language today. One
thing you will quickly learn is that for the next ten to
twenty years, every time you listen to them, you will
hear something new.
Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the
Pliers is the
story of a man watching himself on TV all night long. It
is rated R. Lots of references to drugs (heck, it was
the sixties).
How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When
You’re Not Anywhere at All
has a different skit on each side (though they reference
the other side of the phonographic album during the
skits). One side has the Further Adventures of Nick
Danger, Third Eye, while the other side begins with one
of those ubiquitous Car Commercials (come on down!) we
all heard in the LA area in the sixties, and ends with
James Joyce’s
Ulysses. The anti war theme is relevant today. It
is rated R with even more of references to drugs.
I Think We’re All Bozos on this Bus
is a trip to a They
will all make you think, make you laugh, and make you
play them again and again.
Betty Boop
Here’s a question for you: What color is Betty Boop’s
hair?
Everyone says, “black” because she’s always drawn that
way in posters. However, in her two color cartoons, her
hair was red.
Another question: What was Betty Boop before she was
human?
Weird question? Not really. She was a dog. In her first
seven cartoons Betty was a dog. She quickly transformed
into a spicy flapper from the twenties, and after the Hays
Office started enforcing their edicts(1934), Betty’s character and
clothing began to get toned down. Her skirts grew
longer, and her fans fell away. Her voice, Mae Questel,
stayed with Max Fleisher’s studio to become the voice of
Olive Oyl, Popeye’s
goilfriend.
The
double collection (below) is a great introduction to
Betty’s early years. In fact, the first time Louis
Armstrong appeared on film was in a Betty Boop Cartoon
that went by the name of the song Louis and his Band
perform:
I'll Be Glad When You're
Dead You Rascal You.
You’ll also find Cab Calloway in this collection,
singing about Cocaine and Heroin, but the kids won’t
know; they’re presented in street slang. Many of Betty’s
early work would not have made it past the Hays Office
had they established just a few years earlier. Much
of these old cartoons, though, as well as Charlie
Chaplin’s work, and some Loony Tunes, are filled with
racism. They are the product of their time, and you
might want to explain a few things to your kids.
Loony Tunes The
Loony Tunes Collections are my absolute favorites. These
cartoons were not produced for solely for children. They
were created for the child in all of us.
In
the “olden days” when we went to a movie, we went for
entertainment. Today, we go for entertainment, but we
get assaulted with advertisement after advertisement and
movie trailers followed by movie trailers. In
my day, each film was preceded by a cartoon. So now, when I
make a DVD (recorded from my Tivo), if there is room, I
always add a cartoon.
These collections are sheer gems. They contain
commentaries, historical documentaries, and lots of
special features. You will meet the crazy geniuses
behind the Tunes, such as Tex Avery who was to the
cartoon what Color and Sound were to movies. You’ll meet
Frank Tashland (who went by many names, such as Tish
Tash) who sped up cartoons faster, even faster than his
mentor Tex Avery, and used camera angles that influenced
Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Wells. Tashland went on to
direct films for
You’ll learn that the voice of Bugs Bunny (and Daffy
Duck, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzalez, and more), was done by
Mel Blanc, who, by the way, hated carrots. However,
after trying everything from raw potatoes to celery and
apples, found that the only way to get the crunch-crunch
sound of a carrot was by munching on a carrot. So, after
every bite of a carrot followed by a line, Mel spit the
carrot into a bucket.
You’ll learn about all the people behind the characters
and gags from Warner Brothers. You’ll meet Chuck Jones,
who first designed Bugs Bunny, and later you’ll meet
Robert McKimson who finalized Bug’s Character in his
model sheet drawn in 1943. You’ll meet a lot of
people who never got credits in the openings, such
as the animators, the sound effects people, and many
voices. June Foray did a lot of female character voices
for Warner Brothers, but was virtually unknown till she
created the voices for both Rocky the Flying Squirrel
and Natasha on the Bullwinkle Hour. And
don’t forget to watch
The
Wabbit Who Came To Supper, for its famous “shower
scene” in which those nutty guys managed to slip a
few frames past the people in the Hays Office. And don’t
forget to pay attention to the paintings on Elmer Fudd’s
walls. He has four nudes. And
be sure to watch a few cartoons with the music (and
sometimes sound effects) only. The artwork alone in
these pieces are remarkable. The sunrise in
Claws For
Alarm, is sheer artistic genius. Additionally,
this is just one of two cartoons in which Sylvester is
Porky Pig’s pet, and gets no lines, though in the first
one,
Scaredy
Cat, Sylvester does get to meow.
Disney's On the Front Lines Did
you know that Walt Disney played an integral role in
defeating the Germans during WWII? When
the war began, Disney was nearly shut down. Many of his
employees had been drafted. With hardly a workforce,
Disney got contracts from the US Military to make
training films (a few are in the collection below).
While working for the military, Disney read a book by
Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, an aviation pioneer.
The book was Victory Through Air Power.
Disney created his own
Victory Through
Air Power, which started out with the
history of flight in cartoon form. As a child, I
watched excerpts from this documentary, but only as an
adult, with the release of Disney’s On The Front Lines,
was I able to see the entire production of
Victory Through
Air Power. With
Seversky himself lecturing, Disney intersperses
animations of Serversky’s theories on the tactics of long distance
bombing. The animation is simply amazing and the
quality…well, Disney never did anything poorly. When
the film was released, Winston Churchill went to see it.
Upon meeting with Roosevelt, he was surprised to learn
that Roosevelt had not yet seen the movie and arranged
for a copy to be sent to
Included in this collection is the Academy Award wining
cartoon,
Der
Fuehrer's Face. Donald also joins the
army in one of the cartoons, and we get to see his
middle name: Fauntleroy. This
is an amazing piece of history. Your children will love
the cartoons, and you don’t even have to tell them
they’re getting a college course in the history of WWII.
Jaques Tati
Finally we have two works by a French director, writer,
producer, editor, and actor. He was voted the 46th
Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly,
and of the list of fifty, he was the only one who had
directed a paltry 9 films. I’ll
lay odds that no one reading this has ever heard of this
man, let alone having ever seen his films. They
are masterpieces. Tati is a genius of visual gags. He’s
also an audio gag genius. You can hardly hear the
dialogue, but you can hear the sounds he’s amplified. In
fact, the dialogue is hardly central to his work. For
Playtime, the most expensive French film of its day, Tati
employed 100
construction workers to build two buildings using ,700
square feet of glass, 38,700 square feet of plastic,
31,500 square feet of timber, and 486,000 square feet of
concrete. The production began in October of 1964 and
ended in October of 1967. Tati went bankrupt making this
film, and it did not make a very big splash at the box
office. However, Tati lived long enough to get the
recognition he deserved. Even Roger Ebert added Playtime
to his “great movies” list in August of 2004. The
movie comes with a documentary showing the work that
went into the production.
Together, Mon Oncle and Playtime have been compared to
Charlie Chaplin’s
Modern Times, the story of an anonymous character
trapped in a modern world. Tati
plays the main roll of Mr Hulot, an eccentric,
conservative, goofy yet good-willing character who seems
to be doomed to do everything wrong in the modern world.
Tati’s genius is the gag. Every scene turns into
something else. There is so much going on, you will have to
see these over and over to catch it all.
Guaranteed, if you order these films, you’ll be the only
one on your block to own them; perhaps the only one in
your city. And everyone will wonder what the heck you’re
laughing at.
P.S. My friends will be getting gifts from these selections.
So your kids
have a favorite DVD (or
CD) or perhaps 20 favorites. They’re constantly playing
them. Mom has to wipe the fingerprints off of them to
get them to play properly. One day, the media just
doesn’t play. There’s another $14.50 down the drain. I
have another solution. It
is NOT illegal to make backup copies of your DVDs and
CDs. You paid for them. If they no longer function, you
have the right to have a backup copy. It
is illegal to make illegal copies of a DVD or CD.
Before I loan out one of the many DVDs I have in my
collection, to a friend, or neighbor, I always make a
copy. Some people just don’t handle these media
properly. I have one friend who never puts DVDs back in
their jewel case. I’ve learned to back them up.
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On my own behalf, as well as that of my coworkers, and the readers of our weekly online newsletter, I want to wish you success in pursuing innovative cancer treatments in Germany. I applaud your courage in seeking an approach that hopefully will be less toxic and more effective than the treatments you have so far been offered in the US. With this open letter, I also hope to counter some of the negative comments that have been made in the media about your treatment choices. Some of the derogatory comments about "the murky world of overseas clinics" have come from the tabloids - no surprise there. As your spokesperson told People magazine, "It is now clear that the tabloids are as invasive and malignant as cancer." I wish there were some way to shield you from their abusive attacks. Far more surprising have been highly critical comments from individuals associated with major US cancer institutions. Isn't it ironic that before your diagnosis you served as a celebrity spokesperson for the American Cancer Society? Now, some people associated with ACS and similar organizations have forgotten this former service and, in effect, have washed their hands of you. Interviewed by the Associated Press about your case, Barrie Cassileth, PhD, is quoted as saying, "I would [tell a patient considering alternative treatment] that they are signing their own death certificate. I would say they are wasting time they could otherwise spend happier and with their families." Dr. Cassileth is chief of the Integrative Medicine Department at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York and has been prominently associated with your former organization, the ACS. I find such statements both highly inappropriate and contradictory. Saying that people are "signing their own death certificate" by pursuing innovative cancer treatments outside the US implies that they would not be signing their death certificate had they only stayed in the US for treatment. While I do not presume to know the details of your case, I assume that you were fully informed by your American oncologists of the treatment options for your cancer, and found them unacceptable. I am sure you did not make the decision to seek treatment in Germany on a whim, but after due deliberation of all your options. Dr. Cassileth's melodramatic statement implies that you are wasting your time by doing so and that you could instead spend "happier" time with your family. Not everyone will choose to, as it were, wait out the clock. I thoroughly understand your desire to seek more effective treatments, including those available abroad. This is of course a very personal choice, which is determined in part by one's resources and fighting spirit. But the fact that some people choose to seek out other possibilities abroad rather than give up hope at home is not a sign of irrationality. Medicine develops unevenly and is still partly determined by national characteristics. (For confirmation, see Lynne Payer's classic Medicine and Culture.) Consequently, there are treatments available in Europe that are not yet available here, and vice versa. Dr. Cassileth seems to think that all German cancer clinics are a monolith and that all their techniques are the same and equally ineffective. But the topic of German innovative medical treatments is a huge one. According to one German Web site (www.klinik.de) there are presently 2,200 private clinics in Germany, containing 500,000 beds and treating 17.5 million patients annually. Many of these are cancer patients. These clinics were not set up to treat Americans, but primarily to serve the interests of the indigenous population. Germans in general (including many of their doctors) have a more positive attitude towards natural medicine than do their counterparts in America. In my experience, the German clinics are generally well run and are in full compliance with both local laws and international standards of ethical patient care. Germany has long been a world leader in cancer research and treatment. German biologists pioneered almost every step in understanding the nature of this disease. Despite the terrible setbacks of World Wars I and II, German doctors continue to be well trained and well informed on all aspects of cancer care. In the use of complementary medicine they are without peer in the West. German doctors have either pioneered or expanded the use of mistletoe, enzymes, thymic peptides, immunotherapy, hyperthermia, and a host of other innovative techniques. These methods are sometimes employed alongside surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, when these are deemed necessary. A glance at this year's program of the 41st
Medizinische Woche (Medicine Week), held
October 27-November 1, in Baden-Baden, reveals a panoply
of treatment options that are unknown by most American
oncologists. Recently I had the honor of co-editing a
medical textbook on the German approach to integrative
cancer therapy with Josef Beuth, MD, professor of
complementary medicine at the University of Cologne. Our
volume,
Complementary Oncology In conclusion, Ms Fawcett, I hardly think you are wasting your time, much less signing your own death certificate, by going abroad for treatment. You have made a rational decision under extremely difficult circumstances, and that decision deserves the utmost respect, not a flippant dismissal of your survival prospects. All people of good will wish you the best of luck in your search for effective treatments.
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However, as originating pages are often updated by their originating host sites, the versions posted on the International Wellness Directory may not match the versions our readers view when clicking the "Go to Original" links.From the Silver Bulletin e-News Magazine | The Fluoride Conspiracy "Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century." - Robert Carlton, Ph.D, former EPA scientist, 1992 The history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation of drinking water is wrought with lies, greed and deception. Governments that add fluoride to drinking water supplies insist that it is safe, beneficial and necessary, however, scientific evidence shows that fluoride is not safe to ingest and areas that fluoridate their drinking water supplies have higher rates of cavities, cancer, dental fluorosis, osteoporosis and other health problems. Because of the push from the aluminum industry, pharmaceutical companies and weapons manufacturers, fluoride continues to be added to water supplies all over North America and due to recent legal actions against water companies that fluoridate drinking water supplies, precedent has been set that will make it impossible for suits to be filed against water suppliers that fluoridate. There is a growing resistance against adding toxic fluoride to our water supplies, but unfortunately, because fluoride has become "the lifeblood of the modern industrial economy"(Bryson 2004), there is too much money at stake for those who endorse water fluoridation . The lies of the benefits of water fluoridation will continue to be fed to the public, not to encourage health benefits to a large number of people, but to profit the military-industrial complex. The story begins in 1924, when Interessen Gemeinschaft Farben (I.G. Farben), a German chemical manufacturing company, began receiving loans from American bankers, gradually leading to the creation of the huge I.G. Farben cartel. In 1928 Henry Ford and American Standard Oil Company (The Rockefellers) merged their assets with I.G. Farben, and by the early thirties, there were more than a hundred American corporations which had subsidiaries and co-operative understandings in Germany. The I.G. Farben assets in America were controlled by a holding Company, American I.G. Farben, which listed on it’s board of directors: Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company, Chas. E. Mitchell, President of Rockerfeller’s National City Bank of New York, Walter Teagle, President of Standard Oil New York, Paul Warburg, Chairman of the federal reserve and brother of Max Warburg, financier of Germany’s War effort, Herman Metz, a director of the Bank of Manhattan, controlled by the Warburgs, and a number of other members, three of which were tried and convicted as German war criminals for their crimes against humanity. In 1939 under the Alted agreement, the American Aluminum Company (ALCOA), then the worlds largest producer of sodium fluoride, and the Dow Chemical Company transferred its technology to Germany. Colgate, Kellogg, Dupont and many other companies eventually signed cartel agreements with I.G. Farben, creating a powerful lobby group accurately dubbed "the fluoride mafia"(Stephen 1995). At the end of World War II, the US government sent Charles Eliot Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in Germany. The German chemists told Perkins of a scheme which they had devised during the war and had been adapted by the German General Staff. The German chemists explained of their attempt to control the population in any given area through the mass medication of drinking water with sodium fluoride, a tactic used in German and Russian prisoner of war camps to make the prisoners "stupid and docile"(Stephen 1995). Farben had developed plans during the war to fluoridate the occupied countries because it was found that fluoridation caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain, making it more difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom and causing the individual to become more docile towards authority. Fluoride remains one of the strongest anti-psychotic substances known, and is contained in twenty-five percent of the major tranquilizers. It may not seem surprising that Hitler’s regime practiced the concept of mind control through chemical means, but the American military continued Nazi research, exploring techniques to incapacitate an enemy or medicate an entire nation. As stated in the Rockerfeller Report, a Presidential briefing on CIA activities, "the drug program was part of a much larger CIA program to study possible means of controlling human behavior"(Stephen 1995). The ‘dental caries prevention myth’ associated with fluoride, originated in the United States in 1939, when a scientist named Gerald J. Cox, employed by ALCOA, the largest producer of toxic fluoride waste and at the time being threatened by fluoride damage claims, fluoridated some lab rats, concluded that fluoride reduced cavities and claimed that it should be added to the nation’s water supplies. In 1947, Oscar R. Ewing, a long time ALCOA lawyer, was appointed head of the Federal Security Agency , a position that placed him in charge of the Public Health Service(PHS). Over the next three years, eighty-seven new American cities began fluoridating their water, including the control city in a water fluoridation study in Michigan, thus eliminating the most scientifically objective test of safety and benefit before it was ever completed. American ‘education and research’ was funded by the Aluminum Manufacturing, Fertilizer and Weapons Industry looking for an outlet for the increasingly mounting fluoride industrial waste while attaining positive profit increase. The ‘discovery’ that fluoride benefited teeth, was paid for by industry that needed to be able to defend "lawsuits from workers and communities poisoned by industrial fluoride emissions" (Bryson 1995) and turn a liability into an asset. Fluoride, a waste constituent in the manufacturing processes of explosives, fertilizers and other ‘necessities’, was expensive to dispose of properly and until a ‘use’ was found for it in America’s water supplies, the substance was only considered a toxic, hazardous waste. Through sly public re-education, fluoride, once a waste product, became the active ingredient in fluorinated pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides, anesthetics, tranquilizers, fluorinated pharmaceuticals, and a number of industrial and domestic products, fluorinated dental gels, rinses and toothpastes. Fluoride is so much a part of a multibillion-dollar industrial and pharmaceutical income, that any withdrawal of support from pro-fluoridationists is financially impossible, legally unthinkable and potentially devastating for their career and reputation. Funded by US industrialists, in an attempt to encourage public acceptance of fluoride, Edward Bernays, known also as the father of PR, or the original spin doctor, began a campaign of deception to persuade public opinion. Barnays explained "you can get practically any idea accepted if doctors are in favour. The public is willing to accept it because a doctor is an authority to most people, regardless of how much he knows or doesn’t know"(Bryson 2004). Doctors who endorsed fluoridation didn’t know that research discrediting fluoride’s safety was either suppressed or not conducted in the first place. Fluoride became equated with scientific progress and since it was introduced to the public as a health-enhancing substance, added to the environment for the children’s sake, those opposing fluoride were dismissed as cranks, quacks and lunatics. Fluoride became impervious to criticism because of a relentless PR offensive, but also because of it’s overall toxicity. Unlike chemicals that have a signature effect, fluoride, a systemic poison, produces a range of health problems, so it’s effects are more difficult to diagnose. Recently declassified US Military documents such as Manhattan Project, shows how Fluoride is the key chemical in atomic bomb production and millions of tons of it were needed for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium. Fluoride poisoning, not radiation poisoning, emerged as the leading chemical health hazard for both workers and nearby communities. A-bomb scientists were ordered to provide evidence useful for defense in litigation, so they began secretly testing fluoride on unsuspecting hospital patients and indignant, mentally retarded children.. "The August 1948 Journal of the American Dental Association shows that evidence of adverse effects from fluoride was censored by the US Atomic Energy Commission for reasons of "national security" (Griffiths 1998). The only report released stated that fluoride was safe for humans in small doses. During the Cold War, Dr. Harold C. Hodge, who had been the toxicologist for the US Army Manhattan Project, was the leading scientific promoter of water fluoridation. While Dr. Hodge was reassuring congress of the safety of water fluoridation, he was covertly conducting one of the nation’s first public water fluoridation experiments in Newburgh, New York, secretly studying biological samples from Newburgh citizens at his US laboratory at the University of Rochester. Since there are no legal constraints against the suppression of scientific data, the only published conclusion resulting from these experiments was that fluoride was safe in low doses, a profoundly helpful verdict for the US Military who feared lawsuits for fluoride injury from workers in nuclear power plants and munitions factories. Fluoride pollution was one of the biggest legal worries facing key US industrial sectors during the cold war. A secret group of corporate attorneys, known as the Fluorine Lawyers Committee, whose members included US Steel, ALCOA, Kaiser Aluminum, and Reynolds Metals, commissioned research at the Kettering Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati to "provide ammunition"(Bryson 2004) for those corporations who were fighting a wave of citizen claims for fluoride injury. The Fluorine Lawyers Committee and their medical ambassadors were in personal and frequent contact with the senior officials of the federal National Institute for Dental Research, and have been implied in the ‘burying’ of the forty year old Kettering study, which showed that fluoride poisoned the lungs and lymph nodes in laboratory animals. Private interests, sought to destroy careers and censor information by ensuring that scientific studies raising doubts about the safety of fluoride never got funded, and if they did, never got published. During the 1990’s, research conducted by Harvard toxicologist Phillis Mullenix showed that fluoride in water may lead to lower IQ’s, and produced symptoms in rats strongly resembling attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Just days before her research was accepted for publication, Mullenix was fired as the head of toxicology at the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston. Then her application for a grant to continue her fluoride and central nervous system research was turned down by the US National Institute of Health (NIH), when an NIH panel told her that "fluoride does not have central nervous system effects"(Griffiths 1998). Despite growing evidence that it is harmful to public health, US federal and state pubic health agencies and large dental and medical organizations such as the American Dental Association (ADA), continue to promote fluoride. Water fluoridation continues, despite the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s own scientists, whose union, Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, has taken a strong stand against it. Dr. William Hirzy, vice president of Chapter 280, stated that "fluoride (that is added to municipal water) is a hazardous waste product for which there is substantial evidence of adverse health effects and, contrary to public perception, virtually no evidence of significant benefits"( Mullenix 1998). Although fluoride is up to fifty times more toxic than sulfur dioxide, it is still not regulated as an air pollutant by the American Clean Air Act. Since thousands of tonnes of industrial fluoride waste is poured into drinking water supplies all over North America, supposedly to encourage gleaming smiles in our children, big industry in the US has the benefit of emitting as much fluoride waste into the environment as they like with absolutely no requirement to measure emissions and no way of being held accountable for poisoning people, animals and vegetation. In August 2003, the EPA requested that the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), re-evaluate water fluoride safety standards by reviewing recent scientific literature, because the last review in 1993 had major gaps in research. "Neither the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), nor the National Institute for Dental Research (NIDR), nor the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry has any proof on fluoride’s safety or effectiveness"(Sterling 1993). The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology has classified fluoride as an unapproved dental medicament due to it’s high toxicity and the US National Cancer Institute Toxicological Program has found fluoride to be an "equivocal carcinogen" (Maurer 1990). Currently the US government is continuing to introduce further fluoridation schemes throughout the country, including the Water Act passed in November 2003, which has made it impossible for water companies to undergo civil or criminal hearings as a result of adding fluoride to public water supplies. In a society where products containing asbestos, lead, beryllium and many other carcinogens have been recalled from the marketplace, it is surprising that fluoride is embraced so thoroughly and blindly. It seems absurd that we would consider paying the chemical industry to dispose of their toxic waste by adding it to our water supply. Hiding the hazards of fluoride pollution from the public is a capitalist-style con job of epic proportions that has occurred because a powerful lobby wishes to manipulate public opinion in order to protect it’s own financial interests. "Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country... our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of" (Bernays 1991).
If you're
over the age of 50, you may have noticed that your
muscles are getting weaker. It happens to all of us,
even when we follow a good exercise and weight lifting
program. And it's very dangerous, as it makes you more
prone to losing your balance and falling. Fortunately,
there's a simple way to slow down how fast you lose that
muscle strength.
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If
you have problems with insulin resistance, high
blood pressure, or vascular disease, I've got great
news. You can significantly lower your risk for
heart attack with a grain.
That's right! Researchers tested a novel grain for its heart-protecting benefits on 20 subjects. The average age for the participants was 64. And all of them had well-controlled diabetes. They randomized all of the participants to receive either 37 grams a day of Salba or wheat bran for 12 weeks. They otherwise remained on their conventional diets. The published results have even taken me by surprise. Salba, which is a grain that was popular with the ancient Aztecs, significantly reduced systolic blood pressure by an average of 6.3 mm. The highly significant heart-disease risk factor hs-CRP dropped by 40%. And the blood-clotting risk factor - von Willebrand factor - dropped by 21% compared to the controls. Additionally, Salba induced significant decreases in hemoglobin A1c and fibrinogen by the end of the study. A1c tells you how much damage your high blood sugar is inflicting. Fibrinogen is a risk factor for thick and clot-prone blood. So reducing both is great news. Salba didn't have any negative effects. In fact, it helped the diabetics maintain good glycemic and lipid control, which is amazing for a grain. The study authors concluded that Salba can help improve major cardiovascular risks factors safely. I'm really excited about this report. I'm not a big fan of most grains, as you have to cook them before you eat them. However, there are exceptions. And Salba is one of those exceptions. Patients often tell me they would love to be able to add grains or some cooked source of denser calories. And Salba may hit a grand slam - a novel grain that reverses what most processed grains cause. Salba is available online and in many health food stores. And it's fairly inexpensive. Please stay tuned for a more in-depth report on this fantastic grain I'm writing for my newsletter. If you're not a subscriber yet, please visit my website www.secondopinionnewsletter.com and sign up today. Yours for better health and medical freedom, Robert Jay Rowen, MD Ref: "Supplementation of Conventional Therapy with the Novel Grain Salba (Salvia hispanica L.) Improves Major and Emerging Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Type 2 Diabetes: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial," Vuksan V, Whitham D, et al, Diabetes Care, 2007 August 8. Editors Note: it is still hard to find Salba on the market, but there are a few products that include Salba in their ingredients. Visit your local health food store and ask for them.
More
and more information is circulating on how Vitamin D can
slash your risk of various cancers by up to 77%.
However, at the same time, a study published in JAMA has
been reported negatively, even though it supported all
the previous studies. Guess who owns the media? In
Most studies seem to feel that we should be getting between 1000 - 1500 IU of Vitamin D daily. That’s an awful lot of sun for fair skinned people (who require the upper limits), and impossible in the winter time up north. Personally, I take at least 2,000 IU daily. I
found a sites that sell Vitamin D in 1000 IU doses inexpensively.
This just in (3/30/08): The FDA has just published the following:
Selenium
may reduce the risk of certain cancers. Some scientific evidence
suggests that consumption of selenium may reduce the risk of certain
forms of cancer. However, the FDA has determined that this evidence
is limited and not conclusive. Studies show that Selenium can reduce DNA damage, reduces oxidative stress (a precursor to many cancers), and has a positive impact on genes that are linked to the progression of cancer. So, we
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treatments and the depth of their scientific evaluation
including, in some instances, through the use of
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ADHD: Toddlers are given powerful drugs that aren’t licensed or safe |
Children as young as three are being given a powerful drug such as Ritalin to treat their ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) - even though it's not licensed for use among small children, and nobody’s been checking to see how safe the drug is in this age group.
Early studies suggest that around a third of small children given Ritalin or another ADHD drug have such a bad reaction that they have to stop treatment. Reactions have included sleeplessness, irritability, repetitive behaviour or thoughts, and appetite loss.
The drugs also affect the child’s growth. Children on an ADHD drug are around 20 per cent shorter, and 55 per cent lighter, for their age.
(Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007; 298: 1747-9).
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From an angry reader: Editor's note:
Elections come every two years, but we vote with our
dollars every day. The best way to fight this kind of
injustice is to not buy the products of companies like
this. So,
Boycott Snyder’s of How to Protect Your
Identity (and your money) A corporate Attorney sent the
following out to the employees in his company. 1.
Do not sign the back of your credit cards.
Instead, put "PHOTO ID REQUIRED." 2.
When you are writing checks to pay on your
credit card Accounts, "DO
NOT" put the complete account number on the
"For" line. Instead, just put the last four
numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of
the number, and anyone who might be handling your
check as it passes through all the check processing
channels won't have access to it. 3.
Put your Work Phone # on your checks instead
of your Home Phone. If you have a P O Box use that
instead of your Home Address. If you do not have a P
O Box, use your Work Address. Never have your SS # printed on
your checks. You can add it if it is necessary. Why?
If you have it printed, anyone can get it and use
it. 4.
Duplicate the contents of your wallet on a
photocopy machine. Do both sides of each license,
credit card, etc. You will know what you had in
your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone
numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe
place. I also carry a Photocopy of my passport when
I travel either here or abroad. We've all heard horror stories
about fraud that's committed on us in stealing a
Name, Address, Social Security Number, or Credit
Cards. Unfortunately, I, an attorney,
have firsthand knowledge because my wallet was
stolen recently. Within a week, the thieve(S)
ordered a monthly cell phone package, applied for a
VISA credit card, had a credit line approved to buy
a Gateway Computer, received a PIN number from DMV
to change my driving record information online, and
more. But, here's some critical
information to limit the damage in case this happens
to you or someone you know: 5.
We have been told we should cancel our credit
cards immediately. But the key is having the toll
free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know
how to call. Keep those where you can find
them. 6.
File a police report immediately in the
jurisdiction where your credit cards, etc., were
stolen. This proves to Credit Providers
you were diligent, and this is the first step toward
an Investigation (if there ever is one). But here's what is perhaps most
important of all: (I never even thought to do this.) 7.
Call the 3 national credit reporting
organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on
your name. Also, call the Social Security Fraud line
number. I had never heard of doing that until
advised by my bank that called to tell me an
application for credit was made over the Internet in
my name. The alert means any company
that checks your Credit knows your information was
stolen, and they have to contact you by Phone to
authorize new credit. By the time I was advised to do
this, almost two weeks after the theft, all the
damage had been done. There are records of all the
Credit Checks initiated by the thieve(S) purchases,
none of which I knew about before placing the alert. Since then, no additional
damage has been done, and the thieve(S) threw my
wallet
away this weekend (someone
turned it in). It seems to have stopped them
dead in their tracks. Now, here are the numbers you
always need to contact about your wallet or purse,
etc., having been stolen: (make all four calls) 1.)
Equifax:
800-525-6285
By MIKE
WHITNEY The
Pentagon has been concealing the true number of
American casualties in the Iraq War. The real number
exceeds 15,000 and CBS News can prove it. That is not a
typo. Active and retired military personnel, mostly
young veterans between the ages of 20 to 24, are
returning from combat and killing themselves in
record numbers. We can assume that "multiple-tours
of duty" in a war-zone have precipitated a mental
health crisis of which the public is entirely
unaware and which the Pentagon is in total denial.
Mike Whitney
lives in Washington state. He can be reached at:
fergiewhitney@msn.com
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The End of America
A lecture by Naomi Wolf
2.)
Experian (formerly TRW):
888-397-3742
3.)
Trans
4.)
Social Security Administration (fraud line):
800-269-0271
Pentagon Cover Up
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15,000 or More US Deaths in Iraq War?
CBS's Investigative Unit wanted to do a report on
the number of suicides in the military and
"submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to
the Department of Defense". After 4 months they
received a document which showed--that between 1995
and 2007-- there were 2,200 suicides among "active
duty" soldiers.
Baloney.
The Pentagon was covering up the real magnitude of
the "suicide epidemic". Following an exhaustive
investigation of veterans' suicide data collected
from 45 states; CBS discovered that in 2005 alone
"there were at least 6,256 among those who served in
the armed forces. That's 120 each and every week in
just one year."
If we add the 6,256 suicide victims from 2005 to the
"official" 3,865 reported combat casualties; we get
a sum of 10,121. Even a low-ball estimate of similar
2004 and 2006 suicide figures, would mean that the
total number of US casualties from the Iraq war now
exceed 15,000.
That's right; 15,000 dead US servicemen and women in
a war that--as yet--has no legal or moral
justification.
CBS interviewed Dr. Ira Katz, the head of mental
health at the Department of Veteran Affairs. Katz
attempted to minimize the surge in veteran suicides
saying, "There is no epidemic of suicide in the VA,
but suicide is a major problem."
Maybe Katz is right. Maybe there is no epidemic.
Maybe it's perfectly normal for young men and women
to return from combat, sink into inconsolable
depression, and kill themselves at greater rates
than they were dying on the battlefield. Maybe it's
normal for the Pentagon to abandon them as soon as
soon they return from their mission so they can blow
their brains out or hang themselves with a garden
hose in their basement. Maybe it's normal for
politicians to keep funding wholesale slaughter
while they brush aside the casualties they have
produced by their callousness and lack of courage.
Maybe it is normal for the president to persist with
the same, bland lies that perpetuate the occupation
and continue to kill scores of young soldiers who
put themselves in harm's-way for their country.
It's not normal; it's is a pandemic---an outbreak of
despair which is the natural corollary of living in
constant fear; of seeing one's friends being
dismembered by roadside bombs or children being
blasted to bits at military checkpoints or finding
battered bodies dumped on the side of a riverbed
like a bag of garbage.
The rash of suicides is the logical upshot of the
U.S. war on Iraq. Returning soldiers are traumatized
by their experience and now they are killing
themselves in droves. Maybe we should have thought
about that before we invaded.
Check it out the video at: CBS News "Suicide
Epidemic among Veterans"
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Grocery Chain Bans High Fructose Corn Syrup
Better Detection of Thyroid Cancer
Flue Drug May Cause Dangerous Behavior
On the subject of alternative medicine . . .
Here's scientific fact: People who treat, for instance,
their type 2 diabetes by NATURAL methods, including
diet, herbs, supplements, and exercise, do FAR better in
every measureable respect -- including all the specific
"complications" you mention -- than those who use drugs.
Natural methods follow the dictum of the Hippocratic
oath to "first do no harm", get at underlying causes,
and produce total benefits, whereas allopathic medicine
suppresses symptoms, with no long-term benefit and great
harm, including "side effects".
There is actually no such thing as "side effects", just
effects. And the total effect of conventional medicine
on chronic disease is decidedly not positive, nor
remotely cost-effective in any sense.
People who take a prescription medication for a chronic
disorder INVARIABLY face a cycle of increased dosages,
NEW medications for the "side effects" of the old, and
overall deterioration of health. Not to mention that
prescription medicines are responsible for the spiraling
out-of-control cost of medical care.
Natural approaches are much less expensive, much safer,
AND much more effective in terms of total and long term
effect. It's not much of a choice, really.
P.S.
Clinical trials of drugs have been repeatedly shown to
be flawed. You can basically "buy" any result you want.
The new "wonder drug" of today is killing people
tomorrow. So much for the validity of clinical trials.
Even people in conventional medicine have a saying, "The
only 'safe' drug is a NEW one."
| Lafter is the Best Medicine! |
A friend sent me this letter. It was a response from a right-wing friend who thought we need to focus more energy on fighting terrorism (though it was leaked today (12/03/03) that the President wants to slash funding to the antiterrorism programs).
Here is her response:
The latest telephone poll taken by the Florida Governor's office, asked whether people who live in Florida think illegal immigration is a serious problem:
29% of respondents answered: "Yes, it is a serious problem."
71% of respondents answered: "No es una problema seriosa."
During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director how
you determine whether or not a patient should be
institutionalized.
"Well," said the Director, "We fill up a bathtub, and then we offer a
teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her
to empty the bathtub."
"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would use the
bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
"No."said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you
want a bed near the window?"
This
morning on the way to work I rear-ended a car at a stop
light while not really paying attention.
Anyway the fellow who was driving got out.
And he was a dwarf.
He said "I'm not happy."
I said "Well, which one are you then?
For
I bought
something really cool for my wife. The occasion is
my retirement, and I was looking for a little something
extra for my lovely bride. What I came across was
a 100,000-volt, pocket purse-sized Tazer gun with a
clip.
For those
of you who are not familiar with this product, it is a
less-than-lethal stun gun with two metal prongs designed
to incapacitate an assailant with a shock of
high-voltage, low amperage electricity while you flee to
safety. The effects are supposed to be short
lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your
assailant but allowing you adequate time to retreat to
safety. You simply jab the prongs into your250 lb.
tattooed assailant, push the button, and it will render
him a slobbering, goggle-eyed, muscle-twitching,
whimpering, pencil-neck geek.
If you've
never seen one of these things in action then you're
truly missing out; it's way too cool! I've seen
several demonstrations for cops, but I found this
handheld one for civilians.
Long story
short, I bought the device and brought it home. I
loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed
the button. Nothing! I was so disappointed.
Upon reading the directions (we don't need no stinkin'
directions), I found much to my chagrin that this
particular model would not create an arc between the
prongs. How disappointing! I do love fire for
effect.
I learned
that if I pushed the button, and pressed it against a
metal surface that I'd get the blue arc of electricity
darting back and forth between the prongs that I was so
looking forward to. I did it.Awesome!!!
Sparks, a blue arc of electricity, and a loud pop!!
Yipeeeeee... I'm easily amused, just for your
information, but I have yet to explain to her what that
burn spot is on the face of her microwave.
Okay, so I
was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself
that it couldn't be all that bad with only two triple-A
batteries, etc., etc. There I sat in my recliner, her
cat looking on intently (trusting little soul), reading
the directions (that would be me, not the cat) and
thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a
flesh and blood target.
I must
admit I thought about zapping the cat for a fraction of
a second and thought better of it. She is such a
sweet kitty after all. But if I was going to give
this thing to my wife to protect herself against a
mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as
advertised. Am I wrong? Was I wrong to think
that? It seemed reasonable to me at the time.
So, there
I sat in a pair of shorts with my reading glasses
perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions
in one hand, Tazer in the other. The directions
said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient
your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause
muscle spasms and a loss of bodily control; a
three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant
flop on the ground like a fish out of water.
All the
while I'm looking at this little device (measuring about
5" long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference, pretty
cute really, and loaded with two itsy, bitsy AAA
batteries) thinking to myself, "no way!" Trust me, but
I'm getting ahead of myself. What happened next is
almost beyond description, but I'll do my best.
Those of
you who know me well have got a pretty good idea of what
followed. I'm sitting there alone, the cat looking
on with her head cocked to one side as to say, "don't do
it buddy," reasoning that a one-second burst from such a
tiny lil' ole thing couldn't hurt all that bad (sound,
rational thinking under the circumstances, wouldn't you
agree?). I decided to give myself a one-second
burst just for the heck of it. (Note: You know, a
bad decision is like hindsight-- always twenty-twenty.
It is so
obvious that it was a bad decision after the fact, even
though it seemed so right at the time. Don't ya
hate that?) I touched the prongs to my naked thigh,
pushed the button, and *&%$$#$@##@!!!!!
I'm pretty
sure that Jessie Ventura ran in through the front door,
picked me up out of that recliner then body slammed me
on the carpet over and over again. I vaguely
recall waking up on my side in the fetal position,
nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, soaking
wet, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest
position.
The cat
was standing over me making sounds I had never heard
before, licking my face, undoubtedly thinking to
herself, "do it again, do it again!"
Note: If
you ever feel compelled to mug yourself with a Tazer,
one note of caution. There is no such thing as a
one-second burst when you zap yourself. You're not
going to let go of that thing until it is dislodged from
your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor.
Then, if you're lucky, you won't lodge one of the prongs
1/4" deep in your thigh like yours truly. That
hurt!
A minute
or so later (I can't be sure, as time was a relative
thing at this point), I collected my wits (what little I
had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My
reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace.
How did they get there? My triceps, right thigh and both
titties were still twitching. My face felt like it had
been shot up with Novocain, as my bottom lip weighed 88
lbs., give or take an ounce or two, I'm pretty sure.
By the
way, has anyone seen my testicles? I think they
ran away. I'm offering a reward. They're round.
Miss 'em...! Sure would like to get em back.
I wonder
what retirement day two will bring?
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