At 11:08 pm, the state of Georgia killed Troy Davis. Just before he was executed, Troy maintained his innocence, urged people to dig deeper into the case to find the truth, and said "For those about to take my life, may God have mercy on your souls, may God bless your souls." It's a tragic day for Troy, for his family, and for equality, fairness, and justice.

It's hard to know what to say at a time like this. In this moment, and in the days and weeks before Troy's execution, we've felt all kinds of things — anger, sadness, inspiration, hope and hopelessness. This is a time to mourn and remember Troy, to contemplate the profound loss we're facing, to send love and support to Troy's family and friends. It's incredibly important to take the time to spiritually and emotionally care for Troy's family and the amazing community that has arisen to support Troy — and it feels hard to muster the energy to do much more than that.

But before he died, Troy told us that this was about more than him — and he called on those of us who have fought against his execution to continue fighting for justice, even if we weren't successful in saving his life. Now is also an important moment to take stock of what's brought us to this point — the criminal justice system that allowed this to happen, and the movement we've built to fight for Troy and others facing injustice and oppression at the hands of that system.

Race, the criminal justice system, and the death penalty

At every stage of the criminal justice system, Black people and other minorities face inequality and discrimination. We all know about people who've been treated unfairly by police or by the courts. When the entire system treats Black people unequally, it means that the death penalty is applied unequally too. Troy Davis' case underscores the way in which this systemic inequality can lead to a tragic miscarriage of justice.

In most cases, people who've been treated unfairly or wrongly convicted have some chance to correct the injustice. People who have been mistreated by the police can sue them. People who are wrongly serving time can be granted new trials, can be released from prison, and are sometimes entitled to compensation. As we all know, the safeguards that can correct abuse by the criminal justice system often fail, and rampant inequality persists. Usually, people can at least keep trying.

But there's no way to correct a death sentence. If Troy Davis were serving a sentence of life in prison without parole, he could continue to press the legal system to grant him a fair trial — but because the death penalty exists, he will not have that opportunity.

Troy Davis' case has sparked a national conversation about the death penalty. In the past, much of the debate around the death penalty has focused on the morality of killing people as a legal punishment — a very important question that brings out a lot of strong opinions. But even if we completely leave aside the question whether or not it can ever be right for the government to punish a murderer by killing them, there's an entirely different debate to be had — whether or not we can have the death penalty and actually avoid the possibility of killing innocent people. In a criminal justice system that routinely misidentifies Black suspects and disproportionately punishes Black people, Black folks are more likely to be wrongfully executed.

There's plenty of evidence to suggest that the death penalty has been used to kill innocent people many times. Since 1973, more than 130 people have been released from death row because of evidence that they were wrongly convicted. Troy Davis is one of many people who were executed despite serious questions about their guilt, and he's called on his supporters to continue working to end the death penalty.

A group of NAACP organizers went to visit Troy in prison yesterday, and NAACP's Robert Rooks said this about the visit:
For someone that was facing death the very next day, he was just full of life and wanted to spend time talking to the younger staff, the interns, giving them direction and hope and asking them to hold onto God. And he challenged them. He challenged them by saying, "You have a choice. You can either fold up your bags after tomorrow and go home, or you can stand and continue this fight." He said it doesn’t—it didn’t begin with Troy Davis, and this won’t end if he is executed today. He just asked us all just to continue to fight to end the death penalty, if in fact he’s executed.

A powerful movement

For years, ColorOfChange members have been an important part of a growing movement to stop Troy Davis' execution. Hundreds of phone calls from ColorOfChange members to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole helped delay Davis' execution twice. Over the past year, there's been a huge outpouring of support for Davis from ColorOfChange members — more than 100,000 of us have signed petitions, and we raised more than $30,000 to run radio ads in Georgia calling for justice for Troy.

And we've been part of an even bigger movement — NAACP, Amnesty International, National Action Network, Change.org, and others have all been a major part of the fight for Troy Davis, and there are now over close to a million petition signatures overall. Prominent people from all across the political spectrum have spoken out: members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Desmond Tutu, former President Jimmy Carter, Pope Benedict XVI, former FBI Director William Sessions, former Georgia Republican congressman Bob Barr, and former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher.

This movement couldn't stop Davis' execution — but it's a movement that won't die with Troy Davis. There's no better way to honor Troy's memory than to keep fighting for justice.

Thanks and Peace,

-- Rashad, James, Gabriel, William, Dani, Matt, Natasha and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
September 21st, 2011

There's quite an industry out there promoting the idea that 'Deniers' are 'attacking science'.
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/category/global-warming-denial-machine/

As it happens, I've indulged myself in occasional sniping in Grist as they continue to promote attacks on the ability of people to avail themselves of energy resources.

By now, my response does not involve citations to my posts - and there are a bunch - or references to Global Research.ca, CFACT,etc.
Not that you aren't welcome to check out 'Climate in Contention'  No : it's simpler than that.

Scientific Method
note Prediction and Testing.  Do we have an extensive record of future temperatures and reason to believe we can reliably assign cause ?

I've had this sitting around for months : an insert from a United Church service

Isaiah 1:1  10-20  from the Message by Eugene Peterson

The vision that Isaiah as seen by Amoz regarding Judah and Jerusalem during the times of the kings of Judah

Listen to my Message, Receive God's revelations and teachings.
God says :

Why so many sacrifices ?  Don't you think I've had my fill of burnt sacrifices , when you come before me, whoever gave you the idea of acting like this,
Running here and running there, doing this and that- all this sheer commotion in the place provided for worship ?

Quit your worship charades,
I can't stand your trivial religious games :
Monthly conferences,weekly Sabbaths,special meetings - meetings and more meetings - I can't stand one more !
Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them!

You've worn me out !

I'm sick of your religion, while you go right on sinning,
When you put on your next prayer-performance, I'll be looking the other way.

No matter how loud or how often you pray, I'll not be listening.

And do you know why ? Because you've been tearing people to pieces, and your hands are bloody.

Go home and wash up.
Clean up your act.
Sweep your lives clean of your evil doings. so I don't have to look at them any longer.

Say no to wrong.

Learn to do good.

Work for justice.

Help the down-and-out.

Stand up for the homeless.

Go to bat for the defenceless.



Hebrews 11 : 1-3, 8-16

Faith in What We Don't See

The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living.
It's our handle on what we can't see. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.

By faith, we see the world called into existence by God's word, what we see created by what we don't see.

By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God's call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations-the City designed and built by God.

By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said. That's how it happened that from one man's dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions.

Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it ? They saw way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in the world.  People who live this way make it plain that they are looking fior their true home. If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. But they were after a far better country than that - heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.


Yes. Well - to everything there is a season. Counterpoint via Techdirt

Home > Writings > Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

'Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven' isn't in the same vein as the previous pieces. There might be a case for it being every bit as good a revelatory work...even as satire. 'The War Prayer' is timeless.

This is the Weekly digest for Talk To Action
[http://www.talk2action.org]

Links to Two
Years of Articles on NAR, Including Aiona, ITN, and Transformation
Hawaii
By Rachel Tabachnick, 2010-10-22 18:23:48
Section: Front Page, Topic: All Topics

“Aiona is involved with the evangelical group “Transformation Hawaii.” -
Christian Broadcast Network,
[URL=http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2010/March/Lt-Gov-Duke-Aiona-Bold-Fai]http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2010/March/Lt-Gov-Duke-Aiona-Bold-Fai
th-for-Hawaii/[/URL] March 16, 2010 Hawaiian gubernatorial candidate Duke
Aiona claims that a video showing his participation in the International
Transformation Network (ITN) and Transformation Hawaii was fabricated
[http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20101021_Aiona_levels_negative_campaig
ning_charge.html] by his political opponents. It was compiled by Bruce
Wilson who has been writing since April about Aiona's extensive
participation in ITN, a movement that is tearing down the wall of
separation of church and state for the stated purpose of taking "Christian
dominion" over society. For over two years, Talk2action contributors
have led in exposing the activities of Transformation entities of the New
Apostolic Reformation (NAR).
[>http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/1/20/131544/037] Camouflaged as
ecumenical groups focused on charity and "prayer evangelism," the
movement's religio-political mission is authority in the temporal realm.
As Aiona stated in 2009, the goal is to "disciple the nations."

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/22/182349/92

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Kristol & Bauer Inject Israel Into Midterm Election
By Bill Berkowitz, 2010-10-22 13:54:04
Section: Dominionism in the military, Topic: All Topics

With unemployment still high, the economy not yielding relief for most
Americans, health care reform not yet providing supportive numbers for the
Dems, and the Democratic Party on the defensive, it would seem like a
Republican slam dunk in the mid-term elections. Nevertheless, GOP
supporters and strategists are continuing to search for wedge issues to
arouse their base. Will some voters go to the polls on the basis of a
candidate's support, or lack there of, for Israel? A new poll, taken by a
Republican pollster, and commissioned by a new right wing organization,
claims that they just might.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/22/13544/051

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Alarming Amendment: Fundamentalists Use `Personhood' Proposal To
Invade America's Bedrooms
By Rob Boston, 2010-10-22 10:03:45
Section: Front Page, Topic: Reproductive Rights

The theocrats who yearn to take away our freedoms and run our lives
according to their strict fundamentalist dogma are nothing if not
resourceful. They're always thinking up new strategies. Case in point is a
group called Personhood USA, a new entry in the world of the Religious
Right. The organization's theory is that it can ban legal abortion by
passing state constitutional amendments declaring that a fertilized egg is
legally a person.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/22/10345/814

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Witchcraft again - Aiona, Hawaii Candidate For Gov., Tied to
Witch-Fighting Evangelicals
By Bruce Wilson, 2010-10-21 09:04:45
Section: Front Page, Topic: All Topics

[for related stories, see: Hawaii Candidate For Governor Claimed
Membership in Group That Burns Native Art
[http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/19/131422/38/] and New Apostolic
Reformation Leaders Burn Native Art
[http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/19/8306/2124/]. for relevant
background, see [] Links to Two Years of Articles on NAR, Including
Aiona, ITN, and Transformation Hawaii
[http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/22/182349/92]] "If you have
any idols in your home, we're gonna burn 'em! If you have any witchcraft
items in your home, we're gonna burn 'em!" -- Cindy Jacobs, faculty
member, International Transformation Network It's like something out of
the Spanish Inquisition or from the depths of the European Medieval
period, mysteriously transported to sunny Hawaii of 2010, at the height of
a hotly fought campaign for governor no less. As the Associated Press
reported
[http://www.necn.com/10/20/10/Aiona-accuses-foe-of-spreading-misleadin/lan
ding_scitech.html?&blockID=3&apID=6bcfce24f7424f04b94dd185be70bc94
] yesterday, on a scandal roiling the Hawaii gubernatorial campaign,
Republican candidate for governor James "Duke" Aiona is lashing out at the
campaign of his Democratic rival Neal Abercrombie for allegedly promoting
a video I've compiled which begins with a clip of Aiona, in July 2008,
enthusiastically stating that he was a member of Transformation Hawai'i,
which is a local chapter of the International Transformation Network.
Introduction: I first started covering the story of Lt. Governor James
"Duke" Aiona and the International Transformation Network/Transformation
Hawai'i last April, 2010, in a two part series, Transforming Hawaii [part
one [http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/4/17/112159/323], part two
[http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/4/17/112351/811].] In late April
and early May 2010 I made two radio appearances on 1080 AM in Hawaii, on
the Carroll Cox Show [April 26 [http://carrollcox.com/show042610B.htm],
May 2 [http://carrollcox.com/show050210.htm]] to talk about Aiona and the
ITN/Transformation Hawai'i. Shortly after the May 2nd show, Carroll Cox
filed a state ethics charge [http://carrollcox.com/show050910.htm] against
Duke Aiona for accepting over $7,000 for a personal trip Aiona and his
wife made in late 2006 to Ed Silvoso's 16th International Institute on
Nation Transformation in Mar del Plata, Argentina, where Aiona was filmed
praying with the 1st Lady of Uganda Janet Museveni. The story, below,
continues my coverage of this issue. I will again be appearing on the
Carroll Cox Show, Sunday October 24, at 8-9AM HST on 1080 AM. Free
podcasts of the show will afterward be available at the Carroll Cox Show
website podcast page [http://carrollcox.com/podcastlist.htm] - Bruce
Wilson

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/21/9445/8568

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Christmas Cranks: AFA Begins Annual Whine-Fest Over Seasonal Greeting
By Rob Boston, 2010-10-20 11:55:42
Section: Front Page, Topic: Analysis of Christian Right

It's almost Halloween, so you know what that means: It's time for the
Religious Right to start carping about the "war on Christmas." Actually,
Religious Right groups are getting a bit of a late start this year. In
previous years, they've actually started their seasonal whine-fest as
early as August.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/20/115542/37

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JROTC Members Learning Christine O'Donnell Version of Separation Of
Church & State
By Bruce Wilson, 2010-10-20 09:45:15
Section: Dominionism in the military, Topic: All Topics

Many of America's future military officers are being taught, courtesy of a
Department of Defense curriculum, the O'Donnell/Angle view that the
principle of church-state separation isn't in the Constitution. In 2007, I
exposed [http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/5/16/134338/532] what
Junior ROTC students across America were (and, it would seem, still are)
being taught about church-state separation - "It is not found in any
governmental American document." American media is ridiculing Delaware
senate candidate Christine O'Donnell for her claim that the principle of
separation of church and state is not found in the United States
Constitution but as Greg Sargent of the Washington Post observes
[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/sharron_angle_and_chri
stine_od.html], Nevada senate candidate Sharron Angle, who might actually
win in November, holds a similar view - which is actually quite widespread
in the country.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/20/94515/793

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Audience Laughs at a Candidate Who Questions Church/State Separation
By Frederick Clarkson, 2010-10-19 23:27:29
Section: Front Page, Topic: Language and Framing

There has been a lot of derision of Delaware U.S. Senate candidate
Christine O'Donnell in the wake of her debate performance against Democrat
Chris Coons. O'Donnell, apparently steeped in Religious Right ideology,
stumbled so badly on a critical point about the U.S. Constitution and the
separation of church and state that, as The Wall Street Journal reported
[http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/10/19/coons-odonnell-debate-the-consti
tution/?mod=google_news_blog], "the audience exploded in laughter." This
must have come as a surprise to many Beltway Insiders. There was a
time, not so long ago, when prominent Democratic political consultants
Mara Vanderslice and Eric Sapp were advising candidates not to use the
phrase separation of church and state, because (echoing the Religious
Right) the phrase is not in the Constitution and because, as Vanderslice
claimed [http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/1/10/24559/6479] it "raises
red flags with people of faith." For his part, Sapp wrote "In case
anyone doesn't know, [the phrase] "separation of church and state" is not
in the Constitution. It shouldn't be in our vocabulary as Democrats
either."

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/19/232729/23

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Hawaii Candidate For Governor Claimed Membership in Group That Burns
Native Art
By Bruce Wilson, 2010-10-19 13:14:21
Section: Front Page, Topic: All Topics

[for related stories, see: New Apostolic Reformation Leaders Burn Native
Art [http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/19/8306/2124/] and
Witchcraft again - Aiona, Hawaii Candidate For Gov., Tied to
Witch-Fighting Evangelicals
[http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/21/9445/8568/]. for related
background, see: Links to Two Years of Articles on NAR, Including Aiona,
ITN, and Transformation Hawaii
[http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/22/182349/92]] Running
against former Democratic Congressional Representative Neal Abercrombie to
be Hawaii's next governor, Republican Lt. Governor James "Duke" Aiona has
disavowed [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUIkBU27YaU#t=19s] his
relationship with an international evangelical ministry called the
International Transformation Network
[http://www.harvestevan.org/international-transformation-network1.html],
whose leaders advocate
[http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/19/8306/2124] burning religious
artifacts and native art. But in newly discovered video footage from 2008,
Aiona enthusiastically stated [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUIkBU27YaU]
that he was indeed a member of the ITN's Hawaii chapter, Transformation
Hawaii. ITN leaders claim to fight
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUIkBU27YaU#t=1m] "witchcraft" and burn
native art [http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/19/8306/2124], depict
non-charismatic Catholics as damned, try to cure HIV and AIDS with faith
healing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuLc0sXIPQQ], and allege
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEYpt8pr5Bc] homosexuals are possessed by
demon spirits.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/19/131422/38

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Footprints in Glenrose, Texas
By wilkyjr, 2010-10-19 09:10:06
Section: Front Page, Topic: Jews & Christian Right

Glenrose, Texas is home to the famous dinosaur
footprints found in the river that runs through the town. Prints in
the fossil clay are supposed to show human footprints along side of
dinosaur imprints proving men walked among dinosaurs.


http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/19/9106/2418

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Footprints at Glenrose, Texas
By wilkyjr, 2010-10-19 08:51:06
Section: Story and Diary Drafts, Topic: Jews & Christian Right

Glenrose, Texas is home to the famous dinosaur
footprints found in the river that runs through the town. Prints in
the fossil clay are supposed to show human footprints along side of
dinosaur imprints proving men walked among dinosaurs.


http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/19/8516/5107

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New Apostolic Reformation Leaders Burn Native Art
By Bruce Wilson, 2010-10-19 08:30:06
Section: Front Page, Topic: All Topics

As I've covered extensively
[http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/4/22/11739/6689] here at Talk To
Action, the 2010 Republican candidate running to be the next governor of
Hawaii, current Hawaii Lt. Governor James "Duke" Aiona, is closely tied to
Ed Silvoso's and Cindy Jacobs' movement and in newly discovered video
footage (see embedded video in full article) from July 2008, Aiona himself
confirms [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUIkBU27YaU] the connection.
The term "Bonfire of the Vanities", also the title of Tom Wolfe's 1987
novel, traces to the zealotry of Italian Dominican priest Girolamo
Savonarola, who incited and orchestrated the mass burning of objects
deemed to incite sensuality and sin - vanity items such as mirrors,
cosmetics, fine dresses and playing cards, and cultural objects such as
paintings, statues, books, and musical instruments. But leaders of the New
Apostolic Reformation takes things farther, even, than Savonarola.
During a worship service that evangelist Cindy Jacobs held on October 7,
2008, at Ed Silvoso's 18th International Institute on Nation
Transformation, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Jacobs called on
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUIkBU27YaU#t=1m1s] [video link] assembled
local area pastors at the conference, "Pastors, sanctify your people!
You go and you tell 'em, if you have any idols in their homes we're gonna
to burn 'em! If you have any witchcraft items in your homes, you bring 'em
Sunday and we're gonna burn 'em! We're not gonna have witchcraft in this
church!"

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/19/8306/2124

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I received an email at Care2. It contained 3 links to Brasscheck TV

Vaccine injured

It is NOT the law that you must vaccinate your children (no matter what the doctor or schools tell you), and you can sign a form to make your child exempt.
Click here to learn how the criminals at the CDC and drug companies conspired to cover up the science

Gardasil Follow up

There is NO science behind the claim
that Gardicil prevents cancer


We warned about this THREE years ago.

In fact, we were so concerned we made our own video about the subject.

We said that Gardasil was a pharmaceutical/government fraud not only based on bad science and bad medicine, but also a serious danger to the girls and young women who were being herded into receiving the three-series injections.

I would much rather have been proven wrong.

In spite of this unfolding public health catastrophe, government officials in many states still want to make this three series vaccination mandatory for all girls.

By the way, it's total fraud to say that Gardasil prevents cervical cancer. It does no such thing.

Note: The only way to get HPV - the harmless, passing, symptom-free virus that the drug companies falsely claim slightly elevates the risk of cervical cancer - is to have unprotected sex.

I guess in states like Texas where public officials are in a rush to push this vaccine on children, it's easier to inject young girls like livestock than it is to offer them basic sex education.

Reminder: NO VACCINE IS EVER LEGALLY MANDATORY. You can always decline for "religious reasons" and leave it at that. You don't have to say more than that.

My personal religion? The Church of God-Given Common Sense and Vigilance Against Corporate-Goverment Criminals and Related Demons

Mercury in vaccines causes autism
Children of the current generation receive 24 mandatory vaccinations. A generation ago, only 10 or less were called for.

Through vaccinations, children receive 400x the amount of mercury deemed safe by the FDA.

The Hep B routinely given to newborns contains so much mercury preservative that it would normally only be considered safe under standard medical guidelines to give to a 275 pound adult.

Why is this going on?

Politics and corruption.

In the White House, in Congress, in the FDA, in the medical establishment and in the pharmaceutical industry.

See the complete catalog of free Brasscheck TV videos

It brought back memories.

salonesoterica.wordpress.com/category/vaccines/
The Invisible Opportunity  - Hidden Truths Revealed
I followed this site for months and reposted stories - as I do today on Blogger - as Oldephartteintraining at WordPress. So that 2 year unavailable blog is why My Opera and Blogger sites are Oldephartteintraining II and II, respectively, as well as being - somewhat - a cross-posted utility for RSS feeds and files of articles and sources. And there is much more available than vaccine stories : it includes mind-bending ideas.

Jane Burgermeister distances herself from theflucase website
http://www.alchemyoflight.org/2010/08/jane-burgermeister-distances-herself-from-theflucase-website
With an MA Honours degree from Edinburgh University, Scotland, she has written for Nature, the British Medical Journal, The Scientist, Reuters Health, and The Guardian among other publications.

She was European Correspondent for the website of Renewable Energy World, a position from which she was suddenly dismissed in July 2009 after filing a series of criminal charges against Baxter, WHO and others.

She started up the birdflu666* blog to alert people about the fact that Baxter had contaminated 72 kilos of seasonal flu with the bird flu virus in an Austrian lab in Feburary 2009, nearly sparking a global bird flu pandemic, according to the Times Of India.
( * birdflu666 RSS is now included in RSS SnapShot! posts at opitslinkfest.blogspot.com.  Opit is another nom de plume of mine - a cryptic use of first letters of OldePhartteInTraining )

Shortly after that episode, the swine flu broke out in Mexico in April 2009, and she covered these developments on her birdflu blog, then switching to the
href="http://www.theflucase.com ">www.theflucase.com website after Johan Niklasson offered to set one up.
 Bioterrorism Charges against Jane Burgermeister - Wake News Donations for Defense

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http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/vaccines.htm

Viera Scheibner, PhD - "Ever since mass vaccination of infants began, reports of serious brain, cardiovascular, metabolic and other injuries started filling pages of medical journals." In fact, pertussis vaccine has been used to induce encephalomyelitis, which is characterized by brain swelling and hemorrhaging"  Bart Classen, a Maryland physician, published data showing that diabetes rates rose significantly in New Zealand following a massive hepatitis B vaccine campaign in young children, and that diabetes rates also went up sharply in Finland after three new childhood vaccines were introduced.

CBS News – Research Links Kids Vaccines & Brain Damage  - A new scientific safety study by British researchers Dr Laura Hewitson and Dr Andrew Wakefield shows US children’s vaccines are linked to brain damage: Delayed Acquisition of Neonatal Reflexes in Newborn Primates Receiving A Thimerosal-containing Hepatitis B Vaccine: influence of gestational age and birth weight Journal of NeuroToxicology. More...

FEDS’ WARNING SHOT - ” GARDASIL“

Federal health officials have logged 8,000 “adverse events” in girls and women injected with the Merck & Co. vaccine introduced two years ago, more than 500 of them from New York. Drug regulators have received thousands of reports of serious side effects, ranging from paralysis, heart attack - and even death - in the two years since its launch in the USA. So, if the vaccine is far more dangerous than we're being told, how come it's being pushed on millions of young girls around the world    HPV Vaccine Blamed for Teen's Paralysis

Vaccines:
Vaccines: deception and tragedy
Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Misdiagnosed Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Criminal Consequence of Vaccine Injury
AUTISM: is there a vaccine connection?
Criminal Consequence of Vaccine Injury
Anthrax Vaccine Facts and Gulf War Syndrome
Government Enforced Vaccinations: Vaccination Tracking Registry
How To Legally Avoid Unwanted Immunizations Of All Kinds
Tamiflu, Flu Vaccine: Shocking Discovery 
Animals: chronic dis-ease caused by vaccines
Nosodes: alternative to conventional vaccines
Library: Vaccine Controversy books
Say "NO" To Mandatory HPV Vaccine!
Measles Vaccine Experiment Litigation
WAS YOUR CHILD A VICTIM OF A COVERT EXPERIMENT? 
 

Vaccine News & Articles - Natural News

( You might call this a 'health skeptic's newsfront''  : processing and 'prescription' merchandising under fire  )


National Vaccine Information Center
America's Vaccine Safety Watchdog

Vaccine Safety Research Priorities

Vaccine Injured Not Compensated

Vaccine Awakening
http://vaccineawakening.blogspot.com
". . . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow."

Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who Is Next?

Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism

Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemptions

Vaccination Risk Awareness Network
VRAN knows many cases of children severely damaged or dead due to vaccinations. In the 1980’s, paediatrician, Robert Mendelsohn, MD voiced his concern: “There is growing suspicion that immunization against relatively harmless childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in autoimmune diseases since mass inoculations were introduced. These are fearful diseases such as cancer, leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, lupus erythematosus, and the Guillain-Barre syndrome.”

Link to information of vaccine adverse events

Vaccination Liberation
http://www.vaclib.org

Vaccination Liberation is part of a national grassroots network dedicated to providing information on vaccinations not often made available to the public so that one can make the only informed choice, complete avoidance and refusal.
Mission Statement:

    * To reveal the myth that vaccines are necessary, safe and effective
    * To expand our awareness of alternatives in healthcare
    * To preserve our right to abstain
    * To repeal all compulsory vaccination laws nationwide

• Other Great Sites:
• Vaccine Info(Whale)
• Dr._SherrI_Tenpenny
• (Tenpenny)_BlogSpot.com
• Well Within nccn.net
• Nurses Movement
• InsideVaccines
• TruthAboutGardasil.org
• ChildhoodShots.com
• HealthyChild.com
• MedicalVeritas
• MedicalVoices
• EducateB4Uvaccinate
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• VaccineTalk_Dr.Rohlfsen
• Vaccine911.com
• WhatIsTheTruth.info
• CafeMom.com-antivaccine
• DeathByVaccination.com
• NationalHealthFreedom
• Military_VAX_Education
• Military_Vaccine_PAC
• Alternative-Doctor.com
• VaccineFreeWorld(ICSM)
• V.Risk Awareness League
• Homeopathy for Health
• FindNaturalPhysician
• DoctorScorecard.com
• DangerousMedicine.com
• Immune Suppression
• The Idaho Observer
• Vaccination News
• ThinkTwice.com
• Vaccine Info/Awareness
• www.knowshots.com
• VaccineTruth.org/
• Informed Choice
• C T V I A.org
• VacInfo.org
• News: VacTruth.com
• CasiQuest.org
• Know-Vaccines.org
• Chiropractic icpa4kids.org
• VaccineAwareness.org
• FamiliesForNaturalLiving
• VaccineDamage/C.Miller
• CitizensHealthFreedom
• PROVE vaccineinfo.net
• Yurko SBS Case
• YurkoProject_Offers_Help
• NVIC www.909shot.com
• VaccineLiberationArmy.com/
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• TrackingVaccinations.com
• Kevin_A._Muhammad
• VaccineResistanceMovement.org
• Vaccines.Mercola.com/
• anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com MerylNass
  
  MORE:
• VaccineAwarenessWebsites
• TheVaccinationMyth.com/
• vaccinationcouncil.org
• • • Warnings:
    • DrugAlert.org/news
    • TrackingVaccinations.com
    •  
    • Vaccine Truth
    • Do Drug Firm Bribery Charges Implicate the U.S. FDA?
    • Are Federal Grants Being Used For State Government Slush Funds to Track Immunizations?
    • Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has history of selling shares in drug companies
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• W.H.O. 1972 Memos... Describes How to Turn Vaccines Into a Means of Killing!
• I posted a comment following this entry because I was struck - regardless of wild context - by the nature of the content. It seems the more fearless the thinker, the more apologetic they are.

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Excerpts

• Censorship/Human Rights: Information that some people don't want you to know about...
• Privacy and Anonymity: Who the Hell are you, anyway?
• How-to Guides Online: "Mommy, how do you make C-4?"
• Underground Zines: Tasteless and humorous...
• Amnesty International On-Line -- Which countries have the best or worst human rights record? Which governments censor information for political reasons? Who are the world's prisoners of conscience? All of that is revealed here, on the official web site of Amnesty International.
• Banned Book On-line -- An online guide which exposes our society's hypocrisy in its banning of certain books. Tom Sawyer, Catcher in The Rye, and many other classics of American literature have been banned by anal retentive elitists who think that you and your kids should not be allowed to read them, because you might get certain ideas that they are uncomfortable with. This site is a virtual library on banned books, and it updated frequently.
• Censorship and the Internet -- Lots of details on the Exon Amendment, analyis, excerpts, and believe it or not, a scathing attack on it by NEWT GINGRICH! Isn't it great when someone as maligned as Newt actually agrees with you?
• The Church of Scientology vs. the Net -- Excellent place which documents the Church Of Scientology's perverted censorship attempts (many of which were successful!) in keeping damning information from being known to the general public. Virtually all of their legal battles involving censorship are documented here. Who knows, the Church of Scientology probably has this web site targeted next!
• Doomed Planet Bookstore -- A place that has lots of great info (and stuff for sale, too) on subversive literature of all types, and censored literature in particular. This site is very similar to Loompanics and Amok, who also sell lots of weird and censored books.
• The Electronic Freedom Foundation -- Fighting for your First Amendment Rights on the Net, the EFF has been on the cutting edge of societal evolution since the 80's, and they can even help you defend your electronic rights in court if you need it. They are the most respectable subversives around.
• The Exon Amendment Fan Page -- A page poking fun at the infamous Exon telecommunications Reform Bill, which would make it a crime to say "pooh pooh Kah Kah" words on the net, punishable by fines and imprisonment. It's okay to go out in public or write a book saying that you think certain government officials are "Assholes", but apparently, it's different when you do it through Email. Go figure.
• The Gate Of heavenly Peace -- "...is a documentary about the protests at Tiananmen in 1989, and the resulting Beijing Massacre of June 4. The film explores the history of the demonstrations and comments on the "deep structure" of political habits and attitudes that have informed public life in China over the past century. The filmmakers present a wide range of Chinese perspectives on a defining moment in China's modern history." In addition, the web site contains a lot of background information on the people, the filmmakers, and the series of events that led up to the massacre.
• Internet Bondage -- This is a site which tells a detailed story of how one user and his statements on the net got him kidnapped and held by a psychiatric hospital, where he was kept without any trial or due process. It happens more often than you think -- rub a smartass the wrong way, and your name and address can be sent to people who can really fuck your life up -- and you cannot escape unless you know what to do ahead of time.
• THE HACKER CRACKDOWN -- An on-line book (also available in print) about how the government and industry try to keep up with hackers. Useful reference for knowing what feds and businesses can do to you if you play around in cyberspace where you aren't welcom. I always felt that the computer geeks in charge of some systems deserved the hacking that their systems get. A clever hacker figured out that many system admin types are also Star Trek fans, and lo and behold, most of the passwords they use to protect their computers are names from Star Trek.
• Loompanics, Unlimited -- This is my FAVORITE bookstore in the whole world! Since the early 80's, when I first heard about them, I have been buying up all the weird books they have, especially the ones on serial killers, bomb-making, and outdoors-living. These people sell every book that Jesse Helms feels is unfit to print (so you know they MUST be cool). Funny thing, too -- Their catalog was BANNED in Canada, and you can go to jail and be fined for transporting any of the books across the border into Canada!
• McSpotlight -- Some Greenpeace members (not that I like Greenpeace, but these people were in the right) in England distributed a factsheet on McDonalds, calling attention to many facts about how McDonalds does business around the world. Apparently, in countries where there are people starving because of lack of food, McDonalds bought land and raises grain to feed cattle -- which they also bought land for. While peasants starve because nobody is growing food to feed people, McDonald's cows have plenty to eat. The people who distributed the factsheet used information that is freely available, and McDonalds has been trying to sue these people for millions of dollars, in a blatant attempt to censor them. Find out all about it here!
• NOT The South China Morning Post -- When The communist government of China took over Hong Kong, the first thing to get hit was the media. Most of Hong Kong's newspapers have had their staffs gutted and replaced by communist sicophants who cater to the pro-China crowd. Fortunately, freedom is not totally lost there. NTSCMP is a seriously subversive scandal rag that reports all the news that the real South China Morning Post rejects or censors to serve the Commies. Not only that, but they also lampoon the Hong Kong transitionary government. Recently, the website was forced to move to America, because the Chinese government has taken control of the internet in Hong Kong. I salute them for continuing to lampoon those commie pinko bastards!
• Project Censored -- A source for learning about news stories that have been censored. Essentially, the news media is into pleasing it's advertisers (or extorting from them) even more than it is dedicated to reporting the truth. The News Media (ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS, Time-Warner, Newsweek, and the rest) will pull important and significant stories from being broadcast or written about, if doing so would cast their advertisers in a bad light. Pressure from the government can also be used to squelch and modify the news that you get. What we get in the end is what big corporations and/or government wants you to see.
• Spoof On D.A.R.E. Tragedy -- D.A.R.E. is following in the footsteps of the Church Of Scientology, Jehovah's Witnesses, and McDonalds by trying to censor someone who DARED to spoof their organization. This guy made a T-Shirt that read "I turned in my parents and all I got was this lousy T-shirt," and that enraged D.A.R.E. so much that they're suing his ass off for $20,000. This is yet another attack on the First Amendment, which protects parody. D.A.R.E. is made up of thousands of Police officers who swore to uphold the constitution. I guess we should make them take refresher courses in what the First Amendment is all about.

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• Space Proxy -- Space Proxy is a FREE proxy service that lets you surf the web anonymously. It's easy to use. Just go to their page, and plug in the address of the place you want to surf to.
• Proxymate -- Another FREE service that lets you surf anonymously.
• IDZap -- This proxy goes even futher than the two above ones. It actually erases info from the packets you send and receive, like ID tags, machine names, Ip numbers, and cookies. Best of all, it's FREE.
• The Anonymizer -- Similar to IDZap, this site offers anonymous Email, as well.

• Hush-Mail -- Hushmail is a FREE anonymous email program that is secure, provided that the person receiving it is also using Hushmail.
• PrivacyX -- A FREE service that lets you send and recieve secure, your-eyes-only email that only you can read.
• Ghost Mail -- This is a freeware program that lets you send anonymous messages, with or without a remailer, to any email addresses or newsgroups.
• ZipLip -- a FREE service that lets you send private, anonymous, secure email. Pay a little money, get more features.
• Ebuse -- An anonymous email service that even protects your address from receiving spam, as well as prevent spam robots from taking your address for their mail lists. Best of all, it's FREE.
• Pretty Good Privacy FREEWARE -- The FREE version of the most popular, heralded, and well-known privacy software. It encrypts your email, so that the only people who can read it are ones with the key, which you give them.
• BCWipe -- This program allows you to TOTALLY erase data from your hard drive. When you delete a file, the computer doesn't really delete it; it merely changes a marker bit that lets the computer know that it's okay to overwrite the data that the file used to take up. This program actually replaces all of the bits of a deleted file with zeroes, so it's trully gone forever.
• Eraser -- A FREE program that allows you to erase data completely from your hard drive.
• Cryptext -- Cryptext is a public domain Windows 95 / Windows 98 / NT 4 shell extension that performs strong file encryption, and is available in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese language versions. You just right-click on any file system object to encrypt or decrypt it.

• The Anarchist's Cookbook On-Line -- This is the classic book that started it all, now in HTML format with a nice topical index. No more going down to Newbury Comics or Tower Records and paying $15 for it. Now you can read it all for free, and learn how to fuck things up all by yourself, or with your favorite anarchist friends.
• The Anarchist Sampler -- A collection of information and links on anarchy, bombs, explosives, violence, and politics.
• Anarchy and Explosives Magazine -- This is a bunch of famous text files that have been on BBS's and the net since the early 80's. There are many recipes for bombs and improvised weapons, as well as other how-to information for screwing around with various businesses and government systems. Happy hacking. And remember-- do not make any bombs with this info...YOU'LL SHOOT YER EYE OUT!
• The Avenger -- Geroge Hayduke compiled a series (still growing after 5 volumes!) of books on revenge, and how certain creative individuals contrived poetic justice for people they hate. This site is one person's attempt to capture the art of revenge in much the same way George Hayduke did, and you'll have fun just reading how other people got their revenge in creative, entertaining -- AND LEGAL ways.
• Backyard Ballistics -- I have a new hobby thanks to this guy -- Blowing shit up! Remember when you were a kid and got one of those spud guns, where you'd jam a plastic pistol's mussel into a potato and shoot a spud-pellet at your friends, your cat, or into your mouth (Ouch!)?? Well, this guy has the adult versions of those toys. You can get easy-to-follow plans here on how to build the hair-spray powered Spud cannon, the environmentally friendly pneumatic spud cannon, The high-powered "Spudzooka", and my favorite, the gattling-spud-gun! you'll find hours of fun here that'll piss off your neighbors and frighten the cops!
• Black Crawling System Archives -- Information on Hacking, phreaking, making neat gadgets, survival tactics, paranoid worldviews, and paramilitary things. One of the best resources on the web for projects of questionable purposes.
• The M.I.T. Guide to Lock Picking -- MIT students provide an ol-line course in how locks work, and how to foil them. Locksmithing is an ancient trade, but it's also a very simple technology that anyone can learn. This site gives you more information than you could possibly need to know about lock picking, and could end up saving your life or money! It's also useful for subversion.
• Telecommunications Systems Information -- If hacking and not being seen is your game, this sites got the info that will keep you ahead of most detection. The most incredible on-line resource on telecommunications equipment, protocols, and ATM machines (yes, using similar info, some famous crooks made a fake ATM machine and got away with lots of other people's card ID's and PIN numbers! EASY MONEY!). If anything, you will find everything you ever wanted to know about network terms and structure. THE NET IS YOUR HOME, KNOW IT WELL!
• Todd's Atomic Online Guide -- Everything you need to know in order to delve into atomic energy, including links to places which tell you how Atomic Bombs are made. Yep -- the ultimate in subversion -- personal nukes!
• Utah Anarchism and Revolution Page -- Yep, an anarchist organization on the Web from Utah which gives all would-be anarchists and revolutionaires support for their revolutionary views.
• _The ÜnderÑet_ -- The best hacking resources available on the Internet. The Undernet is the world's largest underground hacking organization in the world, made up of hackers, crackers, phreakers, programmers and technicians from every continent.

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Disinformation: Everything you know is WRONG! -- This is a really great site that showcases all sorts of interesting articles and links about the disinformation that most people think is "common knowledge" and worse.

• them to modify their body. I nearly cringed at the article they recently did on "penis splitting", complete with photos!
• The Church Of The SubGenius -- This is the official web page of the fastest growing, and most deliberately bogus religion ever. The SubGenius church is a bizarre fake-cult devoted to slack and making money, and they are up front about it. They WANT to pay taxes. Their motto (and my favorite motto, too) is "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!"
• The Advertising Parody Home Page -- A fun site devoted to making fun of corporate America's advertising. Hours of fun to be had here, with too many parody ads to see. Check out the Malboro Man -- it's a great one.
• THE SPANKER -- This is a man after my own heart! He reviews the stupidest and lamest web sites, giving his own unique, bad-attitude perspective. Since I was first contacted by him, he's sent me a few choice URLs to decapitate. I expect to do some more business with him in the future.
• 2600: Hacker's Quarterly -- Possibly the oldest Hacker's magazine, now online. 2600 has been around since home computers have been around. They have all the info you need. Trust me.
• Cult Of The Dead Cow -- Another gem from the bad boyz at the L0pht, full of great info and subversive links. This proves once again that L0pht.com rules when it comes to subversion on the net.
• The Internet Underground -- The name sez it all. Info and links to a lot of the same stuff that I have right here, plus groups of hackers, cyberpunks, and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy, a security program that the government cannot fuck with!)
• Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader -- An excellent magazine that has articles exploring the validity and facts behind various conspiracy theories. This website is a tie-in for a magazine that you can buy at those out-of-the-way magazine stands that sell everything. It's not an advocate of kooky positions, but rather a forum for all positions.
• Phrack Magazine -- All the other hacker sites have this linked, so why not include it here. It's a favorite source and place for hackers to exchange info on credit card tampering, phone systems tampering, and anything else that you can do electronically that nobody wants you to do.
• FringeWare Inc. -- Very hip underground zine that has all kinds of stuff on hackers, cyberpunk culture, and fun subversion.
• The Internet Underground -- A starting point to find more subversive material. This is the keyhole that you peek through on a universe just begging you to open the door to.
• SUCK Online Magazine -- Cool bad attitude magazine that is updated EVERY DAY! Scathing articles on various Net related issues. Check the 10-31-95 back issue for scathingly funny Dianetics putdown...
• ADBUSTERS -- This is one of my favorite magazine's online Web page. Their game is to take advertising and twist it around to tell the truth. They have this awesome ad for "Patches 96" for Windows 95 by "Mickeysoft" (Complete with little mouse ears on the logo) that says it all. No wonder the best subversive hackers prefer Unix. Adbusters is the most subversive magazine to go mainstream. Some of their ad-parodies have been sued over, and the plaintiffs lost in each case, which sounds great to me! Parody is protected free speech -- Don't high-payed corporate lawyers know that already?

 

Cinnamon and Honey
Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot. It will do what some call turning to sugar. In reality honey is always honey. However, when left in a cool dark place for a long time it will do what I rather call "crystallizing". When this happens I loosen the lid, boil some water, and sit the honey container in the hot water,turn off the heat and let it liquefy. It is then as good as it ever was. Never boil honey or put it in a microwave. To do so will kill the enzymes in the honey.

Cinnamon and Honey
Bet the drug companies won't like this one getting around. Facts on Honey and Cinnamon: It is found that a mixture of honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a 'Ram Ban' (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.

Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients. Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada , in its issue dated 17 January,1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists:

HEART DISEASES:
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also, those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack.. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat. In America andCanada , various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.

ARTHRITIS:
Arthritis patients may take daily, morning and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:
Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm waterand drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.

CHOLESTEROL:
Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said Journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.

COLDS:
Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.

UPSET STOMACH:
Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.

GAS:
According to the studies done in India and Japan , it is revealed that if Honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial andviral diseases.

INDIGESTION:
Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

INFLUENZA:
A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ' Ingredient' which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

LONGEVITY:
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder, and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increase and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old..

PIMPLES:
Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS:
Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.

WEIGHT LOSS:
Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach, and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

CANCER:
Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.

FATIGUE:
Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.

BAD BREATH:
People of South America , first thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS:
Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restores hearing. Remember when we were kids? We had toast with real butter and cinnamon sprinkled on it!

For OpEdNews: R-CALF USA - Writer


R-CALF USA news conference to address seizure of Herman Schumacher’s home by the U.S. Marshals Service in reference to cattle price manipulation case against Tyson Fresh Meats The news conference will highlight the ongoing injustice against Schumacher; will demonstrate that the Administration, Congress and the U.S. judicial system have utterly failed to protect the safety and security of our nation’s food supply; and, will reveal that the concentrated beef packing industry has accumulated such untouchable power that it can freely engage in anticompetitive and antitrust behavior to drive family farmers and ranchers from the U.S. cattle industry by the tens of thousands each year.

When: 1 p.m. CDT on Friday, June 26, 2009

Where: Front lawn of the Herman Schumacher residence, 102 6^th Ave. NW, Herreid, S.D.

Who: R-CALF USA Co-Founder Herman Schumacher, lead plaintiff

R-CALF USA Volunteer Mike Callicrate, plaintiff

R-CALF USA Region III Director Johnny Smith

R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard

Background: Directed by a court order obtained by Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. (Tyson), the U.S. Marshals Service on June 11, 2009, posted a “No Trespassing” sign and “Warning” on the front door of the home of South Dakota rancher and cattle feeder Herman Schumacher. Tyson obtained a judgment against Schumacher because Schumacher tried to protect his fellow cattle producers by stopping Tyson from violating the Packers and Stockyards Act. A federal jury unanimously sided with Schumacher, but then a three-judge panel for the 8^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (8^th Circuit) overturned the jury’s decision. So, in a bizarre twist, Schumacher must now pay Tyson $15,881.38 or Tyson will use the U.S. judicial system to finalize the seizure of Schumacher’s home.

“This retaliatory action against Schumacher, who courageously did what USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) was supposed to do but refused to do, is an extreme injustice,” said R-CALF USA President/Region VI Director Max Thornsberry. “We cannot sit back and allow Tyson to intimidate U.S. cattle producers and destroy our markets. R-CALF USA is sponsoring this news conference to help protect Schumacher’s property against Tyson’s advances, as well as to highlight the urgent need to end – once and for all – the market-manipulating practices of the four largest packers who together control approximately 88 percent of the U.S. fed cattle market.”

USDA is responsible for the enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 (PSA), which was established to protect family farmers and ranchers against unfair and deceptive practices by the highly concentrated meatpackers. In 2006, both the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that USDA had failed for nearly a decade to properly enforce the PSA. As a result, anticompetitive practices and anti-trust actions by the concentrated meatpackers have gone unrestrained, causing hundreds of thousands of cattle producers to exit the industry.

During the prolonged non-enforcement of the PSA, USDA implemented a new price reporting requirement, but made a horrendous mistake. Over a six-week period, from April 2, 2001, to May 11, 2001, USDA miscalculated beef values and underreported those values to the public. It was widely believed that Tyson and the other two largest meatpackers – Cargill Meat Solutions, d/b/a Excel Corporation (Excel), and Swift & Co. (Swift), now JBS Swift – knew that beef values were being underreported and were purposely underbidding the actual value of cattle. Prices paid for Schumacher’s and other cattle feeders’ cattle were forced lower during this period, causing producers to lose millions of dollars in income. USDA refused to take any action to correct this injustice.

But Schumacher and two other cattle feeders, Mike Callicrate and Roger Koch, stepped to the plate in 2002 to do what USDA refused to do – they filed a lawsuit to enforce producers’ rights under the PSA. They did this as a class action case to ensure that every U.S. producer harmed by the packers could recover their lost income. And they won! The federal judge in the case stated in 2006: “The jury carefully found that defendants (Tyson, Excel, and Swift) knew of the USDA reporting errors on April 24, 2001, and took advantage of such knowledge thereafter…There is no dispute that the jury found defendants liable for damages for violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act.” The jury awarded $9.25 million to the class of cattle producers harmed by the packers. Schumacher estimated that he and the other cattle feeders in the class would each receive about $40 for each head of cattle sold while the packers were driving cattle prices lower.

Tyson, Excel and Swift quickly appealed the jury’s unanimous decision to the 8^th Circuit in hopes of circumventing Schumacher’s enforcement of the PSA against them. On Jan. 29, 2008, the 8^th Circuit sided with the packers and overturned the jury’s unanimous verdict. The 8^th Circuit did not dispute the jury’s findings that the packers had violated the provisions of the PSA. Instead, the court decided it wasn’t enough for Schumacher to prove that the packers had committed actions prohibited by the PSA. The 8^th Circuit overturned the jury’s verdict on the basis that “a plaintiff (Schumacher, Callicrate and Koch) must show that a packer intentionally committed unlawful conduct.”

Armed with this shocking 8^th Circuit decision, Tyson moved swiftly to retaliate against Schumacher by seeking an order to force Schumacher to pay Tyson’s court costs. Tyson succeeded and initiated the action that has resulted in the U.S. Marshal’s postings on Schumacher’s front door. Similar legal action is now anticipated by Excel and Swift against plaintiffs Callicrate and Koch.

“Our markets are broken, USDA is too scared to force the monolithic packers to abide by the law and Congress refuses to act while hundreds of thousands of family farmers and ranchers exit our industry, which is putting our nation’s food safety and food security at risk,” Thornsberry pointed out. “The packers are now using our court system to circumvent prohibitions against anticompetitive practices and to punish courageous producers like Schumacher who are only trying to protect themselves and their fellow cattle producers from being completely controlled by the concentrated packers. Enough is enough, and it’s time for both consumers and cattle producers to put our cattle industry on a new course.

“R-CALF is calling on both consumers and producers to help protect Schumacher, Callicrate and Koch from the packers’ retaliatory actions and to help R-CALF USA step up the fight to convince Congress and the new Administration to follow through with their promises to restore competition to our U.S. cattle market,” he concluded. “This is going to take four to five years to accomplish, but we must get started today. It is clear that unless cattle producers and consumers step up right now to initiate needed changes, no one else will.”

This recent action by the U.S. Marshals Service demonstrates that family farmers and ranchers – our U.S. food producers – have no means of protecting either their livelihoods or their industry against the anticompetitive and antitrust actions of the packers that continue to drive food-producer prices well below sustainable levels. Producers have sought relief from both the Administration and from Congress, but to no avail. And, producers and R-CALF USA have sought relief in the judicial system where, in three recent cases, they have won their cases before fact-finding juries and district court judges only to have their victories quashed by appellant courts that consistently side with the packers.

( You have no idea how annoyed I am to cite R-Calf to make a point. I am convinced their partisan representations have cost my neighbours literally billions because of bogus science used to head off Canadian imports.via BSE complaints..while U.S. products remain untested.)

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  If we can’t kill hornets on a U.S. military base then we sure as hell can’t whack Osama bin Laden. What the hell am I writing about?

  I spent part of this week on a U.S. military base that houses an elite Special Operations unit. Can’t tell you where because the particular unit is classified. In any event one of my co-workers, a legendary retired helicopter pilot, was standing outside the trailer where we were working and leaned up against a wood railing. Without warning a couple of hornets stung my friend in the ass. Nothing like watching a sixty year old retired Air Force officer with bad knees run for his life. The cloud of swarming hornets tried to catch him but the man, motivated by a surge of adrenalin, escaped.

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August 3, 2009

sugar beet specklings

Posted by anne

sugar beet mops: radioactive biofuel