Beets have long been known as a healthy source of nutrients, but – now, more than ever – scientific evidence continues to support beets as a natural cure for cancer. Labeled “beet root chemotherapy” by some health experts, actual scientific research reveals the astounding cases of remission in cancer patients who were given high concentrations of beet root.
This root vegetable, best known for its red color, has been enjoyed in various forms for generations as a healthy source of iron, as well as potassium, phosphorus, calcium, sulfur, magnesium, iodine and a number of trace minerals. But, the combination of certain elements found only in specific combinations and concentrations within the beet give this veggie its cancer fighting and disease preventing powers.
Scientific evidence reveals the cancer-fighting power of beets
One of the most-often cited studies of work relating to the benefits of beet juice and cancer-fighting properties of beets is that of Dr. Alexander Ferenczi at the Department for Internal Diseases, Csoma, Hungary, in the late 1950s. Using nothing but raw, red beets, the doctor was able to record amazing results of remission in cancer patients. Decades later, his work would be republished in the Australian International Clinical Nutrition Review.
In one study, a 50-year-old man suffering from a lung tumor, which corresponded clinically to lung cancer, was treated with beet root by Dr. Ferenczi. In just six weeks, the tumor had disappeared and after four months, the man gained back just over 20 pounds. His blood work results corresponded to clinical recovery.
In another study, a prostate cancer sufferer and uterine cancer patient were both admitted to the hospital. At the time of admission, both weighed the same. The man with the prostate cancer received beet root treatment, but the doctor noted that the uterine cancer patient could not take it. Although he had been bedridden with a catheter when admitted, the man was able to have his catheter removed after a month, and soon began walking around and putting back on weight. The female patient, however, continued to lose weight. After just three months, there was a weight difference of over 23 lbs. between the two.
The fact that other iron-rich foods do not have the same effect could mean the benefits of beets and the secret to beet root’s ability to ward off cancer may lie in the red color. Dr. Ferenczi, along with his co-worker Dr. S. Schmidt, believed that the traces of rubidium and caesium were critical.
They also noted that while other foods contained iron, the human body is able to assimilate iron from the beet root more readily than almost any other known food. Researchers suspect some catalyst in the beet root which helps the body more easily use the available iron.
The best way to consume beets to defeat cancer
Because beets are a vegetable and healthy to eat, the biggest advantage to the cancer-fighting benefits of beet juice is that you do not have to worry about harmful side effects from their consumption. To beat cancer, it is best to administer beet root in its most concentrated form. Beet root is available in many different forms, although beet powder is probably the most popular and can be found in most health food stores.
It is believed that one level tablespoonful in 8 fluid ounces of water or juice every morning before breakfast can dramatically improve your resistance to cancer. For those already suffering from some type of cancer, double or triple the amount each day. Just remember to always take this concentrated form of beets with meals and never on an empty stomach.
One word of caution: Be careful not to administer too much of the concentrated beet root at any given time due to its ability to act quickly in breaking down cancer cells. Obviously, cancer patients need to be careful – and work with a qualified healthcare provider – because the effect can result in too many toxins for the body to eliminate. Some advocates for this natural cancer treatment suggest going through a colon and liver detox process prior to the consumption of beet root concentrate – to avoid health issues related to the rapid breakdown of waste products.
Ultimately, to fully heal from a cancer diagnosis, one must regain healthy digestive (and elimination) function; remove unwanted toxins from entering or residing in the body and resolve any emotional issues or other excessively stressful situations like dental problems, systemic infections and overexposure to EMF pollution.

Showdown soon in Los Angeles: Lawsuit against Monsanto

August 30, 2015

Is charged of roundup false advertising

by Paul Fassa

The labels on retail Roundup containers state in large letters, “Did You Know? Glyphosate targets an enzyme only found in plants and not in humans or animals.”
The reality is quite different of course, and plaintiff attorney T. Matthew Phillips for the truth in advertising lawsuit against Monsanto has the science behind him. Roundup targets the enzyme EPSP synthase, and it is in animals and humans.
EPSP synthase is found in the microbiota (mostly friendly bacteria) that reside in our intestinal tracts (guts). Thus the enzyme is found in humans and animals. It is partly responsible for immunity activation and even helps our guts and our brains communicate with one another.
EPSP synthase is among other beneficial microbes that produce neurometabolites that are either neurotransmitters or modulators of neurotransmission. So the claim on Roundup containers is a total lie, and a dangerous one too.
It contributes to many of the food allergies, digestive illnesses and neurological diseases among Americans lately. Some scientists claim it contributes heavily to autism, in addition to Roundup’s carcinogenicity.
Not only does Roundup’s chemical violence permeate GMO crops; it is used by home gardeners and sprayed on non-GMO grain crops to desiccate them (dry them up) for earlier harvesting.
Prior similar suits involving Roundup
The simplicity of Phillips’ lawsuit is its beauty. Roundup has false safety claims prominently displayed on the containers’ labels. It’s false advertising at its worst. The science is in: EPSP enzymes are IN gut microbes, which all humans do have, or they’D be in really bad shape if not dead.
The adverse consequences don’t have to be proven in court with this legal challenge because only the false advertisement aspect needs to be proven. And as the government officials like to say about vaccines — “the science is in” that valuable, life-supporting human microbes contain EPSP enzymes.
In 1997, New York’s Attorney General (AG) ordered Monsanto to pull ads declaring Roundup “safer than table salt” and “will not wash or leach in the soil” and “will not generally cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment” and other claims. Monsanto pulled the ads and no fines were levied.
Ten years later, France got 15,000 euros (19,000 USD) from both Monsanto and its French distributor. Monsanto appealed twice, and both appeals were refused by 2009.
A financial slap on the wrist to be sure, but more public exposure on Roundup’s toxicity and Monsanto’s duplicity. Both of those successful legal actions were performed by governments.
Phillips’ lawsuit is the first Roundup truth in advertising lawsuit from a private attorney. And it’s happening within the time frame of the WHO’s worldwide declaration of glyphosate’s carcinogenic toxicity and other revelations of glyphosate’s human health issues.
Phillips anticipates that Monsanto’s attorney, Steven Smerek, will attempt to get the case thrown out at the initial August 10, 2015, hearing in California’s Federal Court on the flimsy pretense that Monsanto can’t be sued for false advertising because, if the EPA approves it, it must be true.
“The government does not have a monopoly on truth,” asserts Phillips, “It doesn’t get more Orwellian than this!” Phillips added, “The ONLY way they can win is by proving that a lawsuit demanding truth-in-advertising conflicts with (a) The Constitution; (b) Federal law; (c) A treaty. They’ll never make it!”
Consider that the 1997 New York AG’s successful lawsuit against Monsanto’s Roundup has set a USA legal precedence. This lawsuit is on a shoe string budget from an individual activist attorney and a small family. You can help out with the lawsuit’s funding page here. (Natural News).

The truth about the Federal Drug Administration

August 30, 2015

The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is shown in Silver Spring near Washington — The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is shown in Silver Spring, Maryland, November 4, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed

Big Pharma following and its secret plan

by Timothy D. Terrell
Mises.Org
Analysis

In this article by economist Jeffrey Sachs, pharmaceutical company Gilead is taken to task for selling its hepatitis C cure, Sofosbuvir (sold as Sovaldi), at a price of $84,000 per course of treatment.
Sachs says that the actual production cost of Sofosbuvir is about $100.
Sachs says that Gilead is “bilking the taxpayer” by charging the government prices far above production costs — and government is probably paying for most of the Sofosbuvir drugs. Sachs further complains that people will die because of Gilead’s refusal to cut the price to something more affordable.
Gilead, Sachs says, bought the patent rights to Sofosbuvir for $11 billion in 2011, and took the drug through the last stages of FDA approval, which came at the end of 2013. Gilead made $12.4 billion in 2014 from Sofosbuvir, and Sachs says that first quarter sales of the drug brought in revenues of $4.6 billion.
Sachs quite rightly points out that patents are relevant to the issue. But he says that patents are “an important tool to incentivize R&D” which have been “abused” by Gilead, and argues that “life and death” patent holders should be subject to price controls by the federal government. He goes on to say that patients who are “denied access” (i.e., can’t afford the drug) should sue Gilead for reckless endangerment. And finally, Sachs suggests “public outrage and activism.”
In an August 6 tweet replying to me and to a physician who had briefly engaged him on this issue, Sachs said, “No way to regard the current arrangements even crudely efficient or equitable. Killing people senselessly.”
Sachs is being somewhat disingenuous in representing the production cost of Sofosbuvir as $100, and the markup as 800 times costs (as he did in an August 7 tweet). There are substantial fixed costs involved in R&D, trials and FDA approval, and the like. Any company incurring those costs expects to recover them by charging an above-marginal cost, and if trade secrets or other features of the market allow them to do so, they will. Sachs’s markup complaint applied elsewhere doesn’t make sense — authors of mass market paperback novels (and maybe Sachs himself, the author of several popular books) would also have to be regarded as terrible price gougers because the marginal cost of printing a paperback book is a few cents, while the retail price is $6 to $10. Of course, writing the manuscript is an extremely costly part of the production process. Once that is done, reproduction can be relatively cheap. This is true of a great number of goods and services for which there is a high up-front cost.
Problems with Patents
There are clearly some problems stemming from the intellectual property rules here. The government will prosecute any firm that competes with Gilead in the production of the particular chemical formula Gilead has acquired. Sachs is right, then, that IP is relevant here. But rather than see IP as part of the problem, he defends patents as basically beneficial and proposes using them as a way for a government to beat a company’s prices down. In contrast to the widespread notion of most of the public and most policy commentators, it is not at all clear that patents are essential to drug innovation. Even where new drugs could be reverse-engineered and copied, innovation could still be rewarded in a world without patent laws. See, for example, this article by Nathan Nicolaisen.

First-mover advantages may be important, as could the inevitable delays in ramping up generic drug production. Nicolaisen mentions a survey of R&D labs and company managers that indicated that they believed trade secrets to be more effective than patents in getting a return on an investment. For a more extensive treatment of a free-market view of IP, see Jacob Huebert’s article here, and for an application to a similar issue involving a life-saving drug, see this article by Stephan Kinsella.
The FDA’s Role in Denying Access to Health Care
Sachs — at least in this article — ignores the role of the FDA in causing death and suffering by keeping drugs off the market. When Gilead bought the patent to Sofosbuvir, it was running the risk that the drug would not be approved, or that approval would be delayed so long that the opportunity cost of its initial $11 billion investment would become quite large. Uncertain but potentially large profits after approval may be quite reasonable, given the risk Gilead took on. The FDA itself injects a politicized uncertainty into the drug research, production, and marketing process, and therefore drives up costs.
These costs can appear as death and suffering as well as dollars. The American public tends to think of the FDA as a protector against dangerous side effects, as we saw with Thalidomide decades ago. But how many Americans have died because of lags in approval? A five-year delay in bringing the antibiotic Septra to the US market may have cost 80,000 lives. A lag in the approval of beta blockers may have cost 250,000 lives.1 The FDA’s ban on advertising aspirin as an effective preventer of first heart attacks may have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans every year. But because it’s easy to identify those harmed by side effects, and difficult to identify who might have been saved by earlier introduction of Septra to the marketplace, the FDA tends to be over-conservative in its regulatory process.
Some Regulation Begets More Regulation
But one of the most interesting features of Sachs’s diatribe against Gilead is how well it tracks with Ludwig von Mises’s explanation of the natural progression of socialism. In “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism,” Mises points out that a government facing milk shortages from its price controls on milk may add to its initial intervention a second intervention controlling the prices of the factors of production used in milk production, and then — if the government still refuses to acknowledge the fundamental problems of intervention —a third intervention controlling the prices of still other resources. The price system shrinks and is gradually replaced with central planning.
Sachs sees problems with the prices of Gilead’s new drug. And I do too — I don’t think for a minute that the free-market price of Sofosbuvir would be $84,000 per course. But rather than attack the State’s patent laws directly, as well as the costly FDA regulatory process and other interventions, Sachs wants price controls on life-saving drugs. This is a well-traveled path toward socialism, and it does not end well.

Guatemala: Baldetti to face trial in December

August 29, 2015

by the El Reportero’s wire services

A Guatemalan judge set the date for the audience on upcoming December 8, which will define whether former Vice President Roxana Baldetti will face trial, and determined three months for parties to deepen research.
The judge Miguel Angel Galvez said Nov. 25 is the last day the Public Ministry and the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) will have, to investigate the alleged involvement of Baldetti in a network called La Linea, dedicated to the diversion of millions of dollars in custom offices.
The former vice president must enter the Santa Teresa preventive women’s center in three days.
Santa Teresa is located in the north of the capital.
ccording to the prosecutors, Baldetti was the leader of a corruption structure known as La Linea and regulated the anomalous entry of goods in Puerto Quetzal, Santo Tomas de Castilla and the Central Customs.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday started the preliminary hearing procedure requested by the MP CICIG against former president Otto Perez Molina, and referred the case to Congress, which must designate a commission to determine if the president’s immunity is lifted.

Divorce rates grow in Panama as unmarried unions thrive
Nearly four thousand marriages file for divorce every year in Panama, as unmarried union are gaining popularity, a phenomenon that according to experts respond to a change in the social mindset.
According to sociologist Marcos Gandásegui, young couples prefer unmarried unions to marriages, the latest being more predominant among people with specific interests, mostly form the upper-middle class.
Paradoxically, this group of people also registers an increase in the divorce rate; a marital status that has grown in a 10 percent over the last five years.
A survey conducted by La Estrella de Panama journal and the online marketing firm Feebbo revealed that people get married to have children and safe sex, convenience, peer pressure, fear to loneliness and appearances.
“We should work in order for people in unmarried unions to get married and have the rights that come with it”, said Marylin Vallarino, president of the Family Commission of the National Assembly.

Central America and the Caribbean on agricultural alert
An agricultural alert was decreed by the governments of Central America and the Caribbean, given the effects of the severe drought currently affecting 1.6 million farmers and their families.
The appeal was decided by the ministers of agriculture of the region, to help the victims, to coordinate the cooperation of the international community and technical assistance to offset the damage to crops and livestock.
Along with the warning they issued a statement referring evaluations by each country to implement policies for adapting to climate change, protection of coffee plantations under the onslaught of the rust fungus and the implementation of a plan of family farming in the next six months.
Due to its geographical location, Central America and the Caribbean are affected each year by climate variability generated economic losses.
The Agricultural Council and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture recently reported that in the Corredor Seco Central food production is affected by the water deficit in the past months, and severe risk conditions for crops are presented.
They also warned that the situation could worsen because the irregularity in the distribution of rainfall, prolonged heat waves and the early withdrawal of the rainy season crops can compromise.
According to figures from the World Food Programme about 1.6 million people have been affected by drought in the corridor due to El Nino has caused the loss of crops, mainly corn, beans and rice, basic in the region.

Thousands rally against nuclear weapons on 70th anniversary of Hiroshipa bomb

August 14, 2015

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Global zero calls Iran deal a key step toward the global elimination of nuclear weapons.
Marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, thousands of Global Zero activists in the United States and around the world will call for urgent action to end the nuclear threat, including Congressional approval of the Iran deal as a next step to eliminating nuclear weapons globally.
Demonstrations will include a 7-mile bike ride tracing the thermal blast of a “small” nuclear weapon, highlighting the zone of devastation in which most injuries would be fatal, overwhelming any possible humanitarian relief efforts.
In San Francisco (CA), Global Zero members and bicyclists will meet up at Dolores Park at 3:30pm PT.

Farewell the Elbo Room
I am sure you have heard the sad news: Our favorite San Francisco music venue is closing to make way for more luxury condos. This is a huge blow to the Mission. But LA GENTE is having one last dance party there. They will be joined by Istanbul Connection and members of LoCura, Inspector Gadje, Makru Musica and MWE.
Lets make this a night to remember and celebrate the legacy of this amazing piece of San Francisco history. Friday Aug. 14, at 9:30 p.m. at Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St., SF. $13.

$10,000 winner from Redwood City selected in queen competition
Every year as part of the North Fair Oaks Community, an exciting competition takes place sponsored by the Sheriff Department. Young women are selected from a field of applicants to compete for $23,000 in scholarship awards. The competition is in its ninth year and has awarded $146,000 in scholarships to date. The finalists have raised over $200,000 for youth programs in San Mateo County.
The Queen of the Festival scholarship program promotes community service.
The festival is a multicultural event full of excitement along with free live entertainment, arts and crafts, food and beverages, children’s rides and activities, and a festive parade. Among the many exciting activities that day is one particularly treasured by the community – the crowning of the Festival Queen.
The winner of this year’s competition: Michelle Quintero of Redwood City has been crowned as the 2015 Queen of the Festival and has won a $10,000 scholarship.
Other contenders for Queen of the Festival included: 1st runner-up Monica Orellana of Redwood City, awarded $6,000 and matriculates to San Jose State University; 2nd runner-up Vanessa Murillo of Redwood City, awarded $4,000, headed for University of California, Los Angeles; Mary Robles of Redwood City, awarded $2,000 attending Loyola Marymount University; and Angelica Salto of Redwood City, awarded $1,000 and attending Cal State East Bay.
It is held in conjunction with the 14th Annual North Fair Oaks Community Festival on August 16, 2015, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Middlefield Road, Redwood City, between 1st and 5th Avenue. For more info call 650-368-2497 or visit www.northfairoaksfestival.org

Gente de Zona and Marc Anthony lead hit parade in Spain

August 14, 2015

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

Native History: Geronimo is last warrior to surrender

August 14, 2015

by Alysa Landry

On Sept. 4, 1886, the great Apache warrior Geronimo surrendered in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, after fighting for his homeland for almost 30 years. He was the last American Indian warrior to formally surrender to the United States.
Born in June 1829 near the Gila River in Arizona, Geronimo was a mild-mannered youth, said Mark Megehee, museum specialist at the Fort Sill Museum in Oklahoma. His birth name was Goyalkla or “One Who Yawns.”
At age 17, Geronimo married Alope, with whom he had three children. His life changed in 1858 when a company of Mexican soldiers led by Colonel Jose Maria Carrasco attacked the Apaches and murdered Geronimo’s wife, mother and children.
“Carrasco said he struck and meant to rub out every man, woman and child of the Apaches, but the warriors by and large escaped while their families were the ones that were slaughtered,” said Megehee, a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma. “That changed the personality of Geronimo. His friends noticed he was no longer mild and pleasant to deal with. He was unexpectedly violent and had a temper. He became very grieving, but he was going to settle the score.”
In his own words, translated in 1909 and published in the 1996 book Geronimo: His Own Story, Geronimo described the incident.
“I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain,” he said. “There were no lights in camp, so without being noticed I silently turned away and stood by the river. How long I stood there I do not know, but when I saw the warriors arranging for a council I took my place.”
Only 80 warriors remained, so the chief directed survivors to return home to Arizona, Geronimo said. He had “no purpose left” because he “had lost all.”
“I was never again contented in our quiet home,” he wrote. “I had vowed vengeance upon the Mexican troopers who had wronged me, and whenever I came near (my father’s) grave or saw anything to remind me of former happy days my heart would ache for revenge upon Mexico.”
Geronimo went on to lead a band of Apache warriors throughout southern Arizona and New Mexico, successfully keeping white settlers off Apache lands for decades and becoming a “symbol of the untamed freedom of the American West.”
“He was not just a tough guy, but he had leadership abilities,” Megehee said. “He looked out for men, women and children in a way that all their needs were met. Geronimo did more with less. In today’s vocabulary, he multiplied his force by stealth, by firepower and by mobility.”
By 1886, however, Geronimo was tired. After leading 39 Apaches across the Southwest, running as much as 80 miles per day to stay ahead of 5,000 white soldiers, Geronimo surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles on September 4.
Miles, in his memoirs, described Geronimo as “one of the brightest, most resolute, determined-looking men I have ever encountered.”
After his trial, Geronimo was put to work as a prisoner of war, doing heavy labor for the South Pacific Railroad. This was in violation of the agreement he made with the U.S. when he surrendered.
He spent the rest of his life as a prisoner of war and a scout for the U.S. Army, though he gained popularity as an attraction at the St. Louis World’s Fair and Wild West shows. He also was one of six Indians to march in the 1905 inaugural parade for President Theodore Roosevelt.
He died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909, still on the federal payroll as a scout.
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/04/native-history-geronimo-last-native-warrior-surrender-151136

DARK SCIENCE: Abortion organ harvesting rooted in the philosophy of scientific materialism – Part 2

August 14, 2015

FROM THE EDITOR:

Dear readers,
This article deals with one of the most controversial subjects in modern society: abortion as profit-making, and the human value in the baby still in the mother’s womb. I believe that this article brings an interesting perspective to the issue that is being ignored by the mainstream media, and that people in our communities should read. Due to its length, it will be published in two parts. — Marvin Ramirez. THIS IS PART 2 AND LAST.

DARK SCIENCE: Abortion organ harvesting rooted in the philosophy of scientific materialism (and the refusal to recognize consciousness)

by Mike Adams

Mass murder in the name of “science” will continue until the day consciousness is universally recognized

As long as science is unable to embrace the reality of nonmaterial consciousness, it will continue to devalue life and cause untold pain and suffering across the populations of the world. Until medical science embraces the reality of human consciousness and free will, it will be unable to honor the simple idea of universal medical choice.
The artifacts of scientific materialism are observable all around us. They include the frequent reports of medical kidnapping: the phenomenon of hospitals kidnapping children and senior citizens to force treatments upon them against the wishes of those individuals or their parents. Medical kidnapping is, of course, rooted in the philosophy of scientific materialism, believing that free will and free choice are nothing more than illusions of a biological brain, and therefore they don’t count. Under the tyranny of scientific materialism, the state asserts its power to dictate medical interventions upon people who individually choose to reject them. The justification for totalitarian medical interventions that override individual medical choice is that “science” demands it… and more specifically, that “science” is only understood by “scientists” while everyday people are too stupid to understand it (and therefore too stupid to be “allowed” to make their own decisions).
What’s crucial to understand here is that this death-worshiping philosophy allows the state and even the medical establishment to justify absolutely anything — including the mass murder of human babies — in order to achieve its scientific agenda. Think about it: if Planned Parenthood can literally murder babies and chop them into pieces to be sold off for scientific research, there is almost nothing they cannot similarly justify… including mass executions or even genocide.
Scientific tyranny in America today resembles the Third Reich in more ways than one
I’m reminded of the science-based propaganda of the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 40s. Then, the value of a human being was quantified solely by that person’s ability to contribute to a stronger government regime. Individuals who are no longer contributing to society — such as the physically handicapped, mentally handicapped, or elderly — were conveniently rounded up and murdered by the state. Propaganda posters reminded the citizens that financially supporting less-than-productive individuals who were not contributing to the nation was weakening the country as a whole and burdening the German people.
Thus, scientific materialism demanded that individuals be executed by the state for “the good of society”. This is the exact same thinking under which vaccine mandates are now pushed today across California and other states. While vaccine proponents will, if they are truly honest about it, admit that vaccines do cause brain damage and even kill some children, their excuse is that it’s worth it for “the good of society.”
Not surprisingly, this is the same argument that Planned Parenthood is now putting forth in the harvesting of organs from once-living human babies. They say the harvesting of these tissues is being done “for the good of society” because such tissues are sold off for scientific research. Similarly, the NIH also funded criminal medical experiments on prisoners in Guatemala.
These are the justifications of scientists who worship materialism. And these are scientists who are a grave threat to all of humanity and its children.

Any society that refuses to recognize the value of consciousness is a danger to all conscious beings. And the fact that today in America, over 3500 babies are aborted and killed every single day, reveals just how little value is placed on human lives in a society dominated by scientific materialism.
The recognition of non-physical consciousness is the key solution
What’s the answer to all this? The answer is the universal recognition of consciousness. This is the next step in human understanding and human progress. It is a step that will render much of today’s so-called scientific “facts” obsolete, in much the same way that the discovery of quantum mechanics rendered Newtonian physics obsolete in the realms of atomic physics.
Consciousness is the next great realm of discovery for humanity, and it is a realm that cannot be fully explored or understood through the limited reductionism of materialistic science. Consciousness is more than material; it is mind, it is self-awareness, it is spirit and soul interacting with the biological brain, creating what might be called cognitive computational holography.
This is why we must all be wary of anything being pushed upon us in the name of “science.” It’s not just that much of today’s science is really nothing more than corporate-funded junk science with a profit agenda; it’s also the fact that nearly all modern scientists reject the idea of consciousness, the soul, and anything originating in the realm of spirit or the divine. And because of that, these scientists do not value life… not any life… and certainly not your life either. They will destroy your life, or take your life, in an instant if it means gaining power or profits in the name of “science.”
Above all, recognize that scientific materialism is really a 17th-century concept that has persisted into the modern day only because of the suppression of real science by those who worship materialism. Science today has become the Church of Scientism, complete with its own suppression of knowledge, its “Bible” of faith-based assumptions, and its domineering stance of intellectual bullying and real-world tyranny against those who do not follow the faith. Led by empty-minded, soulless bullies and denialists like Richard Dawkins, today’s Church of Scientism remains a grave danger to all conscious life everywhere… not just on planet Earth but other planets across the galaxy which may harbor advanced biological life forms that will one day be callously “harvested” for “tissue” by Earth scientists in exactly the same way Planned Parenthood runs human baby chop shops on Earth today.
It is my belief, however, that intelligent life in our universe will not tolerate the extra-terrestrial colonization of other planets by a species steeped in such an idiotic scientific delusion. Earth scientists ridiculously believe they have unraveled the greatest mysteries of the cosmos while, at the same time, they still haven’t grasped the reality of arguably the most self-evidence truth of all: that we are all conscious, self-aware beings and not deterministic biological robots.
Until this simple, self-evident realization is grasped, consciousness-denying people like Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins and even Stephen Hawking are little more than masters of self-delusion exhibiting unrivaled cosmic stupidity. Even an average Buddhist monk understands more about the universe than the most celebrated scientific materialists of the western world… people who are so self-deluded, they’re still searching for the “God particle!”

Overuse of antibiotics is making kids fat and hindering child development

August 14, 2015

by Jennifer Lilley

Typically, the first thing that happens when people get an infection is their receipt of a quick scrawl on a doctor’s prescription pad for an antibiotic. However, rather than improving health, antibiotics are destroying it; a new study conducted by experts at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, New York has shown that they’re seriously jeopardizing children’s health.
Commonly-used antibiotics given to children such as amoxicillin and tylosin (popular in pediatrics) were found to be linked to not one, but several health disruptions. Weight gain, stunted growth and detrimental bacterial changes in the gut were noted by the researchers in tests that mimicked antibiotic use by children; amoxicillin was primarily associated with slowed bone growth while tylosin had the biggest effect on weight gain. Both antibiotics played a role in changing gut bacteria from its normal environment to one that wreaks havoc on the intestinal tract.
Children’s health compromised, antibiotics’ cumulative effect said to play role
Overall, the experts concluded that when children are exposed to such drugs at an early age, cumulative health damage results. Problems such as obesity, alterations to gut microbiomes and physical growth challenges are all consequences of these antibiotics.
“We have been using antibiotics as if there was no biological cost,” says Dr. Martin Blaser, who was involved in the study. Blaser explains that in the United States, the average child receives 10 courses of these drugs by the time they are 10 years old. This demonstrates that children are heavily exposed to health problems caused by false promises in a bottle at a time when their development is critical. Furthermore, the study reinforces the importance of paying attention to future outcomes rather than just immediate ones, showing that the effects of certain medications can be cumulative.
Of this cumulative effect, lead coauthor Laura M. Cox, PhD, and adjunct instructor in the Department of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine says that it’s of particular concern. She explains that the number of courses of antibiotics matters, adding, “We get a little interruption of the maturation process [of the microbiome] after the second course of antibiotics, and then we have even more interruption after three courses.”
Short and long-term consequences of antibiotic use a real issue
The findings were published in the journal, Nature Communications in an article titled, “Metabolic and metagenomic outcomes from early-life pulsed antibiotic treatment.” It noted how use of some antibiotics can remain in the system for up to four months after exposure, compromising normal functioning on both a short and long-term basis as a result. The study notes that “…these findings illustrate the potential functional consequences of early-life antibiotic-induced microbial perturbations and highlight the need to re-examine antibiotic guidelines in the human population.”
Additionally, it states:
Because the antibiotics used represent the classes most widely prescribed to children, and that our findings were consistent with effects of early life sub-therapeutic antibiotic exposures, this new model extends hypotheses that early-life antibiotic exposures could have long-term developmental metabolic effects, as supported by animal models and human epidemiological studies.
This finding also reinforces that health in a bottle is beyond questionable.
Antibiotic resistance, possibility of death from such drugs
Not only are many people becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, but in some cases, they’ve proven to be fatal in children. For example, scientists have found that some infections can develop AFTER a round of antibiotics are given, actually worsening their situation.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pediatric Clostridium difficile infections that arise after receiving antibiotics could lead to cases of diarrhea so severe that death could result. At the very least, it’s been reported that loss of beneficial bacteria due to taking antibiotics “… allows C. difficile to grow out of control and release toxins that attack and inflame the lining of the gut, causing colitis.” (Natural News).

These things have to change in the world of farmworkers

August 14, 2015

Farm Workers on Strike Against Sakuma Farms — BURLINGTON, WA - 25JULY13 - Migrant farm workers on strike against Sakuma Farms, a large berry grower in northern Washington State, in the labor camp where they live during the picking season. Most are indigenous Mixtec and Triqui migrants from Oaxaca and southern Mexico, but who now live in the U.. They went on strike to raise the piece rate for picking, and to try to stop the grower from bringing in contract guest workers from Mexico to do the work they usually do every year. Copyright David Bacon

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:
Due to the lack of space, we are publishing this article without the second part – an interview to Rosario Ventura, from Oaxaca, Mexico, who in her own words describes her personal history that led her to migrate yearly from California to Washington, and then become a striker.

by David Bacon
Dollars and Sense

In 2013, Rosario Ventura and her husband Isidro Silva were strikers at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Burlington, Wash. In the course of three months over 250 workers walked out of the fields several times, as their anger grew over the wages and the conditions in the labor camp where they lived.
Every year the company hires 7-800 people to pick strawberries, blueberries and blackberries. During World War II the Sakumas were interned because of their Japanese ancestry, and would have lost their land, as many Japanese farmers did, had it not been held in trust for them by another local rancher until the war ended. Today the business has grown far beyond its immigrant roots, and is one of the largest berry growers in Washington, where berries are big business. It has annual sales of $6.1 million, and big corporate customers like Haagen Dazs ice cream. It owns a retail outlet, a freezer and processing plant, and a chain of nurseries in California that grow rootstock.
By contrast, Sakuma workers have very few resources. Some are local workers, but over half are migrants from California, like Ventura and her family. Both the local workers and the California migrants are immigrants, coming from indigenous towns in Oaxaca and southern Mexico where people speak languages like Mixteco and Triqui. While all farm workers in the U.S. are poorly paid, these new indigenous arrivals are at the bottom. One recent study in California found that tens of thousands of indigenous farm workers received less than minimum wage.
In 2013 Ventura and other angry workers formed an independent union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia-Families United for Justice. In fitful negotiations with the company, they discovered that Sakuma Farms had been certified to bring in 160 H-2A guest workers. The H2A program was established in 1986 to allow U.S. agricultural employers to hire workers in other countries, and bring them to the U.S. In this program, the company first must certify that it has tried to hire workers locally. If it can’t find workers at the wage set by the state employment department, and the department agrees that the company has offered the jobs, the grower can then hire workers outside the country.
The U.S. government provides visas that allow them to work only for this employer, and only for a set period of time, less than a year. Afterwards, they must return to their home country. If they’re fired or lose their job before the contract is over, they must leave right away. Growers must apply for the program each year. On hearing about the application, the striking workers felt that the company was trying to find a new workforce to replace them.
When the company was questioned about why it needed guest workers, it said it couldn’t find enough workers to pick its berries. But the farm was also unwilling to raise wages to attract more pickers. “If we [do], it unscales it for the other farmers,” said owner Ryan Sakuma in an interview. “We’re just robbing from the total [number of workers available]. And we couldn’t attract them without raising the price hugely to price other growers out. That would just create a price war.” He pegged his farm’s wages to the H-2A program: “Everyone at the company will get the H-2A wage for this work.”
“The H-2A program limits what’s possible for all workers,” says Rosalinda Guillén, director of Community2Community, an organization that helped the strikers. Community2Community, based in Bellingham, advocates for farm worker rights, especially those of women, in a sustainable food system. The following year Sakuma Farms applied for H-2A work visas for 438 workers, saying that the strikers weren’t available to work because they had all been fired. Under worker and community pressure, Sakuma withdrew the application when it seemed probable that the U.S. Department of Labor (USDoL) would not approve it. Sakuma has still not recognized the union, and many workers feel their jobs are still in danger.
A decade ago there were hardly any H-2A workers in Washington State. In 2013, the USDoL certified applications for 6,251 workers, a number that had doubled just since 2011. The irony is that one group of immigrant workers, recruited as guest workers, is being pitted against another group-the migrants who have been coming to work at the company for many years.

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