Sunday, July 05, 2009
20 More Protestors Hanged Today, 24 Scheduled for Tomorrow
20 More Iranian Protestors Hanged Today, 24 Scheduled for Tomorrow, and so on....
Thousands have been arrested, mostly young people, men and women.
Already I get propaganda emails saying the video circulated yesterday showing a half-dozen young men being hung was a "fake"... but of course it is brutally real, and nobody has presented anything to suggest it is an old item, or anything other than what it claims to be -- of young Iranian protestors being systematically executed.
This is "Islamic Spirituality" in its most full and complete expression. Anyone who deviates from the Islamic theocracy must be killed. Young people having their necks broken, life extinguished, but the crowd roars for more. Young girls shot dead, and the Islamic Police are joyful.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Iran Hangs Young Students, Honduran Timetable
Iranian Mullahs Executing Students - Hangings, Shootings.
Their crime: Engaging in "political activities".
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-274670
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Bastards.
THIS is Islam, in all its true colors and glory.
Here's more: Germany selling wire-tap and torture devices to the mullahs.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/iranian-revolution-day-21-germany-reverts-to-nazism-sells-torture-devices-to-mullahcracy-obama-backs.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026829.php
Why worry about a few dead students when there is money to be made...
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Meanwhile, here is some background information on the situation in Honduras, which I observe is not getting honest or accurate reportage in the MSM. The Honduran people thwarted a communist putsch and protected their Constitution. Now the left-wing internationalists are fuming.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/honduras_and_iran_obama_betray.html
Honduras and Iran: Obama Betrays Freedom Again
By Pamela Geller
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/honduras-timeline-democracy-at-work.html
HONDURAS TIMELINE: DEMOCRACY AT WORK!
Walter Mitty Goes Cloudbusting in Arizona
In what must be a trend, news journalists often "become the story" by inserting themselves into the action, scenes, and narrative of events. They stand in front of a fire or shooting, and talk about themselves, how they are being influenced, and how they feel about it all, primping their hair-do and with one eye fixed on a mirror. Narcissists with defeated egos, needing a boost by any means possible. This is somewhat like the defeated character in the James Thurber short story, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", who isn't a narcissist by any means, but more of an innocent fellow who so badly yearns for excitement, he's constantly drifting off into a dream world where all kinds of heroic actions are undertaken, without any hard work or risks, of course. The borders between fantasy and reality blur.
I am now informed of a certain German video camera-man, Mr. John Trettin, who some years ago on my invitation, made some video shots of one of my field research projects. Specifically my OROP Arizona cloudbusting expedition back in 1989. That was an amazing field operation, composed of five different expeditions into the Arizona deserts, near Blythe California. It was a project conceived and carried out by myself with different assistants and helpers on the five different expeditions, myself who organized and planned it, acting as primary operator of the cloudbuster apparatus, which produced a "rainfall doubling" influence over the course of the year. A German film-crew volunteered to come along and document the first of the five operations... and that's all they did, was to make a video recording. During an off-time, when I was napping or something, one of the camera-men stood near the equipment, and had his picture taken. That's harmless enough. But now, needing that ever-elusive ego-boost, and gripped by the ghost of Walter Mitty (but in this case, not so innocent or lacking in narcissism), he claims it was his project, which he organized and carried out. You can read about the original "OROP Arizona" project on my research website, with citations to published accounts in scholarly journals authored by myself, along with summaries of some of my other field projects using the Reich Cloudbuster. Here:
As to the German Camera-Guy, here is his fantasy version of events:
The apparatus shown in the photo at the bottom is my large Cloudbuster Icarus, which I constructed back in 1976, and used in various projects. It is today located at my institute in rural Oregon. The Trettin "TV" website actually has many shots of him walking by the equipment, all carefully edited so as to end exactly as I walk into the picture, so I am now completely censored out of it. Oh, yes, my hands are shown in one sequence, pointing to a weather-map I drew. But... in this new "Secret Life of John Trettin" the narrative of events has been re-written. His head is in the clouds, his eyes on the mirror, and nobody is around except himself.
To be absolutely clear, Mr. Trettin was NOT the "Projektleiter" nor any kind of "Operateur" for the Arizona work, which he now abuses as a fund-raising gimmick. He may as well proclaim he also did the Tucson project of Wilhelm Reich, and personally wrote "Contact With Space", just because he took a photograph near Tucson, or read that book. Should he take a photograph of the German Chancellor, he'll next be calling himself "Chancellor Trettin", and imagine giving a serious, prophetic speech before the Bundestag, followed by a standing ovation, with calls for him to please, please accept the position of Secretary-General of the UN! For years he has presented himself to the public as "an officially recognized Tibetan Buddhist Lama", complete with certificates! Also now "a Professor Dr.", also with "certificates". Maybe also "Space Shuttle Pilot". Or, "Rock Star".... With Certificates! Certainly he must have paid at least 100 Euro for all that paperwork. Where does the truth end, and the fantasy lies begin? I can't tell, but I don't particularly care to have my good work being made the subject of this man's delerium.
For those new to the whole subject of Reich's orgone energy research, this kind of pestilent behavior has been going on for years. Reich called such people "emotional pests". If people aren't throwing bricks at us for doing this work and obtaining successful results, then they are stealing our work, or Reich's work, distorting it, and claiming it as their own.
J.D.
PS. For you young ones, there is a film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" which is worthwhile. No cursing, pornography, drug abuse or blood-splatter as people are shot dead, so it may not appeal to the modern demands.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Polar Bear Populations Up, says Another Muzzled Scientist
Academics in the Service of Big Government. Nothing must be allowed to stop our march towards the socialist paradise.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5664069/Polar-bear-expert-barred-by-global-warmists.html
Polar bear expert barred by global warmists
Mitchell Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful' , reveals Christopher Booker.
According to the world's leading expert on polar bears, their numbers are higher than they were 30 years ago
Over the coming days a curiously revealing event will be taking place in Copenhagen. Top of the agenda at a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission) will be the need to produce a suitably scary report on how polar bears are being threatened with extinction by man-made global warming.
This is one of a steady drizzle of events planned to stoke up alarm in the run-up to the UN's major conference on climate change in Copenhagen next December. But one of the world's leading experts on polar bears has been told to stay away from this week's meeting, specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group.
Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined.
Dr Taylor agrees that the Arctic has been warming over the last 30 years. But he ascribes this not to rising levels of CO2 - as is dictated by the computer models of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and believed by his PBSG colleagues - but to currents bringing warm water into the Arctic from the Pacific and the effect of winds blowing in from the Bering Sea.
He has also observed, however, how the melting of Arctic ice, supposedly threatening the survival of the bears, has rocketed to the top of the warmists' agenda as their most iconic single cause. The famous photograph of two bears standing forlornly on a melting iceberg was produced thousands of times by Al Gore, the WWF and others as an emblem of how the bears faced extinction - until last year the photographer, Amanda Byrd, revealed that the bears, just off the Alaska coast, were in no danger. Her picture had nothing to do with global warming and was only taken because the wind-sculpted ice they were standing on made such a striking image.
Dr Taylor had obtained funding to attend this week's meeting of the PBSG, but this was voted down by its members because of his views on global warming. The chairman, Dr Andy Derocher, a former university pupil of Dr Taylor's, frankly explained in an email (which I was not sent by Dr Taylor) that his rejection had nothing to do with his undoubted expertise on polar bears: "it was the position you've taken on global warming that brought opposition".
Dr Taylor was told that his views running "counter to human-induced climate change are extremely unhelpful". His signing of the Manhattan Declaration - a statement by 500 scientists that the causes of climate change are not CO2 but natural, such as changes in the radiation of the sun and ocean currents - was "inconsistent with the position taken by the PBSG".
So, as the great Copenhagen bandwagon rolls on, stand by this week for reports along the lines of "scientists say polar bears are threatened with extinction by vanishing Arctic ice". But also check out Anthony Watt's Watts Up With That website for the latest news of what is actually happening in the Arctic. The average temperature at midsummer is still below zero, the latest date that this has happened in 50 years of record-keeping. After last year's recovery from its September 2007 low, this year's ice melt is likely to be substantially less than for some time. The bears are doing fine.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Suppressed EPA Report Opposing CO2-Warming Theory Now Available
Here's a link to the suppressed Report by Alan Carlin of the EPA: "Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act ." After reviewing it, I can understand why the EPA high-ups did not want it circulated. It provides solid critique and criticism against many central points of the CO2 theory of global warming. Examples of academic sophistry in deliberately skewing data to support CO2 theory, and fudging in climate modelling methods are also exposed. If this had gotten around a few weeks before the new climate legislation, it would never have passed the House of Representatives, given its origins from within the EPA.
Anyhow, read the report yourself, for additional info on why so many professional climate-weather scientists, myself included, have long abandoned the CO2 theory, and find its political abuse to be unethically anti-scientific, and socially dangerous. J.D.
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/27/released-the-censored-epa-document-final-report/
Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act. by Alan Carlin
DOWNLOAD REPORT 4 MB
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/endangermentcommentsv7b1.pdf
Interesting Interview with Dr. Tim Ball on CO2 Climate Issue
Here's an interesting Interview with Dr. Tim Ball on the CO2 Climate-Change Issue:
He's also got an article "The Science isn't Settled" from 2007, which addresses the problems and limitations of computer modelling, a cornerstone of CO2-theory predictions.
http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=524
Monday, June 29, 2009
Avoiding Stalinism in Honduras
All kinds of hard-left blather on the news about Honduras. All the left-wing politicans of the universe who acted deaf and dumb when the Iranian theocratic dictators began shooting young people dead in the streets have suddenly found their voice. They are "appalled", but apparenly only because a left-wing dictatorship has been temporarily avoided. The facts say the ousted "El Comandante" was posturing himself as a new Castro, dictator in perpetuity, to usurp democracy and freedom in Honduras. Here's a review of the situation. J.D.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124623220955866301.html
Honduras Defends Its Democracy
Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object.
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
Hugo Chávez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution.
It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking.
But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet. Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself. The Organization of American States, having ignored Mr. Zelaya's abuses, also wants him back in power. It will be a miracle if Honduran patriots can hold their ground.
That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.
But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do.
The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused.
Calculating that some critical mass of Hondurans would take his side, the president decided he would run the referendum himself. So on Thursday he led a mob that broke into the military installation where the ballots from Venezuela were being stored and then had his supporters distribute them in defiance of the Supreme Court's order.
The attorney general had already made clear that the referendum was illegal, and he further announced that he would prosecute anyone involved in carrying it out. Yesterday, Mr. Zelaya was arrested by the military and is now in exile in Costa Rica.
It remains to be seen what Mr. Zelaya's next move will be. It's not surprising that chavistas throughout the region are claiming that he was victim of a military coup. They want to hide the fact that the military was acting on a court order to defend the rule of law and the constitution, and that the Congress asserted itself for that purpose, too.
Mrs. Clinton has piled on as well. Yesterday she accused Honduras of violating "the precepts of the Interamerican Democratic Charter" and said it "should be condemned by all." Fidel Castro did just that. Mr. Chávez pledged to overthrow the new government.
Honduras is fighting back by strictly following the constitution. The Honduran Congress met in emergency session yesterday and designated its president as the interim executive as stipulated in Honduran law. It also said that presidential elections set for November will go forward. The Supreme Court later said that the military acted on its orders. It also said that when Mr. Zelaya realized that he was going to be prosecuted for his illegal behavior, he agreed to an offer to resign in exchange for safe passage out of the country. Mr. Zelaya denies it.
Many Hondurans are going to be celebrating Mr. Zelaya's foreign excursion. Street protests against his heavy-handed tactics had already begun last week. On Friday a large number of military reservists took their turn. "We won't go backwards," one sign said. "We want to live in peace, freedom and development."
Besides opposition from the Congress, the Supreme Court, the electoral tribunal and the attorney general, the president had also become persona non grata with the Catholic Church and numerous evangelical church leaders. On Thursday evening his own party in Congress sponsored a resolution to investigate whether he is mentally unfit to remain in office.
For Hondurans who still remember military dictatorship, Mr. Zelaya also has another strike against him: He keeps rotten company. Earlier this month he hosted an OAS general assembly and led the effort, along side OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, to bring Cuba back into the supposedly democratic organization.
The OAS response is no surprise. Former Argentine Ambassador to the U.N. Emilio Cárdenas told me on Saturday that he was concerned that "the OAS under Insulza has not taken seriously the so-called 'democratic charter.' It seems to believe that only military 'coups' can challenge democracy. The truth is that democracy can be challenged from within, as the experiences of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and now Honduras, prove." A less-kind interpretation of Mr. Insulza's judgment is that he doesn't mind the Chávez-style coup.
The struggle against chavismo has never been about left-right politics. It is about defending the independence of institutions that keep presidents from becoming dictators. This crisis clearly delineates the problem. In failing to come to the aid of checks and balances, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Insulza expose their true colors.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Fascinating New Website on Natural Health Issues
Here's one I recently discovered, and which you also should find to be a helpful resource.
Natural News
Offers a free subscription service.
Of course, there also is Dr. Mercola's excellent and informative website,
which recently ran a very positive review of Wilhelm Reich's work on the orgone energy accumulator.
The article included a recent YouTube video I made in support of Reich. Go take a look, if you haven't seen it.
Especially interesting are the Natural News articles (for example this one on "preventative mastectomy" -- the unscientific ritual sexual mutilation of women in hospitals, not one bit different from African genital mutilation, except aimed at different sexual organs)
(And here's a direct quote from this informative article: "The contribution of the BRCA genes to cancer risk may have been blown out of proportion, for example: only 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are attributed to genetic causes. Likewise, the risk of cancer recurrence in an opposite breast normally comes to only 0.5 to 1 percent per year. Cancer cells typically spread through the circulatory or lymph systems, meaning that cancer is more likely to recur in a different body part than in the contralateral breast.")
And their cartoons -- lampooning the FDA and other aspects of modern Big Government authoritarianism.
Definitely not going to appear in your mainstream media -- and as before, I don't endorse or agree with everything there -- but as far as information sources go, these will give you materials the others refuse to honestly report on. Another good reason to stop giving your money to the daily fish-wrap or those weekly "news" magazines.
Be Aware. Educate Yourself. Survive and Thrive!
Political Betrayal in Progress Regarding Agricultural and Other Freedoms
"Change is coming", but not what you imagined.... this is Marxist Socialism, in case you were wondering. More power to the book-burning, scientist-jailing Food and Drug Administration:
ALARMING PROVISIONS of HR 2749
* Power to Quarantine a Geographic Area; the FDA can also Halt All Movement of All Food in a geographic area.
* Random Warrantless Searches of Business Records.
* Establishing a Tracing System for Food.
* Severe Criminal and Civil Penalties.
* Annual Registration Fee of $500.
* Random Warrantless Searches of Business Records.
* Establishing a Tracing System for Food.
* Severe Criminal and Civil Penalties.
* Annual Registration Fee of $500.
* Regulation of How Crops Are Raised and Harvested.
And of course, it is being pushed "for safety", "for the environment", "for your own good", "for the children"....! Take note, this is a massive broadening of Federal powers into state and private spheres of life. More well-funded bureaucrats to pry and spy, backed up by even more Federal military-cops. The smiley-face of Socialism! You'll not only pay for it all, but also have your pockets and privates inspected by such people with a magnifying glass.
To get on this special e-list contact the Weston A. Price Foundation, as noted below. J.D.
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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:39:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Weston A Price Foundation <info@westonaprice.org>
From: Weston A Price Foundation <info@westonaprice.org>
Subject: HR 2749 Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
Dear Members,
HR2749, the "Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009" has passed out of committee and is now on the floor of the house. As you can see from the FAQs below, this bill would be an absolute disaster for small farms and artisan food production.
Defeating this bill is our most urgent priority at the moment. Please take a moment to read the Frequently Asked Questions below and then proceed with the Action items as best you are able. We will need the concerted efforts of thousands to defeat this dismal piece of legislation.
More HR 2749 information is posted through links at http://tinyurl.com/mnm34s
Anyone with additional questions is encouraged to contact the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund directly by calling 703-208-3276 or emailing info@farmtoconsumer.org
Sincerely,
Sally Fallon Morell
ACTIONS TO TAKE
1. Call Your Representatives
Personal contact is an effective way to change hearts and minds. To find your representatives, use the finder tool at www.Congress.org or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. When contacting your representatives, use examples from the FAQs to explain your opposition to HR 2749.
2. Sign the Petition
HR 2749 has been moving quickly through Congress. If you have not already done so, please send a personal message to your legislators through the online petition "Oppose HR 2749" at http://tinyurl.com/lwble7
3. Donate to the Fund
Help the Fund continue its valuable service - helping small farmers and protecting your access to quality food. http://tinyurl.com/lja2vj
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)
HR 2749 - Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
3. Donate to the Fund
Help the Fund continue its valuable service - helping small farmers and protecting your access to quality food. http://tinyurl.com/lja2vj
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)
HR 2749 - Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
NOTE: Answers are based on the June 17 Waxman version that was accepted by voice vote of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Page references are noted per this version posted at http://tinyurl.com/na33dz
Q1: Does FDA have jurisdiction over INTRAstate commerce?
A1: As a federal agency, the FDA has jurisdiction over INTERstate commerce. For example, the prohibited acts regarding adulteration and misbranding in the current Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) all refer to INTERstate commerce. However, the existing law states that "in any action to enforce the requirements of [FFDCA] . . . the connection with INTERstate commerce required for jurisdiction in such action shall be presumed to exist." [1a] Combined with court decisions addressing the connection between INTRAstate and INTERstate commerce, it is unclear what kind of showing defendants would have to make to rebut the presumption and avoid federal regulation. The agency's regulatory power is limited to commerce, however, so non-commercial activities (such as growing your own vegetables for personal consumption) are not regulated.
Q1: Does FDA have jurisdiction over INTRAstate commerce?
A1: As a federal agency, the FDA has jurisdiction over INTERstate commerce. For example, the prohibited acts regarding adulteration and misbranding in the current Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) all refer to INTERstate commerce. However, the existing law states that "in any action to enforce the requirements of [FFDCA] . . . the connection with INTERstate commerce required for jurisdiction in such action shall be presumed to exist." [1a] Combined with court decisions addressing the connection between INTRAstate and INTERstate commerce, it is unclear what kind of showing defendants would have to make to rebut the presumption and avoid federal regulation. The agency's regulatory power is limited to commerce, however, so non-commercial activities (such as growing your own vegetables for personal consumption) are not regulated.
Under current law, a business qualifying as a "food facility" must register with FDA, even if that business only engages in INTRAstate commerce. [1b] In addition, the agency can inspect the records of a business that engages solely in INTRAstate commerce if there is a "reasonable belief that an article of food is adulterated and presents a threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals." [1c]
[1a] 21 USC 379(a)
[1b] 21 USC 350(d)
[1c] 21 USC 350(c)
Q2: Would HR 2749 expand the FDA's regulation of INTRAstate commerce?
A2: Yes. Under HR 2749, FDA's regulatory control over INTRAstate commerce would grow considerably. The bill would allow for inspections of firms whose business is strictly within a State. [2a] It would impose, among other requirements, a mandate for all firms in the food business to comply with national performance standards for various foods set by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). [2b] It would also require most firms in the food business to establish a traceback system for their products, even if those products never cross State lines. [2c]
[2a] Section 105(a)-pp. 42-43
[2b] Section 103(b)-pp. 36-37
[2c] Section 107(c)-p. 54
Q3: I have a garden and sell produce at a road-side stand on my property. Would HR 2749 apply to me?
A3: Yes, you would now have to follow federally-established standards for growing produce. [3a] Produce not grown as required by these standards would be considered as adulterated under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). [3b] Further, you would be required to make your business records available to FDA inspectors. [3c] The inspectors would have the power to show up unannounced without a warrant to search your records without any evidence whatsoever that you have committed a violation of the law. If you refuse to let the inspector see your records, you would be guilty of adulteration under FFDCA. [3d]
[3a] Section 104(b)-pp. 38-41
[3b] Section 104(a)-p. 38
[3c] Section 106(a)-p. 48
[3d] Section 207(a)-pp. 119-120
Q4: I sell produce from my garden at a local farmers market, under HR 2749 would I have to register as a "food facility" with FDA?
A4: Farms are exempt from the registration requirement under current law. [4a] HR 2749 would not eliminate this exemption. "Farm" is narrowly defined under current regulations [4b]; so, it is possible that many farms that have not registered in the past, could be required to do so if FDA has more resources at its disposal to enforce registration.
For example, a farm that sells vegetables straight from the garden (i.e., no processing) would not be a "food facility". If FDA strictly interprets the definition of "farm", a farm that sells canned vegetables at the market would be a "food facility" because canning is considered "processing" under the law. [4c] Under federal regulation, a farm that processes food would not be considered a "farm" for purposes of the registration requirement unless ALL of the processed food is consumed ON the farm. [4d]
Under HR 2749, those who sell vegetables from the garden at farmers markets would be required to follow federal standards for growing produce [4e]; and their business records would be subject to random warrantless searches by FDA inspectors even if the agency has no evidence of any violation of the law. [4f-see Q3/A3 above]
[4a] 21 USC 350d
[4b] 21 CFR 1.227(3)
[4c] 21 CFR 1.227(6)
[4d] 21 CFR 1.227(3)
[4e] Section 104(b)-pp. 38-41
[4f] Section 106(a)-p. 48
Q5: I own a bakery and sell my goods at a local farmers market, how would HR 2749 apply to me?
A5: HR 2749 would apply to you in the following ways:
1 - Your bakery would qualify as a "food facility" and you would need to register with FDA each year [5a] and pay an annual fee ($500 in 2010 [5b], and increasing in future years as indexed for inflation [5c]).
2 - You would have to register in electronic format. [5d]
3 - You would be required to have a unique facility identifier number. [5e]
4 - You would be required to conduct an analysis identifying potential hazards at your food facility; and you must implement controls to prevent those hazards from occurring as well as a plan for what to do in the event that any do occur. [5f]
5 - If your products cross state lines, you must develop a FOOD SAFETY PLAN. [5g-also see Q6/A6 below]
6 - You would also be required to establish and maintain a system for tracing the food you produce. It is uncertain at this point what this traceability system will require, but the requirements are likely to be extensive.
[5h]
[5a] Section 101(b)-p. 6 [4b] Section 101(b)-p. 13
[5c] Section 101(c)-p. 14
[5d] Section 101(b)-p. 7
[5e] Section 206(a)-p. 118
[5f] Section 102(a)-p. 21
[5g] Section 102, sec 418A(a)-p. 28
[5h] Section 107(c)-p. 54-58
Q6: What will a FOOD SAFETY PLAN involve?
A6: Your FOOD SAFETY PLAN would have to include a hazard analysis that identifies potential hazards in your operation. The plan must also include descriptions of a variety of procedures you follow to prevent hazards from occurring and corrective actions to take if any does occur. In addition, you would need to describe your procedures for recordkeeping, conducting recalls, and traceback. Further, the plan must include how you ensure a "safe and secure food supply chain" for the items and ingredients you use as well as how you implement any science-based performance standards required by FDA. [6a]
[6a] Section 102, sec 418A(b)-pp. 29-30
Q7: I have read a summary of HR 2749 and am alarmed by the provision giving the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the power to quarantine any geographic area within the country. How broad is this power?
A7: Under HR 2749, the HHS Secretary would have the power to prohibit ALL MOVEMENT of ALL FOOD within a geographic area. No court order is needed to exercise this power. The Secretary only has to notify the appropriate official of the State(s) affected and issue a public announcement. [7a]
[7a] Section 133(b)-pp. 98-99
Q8: I am a raw milk consumer. Is it true that under HR 2749 would give FDA the power to institute a complete ban on the sale of raw milk?
A8: Yes, HR 2749 requires the HHS Secretary to issue "science-based performance standards . . . applicable to foods or food classes." The Secretary is to "identify the most significant foodborne contaminants and the most significant resulting hazards . . . and to minimize to an acceptable level, prevent or eliminate the occurrence of such hazards." [8a] FDA would have the power to make pasteurization of all raw milk a performance standard. Based on both its public statements and its record of taking enforcement actions against farmers, FDA is vehemently opposed to the consumption of raw milk and would like to ban its distribution.
Even if FDA does not issue a performance standard requiring pasteurization, the likelihood is that if HR 2749 passes into law, the agency will be increasing its enforcement actions against raw milk producers whose products cross state lines. FDA has indicated that raw milk is a priority item with the agency; with the passage of HR 2749, it would have much greater resources to go after raw milk than it did before. FDA could take enforcement action directly or through state agencies funded by FDA.
The way to stop this threat is to support HR 778, a bill that would, in effect, end the ban on raw milk for human consumption in interstate commerce. [8b] If you have not already done so, contact your Representative and Senators asking them to co-sponsor and/or vote for HR 778. You may send a message to them through the petition service by clicking on "Support HR 778 Now" at http://tinyurl.com/lwble7
[8a] Section 103(b)-p. 37
[8b] 21 CFR 1240.61
Q9: I purchase products from an Amish producer who has said he would not register his facility because the electronic filing requirement violates his religious beliefs. What are the criminal and civil penalties he could be facing if he is charged with violating the law?
A9: Under HR 2749, failing to register a food facility would constitute "misbranding." [9a] If any of the "misbranded" products are introduced or "delivered for introduction into interstate commerce", the producer could be sentenced to up to ten years and be assessed criminal fines. [9b] Under HR 2749, anyone knowingly violating certain prohibitions contained in the FFDCA such as the prohibition against introducing adulterated or misbranded food in interstate commerce, could face these penalties.
6 - You would also be required to establish and maintain a system for tracing the food you produce. It is uncertain at this point what this traceability system will require, but the requirements are likely to be extensive.
[5h]
[5a] Section 101(b)-p. 6 [4b] Section 101(b)-p. 13
[5c] Section 101(c)-p. 14
[5d] Section 101(b)-p. 7
[5e] Section 206(a)-p. 118
[5f] Section 102(a)-p. 21
[5g] Section 102, sec 418A(a)-p. 28
[5h] Section 107(c)-p. 54-58
Q6: What will a FOOD SAFETY PLAN involve?
A6: Your FOOD SAFETY PLAN would have to include a hazard analysis that identifies potential hazards in your operation. The plan must also include descriptions of a variety of procedures you follow to prevent hazards from occurring and corrective actions to take if any does occur. In addition, you would need to describe your procedures for recordkeeping, conducting recalls, and traceback. Further, the plan must include how you ensure a "safe and secure food supply chain" for the items and ingredients you use as well as how you implement any science-based performance standards required by FDA. [6a]
[6a] Section 102, sec 418A(b)-pp. 29-30
Q7: I have read a summary of HR 2749 and am alarmed by the provision giving the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the power to quarantine any geographic area within the country. How broad is this power?
A7: Under HR 2749, the HHS Secretary would have the power to prohibit ALL MOVEMENT of ALL FOOD within a geographic area. No court order is needed to exercise this power. The Secretary only has to notify the appropriate official of the State(s) affected and issue a public announcement. [7a]
[7a] Section 133(b)-pp. 98-99
Q8: I am a raw milk consumer. Is it true that under HR 2749 would give FDA the power to institute a complete ban on the sale of raw milk?
A8: Yes, HR 2749 requires the HHS Secretary to issue "science-based performance standards . . . applicable to foods or food classes." The Secretary is to "identify the most significant foodborne contaminants and the most significant resulting hazards . . . and to minimize to an acceptable level, prevent or eliminate the occurrence of such hazards." [8a] FDA would have the power to make pasteurization of all raw milk a performance standard. Based on both its public statements and its record of taking enforcement actions against farmers, FDA is vehemently opposed to the consumption of raw milk and would like to ban its distribution.
Even if FDA does not issue a performance standard requiring pasteurization, the likelihood is that if HR 2749 passes into law, the agency will be increasing its enforcement actions against raw milk producers whose products cross state lines. FDA has indicated that raw milk is a priority item with the agency; with the passage of HR 2749, it would have much greater resources to go after raw milk than it did before. FDA could take enforcement action directly or through state agencies funded by FDA.
The way to stop this threat is to support HR 778, a bill that would, in effect, end the ban on raw milk for human consumption in interstate commerce. [8b] If you have not already done so, contact your Representative and Senators asking them to co-sponsor and/or vote for HR 778. You may send a message to them through the petition service by clicking on "Support HR 778 Now" at http://tinyurl.com/lwble7
[8a] Section 103(b)-p. 37
[8b] 21 CFR 1240.61
Q9: I purchase products from an Amish producer who has said he would not register his facility because the electronic filing requirement violates his religious beliefs. What are the criminal and civil penalties he could be facing if he is charged with violating the law?
A9: Under HR 2749, failing to register a food facility would constitute "misbranding." [9a] If any of the "misbranded" products are introduced or "delivered for introduction into interstate commerce", the producer could be sentenced to up to ten years and be assessed criminal fines. [9b] Under HR 2749, anyone knowingly violating certain prohibitions contained in the FFDCA such as the prohibition against introducing adulterated or misbranded food in interstate commerce, could face these penalties.
In addition, the Amish producer could be facing substantial civil penalties. Under HR 2749, any individual who knowingly violates a provision of section 331 of FFDCA (prohibited acts) relating to food, can be fined up to $100,000; a corporation can be fined up to $7.5 million. [9c]
[9a] Section 101(a)-p. 6
[9b] Section 134-p. 100
[9c] Section 135(a)-p. 101
Q10: I'm a farmer who sells products direct to consumers. I want to protect the privacy of those who purchase from me and do not want to turn over to FDA any customer information I have in my records. What are the potential penalties if I refuse?
A10: Under HR 2749, FDA would have access to all records relating to the food producer's distribution of products. Failing to provide records to FDA would constitute adulteration. [10a] The criminal penalty for refusing access to records would be up to ten years imprisonment. [10b] The civil fines could be up to $100,000 for an individual and $7.5 million for a corporation. [10c]
[10a] Section 207(a)-pp. 119-120
[10b] Section 134-p. 100
[10c] Section 135(a)-p. 101
More HR 2749 information is posted through links at http://tinyurl.com/mnm34s
Anyone with additional questions is encouraged to contact the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund directly by calling 703-208-3276 or emailing info@farmtoconsumer.org
New Resources on Health Hazards of Low-Level Electromagnetic Exposure
Some years ago I developed a special resource list on groups and organizations devoted to research and public education on the health-hazards of low-level EMF (electromagnetic fields) -- as from computers, television sets, microwave ovens, power-line fields, cell phones and towers, cordless telephones and other cordless gadgets, and WiFi internet communications systems. It is a growing problem, with progressively increasing exposure levels. The more "hi tech" an environment (hospitals, schools, government and university buildings, etc.) the greater are the exposures. You can review what I've already gathered on the subject at this website:
The website is certainly not comprehensive, and if others have a suggestion on groups or organizations to add to the listing, please send them.
This issue obviously is relevant to the subject of orgone accumulators. By my experience, orgone accumulators work best when shielded from these various artificially-produced radiations, as do our own life-energy systems. They will still work and function, but not optimally. Read my book "The Orgone Accumulator Handbook" for a discussion on this issue, which was hardly known or discussed in Reich's time. To assist people in optimal placement and use of orgone accumulators and blankets, the "Handbook" gives a simple and cheap method of using a portable AM radio to act as a broad-band EM detector. The OBRL bookstore also sells more calibrated EMF meters, for those who want more precise information, here:
Meanwhile, there's a new organization with a periodic e-mail newsletter which many will want to know about:
EMF Refugee - Yahoo Group
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/emfrefugee
Below I post one of the periodic email summaries sent out by this group, which is a better summary of info on the subjects than I have found elsewhere. Contact Paul Doyan <emfrefugee@gmail.com> asking to be placed onto their list.
As always, I cannot endorse everything they send around, and do not personally know any of the people involved. But the information being presented is a summary of news items relevant to the issues.
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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:50:35 +0700
Subject: EMR-Updates: June 26th, 2009 (Part One)
From: Paul Doyon <emfrefugee@gmail.com>
EMR-Updates: June 26th, 2009 (Part One)
International Coalition for an Electromagnetic-Safe Planet (IC-ESP)
Education! Awareness! Support! Action!
- AJudge Bans a GSM Phome Mast Because of the Health Hazard
- Kamionki: Photos of an Environmental and Health Scandal
- June Issue of EMR and Health Now Available
- A New Short Clip About EMR Emitted by WiFi Routers
- FDA Protects Your Pets >From Mercury, But Not You -- Until Now
- Cindy Sage on the Australian EMF Standard
- Eileen O'Connor's Response to John Lincoln on the Draft Australian Standard
- In Japan It's Raining Tadpoles
- Minister Clement Says Residents Concerns "Not Valid."
- Protection Against Radiation from Cell Phone Masts
- InterPhone DECT Flaws Highlighted by New Swiss Study
- WiMax Turns Metro Atlanta Into Giant Wireless Hotspot
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
OBRL-News-Blog Switching to WordPress
In Mid-May 2009, without warning or discussion, the moderators at blogger.com shut down this website, OBRL-News at Blogger. We were stunned as no reason or notification was given of any sort. We searched in vain for some email address or contact person at the blogger.com website, to ask what happened. The only message was given, when trying to access the blog, that OBRL-News was shut down because it was a "Spam website". This was totally wrong, as one can tell by reviewing the articles below. We believe, however, that it was shut down due to the objections to a few of the postings by several angry Muslims, who had vented their spleen in private emails just a few days before Blogger shut us down.
I strongly complained on a Blogger discussion group, which I am informed is watched by some Blogger moderators, but never heard back anything. About a month later -- again without any notification or explanation -- the website re-appeared. We are glad about that, but this is patently irresponsible and unprofessional behavior. Consequently and subsequently, we set up a new OBRL-News Blog at wordpress.com, which was quick and simple to do, and seems to be a friendlier bunch of people anyhow.
So we encourage you to change the URL in your browser for OBRL-News, from this one at blogger.com to the new one at wordpress.com, where the postings contiinue:
http://obrlnews.wordpress.com/
Thanks very much for your interest.
James DeMeo, PhD
Director of OBRL and the OBRL-Blog
http://www.orgonelab.org
http://www.saharasia.org
I strongly complained on a Blogger discussion group, which I am informed is watched by some Blogger moderators, but never heard back anything. About a month later -- again without any notification or explanation -- the website re-appeared. We are glad about that, but this is patently irresponsible and unprofessional behavior. Consequently and subsequently, we set up a new OBRL-News Blog at wordpress.com, which was quick and simple to do, and seems to be a friendlier bunch of people anyhow.
So we encourage you to change the URL in your browser for OBRL-News, from this one at blogger.com to the new one at wordpress.com, where the postings contiinue:
http://obrlnews.wordpress.com/
Thanks very much for your interest.
James DeMeo, PhD
Director of OBRL and the OBRL-Blog
http://www.orgonelab.org
http://www.saharasia.org
Monday, May 11, 2009
New You Tube
Dear Subscribers,
I've just finished a new YouTube presentation, designed to give a brief intro to Reich, and boost the sales of our bookstore. Another social experiment, to elicit some interest from the younger generation, and provide more authentic info into the madhouse called internet.
Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone Energy: A Brief Introduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPV-JExUPns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPV-JExUPns
Enjoy!
James DeMeo
Sunday, May 10, 2009
"AIDS Industry Has All the Characteristics of a MultiBillion-Dollar Criminal Enterprise"
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05092009/gossip/pagesix/writer_hits_back_at_aids_rants_168312.htm
WRITER HITS BACK AT AIDS RANTS
May 9, 2009 --
AFTER years of being attacked by a faction of the AIDS pharmaceutical/research community, journalist Celia Farber is fighting back with a libel suit.
Farber's lawyers filed a 21-page libel complaint this week in Manhattan Supreme Court accusing Richard Jefferys, of the Treatment Action Group, of orchestrating a campaign against her last May when she was given the Semmelweis Clean Hands Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for an article she wrote in Harper's in 2006, "AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science."
The Harpers article gave credence to the work of Peter Duesberg, who believes HIV is a harmless "passenger" virus and not the cause of AIDS, and questioned the value of expensive antiretroviral drugs. Jefferys and his team blitzed the Semmelweis Society with e-mails claiming Farber had altered quotes and falsely misrepresented scientific papers.
The Semmelweis Society, in turn, launched its own investigation, and concluded the AIDS industry itself has all the characteristics of a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise that desperately needed whistleblowers. Farber, the daughter of talk legend Barry Farber, kept her award, though the battle to rescind it garnered fresh attacks, in which she was likened to Pol Pot, Stalin, Mengele, David Irving, David Duke and O.J. Simpson.
The former Spin columnist recently launched a new literary Web site called the Truth Barrier, http://thetruthbarrier.com/ with former New York Press editor John Strausbaugh. In appreciation for her work on AIDS, the artist Robert Crumb submitted an original drawing and a hand-written three-page letter expressing his despair over what he believes is the distortion of the AIDS story.
"Actually, Crumb's letter was too true even for the Truth Barrier," says Farber. "I redacted it. I don't want these pharma-bullies attacking him next."
Friday, May 08, 2009
An Alarming Video - Muslim Genocide Speech.... With a Psychotic Smile and Cheering Mob.
For years I have stated that Islam is no "religion", but rather is a totalitarian ideology bent upon world domination. Add to that, Islam is bent upon genocide to achieve world domination. Anyone who has studied Islamic behavior and history, and who is not themselves prone to mystical thinking and the kind of anti-sex hatred typical within Islamic ideology will know this, whether they openly admit it or not. It is but a short and small extension of the violence visited by Islamic nations upon the women in their own borders, who are basically chattel slaves by any measure. And most Muslims also know this, but remain silent because of abject fear to become a victim of the fanatics within their neighborhood themselves, or because they are practicing Taqqiya -- the Koran-permitted practice of lying to the hated infidel, until such time as you can gain advantage over them.
See this video, for what Islamic hate preachers have in mind for the USA, for Israel, and while not stated, for every other non-Islamic part of the world. Don't believe me. See for yourself. Make up your own mind. But don't make up your mind in ignorance, of what such hate-preachers are saying, and how the audience applauds it. If you saw the video "Obsession" -- with the Muslim preacher smacking a sword upon his pulpit, calling for the death of Jews, while the crowd of men in the mosque went wild with screaming and fist-shaking psychotic smiles -- this one is even more dramatic, but in a cold manner. The banality of evil, at its worst. J.D.
An Alarming video every Westerner should see
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/news/361/an-alarming-video-every-westerner-should-see/
After seeing this video, ask yourself what THIS is about:
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Orgonite chembuster nutters arrested in Africa...
From what I can figure, they were pouring "orgonite" merde-lumps into the turbines of one of Africa's largest dams.... not too bright.
One could feel sympathy for a bunch of nut-cases, but it really is not so harmless. Read my expose articles, here:
In addition to how they drag Reich's name and legitimate orgonomic research into a mystical swamp, and make it difficult for his important research findings to be taken seriously by the larger society, their mysticism and empty claim-making, and provocative actions, now prompt police investigations.
So we should not now be surprised to read THIS, from some correctly concerned and alarmed African citizens, who haven't any idea of what's going on, but who only get their information from the "skeptic groups":
Mozambique: Saboteurs Or New Age Fanatics?
http://allafrica.com/stories/200905070830.html
Maputo - The four people accused by the Mozambican police of using a supposedly "highly corrosive substance" in an attempt to sabotage the Cahora Bassa dam are in fact members of a lunatic fringe group called "Orgonise Africa".
The four have now been named as Georg Ritschi (a German architect), Carlos Silva (a Portuguese hotelier), Tino Phutheso (a Botsanan aircraft pilot), and Joseph Ngusato (a South African self-styled "prophet").
There was nothing clandestine about this group's visit to the Cahora Bassa lake. They advertised it on their Internet websites, where they called the journey "Operation Paradise".
"Want to come on our next Zambezi expedition, April 2009?", asked Georg Ritschi on an "Orgonise Africa" blog. "Our next big expedition will be the continuation of our last great water gifting effort on the lower Zambezi", said Ritschi.
What can they possibly be talking about? Orgonise? Gifting?
It turns out that Orgonise Africa is a band of dedicated followers of the Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich, who died in an American jail in 1956. Reich did some valuable work on human sexuality in the early part of his career, but in his later years switched his political allegiance from left to right, and showed signs of mental illness and paranoia.
He claimed that he had discovered a universal form of energy which he called orgone. This energy - undetected by science both then and in the 52 years since Reich's death - was responsible for everything from the weather to gravity and the formation of galaxies. Reich built machines called orgone accumulators which were supposed to concentrate orgone energy. This would be a good thing since, according to Reich, illness and diseases are caused by insufficient orgone.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) correctly described the orgone accumulators as fraudulent, banned their sale and outlawed all "orgone therapy". Which was why, after he defied the injunction obtained by the FDA, Reich ended up in jail.
Reich's sexual libertarianism, his heterodox scientific and medical theories, and his apparent persecution by US government agencies turned him into something of a father figure for the 1960s "counter-culture", and for subsequent "New Age" cults. One of these, headed by a couple called Don and Carol Croft, spawned Orgonise Africa.
The theory espoused by this group is that everything wrong with the planet is due to a lack of orgone. To set matters right, the dedicated followers of Wilhelm Reich, engage in "orgone gifting". This involves dumping "gifts" of a substance called orgonite into the place - in this case, Cahora Bassa lake - that is to be cured of its orgone deficiency.
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Lily-Livered Europe has Surrendered to Islam - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It is time that Lily-Livered Europe stood up to Muslim bigots - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In 2006, I had a debate with Tariq Ramadan, the author of Western Muslims and the future of Islam. In the hypothetical event of a war between Egypt and Switzerland, for which community would he be prepared to die, I asked him.
Mr Ramadan has dual citizenship. He's an Egyptian by birth and a Swiss by naturalisation. His response was one of rage on different levels. Above all I think he was outraged that one should ask such a question. He refused to answer.
Mr Ramadan has dual citizenship. He's an Egyptian by birth and a Swiss by naturalisation. His response was one of rage on different levels. Above all I think he was outraged that one should ask such a question. He refused to answer.
Mr Ramadan, like many other Muslims, may have two or more citizenships. From all that he expresses both in person and on paper, it is clear that his loyalty, above all, is to Islam. I do not doubt that he would die for Islam, like most Muslims, and that's his prerogative. But what European countries have done is give citizenship to individuals who feel no obligation to share in their societies for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer and in the event of a catastrophe, sacrifice themselves.
In this way, they evade one of the chief criteria of citizenship. Political allegiance to the constitution of your country is the minimum requirement. It is this state of affairs that makes Christopher Caldwell's book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration and the West (Allen Lane, £17.99), which opens with the sentence, "Western Europe became a multi-ethnic society in a fit of absence of mind," a chilling read.
This absence of mind, which Caldwell lays bare, is reflected in Europe's immigration policies and especially in its response to Islam. No debate today is more explosive, more sensitive, more confusing and more frightening than the debate on the future of Islam in Europe.
This absence of mind, which Caldwell lays bare, is reflected in Europe's immigration policies and especially in its response to Islam. No debate today is more explosive, more sensitive, more confusing and more frightening than the debate on the future of Islam in Europe.
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Read the whole depressing thing...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Sun Oddly Quiet -- Hints at Next "Little Ice Age"?
Probably no "New Ice Age", but no more global warming for awhile either.
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090504-sun-global-cooling.html
Sun Oddly Quiet -- Hints at Next "Little Ice Age"?
Anne Minard
for National Geographic News
May 4, 2009
A prolonged lull in solar activity has astrophysicists glued to their telescopes waiting to see what the sun will do next-and how Earth's climate might respond.
The sun is the least active it's been in decades and the dimmest in a hundred years. The lull is causing some scientists to recall the Little Ice Age, an unusual cold spell in Europe and North America, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850.
The coldest period of the Little Ice Age, between 1645 and 1715, has been linked to a deep dip in solar storms known as the Maunder Minimum.
During that time, access to Greenland was largely cut off by ice, and canals in Holland routinely froze solid. Glaciers in the Alps engulfed whole villages, and sea ice increased so much that no open water flowed around Iceland in the year 1695.
But researchers are on guard against their concerns about a new cold snap being misinterpreted.
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
Ohio Police Raids Confiscate Health Foods!
Haven't seen much of this kind of thing since the Clinton years... be forewarned, "change" is coming.
Unconscionable Police Raid on Family's Home and Organic Food Co-Op
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/02/Unconscionable-Police-Raid-on-Familys-Home-and-Organic-Food-CoOp.aspx
Opposing Left-Wing Historical Revisionism
Getting to be more than a trend....
Review this one for a dose of moral clarity.
Jon Stewart, War Criminals & The True Story of the Atomic Bombs
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Sir John Maddox -Nature Editor - Critical Eulogy
Sir John Maddox, editor of Nature Magazine, is getting lionized following his recent death.
Three cheers, Hip-Hip, give-em-a-medal, etc. The Economist magazine carries an article recently, about "the man who reinvented science journalism"
On that one score, I agree, but on nothing else. He removed science journalism from ordinary reporters who used their common sense and judgement to evaluate new claims and medicines, and put it into the hands of cadres of lap-dog journalists, who never dared to criticize anything except when told to do so by the high-ups at journals like Nature. "Science News" thereafter became a stream of propaganda and press-releases from monied interests, while quiet and serious science -- especially that which might threaten those same interests -- was treated with malicious contempt.
For example, I'll always remember John Maddox as the man who sanctified the censorship of Dr. Peter Duesberg's important criticisms of the HIV theory of AIDS, refusing to allow him the right of rebuttal against malicious personal attack and misrepresentation of his ideas in Nature by HIV fundamentalists. Maddox also was the guy who engineered the smear campaign against Dr. Jacques Benveniste, organizing a cadre of CSICOP fanatics to disrupt his laboratory, thereby making a pretense and sham of scientific investigations of homeopathic dilution experiments. After his retirement from Nature, he was honored by CSCIOP -- the "professional skeptics" who include every notable book-burner and smear-expert in the world -- with a fine dinner and probably a medal or something.
This, and little else, is what authentic history will record for Mr. Maddox's tenure at Nature, how he personally helped train-wreck important scientific discovery which could have saved millions of lives -- HIV still has not been proven the "cause of AIDS" and clear factors which kill people continue to be ignored in favor of it, even while homeopathic medicines continue to work quite well, thank you very much, in spite of the smack-down engineered by Nature.
Nature magazine sports full-page slick advertisements by drug and bio-tech companies on fully 50% of its pages, but of course, this has nothing to do with the content of the articles, we are told (Ha!). I subscribed for awhile, but found its strident anti-American tone to be the straw that ended my interest. Perhaps that has something to do with Mr. Maddox' prior tenure at the left-wing Guardian newspaper.
What he did do, was to take a small but honest scientific journal, controlled by scientists, and turn it into a slick cheer-leading propaganda rag for the pharmaceutical industry, uncritically supporting every stripe and kind of Big Science and Big Medicine. The public has not been well served by this transition, and neither have authentic scientific or medical-health considerations.
So, no, I cannot share this misplaced enthusiasm for a man who was a sell-out, faker and pretender to scientific principles and ethics, who was quite more the clever politician. Certainly he was not alone in this regard, as a new breed of scientism has so nearly taken over at the directorship-editorship levels of most of our leading research institutions, universities and hospitals.
James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Friday, May 01, 2009
The Muslim Demographic Take-Over
I highly recommend the YouTube video linked below.
It is produced by a Christian group, which puts their message at the end. But the statistical information contained in it is accurate enough. You can consult these websites for the same info from secular sources.
Notice how much of Europe and the free-democratic societies have very low or even negative population growth rates, while the Muslim world and parts of Africa currently have the highest growth rates -- and the lowest status of women is found in exactly those same nations, resulting in a forbiddance of life-decisions, including access to education and contraception. This explosion of population is created by horrible sex-negative conditions, where women are basically slaves, often in polygamous harem-households, with no rights to work, travel, property, much less rights to their own marriage choices or bodies. When such families come into the West, they do not change in deference to their new neighbors, and mostly form into self-imposed Islamic ghettoes, where everything is organized and ruled out of the nearby mosques. Unlike prior waves of immigrants into the West, the new Islamic migrations avoiding assimilation or cultural diffusion-dilution and mixing with the new group, as was the case in nearly all other massive cultural migrations. The reasons for this are myriad, mostly in how the mosques and mullahs are transported along with populations of Muslim immigrants... but the bottom line is, it becomes a transference of Saharasian extremely-armored and high-patrist culture from the core regions of the Islamic world straight into the more free and democratic regions, who are expected to change and devalue themselves and their own rights and freedoms, in deference to Islamic demands for accommodation and superior status. We begin to see how the American Indian felt with the arrival of the colonial Europeans, except the Europeans were a mix of culture-types, some freedom-seeking and treating the Indians with respect, sometimes even emulating their ways, while others were petty little fascist Bible-thumpers, out to crush Native American culture. That more typically reflects the current Islamic migratory wave, except they are thumping the far more clearly violence-promoting Koran.
As before, if you want an overview of this process as it happened in prior centuries, and what it meant for the world, and what the current Muslim demographic explosion will mean for you and your children and grand-children, review my work "Saharasia", which already has documented how the Islamic world is the most violent culture-type on our troubled planet:
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Muslim Demographics: What you should know
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
Popular Chemtrail Spray-Plane Photo a Hoax
I keep getting people writing to me, wagging fingers under my nose saying I should be more open-minded about "chemtrails". My critical article on the subject apparently gets under their skin:
So far, there's nothing in my article requiring retraction or change, but I salute the chemtrail cadets for making the effort at bolstering their theory, even if none of it pans out.
Most recently I was sent the following photo-image, showing an attachment to the end of a large air-refueling tanker, designed to spray stuff into the atmosphere. Here's the photo:
This same photo appears on most all the "chemtrail" websites.
That sure looks like something that would be used to spray stuff into the atmosphere. Assuming the photo was/is authentic, this does not automatically support the chemtrail conspiracy theory, as it could be used for more innocent purposes. In fact, that appears to be the case. I dug around a bit on internet, and found a website or two devoted to military air-refueling, and another run by retired USAF air-tanker pilots, the guys who flew and operated those aircraft. For example:
I emailed one of the retired tanker pilots identified at their chat-room, and sent him a copy of the above photo, asked if he knew what that was. He responded quickly. It is a specialized nozzle placed on the refueling boom of the KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft. The KC-135 typically is used to refuel other aircraft, for long-distance air-to-air missions. But there are versions of it configured to use with water only, and with this special spray-nozzle attached. Why water?
After taking off and climbing to high altitude, the KC-135 sprays the water from its tanks through this nozzle, whereupon it quickly turns into icy material. Aircraft under performance testing are then flown behind the KC-135, close to that water-spray nozzle and into its discharge stream, to see how they perform, if the engines are affected by the wet icy conditions, or if the wings or windshields ice up.
Here are some photos of this special spray-boom in use:
This comes from here:
If that one is not convincing, try this one:
I've been sent other photos by the chemtrail cadets, but none was so obviously a "spray" device as is this one. Typically any kind of hollow tube extending from wings or fuselage of any large aircraft is claimed, on the chemtrail conspiracy websites, to be used for "chemtrail spraying" -- even obvious things such as the air-speed pitot tube found on nearly all large aircraft often is misreported as such. In other cases, photos of cryogenic containers used for air transport of such things as medicines, are claimed to be "chemtrail tanks", when they can find a photo of such a tank inside an aircraft.
I don't suppose this recounting of the real purpose of that spraying fixture is going to persuade the die-hard "believer" in chemtrail conspiracy theory, as they can simply claim the old military pilots are a part of "the conspiracy" to poison their own families, or that we are all taken over by morphing space lizards (my favorite part of the theory). But for the few who can think rationally, consider that I found these photos and websites on my own, after only about 20 minutes of internet surfing. The same is probably true of the leaders of the "chemtrail movement" who firstly began circulating this photo. They originally got the photo from the same internet sites I did. Which means, they know exactly that this spray nozzle was used for ice-stress testing of aircraft. But they conceal the facts from their cadres of sheepish group-thinkers. EVERYTHING then becomes a part of the conspiracy.
Recall George Orwell's point, that "Lies of omission are the very worst kind of lie". To show such a photo, but deliberately omit its real purpose is a real clever move.
Again, I would not waste my time with this nonsense, but since they routinely drag the name of Wilhelm Reich and serious terms such as Reich's orgone energy into their fairy-tale conspiracy, selling "chembuster/cloudbuster" gadgets, "holy hand grenades" and "orgonite" blobs and such which tend to degrade orgone energy research, and since they also constantly try and recruit me to their cause, it seems worthwhile to expose this new finding publicly.
Sorry guys, another cornerstone of the "chemtrail" theory bites the dust. Suggest to lay off the pot-smoking, and consider you've been had by some clever entrepreneurs. "Educate Yourself" is the slogan of the chemtrail cadets, so I will use it also.... "Educate Yourself" about how you are being conned. Educate yourself by reading Wilhelm Reich's original works, and my books and the various research journals devoted to this important subject. Get on the mailing lists of authentic orgone research establishments, and stop wasting your time and life-energy with the chemtrail fakers and claimants for shape-shifting space lizards. I've already written on these subjects here:
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Keep well, and don't be stampeded, neither by "chemtrails" nor by "swine flu".
James DeMeo
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