IMPORTANT plea from Chris Hedges: Rise Up or Die

I have Chris Hedges' book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, a masterpiece of factual reporting with no holds barred, something we seldom see in today's weak-kneed and controlled media.  Hedges is the best combination of dedicated journalistic expertise mixed with passion, compassion and keen awareness. He sees revolution on the part of the people as the only answer to the corporate powers that have taken over our government and now own it--and us.  In this article, Chris gives a review of what he and his co-author Joe Sacco saw in their reporting travels -- and their grim conclusions.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/rise_up_or_die_20130519/

EXCERPT:  (Read the entire article to get the full impact of this

By Chris Hedges

Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace—to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion no longer have external impediments. We wanted to illustrate what unrestrained corporate exploitation does to families, communities and the natural world. We wanted to challenge the reigning ideology of globalization and laissez-faire capitalism to illustrate what life becomes when human beings and the ecosystem are ruthlessly turned into commodities to exploit until exhaustion or collapse. And we wanted to expose as impotent the formal liberal and governmental institutions that once made reform possible, institutions no longer equipped with enough authority to check the assault of corporate power.

What has taken place in these sacrifice zones—in postindustrial cities such as Camden, N.J., and Detroit, in coalfields of southern West Virginia where mining companies blast off mountaintops, in Indian reservations where the demented project of limitless economic expansion and exploitation worked some of its earliest evil, and in produce fields where laborers often endure conditions that replicate slavery—is now happening to much of the rest of the country. These sacrifice zones succumbed first. You and I are next.

...We stand helpless before the corporate onslaught. There is no way to vote against corporate power. Citizens have no way to bring about the prosecution of Wall Street bankers and financiers for fraud, military and intelligence officials for torture and war crimes, or security and surveillance officers for human rights abuses. The Federal Reserve is reduced to printing money for banks and financiers and lending it to them at almost zero percent interest; corporate officers then lend it to us at usurious rates as high as 30 percent. I do not know what to call this system. It is certainly not capitalism. Extortion might be a better word. The fossil fuel industry, meanwhile, relentlessly trashes the ecosystem for profit. The melting of 40 percent of the summer Arctic sea ice is, to corporations, a business opportunity. Companies rush to the Arctic and extract the last vestiges of oil, natural gas, minerals and fish stocks, indifferent to the death pangs of the planet.

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A Must-read: CNN article on the afterlife/heaven

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/19/proofs-of-heaven-popular-but-not-with-the-church/?hpt=hp_c2

I'm glad to see more articles like this appearing in mainstream news.  Important changes in understanding are occurring all over the planet, helping to raise the consciousness as a whole.  The experiences of credible credentialed people who once were skeptics (neurosurgeons, brain scientists, psychiatrists, etc.) are more easily believable to the public than the experience of Joe or Jane Average.  This article includes many intriguing stories.  It's interesting that religious leaders try to stay off the subject of heaven and the afterlife.  The article tells why they avoid it like the third rail.

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Paranoid Republicans desperately still going after Obama

This fact-stating article will make sense to everyone but the Bubble Dwellers, who are consumed by blind hatred for Obama.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/17/the-obama-scandals-are-desperate-measures-by-the-gop.html

Republicans lack any coherent program other than cutting taxes for the wealthy. That’s why they’re going after Obama now, says Robert Shrum

EXCERPT: Republicans are driven by the politics of personal destruction. It's all they've got—and it's red meat for the media. If the target isn’t Clinton, it's Obama—or the other Clinton. And the Republicans will do it again and again—to President Obama in these years and maybe to President Clinton at the start of her second term in 2021.

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Important 6 minute message from a pharmaceutical rep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G00Wmw2mN0w

A MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO.  Please Watch this very short video by an actual pharmaceutical representative, telling truths about what she has learned in her 15 years in the industry.  Especially if you take pharmaceutical drugs, it's important to know all about them.  It's vital that we broaden our information so we can make the best health decisions for ourselves and our families.

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Sorry, Angelina! Here's another option!

Here is a different opinion from Angelina Jolie's decision to have her breasts surgically removed to prevent possible cancer in the future.  Her choice, motivated by fear, seems far too drastic to me and to many others. 

To all my women friends: please read the following article at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/040334_Angelina_Jolie_double_mastectomy_breast_cancer_prevention.html  and make your own decision.  Full information is very important when you are talking about surgical removal of parts of your body, "just in case."   You don't see men having their testicles removed "just in case" they might get testicular cancer at some future time. (And you never will see this, either, believe me!)  Body mutilation as a preventative health option seems absurd, when you really think about it.  Even when a known genetic factor like BRCA1 or BRCA2 is present in a body does not mean that factor will absolutely produce cancer at some time.  Please read the following article for more information about this.  

Scare tactics are rife in our medical world.  People are being bullied right and left to fall in line with what Big Pharma and the A.M.A. would like you to believe. For proof of this, you need look no further than your television, on which drug after drug is being promoted -- with side effects that often seem far worse than the conditions for which they are being touted. (Let's see...would I rather have pimples--or death? A back ache--or paralysis?) The pharmaceutical moguls' bottom line is at stake; the more people who start living healthy lifestyles and using alternative health care, the less income for them.  

A good balance of both alternative treatments and western medicine makes the most sense.  Both systems have value when used wisely and can be combined to provide the best health care available in today's world.  It seems to me that we must become our own researchers and advocates as to what is best for each of us.  We are fortunate that the Internet has provided us with an in-home encyclopedia with which to do research, as an addition to what we hear from our learned medical practitioners.  Full information is essential when making decisions about our health--and it is now readily available to us.   

EXCERPT from the article:

Cancer, by the way, is a systemic problem when it emerges, not a local problem limited to just the breasts or other organs. It may be diagnosed in breast tissues, but that's not the only place it's growing. The idea that someone can prevent cancer by just removing their breasts is absurd. If the conditions of cancer are present in the body -- due to nutritional deficiencies, exposure to chemicals, radiation, etc. -- cancer will develop in many different places, not just breast tissues. Removing an organ that might possibly someday be one of the many locations in which cancer is diagnosed is completely irrational and medically abhorrent. Logically, it's a lot like arguing that you can avoid flat tires on your car by removing all the tires!

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040334_Angelina_Jolie_double_mastectomy_breast_cancer_prevention.html#ixzz2TNarcald

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So unusual, we haven't seen this in YEARS!

Elizabeth Warren actually cares about the people whose interests she was voted to serve!  Why, that's unheard of in today's Congress! (except for Bernie Sanders). Am sure the Republicans are already plotting how to get rid of her -- You can hear the little wheels turning in Karl Rove's head: "Let's see...we got rid of Kucinich and a lot of other Democrats by gerrymandering their districts...will that work with her?  Darn, that doesn't really work with Senators, does it?  The whole state is their district." 

And on and on it goes --- never stopping.

Robert Scheer on Elizabeth Warren
"Elizabeth Warren, a Great Investment" -- How astonishing to have a public servant who actually cares to inform the public about the inner workings of the system of crony capitalism that has wedded big government with big business.

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R U Curious? Important articles from Vanity Fair, Washington Post, UK Guardian

For the curious minded among us who prefer truth to fiction:  There is a very interesting article in the May 10, 2013 Vanity Fair about Dr. John Mack, famed author and Harvard psychiatrist (see below).  It's good to see information like this in a mainstream publication--finally!  In my many years of attending UFO seminars, I learned a lot about Dr. Mack and his exploration into the UFO field, although I never met him personally. But, after reading his books, I came to admire and appreciate him--and was very sorry to hear of his sudden death.  I did meet and speak with Budd Hopkins and Dr. David Jacobs several times and was impressed by their honesty and open-minded earnestness in exploring the subject of UFOs and abductions--in the face of scathing criticism from the so-called "scientific" community.  I agree with Dr. Mack, in a quote from him that tells the real measure of this great man and true scientist: "I was raised in a tradition of inquiry. If you encounter something that doesn't fit your worldview, it's more intellectually honest to say, 'maybe there's something wrong with this worldview,' than to try to shoehorn your findings into an existing belief."

I highly recommend the Vanity Fair article to anyone willing to open their mind to new possibilities in the exploration of life and its many mysteries.  Also, you may want to view the documentary Touched ( click here.) featuring Dr. Mack and others who present mind-expanding information, so far being kept from the public by the government and the mainstream press.  As we know, anyone who attempts to tell the truth about their own UFO experience is usually ridiculed and/or ignored--even  when the speakers/experiencers are high-ranking military, govt. officials -- or astronauts like Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper.  Gradually, with articles such as this one in Vanity Fair, the public is being informed.  Even the Catholic Church has confirmed that UFOs exist and there is a strong probability of  advanced extraterrestrial beings in contact with Earth. (See: http://www.ufodigest.com/balducci.html, http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc814.htm and many other online articles).

Alien Nation: Have Humans Been Abducted by Extraterrestrials?
May 10, 2013, Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/americans-alien-abduction-science

John Edward Mack, a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, spent years trying to fathom their stories [those who claimed alien abduction] and reached an astonishing conclusion: they were telling the truth. That is, they were not insane or deluded. In some unknown space/time dimension, something real had actually happened to them—not that Mack could explain just what or how. Mack graduated cum laude from Harvard Medical School and, while only a resident, founded one of the nation’s first outpatient hospitals. Days before his 75th birthday, he looked the wrong way down a London street and stepped in front of a drunk driver. But 20 years ago, when he burst onto the scene as the Harvard professor who believed in alien abduction, he was probably the most famous, or infamous, academic in America. Suddenly he was under investigation at Harvard, the target of a grueling inquisition. But two decades after Mack took alien abduction from the pages of the National Enquirer to the hallowed halls of Harvard, the question remains: why would a pillar of the psychiatric establishment at America’s oldest university court professional suicide to champion the most ridiculed and tormented outcasts of society? "I was raised as the strictest of materialists,” Mack told the writer C. D. B. Bryan. He had always assumed that anyone claiming to have been abducted by aliens was crazy, along with those who took them seriously. [Yet eventually] Mack appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show with five of his lucid, articulate, and normal-acting abductees. “He believes them when they say they have been on the aliens’ spaceships,” declared Oprah.

Note: Read this entire article to find out how a successful and skeptical Harvard professor came not only to believe some alien abductions were real, but had the courage to present the evidence for it to his peers and to the public. To watch the profoundly moving documentary "Touched," featuring Prof. Mack, click here. For lots more reliable, verifiable information suggesting a major cover-up of the UFO phenomenon, click here.

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Believe in UFOs? Highlights of the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure
May 3, 2013, Washington Post blog
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/05/03/believe-in-ufos-highlights-of-the-citizen...

The first three days of UFO hearings have been … interesting. The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure is not a real congressional hearing. For a stipend of $20,000, six former members of Congress are sitting at the National Press Club and listening to 30 hours of testimony about UFOs. The media has been covering all this up for decades, apparently, in a coordinated effort with the CIA people on the staff of every media organization to suppress information. Activist Stephen Bassett observed that this subject is a third rail for media and public officials. “You can do anything and get out of the closet on it and it’ll be no problem but this… watch out, your career’s on the line. We are doing it because we have been brainwashed to laugh at it.” “Unless we change directions we’re likely to end up where we’re going,” enigmatically quipped Steven Greer, of the Disclosure Project. An Air Force colonel now in his 80s, Richard French, claimed to have been responsible for covering UFOs up. “I’d say it was swamp gas. Anything we could come up with to convince the general public. At that time there was an average of about three a week ufos … I went down there observed ‘em just regularly.” Former Senator Mike Gravel ... noted that ... “It is the height of human arrogance to think that we are… the only sentient beings that can think.” Former Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick [added] “I think today’s whole experience has been one of intelligence … higher than normal in today’s society.”

Note: For more news on this key hearing, click here. For lots more reliable, verifiable information suggesting a major cover-up of the UFO phenomenon, click here.

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Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
May 4, 2013, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston

CNN's Out Front with Erin Burnett [has been] focused on the possible involvement in the Boston Marathon attack of Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old American widow of the deceased suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Anonymous government officials are claiming that they are now focused on telephone calls between Russell and Tsarnaev that took place both before and after the attack to determine if she had prior knowledge of the plot or participated in any way. Burnett interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be able to discover the contents of past telephone conversations between the two. He quite clearly insisted that they could: BURNETT: There's no way they actually can find out what happened, right, unless she tells them? CLEMENTE: No, there is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. We certainly can find that out. BURNETT: So they can actually get that? People are saying, look, that is incredible. CLEMENTE: No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not. On Thursday night, Clemente again appeared on CNN. He reiterated what he said the night before but added expressly that "all digital communications in the past" are recorded and stored. All digital communications - meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like - are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. To describe that is to define what a ubiquitous, limitless Surveillance State is.

Note: All of our communications have been monitored by government computers for years. BBC News reported in this this 1999 article about the Echelon network which monitors all communications globally. For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on government and corporate threats to privacy, click here.

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INTERESTING: Statin Nation: The Great Cholesterol Cover-up

Watch Video:
Statin Nation from 29billion on Vimeo.

The producers of this film have allowed a FREE viewing for one week only! You can support the outreach campaign by purchasing a copy of the DVD by visiting Statinnation.net!

EXCERPT:

Ninety-Nine Out of 100 People Do Not Need Statin Drugs

The odds are very high — greater than 100 to 1 — that if you're taking a statin, you don't really need it. From my review, the ONLY subgroup that might benefit are those born with a genetic defect called familial hypercholesterolemia, as this makes them resistant to traditional measures of normalizing cholesterol.

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By Dr. Mercola

There’s serious confusion about cholesterol; whether high cholesterol levels are responsible for heart disease, and whether statins — which are cholesterol drugs — are really the appropriate solution to reduce heart disease risk.

The documentary above, Statin Nation — The Great Cholesterol Cover-Up, sheds much needed light on this topic. The film is available for free viewing for only seven days, so please share it widely as soon as possible.

As noted in the film, heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, the most common form of which is coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD affects the blood vessels supplying blood to your heart, causing them to narrow, thereby restricting the amount of oxygen supplied to your heart.

The conventional view is that high cholesterol is a major risk factor for this condition — even children “know” that cholesterol forms plaque and is bad for your heart.

The focus on cholesterol has created an enormous market for statins; drugs that act by blocking the enzyme in your liver that is responsible for making cholesterol.

Statins are now among the most widely prescribed drugs on the market, and are the number one profit-maker for the pharmaceutical industry, largely due to relentless and highly successful direct-to-consumer advertising campaigns.

Meanwhile, as of 2010, there were no less than 900 studies proving their adverse effects, which run the gamut from muscle problems to increased cancer risk! Besides the fact that statins are dangerous to your health, they also do not reduce your risk for heart disease, because high cholesterol does NOT increase heart disease risk...

Where Did the High Cholesterol-Heart Disease Myth Originate?

The idea that high cholesterol causes heart disease can be traced back to Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902), a German pathologist who found thickening in the arteries in people he autopsied, which he ascribed to a collection of cholesterol.

Later, Ancel Keys (1904-2004), a well-known physiologist, published his seminal paper known as the "Seven Countries Study¹," which served as the basis for nearly all of the initial scientific support for the Cholesterol Theory.

The study linked the consumption of saturated fat to coronary heart disease. However, what many don’t know is that Keys selectively analyzed information from only seven countries to prove his correlation, rather than comparing all the data available at the time -- from 22 countries.

As you might suspect, the studies he excluded were those that did not fit with his hypothesis, namely those that showed a low percentage fat in their diet and a high incidence of death from CHD as well as those with a high-fat diet and low incidence of CHD. When all 22 countries are analyzed, no correlation at all can be found.

And that is what mounting research now confirms. There really is NO correlation between high cholesterol and plaque formation that leads to heart disease.

Why Do You Need Cholesterol?

Missing from the cholesterol-CHD hypothesis is the holistic understanding of how cholesterol operates inside your body, and why arterial plaques form in the first place, which is clearly described in the film. Cholesterol is actually a critical part of your body’s foundational building materials and is absolutely essential for optimal health. It’s so important that your body produces it both in your liver and in your brain.

There’s no doubt that your body needs cholesterol. In fact, we now have evidence showing that cholesterol deficiency has a detrimental impact on virtually every aspect of your health. One of the primary reasons is because cholesterol plays a critical role within your cell membranes.

Your body is composed of trillions of cells that need to interact with each other and cholesterol is one of the molecules that allow for these interactions to take place. For example, cholesterol is the precursor to bile acids, so without sufficient amounts of cholesterol, your digestive system can be adversely affected.

Cholesterol also plays an essential role in your brain, which contains about 25 percent of the cholesterol in your body. It is critical for synapse formation, i.e. the connections between your neurons, which allow you to think, learn new things, and form memories. In fact, there's reason to believe that low-fat diets and/or cholesterol-lowering drugs may cause or contribute to Alzheimer's disease. Low cholesterol levels have also been linked to violent behavior, due to adverse changes in brain chemistry.

Furthermore, you need cholesterol to produce steroid hormones, including your sex hormones. Vitamin D is also synthesized from a close relative of cholesterol: 7-dehydrocholesterol.

To further reinforce the importance of cholesterol, I want to remind you of the work of Dr. Stephanie Seneff, who works with the Weston A. Price Foundation. One of her theories is that cholesterol combines with sulfur to form cholesterol sulfate, and that this cholesterol sulfate helps thin your blood by serving as a reservoir for the electron donations you receive when walking barefoot on the earth (also called grounding). She believes that, via this blood-thinning mechanism, cholesterol sulfate may provide natural protection against heart disease. In fact, she goes so far as to hypothesize that heart disease is likely the result of cholesterol deficiency — which of course is the complete opposite of the conventional view.

Identifying Risk Factors for Heart Disease

As mentioned in the film, if you want to understand what causes heart disease, you have to look at what causes damage to your artery walls, interferes in disease processes, and causes blood clotting. When the endothelial wall is damaged, repair mechanisms are set into motion, creating a “scab.” To prevent this scab from dislodging, the endothelial wall grows over it, causing the area to become thickened. This is what is called atherosclerosis. There’s no fat (cholesterol) “clogging the pipe” at all; rather the arterial wall is thickened as a result of your body’s natural repair process. So what causes damage to your arteries?

One of the primary culprits is sugar and fructose in particular. So eating a high sugar diet is a sure-fire way to put heart disease on your list of potential health problems. Meanwhile, total cholesterol will tell you virtually nothing about your disease risk, unless it's exceptionally elevated (above 330 or so, which would be suggestive of familial hypercholesterolemia, which, in my view, would be about the only time a cholesterol-reducing drug would be appropriate).

Two ratios that are far better indicators of heart disease risk are:

• Your HDL/total cholesterol ratio: HDL percentage is a very potent heart disease risk factor. Just divide your HDL level by your total cholesterol. This percentage should ideally be above 24 percent. Below 10 percent, it's a significant indicator of risk for heart disease
• Your triglyceride/HDL ratios: This ratio should ideally be below 2

Additional risk factors for heart disease include:

• Your fasting insulin level: Any meal or snack high in carbohydrates like fructose and refined grains generates a rapid rise in blood glucose and then insulin to compensate for the rise in blood sugar. The insulin released from eating too many carbs promotes fat and makes it more difficult for your body to shed excess weight, and excess fat, particularly around your belly, is one of the major contributors to heart disease
• Your fasting blood sugar level: Studies have shown that people with a fasting blood sugar level of 100-125 mg/dl had a nearly 300 percent increase higher risk of having coronary heart disease than people with a level below 79 mg/dl
• Your iron level: Iron can be a very potent oxidative stress, so if you have excess iron levels you can damage your blood vessels and increase your risk of heart disease. Ideally, you should monitor your ferritin levels and make sure they are not much above 80 ng/ml. The simplest way to lower them if they are elevated is to donate your blood. If that is not possible you can have a therapeutic phlebotomy and that will effectively eliminate the excess iron from your body

Statin Drugs Place Millions of Americans at Risk of Serious Health Problems

It’s important to note that statins are classified as a "pregnancy Category X medication" meaning, it causes serious birth defects, and should NEVER be used by a woman who is pregnant or planning a pregnancy. If it is prescribed it is simply gross negligence and malpractice as many doctors are ignorant of this important piece of information as it is relatively recently identified.

Statins have also been shown to increase your risk of diabetes, via a number of different mechanisms. The most important one is that they increase insulin resistance, which can be extremely harmful to your health. Increased insulin resistance contributes to chronic inflammation in your body, and inflammation is the hallmark of most diseases. In fact, increased insulin resistance can lead to heart disease, which, ironically, is the primary reason for taking a cholesterol-reducing drug in the first place. It can also promote belly fat, high blood pressure, heart attacks, chronic fatigue, thyroid disruption, and diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and cancer.

Secondly, statins increase your diabetes risk by actually raising your blood sugar. When you eat a meal that contains starches and sugar, some of the excess sugar goes to your liver, which then stores it away as cholesterol and triglycerides. Statins work by preventing your liver from making cholesterol. As a result, your liver returns the sugar to your bloodstream, which raises your blood sugar levels.

Drug-induced diabetes and genuine type 2 diabetes are not necessarily identical. If you're on a statin drug and find that your blood glucose is elevated, it's possible that what you have is just hyperglycemia — a side effect, and the result of your medication. Unfortunately, many doctors will at that point mistakenly diagnose you with "type 2 diabetes," and possibly prescribe another drug, when all you may need to do is simply discontinue the statin in order for your blood glucose levels to revert back to normal.

Statin drugs also interfere with other biological functions. Of utmost importance, statins deplete your body of CoQ10, which accounts for many of its devastating results. Therefore, if you take a statin, you MUST take supplemental CoQ10, or better, the reduced form called ubiquinol.  A recent study in the European Journal of Pharmacology²showed that ubiquinol effectively rescued cells from the damage caused by the statin drug simvastatin, thereby protecting muscle cells from myopathies. Another study³ evaluated the benefits of CoQ10 and selenium supplementation for patients with statin-associated myopathy. Compared to those given a placebo, the treatment group experienced significantly less pain, decreased muscle weakness and cramps, and less fatigue.

Statins also interfere with the mevalonate pathway, which is the central pathway for the steroid management in your body.

How to Optimize Your Cholesterol Levels Naturally

The most effective way to optimize your cholesterol profile and prevent heart disease is via diet and exercise. Remember that 75 percent of your cholesterol is produced by your liver, which is influenced by your insulin levels. Therefore, if you optimize your insulin level, you will automatically optimize your cholesterol and reduce your risk of both diabetes and heart disease.

There is NO drug to cure heart disease, as the underlying cause is insulin resistance and arterial wall damage — both of which are caused by eating too many sugars, grains, and especially fructose. So, my primary recommendations for safely regulating your cholesterol and reducing your risk of heart disease include:

• Reduce, with the plan of eliminating grains and fructose from your diet. This is one of the best ways to optimize your insulin levels, which will have a positive effect on not just your cholesterol, but also reduces your risk of diabetes and heart disease, and most other chronic diseases. Use my Nutrition Plan to help you determine the ideal diet for you, and consume a good portion of your food raw.
• Get plenty of high-quality, animal-based omega 3 fats, such as krill oil, and reduce your consumption of damaged omega-6 fats (trans fats, vegetable oils) to balance out your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio.
• Include heart-healthy foods in your diet, such as olive oil, coconut and coconut oil, organic raw dairy products and eggs, avocados, raw nuts and seeds, and organic grass-fed meats.
• Optimize your vitamin D levels by getting proper sun exposure or using a safe tanning bed.
• Optimize your gut flora, as recent research suggests the bacterial balance in your intestines may play a role in your susceptibility to heart disease as well
• Exercise daily. Make sure you incorporate Peak Fitness exercises, which also optimizes your human growth hormone (HGH) production.
• Walk barefoot to ground yourself to the earth. Lack of grounding has a lot to do with the rise of modern diseases as it affects inflammatory processes in your body. Grounding thins your blood, making it less viscous. Virtually every aspect of cardiovascular disease has been correlated with elevated blood viscosity. When you ground to the earth, your zeta potential quickly rises, which means your red blood cells have more charge on their surface, which forces them apart from each other. This action causes your blood to thin and flow easier. By repelling each other, your red blood cells are also less inclined to stick together and form a clot.
• Avoid smoking or drinking alcohol excessively.
• Be sure to get plenty of good, restorative sleep.

Ninety-Nine Out of 100 People Do Not Need Statin Drugs

The odds are very high — greater than 100 to 1 — that if you're taking a statin, you don't really need it. From my review, the ONLY subgroup that might benefit are those born with a genetic defect called familial hypercholesterolemia, as this makes them resistant to traditional measures of normalizing cholesterol.

Remember, your body NEEDS cholesterol for the production of cell membranes, hormones, vitamin D and bile acids that help you to digest fat. Cholesterol also helps your brain form memories and is vital to your neurological function. There is also strong evidence that having too little cholesterol INCREASES your risk for cancer, memory loss, Parkinson's disease, hormonal imbalances, stroke, depression, suicide, and violent behavior.

Statins really have nothing to do with reducing your heart disease risk. In fact, this class of drugs can increase your heart disease risk — especially if you do not take Ubiquinol (CoQ10) along with it to mitigate the depletion of CoQ10 caused by the drug.

Knowing that high cholesterol is NOT the cause of heart disease finally frees you to take a serious look at what does cause this potentially lethal condition. And as described above, poor lifestyle choices are primarily to blame, such as too much sugar, too little exercise, lack of sun exposure and never grounding to the earth. These are all things that are within your control, and don’t cost much (if any) money to address.

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Humanity Calamity

Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Surpass 400 PPM Milestone

  By James Gerken  

Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide surpassed a notable milestone this week.

They reached a daily average above 400 parts per million, reported NOAA, for the first time in human history.

The milestone, hit on May 9, may be symbolic, notes Climate Central, but manmade CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue to rise, bringing greater atmospheric warming and exacerbating the effects of climate change.

Scientists argue we've loaded the "climate dice" in favor of more weather anomalies and extreme heat waves.

Research also shows that continued emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide will mean "largely irreversible" climate change for 1,000 years even after we curtail emissions.

"The last time we're confident that CO2 was sustained at these levels is more than 10 million years ago, during the middle of the Miocene period," climate scientist Michael Mann posted in an email. "This was a time when global temperatures were substantially warmer than today, and there was very little ice around anywhere on the planet."

Readings are taken at the NOAA-operated Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii and form part of the Keeling Curve -- a continuous record of CO2 measurements dating back to 1958. Bubbles found inside Antarctic ice core samples provide a longer record of CO2 in the air for the past 800,000 years.

CO2 measurements surpassed 400 ppm in the Arctic last summer, but the readings from Hawaii mark the first time prolonged levels above 400 ppm have been observed at more moderate latitudes.

Global carbon dioxide levels fluctuate over the course of the year, reaching an annual peak in May. LiveScience explains that the cycle reveals how trees and vegetation remove more CO2 from the air during the summer, until the annual minimum is reached in October.

"Take this day and the milestone it represents to reflect on the fragility of our civilization and and the planetary ecosystem on which it depends," Al Gore urged on Friday. "We must take immediate action to solve this crisis. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next year. Now."

350.org founder Bill McKibben said, "The only question now is whether the relentless rise in carbon can be matched by a relentless rise in the activism necessary to stop it."

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Human race has succeeded in bringing disaster on ourselves

But the right-wing Tea Party bubble dwellers say not to worry.  With their heads in the sand in complete denial, they assure us all is well and we are not responsible for any of this.

Excerpt from article 2 below:  Scientists say that if natural factors were still governing the climate, the Northern Hemisphere would probably be destined to freeze over again in several thousand years. “We were on this downward slope, presumably going back toward another ice age,” Dr. Marcott said.

Instead, scientists believe the enormous increase in greenhouse gases caused by industrialization will almost certainly prevent that.

Carbon dioxide level, at its highest in human history, passes long-feared milestone

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/science/earth/carbon-dioxide-level-passes-long-feared-milestone.html?hp  and

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/science/earth/global-temperatures-highest-in-4000-years-study-says.html?ref=temperaturerising

EXCERPT:  The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.

Scientific monitors reported that the gas had reached an average daily level that surpassed 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human-produced emissions under control are faltering.

The best available evidence suggests the amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years, before humans evolved, and scientists believe the rise portends large changes in the climate and the level of the sea.

“It symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem,” said Pieter P. Tans, who runs the monitoring program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that reported the new reading.

Ralph Keeling, who runs another monitoring program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, said a continuing rise could be catastrophic. “It means we are quickly losing the possibility of keeping the climate below what people thought were possibly tolerable thresholds,” he said.

The new measurement came from analyzers high atop Mauna Loa, the volcano on the big island of Hawaii that has long been ground zero for monitoring the worldwide carbon dioxide trend.

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Wonderful senate speech about climate change

from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse:  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/08/sen-whitehouse-destroys-colleague-who-said-god-wont-allow-climate-change/

Too bad only Democrats will hear it.  Republicans will be too busy denying the truths in it.  And, all the while, the karmic wheel is turning, turning, turning.

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Men should read this article and comments at the end

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/opinion/dowd-americas-military-injustice.html?_r=0

Women already know how unequal rights are between the genders--and between the powerful and the subservient.  Nothing has changed in the good ol' boys club since Anita Hill was sexually harassed by Clarence Thomas, a dirty old lecher who sits on our Supreme Court (yuk! ugh!) 

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Important news for back pain sufferers

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/07/nobel-worthy-medical-breakthrough-antibiotics-could-cure-40-of-back-pain-patients/

Very interesting research -- finding that 40% of back pain sufferers could be relieved of their pain with antibiotics.  Makes me think about the effects of taking 100 days worth of antibiotics, though -- and the repercussions of that if millions start doing it. What could be the cost with antibiotic-resistant bacteria growing in strength?

EXCERPT from article:

The Danish team describe their work in two papers published in the European Spine Journal. In the first report, they explain how bacterial infections inside slipped discs can cause painful inflammation and tiny fractures in the surrounding vertebrae.

Working with doctors in Birmingham, the Danish team examined tissue removed from patients for signs of infection. Nearly half tested positive, and of these, more than 80% carried bugs called Propionibacterium acnes.

The microbes are better known for causing acne. They lurk around hair roots and in the crevices in our teeth, but can get into the bloodstream during tooth brushing. Normally they cause no harm, but the situation may change when a person suffers a slipped disc. To heal the damage, the body grows small blood vessels into the disc. Rather than helping, though, they ferry bacteria inside, where they grow and cause serious inflammation and damage to neighbouring vertebrae that shows up on an MRI scan.

In the second paper, the scientists proved they could cure chronic back pain with a 100-day course of antibiotics. In a randomised trial, the drugs reduced pain in 80% of patients who had suffered for more than six months and had signs of damaged vertebra under MRI scans.

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Bizarro World extra, read all about it

Officer in charge of Sexual Assault Prevention in the Air Force is arrested for......what else?.....sexual assault.  Fox in the hen house--in all ways.  And how much trust do you have in the military...in the government...these days, huh?....Zero?  Yeah--me, too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/jeffrey-krusinski-arrested_n_3225155.html

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Former CIA official, dying, tells secrets about UFOs

This physically ill man, who claims to be a former CIA official wanting to get a load off his shoulders, allowed a video to be made of his testimony, although he won't allow his name to be given out at this point.  You can judge for yourself whether his story rings true. He certainly seems legitimate to me, and he has quite a story to tell.

Video testimony by an anonymous alleged
former CIA official was shown at the Citizen
Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press
Club in Washington, DC on Friday, May 3.

UFO author and historian Richard Dolan
interviewed "Anonymous" on March 5, 2013.
Facing impending kidney failure, this individual
felt compelled to disclose secret information he
feels is too important to keep secret.

In the video, he claims to have served in the
U.S. Army, worked for the CIA, and worked on
the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book--one of
the USAF's official studies of UFOs. And he
refers to the project as "partially a fraud."

Asking for clarification, Dolan states, "You're
saying some of the Blue Book cases were
completely fictitious?" The anonymous man
responds, "Yes."

"Anonymous" alleges that, after an invasion
threat from President Dwight Eisenhower, he
and his superior at the CIA were allowed inside
the secretive Area 51 in Nevada to gather intel
and report back to the president.

[AB NOTE: President Eisenhower realized that
he had been left "out of the loop" of the Black
Projects' ongoing activities between various
members of ET races and their UFO technologies
at the "remote detachment of Edwards Air Force
Base...located in the southern portion of Nevada
in the western United States, 83 miles (133 km)
north-northwest of Las Vegas." a.k.a. Area 51.

Eisenhower became so angry, that he threatened those
in charge of Area 51 that he would call in the 1st Army
from Colorado Springs to invade the base, if they did
not allow two of his trusted CIA associates, including the
narrator of this story, to visit].

There, "Anonymous" describes seeing several alien
spacecraft, including the craft that crashed in Roswell,
New Mexico. Then, he and his superior were taken to
the S-4 facility southwest of Area 51 where they
observed live extraterrestrials.

This testimony will be included in an upcoming
documentary, titled 'Truth Embargo'.

Video (about 17 mins):

http://www.ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com/page/23216.html

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Republicans and Democrats should read this very carefully

We the people have a responsibility for what is happening with our do-nothing congress, now ruled by unregulated corporations and the Tea Party.

EXCERPT: I've also seen what happens to Republicans who dare to even contemplate cooperation with the White House. When Congressman Scott Rigell of Virginia accepted the president’s invitation to join him at an event highlighting the shipyard jobs that sequestration would destroy in his district, the two men had a warm and constructive conversation aboard Air Force One. The president talked about his willingness to pursue entitlement reform. Rigell said he was open to closing tax loopholes for the wealthy. In return, he was threatened with a primary challenge by his local Tea Party, attacked by Grover Norquist as a “cheap date,” and flooded with nasty calls and emails from conservative activists.

If you’re a Republican in Congress, what’s more likely to sway your vote—a trip on Air Force One and a personal plea from Barack Obama, or the threat of a Tea Party challenge that’s taken down so many of your colleagues in recent elections?

Leading From Below

May 3, 2013

Memo to everyone lambasting Obama for not getting along with Congress: The president is not all powerful. And he needs help from his supporters.

By Jon Favreau

President Obama is among those responsible for the decisions the country makes or doesn’t make, but as citizens, so are we.  He added the words in one of the later drafts. The announcement speech had been missing something, a direct response to the creeping cynicism of the previous decade. Why would this time be any different? What was so special about this political novice, that he thought he could solve all of these intractable problems on his own?

“That is why this campaign can’t only be about me. It must be about us—it must be about what we can do together. This campaign must be the occasion, the vehicle, of your hopes, and your dreams. It will take your time, your energy, and your advice—to push us forward when we’re doing right, and to let us know when we’re not. This campaign has to be about reclaiming the meaning of citizenship, restoring our sense of common purpose, and realizing that few obstacles can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change.”

Much has been written over the last few weeks about the limits of presidential power. Some smart observers have pointed out that these limits are not new; that historically they have had less to do with the personalities of our leaders than the structure of our democracy. The founders, reluctant to entrust any executive with the kind of authority that was so abused by the king they revolted against, created a separation of powers between co-equal branches of government.

But how boring is that? The more exciting story to tell is how Lyndon Johnson charmed and strong-armed his way to massive legislative victories. Much less interesting is the fact that most of those victories occurred while his party held record majorities in Congress. By the end of his second term, following the loss of 47 House seats and three Senate seats, one aide joked that Johnson couldn’t even get a Mother’s Day resolution passed.

Today, a minority of senators can kill bipartisan legislation that is supported by a majority of their colleagues. And they frequently do. In the House, the speaker alone can kill bipartisan legislation that is supported by a majority of his colleagues. And he frequently does. Following some of this country’s worst mass shootings, a Republican senator and a Democratic senator with A ratings from the National Rifle Association authored a gun safety bill requiring criminal background checks that was supported by 90 percent of the American people. If I were a reporter, I’d be more interested in what was wrong with the Congress that refused to pass that bill than the man at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue who relentlessly campaigned for it at more than a dozen events around the country.

But that’s just me. This Congress has so profoundly disappointed the American people that I suppose the real news would be if they ever did anything that even remotely reflected popular will. At this point, getting angry with Congress for failing to legislate seems as useful as yelling at a puppy for peeing on the floor: neither of them knows any better.

This president has played plenty of hardball and softball with members of Congress. I was there when he cut deals and cajoled his way to a health-care victory that 100 years’ worth of Democratic and Republican presidents had sought and failed to achieve. I saw him do the same with the recovery act, and student-loan reform, and Wall Street reform, and “don’t ask, don’t tell”—a legislative legacy that, whether you agree with it or not, already stands tall against any other president’s in recent memory.

I've also seen what happens to Republicans who dare to even contemplate cooperation with the White House. When Congressman Scott Rigell of Virginia accepted the president’s invitation to join him at an event highlighting the shipyard jobs that sequestration would destroy in his district, the two men had a warm and constructive conversation aboard Air Force One. The president talked about his willingness to pursue entitlement reform. Rigell said he was open to closing tax loopholes for the wealthy. In return, he was threatened with a primary challenge by his local Tea Party, attacked by Grover Norquist as a “cheap date,” and flooded with nasty calls and emails from conservative activists.

If you’re a Republican in Congress, what’s more likely to sway your vote—a trip on Air Force One and a personal plea from Barack Obama, or the threat of a Tea Party challenge that’s taken down so many of your colleagues in recent elections?

The commentariat has had plenty of advice for the president over the last few weeks about leadership, little of it helpful, realistic, or specific—unless you count Maureen Dowd’s incisive suggestion that the White House create charts with the names of congressmen whose votes they need, a sentence that was actually published in The New York Times.

The president and the Congress are responsible for the decisions that this country makes or doesn’t make. But as citizens, so are we.

But since the day he announced his run for the presidency, Obama has held a deep and abiding conviction about how change really happens. Yes, it requires leaders who can inspire, and compromise, and build relationships on both sides of the aisle. But it also requires us. It requires an engaged, active citizenry, willing to pressure and push our leaders in the right direction, not just on Election Day, but every day, through emails and phone calls and office visits and town-hall meetings.

I can’t be sure, but you know what I bet will stay with Sen. Kelly Ayotte more than any charm offensive or political threat from Obama? The statement she heard from the 27-year-old daughter of the Sandy Hook Elementary principal who was killed in the Newtown massacre: “You had mentioned that the burden to owners of gun stores that these expanded background checks would cause. I’m just wondering why the burden of my mother being gunned down in the hall of her elementary school isn’t as important as that.”

The president and the Congress are responsible for the decisions that this country makes or doesn’t make. But as citizens, so are we. We can complain about what’s happening in Washington for the next year, or the next four years, or the next 10 years, or we can do something about it. We can make sure that young woman’s voice isn’t lost in a cacophony of ads and lobbying and primary challenges. Whether or not we support this president’s agenda, we can rise to the challenge he laid out on the night of his reelection:

“The role of citizens in our democracy does not end with your vote. America’s never been about what can be done for us. It’s about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating, but necessary work of self-government. That’s the principle we were founded upon.”

As we’ve seen over the past few months, it’s a tough job. But we all have to do it.

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9 11 is the litmus test for Truth: Watch this video

Nine Eleven IS the Litmus Test, without equal.  Do you accept what the government has told us about this event?  Or do you question, based on all the anomalies and the proven lies we have been told?  Do you want Truth or fiction?  Watch this video and then give your answer.

Video (about 8 and a half mins):

Nine Eleven IS the Litmus Test

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More religious baloney: responsible for not addressing climate change

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/01/belief-in-end-times-stifling-climate-change-action-in-u-s-study/

Good grief!  More religious idiocy.  In my opinion, religions are one of the greatest causes of non-growth in human consciousness.  Especially the fundamentalist kind that keep the followers stuck in an extremely narrow and rigid belief system.  Climate change won't be addressed because mindless humans refuse to consider it -- and would rather concentrate on "end times" when the "good" people are going to be raptured up into heaven, leaving the rest of us sinners to cope with the climate problems and, incidentally, die horrible deaths and then burn in the hell God has prepared for us non-believers.  But, they will tell us in the next breath, "God loves you."  (eye rolling sigh).

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Bishop warns against attending same sex weddings

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/02/rhode-island-bishops-warns-against-attending-same-sex-wedding-ceremonies/

Oh, for heaven's sake!  This reminds me of the days of my youth when Catholics were warned by the church hierarchy never to attend any Protestant church service -- or you would go to hell (or at least purgatory).  Do people still believe these jokers who put themselves in a position of authority over their "flock"?  They tell you what you can or cannot do -- and who you can or cannot be with.  Someone should tell them their time is over.  People now have minds of their own and the ability to decide for themselves what is "right" or "wrong."  Gee, thinking for oneself. Imagine that. What a concept.

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Good article -- we were lied to. What else is new?

Secrets and Lies of the Bailout:  We WERE LIED TO.
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104

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