13 June 2011

Phony Food Contamination Pushes Total Food Control












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Any body who drinks raw milk knows about how government uses a phony food safety issue to drive good food producers into bankruptcy or even prison, and deny consumers food choices that are not
 controlled by corporate food giants. The scam is simple: keep good food from the people, the people get sick and increase the profits of the big drug companies. Its an inside job with the fascist collusion of government and big business against the health and well fair of the people at  every turn. The so-called Food Safety Bill is being used as a weapon of mass destruction against non-corporate food production. Phony food safety issues are contrived to stampede a frightened public into the  murderous clutches of the big food and drug giants. So-called public servant, elected and non-elected are enlisted to wage unending war against good food. Witness the phony E Coli scare in Europe and at the food swat team attacks against small producers here in the US. Now the Washington Post demands an end to organic food! Apparently there is no limit to the evil...
WaPost Proposes A Moratorium On...Normal Food
By R Patel
6-12-11

 


To have some idea why the Post might have done something as bizarre as proposing a moratorium on the only still normal and clean food, organic food, a little history is in order.
 
The Food Modernization and Safety Act of 2010 was forced through Congress in the middle of the night in the very last days of a lame duck session, breaking rules and constitutional safeguards.  "Food safety" bills arrived in Congress almost as soon as Obama arrived in the White House.  
 
For those who don't remember, it was Hillary Clinton who first proposed setting up a giant centralized food safety that would control all food in the US, a part of her campaign for president.  Her campaign strategist was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller, one of the largest PR firms in the world and one that represents Monsanto.  Bill Clinton had put Michael Taylor, a lawyer for and then VP at Monsanto, in at the FDA from where he introduced the first GMO into the food chain in the US - rBGH, keeping it unlabeled,  He also deregulated the introduction of GMOs and Monsanto's Bt-corn and Bt-soy were soon planted.  Taylor also wrote a white paper for Monsanto laying out how they could sue dairy farmers who were honestly labeling their milk as GMO-free.  The Clinton connection to Monsanto is very strong.
 
Though Hillary Clinton lost her bid for the White House, Taylor showed up on Obama's  transition team, a food safety "crisis" occurred almost immediately.  Contaminated peanut butter was sent out though the owner of the company, on the board at the USDA,knew it was contaminated and almost before the new hit the paper, a series of massive food safety bills already laden with co-sponsors showed up in the house.  
 
One in particular drew intense attention - HR 875 - introduced by Rosa Delauro, a close friend of the Clintons, whose husband Stanlety Greenberg polled for Bill Clinton and works for Monsanto.  About that connection, there was great denial by DeLauro and Monsanto but the DeLauro connection to Monsanto could not have been stronger.  Greenberg consults for Monsanto and his area of interest is global corporate strategy..  Their rebuttal was classic Monsanto, a slick game with wording, saying that Greenberg's name was listed among of Monsanto "employees."  While Greenberg was not listed among secretaries or scientist who draw a salary there, the reality was worse than what people were asserting - Greenberg works for Monsanto at the highest planning level and may have even been involved in designing the campaign around food safety.
 
Obama appointed Taylor as Czar over food safety at the FDA, a means of putting him into office without the potential storm over his Monsanto connections and past actions at the FDA that a congressional approval might have stirred up.  But it did not go unnoticed.  Jeffrey Smith at the Institute for Responsible Technology wrote an article at Huffington Post detailing the damage Taylor had done to food safety in the US already.
 
"The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke."
 
 
Taylor got the massive law giving him police state power over all US food, a law he was instrumental in designing on behalf, not of food safety, but corporate control over the global food supply. There was tremendous public pressure to stop the bill - on organization alone sent a million emails to Congress to try to stop it, making clear it would end US sovereignty over food (and much else) and hand it to the WTO.  Harry Reid and the democrats led the change against massive grassroots' opposition (so many who had voted for Obama) for its questionable passage.  
 
Now FSMA funding is on the table in Congress.  There is huge backlash against the bill and groups are working to deny funding as a means to weaken the power of Taylor at the FDA which he has already using to have agents attack farmer and organic food producers - with raised weapons.
 
The new law is clearly not being used as  promoted - to stop industrial agriculture and the food industry from putting out contaminated food that has been sickening and killing people - but is being used as was feared by farmers and gardeners and those working to create sustainable agriculture and truly safe, local food.  The use of food safety as a weapon to attack and put out of business small famers and safe food has arrived, driven by the FDA under Michael Taylor, a Monsanto executive.  
 
For those who want to see what is happening, they can see a new documentary - Farmageddonmovie.com. - as well as watch videos that detail an FDA conspiracy with departments of agriculture in the Midwest to wipe out all food buying clubs and hoping for a disease outbreak that makes some child very sick.  
 
The food safety bills arrived via contaminated food, the backdrop for Congressional wrangling was to the tune of more corporate media contamination stories, and during intense opposition to the bill last summer, contaminated eggs were the story de jour.  In each case, the USDA knew in advance that the food was contaminated and let it go out.  Farmers and organic cheese makers are being shut down in the US now who have harmed no one and not being allowed to reopen but none of the corporate facilities involved in any of the contamination has been closed for as much as an hour.  Billions were sought for the bill using the argument that the FDA didn't have the ability to effect a recall.  But the truth is that a single free phone call to media by the FDA describing what facilities and what lot numbers were involved would immediately stop the sale of any food immediately, even if the companies didn't recall.  And once exposed in that way, the companies would be highly vulnerable to lawsuits if anyone was harmed.
 
Billions versus a free phone call.  
 
Who is behind the FMSA?  
 
Taylor is a Monsanto executive.  Monsanto is controlled by the Rockerfellers who are also connected to the international bankers who plundered the US economy, caused the food crisis, and invested, not in food security or safe food but in starvation .
 
In looking at the peculiar passiveness of the National Sustainable Ag Coalition (whose members are the small organic farmers most threatened by the bill), Nicole Johnson noticed:
 
The practices of industrial livestock enterprises are entirely ignored by the pending food safety legislation.  And, many in the local food movement find that the source of enteric pathogen pollution are also being ignored by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), a group that represents the interests of those involved in sustainable and local agriculture, in its analysis of the legislation. NSAC has been involved in trying to soften the blow of the legislation, but it has only really tinkered with various details, while leaving fundamental problems alone. The group's representatives just don't seem to be fighting hard enough to protect the interests of its membership. All this leads me to ask: Has NSAC become a controlled opposition group?Does it appear to advocate for the interests of its grassroots membership while actually advancing the agenda of vested interests?
 
 
If you examine NSAC's membership list, you'll find that among its participating members is the Wallace Center at Winrock International.[63] Winrock International
 
was founded by Winthrop Rockefeller and counts in the long list of its funding partners numerous foundations, government agencies, international agencies, private sector groups and more, all of whom are aligned with vested interests that want international standards harmonized in order to eliminate barriers to international trade. Winrock International receives financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, the DOE, USAID, the US Department of State, the USDA, the World Bank, the FAO, SYSCO and the Tides Foundation.[64]Winrock International also has long-standing ties with Monsanto, which has benefited from Winrock's help in introducing its products to farmers in developing nations around the world. It's hard to image that any organization advocating for the grassroots could be in partnership with a group funded by the likes of these powerful vested interests and not be subject to their influence or control.
 
 
 
HACCP, a substitution of paperwork for actual inspection of meat was introduced by Bill Clinton with Monsanto involvement.  It's clear statistically now that it has been used to target primarily small operations with no history of contamination and has left the corporate giants with on-going contamination, untouched.
 
USDA blithely walks away from obvious contamination problems at the huge slaughter plants, and we must remember that the biggest four packers slaughter 88% of our feedlot steers and heifers. USDA statistics show that 93% of federally inspected plants are small, yet they produce only 10% of our meat. This means that although the big plants represent only 7% of all Federal plants, they produce 90% of our meat. This agency policy now insulates 90% of our meat from adequate inspection, while the agency intensely monitors 10% of our meat production at the small plants, which are easier enforcement prey for USDA.  (John Munsell, Foundation for Accountability in Regulatory Enforcement (FARE).)
 
 
HACCP is central to FSMA which now will apply its failed protection against contamination but its corporate-insulating injustice to vegetables, fruits, and all food, all farms, all food producers, and potentially gardens.
 
Though the FMSA is a severe threat both environmentally and to food since opens the door to industrial agriculture and GMOs that include pesticides dangerous to many life forms, many supposedly environmentally and farming-concerned organizations behaved as NSAC did and were weak or passive or silent when it came to stopping the FMSA or promoted it.  This was true though it was apparent that FMSA would put Monsanto (through Taylor) in control all US food and that it included HACCP, already proven itself worthless in terms of actuall food safety but dangerous to our food supply in having removed the means for livestock producers' to reach the public and local markets.
 
 
At every step, contamination has driven the bills forward, with food that the government knew in advance to be dangerous but neither stopped nor warned about.  Now e.coli raises its ugly head just as funding for FMSA is threatened by groups trying to protect US food and health, and suddenly there are loud calls for FSMA funding, irradiation of food, and even, a global food safety agency.
 
The threat of contamination, it is plain, has been invaluable for consolidation for global industrial agriculture, the global food industry, their partner the global pharmaceutical industry - and the international bankers, and has not abated using any of the industrial methods that are degrading food.  Irradiation has long been sought by industrial food system and the nuclear industry.  Though has nothing to offer in terms of food safety, it has everything to offer in terms of finishing off industrial agriculture's growing competition, real food.   Real farmers' markets would no longer exist.  The only truly nutritious food in the country - local, fresh food and organic food - would be destroyed. Chronic diseases based on inadequate nutrients in food would abound, spelling profit for the pharmaceutical industry.  All in the name of "food safety."
 
And now the Washington Post puts out an editorial promoting, of all things, a moratorium on organic food!  Normal food.  The Post has in essence called for a moratorium on nature.  This is not an exaggeration of the situation but actually in line with what is already happening through "food safety" in the EU where all herbal remedies have been banned as of April 30th, and in Australia where there is a plan to ban 1000s of common garden plants, listing "plant offenses" and "controlled plants."
 
Why is the Washington Post proposing a moratorium on the food that has sustained life for tens of thousands of years?  Could the editorial have any connection corporations like Monsanto doing  all in their power to push GMOs on the world, right now?
 
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries."  David Rockefeller, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.  [Originators of genetic engineering.]
 
 
 
Contamination is easily come by.  Its value to corporations wishing to globalize the world food supply, including Monsanto, is apparent.  "Food safety" has been called the law of food fascism by Vandana Shiva who says it is the means to corporate rule.
 


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How to Clean Radioactive Water for Drinking


By now you should be aware that the Fukushima disaster is your disaster too and that you have to deal with it whether you want to or not. Radioactivity is in the rainwater over the US, especially the West Coast and amounts will only tend to increase over months as more radiation is released from the source in Japan. There is no control yet and will not be for the foreseeable future. You can not count on governments anywhere to tell you the truth about the danger. You must protect you and your family by being aware and proactive. You also need to have specific things you can do. Here is one strategy to clean your water from radioactive contamination. Its not perfect, but it will help a great deal.
Clearing Radioactive Particles from Water
With 4+ reactor meltdowns in Japan, the first one occurring within 5 hours of the Tsunami (covered up, of course), and now it comes out that Plutonium was spilled (exploded) over a decent amount of surface area local to the Fukushima plant, we begin to be concerned with our water supply, as increasing amounts of radioactive Cesium 137 are appearing in our food supplies.  Here I write a simple question and answer session on the topic of drinking and household water.
1. What is the safest water for me and my family?
If you drink bottled water, there are two requirements for optimum health.  Do not use bottles of plastic, and DO use glass bottles.  One of the best brands is Mountain Valley.
For everyday, saving money, and ease of use, Reverse osmosis is a great start. Then …. Read on….
All experts recommend an under-the sink model by OxygenOzone Inc. out of Los Angeles (oxygenozone.com).  A basic water filtration of course you need to use a minimum 5-micron carbon block for the shower or countertop filter, - and if there is a fair amount of dirt or solids in the water, then one needs to use a 5-micron sediment filter before the carbon to protect the carbon block. This can be used for washing the body, brushing teeth or in the kitchen for cleaning fruits and vegetables. Ideally one should install a filter (2-stage sediment carbon or back-flush carbon tank) on the water coming into the house so both hot and cold water through the house is filtered.
IF you are looking for the cleanest high-quality water throughout the house then a whole-house REVERSE OSMOSIS (RO) system is used but this is expensive up front for the cost of equipment plus intallation, and you then use DOUBLE the water in the house as one gallon produced to one gallon down the drain to create the ultra-pure water.
Now the good stuff.
For DRINKING water, I advise ultra-purifying the water with a system that uses carbon, RO and DEIONIZATION resin filter to create the ultra-pure water. This removes radioactive particles (Cesium-137 and Iodine-131 to name the most prevalent ones to start) up to 95% or more.  This removes all possible carcinogens (cancer-causing elements) known at this time. The best system I have found not only creates Ultra-Pure water with deionization, but adds back minerals from coral calcium to create a perfect pure water that is biologically compatible due to its equal osmolarity with the fluids inside the body, therefore preventing leaching of minerals such as Selenium from the body, an essential cancer-preventive trace mineral.  Cancer patients are low in selenium, since it is a catalyst to the enzyme pathways that help bring a detoxification of free-radicals and aid to the immune system.
OxygenOzone uses a Reverse Osmosis has been used for decades, -if you want the ‘state of the art’ complete under-the-sink system with the additions of Ultraviolet to kill bacteria and virus, and then, the Coral-Calcium trace-mineral filter that actually adds back the essential minerals into the water to create water that is balanced to your body.  Warning: Reverse Osmosis contains nearly NO minerals anymore, so when you drink it, it can act as a vacuum and pull essential minerals OUT of your body. I recommend a trace-mineral complex, 2 per day, you can find this at the health food store or at our clinic (Aptos), and contains vital minerals such as Selenium, Zinc, Manganese, Strontium and more.
2). Can we take showers safely in the regular tap water?
Showers have an added danger that the hot water includes a small discharge of vapor, then can be inhaled, going straight into the lungs and circulatory system.  Gases such as Chlorine from chlorinated water are the worst, and radiation-containing water is not really contained yet in high amounts, if at all, in a shower’s vapor.  So, for right now and probably in California for as long as we do not have a local incident, showers are ok, but this situation is changing rapidly as more reactors in Fukushima melt down.  BUT purchase a 5-micron filter for your shower immediately.
3). How should we wash our hands?
With the water from the under-the sink RO Deionization combination.
4). What about brushing our teeth; shampooing hair, washing off your contact lenses, etc.??
With the under-the sink RO Deionization combination (the best, otherwise the carbon filter will help much as long as you do not ingest the water, AND I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you follow the exposure with our clinic-available TRI-Salts, a NON SODIUM Bicarbonate powder mixed in the RO-DI water and swallowed in ½ glass of water before bed. This grabs radioactive elements and takes them out of the body (and does not let them stay).
5). How about bathing babies?
Best of course is the RO-DI and then heat the water, - as infants AND pregnant women are much more susceptible to radiation damage than anyone else.
6). What water should I use to cook pasta for my family and other food?
RO-DI
7). Can I open the windows in my home? How long can I have them open?
Air is not the problem at this point. Check www.fortifyhealth.com (our website) for every-day monitoring of AIR quality/Geiger readings. If the Counts per Minute are above 60, then precautions need to occur. Nevertheless, EVERYONE needs to take Antioxidant Pills EVERY DAY.  I recommend the ones we carry in our clinic, by Designs for Health, or New Chapter Antioxidant blend. Dose:  2-3 twice a day.
8). Swimming in outdoor pools?
Besides inhalation of chlorine gas being somewhat carcinogenic, after swimming the best is to take a towel and wipe the skin at home using the purified water.
9). Watering my plants?
This remains a problem.  Spinach, Kale, Arugula, - greens are susceptible to radiation.  Our water, at least most of it unless you are downstream from streams is fairly safe.  How safe, results are not out yet.
10). Soaking beans and other foods that need to be soaked in water?
This should be done in RO-DI.
Dr. Daniel Beilin has practiced complementary medicine for 26 years, and has a neurophysiology, gastroenterology as well as herbal pharmacology background.  He is internationally recognized for his contributions to early detection of breast and other cancers, as well as being a member of the International Medical Academy of Thermography. He is the founder of a new company that has created a new breast and body thermography device, and holds patents in the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Daniel Beilin’s practice and non-drug pharmacy is in Aptos and Albany, California, as well as Boston.  He can be reached by email at doctordan@fortifyhealth.com . If you would like a consultation he is offering 20% off the first consult with all tests for the months of June and July.

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10 June 2011

Scientists Reverse Aging in Mice


In a surprise finding, Harvard scientists were able to reverse aging in mice using injections of a telomerase activator. Telomeres shortening is involved in the aging process. The repair of telomeres not only stopped aging, but reversed it.


Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice – now for humans

Harvard scientists were surprised that they saw a dramatic reversal, not just a slowing down, of the ageing in mice. Now they believe they might be able to regenerate human organs
Laboratory mouse in a scientist's hand
In mice, reactivating the enzyme telomerase led to the repair of damaged tissues and reversed the signs of ageing. Photograph: Robert F. Bukaty/AP
Scientists claim to be a step closer to reversing the ageing process after rejuvenating worn out organs in elderly mice. The experimental treatment developed by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, turned weak and feeble old mice into healthy animals by regenerating their aged bodies.
The surprise recovery of the animals has raised hopes among scientists that it may be possible to achieve a similar feat in humans – or at least to slow down the ageing process.
An anti-ageing therapy could have a dramatic impact on public health by reducing the burden of age-related health problems, such as dementia, stroke and heart disease, and prolonging the quality of life for an increasingly aged population.
"What we saw in these animals was not a slowing down or stabilisation of the ageing process. We saw a dramatic reversal – and that was unexpected," said Ronald DePinho, who led the study, which was published in the journal Nature.
"This could lead to strategies that enhance the regenerative potential of organs as individuals age and so increase their quality of life. Whether it serves to increase longevity is a question we are not yet in a position to answer."
The ageing process is poorly understood, but scientists know it is caused by many factors. Highly reactive particles called free radicals are made naturally in the body and cause damage to cells, while smoking, ultraviolet light and other environmental factors contribute to ageing.
The Harvard group focused on a process called telomere shortening. Most cells in the body contain 23 pairs of chromosomes, which carry our DNA. At the ends of each chromosome is a protective cap called a telomere. Each time a cell divides, the telomeres are snipped shorter, until eventually they stop working and the cell dies or goes into a suspended state called "senescence". The process is behind much of the wear and tear associated with ageing.
At Harvard, they bred genetically manipulated mice that lacked an enzyme called telomerase that stops telomeres getting shorter. Without the enzyme, the mice aged prematurely and suffered ailments, including a poor sense of smell, smaller brain size, infertility and damaged intestines and spleens. But when DePinho gave the mice injections to reactivate the enzyme, it repaired the damaged tissues and reversed the signs of ageing.
"These were severely aged animals, but after a month of treatment they showed a substantial restoration, including the growth of new neurons in their brains," said DePinho.
Repeating the trick in humans will be more difficult. Mice make telomerase throughout their lives, but the enzyme is switched off in adult humans, an evolutionary compromise that stops cells growing out of control and turning into cancer. Raising levels of telomerase in people might slow the ageing process, but it makes the risk of cancer soar.
DePinho said the treatment might be safe in humans if it were given periodically and only to younger people who do not have tiny clumps of cancer cells already living, unnoticed, in their bodies.
David Kipling, who studies ageing at Cardiff University, said: "The goal for human tissue 'rejuvenation' would be to remove senescent cells, or else compensate for the deleterious effects they have on tissues and organs. Although this is a fascinating study, it must be remembered that mice are not little men, particularly with regard to their telomeres, and it remains unclear whether a similar telomerase reactivation in adult humans would lead to the removal of senescent cells."
Lynne Cox, a biochemist at Oxford University, said the study was "extremely important" and "provides proof of principle that short-term treatment to restore telomerase in adults already showing age-related tissue degeneration can rejuvenate aged tissues and restore physiological function."
DePinho said none of Harvard's mice developed cancer after the treatment. The team is now investigating whether it extends the lifespan of mice or enables them to live healthier lives into old age.
Tom Kirkwood, director of the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University, said: "The key question is what might this mean for human therapies against age-related diseases? While there is some evidence that telomere erosion contributes to age-associated human pathology, it is surely not the only, or even dominant, cause, as it appears to be in mice engineered to lack telomerase. Furthermore, there is the ever-present anxiety that telomerase reactivation is a hallmark of most human cancers."
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