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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Wipe Out Good Food

The decision of the Dutch government to impose nitrogen pollution restrictions on farmers is but one example of this. This "green" policy will cut livestock production in the country by 30% in the next year, put farmers out of business, and force them to sell their land.

Since The Netherlands is the largest meat exporter in the European Union,1 it will also result in meat shortages around the world. According to Dutch Parliament member Thierry Baudet,2 this "green" policy is really a thinly veiled excuse for a land grab

There's absolutely no shortage of studies14,15,16,17,18,19 showing that diets high in processed foods lead to poor health and depression, and the more processed your diet is, the worse your health and the greater your risk of obesity and chronic diseases that shave years, if not decades, off your life span.

In my references, I've included several studies published in 2020, 2021 and 2022, but similar findings have been published for decades. Remember, in most processed foods seeds oils are the highest percentage of calories.

Acknowledging that saturated animal fats are healthy, and that processed industrial seed oils and processed grains are not, would decimate the processed food industry, as it relies on cheap seed oils and grains. The healthy alternative is real food, and there's no big industry profits to be made from that.

The same goes for unprocessed animal foods in general. They can't be patented, and just about anyone with enough land can raise their own food and become partially, if not fully, independent of major food conglomerates.

Sources and References

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Building Community

From: Office <OSOffice@gilanet.co>
Date: July 8, 2022 at 1:50:51 PM EDT
Subject: Building Community

Organic Solutions
Volume 9 – Issue 6
Building Community

The following points have been gleaned over the last several decades, from my travels, my research and from studying the works of others.

The list is far from complete and I encourage all of you to add your own ideas to the pot to help improve on it.

1.    "You must be the CHANGE you wish to see in the World". – Mahatma Gandhi And exactly what is Mr. Gandhi talking about here??? He's telling one and all that they must take Responsibility for themselves AND all of the rest of the World.

2.    "Do! Or do not! There is no try!". This is a great quote from Star War's Yoda. Basically, "Git 'er Done" and no excuses. :-)

3.    Get to know your Neighbors. If any kind of upheaval should occur, you'll have to rely on them, and they on you.

4.    Stop watching the News and turn off your TV. You don't eat garbage, why allow it into your mind?

5.    Greet People you meet as you're walking about. Say "Hello" and make a Friend.

6.    Plant a Garden. You'll find Kids love to do this, even big Kids :-) Besides, homegrown food is very healthy.

7.    Visit your Public Library often. When the TV is off, read more.

8.    Play Games with your Family. Those who do, have a great deal of fun.

9.    Buy from Local Merchants and Local Farmers. This way you get to truly know about the food you're eating, and supporting local merchants helps keep the community together. Stay away from "Made in China", WalMart and other Multinational Conglomerates when you can.

10.    Share your Knowledge.

11.    Support Home Schooling.

12.    Pick up Trash you see lying around.

13.    Organize Pot Lucks and invite all of your Neighbors to it including the grumpy old Curmudgeon who lives down the street.

14.    Honor your Elders.

15.    Help Children.

16.    Read stories out loud.

17.    Go Dancing. Start a Street Dance.

18.    Do some Bird Watching and enjoy the songs they sing.

19.    Put up a Swing, even if it's an old Rubber Tire hanging from a rope.

20.    Hold open a Door for someone carrying a big, heavy load.

21.    Barter. Cash may be King, but Barter is Smarter.

22.    Start a Tradition such as planting a Food bearing Tree every time a Child is born.

23.    Ask Questions.

24.    Hire young people for odd jobs.

25.    Cook and Bake extra so you can share.

26.    If you need help, ask for it.

27.    Sing as if no one is listening. Join a Choir or a local Glee Club.

28.    Teach a Child something.

29.    Before you react in anger, take a moment to listen and consider what you really wish to communicate.

30.    Help settle an Argument or a Conflict.

31.    Do your best to understand others, even if you don't speak the language.

Realize that even though that foreigner you just met doesn't understand your language, he is still doing his best to Survive, just as you are.

His children love, feel, and hurt just as yours do.

32.    Talk to Strangers.

33.    Learn about other Cultures through their Art, and Poetry. Get a Pen Pal from another Country.

34.    Act Locally. Think Globally.

35.    Read the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Then pass it around to all of your friends.

36.    Realize that all men have Dreams just as you do.

37.    Forward Truth wherever you find it.

Yours in Knowledge, Health and Freedom,
Doc

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Friday, July 08, 2022

Radishes a popular root vegetable for your garden,

Organic Consumers Association of Australia link
Radishes may not be the most popular vegetable in your garden, but they are one of the healthiest. These undervalued root vegetables are packed with nutrients.Radishes have been used as a folk remedy for centuries in Ayurveda & Chinese Medicine to treat many conditions: fever, sore throat, bile disorders, & inflammation. Radishes contain small amounts of:

potassium
folate
riboflavin
niacin
vitamin B-6
vitamin K
calcium
magnesium
zinc
phosphorous
copper
manganese
sodium

Additional health benefits.
Radishes are a good source of vitamin C - 1/2 cup offers about 14% of your recommended daily allowance. Vitamin C is an antioxidant that helps battle free radicals in your body & helps prevent cell damage caused by aging, an unhealthy lifestyle, & environmental toxins, and also plays a key role in collagen production, which supports healthy skin & blood vessels.

1. Weight loss
A 1/2-cup serving of sliced radishes contains about 12 calories & virtually no fat. They are the perfect crunchy snack when the munchies strike.

2. Anticancer
Cruciferous vegetables like radishes contain compounds that are broken down into isothiocyanates when combined with water. Isothiocyanates help purge the body of cancer-causing substances & prevent tumor development. A 2010 study found that radish root extract contained several types of isothiocyanates that caused cell death in some cancer cell lines.

3. digestive system
A 1/2-cup serving of radishes gives 1 gram of fiber. Eating a couple of servings each day helps reach your daily fiber intake goal. Fiber helps prevent constipation by bulking up your stool to help waste move through your intestines. Fiber also may help you manage blood sugar levels, and is linked to weight loss & lower cholesterol. Radish leaves may be especially beneficial. Results of a 2008 study on rats fed a high-cholesterol diet suggest that radish leaves are a good source of fiber to help improve digestive function. This may be partially due to increased bile production.

A separate study showed that radish juice may help prevent gastric ulcers by protecting gastric tissue & strengthening the mucosal barrier, which helps protect your stomach & intestines against unfriendly microorganisms & damaging toxins that may cause ulcers & inflammation.

4. Natural Antifungal
Radishes contain the antifungal protein RsAFP2. One study found RsAFP2 caused cell death in Candida albicans, a common fungus normally found in humans - may cause vaginal yeast infections, oral yeast infections (thrush), & invasive candidiasis.

Radish bulbs, also called globes, come in many shapes & colors. The most popular radish variety in the US is bright red resembling a Ping-Pong ball with a small tail. Other varieties are white, purple, or black.

Most radishes have a peppery taste, although some may be sweet. Lighter-colored varieties like the white, winter daikon radish are milder.

Thursday, July 07, 2022

white supremacy attacking again

Start trying to share the deeper truth that you feel

July 06, 2022

Part of a controversial, granite roadside attraction in northeast Georgia is in pieces on the ground, and authorities say it appears to have been caused by a bomb.

The Guidestones, which were erected in 1980, have a 10-part message written on them in eight languages. One part of the message calls for a depopulation of the world to just 500 million or below.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation is on the scene, and have indicated that the explosion was heard at approximately 4 a.m., and the monument was “significantly damaged.” They also noted the monument had been vandalized in the past.

SOURCE:

WJBF News JULY 6, 2022

Tuesday, July 05, 2022

The Ukranie War Is a Scam

Why the Ukraine War Is a Scam

War as a Source of Profit Endangers Conflict Resolution
It's high time the world starts to realize that most wars have a profit motive behind them. Not always, but often enough. As noted in "Profits of War: Corporate Beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge," a 2021 report by the Watson Institute and Center for International Policy:14

"The United States government's reaction to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to dramatic increases in Pentagon funding and revenues for weapons contractors. While the costs and consequences of America's war policies of the twenty-first century have been well-documented, the question of who has profited from this approach has received less attention.

Corporations large and small have been, by far, the largest beneficiaries of the post-9/11 surge in military spending. Since the start of the war in Afghanistan, Pentagon spending has totaled over $14 trillion, one-third to one-half of which went to defense contractors.

Some of these corporations earned profits that are widely considered legitimate. Other profits were the consequence of questionable or corrupt business practices that amount to waste, fraud, abuse, price-gouging or profiteering.

The Pentagon's increasing reliance on private contractors in the post-9/11 period raises multiple questions of accountability, transparency, and effectiveness. This is problematic because privatizing key functions can reduce the U.S. military's control of activities that occur in war zones while increasing risks of waste, fraud and abuse.

Additionally, that the waging of war is a source of profits can contradict the goal of having the U.S. lead with diplomacy in seeking to resolve conflicts.

More broadly, the outsized influence of defense contractors has resulted in a growing militarization of American society. This is manifested in everything from the Pentagon's receipt of the lion's share of the federal discretionary budget — more than half — to the supply of excess military equipment to state and local law enforcement agencies."

Bankers Also Profit From War
Contractors aren't the only ones that can cash in on war. Did you know, for example, that Goldman Sachs, the New York-based investment bank, is profiting from the war in Ukraine by selling Russian debt? In March 2022, NBC News reported:15

"As the Western world scrambles to defend Ukraine by locking down Russian money, the company is acting as a broker between Moscow's creditors and U.S. investors, pitching clients on the opportunity to take advantage of Russia's war-crippled economy by buying its debt securities low now and selling them high later, according to four financial world sources familiar with the strategy.

An investor who declined a Goldman trader's offer to add Russian debt to his hedge fund's portfolio — because of the war — said the trader suggested he could 'just put it in your personal account' to avoid scrutiny. That does not violate the U.S. sanctions regime, but it is very different from the public face Goldman is putting on its relationship with Russia ...

When U.S. officials sanctioned Russian banks this month, it became illegal for U.S. companies to do business directly with major Russian financial institutions. But the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, issued a memo affirming the legal legitimacy of trading Russian assets in "secondary markets" — those not directly involving the Russian banks. That's why Goldman can act as a broker ...

Goldman's effort to profit from the war highlights the complexities the Biden administration faces in trying to punish Russia without harming Wall Street and the economies of the U.S. and its allies. And it is a stark reminder that no asset is too toxic to be traded when there are willing buyers, sellers and brokers."

Indeed, shortly before Russia's launch of its "special military operation" in Ukraine, Putin had demanded NATO rule out allowing Ukraine — which shares a border with Russia — into the alliance. In June 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the BBC:17

"We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into NATO was a criminal act."

Russia has also accused Ukraine of conducting dangerous bioweapons research on behalf of the U.S. I reviewed the evidence for this in "Bioweapons Expert Speaks Out about US Biolabs in Ukraine." Thirdly, Russia has been critical and seemingly grown weary of Ukraine's attacks on native Russians in the Donbas region, a conflict that has been ongoing since 2014. So, there's more to this story than what the media are telling us.

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Glyphosate-based Herbicides causes Breast Cancr

Glyphosate-based Herbicides - Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP)

In 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as a ‘probable human carcinogen’.[7] However, in 2016 the U.S. EPA concluded that glyphosate is ‘not likely to be carcinogenic to humans’, based primarily on studies of non-occupational exposures.[8],[9]

In addition to containing high proportions of the active herbicidal ingredient glyphosate, GBHs also contain numerous other ingredients which may interact with glyphosate or have physiological effects of their own.

A 2021 study examined urinary AMPA levels and later development of breast cancer in Hawaiian women participating in the Multiethnic Cohort Study. AMPA was detected in most urine samples tested, although it was found in significantly more samples from women who went on to develop breast cancer in the next 10-15 years than in long-term healthy women. After adjusting for factors including race/ethnicity, age, and body mass index (BMI; a measure of relative obesity), there was a 4.5-fold increase in risk for developing breast cancer in women with the highest, vs the lowest, concentrations of urinary AMPA.[10]

In animal studies, exposure of young, postnatal male rats to low doses of GBHs led to changes in the mammary gland at the time of weaning. By early adulthood, these exposures were associated with further changes indicating an increased risk for developing mammary tumors.[11] Low dose exposure of GBH to postnatal female rats led to long term changes in mammary gland structure in adulthood. These changes included an increase in the percent of mammary ductal cells with hyperplasia (increased proliferation) as well as morphological changes indicative of a pre-cancer state.[12]

While unfortunately this study did not look at mammary gland outcomes, the exposure of pregnant rats to GBH led to reproductive problems in the daughter pups of those pregnant dams, and structural congenital anomalies, delayed fetal growth and increased placental weight in the granddaughters (F2 generation) of the dams, even though the daughters were only exposed to GBHs during gestation.[13] Whether these transgenerational effects would be found in altered mammary gland structure and function, as well as risk for tumor development, remains to be studied.

Exposure of hormone receptor positive (ER+) human breast cells (MCF-7) in culture to commercial GBHs led to an increase in estrogen-induced cell proliferation. On the other hand, additives found in addition to glyphosate in commercial GBH formulations, did not activate the estrogen pathways in the MCF-7 cells.[14]

In another series of studies using cultured breast cancer cells, short term exposures of very low doses of GBH (Roundup) led to disruption of the cell cycle and DNA repair mechanisms in both estrogen receptor positive (MCF-7) and estrogen receptor negative (MDA-MB-468) cells.[15] Thus while glyphosate, alone, leads to increases in cell proliferation in this laboratory model, use of GBHs containing both the glyphosate and the additives found in Roundup, leads to cell death.

Who is most likely to be exposed to GBHs?

There are relatively few studies documenting glyphosate and GBH levels in people, and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) does not include glyphosate or its commercial products in the library of chemicals it tests for in human urine and serum. Those studies that have been conducted indicate that agricultural workers who are exposed to GBHs, and their family members have significant body burdens of the chemicals, as do people who live in the general area where crops are sprayed. For people living in comparable areas, children have higher levels than do adults.[16]

Since there is not regular NHANES or other large-scale measurement of glyphosate and GBH levels, less is known about levels in the general population although a few studies have found measurable levels in urine sample from non-occupationally exposed people, including pregnant women.[17]

Who is most vulnerable to the health effects of GBHs?

Anyone exposed to glyphosate-based herbicides is susceptible to the endocrine-disrupting effects of the chemical. Glyphosate acts through estrogenic pathways suggesting that exposures during critical periods of breast development (e.g., gestation, early childhood, adolescence, pregnancy) may lead to deleterious effects on later risk for developing breast cancer.

What are the top tips to avoid exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides?

If outside in agricultural areas, wear fitted protective clothing including long sleeves, pants, boots, gloves and masks when exposed to pesticides containing toxic chemicals. Clothing made of synthetic material is more resistant to penetration by herbicides, and non-organic cotton may be contaminated by glyphosate.[18],[19]
Wash produce well before eating. Where possible, buy USDA certified organic produce, which has not been treated with pesticides or herbicides. This includes oats, soy and other beans, in addition to fruits and vegetables.

Updated 2021

[1] Thongprakasiang, Siriporn et al. “Glyphosate induces human breast cancer cells growth via estrogen receptors.” Food and Chemical Toxicology 59 (2013): 129-136. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2013.05.057.

[2] Zanardi, María V et al. “Glyphosate-based herbicide induces hyperplastic ducts in the mammary gland of aging Wistar rats.” Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 501 (2020): 110658. doi:10.1016/j.mce.2019.110658.

[3] Benbrook, Charles M. “Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally.” Environmental Sciences Europe 28,1 (2016): 3. doi:10.1186/s12302-016-0070-0.

[4] Benbrook, Charles M. “Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally.” Environmental Sciences Europe 28,1 (2016): 3. doi:10.1186/s12302-016-0070-0.

[5] Gillezeau, Christina et al. “The evidence of human exposure to glyphosate: a review.” Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 18,1 (2019): 2. doi:10.1186/s12940-018-0435-5.

[6] Parvez, S et al. “Glyphosate exposure in pregnancy and shortened gestational length: a prospective Indiana birth cohort study.” Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 17,1 (2018): 23. doi:10.1186/s12940-018-0367-0.

[7] IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans Volume 112. “Some Organophosphate Insecticides and Herbicides.” 2017. http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-10.pdf. Accessed 18 Nov 2020.

[8] Benbrook, Charles M. “Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally.” Environmental Sciences Europe 28,1 (2016): 3. doi:10.1186/s12302-016-0070-0.

[9] Zanardi, María V et al. “Glyphosate-based herbicide induces hyperplastic ducts in the mammary gland of aging Wistar rats.” Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 501 (2020): 110658. doi:10.1016/j.mce.2019.110658.

[10] Franke, Adrian A et al. “Pilot study on the urinary excretion of the glyphosate metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid and breast cancer risk: The Multiethnic Cohort study.” Environmental Pollution 277 (2021): 116848. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116848.

[11] Altamirano, Gabriela A. et al. “Postnatal exposure to a glyphosate-based herbicide modifies mammary gland growth and development in Wistar male rats.” Food and Chemical Toxicology 118 (2018): 111-118. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2018.05.011.

[12] Zanardi, María V et al. “Glyphosate-based herbicide induces hyperplastic ducts in the mammary gland of aging Wistar rats.” Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 501 (2020): 110658. doi:10.1016/j.mce.2019.110658.

[13] Milesi et al. “Perinatal exposure to a gylphosate-based herbicide impairs female reproductive outcomes and induces second-generation adverse effects in Wistar rats.” Reproductive Toxicology 92 (2018): 2629-2643. doi:10.1007/s00204-018-2236-6.

[14] Mesnage, Robin, et al. “Evaluation of estrogen receptor alpha activation by glyphosate-based herbicide constituents.” Food and Chemical Toxicology 108 (2017): 30-42. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2017.07.025.

[15] Stur, Elaine, et al. “Glyphosate-based herbicides at low doses affect canonical pathways in estrogen positive and negative breast cancer cell lines.” PLOS One 14:7 (2019): e0219610. doi:/10.1371/journal.pone.0219610.

[16] Gillezeau, Christina, et al. “The evidence of human exposure to glysphosate: a review.” Environmental Health 18 (2019): 2. doi:10.1186/s12940-018-0435-5.

[17] Parvez, S et al. “Glyphosate exposure in pregnancy and shortened gestational length: a prospective Indiana birth cohort study.” Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 17,1 (2018): 23. doi:10.1186/s12940-018-0367-0.

[18] Damalas, Christos A, and Spyridon D Koutroubas. “Farmers’ Exposure to Pesticides: Toxicity Types and Ways of Prevention.” Toxics 4,1 (2016): 1. doi:10.3390/toxics4010001.

[19] Alexander, Bruce H et al. “Biomonitoring of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid exposure and dose in farm families.” Environmental Health Perspectives 115, 3 (2007): 370-6. doi:10.1289/ehp.8869.

Monday, June 06, 2022

The War Will Not Be Forgotten

this is the fundamental patriachry paradigm of divide and conquer. . .

The War Against the Unvaxxed Will Not Be Forgotten

Fomenting hatred is a tool of tyrants, and over the past two years, political leaders, agency heads, academics, medical professionals and media personalities alike have publicly encouraged hatred and violence and wished painful death upon anyone who didn’t want to be part of the medical experiment that is the COVID jabs.

In an eloquent Medium post, journalist Susan Dunham summarizes the lessons (hopefully) learned from hating and attacking the unvaccinated:1

“The mandates have let up, and both sides stumble back into something that looks like the old normal — except that there is a fresh and present injury done to the people we tried to break. And no one wants to talk about it.

Only weeks ago, it was the admitted goal of our own leaders to make life unlivable for the unvaccinated. And as a deputized collective, we force-multiplied that pain, taking the fight into our families, friendships, and workplaces. Today, we face the hard truth that none of it was justified — and, in doing that, uncover a precious lesson.

It was a quick slide from righteousness to cruelty, and however much we might blame our leaders for the push, we’re accountable for stepping into the trap despite better judgement.

We knew that waning immunity put vast numbers of the fully vaccinated on par with the shrinking minority of unvaccinated, yet we marked them for special persecution. We said they hadn’t ‘done the right thing’ by turning their bodies over to state care — even though we knew that principled opposition to such a thing is priceless in any circumstance ...

And so it was by the willful ignorance of science, civics, and politics that we squeezed the unvaccinated to the degree that we did ... [W]e cannot hold our heads high, as if believing we had logic, love, or truth on our side while we viciously wished death upon the unvaccinated. The best we can do is sit in the awareness of our rabid inhumanity for having cast so many aside ...

[B]etting against them has been a scathing embarrassment for many of us who’ve now learned that the mandates only had the power we gave them. It was not through quiet compliance that we avoided endless domination by pharmaceutical companies and medical checkpoints at every doorway.

It was thanks to the people we tried to tear down ... We took the bait by hating them, but their perseverance bought us the time to see we were wrong. It seems right now like the mandates will return, but this time there’s hope that more of us will see them for what they are: a rising authoritarianism that has no concern for our wellbeing.”

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