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Peak oil
Whatever you may have heard to the contrary, peak oil is now a reality - you can see petrol prices rising almost daily. With the Far East rapidly expanding its industrial base and consequent prosperity, both industrial and consumer demand for energy is set to overtake that of the West. The problem is that we haven't discovered any significant new oil since the seventies, and all existing resources have peaked - i.e. they are running down. Now, take a moment to look around you and see what you can find that is not dependent, for its existence or use, on oil. Now imagine what your world would look like without all that. The way things are going we'll need to be independent of just about everything that uses oil within the decade. Don't believe me, just look at the evidence. For a start, go to www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/. Life after the oil crash
Clearly it's a neck and neck race between climate change and peak oil to see which will create the most damage soonest, and we're beginning to get the message that we alone are responsible for both. It's also clear that governments and industry, with the help of the media, are going to do very little as long as they can stay in power and play the old games, in other words, as usual, they will leave it until too late. The good news is that, despite all that, there's a huge amount we can do ourselves to mitigate the consequences of all this and possibly even open up different and better ways of living and working together. We just need to decide that it's important and realistic enough to put in the time and effort. So having researched peak oil, (I'm assuming you're up to speed on climate change) and convinced yourself (a) that it's really happening and (b) that someone ought to do something, recognise that every individual of us is "Someone" and start to make a difference by looking at http://transitiontowns.org/. Just do it, we owe it to our kids and their kids. MIKE'S COMMENTS
Rise in mental illness linked to unhealthy diets (official!! - at last!!!) [The Guardian, 16 Jan. 2006] Mental illness, which really boils down to unusual and socially 'unacceptable' behavior and ideas, may be caused by wrong nutrition... Read more... NHS told to abandon alternative medicine www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-2192360,00.html [The Times May 23, 2006] So our top brains proclaim that complementary medicine is unscientific, a waste of money and should be abandoned... Read more... Why Retroviruses Appear in AIDS, Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases Why do pregnant women generally test positive for HIV? What is a retrovirus? This article highlights the outdated science behind current treatments and shows the true causes and cure. Anyone who has been told they are "HIV positive" and anyone who is considering taking the test should read this one as an absolute priority. Read here... News Comment: NHS told to abandon alternative medicine The Times May 23, 2006: www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-2192360,00.html So our top brains proclaim that complementary medicine is unscientific, a waste of money and should be abandoned. When less than 15% of orthodox medical intervention is supported by good science and less than 5% of all published research is 'scientifically sound' (the BMJ's own findings - references follow) do I detect a case of pots, kettles and black here? These gentlemen are denigrating a set of well-tried and tested disciplines with that supreme confidence born only out of total ignorance (and possibly, fear) of the subject. (And I include the infamous Prof Ernst). How, when over 250,000 are known to be killed annually in the west as a direct result of properly applied medical treatment, can they pillory an approach that will have at least the same placebo performance as orthodox medicine without the inherent slaughter? This is Prof Baum's second attempt to ridicule the Prince of Wales. His first attempt was shot down by the BMJ in Oct 2004, and he has done nothing to change his argument this time. Which raises the question - why has he (Baum) ignored the evidence and disinterred his discredited claims once more? Has modern medicine become a religion and are these its high priests out to destroy the unbelievers? Mike Abrahams Wild Oats References:
Rise in Mental Illness Linked to Unhealthy Diets (official!! - at last!!!) www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1687319,00.html?gusrc=rss Mental illness, which really boils down to unusual and socially 'unacceptable' behavior and ideas, may be caused by wrong nutrition, according to some recent studies reported in the UK press. "Food can have an immediate and lasting effect on mental health and behaviour because of the way it affects the structure and function of the brain". If we look at the rising rate of crime and criminal activity in the community, it far outstrips any previous levels at any time in our history. Correlating this increase with our increasing consumption of nutrient-free foods and reading the reports of how changes in nutrition have dramatically changed the behaviour of criminals and delinquent children over the years, it does not need a skilled scientist to see the connection. As long as “The Establishment” denies the connection, crime of all kinds will continue to escalate alongside similar increases in mental disease, and create further loss of stability and cohesion in the community. In what is supposed to be the most advanced society in history, many people in our our communities have already developed a siege mentality, the seige arising not from outsde, but at home, from our own fellow citizens. When will our leaders take the blinkers off their eyes, hypnotised by "advances" in science, long enough to see the huge loss in nutrition, and consequential loss in social values, cohesion and humanity that has taken place at the same time? Most psychiatrists vehemently deny that foods, (lack of) nutrients, allergies and poisonous substances may be at the bottom of the 'deviant' behaviours they have laboriously codified in the psychiatric diagnostic manual. No wonder, accepting the obvious would make their profession all but superfluous. At the very least, psychiatrists would have to take some hints from clinical ecologists and nutritional counsellors. Instead of merely classifying the manifestations of damage from wrong nutrition and toxic input, they would have to search for the real causes of loss of biological equilibrium and propose remedies, not only to their patients but also to health authorities and even their colleagues in general medicine. The 'epidemics' of autism and attention deficit disorder, for instance, are time coincident with a multiplication of "preventive" vaccinations - from four in the seventies to twenty and in some places even more than thirty recommended "immunisations" today. Certainly, drugging people is not the solution. Let's at least do something constructive about the disastrous 'mental health' situation. Thanks to contribution by Sepp at Health Supreme - www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/ The vaccination debate AVIAN FLU An epidemic may be on the way, but it will not be possible to start making a vaccine until the virus which eventually causes the epidemic has been found. Even then we can not be sure that the vaccine will work and that there will not be thousands of people suffering the side effects of the vaccine. Meanwhile there are some very effective ways of boosting our immunity and reducing the impact of the disease for very little cost. As usual with simple solutions, the establishment ignores this because it's old-fashioned and cannot make fortunes for the drug corporations and their shareholders... For those of us with a little more perspective, try www.cqs.com/influenza.htm. For further thoughts on vaccination see also www.cqs.com/epidemic.htm. Also for those concerned about vaccination and immunisation: E-news from the national vaccine information center, Vienna, Virginia: http://www.nvic.org. See also the article from The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER reproduced here: Bird flu: what to do? Meanwhile just to keep things in proportion and in good humour, check out www.mindblowingdecisions.com/flandemic.htm. EARLY FEARS ABOUT MMR IN SECRET PAPERS: the potentially dangerous side-effects of the MMR vaccine http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2007/03/05/hmmr105.xml SILVER BULLET FOR FLU, HIV, MRSA ETC? Health Supreme - http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/ In a groundbreaking study, the Journal of Nanotechnology has published a study that found silver nanoparticles kills HIV-1 and is likely to kill virtually any other virus. The study, which was conducted by the University of Texas and Mexico University, is the first medical study to ever explore the benefits of silver nanoparticles, according to Physorg. During the study, researchers used three different methods of limiting the size of the silver nanoparticles by using capping agents. The capping agents were foamy carbon, poly (PVP), and bovine serum albumin (BSA). The particles ranged in size from 1 to 10 nanometers depending on the method of capping. After incubating the HIV-1 virus at 37 C, the silver particles killed 100% of the virus within 3 hours for all three methods. The scientists believe that the silver particles bonded through glycoprotein knobs on the virus with spacing of about 22 nanometers in length. While further research is needed, researchers are optimistic that nanological silver may be the silver bullet to kill viruses. The researchers in the study said that they had already begin experiments using silver nanoparticles to kill what is known as the super bug (Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus). Already used as a topical antibiotic in the medical industry, silver may now come under consideration as an alternative to drugs when it comes to fighting previously untreatable viruses such as the Tamiflu resistant avian flu. Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com SILVER KILLS VIRUSES, STUDY FINDS (10/19/2005 3:51:01 PM) REGULATIONS REGULATIONS REGULATIONS The first of a raft of EU regulations and directives that affect our choices in what natural approaches to our own healthcare we may make has now been in operation since the 1st of August. In typical EU bureaucratic fashion the bite of this law, the Food Supplements Directive, has been disguised by a number of temporary derogations that allow a number of popular products to remain on the market only until the relevant dossiers have been examined and judged to have been of the required standard. Unfortunately, no-one knows what is the "required standard" except the bureaucrats themselves, who, until now have been concerned only with dossiers produced for synthetically manufactured drugs. If they require the same level of testing for safety and efficacy as potentially dangerous and unpredictable drugs, then many and perfectly safe forms of natural vitamins and minerals will fall at the first hurdle: This level of testing and documentation is just too expensive and in many cases impossible to produce. For a natural product, which by definition cannot be patented, a company would never recover the huge costs involved. So as time goes by, until 2009, many of the safe and effective products we use will gradually disappear fro the market under the guise of "unsafe" just as many effective and safe herbs have been withdrawn over the last 20 years on the same pretext. Even those remaining will be most likely reduced to strengths that render them virtually useless by a process that will be launched in a year or so. And then there's the raft following; the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, the Sports Supplements Directive, the Fortified Foods Directive and eventually the Pharmaceutical Directive, which in effect will steamroller the others by declaring that anything that can be used to treat or modify the physical or physiological state of a person will, by definition, be classified as a medicine and will have to be licensed as such. How they will expect us to license water or bananas goodness only knows, but no doubt they'll try. Meanwhile keep on pestering your MPs and MEPs to put a stop to all this nonsense. The NHS is already staggering under the astronomical costs of drugs and their side-effects, and when perfectly safe natural methods disappear, it will no longer be able to sustain the extra burden created by this. READ THIS TO BRING BACK TRYPTOPHAN By Patrick Holford Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that's vital for your brain and body. Many people find it helps sleep and mood. It got banned in 1990 due to a contaminated batch, and thanks to a campaign last year, the Food Standards Agency have agreed to rescind the ban BUT only allow it back at much too low an amount, namely 220mg. It used to be sold at 1,000mg without any adverse effects. In a consultation process dozens of top scientists advised the FSA to up the amount on the basis of safety. (The 220mg level was arrived at as the average GP prescription divided by 10!) Their submissions were made, no response was given and, we've just heard, the FSA have made no changes and intend to enact the legislation in November, bringing it back (good news), but with this highly restrictive low level (bad news). If you believe in the freedom to choose safe supplements, in setting safety levels on the basis of real dangers, and in a democratic process whereby government agencies do consult with key individuals and organisations, do share opinions and listen, then all you need do is send your version of the attached letter, also shown below, today to your MP, personalising it as much as possible. You can find the name, address and email of your MP at www.locata.co.uk/commons/, then either email or mail them your version of the Draft MP letter, shown below: DRAFT LETTER TO YOUR MP Your MP House of Commons London SW1A 1AA Dear MP I am a member of your constituency and I believe in the right to buy safe nutritional supplements. I understand from the attached that the Food Standards Agency a) intends to restrict my right to buy an essential amino acid, tryptophan, not on the basis of safety, but on the basis of dividing the average amount prescribed by doctors by 10; b) has ignored the advice of a large body of scientists, doctors, psychiatrists and experts in tryptophan; c) has grossly failed to involve such experts in a process of transparent consultation. I would like to know why the Food Standards Agency is: 1. Proposing to limit an essential nutrient on grounds other than safety? 2. Ignoring the basis for both setting Safe Upper Levels for vitamins and minerals, on this amino acid, and giving the public the ability to make an informed choice by mandatory label warnings, rather than a ban, on supplements containing more than the Safe Upper Level? 3. Violating due process in the consultation process which has, so far, involved only submissions, followed by silence, followed by legislation, due to be enacted on November 11th? I can see no reason why tryptophan should be restricted below 1,000 mg, as was previously allowed in Britain for decades without any safety issues being raised, and is still permitted in other EU countries (although Holland has an upper level of 600mg). I would be most grateful for your raising this matter with Gill Fine of the FSA and with the Minister, Caroline Flint MP. Perhaps you would be kind enough to please copy me on any reply you receive. Thank you. Yours sincerely [Your name] |
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