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Our Stewardship of Social Harmony.

3/24/11

Greed is in the nature of man, plain and simple.

Those without initiative express/pursue their greed differently from those of a more proactive or competitive nature. But is is no less demonstrable.

In a thoroughly manageable society (groups of 150 or less) the differences of people are obvious and their place in a sustainable, synergistic community is organically resolved taking into consideration individual capabilities, (emotional and physical) and their needs. What’s more, as humans, we add in the considerations of the emotional realm and can deal with people on a more compassionate and complicated level of understanding. That’s how we have evolved, because it best suits the development of our species. This keeps us from putting Grandma on the ice float as soon as her best years are behind her. It allows us to care for and nurture the young and helpless state of our human infancy. And it also allows us to refrain from devouring those perceived less productive than the understood standard.

Research has demonstrated that in larger groups, the intimacies that facilitate sound organic management are diluted, more and more, as the number of any congregation increases. And that’s precisely why social ordinances are imposed. They are not the perfect solution and require flexibility and human understanding to grow and evolve with the community they support. They are not cold, heartless, unbendable restrictions to regulate undomesticated animals but rather guidance toward genuine harmony.

In a perfect society, there wouldn’t be money. Period. Money by definition and purpose is permanently flawed and too easy to manipulate and corrupt. The success of a monetary system is based on an infinite growth paradigm and believe it or not, in our world, we have maxed that out. In America and around the world, monetary currency is no longer possible to sustain as it is currently understood and utilized.

A monetary system based on real value is one thing, but we no longer even hold to any practical value standard for money. So it is false, unreal, and not respected. There is no gold standard (assuming gold has any real value) and the total value of American Gold Reserves don’t even add up to one eighth of our current debt. Gross National Product is no longer indicative of value as the GNP doesn’t even come close to the debt either. Money is an inherently flawed system in and of itself and those flaws are compounded when you factor in credit. The assumption of credit is to make value out of nothing. You can argue the virtue and then the value of usury, but to do so you have to first resolve that money is of value. The perception becoming the fact? But the truth is, you can’t eat money and survive. And yes, it is that elementary.

When you further complicate credit with speculation, derivatives and the countless hedging schemes currently accepted, you are simply adding layers of window dressing to nothing at all. Money for nothing. Based on nothing. The currency of a pyramid scheme.

Bartering (exchanging a valued service or product of labor for another valued service or product of labor) is what the monetary system is advertised as representing, in a more practical and convenient form. Without debating the possibility of that, ask yourself how well it actually represents that value to value concept at the present time. Our stewardship of the system of currency has been, at best careless, at it’s worst, insidiously corrupt.

The current predominant assumption among the wealthy of the world is, those with the money hold all the cards. Those with the money made the money, built the society and therefore have a right to the best things of the society and are under no obligation to support, subsidize or sustain those who are either less able, less willing or less suitable. This is no less flawed than the philosophy of any who would contribute nothing and yet assume an entitlement to be sustained. Each conflicting viewpoint is however, human. And in a human society, must be reasoned with humanely.

Without money, a false currency, these levels of contempt for the multifarious quality of man would never be sustainable. Why? Because the bitter truth is, no man is an island. Oh, we can survive on our own, but to live and thrive and to be happy and know true prosperity, we need each other. We are social beings.

People are the engine of a productive, sustainable community. No one person. And there will always be exceptional individuals in varying degrees at both ends of that spectrum. Should the mightiest feed off of or be permitted to disenfranchise the weakest? What would the mightiest have dominion over on their own? On their own, what would the weakest have to sustain themselves? Exactly. And that’s not society. That is alone.

In Society, there must be the give and take to absorb all in order to make the most of all. Especially as we take into consideration the perceived pluses and minuses of each end of that varied spectrum of humanity. Only the arrogance that allows us to believe we know all the answers keep us from realizing this. Because it is within this appreciation of nature that we learn invaluable lessons and gain the qualities and strengths that add to the integrity of our society. Otherwise our evolution and intricacies are founded on false or incomplete knowledge and are bound (without growth) to degrade and bring us full circle and return us to the brute law of wild animals. Where would that leave Stephen Hawking? Where would that leave you?

As it is, the rich did not build the societies of the world. People did. And in overwhelming numbers, the working class. Only currency allows the imbalance of value (inflation) to reach the point where something can be purchased for less than its true value and, therefore, the growth of inequality, separation, discrimination and the class system. When it comes down to it, try eating money or gold and you will learn the value of a seed and of those who know how to cultivate it. Neither corrupt government or greedy corporate interests are served by a fully employed workforce. There MUST be a constant army of unemployed to keep the FEAR of losing a job as the means by which the masses are subjugated and the product of production can be had by the oppressor below its value.

It was John Steinbeck who said, “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” Greed is a pervasive human condition indeed.

If it wasn’t such a clear indication of the impending collapse of our system, it might be humorous to note that “millionaire” is insufficient these days to be considered rich enough to rise into that perceived segment above and immune to the actual nature of man’s being.

In a society where corporations are in collusion with government, to an unprecedented degree, in order to subjugate the masses in servitude, there is no real harmony and only false value, false intelligence (given that intelligence is the sense of understanding the true nature of existence) and a false society.

There will always be the individual who wants to drink for free. That is human and, therefore there is a true (perceived or not) lesson and value within even that consideration.

Since the days of Camelot and relative well-being in America (1961) the tax burden (governments fee for our structure of society) has shifted more and more from the highest income earners toward the middle class and now, even below that. The subsidies and loop holes in place are designed to sustain the wealthiest and virtually mine the rest of us of all but what is necessary to sustain us as the drone engine of prosperity for the rich. But there’s been a miscalculation in considering the growth potential of the scheme that is now evident with the retirement of the Baby Boomers and our economy’s waning expansion. It has simply gone too far. In every aspect and at each opposing end of the human spectrum it is no longer sustainable.

Greed is in the nature of man, plain and simple. So is our combined ability to control and, therefore, grow beyond it. And so it is our responsibility. I hope it’s not too late.

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The Conflict That Will Kill Us All

3/19/11

In the North American Continent, the United States grew in a land (admittedly inhabited by tribes of people who didn’t share the European

sense of Society) settled by people who came from many lands. America and eventually the United States was formed into a nation by

individuals who were acutely dissatisfied with their European Monarchy.

There were fundamental differences in the way the indigenous peoples of America and the new settlers saw themselves.

The distinguishing qualities of those philosophical differences can be summed up as those who are of the earth opposed to those who

would own the earth and dominate all life and even the nature of it.

I guess it is safe to say that science has helped us realize now that we are indeed of the earth or at least of the nature that is the earth and

that down to the very elements of our composition we are one in the same. It’s religious belief that states the differentiation being, that we

are of a god and therefore, given divinely ordained dominion over all. And it is a further perversion of that perspective that allows us to kill

and maim and pollute and destroy our species and the environment that sustains us.

It was that perspective that allowed those who settled America from Europe to conquer the indigenous people of this land and claim

ownership of it and all it’s natural resources. And it is that perspective that fuels the conflicts between peoples and nature that continue to

this day, that will no doubt escalate under such philosophy until they eventually culminate in the annihilation of the human race from

among the species of life that inhabit this world. Because it is within that doctrine that the arrogance and self-centeredness which blinds

man from ever seeing his very nature is rooted. The world will remain, and new life forms will dominate because they are likewise, of the

earth. That’s just fact.

As long as that philosophy erroneously continues its struggle to dominate the world and nature and all life within it, we will continue to

spiral toward that terminus. As long as we interact with each other from within such doctrine, we will continue to subjugate, fight and kill

each other. As long as we deal with nature in the same manner, we will continue to destroy that in nature which sustains our life.

Without these fundamental realizations, we will never settle any conflict that causes turmoil in this world. We have lived on this world

instead of within the nature of it. That luxury is almost used-up. Are we intelligent enough to admit and resolve that conflict that will kill

us all it before it’s too late?

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Who Am I?

3/10/11

Well, to quote the Beatles:
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.”

I really don't know what I am because I have been nothing for so long. The last time I really cared about politics, was in the early 80's and I was a Regan Republican.

Just the facts.

Since then I have meandered, seeking meaning in my own life and in which political candidate or movement would suit my evolution at the time. And I have been all over the map.

I am an artist, and maybe a little too sensitive. I am an ex-firefighter and I was in NYC on 9/11/01 and I worked in the recovery at Ground Zero.

I've had business success and failure and I know what it's like to be both wealthy and poor.

I am divorced after 18 years of marriage with 3 children and I have had extreme degrees of both success and failure there too.

I work now as an artist and photographer and I've made a couple of short, insignificant films. I am struggling to keep my head above water like so many others.

I love, I laugh, I cry.

I am a different person than I was 20 years ago, softened, maybe jaded but I haven't given-up trying and I want to be a better person each day.

A Socialist? No. I don't think so. And I don't pretend to understand the complexity of governing large masses of people. I was born and raised in America so I thought I knew what a democratic Republic was. I just don't think we are that any more.

There are too many laws and systems designed to limit personal freedom and growth and then to exploit that for the good of too few at the epitome of the spectrum of wealth.

The working class is the engine of a successful society and the working class is being abused in the highest offices of government and corporate business. This I believe.

I want an end to these current wars. I want to be proud of my government again, knowing we do not torture, we do not falsely imprison, that we do not subvert or cover the truth, we do not operate in darkness as darkness all the while wearing the noble banner of light. I want an end to the waste, the abuse and exploitation of the environment. I want a decency to return to our standards for living and a understanding that all men are created equal.

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What are the Environmental Implications of a Balloon Release?

3/10/11

Anything we could do, anything we would choose as an effective demonstration would leave its environmental footprint. Absolutely.

A protest march carrying signs, driving to congregate, eating, drinking water, it all has an impact.

Many people actually don’t have the means to join a group, travel anywhere, or even walk in unity. They are limited within the constraints of their lives, their economic status, their remoteness from others and even the scrutiny of their government or social structure.

Think outside yourselves, outside the conditioning of your response. The actual research on Balloon Releases, specifically Latex Helium Balloons as opposed to plastic is not overwhelming but it’s not insignificant either.

In releases of a 10,000 balloon concentration the balloons will typically rise to approximately 29,000 feet altitude. At that height they are frozen and brittle. The gas inside expands exponentially and the balloon bursts into thousand of pieces falling back to earth in coverage of 1 part per 5 square miles.

The latex is biodegradable and the helium is inert. The latex biodegrades at the rate of an oak leaf.

So, yes, there will be litter. Biodegradable litter. There will be pieces that may present a choking hazard to small birds and marine life. But why would they eat it? Naturally each species knows how to safely forage for nourishment. An animal may sample it and decide to eat it but that would be the exception, not the rule. An animal can eat and choke on an oak leaf or a number of different things.

The latex begins to biodegrade upon inflation. Sunlight and UV rays expedite this process. A finely shredded and widespread mulch is infinitely less hazardous than a land fill. Birds and all sorts of wildlife freely encounter all manner of plastics, toxins and more at a landfill.

Floating on the surface of the water the latex would be exposed to harsh UV rays that would accelerate decomposition. Fish commonly are attracted to bright colors and would most certainly “try” a balloon fragment. They try numerous food sources continually as they forage. They routinely reject and eject what is not food.

Sea turtles will sample whole balloons because they look like jellyfish. These are a hazard and they can choke on them. Balloons that have a defect or a leak may not make altitude to freeze and explode. These have been shown in a concentration of 10,000 balloons to occur at a rate of one per every 16 square miles. The prevailing winds on the West Coast of the USA carry airborne balloons away from the ocean.

Let’s look at the big picture. What can we do that has minimal environmental impact. If we act responsibly I believe this is a good thing.

If we release 10,000 balloons into the flight path where aircraft are descending into or out of airports, that’s not responsible. And if our effort should generate enough united support that that becomes a concern I believe it will be a wonderful thing! Imagine having to issue travel alerts for aircraft because so many balloons world-wide can be expected on May 8th? This is what I hope for, a peaceful, non-violent, visual notice and disruption from the norm that the powers that be ( government and corporate) will notice and care about.

This can bring about positive change.

On the other hand, how much environmental damage and pollution is caused by:

One car bomb?

One Exploded Oil Platform?

One small war?

One Nuclear Bomb. There have been over 2,000 nuclear bomb detonations worldwide and most of those by the US! Why is cancer so prevalent in our world?

Use your imagination. Unless we do something, here soon won’t be anything left to save.

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Why A World-Wide Balloon Release?

3/10/11

Many people have asked me, “Why a balloon release?”

Their concerns are varied and valid.

I will first say that I wanted, needed to do something. Like so many others, I have grown increasingly frustrated over the years and more recently by an ever-increasing and relentless stream of plutocratic and greed-centered assaults on our world and the people who live in it. And I am guilty.

Too many times I chose not to vote because none of the candidates suited me. Too many times I did nothing to counter injustice when it didn’t seem to impact me directly. Too many times I was simply complacent and even lazy. And I was wrong. Injury to one is injury to us all. Ignorance is only bliss for those who wish to keep us ignorant and enslave us.

Around the world I am not alone in these perceptions and in the feeling that I have become irrelevant, disenfranchised, and mute. I an not alone with the concern that even now as my discontent is realized that no matter how hard I scream, nobody will hear me. Nobody will care.

And I feel weak.

But we are NOT alone. And this must be our fundamental awakening.

Around this country, around the globe, across states, borders, oceans, religion, race and philosophies, on each side of all that separates us we are all, after all, people. We laugh, we cry, we live and we die. Too often we cry for our loved ones who die in the senseless rhetoric of wars, nationalism and even misguided religion. And not of our doing when the truth is finally uncovered. But rather in service to the cold, heartless greed of wealth, of power and of another’s desire to subjugate and bind us.

We need to put aside the differences that don’t matter and cling to the realities of life that do matter. We need to learn to be a united family of man. In this unity, no 1% of the wealthy will be able to hold down the welfare of the Rest of Us.

“The Rest of Us”.

We really don’t know how to work together. Wherever, whenever we congregate, be it in town halls, church, mosque, synagogue, we are too often compelled by those who lead us to see only differences. We are taught that discrimination is good, necessary, vital and that we should construct divisions for our own salvation. We are trained from the cradle to the grave by those that would hold power over us not to unite, not to work together, that we can never become one. This, in the age where science shows us that we have all sprung from the same fountainhead.

Why would our leaders desire so uniformly to keep us divided, keep us ignorant and then, as so often is the case, lead us as sheep to slaughter.?

The bigger question now is, why do we go?

I am one man, the same as you, and you and you. I am looking for a way that we can all come together. I am proposing an exercise in unity as we break the shackles we have been conditioned to wear as a badge of honor. I want the Rest of Us to finally realize the potential of our unity.

The union of humanity is necessary to the salvation of humanity.

We have tried it their way and to what end. To a poisoned environment, a tainted consciousness, a sickened society and a life of diminishing freedom and dignity.

If we could realize our strength and potential in a unified resistance to all that would condemn our very future, if we could only see...

WE CAN SEE IT. The whole WORLD and the powers that be will see it to. If, on May 8th, around the globe the Voice of The Rest of US rises up in a visual demonstration, without violence, without malice, and without scorn. Imagine the hope and joy to see our messages and our unified words rising up.

So great a demonstration that notice will be served around the globe.

Realize it. Make it happen. On May 8th, 2011, take back your life. Take back your freedoms. Give this world and the Rest of Us who are the being of humanity a new beginning.

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BROKEN FREEDOM

2/11/11

United Nations

Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (1948)

Article 1
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity
and rights. They are endowed with reason
and conscience and should act towards one
another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms
set forth in this Declaration, without distinction
of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language,
religion, political or other opinion,
national or social origin, property, birth or other
status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made
on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or
international status of the country or territory to
which a person belongs, whether it be independent,
trust, non-self-governing or under any
other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security
of person.
Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery
and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all
their forms.
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere
as a person before the law.
Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled
without any discrimination to equal protection
of the law. All are entitled to equal protection
against any discrimination in violation of this
Declaration and against any incitement to such
discrimination.
Article 8
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by
the competent national tribunals for acts violating
the fundamental rights granted him by the
constitution or by law.
Article 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest,
detention or exile.
Article 10
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and
public hearing by an independent and impartial
tribunal, in the determination of his rights and
obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11
1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the
right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty
according to law in a public trial at which he has
had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.
2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal
offence on account of any act or omission which
did not constitute a penal offence, under national
or international law, at the time when it was
committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be
imposed than the one that was applicable at the
time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference
with his privacy, family, home or correspondence,
nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation.
Everyone has the right to the protection
of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement
and residence within the borders of each State.
2. Everyone has the right to leave any country,
including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 14
1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in
other countries asylum from persecution.
2. This right may not be invoked in the case of
prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political
crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations.
Article 15
1. Everyone has the right to a nationality.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his
nationality nor denied the right to change his
nationality.
Article 16
1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation
due to race, nationality or religion, have
the right to marry and to found a family. They
are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during
marriage and at its dissolution.
2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the
free and full consent of the intending spouses.
3. The family is the natural and fundamental
group unit of society and is entitled to protection
by society and the State.
Article 17
1. Everyone has the right to own property alone
as well as in association with others.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his
property.
Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought,
conscience and religion; this right includes freedom
to change his religion or belief, and freedom,
either alone or in community with others
and in public or private, to manifest his religion
or belief in teaching, practice, worship and
observance.
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion
and expression; this right includes freedom to
hold opinions without interference and to seek
receive and impart information and ideas
though any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful
assembly and association.
2. No one may be compelled to belong to an
association.
Article 21
1. Everyone has the right to take part in the government
of his country, directly or through freely
chosen representatives.
2. Everyone has the right of equal access to public
service in his country.
3. The will of the people shall be the basis of the
authority of government; this will shall be
expressed in periodic and genuine elections
which shall be by universal and equal suffrage
and shall be held by secrete vote or by equivalent
free voting procedures.
Article 22
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right
to social security and is entitled to realization,
through national effort and international cooperation
and in accordance with the organization
and resources of each State, of the economic,
social and cultural rights indispensable for his
dignity and the free development of his personality.
Article 23
1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice
of employment, to just and favourable condi-
tions of work and to protection against unemployment.
2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the
right to equal pay for equal work.
3. Every one who works has the right to just and
favourable remuneration ensuring for himself
and his family an existence worthy of human dignity,
and supplemented, if necessary, by other
means of social protection.
4. Everyone has the right to form and to join
trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including
reasonable limitation of working hours and
periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25
1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living
adequate for the health and well-being of himself
and of his family, including foods, clothing,
housing and medical care and necessary social
services, and the right to security in the event of
unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood,
old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances
beyond his control.
2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to
special care and assistance. All children, whether
born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same
social protection.
Article 26
1. Everyone has the right to education. Education
shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental
stages. Elementary education shall be
compulsory. Technical and professional education
shall be made generally available and higher
education shall be equally accessible to all on
the basis of merit.
2. Education shall be directed to the full development
of the human personality and to the
strengthening of respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding,
tolerance and friendship among all
nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further
the activities of the United Nations for the
maintenance of peace.
3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind
of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27
1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in
the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the
arts and to share in scientific advancement and
its benefits.
2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the
moral and material interests resulting from any
scientific, literary or artistic production of which
he is the author.
Article 28
Everyone is entitled to a social and international
order in which the rights and freedoms set forth
in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29
1. Everyone has duties to the community in
which alone the free and full development of his
personality is possible.
2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms,
everyone shall be subject only to such limitations
as are determined by law solely for the purpose
of securing due recognition and respect for the
rights and freedoms of others and of meeting
the just requirements of morality, public order
and the general welfare in a democratic society.
3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be
exercised contrary to the purposes and principles
of the United Nations.
Article 30
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted
as implying for any State, group or person any
right to engage in any activity or to perform any
act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights
and freedoms set forth herein.

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Outside and Above the Law

2/1/11

When choosing your home, realtors will be the first to tout, location. And this is, most likely the primary concern. We look for a home someplace we’d like to live that is convenient enough to where we will work or that serves other needs of the family. Schools, shopping, safety, quality of life, these are the concerns that dominate the decision-making process. This is how we choose.

These qualities are valuable to our sanity, sure, and that value is reflected in the pricing of a home. Rather than a home next to a factory, rail yard or an airport, these choice locations, simply put, cost more. A lot more.

An so, there are building restrictions, zoning ordinances and laws in place to protect and sustain the quality of life in our neighborhoods. After all, this is what defines the vitality and the livability of our cities, towns and counties.

But who protects these laws, ordinances and the value of our homes from the police? It is my experience that the Police seem to be exempt from operating within the law and act with impunity to ruin the quality of life in my neighborhood.

I routinely observe Police vehicles being driven at speeds over the posted limit, turning without signaling, parking wherever they please with headlights into oncoming traffic, and not in any emergency capacity that is signaled with emergency lights and or sirens. Just in the regular course of driving around. If you haven’t experienced this on a regular basis you are probably losing interest right now in what I have to say. I’m betting the majority of you are still with me.

I am a retired firefighter, the son of a career Police Officer. And as a child, I remember chiding my father for not taking full advantage of being a cop. “Dad” I would say, “You could drive fast if you wanted and run red lights because you could get away with it... You’re (as though he needed to be reminded of it) a cop!”

This would prompt the lecture that would try to impress upon me his need to be extra careful, extra courteous, and most certainly to abide by the laws. “Because” he would explain, “if I don’t respect the law and the people laws are designed to protect, how can I ever expect others to respect the laws or my authority to enforce them? No one, especially a Police Officer, is above the law.” He did impress this upon me. And not so much by that which he said as by the example he lived.

As a firefighter, all our training relative to emergency driving revolved around our primary concern, safety. This is what defines firefighting. Saving Lives and Property. It is our mantra. What else were we doing if not this? It was primary in every faucet of our service. So driving at all times, and in emergencies especially, was to be governed by this primary objective. Controlling a squad car is one thing, a 30,000 pound Fire Engine is another. Especially in urban areas, neighborhoods of homes and children, you had to drive with the ultimate consideration of being able to control the vehicle and protect lives. You had to anticipate the unexpected, the need to stop. When the lights flash and the sirens wail it is all to easy to get caught-up in the “adrenalin go” and forget about the stopping part. And when other drivers hear an approaching siren, they get agitated and often react unexpectedly. This is just a fact. But we were trained and re-trained on how to deal with it, on how to control ourselves.

When I first arrived in LA I was amazed at the speeds I witnessed Police vehicles attain through shopping areas, residential streets and main thoroughfares such as Le Brea. I literally watched, mouth open and jaw dropped ,at the reckless nature of their response. And I’ve seen a lot.

Since then, I am constantly amazed by the lack of respect for safety and the laws I’ve observed in other, non emergency situations as well. Continually.

So why should I expect any more relative to the operation of Police Helicopters? Are there no protections for those of us on the ground from these? The frequency and rate of utilization relative to which calls warrant a helicopter seems only to be increasing. At an (pun intended) alarming rate. Daily I am disturbed by several low, noisy passes of Police Helicopters. No, I am not located in the vicinity of a Police Station or Airport. Which brings us to the location perspective. I purposely did not look for a home near an airport. I did not want to be subject to the noise or threat of death raining down from above when aircraft fail. No matter. Several times each day I get the disruption anyway. My question is, why?

Why is it necessary? Why are all the laws and protections designed to preserve my safety and quality of life thrown out the window relative to the Police Department’s operation of these aircraft?

Do they operate under any minimum height flying restrictions? Have they ever heard of a muffler? Do they even care that aggressive flying maneuvers and tight turns create more noise, thunderous noise, teeth rattling noise? And do they realize that when (and it is a matter of when) one of these fail over residential areas that they tend to “land” very hard and with catastrophic results? Is there a need that justifies the way helicopters are operated by the Police Department?

Now’s the time to run the crime statistics and decry any question of Police tactics in this day and age. But the statistics do not justify police helicopters. They don’t justify the cost, the dangers and the loss of quality of life that it takes. Obviously the Police feel the trade-offs are acceptable. What should it matter what you and I think.

Case in Point. I am awakened suddenly from a deep sleep around midnight. My bedroom is awash in a bright blue-white light akin to something I’ve only seen in a science fiction movie. If it were not for the deafening BAP, BAP, BAP of the rotor noise, I might assume I was about to be visited by god. But little did I know then, I was in for a night of hell.

This helicopter circled relentlessly again and again over a home 3 blocks away and down the hill from my home which sits on the top of that hill. I don’t know what height it was that the helicopter circled above the surveillance subject home, but as it passed by and over my home, it was very, very close. This went on for an hour until my wife and I ventured to hope that it would have to run low on fuel sooner or later and then, at least, leave. Before it did, it was joined by another. Some time later we hear the ultimatum issued over the blaring loudspeaker “You have one minute to lay down your weapons and come out” Finally, this will be over. Called their bluff. An hour later, still circling.

So early the next morning I got on the computer to Google the News and see what could have been so important, so relative to law and public safety that it required two helicopters and hours of flight time and reckless endangerment and disturbing of the public peace. Search as I may, I couldn’t find any report of any story or incident in my neighborhood. What I did find was an article detailing that Los Angeles County was taking delivery of 14 new helicopters.

And so it continues. Worse than ever, more frequently than ever. News and traffic helicopters have been a part of daily life for decades. They get great close-up images of car chases and suspect arrests and they do it relatively quietly, from much higher altitudes with much less aggressive and disturbing flying tactics. I’ve never had occasion to mind their activities or the way they operate. But then again, they have laws and regulations to govern their operation. I feel some days like I am in a war zone in my own home and maybe the Police will insist that we are. I don’t see it. I don’t fear crime, I fear the Police. I fear I will be run over or crashed into from the land and or sky by vehicles paid for with my own tax dollars that are increasingly posing a threat to public safety and welfare and seem, for all intents and purpose, to be operated outside and above the law. But what should it matter what I think or feel? I am just a citizen.

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Detrimentally Clean.

1/28/11

Sebum (Latin, meaning fat or tallow) is an an oily/waxy secretion of the sebaceous glands made of fat (lipids), wax, and the debris of dead fat-producing cells, that lubricates the skin and hair of mammals. It may sound gross yet it is a gift from nature. Microscopic glands in the skin secrete sebum as a natural protection and preservative. It is normally found in greatest abundance on the face and scalp yet these microscopic glands are none the less distributed throughout all skin sites except the palms and soles. In the eyelids, meibomian sebaceous glands secrete a special type of sebum into tears.

Sebum itself is odorless, but its bacterial breakdown does produce odors. Sebum is manifest in "oily" hair and skin. Earwax is, at least partly, composed of sebum. Excessive sebum can cause acne (among other enemies of a clear complexion) and has been linked to eating red meats, fried, oily or other foods, but these studies are not conclusive.

In Western Culture there has existed a tradition of waging war on Sebum perceiving it of little or no value and even worse... uncleanly, disgusting and repugnant.

Should we consider, in the light of 4.5 billion years (give or take) of planetary evolution that nature has created sebum for a valid reason and our current opinions my be, to say the least, misguided?

We are acutely aware of the perceived adverse effects of an over-production of sebum and only now beginning to understand the effects of too little. We bring a wide range of drug, steroids and cleansing agents to bear in an effort to control the production of or remove sebum and have done so with too little concern, I believe, for the adverse side-effects of reducing and/or eliminating sebum and sebum production.

Globally, we spend an estimated $24 Billion on skin care products and it can be argued that the most expensive of these, the most natural of these, work to return many of the characteristics to our skin that are provided by, well, sebum. The stuff we work to scour away daily. I get wrinkles just thinking about this.

Now, get me started on the adverse effects of aluminum in deodorants.

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10 Things About Your Microwave That Are Killing You

12/27/10

Is it possible that millions of people are ignorantly sacrificing their health in exchange for the convenience of microwave ovens? Why did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? Who invented microwave ovens, and why? The answers to these questions may shock you into throwing your microwave oven in the trash.

Over 90% of American homes have microwave ovens used for meal preparation. Because microwave ovens are so convenient and energy efficient, as compared to conventional ovens, very few homes or restaurants are without them. In general, people believe that whatever a microwave oven does to foods cooked in it doesn't have any negative effect on either the food or them. Of course, if microwave ovens were really harmful, our government would never allow them on the market, would they?

1. Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term - permanent - brain damage by "shorting out" electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].

2. The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.

3. Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4. The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

5. Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.

6. The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.

7. Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in America.

8. The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

9. Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.

10. Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

In short, microwaves distort the moleclular structure of the foods. They destroy much of the nutrients and cause many other problems with the immune system over a period of time.

Microwave oven manufacturers insist that microwaved and irradiated foods do not have any significantly higher radiolytic compounds than do broiled, baked or other conventionally cooked foods. The scientific clinical evidence presented here has shown that this is simply a lie.

Because the body is electrochemical in nature, any force that disrupts or changes human electrochemical events will affect the physiology of the body. This is further described in Robert O. Becker's book, The Body Electric, and in Ellen Sugarman's book, Warning, the Electricity Around You May Be Hazardous to Your Health.

In Comparative Study of Food Prepared Conventionally and in the Microwave Oven, published by Raum & Zelt in 1992, at 3(2): 43, it states

"A basic hypothesis of natural medicine states that the introduction into the human body of molecules and energies, to which it is not accustomed, is much more likely to cause harm than good. Microwaved food contains both molecules and energies not present in food cooked in the way humans have been cooking food since the discovery of fire. Microwave energy from the sun and other stars is direct current based. Artificially produced microwaves, including those in ovens, are produced from alternating current and force a billion or more polarity reversals per second in every food molecule they hit. Production of unnatural molecules is inevitable. Naturally occurring amino acids have been observed to undergo isomeric changes (changes in shape morphing) as well as transformation into toxic forms, under the impact of microwaves produced in ovens.

One short-term study found significant and disturbing changes in the blood of individuals consuming microwaved milk and vegetables. Eight volunteers ate various combinations of the same foods cooked different ways. All foods that were processed through the microwave ovens caused changes in the blood of the volunteers. Hemoglobin levels decreased and over all white cell levels and cholesterol levels increased. Lymphocytes (white blood cells) increased.

In 1991, Dr. Hans Ulrich Hertel and a Lausanne university professor published a research paper indicating that food cooked in microwave ovens could pose a greater risk to health than food cooked by conventional means. An article also appeared in issue 19 of the Journal Franz Weber in which it was stated that the consumption of food cooked in microwave ovens had cancerous effects on the blood.

Dr. Hertel was the first scientist to conceive and carry out a quality clinical study on the effects microwaved nutrients have on the blood and physiology of the human body. His small, but well controlled, study showed the degenerative force produced in microwave ovens and the food processed in them. The scientific conclusion showed that microwave cooking changed the nutrients in the food; and, changes took place in the participants' blood that could cause deterioration in the human system. Hertel's scientific study was done along with Dr. Bernard H. Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the university Institute for Biochemistry.

In intervals of two to five days, the volunteers in the study received one of the following food variants on an empty stomach: (1) raw milk; (2) the same milk conventionally cooked; (3) pasteurized milk; (4) the same raw milks cooked in a microwave oven; (5) raw vegetables from an organic farm; (6) the same vegetables cooked conventionally; (7) the same vegetables frozen and defrosted in a microwave oven; and (8) the same vegetables cooked in the microwave oven. Once the volunteers were isolated, blood samples were taken from every volunteer immediately before eating. Then, blood samples were taken at defined intervals after eating from the above milk or vegetable preparations.

Significant changes were discovered in the blood samples from the intervals following the foods cooked in the microwave oven. These changes included a decrease in all hemoglobin and cholesterol values, especially the ratio of HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) values. Lymphocytes (white blood cells) showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants. Each of these indicators pointed to degeneration.

Additionally, there was a highly significant association between the amount of microwave energy in the test foods and the luminous power of luminescent bacteria exposed to serum from test persons who ate that food.

This led Dr. Hertel to the conclusion that such technically derived energies may, indeed, be passed along to man inductively via eating microwaved food. According to Dr. Hertel, "Leukocytosis, which cannot be accounted for by normal daily deviations, is taken very seriously by hemotologists. Leukocytes are often signs of pathogenic effects on the living system, such as poisoning and cell damage. The increase of leukocytes with the microwaved foods were more pronounced than with all the other variants. It appears that these marked increases were caused entirely by ingesting the microwaved substances.

In America, neither universities nor the federal government have conducted any tests concerning the effects on our bodies from eating microwaved foods. Isn't that a bit odd? They're more concerned with studies on what happens if the door on a microwave oven doesn't close properly. Once again, common sense tells us that their attention should be centered on what happens to food cooked inside a microwave oven. Since people ingest this altered food, shouldn't there be concern for how the same decayed molecules will affect our own human biological cell structure?

Who invented microwave ovens?

The Nazis, for use in their mobile support operations, originally developed microwave "radiomissor" cooking ovens to be used for the invasion of Russia. By being able to utilize electronic equipment for preparation of meals on a mass scale, the logistical problem of cooking fuels would have been eliminated, as well as the convenience of producing edible products in a greatly reduced time-factor.

After the war, the Allies discovered medical research done by the Germans on microwave ovens. These documents, along with some working microwave ovens, were transferred to the united States War Department and classified for reference and "further scientific investigation." The Russians had also retrieved some microwave ovens and now have thorough research on their biological effects. As a result, their use was outlawed in the Soviet union. The Soviets issued an international warning on the health hazards, both biological and environmental, of microwave ovens and similar frequency electronic devices.

Other Eastern European scientists also reported the harmful effects of microwave radiation and set up strict environmental limits for their usage. The united States has not accepted the European reports of harmful effects, even though the EPA estimates that radio frequency and microwave radiation sources in America are increasing at 15% per year.

Carcinogens in microwaved food

In Dr. Lita Lee's book, Health Effects of Microwave Radiation - Microwave Ovens, and in the March and September 1991 issues of Earthletter, she stated that every microwave oven leaks electro-magnetic radiation, harms food, and converts substances cooked in it to dangerous organ-toxic and carcinogenic products. Further research summarized in this article reveal that microwave ovens are far more harmful than previously imagined.

The following is a summary of the Russian investigations published by the Atlantis Raising Educational Center in Portland, Oregon. Carcinogens were formed in virtually all foods tested. No test food was subjected to more microwaving than necessary to accomplish the purpose, i.e., cooking, thawing, or heating to insure sanitary ingestion. Here's a summary of some of the results:

a. Microwaving prepared meats sufficiently to insure sanitary ingestion caused formation of d-Nitrosodienthanolamines, a well-known carcinogen.

b. Microwaving milk and cereal grains converted some of their amino acids into carcinogens.

c. Thawing frozen fruits converted their glucoside and galactoside containing fractions into carcinogenic substances.

d. Extremely short exposure of raw, cooked or frozen vegetables converted their plant alkaloids into carcinogens.

e. Carcinogenic free radicals were formed in microwaved plants, especially root vegetables. Decrease in nutritional value.

Russian researchers also reported a marked acceleration of structural degradation leading to a decreased food value of 60 to 90% in all foods tested. Among the changes observed were:

a. Deceased bio-availability of vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropics factors in all food tested.

b. Various kinds of damaged to many plant substances, such as alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides and nitrilosides.

c. The degradation of nucleo-proteins in meats.

The effects noted by both German and Russian researchers is presented in three categories:

Category I, Cancer-Causing Effects

Category II, Nutritive Destruction of Foods

Category III, Biological Effects of Exposure

CATEGORY I

CANCER-CAUSING EFFECTS

[The first two points of Category I are not readable from our report copy. The remainder of the report is intact.]

Creation of a "binding effect" to radioactivity in the atmosphere, thus causing a marked increase in the amount of alpha and beta particle saturation in foods;

Creation of cancer causing agents within protein hydrolysate compounds* in milk and cereal grains [*these are natural proteins that are split into unnatural fragments by the addition of water];

Alteration of elemental food-substances, causing disorders in the digestive system by unstable catabolism* of foods subjected to microwaves [*the metabolic breakdown process];

Due to chemical alterations within food substances, malfunctions were observed within the lymphatic systems [absorbent vessels], causing a degeneration of the immune potentials of the body to protect against certain forms of neoplastics [abnormal growths of tissue];

Ingestion of microwaved foods caused a higher percentage of cancerous cells within the blood serum [cytomas - cell tumors such as sarcoma];

Microwave emissions caused alteration in the catabolic [metabolic breakdown] behavior of glucoside [hydrolyzed dextrose] and galactoside [oxidized alcohol] elements within frozen fruits when thawed in this manner;

Microwave emission caused alteration of the catabolic [metabolic breakdown] behavior of plant alkaloids [organic nitrogen based elements] when raw, cooked, or frozen vegetables were exposed for even extremely short durations;

Cancer causing free radicals [highly reactive incomplete molecules] were formed within certain trace mineral molecular formations in plant substances, and in particular, raw root-vegetables; and,

In a statistically high percentage of persons, microwaved foods caused stomach and intestinal cancerous growths, as well as a general degeneration of peripheral cellular tissues, with a gradual breakdown of the function of the digestive and execrative systems.

CATEGORY II

DECREASE IN FOOD VALUE

Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the nutritive value of all foods researched. The following are the most important findings:

A decrease in the bioavailability [capability of the body to utilize the nutriment] of B-complex vitamins, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropics in all foods;

A loss of 60-90% of the vital energy field content of all tested foods;

A reduction in the metabolic behavior and integration process capability of alkaloids [organic nitrogen based elements], glucosides and galactosides, and nitrilosides;

A destruction of the nutritive value of nucleoproteins in meats;

A marked acceleration of structural disintegration in all foods.

CATEGORY III

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE

Exposure to microwave emissions also had an unpredictably negative effect upon the general biological welfare of humans. This was not discovered until the Russians experimented with highly sophisticated equipment and discovered that a human did not even need to ingest the material substance of the microwaved food substances: that even exposure to the energy-field itself was sufficient to cause such adverse side effects that the use of any such microwave apparatus was forbidden in 1976 by Soviet state law.

The following are the enumerated effects:

A breakdown of the human "life-energy field" in those who were exposed to microwave ovens while in operation, with side-effects to the human energy field of increasingly longer duration;

A degeneration of the cellular voltage parallels during the process of using the apparatus, especially in the blood and lymphatic areas;

A degeneration and destabilization of the external energy activated potentials of food utilization within the processes of human metabolism;

A degeneration and destabilization of internal cellular membrane potentials while transferring catabolic [metabolic breakdown] processes into the blood serum from the digestive process;

Degeneration and circuit breakdowns of electrical nerve impulses within the junction potentials of the cerebrum [the front portion of the brain where thought and higher functions reside];

A degeneration and breakdown of nerve electrical circuits and loss of energy field symmetry in the neuroplexuses [nerve centers] both in the front and the rear of the central and autonomic nervous systems;

Loss of balance and circuiting of the bioelectric strengths within the ascending reticular activating system [the system which controls the function of consciousness];

A long term cumulative loss of vital energies within humans, animals and plants that were located within a 500-meter radius of the operational equipment;

Long lasting residual effects of magnetic "deposits" were located throughout the nervous system and lymphatic system;

A destabilization and interruption in the production of hormones and maintenance of hormonal balance in males and females;

Markedly higher levels of brainwave disturbance in the alpha, theta, and delta wave signal patterns of persons exposed to microwave emission fields, and;

Because of this brainwave disturbance, negative psychological effects were noted, including loss of memory, loss of ability to concentrate, suppressed emotional threshold, deceleration of intellective processes, and interruptive sleep episodes in a statistically higher percentage of individuals subjected to continual range emissive field effects of microwave apparatus, either in cooking apparatus or in transmission stations.

The Soviet Union banned the use of microwave ovens in 1976.

SOURCE: http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/microwave-ovens-the-proven-dangers.html

MICROWAVE POPCORN
When it's movie night at home and you're getting ready to break out the popcorn, using an air popper or jostling a pot of kernels in a heart-friendly oil on your stove top might be your best choices.

A report from the FDA indicates that a chemical coating used in microwave popcorn bags breaks down when heated into a substance called perfluorooctanoic (PFOA).

The Environmental Protection Agency has identified PFOA as a "likely carcinogen." Another study has found an acid that can be extracted from the chemical causes cancer in animals and is "likely to cause cancer in humans."

A second potential danger in microwave popcorn is diacetyl, an FDA-approved chemical found in the fake butter flavoring. There's even a debilitating respiratory disease called "popcorn workers lung" (the medical name of the condition is bronchiolitis obliterans), suffered by microwave popcorn factory workers caused by extended inhalation of the chemical's fumes. source: http://green.yahoo.com/blog/care2/69/dangers-of-microwave-popcorn.html

MICROWAVE HEATED BABY FORMULA
Dr. Lita Lee of Hawaii reported in the December 9, 1989 Lancet:

"Microwaving baby formulas converted certain trans-amino acids into their synthetic cis-isomers. Synthetic isomers, whether cis-amino acids or trans-fatty acids, are not biologically active. Further, one of the amino acids, L-proline, was converted to its d-isomer, which is known to be neurotoxic (poisonous to the nervous system) and nephrotoxic (poisonous to the kidneys). It's bad enough that many babies are not nursed, but now they are given fake milk (baby formula) made even more toxic via microwaving."

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I'd Be Angry At WikiLeaks Too!

12/21/10

By Tom Ford

If I were such an ass as those who represent America to the world have been, I would be angry too.

When I read the context of the cables released by WikiLeaks I mostly come away with a profound shame; for my government, my country and the human race as represented by the character of those authoring those documents. And remember, these are professional diplomats and politicians, leaders whom we the taxpayers pay handsomely to represent us. I say this because there is a real danger of those of you with young, spoiled, bratty children getting confused as to what these people are.

Yes, I would be angry too. Imagine, this narrow-minded and arrogant reasoning, and absurd, toady behavior that I assumed would never be made public, being suddenly and fully exposed to the taxpayer from whom I draw my exorbitant salary and luxurious medical benefits and retirement. This is serious indeed! This could jeopardize my gig!

I would cry “foul” and expound how this is a grievous crime of a treasonous nature that puts our Intelligence (their word, not mine) community at risk and rendering it less able to violate every basic human right to promote freedom.

As the Generals in command of a military spending 10’s of billions of taxpayer dollars every month to kill thousands in the name of peace, I would be pissed!

And as the politician, who enjoys a great salary, unheard of benefits and a complete retirement on the backs of the struggling taxpayer, I would be furious that the realities of my delicate spin dance were going to be more clearly defined by truth.

The Patriot Act that took away our freedom under the guise of protecting it is not truth. The Constitutional Free Zone which voids the Constitution for the vast majority of Americans is not the truth. Like intercourse for virginity, war for peace is not truth. Where would we be if the citizenry realized that $100 Billion Dollars spent each year on social infrastructure, education, healthcare and the protection of real food and the environment would be so much more beneficial to America and the World than the War in Afghanistan?

Where would we be if the hundreds of Billions of Dollars we spend on espionage and covert carnage were spent on helping the poor? We would look weak and vulnerable. There is a REAL AND PRESENT DANGER in the truth being realized by those to whom we have lied to for so long. If people knew the truth, they might rise up, unite and turn it all around.... Naaaah. Nobody wants the truth.

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