Talk by Naomi Wolf - The End of America



Click here for the Guardian article complete with the list of ten easy steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms.

Ron Paul could be the last hope for America

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Even the animal kingdom understands

Rudy VS. Ron Paul & David Cross (Adult Language)

THE CASE AGAINST MEDICAL LICENSING

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science.
All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic... The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."

--Dr Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Licensing practitioners to protect the public and hold practitioners accountable is often taken for granted … Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman wrote:

"... I am persuaded that licensure has reduced both the quantity and quality of medical practice...It has reduced the opportunities for people to become physicians, it has forced the public to pay more for less satisfactory service, and it has retarded technological development...I conclude that licensure should be eliminated as a requirement for the practice of medicine."(1)

Nobel Prize-winning economist George J. Stigler of the University of Chicago wrote:

"As a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated primarily for its benefit".(2)

Lori B. Andrews, Professor of Law and Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar, Chicago-Kent College of Law, wrote:

"Licensing has served to channel the development of health care services by granting an exclusive privilege and high status to practitioners relying on a particular approach to health care, a disease-oriented intrusive approach rather than a preventive approach....By granting a monopoly to a particular approach to health care, the licensing laws may serve to assure an ineffective health care system."(3)

Ron Paul, MD, a practicing obstetrician and a Congressman from Texas, wrote:

Let us allow physicians, hospitals and schools to spring up where they're needed, abolish the restrictive licensure laws, and simply invoke the laws against fraud to insure honesty among all providers of health care...That will make health care affordable for everyone..."(4)

The idea of deregulating health practitioners may seem extreme. Let us examine why it is not as radical as it may sound.

View the entire article here.

Big Pharma and ADHD: Destroying our children for money


(Please, if you have children or even know anyone with children you owe it to them to watch this movie)

In the absence of any objective medical tests to determine who has ADD or ADHD, doctors rely in part on standardized assessments and the impressions of teachers and guardians while the treatments they administer leave little room for other causes or aggravating factors, such as diet, or environment. Hence, diagnosing a child or adolescent with ADD or ADHD is often the outcome, although no organic basis for either disease has yet to be clinically proven. Psychiatrists may then prescribe psychotropic drugs for the children without first making it clear to parents that these medications can have severe side-effects including insomnia, loss of appetite, headaches, psychotic symptoms and even potentially fatal adverse reactions, such as cardiac arrhythmia. And yet, despite these dangers, many school systems actually work with government agencies to force parents to drug their children, threatening those who refuse with the prospect of having their children taken from the home unless they cooperate.

If you found this informative I highly recommend you go here for more from Gary Null.

Psychiatric Drug Use In Toddlers Soars -- More Kids Ages 2 to 4 On Ritalin, Antidepressants

Project Vote Smart

I am incredibly impressed with the amount of information this non-partisan research group puts at our fingertips. They have dedicated 16 years and several millions of dollars to researching and making available to you every aspect of your public officials actions. Do you want to find out your congress persons voting record on any given issue? Its here. What have they said (in congress or anywhere in print) about an issue? Yup, they have it here. If you care enough to vote you owe it to yourself to take advantage of their website...and then let everyone you love know about it as well.

The Declaration of Independence

A Call For JUSTICE

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas PaineUS patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809)

The absolute, glaring sensibility of this statement, as well as the vital importance of holding to this foundational truth even in a time of ‘war’ (keeping in mind we are not in a constitutionally sanctioned war with anyone, least of all Iraq) makes this article absolutely essential reading. I would like to thank truthout for publishing this article first brought out in The Independent UK.

Al-Jazeera Man "Close to Death" at Guantanamo Bay
By Robert Verkaik The Independent UK
Thursday 13 September 2007

An al-Jazeera journalist captured in Afghanistan six years ago and sent to Guantanamo Bay is close to becoming the fifth detainee at the US naval base to take his own life, according to a medical report written by a team of British and American psychiatrists.

Sami al-Haj, a Sudanese national, is 250 days into a hunger strike which he began in protest over his detention without charge or trial in January 2002. But British and American doctors, who have been given exclusive access to his interview notes, say there is very strong evidence that he has given up his fight for life, experiencing what doctors recognise as "passive suicide", a condition suffered by female victims of Darfur.

Dr Dan Creson, a US psychiatrist who has worked with the United Nations in Darfur, said Mr Haj was suffering from severe depression and may be deteriorating to the point of imminent death.

He said the detainee's condition was similar to that of Darfuri women in Sudan whose mind suddenly experiences an irreversible decline after enduring months of starvation and abuse. He said: "In the midst of rape, slow starvation, and abject humiliation, they did whatever they could to survive and save their children; then, suddenly, something happened in their psyche, and, without warning, they would just sit down with their small children beneath the first small area of available shade and with no apparent emotion wait for death."

In June this year a Saudi man became the fourth prisoner to take his own life at Guantanamo Bay. Guards found him dead in his cell. Two Saudis and a Yemeni prisoner were found hanged in an apparent suicide at Guantanamo in June last year. A senior US officer caused outrage at the time by describing the suicides of three men as an act of asymmetric warfare and a good PR move on the part of terrorist suspects.

Mr Haj, 38, was sent on assignment by al-Jazeera television station to cover the war in Afghanistan in October 2001. The following month, after the fall of Kabul, Mr Haj left Afghanistan for Pakistan with the rest of his crew.

In early December, the crew were given visas to return to Afghanistan. But when Mr Haj tried to re-enter Afghanistan with his colleagues, he was arrested by the Pakistani authorities - apparently at the request of the US military.

He was imprisoned, handed over to the US authorities in January 2002, taken to the US military compound in Bagram, Afghanisatan, then Kandahar, and finally to Guantanamo in June 2002.

His lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, of the human rights charity Reprieve, said his client had endured months of brutal force-feeding and lost nearly a fifth of his body weight during the hunger strike.

Mr Stafford Smith said: "The US military is rightly afraid of a fifth prisoner dying in their custody. But they wrongly respond by treating prisoners worse. Blankets and clothes are removed in case they are used to commit suicide. The harshest methods of forced feeding are deployed - Sami has suffered the feeding tube being forced down into his lungs by mistake several times."

The warning about the condition of Mr Haj coincided with the release of Guantanamo transcripts which describe the hostility between guards and their prisoners. The transcripts includes details of guards interrupting detainees at prayer, detainees flinging body waste at guards and interrogators withholding medicine.

Dr Hugh Rickards, a British psychiatrist, warned in his report that the level of Mr Haj's mental suffering "appears so acute that it is my duty as a medical practitioner to put this in writing to ensure appropriate assessment and treatment".

Dr Mamoun Mobayed, a British psychiatrist based in Northern Ireland, and a third member of the team who has also been given access to written notes of recent interviews with the prisoner, said there was also concern about the mental health of Mr Haj's wife and seven-year-old son, who was just one when his father went on assignment to Afghanistan.

Are you taking Pharmaceutical Drugs?

You will want to check the side effects, food interactions and dangers of trusting your doctors advice. Mike Adams has put together a powerful tool for just this purpose.

Are you aware that:

• Gemfibrozil has been shown to reduce both Co-Q10 and vitamin E levels with long term use to levels found in healthy men.
• Chasteberry can theoretically interfere with Provera due to its hormonal properties.
• You should avoid herbs with antiplatelet or anticoagulant properties like: angelica,anise, asafoetida, capsicum, celery, chamomile, clove, danshen, fenugreek, feverfew, garlic, ginger, ginkgo, ginseng (Panax), horse chestnut, horseradish, licorice, meadowsweet, prickly ash, onion, passionflower, poplar, red clover, turmeric, wild carrot, wild lettuce, and willow when using celebrex.
• These herbs have cardiac properties which may increase cardiac side effects of Viagra: black hellebore, calamus, cereus, cola, coltsfoot, devil's claw, European mistletoe, fenugreek, fumitory, digitalis leaf, hedge mustard, figwort, lily of the valley roots, motherwort, pleurisy root, squill bulb leaf scales, white horehound, mate, scotch broom flower, shepherd's purse, and wild carrot.

Keith Olberman on 9/04/07-I want to have this mans children

Why do the Aussies get it and we don't?

Think our government came out of nowhere? Watch this short movie from 1946.

Summit Prompts Super Government Fears

08-20-2007 Washington Times By Jon Ward - OTTAWA -- President Bush's two-day summit with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, beginning today in nearby Montebello, is raising fears among some conservatives that the three governments are planning a European Union-style super-government.

Concerns about such an agreement and where it could lead started on Web sites and among talk-radio hosts, picked up by CNN commentator Lou Dobbs and gained traction among some of the House Republicans who successfully derailed Mr. Bush's immigration-reform plan, which critics described as an amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens in the United States. READ MORE

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China To Install Sensors Along NAFTA Highway

08-19-2007 WND Jerome Corsi | Radio sensing stations to track traffic and cargo up and down the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway corridor are being installed by Communist China, operating through a port operator subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and the North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc.

The idea is that RFID chips placed in containers where manufactured goods are shipped from China will be able to be tracked to the Mexican ports on the Pacific where the containers are unloaded onto Mexican trucks and trains for transportation on the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway to destinations within the United States. READ MORE

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Behavior Detection Officers Watching Travelers

08-20-2007 Mcclatchy WASHINGTON | Next time you go to the airport, more eyes may be following you than you notice.

Reading your body language. Studying the facial cues of the passenger in front of you. Scanning for signs of bad intentions, the watcher could be the attendant who hands you the tray for your laptop or the one standing behind the ticket checker. Or even curbside with the baggage attendants.

Called behavior detection officers, they are part of recent security upgrades, Transportation Security Administrator Kip Hawley told an aviation industry group in Washington last month, "a wonderful tool to be able to identify and do risk management prior to somebody coming into the airport or approaching the crowded checkpoint." READ MORE

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Partnership viewed as a threat to sovereignty

Montreal Gazette | August 20, 2007 SIKANDER HASHMI A coalition of Canadian, American and Mexican energy workers' unions and nine lobby groups yesterday denounced the Security and Prosperity Partnership discussed by leaders of the three countries in Montebello, as a threat to each nation's energy sovereignty.

The Montebello meeting is a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the three countries through greater co-operation and information sharing. READ MORE

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Head of GAO Issues Dire Warning to President Bush: Learn From the Fall of Rome

Jeremy Grant Financial Times August 14, 2007 - The US government is on a 'burning platform' of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country's top government inspector has warned.

David Walker, comptroller general of the US, issued the unusually downbeat assessment of his country's future in a report that lays out what he called "chilling long-term simulations".

These include "dramatic" tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US debt.

Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were "striking similarities" between America's current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including "declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government". READ MORE

Take two aspirin and boycott Bayer in the morning.

How Gullible Do They Think We Are?

(from an article by Cosmicbear published in 2002)

Imagine, if you will, going on a blind date set up for you by a dear and trusted friend. You arrive on time at the specified restaurant, dressed to kill: new clothes, fresh haircut; you are looking sharp and feeling good…and no one shows up. The next day you call your friend who is quick to explain your date’s reason for not showing, whether it was work or traffic or whatever. But the person is truly sorry and wants to meet you tonight, at the same place and time, if that meets with your approval. Lets say you agree, and you are there on time ‘dressed to the nines’ once again, and again your date is a no show.

How many times would you put yourself through this scenario before you began to question this person’s veracity, or your friend’s integrity, for that matter? In a very real sense this was the position the early Church found themselves in concerning the promise of the return of their leader, Jesus. In the study of the Gospels we see the early followers expecting him to come back soon, and the longer it took the more elaborate the later writers explanations became, until finally they had to strip the Old Testament Scriptures of all sense and reason in order to establish a time frame for the still eminent return of their hero.

Down through the centuries there have been multitudes of Church leaders that have set hundreds of dates, and each and every one has been wrong. To name a few:

1889-The Jehovah’s Witnesses claimed, “The ‘battle of the great day of God Almighty’ (Rev.16:14) which will end in A.D. 1914 with the complete overthrow of earth’s present rulership, is already commenced.” The Time Is At Hand pg. 101.
1897-also, “Our Lord, the appointed King, is now present, since October 1874 A.D.” Studies in the Scriptures Vol. 4, pg 621, 1897 ed.
1916-“The six great 1000-year days beginning with Adam are ended, and the great 7th day, the 1000 years of Christ’s reign, began in 1873.” The Time Is At Hand pg. 2.
1920-“Therefore we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old.” Millions Now Living Will Never Die pg. 89.
1931-it seems some had come to their senses, as stated in the publication Vindication pg. 338 and 339; “There was a measure of disappointment on the part of Jehovah’s faithful ones on earth concerning the years 1914, 1918 & 1925, which disappointment lasted for a time…and they also learned to quit fixing dates.”
Or did they?
1966-“Six thousand years from man’s creation will end in 1975, and the seventh period of a thousand years of human history will begin in the fall of 1975 C.E. (Common Era).” Life Everlasting pg 29.
1968-“There are only about 90 months before 6000 years of mans existence on earth is completed. The majority of people living today will probably be alive when Armageddon breaks out.” KM 3/68

One has to wonder, how can there still be so many Jehovah’s Witnesses. I don’t care how much I love my friend; if that ‘date’ has not shown up in over a hundred years, chances are my friend is a liar.

However, this line of thought isn’t strictly limited to this little section of Christianity. It has become a focal point of most fundamentalist theology since J.N. Darby took the first wobbly steps toward modern day dispensationalism in the nineteenth century. The majority of Christian Denominations today have developed rather extensive doctrinal statements concerning the end times, many of them disagreeing on nearly every point. It seems the only point they agree on is that Jesus will return to earth. In the clouds? Maybe. On the Mount of Olives? Perhaps. When? Your guess is as good as mine…literally. Aside from the Seventh Day Adventist’s of the nineteenth century and the ‘pre-tribulation rapture’ movements that have filled the Christian bookshelves and airwaves since the early 70’s, this ‘date setting’ trend has become popular in any religion that is based on an eschatological (1) basis, including many aspects of the New Age movement.

For instance, in a magazine called Connecting Link, in issue 22, dated January/February of 1994, we find on pgs. 24 and 25, an advertisement by I AM AMERICA out of Payson Az., which publishes a bunch of books concerning earth changes prophesied to occur some time in the future which were channeled from St. Germain, Sananda, and an army of other masters of the Spiritual Hierarchy through Lori Wilkins Toye and her husband Len. They have also created a map of the United States showing the end result, including a new shoreline just above Phoenix. In the ad the question is asked, “When will this happen?” The answer they give is, “The unique message of this map goes beyond predicting earthquakes, volcanoes and sinking lands. It isn’t concerned about when this is going to happen, rather what are we going to do with our choices now.” This would seem to be the appropriate response to any question regarding the timing of ‘god’, or the Universe, or anyone claiming to speak for them. But let’s hold our applause. In their book New World Atlas, which was published in 1991, we find very specific timelines for very specific catastrophes. For instance, on December 17, 1988, concerning the sinking of central Oregon, it is stated, “They are indicating the first event occurring in the year 1992…and the final events are in 2000.” In a session on December 21, concerning the sinking of the Rockies near Denver, “Q-So that mountain range will not be there by 2000 then? A-No.” There are several other predictions with precise times stated, but these two will make my point. It comes as no surprise, then, that between the time the book was published and the advertisement came out in the magazine, about three uneventful years, the authors had to scale down the importance of the dates for the sake of credibility.

In 1986 Yvonne Cole began channeling a group of ET’s known as the Ashtar Command. In the early 90’s they (or ‘she’) made it known through an endless succession of articles in the Connecting Link that in the latter part of 1994 they would be unveiling themselves to humanity using the latest technology. As they were already in contact with the national leaders throughout the world, this coming out party would be broadcast with their full approval on every TV and radio station worldwide. These messages were carried for a couple of years in the Connecting Link magazine. The excuse they gave in 1995 was that we weren’t ready for such a grand event.

This next article, also from the January/February issue of Connecting Link, is under the title ‘News Bulletin from Mission Control.’ Now mind you, this is a direct quote from a person that expects you to take this seriously, although if I wrote a comical sci-fi novel I would have included this as part of the plot line. “The governing extraterrestrial councils of this planetary mission have interceded in the official schedule of catastrophes and have changed the changes. Instead of catapulting California into the ocean, a decision was recently made to keep it. In a close vote it was decided to preserve California “as is” and turn it into a theme park-a place to take your children on a tour of the old civilization and scare them, after you explain to them what “being scared” means.” Alright, so maybe Ashtar Command and Mission Control couldn’t decide what to do with California and therefore neither did anything and they both decided to take a vacation with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.

These are some of the questions we need to ask ourselves: How many times do we allow someone to lie to us before we no longer trust them? If someone is channeling information that proves to be false, could they simply be hearing voices in their heads? If thirty people channel thirty energies and get thirty totally conflicting sets of facts, do we just pick a name out of a hat to see which is right? Is there a right or wrong? Do we have to give up our reasoning faculties to be spiritual? Can someone you trust in most things simply be wrong about something without losing your respect?

I will leave you with this quote from a little book called The Key, published by A Center for the Practice of Zen Buddhist Meditation. “A rat in a laboratory learns very quickly not to go down the tunnel if there is no longer cheese at the other end. A human being will continue to go down the tunnel even though there’s never been any cheese at the end.”

Note (1) - (es·cha·tol·o·gy n. 1. The branch of theology that is concerned with the end of the world or of humankind. 2. A belief or a doctrine concerning the ultimate or final things, such as death, the destiny of humanity, the Second Coming, or the Last Judgment.)

For a Catholic take on the Rapture go here.

Light up your life with electrolytes

“All cellular structures become alive through electrolytic activity. Life begins with electrolytes. Trace minerals carry the life force in our bodies more than any other substance.” Dr. Bernard Jensen

Summer is upon us now, with its heat and activity; vacations and fun; travel and play … did I mention the heat?

Although proper nutrition is important any time of year it is vital during the hot summer months. An imbalance of nutrients (specifically the minerals and trace minerals) in our blood stream and cellular structure can lead to a wide variety of symptoms and maladies which would include:

• irregular heartbeat (tachycardia)
• irritability
• fatigue
• lethargy
• heavy, labored breathing
• muscle twitching and/or seizures
• nausea, abdominal cramping, and/or vomiting
• headache
• edema (swelling)
• muscle weakness and/or tremor
• paralysis
• disorientation
• slowed breathing
• seizures
• coma
• death

These macro and micro minerals are commonly known as ‘electrolytes’ and are often called the spark of life. Technically, electrolytes are substances that become ions in solution and acquire the capacity to conduct electricity. These ionized molecules are found throughout the blood, tissues, and cells of the body. These molecules, which are either positive (cations) or negative (anions), conduct an electric current and help to balance pH and acid-base levels in the body. Electrolytes also facilitate the passage of fluid between and within cells through a process known as osmosis and play a part in regulating the function of the neuromuscular, endocrine, and excretory systems.
The serum electrolytes include:
• Sodium (Na). A positively charged electrolyte that helps to balance fluid levels in the body and facilitates neuromuscular functioning.
• Potassium (K). A main component of cellular fluid, this positive electrolyte helps to regulate neuromuscular function and osmotic pressure.
• Calcium (Ca). A cation, or positive electrolyte, that affects neuromuscular performance and contributes to skeletal growth and blood coagulation.
• Magnesium (Mg). Influences muscle contractions and intracellular activity. A cation.
• Chloride (CI). An anion, or negative electrolyte, that regulates blood pressure.
• Phosphate (HPO4). Negative electrolyte that impacts metabolism and regulates acid-base balance and calcium levels.
• Bicarbonate (HCO3). A negatively charged electrolyte that assists in the regulation of blood pH levels. Bicarbonate insufficiencies and elevations cause acid-base disorders (i.e., acidosis, alkalosis).

With that in mind, it may cross your mind to ask, “But don’t we get these in the foods we eat?” The simple answer would be…no! Unless your diet consists primarily of fresh, raw or lightly cooked organic fruits and veggies, or take a high quality food based multiple vitamin/mineral supplement, chances are you are starting off the summer with a moderate to severe shortage of electrolytes. Below you will see the results to a study presented in THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE Volume 7, Number 2, 2001, pp. 161–173 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. titled:

Nutritional Quality of Organic Versus Conventional Fruits, Vegetables, and Grains
VIRGINIA WORTHINGTON, M.S., Sc.D., C.N.S.
Results: Organic crops contained significantly more vitamin C, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus and significantly less nitrates than conventional crops. There were non-significant trends showing less protein but of a better quality and a higher content of nutritionally significant minerals with lower amounts of some heavy metals in organic crops compared to conventional ones.

Conclusions: There appear to be genuine differences in the nutrient content of organic and conventional crops.

But these findings aren’t anything new. Below are some quotes from a Senate Document #264 released in 1936:

"Do you know that most of us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies which cannot be remedied until the depleted soils from which our foods come from are brought into proper mineral balance ?"

"The alarming fact is that foods-fruits and vegetables-grains now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contains enough of certain minerals, are starving us...no matter how much of them we eat!"

"Laboratory tests prove that the fruits, the vegetables, the grains, the eggs and even the milk and meats of today are not what they were a few generations ago. No man of today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his system with the minerals he requires for perfect health..."

"It is bad news to learn from our leading authorities that 99 percent of the American people are deficient in these minerals, and that a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in DISEASE. Any upset of the balance, any considerable lack of one or another element, however microscopic the body requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, and shorten our lives".

"We know that vitamins are complex chemical substances which are indispensable to nutrition, and that each of them is important for the normal function of some special structure of the body. Disorder and disease result from any vitamin deficiency. It is not commonly realized, however, that vitamins control the body's appropriation of minerals, and that in the absence of minerals they have no function to perform. Lacking vitamins, the system can make some use of minerals, but lacking minerals, vitamins are useless".

"Our soils which are seriously deficient in trace minerals, cannot produce plant life competent to maintain our needs, and with the continuous cropping and shipping away of those trace minerals and concentrates, the condition becomes worse".

Your next question will undoubtedly be, “How can I protect myself and my family during the summer months?” Here are a few general suggestions and products that can help you beat the heat:

• For general health everyone needs to consume half their body weight in ounces of pure delicious water. This means, if you weigh 100 pounds you should drink 50 ounces of water per day. Naturally you will need more according to your physical activities and general health. For instance, anyone that suffers from respiratory ailments can expel as much as 4 quarts of water per day through their mouth and unless they are replenishing this liquid they can suffer dehydration and electrolyte depletion.
• Organically grown fruits and vegetables, predominately the ‘greens’, provide much in the way of a balanced mineral profile. Eating lush, cooling salads and raw or lightly cooked varieties of veggies is a delicious way to stay cool as well as recharged.
• Alacer’s Emergen-C and Electro Mix…nearly everyone knows this company.
• I would like to take a minute to introduce you to Cellfood by Lumina Health. Cellfood is a proprietary super-energized complex concentrate of 78 trace minerals, 34 enzymes, 17 amino acids, electrolytes and dissolved oxygen held in a negatively-charged suspension utilizing deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen. Its inventor, the legendary Everett Storey, called Cellfood an electromagnetic equation. Since the blood and lymph fluid are colloidal and negatively charged, the synchronicity between Cellfood and these vital fluids assures the bioavailability of Cellfood's nutrients to every cell in the body. It not only provides the nutrients the cells require, it also provides oxygen.

Visit you local health food market for these supplements and organic produce, preferably local grown.

Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion

By Thomas Paine, American Revolutionary Leader


Every person, of whatever religious denomination he may be, is a DEIST in the first article of his Creed. Deism, from the Latin word Deus, God, is the belief of a God, and this belief is the first article of every man's creed.

It is on this article, universally consented to by all mankind, that the Deist builds his church, and here he rests. Whenever we step aside from this article, by mixing it with articles of human invention, we wander into a labyrinth of uncertainty and fable, and become exposed to every kind of imposition by pretenders to revelation.

The Persian shows the Zend-Avesta of Zoroaster, the lawgiver of Persia, and calls it the divine law; the Brahmin shows the Shaster, revealed, he says, by God to Brahma, and given to him out of a cloud; the Jew shows what he calls the law of Moses, given, he says, by God, on the Mount Sinai; the Christian shows a collection of books and epistles, written by nobody knows who, and called the New Testament; and the Mahometan shows the Koran, given, he says, by God to Mahomet: each of these calls itself revealed religion, and the only true Word of God, and this the followers of each profess to believe from the habit of education, and each believes the others are imposed upon.

But when the divine gift of reason begins to expand itself in the mind and calls man to reflection, he then reads and contemplates God and His works, and not in the books pretending to be revelation. The creation is the Bible of the true believer in God. Everything in this vast volume inspires him with sublime ideas of the Creator. The little and paltry, and often obscene, tales of the Bible sink into wretchedness when put in comparison with this mighty work.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found in any other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.

But in Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.

It is by the exercise of our reason that we are enabled to contemplate God in His works, and imitate Him in His ways. When we see His care and goodness extended over all His creatures, it teaches us our duty toward each other, while it calls forth our gratitude to Him. It is by forgetting God in His works, and running after the books of pretended revelation, that man has wandered from the straight path of duty and happiness, and become by turns the victim of doubt and the dupe of delusion.

Except in the first article in the Christian creed, that of believing in God, there is not an article in it but fills the mind with doubt as to the truth of it, the instant man begins to think. Now every article in a creed that is necessary to the happiness and salvation of man, ought to be as evident to the reason and comprehension of man as the first article is, for God has not given us reason for the purpose of confounding us, but that we should use it for our own happiness and His glory.

The truth of the first article is proved by God Himself, and is universal; for the creation is of itself demonstration of the existence of a Creator. But the second article, that of God's begetting a son, is not proved in like manner, and stands on no other authority than that of a tale.

Certain books in what is called the New Testament tell us that Joseph dreamed that the angel told him so, (Matthew i, 20): "And behold the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph, in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost."

The evidence upon this article bears no comparison with the evidence upon the first article, and therefore is not entitled to the same credit, and ought not to be made an article in a creed, because the evidence of it is defective, and what evidence there is, is doubtful and suspicious. We do not believe the first article on the authority of books, whether called Bibles or Korans, nor yet on the visionary authority of dreams, but on the authority of God's own visible works in the creation.

The nations who never heard of such books, nor of such people as Jews, Christians, or Mahometans, believe the existence of a God as fully as we do, because it is self-evident. The work of man's hands is a proof of the existence of man as fully as his personal appearance would be.

When we see a watch, we have as positive evidence of the existence of a watchmaker, as if we saw him; and in like manner the creation is evidence to our reason and our senses of the existence of a Creator. But there is nothing in the works of God that is evidence that He begat a son, nor anything in the system of creation that corroborates such an idea, and, therefore, we are not authorized in believing it.

What truth there may be in the story that Mary, before she was married to Joseph, was kept by one of the Roman soldiers, and was with child by him, I leave to be settled between the Jews and Christians. The story however has probability on its side, for her husband Joseph suspected and was jealous of her, and was going to put her away. "Joseph, her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was going to put her away, privately." (Matt. i, 19).

I have already said that "whenever we step aside from the first article (that of believing in God), we wander into a labyrinth of uncertainty," and here is evidence of the justness of the remark, for it is impossible for us to decide who was Jesus Christ's father.

But presumption can assume anything, and therefore it makes Joseph's dream to be of equal authority with the existence of God, and to help it on calls it revelation. It is impossible for the mind of man in its serious moments, however it may have been entangled by education, or beset by priestcraft, not to stand still and doubt upon the truth of this article and of its creed.

But this is not all. The second article of the Christian creed having brought the son of Mary into the world (and this Mary, according to the chronological tables, was a girl of only fifteen years of age when this son was born), the next article goes on to account for his being begotten, which was, that when he grew a man he should be put to death, to expiate, they say, the sin that Adam brought into the world by eating an apple or some kind of forbidden fruit.

But though this is the creed of the Church of Rome, from whence the Protestants borrowed it, it is a creed which that Church has manufactured of itself, for it is not contained in nor derived from, the book called the New Testament.

The four books called the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which give, or pretend to give, the birth, sayings, life, preaching, and death of Jesus Christ, make no mention of what is called the fall of man; nor is the name of Adam to be found in any of those books, which it certainly would be if the writers of them believed that Jesus was begotten, born, and died for the purpose of redeeming mankind from the sin which Adam had brought into the world. Jesus never speaks of Adam himself, of the garden of Eden, nor of what is called the fall of man.

But the Church of Rome having set up its new religion, which it called Christianity, invented the creed which it named the Apostles's Creed, in which it calls Jesus the only son of God, conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary; things of which it is impossible that man or woman can have any idea, and consequently no belief but in words; and for which there is no authority but the idle story of Joseph's dream in the first chapter of Matthew, which any designing impostor or foolish fanatic might make.

It then manufactured the allegories in the book of Genesis into fact, and the allegorical tree of life and the tree of knowledge into real trees, contrary to the belief of the first Christians, and for which there is not the least authority in any of the books of the New Testament; for in none of them is there any mention made of such place as the Garden of Eden, nor of anything that is said to have happened there.

But the Church of Rome could not erect the person called Jesus into a Savior of the world without making the allegories in the book of Genesis into fact, though the New Testament, as before observed, gives no authority for it. All at once the allegorical tree of knowledge became, according to the Church, a real tree, the fruit of it real fruit, and the eating of it sinful.

As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin.

The Church of Rome having done this, it then brings forward Jesus the son of Mary as suffering death to redeem mankind from sin, which Adam, it says, had brought into the world by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge. But as it is impossible for reason to believe such a story, because it can see no reason for it, nor have any evidence of it, the Church then tells us we must not regard our reason, but must believe, as it were, and that through thick and thin, as if God had given man reason like a plaything, or a rattle, on purpose to make fun of him.

Reason is the forbidden tree of priestcraft, and may serve to explain the allegory of the forbidden tree of knowledge, for we may reasonably suppose the allegory had some meaning and application at the time it was invented. It was the practice of the Eastern nations to convey their meaning by allegory, and relate it in the manner of fact. Jesus followed the same method, yet nobody ever supposed the allegory or parable of the rich man and Lazarus, the Prodigal Son, the ten Virgins, etc., were facts.

Why then should the tree of knowledge, which is far more romantic in idea than the parables in the New Testament are, be supposed to be a real tree? The answer to this is, because the Church could not make its new-fangled system, which it called Christianity, hold together without it. To have made Christ to die on account of an allegorical tree would have been too barefaced a fable.

But the account, as it is given of Jesus in the New Testament, even visionary as it is, does not support the creed of the Church that he died for the redemption of the world. According to that account he was crucified and buried on the Friday, and rose again in good health on the Sunday morning, for we do not hear that he was sick. This cannot be called dying, and is rather making fun of death than suffering it.

There are thousands of men and women also, who if they could know they should come back again in good health in about thirty-six hours, would prefer such kind of death for the sake of the experiment, and to know what the other side of the grave was. Why then should that which would be only a voyage of curious amusement to us, be magnified into merit and suffering in him? If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more than the death of any other person.

The belief of the redemption of Jesus Christ is altogether an invention of the Church of Rome, not the doctrine of the New Testament. What the writers of the New Testament attempted to prove by the story of Jesus is the resurrection of the same body from the grave, which was the belief of the Pharisees, in opposition to the Sadducees (a sect of Jews) who denied it.

Paul, who was brought up a Pharisee, labors hard at this for it was the creed of his own Pharisaical Church: I Corinthians xv is full of supposed cases and assertions about the resurrection of the same body, but there is not a word in it about redemption. This chapter makes part of the funeral service of the Episcopal Church. The dogma of the redemption is the fable of priestcraft invented since the time the New Testament was compiled, and the agreeable delusion of it suited with the depravity of immoral livers. When men are taught to ascribe all their crimes and vices to the temptations of the devil, and to believe that Jesus, by his death, rubs all off, and pays their passage to heaven gratis, they become as careless in morals as a spendthrift would be of money, were he told that his father had engaged to pay off all his scores.

It is a doctrine not only dangerous to morals in this world, but to our happiness in the next world, because it holds out such a cheap, easy, and lazy way of getting to heaven, as has a tendency to induce men to hug the delusion of it to their own injury.

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved.

He may believe that such a person as is called Jesus (for Christ was not his name) was born and grew to be a man, because it is no more than a natural and probable case. But who is to prove he is the son of God, that he was begotten by the Holy Ghost? Of these things there can be no proof; and that which admits not of proof, and is against the laws of probability and the order of nature, which God Himself has established, is not an object for belief. God has not given man reason to embarrass him, but to prevent his being imposed upon.

He may believe that Jesus was crucified, because many others were crucified, but who is to prove he was crucified for the sins of the world? This article has no evidence, not even in the New Testament; and if it had, where is the proof that the New Testament, in relating things neither probable nor provable, is to be believed as true?

When an article in a creed does not admit of proof nor of probability, the salvo is to call it revelation; but this is only putting one difficulty in the place of another, for it is as impossible to prove a thing to be revelation as it is to prove that Mary was gotten with child by the Holy Ghost.

Here it is that the religion of Deism is superior to the Christian Religion. It is free from all those invented and torturing articles that shock our reason or injure our humanity, and with which the Christian religion abounds. Its creed is pure, and sublimely simple. It believes in God, and there it rests.

It honors reason as the choicest gift of God to man, and the faculty by which he is enabled to contemplate the power, wisdom and goodness of the Creator displayed in the creation; and reposing itself on His protection, both here and hereafter, it avoids all presumptuous beliefs, and rejects, as the fabulous inventions of men, all books pretending to revelation.

Globalists To Formally Propose Merger Of U.S., Canada, Mexico
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Globalist political heavyweights are preparing to formally propose to Congress the merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a North American Union at the end of summer after they held secret meetings to devise a plan that will be presented to representatives of all three governments. "A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc." Full Story