Citizen Hearing On Disclosure Day 2: England Has Close
Encounter, UFOs Tamper With Nuclear Sites
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As day two begins at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure (CHD) in Washington,
D.C., the focus on the subject of UFOs turns to the famous multi-witness
encounter that took place in 1980 at the dual air base RAF Woodbridge and
Bentwaters in England.
In addition to the England case, today’s testimony will feature military
personnel describing cases where UFOs reportedly tampered with nuclear
missiles.
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While not an official government hearing on UFOs, the CHD is a five-day
congressional-style presentation that brings 40 international researchers and
military and scientific witnesses who are testifying before six former members
of Congress.
On day
one, discussions included the history of global UFO sightings and
alleged UFO crashes, like the famous 1947 incident near Roswell, N.M.
There was also testimony of how several previous American presidents showed
great interest in UFOs and, in some cases, unsuccessfully attempted to get
information about specific UFO issues.
Paul Hellyer is widely known and credited for his work to unify the Canadian
Armed Forces. In 2005, he made headlines by announcing that “UFOs are as real as
the airplanes flying overhead.” That statement made him the first cabinet-ranked
individual in the G8 group of nations to say that UFOs were unequivocably
real.
“Since then, I’ve learned a lot from many sources, including a number of the
fantastic witnesses that we have heard these last [five] days.”
Among the things Hellyer says he has learned and believes is a particular
document that concluded at least four species had been visiting Earth for
thousands of years: “This is my own view at this stage, as well. … They are
different species and, consequently, may have different agendas. I don’t think
we can say that they all have the same agenda any more than we can say that the
United States, China and Russia have the same agenda. Our real interests may be
similar, but as of now, our perceived interests are still quite far apart.”
“My interest is in about 95 to 98 percent of full disclosure — I know of one
or two things that I’m not sure should be in the public domain, at least yet.
They will be someday, I’m sure. But just as children survive the idea of the
tooth fairy and Santa Claus when they become adult, I think the taxpaying
citizens are quite capable of accepting the new and broader reality that we live
in a cosmos teeming with life of various sorts.
“The fact that some other civilizations are more advanced than we are may be
humbling. But that could be a necessary step in our survival.”
Several of the former members of Congress who presided over the 5-day hearing
suggested they would be interested in reuniting to try and take the UFO-ET
disclosure issue to the United Nations.
Time will tell…
The technology panel (being sworn in below), consisted of (from left) Dr.
Roger Leir, physics engineer Thomas Valone, Dr. Steven Greer and aeronautical
engineer Robert Wood.
During this session, Leir, a podiatrist, described the
numerous surgeries he’s performed with a medical team in which they removed
unusual small objects from people who claimed to have experienced alien
abduction.
“In my 50 years of podiatric surgical practice, I have removed literally
hundreds of objects from the human foot, including paper, glass, metal and
stones.
“All of the individuals involved in my study all presented no noted portal of
entry for any of the objects that were removed. There was no visible scar
formation and no interruption of the integrity of the skin, even when
examination was performed with a magnifying loop. All the individuals in the
study presented positive X-rays or CT Scans showing metallic or lesser dense
foreign objects.
“In addition, by use of a radio wave frequency detector, we were able to
detect that certain radio frequencies in the FM band, were being emitted from
the object. All the surgeries we performed were documented with eyewitnesses,
video and still photography.
“We find that, in all pathological reports, there is NO inflammatory
reaction, there is no rejection reaction. There is nothing that we have found in
material science that will produce absolutely no inflammatory reaction in the
human body.”
CHD organizer Stephen Bassett announced to the ex-congressional panel that a
15-minute video was about to be shown of a 77-year-old man man, in very bad
health, who wanted to take the opportunity to reveal a story of what happened to
him while he worked for the CIA under Pres. Dwight Eisenhower in 1958.
Bassett: “In a sense, this video represents the many individuals out there
who could not come before a committee like this, who want to talk, but it’s
difficult. The vast majority of individuals who have interacted with this issue
while working for the government, going back to the 40s, took the information
that they had to their grave and did not talk if they were told not to talk.
“This gentleman has received numerous threats from his government not to
talk, but he wanted this testimony to be presented and we agreed. He has only
been interviewed by two researchers who are here today, Linda Moulton Howe and
Richard Dolan.”
It’s a foregone conclusion that the CIA doesn’t routinely acknowledge the
identities of those who work for the agency, so we can’t confirm who this man
is…we can only present portions of his testimony, as he spoke with UFO historian
Richard Dolan (seen at left in the picture below). “X” — as we’ll call him here
— recounted how he worked for the CIA on a special project involving the Air
Force’s Project Blue Book study of UFOs (which ran for about 20 years before
ending in 1969).
X: “Project Blue Book was partially a fraud. But the cases that we got didn’t
come from the Pentagon or CIA headquarters. My boss filled me in on Project Blue
Book and what they had found so far, as far as greys and aliens and the Roswell
incident.”
Dolan: “How did you feel when this got dumped on you?”
X: “Well, I was just kind of overwhelmed with all of this. My boss said we
were going to be part of the Eisenhower push to find out about these aliens. We
went to the Oval Office. President Eisenhower was there, and Nixon.”
At this point, X goes on to talk about how Eisenhower was upset when he
learned that there was activity going on at a base in Nevada (that would later
be renamed as Area 51) that the government allegedly had no jurisdiction over.
Eisenhower sent X and his boss to the base to find out what was going on
there.
X described what they saw when they arrived.
X: “There were different garage door openings and inside they had different
saucer crafts. The first one was the Roswell craft — it was kind of crashed up,
but apparently every alien had died except for a couple. Later on we viewed the
autopsy film and then the colonel said, ‘What we’ve got in here is we’re
interviewing a grey alien.’”
Dolan: “How did you feel at that moment?”
X: “I thought, boy, we had no idea we were gonna see the real thing. All we
saw was film. My boss was able to go in and have a partial interview. This one
looked a little bit Oriental. It didn’t look human as far as the skin tone. It’s
brain was a little bit bigger, very, very small nose and the ears were just like
holes and the mouth was very small.”
X and his superior went back to Washington to meet with Eisenhower and Nixon
again.
X: “Also, Hoover was there. We told them about the alien and the whole
situation and he was just totally shocked. He appeared for the first time to be
worried. Eisenhower said, ‘We’ve got to keep this thing completely secret.’”
Cong. Kilpatrick (pictured below) appeared very moved by the testimony of the
private, commercial and military pilots as well as previous panel witnesses
during the week.
“[All this week], I’ve heard some of the most intelligent, scientific and
universal knowledge on the topic that I didn’t know I was going to witness.
Yesterday, we heard from 12 different countries who have hundreds of years of
scientific intelligent information on this subject.
“It behooves us, as human beings, in what is known as the greatest country in
the world, to participate in that discussion. To not act like something exists
and then to further act like it’s a joke, we do a disservice to our ancestors,
to God and to the people of the world.
“I want the world and the universe to continue. And if there is something out
there — and I’m not a scientist — there’s a whole lot we don’t know. I think
it’s ignorant of any people not to seek out what we need to know to continue the
universe.
“I was convinced before this morning’s panel that there probably is something
out there, and I’m willing to work the rest of my life to see that, if it is,
how we can enhance the universe to see that we all have a better quality of
life.”
On the fifth and final day of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure in
Washington, D.C., a group of pilots — private, commercial and military — and
former FAA official John Callahan testified about a number of UFO encounters
experienced by pilots, and how, in many cases, information about these incidents
were deliberately kept from the public.
Gravel says it only takes one country to make a stand and to get the United
Nations to open the door again to possibly creating a new agency to look into
UFOs.
“Another hearing like this one, or whether it’s in the Congress, probably
won’t advance our goals all that much. But there’s no reason why, with the
various countries represented here — with the various scholars and military
officers — that we wouldn’t try to, within our own communities, to get them to
endorse a very simple, straightforward resolution, calling upon the [U.N.]
General Assembly.
“All we would need is one country, but I think that we have several countries
from South America, and certainly, this group here might have enough influence
to get their government to go on record, and to field a resolution creating an
agency of the United Nations…specifically with the goal to organize a global
conference — not a hearing — of the scholars and scientists that would come
together and fund it — both from public and private sources — so that, within a
couple of years, we could convene a conference that would command the attention
of the world.
“I have no doubt that we could field that kind of a resolution and get it
adopted. We can elevate it right to where it really belongs because it’s a
global issue — We could elevate it right to the General Assembly of the United
Nations.”
While these congressional-style hearings are going on in Washington, there’s
an ongoing influx of stories coming out in the media by writers who claim that
this is just an exercise in futility among UFO buffs looking for instant
publicity, and that the participants — witness panels and the committee of
former members of Congress — are involved in nothing but a farce and an easy
payday.
The New York Daily News today highlights a statement by U.S. Rep. Peter King
of New York, in which he outright ridicules one
of the military witnesses at the D.C. hearings, Ret. Air Force Capt. Robert
Salas (pictured below).
Salas has a credible background as a weapons controller and launch officer of
intercontinental ballistic missiles and has previously spoken about
a 1967 incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana when signals went off
indicating an intrusion at the missile site, followed by missiles “going into an
unlaunchable, or no-go, mode,” all during the appearance of a UFO over the
base.
Salas says he sent documents about this case to King, the former House
Homeland Security Chairman and believes King is ignoring him. According to the
Daily News, when King was asked about Salas’ claim, here’s how he responded: “I
have no idea what the guy is talking about. We are always getting crazy stuff in
the mail by people whose brain has been taken over by aliens or something.”
Really, Mr. King? As a representative of the people, is that the proper way
to refer to one of many respected military men entrusted with the safety of our
country — to just shrug him off by referring to the evidence he sent you as
“crazy stuff” and to further ridicule him by basically saying his brain was
“taken over by aliens”?
It’s high time that elected officials think twice before making
pronouncements about things like UFOs, simply because they either have a
personal bias against the subject OR they’ve been told to inflict that kind of
attitude on the public.
Either way, a big reason why these people have come together in Washington
this week is to try and open a serious look into a subject that doesn’t deserve
the kind of ridicule that people like King throw around.
Chinese scientist Sun Shili is a retired foreign ministry official and
president of the World Chinese UFO Federation.
“Our federation serves as a communication platform for the global Chinese on
all aspects of UFOs, including those in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and
abroad. Chinese people consider ourselves as the descendants of dragons, which
are from outer space in the Chinese culture.
“We call our land as the land of deities or gods and we seek the harmony
between people and heaven. [All of these things] are very relevant with the
hearing that is taking place today.”
Shili told the CHD committee that he was a government diplomat and university
professor, but since the 1970s, he started looking into UFOs and the mysteries
of the universe.
“Everyone on this planet is looking for our roots in the universe. We have
the right to know and discover. Any attempt to cover-up is unacceptable. Also
statistics of the China UFO groups [of which there are about 50,000 members]
show that, out of 1.3 billion people, we have close to tens of millions of
people who are UFO enthusiasts.”
The second panel consisting of international experts is offering testimony
about UFOs. The individuals (being sworn-in in the image below) are (from left
to right) Antonio Huneeus (Chile-U.S.), Nick Pope (U.K.), Grant Cameron
(Canada), Sun Shili (People’s Republic Of China) and Roberto Pinotti
(Italy).
The committee of former members of Congress appeared to be moved and highly
interested to hear the testimony of the first international panel of the day,
especially the riveting close encounter aerial “dogfight” described by Peruvian
fighter pilot, Col. Oscar Santa-Maria.
Cong. Darlene Hooley (Dem/Oregon) closed the morning session with praise for
the panel:
“I want to thank our panel for being here today. This has been really
interesting and your openness and what’s happening in each of your countries has
been a real eye-opener for the rest of us.”
Possibly the most intriguing testimony offered today so far came from a
former 25-year Peruvian air force fighter pilot. Col. Oscar Santa-Maria
(pictured below). In 1980, he was ordered to takeoff and shoot down a
sphere-shaped UFO that was in restricted airspace near an air base. The
encounter lasted more than 20 minutes.
“These were 22 minutes where we went up and down, it went around, and it was
trying to avoid me while I was pursuing it and I was trying to fire. When I
first fired, these were bursts of 30 millimeter shells — a single one can
destroy a truck. And I shot 64, a barrage of fire, and nothing happened at all,
and that’s what was so surprising.
“The possibility of NOT hitting my target was practically impossible. I’ve
won awards for marksmanship, and that’s why they sent me up there to chase this
thing. The possibility of my missing it was zero.”
The object Santa-Maria was chasing was about 30 feet in diameter with a dome
on top, no visible engine, wings or windows. He told the committee he tried to
figure out how to better attack the unknown craft.
“I tried different positions. When it went up, it had supersonic speed. When
I moved to the side of the UFO at 1.3 Mach, it stopped, and then, in a matter of
seconds, it achieved 1.2 Mach without any engines! This is something that
nobody, no craft can do, to just go from zero to 1.2 Mach, vertically, to reach
my same position — it was able to anticipate my moves and then follow me.
“Once I landed, I met with intelligence officers, and we looked at all
catalogues to see what possible spy object this might have been, but there was
nothing similar to what I had observed, and we were unaware of any type of
technology [like this] on Earth that existed.”
In the first panel session of the day, former Brazilian chemistry teacher
A.J. Gevaerd spoke on the many UFO cases in Brazil, specifically in the area of
the Amazon. He described a committee in 1977 created by the Brazilian air force
to investigate the cases. The committee was known as Operation Saucer. Gevaerd
presented the committee with a 440-page report called “UFOs In The Amazon” (see
below)
Today’s testimony is being presented by several officials and military
personnel from different countries, including Brazil, Uruguay, Peru and
Argentina.
Some technical glitches in the audio translation of several individuals made
it difficult to understand what they were actually saying. Hopefully that will
be fixed and not be a problem for the rest of the day.
Day 4 of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure will offer international testimony
of the UFO subject. Committee member Sen. Mike Gravel (seen below) thinks that
will be significant:
“I think that the best effort we have for bringing visibility to the people
of the world of this issue … we could go to the United Nations. Now, I don’t
think we’d have a prayer in the Security Council, because it’s controlled by us
and that just wouldn’t happen.
“But what would happen in the General Assembly if we were to introduce a
resolution? I’ll bet you it would pass. They would fund some part of it — the
rest of the funding could come from private sources, and we would have the most
awe-inspiring world event on this subject within a couple or three
years.”
French told the committee about an incident he witnessed in the late 1960s in
Alamogordo, N.M., to complete his annual refresher course in an altitude
chamber, which tested the effects of high altitude on humans.
“While there, I learned of an accident a few miles away in the direction of
White Sands [missile range]. A short time later, I witnessed the takeoff of a
prototype fighter aircraft that I neither recognized or knew what it was.
“The aircraft took off at a very high rate of speed and fired a rocket, five
inches in diameter and about six feet long, about the same size as some of the
modern air-to-air aerial rockets.
“Afterward [I was told] there was an unknown number of humanoids, either
killed or injured. The parts of the casualties were taken to base operations at
Holloman Air Force Base [in New Mexico]. The only parts of the craft that I was
allowed to see had markings that appeared to be Arabic or some language I didn’t
understand.
“Later I learned the parts and the casualties were transported to
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base [in Ohio] and turned over to the Foreign
Technology Division.”
This is not the first time that French has come forward to reveal intriguing
UFO-related information.
Last year, he told The Huffington Post exclusively that there wasn’t
just one UFO that crashed near Roswell, N.M. in 1947 — there were
two!
Several people make up the panel offering testimony about the events
surrounding the 1947 crash of an alleged UFO outside the town of Roswell,
N.M.
The panel consists of (from left in the image below) Denice Marcell, Jesse
Marcel III, Col./Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., Ret. USAR Lt. Col. Kevin Randle, former
nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman and researcher/author Donald Schmitt.
Marcel Jr. has a distinguished career as both a Navy and National Guard
officer as well as being a military flight surgeon. He told the Washington CHD
committee about the night in 1947 (while he was 11 years old) when his father
Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer from the Roswell Army Air Field, came
home with debris of whatever the object was that crashed on a nearby ranch:
“I was awakened by my dad who was returning from an assignment to collect
debris of unknown origin from a ranch out of Roswell. Knowing that he had seen
something very special, he wanted my mother and myself to look at this also and
said, ‘You’ll never see this again.’
“He brought us into the kitchen where there was this strange debris on the
kitchen floor that he had pre-positioned. He said, ‘Look at this — I think this
is what you call a flying saucer or remains thereof.’
“The debris consisted of three components: there was a very tough metallic
foil; there was black plastic debris, like a broken phonograph record; but the
strangest thing I saw was an I-beam in the wreckage. There were symbols written
along the inside surface of it. They were of a purplish-violet hue,
semi-reflective of light.”
Marcel Jr. went on to recount how his father was subsequently ordered to fly
the material to Gen. Roger Ramey’s office in Fort Worth, Texas.
“When my dad got home, he sat my mother and myself down and said, ‘You will
never talk about this — this is a non-event.’ I never discussed this with my
friends or anybody else until Stanton Friedman interviewed my dad in 1978.”
The second panel of the day, comprised of (from left in image below) Grant
Cameron, Stanton Friedman, Linda Moulton Howe and Robert Wood present testimony
on a series of documents, known as “Majestic,” that reportedly reveal the story
of presidential and military authorization and cover-up of UFOs and possible
alien occupants.
Wood, retired from a 43-year career at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Corp., has
spent more than 30 years investigating UFOs, including years of research to
authenticate the Majestic Documents:
“The identification of one aspect of a questioned document as being anomalous
often results in a skeptic accepting none of the rest of the document, even
though it might be filled with accurate information. It seems to be accepted in
the intelligence community that faked documents usually — if not often — contain
much valid information to help get it accepted as genuine throughout.
“The conclusion I’ve come to is incredibly wild: that those in charge have
been successful in keeping secret the greatest story of mankind while covertly
spending staggering sums to create hidden underground resources and
reverse-engineer the technology. Until we can quantify the alien threat, how can
we know whether these actions are good or bad? Let us hope, maybe with the help
of one race of good aliens, that God will maybe do the right thing…I think the
American people deserve [the truth] — we’ve paid for it.”
Researcher Linda Moulton Howe discussed her many years investigating strange
animal mutilations that have been linked to UFO sightings.
“The first global media report about this phenomena was in September of 1967
when a female horse named Lady was found dead on a ranch in southern Colorado.
The horse’s entire skull and long neck had been stripped of flesh and every
organ in the chest of that horse had been surgically excised, according to a
medical doctor. There was no blood anywhere — not in the animal, not around the
animal and nowhere nearby.”
NOTE: Astute reader (and HuffPost blogger) Alejandro Rojas pointed out that
this entry was originally titled as Day 2. It has been corrected so as not to
confuse anyone!
Winding up the second day of the CHD will be evening lectures from former
nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, Canadian researcher Grant Cameron and UFO
historian Richard Dolan.
Wednesday’s plate includes UFO documents and the legendary 1947 UFO crash at
Roswell, NM.
Cong. Roscoe Bartlett gets a little testy about the press coverage so far
about this week’s Citizen Hearing On Disclosure:
“I’ve been looking at some of the press clippings from yesterday’s session
and the government has been quite successful in relegating this issue to the
lunatic fringe. I’m going to comment on only one article. It says ‘The mock
Congress hearing on aliens is heavy on real-life Mulders and not Scullys. In the
“X-Files,” Agent Mulder believes in all things: little green men, Roswell,
men-in-black, whatever, and Agent Dana Scully believes in science.
“‘Scully forces Mulder to find hard evidence that there’s a massive
conspiracy to cover-up aliens’ existence. The trouble with this week’s alien
panel (we’re an alien panel now) at the National Press Club is that any of the
participating members of Congress who might naturally be a Scully have been
incentived to suspend their disbelief. Because the Citizen Hearing foundation is
paying them $20,000 plus expenses to listen to the testimony.’”
“That’s just insulting, that we can be bought for $20,000 — that’s
ridiculous! It goes on to say that …’former member Roscoe Bartlett, in an
opening statement, Bartlett said he hadn’t fulfilled his duty in office by
failing to hold hearings on extraterresrtrials…’ I NEVER SAID THAT! … I never
said that I believed in extraterrestrials. I believe that there are sightings
out there that cannot be easily explained away.”
“‘Compounding the problem of eyebrow-raising testimony is that several of
these politicians have reputations for being a little wacky.’”
The afternoon session focuses on the numerous cases of UFOs seen in the
vicinity of American nuclear missile sites. One of the witnesses, retired Air
Force Capt. Bruce Fenstermacher described seeing a cigar-shaped UFO above a
Wyoming nuclear base in 1976.
UFO historian Richard Dolan talked about how the Freedom of Information Act
has yielded important documents related to military encounters with UFOs.
Cong. Roscoe Bartlett engaged Sgt. James Penniston (see images below) re. the
UFO he approached on the ground during the 1980 multiple witness encounter in
England’s Rendlesham Forest:
Bartlett: “You were there when the craft took off?” Penniston: “Yes, sir.”
Bartlett: “Was there any sound?”Penniston: “The craft generated more lighting
and that concerned me. I wasn’t sure if it was going to explode, so I took a
somewhat defensive position. It rose off the ground, went to tree level,
momentary hovered, then took off in the blink of an eye. The things that it
didn’t do was stuf that it should’ve done. I was hoping for air displacement —
all aircraft do that. I was hoping for aircraft sound — all aircraft do
that.”
As day two of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure unfolds, the committee of
former members of Congress are listening to the testimony of eyewitnesses to the
famous 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident in England that involved many military
personnel.
Later in the day, the committee will hear testimony of more military
eyewitnesses to UFO activity over American nuclear missile
sites.
Many points of view from committee members and witnesses were offered on this
first day of the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure.
With four days of testimony still to come, it would be interesting to see if
any type of skepticism will rear its head and to see how the folks involved
handle or approach a skeptical point of view about UFOs and a possible ET
presence on Earth.
Check back on Tuesday to see…
Dr. Steven Greer: “Everything about what extraterrestrials show of themselves
would look like magic to us…if you’re dealing with civilizations that have
actually arrived here from somewhere else, they’re probably doing it faster than
the speed of light…possibly at the speed of thought…consciousness and mind are
the real final frontier – not space. We are not alone in the universe and we
need to have a peaceful interplanetary, interstellar initiative. We need to
figure out how we’re going to advance.”
Political Activist Stephen Bassett talked about how the media hasn’t properly
reported important UFO news. “If some very tough reporters can get out there and
ask the right questions, it’s going to get really interesting.”
The following image shows Greer (L) and Bassett (R)
Grant Cameron’s testimony on Clinton administration unsuccessful attempt to
find out UFO information…
Linda Moulton Howe on reported UFO abductions and the possible manipulation
of the human mind. She tells a story about a military person who told her he was
on a team that, in 1978, was assigned to investigate a town that was allegedly
flooded by extraterrestrials.
Researcher Grant Cameron discusses 1,000 documents he received via the
Freedom of Information Act about how Rockefeller tried to get the Clinton
administration to look into UFOs, especially the 1947 UFO crash in Roswell,
N.M., and how President Clinton issued a challenge, saying if there was a UFO at
Roswell, he was never told about it.
Cameron talks about how Bill and Hillary Clinton met with Rockefeller at his
ranch to discuss UFOs.
“There are key documents from 1995 that point out how Hillary and her staff
helped draft a UFO disclosure letter that would be sent to the
president.”
Dr. Steven Greer began the afternoon session describing how he went from
being an emergency room doctor to a leading advocate for UFO-ET disclosure.
Greer is also executive producer of a new documentary, “Sirius,” which focuses
on his claims of alleged existing technologies that might change the world.
“Sirius” is also about the unveiling of DNA analysis of a 6-inch-tall
humanoiddiscovered 10 years ago in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
Dubbed Ata, there is ongoing controversy as to its origin and what, exactly the
DNA reveals, according to a new report by
Greer.
Cong. Bartlett: “Whether there are UFOs or extraterrestrials is not the issue
— it’s a constitutional issue more than anything else. In his final public
speech as he left office, Eisenhower warned the public against the military
industrial complex, but his original speech called it the military industrial
congressional complex, but he took out the world congressional. I think Congress
owes the American people a hearing on this subject. There may be nothing to
UFOs, but you have the right to petition the government about
it.”
Cong. Kilpatrick: ”I don’t know if the answer is to have another
congressional hearing. I agree that coming together to acknowledge this problem
is urgent. Will the Air Force ever come to this point, and what can this issue
do to help all of us.”
French: “Something’s got to be done.”
Sheehan: “The altering of consciousness about UFOs will have to come through
religious institutions.”
Dolan: “If there’s an energy paradigm solution to UFOs, that’s worth
everything we can do to get it all out in the open.”
Sen. Gravel: “Could all of you draft a new U.N.-type proposal by the end of
this week that can help us become globalists vs.
nationalists?”
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A Day at the Disclosure Hearings: A game changer?
May
04, 2013 10:45 pm | admin
by Deborah Lindsey
I have to say that I
really didn’t know what to expect when I plopped my butt in the car for the
three-hour drive to spend the day at the Citizen’s Disclosure Hearings in DC.
The event was both promising and, well, ODD in that I had never heard of anyone
doing anything like this before. And you know how it is when you encounter
something BRAND NEW, you kind of have to wrap your mind around it.
So thankfully IMU Dean of Ufology Kelly Weary was
very encouraging because it was the impetus I needed to take a day away from the
computer to head out into the real world of Ufology. And man, am I glad I
did!
So to the best of my understanding, here is what this thing was.
This man named Stephen Bassett was the brains and brawn behind the whole
thing. He’s one of these very zealous activists who really believes that
disclosure is a game changer. He’s devoted to the nth degree. I heard that he
spent his inheritance on an unsuccessful run for congress (wow) and since then
he has lived bare bones, outside of the matrix that most people swim in, to
advance the cause. I have to say that I find this level of devotion admirable,
though it screams of bit of the martyr. But at the same time, man it is just
really impressive.
So after years of trying to change the system from the inside out, he decided
to look at the problem of disclosure from a different angle. And we all know
what happens when you do that! Magic! After years of trying to get Congress to
hold a hearing on the issue of UFO’s, something which hasn’t happened since the
1940′s, he decided to do it himself! It’s really quite brilliant, don’t you
think?
In some ways this is like IMU. For years, I tried to find a college who
already did this. It just seemed so obvious to me, so NECESSARY, and when it
became clear that no one else was going to do it, (REALLY do it instead of the
sort of short-hand versions that are out there) I stepped up and put one foot in
front of the other until IMU was born.
So here was Stephen Bassett sort of doing the same thing. Instead of waiting
on someone in Congress to put on the hearing, he did it himself.
Brilliant.
So then the walls and the barriers started to show up, as you know they
will.
Grant Cameron and Rebecca Hardcastle Wright at the UFO
Disclosure Citizen’s Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club, April/May
2013.
But he did it. He pulled it off.
That alone is herculean.
So he looked for a location and he chose the Washington Press Club. It
doesn’t get any better than that. And I gotta tell you, the event was first
class all the way.
Then he had to put together a congressional panel. Well, that’s no easy feat
since everyone knows that even saying you believe in UFOs is a career killer for
a politician. Look at the career of someone like Dennis Kucinich. He was outed
for a sighting he had many years before. And despite the fact that other
credible witnesses corroborated the evidence, he was immediately labeled a kook.
To this day, you almost never see a write up on him that doesn’t mention the UFO
sighting. It has made him a laughingstock and everyone knows it. Worse, it has
mitigated the career of a sincerely good man who is open-minded and sincerely
working to help the people. So others look at that and they know not to go near
the issue of UFOs with a ten foot pole.
So finding a credible panel to hear and question the testimony was no small
feat. Ultimately he compiled a panel of people who are retired from the
congress. They were credible and really did a great job. You could see that they
took the job seriously and were certainly not advancing any particular
agenda.
Over the course of the week, from what others were saying, they underwent a
huge transition. The power and credibility of the testimonials was convincing
even to the most hardened skeptic. I have to admit that Bassett did an amazing
job of choosing his witnesses. Wow. They were impressive and everyone could see
it was the real deal.
Even for me, who is already a “believer” (which is a silly term when you’ve
moved beyond believer into “duh, of course”), the evidence was mind-blowing. IMU
professor Richard Dolan was particularly impressive as was soon-to-be IMU
professor Grant Cameron. I’ll be posting a second article from the Huffington
Post that includes information on the actual hearings themselves.
So for five days, these ex-congressmen and congresswomen who were brave
enough to come forth and participate, heard testimony from experts. The experts
presented their information (about 10 minutes a piece) and then they were
questioned by the panel.
The goal here, as far as I could tell, was to essentially force through the
idea of disclosure. At least that’s how it looks to me. If the government won’t
do it, then the people will. It was a great idea.
But it didn’t really take into account the fact that UFOs are also a
career-killer for journalists. Very few journalists have the courage and
conviction to stand up and address the issue from an actual straight-forward and
credible approach. And so most of the journalists who covered it did it from the
veil of ridicule, as they always do. To me, it’s the sign of the ultimate
coward, but when money is on the line, when reputation is on the line, careers
are on the line, etc, people are easily frightened. Add to this the fact that
the mainstream media is owned by a very few people, as was pointedly noted by
IMU instructor Richard Dolan, and it becomes obvious why the hearings, by and
large, didn’t receive the quality of coverage that they deserved.
While I was only there for one day, I was utterly amazed at the quality of
the testimony. I was particularly impressed by Former Canadian Defense Minister
Paul Hellyer. Man was this guy the bomb! lol. Before I knew who he was IMU
professor Rebecca Hardcastle Wright (who I had the opportunity to meet for the
first time and who is an absolute DELIGHT) introduced us in the hallway prior to
his testimony. There was something about this man that instead of shaking his
hand I went in for the hug! lol. Yes, I hugged him. I think it surprised him but
to me it was an indication of how much this man just exudes goodness. He’s 90
years old and has an air of dignity and confidence mixed with humility that you
rarely see anywhere. He stands tall and straight, probably 6 foot 2 or 3 and is
dignified in his motions. And in the midst of the kindness, you there was
this…power. But like I said, it’s a different kind of power—it was the kind of
power that exuded goodness. I don’t remember coming across that combination
before in my life.
So then he got up and he testified and he was just a mind-blower. He said
things that just left my jaw on the floor! I couldn’t believe that someone who
had been in his position would stand up there in this capacity and say the
truth. It was more than I ever expected. If you get a chance to watch the
hearings (which are available to stream online for under $5!), make sure you
watch Hellyer’s testimony. It was mind-blowing.
So all in all, we have to ask the question of whether or not this was the
game-changer that Bassett was going for. I guess only time will tell. I know
that for anyone who is sitting on the fence, who is willing to actually listen
to the testimony, they won’t be on the fence for long. And I guess for every
person who sees just how credible and how IMPORTANT this issue is, we are closer
and closer to hitting critical mass. As for whether or not it will get the
attention of congress or other political or journalistic leaders, I doubt it.
And I really don’t think that any of the people hired to hear the testimony will
do anything with it. There simply wasn’t an obvious impetus for that. In many
ways they felt like poor players who had strut and fret their hour upon the
stage but then would likely be heard from no more. Actors of a sort in a very
life-like play. But I do think that the ripple effects will show themselves for
many years to come. And that makes it worthwhile for sure.
All in all I give Bassett a big thumbs up and I highly recommend taking the
time to listen
to the archives of the testimony.
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How To Change A Habit
May
04, 2013 04:17 pm | admin
by Serge Kahili King
When I talk about habits, I am including personal
behavior patterns as well as relationship patterns and patterns of repeating
circumstances. I am not saying that anyone necessarily creates all these
patterns.
However, I am saying that these kinds of patterns do not keep repeating
themselves without our help. The solution is not to blame others, or luck or
fate. The solution is to change our own behavior in some way. Which brings us to
our first point.
The most important factor in changing any kind of habit is motivation.
Motivation is poorly understood, because it includes two different, but related,
concepts that are equally vital for a habit change to be effective.
The first concept is desire. In order to change a habit, there has to be
something you want that is different from what you have. This is usually called
a “motive,” a reason for making a change. Most commonly, this is a desire to get
away from some kind of pain.
That is also the weakest kind of motive. That’s because it takes a lot more
energy to move away from something rather than toward something. I’ll explain
why a little further on. Just note that a motive for something has more
power and less strain than a motive against something.
The assumption I’m making now is that you have a habit–or a habitual
situation–that you want to change. So think about what you’d like to have
instead of what you do have, then think about the benefits of having something
better, and pela no! There you have it! Your motive!
That’s only the first half of the first part, though. The second part of the
first half comes from the other meaning of motivation: action. It doesn’t matter
how positive or worthy the motive is, nothing happens to change a thing until we
take action.
If you want to stop smoking, you have to do whatever it takes to help you
stop smoking, and then, at some point, you have to actually stop smoking. If you
want to have better relationships, you have to learn what better relationships
are like, and act accordingly.
If being unsuccessful seems to be a habit, you have to learn all you can
about successful people, and do what they do, in your own way. The same is true
if being unhappy seems to be a habit. Study what happy people do, and
practice.
Now we have reached the really tough part: taking action. Habits, even bad
ones, are comfortable, because they are easy to do and they hold few surprises.
New habits tend to be uncomfortable, because it takes time to become skilled at
them and they usually hold lots of surprises.
By the way, for the benefit of anyone who doesn’t know this yet, you can’t
get rid of bad habits. You can only exchange them for new habits. Smokers learn
how to be non-smokers. Unsuccessful people learn how to be successful. Unhappy
people learn how to be happy.
It’s time to take a look at what it takes to change a habit once you know
what you want and have begun the process. The next thing is concentration. You
have to practice the new way of thinking, feeling, and acting until it becomes a
habit.
One thing that helps concentration is the strength of the desire you have to
change. How much do you really want the benefits of changing? If you discover
that the benefits of not changing outweigh the benefits of changing, to you at
least, then nothing you try will work.
You can increase the level of desire–and therefore concentration–by imagining
the benefits in detail and allowing yourself to get excited about them. You can
also find as many ways as possible of reminding yourself of the benefits,
because they are easy to forget in the middle of an old habit or under
stress.
The third thing after motivation and concentration is confidence. This means
not allowing doubt to slow you down or make you give up. It doesn’t mean to be
completely free of doubt. Even Superman has his doubts. Having doubts is not the
problem.
Whether there is a problem depends on what you do when doubts appear. Too
many people take this as a sign of failure, when it’s only a sign that you are
beginning to change. You disempower doubts by ignoring them, chasing them away,
or replacing them.
What do you replace them with? Positive words (like strong affirmations,
decisions, or self commands), positive images (of the benefits, or of yourself
as you will be when the new habit is working), and positive feelings (based on
good memories and good expectations).
Another excellent thing that helps weaken doubt is self appreciation. Give
yourself positive acknowledgment for every little good step forward and ignore
or declare the unimportance of any steps backward. Treat giant steps forward as
being equal in importance to baby steps. As a wise old man once said: If you
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Today’s Inspiration: Joe Gallenberger
May
01, 2013 12:34 pm | admin
Joe is the creator of SyncCreation psychokinesis
manifestation course and the author of Inner Vegas: Creating Miracles, Abundance
and Health.
http://www.inspiremetoday.com/
If I could share 500 words to inspire, this is the important wisdom I’d
want to pass along to others…
I have found that applying these principles consistently creates a life of
miracles and joy.
- When starting to focus on something that you desire to create, invite your
intentions to have surprisingly positive results. Be open to the delightfully
unexpected.
- View the physical world as delicate and changeable—and the spiritual world
as solid, strong, real, and constant. Spirit is the foundation from which to
change the physical.
- Positive manifestation power is enhanced by positive energy. The highest
quality and most powerful energy is a loving heart. So live in wide-open-hearted
gratitude, compassion, and praise of yourself, all others, and the universe.
Appreciating beauty and grace in all their forms can help take you there.
- Use the affirmation: “In brother/sisterhood with all, I now rise up and
claim my dominion”, to reinforce your position of responsibility and
effectiveness.
- Being well-grounded is a key secret to strong creation. Bring your spirit
fully into your body; suffuse your body with energy and light; encourage your
body and emotions to speak to you freely as they are brimming with wise
guidance.There is terrific power in your shadow (the unexpressed and
acknowledged parts of self) so be courageous in compassionately seeing yourself
as you are in all your glory and glitches. Then feel your connection with the
earth, and receive her sacred energy, so that you are fully spirit and flesh at
the same time.
- To form your goals, discover what would make your heart sing if unfettered
by limits. See and feel your dream as real right now, fully experiencing how
good this manifestation will be for you and how it will benefit others.
- Detach from results with full trust that goodness will come to you – for you
are truly a sacred being to whom all good is available. Refresh your energy and
visualizations organically when it feels right to do so. Obsessiveness implies
lack of trust and is counterproductive. Remember – patience sweetens passion!For
example, are you are more afraid of being jobless than you are in your desire
for the best job in the universe for yourself? Fear truly is a prayer for what
you do not want.
Remember – Fear is expensive and love is priceless, choose wisely! Fear in
all its forms, from procrastination, boredom, doubt, cynicism, impatience,
self-criticism, laziness etc., can be very challenging to release, especially if
it is held in life-long patterns. Use meditation, friends, coaches, and courses
to help you identify and release these limits. Yet sometimes all that is needed
is to simply, non-judgmentally notice a fear, see that it no longer serves you,
and then just gently bubble it away.
- Send positive energy to everyone, seeing them in their maximum soul
potential for this attracts others to help and guide you. Be joyfully generous
with yourself and others, in terms of money, smiles, time, attention, and
thoughts, and the universe will be generous with you.
Happy Manifesting!
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Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal
Ever
Apr
30, 2013 05:16 pm | admin
Geeze. Who’d a thunk that Rolling Stone would be the ones to finally
bring this all to light. Kudos to Matt Taibbi and to Rolling Stone for bringing
this to light. Let’s hope it’s a sign of the times. As more and more light is
shown on the darkness, it can only crumble beneath them. We have been in the
dark ages for too long. It is time to bring this sort of corruption to the
surface and wipe it out. It can be done and this is proof. Now we all need to
surround Mr. Taibbi in the light of protection because you know he’ll have a
target (or a drone?) on his head now.
The Illuminati were amateurs.
The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international
conspiracy: There’s no price the big banks can’t fix
Illustration by Victor Juhasz
April 25, 2013 1:00 PM ET
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the
Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology.
You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is
correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a
series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector,
suggesting the world’s largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just
about everything.
You may have heard of the Libor scandal, in which at least three – and
perhaps as many as 16 – of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been
manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the
prices of upward of $500 trillion (that’s trillion, with a “t”) worth of
financial instruments. When that sprawling con burst into public view last year,
it was easily the biggest financial scandal in history – MIT professor Andrew Lo
even said it “dwarfs by orders of magnitude any financial scam in the history of
markets.”
That was bad enough, but now Libor may have a twin brother. Word has leaked
out that the London-based firm ICAP, the world’s largest broker of interest-rate
swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds
eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess. Regulators are looking into whether or not
a small group of brokers at ICAP may have worked with up to 15 of the world’s
largest banks to manipulate ISDAfix, a benchmark number used around the world to
calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps.
Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and
sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost
unimaginably massive. It’s about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any
manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the
United States federal budget.
It should surprise no one that among the players implicated in this scheme to
fix the prices of interest-rate swaps are the same megabanks – including
Barclays, UBS, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and the Royal Bank of Scotland –
that serve on the Libor panel that sets global interest rates. In fact, in
recent years many of these banks have already paid multimillion-dollar
settlements for anti-competitive manipulation of one form or another (in
addition to Libor, some were caught up in an anti-competitive scheme, detailed in Rolling Stone last
year, to rig municipal-debt service auctions). Though the jumble
of financial acronyms sounds like gibberish to the layperson, the fact that
there may now be price-fixing scandals involving both Libor and ISDAfix suggests
a single, giant mushrooming conspiracy of collusion and price-fixing hovering
under the ostensibly competitive veneer of Wall Street culture.
The Scam Wall Street Learned From the
Mafia
Why? Because Libor already affects the prices of interest-rate swaps, making
this a manipulation-on-manipulation situation. If the allegations prove to be
right, that will mean that swap customers have been paying for two different
layers of price-fixing corruption. If you can imagine paying 20 bucks for a
crappy PB&J because some evil cabal of agribusiness companies colluded to
fix the prices of both peanuts and peanut butter, you come close to grasping the
lunacy of financial markets where both interest rates and interest-rate swaps
are being manipulated at the same time, often by the same banks.
“It’s a double conspiracy,” says an amazed Michael Greenberger, a former
director of the trading and markets division at the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission and now a professor at the University of Maryland. “It’s the height
of criminality.”
The bad news didn’t stop with swaps and interest rates. In March, it also
came out that two regulators – the CFTC here in the U.S. and the Madrid-based
International Organization of Securities Commissions – were spurred by the Libor
revelations to investigate the possibility of collusive manipulation of gold and
silver prices. “Given the clubby manipulation efforts we saw in Libor
benchmarks, I assume other benchmarks – many other benchmarks – are legit areas
of inquiry,” CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton said.
But the biggest shock came out of a federal courtroom at the end of March –
though if you follow these matters closely, it may not have been so shocking at
all – when a landmark class-action civil lawsuit against the banks for
Libor-related offenses was dismissed. In that case, a federal judge accepted the
banker-defendants’ incredible argument: If cities and towns and other investors
lost money because of Libor manipulation, that was their own fault for ever
thinking the banks were competing in the first place.
“A farce,” was one antitrust lawyer’s response to the eyebrow-raising
dismissal.
“Incredible,” says Sylvia Sokol, an attorney for Constantine Cannon, a firm
that specializes in antitrust cases.
All of these stories collectively pointed to the same thing: These banks,
which already possess enormous power just by virtue of their financial holdings
– in the United States, the top six banks, many of them the same names you see
on the Libor and ISDAfix panels, own assets equivalent to 60 percent of the
nation’s GDP – are beginning to realize the awesome possibilities for increased
profit and political might that would come with colluding instead of competing.
Moreover, it’s increasingly clear that both the criminal justice system and the
civil courts may be impotent to stop them, even when they do get caught working
together to game the system.
If true, that would leave us living in an era of undisguised, real-world
conspiracy, in which the prices of currencies, commodities like gold and silver,
even interest rates and the value of money itself, can be and may already have
been dictated from above. And those who are doing it can get away with it.
Forget the Illuminati – this is the real thing, and it’s no secret. You can
stare right at it, anytime you want.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425#ixzz2Rz1cXSvJ
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Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children’s IQ
Apr
30, 2013 05:08 pm | admin
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
Posted: 01/28/2013 11:20 am
A recently-published Harvard University
meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded
that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated water have
“significantly lower” IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride
areas.
In a 32-page report that can be
downloaded free of charge from Environmental Health Perspectives, the
researchers said:
A recent report from the U.S. National Research Council (NRC 2006) concluded
that adverse effects of high fluoride concentrations in drinking water may be of
concern and that additional research is warranted. Fluoride may cause
neurotoxicity in laboratory animals, including effects on learning and memory
…To summarize the available literature, we performed a systematic review and
meta-analysis of published studies on increased fluoride exposure in drinking
water and neurodevelopmental delays. We specifically targeted studies carried
out in rural China that have not been widely disseminated, thus complementing
the studies that have been included in previous reviews and risk assessment
reports …
Findings from our meta-analyses of 27 studies published over 22 years suggest
an inverse association between high fluoride exposure and children’s
intelligence … The results suggest that fluoride may be a developmental
neurotoxicant that affects brain development at exposures much below those that
can cause toxicity in adults …
Serum-fluoride concentrations associated with high intakes from
drinking-water may exceed 1 mg/L, or 50 Smol/L, thus more than 1000-times the
levels of some other neurotoxicants that cause neurodevelopmental damage.
Supporting the plausibility of our findings, rats exposed to 1 ppm (50 Smol/L)
of water-fluoride for one year showed morphological alterations in the brain and
increased levels of aluminum in brain tissue compared with controls …
In conclusion, our results support the possibility of adverse effects of
fluoride exposures on children’s neurodevelopment. Future research should
formally evaluate dose-response relations based on individual-level measures of
exposure over time, including more precise prenatal exposure assessment and more
extensive standardized measures of neurobehavioral performance, in addition to
improving assessment and control of potential confounders.
Studies Have Repeatedly Linked Fluoride to Reduced IQ and Brain
Damage
There are so many scientific studies showing the direct, toxic effects of fluoride on your body,
it’s truly remarkable that it’s NOT considered a scientific consensus by now.
Despite the evidence against it, fluoride is still added to 70 percent of U.S. public
drinking water supplies.
It amazes me that the medical (and dental) communities are so stubbornly
resistant to connect the dots when it comes to the skyrocketing increase of
cognitive decline in adults and behavioral issues in children (ADD, ADHD,
depression and learning disabilities of all kinds). In fact, there have been
more than 23 human studies and 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage. Fluoride can also increase manganese absorption,
compounding problems, since manganese in drinking water has also been linked to
lower IQ in children.
Reported effects of fluoride on your brain include:
• Reduction in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors • Damage to your
hippocampus • Formation of beta-amyloid plaques (the classic brain
abnormality in Alzheimer’s disease) • Reduction in lipid content • Damage
to purkinje cells • Exacerbation of lesions induced by iodine deficiency •
Impaired antioxidant defense systems • Increased uptake of aluminum •
Accumulation of fluoride in your pineal gland
Six Facts You Need to Know About Water Fluoridation
Harmful Effects Have Been Known for Half a Century
What is perhaps most surprising is that the harmful effects of fluoride have
been known by conventional medical organizations for over half a century. For
example, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) stated
in their Sept. 18, 1943 issue that fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons
that change the permeability of the cell membrane by certain enzymes. And, an
editorial published in the Journal of the American Dental Association
on Oct. 1, 1944, stated:
Drinking water containing as little as 1.2 ppm fluoride will cause
developmental disturbances. We cannot run the risk of producing such serious
systemic disturbances. The potentialities for harm outweigh those for
good.
Part of the problem is that it’s an accumulative toxin that, over time, can
lead to significant health problems that are not immediately linked to fluoride
over-exposure. In a 2005 paper entitled “Fluoride — A Modern Toxic
Waste,” Lita Lee, Ph.D. writes:
Yiamouyiannis’ book, Fluoride, The Aging Factor, documents the
cumulative effect of tissue damage by fluoride, commonly seen as aging (collagen
damage), skin rashes and acne, gastrointestinal disorders, and many other
conditions, including osteoporosis. The U.S. Center for Disease Control and the
Safe Water Foundation reported that 30,000 to 50,000 excess deaths occur in the
United States each year in areas in which the water contains only one ppm
fluoride …
Fluoride suppresses the immune system: Fluoride inhibits the
movement of white blood cells by 70 percent, thereby decreasing their ability to
reach their target. Yiamouyiannis cites 15 references in his pamphlet,
Lifesavers Guide to Fluoridation, that document immunosuppressive
effects of as little as 10 percent of the amount of fluoride used in fluoridated
water … Immunosuppressive effects run the gamut, from a cold that won’t go away
to increased risk of cancer and other infectious diseases.
Studies have shown that fluoride toxicity can lead to a wide variety of
health problems, including:
• Increased lead absorption • Disrupts synthesis of collagen •
Hyperactivity and/or lethargy • Muscle disorders • Thyroid disease •
Arthritis • Dementia • Bone fractures • Lowered thyroid function •
Bone cancer (osteosarcoma) • Inactivates 62 enzymes and inhibits more than
100 • Inhibited formation of antibodies • Genetic damage and cell
death • Increased tumor and cancer rate • Disrupted immune system •
Damaged sperm and increased infertility
Suppressed Science: Fluoride Link to Cancer
Long-lost research linking fluoride to cancer has resurfaced in a Dutch film
clip featuring Dr. Dean Burk, who in 1937 cofounded the U.S. National Cancer
Institute (NCI) and headed its cytochemistry department for more than 30 years.
In the taped interview, he
equates water fluoridation to “public murder,” referring to a study that had
been done on the 10 largest U.S. cities with fluoridation compared to the 10
largest without it. The study demonstrated that deaths from cancer abruptly rose
in as little as a year or two after fluoridation began. This and other studies
linking fluoride to cancer were government-ordered but were quickly buried once
fluoride was found to be linked to dramatic increases in
cancer.
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GMO foods subject of bill in U.S. Senate
Apr
30, 2013 05:03 pm | admin
Ian Purdue scans non-GMO products at a Whole Foods Market in Austin, Texas.
Photo: Ralph Barrera, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The legislation, which would require food manufacturers and stores to tag
items made with genetically modified ingredients or grown from genetically
engineered seeds, has support from both sides of the aisle, including more than
20 co-sponsors combined in the Senate and House of Representatives.
It has been hailed by food labeling advocates as a boon for consumers who
have repeatedly tried to get such laws passed. California’s Proposition 37, a
referendum on requiring genetically engineered food labeling last year, failed
to pass. Boxer tried to pass a similar bill, without success, in 2000. But
activists say that Boxer and DeFazio’s proposed legislation shows that demand
for a genetically engineered labeling law has reached critical mass.
“This is big because for the first time in 13 years the U.S. Senate has recognized consumers’ right to
know,” said Colin O’Neil, director of government affairs for
the Center for Food Safety, of the federal proposal.
“Labeling has become a nonpartisan issue. It’s no longer an issue of if, but
when.”
Unlike Prop. 37, criticized for giving exemptions to products such as beef
and most dairy, the federal bill would include all food items under the FDA’s
purview. Foods such as beef and poultry, which are overseen by the Department of Agriculture, would also follow the
labeling law, O’Neil said.
Prop. 37 lost, with 53.1 percent of voters casting a no vote. Proponents of
the measure said they were blitzed by the food industry’s $46 million No on 37
campaign.
Those opponents argued that genetically engineered crops are safe and that
the government would be stigmatizing those foods and standing in the way of
science by requiring labeling.
But Boxer says the FDA requires labeling of more than 3,000 ingredients,
additives and processes, and that now it is time for the agency to include foods
that have been genetically modified.
“Americans have the right to know what is in the food they eat so they can
make the best choices for their families,” Boxer wrote in a statement announcing
the new bill. “This legislation is supported by a broad coalition of consumer
groups, businesses, farmers, fishermen and parents who all agree that consumers
deserve more – not less – information about the food they buy.”
According to the statement, “The FDA’s antiquated labeling policy has not
kept pace with 21st century food technologies that allow for a wide array of
genetic and molecular changes to food that can’t be detected by human
senses.”
Boxer’s statement said surveys show that more than 90 percent of Americans
support the labeling of genetically modified foods. Genetically engineered foods
require labeling in 64 countries, including Russia and China.
“All over this country people are becoming more conscious about the foods
they are eating and the foods they are serving to their kids,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, independent-Vt., a co-sponsor of
the bill. “I believe that when a mother goes to the store and buys food for her
child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her child.”
Stacy Finz is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: sfinz@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @sfinz
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/GMO-foods-subject-of-bill-in-U-S-Senate-4460967.php#ixzz2RyybspQ3 |
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One Can of Sugar-laced Soda Per Day Increases Diabetes Risk
by 22 Percent!
Apr
29, 2013 06:35 pm | admin
(NaturalNews) Drinking a can of sugar-laced soda a day will raise your risk
of developing diabetes by 22 percent! According to a new study out today
evidence suggests that just one 12-ounce serving of a sugar-sweetened beverage
can significantly raise the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
What’s interesting about this this is that since most of the research on the
evil effects of soda has been done on people in the US, researches at the
Imperial College of London set up to seek a link between soda consumption
and type 2 diabetes in Europeans as well.
The British researchers used 15 years of data compiled from over 27,000
people from seven European countries. Over that 15-year period, more than 40
percent of those people developed type 2 diabetes and those who said they
consumed at least one soda or similar sweet drink showed an 18 percent higher
risk of developing the disease! When they took out factors such as weight and
body mass index, the risk rose to 22 percent!
Coincidentally, these findings were right in line with the US studies showing
a 25 percent percent increased risk of type 2 diabetes when consuming one soda
per day. When the researchers looked at the diet soda drinkers in the group,
they noticed something quite striking. When they factored in body weight and
exercise, they healthy weight people in the group who drank diet soda were no
more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than non-soda drinkers. This basically
proves that you are at least 22 percent more likely to develop diabetes if you
drink a can of soda each day. Scary stuff!
How can just one little soda do so much damage?
Sweetened drinks are the largest contributor to empty calories and processed
sugar in both the American and European diets according to the Center for
Science in the Public Interest. The sweeteners in these drinks along with
artificial colors, flavors and phosphoric acid all have negative effects on the
human body.
What about other sweet drinks like fruit juice?
Fruit juice consumption was not linked to diabetes incidence. In fact,
natural drinks with sugars and flavors occurring naturally such as organic fruit
juices have shown no evidence of increased risk of diabetes in otherwise healthy people. Patrick
Wolfe, a statistics expert from University College London who was not
involved in the research, said the message from its results was clear.
“The bottom line is that sugary soft drinks are not good for you – they have
no nutritional value and there is evidence that drinking them every day can
increase your relative risk for type 2 diabetes,” he said in an emailed
comment.
Clearly the proven negative effects of soda should be enough to
scare you into reconsidering taking a sip of the potentially lethal surgery
poison drink.
Sources for this article include:
http://abcnews.go.com
http://www.foxnews.com
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/259604.php
About the author:
Chris Sumbs is a natural health activist and
enjoys writing about the natural lifestyle and healing benefits of holistic
remedies. Visit his website www.undergroundhealth.com
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