Month: August 2012

1. Save the planet. No, it's not just a slogan. Saving soil is a priority because much of it has been, for lack of a better term, over-farmed, and as such, it has been robbed of its nutrients. Still, most of our "soil is alive," according to BodyEcology.com, and rich soil contains plenty of nutrients to grow lots of tasty produce that is free from chemicals and pesticides.

2. Organic farms are more diverse. That's not a cultural statement, but a geological and agricultural description. Organic farms have a much more diverse range of fungi living in the soil, experts say. "Of particular interest were arbuscular mycorrhizae, also known as AMF, in which the fungus penetrates the roots of plants. AMF help the plant to capture minerals and micronutrients from the soil," reports BodyEcology.com. Agricultural experts say routine tilling of the soil, coupled with the constant use of herbicides and pesticides, disrupts the natural – and necessary – fungi. Organic farms, by comparison, preserve the mycelial layer – an intricate web of vegetative fungus, thereby promoting a range of in-soil microbes that contribute to the health of crops.

3. Land and body. Consider organic farming much like the practice of alternative medicine. The latter uses substances and ingredients to heal, based on centuries of use by both ancient and modern peoples, because they are effective. The former depends on the natural composition of soil and earth in order to be the most productive; anything that diminishes or takes away from that composition harms the soil or, at the very least, makes it less productive. The body, like the land, is an ecosystem dependent upon certain elements to thrive and survive. Removing those elements disturbs and affects the survivability of the ecosystem.

4. Healthy soil is happy soil. Like the body, soil needs certain nutrients in order to thrive and, more importantly, in order to produce plants and crops that thrive. A healthy, organic soil serves to nourish what grows in it, often protecting plants from pathogen invasion. Also, healthy soil with a strong mycelial layer will detoxify land from heavy pesticides and metals that rob it of nutrients.

5. Do your body a favor. Organic foods are considered more nutrient-rich than non-organics, researchers have found. So what does that mean for you? For one thing, a better, more nutritious diet means a healthier mind and body, and that will be especially important as we age. Many of us have active lifestyles; organic foods, grown on organic farms, can help us maintain that lifestyle well into our twilight years. Consider what Hippocrates taught in the 5th century B.C.: "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food."

6. The research proves it. A recent study published in the Journal of Applied Nutrition listed many nutrients that appear to be altered based on how they are farmed. Researchers examined organic apples, pear, potatoes, wheat, and sweet corn, then compared the levels of certain nutrients in relation to the commercially available counterparts produced via modern farming practices. They found that levels of important nutrients – chromium, calcium, magnesium, and others – were many times greater in the organic foods. Similar studies have shown, by comparison, that pesticide use reduces the level of these and other nutrients.

7. Do the cost analysis. Why don't more people eat organic? Well, because in many cases, organic foods can be a little more expensive, and we are all about saving money on our grocery bills when and where we can, especially now, as food prices soar. But consider a cost analysis of your decision: You can pay now or pay later. Studies have shown how the use of pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals in our food production can affect our health over time, and it's the cumulative effects of these chemicals – not the immediate impacts – that rob us of longevity.

Never mind that the US Centers for Disease Control claims 36,000 people die every year from ordinary seasonal flu — and there are no announcements of an "epidemic" or an "outbreak."

Never mind that the World Health Organization (WHO) claims between 250,000 and 500,000 people die every year from ordinary seasonal flu — and this isn't called an "epidemic" or an "outbreak."

If you added up the death count from all the hyped and predicted epidemics of the last decade, including West Nile, SARS, bird flu, weaponized smallpox, and Swine Flu, the total would come to about one year of deaths in the US from ordinary flu.

But who cares about facts? What's important is how much fear can be generated. That's the statistic that counts, when you're talking about the CDC or WHO.

And when it comes to the public, it seems that some people feel a morbid attraction for viruses. Every time a new one is announced, they rub their hands together and say, "This is the big one! It's going to spread like wildfire!"

Other people, involved in natural health, who reject huge amounts conventional medical wisdom, nonetheless make the mistake of buying the virus of the moment. They automatically accept it as real and then figure out how to treat it naturally. That can be a big mistake.

Have researchers ever actually isolated (found) the West Nile virus? You should be asking that question.

You should always question what the CDC tells you.

The deepest form of medical-research chicanery comes when scientists claim they've found a new virus and they haven't. They haven't nailed it down. They say they have, but that's not true.

People have a hard time fathoming this. They will accept the fact that a medical drug touted as miraculous really causes heart attacks, strokes, and death, but for some reason The Virus is sacred territory. "Scientists would never lie about that." Really? Why not?

Do you think discovering a new virus is like dipping a tweezer into a dish of liquid and picking out a little critter who is shaking his legs? And therefore, nobody can lie about it, because it's either there or not? No, that's not the way it works.

A new virus is discovered by taking a tissue sample suspected of harboring it; then that sample must be transferred to a fine filter that will trap the virus. That's how the initial all-important isolation process is begun.

In the case of West Nile, this was attempted in 1999. It was called a success, but there was a major problem. As I stated in a previous article:

Researchers claim the West Nile virus is 0.04 micrometers. At the same time, they admit that the original fishing expedition for the virus employed filters that were 0.22 micrometers. The obvious conclusion? The filter was too porous. It was nearly six times larger than the virus.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117258&page=4

In fact, Robert McLean, director of the National Wildlife Center of the US Geological Survey, told ABC's Nick Regush, "We don't have a purified form of the [West Nile] virus."

A stunning admission.

The late ABC reporter, Regush, followed up on McLean's pronouncement with this: "I find no evidence anywhere in the scientific literature that the rules of virus purification and isolation were thoroughly followed [in the case of the West Nile virus]."

People respond to these assertions with an accusatory tone: "Then what's making people sick? Why are people dying?"

People getting sick and dying doesn't necessarily have a connection to why health authorities are telling you they're dying.

If a newspaper reported that a hurricane in Missouri killed 12 people, and then you discovered there had been no hurricane, would you insist on pretending there was, because 12 people died? No, of course not. You would assume the people died for other reasons.

It's the same situation with West Nile. People get sick and die all the time. If the virus that supposedly is causing an outbreak of illness has never been found, you look for other causes.

Again, from my previous article:

There are some good reasons people in the Dallas area are getting sick. These reasons have nothing to do with "West Nile."

A decade ago, independent journalist, Jim West, launched an original investigation into the so-called "West Nile epidemic" in New York City.

http://www.naturalhorse.com/archive/volume4/Issue6/article_8.php

West correlated clusters of human and bird "West Nile" cases with several factors; among them, nearby polluting oil refineries, other air pollution (certainly exacerbated by hot summer weather), and the presence of toxic MTBE, an additive that makes gasoline in cars burn cleaner.

There are listings for at least eight refineries in the Dallas area. There are also reports of increased air pollution coming from natural gas production in the Barnett Shale. The 2012 summer has been hot. As of of the year 2000, Texas refineries were producing 75% of all the MTBE in the United States.

And since this has been a very hot and dry summer in other areas of the US, high-air-pollution locales have intensified.

Am I saying that the never-isolated "West Nile virus" might be functioning as a cover story, to conceal what is really making people sick? Absolutely.

As an illustration, the medical history of the African continent is replete with such cover stories. Over and over, germs have been heralded as the cause of people dying in great numbers.

Centuries-old causes of ongoing death in Africa were intentionally overlooked: contaminated water supplies; horrible sanitation; overcrowding; generation-to-generation malnutrition and starvation; stolen farm land.

Most Americans automatically assume the arrival of western doctors with drugs and vaccines is a good sign for Africa. Nothing could be further from the truth. The doctors are sent there to cover up the truth.

Why? Because many interested parties, powerful players inside and outside of Africa, want the true and persisting causes of illness and death to remain, in order to keep the population weak and controllable. It's easy to hide this agenda by advertising a fake disease-cause and a fake medical remedy. Medical intervention will never cure what's ailing Africa. If you walked through a swamp of filthy contaminated water every day on your way to work, do you think a course of antibiotics would keep you healthy?

Here in America, when various toxic environmental causes of illness bring people down, there needs to be a cover story as well. The most believable cover is The Virus. It works. People stand up and salute it. They're saluting it now in Dallas and other places.

I don't care how many pictures of how many mosquitoes are adorning television screens and newspapers. "Oh, the mosquito carries the West Nile virus!" Really? Even if no one ever found such a virus?

Buy the virus story if you want to. Everyone has that freedom. But science is supposed to be about proof, and in the case of West Nile, it's all supposition and presumption and lying.

The medical PR machine will grind on. New stories will appear. "The worst summer ever." "New deaths from West Nile." "More mosquitoes carrying the deadly West Nile virus found." "The very young and elderly at greatest risk." "Medical experts try to discover why West Nile returned with a fury."

How many people will give in at each new barrage of propaganda and accept the virus story?

Remember Swine Flu? The whole planet was going to go down. In the end, WHO announced the total global death figure as 20,000. Then, in a mindless burst of revisionism this year, the total was changed to 580,000.

Here's a number for you. Three maniacal spokespeople from the CDC, backed by five major television networks, can brainwash the public about a virus in seven days.

Detox Protocol

    
     
The poisoning and destruction of the infants immune system starts in the first hours of life, even before they clobber the newborn with the dangerous hepatitis B vaccine.

The role of vitamin K
Vitamin K was discovered and recorded in German medical journals in the 1920's as a very important blood coagulation factor, therefore, "K" for koagulation. Vitamin K's other job is to put calcium in the right places (bones and blood) and keep it from being deposited in the wrong places (calcification of the blood vessels, bone spurs and calcification of soft tissues).

Vitamin K1 (phylloquinone) is found in green leafy plants like broccoli, lettuce and spinach, and makes up about 90 percent of our dietary intake. vitamins K2 (menaquinones) are in animal sources, fermented products and bacteria, including our intestinal bacteria, and make up the other 10 percent. Our bodies store about a 1 month supply of vitamin K, but vitamin K is not stored in any significant quantity in the liver.

Then there is the Big Pharma counterfeit – vitamin K (menadione) – which is more potent than natural vitamin K, resulting in toxicity. It is not found anywhere naturally. Because menadione is toxic, the Food and Drug Administration has banned its use as an over-the-counter supplement. So let's pump it into our newborns!

Newborn shots
Vitamin K injections started in the dark days of unnatural childbirth with the introduction of forceps deliveries (because the mothers were drugged out of their gourds and couldn't push the baby out on their own). Forceps cause heavy trauma to the baby's head and face, crushing and bruising. Insanely, the umbilical was then and is now routinely clamped and cut immediately after birth, which can deprive the baby of up to 40 percent of its blood (and clotting factors). This bad combination shorts babies of clotting factors to cope with the head trauma, leading to bleeding on the brain.

Because of "hemorrhagic disease" occurring in the occasional newborn, the powers that be decided to give vitamin K3 shots to ALL babies, regardless of whether there was birth trauma or forceps used. They just assumed that somehow babies don't naturally produce enough vitamin K. While giving the toxic shot did lower the incidence of bleeds, it raised a whole new problem of jaundice and other complications.

What's in the shot?
Menadione is manmade and is generally regarded as toxic. Roche's vitamin K drug, Konakion, contains hydrochloric acid (highly corrosive acid injected into the muscle), phospholipon 100 (hydrogenated fatty acid composition made from soy-GMO) and sodium hydroxide (lye – caustic soda injected into the muscle).

Side effects of synthetic vitamin K (not just linked to large doses) include: cytotoxicity in liver cells, formation of radicals from enzymes of leukocytes, weakens the immune system, mutagenic effects, damage to the natural vitamin K cycle, hemolytic anemia and hyperbilirubinemia, disturbs levels of calcium ions, vomiting, albuminuria, irritation of skin and mucous membranes, allergic reactions, eczema and unlike natural vitamin K – it builds up in tissue.

Side effects of natural vitamin K: Your doctor makes less money.

Simple solutions
Childbirth is not a procedure! Take back childbirth from the unnatural practices that we use now. Find a great naturopathic midwife to help you enjoy the event of childbirth. Vitamin K for a newborn is a great idea but let's use the natural forms for our babies.

In a study entitled, "Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill," the group said a typical family of four fritters away some $2,275 a year, or about 20 pounds of food per person, the nonpartisan environmental advocacy group said.

"Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States. Yet, 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten," said the study, adding that rotting food in municipal waste dumps accounts for almost 25 percent of U.S. methane emissions.

'Too good to waste'

The NRDC went onto say that food waste is the single largest portion of solid waste that is piling up in American landfills. And in a sign of growing prosperity perhaps, the amount of uneaten food stinking up dumps has increased 50 percent since the 1970s. The group said the average American throws away 10 times as much food as a consumer in Southeast Asia.

The study comes at a time when a record drought is having a negative effect on food prices that many analysts believe are only going to increase, and as more American families are unable to afford enough food, the report said. Recently, a report by the Food and Action Center said that last year, nearly one in five Americans said that they couldn't afford enough food. During the 12 months of 2011, 18.6 percent of families across the country said that at times there wasn't enough money to buy food, the group said. In Mississippi, the worst state, a quarter of all residents said they had a tough time buying enough food.

"Food is simply too good to waste. Even the most sustainably farmed food does us
no good if the food is never eaten," the NRDC report says.

In Europe there are efforts underway to curb food waste, but such efforts could be more difficult to impose in the U.S., where shoppers are accustomed to seeing mountains of fresh produce and fully stocked freezers and food shelves – not to mention a plethora of restaurants, most of which serve excessive helpings.

Lots of resources go into preparing wasted food

Such profligate habits are a sign of a wealthy nation, to be sure, but it's costly too: $15 billion worth of unsold fruits and veggies go to the dump annually, the NRDC says, and that doesn't count what's left on plates at home and in restaurants.

So much wasted food is also costly in terms of the environment. "Getting food to our tables eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of freshwater consumed in the United States," says the report.

"Nutrition is also lost in the mix – food saved by reducing losses by just 15 percent could feed more than 25 million Americans every year at a time when one in six Americans lack a secure supply of food to their tables. Given all the resources demanded for food production, it is critical to make sure that the least amount possible is needlessly squandered on its journey to our plates," it says.

The report calls on the Leviathan to set a target for food-waste reduction. Other groups, such as Food and Action Center, have urged lawmakers and, by default, federal agencies, to set standards and issue regulations (remember; however, that regulations tend to come with a compliance cost).

But the NRDC report also suggests Americans learn about when food goes bad and become more accustomed to buying scarred or imperfect produce. Also, it urges companies look for alternatives in their supply chain, such as making so-called "baby carrots" out of carrots that are too bent to be sold as whole in retail stores, the Times noted.

Detox Protocol

    
1. Furniture and fixtures

The worst culprit in the home is formaldehyde. It is classified as a known human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It is a colorless and flammable chemical that is used in building materials, furniture, carpets and many household products. It is even found in "wrinkle-free" and preshrunk clothing. Significant sources of formaldehyde are fuel-burning appliances such as gas stoves and kerosene heaters.

Since this toxic gas may be floating around in your home, try to keep your home well ventilated, especially at night. Live, green plants help oxygenate your home and absorb many toxins.

2. Cleaning products

The average household has over three gallons of toxic cleaners in it. The most dangerous chemicals are "ethylene based glycols that are used in floor cleaners, paints, plastics and in synthetic fibers. According to the EPA, this water soluble solvent is classified as a hazardous air pollutant.
Cleaning products that contain bleach (floor cleaners, dishwasher and clothing detergents, bathroom cleaners) and similar disinfectants can react to create volatile chlorinated compounds.

A 2008 European study found that inhalation of these chlorine-based compounds could "significantly increase the cancer risk."

Eliminating toxic cleaning products can be as simple as purchasing "green" and non-toxic products at your local natural market. For the more adventurous cleaner, you can make your own. Vinegar and water is a great disinfectant and degreaser. Baking soda sprinkled with clove oil can be used to scrub and disinfect your bathroom.

3. Pest control

Insecticides that are sprayed in your home contain chemicals that affect your nervous system, your endocrine system and hormones and may even be carcinogenic. For a non-toxic approach to insect problems in your home, refer to this NaturalNews article: http://www.naturalnews.com.

4. Dry cleaning chemicals

Ever wonder what that distinct smell is on your clothes when you bring them home wrapped in plastic from the dry cleaners? That chemical smell is PERC or percloroethylene. PERC breaks down into several byproducts like carbon tetrachloride, a known liver carcinogen.

Make sure you remove the plastic wrap and aerate your clothes in the garage or outside for 24 hours before you wear them.

5. EMF's

Would you ever consider your Wi-Fi router and computer as sources of dangerous toxins? Electro-pollution has been labeled the deadliest toxin on the planet. You don't see it, feel it, smell it or taste it, but it is affecting you 24/7. Educate yourself about scientifically validated products that help to neutralize the effects of the EMF's. Unplug your router at night and don't have any active electronics in your bedroom when you are bedding down for the night.

Obviously, we can't live in a bubble and remove ourselves from ALL toxic exposure. However, if you take small steps to clean up your personal environment and slowly reduce your toxic exposure then hopefully your home will truly become a safe haven.

Oregon's Herald and News reports that Portland Mayor Sam Adams has decided to join two other fluoride supporters on the five-member City Council, Randy Leonard and Nick Fish, in voting to support the mass medication of Portlanders via the public water supply. The other two members, Amanda Fritz and Dan Saltzman, have expressed opposition to water fluoridation.

You can access contact information for all members of the Portland City Council by visiting:
http://www.portlandonline.com/index.cfm?c=28533

At this time, there is no official date for when the council will vote on the issue. But unless the people of Portland and their supporters around the country raise hell to the Portland City Council in the following days and weeks, this three-two majority will eventually force mandatory water fluoridation to become law, despite the fact that Portlanders have repeatedly voted down water fluoridation efforts in the past.

Mayor Sam Adams says he grew up drinking fluoridated water, his hometown's website says otherwise
As part of his argument for why he supports fluoridation, Mayor Adams told reporters that he grew up drinking fluoridated water in his hometown of Newport, Oregon. This, he says, is the reason why his teeth are now white and allegedly very healthy.

But a quick trip over to the City of Newport's Public Works page reveals that Newport, Oregon does not, in fact, fluoridate its water supply (http://www.thecityofnewport.net/dept/pwk/waterquality.asp). The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also confirms this, as its Oral Health Resources page shows that the fluoride concentration in Newport's public water supply is 0.00 mg/L. (http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov)

What this means is that Mayor Adams is lying to his constituents in a thinly-veiled effort to pull a fast one at the behest of aggressive fluoride lobbyists. It is these lobbyists, after all, that approached the City Council back in August to push for water fluoridation, and are apparently responsible for this sudden rush to get Portland fluoridated.

Like most other political decisions, it appears as though Mayor Adams was essentially bribed by the fluoride lobby to pretend as though fluoride is healthy and beneficial. Mayor Adams has even gone so far as to claim that the science against fluoride is based on "emotions and rhetoric," which is clearly not the case when taking even a cursory look at the mountain of evidence.

Mayor Adams, political sellout and industry whore
If Mayor Adams really took an honest look at the science behind fluoride, as he claims he has done, there is no way he could have arrived at the conclusion that fluoride is safe and beneficial for preventing tooth decay. Numerous studies, including a 2010 study out of New Zealand, have proven that ingesting fluoride does not prevent tooth decay, and that it actually causes much harm. (http://worldental.org)

Mayor Adams, Randy Leonard, and Nick Fish need to hear from you. These fluoride shills are either grossly and willfully misinformed about fluoride, or they have caved to industry pressures — and most likely industry dollars — to push toxic fluoride in the name of improving health. After all, if these three get their way, Portland taxpayers will be forced to fork over $5 million a year to have themselves poisoned with fluoride, which will be a big financial win for the fluoride industry.

In the case of the Marine, Brandon Raub, the "Facebook thought criminal" who was recently held against his will in a lockup and threatened with the drugs, we see how easy it is for the government to kidnap a citizen and subject him to Soviet-style incarceration.

Washington's Blog, linked through infowars, has presented a compelling round-up of the reality of forced psychiatric care in America. It is clear that the federal government, on the vaguest of pretexts, can override state laws and put people in psych wards.

http://www.infowars.com

In the early 1990s, while researching the extension of the CIA MKULTRA (mind control) program, I had occasion to interview people who had been placed in mental institutions. This article is derived from their testimony, from numerous articles about the horrendous medical torture at two California prisons, Atascadero and Vacaville, and from Jessica Mitford's landmark 1974 book, Kind and Usual Punishment.

The October 9, 1970, issue of Medical World News contained an article, "Scaring the Devil Out," which revealed the use of a drug called succinylcholine at the Atascadero hospital for the criminally insane, and at the Vacaville Medical Facility. Succinylcholine (and a later drug, prolixin) were administered in a dosage "sufficient to induce general paralysis and respiratory arrest lasting up to two minutes."

In a state of complete terror, the inmates would be lectured to by doctors, who told them they had to change their unacceptable behavior.

There is no essential difference between early basic CIA MKULTRA methods and the worst practices of psychiatrists in mental lockups. They both involve: isolation, duress, force, torture, and drugging.

There is no mystery about how and why these inhuman methods work. The patient is experiencing intense physical and emotional pain, and his response is often submission and compliance.

The patient wants to find out what is expected of him, and he agrees to it. A confession of a crime? Silence about what he knows? An expression of regret for what he has done or what he is accused of doing? A concocted story? He goes along.

This is why, for defendants like James Holmes, who is accused of mass murder and whose attorneys want to enter an insanity plea, the period of incarceration, during which he is "examined" to judge whether he is mentally competent, can be a very dangerous time.

As with the Arizona shooter, Jarod Loughner, the covert objective of this imprisonment can be the extraction of a guilty plea, which will eventually be entered in court.

The psychiatric drugs, particularly the so-called anti-psychotics, are used to put the patient in a state of semi-trance. Not only is he more suggestible and malleable, his brain is undergoing an assault, one effect of which is motor-damage. This is labeled tardive dyskinsia, to cover over the stark reality that the drugs are scrambling brain circuitry, often permanently.

Ordinary tranquilizers and sedatives can assist in this Nazi-like program.

Sometimes, friendly overtures from "good-guy guards" are used to make patients bond with their handlers, who then enlist patients' cooperation in telling the right story and sticking to it.

Isolation from friends, family, and even lawyers makes the situation worse. The patient has to navigate his own way through a maze, deciding what to agree to and what to resist.

Early CIA MKULTRA experiments in the 1950s were not very sophisticated. Hypnosis, drugs, induced disorientation, force, threats, and suggestions were employed to forge "new personalities" for the victims. However, often the true result was simply victim compliance, offered with the hope of escape from the "treatments."

It is the same in psych lockups. Barraged with crippling drugs, cut off from outside communication, the patient cooperates to avoid pain and fear.

One patient who had been held in a California psych ward told me: "I never lost track of the truth, but I could see they wanted me to agree with their diagnosis. They said I was a schizophrenic, and although I knew that wasn't true, I went along after a while. I invented symptoms for the doctors. I played the part. I think they knew what I was doing, but they didn't care. They just wanted to make sure their diagnosis would stick, so that when I was let out, my parents would be satisfied that I was crazy. That was the whole issue. My parents wanted to get off the hook. They wanted to believe they had never done anything wrong. They wanted to tell their friends I had a disease, schizophrenia, that's all. I was 'taking medication' for it. I was 'recovering.'"

Another patient from a mental lockup in the Midwest said: "They threatened me with electroshock treatments. I had heard how bad that could be. They just shoot electricity into your brain. It causes a seizure. They told me they could never be held responsible for it, because it was legitimate treatment. They said I could either be a very depressed patient who needed the shocks, or I could be a willing witness in a criminal case. I chose the second thing…"

He went on to say that, a year or so later, he realized "how much of a daze I had been in from the drugs," particularly Haldol, a so-called anti-psychotic. "It was like slowly coming out of a blizzard, back into reality."

These incarcerated people are not only placed in lock-up because their parents want to escape criticism, or the police want them to cooperate, or prosecutors want them to plead guilty to a crime. There are political prisoners as well. Law-enforcement agents are trained to believe these people, who speak out against the government, are inevitably holding dark secrets about terror plots.

Such a man, who was held for 72 hours after a court order, told me he was given "something like LSD or mescaline. They must have thought it was a truth drug, and I would spill my plans…I didn't have any plans. I was just upset with the IRS. So I went on a weird trip from the drug. They interrogated me while I was high. I made up stuff. I don't remember most of it. They were disgusted with what I was saying. I guess it didn't make much sense. When they let me go, one guy told me they could get me back and give me a much higher dose of the drug, and then I'd be lucky to find my way home…"

None of the above touches on some of the worst horrors experienced by long-term mental inmates. Forced sex, frequent high-dose drugs that slam people into a barely coherent state, talk-therapy that degenerates into long hours of interrogation. Such a patient told me that, for a month or so, he actually believed he was "getting the best care in the world." The interrogation was all about what he would reveal or not reveal about his treatment, if he was released from incarceration. Apparently, in his case, he was considered an experimental subject in a test of unapproved drugs.

Then there are the chronic casualties. After their confinement, they don't have the competence to talk about what happened to them. They are too damaged to speak. In one such case, I was told by the patient's parents, who were trying to pursue a lawsuit against the hospital, that as far they could tell, their son had received nothing but drugs. He hadn't been overtly tortured. The drugs alone, which are prescribed by many psychiatrists in out-patient settings every day, had wrought so much destruction that the young man couldn't finish his sentences or think in a straightforward fashion. He alternated between periods of silence and tantrums.

I did find one man who, refusing to talk about what had happened to him during his months in a psych ward, claimed he was a "secret agent for the other side." This new assertion was contradicted by every available fact. Yet he believed it. He was never prosecuted as a spy. It is possible that he was worked on as part of an MKULTRA experiment, just to see whether this absurd belief could be successfully planted in his mind.

We are presented with psychiatry as the epitome of advanced brain science, practiced for the good of humanity. This is a lie. It is a lie in the psychiatrist's office, and in the mental institution.

As I've written before, there isn't a single laboratory test to confirm the diagnosis of any of the 297 officially designated mental disorders. Yet, the drugs given after the diagnoses all carry the high risk of terrible effects on the body and brain. From Adderall and Ritalin to Paxil and Zoloft, from Valproate and Lithium to Haldol and Risperdal, the prescribing doctors are playing with fire.

The FDA, who approves these drugs as safe and effective, sits on a mountain of lies and crimes against humanity.

We must, at a bare minimum, maintain the inviolable freedom to refuse medication. It is a basic right, and we must protect it.

Either way you cut it, the country has been, and will remain, on a path of unsustainable debt. Federal spending under George W. Bush added some $4 trillion dollars to the country's already burgeoning national debt, but under President Obama that debt has skyrocketed to a staggering $16-plus trillion, and, if the current administration's budget projections remain unchanged, Obama will have added an unprecedented, mind-numbing, calculator-busting $10 trillion in federal government debt that your children – and their children and their children – will likely have to pay off.

It's stunning, really, to sit back and watch the country being spent into oblivion, but that's what's happening.

Modest growth + increased debt = insolvency; the question is when

"By the end of this year, the federal debt is expected to be $16.2 trillion, which is $6.2 trillion more than when President Obama first came into office four years ago," says The Weekly Standard, a conservative publication, in a recent blog which included a graphic projecting record budget growth between now and Fiscal Year 2017, the end of a second Obama term if reelected.

Starting at an estimated $15.2 trillion of debt currently (which is about $5 trillion more than when Bush left office), federal debt is expected to rise to $17.5 trillion by next year, then rise by roughly a trillion dollars a year until 2016, when the federal debt is expected to exceed $20.3 trillion.

This isn't hyperbole; under the current regime, the country has suffered through four straight years of trillion-dollar deficits, and there is no reason to expect, given its history, that the current administration would change much.

"The Congressional Budget Office also says it expects the economy to continue recovering at only a modest rate the rest of this year, growing at a modest annual rate of 2.25 percent. The slow-moving economy and massive federal deficits are top-flight issues in this year's presidential and congressional campaigns," The Associated Press said in parsing a CBO estimate on current budget projections.

"Federal debt will increase to $25.4 trillion by the end of 2022, an increase of $10.6 trillion (72 percent) under the president's budget policies," adds the Senate Budget Committee.

Budget? What budget?

Part of the problem is unrestrained spending. As in, Congress has not voted on, and Obama has not signed, an actual budget in more than three years. According to the Standard, it's been more than 1,212 days since Senate Democrats allowed a budget vote on the floor of their chamber.

"Article I of the U.S. Constitution requires Congress to pass a federal budget. Despite the clear priority the Constitution gives to maintaining discipline in federal spending, the last time Congress enacted a budget was April 29, 2009," more than three years ago, noted Mathew Staver, chairman of the Liberty Council.

Here are some more staggering numbers:

— Under current figures, the U.S. debt-per-person exceeds $50,900; U.S. debt per taxpayer; however, climbs to a staggering $140,000 each

— The current national debt is slated to surpass $16 trillion before Election Day

— The country's Social Security liability is in excess of $15 trillion; the prescription drug liability is more than $20 trillion, and Medicare's unfunded liability is $83 trillion, for a total unfunded liability of a massive, country-shattering $120.4 trillion – or every dollar in gross domestic product the U.S. will generate for the next eight years. And in case you're interested, that's a total debt of more than $1 million per taxpayer.

As Americans, we have some very important fiscal decisions to make when we go to the polls in November.

Eliminate or treat standing water on your property
Mosquitoes are attracted to standing water, where they breed – thus the best way to avoid attracting them is to reduce the amount of standing water on your property. Here are some suggestions on eliminating standing water:* Regularly clean and treat swimming pools
* Frequently change the water in wading pools, bird baths and other water containers
* Keep ditches, drains and culverts free of debris so water can drain properly
* Repair leaky pipes, outside faucets and failed septic systems
* Mow your grass short

Another option for standing water is mosquito dunks, which float in water and slowly release Bacillus thuringiensis v. israelensis (BT). BT is toxic for mosquitoes but considered safe for humans. An organic nursery is almost certain to have mosquito dunks and you can also often obtain them at local regular nurseries, hardware stores and Walmart.

Use mosquito repelling oils
Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus is considered to be one of the most effective natural mosquito repellents, providing comparable protection to low concentrations of the toxic mosquito repellent DEET.

Other effective mosquito repelling oils include:

Oil of Citronella. The oil of citronella found in outdoor candles, torches and skin products provides a natural and fragrant way to keep mosquitoes at bay. Note: there is a chance that citronella can cause skin irritations in children and people with sensitive skin, especially if applied incorrectly.

Soybean oil (provided that you can find an organic non-GMO source). A study conducted by The New England Journal of Medicine found that soybean-oil-based repellents protected against mosquito bites longer than all other botanical repellents tested.

Lavender oil. Fragrant lavender oil repels mosquitoes and it can be found in a variety of natural skin care products.

Other tips for eliminating and avoiding mosquitoes
1. Avoid being outside during dusk and dawn hours when mosquitoes are most active.

2. If you’re going to be outdoors for a long period of time, wear light colored long-sleeved shirts, long pants, shoes and socks that cover your skin. Tightly woven materials are best. Plus, be sure to wear light colored clothes, since mosquitoes are attracted to dark colors.

3. Avoid wearing fragrances (other than the oils listed above). Mosquitoes are attracted to fragrances, so it’s a good idea to avoid wearing perfumes and scented products while you’re outside.

4. Eat plenty of garlic. Garlic is released through the pores of your skin and the scent makes it harder for mosquitoes to find you and less likely to stay on your skin.

5. Plant mosquito-repelling plants. Bug-repelling plants such as marigolds, tansies, Thai lemon grass, citronella grass, catnip and garlic are excellent, natural mosquito repellents.

Make your own natural insect repellent
Herbalist Debra Nuzzi-St. Claire suggests combining the following essential oils to make a natural insect repellent:

* 1/2 ounce citronella oil
* 1/4 ounce lavender oil
* 1/8 ounce pennyroyal oil
* 1/8 ounce tea tree oil
* 1/8 ounce jojoba oil

Do not use this blend undiluted on your skin. To make an insect repellent that can be used on your body, add 16 ounces of jojoba or almond oil to the base oil mixture and blend thoroughly.

For an insect repellent spray, add 16 ounces of vodka to the base oil mixture, pour into a spray bottle, and shake before using.