Guest guest Posted April 26, 2003 Report Share Posted April 26, 2003 Dear People, scince maybe I am behind the times in research, or have misinterpreted data or emphasis, I am requesting information or clarification on the following thoughts. In the (at least to me) definitely worthwhile and interesting book, " Plague Time-How stealth infections cause cancers, heart disease and other deadly ailments " , Paul Ewald expresses the opinion that microbial contagious infection may be the prime vector of many to most chronic illness including geographical cancer clusters. This is an area where I need more study and information. Scince there are more bacteria in the human body than cells, it is a wonder that we can move think and feel like a single entity at all. But,(and again I am asking for clarification not spouting dogma, maybe I should read again), Toxic and high density EMFs seem to be downplayed as almost insignificant. If so... Why is the incident of for example, cancer clusters co-incident with the presence of chemical and/or energy field phenomena? If the other factors were insignificant, wouldn't they show a more demographic independance to 'harmless environmental factors'? This seems to be a power utility or chemical industry defence lawyer's dream come true. Too much of anything is bad; sleeping, exersize, food, sex, noise, sadness, alcohol, carcinogenic and most other chemicals, radiation, bullets... Nuclear refueling technicians are limited in thier work because of limits to radiation exposure. I know of three people along one wall of an office to get brain cancer in a six year period and one a brain tumor, until we found that the electrical transformer and wiring outside the wall(that hade made the computer screens wobbly) was the cause. Now no more problems, (and nobody working near that wall!). The first responders to Chyernoble accident were given hero status,and free travel around the USSR, but one by one, are I think now sadly all dead as predicted from radiation sickness. Lead. Endocrine mimicking plastic. Does anyone not remember " Silent Spring " ? I remember a picture in a pharmaceutical advert in the fifties, showing an excited red-faced man at a base-ball game, eating a mustard covered spicy hotdog. The heading of the ad read, " The Dyspeptic Patient " . To me this was a good observation of many 'Yang' factors( volatile personality, hot thermogenic food choices, sitting in the hot sun), all warnings that the yin is in for it. There is some kind of wisdom even in the seemingly poor choices we make. I think the ad was for antacid. My point is, it seems personality type(spirit,shen) food choices and so on, have a big part to play in the strong EMERGENCE of opportunistic infections from the imbalanced micro-environment. It would be interesting to have followed those types in the ad to see what other health history they have had, and whether or not antibiotics cured the dyspepsia for good. Follow ups. Getting a more holistic view. The grids showing life disruptions (death) at locations of toxic accumulation globally is proof of its less than optimal health benefits. Poison is Poison. I'd like to be able to see the forest AND the trees. Is the huge increase in chronic fatal illnesses by far the result of one type of invader? Or are the multiple thresholds of insults( basic constitution, emotional history,stressors, chemical/ pharmalogical intake and exposure-incl vaccines, diet including lowered nutritional value of modern agricultural products, new genetic variants in foodstuffs, novel materials in buildings and clothing, EMFs, disassociation from nature, poor sanitation/hygiene/education/civil engineering, etc.), all these AND including aggressive microbial attacks, overwhelming our defensive immune system, exhausting and deranging it? Making it that much easier for opportunistic parasites and their dormant descendent variants to come out and 'play'? I'd like to put together (if there isn't some already), overlapping graphs with ratios of these detrimental inluences per population groups.(like the transparencies used to overlay the organs on the skeleton, then the blood lymph and deep Qi vessels, muscles, various other meridians, skin, senses) If a house has four locked doors and one open window, a thief can still freely enter. No doubt the evolutionary biology infectious theory deserves/needs more brilliant research. Help could come from other medical fields like Traditional Oriental Med, Tibetan medicine, Ayurvedic, plant wisdom etc., and their experience with chronic illness. The many actors in our current state of mass extinction can act invisibly sometimes. There are the micro fields in and around atomic and molecular substances that uniquely influence, and are influenced by the behavior of their immediate biological environment and structuring. And surrounding that and us are fluctuating macro fields ( the world- weather etc., and the universe- solar activity, lunar etc), that contribute to ebbs and flows of microbial virulence cycles. Insights from empirical knowledge basses can help, and may sometimes lead to the best assesment of the data from such a complex affair. On the whole, I don't put much hope in the medical industry as it is right now. Internal memos leaked from Human Resource departments of hospitals mostly express concern more over lost revenue than lost patients. (-e.g. " How to capitalize on the consumers spending > 40 billion out-of-pocket healthcare dollars for alternative and complementary therapies. Hospitals must fill beds by using in-house personel utilizing these modalities. When the consumer enters the hospital environment they may then again be led to our standard care options. -that is; surgery, pharmacueticals and so on). So, hospital personnel(md's and cheaper techs if possible)will give standardized, westernized versions of Traditional Medicine, and, after getting little benefit, the patient will be led to believe their best hope is again industrial strength allopathic procedures. Greed robs society of a sustainable environment and good quality of life and interferes with the benefits of an integrated medical model. The money and effort expended into the data-mining predictive analysis techniques and technologies employed by multinationals and DARPA's IAO office should be used to help solve solvable life problems, instead of being merely market research for big buisness- thinly veiled and funded as Homeland Security terrorist prevention. The difference between a tool and a weapon is how it's used. Personally, sometimes I feel like I don't care anymore. Everything is getting too hopeless stupid - myself included. With the biosphere disappearing, international affairs in the mess they're in, global power groups hustling for dominance harder than ever, inaction of the majority, persecution of the poor, the marginalization of cultures; the noise of the informed compassionate minority is drowned out. I guess though, the human beings will eventually be dragged like spoiled kids, kicking and screaming, back into the hall of enlightenment sooner or later somehow. And back on earth, maybe after the demographic winter a thousand years from now, they'll have learnt a little. Maybe relax a bit. As true perception being true reality, and some actually percieving, many may already be there. (p.s.- I wish I could locate the source of this old stuff.---Wasn't the great influenza pandemic of the first world war triggered by unusually cold rains falling on a nasty pig farm in Iowa, where the farmhands picked it up and brought it over to Europe? Tests soon afterwards found that pigs who were exposed to very cold water sprays caught 'it' and became seriously sick and contagious, and pigs who weren't chilled, mostly didn't.) - " When the world state dawns, it will be neither Christian, white, nor democratic. " --George Orwell http://epistolary.org/721.html http://www.thememoryhole.org/policestate/iao-logo.htm IAO Mission The DARPA Information Awareness Office (IAO) will imagine, develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate, and transition information technologies, components, and prototype closed-loop information systems that will counter asymmetric threats by achieving total information awareness that is useful for preemption, national security warning, and national security decision making. IAO Vision The most serious asymmetric threat facing the United States is terrorism, a threat characterized by collections of people loosely organized in shadowy networks that are difficult to identify and define. IAO plans to develop technology that will allow understanding of the intent of these networks, their plans, and potentially define opportunities for disrupting or eliminating the threats. To effectively and efficiently carry this out, we must promote sharing, collaborating and reasoning to convert nebulous data to knowledge and actionable options. IAO will accomplish this by pursuing the development of technologies, components, and applications to produce a proto-type system. Example technologies include: Collaboration and sharing over TCP/IP networks across agency boundaries Large, distributed repositories with dynamic schemas that can be changed interactively by users Foreign language machine translation and speech recognition Biometric signatures of humans Real time learning, pattern matching and anomalous pattern detection Entity extraction from natural language text Human network analysis and behavior model building engines Event prediction and capability development model building engines Structured argumentation and evidential reasoning Story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance Business rules sub-systems for access control and process management Biologically inspired algorithms for agent control Other aids for human cognition and human reasoning It is difficult to counter the threat that terrorists pose. Currently, terrorists are able to move freely throughout the world, to hide when necessary, to find unpunished sponsorship and support, to operate in small, independent cells, and to strike infrequently, exploiting weapons of mass effects and media response to influence governments. This low-intensity/low-density form of warfare has an information signature, albeit not one that our intelligence infrastructure and other government agencies are optimized to detect. In all cases, terrorists have left detectable clues that are generally found after an attack. Even if we could find these clues faster and more easily, our counter-terrorism defenses are spread throughout many different agencies and organizations at the national, state, and local level. To fight terrorism, we need to create a new intelligence infrastructure to allow these agencies to share information and collaborate effectively, and new information technology aimed at exposing terrorists and their activities and support systems. This is a tremendously difficult problem, because terrorists understand how vulnerable they are and seek to hide their specific plans and capabilities. The key to fighting terrorism is information. Elements of the solution include gathering a much broader array of data than we do currently, discovering information from elements of the data, creating models of hypotheses, and analyzing these models in a collaborative environment to determine the most probable current or future scenario. DARPA has sponsored research in some of these technology areas, but additional research and development is warranted to accelerate, integrate, broaden, and automate current approaches. - TYRANNY ADVISORY: CODE RED WE WILL SOON BE UNDER MARTIAL LAW. YOUR RIGHTS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? POSITIVE FORCES RESISTING TYRANNY, CRIME AND CORRUPTION AROUND THE GLOBE. JOIN IN THE RESISTANCE TODAY! GET ORAGANIZED! Who are these so-called " Quackbusters " ?... Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen Americans have known, or suspected, for some time, that there has been an organized assault by a group, against companies, and practitioners, offering alternatives to the drugs/surgery paradigm. That group calls itself the " quackbusters, " and they are a scam. I'm about to tell you WHY that assault was formally assembled, HOW THE SCAM works, and WHO the players are, and WHAT they're up to right now. In my next newsletter I'll tell you WHY, right now, Wisconsin is the important battleground. If you know who they are, and how they operate, you can beat them. North America has been going towards what are called " alternatives, " in health and medicine, in a big way. More than half of the US health dollar is currently being spent on this phenomena. With new billing codes (ABC Codes) going into effect, allowing insurance and Medicare to pay for " alternative " therapies, that percentage will, no doubt, increase dramatically. In California, the fifth largest stand-alone economy in the world, where I live, the health freedom movement is much larger than anywhere else. Here, we'd rather be healthy than medicated. We've analyzed the politics of the problem, and successfully turned the political environment to our way of thinking. We simply do not put up with " quackbuster " crap, here.. Why should we? And, neither should you... Throughout this discourse keep something important in mind. It's this - we in the Health Freedom Movement outnumber the quackbusters 100,000 to 1. We've got more money than they do, and we've got better, and more talented people. We also have better lawyers. It is time to use our advantage to destroy them. WHY IT WAS FORMALLY ASSEMBLED... Three things, I believe, seriously alarmed conventional (mainstream) medicine and spurred them to action in late 1996. The FIRST thing was reports showing that medical care in this country is so bad that doctors and hospitals are listed as the third largest cause of unnecessary death. Americans have been finding out that the average MD these days, beyond the emergency room, has little to offer beyond the " magic bullet, " meaning the new drug pushed this week by the drug company salesman. The bottom line in conventional medical care is a shock, and Americans are expressing their displeasure with the situation with their changes in health buying patterns - which leads to the Second thing. The SECOND thing was a 1993 report in the New England Journal of Medicine (JAMA) that showed the huge financial impact of " Alternative Medicine " on the US health care dollar. The THIRD was the Clinton Administration's identification of " health fraud " as a major cause of health care's rising costs - and the announcement of Attorney General Janet Reno's plans to deal with that issue STRONGLY. THE EFFECTS ON MAINSTREAM... STOMACH ACHE #1 - The 1993 JAMA report on Alternative Medicine... had to be a shock to conventional medicine. It showed that the American public was not in the " Marcus Welby, " or the " Ben Casey " mode any more - where the guy in the white coat, with the stethoscope around his neck, was America's sole source of health advice. The " Ask Your Doctor " program was flat-out dying. The JAMA report suggested that more visits were being made to unconventional practitioners in 1990 then to conventional - 488 million unconventional visits to 388 million to primary care physicians. 13.7 billion dollars was spent on unconventional practices as opposed to 12.8 billion for hospitalization. Alternative Medicine, which excels outside of the Emergency Room was, offering real health solutions. STOMACH ACHE #2 - Then, in 1995, Janet Reno, the then Attorney General, under the direction of the US President, came out with a program identifying " health fraud " as a major problem in the US health care system. She shocked, and frightened, conventional practitioners. " Health Fraud " - was, and is, defined by the Justice Department as " Over billing, false coding, MD kickbacks, etc.. " Reno, of course, was right - conventional medicine was, and is, involved in sheer greed and dishonesty. It was, and is, a huge problem. In response, mainstream medical went into orbit, trying to deflect her attack - to no avail. Janet Reno was teaching " seniors " how to read their medical bills - and turn their doctor into the Feds. The " Meds " were in trouble with the " Feds. " And, still are. And, should be... So mainstream, rather than fix their own house, had to come up with a plan to counter these two assaults on their dollar intake. They did... and here it is... HOW THE SCAM WORKS... In 1996, mainstream launched their counter-attack. It was a four part dis-information Public Relations campaign designed to kill two birds (stomach aches) with one stone. They wanted Janet Reno (and the American public) off their backs, and they wanted to get rid of their upstart competitor Alternative Medicine. So they came up with a simple plan - re-define the term " health fraud " with a massive dis- information campaign. The intent was to re-define the word AWAY from Reno's definition of " Over billing, false coding, MD kickbacks, etc.. " to a different focus - " Alternative Medicine. " They put the plan into effect. Enter, from stage right - the " quackbusters... " PART ONE of the plan was what I call the " definition switch. " Janet Reno, in her original plan, had expected cooperation from the State Medical Boards. She expected the Boards to prosecute billing cheaters. She NEVER got that cooperation. In Chicago in 1996, at the FSMB (Federation of States Medical Boards) annual meeting, a major program was presented. It was, supposedly, on " health fraud, " and how to combat it. Conspicuously, there were no speakers from Janet Reno's team. If any of Janet Reno's people thought this was going to help the Federal program - they were wrong. The Feds that were attending must have been in shock, upon seeing the presentation. Only once in the program was the Fed's definition of " health fraud " ever mentioned - it was by FTC's Matt Daynard who made it clear that their (the FTC's) concerns were MUCH broader than theirs. Other than an apparently confused Daynard, no where in the program was there a discussion of how to prosecute doctors who over- billed, false coded, took kickbacks, etc. All they talked about was " Alternative Medicine, " and how to prosecute it - calling it " health fraud. " From that moment on - While Feds prosecuted sleazy hospitals, greedy MDs, clinics, ambulance operators, home suppliers, etc., State Medical Boards were to target two categories; (a) solo practitioner MDs that recommended supplements, exercise, etc., instead of prescription drugs, and (b)unlicensed competitors to the drug/surgery dollars, i.e.; Naturopaths, Homeopaths, Nutritionists, Health food Stores, Massage Therapists, etc.. And the war began in earnest. For, even then the Health Freedom Movement, although not organized, had muscle. Hundreds of fights across the nation, ensued. PART TWO of the plan was to affect Federal Agencies - and try to redirect those agency's efforts away from the Justice Department's program, and convince them to focus their energies on " Alternative medicine " proponents. They did this with a four-part sub-plan. (a) They invited FTC and FDA lower level employees to their meetings for the express purpose of propagandizing, and kissing-up to them. (b). They created a system of " meetings " where they had access to those Federal employees on a regular basis - for the purpose of propagandizing them © They used their contacts within those Federal agencies to gain unwarranted credibility for their own plans, and anti-alternative medicine programs. (d) They got the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to give them official government credibility. PART THREE of the plan, was a propaganda gambit. It was in two parts (a) create a so-called " information base. " Websites appeared, sounding authoritative, like Stephen Barrett's sleazy www.quackwatch.com, and others. The questionable organization, the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), was to provide so-called " expert witnesses " for testimony. The FSMB was to act as a clearinghouse, both for names of people suggested for prosecution (persecution), and for where to find " information " and " expert witnesses. " And more... DHHS was duped into giving the quackbusters unwarranted credibility. Type in the key words " health fraud " on a government website, and up pops the National Council Against Health Fraud's website, and quackwatch.com. The second part (b) , and equally important was to demonize, and criminalize, all aspects of " alternatives " through false suggestions, or claims, against them. For instance; The claim that herbals are " untested " and not " standardized " is simply a ploy to make herbals look bad. Herbals do not need to be " tested, " nor " standardized. " . Herbals are more like wine - since they are a natural product, dependant upon natural factors like weather, no two batches are going to be the same. Herbals, being part of nature (part of earth's life cycle) have been field tested since the beginning of time. The " testing " process we the people put in place is for new " drugs, " not herbals - those things, unlike herbals, that have NEVER been introduced into the human body before. Generally speaking, drugs are HUGELY DANGEROUS - hence the warnings of side effects. PART FOUR of the plan was to create a relationship with Medicare, and the health Insurance Industry, to supposedly, advise them of " health fraud. " It incorporated, in a sub-plan parts One, Two, and Three, above. WHO THE PLAYERS ARE... I believe the primary player in this scam is the Board, management, and staff of the FSMB (Federation of States Medical Boards). Their website basically says " We don't know what alternative medicine is - so we'll call it health fraud. " It is they, I believe, who control the daily operation of the plot. As you read this, at exactly this moment, some, or all of the FSMB people, are probably on the phone, the FAX, or the internet, organizing the persecution of some unsuspecting leading-edge healer in North America. Ten minutes from now, they will begin another. Then another, then another, then another... The National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) is another player. It wants to appear to be an important wheel in health care. The reality is different. It was rudely EVICTED from Loma Linda University a few years ago, and after bouncing around from place to place, has now found a home in a hair removal salon in Massachusetts, where the NCAHF president, Robert S. Baratz MD, DDS, PhD is the " Medical Director. " Hair removal? One other player, recently fading from the scene, muscled out by Bobbie Baratz, is Stephen Barrett MD, who the Pennsylvania licensing board officially classifies as " Not in Good Standing, " operates the dubious website www.quackwatch.com out of his basement in Allentown, Pennsylvania. There are other players, but it would take to long to explain how it works. Again, I recommend James Carter MD's SUPERB book " Racketeering In Medicine. " as a resource. Page #44 has an outline of the whole quackbuster scam. THE REAL PROBLEM IS... What is the REAL problem, exactly? Generally, " we " are the problem. " We " meaning the North American Health Freedom Movement. Specifically, it's that " we, " in the Health Freedom Movement haven't completely countered the attack plan put into place a few years ago (1996), by the quackbuster conspirators to destroy " Alternative Medicine. " It's time we did that. - and we can do it relatively easily. What we have to remember is that, despite the quackbuster's best efforts, " Alternative Medicine " is gaining, not losing, ground in public acceptance. Americans aren't buying into the quackbuster " big lie " propaganda program. Since identifying a problem is half-way to solution - we're more than half done solving this issue. SO WHAT ABOUT THE QUACKBUSTER'S BIG PLAN? We know that several years ago, the plan was put together, and explained at the 1996 meeting of the FSMB, by a group of conspirators, to use the Medical Boards, the FSMB, the Attorney Generals, certain employees of the FTC and the FDA, and top quackbusters for the purpose of stamping out " Alternative Medicine. " Although the whole thing was exposed in magazines like " The Townsend Letter, " the plan was activated. It is on-going now. At that time there was no super-strong (like there is now) " Health Freedom Movement, " per se - so there was no national counter-strategy, and no counter-action. That was THEN - this is NOW. Now, of course, we know that when a " top quackbuster " shows up to testify somewhere, someone is waiting with the equivalent of a factual ball-bat - and that quackbuster is publicly exposed for the out-of-a-job loser crackpot they really are. In other words, we've negated an important component in their attack plan - their so- called " experts. " We're doing this to Bobbie Baratz in Wisconsin. Each time he opens his mouth he sinks deeper into the quicksand. Dismantling their " activated plan " is also really a simple exercise. We simply use our size, and intelligence, advantage. " The Plan of 1996, " such as it is, was in five parts, and it had a basic theme - Destroy Alternative Medicine by " Criminalizing " it. Kind of like depicting Mother Theresa as " the whore of Calcutta. " Their five part plan goes like this: (1) Set up a central propaganda center. (2) Control who gets prosecuted through the FSMB, and medical boards. (3) Affect Medicare, and Medical Insurance Company payment decisions (4) Use the system to harass, discourage, and destroy Alt Med practitioners, and providers. (5) Demoralize the opposition with the viciousness of the campaign. " The Plan of 1996 " is having a limited success, not because it's a good plan, but because we don't do anything about it. Our reaction, to this point, has been to put protective " Health Freedom Laws " in place - and we are having only LIMITED success with that. We need to change strategies slightly. WHY IT'S SO EASY TO BEAT THESE PEOPLE... The quackbusters, I've found, aren't individually, or in groups, that bright. Read delicensed MD Stephen Barrett's website www.quackwatch.com, and his resume, and you'll see what I mean - and he's their chief propagandist. Everything he says is like he was simply filling out a form someone, with a higher intelligence, gave him. His mouthings are boringly the same, each and every time. Keep in mind that Barrett, although claiming to be a retired Psychiatrist, was never able to become " Board Certified. " He failed his test. Also, Barrett gave up his MD license in 1993. I suspect he just couldn't keep up with new things. His employment record shows he NEVER was able to hold a full-time job - and his claim to " Psychiatric fame " was his part-time (4 to 8 hours a week) employment at a Pennsylvania Mental Hospital - from 1978 through 1993. From 1976 through 1978 he COULD NOT GET a paying job. Barrett, with his lack of basic intelligence, is getting hammered when he shows up in a courtroom situation - and tries to inflict his weird opinions on a Judge. And Barrett has legal problems all over the country. Basically, I see Barrett as a loser, who couldn't make it in the medical profession. And, Barrett is TYPICAL quackbuster leadership. Bobbie Baratz, the current president of the NCAHF, is laughable. He's, almost literally, hiding under the bed, avoiding depositions asking about his so-called " expertise. " I believe he's desperate for the " testifying " money. Baratz, who's former position at a Boston area medical center, was terminated (and Baratz doesn't want to talk about it), after a physical altercation with a 72 year old woman, now operates a hair removal business. Some " expert. " He also operates the NCAHF out of that same hair removal location. Polevoy, in Canada, is a sissy. He likes to frighten women. I think he pees his pants when confronted by the male of the species. I'm eager to hear his version of the story about why he isn't practicing as a PEDIATRICIAN any more. I see no reason to be impressed with the visible quackbuster operation... I'm of the opinion that the original " plan " was written by someone we haven't met yet. SO WHY DID THEY HAVE ANY SUCCESS, AT ALL? Because they organized, and activated, a plan... and we, in the Health Freedom Movement, didn't react with our own plan. HOW DOES THEIR PLAN WORK? (1) SET UP A CENTRAL PROPAGANDA CENTER - They simply set up a series of websites, and telephone numbers, that all of their soldiers, government employees, and members of the public, could refer to for information about " alternative medicine. " They set up a " chat room " to send victims to " for further information. " Unsuspecting readers have no idea that what they're reading is all lies and misrepresentations. (2) CONTROL WHO GETS PROSECUTED through the FSMB, and medical boards. - Whoever designed the original plan, understood the science of social manipulation. They understood how to use bureaucrats to their own advantage. Generally speaking, public employees are not the brightest stars in the sky - they are bureaucrats. The 1970's book " The Peter Principle " was written about them. Dr. Laurence J. Peter was the one who said " In a bureaucracy, everyone rises to their level of incompetence. " How true. Employees of agencies regulating health care in the United States are no exception. The only thing you can count on when dealing with them is (a) they are definitely bureaucrats, (b) when it comes to knowledge of the subject they are supposed to regulate - never expect them to know anything about what they are regulating, © expect pettiness, brutality, and stupidity in their completion of their assignments. If you keep these things in mind (and don't be shocked by the reality) - you can deal with them - and get things done. Yes, it's not right - but it is the way things are. The quackbusters have been operating in the " public employee " arena for a very long time. So, they know how to manipulate the arena to their own advantage. Even though we, in the Health Freedom Movement, outnumber them 100,000 to 1, they can still control who gets attacked (prosecuted), because they've managed to infiltrate, and poison the minds of health agency bureaucrats against " Alternative Medicine. " One of the best examples we've recently found is the " Training Manual for Alternative Medicine Prosecutions, " handed out to the gun- toting investigators of the Medical Board of California (MBC). Investigators of the Medical Board of California (MBC), are only required to have a high school education, are not required to have any medical training, and need only a six-week course at a community college before they're handed their fifteen-shot Berretta nine millimeter automatic, and their " Training Manual for Alternative Medicine Prosecutions. " See how it works? (3) AFFECT MEDICARE, AND MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANY DECISIONS... Unfortunately, a large slice of the American population relies on Medicare and Medical Insurance for their health care needs. Those that use this combination solely - remain unhealthy, and then die. For, as we know, Medicare, and Medical Insurance, offerings have to have undergone an " approval process " before they can be paid for. Which translates to the unfortunate fact that if you're relying on what Medicare will pay for - you're relying on practices and procedures that are at least FIFTEEN YEARS OUT OF DATE. And, in the case of Medical Insurance - probably TEN YEARS OUT OF DATE. New things simply aren't paid for in the Medicare and Medical Insurance world. The " quackbusters " formed an organization called CHIRI (Consumer Health Information Research Institute) for the express purpose of, as James Carter says " The CHIRI has for its constituency the health insurance industry. It purports to serve that industry in an advisory capacity, by approving or disapproving a particular treatment provided by a health-care provider. It plans to serve as a health- insurance consultant regarding the legitimacy of certain disabilities and health practitioners. An example of an " illegal " disability would be chronic fatigue syndrome. CHIRI is also said to have a computerized list of more than 40,000 American physicians and other medical practitioners who are suspected of using " questionable medical practices. " (4) USE THE SYSTEM TO HARASS, DISCOURAGE, AND DESTROY LEADING-EDGE PRACTITIONERS AND PROVIDERS... Taking plan sections One, Two, and Three above into consideration, you can see what effect the combination has on leading-edge health care. The " system " is designed to protect the status quo. (5) DEMORALIZE THE OPPOSITION BY THE VICIOUSNESS OF THE CAMPAIGN. This section is self-explanatory. One of the tactics used is to attack health providers who have little, or no, financial resources as brutally as possible, as publicly as possible, so that other providers see what happens when they tell the drug salesmen to go away. WHAT ARE THE QUACKBUSTERS UP TO RIGHT NOW.... Besides hiding under the bed? There's their Wisconsin campaign - typically vicious, full of hatred and falsehoods, led by little Bobbie Baratz, who isn't doing very well... We have there, an opportunity to do the " quackbusters " serious damage. I'll tell you about it in the next newsletter. Coming soon... Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate This " Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter " is about the battle between " Health and Medicine " on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a subversive organization calling itself the " quackbusters, " and that organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm for consumer health dollars. The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles, politics, and the victories won by members of the " Health Freedom Movement " against the " quackbusters " It details " who the quackbusters are, what they are, where they are operating, when they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it is to beat them... " For background information on the " Battle between Health and Medicine " go to: http://www.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm. A copy of THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the website http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm. For EVEN MORE interesting and related articles go to http://www.bolenreport.com. Sandy Mintz http://www.vaccinationnews.com http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/past_scandals.htm - EU Supplement Takeover Leads To Global Dictatorship By Emma Holister 1-22-3 The ABC of how a seemingly insignificant law being passed by the European parliament to restrict the sale of supplements will lead to a global dictatorship To the average person it doesn't really seem that important that the European parliament is giving into the pressures of the all-powerful pharmaceuticals industries as they make an aggressive take-over of the food supplements market and alternative medicine in general, claiming the need to implement regulatory safety measures. However, when we take a look at Ron Law's study on the Safety of Dietary Supplements we discover the following facts: A. " Properly researched, regulated, prescribed and properly used drugs are the fourth most common cause of death - but they are never reported. (Source, Journal of the American Medical Association - Range 90,000 to 160,000 deaths per year.) That's a Boeing 747 crashing every day! 46 people die every day from Aspirin alone in the USA. Avoidable medical misadventure is the sixth most common cause of death. (Source, CDC - range 40,000 to 90,000) In Australia 9,000 people die from avoidable medical misadventure every year. (Source, Australian Medical Journal). In Australia 50,000 people are maimed by medical misadventure every year. (AMJ) " B. " You are less likely to die from taking a supplement than dying from bee stings, sports injuries, lightening, animal bites, horse riding, radon gas, etc, etc. Dietary supplements have the potential to reduce deaths from cancers andheart disease by over 50%. (Optimists would go as high as 75%) Greater than 26,000 times more people die from preventable medical misadventure and properly regulated, properly prescribed and properly used drugs than from dietary supplements. " It is also worth noting that the huge rise in deaths in recent years from heart disease and cancer can also be linked to environmental poisoning from the food, agricultural and water supply industries who are responsible for devastating people's health and endangering the survival of the planet. It doesn't take a great deal of research to discover that the dangerous chemicals in our food and water supplies and the pharmaceuticals industries are not entirely unrelated. We can see that illness is an extremely profitable business, the most profitable business in the world. An unhealthy population is more docile, easily manipulated and a great financial asset. What greater threat to the long held monopoly of the pharmaceutical giants than food supplements and alternative therapies that are not only proved to be safe but are also extremely successful in combating and preventing disease, not to mention the fact that they are also cheaper most of the time? When a person has been through the 'medical mill' of drugs, surgery, drugs, more surgery, more drugs and is finally given the death sentence by their doctor, there are two ways that this person may react: A. They accept their doctor's prognosis and say farewell to their loved ones. B. They question the medical authorities and search for alternative therapies. When searching for an alternative therapist the average person will come across one of the following: A. A well-intentioned therapist with insufficient knowledge who may fail to cure them. B. A fake (who benefits the pharmaceutical industries by destroying people's faith in alternative medicine). C. A great therapist who'll cure them. When, to their astonishment, they discover that not only there are hundreds of effective therapies and cures with no side effects for even the most serious illnesses like AIDS, but that their disease was more than likely caused by the medical establishment in the first place who moreover do everything in their power to suppress knowledge of these effective therapies, they may have one of the following reactions, or all three: A. Joy B. Rage C. They join the Health Freedom Movement. The question that naturally arises is 'Why are so many associations and politicians who claim to be defending alternative medicine and our right to choose, who claim to be taking a stand against the pharmaceutical giants so silent, unapproachable and unresponsive with regards to this vitally important issue of protecting small businesses and our human rights against the EU's restrictive legislation on the sale of supplements?' There are three possible reasons: A. They are ignorant B. They are being paid to keep people ignorant C. Their livelihood, and even their lives may have been threatened. When we hear that AIDS is not a sexually transmitted disease but most likely to be an illness caused by vaccines and environmental chemical poisoning it may surprise us, we may not believe it. When we hear that Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, said that most cancer research was a fraud we may have one of two reactions: A. We agree with the many people in the medical establishment, who claim that poor old Linus Pauling had lost his marbles. B. We believe him. Perhaps, we may think to ourselves, much of the above information seems rather far-fetched and that surely the medical authorities, surely our family doctor, our friendly local chemist, surely these educated people could not all have been fooled, or worse still be fooling us. However, it is worth considering the following things: A. The medical universities and medical journals serve the interests of the profit oriented pharmaceutical cartel. B. Most of the information and research in medical journals is funded by the pharmaceutical industries, not to mention the fact that around one third of the content of these journals is most often dedicated to drug ads. C. Educated people are also capable of believing lies, or of being liars. D. Can we trust the regulating bodies that demand vast sums of money in order to give out the stamp of approval for the sale of medical products to have the nation's health as their primary concern? Or may it be a possibility that they are doing big business and have as much integrity as your average used car salesman? E. Would you entrust your health to a used car salesman? More importantly, what are the things that might stop a person from believing the above information? A. Blind trust in the medical authorities. B. Over consumption of unhealthy contaminated food, water and dependency on pharmaceutical products. C. Too much television. After having read the above you may have one of the following reactions: A. You don't believe a word of it and chuck this in the bin. B. You decide there's nothing you can do about it and sit back and say goodbye to humanity and the planet. C. You become an active participant in the Global Health Freedom Movement and begin informing yourself, signing the relevant petitions and writing letters of protest to your government and politicians. GLOBAL HEALTH FREEDOM MOVEMENT http://www.CandidaInternational.org www.laleva.cc http://www.laleva.cc/petizione/francais/intro_fr.html www.dr-rath-foundation.org www.aidsalternativa.org www.iahf.com www.friendsoffreedom.org http://www.hhff.info/ www.drclark.net Sources: Ron Law 'Safefy of Dietary Supplements' http://www.laleva.cc/petizione/english/ronlaw_eng.html Dr Louis Bon de Brouwer 'Sida: le vertige - les apprentis sorciers' editions Marco Pietteur infos www.cancerinform.freewebsites.com/cancerart.html (For information on 'Disease Mongering' and the pharmaceuticals rackets) www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,646078,00.html (Scientists taking money for papers ghost-written by drug companies) <http://www.virusmyth.net/>www.virusmyth.net 'The Yeast Syndrome' by John Parks Trowbridge and Morton Walker 'The Cure for HIV and AIDS' by Dr Hulda Regehr Clark 'The Cure for all Diseases' by Dr. Hulda Regehr Clark Eleni Papadopulos Eleopulos et al., <books/epbmother.htm>'Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and its Prevention with AZT and Nevirapine' Marvin Kitzerow, <books/mkbindict.htm>'The AIDS Indictment' Mohammed Al-Bayati, <books/abbtoxic.htm>'Get all The Facts: HIV does not cause AIDS' Joan Shenton, <books/jsbfalse.htm>'Positively False; Exposing the myths around HIV and AIDS' Roberto Giraldo, <books/rgbstress.htm>'AIDS and Stressors' John Lauritsen & Ian Young (editors), <books/jlbcult.htm>'The AIDS Cult: Essays on the gay health crisis' Steven Epstein, <books/sebimpure.htm>'Impure Science; AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge' Neville Hodgkinson, <books/nhbfailure.htm>'AIDS: The failure of contemporary science' Peter Duesberg, <books/pdbinvent.htm>'Inventing the AIDS Virus' Peter Duesberg (editor), <books/pdbkluwer.htm>'AIDS; Virus or drug induced?' Peter Duesberg, <books/pdbinfect.htm>'Infectious AIDS: Have we been misled?' Ian Young, <>'The Stonewall Experiment; A gay psychohistory' Ellinor Burkett, <>'The Gravest Show on Earth; America in the age of AIDS' Robert Willner, <>'Deathly Deception' Robert Root-Bernstein, <>'Rethinking AIDS; The tragic cost of premature consensus' John Lauritsen, <>'The AIDS War; Propaganda, profiteering and genocide from the medical-industrial complex' John Lauritsen, <>'Poison by Prescription; The AZT story' Bruce Nussbaum, <>'Good Intentions; How big business and the medical establishment are corrupting the fight against AIDS' Jad Adams, <>'AIDS; The HIV myth' Jon Rappoport, <>'AIDS Inc.; Scandal of the century' Email This Article MainPage http://www.rense.com This Site Served by TheHostPros - Bacteria: The Ultimate Cause of Cancer? As a physician-dermatologist I have studied various aspects of the cancer microbe for over 30 years. In my book, The Cancer Microbe (Aries Rising Press, 1990), I recount a century of research by various scientists who have documented the reality and importance of bacteria associated with cancer. Despite a wealth of information on the microbiology of cancer, this body of work has been largely ignored. Why would medical science overlook the finding of bacterial elements in cancer, particularly when the treatment of advanced cancer is often abysmal and when the cause (or causes) of many types of cancer remain unknown? If and when the bacterial cause of cancer is widely accepted, it will be left to medical historians to determine why the medical community failed to recognise cancer bacteria. At the present time, it is fair to say that most physicians are either unaware of cancer microbe research, or ignore the published findings, or are openly hostile to this research. Unfortunately, medical doctors are limited by dogma about cancer-associated bacteria that eliminated a bacterial cause for cancer a century ago. In the late nineteenth century, when the bacterial cause of many infectious diseases was discovered, it was decided that cancer did not act like an infectious or contagious disease, and therefore it was concluded that bacteria were not causative. Although a few scientists later found highly unusual and pleomorphic bacteria, these bacteria were simply dismissed as " contaminants " – or as microbes that had " secondarily infected " cancerous growths. Furthermore, there was no single or consistent type of microbe found, and animals experimentally infected with cancer microbes did not give develop cancer. Thus, decades before the rise of virology and molecular biology, and at a time when " mycoplasma " forms of bacteria were not known, the medical establishment concluded that bacteria were not involved as a cause of cancer in any way. This conclusion has coloured medical thought about cancer to this day. Historically, it took centuries for doctors to recognise microbes as the cause of any disease. By the use of lenses, germs were discovered 200 years before physicians finally understood that microbes were capable of causing disease. For two centuries the dogma was that those exceedingly tiny " animacules " could not possibly be a threat to a grown person. Once something becomes dogma in medical science, it is very difficult to change medical thinking. Ordinarily, infectious bacteria can be easily recognised in disease because they can be seen microscopically in tissue sections from disease states. Sometimes careful " special staining " of tissue sections is necessary to make microbes more visible and more easily identifiable. (In cancerous tissue, the cancer microbe is most easily viewed with an " acid-fast " tissue stain, like the special stain employed to identify the mycobacteria that cause tuberculosis and leprosy). In this so-called modern era of medical science, one would think it impossible for disease experts to overlook disease-causing bacteria. However, when a new and deadly lung disease broke out among legionnaires in Philadelphia in July 1976, two hundred twenty-two people became ill and thirty-four died. The cause of the lung disease remained a medical mystery for over five months. Bacterial infection was ruled out when all tests were reported as negative. Fortunately, one astute and careful microbiologist finally discovered bacteria. Joe McDade at the Leprosy Branch of the CDC, was able to detect " unusual bacteria " in guinea pigs experimentally infected with lung tissue from the dead legionnaires. Further modification of bacterial culture methods finally allowed the isolation of causative bacteria, now known as Legionella pneumophila. Yet another modern example of dogma-defying research is provided by recent studies proving that bacteria (Helicobacter pylori) are a common cause of stomach ulcers, which can eventually lead to stomach cancer and lymphoma. When I went to medical school, stomach ulcers were thought to be due to stress, lifestyle, or improper diet, and it was not uncommon to send ulcer patients to psychiatrists for analysis. For a century, physicians refused to believe that bacteria could cause ulcers because they thought bacteria could not live in the acid environment of the stomach. In 1982 a researcher, who was unable to convince his colleagues that bacteria could cause ulcers and gastritis, actually proved his case by drinking a culture of H. pylori. When he rapidly became ill with stomach symptoms, he admitted himself to the hospital where these bacteria were found to be associated with his gastric disease. It also turned out that these bacteria could indeed be detected in the stomach lining of stomach ulcers, but only when the tissue was stained in a special way to detect the bacteria. The CDC now claims that H. pylori causes more than 90% of duodenal ulcers and 80% of gastric ulcers. Approximately two-thirds of the world's population is infected with these microbes. The present experience with ulcer-causing microbes proves that bacteria can indeed pop up in diseases where they are least expected. Such a caveat is appropriate for doctors who think they know everything about cancer and who pooh-pooh all aspects of cancer microbe research. One perennial complaint about the so-called cancer microbe is that is pleomorphic. For some reason, the idea that a proposed cancer germ could have more than one form is a threat to doctors and some microbiologists. Indeed the cancer germ has been described as having a virus like and fungus-like, as well as mycoplasma-like phase. Such a " life cycle " is deemed nonsense and microbiologic heresy. The many guises of the pleomorphic cancer microbe was studied extensively in the 1960s and 70s by four remarkable women scientists: Virginia Livingston (a physician); Eleanor Alexander- Jackson (a microbiologist); Irene Diller (a cytologist); and Florence Seibert, a chemist, tuberculosis expert, and inventor of the tuberculin skin test. Their individual and collaborative studies are essential reading to understand the proposed microbiology of cancer. This research clearly indicated that cancer microbes are best detected by special tissue testing (similar to those used in tuberculosis and leprosy research). And that the cancer germ has some similarity to pleomorphic tuberculosis germs. In all its many forms the tuberculosis microbe is certainly pleomorphic. (See the work of mycoplasma expert Lida H. Mattman.) The bacteria that cause TB are known as " mycobacteria " . Some forms of the bacillus are round " coccoid " forms; other forms are more typically " acid-fast " and " rod " forms. All mycobacteria form a phylogenetic link or bridge between the bacteria and the " higher " fungi. " Myco " is Greek for fungus. Ergo, myco-bacteria. Under appropriate conditions, bacteria can lose their cell wall and become amorphous, smaller, highly pleomorphic " cell-wall deficient forms. " Under suitable conditions, mycoplasma can enlarge to giant-sized forms ( " Large bodies " ) resembling fungal and spore-like forms. It is vital to be aware of and to recognise such unusual and hard-to-detect forms in tissue microscopic sections because, in my experience, this mycoplasmal form is the form the cancer microbe takes inside the body in human disease. Due to their small size, Mycobacteria form a bridge between (larger) bacteria and smaller) viruses. Microbiologists love to separate (and classify) viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, and fungi, as distinct entities. In fact, there is interplay between all of them. It is well-known that bacteria can be infected with viruses. Nevertheless, scientists cannot seem to understand how microbes can change into virus-like, mycoplasma-like and fungus-like infectious agents. Because the cancer microbe is related to the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, it is helpful to compare the microbiology of cancer with what we know about the microbiology of mycobacteria and their production of various forms of clinical TB. Over the past half-century we have learned that TB is not always caused by the same identical germs. TB infections of the lung may be caused by various " atypical " mycobacteria that are not identical to the common Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Also some atypical mycobacteria have been discovered in various disease states that are not considered tuberculosis. Thus, there is no reason to expect all cancer-associated bacteria to be exactly the same germ. Furthermore, just as everyone who harbours H. pylori does not develop stomach ulcers, we should not expect all " cancer microbes " to produce cancer. Also it is not unreasonable to consider that cancer microbes have the potential to produce disease states that are not considered cancer. For many years I identified cancer microbes in a variety of disease states. In The Cancer Microbe, I show photomicrographs of cancer microbes in " autoimmune " diseases such as scleroderma, in AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma, in enlarged lymph nodes in AIDS, in breast cancer, in lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease, in a lung disease called interstitial pneumonitis, in sarcoidosis, in an immunoblastic sarcoma and even in a skin cancer. Not everyone who becomes infected with TB germs develops clinical tuberculosis. People can harbour the TB germ without ever becoming ill. The same is true for cancer microbes. Not everyone who carries them develops cancer. According to Virginia Livingston, the microbe is " ubliquitous. " It is found in various disease states and also can be found normally. This is a difficult for some medical doctors to believe because of the idea that an infectious agent must always infect. Livingston infuriated the scientific establishment by naming the cancer microbe " Progenitor cryptocides " – meaning " hidden killer " ). She claimed the microbe was present in every cell. Due to its biochemical peculiarities, the organism was responsible for initiating life and for healing of tissue; and was the microbe ultimately responsible for eventual degeneration and death of all life. Such ideas, of course, are at odds with medical thought. However, my own studies have suggested that the cancer microbe is indeed ubiquitous and indestructible, which is further reason why it should be taken seriously, particularly in diseases that are poorly understood, like cancer and " diseases of unknown etiology. " Most importantly, cancer microbes are significant because they can be identified in the cancerous tissue in various forms of cancer. A few of these microbes can be seen in " normal " tissue, but strikingly larger numbers can be seen in the areas of the tumour. These microbes can be identified in " pre-cancerous " conditions, suggesting that these germs are present before the actual induction of the cancer. Furthermore, when cancer is " cured " by radiation and chemotherapy, the microbe can still be found in the damaged, previously cancerous areas. The reason we cannot " cure " cancer is that we cannot stop the destruction caused by these " hidden " and " unrecognised " bacterial elements. The reason antibiotics do not work well in cancer is because the microbes (in the mycoplasmal phase inside the body) are not susceptible to antibiotics. In cancer research, there is controversy as to whether cancer is one disease or many. For instance, could breast cancer and lung cancer and prostate cancer all be caused by the same agent. This would be deemed highly improbable, but if cancer microbes were shown to be associated with all three forms of cancer, the possibility that all three kinds of cancer might be related becomes more possible. When Livingston and colleagues injected cancer microbes into animals and chickens, some developed cancer, some developed degenerative and proliferative diseases, and some developed nothing of note. Apparently the individual " immunity " of the host was an important factor in terms of what response the cancer microbe would elicit. Tuberculosis infection can affect many parts of the body. Tuberculosis confined to the skin is very different disease when compared to TB of the lung or of the bone. Yet, all three manifestations of the disease are linked together because the TB germ can be found in all three. If cancer microbes are indeed proven as infectious agents in cancer – then various forms of cancer may indeed be manifestations of the same cancer microbe. There are many " factors " that determine whether a person will become infected with TB. Obviously, smoking is a big factor in lung cancer, radiation is a big factor in skin cancer and leukemia, and so on. However, in defense of the cancer microbe theory, it would be fair to suggest that anything that damages tissue would provide a soil for the possible development of cancer microbe activity in the tissue that could lead to cancer or the development of degenerative or proliferative disease. Finally, is cancer contagious? For a century physicians have said " no. " But now we know that certain viruses like HIV can lead to cancer. Certain wart " papilloma " viruses can be spread sexually and result in cervical cancer. If further infectious agents, like cancer microbes, are found in cancerous diseases, we may have to reevaluate the contagiosity of cancer. Obviously in this short communication, few people will be convinced that bacteria cause cancer. For me, it took many years of study, microscopic observation, and communication with microbiologists, pathologists, and colleagues, to become convinced that Livingston and her associates were correct in their claims of a cancer microbe. A wealth of knowledge pertaining to the cancer microbe (both pro and con) can be found on search engines such as www.google.com. Simply type in " cancer microbe " , " alan cantwell " , " virginia livingston " , " Eleanor Alexander-Jackson " and other names mentioned in this communication. For a list of scientific publications in medical journals pertaining to the microbiology of cancer, go to the Pubmed website (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) and type in " Cantwell AR " , " Livingston VW " , " Alexander-Jackson E " , " Diller IC " , " Seibert FB. " For serious students of the microbiology of cancer, I would recommend the following books: Cantwell, Alan: The Cancer Microbe (1990), Aries Rising Press, Los Angeles Cantwell, Alan: AIDS: The Mystery and the Solution (1986), Aries Rising Press Livingston, Virginia: Cancer: A New Breakthrough (1972), Livingston Clinic, San Diego Livingston, Virginia: The Microbiology of Cancer (1977), Livingston Clinic Hess, David: Can Bacteria Cause Cancer (1997), NY University Press Mattman, Lida: Cell Wall Deficient Forms; Stealth Pathogens (1993), CRC Press Reich, Wilhelm: The Cancer Biopathy (1973), Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York Doctor Cantwell, retired from active practice, can be contacted via email at alanrcan@a... He is the author of The Cancer Microbe, published by Aries Rising Press, PO Box 29532, Los Angeles, CA 90029. The book may be ordered from Book Clearing House (www.bookch.com) or via 1-800-431-1579. Dr. Cantwell's book Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot, is available from New Dawn Book Service. The above article appeared in New Dawn No. 76 (January-February 2003) ---------------------------- Peace Unity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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