"Mother Says Marijuana 'Saved Life' of Autistic Son"
I found this article on WrongPlanet about a woman who fed pot brownies to her son, claiming that the brownies had saved her autistic child from dying.
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Alternative Cancer
From: Croft Woodruff [mailto:croft.woodruff@gmail.com]
Sent: November 5, 2009 12:36 PM
Subject: Alternative Cancer
Alternative Cancer on
CNN's Larry King Live
© By Peter Barry Chowka
(October 18, 2009) Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D., the subject of a two part interview series published in September 2009 in Natural Healthline, has informed me that an hour long program he taped one week ago on Larry King Live is scheduled to run on CNN during the week of October 19, 2009 – most likely on Tuesday 10/20 or Friday 10/23 – at 9 PM EDT with replays at 12 midnight ET and 3 AM ET.
The main subject of the program is actress and best-selling author Suzanne Somers. A long time proponent of alternative medicine, Somers has written a new book, Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer--And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place (Crown), which is being published on October 20, 2009 and, as of this writing, is #188 on Amazon.com.
Also appearing on the program, according to Gonzalez, are Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D.,Ph.D., and two alternative cancer therapy “antagonists.”
On March 28, 2001, Somers, then 54 years old, appeared on Larry King Live to announce that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000 but had chosen to use primary alternative instead of conventional treatments.
As I reported on April 1, 2001:
Somers, a high-profile celebrity and author of best-selling diet and fitness books who initially rose to fame on the ABC-TV sitcom Three's Company in the late 1970s, said she was going public after a year-long private battle with cancer in order to counter the National Enquirer's recent reports that she had undergone liposuction because her much-hyped diet program had failed. On the CNN program, Somers confirmed that she had undergone procedures at the Lasky Clinic in Beverly Hills but said that “What I had done [there] had to do with my breast cancer.”
Somers said her cancer was diagnosed in April 2000 after which she had surgery (she implied it was a lumpectomy and not a mastectomy) followed by radiation therapy. She then went against her doctors' wishes, she said, and declined chemotherapy — and she started taking the alternative treatment Iscador, a mistletoe extract. Iscador is popular in parts of Europe but relatively unknown in the U.S. Somers incorrectly described Iscador as “homeopathic.” In fact, it is an herbal therapy that is part of Anthroposophical Medicine, based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, PhD (1861-1925), a European philosopher, scientist, educator, and the founder of Anthroposophy.
Back in 2001, Somers’ decision to go the alternative therapy route was immediately challenged by the medical Establishment. A feature article in People magazine on April 20, 2001, “A Matter of Choice,” described Somers’ treatment and the ensuing controversy.
On May 1, 2001, I reported at length on the story and on a new study of Iscador, published May 1, 2001 in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. My article included an interview with the journal’s editor, David Riley, M.D.
Regarding Burzynski, I wrote about him at length in an article originally written in 1993 and later published in 1997 in Nutrition Science News. Some excerpts:
Stanislaw Burzynskii, M.D., Ph.D., Houston, TX, 2007 at the 30th Anniversary Celebration of his work
Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D. Burzynski is one of the leading contemporary pioneers in the field of nontoxic cancer therapy. His therapeutic discoveries are interesting, and his personal story is fascinating and instructive. Burzynski's work was reported on positively on the probing network television investigative series 20/20 (ABC-TV, October 22, 1981) and Street Stories (CBS-TV, July 23, 1993), and more recently, ABC-TV's Nightline and CBS This Morning (April and March, 1995, respectively).
One of the youngest and brightest M.D.-Ph.D.s in his native Poland, Burzynski left home in 1970 in search of personal and professional freedom in the non-communist West. What he found instead in the U.S., he has said, was a situation reminiscent of the authoritarian one-party state he had left behind -- a scientific system in America that was run like a Communist politburo, where true innovation and independent discovery were frowned on and where pioneering thinkers were relegated to a “medical gulag.” Through the mid-1970s, Burzynski was an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The research projects he worked on received funding from traditional sources including the federal government. Burzynski's decision in 1977 to leave Baylor and start up his own small research and treatment facility where he and his colleagues could pursue their myriad ideas and discoveries and treat late-stage cancer patients free of bureaucratic rigidity and interference, however, did not sit well with the medical powers that be. Before he left Baylor but especially after he began working independently, Burzynski and his associates published numerous scientific papers on antineoplastons -- his term for the nontoxic urinary peptides that he discovered and that form the basis of his novel approach to treating cancer. Burzynski followed the accepted practice of publishing scientific papers on his discoveries, which he initially tested in laboratory tissue cultures and later in animals and humans. Typical of Burzynski's extraordinary results were the outcomes for early groups of advanced cancer patients treated with antineoplastons: 60 percent enjoyed objective remission, 47 percent experienced complete remission, and 20 percent survived for over five years without cancer. These and other results are far superior to anything reported then or now for standard cancer treatments. (For example, in 1985 interleukin-2 was heavily promoted by orthodoxy, supposedly as a highly promising new treatment after a single study showed it to have been associated with a complete remission from cancer in only one patient out of twenty-four treated -- a positive response rate of only four percent!) By choosing to work indepedently, on his own, outside of a mainstream institutional setting, Burzynski ran up against the closed mindsets and vested interests that dominate orthodox cancer research and treatment. In 1983, the influential American Cancer Society (ACS), without actually testing Burzynski's therapy or even visiting his facility, added Burzynski's antineoplastons to its list of “unproven” or “questionable” methods -- a kind of blacklisting that typically represents the first step in official marginalization. In the view of journalist [Robert] Houston and other independent observers, it is highly unlikely that a scientist whose name appears on this list can ever succeed in gaining official funding or recognition of any kind. “It's like trying to get out of hell,” Houston quips.
The entire article including more about Burzynski can be read here.
In 2007, Burzynski was a honored at a 30th anniversary celebration attended by 600 guests including long term recovered patients marking his three decades of work curing cancer with alternative methods. Julian Whitaker, M.D.’s account of the event was published in 2008 in The Townsend Letter.
Peter Barry Chowka is a writer and investigative journalist who writes about politics, health care, and the media.
A Beacon of Light in a Parent's Darkest Night
St. Jude is a legendary hub of achievement and accomplishment. They were the first to cure the most common form of childhood leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), helping to drive the cure rate from 4 percent in 1962 to 94 percent today. They’ve recently pioneered a unique procedure allowing children to receive a life-saving bone marrow transplant from a parent without an exact marrow match. They are the only pediatric health facility in the world to build their own on-site facility to manufacture highly specialized life-saving highly specialized medicines and vaccines. Here are just a few of their achievements and accomplishments:
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatments that are not covered by insurance. No child is denied treatment because of a family’s inability to pay. They are the only pediatric research center with an on-site Good Manufacturing Practices facility to research and produce highly specialized medicines and vaccines that pharmaceutical companies do not produce. St. Jude was the first pediatric cancer research center to develop treatment that proved effective in raising the survival rate to more than 50 percent of patients with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid tumor in children. What does the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital want you to know? There’s no place like St. Jude.
Help Pich Wahyt shine the light on the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital by spreading the word. To learn more or get involved, visit: http://www.stjude.org.
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Healthy Breast Seminar
Dr. Sat Dharam Kaur, ND
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Monday, October 19, 2009 - 7-10PM
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Learn about breast cancer prevention and care, maintaining healthy breasts for a lifetime and caring about the environment. Dr. Kaur educates and inspires women to be proactive and is a frequent presenter at World Conferences on Breast Cancer. She is a highly regarded author of The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Breast Cancer and is recognized and praised for developing The Healthy Breast Program and teaching it internationally as a tool to help women. Don't miss this valuable opportunity to become part of the solution.
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Health Canada: The Eugenics Thugs for the New World Order
by Shawn Buckley
In the late 1990s, Anthony Stephan and David Hardy, the gentlemen who later formed Truehope Nutritional Support Ltd. (Truehope), began successfully treating persons suffering from bi-polar disorder with a wide spectrum of vitamins and minerals. The success of their protocol attracted the interest of researchers at the University of Calgary, which subsequently ran two case series on bi-polar patients. These studies showed that eight out of 10 study participants experienced dramatic improvements.
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(no postage required).In addition to being published in peer-reviewed journals, the results of these studies impressed the Alberta government, which decided to use taxpayers’ money to fund a large trial. Halfway through the clinical trial, however, Health Canada took steps to shut it down, stating that the mineral germanium posed too much of a risk. Health Canada now admits that it was incorrect about the risk factor of germanium.
Health Canada then turned its sights on Truehope and demanded that it stop selling its nutritional supplement EMPowerplus, even while thousands of Canadians with significant mental illness were being effectively treated with the supplement. Truehope refused to comply with Health Canada’s demands and clearly communicated to Health Canada that if it were to stop selling EMPowerplus, it would result in deaths and hospitalizations.
Health Canada subsequently took a number of actions to enforce Truehope to remove EMPowerplus from the market, which included the seizure of EMPowerplus at the Canadian border and instructing Canada Customs to turn away other shipments as they arrived. These enforcement actions created a literal panic for people who depended upon EMPowerplus and they reacted by doing everything they could. They wrote letters, protested, held news conferences, advertised their concerns and made repeated phone calls. Health Canada implemented counsellors to take note of the numerous calls from people who made it clear that their lives depended on EMPowerplus. The most troubling communications came from the Alberta Branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association. CMHA director Ron LaJeunesse publically warned Health Canada that its actions would lead to suicides and then later publically blamed Health Canada for the deaths of CMHA members.
Despite all the warnings to Health Canada that it was putting Canadians at risk, Health Canada did not relent. It pressed on, eventually charging Truehope in an effort to force the company to stop selling its supplement. However, Truehope was acquitted of these charges because the Court found that if the company had stopped selling EMPowerplus, deaths and hospitalizations would have occurred as a result. The Court further found it was necessary for Truehope to ignore Health Canada. Ironically, EMPowerplus is now licensed for sale in Canada.
At the time that Health Canada seized EMPowerplus, Truehope initiated a Federal Court action to have Health Canada’s seizure powers declared unconstitutional. Truehope’s basic premise is that the state cannot take away health products that Canadians rely upon, without taking into consideration the risk of removing the products and without giving Canadians the opportunity to be heard on the issue. This may seem like common sense, but Health Canada is vigorously trying to protect its seizure powers. This, in itself, is very instructive.
When Health Canada ignored the pleas of Canadians for access to EMPowerplus, it declared that the product – like most natural health products (NHPs) at the time – did not have a licence. It did not matter to Health Canada that people’s lives depended upon the product. Indeed, at the trial, Health Canada inspectors told the Court that things like news of suicides were not relevant. All that mattered to Health Canada was that the product was not in full compliance with the regulations at the time.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated example. I am not aware of any instance where Health Canada ever considered the risk of removing a natural health product it was attacking or took into consideration input from the Canadian public. I think the mindset of Health Canada has been a major factor in Canadians resisting recent attempts to increase that agency’s seizure powers. Many readers will recall that, prior to the last election, there was a citizens’ revolt against Bill C-51, which would have expanded Health Canada’s seizure and detention powers. There was also concern about Bill C-52, known as the Consumer Products Safety Act, which would have expanded Health Canada’s seizure and detention powers in the area of consumer products.
Interestingly, after the election, Bill C-52 was quietly re-introduced as Bill C-6 and has already been passed in the House of Commons. It is now in the Senate. Most Canadians are not even aware of Bill C-6 and the dangers it presents to some of our fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, Bill C-6 exempts Health Canada inspectors from the law of trespass. These inspectors can come onto your private property and remain there. You cannot make them leave. This is curious because if you instruct members of the regular police force to leave your property, they must do so, unless they have a warrant or there are special circumstances. The regular police force cannot search your property without a warrant.
With this legislation, however, Health Canada will be able to inspect any business, garage or shed on your property, without a warrant. The only place it will not be able to search without a warrant is your home. Whereas the regular police force has to convince a justice it is likely to find evidence of a crime in your home to be able to obtain a legal warrant, Health Canada inspectors need only show the likelihood of a consumer product being found in your home. In effect, under the new law, it is possible for the state to intrude into our homes without evidence of wrongdoing because everyone’s home contains consumer products.
Bill C-6 also allows Health Canada to seize, destroy and/or keep private property without court supervision. This is a move away from the rule of law and it presents a significant danger to our way of life. To appreciate the importance of this, it is necessary to understand why the rule of law is so fundamental. In the past, when rulers wanted to imprison or kill people, soldiers were sent to do the deed. When rulers wanted people’s property, soldiers took care of that as well. After a while, our ancestors decided they did not appreciate tyranny and fought for the rule of law, which simply means that the law is above everyone and it applies to everyone. No one is above the law, no one is exempted from the law, and no one can grant exemption to the application of the law, and there is an independent court between the state and the citizens. Under the rule of law, if the state wants to imprison you or seize your property, it can only do so with court supervision. The courts ensure that people can only be imprisoned or lose property, according to the law.
The importance of the rule of law should be immediately obvious. Without it, our freedom and our property are subject to the “good will” of the state. This is tyranny, whether we expect it to be benign or not. No good has ever come from citizens giving up the rule of law. Indeed, this is the most disconcerting development I have ever witnessed. The state is currently attempting to undermine the rule of law, which is the core philosophical underpinning of our freedoms. We are allowing this to happen because the state is telling Canadians it is necessary that it have these powers to protect our safety. It is time for us to consider the old adage that those who trade their freedom for security will have neither.
Shawn Buckley is president of the Natural Health Products Protection Association (www.nhppa.org) and a lawyer with expertise in the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations. He acts primarily for manufacturers of Natural Health Products
via commonground.ca
Bill C-6, now a deadly few weeks away from seeing royal blue ink, will see us who live in this homeland called Canada descend into civil hell in the cloak of media silence, like a thief in the night, legalizing the barbaric self-righteous seizures they have already committed and that has taken the lives of dozens of people in order to further their eugenics agenda, spearheaded by Globalist leaders Michael Ignatieff., and Steven Harper, who is more of the same. Isn't it a coincidence they are doing all this just in the nick of time for the Supreme Court case Health Canada V. Truehope as well as Health Canada trumpeting in Codex Alimentarius by the December 31, 2009 Codex Alimentarius Compliance deadline?
A Tribute To The Victims of ADD/ADHD
I think I like this "random-blurb-type" format. I might do it more often.
One of my favorite "cute" videos on YouTube is no longer available. It was Sonny and Cher singing "I Got You Babe" with their (4-ish-year-old) daughter. PS: I love Cher's voice, and her use of Auto-Tune was revolutionary.
Elevators are illusions.
That reminds me of a joke I heard a while ago:
A redneck family went to the city. The father and the son were in the lobby of their hotel when they spotted an elevator. "What's that thing?" asks the son. "Beats me," replies the father. They watch. An old lady gets on the elevator, the doors close. Amazed and curious, they keep watching. Seconds later, the doors open and a beautiful young woman steps out. The father looks and his son and says, "go get your mom."
Antibiotics can make your ears ring.
Song I never heard, but was recommended to me: "Letter to Elise" by The Cure
The Cure is an ingenious band name. The way I see it, music cures people.
Awesome Halloween costume for a couple: female is an electric socket, male is the plug.
I have great respect for people in high-stress jobs (journalists, nurses, whatever else) because, in a sense, they give up their lives. I wouldn't want to be in a high-stress job for more than ten years of my life. I don't mind -and often enjoy- high-stress situations, but stress causes our minds to think less clearly. It is similar to being drunk or high; we lose feeling. The problem with this is that one day when the feeling comes back, we wake up and think "where did my life go?"
I believe in magic.
Elliptical (is that how it's spelled?) machines make exercising so easy; YAY!
I love the word "YAY" because it is perfectly symmetrical.
Pax = Peace ...Latin is a beautiful, yet painful language.
Pax et amor.
Boys Don't Cry
I was bored cause nobody wants to watch Surrogates with me and no one is heading out so i took my guitar and started fooling around with my friends microphone. Yes and this is what I came out with. Somebody please teach me how to sing. Thanks
I would say I'm sorry,
If I thought that it would change your mind.
But I know that this time,
I have said too much,
Been too unkind...
Cover it all up with lies.
I tried to laugh about it,
Hiding the tears in my eyes.
Cause boys don't cry.
Boys don't cry. I would break down at your feet,
And beg forgiveness,
Plead with you.
But I know that it's too late,
And now there's nothing I can do... So I tried to laugh about it,
Cover it all up with lies.
I tried to laugh about it,
Hiding the tears in my eyes.
Cause boys don't cry.
Boys don't cry. I would tell you,
That I loved you,
If I thought that you would stay.
But I know that it's no use,
That you've already,
Gone away... Misjudged your limit,
Pushed you too far,
Took you for granted,
I thought that you needed me more... Now I would do most anything,
To get you back by my side.
But I just keep on laughing,
Hiding the tears in my eyes,
Cause boys don't cry.
Boys don't cry.
Boys don't cry...
Concentrating on the Cancer & the Cure
Today is the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you know me at all you know I am an advocate for cancer patients, survivors and a cure for cancer so obviously I am in favour of a whole month focused on ANY cancer awareness. Early detection of breast cancer is important because it is the most prevalent form of cancer among women with 26.57% of female cancer diagnoses being breast cancer. The statistic for men is .25% of all cancer diagnoses. Although the statistic for men is far lower, it should not be overlooked. It is interesting to note that although the diagnosis of breast cancer is most prevalent among women, the number one cancer killer for women is lung/bronchus cancer with a death rate of 5.04 compared to just 2.84 for breast cancer. These statistics* show early detection often leads to survival. * Statistics from the National Cancer Institute www.cancer.gov.
I am all for the promotion of mammograms and other forms of early detection. What I am not all for are the images used to promote this. I think it is hazardous, misleading and insulting to suggest to women they need to be on guard for breast cancer so they don't lose their breasts. Everyone, female and male, should be on guard against breast cancer so they don't lose their LIVES. It is dangerous to suggest a woman is not a woman without her breasts. It is equally dangerous to suggest breast cancer is a female risk because females are culturally identified by their breasts whereas men typically are not.
One byproduct of this image of women leads some women to put off early detection for fear of losing one or both breasts. Another byproduct is leading some breast cancer survivors into undergoing additional painful and ELECTIVE breast reconstruction surgery. I am not saying I am against breast reconstruction surgery. That is an individual choice but it should be seen as a CHOICE, not as another step in the treatment process. We should shift the focus on early detection for survival and raising funds for actual treatment and a cure rather than bowing down to an outdated superficial image which is damaging to both the women and the men who develop this disease.
