Mega Healthy For Life

Mega Healthy For Life

The End Of Borders

The End Of Borders

Stand On The Neck Of The Snake

I'm angry at my own country and afraid of her actions. I'm worried for our soldiers being directed in a wrong direction, they should have never been where they are. Another (war) invasion, our third, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, probably more, with no formal declaration of war. War on terror? Come on, terror is a tactic that we've bred through illegal invasion. Our American soldiers are in dire trouble, and in a web of the USA's creation, we will dwindle one soldier at a time, and on the periphery, many innocent civilians that are never heard from, or about. There needs to be a direction of reason chosen and so far the US is making all the wrong moves. There is no nuclear threat from Iran, no more than North Korea, but a threat of the release of cheap oil to the world in denominations of the Euro that will collapse the weak dollar. Oil is the new currency of the world, and this is where the threat is, it has nothing to do with nuclear weapons. 

The politicians speak of: “The Truth” they want to bring truth back to the American public. They could start by telling the truth about the suppression of technologies, alternative fuels etc. Ron Paul was given a quarter of the media coverage the rest of the candidates were given. The media is corporate owned and operated, that’s the truth. Republicans and democrats are two fingers on the same hand and 230-years ago, Thomas Jefferson warned of the banks and the two-party system. 

 We are in a position to make history and effect change in this country, just as we've stormed into other countries with no formal declaration of war i.e., Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq. We are poised to be able to gut this bloated federal government and kick the same old lazy beaurocrats out from behind their desks. I think people are tired of being over taxed and raped by the banks. The federal reserve continues to devalue the dollar and Ben Bernanke says: Times are difficult and unpredictable? This idiot keeps a job? This top heavy healthcare system has turned patients into customers, and doctors into business owners that struggle with their mal-practice insurance. That’s if you even have, or can afford health insurance.

People, take to the streets and re-inform the politicians and the Federal Government, that they are where they are because of US! They are public servants employed by the majority, US! And where I come from, majority rules!

People have become so complacent and willing to be lead by their eyeballs. They believe the news, and the newspapers, we believe that this government and its agencies have our best interests at heart.  This country that sends brave men and women to their deaths, or renders them maimed, and mentally scarred for the rest of their lives. For what? Democracy? So they (other countries) can have what we have? 

We don't hear about the destruction, or the homes and lives we've ruined over there. This administration is salivating at the prospect of invading Iran! How would we feel if Chinese destroyers and aircraft carriers were bobbing in the Atlantic off the coast of Cape Cod, ordering us to hand over our nuclear armaments? What if our neighborhoods were laid to ruin because they wanted to show us what we were missing, do you think we might be angry enough to plant roadside explosives? After-all, we adopted guerilla warfare when the English invaded this country during the revolutionary war. We drew up our Declaration of Independence, and the United States Constitution, we wanted to divest ourselves from the tyranny of England and her taxation without representation. Now, we have become what we had abhorred, a sword wielding tyrant that is out to colonize the world under the guise of Democracy. We have become the ugly bloated bully, performing the dirty work at the behest of a maniacal few 13 international banking families. More on this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j5_2LMZ5vU   

Ben Franklin himself said: 'When you give up your freedoms for the sake of security, then you will have neither.'  Maybe some may think I'm being a little melodramatic, over the top, but believe me, time is running out. Are you really happy with the state of this union? Would you be happy leaving this country in its current condition as a legacy to your children? 

I'm afraid for us, but not afraid to fight for us. 

This government needs to be taken and shook to its knees, it needs to remember who it works for, the tail has been wagging the dog for too long. 

We shouldn’t lose track of who we are America!

Holy Tomatoes!

How are your summer gardens so far? I don’t have a lot of room but I have six tomato (heirlooms) plants along the east side of the house. I have an upside down tomato garden that has two zucchini plants in the top of it. I abandoned the upside down deal for the tomatoes this year because there just didn’t seem to be enough room to support four plants. The problem with these utgs is that they don’t have enough containment area for the soil.  In catalogue pictures they depict the garden loaded with tomatoes along with herbs growing in the top.  I have retrofitted taller sides in the past to accommodate greater soil volume but the garden tends to get a little top heavy, and keep in mind, this is only in support of four plants. This year it’s host to two zucchini plants and they are doing well. The height of the garden makes it easier to tend. 

This season the tomatoes are happy in the ground. I started them all from seeds (organic) and it’s amazing how much hardier all these plants are compared to hybrids of the past. The tomatoes are green and about three inches around, the plants are nearly as tall as me (over six feet). I’ve already harvested (if I may be so bold) one zucchini, and two summer squash, the taste is amazing! What a difference compared to the plastic stuff in the supermarket. I also have three basil plants with the biggest leaves I’ve ever seen, I’ve already begun freezing leaves for the winter. I had about twenty radish plants (red) that were planted early in May, they enjoy the cooler weather, wow, talk about spicy hot! They were awesome and the first I’d ever planted. The great thing about them though is after the tomato plants die off, I can plant another crop of radish for a fall harvest.

The bees don’t seem to be as plentiful this year and I had a little trouble with the zucchini and squash pollination . I’d read somewhere that you can pollinate by hand using a q-tip or small artist’s brush, I tried it and it does work well. I made the mistake of watering the squash a little too much in the beginning, they do better with a little less water, every three or four days seems to be working. Also I’ve mulched the beds with grass clippings to retain moisture and keep the weeds down, that seems to work well. I added crushed egg shells to the soil this year to boost calcium, and the plants, (squash, zucchini) seem to really like that, also a little lime.

I can’t wait to bite into that first warm tomato though, that will be the proverbial icing on the cake!

Good luck with the gardens and bon appetite!

What's Going Back There?

How many out there have suffered from severe, even debilitating back pain? How about upper back and neck, sciatic etc.

Have you been told it’s because of depressed vertebrae, loss of cushioning cartilage? Have you been given medication in the form of anti-inflammatory, or pain medication? Worse, has surgery been suggested as an alternative?

I know because I’ve been all routes except surgery until I heard about a book by Dr. John Sarno called: Healing Back Pain. Not the greatest title because he goes so much deeper than that title would suggest. It’s the mind body connection.

Anyway, I was at the end of my rope. I was in constant pain in my middle lower back and it would just “go out” for seemingly no good reason. We had a history in our family of bad backs, beginning with my grandfather, my father, my brother and myself. When my back first failed me I thought: Oh no, I’ve inherited the “bad back” portion of my existence in life, and I more or less accepted it as a sort of family tree sentence.

I knew the pain would get progressively worse for about a three to four day period, culminating to one entire day of bedridden misery. After that, it began to get better until I’d be pain free a few days later. This painful ritual went on for a number of years and my brother knew my pain and I his. My father shared with us the news of degenerative lower back arthritis that awaited us in the future.

His golf swing gradually became more stiff and aggravating. We just had to put up with our bouts of misery three to four times a year.

During my divorce some ten-years ago I was so crippled with back spasms I couldn’t get out of bed in the mornings. I swallowed Tylenol like it was all we had for breakfast. For the first time in my life the pain was always there, sometimes less, but never completely gone. I was desperate and willing to try anything. I got a hold of Sarno’s book and devoured it while trying to stay in a somewhat comfortable position on the couch.  When I began to understand the simple concept of what he had to offer, I literally felt the pain begin to subside. The jig was up, my brain couldn’t fool me anymore. I finally understood that it wasn’t that day in the gym years ago doing heavy lifting that caused irreversible compression in my lower back. My back was fine. It was stress that made the beast. That was the key, it wasn’t phycosymatic, the pain was real believe me.

It was caused by what he describes as: TMS (tension myositis syndrome) it is a harmless but potentially very painful disorder that is the result of specific, common emotional situations. It is a cradle-to-grave disorder, that if understood, is completely easy to control and recognize. The primary tissue involved is muscle and nowhere on the body are there more striations and formations then across the back and neck. I finished the book ten-years ago and I’ve been pain free ever since. So has my brother, and we dont’t “baby” the back and stray from physical activity, hoping that it doesn't “go out”. My dad, sadly, just keeps putting up with the pain though he does have far fewer bouts now that he’s retired. He doesn’t see the correlation between the two, he insists there’s something structurally wrong. One year when he was under extreme pressure at work, his back blew out. He was bed ridden for about two days and then the strangest thing I’ve ever seen occurred. He began getting burning sensations running down his right leg. Soon after (hours) a round red circle began to form on his outside right ankle. It was about three inches or so across and it began to bubble up, after a while my mom called his doctor and arranged a quick visit. He was in agonizing pain and the circle quickly became very inflamed looking just like a raw hamburger attached to his ankle. The doctor sent him to the hospital and my mom was fearing the worst as was my dad. No one could figure it out. There were actually a small team of doctors and interns called in to witness this strangest of occurrences. They ran a battery of tests on him and everything came up negative. I went to visit him and he was a little groggy from sleep medication, he’d had a busy day. The next morning he awoke in the hospital completely fine, back pain gone, ankle just like nothing had been there.

No one could figure it out. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing like regular checkups and physicals to make sure everthing’s working right. The femur, the biggest bone in the human body can heal in six weeks, your body knows what it’s doing.

But, when I read Dr. Sarno’s book the first time that’s the story I thought of the entire time. My dad was a text book example of extreme TMS.

I’ve read the book twice, and I’m midway through it a third time. Why a second and third time one might ask, or be thinking? Well, the mind has a way of forgetting what we learn, it gets categorized and filed under: “learned stuff”. Then we forget about it, but, TMS never sleeps and about a week ago or so I found out the painful way. This had been mildly annoying for about the past four or so years.

I noticed a little pain on the outside of my hip, just a bit further back than the front pocket of my pants. It was occurring while driving the car for more than half an hour or so. Well, it began to get worse to the point it was tough to haul my right leg over and out of the car. Strangely or not, I began to think I may have a pinched nerve, maybe some kind of structural flexor damage. Well that’s just the foothold TMS needs, a firm belief there’s a problem in the house. It was off and running. I brought bags of groceries into the house and could barely make it up the stairs. I couldn’t put any weight on m y right leg. The pain was in an area the size of a silver dollar, painful to the touch. I could barely sit or stand. 

I went online and Googled hip pain, pain outside of hip etc. Talk about stoking the furnace, the pain increased with each keystroke. I read about blocked arteries not allowing proper blood flow to the site, torn flexors and degenerative arthritis (my dad) loose cartilage, hyper extended hip and joint muscles. I slept a total of three-hours that night. The pain was horrific I’m not  kidding, I fantasized about a little back pain in exchange.

Then in the middle of agony, an epiphany occurred, where did I put Sarno’s book? It’s only a little paperback filled with a 183 pages of gold, easily misplaced, or worse, lent to someone who never even cracked it open and now being used to collect dust under a bed.

I got up as quickly as I could afford (not quickly) and hobbled to my books. It wasn’t there and I cursed my self for ever lending it to someone who’d told me I’d never felt pain like they had. And then, there it was, buried under useless fiction and a 2003 ticket stub to a sleeper of a Ranger’s game. Believe it or not I’d forgotten about TMS all together and its insidiousness. I sat and read in the euphoria of pain. I literally felt the pain begin to subside, I lie to you not. My oasis of relief was found and as I write this the book is by my side. If you suffer now or have in the past you owe it to your self to pick up this book. Buy it used on Amazon if you have to and keep it, don’t lend it out to people who want to prove you wrong so they can continue with their drugs and surgeries. It’s been one of my greatest finds and again I found it when I needed it most.

Money From Debt

The Bloody Banks

Since 1913 when the Federal Reserve was created and signed into existence by then president Woodrow Wilson, the public has been whipsawed by the private, international banking system.

Most people don't know that the Federal Reserve is made up of privately held banks that have nothing to do with the federal government. Banks issue loans and then print the money to cover them. Think about it, if outstanding debt is over 30 trillion dollars, where did it come from? It's not backed by gold and hasn't been for years. You really need to take a look at this video and get a good look at what's being done to this country and its people by modern banking and the elite.

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http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279