@ 2013-05-25 – 07:26:20
Monsanto has been removed and banned from the following countries, including NZ – good riddance to these corporate bullies…
Monsanto has been removed and banned by the following countries, including New Zealand – good riddance to these corporate bullies.. MONSANTO HAS BEEN REMOVED AND BANNED BY: AUSTRIA, BULGARIA, GERMANY, GREECE, HUNGARY, IRELAND, JAPAN, LUXEMBOURG, MADEIRA, NEW ZEALAND, PERU, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, RUSSIA, FRANCE, AND SWITZERLAND!
@ 2013-05-23 – 11:55:33
Scientists unveil genetically-modified HIV strain they claim will cure cancer...
(NaturalNews) There is no shortage of bizarre new cancer treatment prospectives emerging from conventional medicine these days, especially as the multi-billion dollar cancer industry continues to ignore the many natural treatment options already available to cancer patients. But the latest alleged treatment possibility involving a genetically-modified (GM) strain of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) takes the cake as one of the most outlandish and logically incomprehensible ideas yet, at least as far as the long-term health of cancer patients is concerned.
Doctors from the University of Pennsylvania have reportedly been successful in removing a class of immune cells known as T-cells from cancer patients in order to genetically modify them with HIV, and reintroduce them back into the body. Presented at a recent meeting of the American Society of Hematology, the team's findings revealed that, when inserted into normal T-cells, disabled GM HIV can actually cause a person's immune system to attack cancer cells, effectively killing, and eventually eradicating, them from the bodies of cancer patients.
Since the experimental procedure appears to be somewhat of a success, having already been successfully administered to a seven-year-old leukemia patient, some researchers and cancer experts are now hailing it as a wonder treatment. Dr. Michael Boyer, for instance, who heads the transplant program at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute, told reporters that the procedure may be a "home run" for patients who have "failed every other type of therapy."
Genetically-modified T-cells remain forever inside cancer patients' bodies
But according to KSL.com, these modified T-cells literally multiply with one another to create a "cancer-targeted army" that roams the body indefinitely in search of malignant cells that it can destroy. What this means, in other words, is that once GM HIV cells are injected into cancer patients, they become a permanent fixture, where they have the potential to cause untold, long-term harm.
Based on the data, the experimental therapy does appear to be 50 percent effective in killing cancer cells, at least in the short term. But as you might already be aware, conventional cancer treatments often "eliminate" cancer for only a few years anyway, before the disease eventually comes back with a vengeance. Even so, researchers still claim that, because the HIV virus itself is deactivated, it will not lead to the development of AIDS or other autoimmune disorders, and is thus safe to use when all other options have failed.
However, because the therapy involves the use of GM cells -- no long-term safety studies have, or likely ever will, be conducted on GM HIV -- the systemic physiological damage that will likely occur in patients who receive it is highly concerning. We already know, of course, that GM food can cause gut bacteria to indefinitely reproduce toxins (http://www.naturalnews.com/028635_GMOs_bacteria.html), so what is to stop GM HIV from, say, eventually mutating and attacking the body's healthy cells as if they were foreign invaders?
If this is not bad enough, the idea of genetically engineering a deadly virus to attack another serious health condition is strikingly similar to the plot line of the 2007 remake of I Am Legend, a post-apocalyptic science fiction film in which a man-made virus designed to cure cancer mutates and eventually kills off most of humanity, while turning the rest into ravenous zombies. Is this the future reality we are being subconsciously programmed to accept, particularly now as this exact same scenario appears to be playing itself out in real life?
Sources for this article include:
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=23347776
http://news.discovery.com/human/hiv-used-to-fight-cancer-110914.html
@ 2013-05-22 – 12:06:18
NaturalNews: Beyond merely inspiring women to cut off healthy breasts just because they carry the BRCA1 gene, Angelina Jolie also seems to be inspiring men to remove some of their own reproductive organs as well. According to an IBtimes article, a British man is the first person to have had his prostate gland surgically removed because he carries the BRCA2 "breast cancer" gene that's related to the BRCA1 gene suddenly made famous by Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy.
IBtimes reports, "Surgeons were initially reluctant, since the potential side effects of the operation include infertility, incontinence and sexual dysfunction."
But what the hell, right? If cutting off healthy organs is trendy enough for Angelina Jolie, it's gotta be trendy enough for everybody else... including men!
http://www.naturalnews.com/040401_prostate_removal_BRCA_genes_Angelina_Jolie.html
@ 2013-05-21 – 08:58:01
Genetically modified democracy: Monsanto moves to obliterate states' rights to label GMOs...
NaturalNews: Reliable sources in Washington D.C. have informed the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach one or more "Monsanto Riders" or amendments to the 2013 Farm Bill that would preempt or prohibit states from requiring labels on genetically engineered (GE) foods.
In response to this blatant violation of states' rights to legislate, and consumers' right to know, the OCA and a nationwide alliance have launched a petition http://salsa3.salsalabs.com to put every member of Congress on notice: If you support any Farm Bill amendment that would nullify states' rights to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs), we'll vote - or throw - you out of office.
On Wednesday, May 15, an amendment to the House version of the Farm Bill, inserted under the guise of protecting interstate commerce, passed out of the House Agricultural Committee. If the King Amendment makes it into the final Farm Bill, it would take away states' rights to pass laws governing the production or manufacture of any agricultural product, including food and animals raised for food, that is involved in interstate commerce. The amendment was proposed by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), largely in response to a California law stating that by 2015, California will allow only eggs to be sold from hens housed in cages specified by California. But policy analysts emphasize that the amendment, broadly and ambiguously written, could be used to prohibit or preempt any state GMO labeling or food safety law.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040413_Monsanto_states_rights_GMO_labeling.html#ixzz2TuWUC3l9
@ 2013-05-21 – 05:34:42
Not a great Briton as being claimed in recent days, but one hell of a fantastic Kiwi hero. In fact he has been regarded as one of the great New Zealanders in our short history as a nation.
Sir Edmund Hillary Biography
Conqueror of Mt. Everest
Sir Edmund Hillary Date of birth: July 20, 1919
Date of death: January 11, 2008
Sir Edmund Hillary was born in 1919 and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. It was in New Zealand that he became interested in mountain climbing. Although he made his living as a beekeeper, he climbed mountains in New Zealand, then in the Alps, and finally in the Himalayas, where he climbed 11 different peaks of over 20,000 feet. By this time, Hillary was ready to confront the world's highest mountain.
Mt. Everest lies between Tibet and Nepal. Between 1920 and 1952, seven major expeditions had failed to reach the summit. In 1924, the famous mountaineer George Leigh-Mallory had perished in the attempt. In 1952, a team of Swiss climbers had been forced to turn back after reaching the south peak, only 1000 feet from the summit.
Edmund Hillary joined in Everest reconnaissance expeditions in 1951 and again in 1952. These exploits brought Hillary to the attention of Sir John Hunt, leader of an expedition sponsored by the Joint Himalayan Committee of the Alpine Club of Great Britain and the Royal Geographic Society to make the assault on Everest in 1953.
The expedition reached the South Peak on May, but all but two of the climbers who had come this far were forced to turn back by exhaustion at the high altitude. At last, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a native Nepalese climber who had participated in five previous Everest trips, were the only members of the party able to make the final assault on the summit. At 11:30 on the morning of May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit, 29,028 feet above sea level, the highest spot on earth. As remarkable as the feat of reaching the summit was the treacherous climb back down the peak.
By coincidence, the conquest of Everest was announced to the British public on the eve of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The triumph of a British-led expedition combined with the inauguration of the young Queen did much to restore the confidence of a nation weary from long years of wartime hardship and postwar shortages. Edmund Hillary returned to Britain with the other climbers and was knighted by the Queen.
Now world famous, Sir Edmund Hillary turned to Antarctic exploration and led the New Zealand section of the Trans-Antarctic expedition from 1955 to 1958. In 1958 he participated in the first mechanized expedition to the South Pole. Hillary went on to organize further mountain-climbing expeditions but, as the years passed, he became more and more concerned with the welfare of the Nepalese people. In the 1960s, he returned to Nepal, to aid in the development of the society, building clinics, hospitals and 17 schools.
To facilitate these projects, two airstrips were built. These airstrips had the unforeseen consequence of bringing more tourists and would-be mountain climbers to the remote region. The Nepalese cut down ever more of their forests to provide fuel for the mountaineers. Edmund Hillary became concerned about the degradation of the environment of the Himalayas and persuaded the Nepalese government to pass laws protecting the forest and to declare the area around Everest a National Park. The Nepalese could not afford to fund this project themselves and had no experience in park management. Hillary used his great prestige to persuade the government of New Zealand to provide the necessary aid.
Immediately after the successful Everest expedition, Hillary and Sir John Hunt published their account of the expedition, The Ascent of Everest. The book was published in the U.S as The Conquest of Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary's autobiography Nothing Venture, Nothing Win was published in 1975. In 1979, he published From the Ocean to the Sky, an account of his 1977 expedition on the Ganges river from its mouth to its source in the Himalayas.
Sir Edmund's life was darkened by the loss of his wife and daughter in a plane crash in 1975. He continued to occupy himself with environmental causes and humanitarian work on the behalf of the Nepalese people for the rest of his life. He died at home in New Zealand at the age of 88, mourned by his countrymen and by legions of admirers around the world.
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hil0bio-1
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=167198&fm=psp,tsf
@ 2013-05-20 – 07:55:38
A 'miracle baby', who survived a car crash which killed five members of his family, was zipped up in a body bag and taken to a mortuary before medics realised he was alive.
Little Eisa Hayat, one, was the sole survivor of a car smash which wiped out a British family on pilgrimage to Mecca.
Doctors in Saudi Arabia thought the toddler had also died in the crash and took him to the morgue.
Comfort: Little Eisa Hayat is held by his uncle Omar after surviving the crash which killed five members of his family. He was put in a zipped body bag when rescuers though he was dead
@ 2013-05-20 – 04:36:51
Dambusters flypast and ceremony on raid's 70th anniversary...
1/ The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster bomber.
2/Two of the surviving Dambuster airmen have attended a ceremony after a flypast to mark the 70th anniversary of the World War II raid on German dams.
Hundreds of onlookers gathered as a Lancaster bomber flew over Derwent reservoir - one of the practice sites used ahead of the top-secret mission.
More than a third of the men never returned from the raids, when they had to fly just 60ft above ground.
RAF Scampton later hosted a sunset service.
The RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and 617 Squadron flew over the dam in Derbyshire's Hope Valley on Thursday lunchtime.
The ceremony, service and second flypast took place at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire where, 70 years ago, 19 Lancaster bombers took off for their daring mission.
In the skies over Lincolnshire tonight a lone Lancaster bomber flew where once 19 of its kind took off in the most famous air raid of all time.
A sunset service at RAF Scampton was told that those who took to the air from the grass runway here 70 years ago went armed only with "self belief, courage and a bouncing bomb".
Only three of the original Dambusters are still alive. Two of them - pilot Les Munro, 94, and 91-year-old bomb aimer Jonny Johnson - watched this evening as Tornados from today's 617 squadron made a noisy entrance followed by Spitfires and the Lancaster from the Battle of Britain memorial flight.
The courage of the low-flying crews that night and the ingenuity of Barnes Wallis' bouncing bomb - which skimmed off the water to clear nets guarding the dams - is something that has inspired generations of RAF personnel.
Many of today's pilots are still astounded at the achievements of the bomber crews and said it was an honour to be in the company of those involved.
Only three of the original 133-strong squadron are still alive. Two of them, 94-year-old John "Les" Munro and 91-year-old George "Johnny" Johnson attended the Lincoln service on Thursday evening.
Squadron leader Munro had travelled from New Zealand for the event.
He said he made the 12,000-mile trip "just to renew old acquaintances".
More than 1,300 people were killed in the Dambuster raids when bombs were dropped on German dams and flooded the Ruhr valley.
There were a number of events taking place around the country on Thursday to mark the raids of 16-17 May 1943.
@ 2013-05-19 – 09:37:46
Infant sleep apnea can be confused with SIDS...
By Peter Petterson
About five years ago I wrote and published a short article about SIDS(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)in a couple of my blogsites, and after noting the comments of two unrelated bloggers who had each lost a child to the terrible and heart breaking condition, I wondered if there was any connection between SIDS and sleep apnea, both of which cause the stoppage of breathing. As a consequence I have done a little research and come up with the following.
Many people think of sleep apnea as a disease of adulthood, and especially of middle aged adults over the age of 50 years. It is also believed to be more prevalent in men. But the truth of the matter is that anybody can get sleep apnea, from little premature babies to aging senior citizens.
It is common among premature infants whose apnea is caused by brain messages failing to reach the nerves and muscles that control breathing. Their respiratory centres are not yet mature; it is also common for them to have brief episodes of apnea while sleeping.
Infant sleep apnea applies to infants over 37 weeks of age and can be a frightening experience for parents because the infants can stop breathing while asleep. They can become very pale or even bluish in colour and the muscles become very limp. These episodes of sleep apnea are often mistaken for the onset of SIDS; they may well be related but as yet there is no proof of this. Please read below:
@ 2013-05-18 – 03:59:45
Bean leaves, bedbugs and biomimicry
Scientists often come up with new discoveries, technologies or theories. But sometimes they rediscover what our ancestors already knew. A couple of recent findings show we have a lot to learn from our forebears – and nature – about bugs.
Modern methods of controlling pests have consisted mainly of poisoning them with chemicals. But that’s led to problems. Pesticides kill far more than the bugs they target, and pollute air, water and soil. As we learned with the widespread use of DDT to control agricultural pests and mosquitoes, chemicals can bioaccumulate, meaning molecules may concentrate hundreds of thousands of times up the food web – eventually reaching people.
As Rachel Carson wrote in her 1962 book Silent Spring, using DDT widely without knowing the full consequences was folly. She showed it was polluting water and killing wildlife, especially birds, and that it could cause cancer in humans. Her book launched the environmental movement but did little to change our overall strategy for dealing with bugs. Although DDT was banned worldwide for agricultural purposes in 2001, the chemical is still used to control insects that spread disease.
Recent research shows that widespread use of pesticides like DDT may have caused us to ignore or forget benign methods of pest control. Because the chemicals were so effective, infestations were reduced and there was little interest in non-toxic methods. But bugs evolve quickly and can become immune to pesticides. That’s true of bedbugs, the now ubiquitous critters that are showing up around the world in homes, hotels, schools, movie theatres – even libraries.
But a method used long ago provides an effective and non-toxic weapon against the pests, according to a U.S. study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. The authors looked into the once-common Eastern European practice of spreading bean leaves around a bed to control bedbugs. What they found was fascinating.
“During the night, bed bugs walking on the floor would accumulate on these bean leaves, which were collected and burned the following morning to exterminate the bed bugs. The entrapment of bed bugs by the bean leaves was attributed to the action of microscopic plant hairs (trichomes) on the leaf surfaces that would entangle the legs of the bed bugs,” the scientists, from the University of California, Irvine, and University of Kentucky, wrote.
They discovered that after bugs get caught up in the hooked plant hairs, they struggle to escape, and in the process vulnerable parts of their feet are pierced by the hooks, permanently trapping them. The research focuses on a way to replicate this. “This physical entrapment is a source of inspiration in the development of new and sustainable methods to control the burgeoning numbers of bed bugs,” the researchers wrote, adding that the method “would avoid the problem of pesticide resistance that has been documented extensively for this insect.”
Other research has literally dug up pest control methods that go back millennia. An international team of archeologists recently found evidence that people living in South Africa almost 80,000 years ago made bedding out of insect-repelling plants.
According to the journal Science, the research team found 15 different layers containing bedding made from compacted stems and leaves of sedges and rushes, dating between 77,000 and 38,000 years ago. One layer of leaves was identified as River Wild-quince, which contains “chemicals that are insecticidal, and would be suitable for repelling mosquitoes.” The archeologists also found evidence that people often burned the bedding after use, possibly to remove pests.
These are just two examples of what we can learn from our ancestors and from nature. Because natural systems tend toward balance, the fascinating field of biomimicry has developed to explore what nature can teach us. It’s aimed at finding “sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies,” according to the Biomimicry Guild website. “The goal is to create products, processes, and policies – new ways of living – that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul.”
Maybe the truest sign of human intelligence is not to learn how we can shoehorn nature into our own agenda, but to see how we can better find our own place in nature.
Acknowledgements: Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Communications Manager Ian Hanington.
http://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/13eb25db4c482846
@ 2013-05-17 – 11:22:58
NaturalNews: The Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) recently published preliminary data from its annual review of bee colony declines in the U.S., and the findings from this report are mind-boggling. According to the latest survey results, an astounding 31.3 percent, or roughly one-third, of all managed bee colonies in the U.S. were wiped out during the most recent 2012/2013 winter season, a rate that represents a 42 percent increase compared to the number of colonies lost during the previous 2011/2012 winter season.
The food collapse nears...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040347_honeybees_Colony_Collapse_Disorder_pollinators.html#ixzz2TXlNjyfl
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