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The Definition of a Spirit

The Definition of a Spirit

Andrew John Day posted:

Vested interests have been editing and changing meanings in books for eons to suit their agenda. Check the definition of a “Spirit” in 1886 Webster dictionary.

And Thomas Mitchell commented:
Many have been deluded by the Materialist view of Man. A planned agenda is suppression , not just ignorance or fixed ideas. Our subjugation has been ongoing for a long time.

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Thalidomide Babies

Thalidomide Babies

(Tom: The real tragedy is the based on my limited data, morning sickness has as its root cause a nutrient deficiency as every pregnant woman who takes my NutriBlast Mother’s Blend loses their morning sickness within two days. https://www.healthelicious.com.au/Nutri-Blast-Mothers-Blend.html)

Thalidomide, introduced in the late 1950s, was peddled as a miracle drug for insomnia, anxiety, and morning sickness in pregnant women. Chemie Grünenthal, a West German pharmaceutical company, pushed it under names like Contergan and Distaval, touting it as safe and non-addictive.

No rigorous testing, no hard questions— just blind faith in Big Pharma’s promises. The result was catastrophic: thousands of babies born with malformed limbs, missing organs, or dead before they had a chance.

Those children were the test subjects, betrayed by a system that let them be guinea pigs while doctors and regulators shrugged and cashed checks.

In the U.S., thalidomide never got full FDA approval, thanks to Dr. Frances Kelsey, who flagged its shaky safety data. But Chemie Grünenthal’s partner, Richardson-Merrell, still got it into the hands of over 1,200 doctors through loosely regulated “clinical trials” from 1958 to 1962.

Doctors handed out samples to patients, including pregnant women, without proper warnings or consent. Around 20,000 Americans, including expectant mothers, received the drug, leading to an unknown number of birth defects.

The U.S. dodged the worst due to Kelsey’s skepticism, but the unauthorized distribution exposed how easily oversight failed when greed took the wheel.

Globally, the damage was staggering, with thalidomide sold in over 46 countries. In West Germany, where it was born, 7,000-10,000 babies suffered malformations, as the drug was sold over-the-counter and marketed aggressively to pregnant women.

The UK saw around 2,000 cases under the brand Distaval. Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands reported hundreds more, their weak regulations allowing unchecked distribution.

Canada, with about 125 documented cases, kept the drug on shelves until 1962, even as warnings emerged. Australia and New Zealand counted over 100 affected children each, while Japan, where it was sold as Isomin, saw over 1,000 cases, with the drug lingering until 1963.

In Latin America, Brazil and Argentina faced significant but poorly documented cases due to lax oversight. In Africa and Asia, like South Africa and India, limited healthcare infrastructure obscured the full toll, but the drug’s reach was undeniable.

Estimates peg the global impact at 10,000-20,000 babies with severe deformities— phocomelia, organ damage, sensory loss— plus countless miscarriages and stillbirths. The true number is likely higher, especially in developing nations with spotty records.

The tragedy stemmed from systemic failure. Grünenthal ignored early red flags, like animal studies showing toxicity or adult patients reporting nerve damage.

Regulators in many countries greenlit the drug on flimsy data, swayed by pharmaceutical lobbying. Doctors, trusting the “settled science,” prescribed it without hesitation, some even distributing it off-label or through shoddy trials, as in the U.S.

Profits rolled in while families paid the price— lifelong disabilities, grief, and loss. Lawsuits eventually forced settlements in Germany, the UK, and elsewhere, but no amount could undo the harm.

Grünenthal’s half-hearted apology in 2012, over 50 years later, rang hollow to survivors.

This wasn’t a one-off. Vioxx triggered heart attacks and strokes before its 2004 withdrawal. Lobotomies were once a celebrated “cure” for mental illness.
DDT was sprayed recklessly until its environmental devastation became undeniable. Each time, the vulnerable— children, patients, the uninformed— suffered most.

The pattern is clear: arrogance, greed, and weak oversight masquerading as progress. Thalidomide screams a warning: question everything.

Governments, drug companies, and white coats aren’t infallible— they’re human, prone to error or worse. The rush to embrace the next “miracle drug” or “miracle vaccine” without transparent, ironclad testing risks another nightmare.

History’s lesson is brutal, and the stakes— lives, families, futures— are too high for blind trust.

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No Childhood Vaccine Safety Tested

RFK jr On Fauci

Having been called a liar by Anthony Fauci for saying that “not one of the 72 vaccines mandated for children has ever been safety tested”, RFK Jr. sued Fauci.

After a year of stonewalling, Fauci’s lawyers admitted that RFK Jr. had been right all along. ”

There’s no downstream liability, there’s no front-end safety testing… and there’s no marketing and advertising costs, because the federal government is ordering 78 million school kids to take that vaccine every year.”

“What better product could you have? And so there was a gold rush to add all these new vaccines to the schedule… because if you get onto that schedule, it’s a billion dollars a year for your company.”

“So we got all of these new vaccines, 72 shots, 16 vaccines… And that year, 1989, we saw an explosion in chronic disease in American children… ADHD, sleep disorders, language delays, ASD, autism, Tourette’s syndrome, ticks, narcolepsy.”

“Autism went from one in 10,000 in my generation… to one in every 34 kids today.”

https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/1956918387646529815

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Maltodextrin…The Carbohydrate That’s More Dangerous Than Sugar

Maltodextrin More Dangerous Then Sugar

Glycemic Index:
Sugar…65
High Fructose Corn Syrup…87
Glucose…100
Maltodextrin…136

A Carbohydrate not classified as sugar, but acts like sugar in a much more deadly way because it spikes insulin….

Maltodextrin is a type of carbohydrate, but it undergoes intense processing. It comes in the form of a white powder from GMO rice, corn, wheat, tapioca or potato starch.

Maltodextrin is a polysaccharide derived from starch hydrolysis and used as a thickener and filler in processed food. On labels, it does not have to be listed as sugar or added sugar, even though it has a higher glycemic index & causes blood sugar to spike.

Labeled not only as Maltodextrin, but also Modified Food Starch, Modified Corn Starch and within the “blanket term” Natural Flavors.

Food manufacturers add the powder to a wide range of processed foods such as artificial sweeteners, baked goods, yogurt, beer, nutrition bars, weight loss supplements, cereals, meal replacement shakes, low fat and reduced calorie products, condiments, sauces, spice mixes, salad dressings, chips, pie fillings and snack foods.

Conditions Caused By Maltodextrin:

Altered Gut Bacteria
IBD Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Diabetes
Insulin Resistance
Hormonal Imbalance
Crohn’s Disease
Ulcerative Colitis
Weight Gain
Gluten Contamination
GI Distress

Maltodextrin harms the mucosal epithelial layer in the intestines, the barrier which protects against gut permeability. This damage then leads to systemic inflammation and many forms of IBD Inflammatory Bowel Diseases like Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis.

Maltodextrin Intestinal Inflammation
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6409436/

Maltodextrin Causes IBD and Crohn’s Disease
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3520894/

Acute/Long Term Maltodextrin Side Effects
https://synapse.patsnap.com/article/what-are-the-side-effects-of-maltodextrin

https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970/status/1956254430078103698

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Solving the Problems of Aging Bodies

Just after I despatched last week’s newsletter I had a chat to a lovely chap, 83 years old, been on my newsletter list for years.

Like most of us as we age, he is being more sedentary means not eating as much as he did when he was younger, so his toilet trips, or lack of them, is problematic.

And of course, being more sedentary also means his circulation is not as good and his energy consumption is lower means he needs to eat even less.

And he can’t start pumping out the pushups as he has just had surgery in one arm.

Then there is the growing problem of short term memory loss and resulting senior moments.

So I figured out what I would do if I needed to increase my circulation and food throughput to solve constipation, ’cos if you are not taking as much in then you there is not as much to push out.

My number one most important principle regarding exercise is gradient. No starting out too hard or too fast and increasing it only a little at a time so no injuries occur. I recall Dr Al Sears saying he got someone to increase their exercise tolerance by starting on them walking 45 seconds at a time.

Applying that principle I told him if I were in his shoes, this is what I would do and then I thought to share it with you so you could pass it on to whomever could benefit from it.

Lowest Gradient Exercise Program

  • 1. Walking – start small and increase it a little each day. None of these 5 mile hikes in the bush to start with!
  • 2. Bouncing/rebounding on a mini-trampoline – in his case, starting with REALLY small bounces, very close to a wall for balance support.
  • 3. Stair steps – step up one step then down the repeat with other foot.
  • 4. While sitting stand every 10 minutes – experts are saying sitting is the new smoking and this negates the adverse effects of sitting.
  • 5. Heel to toe rocking – hold onto a chair or the wall and just rock gently bank and forth from toes to heels and back.
  • 6. NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis [the production of heat, especially in a human or animal body] by activities such as fidgeting with hands or bouncing the foot while sitting). Apparently it is quite remarkable how many calories you can burn this way.

We both agreed that his liking of biscuits wasn’t going to do his contipation any favours so he bought a tub of my no added sugar muesli: https://www.healthelicious.com.au/Muesli.html

For improved general nutrition he grabbed a tub of my NutriBlast Grees Plus: https://www.healthelicious.com.au/Nutri-Blast-Greens-Plus.html

To address the short-term memory loss he is going to start using my Memory and Intelligence Blend: https://www.healthelicious.com.au/Nutri-Blast-Memory-Blend.html

And he will be traveling soon so he wanted to try three of my energy bars while on the road.

Hopefully I will be hearing a glowing success story from him in a week or so!

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Rob Reiner as Vizzini

Rob Reiner as Vizzini

Continue to get up, show up, step up and do your best and sometimes luck will do the rest!

“I was convinced I would be fired at any moment. I had heard that Danny DeVito was the person they wanted, and I thought, how could I possibly compete with him? I spent every day on set thinking I was about to be sent home. That anxiety seeped into everything I did, and oddly enough, it gave Vizzini the manic edge that people now remember. It is one of life’s strangest ironies that my fear of being a failure is the very thing that made the character work.” Wallace Shawn’s words perfectly sum up his state of mind when stepping into the role of Vizzini in Rob Reiner’s 1987 fantasy adventure “The Princess Bride.”
The casting of Shawn was never straightforward. Rob Reiner had initially wanted DeVito for the part of the Sicilian criminal mastermind, a detail that haunted Shawn from the moment he arrived on set. The actor later shared that he would often lie awake in his hotel room, rehearsing lines and convincing himself that producers were already searching for a replacement. Every laugh he delivered carried the weight of his worry, yet that very nervousness translated into Vizzini’s frantic energy. The speed of his speech, the overconfident gestures, and the high-pitched exclamations all stemmed from his internal fear, which turned into comedic brilliance before the camera.
Shawn’s most famous contribution came in the form of a single word. His repeated cry of “Inconceivable!” has since become one of the most quoted lines in movie history. On screen, it was delivered with sharp conviction, yet in reality, it was fueled by the belief that he would not last another day on set. This duality gave Vizzini an authenticity that was both hilarious and oddly endearing. Reiner later praised Shawn for capturing exactly the kind of unpredictable humor the film needed, showing trust in an actor who had very little in himself at the time.
Andre the Giant, who played Fezzik, often recalled how Shawn’s nervous pacing before scenes added an extra layer of camaraderie on set. Cary Elwes wrote in his memoir about watching Shawn psych himself up, looking like a man preparing for his own dismissal, and then turning that raw tension into comedy gold. The cast admired how he never let his insecurity stop him from performing with full force, even if he was convinced he was doing poorly.
Reiner’s decision to keep Shawn was more than a practical choice; it was a recognition of how well the actor’s natural unease fit the character. Vizzini needed to be a man constantly straining for control, trying to appear brilliant while the world unraveled around him. Shawn’s interpretation captured that with precision. What he considered his weakness became the exact quality that made Vizzini unforgettable.
When asked years later about his time on “The Princess Bride,” Shawn spoke with gratitude, tinged with amusement at the irony. He explained that he had never imagined audiences would embrace a performance born out of pure self-doubt. For him, the greatest surprise was that his fear turned into laughter for millions of viewers. That laughter became part of the film’s enduring charm, proof that sometimes the most unlikely circumstances create the most lasting results.
Vizzini’s short time in the film cemented Shawn’s place in cinematic history. Although the character is defeated in the famous battle of wits, his presence lingers because of the unmatched delivery and the nervous spark that made him impossible to forget. Shawn’s own words remind us that insecurity can, at times, be transformed into art: “If you’re terrified enough, sometimes the fear itself does the work for you.”
The role that nearly slipped away instead became the performance of a lifetime, a playful reminder that even overwhelming anxiety can give birth to comedy that endures through generations.
Shawn’s terror, woven into every line, turned into pure delight for audiences, an outcome so perfectly improbable that even Vizzini might have called it inconceivable.
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I’m a retired electrician

Retired Electrician

“My name’s Frank. I’m 64, a retired electrician.
Forty-two years I spent running wires through houses, fixing breakers, making sure people had light in their kitchens and heat in their winters. Never once did anyone ask me where I went to college. Mostly, they just wanted to know if I could get the power back on before their ice cream melted.
Last May, I was at my granddaughter Emily’s school career day. You know the drill — doctors, lawyers, a software guy in a slick suit talking about “scaling startups.” I was the only one there with a tool belt and work boots.
When it was my turn, I told the kids, “I don’t have a degree. I’ve never sat in a lecture hall. But I’ve wired schools, hospitals, and your principal’s house. And when the hospital generator failed during a snowstorm in ’98, I was the one in the basement with a flashlight, keeping the lights on for newborn babies upstairs.”
The kids leaned forward. They had questions — real ones. “How do you fix stuff in the dark?” “Do you make a lot of money?” “Do you ever get zapped?” (Yes, once, and it’ll curl your hair.)
When the bell rang, one boy hung back. Small kid, freckles, hoodie too big for him. He mumbled, “My uncle’s a plumber. People laugh at him ’cause he didn’t finish high school. But… he’s the only one in the family who can fix anything.”
I looked that boy in the eye and said, “Kid, your uncle’s a hero. When your toilet overflows at midnight, Harvard ain’t sending anyone. A plumber is.”
Here’s the thing nobody told me when I was young — the world doesn’t run without tradespeople. You can have all the engineers you want, but if nobody builds the house, wires the power, or lays the pipes, those blueprints just sit in a drawer.
We’ve made it sound like trades are what you do if you can’t go to college, instead of a path you choose because you like working with your hands, solving problems, and seeing your work stand solid for decades.
Four years after high school, some kids walk away with diplomas. Others walk away with zero debt, a union card, and a skill they can take anywhere in the world. And guess what? When your furnace dies in January, it’s not the diploma that saves you.
A few weeks ago, that same freckled kid’s mom stopped me at the grocery store. She said, “You probably don’t remember, but you told my son trades are important. He’s shadowing his uncle this summer. First time I’ve seen him excited about anything in years.”
That’s the part we forget — for some kids, knowing their path is respected changes everything. It’s not about “just” fixing wires or pipes. It’s about pride. Purpose. The kind that sticks with you long after the job’s done.
So next time you meet a teenager, don’t just ask, “Where are you going to college?” Ask, “What’s your plan?” And if they say, “I’m learning to weld,” or “I’m starting an apprenticeship,” smile big and say, “That’s fantastic. We’re going to need you.”
Because we will. More than ever. And when the lights go out, you’ll be glad they showed up.”