Month: August 2018

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Beat the drought: build Bradfield

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It really gets my goat that the people we have elected to provide leadership are doing far from a good job at it! Here is a plan that was tabled DECADES ago that would provide incalculable benefit yet the powers that be engage in petty and not so petty scams and outrages, altered priorities and destructive actions!

THERE are renewed calls for the Bradfield Scheme to be developed as a way for Australia to mitigate future droughts and to help meet its future obligations as a food supplier to the world.

The massive agricultural scheme first proposed in 1938 aims to irrigate a staggering 1000 million hectares of land across Queensland and South Australia.

The calls follow the Queensland Government’s announcement that it would develop a memorandum of understanding (MOU) as “a transparent and comprehensive assessment pathway” for the proposed $1.98 billion Etheridge Integrated Agriculture Project in the Gilbert River catchment near Georgetown.

The Integrated Food and Energy Development (IFED) project is expected to include the development of sugar and guar industries in addition to cattle, meat processing and aquaculture over 50,000 hectares.

The much larger Bradfield scheme was envisaged by Dr John Bradfield, a Queensland-born civil engineer, who also designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Brisbane’s Story Bridge.

The scheme would divert water from the Tully, the Herbert and the Burdekin Rivers, across the Great Dividing Range into the Flinders and then the Thomson River. The water would flow to eventually fill Lake Eyre.

Townsville based industry identity Tim McHugh, from livestock and property agency Hogan and McHugh, said Australia should revisit the long planned Bradfield Scheme as a way of positioning Australia as a major, and more importantly, reliable food supplier regardless of seasonal extremes.

“We are now in the worst drought I think that Australia has ever experienced, certainly in the lifetimes of the people who would directly benefit from Bradfield being developed,” Mr McHugh said.

“Bradfield remains the greatest agricultural project Australia could ever hope for and would impact across all of agriculture and the economies of the regions.

“The economic activity for all of Australia would be fantastic. It would allow the use and further development of existing infrastructure and result in new infrastructure and we really would be far better placed to be a food supplier to the world.”

Although officially abandoned in 1947 because of discrepancies in both claimed water flows and topography, the still popular Bradfield Scheme is regularly promoted. Advocates include Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter, and former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, who proposed a reduced scale version of the scheme.

Under the Etheridge Integrated Agriculture Project water would be diverted from the Einasleigh and Etheridge rivers into two artificial off-stream lakes and channeled to pumping stations which supply irrigation.

The project is expected to create more than 1700 jobs during construction and more than 1000 jobs during operation.

Substantial numbers of those jobs are expected to be made available to local Indigenous people.

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Are front-line emergency room doctors the key to identifying vaccine injuries and reporting them?

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At least one ER doctor thinks so.

David Denton Davis MD, a former Emergency Physician, claims neither our Centers for Disease Control (CDC) nor our Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has requested help from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in identifying illnesses and deaths occurring hours, days and weeks following childhood vaccinations.

In his recently published book “Who Can Parents Trust? Vaccines: Avoidable and Unsafe,” he claims the vast majority of serious vaccine related illnesses coming into Emergency rooms will continue to go unrecognized, unless nurses and physicians ask the last vaccination date (LVD).

He believes during the past thirty years several million serious Adverse Events (AE’s), including deaths presenting nationwide to more than 5,000 Emergency rooms have never been recognized, documented or submitted for investigation, in accordance with our National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA). All suspicions of a vaccine related adverse event are required by law to be submitted using our Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Sadly, he goes on, very few Emergency Physicians or Nurses have received any NCVIA or VAERS education.

As a charter member of ACEP, Dr. Davis served on the Board of Directors during the creation of Emergency Medicine (EM) as a specialty. He admits his own reporting failures were due to a lack of vaccine education.

Dr. Davis states he is concerned many pediatricians know, but are not reporting illnesses following vaccinations, for financial reasons. Although neither makers nor physicians are liable for vaccine damage, the ultimate truth for safety was made contingent on investigating physician, parent or third party VAERS submissions.

With only a very small percentage being reported, no one can honestly say vaccines are safe.

At a time when our vaccine industry is rolling out newer and, perhaps, more dangerous products, he believes it is time to call a temporary halt.

He claims the millions of missing VAERS submissions may still be found, perhaps hidden, in insurance company files.

He carefully and skillfully points out doctors who choose to ignore previously reported mild vaccine reactions, such as a fever, may be deemed liable for more severe events following future injections.

In addition to pointing to ACEP and insurance company reporting failures, he adamantly questions the morals and ethics of physicians conducting vaccine studies on extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU’s).

He repeatedly questions how many more NICU infants need to be injured attempting to prove vaccines have no adverse consequences? He asks what has happened to those who have been injured.

A Supreme Court Justice has stated vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe.” Based upon failures to report and evidence from NICU’s, Dr. Davis’ opinion dramatically differs.

His focus is on aluminum, a nervous system poison, which is present in most vaccines. Studies throughout the world are attributing injected aluminum to sudden death and long-term neurological disabilities including Autism Spectrum Disorders and Alzheimer’s disease.

No parent should consent and no doctor, under any circumstance, should continue ordering this avoidably unsafe metal being injected into newborns, infants, children, or soon-to-be teenagers.

He does not expect help coming from insurance companies, even those federally funded for our medically indigent and elderly.

If they intended to comply with our childhood vaccine injury law they would have done so long before now.

Therefore, he intends to pursue an ACEP resolution supporting vaccine injury education and VAERS submissions at their meeting in San Diego this year.

 

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Useful Data About Protein from Dr Izabella Wentz

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Dr Izabella Wentz has a protocol for reversing Hashimoto’s disease. This week I received from her a pitch for her protein powder that contained some interesting data on protein I thought you might like to read:
Before I received my Hashimoto’s diagnosis, I used to start each day with a protein smoothie.
In some ways, this was a very positive habit, but in other ways, it was very much detrimental to my health.
Protein is an essential macronutrient and helps us to build up our body to ensure that all vital processes are taking place. Protein is an important source of amino acids such as glutamine and L-tyrosine, which repair gut cells and create thyroid hormones, respectively.
People eating the Standard American Diet or vegan and vegetarian diets may not get enough protein and can be at risk for protein deficiency. Some symptoms include: fatigue, trouble losing weight, brain fog, blood sugar imbalance, trouble building muscle, muscle wasting, intestinal permeability and hair loss. Sound familiar?
The Right Amount of Protein
For general health purposes, you should be consuming about 0.45-0.55 grams of protein per day, for each pound you weigh. (The official calculation is done by kilograms of body weight: 1.0-1.2 grams of protein per kilogram). This translates to roughly 50 grams of protein per day for a person who weighs 100 pounds.
Higher protein intake, of 0.55 grams to 0.68 grams per pound of body weight per day, is recommended for most older adults who have acute or chronic diseases (1.2-1.5 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight). In this case, a person who weighs 100 lbs should aim for 54-68 grams of protein per day.
Generally, the more active you are, the more protein you need. Bodybuilders especially need more protein, as much as 1 gram of protein per pound, so a 100 pound person would want to aim for 100 grams of protein each day!
Older people with severe kidney disease (who are not on dialysis) are an exception to this rule; these individuals may need to limit protein intake as their kidneys may not be able to properly process the protein.
Benefits of Protein Smoothies
Having a protein packed smoothie in the morning can help kick off our daily nutrition and keep our blood sugar balanced, as well as help the thyroid gland (if low protein was a contributing factor). A protein powder mixed with blended foods can provide the body with predigested nutrition, allowing for better absorption of nutrients, even when our digestion isn’t perfect.
The Right Kind of Protein
However, the wrong kind of protein can be detrimental as well. Back in the day, I used to put whey protein and yogurt in my smoothies, not realizing that I was sensitive to dairy! Dairy proteins casein and whey are highly reactive for up to 80 percent of people with Hashimoto’s. My “healthy breakfast” was causing my carpal tunnel, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome and causing my thyroid gland to attack itself. Within three days of getting off dairy, my acid reflux and irritable bowel syndrome disappeared, the carpal tunnel took a few months to resolve, and over time, I saw my thyroid antibodies reducing as well!
Most protein powders on the market contain soy and dairy, which are two very reactive proteins for people with Hashimoto’s. While egg white proteins are also an option and can be less reactive, unfortunately, those with Hashimoto’s who start using them often find themselves with new onset egg reactions, because egg whites are difficult to digest for people with intestinal permeability.
The protein powders that are best tolerated by people with Hashimoto’s, in my experience, are hemp protein, pea protein and hydrolyzed beef protein.
Hemp protein is vegan, gluten, dairy and soy free, but it has a strong taste that doesn’t blend well with most foods and can be an issue for some with estrogen concerns.
Pea protein is vegan, gluten, dairy and soy free, and has a mild taste. However, it is not compatible with the Autoimmune Paleo diet.
Beef protein, on the other hand, is Paleo and Autoimmune Paleo friendly. The protein is derived from grass-fed meat, but it doesn’t actually have that strong beefy taste! It actually has a nice, mild taste that can be compared to the taste of collagen or whey protein.
In contrast to collagen (which is also well tolerated by people with Hashimoto’s), beef protein is a complete protein, meaning it contains the essential amino acids we need to survive. (Collagen protein is not a complete protein, so while it’s a great add-on to smoothies, I wouldn’t recommend it as a base for smoothies, unless you’re adding another complete protein source as the base). I came across the beef protein option when I was personally looking for a protein powder that I could put into smoothies.
Beef protein is gluten free, soy free and is also free of casein and whey, two very reactive proteins found in dairy products.
Hydrolyzed beef protein offers a special advantage, as it is less likely to cause additional food reactions due to the hydrolysis process, which breaks the protein into tiny pieces. I recommend using hydrolyzed beef protein for building up your body in my new book, Hashimoto’s Protocol, in the Adrenal Recovery and Gut Balance Protocols.
https://thyroidpharmacist.com/

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Monsanto Loses! $289 Million Judgement for Causing Cancer

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The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today issued this statement in response to today’s verdict in the case of Dewayne Johnson vs. Monsanto Co., awarding $289.2 million in damages to plaintiff Dwayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper who, after being required to spray Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is terminally ill with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
“This verdict proves that when ordinary citizens, in this case a jury of 12, hear the facts about Monsanto’s products, and the lengths to which this company has gone to buy off scientists, deceive the public and influence government regulatory agencies, there is no confusion,” said Ronnie Cummins, OCA’s international director. “This is a company that has always put profits ahead of public safety, and today, Monsanto has finally been held accountable.
“We hope that this is just the first of many defeats for Monsanto, and that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will pull this product off the market immediately. In the meantime, OCA looks forward to the next steps in our own lawsuit against Monsanto, for misleading consumers about the safety of Roundup for humans and pets. And we are grateful to Mr. Johnson for bravely facing down the ‘most evil corporation’ in the world.”
https://www.organicconsumers.org/press/monsanto-loses-landmark-case-roundup-weedkiller-case-jury-awards-290m-cancer-victim

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Anti-Vaccine Japan Has World’s Lowest Child Death Rate, Highest Life Expectancy

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Japan has the lowest infant mortality rates and longest life expectancy in the world. Citizens of Japan are statistically proven to be the healthiest and longest-living people in the world. The country also has the lowest infant mortality rate on the planet.

It may come as no surprise to many that the Japanese Government banned a number of vaccines that are currently mandatory in the United States and has strict regulations in place for other Big Pharma drugs and vaccines in general. Japan’s anti-vax policies have long been criticized by vaccine pushers in the US who claim that vaccinating the public “promotes health.” However, Japanese people live longer, healthier lives than Americans, with babies born in the US twice as likely to die in infancy than those born in Japan.

It’s clear to see that Western nations have a lot to learn from the Japanese when it comes to their approach to vaccinations and issues facing public health. The Japanese are vaccine skeptics, to put it simply, and due to adverse reactions suffered by Japanese children, have banned many vaccines.

Citizens are well educated on the dangers of over-vaccinating their children and oppose the use of multi-shot vaccinations such as the MMR vaccine. Following a record number of children developing adverse reactions, including meningitis, loss of limbs, and even sudden death, the Japanese government banned the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine from its vaccination program, despite facing serious opposition from Big Pharma.

The people of Japan, therefore, ruled that no profit was large enough to compensate for the adverse health effects suffered by their children. The three-in-one MMR vaccine has caused years of controversy. One of the most hotly disputed arguments is the vaccine’s links to autism. Despite the fact that it has been blamed in vaccine courts for causing autism, vaccine supporters still deny the correlation between the MMR vaccination and skyrocketing rates of autism spectrum disorder, which now affects at least one in 45 children, with even higher rates of diagnosis among boys. However, the vaccine carries other serious risks in addition to the autism links, which has led to an outright ban of MMR jab in Japan.

http://www.neonnettle.com/features/1483-anti-vaccine-japaPerfect