Hey Tom,
Have you ever heard that vitamins could help cure cancer and wondered was it all just hocus pocus or marketing BS? Were people just giving false hope to make a quick buck? I’d often wondered the same thing.
That’s why four years ago I set off across the globe with Michael Beattie to film That Vitamin Movie. I had the privilege of interviewing 23 experts on using vitamins to halt and heal disease. It was a life changing time for both of us.
Only a year before I had seen my own “ten years plus” history with depression halted in it’s tracks with a simple vitamin protocol. Now Mike and I were sitting in the same room as some of the people who formulated and perfected these treatments. It was mind blowing for both of us.
We also sat with world class doctors who had pioneered Vitamin C cancer treatments – and we got to ask them all about it in great detail.
One of the frustrating things about finally making the film was that we had to condense all of that footage (over 18 hours) down to an hour and a half. [Some fantastic footage was left out] as you can imagine.
So next Thursday we are making a lot more of those interviews freely available for you to see. It’s part of an event called Vitamin Mastery. Each day there will be two full length interviews from the movie as well as two other interviews from the most recent ”Vitamin Summit” AND a daily episode of a foundational course on vitamins and nutrition from Andrew Saul. It’s called the Nutritional Fortress. That’s a lot of vitamin wisdom right there.
There’s no cost to join us and all the presentations stay online for 24 hours.
We cover cancer, depression, ADHD, heart issues, diabetes and much more at https://vitaminmastery.com/
I’d love to see you there.
Trevor
PS. I forgot to say – you can actually see the full documentary “That Vitamin Movie” in glorious HD right now. [It’s free for the next five days at https://thatvitaminmovie.com/]
More Answers to "Why?"
1. WHY?
Why do men’s clothes have buttons on the right while women’s clothes have buttons on the left?
BECAUSE
When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left. Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid’s right! And that’s where women’s buttons have remained since.
2. WHY?
Why do ships and aircraft use ‘mayday’ as their call for help?
BECAUSE
This comes from the French word m’aidez – meaning ‘help me’ – and is pronounced, approximately, ‘mayday.’
3. WHY?
Why are zero scores in tennis called ‘love’?
BECAUSE
In France, where tennis became popular, the round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called ‘l’oeuf,’ which is French for ‘the egg.’ When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans (naturally), mispronounced it ‘love.’
4. WHY?
Why do X’s at the end of a letter signify kisses?
BECAUSE
In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.
5. WHY?
Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called passing the buck’?
BECAUSE
In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility of dealing, he would ‘pass the buck’ to the next player.
6. WHY?
Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?
BECAUSE
In earlier times it used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would only touch or clink the host’s glass with his own.
7. WHY?
Why are people in the public eye said to be ‘in the limelight’?
BECAUSE
Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and theatres by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theatre, a performer ‘in the limelight’ was the Centre of attention.
8. WHY?
Why is someone who is feeling great ‘on cloud nine’?
BECAUSE
Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud. If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares.
9. WHY?
In golf, where did the term ‘Caddie’ come from?
BECAUSE
When Mary Queen of Scots went to France as a young girl, Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the Scots game ‘golf.’ He had the first course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to accompany her. Mary liked this a lot and when she returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the practice with her. In French, the word cadet is pronounced ‘ca-day’ and the Scots changed it into caddie.
10. WHY?
Why are many coin collection jar banks shaped like pigs?
BECAUSE
Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of dense orange clay called ‘pygg’. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as ‘pygg banks.’ When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a container that resembled a pig. And it caught on
11. (Not WHY, but “WHO”) BIG CHEEKS
Bet you don’t know “Big cheeks”. Big cheeks. A grandson of slaves, a boy was born in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans known as the “Back of Town.” His father abandoned the family when the child was an infant. His mother became a prostitute and the boy and his sister had to live with their grandmother.
Early in life he proved to be gifted for music and with three other kids he sang in the streets of New Orleans. His first gains were coins that were thrown to them.
A Jewish family, Karnofsky, who had emigrated from Lithuania to the USA, had pity for the 7-year-old boy and brought him into their home. initially giving ‘work’ in the house, to feed this hungry child. There he remained and slept in this Jewish family’s home where, for the first time in his life, he was treated with kindness and tenderness. When he went to bed, Mrs. Karnovsky sang him a Russian lullaby that he would sing with her.
Later, he learned to sing and play several Russian and Jewish songs. Over time, this boy became the adopted son of this family. The Karnofskys gave him money to buy his first musical instrument; as was the custom in the Jewish families. They sincerely admired his musical talent.
Later, when he became a professional musician and composer, he used these Jewish melodies in compositions, such as St James Infirmary and Go Down Moses. The little black boy grew up and wrote a book about this Jewish family who had adopted him in 1907.
In memory of this family and until the end of his life, he wore a Star of David and said that in this family, he had learned “how to live real life and determination.”
You might recognize his name. This little boy was called: Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong.
Louis Armstrong proudly spoke fluent Yiddish! And “Satchmo” is Yiddish for “Big Cheeks”
St George Security Alert
For quite some time now I have received on average about a call a week from these scammers . Before I hang up I tell the person calling that they are working for a scamming company and that they should quit and get an honest job. I received this from my bank about the scam.
Dear Thomas,
At St George, helping our customers avoid falling victim to scams is our top priority. We’d like to make you aware of a current phone scam targeting Australians.
The scam involves a caller posing as an employee of a large telco, utility provider or computer company. The caller will usually advise they are calling you because your PC has malicious software, help is needed to catch a criminal, or to recover an outstanding debt owed to a government body. Callers may become quite aggressive or threaten you with prosecution if you do not comply with their request.
Thomas, we strongly recommend you simply hang up if you receive this type of call. If you believe the call was legitimate, we recommend you return the call to the company using a trusted phone number found in the yellow pages or on the company’s website.
How this type of scam works:
The caller will generally ask you to install a piece of software onto your PC. The technical name is ‘remote access software’ and this software allows information, or even control of your computer to be shared remotely with another user. Once the software is installed, the other user may attempt to control your computer without your permission or knowledge.
The caller will ask you to sign into your Internet Banking to check your account balances, return deposited funds, pay a fee for their service or even purchase gifts cards. At this point you may not know the caller is controlling your computer.
You will now have an increased balance in your transaction account, giving the false impression that a deposit has been made. Callers will generally ask you to return this via internet banking, a money transfer agent or in cash.
Before making any payments or returning funds to the caller by internet banking, credit cards or cash, please thoroughly check all of your account transactions, including your credit cards. In reported cases of this scam, customers have had funds transferred unknowingly between their own accounts by the caller.
What should I do?
Remember, do not disclose your Internet Banking logon details or St.George Secure Code sent to your mobile to anyone.
Share information about these types of scams with your friends and family, especially those who may be more vulnerable to this type of crime.
Stop and consider the caller’s request – would the company which contacted me ask me to do this? It’s OK to ask for a second opinion from a friend or family member if someone contacts you unexpectedly, especially when the caller asks you to keep this a secret from anyone.
Register for Government alert services like staysmartonline.gov.au to keep up to date with current scams.
More information?
For further information please visit stgeorge.com.au/scams
Thank you for using St George Internet Banking.
Sincerely,
The St George Internet Banking Team
Truth About Fukushima — The Entire World is in Danger
The lack of communication and appropriate response is alarming. Fortunately the article lists some foods you can ingest to help. It fails to mention two of the best, raw brown seaweed (Modifilan) and B3 (Niacin, not Niacinamide) that help remove radioactive toxins from the body. And yes, both of those are in my bars and powders.
http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/truth-about-fukushima-the-entire-world-is-in-danger/
Top reasons the Banking Royal Commission must investigate APRA
The terms of reference that Malcolm Turnbull gave to the Banking Royal Commission only allow it to examine specific failings of regulators in relation to banking misconduct. It is not allowed to examine “macro-prudential policy”, which is the regulatory structure of the financial system, and the policies of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the bank regulator. Issued with the approval of the banks and regulators, Turnbull’s terms of reference are clearly intended to hobble the Royal Commission and protect the banks. Here are the top reasons why Australians should demand that the Royal Commission be allowed to investigate APRA and the regulatory structure of the banking system.
APRA is the supervisor of the banks, and their atrocious abuses occurred under its supervision. Numerous experts and bank victims who have interacted with APRA accuse it of protecting the banks, not policing them.
APRA is a major cause of the rampant mortgage control fraud which the Royal Commission is investigating. APRA manipulated its prudential standards—the rules banks must follow—to make mortgages far more profitable than other lending. This encouraged the banks to lure as many people as possible into mortgages, not just to buy homes to live in, but also to buy multiple investment properties and to invest in the stock market. Many of the borrowers couldn’t afford these loans, so banks forged documents to overstate their incomes and understate their living expenses to justify the loans anyway. The Royal Commission is investigating this fraud, but the investigation is incomplete unless APRA’s role is also examined.
APRA looked the other way as banks lowered lending standards and committed fraud. In 2007 APRA chairman John Laker suppressed an internal report which showed that lowered lending standards, approved by APRA a few years earlier, had resulted in a bubble of more than three times the amount of lending for mortgages than would have been the case under the previous, higher standards. The report warned the delinquency rate could rise to 7.5 per cent, and trigger a housing market crash that would plunge Australia into recession. Instead of acting on the report, APRA buried it, encouraged even more reckless mortgage lending that further expanded the housing bubble, and ignored the mounting evidence of mortgage control fraud. The suppressed internal APRA report was only revealed nine years later in January 2016, by ABC reporter Stephen Long. Current APRA chairman Wayne Byres said in 1 March 2018 testimony to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee that APRA hasn’t really examined mortgage fraud, and has found no evidence of illegal activity by banks.
APRA supervised the Commonwealth Bank as it committed numerous abuses and crimes, and is now attempting to cover up those crimes. The three-person panel APRA appointed last year to inquire into CBA’s “culture”, following allegations of large-scale drug- and terrorism-related money laundering, is headed up by long-time APRA chairman John Laker, on whose watch in 2003-14 CBA got away with a litany of crimes and abuses—i.e. Laker is effectively investigating himself. Current APRA chairman Wayne Byres admitted to a parliamentary committee hearing on 13 September 2017 that the purpose of APRA’s inquiry was to help CBA restore community trust and its badly damaged “reputation”, with no mention of holding CBA to account.
APRA abuses its extreme secrecy restrictions to suppress important information about its policies, and the banking system. APRA’s secrecy restrictions are only intended to protect the private account information of bank customers, but APRA has weaponised these restrictions to keep its employees ignorant about its activities outside of their own departments, and to keep information from the public, such as the 2007 report on the consequences of lowered lending standards, cited above.
While formally an Australian government authority, APRA actually operates as an agency for the supranational financial regulation apparatus centred in the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Known as the “central bank of central banks”, the BIS enforces a neoliberal ideology of financial self-regulation that constrains governments more than banks, and enabled the banks to rush headlong into the extreme financial speculation and derivatives gambling that snowballed into the global financial crisis in 2008. Current APRA chairman Wayne Byres was the chair of the Secretariat of the BIS’s Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 2012 when it issued its “Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision”, which demanded that there must be “no government or industry interference that compromises the operational independence of the supervisor”, i.e. supervisors like APRA must be a law unto themselves.
APRA is covering up its “bail-in” agenda, which is to use the savings of Australians to prop up banks that fail as a result of the reckless financial gambling that APRA allows them to engage in. In his 1 March Senate Estimates testimony, Wayne Byres denied APRA has bail-in powers, yet APRA lobbied for the recent Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Crisis Resolution Powers and Other Measures) Act 2018, which allows it to forcibly convert or write off bank hybrid securities, in which Australian mums and dads have invested $43 billion of savings, or “any other instruments”, which is wording that is deliberately broad so as not to exclude bank deposits. This law is drawn from the BIS-based Financial Stability Board’s “Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes”, which includes “bail-in” of “unsecured, uninsured creditors”, meaning depositors. Australian authorities started planning for bail-in powers as early as the 2010-11 financial year, when Treasury paid for legal advice on bail-in powers. In September 2012 Treasury issued a discussion paper on measures for “Strengthening APRA’s Crisis Management Powers”, which included bail-in; in November 2012 the IMF noted that Australia is “exploring bail-in options”; and in April 2013 the FSB reported that “bail-in … legislation is in train in some jurisdictions … including Australia”—the crisis resolution powers law passed in February is the bail-in legislation to which the FSB referred.
What you can do:
Meet, phone or email your federal MP and Senators to demand they force the Turnbull government to expand the terms of reference for the Royal Commission, so it can properly investigate APRA’s policies and the structure of banking, which have enabled the banks to exploit their customers and to get away with it.
Email the Royal Commission on FSRCenquiries@royalcommission.gov.au to ask Commissioner Kenneth Hayne to expand his investigation to include the structure of banking (vertical integration) and the prudential policies of APRA.
GMO DNA Transferred To Humans
In a new study published in the peer reviewed Public Library of Science (PLOS), researchers emphasize that there is sufficient evidence that meal-derived DNA fragments carry complete genes that can enter into the human circulation system through an unknown mechanism. (0) I wonder if the scientists at these biotech corporations have already identified this method?
https://dailyinformator.com/confirmed-dna-from-genetically-modified-crops-can-be-transferred-into-humans-who-eat-them/
Evil Does Not Follow Rules
Spartans And NRA
Might not be possible to catch both more irony and ignorance in one photo. Note the shirt…
In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes demanded that the Spartans give up their weapons. King Leonidas responded with the phrase ???O? ???? (molon labe) which meant “Come and take them.” This led to the Battle of Thermopylae, in which a small group of Greek warriors held off a far superior group of Persians for three days.
Similarly, in 1831, the Mexican army gave a small piece of field artillery to settlers in Gonzales, Texas, to help them fend off Indian attacks. At the onset of the Texas Revolution, the Mexican army asked for the cannon back. In response, the settlers raised a homemade flag with an image of the weapon and the words “Come and Take It” emblazoned across it.
The twin phrases “molon labe” and “Come and Take It” have become synonymous with the promotion of the Second Amendment and other fundamental liberties. They are antithetical to the idea of unilateral disarmament.
Today, snowflakes across the country walked out of class to protest “gun violence” and demand new confiscatory gun laws. The poorly informed young woman in the photo was part of today’s Tide Pod Walkout. Note the slogan (and date) on her shirt, and the protest sign in her hands.
Seriously–this is the most ironic photo I’ve seen in a long time.
Book Burnings
Success
I saw a great video on Facebook of a youngster failing several times then succeeding at a box jump. It prompted me to think:
In order to succeed, one has to intend to succeed.
One has to be prepared to try and fail, perhaps often.
Trying build muscular strength.
If you let it, failure builds character.
With intention, strength and a strong character, much is possible.
Perhaps anything is.