Monthly Archives: December 2010
EMF Dangers Part 1
SERIOUS HEALTH WARNINGS, THIS IS A MUST HEAR INTERVIEW FOR EVERYONE!!
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage discussed the dangerous health effects of electro-magnetic fields (EMF) radiating from a variety of sources. Of particular
concern are the exponentially popular cell phones and cordless phones. Symptoms from EMF exposure include interrupted sleep, headaches, memory impairment, loss of concentration, dizziness, sinus
problems and tinnitus. There is also the increased risk of brain tumors and cancer, she warned.
Many people may have a chronic low level exposure to EMF even if they aren’t using equipment, through others’ cell phones, wireless devices, and WIFI– an “elecotromagnetic soup” that is kind of
like second hand smoke, she explained. To reduce risk, use a corded phone or speaker phone, Sage suggested.
She also spoke about problems associated with EMF from power lines, such as increased risk of childhood leukemia. The cost of ‘undergrounding’ lines is insignificant compared to the health issues,
she said, adding that more powerful transmission lines that aren’t practical to place underground, should be built away from populations. In addition to the BioInitiative Report, she recommended
the EMR Policy Institute as a good source for further information.
Unprecedented Flooding in Australia Strands 200,000
THE GREAT FLOOD OF OZ
Australia floods larger than France strand 200,000 – Dec 31, 7:12 AM (ET)
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) – Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in northeastern Australia as the prime minister promised new assistance Friday to the 200,000 people affected by waters covering an area larger than France and Germany combined. (Bigger then the state of Texas) Residents were stocking up on food or evacuating their homes as rising rivers inundated or isolated 22 towns in the state of Queensland.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard toured an evacuation center in the flood-stricken town of Bundaberg on Friday and announced that families whose homes had been flooded or damaged would be eligible for disaster relief payments of $1,000 per adult and $400 per child.
“My concern is for the people in these very difficult times,” Gillard said. A day earlier, she pledged $1 million Australian dollars (about $1 million) in federal aid to match a relief fund already set up by the state government.
Bundaberg resident Sandy Kiddle told Gillard she lost cherished items after floodwaters surged through her house. She said may not be able to return home for a week.
“It was just a sea of water, and I thought the beach would never come to our house,” she told Gillard, who gave her a hug.
Officials say half of Queensland’s 715,305 square miles (1,852,642 square kilometers) is affected by the relentless flooding, which began last week after days of pounding rain caused swollen rivers to overflow. The flood zone covers an area larger than France and Germany combined and bigger than the state of Texas.
While the rain has stopped, the rivers are still surging to new heights and overflowing into low-lying towns as the water makes its way toward the sea.
The muddy water inundating thousands of homes and businesses has led to a shortage of drinking water and raised fears of mosquito-borne disease.
“This is without a doubt a tragedy on an unprecedented scale,” Queensland Premier Anna Bligh told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Bligh warned that drenched communities could be stuck underwater for more than a week, and cleanup efforts were expected to cost billions of dollars.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101231/D9KESHH00.html
More wild, wacky weather updates…So California, N Dakota, Phoenix
Rare hurricane-strength 94 mph winds batter L.A. area; more snow and ice on way
December 30, 2010 | 7:06 am
December 30, 2010 | 7:06 am
A rare blast of hurricane-strength winds was topped by a 94 mph gust measured by the National Weather Service at 3:57 a.m. Thursday at Whitaker Peak.
Forecasters said the winds in valley and mountain areas will continue at least until noon Thursday. A wind warning for the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys is in place until then.
The weather service said in a statement that a northerly flow is producing the wind and icy conditions and “will continue to bring dangerous winter weather conditions” on Thursday, producing 1 to 2 inches of snow in some mountain passes and generating “upslope snow showers across the northern mountain slopes.”
The weather service said icy conditions can be expected along Interstate 5 and other mountain passes.
The snow level plunged to 2,000 feet, closing Interstate 15. Temperatures fell to 49 degrees in downtown L.A. and 19 degrees at Mt. Wilson.
The California Highway Patrol’s traffic website reported toppled trees throughout Los Angeles County, including along the 710 Freeway, and the interchanges of the 110 and 101, and 5 and 101 freeways.
Downed power lines have left thousands without power.
Here are some strong wind gusts clocked overnight.
Whitaker Peak: 81 mph
Pyramid Lake: 61 mph
Castiac Lake: 75 mph
Warm Springs: 75 mph
San Fernando: 71 mph
Santa Clarita: 61 mph
VIDEO: Blizzard Causes 100 Car Pileup in North Dakota…
UPDATED – 10:30AM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31
The Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Minnesota State Patrol will open Interstate 94 between Moorhead and Alexandria and Highway 10 between Moorhead and Detroit Lakes at 10:30 a.m.
Current driving conditions in west central Minnesota are still extremely difficult. Blowing and drifting snow and icy areas continue to cause reduced visibility and dangerous driving conditions. Motorists still need to use extreme caution when traveling throughout west central Minnesota.
Another storm system is forecasted to move into west central Minnesota this afternoon and motorists can expect deteriorating road conditions later this afternoon through Saturday morning. Mn/DOT and the Minnesota State Patrol will continue to monitor road conditions and, depending on the severity of the next forecasted storm, will determine whether roads will need to be closed later today.
UPDATED – 10:00AM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31
No travel is advised this morning in eastern North Dakota/west central Minnesota. Crews are having trouble clearing roads because of stuck vehicles. If you got caught driving on closed roads, you could face fines.
http://www.valleynewslive.com/Global/story.asp?S=13756689
NOW IT’S SNOWING — IN PHOENIX?
With plunging temperatures and lingering cloud cover, Valley residents caught a rare glimpse of what many thought were brief periods of snow flurries Thursday.
Sightings were reported in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Fountain Hills, Cave Creek, Carefree, Peoria, Glendale and Anthem, Apache Junction, Mesa and parts of Phoenix.
However, National Weather Service officials said that what people actually saw was a phenomenon called graupel — soft hail that freezes higher in the atmosphere and as it comes down, warms and melts a little, much like a snowflake.
Coast-to-Coast, October 5,2010
Fascinating interview, highly recommended and very informative! The interview begins at 9:45, at the end just click on the link in the upper left hand corner of the video to view parts 4-11 on YouTube.
British paranormal expert Richard Lawrence discussed ET contacts and communications, UFO disclosure, and ancient reports of UFOs. He spoke about various contactees such as George Adamski, and George King, who founded the Aetherius Society and channeled messages from benevolent ET beings or “Space Masters.” One of themes that runs across the various communications from ETs is the importance of spirituality throughout the universe, Lawrence noted.
King spoke about intelligences from within our solar system and multi-dimensional existences, while 1950s contactee Dan Fry said the beings he interacted with were from the past, specifically the civilization of Atlantis. In King’s book, The Nine Freedoms, he shares ET information about humankind’s evolution– one of the first evolutionary steps is bravery, to think outside of the standard conditioning, and another step is to become oriented toward service-to-others, rather than service-to-self.
Ancient Sanskrit texts refer to vimanas– flying celestial vehicles, which could “cause the entire sky to blaze.” Some of these writings specifically describe the propulsion systems, he added. A UFO incident that took place in 1180 AD in Japan concerned a shiny aerial object that changed directions, vanished, and reappeared. It was referred to as a “flying earthenware vessel, so the [term] ‘flying saucer’ was actually coined back in the 12th century,” Lawrence mused, adding that Alexander the Great and Columbus were also said to have UFO sightings.
Europe to ban hundreds of herbal remedies
Safety concerns sparked drive to outlaw products
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Thursday, 30 December 2010
EPA
Chinese herbal medicinal product
Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a “discriminatory and disproportionate” European law.
With four months to go before the EU-wide ban is implemented, thousands of patients face the loss of herbal remedies that have been used in the UK for decades.
From 1 May 2011, traditional herbal medicinal products must be licensed or prescribed by a registered herbal practitioner to comply with an EU directive passed in 2004. The directive was introduced in response to rising concern over adverse effects caused by herbal medicines.
The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued more than a dozen safety alerts in the past two years, including one over aristolochia, a banned toxic plant derivative which caused kidney failure in two women.
Herbal practitioners say it is impossible for most herbal medicines to meet the licensing requirements for safety and quality, which are intended to be similar to those for pharmaceutical drugs, because of the cost of testing.
According to the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), which represents herbal practitioners, not a single product used in traditional Chinese medicine or ayurvedic medicine has been licensed. In Europe, around 200 products from 27 plant species have been licensed but there are 300 plant species in use in the UK alone.
The ANH estimates the cost of obtaining a licence at between £80,000 and £120,000 per herb. They say this is affordable for single herbal products with big markets, such as echinacea, a remedy for colds and flu, but will drive small producers of medicines containing multiple herbs out of business.
Under EU law, statutorily regulated herbal practitioners will be permitted to continue prescribing unlicensed products. But the Coalition Government and the previous Labour administration have delayed plans to introduce a statutory herbal practitioner register.
This means thousands of patients who rely on herbal treatments face being denied access to them. Medical organisations, including the MHRA, have warned the measures may drive patients to obtain herbal medicines over the internet – where risks are much greater.
Michael McIntyre, the chairman of the European Herbal and Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association, said: “The problem is you can’t get a licence for many herbal medicines because they are grown in people’s back gardens and you can’t patent them. The implications are very serious. Patients want to receive treatment from trained and qualified practitioners but unless we have regulation they can’t have confidence in who is treating them. The worst outcome is that patients will end up going to the internet for their herbal medicines where there are no controls.”
Dr Rob Verkerk, of the ANH, said: “Thousands of people across Europe rely on herbal medicines to improve their quality of life. They don’t take them because they are sick – they take them to keep healthy. If these medicines are taken off the market, people will try and find them elsewhere, such as from the internet, where there is a genuine risk they will get low quality products, that either don’t work or are adulterated.”
The MHRA said it had received applications for licences for 166 herbal products, of which 78 had been granted. Sir Alasdair Breckenridge, chairman of the MHRA, said a register of herbalists was essential. “Just because something is natural doesn’t mean it is safe,” he said. “It is terribly important to have responsible people who have undergone training prescribing these products.”
Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at the University of Exeter, said proposals for regulation would be worthless unless they required practitioners to follow best evidence for the effects of their remedies. “It is in danger of regulating nonsense – and that must result in nonsense,” he said.
A review of the codes of conduct by which alternative practitioners were bound found the “vast majority” did not include an obligation to report adverse effects, he said. The only exception was the Chinese Herbal Medicine Code which advised members to report “cases of industrial poisoning or accident”.
A spokesman for the Department of Health said no decision had been made on a statutory register of herbal practitioners. “The Government is aware of the strength of feeling on this issue and is actively exploring options.”
Remedies under threat
Cascara bark (Cascara sagrada, Rhamnus purshiana)
Helps stimulate a sluggish bowel.
Pau D’Arco (Tabebuia impetiginosa)
Anti-inflammatory, used for infection control.
Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera, or winter cherry)
Anti-inflammatory, for arthritis and boosting the immune system.
Skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis/Chinese skullcap)
For anxiety, headaches and pain relief.
Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)
For stomach acidity, diarrhoea, headache.
Horny goat weed (Epimedium grandiflorum)
Used to enhance libido.
BREAKING NEWS – STRANGE PHENOMENON in Michigan – Earth Opens up!
Northern Ireland Faces Mounting Water Crisis
Frustration and fears of disease mounted in Northern Ireland on Wednesday as 36,000 people were left without water, some for more than a week, after a deep freeze and a sudden thaw caused aging pipes to burst.
With reservoirs running low, water supplies were cut off in many towns and cities, and residents turned to emergency water tankers and bottled water for their cooking, cleaning and drinking needs.
“It’s been a nightmare,” said James Lawson, a resident in Lisburn, near Belfast, who has gone without water for 13 days. “You can’t wash, you can’t eat because you can’t wash your dishes. I think it’s a fiasco,” he told the BBC.
Scotland said it was sending 160,000 liters (42,000 gallons) of bottled water to help meet demand.
Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, called the situation “a grave crisis,” and said people had been let down by their water supplier.
The Northern Ireland government scheduled an emergency meeting for Thursday to discuss the crisis.
Doctors warned of potential disease outbreaks if water was not restored, but officials said it would take several days or more to bring back all service.
“This may go on for another short period but we are doing our best to keep it as short as possible to get those reservoir levels up and provide water to our customers,” said Liam Mulholland, of Northern Ireland Water.
He said the shortage had been aggravated by burst pipes in vacant properties spewing water as technicians try to trace and repair the problem.
The water company’s website listed some 80 towns and cities with disrupted water supplies and advised customers where to find emergency supplies.
There was also substantial flooding in Northern Ireland, with some floodwaters contaminated by sewage, raising public health concerns.
Alison McCrystal, spokeswoman for the water company, urged consumers not to wash their cars, hose down their properties or do “anything unnecessary” to waste water during the shortfall.
She said emergency crews were working around the clock to restore service and ease fears that contaminated water could lead to a disease outbreak.
McCrystal also pleaded for people with empty properties or businesses to check that their pipes were intact and their water turned off to prevent more wastage.
Some families have not had fresh running water for eight days, with officials predicting it will take several more days to restore normal service.
“People with young families have not been able to flush toilets and wash themselves, never mind get access to drinking water,” said Dr. Peter Maguire, a general practitioner. “It’s just not good enough. What’s happening is really not acceptable.”
Many cities have made leisure and recreation centers available to the public so they can use bathroom facilities and have a place to do washing.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132434122
Polar bears get the better of spy camera’s!
This is great, enjoy!
