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Copenhagen Climate Summit: 1,200 Limos, 140 Private Planes

December 7, 2009
Telegraph

By Andrew Gilligan

On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.

“We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” she says. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”

Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”

And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? “Five,” says Ms Jorgensen. “The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don’t have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it’s very Danish.”

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

As well 15,000 delegates and officials, 5,000 journalists and 98 world leaders, the Danish capital will be blessed by the presence of Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, Helena Christensen, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prince Charles. A Republican US senator, Jim Inhofe, is jetting in at the head of an anti-climate-change “Truth Squad.” The top hotels – all fully booked at £650 a night – are readying their Climate Convention menus of (no doubt sustainable) scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges.

At the takeaway pizza end of the spectrum, Copenhagen’s clean pavements are starting to fill with slightly less well-scrubbed protesters from all over Europe. In the city’s famous anarchist commune of Christiania this morning, among the hash dealers and heavily-graffitied walls, they started their two-week “Climate Bottom Meeting,” complete with a “storytelling yurt” and a “funeral of the day” for various corrupt, “heatist” concepts such as “economic growth”.

The Danish government is cunningly spending a million kroner (£120,000) to give the protesters KlimaForum, a “parallel conference” in the magnificent DGI-byen sports centre. The hope, officials admit, is that they will work off their youthful energies on the climbing wall, state-of-the-art swimming pools and bowling alley, Just in case, however, Denmark has taken delivery of its first-ever water-cannon – one of the newspapers is running a competition to suggest names for it – plus sweeping new police powers. The authorities have been proudly showing us their new temporary prison, 360 cages in a disused brewery, housing 4,000 detainees.

And this being Scandinavia, even the prostitutes are doing their bit for the planet. Outraged by a council postcard urging delegates to “be sustainable, don’t buy sex,” the local sex workers’ union – they have unions here – has announced that all its 1,400 members will give free intercourse to anyone with a climate conference delegate’s pass. The term “carbon dating” just took on an entirely new meaning.

At least the sex will be C02-neutral. According to the organisers, the eleven-day conference, including the participants’ travel, will create a total of 41,000 tonnes of “carbon dioxide equivalent”, equal to the amount produced over the same period by a city the size of Middlesbrough.

The temptation, then, is to dismiss the whole thing as a ridiculous circus. Many of the participants do not really need to be here. And far from “saving the world,” the world’s leaders have already agreed that this conference will not produce any kind of binding deal, merely an interim statement of intent.

Instead of swift and modest reductions in carbon – say, two per cent a year, starting next year – for which they could possibly be held accountable, the politicians will bandy around grandiose targets of 80-per-cent-plus by 2050, by which time few of the leaders at Copenhagen will even be alive, let alone still in office.

Even if they had agreed anything binding, past experience suggests that the participants would not, in fact, feel bound by it. Most countries – Britain excepted – are on course to break the modest pledges they made at the last major climate summit, in Kyoto.

And as the delegates meet, they do so under a shadow. For the first time, not just the methods but the entire purpose of the climate change agenda is being questioned. Leaked emails showing key scientists conspiring to fix data that undermined their case have boosted the sceptic lobby. Australia has voted down climate change laws. Last week’s unusually strident attack by the Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, on climate change “saboteurs” reflected real fear in government that momentum is slipping away from the cause.

In Copenhagen there was a humbler note among some delegates. “If we fail, one reason could be our overconfidence,” said Simron Jit Singh, of the Institute of Social Ecology. “Because we are here, talking in a group of people who probably agree with each other, we can be blinded to the challenges of the other side. We feel that we are the good guys, the selfless saviours, and they are the bad guys.”

February 9, 2010

Dear Reader,

Taking away our freedoms is not Patriotic. In fact, there is nothing more un-American.

The badly misnamed Patriot Act is not the Act of Patriots. It is the act of petty tyrants seeking more and more power and control over our country.

Now, ever so quietly, the Obama administration is working with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to sneak reauthorization of the Patriot Act through without creating a stir among liberty-minded Americans.

Well, I’m for making a stir. A BIG STIR.

How about you?

We’ve all heard the defenses. How the Patriot Act was needed to combat “terrorism.” How it would not be used against U.S. citizens.

How it would not be abused.

These lies have all been clearly exposed. For eight years, the American people have ignored the wisdom of our founding fathers and traded freedom for security – and as predicted, we are losing both as a result.

And now, Congress and the White House are set to reauthorize the so-called Patriot Act.

They have until the end of this month to act. Even talk about a window-dressing “reform” bill has stopped. The Mainstream Media, fixated on Obama and tea party rallies, doesn’t say a word about it.

Frankly, you and I know the Patriot Act should be scrapped, or at least massively re-written to block federal snoops from casting fishing nets over the lives, histories and data of hard-working Americans.

Unless you and I act today, however, this won’t happen. . .

. . . and the Patriot Act will be reauthorized for another five years or more without hardly a peep or a dissent.

The weak link for the snoop-state insiders remains the U.S. Senate — where one Big Government boondoggle after another has been bottled up or defeated.

But my contacts in the Senate say there’s not hardly a peep of opposition to the Patriot Act being heard right now. They say they are willing to fight — some even admit privately it was a mistake supporting it the first time when President Bush demanded it in the midst of the outrage following the 9/11 attacks.

But no one will take this on unless there is a shout of opposition from the American people.

If we do not stop this reauthorization, we’ll see a whole lot more of what we’ve gotten over the last eight years:

*** Federal and State law enforcement on fishing expeditions, searching telephone, email, medical, financial, and other records looking for a needle in a haystack – and abridging the freedom of law abiding citizens everywhere.

*** Warrantless searches and roving wiretaps, paying telephone providers for access to TRILLIONS of phone records and ignoring Fourth Amendment protections.

*** Broad powers for the Treasury Department and Immigrations Department to rewrite regulations, access records, and conduct proceedings in secret.

*** Holding American citizens in violation of their constitutional rights simply because someone in the government has declared them an “enemy combatant.”

*** Vast amounts of electronic data on virtually every American swept up by insider arrangements and purchases from phone companies, airlines and other businesses afraid to say no to a government “request.”

As you well know, this isn’t some conspiracy theory. This is happening all around us.

And you and I can help put a stop to it today.

One of the most egregious abuses of the Constitution, using the Patriot Act as its basis, is so-called National Security letters, used commonly by the FBI.

It has been estimated that the FBI has used these NSLs – which allow access to records WITHOUT any court or search warrant – at least 50,000 times since 2001.

Just one example, noted in BusinessWeek in 2005, showed that the FBI had issued tens of thousands of NSLs and had obtained one million financial, credit, employment, and health records from the customers of targeted Las Vegas businesses. Selected businesses included casinos, storage warehouses and car rental agencies.

And that’s just one case.

Our federal government is out of control, and every day we see it attempting to abridge more of our constitutional rights.

We know they’d take away our Second Amendment rights in a heartbeat if they could, and we must also remain vigilant to this threat.

They’re spending us and our children into poverty, with crushing trillion dollar deficits.

And they’re allowing the out of control Fed to ruin the dollar and push forward toward the collapse of our currency and way of life.

All of these are vital fights.

But none are more critical at the moment than taking back our freedoms from the statists and power-hungry federal thugs who use the Patriot Act to dig into every aspect of American lives under the false pretense of making us safer.

We cannot be a free nation and have this un-American law on the books.

Liberty-minded Americans from the left and the right are outraged. But outrage alone won’t be enough. Every single one of us must take action today.

Campaign for Liberty has a three point plan to get as many senators as possible to vote against the Patriot Act:

** Your Petitions, and hundreds of thousands like them, will be delivered to the Senate, showing the tidal wave of opposition to the Patriot Act. You can sign by clicking HERE.

** Editorials and Op-Eds across the country to help swing the tide of public opinion to oppose this dangerous abuse of power.

** TV and Radio Ads in targeted states. As you may recall, our program has helped keep Socialized medicine from becoming a reality.

Public pressure works. Think of the agenda items that are stalled in Congress in no small part due to pressure from outraged citizens. Socialized Medicine. Big Labor’s Card Check. Gun grabbing bills. You name it; we’re beating it back.

The time is now to turn our attention to stopping the Patriot Act in its tracks.

The issue already became hot enough that the Senate could only muster a 60 day extension of the bill because of the threat of a Senate filibuster back in December. But now the politicians think all is clear. There is silence on this issue.

Well, I think it’s time for them to hear us loud and clear.

Remember, the statists need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. We can and must win this fight.

Please join us and help Campaign for Liberty win this fight by signing your Petition and by making a contribution today.

In Liberty,

John Tate
President

Herbal Treatment for Preventing Colds and Flu

by Dr. Richard Schulze

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Will you get a Cold or Flu this Winter? The odds are YES! The Average American Gets 2.8 colds a year. Don’t just sit there sneezing and sniffling. Do something about it!

Are antibiotics the answer? Medical Alert! Last September, the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that Antibiotics have little or no benefit for Colds, Upper Respiratory Tract Infections or Bronchitis. JAMA went on to say the high rate of antibiotic prescribing has even backfired, causing an increase of new harmful drug resistant strains of bacteria.

Doctors continue to write over 12 million prescriptions per year for these drugs, knowing that they are not effective. Some doctors claim that “patient expectations” are the cause of this drug prescription abuse. It seems that doctors are handing out ineffective and dangerous drugs instead of educating the patient.

Prevention
The only real way to prevent colds and flu and fight off infection is to have a strong immune system. Curing diseases with drugs often results in a recurrence of the same problem later, because the real cause of the disease wasn’t addressed. Worse, because drugs can cause disease organisms to concentrate and mutate (creating resistant strains of pathogens), the disease or infection often recurs with a vengeance. This proves the old saying,

“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”

The only true cure for anything is the one your body creates when you live a healthy lifestyle and prevent disease before it starts. We need a strong, healthy and protecting immune system.

The Herbal Dynamic Duo: Echinacea and Garlic
I spent 20 years in the clinic working with thousands of patients who had a cold or influenza. I witnessed firsthand the effectiveness of Echinacea on a daily basis.

Echinacea (pronounced ek-eh-na-see-a) is both the common name and the botanical Latin name for the plant. There are eight known species which are indigenous only to the United States, although it is now cultivated all over the world. The most common species of Echinacea used today are Echinacea angustifolia, Echinacea purpurea and Echinacea pallida. Although the root is typically the part of the plant that is used, the entire plant including the seeds, leaves, flower head and stalk are medicinally competent. It is in the same family as the sunflower and looks like a purple petaled smaller cousin. It grows wild in many areas of the Midwest and southern United States. The Echinacea purpurea species can easily be grown in a sunny spot in your backyard.

What makes a plant medicinally effective for treating disease? It’s the chemicals in the plant, referred to as phytochemicals (phyto from the Greek word meaning plant). Echinacea contains many phytochemicals such as Polysaccharides, Isobutyl amides, Polyacetylenes, Cichoric Acid, Echinacoside, Cynarin, etc. These chemicals are known to cause the following preventive and disease fighting physiological responses.

* Hyaluronidase inhibition—this protects your cells by stopping bacteria, viruses and other disease causing organisms from being able to penetrate the cell wall.
* Stimulates and increases the number of leukocytes (white blood cells)—These cells (T-cells, B-cells, Granulocytes, Macrophages, etc.) are some of the main components of your immune system. They fight off invaders in many ways.
* Increases phagocytosis—the ability of the above mentioned leukocytes to destroy and dispose of bacteria, viruses, fungus and other disease causing microbes.
* Increases production of gamma globulins—these are the chemicals that coat the B-cells and are used to make antibodies. Antibodies are chemicals that kill specific bacteria, virus and other pathogens that make you sick.

There are hundreds of other known healing and protecting abilities of Echinacea besides colds, flu, sore throats and upper respiratory infections. A partial list includes inhibiting tumor growth, killing strep and staph bacteria, halting urinary tract infections, healing infected wounds, relieving hives and allergic reactions, stopping allergies, neutralizing toxic and poisonous insect and animal bites and stings, etc.

Garlic is the common name for the Latin botanical name Allium sativum. The medicinal usage of Garlic has been documented, if not worshipped, since the beginning of recorded history. From the Egyptians and Greeks to the Romans, Garlic was used as both food and strong medicine to strengthen and heal the body.

Why Garlic instead of Goldenseal root? The answer is, there really is no contest. Goldenseal is a much milder antibacterial bitter herb. Goldenseal contains phytochemical alkaloids that are moderately antibacterial. I’m a big fan of Goldenseal. It is wonderful for use on bacterial infections of the eyes, and mucous membranes of the sinus and throat. It is still a main component in my herbal eyewash, herbal sinus snuff and gargle. It is a wonderful herbal antibacterial that you can use on sensitive areas of the body. But compared to Garlic? GET REAL!

Garlic is one of the strongest medicinal plants on Earth. It can be diluted down to one part in 125,000 and still be effective. In fact, just the odor has proven to be highly antibacterial. It is an extremely effective and a powerful broad-spectrum antibiotic, killing all types of bacteria on contact. Garlic is so esteemed in Russia it has been nicknamed “Russian penicillin.”

Garlic, as an anti-bacterial, has been proven to destroy many types of bacteria including Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Typhoid, Diphtheria, Cholera, E. coli, Bacterial Dysentery, Tuberculosis, Tetanus, Rheumatic bacteria, and others.

Pharmaceutical antibiotics are non-selective in their destruction of bacteria— they just destroy it all. This creates many problems because our body has many so-called friendly bacteria that we need for proper metabolic functions. This is why many people, after a course of antibiotics, have digestive problems, constipation, and yeast and fungal overgrowth infections. Our bodies also become immune to these antibiotics over time and sometimes dangerous resistant strains of bacteria are actually created in our body. None of these problems exist when using Garlic because of its natural selective bacterial destruction. In fact, the use of Garlic over time has been proven to enhance the intestinal micro flora.

Garlic has also been proven in the laboratory to be a very powerful anti-viral agent. Many doctors feel it’s the cure for the common cold. It destroys various viruses that cause upper respiratory infections and influenza. Garlic destroys on contact such viral infections as Measles, Mumps, Mononucleosis, Chicken pox, Herpes simplex #1 and #2, Herpes zoster, Viral Hepatitis, Scarlet fever, Rabies and others. So while some say that the reason you don’t catch colds when you eat Garlic is because no one will come near you, remember, Garlic is also a powerful anti-viral agent.

Garlic’s potent anti-fungal ability is second to none. In the laboratory it has proven to be more potent than most any known anti-fungal drug. Garlic will regulate the overgrowth of Candida albicans.

Garlic thins both red and white blood cells. It is a known fact that most viruses, including the common cold, grow faster and spread from cell to cell more easily when your white blood is thick. Garlic inhibits white blood cells from aggregating which, in turn, stops the advance of a cold or flu.

Echinacea and Garlic: A One – Two Punch for the Common Cold
O.K., so what do we know now? Echinacea will enhance, stimulate and strengthen your immune system to protect you from any attack. If you do get attacked, Garlic will destroy the invader on sight.

So, you may ask, why are almost all the Echinacea products in the health food stores mixed with Goldenseal? Why does the herbal world seem to prefer Goldenseal? All I can say is that there is a difference between what is popular in the herbal product sales world and what is effective in the clinic. A few years ago there were a couple of herbal tonics that mixed Echinacea with Goldenseal that got a lot of attention/hype and therefore a lot of popularity. When this happens, almost all of the other herbal product companies follow suit immediately, even if they know better, to catch the sales wave, like what is recently happening with St. John’s Wort.

In the clinic, fighting real disease in real patients is very different from the reality of marketing herbal products. Working in the clinical trenches for 20 years taught me to never lose sight of my primary focus: To Help My Patients Get Well. I used what worked and threw out the herbal theories, hypotheses and fads that didn’t.

There is one more reason to move over to Garlic: Goldenseal is in very short supply. It is on many endangered species lists. Most conscious herbalists have agreed not to use it until it is organically cultivated and available. That will be in a few more years.

Echinacea and Garlic: How to Use Them
The Raw Herb: Echinacea root and Garlic bulb, fresh or dried, can be chewed and eaten raw.

Chew a one inch piece of Echinacea root every waking hour or two. This will make your mouth tingle a lot and take you awhile to pulverize it enough to swallow.

Herbal capsules made from dried and powdered herbs are considered by most clinical herbalists, myself included, to be the least effective way to treat patients. In fact, they often don’t work at all.

With Garlic, I don’t know if there is a limit. The only sign of overdose is gastric upset and maybe a loss of all your friends.

Don’t be a wimp! Last year I received a letter from an elderly woman who was dying from a viral lung infection. She’d had the condition for over a year and all the doctors and drugs had not helped her. The doctors gave her only weeks left to live. She read an article I wrote on Garlic and immediately consumed 47 cloves of raw garlic a day for three days. Shortly thereafter, her so-called incurable viral respiratory infection was gone. By the way, she was 83 years old.

Herbal Tea: Simmer a heaping tablespoon of fresh Echinacea root and a level teaspoon of fresh Garlic bulb in 20 ounces of distilled water. Cool and drink this amount three times daily.

Tinctures: These preparations are very popular amongst clinical herbalists and are, without exception, the strongest, most concentrated, fastest acting way to use herbs. Echinacea tincture is one of the easiest ways to treat a cold and flu. If you want to make your own tincture, just call the toll free number at the end of this article and I will send you free instructions. Be careful when purchasing tinctures: most on the market are of poor quality and will be of little benefit to you.

The tincture dosages I recommend are double what most armchair herbalists suggest, but these are the dosages that created successful healings in my clinic year after year. Echinacea must be taken steadily over a period of about one week for maximum immune protection. You must have a certain amount of the phytochemicals in your bloodstream every day to get maximum results and to supercharge your immune system.

* For preventive immune boosting with no current health problems—Use two dropperfuls, about 60 drops, five times daily until you have consumed two fluid ounces or 60 milliliters. This will take about seven days. Do this at the beginning of each month for the best prevention.
* You have that “uh-oh” feeling, “no specific symptoms but I think I’m coming down with something.”—Use four dropperfuls, about 120 drops, five times daily until you have consumed two fluid ounces or 60 milliliters. This will take three to four days. Start immediately.
* Onset of Fever, Chills or any of the symptoms of a Cold or Flu—Use four dropperfuls, about 120 drops, eight times daily (or every other waking hour) until you have consumed two fluid ounces or 60 milliliters. This will take about two days. You may continue this dosage for a week and then reduce it.
* High Fever, Sore Throat, Yellow Mucous, Coughing, Sneezing—Use four dropperfuls, about 120 drops, every hour you are awake (about 16 times a day) until you have consumed two fluid ounces or 60 milliliters. This will take about one day. You may do this for two to three days before you lower your dose.

Note: There are no toxic side effects with Echinacea and no known over dosage. Although health circle rumors abound that if you take too much Echinacea or for too long a period of time you could burn out your immune system, I don’t believe them. Over the years in my clinic I had many an Echinacea junkie and never saw one case of a depressed immunity because of their habit—but I did see patients not getting well from not taking enough.

On the other hand, Echinacea is a strong medicinal herb. All medicinal herbs are best used for a period of time and then stopped for a week or two. When a person needs to use an herb indefinitely because the symptoms persist, this is often a sign that the patient is hoping the herb will be a natural “magic bullet.” The person may not be correcting the underlying causes of their disease by changing their lifestyle, their food program, doing frequent elimination and detoxifying programs, engaging in movement programs and emotional healing. Remember, herbs are but one healing tool in a full spectrum healthy lifestyle.

Dr. Schulze is one of the foremost authorities on Alternative Healing and Herbal Medicine in the world today. He operated an Alternative Medical Clinic for 20 years. During the last decade of his practice, he worked almost exclusively with patients who had life threatening and so-called “incurable” diseases. To order audiotapes, videotapes and books from Dr. Schulze, call Toll Free (877) Teach Me – (877) 832-2463. Mention this article to receive a Free Patient Handbook.

ONIONS — Who Would’ve Thought?

-Was sent this in an e-mail very interesting!-

ONIONS

In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people, there was a Doctor who visited many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu. Many of the farmers and their family had contracted it, and many died.
The doctor came upon one farmer, and to his surprise, everyone in the household was very healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different, the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor couldn’t believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one, and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser in AZ. She said that several years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick. It must work… (And no, she is not in the onion business.)

The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your desk or even on top somewhere. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year, and we never got the flu.

If this helps you and your loved ones from getting sick, all the better. If you do get the flu, it just might be a mild case….Whatever, what have you to lose? Just a few bucks on onions!!!

Now there is a P.S.. to this, for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly contributes material to me on health issues. She replied with this most interesting experience about onions: Thanks for the reminder. I don’t know about the farmer’s story…but I do know that I contracted pneumonia, and needless to say I was very ill. I came across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion. Put one end on a fork, and then place the forked end into an empty jar…placing the jar next to the sick patient at night. It said the onion would be black in the morning from the germs. Sure enough, it happened just like that…the onion was a mess, and I began to feel better.

Another thing I read in the article was that onions and garlic placed around the room saved many from the black plague years ago. They have powerful antibacterial, antiseptic properties.

This is the other note: LEFTOVER ONIONS ARE POISONOUS! I have used an onion which has been left in the fridge. Sometimes I don’t use a whole one at one time, so I save the other half for later.. Now with this info, I have changed my mind. I will buy smaller onions in the future.

I had the wonderful privilege of touring Mullins Food Products, makers of mayonnaise. Mullins is huge, and is owned by 11 brothers and sisters in the Mullins family. My friend, Jeanne, is the CEO. Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what I learned from a chemist. The guy who gave us our tour is named Ed.. He’s one of the brothers. Ed is a chemistry expert and is involved in developing most of the sauce formula. He’s even developed sauce formula for McDonald’s. Keep in mind that Ed is a food chemistry whiz.

During the tour, someone asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed’s answer will surprise you. Ed said that all commercially-made mayo is completely safe. “It doesn’t even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but it’s not really necessary.” He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment. He then talked about the quintessential picnic, with the bowl of potato salad sitting on the table and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone gets sick.

Ed says that when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials look for is when the ‘victim’ last ate ONIONS and where those onions came from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it’s not the mayonnaise (as long as it’s not homemade mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It’s probably the onions, and if not the onions, it’s the POTATOES.

He explained, onions are a huge magnet for bacteria, especially uncooked onions.. You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion. He says it’s not even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator.

It’s already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit, that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you put on your hotdogs at the baseball park!)
Ed says if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you’ll probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put it on your sandwich, you’re asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist potato in a potato salad will attract and grow bacteria faster than any commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

So, how’s that for news? Take it for what you will. I (the author) am going to be very careful about my onions from now on. For some reason, I see a lot of credibility coming from a chemist and a company that produces millions of pounds of mayonnaise every year.

Also, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions.

Please remember it is dangerous to cut onions and try to use it to cook the next day. It becomes highly poisonous for even a single night and creates toxic bacteria which may cause adverse stomach infections because of excess bile secretions and even food poisoning.

This post was created by: Zeldaphin @ Zeldaphin.WordPress.Com

-This post has some great history behind Paganism & Wicca, just thought those who visit would enjoy to read this – (Nate)

I’ve started writing about Wicca because it is probably the easiest Pagan faith to study the origins of.

If you are new to Paganism and maybe you’ve just stumbled onto this blog, then it is important to dispel the common misconception that Wicca is centuries old. Those who research Wicca, either just in passing or to begin practicing it, discover fairly early on that Wicca is a 20th Century creation, which I assume many mistake for the Christian-era Pagan witches, or so-called “Witch Cults”.

I want to be as detailed and precise as I possibly can, as this information is fairly hard to find online in a complete form. Wikipedia used to have a fairly extensive chunk of info. on it, but it has since been highly condensed by the vigilantes who run the place.

Please do drop me an email if you notice anything blatantly inaccurate that I’ve included in the post! zeldaphin@gmail.com

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In 1921, Margaret Murray published a book entitled The Witch-Cult in Western Europe. In her book, she theorised that a cult spanning across western Europe was practicing a form of a pre-Christian religion and theorised that it had survived the Christianisation of Europe and the witch-hunts by practicing in intense secrecy and handing knowledge down through families. This theory has become widely known as the Witch-Cult Hypothesis.

(Just to note: this hypothesis does not describe Wicca – I’m setting the scene…)

Murray’s claims were largely scoffed at by critics and academics alike for her apparent complete lack of evidence as to the claim. This does seem to be the case, as Murray’s book was based upon a tiny amount of documentation copied from archives and records of witch trials.

She followed this up with a second book in 1933, in which she appears to describe an engraving from the Gundestrup Cauldron, an artifact found in Denmark in 1891 which dates back to around 50 BCE. The cauldron depicts a horned figure surrounded by animals and nature, which Murray theorised to be a pre-Christian God, possibly of the nature-based religion described in her hypothesis of 1921. This depiction is now famously considered throughout the Pagan and Neopagan community to depict the Celtic god Cernunnos or the Horned God.

Again, her theories were viewed with overwhelming scepticism.

(Begin the part that many Wiccans have probably heard a million times:)

Five years later in 1938, a retired British civil servant, writer and occultist named Gerald Gardner returned to England from abroad, where he had spent much of his life and work. When threat of what would later become the Second World War began to escalate, Gardner and his wife moved from their flat in London to the small town of Highcliffe in the New Forest area of Hampshire in southern England.

After some time living in the town, Gardner became fond of a local theatre society and its performances. The society was known as the Rosicrucian Theatre.

In 1939, Gardner became friends with several people from the group who ran the theatre, an occult society based on Rosicrucianism (best known as having influenced Freemasonry, among other things). It was, in essence, a secret society and this is possibly what attracted Gardner to it, being interested in such things himself. He joined the group, hoping to speak to and learn from a group of intelligent people within the occult community.

The leader of the group, who called himself Aurelius, claimed to be reincarnated from Pythagoras, Cornelius Agrippa and Francis Bacon. Gardner famously asked him with sarcasm if he was also the “Wandering Jew” and was heavily sceptical of the group, especially when its High Priestess “predicted” that war would not come, only to be proved wrong the very next day.

After some time within the group, Gardner began to sense that there were some within the society who did not agree with the views of the society as a whole. A small amount of people within the society who, unlike the others, Gardner said “had to earn their livings, were cheerful and optimistic and had a real interest in the occult”.

Gardner naturally became close to this group of people, possibly because he valued their views on the occult more than the others, or possibly because he was already interested that there seemed to be a secret group within a secret group.

His personal theory that these people were a part of a sub-group were confirmed when he was taken to the home of a woman known as “Old Dorothy” Clutterbuck in September 1939 and initiated into the group through a ritual in which he was made to strip naked. This group is what Gardner called The New Forest Coven.

It is widely believed by Wiccans that this was a surviving pre-Christian nature-based religion, much like those described by Margaret Murray in 1921. If the New Forest Coven was indeed what Gardner believed it to be, then this seemed to prove Murray’s theory to an extent.

It is also widely believed by Wiccans to be the group who famously were said to have summoned a Cone of Power at the southern coast of Hampshire, to turn Hitler and his armies away from the shores of the country.

Apart from Dorothy Clutterbuck, it is thought that the following were members of the group: Edith-Woodford Grimes (named “Dafo” by Gardner in his books), children’s author Katherine Oldmeadow, Ernie Mason, Susie Mason, Rosetta Fudge and Golden Dawn member Rosamund Sabine, who is widely thought to have been the group’s High Priestess.

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The so called “New Forest Coven” is both a hazy and unclear part of the history of Wicca and a subject of much debate. Little evidence has been found that confirms the existence of such a group and the only first-person account we have is that of Gardner, who is known to have bent the truth at times (for example, he claimed to have doctorate degrees from both the Universities of Singapore and Toulouse, both of which were proved false).

Some believe that the group never existed and that Gardner fabricated the entire story. Despite this, records have been found that describe one “Dorothy Clutterbuck” (and a few others described by Gardner) living in the New Forest at the time. Most Wiccans seem not to accept this theory as a result. It is however highly unlikely that the group called themselves the New Forest Coven, or that they even referred to their collective as a “coven” at all.

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During his initiation, Gardner heard the word “wica”, which he knew to be an Old English word describing witchcraft, which is ultimately where the term Wicca came from.

Details of Gardner’s time in the group are very scarce. It is thought that the group was apparently growing uneasy about Gardner’s attempts to gain media attention for the tradition as well as the occult in general (remember that Britain still had the Witchcraft Act at this time), although evidence of this is, once again, scarce.

In 1946, Garner broke away from the New Forest group and moved to Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, where he form his own group (which he did call a coven) with Dafo as its High Priestess.

What Gardner and his coven adhered to from this point, was seemingly Gardner’s own “cocktail” of traditions, which took the (apparently) pre-Christian teachings of the New Forest group and combined it with ritualistic practices inspired by Rosicrucianism and Co-Freemasonry as well as some general New Age practices. This was the very beginning of Wicca (although it was not known by this term until years later) and was the primary and first Gardnerian or British Traditional coven, spawning such important personalities as Doreen Valiente (who was High Priestess for some time).

Following Gardner’s death in 1964, 1956 initiate Jack Bracelin took over and was High Priest for a while before stepping down. It is not known who took over from him and their activities were last noted in the 70s. The coven is still active today.

The New Forest group, after Gardner’s departure, sunk back into secrecy and its activities or whereabouts have not been known since then.

The group who inspired Wicca may still be practicing today. Who knows?

Great music by Scar Symmetry with their new singers – just as epic before. I’m sure you’ll agree.

Noumenon And Phenomenon

Enter the imagination, explore the dreamlike plains
And know the things will never be the same again
Confide- begin the initiation, an offer to dream and drift away
Abide- as you go clarity will descend upon the vague

Unobserved I am the noumenon
Hidden out of sight, I’m the elusive one
While observed I’m the phenomenon
Miracle in sight, distorting concepts of minds

That’s where ideas will never cease to roam (dream and drift away)
And where impressions never cease to flow (follow)

Resist- defy every calculation of reason explaining me away
Persist- unfold what is beyond, I am the mutant strain

Unobserved I am the noumenon
Hidden out of sight, I’m the elusive one
While observed I’m the phenomenon
Miracle in sight, distorting concepts of minds

That’s where ideas will never cease to roam (dream and drift away)
And where impressions never cease to flow (follow)

I deny faithseekers who seek spaces within
Their cause and quest forsaken
You can’t find what is already here

And as you dream of rain, on earth it falls
Balanced internally, all things become entwined

Unobserved I am the noumenon
Hidden out of sight, I’m the elusive one
While observed I’m the phenomenon
Miracle in sight, distorting concepts of minds

That’s where ideas will never cease to roam (dream and drift away)
And where impressions never cease to flow (follow)
When unobserved I am the noumenon, I am the mutant strain
And while observed I’m the phenomenon, unveiled

And as you dream of rain, on earth it falls
Balanced internally, all things become entwined

Indigo Children

by: Simranjeet Singh

A quick overview of Indigo Children

These unique individuals have been around since the late 1970’s and ever since becoming more and more frequent. As I read now about what an Indigo Child is I’m seeing myself the qualities are also forming in myself and many others in the world – well what are these qualities?

They say on many different sites and books that these unique individuals are of a nature that would be considered what some people are calling “Christ Consciousness” and they are imbued with talents and knowledge that seems to surpass those around them at an increasing speed every year. Those who write and speak about Indigo Children are becoming more and more well-known through out the world with even an occasion of ABC reporting on them, although in the popular ABC clip it does seem they try to bend the perception about these children. Usually this is how it goes with news and media sources, it’s not uncommon for them to debunk or mis-represent in a manner that moves the idea away from future reports.

But as they report, they are psychic, knowledgeable & very creative! The more skeptical are saying that the creativity of these individuals is because the parents force them to do until they are that good or that it’s flat out just a hoax. Either way it’s put by anyone – be it your believe and know they exist or someone who doesn’t they’re is absolutely amazing things taking place by these children. But not only that, there is beliefs that drive this idea of Indigo children even further. Now it’s being said many individuals between 18-35 have started to be effected by the same energy as the Indigo children, they have many names for all of these types but either way. Great passion, skill & love are being awaken in these people as well.

Again some say it’s the age of awakening. Through out all of this though, we start to hear that the reason they are here is to guide those who have not yet to a crossroad, and at this crossroad they show by living example the ways we must live as a higher conscious being. You may not even know it though, as you and I walk throughout our lives we are constantly running into these children and the possibility they will effect you and I in the coming years is already here.

As I researched more about Indigo children and knowing the quantum laws of the universe AKA The Laws of Attraction and some knowledge of Kabbalah I know the reason for “Satan” (and Im not talking as a demon or god – this is representation of a force of energy that the Hebrew mention) or the energies of Chaos as well as knowledge of what the “light” is. Satan is nothing more than the opponent that we play against in our life. Simply put. The reason we need Satan is because, where we came from in the history of Kabbalah is a place of absolute prosperity, love & fulfillment. But as this is – there begins a time where we wish to earn our fulfillment and love through physical means (aka living/life). So to be able to project the way to earn your way to this fulfillment is to have a force applied to this place of order. (creating this material universe) This in turns creates shadows that currently we’re not there before.

So Satan is not an energy in which we should displace in our reality, it is Satan who also grants the playing field in which we chosen to play on & of course the light is in exact proportion in this dimension, and here is where we can truly meet god with absolute appreciation of knowing both realms of existence. So that’s that in a nutshell of course Kabbalah takes more detail to grasp the exact concepts but that should do for now.

So what this means is the increasing number of these children continue to grow and these awakening our taking place quicker and quicker perhaps it’s the coming age of “The New Sun” or 7th sun as the Mayan would address or “2012″ where we merge with the new dimension. (You Can Learn More By Watching The Mayan Prophecies of 2012 by Drunvalo Melchizedek <- Click)

But as we examine the world today and special if you have knowledge of "The New World Order" – "Sacred Brotherhoods" or "Secret Societies" – aka The Freemason, Thule Society, Rosicrucian s or Illuminati. You will absolutely begin to notice certain societies and members of these societies have what Kevin Trudeau likes to call "The Parasitic Elite" in them, these individuals push against the advancement of human nature and goodness to fulfill themselves by raking in on the society.

But as I've finally come to realize is that "What You Resist Persist" works not just on a level of personal endeavors but works on a larger scale and it works for both those who see the nature of man kind rise and those that wish to see it fall. In sense "Satan" is working through these means to persist against our level of achievement thusly having it rise far faster and with much more excitement as before. With this more and more of these children are being born to move our race along quicker. (Watch the video below for greater understanding)

There has been a great amount of content on the internet and worldwide of children painting masterpieces of art, children as young as 3 or 4 playing violin solo's in front of crowds. A very popular movie called "The Last Mimzy" had given us a glimpse of the future to come – Michael Tsarion an alternative researcher had mentioned the gravity of how important these children are in his documentary "Architects of Control" (which you can view by clicking HERE. These children are absolutely abnormal to the current conditioned state of the world. They rise against unfairness, have a respectful distrust of certain authority and can calm and even heal people psychologically. Although as far fetched as it seems, there is concert proof of a rise in the level of human consciousness in this time.

View below to witness an Indigo Child:

Four Year Old Violinist

Four Year Old Drummer

Six Year Old Guitarist

These are just a few examples you can find more online.

So the time is now to understand, we all have a role to play during this time! Watch as the youth of the world opens our eyes to the real world and what we can do to heal ourselves and the world alike. Miracles will take place at record speeds and truth and enlightenment will spread ever faster, because what the “Elite” persist will also resist and become larger as time goes on.

Peace
-Simranjeet Singh

Classic enlightening it is!

-Nate

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
Its gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow Ive been prayin?for
Its gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

Look all around, theres nothin?but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin?but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
Its gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.