12/31/06

Candidate Hazing

    What I have in mind is fiendish. Nasty. And could be a lot of fun…at the expense of the coming horde of candidates vying for our 2008 New Hampshire presidential primary votes.
    They’re going to stick to their prepared speeches, caressing us with nice words about stem cell research, gay marriage, abortion rights, and other such really important issues.
    Now, if I were running for president I’d have a solid platform that I could defend with confidence. A platform that promised the seemingly impossible…until I have a chance to go through and explain how each plank can be made a reality.
    If I were running for president in the 2008 NH primary, here are the planks in my platform:
(1) Health: Change America from one of the worst in terms of health and longevity to the best
(2) Education: Change America from the poorest in education to the best
(3) Stop poisoning Americans: With fluoride - aspartame - mercury - chlorine
(4) Unbloat government: Cut departments and bureaus in half painlessly
(5) No taxes: Tap that $73 trillion CAFR government investment interest
(6) Replace oil, coal and natural gas with cold fusion power, cutting energy costs about 95%
(7) Prison reform: (a) Cut costs about 90%; (b) Make prisons truly correctional
(8) Customer service: Make the government more responsive to the people
(9) Foreign aid: Make it pay off big time. No more gifts
(10) Butt police: An activity for seniors - help stop teenage smoking
(11) Mensa think tanks: Use our best brains to solve problems - like out-thinking our enemies
(12) End government cover-ups: UFOs - contactees - Planet-X - 911 - Oklahoma City bombs
(13) Treasury: Have the U.S. issue our money, not the Federal Reserve banks
(14) Radioactive sludge: Detox it and generate power instead of burying it in a mountain
(15) Close our borders: If we need more low wage unskilled workers, let’s do it legally
(16) Make English the official American language: No more foreign language media
(17) Iraq: Peace through prosperity - outsmart the enemy instead of all that fighting
(18) Reform Social Security: Ten times the monthly check. Every man a millionaire.

    I’ve researched each of these and will be delighted to explain my practical solutions to any interested journalists, radio or TV talk shows, and in talks to any New Hampshire groups or clubs that would like to prepare themselves with real questions to ask the candidates. Like how come they and their advisors haven’t come up with solutions to the problems I’ve listed.
    When you vote in the primary please do not write me in. I am not a politician. If nominated I will not run, and if elected I will not serve.


12/30/06

Veep

    Back in 1964, when Goldwater was running for president, Marvin Kitman, who published an underground magazine, decided, as a gag, to run for president in the New Hampshire primary. He printed the application form and I noticed that it had the option of running for president or vice president.
    Hmm. I asked a friend if he’d ever heard of anyone running for vice president. He said, no, but why not call the Secretary of State of New Hampshire and ask him. 
    I did. He said he wasn’t sure, and would get back to me. He called back, saying no, no one had ever done that. Was I thinking of it? I said it was a shame to leave something like that undone.
    A half hour later I got a call from the Union Leader. They said they’d heard I was running for vice president and wanted to know more. It seemed like a good way to air some of my ideas on ways to make the country a better place to live, so I was off and running. No, I had no illusions about actually being elected. I had no interest in politics.
    The result was a bunch of interviews by newspapers, and even a couple interviews on the NBC radio network. My only expense was for some bumper stickers. It was fun. Oh, and yes, I won the primary election in New Hampshire for vice president.
    I was thinking of doing it again for the 2008 primaries…mainly as a way to help get the word out about how easy it is to cure any illness with a diet change, the potential for cold fusion to replace oil, and to help start an educational revolution. But since Sherry is against it, I guess I won’t.


12/27/06

GM’s Problem

    The reason GM and Ford are in such deep trouble is simple to explain. A solution isn’t.
    All big companies, government bureaus, and the military have the same problem. They are bureaucracies. I worked at General Electric one summer and that was the last time I’d even consider working for a large company.
    So, what’s the problem? In a bureaucracy you get promoted automatically every so often, but only if you do your work and don’t cause trouble. People with creative ideas threaten change and automatically have everyone upset. Most people hate change and will fight it. So creative people eventually get fed up and drop out.
    This is why General Motors and Ford cars stayed in the 1960s. The top people got there by never having a creative idea and making sure that anyone with them got weeded out. This is why our military lost the war in Viet Nam and has so badly screwed up the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The enemy had no problem outthinking our bureaucrat generals and admirals.
    Look at the fight General Billy Mitchell had trying to convince the Navy that air power could sink a battleship. He was court marshaled. And the trouble Admiral Rickover had getting the Navy to go for nuclear powered submarines. He was viciously fought. I like the comment that he believed a straight line was the best way to connect two dots, even if they bisected a couple admirals.  By the way, the President promoted Rickover to admiral. The Navy brass fought that too.
    When I worked for General Electric testing transmitters being made for the Army, I was taught their testing procedure. After a couple weeks I went to my supervisor and explained about a way I’d devised to get the job done in a third of the usual time, and do it much better. He was furious and demanded I go back to the standard routine.
    Maybe, if GM and Ford would offer prizes for ideas on improving their cars, they could tap into the people who still have creative ideas. I’ve got a simple one which would make their cars easier to drive, but there’s no way I could break through the protective wall all corporations have built. Heck, I’ve got a bunch of great ideas for ways to make New Hampshire a better place to live and work and I haven’t been able to get a letter through to our governor.
   

12/26/06

Movies
    Time listed the ten best movies of 2006. Hmph. I saw three of them. Ugh. “Borat” was number two. I’m a known loud laugher at funny movies. Borat gave me a couple chuckles. I got more of a laugh out of Cohen when he was on with Jay Leno.
    Number three was “The Departed.” It put me to sleep. What a bore.
    “Cars” made eighth. I enjoy animated films, but not that one. Another bore. “Charlotte’s Web” on the other hand, was a delight. Amazing animation, too. “Casino Real” wasted about three hours of an afternoon. Boring. “Happy Feet” was another major disappointment.
    “Night At The Museum” starts out slow, but was a lot of fun. Since it had Owen Wilson in it, I wasn’t about to miss it. I was disappointed to see Mickey Rooney has gotten so fat.
    If you see a film I shouldn’t miss drop me an email.


12/18/06

Fiber

    One of the barrage of wellness newsletters I read made a point about the importance of fiber in our diets. Well, I do eat about an ounce of All Bran with my banana, strawberries, and so on for breakfast. And I eat a couple oranges, a grapefruit and a couple apples a day.
    The apples I wash, cut into quarters, scoop out the core with a grapefruit knife, cut into bite-sized pieces and store in a pint-sized cottage cheese container for convenience.
    I peel the oranges and grapefruit, then cut then into chunks, leaving the cores. I used to cut the grapefruits in half and then cut each of the segments and scoop them out with the grapefruit knife. The new way is faster, but leaves me with a bunch of stuff I can’t totally chew that I have to spit out. The same with eating the oranges.
    The article on fiber gave me a sudden inspiration, Hey, I’m spitting out a lot of fiber because I can’t chew it enough to liquefy it. So, why not liquefy it first? Out came my Ultimate Chopper and I zizzed a few peeled and cut-up oranges and grapefruits. The result was slurries that were both delicious and totally liquefiable when I ate them. No more wasted fiber.
    I do add a couple spoons of New Hampshire maple syrup to my grapefruit to cut the grapefruit bitterness.


12/15/06

Red Capes

    A matadors waves his red cape to focus the bull’s attention. A magician, similarly, keeps the audience’s attention on his moving hand.
    Our media dutifully follow waving red capes, ignoring the matador, focusing their attention on stem cell research, school prayer, abortion, O.J., Iraq casualties, gay marriage, gay priests, Mel Gibson, Al Gore’s inconvenient movie, illegal aliens, Avian Flu, West Nile Virus, SARS, and so on. Well, it keeps the public’s attention from things like the dropping value of the dollar, the sale of our toll roads and ports to foreign investors, how much of what was our money the government has invested in the stock market and is making more on dividends and stock growth than our total income tax, our taxes having grown from 2% on the wealthy to about 62% today, the real cause of global warming, the 911 truth-seekers…stuff like that it’s better we don’t notice.
    It’s better we be concerned about ball game scores and get all het up over gay marriage.


12/14/06

Autism

    Ten years ago one child in ten thousand was autistic. By the year 2000 this had doubled to one in five thousand. This year it’s one in every 166 children. so, what’s going on here? And how bad does it have to get before we do something about it?
    The major suspect is the recent practice of vaccinating babies against a whole range of childhood diseases, most of which are no longer a threat to kids. Like measles, where there was only one fatality in the whole country last year.
    In most of these shots thimerosal is used. This contains mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde and the vaccine makers haven’t found anything safer to replace it so far. They start with plain mercury, then they convert it to methyl mercury, which is 1,000 times more potent. Next they hop it up to ethyl mercury, which is even more toxic. Then they add aluminum and the combo is 10,000 more toxic than plain mercury.
    This is the stuff that’s in the 22 shots most babies are given by the age of two. The mercury-aluminum mix easily crosses the body-brain barrier and eats away the brain neurons, lowering the baby’s IQ and giving us an increasing number of autistic children. But this is a multi-billion dollar business, so it’s well protected by the government, which turns a blind eye to the consequences. Even the vaccines that claim to be “mercury free” are using thimerosal. So much for truth in advertising.
    If you think I’m exaggerating about mercury and autism, check www.alt-corp.com. 
    With most families forced to have the mother work, more and more babies are fed formula instead of mother’s milk. This not only knocks down the baby’s IQ by ten to twelve points, but deprives it of the enzymes from the mother which help the baby’s immune system to develop, giving the baby even less protection against the vaccinations.
    It doesn’t help, either, if the mother gets a flu shot during the pregnancy. dumping more mercury into the baby.
    Note: there are NO autistic Amish babies. The Amish, of course, do not let themselves or their children to be vaccinated.
    In view of the rat experiment I reported, where one group of rats were first fed the standard American diet, and developed many human diseases…then were put on raw food diets, which cured them of all illnesses…what would it hurt to put autistic children on raw food diets? Their immune system might just be able to repair the damage the vaccinations did to them, allowing to lead normal healthy lives.


12/13/06

Oh, Rats!  Don't Miss This One!

    In Cook and Yasui’s Goldot I learned about the experiments with rats that was similar to those done with dogs and cats, and with the same results.
    A group of rats were fed raw vegetables, whole grains, fruits and nuts from birth. They grew into healthy adults, completely healthy, never fat, and produced healthy offspring. They lived together in peace with no fighting, and were friendly to handle. When they got to the equivalent of 80 human years they were killed and autopsied. Their organs and teeth were all in perfect condition, with no signs of aging or deterioration.
    A second group were fed the standard American diet, with cooked food, including meat, soda, milk, candy, vitamins, and supplements. This group got fat, and came down with all the human diseases such as colds, flu, cancer, arthritis, heart disease, cataracts, and so on. They had to be kept apart because they were killing each other. They were nervous, fighting and vicious. As they died of diseases autopsies showed them to be physical wrecks. Only a few survived to the equvalent of 80 human years.
   A third group was fed the same diet as the second group for the equivalent of 40 human years. They, too, had to be kept separated to keep them from killing each other. Then they were first put on a water fast for a few days and then fed the diet of the first group. A month later they were tame, loving, playful rats, had gotten over all their illnesses and didn’t ever get sick from then on. They all lived the equivalent of 80 human years and when autopsied at that time their organs, skin, and hair were in perfect condition. The deterioration of these during the first half of the experoment had all been totally reversed.
    These are the same changes that humans undergo when they change their diets.
    You can read the story at: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/20/18339027.php
    This is about the same as reported by dentist Francis Pottenger in his research with 800 cats.
    He fed one group unprocessed food (raw), and they remained healthy throughout the experiment. The other group he fed processed foods and they came down with arthritis, cancers, diabetes, allergies, etc. The second generation got these diseases, but earlier in life. The third generation got them in the beginning of their lives. There was no fourth generation.
    Dr. Schweitzer, in Africa, said he never saw a single case of cancer until the European diet arrived.

12/12/06

Swaziland

    “Some African country,” is about as close as most people can come to this one. Yeah, been there. It came up when I opened a bundle of shirts I bought from Haband and the little tag on the collar said, “Made in Swaziland.”
    Being a registered New England cheapskate (a.k.a. thrifty), I buy most of my clothes from Haband. The quality is excellent and the prices amazingly low. So I spend most of the winter wearing a pair of their Ice-House pants and their made-in-Bangladesh shirt-coats. My “good” shirts are made in Mongolia and my good pants in United Arab Emirates.
    So, how’d I manage to visit Swaziland? It was about twenty years ago, in the early days of personal computers, and I was publishing seven monthly computer publications, plus I had one of the largest software companies, so it was only natural when the people in South Africa were putting on a computer show to invite me to give the keynote address. All expenses paid, of course.
    Ever one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I said okay, if they’d throw in side trips to neighboring Swaziland and Lesotho. Deal!
    After a few days of giving talks at the computer show, addressing ham radio clubs, going down into a gold mine, and a hot air balloon flight over the veldt, I was off to Mbabane, the capitol of Swaziland, in a small plane. On the way I had a ball talking with the South African hams with my handy-talkie from the plane via the Johannesburg repeater. What took me by surprise was when the Swaziland repeater came on and I was suddenly able to talk with the Swaziland hams.
    I’d been promoting repeater technology for several years, publishing hundreds of articles in my 73 magazine and I also published a Repeater Journal and several books, taking what had been the hobby of a couple dozen American ham clubs to extend the range of their mobiles and handy-talkies from a mile or two to a hundred or more miles. This aspect of the ham hobby grew to over 8,000 repeaters in the U.S., covering just about every corner of the country. The hobby also took hold around the world. Well, I had subscribers in over 200 countries.
    In Mbabane I stayed at a hotel run by a South African ham operator and had a great time for several days getting on the air from his station and talking with my friends all around the world.
    From there I flew back to Johannesburg and then on to Maseru, the capitol of Lesotho. The highlight there was visiting a local ham and being met at his door by a small pet deer. I’ve had pet dogs, cats, a six-foot indigo snake from Florida, a rhesus monkey from India, a Brazilian Macaw, a Burmese cat, a Korat from Thailand, assorted greyhounds and Italian greyhounds, Afghans, a Scottish Deerhound, some goats, Arab horses, and stuff, but the pet deer was a surprise.
    Yes, of course I got on the air from Lesotho too.
    My ham friend there (a subscriber) was a recruiter for the gold mines and what he told me was surprising. The gold mines hire natives to work on three-year contracts. The mines offer free classes in the basics…reading, writing, arithmetic…to any workers interested. Very few are. Their goal is to work for three years so they’ll have enough money to buy some cattle, a small farm, a wife and a blanket. Since the women do all the work, while the men sit around in their blankets and talk for the rest of their lives, there is no need for education. The only purpose of an education is to get work, so any man who educates himself is like a woman and ridiculed and shunned by the other men.
    I wonder if the king of Swaziland has built a factory and put his wives to work? Yep, they have a king with a bunch of wives.


12/11/06

Fiber

    One of the barrage of wellness newsletters I read made a point about the importance of fiber in our diets. Well, I do eat about an ounce of All Bran with my banana, strawberries, and so on for breakfast. And I eat a couple oranges, a grapefruit and a couple apples a day.
    The apples I wash, cut into quarters, scoop out the core with a grapefruit knife, cut into bite-sized pieces and store in a pint-sized cottage cheese container for convenience.
    I peel the oranges and grapefruit, then cut then into chunks, leaving the cores. I used to cut the grapefruits in half and then cut each of the segments and scoop them out with the grapefruit knife. The new way is faster, but leaves me with a bunch of stuff that can’t be totally chewed that I have to spit out. The same with eating the oranges.
    The article on fiber gave me a sudden inspiration, Hey, I’m spitting out a lot of fiber because I can’t chew it enough to liquefy it. So, why not liquefy it first? Out came my Ultimate Chopper and I zizzed a couple cut-up oranges and grapefruits. The result was slurries that were both delicious and totally liquefiable when I ate them. No more wasted fiber.
    I’ve always added a couple spoons of New Hampshire maple syrup to my grapefruit to cut the grapefruit bitterness.


12/10/06

Lynch-Pin

    When Governor John Lynch won the election a couple years ago I sent him a series of 52 letters proposing ways New Hampshire could be made an even better place to live and work. I got a form postcard for my trouble, and no hint that the Governor had ever seen any of the letters.
    Now that he’s been re-elected I’m sending the letters again. This time double-sized on 11” x 17” paper. But even so, they still may not reach the guv. Since most of my proposals will help any state be a better place to live, I’ve reprinted my letters in a 100-page Green-Print for 2020 booklet, which you’ll find exciting and frustrating. Exciting in what they could do for your state. Frustrating, if you try to get through the system to reach anyone who might help change things.
    Please give me a hand by sending Governor John Lynch, State House, Concord, NH 03301 a note asking him to be sure and take a look at the letters from Wayne Green.
    If you order a copy of the booklet (Catalog #39) through my web site it’s $5. If you order direct to me by email or snail, it’s $3. Oh, and don’t forget the $3 s/h for any sized order.
    So what kind of proposals are involved? Well, how about a way to cut the state’s health costs by about 90%? A way to generate genius children with an IQ of 150 average? Children who are able to read books with full comprehension in minutes? Where there is no illiteracy in reading, math and science? Where the schools cost less than half of what they do today? Where there is no ADHD? Where the state colleges can charge no tuition, and with no help needed from the state? Where he students learn twice or more than they do today, and do it in three years instead of four to six? Where there is an absolute minimum of state government? Where the state prisons cost a fraction of those today? Where there are thousands of new small businesses started every year? And where there are NO state taxes! None!
    Or you can fuss over stem cell research, gay marriage, school prayer, or whatever the religious flap of the week is.


12/9/06

SICK?

    What’ll it be, drugs or a diet change?
    News flash: Drugs don’t cure anything - Diet can cure anything
    The Department of Heath tells us that only 1.5% of Americans are truly healthy. That means 98.5% of us are sick in some way. And that includes you! So, what medications are you taking? For aches, pains, allergies, cholesterol, and so on?
    100% of us are either going to get cancer or have someone close to us get cancer. And they are going to turn to their kindly doctor who, if you think about it, has little to gain from his patients being healthy. Healthy people are no longer customers.
    A hundred years ago cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and so on, today’s main causes of death, were virtually unknown. Dr. Schweitzer, in Africa, said he’d never seen a single case of cancer until the European diet arrived. We’re killing ourselves with our diet and lifestyles.
    We’re poisoning ourselves with refined sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, mercury, aspartame, chlorine, fluorides, vaccinations and medications. People with strong immune systems don’t get sick, even in the worst plagues. Germs, viruses, parasites, yeast infections and fungi don’t stand a chance.
    A hundred years ago people were mostly dying of tuberculosis, diphtheria, flu, and pneumonia. Germ diseases. Now we’re dying of lifestyle diseases.
    We are brought up by our parents, churches, public schools, and the media to believe and trust the supermarket and restaurant food we eat, in doctors, and so on. So, by the time people get to my age 93% are either dead or seriously impaired, doddering around in nursing homes or extended care facilities. Is that what you want? How about changing your diet so you’ll be out there skiing with me when you’re 84. Read my book, dammit! It has the details.


 12/8/06

God

    From the earliest times men have ascribed things they didn’t understand to the work of gods, and they had a bunch of them. Then someone put ’em all together, giving us God. And God has given us a huge industry…churches, and their hierarchy of employees and officers. It’s one of the largest industries in the world and more dangerous to threaten than the oil and pharmaceutical industries.
    Some sects seek more power by pushing their adherents to have lots of babies. Others by war. The Christians came to Central America and killed 90% of the native heathen idol-worshipping Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, etc. They did the same to the Carib Indians, and thoee heathen American Indians. Muslims are instructed by their imams to kill all unbelievers.
    Heaven and hell were invented to help keep people in line.
    Most people, inculcated from childhood, are cemented into their religion…totally brainwashed and unable to even consider any alternatives. And, anyone who doesn’t believe, has been taken over by the devil. Satan.
    The Egyptians had their gods. So did the Greeks, the Romans, the Norse, the Indians, the Japanese, the Chinese, and so on. And they believed in them. People believe in the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, and so on…and many are willing to kill to defend their beliefs.
    We have the crusades, the Catholics and Protestants in Ireland killing each other. The Sunnis, Shiites, Shinolas, Kurds, all busy killing each other. Here in America we have the Baptists, the Pentecostals, Congregationalists, Episcopals, Dutch Reformists, Lutherans, Mormons, Born Agains, several flavors of Muslims and Jews, and a bunch more, all with their churches and preachers. We have killings over school prayer, abortion rights, creationism, stem cell research, gay marriage, etc. And look at the great job the Muslims are doing to those stupid, ignorant heathens in Darfur. The Hutus in Rwanda really cleaned the Tutsi clocks. Or was it the other way around? And the Ibos in Nigeria. And Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo, Angola, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Chad, etc. In America we had the whites burning black churches. It’s a mess, and it’s been that way for thousands of years.
    We have Bible-thumpers who totally believe every word in it. Never mind that historians have shown that everything in the Bible can be found in much older literature, some going back to over 5,000 BC. In “The Prophecies” by Ramutsariar, a Hindu book over two thousand years older than the Bible, the story of Genesis is related, word for word. The first man was named Adama and the first woman Heva.
    As much as we’ve progressed, usually with religious leaders fighting every inch of the way, there are still a bunch of things we haven’t figured out. Well, God did ’em, and that’s that. Case closed. Or maybe it was Satan. Or those goddamn ETs some really dumbo retards believe in.
    No matter how dumb some of the things our super-bloated government does, and how badly we get screwed, we still firmly believe in it. The same goes for doctors and their two trillion-dollar health-care industry, and our trillion-dollar commercial food industry.


12/5/06

The Golden Goose

    That’s us. There’s the income tax, Social Security, and unemployment taxes, all nicely removed from our paychecks before we ever see them, so they’re invisible money for us.  Plus a whole array of other taxes…like on gasoline, movie tickets, phone calls, driving licenses, car licenses, property tax (the biggee), and so on, with the total around 60% of our earnings.
    And still you keep re-electing the crooks who are taking your money and blowing it on wars, thousands of earmarks, and an endless spending spree. With six well-heeled lobbyists for every member of Congress, it’s no wonder they’re able to spend millions on their re-election campaigns.
    Meanwhile, most of us are busy spending the 40% we net to sit in the stands watching ball games, wrestling, and so on, rather than take the time to read some books and find out what’s going on in the real world…outside of our media protected cocoon. I was not surprised to hear that in an international survey our major media came in 53rd in the world in a free press comparison. Right down there with our health-care score, but much higher than our education score. We’re kept dumb, sick (a $2 trillion industry), and blindered.
    Two trillion is how much Congress has “borrowed” from the Social Security trust fund in order not to let the budget look quite as overspent. They haven’t a clue as to how or if they can ever pay that IOU. Basically, they lied to us and it was just thrown in with all the other tax money.
    It makes sense since there’s all kinds of benefits for them to spend money and almost none to saving it.
    The Chilean model Social Security program provides their people with ten times the monthly checks we get. Boy, are we suckers! Read the paperback by Robert Genetski, Every Man A Millionaire.
    Unless you start organizing some friends and neighbors who are “fed up and not going to take it any more,” you’re just going to get squeezed for more golden eggs every payday. You are putting your stamp of approval on the government bloat, all those earmarks, one war after another, incredible government waste, and less and less freedoms for us.
    Let’s see, what did we go into Vietnam to accomplish? And Somalia? And the Gulf War? Oh, and Iraq?


12/04/06

Telecommuting

    The cover feature on a recent Business Week dealt with more and more people working at home. I do and so does the entire staff of NH ToDo. We don’t even have a company office, so I’m sitting here with an empty office building in Peterborough I’d like to sell. Complete with desks, chairs and filing cabinets. Relics of older times.
    This could mean a bonanza for New Hampshire. Magazine surveys have consistently shown New Hampshire to be one of the best places in the country to live, and housing prices are way down right now so we might just see a bunch of telecommuters moving here to take advantage of the almost infinite number of fun things to do, and our incredible beauty.
    When I started my ham radio magazine from an office in Brooklyn, I knew I wanted to get the hell out of New York City, so I started looking around. When I priced land in New Jersey, upstate New York and Connecticut they were selling it by the square foot. No thanks. Vermont was too far from anything, Massachusetts taxes were ridiculous, which left New Hampshire. Southern New Hampshire was within easy driving distance of Boston’s airport, so I moved there 45 years ago and haven’t regretted it.
    Having lived for a while in the Camden (NJ) area, Philadelphia, Washington, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Dallas, San Francisco, and Cleveland, I knew a bunch of places I didn’t want to live.


11/29/06

The Candidates

    New Hampshire is going to be up to here in presidential (and other) candidates all through 2007 and 2008, as we provide the country with either our wisdom or our legendary ability to react emotionally rather than thinking, in the country’s first primaries.
    To help what few people are actually interested in making a thinking choice, I’ve prepared a little list of questions you can ask the candidates as they shuttle around the state, addressing groups. My recommendation is for your group to assign one member of your group to ask each question.
    No, these are not the usual pot boilers such as stem cell research, gay marriage, abortion rights, school prayer, and creationism. They’ll have scripted answers all ready for those. Yawn.
    For instance, take HEALTH. With Americans coming in 37th in international health surveys, with only Mexicans having a shorter life span of all the developed countries, and with us spending more than twice that of any other country on so-called health-care, does the candidate have any plans for improving our health?
    Then, EDUCATION, where our kids are coming in at the bottom on international surveys. Since there are no studies showing that more money improves the situation, what plan has the candidate to change this situation so our American work force can be more competitive in the world economy?
    Presumably the candidate understands that Congress has spent all of the SOCIAL SECURITY funds, leaving nothing but IOUs to pay future seniors. Is the candidate aware of the Chilean social security system which is paying retirees ten times what American seniors are getting? Where even someone who never makes more than the minimum wage in his lifetime can retire with a million dollars?
    How does the candidate feel about FLUORIDATING our water? Is the candidate aware that Dr. Robert Mick of Laurel Springs, NJ offered $100,000 to anyone who could prove fluoridation is healthful. His reward has never been challenged. In animal experiments with fluoride, cripples were born to the third generations. There is no valid research showing fluorides to be beneficial to teeth. This is just a way to dispose of a waste product of aluminum and fertilizer manufacturing for a profit of billions. It lowers children’s IQs and is used to keep cattle (and people) docile.
    How about our grossly bloated federal government, with more people than we have working in manufacturing? Has the candidate any plans for turning this situation around? Is the candidate aware of the New Zealand solution to their similar situation? Or my proposal, which is less draconian?
    Then there’s 911. Does the candidate buy the official government report? Has the candidate read any of the growing number of books challenging the official report?
    How about TAXES? Back when the income tax was imposed, when the government had been getting most of its money from import duties, it was 2% on the wealthy. Now, our total taxes are 59%, making it so both husbands and wives have to work, with their children having to be parked in day-care facilities to sit all day watching TV. Has the candidate any plans for cutting taxes? Like BIG cuts?
    Is the candidate familiar with the city, county, state and federal Consolidated Accounting Financial Reports (CAFRs)? These now amount to about $28 trillion, with much of them being invested in the stock market. Indeed, the government owns 70% of American stocks. And if the income from these investments were used to offset our taxes instead of being re-invested, there would be no further need for any taxes.
    Al Gore has made a big deal out of GLOBAL WARMING. Does the candidate agree with Big Al that man’s activities are to blame and we must change our ways? If so, how does the candidate explain that while all the other planets, according to NASA, have heated up as a result of the Sun’s recent violent activity, that this hasn’t had any significant effect on Earth? And that the increasing number of volcanoes erupting and bigger and more frequent earthquakes are due to man’s activities and not the Sun’s impact?
    And that’s just for starters. Let’s give the candidates some exercise rather than just sitting there listening to them give their canned speeches, applauding, shaking hands, and watching them drive off with their tenders in their stretch limos.


11/28/06

The Warning

    The first warning that you’re mistreating your body is when you start getting cavities. Dr. Judd, in his Good Teeth, Birth to Death (reviewed on p.27 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom), points out that the average 17-year-old has had 11 decayed teeth. By 44 the average is 30 decayed teeth, and by 65 42% of us have no teeth. Double that for blacks, and it’s four times that for American Indians, who have been fluoridated the longest and suffered from government-forced dentistry.
    Fluoride rinse in schools and in our drinking water gradually eats away at the tooth enamel, making cavities due to our Standard American Diet happen faster.
    Eighty years ago my mother knew enough to feed me healthy food, so I had perfect teeth until I’d been in the Navy for four years during WWII, when I got my first cavity. When I was a kid she fed me hot cereal with no sweetening, no cold cereals, soft-boiled eggs, no jam or jelly, no white bread (just whole wheat), no muffins, no cookies after school, no candy around the house. And she read to me while I was eating.
    Today, with fluoride rinse programs in our schools, fluoride in our drinking water, vending machine snacks in schools, fluoride tooth paste, and so on we’re keeping our dentists happily filling teeth with mercury amalgams, sending our seniors to our happy nursing homes with Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, and so on. Oh, and with a full set of false teeth by then.


11/27/06

Revolution!

    Fed up yet? Then join my revolution…at the ballot box in 2008
    Revolt with your Vote
The benefits:
    We can virtually wipe out the so-called $2 trillion (with a T) health-care industry
    Cure any illness with no drugs and put Big Pharma out of business
    Double your life span in good health, not in a wheelchair in a nursing home
    Build a new and healthy food industry
    Totally eliminate your taxes, doubling your income (check the CAFRs)
    Cut the government down to size like New Zealand did
    Provide your kids with useful educations and skills, faster and cheaper
    End this war crap
    Get ten times larger Social Security checks
    Expose government secrecy and cover-ups
    Replace oil with cold fusion…put those Saudis out of business
    Close our borders to walk-ins
    Clean the career politicians out of Congress
    We must be tigers, not sheep
    Never Re-elect Anyone. Start cleaning the career politicians out in the 2008 primaries


11/26/06

Procranonol

    The 60 Minutes show tonight had a segment on experimentation with procranonol as a drug to lessen the impact of trauma and post traumatic stress disorder.
    They’ve found that this drug counters the adrenaline that accompanies traumatic incidents, thus lessening the impact. And that goes for physical as well as emotional traumas…like seeing an accident or getting raped.
    In Dianetics the same effect is achieved by regressing someone to the traumatic incident under a light hypnosis and having them relive it a few times. This erases the pain from the memory. Oh, the memory is still there, but it no longer affects the person’s behavior. It’s no longer painful.
    Beats the hell out of taking a drug…whose side effects are as yet unknown. Once it’s on the market for a while we’ll know more about them from the tiny print following the ads for the drug.
    I’m sure that not one of the researchers has a clue about the Dianetic approach.


11/25/06

Remedy?

    Remedy claims to be America’s third largest health magazine. The summer issue ran 100 pages, of which I counted 57-1/2 of drug ads…none of which contribute to health. Twenty-two of the pages were those teeny-tiny type listings of the side effects one can expect. And the articles weren’t much better. But then, expecting truth about health to survive in a magzine totally supported by an industry totally dependent on our being sick is stupid.
    So, where’s the FDA in all of this? In an article in Crusador author Byron Richards tell us that the FDA receives several hundred million dollars a year in funding from drug companies to approve drugs. So the agency that is supposed to be regulating the pharmaceutical industry has become a part of the industry. The bottom line is the drug companies are buying Congress via their lobbyists and the FDA. He further notes that the drug companies can’t make money selling drugs that cure diseases.
    My issues of Crusador are heavily hi-lighted. Good stuff. Call Gregg at 800-593-6273. No, I don’t get a commission. Forget Remedy.

11/24/06

Underwear

    Having been brought up by my parents from earliest childhood to wear underwear, shirt and shorts, and never having seen anyone not wearing underwear in the locker rooms in high school and college, or in my fraternity at college, I was amazed in the locker room at WPIX-TV, Channel 11 in New York, when I was 25, to see one of the floor managers changing his clothes and…gasp!…not even wearing under shorts.
    Naturally I asked him about it. He said he didn’t see any good reason for underwear. That made sense, so that was the last day I ever wore underwear. Now, 60 years later, I still don’t see any reason, and it’s simplified my wardrobe.
    We got to be good friends and double dated one weekend. On the way to my house with our dates (my folks were away), we stopped off and he bought some pot. What a weekend that was! My first time with pot. Since I hated cigarettes, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to smoke it, but it turned out I could, with no problem. Hey, I’m game for anything…once. That sure was a weekend to remember.
    That was my first job in television. I started as an engineer, but soon became a cameraman. This was back before zoom lenses, so I had to move my camera around instead. I developed a fluid camera technique which allowed me to do the live Gloria Swanson one hour variety show all on my one camera. Well, I’d had an art course in the third grade where they taught us about composition through examining prints of the great masters, so I knew how to frame my pictures. The directors loved my work.
    The production manager of another station was visiting, saw my work and the next thing I knew I was a producer-director at KBTV in Dallas.

11/23/06

Check Scams

    It sure pays to read the fine print on those so-called $3 and $4 rebate checks. One of ’em had me automatically signing up for $19.50 a month in the tiny print on the back, the other for $89 a year. Ouch!


11/22/06

The Media

    All you have to do to understand why none of the major media are about to even hint at the secret to health is to count their pages of health and drug ads.My current U.S. News has 15-2/3 pages of drug ads and 16 pages of other ads. that’s 49.5% drug ads. Money doesn’t just talk, it hollars. Newsweek only has 11 pages of drug ads. They need a better ad salesman.


11/21/06

Megavictims

    The recent Nova program on the elderly had me almost weeping with frustration. Millions of old people are warehoused in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, victims of their and their family’s ignorance. Virtually all of them could get out of their beds and wheelchairs if they’d spend a little of their time educating themselves instead of on entertainment.
    The nursing homes and doctors involved have everything to lose and little to gain from helping these unfortunates regain their health. And the same goes for Medicare, Medicaid, HMOs, and so on, all of which are dependent for their profits on people getting sick and staying that way. There’s almost no market for health, only for sickness.
    When my mother went into a nursing home I didn’t know any better. So they fed her cooked food, thus making sure she could never get better. Plus no sunlight, no exercise, and plenty of medications. She was a goner because I didn’t know enough to do my homework. It never occurred to me that her doctor might not know what he was doing. And that the AMA, NIH, FDA, and so on were not about to clue him in. Bad for business.
    This was twenty years ago, before the Web, when personal computers were still relatively rare, so getting honest information was a lot more difficult than today. Now I know that Alzheimer’s is easily cured. And Parkinson’s, etc. The details are in my Secret Guide to Health.
    Though I’ve got hundreds of so-called health books, with health newsletters arriving in the mail almost every day, none of ’em tell the whole story. I can point to Dr. Bruno Comby’s Maximize Immunity, which is excellent, but it covers mostly the importance of raw food, which is key, but not the only way to speed recovery from any illness and to make it so you’ll never get sick again, no matter what’s going around or how old you are.
    The closest reliable source I’ve found is Dr. Mercola, with his daily emails. Google him and get on his list.
    If you have a parent or grandparent in a nursing home and wise yourself up, then you’ll face the frustration of trying to get them or their care-givers to pay any attention to you. They stand to lose a permanent customer if they do.
    Any ideas?



11/20/06

$100 Laptops

    OLPC (One Lapton Per Child) is getting started with their XO, which has it’s own attached generator, and is aiming to pump some 50 million $100 laptops into third world countries in the next couple years.
    Thailand had ordered a million of them, but a recent coup has crimped that. Muammar Qaddafi wants to give one to every child in Lybia, and it looks as if Argentina, Brazil, and Nigeria are aboard. Also interested are Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mexico, and Vietnam,
    One unsolved hangup is building the infrastructure to bring the Internet to remote regions where there is no cable or even telephones.



11/19/06

The Wale Prince

    Jay Leno mentioned that the Prince of Wales has been on a tear about global warming. If this bloke is a friend of yours or you run into him on your next trip to London, please clue him in that while cleaning our air is laudable, it has zilch to do with what’s warming the Earth. And all the other planets, according to NASA. Or causing the Sun to act up. Or causing Earth’s magma to heat up, causing volcanoes everywhere to erupt, and giving us bigger and more frequent earthquakes.
    If I were inclined to worry, I have my pick of global warming, the Yellowstone super volcano erupting, pouring out a predicted six hundred cubic miles of lava, Muslims sneaking nukes into our major cities and setting them off during the next Ramadan holy days, or Iran, with their new nukes, blowing Israel out of the muddle east. I mean middle east.



11/18/06

Jaguars

    When I opened the latest issue of Fast Company, starting inside the front cover was a six-page Jaguar ad…one of the dumbest ads I’ve ever seen.
    There was a picture of the car’s back end…not a very nice thing to look at for any car. Then a couple pages of art work, neither worth framing…or even looking at. Then two pages of text, using gray type on a solid black background and thus virtually impossible to read.
    If anyone involved had ever read any data on reading tests they’d know that few magazine readers ever bother to read reverse type…white type on black. Worse, those few who bother have little recollection of what they’ve read afterwards.
    I did try reading the text, but I forget what it said. It rambled on about something. I gave up after a couple paragraphs.
    I think it was my 60th birthday when Sherry gave me a Jaguar for my birthday. Beautiful-looking car. Great handling, too. But it was one misery after another during the three year lease. In the rain we had to wear raincoats inside because it leaked so badly. And this was a sedan, not a convertible. In the summer the automatic heater would come on and there was no way to turn it off. In the winter the air conditioner would turn itself on with full cooling and couldn’t be turned off. The front hood wouldn’t stay latched. The Jaguar dealer said that this was a problem for many of the Jags they serviced and there was no fix.
    One night, when Sherry and I were a couple of hours from home, driving along the turnpike, the transmission suddenly stopped working and the car was stuck in first gear. We made it back to Lincoln, called home, and had friends drive up to rescue us.
    Oh, and every so often, the engine would quit. I’d have to coast to a stop by the side of the road, let it rest for a couple of minutes, then it would start again.
    When we turned the car in at the end of the lease I counted the days it had been in the repair shop…21% of the days I owned it. I was not surprised to read in Car and Driver that over 80% of Jaguar owners said they’d never buy another. No wonder I seldom see any Jaguars on the road and more.


11/17/06

Revolution!

    A couple hundred years ago the colonists got fed up with taxes and not having a say in running the country, so they grabbed their guns and revolted.
    I’m calling for a second American revolution, except this time we can do the trick at the ballot box instead of with guns. That way only the politicians will get hurt.
    What’s happened is that a new industry has developed…politics, complete with professional career politicians. And the worst of them are in Washington, being supported by the generous salaries they’ve voted themselves, a retirement deal that’s beyond belief, and their share of a couple billion dollars annually from 32,800 lobbyists (that’s 61 per congressman and senator), making sure their employers generously benefit from the public till.
    How does all this affect us taxpayers? Well, if the ballooning government could be deflated we’d find twice as much in our pay checks. When the income tax was instituted, almost a hundred years ago, it was 2% on the very wealthy. That’s how it started. Now, if you’ll Google it, you’ll see that by the time you add up all the taxes we’re paying it’s 59%. We’re working almost seven months of the year for the government.
    In the early 1950s, before the socialist government got elected, New Zealand’s per capita income was number three in the world, right behind the U.S. and Canada. By 1984 its per capita income had sunk to 27th in the world, alongside Portugal and Turkey. The unemployment rate was 11.6% and there had been 23 successive years of deficits. There were price controls, wage controls, import controls. and massive subsidies on industries to keep them going. Youngsters were leaving the country in droves.
    In 1984 a reform government was elected. They questioned each government agency on what they were doing and what they should be doing. Then they eliminated what they shouldn’t be doing.
    The Department of Transportation started with 5,600 employees and finished with 53. The Forest Service had 17,000 and ended with 17. The Minister of Works had 28,000 and ended up with one.
    But, what about all those lost jobs? Most of the people ended up doing the same jobs, but for private concerns, earning about three times as much and being about 60% more productive.
    The number of government employees dropped by two-thirds and the government’s share of the GDP went from 44% to 27%, with the country now running surpluses. Hmm, 44% of our GDP is what our government is spending now. In 1930 it was only 12%, and in the 1920s it was 3%.
    When New Zealand discontinued farm subsidies the commercial farms moved out, family farms took over and the sheep business thrived, with carcasses, which had been selling for $12.50 going to $115 by 1999.
    They used a similar approach with their schools, which were doing poorly and getting worse as their costs went up. The new government found that 70% of the money was going to administration. Hey, that’s about what we’re doing in the U.S.! So they eliminated all the Boards of Education and gave control of the schools to trustees elected by the parents of the children in the school. The result was the student test scores went from 15% below the international average to 15% above in three years.
    Considering that during the Bush administration we’ve seen a humongous growth of government employees and gone from surpluses to outrageous deficits, maybe it’s about time for a Beltway House cleaning. And Senate.
    New Zealand greatly simplified their tax system, setting a 10% consumption tax, and eliminating all other taxes. The result was 20% more collected in taxes. Every country that has simplified and lowered its tax rates has ended up with more revenue, not less.
    If doubling your take home pay and getting rid of a big bunch of government bureaus and departments, few of which are benefiting you, isn’t enough to drive you to the ballot box in 2008 to Never Re-elect Anyone, I’ve got a bunch more. It’ll take a few elections to totally flush out the sewer we’ve allowed to build up in Washington. But, when, after a couple elections, it’s clear that no one is going to get re-elected, those re-election donations are going to fade away, and our representatives are going to pay attention to us instead of their generous benefactors. Instead of career politicians, we’ll have what the founders of the country envisioned…businessmen taking a sabbatical to serve for a term.
    Of course, if you don’t mind the confiscatory taxes, a few wars, lousy schools, lousy health care, an incredibly bloated government, 20 million or so illegal aliens, Social Security payments that are a tenth what they could be using the Chilean system, a whole bunch of cover-ups (like 911), and the government (and media) being controlled by a small group, then continue to keep entertained and re-electing the incumbents.


11/16/06

Hawking

    A friend (Ken K7GCO) sent me a newspaper picture of Stephen Hawking, the super physics genius. In it he’s laughing and it’s clear to see his mouth full of amalgam fillings.
    Here’s a genius with Lou Gehrig’s disease, so he has to use a voice synthesizer and a little mobile cart to get around. Yet this genius doesn’t know enough to have those fillings removed so the mercury will stop poisoning him. Or to change his diet so his body can get rid of the mercury and allow him to walk and talk like a normal person.
    Drs. Day and Comby both say it loud and clear: “There are NO incurable illnesses.” The body’s immune system can fix anything you’ve messed up with toxins, plus fight off any germs, viruses, parasites, and so on…if you give it a chance. My Secret Guide to Health has all the information on how to do this.
    Isn’t there anyone who can get through to Hawking and wise the genius up?
    When my friend King Hussein was dying of leukemia I tried everything I could to get through to him to save his life. But he believed in the Mayo Clinic, and they killed him. Never mind that forty years ago Dr. Henry Bieler went into hospitals where children were there to die of “incurable” leukemia, and he cured every one of them…mainly by taking them off all milk products and feeding them minced raw liver (which, incidentally, is delicious, but only is you haven’t been so totally conditioned that you can’t even try it).
    Alas, cancer is a huge money maker for the so-called health care industry, so news of how easy it is to cure any cancer with no drugs isn’t going to get around very fast. Money talks, not health.


11/15/06

Rensselaer

    An oversized postcard from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni people, with a big picture of the RPI football team on one side and begging for charitable gifts on the other (“Kick Off Your Legacy”) almost got me to drop a note to President Shirley Ann Jackson. But not quite.
    Having already sent her a dozen letters, without any response, that would be a waste of time. But the idea of donating money to help support a football team irritates me. Rensselaer is supposed to be university. For teaching, not for fun and games. Scholarship funding makes sense, and the last I heard my scholarship fund with them was worth around $180,000.
    The dozen letters I’ve sent President Jackson are important enough so I’m planning on setting up a section on the site to post them. I think you’ll like my ideas on the university of the future.
    For some reason I’ve never had much interest in watching sports. Maybe something from a past life. Oh, I enjoy doing things…horseback riding, skiing, scuba diving, etc., but not watching baseball, football, or even car races. Waste of time that could be spent reading, doing things, or writing.
    RPI has a pretty good hockey team. I watched a game once. Yawn. Millions of people spend billions watching ball games…often played by millionaires. Zzzzzz.


11/14/06

Formula

    Before baby formula came on the market mothers nursed their babies. And if they couldn’t, they found someone to wet-nurse them. Today, with so many two-worker families, it’s a lot more convenient to bottle feed babies.
    There are, of course some drawbacks to this convenience. The formula makers haven’t got the product right yet. It doesn’t have all those immune system starters and boosters that keep a baby from getting sick. And there’s a resulting IQ loss of eight to ten points…the difference between a high school drop out and a college grad.
    There’s also a two-times risk of dying in the first six weeks, a two-times risk of diabetes or eczema, a five-times risk of gastroenteritis, and up to an eight-times risk of lymphatic cancer.
    Back when I had an office and employees, I encouraged my new mothers to bring their babies in to work with them and nurse. Today the staff of NH Todo all work from their home offices, so we have no company office.


11/13/06

Seer

    In looking through my files I found a copy of the New York Sunday News, February 4, 1979, and the front page (section c) article was about computers, with several Wayne Green quotes. Like: “I see tremendous possibilities for the home computer; a change in the structure of the country; an impact equal to that of the automobile.”
    “Wayne Green predicts that by next year we’ll be sending mail via computers. He sees a time in the not too distant future when businessmen will handle their affairs from home computers linked to their office; when children will pursue a good part of their education at home, and when marketing will be done in armchair comfort.
    “Wayne Green envisions the day when we will not only shop and send mail by computer, but call up books and articles from libraries.”
    How’s that for 28 years ago?


11/12/06

Stills

    Any health guide worth anything warns against drinking tap water. The water your body needs must be pure and clean. Distilled water.
    Yes, I’ve read about distilled water taking minerals out of the body. And yes, it does, but these are minerals your body doesn’t want hanging around…like lead, aluminum and mercury. These want to be flushed out, but if you are dehydrated your cells will grab what water there is, leaving none to flush out the garbage.
    You should be drinking around eight to ten glasses of water a day. If you drink coffee or tea, make that two extra cups of water for each cup of those toxic brews.
    There are two sources for the still I use. American Water Distillers, 2853 Twp Rd 249, Toronto, OH 43954, 740-544-9732 has it for $100. And NutriTeam Inc, Box 71, Ripton, VT 05766, 802-388-0661 for $120. No, I don’t get a commission.


11/11/06

Unschooling

    People magazine ran an article on families that let their kids learn what the want, because they want to. The results have been excellent.
    This is a lot like the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham MA that I’ve written about, where kids from four to twenty learn what they want. The kids are not separated by age, there’s no curriculum, no tests, no grades. And the results are wonderful. Kids love to learn, if allowed.
    What a difference from our government-run public schools, with regimentation, rote memorization, and standardized tests that can rob a child of identity and independence. It’s part of the sheepification process which has robbed us of geniuses.


11/11/06


That Dusty Moon

    At the Moon exhibit at the Boston Science Museum they showed the usual pictures of the astronaut footprints in the dust and dust being kicked up by the Lunar Rover.
    This came to mind as I read a piece by Leonard David on space.com about the very troublesome Moon dust. The problem I have with all this is that if you go into any lab that has a bell jar and a vacuum pump, put in any kind of dust you want, evacuate the air, and then if you drop a steel ball on the dust it will bounce without leaving a dent.
    You see, if there is no air, or other gas, to keep the dust particles apart, they immediately settle into a solid. Like cement. And this can be demonstrated in any lab. So, unless the Moon has an atmosphere, which none of the astronauts or instruments we’ve sent to the Moon have reported, there can’t be any dust.
    The David article says the Lunar dust stuck to everything and was a major nuisance. Funny, it didn’t seem to bother the camera lenses or get in the cameras when they changed films. Maybe the lenses and film were coated with dust repellent.


11/11/06

Sickness Spending

    It sure pays to make yourself sick with your diet and lifestyle…pays the sickness exploitation industry, a.k.a. health care.
    Last year the Medicare and Medicaid tab for the government was $515 billion. That was $21 billion more than for all military spending, a.k.a. defense. 21% of the federal budget.
    Unless something changes, this is projected to double by 2030 as a share of national income.
    This is a particularly heavy burden for employers, helping drive jobs to China and other low-wage countries.
    The heaviest cost is on seniors, where by the time what few haven’t died, 80% of those who make it to 85 are seriously impaired and running up whopping sickness bills. It costs about $145,000 to increase an average life one year for those 65 and older.
    If there was some way to get the message out about diet and lifestyle this mess could be reversed. Alas, there’s little money in health and trillions in sickness. And money talks, loud and clear, drowning out common sense and any real health news.
   

11/11/06 Pro-Lifers

Pro-Lifers

    Yes, I’m critical of pro-lifers. On the one hand they preach how precious life is. On the other I see them turning a blind eye and deaf ear to the three million civilian deaths in Congo and hundreds of thousands more in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Sudan. Oh, and 600,000-some civilians in Iraq (so far).
    And what about the two million Americans who are being killed each year as a result of their diets and lifestyles? The pro-lifers know perfectly well that smoking is helping kill about 400,000 Americans a year. So, what are they doing about this loss of precious life?
    Actually, there are things we could do to stem the African death toll, and without a UN army or American military intervention. We could go a long way toward ending civil wars just by getting the people busy making money. Capitalism is a proven winner.
    By setting up micro loans so families can start small businesses, the young men, who are the most likely to participate in violence, would be kept busy. And then, as the areas prosper, set up business incubator groups to fund and guide larger small businesses. This takes an initial capital investment, but it all gets repaid. With interest.
    Here, if we could get Americans to adopt healthy diets and lifestyles, we’d save about two million lives a year. But that would destroy today’s $1 trillion commercial food industry, and worse, the $2 trillion sickness exploitation industry.
    By eliminating our so-called “health care” costs, our industries could be much more competitive world wide, and our families would have more money to invest and spend, boosting the economy.


11/1106

China Today

    And we think we have problems! China’s cities are seriously polluted, as is their water. Their farm lands long ago played out. Families are only allowed to have one child. Foreign companies own most of their factories. Few villages have electricity, and most people still have to use bicycles.
    Sixteen of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are Chinese. They have a serious water shortage and, of what there is, 75% is too toxic to drink. Over ten million a year are moving from their farms to the cities, where they’re working for about 2% of American wages for the 5,000 major brands that dominate the world market, none owned by Chinese.
    To modernize the country it will take hundreds of coal-fired electric plants, gasoline production and distribution, and building modern roads. The air pollution will be monumental.
    To feed their population they’re either going to have to remineralize their played-out farms with rock dust or kelp, or use chemical fertilizer and then spray their crops with pesticides…further poisoning their rivers and even their wells.


11/11/06

ADHD Update

    The FDA recently mandated a warning on the labels for Dexedrine, Ritalin, Adderallxr, and Concerta that they can cause sudden death in children with heart problems, and can worsen psychiatric problems.
    These are the drugs courts have allowed schools to force on kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It’s the standard “health care” medical industry approach…treat the symptoms, not the cause. The cause is lousy parenting, with sugar frosted cold cereal in pasteurized, hormone-laden milk for breakfast, perhaps with a poptart.
    Perhaps, with a few more school shootings, the FDA will ask the drug companies add an additional warning to their labels about possibly causing mania. It’ll be in the smallest print.


11/10/06

Brainwashed Sheep

Here’s a short test to see if you qualify as a brainwashed sheep.
    You voted for an incumbent in the last election.
    Or, you didn’t vote.
    You eat at fast food restaurants.
    You are drinking some kind of soda or cola.
    You smoke or drink alcoholic beverages.
    You are eating non-organic food.
    You are drinking other than distilled water.
    When you get sick you go to a doctor,
    You’ve worked at the same job for someone else for more than a couple of years.
    You listen to daytime talk radio.
    You listen to rock music.
    You are in total denial as to being a brainwashed sheep.


11/9/06

Borat

    Since I love to laugh…unrestainedly…the huge promotion of “Borat” had me heading to the cinema. The reviewers had one common theme…they laughed often and hard.
    Sure enough, I laughed. Two or three times. Well, it was more like a chuckle. I almost dozed off. It the seat had been a little more comfortable……
    $13 for two senior tickets, plus an hour and a quarter drive each way. On the plus side, we didn’t walk out on it as we have on many of the films we’ve seen recently. Like “The Defeated.” Ugh.


11/08/06

Bargain Lodging

    Sherry was busy on the computer finding bargain lodging for our visit to Albuquerque for the yearly Balloon Fiesta in early October. She did well, finding a motel with a room for us for only $37 a night!
    It, of course, had a few drawbacks at that price. Like being on the other side of town from the Fiesta, but what’s a twenty-minute drive? Each way?
    We asked for a no-smoking room. Sure enough, the sign on the door said it was a no-smoking room. Inside it smelled like an ash tray. It stunk. The pillows and bedding stunk. The tiny bathroom stunk.
    There were none of the usual motel amenities such as a tiny bottle of shampoo, or a clock radio. The thermostat did nothing. No heat! I expected New Mexico to be warm. It wasn’t. It was 47° in the morning, just like New Hampshire, and I hadn’t brought a heavy coat.
    There were a few other minor problems such as the sink was stopped up and couldn’t be used. A couple of the light bulbs were missing. When I went to open the dresser drawer the while front of the drawer came off. There were no towels and it took several hours to finally get them. No Kleenex either.
    The Fiesta was fun and I got some great pictures.


11/07/06

Business Opportunity

    A postcard promoting the Waterwise 4000 purfier (still) with a special $269 discount sale price instead of the regular $329 almost got me to thinking. With the Steamdistiller unit looking remarkably similar to this unit, and selling for $120 from www.steamdistiller.com, an enterprising person could advertise a $329 still for $250, buy them for $120, and net a fast $130 profit.
    Every family should use a still so they can drink pure, distilled water instead of the town or city tap water.


11/7/06

Iraq II

    Naturally I sent a copy of my proposal to solve the Iraq mess with a win-win proposition to Congressman Charlie Bass.
    He sent me a handwritten note explaining that, “Sectarian violence has to be stopped by the Iraqis, then we can get on with your ideas.”
    Hey, Charlie, the whole sneaky plan is to get the Iraqis so busy making money they’ll lose interest in fighting.
    For a fraction of just one of the thousands of congressional earmarks, which are giving billions of our tax dollars to special interests via the 32,900 registered lobbyists in Washington with $2.4 billion in their pockets to bribe Congress, thousands of new small businesses could be funded all over Iraq. The violence in Iraq will fade away when everyone is too busy making money to cause trouble. Start mico-loans. Start business incubators.
    Democracy may not work in countries unaccustomed to it, but capitalism will always win. Money talks, loud and clear. So, let’s get the Iraqis so busy making money they’ll lose interest in fighting us and each other.
    Charlie got unelected today.


11/06/06

Pasteurized

    If it’s been pasteurized, whatever it is, let it go past your eyes. It’s been cooked and it’s toxic as far as your immune system is concerned. Poison. And that goes for pasteurized milk, orange juice, apple juice, and so on.
    The process not only kills any germs in the milk, it also kills the enzymes your body needs to digest it, so it’s treated as toxic, and out rush your white cells to fight it…instead of keeping busy searching out potential cancer cells and trashing them, or fighting some microbe, virus or parasite invader.
    The process also kills the vitamins your body needs to stay healthy, and the phytonutrients.
    When the stuff is fed to babies in formula it lowers their IQ by about ten points, aiming them more to be high school dropouts than college material. It, along with sugar, is a big contributor to the now rampant ADHD disease, for which the school solution is Ritalin, Zoloft, Paxil, Aderall, Valium, Prozac, Effexor, Luvox, and so on…all of which are show to contribute to mania. You know, like school shootings. The Columbine kids were on Zoloft, which I’ve seen endlessly advertised on TV.


11/4/06

D.C. Bribery

    In the last ten years the number of registered lobbyists in Washington has gone from 10,800 to 32,900. That’s 61 well-healed lobbyists for every member of Congress. They’re investing $2.4 billion (that’s with a B) a year, and you can be sure they are getting their money’s worth. Oh, and that doesn’t count millions more from corporate executives and unions.
    So, how many incumbents did you keep in office with your vote? You could clean up the mess you’ve allowed to continue just by never re-electing anyone. Do it in the primaries. Within two or three elections the professional politicians would be out to pasture or back in their law firms and we’d be back to a government for the people instead of one for big business. And you can bet we’d have fewer wars.
    And we wouldn’t have the FEMA, Homeland Security, and other such outrages. NASA would be put down. We might even see the FDA made honest! Ditto the many “intelligence” agencies. And a flat tax instead of the IRS. And government departments unbloated. The Federal Reserve canned. The borders closed. And Big Pharma put out of business by getting Americans to change their diets. Pffft would go about 90% of our so-called “health care” industry.
    Re-electing your congressman assures that the only changes you see will be for the worse. Hey, you made the mess, so get busy and clean it up.


11/3/06

911 Baloney

    US News & World Report recently confirmed their honesty in reporting with a piece calling the questions about 911 to be “outlandish claims.” No, they made no effort to rebut the questions that have been raised. Not that they could, even if they tried.
    I’ve got nine well researched books on 911, which I’m reading as fast as I can, Magic Marker in hand, plus some excellent videos.
    You know, when I take the time to research what conspiracy theorists are beefing about, I usually find them on to things. And in this case, it’s not a few “conspiracy nuts,” it’s about 85% of Americans who aren’t buying the official story.
    Things like finding that engine from a 737 in the rubble, when it was claimed to be a 767 airliner that crashed into the tower, are difficult to sweep under the rug.


11/2/06

Global Baloney

    The political rhetoric is heating up even more than the Earth, with Senators McCain (R-Ariz), Bingman (D-NM), Kerry (D-Mass), Jeffords (I-Vt), and others introducing bills to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
    Please take a few minutes and email these opportunists we keep re-electing the news that global warming has almost nothing to do with man’s activities. Oh, I’m all for not polluting our air, water, and land, but not for the fake excuse of curbing global warming.
    As I’ve explained before, the same thing is heating up the Earth as is warming all of the planets in our solar system. It’s what’s causing us to have more and bigger earthquakes, and more volcano eruptions. And more meteors reported in the papers in the last year than in the previous 35 years combined. No amount of laws are going to change what’s happening.


11/1/06

Soda Pop

    German researchers allowed mice to drink either plain water or fructose-sweetened water (like soft drinks) for ten weeks. Though the mice drinking the sweetened water ate fewer calories from solid food, they ended up with 27% more body fat than the mice drinking plain water.
    This would make a nice science project for kids.


10/31/06

McDonald’s

    Now I understand a little better why so many people are addicted to McDonald’s food. It’s the MSG. That’s monosodium glutamate, which they add to their food. It’s inexpensive and makes food taste better…like sugar does. Except it’s far more toxic than sugar.
    Dr. Russell Blaylock, in his book, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, explains that MSG kills brain cells. So, in addition to being addicted to the food, and not noticing they are ballooning out, McDonald’s customers are dumber.


10/30/06

Zzzzzzzz

    My advice on how you can get to sleep quickly got lost somewhere, so here’s the scoop on how I’m able to lie down and, usually within one minute be sound asleep. It’s easy.
    We all have a whole bunch of habits. Some even beneficial. So, what you’re going to do is build a very beneficial habit pattern.
    From now on, when you are ready to go to sleep get into a very comfortable position. For me this is on my left side, with a pillow between my legs, another under my head, and curled up. We’re building a habit here, so always get into the same position.
    Your room should be dark and quiet. No distractions. No TV. No radio. No night lights.
    Then, decide what time you want to wake up.
    Okay, the next step is to shut down your mind. Concentrate totally on your breathing and quietly say. “Zooo – zooo - zooo” a few times. And that’s your gateway into the Land of Nod.
    After you’ve done this routine a few times your body/mind will have the habit installed and no more insomnia. You’ll be able, like me, to turn off the light, roll over, and be asleep within a few seconds. It’s a great habit to build.
    The habit works for me for my one-hour afternoon naps as well as at night. I lie down, do a cross-word puzzle, turn off the light, roll over, and I’m asleep.
    A headache? That’s easy. They’re caused primarily by shallow breathing, so hyperventilate a few times, yawn, and fill your lungs with air. Our bodies are oxygen-burning engines, and the brain is the largest user of oxygen, so when you cut down on your oxygen input, you’re going to get headaches.


10/29/06

Health Care Prevention

    Since treating people who have given themselves cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and so on with their diets and lifestyles is called health care, should getting them to change their lifestyles so they can cure the illnesses they’ve caused themselves be called health care prevention?
    Sickness isn’t caused by germs and viruses! No matter the sickness or even plague “going around,” people with strong immune systems don’t get sick.  Their immune systems take care of any invading germs, viruses, parasites, yeasts, or funghi.
    The people who get colds, flu, diabetes, cancer, tooth decay, macular degeneration, and so on, are those who have knocked their immune systems out via excessive toxins they’ve eaten, drunk,, breathed or rubbed on their bodies. Mostly eaten. So, urging them to eat a non-toxic diet could be called health care prevention.


10/26/06

Trudeau II

    Here are some more quotes from his Natural Cures book.
    “The four causes of all diseases” (1) Toxins in the body; (2) nutritional deficiencies; (3) electromagnetic chaos; (4) emotional and mental stress.”
    For attention deficit disorder he advises to, ”simply eliminate all dairy products, white sugar, white flour, aspartame and MSG.”
    “Anyone who has bypass surgery is a victim of the food industry and a lack of knowledge.” He points out that clogged arteries result from chlorine in the water, hydrogenated oils, trans fats, and homogenized dairy products. It isn’t cholesterol.
    If you want to lose weight, walk. “People throughout the world walk an average of ten miles a day, where people in America walk less than a quarter of a mile a day. If you want to lose weight, walk.”
    With sleep, he advises that the body gets the best out of sleep between 10 pm and 2 am, with eight hours of sleep being optimum.
    Then there’s fluoride. “Toothpaste with fluoride is deadly. Fluoride in toothpaste and in the water is one of the major reasons why we have such obesity levels in America today. In the communities that have the highest amounts of fluoride in their water supply, there is also the highest amounts of obesity and a host of other diseases. The link is indisputable.”
    If you read his section on microwaved food you’ll never use your microwave again. He points out, “that almost all restaurant food is microwaved.”
    He also says to get rid of silver fillings.
    In all, he’s saying almost exactly the same things I do in my Secret Guide to Health, only at longer length, and with more repetition.


10/25/06

SHEEP!

    Our domestication starts early with bottle instead of breast feeding, thus lowering our IQs by around ten trouble-making points, It continues with many hours a day of mesmerizing TV pacification replacing the instinctive curiosity which otherwise gets babies into everything.
    As early as possible, babies are put on a breakfast diet of sugar-coated breakfast cereals, immersed in pasteurized, homogenized, growth hormone and antibiotic-laced milk…which is produced by cows fed genetically modified corn instead of grass, given growth hormones to increase their milk yield, and then antibiotics to handle the mastitis (puss in the milk) caused by the hormones.
    With a side order of pop-tarts.
    Early on, they are injected with a series of vaccinations, all loaded with thimerosal preservative, which is made up of mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde. There is no research showing these vaccinations are providing long term health or other benefits to the babies. To the contrary, mercury goes to the baby’s brain, dissolving brain cell insulation, killing brain cells. D’uh.
    Babies are kept in play pens, further squelching their inborn desire to explore and learn.
    Then comes the mandatory government-run public school system where kids sit in rows, not allowed to talk with each other and discouraged from asking questions. They’re kept in line with humiliation by a poorly-trained and seriously undereducated dictator-teacher. And if embarrassment and humiliation don’t work, there’s always Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft, Paxil, Valium, Adderall, Effexor, Concerta, Luvox, etc, all with histories of causing mania.
    In my 16 years of school there were just two teachers who made their classes fun and exciting. Many classes were boring. Most didn’t every reach that level.
    Our government-run school system was designed to produce people who would go to church on Sunday and not question The Bible. Then, when the industrial revolution came along, to work in the factories and not ask questions. We’re still obedient and not asking questions, except for a few nut-case trouble-makers.
    We believe what the major media tells us. We spend most of our spare time being entertained, which requires no thinking. And, seldom having been called on to think, we go to lengths to avoid it.
    Can you name any great pieces of music, works of art, or books produced in the last 50 years?


10/24/06

A Job Crunch

    With our big companies moving their factories to Asia and more and more of their office work too, it’s small businesses that are taking up the slack. They’re now creating two-thirds of all new jobs and are employing half of the country’s workers.
    But small biz is hurting. It’s the shortage of qualified workers. Over half of small businesses have been trying to hire more workers, and 84% of them have reported difficulty in finding qualified applicants. How come? Hey, could it be our so-called educational system? Our schools are educating their inmates about as well as our correctional institutions are correcting theirs.
    When I was in the K-8 system I felt like an inmate. I had almost no freedom, and was at the mercy of the warden up there in front. No wonder I just barely got by.
    If America is going to have any chance of long term survival, we’d better start educating our kids. And the only practical way I see that happening is a revolution that gets the government out of the business, and the teacher unions, too.
    I’m anxious to get the revolution started. I’ve got plenty of ammunition and a battle plan.
    The basic idea is to replace the classroom with DVD programs that are as much fun as video games so kids can learn what they want, when they want, and because they want. And enjoy every minute of it. No memorization, no tests, no grades.
    Eventually there’ll be programs for every imaginable interest for all ages.
   

10/23/06

Light Bulbs?

    With the compact fluorescent light bulbs now down to $3 it’s time to raid Wal-Mart and cut your electric bills. By a lot. The new bulbs give the same light as an ordinary 60-watt bulb, but draw only 15 watts. Plus, they last from five to ten years, even when in heavy use.
    Since the average house has somewhere between fifty and a hundred light bulbs, changing to the compact fluorescent swirl-shaped bulbs can cut your electric bill significantly. At least, every time an incandescent bulb burns out, replace it with a swirl bulb. I’ve been replacing the bulbs which get the most use and not worrying about closet lights or in my fridge.
    From a health viewpoint, neither the incandescent or the fluorescent bulbs are good for you. You really should be using full-spectrum bulbs. But then, you probably haven’t bothered to read John Ott’s Health and Light (reviewed on page 9 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, or Jacob Lieberman’s Light, Medicine of the Future (also on page 9). They tell about the remarkable changes that take place in classrooms where full spectrum bulbs have replaced fluorescent bulbs. Grades go up, restlessness goes down.
    Until healthier fluorescent bulbs are available reasonably, we’d best make do with the compact swirl jobs and take advantage of the savings on electricity.
 

10/22/06

The Crusdor

    This is a tabloid that comes out six times a year and tells it like it is. Their motto is, “Wielding the sword of truth in a world of lies.” Hey, that ought to be my motto. That’s what I do, too.
    It’s outrageously overpriced…and worth it…at $20 a year from Crusador Enterprises, Box 618205, Orlando FL 32861. 800-593-6273. www.healthliesexposed.com.
    The articles are generally outstanding, but I wouldn’t bother with all the health products they advertise.
    The headline on the latest issue: “Are Food & Drug Companies Deliberately Poisoning Us?” The interview with Mike Adams (www.newstarget.com) sure answers the question. It kept my hi-lighter busy with such as: “Research shows that getting vaccinated against the flu is only effective in reducing flu in about 1% of those who get vaccinated. And yet, at the same time, it harms the immune system of virtually everyone who gets the shot.”
    And, he talks about the poisons in our food such as MSG - nitrates and nitrites in processed meats like salami, bologna, and hot dogs. One serving a day more than doubles the risk of colon or pancreatic cancer. “Children have a 300% increased risk of brain tumors if they eat hot dogs on a regular basis.”
    He says cancer is cured from the inside out. You are your own doctor; you are your own cure. Vitamin D halts the growth of cancer tumors, and the best source of vitamin D is sunlight on the skin. Your skin generates exactly the amount of vitamin D your body needs.
   But, what about sunburn? That’s caused by a nutritional deficiency. Our ancestors ran around all day outside without getting sunburned. But they ate uncooked and unprocessed food.
   Mike then discusses water. Water is the first medicine we should turn to. Chronic back pain is often relieved just by drinking additional water. Most asthma is cause by dehydration.
    There are only two other publications that I respect when it comes to health matters, one is Acres USA and the other is Nexus, a monthly magazine out of Australia.


10/21/06

Trudeau’s Book

    Kevin Trudeau’s 572-page Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About is, deservedly, a best-seller.
He says pretty much the same things I do in my Secret Guide to Health, except with considerable redundancy. Here are some of the things I highlighted.
    “There are all-natural, non-drug, and non-surgical cures for most every illness and disease. There are organizations, government agencies, companies, and entire industries that are spending billions of dollars trying to hide these natural cures from you.”
    “Every single non-prescription and prescription drug has adverse side effects and should virtually never be taken. • Medical doctors are trained to do only two things: prescribe drugs or surgery. They are not trained at preventing disease and have little exposure to any treatment other than drugs or surgery. • Medical science has absolutely, 100 percent, failed in the curing and prevention of illness, sickness, and disease.”
    “The percentage of Americans dying of cancer today is the same as it was in 1970 and even 1950. • The American infant mortality rate is higher than twenty other developed countries. People in thirty other countries live longer than Americans.”
    “Over 68% of Americans are overweight. • Animals in the wild such as chimpanzees, do not get sick. They do not get diabetes, cancer, heart disease, asthma, arthritis, etc. They have virtually no disease and live three to five times longer than humans. • There are enormous amounts of money to be made as long as people stay sick.
Health care is the most profitable industry in the world. The health-care industry has no incentive for curing disease.”
    “What about the charities and foundations? The officers and directors have huge salaries and enormous expense accounts. The Jerry Lewis Telethon has raised over $1 billion for muscular dystrophy, yet more people have it than ever before. • Lobbyists bribe and pay off congressmen. • Of the last 20 FDA commissioners, 12 of them went to work directly for the drug industry upon leaving the FDA and were paid millions of dollars. That’s a payoff. • In order for a drug company to get a drug patented and approved by the FDA, it costs approximately $800 million in research and testing. Guess where most of that money goes. The FDA gets funding directly from the drug industry. It’s getting over $1.2 billion a year from the drug industry. • Many members of the FDA and Congress own stock in drug companies. • The FDA has made as a law, “Only a drug can cure, prevent or treat a disease.” Anyone making a claim that anything other than a drug can cure, prevent, or treat a disease is breaking this ‘law’ and is subject to criminal prosecution.”
    “One of the major reasons why there is so much sickness and disease is because of the poisons you are putting in your body. If man made it, don’t eat it.”
    He goes into detail on how bad milk is, with growth hormones, pasteurization and homogenization. And microwaving. Eat it raw, not cooked.
    What can we eat in restaurants? Nothing! And fast food restaurants are categorically the worst.
Drink a lot more water. Distilled water. Steam distillation. Drink water and nothing else. He explains how bad fluorides are.
    If your body’s immune system is strong and healthy, when you are exposed to the viruses and bacteria, which we all are every day, your body would simply handle them and you wouldn’t even notice them.
    Trudeau says, “It is hard to find a truly healthy person.” His natural cures prescription for health is to drink eight full glasses of pure water daily. No canned or bottled juice. Walk an hour a day. Practice deep breathing. Stop putting toxins in your body. Do not eat any food products. Eat only 100% organic raw food. Get amalgam fillings removed by an expert. Stop smoking. Do not use a microwave oven. No air fresheners. No pasteurized or homogenized dairy products. Eat only organic meat and poultry. If you can’t eat it, don’t put it on your skin. No antiperspirants or deodorants. Do not take vitamins. No sugar or flour, or artificial sweeteners. No food bars.  Eliminate fluorescent lighting. No cell phones. Avoid newspapers and radio or TV news. Listen to music. Good music. Do Dianetics.


10/20/06

Baby Signs

    There’s an ad for a six-volume $30 set of books on teaching your baby to sign in the SkyMall mgazine (800-759-6255). This is a way to teach your baby to communicate before it can speak. Using this system you can get babies as young as six and seven months to let you know when they want milk, a diaper change, and a bunch of other things.
    Signing helps the baby’s brain to develop faster, so it will learn to speak earlier, build a vocabulary faster, and develop about a 12-point higher IQ.
    In my Secret Guide to Wisdom I review (page 43) a $13 book, Baby Signs, which first got me onto this system. It’s by Acredolo and Goodwyn, published by Contemporary Books.
    Not using baby signs deprives the baby of its potential brain growth at this critical time, permanently damaging the baby.


10/19/06

NRA

    It’s my Never Re-elect Anyone campaign. The idea is to get the professional politicians out of politics, and get businessmen in to serve one term and then go back to their businesses…as the founders of our country envisioned.
   Has it occured to you that there’s a good reason why our politicians are able to spend a millions of dollars getting re-elected? And this reason is unlikely to benefit you. You complain about the mess the country is in, and then you guarantee the mess is going to get worse by re-electing the crooks that made the mess.
    The best place to start is with the primaries, but as a last ditch measure, forget parties and vote out the incumbent. And then do it again in the 2008 election. In a few years we could be rid of the professional politicians who are fleecing us.
    Unless your eyeballs are totally buried in entertainment and your brain turned off, you’ve noticed the steady creap of both inflation and taxes. You’ve maybe even noticed some of the 20 million illegal aliens among us. And the lies and cover-ups…911, Iraq, so-called health care, and so on…the stuff I rant about. And the ballooning of government, with more and bigger departments, few (if any) making life easier for us.
    Let’s start forming political action groups to prepare for the 2008 elections. Our aim will be to make all the incumbents into outcumbents. Their mailings and TV ads are all baloney, aimed at influencing the sheep to stay quietly in the fold while the wolves fleece them.
    The media, making millions from the political ads, sure aren’t going to bite the hands that feed them.
    Congressmen know that if they rock the boat they’ll never get a bill through any committee, so they’re kept in line…while the money flows in from the thousands of well-heeled lobbyists.
    So, why wait for some big exposé to oust your crook. Do it now. And if we do it regularly for a few years the parties will run out of crooks to run…and we’ll see honest efforts to trim the government, fewer wars, and lower taxes. We might even see America lose first place as the largest debtor nation in the world, our students getting back into the running in international surveys, and an interest in eating healthily to cut our worst in the world sickness care costs.
    Oh, excuse me, I’ve been dreaming again


10/18/06

Done That

    Since I love to scuba dive, I subscribe to Scuba and Skin Diver magazines.
    For some reason…possibly having to do with a past life…right from when I first learned to swim when I was seven, I headed underwater, so skin diving was a natural for me.
    My mother, who won swimming cups in high school, tried to get me to do the Australian crawl. Well, I did it, but then I’d dive down and swim along the bottom of the pool.
    My first reef dive was when we were at the submarine rest camp on Majuro in the Marshall Islands during WWII. I grabbed a Momson Lung and explored the coral formations in the lagoon. I was hooked.
    Later, after Cousteau invented scuba, I went to Bermuda and took lessons. Then I bought my own tank and a compressor so I could dive from my boat around the Long Island coast and inlets. And I started going on diving trips to the Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, and Acapulco.
    What surprised me was, when reading the latest issue of Scuba, there were lots of ads for diving destinations, but once I’d been diving somewhere I had no interest in going back and doing it again, no matter how great it was. Come to think about it, it’s the same with travel…once I’ve visited a country, that’s enough. Been there, done that.
    In amateur radio I loved pioneering new technologies and had little interest in doing the same old thing over and over.
    With my magazines, they’ve all been pioneering publications. I’ve started ’em, run ’em for a few years until they were routine, and then sold ’em so I could start something new.   


10/16/06

Hiatus

    I got behind with my blogs while Sherry and I went to Albuquerque for a couple days to watch their yearly Balloon Fiesta. Hundreds of hot air balloons…many the usual onion shape, but also dozens of special shapes, like a can of Alpo, a rubber ducky, a witch on a broom, the space shuttle, and Noah’s Ark. It’s worth the trip.
    I’ll put some pictures on here when I get some time.


10/15/06

Russell Targ

    If you’ve had your blinders on and stuck to the mainstream media, like we’re all trained to do, you probably haven’t heard about remote viewing. Just as an experienced dowser can locate anything anywhere in the world, a good remote viewer can see things anywhere. And any time.
    Check out the interview with Russell Targ: http://consciousmedianetwork.com/members/rtarg. He tells about an experiment where the remote viewer was asked to visualize a scene that was going to happen some time later. The person he was to view, at the time of the viewing, didn’t know where he would be sent. This was determined from a group of possible locations by the throw of the dice…after the scene had been sketched by the viewer. Yes, the viewer got it right. Precognition.
    My $3 booklet #86 explains how all this works in the Dowsing section.


10/14/06

Death Sentence or Wakeup Call?

    Here’s an editorial reprint from a 1997 issue of 73 Magazine. Little has changed.
    As Andy used to say to Amos, “I’ze regusted.” The more I learn about our overly expensive and monumentally ineffective medical industry, the more regusted I get. The only reason you’re putting up with all their baloney is because you’ve been conned into trusting doctors and you haven’t bothered to do your homework, despite my nagging.
    And one of the best examples is the cancer industry. With there being around a 50-50 chance that you’re going to have to deal with cancer personally, how long are you going to wait before you take the time to learn about it?
    The cancer industry? You bet! It’s a $40 billion industry and the insiders know the whole works is a scam. The fact is a bunch of doctors already know what causes cancer, and I mean 100% of all cancers, not just one or two flavors. They also know how any cancer can be cured — simply and inexpensively — but that would put thousands of doctors out of work and raise holy hob with the whole medical industry. Golly, I wish I were exaggerating!
    And the same thing holds for AIDS, the acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome. The secret for curing AIDS lies in the name of the “disease” itself. And this also provides a powerful clue for how to treat the Big C.
    Sure, we’ve all heard about the immune system, but it’s been kept mystically buried under layers of medical jargon. So let’s lay out the situation simply. We have a blood system which takes the raw materials for our body which have been processed by the lungs, stomach, liver and intestines, and distributes them to the cells so they can live and divide into more cells. The lymph system fights off the invaders, and there is no shortage of them. It also rushes to repair damage to the body. Even under the best of circumstances the immune system is kept busy handling damage repair and dealing with invaders.
    So what happens when we overwhelm the immune system? It breaks down and is unable to fight off its foes as well. A strong immune system quickly detects mutant cells. In any really large factory there are always some defective products. Here we’re dealing with around 75 trillion cells, all busy replicating each other from every few minutes to weeks. The immune system is a quality control supervisor, checking for defective products and destroying them. Maybe one cell out of a million will make a mistake during replication. A mutation. And if this is allowed to grow it can get out of control and you have a cancer. The body is continually generating these small potential cancers and the immune system keeps finding and destroying them.
    This is the source for all cancers.
    The immune system has been designed to cope with the level of damage which human bodies have had to deal with over the last million years or so — just as the other bodily systems are designed to work with the food, water, air, etc., which human bodies have grown used to using for fuel.
    Now let’s go to today and the many poisons which we inflict on our bodies; poisons with which the immune system has to cope. Between immunization shots (which contain pathogens, mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde), mercury from dental fillings, chlorine and fluorides in the water, all kinds of pollutants in the air, dioxin in the water, antibiotics and hormones in our meat, pesticides in and on our fruits and vegetables, hefty doses of nicotine, alcohol, poisons from root canals, and so on, our immune systems are up against a barrage of enemies far beyond their design limits for coping.
    And that doesn’t even count the effects of stress, which alone can incapacitate even a fairly healthy immune system.
    So when the immune system breaks down and cancers get started in the weaker parts of our bodies, what do doctors do? Chemotherapy! Right! They inject a huge load of deadly poisons. And they radiate. It’s no wonder there are so few survivors of this madness. If you look at the statistics you’ll see that our trusted medical professionals have not added one day to the life of cancer patients in the last 40 years.
    So what’s the answer? Good grief, do you even have to ask? If you want to cure cancer (or AIDS, for that matter) you want to rebuild your immune system. This means stopping the poison input and making sure your body gets the raw materials it needs to repair itself. Clean air, distilled water, UV rays from the sun in your eyeballs, the 90 minerals, enzymes and vitamins your body was designed to use (many of which are long gone from our supermarket food shelves), and as little stress as possible. Maybe you remember Norman Cousins and his miraculous recovery just by watching comedies and reading humor books? Laugh it up. Oh yes, and exercise. Shake your cells.
    Now, the choice we all have is to either continue to beat the heck out of our immune system and wait until the wakeup call comes, forcing us to either contemplate death or a change in our habits, whichever we consider less of a problem. If we choose life we have to get busy making sure we give our immune system the best break we can right now. Hmm, will it be leukemia, perhaps aggravated by EMFs? Or maybe a brain tumor (a shortage of vanadium)? I’ve lost some good friends to those. Or perhaps it will just be something slo-o-w and painful like arthritis.
    I don’t know about you, but I’m not about to wait for the Grim Reaper to take away my computer and cancel my last stamp. So I’m eating mostly raw food, drinking plenty of distilled water, getting my exercise every day, avoiding sugar, white flour, and poisons such as aspartame (NutraSweet), adding the 90 minerals and stuff which are missing from supermarket foods to my diet, and hyperventillating every time I think of it (our air has less oxygen in it than it used to). I also laugh a lot. Hey, have you read a Dilbert book yet? And check out the humor section of my $5 (and worth $5,000) Secret Guide to Wisdom.
    Not only am I convinced that just about anyone can regain robust health, even if near death from cancer or AIDS, but probably from almost anything else, if they give their immune system a break. But, hey, it’s your body and our culture encourages a wide variety of destructive behavior. Like Big Macs and fries, or beer and Fritos. Or (sob) Haägen Dasz coffee ice cream. When your wakeup call comes, start reading the health oriented books on my recommended list and outlive your doctor.
    I wonder if you know that despite billions of dollars having been spent on cancer research that no cancer incurable 35 years ago is curable today. There has been some progress with some rare types of cancer, but for over 95% of all cancer patients all that research hasn’t influenced their survival one bit. Radiation and chemotherapy?       No matter how many drugs or how high the dosage, it doesn’t really work (Ref: What Doctors Don’t Tell You, July 1996).


10/13/06

Magnetic Healing?

    I’ve read a good deal about the power of magnets to help the body heal. I’ve even reviewed a couple of books on the subject, and I have a good friend I met at the Global Sciences Conference in Tampa who is an expert on the subject. So I wasn’t completely surprised when I got a letter from a reader who was active in the early linear accelerator days.
    He explained that the researchers for General Atomic, working on the linear accelerator for Lawrence Livermore in San Francisco, were surprised when their magnetic doughnut-shaped coils collapsed the copper tubes the coils were wound around when the capacitors were discharged into the coils. They didn’t know that non-magnetic materials such as copper, brass and aluminum could be formed by a high energy impulse magnetic wave. Once they discovered this they sold units to several several companies for forming parts.
    In the early days of testing the equipment a technician didn’t want to bother setting up a special jig, so he just held the part to be formed in his hand and let loose the magnetic blast. His hand got a severe burn that should have taken at least six months to heal. A few days later it was healed. They tried to interest people in the medical field, but got nowhere.
    One of their people got his ankle shattered while skiing in Nevada. Gangrene set in, so he was flown to a hospital in San Francisco, where they wanted to amputate. Friends brought him to the magnetic unit and two days later the gangrene was fading away. When the doctors went to operate the ankle had healed. The medical community refused to look at what they’d found.
    If you’ve read any of the books I’ve recommended on the medical industry this will not surprise you.


10/12/06

Shocking

    A newspaper article from Graham Rogers in Australia cites another medical anomaly worth investigating. This has to do with a chap who was suffering from Ross River virus, which produces extreme fatigue and lasts a year or two. It’s transmitted by mosquitoes. It seems this chap who was suffering from the virus and had difficulty even getting out of bed. Then he accidentally got pushed into an electric fence and got a dandy shock. The next day he had recovered from the virus. He told a good friend of his who also was suffering from the virus about it. The friend came around and zapped himself on the fence and within 15 minutes his pains were gone.
    Some time ago I wrote about the Amazon Indian cure for snake bite where they take the wire off their outboard motor spark plug and zap the bite to counteract the venom. Indeed, the Jungle Aviation flyers take along a spark coil system just for that emergency in their planes.
    Now, I suppose you’re going to ask me why the medical industry is blind to these anomalies. How can they pass up researching electrical approaches to curing illnesses? You wouldn’t ask that if you’d read the exposé books on the industry on my recommended list. The big money in the $2 trillion American medical industry is in selling medications. If the drug companies can’t develop and patent a pharmaceutical which will bring in hundreds of millions you aren’t going to see it. Or have you bought any pills lately? And the pill and shot pushers are solidly backed up by the AMA, the FDA, NIH, and on down the list, complete with swat teams to put you in prison if you try to cause any trouble. Lordy, you should see some of the letter’s I’ve been getting from FDA prisoners around the country!
    It cost me over $35,000 in legal fees to stay out of prison when the Post Office stopped me from sending infomation through the mail on a simple blood purifier which had been curing AIDS. Since it was not authorized by the FDA, an $800 million, ten year process, it was, by law, fraudulent. They forbid me from even mentioning the patent number in anything I mailed.


10/11/06

AIDS, HIV, & Other Baloney

    Unless you know someone with HIV or AIDS (or both), or are curious about all the fuss, you may not be interested enough to go out and buy the Peter Duesberg book, Inventing the AIDS Virus. It’s a $30 722-pager and it nails the medical establishment to the wall for the mess it’s made of this whole business.
    Since I’ve read several places that there are thousands of AIDS patients who are HIV negative, and millions of HIV positive people with no sign of AIDS, Duesberg’s claim that AIDS is a lifestyle disease, particularly involving the use of recreational drugs, makes sense. He further provides exhaustive proof that AZT, which is a chemotherapy used to treat AIDS, actually is responsible for causing AIDS. He also provides proof that AIDS is not in the slightest infectious.
    AIDS is actually the result of a toxic buildup from drug use. Remember the drug culture of the ’60s? Well, is it really all that surprising that people’s bodies eventually reacted a few years later? And since drug use is particularly rampant in the homosexual culture, this explains why the syndrome hit this group so strongly. It’s similar to cigarettes, where it takes a few years of poisoning one’s body with nicotine and tars before emphysema, heart trouble, lung cancer, and other illnesses caused by defeating the body’s immune system inevitably appear. These drugs lower the effectiveness of the immune system, allowing any opportunistic disease to win out.
    Our bodies harbor billions of microbes. Indeed there are more microbes than cells in our bodies, so our immune system is in a constant war with invaders. Anything that tends to lower the immune system can allow the bad guys to win. Our immune system suffers when we are stressed, when our bodies don’t get the required nutrients, if we shortchange it on water or oxygen, or load in toxins.
    But what about all those hemophiliacs who’ve been dying of AIDS as a result of blood transfusions? It turns out that’s tied in with a new drug for hemophilia called Factor VIII. This is an immuno-suppressive drug, so if the patient also is also HIV positive, the chances are that a doctor will prescribe FDA-approved AZT, and that’s the end.
    Maybe you’ve noticed that none of those AIDS establishment’s frightening predictions have materialized. Our hospitals are not packed solid with people dying of AIDS. The big winners have been the condom manufacturers, Burroughs Wellcome Labs and their AZT sales, the AIDS support groups, and those benefitting from the billions of government money that Congress has thrown into fruitless research (welfare for scientists).
    The Duesberg book is a fascinating (if long) detective story, and there are no shortage of bad guys put into the spotlight.
    Another excellent read on the subject is Dr. Eva Snead, MD’s two-volume (968-pages) Some call it “AIDS” — I call it murder! It’s subtitled: The connection between cancer, AIDS, immunizations, and genocide. And there’s Jon Rappoport’s AIDS Inc., Scandal of the Century.
    Bill Gates and Bono are doing far more harm than good by wasting their billions on AIDS medications for Africa.


10/10/06

Another Gloom & Doomer

    The Survival of Civilization by John Hamaker, Hamaker-Weaver Publishing, ISBN 0-941550-00-1. Hamaker is all upset over the rapid increase in CO2 levels, predicting the end of the world. I want a second opinion. But he does make a good case for remineralizing the earth. A very good case. Ever since listening to the Dr. Wallach Dead Doctors Don’t Lie tape, I’ve been looking for more information on the loss of minerals from our topsoil.
    As Hamaker points out, to look at them you can’t tell the difference between crops grown using NPK (chemical) fertilizers and remineralized crops, but one is healthy and the other sure isn’t. So what’s remineralization? This has to do with grinding up rocks to replace the minerals which have either been leached out of the soil, plus the minerals plants have extracted and which have not been returned. Once the farms were “played out” the farmers had to start using commercial fertilizers to keep their crops growing. The problem is that this robs us of the minerals our bodies need to keep healthy.
    How effective is remineralizing the soil? The USDA ran a test with seven steers fed the usual fodder and another seven fed the exact same diet with 3.5% cement kiln dust added. The dust-fed animals gained 28% more weight and ate 21% less feed. Imagine how healthy you and your family might be if you were getting all the minerals your body was designed to use, but which you haven’t been getting in your supermarket food!
    My solution is a heaping teaspoon of Nature’s First Food from www.rawfood.com in a half glass of unpasteurized apple juice every day.
    When part of a field is rock dusted, cows eat the grass from that part first.
    Then there’s the dead zones in our oceans from the NPK fertillizer and pesticide run off.


10/9/06

Vegetizing

    Unless you’ve chosen to be uneducated in the food department (aka ignorant), you know that you really should be including a hefty bunch of veggies in your diet. At least if you want to make it with any grace through your 50s and not join the strictly steak and potatoes group in their $2,000 a day hospital wards. Yes, I know, you and Bush are not broccoli fans. I happen to like it, but I can almost empathize with those who don’t. When I was a kid I hated cauliflower and didn’t think I’d ever like it. Now I love it.
    Anyway, I’ve found a great way to not just make these veggies delicious, but to do it in their healthiest (for you) form: raw. Here’s the deal. I hope you have a blender. I throw in a cup each of raw broccoli and cauliflower, and a half cup of raw carrots. Zizz ’em together until they’re in pieces slightly larger than Grape Nuts.
    You’re going to need some salad dressing for this. I’m using a couple of tablespoons of my grandmother’s old cold slaw recipe. It has two cups of extra virgin olive oil, two cups of organic apple cider vinegar, one cup of unheated honey, two quarts of plain organic yogurt, a teaspoon or two of celery seeds, salt and pepper to taste. Then whip it all together. This makes a fabulous creamy sweet-sour dressing that’s great for slaw and as a veggie dip. It’s reasonably low cal and easy to make. You’ll love it!
    The olive oil is good for you, as are the apple cider vinegar, honey, and yogurt. The best part is that this helps you live longer so you can watch while your enemies die of heart attacks, cancer, and other eating diseases.
    The combo of the raw zizzed veggies and slaw dressing makes eating healthy food easy. Hey, give it a try. It might help keeping you from becoming a veggie yourself.


10/8/06

Slavery, US Style

    Here’s a letter I recieved which may enlighten you.

Unicor

    (Name witheld) Lompoc CA.  In the last couple of issues of 73 Magazine, you told your readers about a prison corporation called Unicor. Unfortunately, you haven’t heard half of a horrifying story.
    I am in the high security U.S. Penitentiary at Lompoc, CA. I work for Unicor in the sign factory, and started at 19 cents per hour. Now I make 92 cents per hour, half of which is taken for fines. I do not get overtime, nor premium pay, nor longevity pay. I work under sweatshop conditions under the management of incompetent staff (by the way, a high school diploma is no longer required for guards in the Bureau of Prisons. The department will tutor them and give them a cash reward for taking and passing the G.E.D. test).
    I print signs. Every sign, poster, decal, etc., on government property, be it a building, federal highway, national park or forest, any federal entity, was printed in a Unicor sign factory. The decals on cars and trucks? Yep. Including the military, border patrol, etc.
    Working conditions are a nightmare. Exposure to chemicals, aluminum dust, etc., are horrifying, and we work with antiquated equipment.
    We are fed incredibly sub-standard food, and are subjected to continuous intimidation by guards and staff because they know they will never be held liable since the only inspections here are done by agencies that give 6 months advance notice.
    Wayne, this is slavery, pure and simple. I have no choice but to work, since the Bureau of Prisons insists upon it. But no human being should be treated like we are.
    I don’t make waves. I want to do my time and go home. But the guards and staff here are plain sadistic and they enjoy it. The medical staff doesn’t give a damn about us, and the staff “counselors” here use their position as a bargaining chip to coerce us. If you could witness half of the brutality of these guards and staff, and the psychological games they play, you would not understand how a human being can act that way against another, especially under color of authority.
    I don’t need to be reminded that I am a convicted felon. But I am here as punishment, not for punishment, and the way Bureau of Prisons treats its inmates is criminal. I make Unicor thousands of dollars per week! For 41 cents an hour.
    Please write about this. Don’t let us be forgotten. I pled guilty to my charges because I made a mistake. Bureau of Prisons is helping Unicor make slavery and throw-away workers acceptable.


10/7/06

The Sleep Racket

    Those Lunesta ads we’re seeing endlessly in magazines and on TV are working. They spent around $200 million last year on ads and sold $329 million’s worth of pills. That’s part of the $2 billion Americans spend on sleeping pills every year.
    Hell’s bells, once you learn how to go to sleep you can do it in seconds. But this is something they don’t teach in school, or on any TV show I’ve seen. Nor any book I’ve found. I guess this is another of those big secrets Big Pharma doesn’t want revealed. Forbes managed to run a five-page article on “The Sleep Racket” without giving away the secret.
    When I go to bed at night or take my afternoon nap, I’m asleep within a minute.
   

10/6/06

The FDA

    The daily emails from Dr. Mercola are worth while. He’s into raw food, etc. See www.mercola.com.
    His comment on the FDA, “If the school system were run like the FDA, students would test themselves at home and then simply tell the teachers how they did. The school system would depend on fees paid by the student’s parents, so they would pass everyone with wealthy parents.”


10/6/06

More Iraq

    Steve Forbes came up with a practical solution to the Sunni, Shiite, Kurd problem of their all busy killing each other. Set up Iraq like they did in Switzerland, with sparate cantons, each with its own elected government. That’s kept the Germans, French and Italian sections of Switzerland at peace while their home countries have been at war with each other.


10/6/06

Iran

    Back before the hostage-taking at the American embassy in Iran, I visited the country for about a week on a leisurely twenty-five country trip around the world.
    The American ham operator I stayed with in Tehran had a beautiful home, complete with a swimming pool and ham station, so I was able to keep in touch with my ham friends all around the world. The American ambassador also was a ham, so I had a nice visit with him at the embassy. We had dinner together and then I got on the air from his station and made more contacts…including my home station in New Hampshire.
    When I get some time I’ll scan in some slides and put them on my site.
    From there my next stop was Iraq.


10/6/06

A New Fluoride Report

    The National Research Council has just released a damning report on what fluoride is doing to us. It’s mottling our teeth, making our bones brittle…think the virtual death sentence for seniors of a broken hip. It’s also disrupting our nervous and endocrine systems, including the brain, thyroid and pineal gland, and it’s contributing to Alzheimer’s. And all it takes is one part per million of fluoride added to our drinking water to cause health problems, according to the report.
    Considering there is no reliable data showing any benefits to teeth, the adding of fluoride to the country’s municipal water supplies and using it for rinsing kid’s teeth in schools is a multi-billion dollar scam to sell an otherwise waste product of aluminum and fertilizer production.
    If your community has fluoride added to your tap water, run, don’t walk, t get a still (steamdistiller.com). And, if your kid’s school has a fluoride rinse program, get out a magnifying glass and check your kid’s teeth for fluorosis, a mottling of the teeth. Since this is a permanent discoloration of the teeth, get a lawyer and sue the school board big time for forcing your kids to have permanently discolored teeth. Sue them individually and as a group.
    Like most of the other bad things the government is doing to us, it’s all about the money.


10/5/06

The Unscientific American

    The October 2006 issue of Scientific American has a global warming article by Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, saying it’s due to man’s activities. Will someone please see if they can wise up Sachs and the magazine’s editor?
    It reminds me of the French scientists a hundred years ago who said meteors were imaginary.
    As I’ve written before, yes, Earth is heating up, and so are all the other planets…and for the same reason.
    Oh, I’m not at all against our cutting down on our polluting the atmosphere. That’s why I’ve been pushing for the development of practical cold fusion units which will provide all the heat and electricity a home or business needs. I’d like to see a movement to stop polluting our farm land with pesticides. That’s also polluting our oceans via the pesticide run off…as well as helping making us sick when we eat the poisoned produce.


10/5/06

Driving 2010

    Sherry and I made a trip to visit my boyhood homes in Brooklyn, Pennsauken (NJ) and Wshington (DC). All I had to do was put in the address and the car mapsystem, somehow connected to global positioning, told me every road to take and every turn. And when I made a mistake, it quickly recalculated and got me straightened out. It’s a great help when I’m going some place new.
    The next iteration of this technology is in the works. In a few years it’ll not only know where there is a traffic problem ahead and guide me around it, it’ll even find a parking place for me. The downside will be a small charge for the service…like you have to pay for a pass to drive in downtown Singapore.


10/3/06

A Job Crunch

    With our big companies moving their factories to Asia and more and more of their office work too, it’s small businesses that are taking up the slack. They’re now creating two-thirds of all new jobs and are employing half of the country’s workers.
    But small biz is hurting. It’s the shortage of qualified workers. Over half of small businesses have been trying to hire more workers, and 84% of them have reported difficulty in finding qualified applicants. How come? Hey, could it be our so-called educational system? Our schools are educating their inmates about as well as our correctional institutions are correcting theirs.
    When I was in the K-8 system I felt like an inmate. I had almost no freedom, and was at the mercy of the warden up there in front. No wonder I just barely got by.
    If America is going to have any chance of long term survival, we’d better start educating our kids. And the only practical way I see that happening is a revolution that gets the government out of the business, and the teacher unions, too.
    I’m anxious to get the revolution started. I’ve got plenty of ammunition and a battle plan.
    The basic idea is to replace the classroom with DVD programs that are as much fun as video games so kids can learn what they want, when they want, and because they want. And enjoy every minute of it. No memorization, no tests, no grades.
    Eventually there’ll be programs for every imaginable interest for all ages.
   

10/02/06

The Black Side

    There are very few publications that dare to tell it like it is. The two that come to mind are Nexus, from Australia, and Acres USA, from Louisiana. Acres is mostly a farming journal, but they’re the only reliable source of information on phony scares like Mad Cow disease and the real story on Avian Flu, West Nile, SARS, and so on.
    An interview in Acres with Chalmers Johnson, whose new book, due out soon, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, is almost enough to get people to think. The seven-page article had me busy highlighting. Like, what would happen to our stock market if China shifted to the Euro? We’re borrowing $2 billion a day from them.
    What about the 737 bases the Defense Department has in foreign countries? Plus a bunch they don’t count? Do we need both a $500 billion a year Defense Department and one of Homeland Security? Forty percent of that Defense Department budget is “black,” that is, secret…even to Congress.
    There’s the $5 trillion they’ve spent on nuclear weapons. Split a hundred million taxpayer ways, that’s about $50,000 each. And hundreds of no longer needed military bases, mostly kept going to pacify Congress.
    I like my proposed solution to most of our miseries: Never Re-elect Anyone. Start getting the politicians out of our government. Their guiding light is their re-election, not the good of the country or the people. The framers of the Constitution warned us about this. They tried to set it up so business people would take time off to help the country with a stint in the Senate or the House, and then back to business. Instead, the government has been taken over by professional politicians, nurtured by tens of thousands of lobbyists generously pushing special interests.
    In November you will cast your vote for either a change, or to keep the incumbents in power. If nothing changes, about 95% of the incumbents will get re-elected. The politicians laugh, calling us sheep. Or would lemmings be more apt these days?


10/1/06

Africa!

    It’s a mess. A fourfold population growth in the last fifty years. 80% illiteracy. AIDS, malaria, dictators, tribal wars, genocide, most croplands played out, few sources of clean water, poor roads, and almost no McDonald’s. Other than a hunting safari for the wealthy or a visit to the Pyramids, there’s little potential for tourism.
    Things were going pretty well when the British were running their colonies, which covered a good deal of North, East and South Africa, with large farms exporting crops. But once the blacks took over the white farms, things went back to the bush. That was the end of the rule of law.
    Uhuru…freedom…was the cry. Well, they got it and it’s been all down hill ever since.
    The obvious solution to this mess would be to make a low cost education available. But there’s a major obstacle. Hundreds of generations of the women doing the farming and other work, while the men hunted and sat around, has made it so there’s a huge prejudice against education. That’s for work, and women do the work.
    I like the French solution in New Caledonia. They put in TV stations. This forced the men to go to work to make enough money so they could have a TV, and the power to run it. Then, they had to keep making money to buy the products advertised. This brought an end to hundreds of years of tribal wars.
    So let’s put in TV stations all over Africa. And, in addition to re-runs of Lucy, provide educational programs to teach to kids how to read English, how to remineralize the land, and get clean water.
    We could even put the stations on American property in these countries. Instead of giving money to the dictators to salt away in Switzerland, get some land in exchange and set up small American outposts with TV and radio stations, plus maybe a bank and the Internet.
    A Time magazine article proposed getting the Gates and Rockefeller foundations to buy chemical fertilizer to help African crops grow. That would be just great, making the plants both grow and be sick. This attracts pests, making a market for pesticides, as here in America, where we’re dumping 91 pounds of chemical fertilizer per acre on our commercial farms. And then having them sprayed with poison by crop dusters. Apparently no one concerned has heard about putting rock dust on farm land to bring it back to life. That makes for healthy plants that don’t attract pests. Further, it gets people the minerals their bodies need when they eat the produce…and without a load of poison. If they’re short of rocks over there we’ve got a few unused mountains here in New Hampshire for them.


9/30/06

The Light of Day

    Here’s a letter Dr. Lorraine Day sent to the AARP in January 2003. I’m putting it here for anyone who dismisses me as a nut case when I claim I’ve found doctors who’ve discovered that any illness can be cured with no drugs. We Americans are spending a trillion dollars a year on food and two trillion dollars on the illnesses the food is making. That’s a lousy bargain.
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Elliot Carlson, Editor AARP
Carole Fleck, author of Scam Alert Column
P.O. Box 199
Long Beach, CA 90801
 
Dear Mr. Carlson and Ms. Fleck:
 
    I want to thank you for mentioning me in your column "Scam Alert" in the January 2003 issue of the AARP Bulletin, page 18. Obviously my message of Natural Healing is having a major impact throughout the country if an organization the size of AARP, 30 million members, feels the need to attack me.
    Yes, I am an orthodox medical doctor who was for 15 years on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, considered to be one of the three top medical schools in the country. As Associate Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, I trained thousands of doctors.
    In addition, as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital, one of the premier trauma hospitals in the country, I ran the equivalent of a M.A.S.H. unit for many years. For the past 20-25 years, I have been invited to lecture to doctors at numerous University medical schools including Vanderbilt, Baylor, Cincinnati, Tufts, South Carolina, Iowa, USC, Minnesota and countless medical societies throughout the U.S., including the Massachusetts Medical Society, as well as other medical organizations around the world, including the Royal Society of Medicine in London.
    How surprised they will be to find out that the very doctor, Dr. Lorraine Day, these highly distinguished medical groups invited as a guest speaker, you, the editors of AARP, have designated as a quack.
    How could I, overnight, go from a highly respected surgeon at the top of my field, to an AARP-designated quack?
    What was my "crime?"
    Answer: I had the audacity to successfully reverse my severe, life-threatening cancer WITHOUT DRUGS! According to your business partners, the pharmaceutical companies, this is the GREATEST crime of all!
    Yes, I did reverse my life-threatening, end-stage cancer by totally natural methods. (You can see the pictures of the huge tumor I had, as well as my biopsy reports at my web site www.drday.com)
    Yes, I did refuse chemotherapy, radiation and mutilating surgery because, as a medical doctor with years of experience, I saw thousands of cancer patients die, NOT from their cancer, but from the painful, maiming, destructive "treatments" we doctors give them.
    And Yes, I am TOTALLY WELL and Cancer-FREE a full 10 years after my tumor first appeared, and EVERYTHING I used to get well is totally free, except for food, and almost everyone has to buy that anyway.
    But I understand your need to attack me and my reputation. Certainly you don't want your membership to learn how to get well from Cancer, Heart Disease, Parkinson's, Lupus, Arthritis, Diabetes and many, many other diseases by natural methods, without drugs of any kind. After all, one of the main functions of AARP, according to your own advertising, is to sell drug medications to your members.
    Let's see, with 30 million members (all over 55) and each one spending maybe $100.00 per month with AARP for their medication (a conservative estimate), that amounts to $3 BILLION in drug sales per month. If your organization gets a cut of just 10% of that total, that’s $300 MILLION per month for you! If your cut is only 1%, that's still $30 MILLION per month you are receiving, a minimum of $360 MILLION per year!
    When you have a multi-million dollar arrangement with the drug companies, as you do, my message of inexpensive natural methods of healing, with NO adverse side effects, could really cut into a truly phenomenal income such as you are receiving. It's easy to see why you would choose to attack me.
    One more thing, in your column you referred to natural healing as quackery, yet on the back page of your very same AARP Bulletin, January 2003, you promote a "Yearbook" with an advertising headline stating "Ordinary Ailments, Extraordinary Cures -- Health Breakthroughs and Remarkable Remedies." In that advertisement are listed SIX or SEVEN points of the TEN Step Natural Health Plan I used to reverse my end-stage cancer!
    Why is it "quackery" when I promote it, but it's NOT "quackery" when YOU promote it? (see ad in AARP bulletin)
    Even MORE interesting is the fact that you CHANGED the headline for the advertisement when it was published in your Bulletin. Here is the SAME ad found in another paper. The heading is very different. It
includes the words: "Remedies That Work Better Than Dangerous Drugs Or Risky Surgery."
    Your AARP Bulletin obviously required that the ad be changed to eliminate these important words - to protect your enormous payoff from your drug business. You have deliberately withheld potentially life-saving information from your membership for your own monetary gain.
    In the interest of fairness, I'm sure you will be more than happy to print this letter in a prominent spot in your up-coming February AARP Bulletin. I give you permission, but ONLY if it is printed in its entirety. You do not have my permission to cut and paste portions to suit your own agenda.
    Just in case there's an outside chance you are NOT interested in fairness, I will post this letter on my own web site at www.drday.com  as well as other web sites, as the public does have the right to hear both sides.
    Again, thank you for mentioning me. I could never afford to buy publicity like this to an organization the size of AARP, and here you have provided it for me free of charge. You have probably forgotten, or at least have not considered the fact that there are millions of intelligent and discerning members in your organization who will be perceptive enough to search me out, to find out how they too can get well without the torturing pain, surgical disfigurement, and bankrupting expense of orthodox methods.
    Thanks for letting them know I'm here! They may not have found me otherwise.
 
Sincerely,
Lorraine Day, M.D.
 


9/29/06

Mexico

    Unless you’ve been just getting your news from the TV networks, you’ve probably heard about the Administration plan to amalgamate Canada, the US, and Mexico into a single North American country. No borders. A part of this plan is a huge highway-corridor almost a half a mile wide from Mexico to Canada.
    Please let me know if you can see any way this is going to benefit the US. With Mexico among the most corrupt and least efficient countries in the world, with a huge gap between the tiny minority of super rich and the rest of the people…largely illiterate…do we need this? It’s bad enough that some twelve to twenty million (depending on who’s counting) Mexicans have snuck into the US, taking low-paying jobs, filling our prisons, and with no intention of becoming Americans.
    Mexico is in the top three countries in the world in kidnappings for ransom, disappearances of women, and murders per capita. The police resolve less than one percent of the kidnapping cases. The police are famously corrupt, and narco-cartels rule.
    Please let me know when you think it’s time to put a stop to this by flushing the Washington toilet (a.k.a. Congress). 


9/28/06

Schools

    If you’ve missed reading any of John Taylor Gatto’s books or talks, you’re probably nowhere near as anxious to help support an educational revolution as you ought to be.
    As Gatto points out, the reason our school system is both mandatory and so awful is that the people running the country, both government and big business (which is running government), needs a dumbed down population that goes to work, doesn’t ask questions, is not creative, and votes the way they’re told.
    So we’re kept entertained with music, games, fast food, movies, and TV. We dutifully buy the products advertised, and don’t ask questions. We’re trained from an early age not to think. Just memorize for tests. As the Japanese put it, it’s the raised nail that gets hammered down, so don’t stand out by asking questions or thinking.
    The result is what we have now. Kids that come in at the bottom on international surveys…who excel only in their level of self-esteem. Sickness care worse than many third world countries…we come in 19th in world health.
    Now, with manufacturing moving to Asia, our need for obedient, unthinking production line workers is blowing away. When the industrial revolution arrived we got ’em off the farm and into factories. Now, the only growing line of work is in so-called health care. And if I’m ever able to wise people up about how to avoid ever needing it, what are we going to do with millions of unemployed, semi-literate ex-factory workers?
    A hundred years ago we still had scientific, musical, literary, and art geniuses. We don’t have Tesla’s, Einstein’s, Stravinski’s, or Mark Twain’s these days.
    What went wrong? Government (it’s called socialism) schools. Mandatory government-run schools. It’s time for a major revolution, and we have everything we need for it…the Internet, DVDs, books. We need to make the educational programs available for everyone, almost from birth to death, so they can learn what they want to.
    There are more and more of these programs out there, but no way, so far, to know what’s best.

9/27/06

Memoir

    There’s a Young Chang, a Korean-made seven-foot grand piano, in my recording studio. When Scott Kirby, the ragtime pianist now headlined in most of the ragtime festivals, was here recording the Complete Scott Joplin rags in my studio for my Greener Pastures label, he wanted a better piano than the old Steinway I had. So I sent him down to Boston to get one.
    He tried out one Steinway after another, until he tried the Young Chang. That was what he wanted. Indeed, it has a brilliant high end compared to the Steinway grands, which is important for some Joplin, and particularly for Gottschalk’s piano pieces. If you’re not familiar with those and don’t have them in your iPod, you’re sure missing a whole slice of life.
    Then, a few years ago, I sold my CD Review magazine and got out of the music business. Well, I’d accomplished my goal…CDs replaced LPs, I’d helped build independent labels from 4% of the music market to 16%, and helped revive interest in ragtime. I don’t publish any magazines to make money, I do them because “someone ought to.” So, I get ’em going, run ’em for a few years, and then sell them so I can get on to something new.
    Knud Keller, a fellow ham operator, who was a concert pianist in Stuttgart before he came to America, worked for me as my bookkeeper some thirty years ago. Since then he’s sort of retired, running a piano tuning and sales business in a nearby town. So he came over to make sure the Young Chang was in good shape, to tune it, and give me an idea of what it’s worth.
    He says it’s in beautiful shape. Like new. And since they don’t make them any longer, it should be worth at least $12,000 today.
    Naturally we talked about old times. And he, like many others, wondered why I haven’t written a biography. Well, I’ve had quite a life, but the idea of a biography is daunting. It would probably run to several volumes, but who would buy something like that?
    What I’ll do is write some memoir chapters and post ’em along with my blogs. Eventually, I can put ’em together into books.
    If you know anyone looking for an outstanding grand piano, let ’em know about my Young Chang. Maybe, before I sell it, I’ll get Daron, the New Hampshire To Do editor, to play it while I sing some of my repertoire, so we can record it for posterity.
    Knud and I talked about how I got involved with producing ragtime music. I’ll have to write about that. And how I managed to take a zeppelin flight around Stuttgart. And a lot of other things I should write about.

9/26/06

Five-Year Old’s

    First there was an article about Joe Sestak, a Democrat running for Congress in Pennsylvania…a Ph.D., no less…whose daughter Alexandra, 5, had a malignant brain tumor. The cancer is in remission after surgery and months of chemotherapy. What a pity no one told Joe about the Dr. Day, Dr., Comby, or my web sites.
    Worse, it is almost sure that Joe and his wife are going to continue to feed Alex the same diet that contributed to the brain tumor in the first place. It’ll in all probability be back.
    Also in the news was the case of a five-year old who died in a dentist’s chair while getting his teeth filled. Look, parents, when you feed your kids a lousy diet the teeth are usually the first to go. And, if you keep it up, next it’ll be a tumor, leukemia, or something.
     There’s no secret about good nutrition. Heck, eighty years ago my mother knew what was what. I grew up with no cold cereals, no white bread, no jam or jelly. I had hot cereal with cream, soft-boiled eggs, and stuff like that. So I grew up with absolutely perfect teeth.
    If you feed your kids (and yourself) right and keep ’em away from doctors and vaccinations, they’re unlikely to get cavities, ADHD, or cancer. Or probably anything else, including colds or flu.


9/23/06

Finding Bin Laden

    Unless your mind is a prisoner of the major media, what you were taught in school, and your parent’s firmly held beliefs, you probably know something about dowsing…also known as water witching. You know, using a forked willow branch to find where to dig a well. And how deep.
    If you look into dowsing you’ll find that it’s an art that most anyone can develop, and it’s real. A good dowser can find anything anywhere. Even dowse a map and find things or missing people. It’s easy to dismiss things you know little about, so at least read Chris Bird’s The Divining Hand before your mind has snapped shut on the subject. Take a look at the American Dowsers Society book catalog (802-684-3417).
    A good dowser could easily find exactly where Bin Laden is. Or, his body.
    Another approach would be to use some remote viewers. The remote viewing record, like dowsing, is amazing. This works well enough for the military to spend millions of dollars over many years using it. Look for Remote Viewing Secrets by Joseph McMoneagle and Owen Lehto’s Vibrations.
    My $3 booklet #86 explains how and why dowsing works. It has to do with our ability, unless blocked by a barrier of disbelief, to tap into the collective consciousness of everything. This knows no barrier if distance or time.

9/22/06

Making Money

    We make money by providing a service or improving the value of something.
    Farmers buy seeds, add to their value by planting them, and selling the resulting produce. Manufacturers make money by taking raw materials and making them into salable products. Artists, writers, and entertainers create things people are willing to pay to buy, see or experience.
    Well, that’s an exercise in the obvious.
    But, what happens to a farmer when his costs of growing produce are more than the same produce from some other country? He’s out of business and loses his farm.
    Or the manufacturer who loses his customers to lower cost imported products? Bankruptcy, like we’re seeing facing GM, as we lose more and more major industries to imports?
    So far the sickness-care industry has been taking up the job slack, but that’s not bringing in money from outside the country. When we’re not making things that bring in money, we’re going to run out of it. Right now, all that’s keeping us afloat is our borrowing the difference…mainly from China.
    Since they don’t teach history in school any more, you may be unaware of what happened to earlier empires. Not all that long ago there used to be a British Empire. And, before that the German, Spanish, Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and so forth. All pffft.

9/21/06

Retirement

    Along sometime in middle age most people start to give some consideration to retirement. Hmm, so how much money will have to be set aside?
    Well, add your expected yearly expenses for taxes, food, clothing, travel, a car or two every few years (and maybe a camper), entertainment, computers/internet, TVs, cameras, and so on. Plus, if you’re eating the Standard American Diet, the cost of a nursing home or assisted living facility for who knows how many years, since the odds are you’ll be seriously impaired by your 80s, like 80% of the people your age are. Oh, and since 50% of Americans are going to get cancer, figure in an extra $325,000 for that (average). With luck, only one of you will get cancer.
    Since the stock market could suddenly collapse at any time, you’ll want to have your nest egg invested in some way that won’t be affected by a humongous inflation.
    Unless some major changes are made in Medicare and Social Security, these might no longer be around.
    So, are you looking forward to retiring at 65? Will you be able to afford to? If you are working for a large corporation, will you have any alternative? Oh, and how about a pension, is there still going to be one of those? And if there is one, were the funds invested in the stock market? Ooops.

9/20/06

Disappearing Industries

    Am I about to knock the props out from the industry that’s kept the American economy from collapsing? Maybe I should leave bad enough alone.
    A Business Week article pointed out that in the last five years the so-called health-care industry has added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector? None!
    With our industries being blown away, how will we be able to make enough money to buy the imported products? And how long will it be before China stops lending us about $2 billion a day to make up the trade deficit?

    Here’s the official score on our buying Chinese goods:      1996           2005
Appliances, lamps, & electrical equipment                              $4.29B        $17.34B
Clothes and textiles                                                                      $7.44B        $26.01B
TVs, phones and audio gear                                                        $4.45B        $29.41B
Furniture                                                                                          $1.10B        $12.55B
Shoes and leather goods                                                               $8.06B        $17.50B
Toys, tools, luggage, and manufactured goods                        $10.0B        $28.17B
Computers and electronics                                                           $4.93B        $50.31B

    What’s going to happen when China starts making cars? How much could we save by having our war planes and tanks made in China? Hundreds of billions?

9/19/06

Abdullah

    Here’s a letter I sent to King Abdullah of Jordan which (a) I thought might interst you, and (b) you might drop him a note reminding him of my letter…to King Abdullah, Royal Palace, Amman, Jordan.
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Your Majesty,

    The King’s Academy article in The New Yorker reminded me of my first visit to Jordan in 1970, when I spent a couple of weeks with your dad at the summer palace operating his JY1 ham station. Maybe you remember my visit.
    On my last visit to Jordan, a few years ago, Prince Raad organized a meeting of the Royal Jordanian Amateur Radio Society. I have a tape of him introducing me as, “The man who had had more of an influence on the country of Jordan than anyone other than the King.”
    Well, that was my intention when I went there, and now, with your help, I’d like to do it again, though in quite a different way.
    As the publisher of 73 Amateur Radio Today magazine (since 1960), it didn’t tale long after your mother gave your dad a ham radio set for Christmas for word to get to me about it. I fired off a cable asking if he’d like someone to come over and show him how to use it. I got a cable back saying, sure, come on over. A few days later I landed in Amman and was taken to the Intercontinental Hotel. The next morning I was driven to the summer palace, where I met your dad and mother.
    One goal of mine was to make as many contacts as I could with hams around the world who were mainly interested in getting a QSL card from Jordan, which hadn’t been very active, so your dad would have a better chance to actually talk with people and not just be providing them with “a new country.” I operated all day and, when your dad came back from the downtown palace in the afternoon he’d ask, “How’s the ham business doing?” And I’d answer, “Great, how’s the king business doing?” He had so much fun with it that we stayed up all night together several times.making contacts.
    Four years earlier I went to India and met with the president of the International Telecommunications Union. I explained that the future for countries lay in technology, and in electronics in particular. I pointed out that amateur radio clubs in their schools was a wonderful way to interest youngsters in electronics. I offered to provide him with a set of rules and regulations for the ITU to make available to countries to get them started. He loved the idea and agreed to make it happen. Alas, by the time I got back home he’d had a heart attack and died, and so did the project.
    When I proposed the idea to your dad, he liked it too. Further, I suggested he find a good teacher to go around to the school radio clubs to help the youngsters learn. He had me present the plan to the top people in the government the next morning and we were in business. When I got back I wrote the rules and regulations, had a bunch printed, and sent them to him.
    A few days after I got back I had a call from the CIA, saying His Majesty wanted amateur radio equipment for his schools and youth clubs, what should they send? I gave them a list. I also packed a box of books I had on electronics and amateur radio, and sent them, per your dad’s instructions, to the Jordanian Embassy in Washington to be forwarded to Amman. Then, I asked my readers to send me any ham gear in good working condition, but was no longer being used, for Jordan. I forwarded many cartons of some great equipment to the Embassy for the project.
    Three years later, while I was swapping slow-scan pictures with a ham in Athens, a voice broke in, “W2NSD, this is Juliet Yankee One.” Your dad said he would be in Washington in a few days and would like to meet me.
    At the time I had been pushing two meters and ham repeaters, so I met him at Blair House and presented him with a two-meter transceiver he could use while he was visiting. He gave me two first class round trip tickets to Amman, saying he wanted me to come over and see what I’d done.
    When my wife and I arrived we were met by Hisham Ansari, the man he’d picked to teach the youngsters electronics. He drove us from Irbid to Aqaba, with me meeting over two hundred newly licensed Jordanian youngsters. What a thrill that was! We visited Jarash, Madaba, and Petra, including my scuba diving in the Red Sea with the Admiral of the Jordanian Navy.
    I brought along a ham repeater which Blackie, your dad’s communications advisor, and I set up on a hill across from the downtown palace. I also brought along a suitcase of handy-talkies to use with it. As I was getting aboard the plane to leave, I was able to say goodbye to your dad through the repeater, which I dubbed JY73.
    Well, that was 33 years ago, so what am I up to now that can benefit Jordan? With what I’ve learned we can make Jordan the healthiest country in the world, with virtually no sickness. It’s all in my Secret Guide to Health. The fact is, there are no incurable illnesses. None. I tried everything I could think of when your dad got leukemia to get through to him and explain about a simple cure. Over 30 years ago Dr. Henry Bieler was going into hospitals where children with “incurable” leukemia were there to die. He cured every one of them. I have his book, The Incurables, and I’ve known his daughter for over 40 years. Alas, your dad’s faith in the Mayo Clinic killed him.
    You can learn more about what I’ve learned by visiting www.waynegreen.com. For more on the subject there’s drday.com and comby.com.
    How about a way to enormously improve Jordan’s educational system? You can not only have the best educated people in the Arab world, Jordan can become an educational source which will generate millions of dollars. More probably, billions.
    And I’ve a way to generate new small businesses with Business Incubator Groups, thus eliminating unemployment problems and building foreign trade.
    I’ve a way crops can be grown in the desert that requires a minimum of water and produces top quality fruits and vegetables.
    With your help Jordan can be a model for the whole world of what is possible in health and education. And where better to start than with the King’s Academy?
                                                        …Wayne Green


9/18/06

Why Bomb ’Em?

    An email reminded me of the episode in the Philippines when Muslims terrorists were busy killing unbelievers, back around 1917. General Black Jack Pershing rounded up fifty terrorists, lined up forty-nine of them and had them shot. He had their bodies buried mixed with pig’s blood and let the fiftieth man go free.
    Since Muslims believe that touching a pig bars you from entering paradise, consigning your soul to hell, that was the last of the terrorism.
    It seemed to me that this practice was in need of a revival, with suicide bomber’s remains being scooped up and given a proper burial, complete with pig guts. Poof, there go all those virgins and a hereafter in paradise. That ought to end the suicide bombing.
    Carrying that one step further, instead of bombing or invading any Muslim country that gives us a hard time, how about using those chem trail planes to spray the offending country with pig manure from ahigh. We’ve got thousands of tons of it available which is just going to waste. And that’s a lot cheaper to use than bombs or rockets. What a dirty trick! I love it!
    They’re not fighting fair, so why should we?

9/17/06

The FDA At Work

    Maybe you missed the recent newspaper reports that the FDA, after reviewing 34 recent research studies, found “no significant new information” that would change its determination that mercury-based fillings don’t harm patients, except in rare cases where they have allergic reactions.
    Having watched my mother die of Alzheimer’s and a grandmother die of multiple sclerosis, perhaps I’m now overly educated on the effects of mercury on our bodies.
    My education started when I was invited to give a talk on cold fusion at a Tesla Society conference in Colorado Springs a few years ago. Dentist. Hal Huggins also gave a talk on his work in removing dental amalgam, including a video of a patient all crippled with multiple sclerosis in a wheel chair. A few weeks after he removed her fillings and replaced them with non-toxic material, she was out there playing tennis.
    His book, It’s All In Your Head is a must read. It’s reviewed on page 172 of my Secret Guide to Health, plus three other excellent books on the subject are reviewed, along with sources for them. One I missed is Sam Ziff’s Silver Dental Fillings, The Toxic Time Bomb, a $17 1994 paperback from Aurora Press.
    I have a video showing what happens to brain cells when they encounter mercury. It shows their insulating sheath being eaten away, killing them. No surprise, since mercury is the second most toxic substance known (fluorine is first). The stuff is deeply involved with childhood autism, resulting from the mercury in innoculations.
    A good ham friend of mine, Ken Glanzer, K7GCO, has taken some superb pictures of mercury vapor in people’s mouths, even years after the fillings were put in. This is inhaled daily whenever we chew and goes to the brain. I sure wish I’d learned about this before my mother died of Alzheimer’s. Sigh.
    Between dental amalgam, which is 50% mercury, and vaccinations, most of which still contain thimerosal, which is mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde, we get far too much mercury. And that doesn’t count what we’re getting from fish.
    I’m sure glad I had all my fillings out many years ago.

9/16/06
 
Rumsfeld

    Not long ago, President Bush terrorized us by telling us a minimum of 200,000 people are expected die from an avian flu pandemic, and it could be as much as two million deaths just in this country alone.
    This hokum was then used to justify the immediate purchase of 80 million doses of Tamiflu, a worthless drug that in no way treats avian flu, but can actually contribute to the virus having more lethal mutations.
    So the United States placed an order for 20 million doses of this worthless drug at a $100 a dose. That’s $2 billion.
    We are told that Roche manufactures Tamiflu, but if you dig a little deeper you’ll find that it was actually developed by a company called Gilead, which ten years ago gave Roche the exclusive rights to market and sell it as Tamiflu.
    Interestingly, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was made the chairman of Gilead in 1997. And since Rumsfeld still holds a big portion of  Gilead’s stock, he will profit substantially from the government’s scare tactics that are being used to justify the purchase of $2-billion worth of Tamiflu.
    Mainstream media has been adding to the paranoia by making a big deal out of the few deaths so far attributed to the virus elsewhere in the world. Oddly, they’re staying fairly quiet about the 2.8 million worldwide deaths yearly from AIDS and the 300,000 deaths yearly in the U.S. alone from obesity.
    There is no coming bird flu pandemic. It’s a big lie being fed us by the government and Big Pharma.
    A recent British Medical Journal had an editorial on the bird flu in which they state: "The lack of sustained human-to-human transmission suggests that this AH5N1 avian virus does not currently have the capacity to cause a human pandemic."
    This has been all about creating fear and panic to benefit the drug companies (and Rumsfeld).
    Any time Bush, the government, or the media have you considering getting vaccinated against a pandemic…or even ordinary flu…remember that all it takes to never get sick, no matter what is going around, is to have a strong immune system. That’s why, no matter how awful an epidemic is, there are always a few people who don’t get sick. You can be one of those, if you want. But it does mean changing your lifestyle per my Secret Guide to Health.
    Meanwhile, if you’re uninformed enough to be drinking diet sodas, you can thank Rumsfeld for forcing the FDA to okay aspartame, which his company made. I’ve written about that sorry episode. And, when multiple slerosis sets in, send him a thank-you note.
    Oh, thank him, too, for running roughshod over the military chiefs in his planning the Iraq war, with the resulting mess.

9/16/06

Cell Phones

    A couple years ago I reported that my friend David Booth, over in the next town, put two cell phones together with an egg between them. He then called one with the other and let them sit, communicating with each other. An hour later, he said the egg was hard cooked.
    I heard from several scoffers saying the story was baloney. Well, not having two cell phones, I didn’t verify Booth’s claim. Now we have the same claim from a Russian experimenter, who conducted the exact same test, and got a cooked egg.
    Booth’s claim made sense to me since it merely confirmed the published scientific papers of W. Ross Adey. Ross, a fellow radio amateur (K6UI) and a good friend, was kind enough to send me copies of his published papers. My booklet #34 ($2) is a reprint of Ross’ testimony before Congress on the dangers of microwave radiation as produced by police radar and cell phones.
    Even a short use of a cell phone is going to burn out brain cells unless you keep the antenna around a foot from your head. This means it is important to always use a headset with the cell phone.
    Brain cells do not regenerate, so it’s important to not waste them. Heavy cell users start noticing some difficulty in remembering. Youngsters, in particular, have been having a rash of brain tumors…always on the side they use their cell phone. Similarly, police who have their radar antenna mounted up between the seats of their patrol cars, are getting brain tumors on the side next to the radar antenna. Ross sent me a video of several of these cases.
    If enough of you stop every kid you see using a cell phone and tell ’em about this blog, maybe we can help them. One do-good tell isn’t going to penetrate, so get your family and friends to help with this campaign.
    It’s bad enough with our public school system dumbing our kids down, without them adding to the mess their brains are in with burnt out brain cells.


9/13/06

Reading

    A chap called, asking how I manage to be able to talk and write about so many different subjects. That was an easy one to answer. I spend my time reading about things that interest me instead of watching ball games.
    For some reason, I’ve never had much interest in watching others do things. I’ve always preferred to be doing things myself. Probably some sort of an imprint from a previous life. Sure, I’ve watched a few games, but I found them boring. And these days we’re mostly watching millionaires fighting millionaires to get a ball somewhere. Zzzz.
    So I spend as much time as I can reading, and it mounts up.
    I tape the 60 Minutes show to watch during my breakfast the next morning…fast-forwarding through the commercials. This week it was delayed a half hour by a tennis match, and there were thousands in the stands watching, plus millions more on TV.
    Almost everyone is busy substituting entertainment for education. Sports, movies, rock concerts. So we have a world packed almost solid with people who know little about health, or anything else. Worse, almost everything they believe is wrong.
    Joyce Riley was on the Coast program again, this time bemoaning the tens of thousands of Gulf War veterans now with ALS (Lou Gherig’s disease), as a result of their service. Obviously she hasn’t a clue as to how easy ALS is to cure, mainly by a diet change to raw food. And neither has enormously educated Stephen Hawking, who can’t even walk or talk due to ALS, as I mentioned a couple months ago.
    Half of Americans, if they don’t change their diet, are going to know the terror of cancer. Half! But that’s in the future, so for now it’s McDonald’s for lunch, and Starbucks to keep them going all day. Their coming cancer will take care of their health insurance, plus their retirement savings account, at an average of $325,000 per cancer case.
    GO! Red Sox! Or whatever.

9/13/06

The Black Mess

    This year’s Department of Education’s annual report showed that 59% of black 8th graders do not have the basic reading or math knowledge and skills to be proficient in grade.
    Teachers and politicians say more money is needed. Yeah, sure. In Washington, D.C. the school budget is about the nation’s highest at about $15,000 per student. They have a 15.2 to 1 student/teacher ratio, which is much lower than the national average. Yet black student achievement in D.C. is the lowest in the country. In reading, 7% of black 4th graders are proficient. For 8th graders it’s 6%. In math it’s 5% of 4th graders and 3% for 8th graders.
    Where black education is the worst, the city mayor is black, the city council is dominated by blacks, and usually the school superintendent, principal and most teachers are black.
    Between parents who don’t care and the high percentage of fatherless black families, there’s little hope for pressure from that end.
    So, what do you suggest?


9/12/06

Black Mess II

    With the call by Bush, Tony Blair and the other G8 countries to double the foreign aid to African nations by 2010, it’s time for a reality check. This is as bad, or worse, than the global warming hoax. Yes, we have global warming. No, it has little to do with man’s activities, as I’ve written.
    Nearly every sub-Saharan African nation is far poorer now than when they became independent in the ’60s and ’70s. Their food production has dropped 20% as they’ve chased the white farmers out, and their per capita GDP dropped 15%. Nigerian President Obasanjo estimated, “Corrupt African leaders have stolen at least $140 billion from their people in the four decades since independence.” So now we have Bush planning to throw tens of billions of our money down the same black holes.
    My proposal for all foreign aid is to swap our money for land so we can establish economic development areas using U.S. laws, just as the British did with Hong Kong. And look at how Hong Kong flourished, compared with China. With the rule of law, respect for property rights, and investment opportunities, these economic development areas could bring in many times our foreign aid investment.
    If an African country wants our money, what will they trade for it? You can bet that their corrupt leaders will be glad to swap land for money they can bank in Switzerland. Presto, we have new business areas and even a possible new military bases. But, we better build walls around the areas to keep natives from swarming in…like the situation we have with Mexico. We don’t seem to have much of a problem with Canadians sneaking into the U.S., do we?


9/11/06

Black Mess III

    Why am I ragging on the blacks? Because such a high percentage of them are making such a mess of their lives here in America, where there are such enormous possibilities for success.
    But, then, look at the mess they’ve made of the black-run countries. Even those run by ex-American slaves like Haiti, where they have about 90% illiteracy, and Liberia, where they’ve had unending wars. And the mess in Africa is so bad I wonder how any American black can, with any pride, call themselves African-Americans.
    Hmm, let’s see…genocide in Rwanda, Burundi, The Congo, and Sudan. And you’ve read about the endless killing in Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Chad, Niger, Mozambique, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, etc. Once they kicked the whites out of Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, and so on…oh, and South Africa…the killing started. In South Africa, once the white regime was ousted, the crime rate zoomed out of control. That isn’t a country you want to visit any more.
    Black pride? For what?
    The formula for success in America is no secret…educate yourself and work hard. Remember, there are very few uneducated wealthy people, and very few well educated poor. When we see kids of five learning how to read, what’s the excuse for only 13% of the black fourth graders being proficient in reading?
    My mother reading to me while I was eating lunch from my earliest days got me interested in reading. By the age of seven I was reading all of the Oz books, Ernest Thompson Seton’s nature books, Tom Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Gene Stratton Porter, Booth Tarkington, Rudyard Kipling, memorizing Eugene Field’s poetry…well, you get the idea. I loved to read. Still do.
    How many black mothers feed their children healthy food and read to them? Good luck on naming one. As I’ve mentioned, my mother never fed me cold cereal, white bread, sugar, jam, jelly, soda, ice cream, cake, or candy. How many mothers, now eighty years later, are giving their children that much of a head start in the world? Black or white?


9/10/06

The Obese

    It only takes a couple hours at a fair to see for oneself the magnitude of the obesity situation. At this year’s Hopkinton Fair I watched hundreds upon hundreds of morbidly obese people lined up at the food vending booths, and walking around with huge plates of fried dough, funnel cake, nachos, giant donuts, fried onion rings, and so on.
    Some of the people were so fat they could no longer walk, so they were going around in electric carts, like Stephen Hawkins, only without his ALS excuse.
    There wasn’t one vendor at the fair with anything healthy to eat.
    What an awful life it must be for these mountains of lard. They, and everyone who sees them, know that it’s what and how much they eat that’s done it to them.
    I’m one to talk. Been there. Oh, not morbidly obese, but definitely overweight. Then, a little over thirty years ago I decided it was time to stop that baloney, so I went on a 1,500 calorie diet. In the next seven months I dropped almost a hundred pounds…and I’ve kept it off, unlike most dieters.
    Today it’s a whole lot easier to drop those extra pounds, and with no calorie counting. With a raw food diet you can eat all you want and your body will still automatically go to it’s healthiest weight. I love hearing from people who’ve read my book and have lost over a hundred pounds. It’s a whole new life for them.
    The grossly obese know they’re cutting many years off their lives, but with all the embarrassment and humiliation, they don’t care. Scientists tell us that people who are at least 100 pounds overweight have an 86% greater risk of dying. Lousy odds.
    The number of morbidly obese has quadrupled in the last twenty years, from one in 200 to one in 50. Scientists are telling us that they’re expecting the average American lifespan to be shrinking as a result.

9/9/06

Abiotic Oil

    Back in January I wrote about the peak oil vs. abiotic oil theories. The recent discovery of a huge pool of oil seven miles under the Caribbean, just off the Keys, is very difficult to explain as being formed of Jurassic or earlier plant life. Worse, this one strike expands the amount of our American oil reserves by 50%! There’s more and more to be said for the Earth generating this black goo on a continuing basis, in which case we’ll be able to keep on using oil and gas until we use up the oxygen we burn with it. Cough-cough.
    This find has triggered more interest in exploring the shelves off our coasts for other possible pools.
    Now, if the oil kings will build a few more refineries, we’ll get the gas prices back down to where most of the cost is state taxes.

9/7/06

Thanks, McCain

    I’m referring to his siding with the Senate Democrats against the Republicans on amnesty, a measure which would supposedly give illegal aliens the same rights American citizens have. Actually, it would give them, as a minority group under affirmative action, more rights than American citizens.
    They would have preferences in getting jobs over American workers. If they set up their own businesses they would be entitled to preferences in getting government contracts. And their children would be able to get into college ahead of American citizen’s kids with better qualifications.
    The Senate bill makes it so illegals wouldn’t have to pay back taxes. And, if an American citizen forges a Social Security card to get a job, he can be arrested…while illegal aliens not only get a pass, they get to collect Social Security benefits.
    With their children getting free public schooling, free hospital care, and so on, imagine what’s going to happen if the Senate bill is passed by the House. Instead of three or four million Mexicans pouring over the border a year it could easily double or triple.
    Up until recently, immigrants came here to be Americans. The May Day demonstrations made it clear that few of the 12 or so million illegal Mexicans are here with that in mind. If you want a preview of where that leads just watch the European news of the Muslim riots in France. That what you want?
    The Mexicans are not learning English. Their kids are being brought up speaking Spanish. They are watching Spanish TV channels and reading Spanish magazines and newspapers published here in America.
    And Bush is right in there encouraging this mess!
    If you see McCain ask him what in hell he was thinking. And what lobbyist got to him, with how much for his…er…campaign?
    Meanwhile, as I’ve written before, I’m in favor of shutting down all foreign language radio, TV, magazines and newspapers. Our American language is English, dammit!
    Our laws say it is illegal to hire ’em, so let’s start fining the hell out of businesses that break the law.
    Yes, conditions in Mexico are terrible. Well, guys, you let ’em get that way. Things weren’t all that great here when we started, and we still have a lot of fixing to do…like flushing out the current Congress by never re-electing anyone. Only 5 of the 392 incumbent House members lost in the 2004 election! And then there’s that long string of crappy presidential choices we’ve been presented with.
    Grumble.

9/7/06

A Letter To President Bush

President Bush……

• You’ve been praying for some help. Well, here it is, if you’re ready to listen.
• Who’s Wayne Green? Ask Senator Judd Gregg about me. Or Rep. Charlie Bass. Or ex-Senator Gordon Humphrey. Or Bill Gates. Or Steve Jobs. Or Walter Cronkite.
• You need something spectacular to reverse the current negatives. I’ve got it for you.
 
(1) A practical approach to solving the Iraq problem. Yes, I’ve been there.
(2) How any illness can be cured with no drugs. Yes, any. Forget Medicare and Medicaid.
(3) How to revamp our educational system so kids of 12 will be far better educated than today’s college graduates…able to read books at a few seconds a page with good comprehension…and at a fraction of today’s educational costs. And able to speak…and think in…several languages.
(4) A new generation of babies with 150 average IQs.
(5) A way to get kids interested in technology. Prince Raad, at a meeting, introduced me as the man who had had more of an influence on Jordan than anyone other than King Hussein.
(6) A way to change Social Security so a person who never makes more than the minimum wage will be able to retire with a million dollars.
(7) A way to generate a million or so new small businesses. Think what that’ll do for the economy!
(8) A way to grow three new trillion dollar technologies in America.
(9) A simple, fast, and inexpensive way to cure AIDS and malaria.
                                                                                                                                        Wayne Green


9/6/06

Censored!!

    It’s a little frustrating to be sitting on top of what should be the biggest and most exciting news story in the world, and know there’s no way it’s going to be published in the major media. Or the minor, for that matter. This came to mind as I counted the ad pages in the current U.S.News & World Report. 52% of them were for pharmaceutical and medical advertisers.
    So, what do you think the likelihood will be of a cover headline: Scientists Discover How to Cure Any Illness With No Drugs! Not from a magazine so totally dependent for it’s survival this week on Lunestar, Advair, Rozerem, Carvedilol, and Caduet. Time had just as many pages of “health” ads, so the potential for objectivity there, too, approaches zero. And so it goes with radio and television. Silence on this matter is truly golden. Our health? When money is involved, our health is irrelevant.
    So, several billion people are ignorantly giving themselves cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and so on, with no clue that any illness is both preventable and easily cured, and without any need for Lunestar, Advair, Rozerem, Carvedilol, Caduet, or any other drug or treatment.
    A headline like that could not only trigger the collapse of the $2 trillion sickness industry here in America, but also put today’s food industry out of business. Gee, what a surprise…it’s what we’ve been eating that’s making us sick…and fat.


9/5/06

Whatcha Eat

    While we all know that we are what we eat, it’s startling that so few go to step two…eating things they know will be good for their bodies. So, almost everyone is overweight, obese, or taking medications for some disfuction or other.
    That hamburger is made from cows raised on corn, not the grass they were designed to eat, so they’re sick and have to be given antibiotics. Oh, and the corn they’re eating is genetically modified, and raised on land that’s been out of minerals for almost a hundred years, so it requires chemical fertilizer to grow. But it isn’t a healthy growth, so it attracts scavengers, which are sprayed with pesticides. Corn-fed animals have more bad saturated fat and less omega-3 healthy fat, and more fat overall (like us). And we get all that stuff in our supermarket meat and milk.
    How glad I am that I live in New Hampshire, where there are plenty of nearby small farms making meat and raw milk available from grass-fed animals, with no growth hormones, antibiotics, or pesticides involved. I haven’t touched a McDonald’s, Burger King, or Wendy’s hamburger in decades.
    So, while 90% or so of the people my age are either dead or seriously impaired, I’m as healthy as a young grass-fed horse.


9/3/06

Birthday!

Hey, guys…my thanks to all you who remembered my 84th birthday with cards, email, and phone calls. They reminded me that I’m not alone.


8/31/06

Iran Proposal

They claim they’re enriching uranium so they can build a nuclear power plant. Since they have unlimited oil at almost no cost to generate power, that doesn’t seem like a reasonable excuse. So, let’s call their bluff by offering to build them a nuclear power plant and run it. Free.


8/30/06

Those Danged Arabs

    In WWII, when we were attacked by the Japanese, not being sure which were friendly, and which not, we rounded up all of the Japanese in America and put them in concentration camps for the duration. Just in case.
    Now, we’ve been attacked by the Arabs, and we hear every day how easy it is for them to sneak nukes or biologicals into the country across our open borders and attack us from within. So, is it time to consider rounding up all the Arabs in America and isolating them somewhere? Or should we wait until a city or cities get nuked? Or dirty bombs spread radioactivity? Or some devastating disease is sprayed from crop dusters (after 911 we learned that many who couldn’t afford to buy their own planes or become commercial pilots had been taking flying lessons)?
    As the most powerful country in the world, and The Great Satan, we’re the number one target. And, right now, we’re a pathetically easy one.
    As technology changes, warfare changes with it. During the Revolution, our cowardly Americans hid behind trees and mowed down the British, who all lined up in bright red uniforms for us, defeating the then most powerful country in the world. WWI was mostly trench warfare. Over there. WWII was mostly an air and submarine war.
    So, how much do nukes cost today? They’re being made by the friendly folk in Russia, China, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea (have I missed any?). But, if the Arabs sneak a nuke or three into Washington, who do we nuke back?


8/28/06

Teens

    College took a big, valuable chunk out of my life. Well, like every other kid, I didn’t know any better. Our parents, our teachers, and the media, all made sure we kids were totally convinced that the only way to be successful was to get a college degree. There was no Wayne Green out there that I ever heard to clue me in that there was a practical alternative.
    In order to be considered by a college you had to have a second language. So, when I went to high school I opted for French. I have no idea why…some remnant of a previous life trauma perhaps…but I hated every minute of it.
    I had no problem memorizing things that interested me, but a French vocabulary? Instant sleep. My folks even brought in a tutor to help me, but it didn’t do any good. So I suffered four damned years of French, ending up unable to read or speak much of it.
    The high school career advisors explained that in view of my mechanical aptitude and my interest in ham radio, I obviously should take electrical engineering. I applied first to MIT. Their screener took one look at my C-average grades and turned me down. Then I tried Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy (NY), and their screener must have seen something in me MIT missed. I was in.
    A year later Roosevelt conned the Japanese into bombing Pearl Harbor and I was Army meat. I opted for the Navy and spent the next four years in the war. You can get some of the details in my $5 WWII Submarine Adventures book.
    Then, back for two more years at RPI. Most of the classes were really boring, but I had fun as president of the radio club, where I founded the Campus Broadcasting System and WRPI. Today that’s the leading student activity. I was also active in the Glee Club and The Players.
    I had zero interest in working for any large corporations, so I went into broadcasting as an engineer-announcer. I graduated to television, first as a cameraman in NYC and then a producer-director in Cleveland and Dallas. You know, not in one job I’ve ever held did they ask about my college. In retrospect not one of the college courses I suffered through has ever been of any value to me. Four years wasted.
    When I was 30 I finally wised up and started my first company with a thousand dollars borrowed on my car. Two years later I had seven factories busy keeping up with the orders.
    My Secret Guide to Wealth is a book every teen should at least know about. It explains that the best route to money and freedom is to have your own company, and that colleges do not teach the things you need to know for this…like advertising, promotion, product development, selling, personnel management, and so on. My book explains how to get someone else to teach you everything you need to know, and pay you to learn.
    Remember, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard. Steve Jobs never went to college. Ditto Ted Turner. An Inc magazine survey of the top entrepreneurs showed that only a couple of them were college grads.



8/25/06

Jordan

    Robbie Robinson, a fellow ham operator over in Nairobi (5Z4ERR), had been after me to come and visit, so it was serendipitous when my good friend Jim Morrissett (now K6MH) sent me a copy of George Christian Herter’s How to Go On an African Hunting Safari for $660. Even forty years ago that was doable.
    When I asked in my ham magazine if anyone was interested in joining me for a safari two readers signed up, one from Texas and the other California. The adventure was on. I’ll tell you about it sometime. That’s a whole, well-illustrated, book in itself.
    I found it didn’t cost any more to continue on around the world once I’d gotten to Kenya than to fly back the way I’d come, so what the hell, right? So I allowed a few days stop over in Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Fiji, Western Samoa, American Samoa, Tahiti, and then back home. The hams in each country made me welcome, and I stayed with several of them. I ended up with thousands of slides and a fascinating story for each visit.
    For instance,  when I was in Addis Ababa I got together with the past president of the International Telecommunications Union (in Geneva). I explained that it was important for third world countries to get their kids interested in technology, as that was the future. I proposed that the ITU endorse the idea and make a sample set of rules and regulations available for the hobby. I explained that once kids got interested in the hobby they would teach themselves about electricity and radio because it was fun, resulting in a new bunch of engineers and technicians to help their country keep up with the world. I offered to provide a suitable set of regulations the ITU could use.
    He loved the idea and said he would call the current president, who was from India, recommending he get together with me when I visited New Delhi.
    We did, and he too liked the idea, so we were all set. The only problem was that by the time I got back home he’d had a heart attack and died. Dammit!
    Cut to four years later, when I heard that King Hussein of Jordan had gotten a ham radio set for Christmas from his wife. I quickly fired off a cable offering to come over and help him learn how to use it. He cabled back, accepting my offer.
    The next day I was on a plane to Amman and spent the next two weeks in the Summer Palace showing His Majesty the ropes. He loved staying up all night talking with new friends all around the world. And I helped by making thousands of contacts with hams who wanted to be able to get a confirming card from a new country. They’re called QSL cards, and hams are always on the lookout for new countries to contact…and win awards.
    Anyhow, I convinced His Majesty that ham radio clubs in the Jordanian schools would interest kids in being engineers and technicians. I returned home, wrote a set of rules and regulations for Jordan, and, through my ham magazine, got American hams to donate books and used ham equipment for the Jordanian kids, which I sent to their Embassy in Washington for shipment to Amman.
    The CIA called, asking me what I recommended they send to Jordan for the school and youth club ham stations. I gave ’em a list.
    Cut to four years later when His Majesty called me on my ham radio and asked me to come to Washington to meet him. There he handed me first class tickets to Jordan to “see what I’d done.” I was driven from Irbid in the north to Aqaba in the south and met over two hundred newly licensed Jordanian youngsters. What  thrill! And the country was building its first electronics factory.
    A few years ago, when Sherry visited Jordan, Prince Raad organized a meeting of the Royal Jordanian Amateur Radio Society, where he introduced me as the man who had had more of an influence on the development of Jordan than anyone other than the King.

8/24/06

Hospital Visit

    The biggest, and most famed, hospital in New Hampshire is the Mary Hitchcock Clinic in Hanover. It’s huge, and it’s where Sherry goes for her health…er, sickness problems. It’s a 150-mile round trip.
    We got there at lunch time, so while Sherry went for her appointment, I headed for the food court. With the exception of some bananas, there was nothing healthy there to eat. The first concession was an Au Bon Pain. Well, they sure got the Pain right, with a huge collection of sticky buns and your choice of coffees.
    The other concession was Sharro’s Pizza, with a wide choice of pizza and pasta. With food like that the hospital is assured of a continuing supply of patients.
    As I sat and waited for Sherry, I watched an endless parade of grossly obese people go by. Figures.
    Sherry, who’d recently visited her mother in Texas, had pulled some muscles helping her mother in and out of her wheelchair, but wanted to make sure it was nothing more sinister, spent about five hours going through an x-ray, cat-scan, and so on.
    Some schools have figured out the connection between health and food, replacing their McDonald’s and other fast food concessions with salads and healthy food. Grades, of course, zoom.

8/17/06

Multitasking

    While my eMac has no problem downloading the morning’s Coast-to-Coast AM podcast at the same time as I’m answering my email, our brains are not wired deal with multitasking.
    So?
    In practical terms it helps explain the rash of car accidents while the drivers are using their cell phones.
    While it may seem that we can do two things are once, it takes the frontal lobe a few tenths of a second to several seconds to respond to visual or audio information, so neither of the tasks is done well.
    In the longer run, a continual demand on the brain for multitasking results in thinking and memory problems. It becomes more difficult to prioritize, or to concentrate, and stress levels escalate.
    While you are sleeping your brain is busy sorting out the day’s input, so the last thing it needs for proper operation is more audio input from a radio or TV left on.
    Businesses that play background music are making their employees less productive, with their brains shuttling back and forth all day to the music and their work. And it’s the same for kids who claim they can listen to music while doing their homework. No, they can’t. They need quiet.
    Even a car radio is distracting, though most driving doesn’t take  lot of frontal lobe activity…mostly it’s routine and habitual, requiring little thought. Until the car ahead suddenly slows down or stops. Whoops! You were listening Car Talk and now you need to take your wreck to the Click and Clack garage.
    Long ago I stopped watching live TV. I tape all of the shows I’m interested in and watch them while I’m eating. Since I’ve developed the habit of automatically chewing food thoroughly before swallowing it, meals don’t take a lot of thought, so they’re a good time to watch my shows. Meals take me about an hour to eat, unlike people who only chew food enough to swallow it, so I can see a whole hour TV show during a meal. Well, I do fast forward through the commercials…except for the Macintosh.
    If you’ve read Lights Out, which is reviewed on page 43 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, you know the importance of sleeping in total darkness. The book also discusses our living cells (see the Stone book reviewed on page 5 of my Wisdom guide) where a group of biopsied heart cells taken from a runner were seen to beat faster and faster in their petri dish as the doner exercised on a treadmill across town from the lab. The book is packed with fascinating information — you’ll love it.
   Give your brain a break. Treat it right and it’ll give you a lifetime of good service. It’ll think, remember, and help keep your stress levels low. Hmm, is it Alzheimer’s starting, or brain multitasking that’s making you forget?

8/15/06

Your Health Account

    We do some things because we know they’re good for our health, and we do others we know aren’t. One of my roles is to help you know which is which, so at least you won’t blunder blindly into making yourself sick.
    By the way, in case this hasn’t yet sunk in, any illness you get is self-inflicted. And that includes dental problems, headaches, colds, cancer heart disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and so on. That’s right, we do all those things to ourselves…mainly through ignorance, plus a weakness of will.
    Think of your health as a bank account. When you treat your body the way the instruction book (my Secret Guide to Health) says, you’re putting health money in the bank…extending your life. When you don’t treat it right, that’s a debit, shortening your life.
     I got to thinking about this when I noticed that it takes me an hour to eat a meal. Well, that’s how long it takes me to thoroughly chew each bite before I swallow it. Breakfast, lunch or dinner, it takes about the same amount of food to fill my stomach, so it’s logical that it would take about the same amount of time to chew it.
    Apparently one of the world’s best kept secrets is the importance to our bodies of thoroughly chewing our food. My folks never mentioned or practiced it. I’ve never heard it mentioned on radio or TV, nor in most health books. A good way to check out a health book is to look for “chewing” in the index. I don’t recall ever seeing anyone in a restaurant, or even knowing anyone who had been taught how to eat. Just chew the food enough to swallow it, and if you misjudge, there’s always Heimlich.
    If you chew your food the way your body expects, and you feed it the stuff it’s been designed to handle, and you don’t put in toxic crapola, you’re body should last at least 120 years in perfect health. Oh, plus exercise, stress reduction, and plenty of sun. Any of these you shortchange will debit your life account.
    Since there is less oxygen in the air than when our body design was firmed, you can add to your life account by deep breathing and hyperventilating several times a day to make up for this shortage.
    Popular toxins such as refined sugar, white flour products, coffee, tea, alcohol, and nicotine and big debit account builders. Cooked food, too. Worse, coffee also dehydrates you. It takes a couple glasses of water just to counter the loss caused by a cup of coffee.
    Figure eight to ten glasses of pure water a day. Less goes on your debit account, helping head you toward a nursing home and a walker, or the instant oblivion of a heart attack. Pfft, you’re suddenly over there looking at your dead body and no one can see or hear you. Well, Wayne warned me, but I just couldn’t help myself.

8/13/06

Cold Fusion

    The oil people have done a first rate job of burying cold fusion. Well, almost burying it. But when technology provides a product that is better than the current one, and costs a tenth as much, it’s going to win out. Eventually.
    We saw that in computers. When minicomputers were developed they put most of the main frame companies, who were blind to the threat, out of business. Then came the microcomputer…now called personal computers…and history repeated itself, wiping out DEC, Data General, Wang, and Prime.
    Cold fusion is real. It’s been proven, over and over, so no matter what the oil people do to try and stop it, we’re going to eventually have energy…unlimited, non-polluting energy…at less than a tenth the cost of oil. And some people are going to make trillions, not billions.
    When I attended a cold fusion conference on Maui and had a chance to talk with the pioneers, I was impressed enough to start publishing a Cold Fusion journal.
    If you’d like to start learning about this field I have a special deal for you. I still have a few copies of the 100-page premiere issue…cover price $10. While they last, send me $5 (and that includes s/h in the U.S.) and one will be on its way.  Wayne Green, Box 360, Hancock, NH 03449.
    If that didn’t tap you out, for another $5 I’ll add a later issue of the journal which includes a cold fusion overview, a review of 55 papers given at ICCF-4, the Fourth International Conference on Cold Fusion, articles on energy from particle creation in space, cold fusion research essentials, quantum mechanics, building a microcalorimeter, sonoluminescence, Feynman diagrams for d+d reactions, and plasma discharge experiments.
    Cold fusion theory has been explained by physicist Hideo Kozima. Experimenters have proven the theory. What remains is for the development of a small cold fusion-powered heat and electricity generator for homes and businesses…which will sell in the millions.

8/12/06

The NSA

    Whenever you talk on the phone be sure to include words such as bomb, secrecy, attack, assassinate, guns, weapons, and so on. This will trigger the computer monitoring your conversation to alert a human to check your call. As more people learn to do this it’ll make more work for the National Security Agency folk, creating more good-paying jobs. But, if enough of us do it the system will crash. Keep the list by your phone.




8/10/06

Nailed!

    Rich Karlgaard’s column in the June 19th Forbes about entrepreneurs described me. “Some people are gifted at starting things. Sadly, we anal-retentive types are too quick to come along and criticize entrepreneurs for not finishing their projects. That’s wrong. The entrepreneurial gift isn’t to manage and administer, it’s to start things.”
    My approach to entrepreneurialism is to study a situation, see where somebody really ought to do something about it, and then, after looking around, discover it’s me that has to do it.
    I didn’t start out with the idea of creating a cell phone industry and changing the world, I just wanted to share the fun I was having with amateur radio repeaters with more amateurs via my publications.
    I set one up on nearby Pack Monadnock Mountain (WR1AAB) which allowed any mobile ham anywhere in New England to be able to talk with any other. Hey, this is real fun!
    What I found was that my publishing articles by the repeater pioneers helped the technology to be developed. That helped attract more pioneers and bring them up to speed. Next, entrepreneurs started making products for this new technology, and what had been a few dozen ham repeaters grew to over 8,000 in the U.S., and in countries all around the world…since my magazine had subscribers in over 200 countries.
    I’ll never forget flying from Johannesburg to Mbabane in Swaziland in a small plane. I was talking with the South African amateurs with my handy-talkie when suddenly the Swaziland repeater came on and I was being called by Swaziland amateurs. Wow! Repeaters were everywhere!
    In my editorials I explained that I could ski the mountains of New Hampshire, Vermont, and Colorado, and make phone calls anywhere in the world through the local ham repeaters. I said everyone in the world would want to be able to do this.
    The hams at Motorola took my editorials to their top people, and that’s how the cell phone industry got started.
    In January 1975 a little outfit in Albuquerque put a computer kit on the market for computer hobbyists to play with. I, of course, got one…and saw the future. I said to myself, “I can do it again!”
    It took me a while to find an editor that knew something about computers. Then I can up with the name Byte, which was short and computer-related. I called every company I could find making anything in the computer field and asked for the names and addresses of anyone who’d asked for information. As shoe-boxes of names came in I sent out subscription letters. Normally direct mail subscription offers pull around one or two percent response. I was getting over a twenty percent response!
    I sent letters and called authors who’d submitted computer-related articles for my ham magazine, and five weeks after we started, the first issue of Byte went to press. It grew to be the biggest magazine in the country, even besting out Vogue! In third place was my 80-Micro, the first computer-specific magazine, which was only running 400-500 pages a month, 13-issues a year.
    I probably should write about all that some time.

8/9/06

Do The Math

    Who benefits when we get sick? Doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, drug companies, health insurance companies (it’s called cash flow), Medicare and Medicaid bureaucrats, HMOs, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, dentists, AMA, ADA, FDA, NIH, and so on.
    Which of the above benefit if they help us get well?
    This is a multi-trillion dollar industry, complete with big ad budgets and lobbyists in Washington and every state capitol, all dependent on your being sick.
    Who among them benefits from encouraging you to eat healthy food?
    No one, except you, benefit when you are healthy. How do you like those odds? Is it any wonder we’re only living around 75 years instead of 120 to 200?
    Every other mammal except man lives between ten and seventeen their age at puberty in their native habitats expect man. We should be living 120 to 200…and could.
    And what about pension plans (what few are left), and Social Security?

8/8/06

Education 2020

 Our American educational system, including our universities, is not in need of changes, it needs a revolution. And, fortunately, the technology is here for that. Our universities have the option, for a short time, to either lead the revolution or be a casualty. Considering the cemented-in-place beliefs of university faculties, I doubt there will be many survivors.
    When kids have the option to sit in lecture halls listening to professors, followed by a reading pages 237 to 264 in a text book, followed the next class by a memory test, which is the current “teaching” model, vs. a DVD with a star actor, a script by professional writers, and illustrated with video and computer graphics, which will win? Further, for many subjects there can also be virtual lab for experimentation. Think a million dollar professional production that will be enjoyed by thousands to even millions of students in a couple hundred countries.
    How many families will opt for $20,000 to $40,000 a year universities over a few hundred dollars worth of DVDs? Even a couple of thousand dollars worth?
    Educational DVDs (and Internet downloads) will be available for any imaginable subject, for people of any age. This will be a new trillion-dollar industry, and nothing can stop it.
    Where can public schools and universities fit into this paradigm? What will happen to college football and basketball? Gee, what a terrible loss! What can schools offer that can’t be delivered cheaper and far, far better via DVD?
    Kids love to learn. They start learning as soon as they can breath and it isn’t until the dictatorial rigidity of the average school classroom is imposed on them by government law that their interest in learning crumbles. The concept of freedom, which we preach so loudly as an American heritage, is unknown in the classroom. And, along with the excitement which learning can provide, creativity is also stifled.
    I remember even in the fifth grade, being angry at the huge waste of my time most school was, and feeling like a slave because I was forced to do this by law.
    In high school, if I hoped to get into a college, I had to take a second language. I chose French, and the whole experience was a four year long nightmare. I hated every minute of it. Every time I’d sit down to memorize vocabulary I’d fall asleep. My parents even brought in a tutor to help me, but that didn’t do much good.
    Also, there was no book like my Secret Guide to Wealth available then, so I didn’t know there was any real alternative to college. You needed to have a college education if you were ever going to make anything of yourself. They’re still brainwashing kids with that mantra. What a crock!
    The Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA) has helped shatter the government-run school system approach. Here’s a school with no curriculum, where kids from four to twenty learn what they want, when they want, and because they want. No tests. No grades. And their SATs are fabulous. Many help teach each other. Well, there are at least eight books about the school, and it’s being cloned around the country, so read about it.
    In 1975, when I started publishing the first computer magazine (Byte), I predicted we’d be seeing ads for computers on television. What a razzing I got from the computer experts of the time. Well, we’re going to be seeing lots of TV ads for educational programs. Lots!


7/31/06

Home Work

    Working at home sure beats the hell out of commuting to work, and for women with children, it’s a godsend, with none of this day-care baloney (and expense). It even makes home schooling kids practical.
    I got to thinking about this when I came across Donna Partow’s Homemade Business, a step-by-step guide to earning money at home. It’s aimed at women, but the advice will work for anyone. ISBN 1-56179-043-5. She advises you to find something that’s fun, something you’re really interested in. Well, that’s what I’ve always done, as I explained last year (see blog 6/30/05).
    There are a number of helpful books, such as Paul and Sarah Edwards The Best Home Businesses, which profiles 95 businesses – ISBN 0-87477-784-4. And Patricia McConnel’s The Woman’s Work-At-Home Handbook, income and independence with a computer – ISBN 0-553-34324-6. It won’t hurt to get some extra inspiration from Marsha Simetar’s Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow – ISBN 0-440-50160-1.
    I’ve started a bunch of businesses, but none of them with making a lot of money as my goal. My driving force has always been that “someone ought to do this.”
    These days, with the Internet, it’s easier than ever to start a home business, and to find out what kind of competition there is.
    When I started Byte, the first computer magazine, it was just a few months after the first computer kit had been put on the market for hobbyists by MITS in Albuquerque. I put one together and had so much fun I wanted to share it with as many people as I could. At that time there was no software yet, and nothing you could do with it. A year later Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and brought a BASIC program he’d written in school, finally giving the kit something to do.
    My wife sells how to dance videos from home. She tapes the masters at a local TV station with a prize-winning local dancing teacher, and then makes copies with a bunch of Go-Video recorders at home. It started out small, but the videos were so popular that she now has almost a hundred different titles. The customers love ’em.
    I just came up with a slogan for her. Dunno if she’ll use it. “Candy is dandy; liquor is quicker; but dancing is sure-fire.”


7/31/06

Bad Science

    The July 30th 60 Minute show, in the middle of summer re-runs, repeated a piece about a scientist trying to report on global warming getting worse, mainly as the result of our use of oil for heating and cars. His complaint was that the White House has been censoring his reports and muffling him.
    Since the White House is firmly in the grips of oil people, I can understand the need to stifle anything that might tend to cut back on the use of oil. But the alarming part is the blindness of so many scientists to the real cause of global warming.
    It’s really not strange that NASA’s reports on the Sun’s output having increased substantially, and that every planet in the solar system has heated up, hasn’t reached many scientists. Scientists tend to be specialists, so they have little interest in data from outside their specialty, a fact of life that has held back the acceptance of new scientific and medical ideas all through human history.
    You can bet that not one global warming scientist has ever even heard of Professor James McCanney’s 2002 book, Planet-X, Comets, and Earth Changes. In it he predicts that a planet or large comet will enter the solar system, causing the Sun, as well as all the planets to heat up as it passes through. He says Earth’s heating up will bring an increase in volcano eruptions, earthquakes, and weird weather. Exactly what’s been happening.
    If we stopped using oil and coal tomorrow that would probably make things a little worse in that it would cut down on the smoke layer over the Earth which is dimming the sunlight, which is giving us some cooling.
    McCanney, not surprisingly, seems to have suddenly quieted down. I wonder what group reached him?
    There’s a whole lot more to this which I cover in my $3 Catastrophe booklet. Like the possibility of the Yellowstone super volcano to erupt, wiping out much of the Northwestern U.S.


7/28/06

Australia

    Back in 1946, shortly after I’d gotten out of the Navy after serving for four years during WWII, Bill French W2NYC and I drove from our homes in Brooklyn (NY) to my grandmother’s farm in Bethlehem (NH) for our summer vacation…bringing along my ham station. What a wonderful summer we had!
    This came to mind when a radio ham from Australia (VK5NTT) returned my QSL card confirming my first contact with Australia in August 1946. Wow, that was sixty years ago, and here it was, yellowed with age, back!
    Amateur radio is a fabulous hobby. It helped me have friends in almost every country in the world. This was particularly helpful when I had a chance to visit their countries…often staying with them and getting on the air from their stations to talk home, and to my many ham friends all around the world from places like Swaziland, Nepal, Iran, Sabah, and New Caledonia.
    If the real cause of global warming triggers a serious event it could be, as with many disasters, the only communications left working will be via amateur radio. The federal exam to get a license is so difficult that no one under four years old has managed to pass it yet. And a girl of seven got the highest class license available.
    A good, workable ham station can be gotten for a few hundred dollars. You don’t need the multi-thousand dollar latest stuff to have fun, and to be prepared should the lights and telephones go out. Including cell phones. A tower with a big beam antenna on it is great, but a piece of wire thrown into a nearby tree will do the job.
   

7/27/06

Spying

    They dignify it as “intellugence,” but that’s like calling prisons corrective institutions, and the War Department the Department of Defense (next it’ll be the Peace Department).
    The fact is we’re spending Congress even doesn’t have a clue how many billions on the FBI, CIA, DEA, DIA, NSA, Fema, Homeland Security, ONI, Treasury, and perhaps some more agencies we don’t even hear about. I probably should add state and large city police departments. How about Customs and INS? No wonder the government keeps growing.
    There’s little to suggest that any of these agencies talk with each other, or share information with foreign agencies. Does this seem like a really, really stupid, horrendously wasteful system to you?
    Never mind, just keep re-electing the crooks to Congress who are responsible for setting this mess up and funding it. Forget dumping ’em in the primaries this November for someone new who might upset things. Oh, and p-l-e-a-s-e, no more lawyers.



7/22/06

Iraq

    There’s a huge opportunity in the African and the Arab countries, where there are billions of people who are prisoners of ignorance, compounded by deeply inculcated religious beliefs. Like millions of people who are illiterate. Up to 80% in some countries.
    Even the Arabs have less than 10% as many book titles as are available to Europeans. And the Africans? Almost none.
    So, what’s my proposal? For a fraction of the lives and dollars war costs we could set up radio and television networks in Iraq and Afghanistan, for starters. We would provide some Arabic language programs, but most of them would be in English. And we’d have video and audio programs teaching the people how to read, how to start and run small businesses, how to plant and cultivate crops. Some entertainment, but mostly educational, practical, useful information.
    The U.S. set up a great televised school system on American Samoa around fifty years ago. The programs were shared by all of the schools on the island. When teachers are teaching thousands of children instead of twenty or thirty you can afford to hire much better teachers and provide more interesting and well-planned material.
    By teaching English, we’ll be preparing the people, and in particular the youngsters, to be competitive in the English-speaking world. And English is the world language, no matter how much the French hate the idea.
    With Jim Patterson’s irrigation system, crops can be grown in the desert, using less than a tenth as much water as normal. Jim developed a special plastic siphon tubing which delivers water and nutrients directly to the roots of plants, avoiding the wasteful evaporation of surface-watered plants.
    With micro-loans to help families start small businesses, which has been so phenomenally successful in India, we can help them better their lives. As the small businesses grow, that’ll fuel the infrastructure development…power, communications, roads.
    Islam won’t stand a chance against education. Before Islam, Arabs were leading the world in technology. Jordan, which is the most technologically advanced Arab country, has shown what can be done with enlightened leadership.
    Having visited ten African countries (so far), and many of the middle-eastern countries, I have a good understanding of what is going on and what could be. Oh, been to Samoa, too.
    I’d like to see the pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then spread the project to African countries. I don’t know how much longer the oil companies can prevent the development of cold fusion power, but the power demands of more and more emerging nations will some day break their choke-hold on Congress and the White House.

7/21/06

Shark!

    A PBS show about scuba diving reminded me of the time I went on a scuba diving cruise of the Bahamas. I’ve been on a lot of scuba cruises, but that one stands out.
   We had about 25 divers on the trip, including Eugenia Clark, who has gotten pretty famous. Anyway, we were anchored in a little bay, with most of us sitting around the deck swapping lies when one of the two divers who were in the water suddenly surfaced and yelled out, “Shark! Shark!”, and then disappeared below the surface.
    Immediately, the 23 of us grabbed our scuba gear and jumped into the water to see the shark. With all that commotion he was long gone by the time I got to the bottom.
    Sharks don’t usually bother divers. Their prey are disabled fish, which is why they go after swimmers. They look to a shark like a big fish in trouble, and those legs are often hanging down invitingly, kicking around.


7/21/06

Politicians

    They’ll be flooding to New Hampshire this fall, bringing the major media and their millions of lovely campaign dollars. Let’s get out there and listen to their pre-packaged crapola, pretending to be the dutiful ignorant sheep they are counting on us to be.
    Listen as they fan controversial religious flames over abortion, stem cells, prayer in the schools, and gay marriage, counting on the resulting smoke screen to blind you to what’s really going on behind the scenes.
    If you get a chance, ask ’em some questions. Like, who are their four top campaign contributors, and about how much is involved? Since America has by far the most expensive healthcare system in the world and one of the worst in terms of our resulting health (we came in 19th in a recent world survey), what is their plan for changing this? Our school system is the most expensive in the world, yet our students are coming in last in international surveys, making American less and less competitive. What is their plan to change this?
    These are just a couple of the huge wastes of our money Congress should stop. Then there’s NASA, whose only shining accomplishment has been the faked Moon landings some 37 years ago. What about factory farming, where cows are being fed chicken manure, and chopped up dead cows and dogs and cats put down by veterinarians? Where do they stand on putting fluoride in our water? And on the FDA’s acceptance of aspartame? How about vaccinations? And vaccinations causing autism in young children?
    What’s their position on the use of dental amalgam? How about those earmarks inserted into bills that are spending billions on some very questionable projects?
    Ask ’em about UFOs, chem trails, Flight 800, the endless unanswered 911 questions, the Oklahoma City second, third and fourth bombs, the War on Drugs which has drugs more easily available and cheaper than ever, and so on. 
    But, the bottom line is Never Re-elect Anyone (NRA). No matter how much they enrich us with their campaign spending, turn incumbents into outcumbents, do it in the primaries, and get the movement started here in New Hampshire. Abe Lincoln was the last known honest politician, and they shot him.


7/21/06

I’m Thrifty…

…Not cheap, so I love the little catalog sheets Haband! sends me every few days. Their pants, made in United Arab Emirates, seem to never wear out. Their shorts and polo shirts, made in Mongolia, are a fantastic bargain and don’t wear out either.
    But the best bargain I’ve ever gotten was their $20 atomic wrist watch. It resets itself every morning automatically from a radio signal from Colorado, so it’s always accurate to a fraction of a second. It also shows the date and day of the week, has a stopwatch function, and is water resistant to 90 feet.
    Get on their mailing list at Haband!, 110 Bauer Drive, Oakland, NJ 07436, 800-742-2263. No, I don’t get a commission.


7/20/06

The Way T’was

    As a kid in the city I had a few daily responsibilities. Like emptying the drip pan under the ice box three or four times a day.
    The ice man came around every day in his horse-drawn wagon, loaded with big blocks of ice and, using his ice pick, cut off a smaller block to fit your ice box, grab it with his ice tongs and bring it from the street to the back door, come in, holler out “Ice man,” and put it in our ice box in the kitchen. A cardboard sign hanging in our front window told him how big a block to cut off for us.
    I had three jobs every morning. First, was to go to the back porch and bring in the milk, which was delivered early every morning. On really cold mornings the bottle cap would be up an inch or so with frozen cream.
    Then I’d go down the cellar and turn on the water heater. It was fueled by illuminating gas piped in by the city and had a timer on it. I’d set the timer for an hour and a half, light the gas and close the cover.
    Next was the furnace, where I’d first use the crank to rotate the grates to let the ashes down. With a shovel I’d put the ashes in the…you guessed it…the ash can next to the furnace. Then add new coal to the top of the fire, refill the water cans just inside the furnace door so the house would be humidified, and I was done.
    On really cold nights I’d come down and find the fire had burned out, so I’d have to start over with crushed newspaper, some kindling, and a sprinkling of coal. A half hour later I’d add more coal and in an hour it was back to full power.
    The house was heated with hot air via registers in every room. At night we’d close the registers in our bedrooms and pile on the blankets and comforters to save coal.
    The postman delivered mail twice a day on weekdays and once Saturday morning. Yes, he always rang the front doorbell twice. Letters were 2¢ and postcard 1¢.
    At the foot of the cellar stairs were two laundry tubs, where my mother washed and rinsed our clothes and sheets, and then hung them out on the clothesline that went from the back porch to a tree. It was on pulley wheels so the clothes could be hung from it with clothes pins from the back porch and they were high enough up so my grandfather’s Hupmobile could be backed out of the garage under them.
    One of my jobs was to use a big feather duster and dust off the Hupmobile every evening.
    The coal men would come once a month, park their truck on the street, sluice coal into wooden barrels, roll them down the drive way between our house and the one next door, and then empty the coal into a chute through the window over the laundry tubs into another barrel in the cellar. The second man would roll it to the coal bin about ten feet away, lift it up and empty the coal into the bin. Bet that weighed a good hundred pounds.
    This was back when radios were still a rarity and not every family had a Victrola to play records, so the hurdy-gurdy man and his little monkey down at the corner was welcome and worth giving a few pennies.
    Every few days an organ grinder, with his hand cart, would pause in the street and pay a few songs.
    As kids on roller skates, we loved the Italian ices man and his horse-drawn wagon. The small cups were 2¢ and the large 3¢.
    The Daily News and Daily Mirror were 2¢, with the Herald Tribune and New York Times a stiff 3¢. The Sunday News and Mirror were a nickel and the Trib and Journal American a dime. All but the Times had colored comic sections, so we got ’em all every Sunday. They were all available down at the corner by the Avenue M station of the BMT, which ran along on a hill behind our house.
    The subway was a nickel, but we kids learned early on how to “gyp the el” by climbing the hill at the end of the station platform and sneaking on there.
    The scissors-sharpening man came around every few weeks in his horse-drawn wagon, sharpening scissors and knives. There was even a hit song about the umbrella man, who fixed umbrellas.
    When a Chinese laundry opened down at the corner that was the end of the wash tubs in the basement.
    When clothes needed fixing there was Harry Tietler’s tailor shop, also down at the corner. And a barber shop…25¢ for a haircut.
    On Saturday we kids went to the Manor theater on Coney Island Avenue where, for a dime, we saw a western, two serials, two feature films, seven cartoons, plus a prize drawing. I won a catcher’s mitt one time, which was not that great since I had zero interest in playing baseball. For some reason I never had any interest in playing or even watching team sports.
    When my dad got a job designing and building an airport for Philadelphia, we moved into an apartment there. I was in kindergarten and the first grade at the time and a block away was the ice house with the ice wagons loading up all day long, right across the street from the Insane Asylum.
    Ice was cut into big blocks in lakes during the winter and stored in ice houses. It was a big business in every city and town.
    There’s lots more, but that’ll hold you for now.


7/20/06

Bio

    Maybe it was the afternoon radio serial “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” that got me interested in science fiction. When I was seven or eight I used to listen to the 15-minute afternoon kids shows like Orphan Annie, Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy, Chandu The Magician, and Buck Rogers.
    One of my childhood books, in addition to all the Oz books, was By Rocket to the Moon. And, by eleven, I was reading Astounding Science Fiction, a magazine that marked me for life. It was the spawning ground for greats like Azimov (I once had lunch with him) and A.E. Van Voght (we became good friends). But the main thing for me was editor John Campbell’s editorials, which discussed anything he found of interest, and not just science fiction. Later the magazine’s title was changed to Analog.
    It was an article on Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health in Astounding that got me to buy the book when it came out back in 1950. I tried it out with a friend and was so impressed with its power I quit a great job and took a course at the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth (NJ) for six weeks. I found that someone using Dianetics could accomplish in hours what psychiatrists wished they could in months. It’s powerful.
    Ooops, I’m off on a tangent. My Dianetic experiences are a whole ‘nother story. Anyway, my amateur radio involvement with radio teletype got to where I started a newsletter in 1951. Naturally my editorials, like those of Campbell, were about anything I found interesting. And it’s been that way ever since, down through some 35 or so publications I’ve edited and published.
    Campbell, a fellow ham operator (W2ZGU), and I later became good friends, getting together for lunch about once a month for several years. He was great fun. It was like a mental roller coaster ride as he’d talk about physics, how to make atom bombs, genetics, UFOs, radionics, past lives, and so on.
    One result of my editorials was a steady stream of information and references from my readers, and that’s still going on today, fed by my editorials, blogs on my web site, and many guest appearances on talk shows.
    It was this feedback that got me to read Dr. Bruno Comby’s Maximize Immunity. The book made good sense. Dr. Comby, after noticing that in every experiment with dogs and cats, those fed cooked food only live half to two-thirds as long as those fed raw meat, and got many human ailments to boot. So he put his human patients on raw food diets and found this helped them cure any illness! Cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and so on. Cures every time.
    Then, one night on the “Coast To Coast AM” radio talk show I heard Dr. Lorraine Day explain to Art Bell, the host, how she was able to cure her breast cancer via a raw food diet (www.drday.com).
    And this all ended up as my Secret Guide to Health book, which discusses all of the common poisons we should avoid if we’re going to have industrial strength immune systems…able to keep us from ever getting sick and to repair just about any damage we do to ourselves.
    Well, that’s how a childhood interest in science fiction, plus my interest in ham radio, has molded my life.


7/17/06

Where’s Wayne?

    A few years ago I’d been invited to give the keynote address at a computer conference in South Africa (all expenses paid for me and Sherry). I agreed, providing they threw in side trips to nearby Swaziland and Lesotho. No problem.
    Sherry and I were in an elevator in a Johannesburg hotel when a chap, riding with us, asked if I was an American. When I said yes, he asked if I was Wayne Green. It turned out he was a radio ham operator from Las Vegas, down there for a hunting safari, and he recognized me from the picture on the editorials in my 73 Amateur Radio Today magazine, to which he subscribed.
    That’s the most amazing time I’ve been recognized.
    One other time surprised me almost as much. It was last year. I’d been asked to throw out the first ceremonial ball at the July 4th Fisher-Cats game in their stadium in Manchester. I did it and then retired to the stands to watch the game.
    When, after the third inning, it was pretty clear that the home team was going to lose, I quietly left to dive home. On the way, when I got to Pinardville, I stopped at a Stop and Shop supermarket to get some fruit. While I was picking out some oranges a young woman came up and asked if I was Wayne Green. She said she’d seen me throw out the first ball at the game. What a coincidence! First, that she was able to recognize me from seeing me on the pitcher’s mound for a couple of minutes, and a long way off. Second that we’d both left early, driven out of town in the same direction, and both stopped at exactly the same time at that particular store.


7/16/06

Sweet Poisons

    Refined sugar is an addictive poison. It’s helping trigger many chronic illnesses, including obesity and cancer. Then there’s aspartame (NutraSweet, the blue stuff), which is causing multiple sclerosis and a few other really bad chronic illnesses, plus it helps make its users fat. That’s the stuff in so-called diet sodas.
    The newcomer is Splenda (sucralose), which is being reported to be causing a whole new bunch of health problems. It was, of course, okayed by the FDA without a single human clinical study.
    Certainly, no one who has Googled Splenda or aspartame would ever let any products using them anywhere near their families.
    If you go the organic live food route you won’t have to worry about all those chemicals they’re putting into the food supply…few of which have ever been adequately tested to make sure they are safe. It’s all about money and your health isn’t even in the equation.
    Companies that want to get a new food or drug product okayed by the FDA have to hire research groups to run tests on it. The research companies know that if they turn in a negative report they aren’t likely to get more work, so guess what? But, if some of the testing groups do dare to give a bad report, only the positive reports are submitted to the FDA. And no, the FDA doesn’t test anything. So much for our government protecting us.
    If you’re still eating sugar it’s time to read Nancy Appleton’s Lick the Sugar Habit, or William Duffy’s Sugar Blues.


7/16/06

Pure Water

    An ad from the C. Crane Company, the outfit that used to advertise heavily on the Coast To Coast AM show…and maybe still does, since the podcasts skip all of the commercials, so I don’t know…promoted two water distillers, one for $400 (Water Wise), and one for $750 (Pure Water Mini Classic II).
    It is important that you and your family drink only distilled water. The distiller gets rid of any fluoride your town or city has added, chlorine, lead, arsenic, and other stuff you really, really don’t want in your body.
    But $400? Good grief! The one I use and recommend costs $120 and does the job just fine. It’s from www.steamdistiller.com, NutriTeam, Inc., Box 71, Ripton, VT 05766, 802-388-0661. No, I don’t get a commission.
    It looks to me as if C. Crane is making a mint on the products they sell. Well, that explains how they can afford to advertise so much on the Art Bell show.

7/16/06

The Blood Purifier

    This is a long story. Normally I’d make a booklet out of it, but since some of the information can’t be sent through the mail, this is the only medium I have.
    It started with an old friend mentioning that Bob Beck, a mutual friend, had developed a simple cure for AIDS. Hey! So I called Bob and he faxed me the story.
    Drs. Lyman and Kaali, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York had accidentally discovered that when they passed a tiny electric current through blood it prevented any virus, microbe, parasite, yeast infection or fungus from replicating, causing them to die. Yep, it worked on anything, including HIV, the AIDS virus. So they got a patent on the process (#5,188,738), but never published anything about it.
    When Bob noticed a small item in a magazine about it, being a physicist and an inventor, he figured why take the blood out to treat it? How about passing the small current through the blood while it’s still in the body?
    So he put together a little gadget to provide the needed 35-volts and used a small relay to reverse the current flow a few times a second so a resistance to it wouldn’t build up. Next, he got a local clinic to test it, and sure enough, they were quickly curing AIDS patients.
    I wrote about this in my 73 Amateur Radio Today magazine, asking the readers to design a solid-state blood purifier instead of using that clicking relay. One did and I published the circuit in the May 1996 issue. The unit used $19 in parts. A few of the readers built the circuit and I began getting reports of AIDS cures. And hepatitis.
    My next step was to publish a booklet with the story and a reprint of the article.
    Then, about three years ago, I got a letter from the Post Office saying that since the blood purifier hadn’t been okayed by the FDA, it was, by law fraudulent, and I would be fined $25,000 for each booklet I sent through the mail. That mess cost me over $30,000 in legal fees.
    The fact that it worked and had been proven by a medical clinic to work was irrelevant. The Post Office officials said that if I even mentioned the patent number in a mail piece I’d be fined.
    So much for the power of the FDA to protect the pharmaceutical industry.
    On “60 Minutes” they did a segment on fake medications, where a woman, who was spending $60,000 a year for AIDS medication…not to cure it, but just to keep it from progressing…had been getting the fake stuff. Imagine the billions Big Pharma is getting from desperate AIDS sufferers!
    By this time I knew that Dr. Comby’s approach, with a raw food diet, would accomplish the same thing, so the loss of the blood purifier wasn’t all that serious. Then Dr. Lorraine Day came along, confirming what I’d learned from Dr. Comby.
    I’ve been trying to break through the wall around Bill Gates to let him know that his foundation could save billions by having blood purifiers made in China for maybe $5 or less each. The AIDS death toll is running around three million a year, mostly in Africa, but it’s spreading fast to India and China.
    Now the bright note. A ham radio friend has managed to get the blood purifier information to the Chinese government. They’re going to test it in their hospitals and then, if it does the job, they’ll start producing them and selling them all around the world.
    The blood purifier is simple to use. you put the electrodes over the two arteries just above the wrist. They’re about a half inch apart. Then you turn the unit on and adjust the voltage for a pleasant thumping feeling. Using it an hour a day for two or three weeks will clean out anything living in the blood, without harming the blood cells, which are made in the bone marrow, not in the blood. And that includes not only AIDS, but malaria, schistosomaisis, hepatitis, and so on.
    I’ve several books on AIDS, and they’re all in agreement that it was developed in a government lab in Maryland with the goal of slowing the population growth in Africa. And, while they were at it, to reduce the American homosexual population.
    Maybe it’ll turn out that I’ve managed to help change the world a little bit. Again. 


7/15/06

The Property Tax

    The New Hampshire property taxes are ridiculously high. Worse, it seems to me they are unconstitutional. Check the 14th Ammendment and see for yourself.
    When the tax were established it in fact confiscated the ownership of all land and buildings in the state, with no compensation to the ex-owners. Oh, they could continue to use their land and buildings, but only as long as they paid the yearly rent. Miss your payments and you’re out.
    The purpose of the property tax is to cover the cost of New Hampshire’s public schools. And those costs have sky-rocketed, mainly due to the continuous build up of the school administration bureaucracy. School costs could be cut by at least 60% of the administrators, who are doing little productive, were forced to find honest work.
    If you’re not familiar with Parkinson’s First Law, it’s time for some homework. 
    School maintenance costs could be slashed if the students were given the responsibility for routine chores, as they do in Japanese schools.
    As DVD and web-based educational products become available, the need for schools will be fading away. Kids, if they’re encouraged and left alone, love to learn and are like industrial vacuum cleaners when allowed. The days of a classroom with children separated, not allowed to talk with each other, and ruled by a teacher-dictator, are going to blow away.
    If you’re not familiar with the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA) it’s time to Google it. This private school for kids from four to twenty has no curriculum, no tests, no grades, and kids are not separated by age. They learn what they want, when they want and because the want. And the end results are spectacular. Oh, and the school costs less than half as much as nearby public schools to run. There is no administration. The kids make the rules. Read about it.


7/15/06

Nut Case?

    Why should you believe some joker who comes along claiming outrageous things such as NASA having faked the Moon landings 30 years ago? That he knows Amelia Earhart was on a spy mission for the Navy when she disappeared? That college is a huge waste of four valuable years, plus thousands of wasted dollars? That colleges can be made relevant and operate tuition-free, and with no government support? That you can’t trust your doctor? That if you work for someone else for more than a year or two you’re a sucker? That almost anyone can make a million dollars within seven years, if they really want to? That you can get a dream job with no résumé, no college, and even with no experience? That you can’t trust your grocery store or the food giants? That sugar is a deadly, addictive poison? That the so-called war on drugs has built more new billionaires than personal computers? That the so-called war on poverty has resulted in more poor people than ever? That Project Head Start has shown no long term benefits for kids? That any state or federal government bureau or department can be cut in half within three years, with the people in the departments cooperating enthusiastically?
    What kind of a crackpot have you run into here?


7/15/06

Memory Loss

    Researchers report that exercise helps our memories. Gee, what a surprise…not. It sure doesn’t take a genius to figure this one out.
    Firstly, our bodies are oxygen-burning machines. You stop the oxygen, the machine stops. Second, our brains are the biggest user of oxygen, so when we short the supply the brain is the first organ to malfunction.
    It may comes as a news flash, but when our body design was firmed up our planet had a much higher percentage of oxygen in its atmosphere, so unless we hyperventilate every now and then to bring in more oxygen, our bodies are operating in an oxygen-starved condition. And that means headaches, reasoning and memory problems.
    Worse, many of us breathe shallowly instead of filling our lungs. This makes us tired, so we tend to yawn, a process that brings more oxygen into our lungs, You can even hear the blood rushing to the brain.
    My approach is to stick little notes here and there with a big “B!” on them to remind me to hyperventilate and use my full lungs.
    Exercise is a winner too, in that it makes you breathe harder.
    I haven’t had a headache in years and my memory is holding up well.


7/11/06

Festival

    Hillsborough held their umpteenth Balloon Festival on the July 8-10th weekend.  And, unlike last year, there actually were some balloons floating around.
    For ten bucks you could spend a few minutes looking down on the festival grounds from a tethered RE/MAX balloon. For quite a bit more you could float over the New Hampshire hills as one of the three passengers in one of the dozen balloons that were lofted each morning around seven. You really should add that experience to your “done-that” list.
    The kiddy rides were kept busy. There wasn’t a lot more for the adults to do except eat. Cones, shakes, floats, funnel bread, fried dough, fried onions rings, fried potatoes, fried veggies, sausages, hot dogs, lemonade, cheesecake, doughnuts, candied pop corn, and so on. A raw foodist could starve in the midst of plenty. The fried veggie plate guy had pity on me and gave me a plate of raw sweet potato chips. The maple syrup bottle had an Aunt Jemima label on it, so I thought it best not to check the ingredient list.
    In the past years I’ve gotten some spectacular pictures of the festival and downtown Hillsborough from the helicopter that’s there on Saturday. When it arrived this time I quickly signed up for the first ride. Then something went wrong. The festival manager had expected the helicopter to be there Sunday, so the fire works people were busy setting up for the Saturday night display and they couldn’t allow the helicopter to refuel.
    “But we’ve always flown on Saturday,” explained the lady selling ride tickets. “Never on Sunday!” I whistled the tune while she refunded the customers. Rats.
    My old friend Tom Boris, with his old timey photographs tent was there. I love the picture he took of me in a sheriff’s outfit. It’s on the back cover of my Secret Guide to Health as a Fighter For Truth. His daughter loves my book so they’re both very healthy…and you’ll hear Joplin’s ragtime music recorded in my studio by Scott Kirby when you get near the tent.
    Since I’m a futurist and love new technologies, I was attracted by the “Ice Cream of the Future” tent. They were selling several flavors of “Dippin Dots.” Their ice cream was in tiny beads. Four bucks for a small dish seemed like a lot, but heck, I had to try it. What I got for four dollars was a little plastic dish about three and a half inches in diameter and maybe an inch high into which they scooped the ice cream dots. When I started to eat I discovered that the bottom of the dish rose about a half inch and all I’d gotten was about two ounces of ice cream. Other than being in little dots, it tasted exactly like any other ice cream. A mile away I could have gone to Shaw’s supermarket and gotten a half gallon of just as good ice cream for $1.22, complete with a free spoon from their soup department.
    My balloon ride, which lasted about a half hour, was fun as we bobbed along with eleven other balloons. My pilot was RE/MAX’s Chris Mooney, their Chief Hot Air Balloon Pilot. The most amazing part was his ability to maneuver the balloon to a smooth landing into a back yard…right next door to the Hillsborough buffalo farm where I get my buffalo meat.
    The New Hampshire ToDo booth was the scene of tremendous inactivity as a steady stream of festival attendees walked by, giving it no notice. Not even a glance. From past experience I’d expected something like that, so I’d printed up a couple hundred little pamphlets promoting my health book, with a phone number to call for more information as a test. I gave ’em all out, but I’m still waiting for the first phone call.


7/12/06

Vegans

    Prevention magazine reported that 68% of vegetarians have vitamin B12 levels low enough to cause attention, mood, and thinking problems. Well, so much for vegetarianism. Life is tough enough when your brain isn’t fuzzy, your memory iffy, and your IQ on life support.
    We are omnivores. We not only can, but our bodies need, fruit, vegetables and meat. Actually, we do a lot better eating nothing but meat than on a vegetarian diet. Raw meat, that is.
    The Eskimos lived very nicely, thank you, on raw meat and fish. Well, there were no forests to chop down for fuel. They didn’t build any fires in those igloos made of snow. You wouldn’t either if you lived in a snow house.
    The word “Eskimo” meant “eater of raw meat.”
    I love raw meat. And it explains now why I’ve always ordered my steak done very rare. I loved the red part. And my scallops done very, very lightly. In Japanese restaurants I go for the sashimi (raw fish).
    In Japan, when you go into a chicken restaurant the first course is chicken sashimi (raw), with a tari sauce dip. Love it.


7/13/06

Stephen Hawking

    This great brain, immobilized by ALS and using a voice synthesizer to talk, may be a whiz at physics, but someone sure ought to let him know about Dr. Bruno Comby of the Comby Institute in Paris, who has been routinely curing ALS patients with his raw food diet. And with Dr. Lorraine Day (www.drday.com), who says, “There are no incurable illnesses.” She’s curing thousands of cancer patients with her raw food diet.
    Worse, he’s got a mouth full of dental amalgam, which is half mercury, and which I’m sure started his problems.
    First, get all that mercury out, and then beef up his immune system with a raw food diet so it can clean the mercury out of his body .
    It’s all in my Secret Guide to Health.


7/13/06

Those Cellphones

    As much as the cellphone industry tries, like the cigarette companies did, to cover up the dangers, scientific reports are still leaking out.
    A recent study linked them with eye damage. The cellphone emission caused tiny bubbles to appear on the surface of the eye’s lens. This accumulates progressively and does not heal.
    Add this to previous research reports of brain tumors, burned out brain cells (memory and thinking loss) and contributing to Alzheimer’s disease and it’s almost time to start using a headset and keeping the cellphone well away from your head.
    And no, none of those little gadgets to shield you work.


7/13/06

Wide Open

    That’s our ports, as well as our land borders.
    The ports are run by foreign corporations and most of the container ships using them are foreign owned, bringing over eleven million containers here a year. The last major American line was sold in 1997 to a Singapore conglomerate.
    The Chinese own the companies running the Port of New York, plus they have sixty-nine monster container ships, with one over 900 feet long and carrying nearly four thousand of the 8x8x44-foot containers. The next generation will carry ten thousand containers.
    The Port of New York is still firmly in the hands of the mob, and a high percentage of the truckers are illegal immigrants. A check of nine thousand truckers with access to the entire Port of New York and New Jersey found that nearly half had criminal records and about five hundred had phony driver’s licenses. In May 90% of the drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach joined the illegal immigrant work boycott.
    If the Port of New York were to be closed down New York State and New England would run out of heating fuel within ten days.
    With less than 7% of the containers being screened, our water borders are wide open.


7/14/06

A Letter to Bill Gates

Bill,  You are well aware that a revolution in education is needed. And the same goes for so-called healthcare.
    You are also well aware that I started the PC revolution with Byte magazine, months before you joined MITS. And that was after I’d caused the cellphone revolution with my publications. So it shouldn’t surprise you that I have education and healthcare revolutions planned…again, with publications. These are going to be total revolutions which will change the world even more than the PC and cellphone have.
    Both of these revolutions are going to open huge new markets.
    For instance, in healthcare I can show you how your foundation can get a thousand times (103) the bang for the buck with AIDS and malaria.     Wayne

    Now, what do you think the chances are my letter will get through to Bill? Please invest 39¢ and see if you can help me penetrate the wall around Chairman Bill at 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052.
    He’s well aware that Asian students are running circles around ours and either we do something drastic about it or the American dream is going to turn into a nightmare.


7/14/06

The Hospital Gamble

    A recent Business Week article cited statistics proving that doctors don’t know what the hell they are doing. Only 15% of what doctors have been doing, it turns out, is backed by hard evidence.
    When I was four my mother’s doctor took out my tonsils. Now they admit that this has no benefits for children. Ditto my adenoids a year later. The only benefit was the ice cream they gave me to eat when I was recovering. That was a delicacy in those days. Now the stuff is $1.22 a half gallon at the local supermarket.
    The medical industry, like any other, is driven by money, and operations, whether they are needed or not, are big money-makers. Which helps explain why Americans are spending two and a half as much on sickness care than any other country. It also helps explain why the U.S. comes in 19th in the world in the health results.
    You’ve no doubt read about the hospital acquired infections which are killing around 180,000 people a year. Well, 80% of those come from doctors who haven’t washed their hands…a little trick Dr. Semmelweis tried to get doctors to adopt 150 years ago. They took away his license.
    As one top medical expert put it, “There is a massive amount of spending on things that really don’t help patients, and even put them at greater risk.”
    If you continue eating the Standard American Diet (SAD) you are going to wreck something and eventually be in the hands of the medical industry. Fast food will, of course, accelerate your trip to a hospital.
    Well, heck, your doctor has been needing a new car, so make that super-size.


7/5/06

Non-Allergenic Cats

    An item in Business Week about a San Diego company that’s developed a non-allergenic cat caught my eye. You can get one for only $3950, plus $995 s/h.
    If you’re tempted, I have a much better deal for you. Get a Burmese kitten. Burmese cats are non-allergenic and are a heck of a lot cheaper.
    My dad was allergic to dogs and cats, so the best I was able to manage as a pet was a little white rabbit. Later, when I visited homes where there were dogs or cats, I found that I, too, was allergic to them. My eyes would start itching and my nose running.
    Some research showed me that the sight-hounds were non-allergenic, so I started off with Italian Greyhounds. No problem., Then a Scottish Deerhound. Still no problem. Later I made a home for retired Greyhounds from the local race tracks. No allergies, and all of them made fantastic pets. Wonderful temperaments, great with kids, easy to train.
    An article on Burmese cats said there were non-allergenic, so I got Jebel. No sniffles or eye itching, even though he loved to be around me.
    As a kid I had all kinds of allergies. Ragweed, goldenrod, trees, foods. Hay fever season was awful. This was before Kleenex, so I would have to take about ten handkerchiefs to school every day.
    Now, with acres of goldenrod in the fields around the house, and living with two non-Burmese cats, no sign of any allergies. Not even to watermelon, which just a few bites and I’d lose my voice. Can my raw food diet have made a difference, or have I somehow grown out of my allergies?


7/4/06

Rummy I

    Why was I not surprised to read that the Bush administration has proposed stockpiling $1 billion (that’s a B) worth of Tamiflu? That’s the stuff developed by Gilead Sciences, where Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used to be the chairman of the board, and still holds plenty of its stock.
    Avian flu! Bird Flu! Danger! Millions could die! The fear campaign has been sweeping through the media, scaring millions of people into getting flu vaccinations. And before that you remember the fear campaigns for West Nile and SARS. Well, vaccinations are being touted as particularly beneficial for older people and children.
    Fortunately for the manufacturers of the vaccine and the doctors administering it, the public doesn’t subscribe to the medical journals such as Lancet, which reported that a systematic review of all previous studies testing vaccines for influenza to elderly populations has shown that they are not effective in preventing the disease. The journal also reported that flu vaccinations in children had the same effect as a placebo. None, that is.
    Betcha haven’t seen anything in the popular media explaining that the only cases of bird flu in chickens have been in factory-raised chickens. There’s never been any bird flu where chickens are raised on regular farms. Nor has there been any case of the bird flu being passed from one human to another.
    The reports that getting three flu vaccinations three years in a row increases your chances of getting Alzheimers by ten times somehow hasn’t surfaced in the popular media. It’s the thimerosal in the shots, a combination of mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde.
    The vaccine makers haven’t found anything safer to replace thimerosal so far. They start with plain mercury, then they convert it to methyl mercury, which is 1,000 times more potent. Next, they hop it up to ethyl mercury, which is even more toxic. Then they add aluminum and the combo is 10,000 more toxic than plain mercury.
   
Rummy II

    The New Yorker ran a piece three months ago on how badly Rumsfeld botched the Iraq campaign, which he insisted on running personally, while ignoring the advice of military experts. Oh, the original attack went well, but then the almost complete lack of follow-up planning brought us the mess we have today.

Rummy III

    In 1980, when Reagan was elected, he brought Rumsfeld into the government. Previously he’d been the president of Searle Labs, the developer of aspartame (NutraSweet). When the FDA refused to okay the product after finding the research reports Searle had submitted were rigged, Arthur Hayes was made the new FDA head. He quickly approved aspartame and then left to become a paid consultant to Searle Labs public relations firm. When Monsanto bought Searle Labs, Rumsfeld got a $12 million bonus.
    I have a 16-page pamphlet (two for $1) going into the aspartame details. It’s now being used in thousands of products and is helping make people fat, plus contributing to multiple sclerosis, and a number of other diseases.

Rummy IV

    Then there was that $200 million deal in 2000, when Rumsfeld was on the board of Zurich-based ABB, which sold the design and key components for North Korean nuclear reactors. You can read the details in the May 12, 2003 Fortune, page 75-76, and how Rumsfeld was asked to “lobby in Washington” on ABB’s behalf.


7/4/06

July 4th 1944

     Yep, it was 62 years ago, but it was the most memorable Fourth of July of my life. As a present, Comsubpac (that’s the Commander of Submarines, Pacific) gave us orders to pay a short visit to tiny Jap-held Fais Island, way out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a couple hundred miles east of Yap. It wasn’t near anything. Shelling an island was a great way to spend the 4th of July.
     We came in on the surface and pulled up near the buildings which made up the phosphate plant and got everything ready—the two deck guns, the machine guns—and we spent about twenty minutes wrecking everything in sight. I was stuck inside the conning tower, so I had to watch what I could via the periscope. My radar was even better, for I was able to give the gun crew the exact ranges of the buildings and then follow the shells in on my scope and tell them precisely how short or long their actual range was. Since no one was shooting back, it was fun.       If they’d had one gun of any size we’d have been sitting ducks. Even a small machine gun could have wiped our deck clean. But, as it was, it was fun—for us. None of us will ever forget the Fourth of July 1944.
     Once we’d shambled everything in sight we got the hell out of there before someone on shore found a gun and started shooting back. We were close enough so even a pistol could have picked someone off on deck.


7/2/06

Cell-Phone Safety

     Disney has just launched a cell-phone attack on young kids, with games, ring-tones and cool wallpaper for their screens.
     The article in the June 19th Business Week claims there’s no definite proof of health consequences. So what, I wonder, has happened to all those peer-reviewed papers the leading researcher in the effects on the brain of radio frequencies had published? W. Ross Adey kept me supplied for several years with copies of his published papers on the harmful effects he’d measured of microwaves on brains.
     Is it just a coincidence that thousands of teenagers have been having brain tumors? And always on the side they use their cell-phone?
     The answer, of course, is simple…use a headset and keep the cell-phone a foot away from the head. Otherwise the brain damage is cumulative and permanent.
      How come the cell-phone industry is silent about this? Old timers will remember when cigarette company executives denied, under oath before a Congressional hearing, that cigarettes were either harmful to health or addictive. And we have a similar cover-up of the damage amalgam fillings are doing. Money is far more important than people’s health.
     Any magazine publishing cell-phone ads sure isn’t going to jeopardize that revenue by being honest with its readers. Right, McGraw Hill?


6/30/06

Financing Your business

     If you want to make any real money and have freedom to enjoy it, you have to own your own businss. But, for the average working stiff, the Friday pay check comes just barely in time, so the idea of having to round up enough to get a new business started seems insurmountable.
     So, here’s a sneaky plan which should net you and your wife a few hundred thou or so, all in one lump.
     Step one is easy and fun. Make a baby. But try not to get too attached to it, once it’s born. Then, when the pediatrician recommends the usual round of innoculations, pretend to show some concern. Ask him if he’s sure they won’t hurt the baby. Surreptitiously tape the conversation.
     The chances are good that your baby is going to be autistic as a result. Now, find a good tort lawyer and get the money you deserve. It could go as high as a million from the doctor’s insurance company. Even if the lawyer gets half, that’s still a half mil, plenty to start your new business.
     Then, let an adoption agency take care of finding the brain-damaged baby a caring home and get busy starting a new one that won’t ever get those deadly innoculations.
     According to Peter Fletcher, M.D., the former chief scientific officer for Britain’s Depeartment of Health, the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine is “one of the greatest scandals in medical history.”
     Fletcher points out that the live measles virus in MMR is causing vulnerable children to experience brain, gut, and immune system damage. He says it’s the primary cause for the huge increase in autism, other forms of brain damage and immune system disorders.
     It’s clear that the MMR vaccine, which is used in combination with other vaccines that contain thimerosal, which is made with mercury (it’s 50% ethyl mercury), aluminum and formaldyhide, is the combination that’s doing the damage.


6/29/06

A Prairie Home Companion

    Being a long (very) time fan of Garrison Keillor’s Saturday night radio show, I rushed to the Town Hall theater in Wilton to see the movie. At $3 for seniors, that was less than half the usual tab, and only a half hour away from home instead of over an hour.
    Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. It was a lot like being at a radio show performance, and with a bunch of stars thrown in…like Woody Harrelson, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, and Kevin Kline.
    On the downside, there was the totally unnecessary death of an old performer, a woman in a white coat (an angel) wandering around for no good reason, and Tommy Lee Jones as an Axeman, there to see to the destruction of the old theater after this last performance of the show. These added nothing to the story or the entertainment, nor did the omission of the usual Guy Noir and the cowhands, Lefty and Dusty skits. Most disappointing, by a wide margin, was omitting Keillor’s regular news report from Lake Woebegone. That’s mainly what I tune in to hear every week.
    Altman, the director, also short changed us on the show’s fake commercials for the Ketchup Advisory Board, Powdermilk Biscuits, etc. Mostly, the movie has a lot of enjoyable singing.


6/27/06

Liability

    The lie-ability of the United States Public Health Service and the American Dental Association could cost school board members and schools dearly once tort lawyers discover the fluorosis gold mine and start lining up co-defendants by the hundreds…probably thousands.
    The tortability root: fluoride treatment by dentists, fluorides in town water supplies, and now the fluoride rinse program in elementary schools. You see, fluoride rinses, and even fluorides added to the town water supply, a multi-billion business for the aluminum and fertilizer industries for getting rid of some 200,000 tons a year of the fluoride waste product from their manufacturing, are permanently mottling up to 85% of the teeth of those exposed to it (fluorosis), and brushing with fluoride tooth paste makes the mottling worse instead of brightening the teeth.
    The legal vultures in Britain, smelling the money-pot stink, gathered a bunch of co-defendants, and sued Colgate. When Colgate saw which way this was going they quickly settled out of court for about $2,000 per defendant.
    If you haven’t read Grisham’s King of Torts, it’s time to do your homework.
    You can bet that once the word gets out, if their kids’ schools have a fluoride rinse program, parents are going to be getting out a magnifying glass to check their children’s teeth for signs of mottling and then Googling for a tort lawyer. Hey, it could be an easy several thousand bucks.
    Any school boards that okay fluoride rinse programs in their schools should have their members start checking their liability policies to protect their homes. Ditto any teachers who push the program.
    So what did EPA scientist Robert Carlton, Ph. D., have to say about this? "Fluoridation is the greatest case
of scientific fraud of this century." You can bet tort lawyers will be leading with that quote when they get in front of a jury. And, if they run short of ammunition, I’ve got an almost endless supply I’ve collected.


6/23/06

Raw Food Book

    There was an article in Business 2.0 on lulu.com, a new approach to publishing…publishing on demand. Well, on a $25 book, with the usual publisher system an author would get a $1.34 royalty. With Lulu, it’s $4.00. Hmm!
    I looked through Lulu’s book list and instantly ordered Raw Foods for Busy People for $12. I could have downloaded it for $5.50.
    It’s a great book for raw fooders, with lots of interesting recipes. Yes, it has one huge drawback. It’s vegan and I’m not. I love my raw meat. Gr-r-r. Check www.lulu.com, if you’re interested. Of course, if you’re still eating dead food and thus shortening your life considerably, aiming more at a walker in a nursing home than skiing the slopes when you’re my age, then never mind.
    I’ve substituted a Cuisinart food processor and a tiny Ultimate Chopper for the kitchen food crematoriums (oven, microwave, frying pans, steamers, woks and Crock pots).
 

6/23/06

Invasion!

    Lordy! The Mexicans are sneaking in by the millions. Somehow there are nobody knows how many millions of Muslims here, complete with thousands of mosques financed by Saudi Arabia, with most preaching death to Jews and Christians. Plus hundreds of thousands…maybe millions of Chinese, with their restaurants and homes financed by the Chinese government.
    Am I exaggerating when I call it an invasion?
    Sure, the Mexican illegals are here to make more money, but that doesn’t seem like a reasonable explanation for the Moslems and Chinese. Why are they here? In such large numbers? What are they really up to?
    America did pretty well getting the European immigrants to accept our language and customs. The melting pot.     Have we had problems with British street gangs? French? German? Swedish? Danish? Polish? Well, the Italians did contribute the Mafia. Gee, thanks, guys. And the Russian “Mafia” is infamous. The Irish brought us the Kennedys. Sigh. Oh, and a whole lot of policemen. Oh, again, and a bunch of Massachusetts voters who keep re-electing Kennedys.
    The more I read about what’s going on, the stronger I’m convinced it’s time to honor our laws and fine the employers of illegals, make English our national language, prohibit foreign language newspapers or magazines , and revoke the licenses of foreign language radio or TV stations.


6/23/06

Mensa World Gathering

     Though I’m the only surviving founder of American Mensa, since the organization, I felt, had enormous potential and has achieved so little, I haven’t paid a lot of attention to it.
     The monthly Mensa Bulletin seldom had anything of interest in it, and the New Hampshire newsletter had even less, so I didn’t notice they were planning a World Gathering at Disneyland in Orlando for August. Yesterday, when I finally noticed, I called one of the committee people to see why the only surviving founder wasn’t listed as a speaker. She said she’d see what she could do about it.
     Then I went to www.wg06.us.mensa.org and checked the program list. Though I have a wide range of interests, I couldn’t find anything I’d want to attend. So I called back and said to forget my speaking.
     Of course I made a short list of the kind of programs I’d love to attend. Would any of these get your attention?:
     What I had hoped to see:
• How parents can increase their baby’s IQ by 50 points.
• Twelve ways to grow bigger, better, healthier crops.
• How our farmland can be remineralized so we don’t need to take mineral supplements for health.
• Why a total health revolution is needed.
• How can we do it?
• Why an educational revolution is needed.
• How can we do it?
• Why an energy revolution is needed.
• How can we do it?
• Mensa’s unfulfilled potential.
• Helping teens choose a career path.
• How colleges can be made tuition-free with no government help needed.
• Children can learn to read books with good comprehension at a few seconds a page.
• How and why dowsing works.
• The common poisons we should and can avoid.
• How the mind works and how to fix it.
• How AIDS, malaria and herpes can be quickly and inexpensively cured with no drugs.
• The antibiotic you can make for a penny a gallon on the kitchen table.
• How we can help more Mensans to be outstanding successes.
• The true cause of global warming.
• Is the world’s largest volcano about to erupt?


6/22/06

Soy

    Never mind that most of the soy products reaching us today have been genetically modified, and that there has been no research to determine if GM products are safe for us to eat.
    Worse, soybeans have one of the highest fluoride, glutamate and manganses levels in the plant kingdom. And fluoride is cumulative. The body has no way of getting rid of it. It’s one of the most toxic elements there is since it has the ability to combine with almost any other element.
    If a dentist tries to give you or your kids a fluoride treatment, leave immediately and never go back.
    A Hawaiian study over a 25-year period found that the more soy a person consumed, the higher the incidence of brain atrophy, leading to dementia. This really is not what you want for your senior years. Oh, and it’s glutamate that causes blindness in adult diabetics.


6/22/06

Dead Food

    My cat loves raw liver, and he lets me know it. But after it’s a couple days old (refrigerated) he won’t touch it. It’s gotta be fresh. Well, when we eat meat that’s turned bad we get sick. Nature tries to steer us away from dead food, but screw nature, we get around that by killing it with heat. Well, it tastes good that way.
    While that fools the taste buds, it doesn’t fool Mrs. Nature…or our built-in body protection department, our immune system. It instantly detects the dead stuff and classes it as a foreign invader. It drops all the maintenance and repair jobs it’s been doing and rushes it’s white cells (it's soldiers) to take care of the dead food emergency.
    Among the little jobs it has to drop are things like trashing potential cancer cells, repairing damaged livers, roto-rooting arteries, and so on. The end result, after a few years of overwhelming the immune system, usually starts with the teeth. They’re usually the first warning that your diet is shortening your life.
    The good part is that when you stop eating dead food your immune system will get busy repairing all the things it’s had to let go. Cancers go way. Diabetes. Even all that blubber disappears.
    Cooked food, like the other poisons, such as caffeine, alcohol, drugs, nicotine, fluoride, and so on, are eventually going to wreck your body and shorten your life.
    This scenario is backed up by plenty of well-researched books.  


6/18/06

Why School Reform Hasn’t (and won’t) Work

This really has to be a book. Here are some of the chapters that’ll have to be covered.

1) The school curriculums are established by government bureaucrats who’ve done no research into what kids should know to be successful in today’s world, what the country needs, nor in what kids would like to know.

2) The No Child Left Behind Act has forced teachers to teach to the government tests instead of just teaching. I met an ex-teacher yesterday who said that’s why she quit teaching.

3) The whole idea of kids sitting in rows of desks, forbidden from talking to each other is about as anti-kid psychology as one could dream up as punishment. And the teacher-dictator system does not help teach freedom, which I thought was a kind of basic American idea. The “Land of the Free” deal. We fight wars for freedom (we’re told), and then we enslave our children in government prisons (a.k.a. public schools), complete with guards. I know that’s the way I felt in my K-12 years. I was being forced to go to school by law.

4) Teachers are recruited from the bottom 20% of high school graduates. Then, the bottom 20% of the kids they teach go into teaching. After a few generations of this survival-of-the-least-fit, where are we? Then, you give them iron-clad tenure, a captive audience, and pay them according to seniority rather than performance.

5) Then teachers go to ed schools. You haven’t even a clue as to what wastes of time and money these schools are until you read Rita Kramer’s Ed School Follies, or some of John Taylor Gatto’s books (he was the New York State and New York City prize-winning teacher who quit because he, “couldn’t do that to kids any more.” Or Thomas Sowell’s Inside American Education. In a newspaper column Sowell wrote that if elected president the first thing he would do was to close all ed schools, and the second would be to give all ed school professors a million dollars to never teach again, and the never write another book.

6) A little reading about the history of American education explains that our public school system was dreamed up about 150 years ago by the clergy as a way to make sure kids would be taught to obey orders and not think for themselves. The Prussian school system, which had been so enormously successful in turning out the famed Prussian soldiers, who would obey orders without a second thought, was used as the model. When the industrial revolution came along soon thereafter, this was perfect to provide workers for factories who would obey orders and not think for themselves.

7) As the American public school system replaced the old schoolhouse and home education, literacy dropped and the creative books, art, and music gradually faded away. I challenge any music expert to cite one really creative piece of classical music composed in the last fifty years by an American. Or book, or work of art. For most of those creative works we have to turn back to the 19th century.

8) Billions have been spent by well-meaning do-gooders such as Bill Gates and Walter Annenberg on reforming our schools, and almost nothing has come of it.

9) The NEA (National Education Association…the teacher’s union) mantra is more money needs to be spent. The highest expenditure per student in the country is in Washington (DC), and one guess where the lowest student scores in the country are.

10) Another NEA mantra is smaller classes. That, of course, means more teachers…and more teacher’s paying dues to the NEA. There are no studies showing that smaller classes result in a better educational outcome.

11) Unless you’ve served on a school board you haven’t an inkling as to the resistance these groups put up against any suggestions for change.

12) Then there are the text books, which are out of date on any new technology before they can be published. Text books are edited by the publishers to make sure they offend as few parents as possible. They qualify as cruel and unusual punishment.

13) I’m not even going to go into the current indoctrination fads of multiculturalism, and getting kids to accept gays.

14) Then there’s the food schools are making available. Some even have fast food franchises. Most have vending machines with nothing healthy in them. A few schools, which have learned from the Wisconsin Whole Foods experiment, are making fresh foods and salads available. Seventy years ago my high school’s cafeteria supplied me with a ham sandwich and chocolate milk for 15¢. That’s about $3.00 in today’s dollarettes. Despite that. my mother’s cooking kept me healthy.

15) My high school had 120 different clubs for after school activities. That’s all been stopped these days so supervisors don’t have to be paid. I had a great time at the school radio club (W2ANU), where the members helped me get my ham radio license. And the Savoyards, where we put on Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for the students. I played Ko Ko in The Mikado and Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance. I sure wish we’d had video cameras back then. I spent many wonderful hours in the camera club’s dark room developing and enlarging pictures. The Choral Club rehearsed during the second period every day. We had a hundred members and we gave concerts for the students, and for radio shows and at public events. The teacher had me sing solos at assemblies a few times.

16) In those days there were no guns or beatings. No Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Adderall, or Ritalin to trigger student mania. Oh, what we missed!

Them’s the problems.

The best solution I’ve seen so far is the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA), where there is no curriculum, no tests, no grades, and kids are not separated by age. They learn what they want, when they want, because they want. And they love the responsibility. They even run the school. Look it up.


6/18/06

Testimonial

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6/14/06

Meat

    Yes, I eat meat…and I eat it raw, and I love it!
    Sure, I’ve heard the vegan crapola about the human digestive system being long, like the herbivores and not short like meat-eating animals.
    Yep, cats, dogs and other meat eaters are designed to work on meat, and only meat. And cows and horses are designed to work on vegetation. But people have a compromise digestive system that was cleverly designed to deal just fine with both meat and vegetables. It’s a compromise system.
    The fact is that our ancestors for thousands of generations have been eating all kinds of meat, vegetables and fruit. And, even each other…called long pork by aficionados. I’ve eaten a lot of odd foods, but I haven’t knowingly tried human flesh yet. I’d rather not. But stuff like snails, blowfish, frogs (both bodies and legs), rattlesnake, baby birds, turtles, sea cucumbers, all kinds of raw fish (sashimi), and so on. Oh, I almost forgot worms and grasshoppers.
    Ever since I adopted a raw food diet I’ve been eating raw meat. I prefer buffalo because I know it’s not loaded with growth hormones and antibiotics, plus the buffalo, unlike virtually all commercial beef, hasn’t been fed chicken manure, minced dogs and cats vets have put down, and minced cows that died of who knows what. And have probably never known a blade of grass, being stuffed with genetically modified corn in feed lots. No thanks.
    Buffalo liver is delicious. I freeze it for a couple weeks, just in case there are some parasites in it (which is very unlikely), and then defrost a few days worth, mince it, and season it with sea salt and coarse ground pepper.
    My local Shaws supermarket chain has a Wild Harvest section that has buffalo hamburger, which is also delicious.
    Do some checking on the Web and you’ll find that eating meat is important for your health. Vegans don’t live as long and aren’t as healthy as meat eaters.
    Did you know that the word Eskimo means eater of raw meat? In the Arctic there are no vegetables or fruits. They don’t even have wood for fires, so they live in excellent health, and for a long time, just on meat. Raw meat.
    Most people are so conditioned that their sense of adventure in food (and most everything else) has almost totally atrophied. I had a guy who worked for me one time (Ken Sessions K6MVH) who was so restricted in what he was able to eat that he wouldn’t even try chicken or turkey. His wife had to cook him a steak on Thanksgiving while the rest of us ate turkey. He almost threw up at the Atlanta airport one time when we stopped at a seafood bar and I ate a half dozen raw oysters.  He died young.
    I’ll try anything I see other people eating.


6/13/06

The Big Bang Theory

    Yet another of the Coast to Coast AM “experts” was a believer in the Big Bang theory. My approach to theories is to look at the facts, not the beliefs…even those of the annointed.
    The theory started as an explanation for the shifting of the light of distant stars toward the red end of the light spectrum being explained by the doppler effect. That’s what causes the sound of a train going lower in tone (frequency) when it passes us and is going away. The movement away stretches out the sound waves.
    Yes, the further stars are away from us, the more their light has shifted toward the red. And that would indicate that they must be moving away from us.
    Well, if every star and galaxy is moving away from us, they must have all started at some central point…which is called the Big Bang.
    But, hey, what if something else is causing the red shift? The Big Bang theory depends on light having a fixed speed. Maybe it doesn’t. Maybe there’s something out there in space that gradually slows light down.
    Yeah? And what might that be? Well, astronomers admit there’s something they call dark matter out there. As a matter of fact, they tell us about 90% of the matter in our universe is this stuff, whatever it is.
    It could be this, or even a whole lot of dust out there in space that’s slowing light down. Or hydrogen molecules.
    If the universe is expanding, and we’re all on the edge of this huge bubble, how come half our sky…the half facing out…isn’t empty?
    Other theorists tell us that everything is expanding uniformly, so we don’t notice it. That makes even less sense to me.
    I like the idea of a steady-state universe. That doesn’t have me trying to grasp the millions…no, billions…of galaxies, all starting at a very tiny point a few billion years ago.
    So, how’d the universe get started? And when? And how come? Well, from man’s earliest days the unexplainable has been blamed on God…or a bunch of gods. And we’re still doing it.


6/11/06

Silver News

    Several colloidal silver ads arrived recently with my junk mail. One promoting a book for $69 and another for a silver colloid-making kit for $240. Plus news that the FDA is throttling silver colloid sources.
    As thousands more people discover the power of silver colloid and stop buying the patented antibiotics, the drug company’s pressure on the FDA has obviously been fierce. Alas, I’m not exaggerating when I term the FDA as the Food and Drug industries protective Administration.
    Considering hot inexpensively silver colloid can be made on the kitchen table in a few minutes, I thouht it was ridiculous for people to be paying health food store prices, or for those $200 generators. So I put together a simple kit that does the job for about a penny a gallon. It’s a lot of trouble for me, but I want to do whatever I can to make good health inexpensive.
    My silver colloid-making kit is only $40, and that includes everything you need to make a glass of the stuff in about 20 minutes. The kit includes a reprint of an article covering silver colloid’s history and uses. Look, I’m not an MD, I’m a researcher and journalist, so I can’t make any claims of cures. But I do report what I’ve read and heard from people about the amazing effectiveness of silver colloid against infections. They tell me that a couple teaspoons a day quickly kills colds and flu. Hey, that sure beats vaccinations, with their loads of mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde (enbalming fluid)…just what your brain needs.
    Despite advertising claims, I haven’t seen any reliable reports indicating that particle size has any effect on silver’s action.
    I see where a Mexican clinic has been curing AIDS with silver.


6/8/06

Coked Up

    The first time I ever tasted Coca Cola was when I was in high school being hazed by the fraternity I was joining. It was a taste which didn’t encourage me to try it again. The boys had me chew some lye soap, which left the lining of my mouth in shreds. Then the Coke made it really hurt.
    My mother fed me amazingly well for 80 years ago. No sugar. No candy. No white bread products. No cold cereal. Cooked cereals with cream and no sweetening. Eggs cooked three minutes…in other worlds, not cooked much. The yokes and half the whites were only warmed. And that’s the healthiest way to eat eggs.
    She didn’t do cakes, pies and cookies. Maybe once a month some corn muffins for dinner. And the same with pancakes, which were an occasional Sunday morning treat.
    No sodas of any kind. Fresh squeezed orange juice for breakfast.
    These days Coca Cola says teens are drinking an average of 65 gallons of the stuff a year. No wonder they need fillings at an early age. I had absolutely perfect teeth until after I’d been in the Navy for four years, when I needed my first filling.
    No wonder kids today are coming down with ADHD, acne, tooth decay, fat, diabetes, and are easy pickings for cold and flu bugs.


6/10/06

Cars

    Against my better judgment, upon Sherry’s urging, we drove an hour down to Massachusetts, to the nearest cinemaplex, to see the opening day of “Cars.” That’s the new Pixar/Disney movie. The nearer movies, in Amherst and Nashua, have all gone out of business. And deservedly so, considering the quality of Hollywood’s crapola over the last few years. The technology has improved, it’s the content that sucks.
    Thirteen bucks for the two of us, and that was the senior, matinee price for a two-hour bore and a half hour extra of previews for films coming this fall and next year. One was even for 2008 release. Oh, and a few ads for local establishments. At least with TV I tape any shows I’m interested in so I can fast-forward through the ads.
    The film had to do with stock car racing, with all the people replaced by cars…even in the stands as the crowds. One part brought back memories, when a Hudson Hornet was racing through the Arizona hills and went around a tight turn on a mountain at 90° to the ground. That reminded me of when I was in Germany touring with my newly upgraded Porsche Speedster.
    My 1958 Speedster came with a 60 HP air-cooled engine. In 1960 I gave my engine to my rally-driving partner to put in his VW so he could zero to sixty in about five seconds at stop lights, throwing impromptu dragsters into shock, and sent my car back to the factory in Stuttgart for one of their new Super-90 HP engines.
    As president of the Porsche Club I took about 200 new Porsche owners on a charter flight to Stuttgart to pick up their new cars, and to pick up my upgraded Speedster.
    The factory presented the new owners with their Porsches on the grounds of the Solitude Castle, outside Stuttgart. They had their top racing drivers take us around the Solitude Race Track, a six-mile course twisting through the Bavarian mountains that went right by the castle, and teach us how to navigate the tricky turns. My mentor was Count Von Tripp, the factory’s top driver.
    From there I drove to Wiesbaden to give a talk to the radio club, and then over to Trier to address another radio club. And since the famed Nürburgring race track was nearby, I decided to give it a try. It’s the most famous in the world of sports car racing, with dozens of tricky turns.
    I was really lucky when I got there to see another Porsche driver practicing for a coming race. So when he started out I was right on his tail in my Speedster. And I stuck there, going over 160 in the straight stretches. When we got to the “Carousel,” a tight turn with a vertical wall, there I was with about a three-g force holding my car perpendicular to the ground. Wow!
    When we got back to the beginning of the track the other driver asked in amazement what I had for an engine to be able to keep up with his Porsche Carerra.
    No, I never actually raced my Speedster. My interest was rallies, and I have a couple cartons of trophies somewhere out in the barn.
    A couple years ago, when I read that the Zeppelin Company was offering tourist flights over Germany, Sherry and I took advantage of our Continental credit card miles to fly to Frankfort, rent a car, drive to Stuttgart, and take a fantastic zeppelin flight over the Stuttgart area. Particularly exciting for me was flying over the Solitude Castle and race track, with me leaning out a gondola window taking pictures of where I’d raced so many years earlier.
    The “Cars” movie sucks big time. Don’t waste your money. And the multitude of kids at the movie were noisy and running up and down the aisles, since they were bored too. Some just slouched back in their seats and napped…like the kids in the seats in front of us. If you’re going to sleep, bring ear plugs. It’s loud. I had my iPod with me, so I spent some of the time listening to that morning’s “Coast To Coast AM” podcast. It was all about quantum this and that, with much of it based on the guest’s belief that the speed of light is a constant, and therefore the galaxy (and everything in it, right down to the atoms which make up our bodies) is expanding. Yeah, sure.

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6/6/06

Blacks II

    Six years ago President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s government started throwing out or killing the white farmers which had made the country a major exporter of tobacco and cotton. What had been over 4,000 productive farms is now less than 400, with most of the abandoned farms deserted and overgrown with weeds. The few remaining farms are producing a fraction of their former output.
    What had been prosperous Rhodesia under British rule, now has runaway inflation, with 100,000 of their dollars that were worth about $20 US last year worth about 98¢ today, and there’s 80% unemployment. Aid groups are trying to help feed the millions of starving people. Indeed, they are feeding over half of the country’s 12.2 million people.
    Some 3.5 million people have given up and fled to neighboring countries, like South Africa.
    Zimbabwe women now have an average life expectancy of 34 years.
    The country is well endowed with mineral riches and farms that could make it a powerhouse and an international investment magnet…if it had an honest government.

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6/7/06

Lobbying

   Lobbying is alive and not just well, but very healthy, even here in tiny New Hampshire, where just the top five lobbying groups took in almost $3 million last year in contributions (that they admitted to) to be judiciously invested. And since their customers are continuing to pay up every year, we know they’re getting their money’s worth. Probably a lot more than their moneys worth. In all, lobbyists reported $4.5 million in fees collected last year. But since New Hampshire comes in 48th of the states in lobbyist disclosure, it’s a given that the true figures are considerably higher. Well, since there are no mandatory reviews or audits, the state that gave you Enron hasn’t a clue as to what’s really going on.
    So where’s all the money go? Well, New Hampshire has a huge citizen’s legislature, and mostly they’re paid their travel expenses to Concord, so they’re ripe, like most politicians, for any little (or big) extras that come along if they vote the right way or propose bills that will generously benefit some interest.
    The top spender was the Democratic Governor’s Association, which spent $985,550 in 2004. Philip Morris only reported a measly $72,900 last year. The list of spenders is a long one.
    All this graft reminds me of the framers of the Constitution, who envisioned business men taking a few years from their businesses to serve in Congress. If they’d imagined the professional politician industry that’s sprung up, they’d have written it differently. And Washington has 40,000 registered lobbyists, with billions to spend on Congress and the Administration. No wonder it costs millions for election campaigns. And well worth every dollar.  I love the fuss over Representative William Jackson of Louisiana, who was caught by an FBI sting accepting a $100,000 cash bribe. The FBI then raided his office and found $90,000 of the cash in $10,000 bundles in his freezer. Congress is understandably very upset over the FBI raid. They’re probably busy looking for better places to hide their cash stashes.
    Please remember that every time you re-elect an incumbent you are endorsing the government by graft system. Kill ’em off in the primaries, and start this year. NRA = Never Re-elect Anyone.
     
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6/7/06

Muslim-Americans?

Here’s an email worth passing on.
Subject: Can Muslims be good Americans?(Or Europeans or members of any civilized Christian country)
Can a devout Muslim be an American patriot and a loyal citizen?
Consider this:
 1. Theologically, no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon god of Arabia.
 2. Scripturally, no. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam and the Quran (Koran).
 3. Geographically, no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.
 4. Socially, no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.
 5. Politically, no. Because he must submit to the mullah (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America, the great Satan.
 6. Domestically, no, because he is instructed to marry four women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34).
 7. Religiously, no. Because no other religion is accepted by his Allah except Islam (Quran, 2:256)
 8. Intellectually, no, because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.
 9. Philosophically, no, because Islam, Mohammed, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression.
10. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.
11. Spiritually, no, because when we declare "one nation under God,” the Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as our heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran's 99 excellent names.
12. Therefore after much study and deliberation ... perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both good Muslims and good Americans/Europeans. Call it what you wish.

Muslims come across as an invading cancer on our country…far more dangerous to our country’s future than the 20 to 30 million Hispanics who have poured across our border.

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6/7/06

Those Earthquakes

    They’re increasing in number and severity. How come?
    The tsunami in Indonesia in December 2004 was caused when an earthquake raised thousands of square miles of the sea bottom an average of 3,500 feet at a rate of about 583 feet per minute.
    They’re still counting the dead from the most recent quake in that area.
    Quakes in Pakistan, and so on. What’s going on? Yes, it’s global warming, and no matter what Al Gore or his new movie say, it isn’t burning fossil fuels that’s upsetting the Earth’s tectonic plates and giving up more and more quakes and volcano eruptions.
    You have a wide choice of things to worry about…the real cause of global warming (see my $3 booklet, item #13), a nuclear war started by Iran or Israel, suitcase nukes set off in American cities by Muslims, a financial melt-down of America, abortion, gay marriage, an avian flu pandemic, the unchecked spread of AIDS, closing American borders, the Yellowstone super volcano erupting, lobbyists and crooked politicians, or who’s going to win the pennant.

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6/02/06

Melanoma

    With the temperatures here in New Hampshire often in the 80s, I’m spending all the time I can in the sun, loading my body up on vitamin D.
    You can do me and a lot of gullible Newsweek readers a big favor if you’ll drop a note to Jennifer Barrett, who did the piece, “Your Tan Could Kill You,” in the June 5th issue (p.61). All she wrote about was treatments for skin cancer, and not a hint about prevention.
    If Jennifer had bothered to do her homework she would have learned that skin cancer has more to do with diet than exposure to the sun. Our ancestors spent their days out in the sun, not huddled in a cave waiting for TV to be invented. And they didn’t have sunscreen. They also didn’t get skin cancer.
    Experiments with mice and rats gave researchers the clue. When one group was fed the Standard American Diet (SAD), the other raw food, and then both groups were exposed to the sun, the SAD group grew skin cancers and the raw fooders didn’t.
    So, if you can’t keep yourself out of McDonald’s, stay the hell out of the sun.
    Oh, and Jennifer missed two simple melanoma treatments. One, from Edgar Cayce, is to cover the melanoma with a mixture of castor oil and baking soda for an hour. The cancer should drop right off. The other is to make a paste of vitamin C powder and put that on he spot.
    But the best approach, of course, is to stop making yourself sick, cutting your potential life span in half, and assuring you’re going to be one of the 80% seriously impaired if you live to be 85 years old…by adopting a raw food diet. Eat live foods, not dead, like a vulture, and you can spend all the time out in the sun you want.
    Drop Jennifer a note, care of Newsweek, 251 West 57th st, NYC 10019-1884 and wise her up.

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6/02/06

Telephones

    Our telephones have taken quite a leap during my lifetime. When I was a kid in the city you lifted the receiver off the hook and a woman’s voice said, “Number please.” She sat at a board with hundreds of little holes. When you gave her the number you wanted she took your wire and plugged it into the hole of another customer to make the connection.
    At the farm, in New Hampshire, the phone was on the wall. You turned the crank to get the operator and lifted the receiver. I’d ask for two five, ring two. The operator would say, “Oh, I saw him go buy a few minutes ago. He’s down at the drug store, I’ll ring him there.” We were three two, ring three. The longest ring on our line was thirty two, Lister’s dairy farm, down the road. But we knew that Mrs. Wallace, ring eleven, would be listening. She didn’t miss much.
    Then came the dial phone, with thousands of stepping switches at the central office clicking away, replacing the operators…and then touch-tone…but all the time there was a wire connection, even on long distance.
    Long distance calls were a big deal (expensive), so for most out of town messages we went to the local Western Union office and sent a telegram. Ten words, the minimum, if possible. This was sent through their wire system to another office, where the message printed on a strip of paper, which was pasted on a telegram blank and delivered by a messenger boy on a bicycle. I’ve still got one of those old strip teletype printers out in the barn.
    Today’s phones are wireless, can handle email (today’s telegrams), and exchange pictures.
It’s anyone’s guess what phone technology will be by 2020.
    Then there’s today’s computers. They’ve replaced the typewriter, card files, film editors, telegrams, teletype, notebooks, and any number of books via the Internet.

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6/02/06

AIDS…Again

    This time it’s Madonna out there appealing for people to donate to AIDS charities…with a mock crucifixion in her touring concert, no less.
    How much of this baloney does it take before you to start helping to get the word out to AIDS charities, and billionaires like Sonny Bono and Bill Gates, and other people or groups who seemingly are ignorant that there are at least two simple, inexpensive ways of quickly curing AIDS without any drugs? Haven’t they a clue they’re prime time suckers?
    Wise ‘em up for me, please!
    If you don’t know any of these misinformed do-gooders, maybe you know someone who does.
    As I’ve pointed out, a raw food diet cures AIDS, as it does any other disease. Then there’s the inexpensive blood purifier unit. And now I’ve learned that massive doses of vitamin C can do the job too.

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6/2/06

The Royal Hawaiian

    It’s a huge pink palace hotel on Waikiki Beach, where I stayed for a couple of weeks long ago.
    It was mentioned in Newsweek in conjunction with a corruption probe. I think this is the first time I’ve seen the hotel mentioned in a magazine since I stayed there.
    The article mentioned that during WWII the hotel “was reserved mainly for officials and men in the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Service. It was understood that the sailors who took the greatest risk—about a quarter of the submariners never came back—deserved to be pampered while they waited to go back out on war patrols”
    After my first war patrol we came back to Honolulu for our two weeks rest and recuperation…a stay at the Royal Hawaiian. With only four of us to a room, we had a lot more privacy than on the submarine.
    While my roommates got an early start each morning to be first in line at one of the Honolulu whore houses, not far from the hotel…anxious to get “that overnight cherry”…I was out with my camera taking pictures. It would still be a couple years before my “First Time.”
    Maybe you’ve read Bradford Huie’s novel, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, the story of a Honolulu madam and her production-line sex system? It was made into a movie with Jane Russell in 1956. 
    The Royal Hawaiian was a great place to stay, with surf boards for rent right in front of the hotel. And that was back when the boards were great big heavy things. But the surfing was a blast. The Navy confiscated most of my beach photos for “security” reasons.
    Anyway, I thought I’d share my Royal Hawaiian memories of 63 years ago with you.

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6/1/06

Global Cover-up

    Global warming! Global warming! Kyoto Treaty! Panic! Hysteria! Stop worrying about the mess the Administration has made in Iraq and join the global warming panic.
    The covers of the news magazines are screaming Global Warming emergency. Al Gore, preparing for another presidential run, is leading the gullible off in the wrong direction at full speed with a global warming film, and so on.
    Okay, let’s see some of the scientists citing the human use of fossil fuels as the main cause of global warming explain a few scientific facts they’ve somehow…probably under political pressure to wear blinders…managed to overlook. Like how this explains why every planet in the solar system is heating up, as NASA has reported? Or why volcanoes all over the earth are heating up and erupting? Or why we’re having a huge increase in earthquakes?  Burning fossil fuels is doing all this? Har-de-har.
    Then there’s the Sun, which has been going berserk. Check it out.
    Is there another explanation for what’s going on? For the warming? For our weather going crazy? Of course, or I wouldn’t have brought it up, much less written a three buck book about it (Catastrophe!) Item #13 in my catalog. In it I explain about the two friends of mine with good psychic records who had almost identical visions of what’s coming,. The same night! And the underground bunkers both have built to protect their families from what they envisioned coming.
    Then there’s Cornell’s Professor James McCanney’s Planet-X book which predicts everything that’s happened so far…the planets all heating, the Sun going crazy, earthquakes, volcanoes, meteor showers, huge storms, etc.
    Our tightly controlled media didn’t think it worth mentioning when Russian President Putin gave a speech several years ago predicting a coming global catastrophe, explaining that Russia was building two underground cities to help save some of their people.
    Then there are those two secret major American observatories in Antarctica.
    Anyway, the next time you bump into people making a fuss about global warming, ask them two questions. One, how is our fossil fuel use heating up Mars, Jupiter, and all the other planets, right on out to Pluto? And two, why has the government been doing everything it can to stop the development of cold fusion, which can provide unlimited non-polluting energy at a fraction of fossil fuel cost? And can even be used to decontaminate all that radioactive waste they’re planning to hide (at great expense) in a Nevada mountain?
    Is this a global crock designed by the government to cover up something far more serious that they know is coming?

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6/1/06

Organic Progress

    With Wal-Mart joining the supermarket organic food movement, there’s a wide open opportunity for small farms to start using land that’s lain fallow for a century…from before the commercial farmers started using chemical fertilizer to keep crops growing once the minerals in the ground they needed for healthy growth had played out. 
    From before the crops had to be sprayed with pesticides because the sick plants the chemical fertilizer caused attracted pests.
    We’ve more and more small organic farms springing up here in New Hampshire, and the increasing pressure from supermarkets for organic produce (and meat) will encourage the growth of more small farms.
    As the word spreads about how unhealthy virtually of all our meat supply is, the demand for cows raised on grass instead of chicken shit and ground up dead dogs and cats will increase. I get my beef, chicken and buffalo meat from local farms, and from the Wild Harvest section of Shaw’s supermarkets. Yes, I eat it raw.
    Once the word gets around about how easy it is to remineralize farms with rock dust…and granite is particularly good for this…maybe some of The Granite State’s (NH) mountains will be ground down and spread around the country.
    The next step is to change the states laws so stores can legally sell raw milk. Pasteurized milk is toxic. Poison. So is pasteurized anything else. Avoid anything pasteurized as if it had a skull and crossbones on it.
    With the organic market having grown at 20% a year for the past five years, compared to 3% to 4% for the industry as a whole, this is a good bet for small farms.
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6/1/06

Pre-Char Marked Chicken

    If you have any friends who are still committing slow suicide by eating at fast good joints, bring ’em up to date on how those chicken breasts with char mark lines of them they’ve been eating are processed.
    First they’re dumped into a marinator and tumbled in a mixture of oil, sugar, chemicals, salt and fat. Then they’re put on a conveyor belt and pass through an oven to bake them. Next they’re branded with char marks.
    McDonald’s Grilled Chicken fillet has up to 20% solution by weight. Burger King’s Tendergrille fillet contains chicken fat and more than 30 other things.
    It may not be diet food, but it looks great.

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6/01/06

Reader’s Digest

    The April issue has a 14-page article on the cost of sickness care, but virtually nothing about prevention. That’s my bailiwick. I keep begging you to stop making yourself sick, and explaining how to do it.
    The article goes into the insurance scams and the many ways families get into crushing debt from a hospital visit, even though they thought they were covered by insurance.
    How come such totally one-sided coverage in a popular magazine? All you have to do is what I did…count the ads. I counted 41 pages of pharmaceutical ads, most all of them right up in the front of the magazine. Plus another 13 pages of ads for food you should never eat…if you want to be healthy. Of course, the last thing the editor wants is healthy readers.
    The pharmaceutical industry (which is even more profitable than the oil business), hospitals, AMA, and insurance companies, are all totally dependent on your making yourself sick. And, as I’ve cited before, if you do some research you’ll find that the same small group of enormously wealthy and almost invisible families control the pharmaceutical industry, the Federal Reserve Banks, the major radio and TV networks, and the major newspapers. Is it any wonder only about 1.5% of Americans are truly healthy…according to the Department of Health? And that 80% of seniors over 84 are seriously impaired?
    So, are you going to wait for the Reader’s Digest to run an article on the health benefits of raw food, or are you going to wise up in spite of the propaganda?
    I know where to put my money on that bet.

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5/31/06

The Cancer Industry

    The June 5th Newsweek had an eight-page centerfold ad by the Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups.  It listed 49 groups making money from what is now the most popular American disease, but I know there are many more sucking this engorged teat.
    If they were still making soapboxes I’d climb on one and start screaming, “Snake oil! Fraud! Quackery!”
    Oh, I can understand why Joe Six-pack, with his eyes glued to weekend ball games on the boob toob or the housewife watching Maury every day, might be ignorant of the simple proven way to cure any cancer, but there’s no way all of the professionals involved and the AMA don’t know about it. We’re talking hundreds of billions being bilked from the ignorant, credulous and terrified. Even after the possible death sentence is pronounced by their doctor, neither the patients nor their families make even the slightest effort to at least see what information is available about choices.
    There’s Dr. Bruno Comby’s Maximize Immunity, for instance - www.comby.org. And Dr. Lorraine Day’s video, Cancer Doesn’t Scare Me Any More, www.drday.com. And Dr. Henry Bieler’s 1965 book, Food Is Your Best Medicine. Hank went into hospitals where there were children with “incurable” leukemia (bone cancer) and cured every one of them. He took them off all milk products and fed them minced raw liver…which, incidentally, is delicious. The hospitals lost so much money they banned him.
    Hippocrates, the father of medicine, 2,400 years ago, gave us the prescription: “Let thy food be thy medicine. Let thy medicine be thy food.”
    All it basically takes to cure any disease, according to these, and quite a few other doctors, is to change to a raw food diet. Oh, and make that organic. Dr. Day says it clearly: “There are NO incurable illnesses.”
    How come you haven’t read of this in the papers or popular magazines, or heard about it on the radio or TV? You know the answer. Money. Just count the pharmaceutical ads you see on TV, hear on the radio, and see in magazines ever day. Big Pharma is getting it’s $45 billion a year in promotion value, and we’re getting sickness, death and the big shaft.
   
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5/31/06

Nuking America

    On the off chance that the nightly Coast To Coast AM (C2C) talk show will have an interesting guest instead of the usual barrage of ghost stories, UFOs, exorcist clerics, and B.S. experts, I get a daily podcast download and listen to it as I walk, adding to my vitamin D loaded sun tan.
    One of the guests May 26th morning was Paul Williams, the author of The al Qaeda Connection. He says bin Laden’s teams have got nukes set up in seven major American cities for a planned simultaneous detonation. Soon.
    On the credibility side, Paul has excellent bonafides. And we’ve been warned many times that around a hundred of those the Soviets made are kind of, well, er, missing.
    I’d worry a little more if Paul hadn’t made a similar warning last July.
    But, I’ve heard that a guy was caught at the border crossing from Iraq to Iran with one of the “missing” Soviet nukes in his backpack last year. And we know how porous America’s borders are, with somewhere between three and four and a half million illegal immigrants streaming in every year. So bringing nukes into the country wouldn’t be much of a challenge.
    The Saudis have been building mosques all around America and their clerics and literature are warning the Muslims to treat their time here as living behind enemy lines and not to befriend any Jews of Christians.
    If you live in a major city and see neighborhood Muslims packing up and leaving, maybe it’s a good time for you and your family to take a fast vacation.
    The more 911 facts that surface, the less I’m convinced that Muslims had anything to do with Pearl Harbor II. But that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t have done it if they could. Now, they’ve had plenty of time to get their stuff together and organize something a lot bigger.
    There’s little question that al Qaeda could buy suitcase nukes from the Soviets. And even less question that they could easily be smuggled through our border. Nor any question that they would have any compunction about blowing up major American cities.
    And what could we do about it if they did? In four years we’ve been unable to find bin Laden or, apparently, significantly hinder his operations. And there isn’t any country we could bomb in retaliation. The enemy is invisible.
    Is al Qaeda waiting for us or Israel to attack Iran? If you’ve been keeping up with what’s going on you know the Iranian clerics are convinced it is going to take a nuclear war to bring back the Mahdi, so they’re willing to sacrifice anything and everything to make this happen.     That’s the Muslin version of Jesus’ second coming..
    Nuking a few American cities would stop everything here. No power. No gasoline. No food, no telephones, no Internet. And since Washington is sure to be one of the chosen cities, no federal government for a while. Maybe quite a while. Hmm, will we miss that ant hill of bureaucrats and career politicians on the take?
    Are you and your family going to be as well prepared for an emergency as the Blacks in New Orleans when Katrina hit? Or will the worst part be missing the Maury Povich show?
    I’m wondering how come it’s taken bin Laden so long to get organized? I could’ve gotten it done in half the time. But then, you can’t point to any Moslem country that’s run well. I’ve visited a bunch of ’em and they’re all a mess.

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5/29/06

What’s it with Blacks?

    We have 1.7% of whites in American prisons and 11.9% of blacks. We have Representative William Jefferson, Dem. of New Orleans, caught in an FBI sting accepting a $100,000 cash bribe. The FBI recovered the money from Jefferson’s freezer, where it was in $10,000 bundles, each wrapped in aluminum foil. And Vernon Jackson, a businessman, has admitted that Jefferson accepted $400,000 in cash for benefits to his business.
    We have two countries formed by American blacks, Haiti and Liberia, both awful messes. In Haiti 80% of the population is illiterate. And in America our worst crime areas are the black slums. Washington DC, which is mostly black, has the highest crime rating of any city in the country and the lowest educational rating, despite the school system being the most expensive of any American city.
    You’ve seen the appalling statistics…47% of black mothers have never been married. Only 6% of black males marry their pregnant girl friends. 12% of black kids drop out of school, as compared to 4% of Asian kids. You Google it. In Africa there’s not one black country where the people are not living in desperate poverty.
    Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda were doing pretty well when the British were running them, though virtually all of the commerce was run by either the British or Indian shopkeepers. Once the Brits and Indians were kicked out the countries headed back to the bush days with tribal warfare. Gone are the farms that exported millions of dollars of coffee. There are no more industries or exports.
    In America we see black gangs ruling the slum streets, complete with gang warfare…attacking blacks who want an education or want to “speak white.”
    Some black leaders are playing the slavery card, asking for blacks to be redressed for their great great grandparents being brought over here as slaves. Never mind that before the slave trade the tribes just killed each other. Then, when a prisoner could be sold to white slave traders they sold them instead of just killing them. It wasn’t whites raiding villages to capture slaves. Those ancestors who made it to America were saved from death by the slave trade.
    If we had the slave trade today a half million Rwandans might have been saved from slaughter…and now we see the same thing in Sudan’s Darfur, where people, who no longer have a value, and being killed by the thousands. Then there’s the Congo, with over four million killed so far. Oh, and remember Edi Amin in Uganda?

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5/29/06

Health Books

    With thousands of health books out there, and more arriving at book stores every day, is there any quick way you can sort the legitimate from the bogus?
    Of course there is, or I wouldn’t have brought it up.
    It’s ultra simple. Just turn to the index and look under “Raw Food.” If there’s nothing there, chuck the book…it’s garbage.
    Yes, it’s that important to your health.
    Have I got hold of just another of the endless food fads, or am I on to something. If you’re not new to Wayne Green you know I do my homework carefully before I lecture or write. And I’ve been doing this since my first publication in 1952, with well over 10,000 essays published so far, and a bunch more recent ones on my web site.

Raw Food

    I first found out about this when a reader recommended I read Maximize Immunity by Dr. Bruno Comby of the Comby Institute in Paris. The book made a lot of sense. Comby noticed that in every research project with dogs and cats, those fed cooked food only lived half to two-thirds as long as those fed raw meat.
    So Comby began putting his patients on raw food diets…and the results were spectacular. Even cancer and AIDS patients very near death were suddenly recovering and were soon totally cured.
    As he researched further he found when food is heated to over 118°F that this killed the living enzymes our bodies need to properly digest it, so it’s treated as toxic by the body’s immune system, which diverts it’s white cells to deal with the poison, leaving the body without defences against invading microbes, viruses, parasites, funghi, and yeast infections, and thus unable to trash newly formed cells with errors which could grow cancers.
    Cooking also pretty much wipes out the vitamins and phytonutrients our bodies need to be healthy.
    Through the biggest part of our evolutionary history our digestive systems have never had to cope with cooked food. Humans, like all the other animals, ate live foods.
    If you’re familiar with Kirlian photography you know it shows the bioelectical energy fields of things. Cooked food shows up dead.
    Cooking changes the biochemical structure of food. It breaks down the molecules. Fiber plant foods turn soft, losing their broom-like cleansing quality in the intestines. Vitamins, amino acids and minerals are destroyed, altered, or depleted. And the more it’s cooked, the worse the destruction.
    Up to half of the protein is coagulated, with most of it becoming unusable to the body. This is a known factor in the acceleration of the body’s aging process, among other problems it makes for the body.

Meat

    When meat is cooked more viatmin B-6 is destroyed than methionine, and that generates free radicals which cause the homocysteine build up, which is a major factor in heart disease. It’s the real culprit behind clogged arteries…not cholesterol.
    The higher the cooking temperature, the more toxins are generated, with frying and grilling being especially toxic. Those delicious cooked fats and proteins are packed with free radicals and carcinogenic compounds.
    Heating makes the molecules collide, breaking the bonding and forming new chemical composits. This waste material gets packed into the colon, clogging it, often managing to stay there for years.

The Enzymes

    All of the food enzymes are destroyed when they’re heated over 118°F. These enzymes are critical for optimum digestion and become active as soon as you start eating.
    When you eat enzyme-dead food it overworks your pancreas and other organs, drawing enzymes from your body to replace those sacrificed in cooking, sapping your energy. Raw food is so much easier to digest that it passes through your system a half to a third the time for cooked food.
    It’s easy to time your digestive track. Just take a teaspoon of cayenne pepper in about a third cup of tomato or V-8 juice when you eat. You’ll find it burns twice, so you can time your digestion to the second.

The Immune System

    This is your body’s repair and maintenance department. It rushes its white cells to repair cuts and fight poisons. But when it does that, this leaves it’s other work undone for a while. So we pile in the toxic cooked food every day, all day, leaving little wonder that cancers and other problems can go unchecked.
    Cooked meat’s putrifactive bacteria overwhelm the intestinal flora, allowing the absorption of toxins from the bowel…called intestinal toxemia.
    The cooked meat, unable to be properly digested, builds up a mucoid plaque in the intestines, a thick tar-like stuff that’s the result of uneliminated cooked food putrifying there.
    Cooked starches and fats are the biggest reason for constipation.
    Instead of our bodies getting the nutrients they need for healthy operation, they’re getting toxins and waste material. And this includes the brain, causing memory and clear thinking problems.
    Because our bodies are not getting the nutrients they need from the cooked food there’s a push to eat more…known as obesity.
    All this was thoroughly proven by Swiss researchers back in 1930. They found that cooked food and processed food caused the body to generate more white cells to fight the toxic intruders. Raw foods were friendy and did not cause the negative reaction in the blood.
    The worst offenders were processed, pasteurized or homogenized foods such as pasteurized milk, sugar, candy, margarine, white flour products, and (sob) chocolate. For some reason this reprt was not popular in Switzerland.

The Miracle

    Dr. Comby reported that he hadn’t found any illness that changing to a raw food diet couldn’t reverse and cure. I called him to verify this, asking him if he hadn’t had at least some failures. He said yes, but only with those patients that went back to eating cooked food.
    So you can see why I reject as junk any so-clled health book or newsletter which doesn’t specify raw food for the readers. No miracle foods or herbs can make up for the destruction to the body of cooked food.
    Yes, we need supplements. Our bodies need a whole bunch of minerals that are long gone from our commercial farms, so until we can force farmers to remineralize their lands with rock dust or kelp, we’ve got to supplement even the best of organic raw food diets with a mineral supplement.

Health Books II

    The 832-page American Medical Association Family Medical Guide makes not one mention of raw food. Thanks, AMA.
    Well then, how about the FDA? As Dr. William Douglas puts it, “The FDA is a political organization, not a scientific one.”

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5/28/06

College Loans

    Boomerang kids are those who move back in with their parents after college graduation. And one big reason is today’s grads average of $30,000 in student loans. Generation Broke can’t afford a place to live, to get married, or even medical or dental procedures.
    I sure wish parents with teenagers would spring the five bucks for my Secret Guide to Wealth so their kids would at least have an opportunity to wise up and make an educated choice on whether or not they want to spend four to six years and tens of thousands of dollars on college. 
    My dad got aced out of college by WWI, so he always felt robbed of a true education and didn’t want me to have that problem. He accomplished a lot in aviation, but something always happened to keep him from making big bucks.
    Not once do I ever recall anyone trying to wise me up. You went to grammar and high school, then you went to college. Period. So I wasted my dad’s money on two years of college. Then, after four years in the Navy during WWII, the government paid for two more of what I now consider totally wasted college years.
    As I point out in my wealth book, college is fine if all you want is to get a job and work for someone else all your life. You’ll never make a lot of money or have much freedom that way. Read Kowasaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad if you doubt it.
    As an entrepreneur I’ve been able to make three trips around the world, go on an African hunting safari, have dinner with a king and queen in their palace…just the three of us…and adventures like that.
    Education? There are plenty of books written by the world’s top experts on anything you want to learn. And these days the books are backed up by tapes, videos, DVDs, plus the unlimited resources the Internet has made available. Four to six years of memorizing stuff for tests isn’t an education.
    If you know any teens you may not be able to get them to actually think…that skill has been carefully killed, or at least badly wounded, by our government-run worst-in-the-world public school system.…but you may be able enter a tiny doubt.

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5/28/06

Digital Movies?

    Though music, television and radio have been moving to digital, the movie industry is still using film. Meanwhile I’m seeing ads for a video camera that will fit in my shirt pocket, capture 20 minutes of high definition video on a chip, or who knows how many 5-megapixel still pictures, complete with a 10X zoom lens, for $800.
    The problem is that, so far, digital theater projectors cost around $100,000, about five times that of a film projector. Worse, the theater audience is fading away. And so are the theaters. Two theaterplexes near where I live have gone out of business. Well, no wonder, when Sherry and I have often been about the only ones sitting there for a matinee showing. But then, we’ve given up in disgust with so many films that where a few years ago we’d go to the movies once or twice a week, now it’s more like three or four times a year. Recently we paid $13 to see Mission: Impossible III. We sat for a while, wondering why we’d driven an hour for this, and then gave up and walked out on the stupid thing. That blew over $12 worth of gas, too.

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5/28/06

A School Solution

    The concept of there needing to be town, county and state governments was important 200 years ago when it was a day's journey of more to the state capitol.     Today, with modern communications and transportation, the capitol is only an hour away from most sections of the state by car, a day away by letter and a seconds away by telephone, fax or e-mail.
    Each town still has a need for local management, but the need for a county government has, I believe, been made obsolete by progress. This is akin to the downsizing of management layers in business. How much money could be saved statewide if county governments were eliminated?
    We no longer need county sheriffs, county police, county courts and county judges.

Our Public Schools

    There have been many complaints about the inequities of town funding of schools. With some towns being wealthy and others poor, there are legitimate concerns over this. Of course, even though studies of educational outcomes hasn't shown any significant difference between the quality of education being provided in the better funded schools and those in poor areas, that hasn't affected the concerns. It just seems logical that there has to be some correlation between the amount of money spent and the quality of education resulting.
    One way of alleviating these concerns might be to have the state fund all schools equally through a state tax rather than town property taxes. This could ease the tax burden on some towns, while increasing it on others. But if we consider the state as the funding agency and work out a tax system to fund it, this should at least put the burden equally on all NH residents.
    There are several problems with the present school system. One is the power of the NEA and teacher tenure. In most businesses there is a connection between job performance and pay. In the school business it is almost impossible to get rid of bad teachers and their pay goes up automatically every year. Another problem is the management bureaucracy of administrators and their staffs which are eating up about 60% of the current school funding.

A Model

    When I want to solve a problem one way to tackle it is to look for places around the country or even the world where the same problem has been solved more successfully. In the case of schools there are many far more successful schools than we have in New Hampshire. The most successful model I've found so far is nearby — in Framingham, Mass. It's the Sudbury Valley School. I've read eight books about the school and am glad to see that new schools are being started in many areas of the country modeled on this school.
    How is it different? It's a private school. It costs less than half as much to run as the average public school in Mass. It has no curriculum, no grades, takes kids from 4 through 20, takes no attendance, and has no formal classrooms. Yet it is graduating outstanding students.
    All of the rules are made by the students themselves. It's worth the time to read some of the books about this remarkable school.

Other Ideas

    I like the idea of running our schools 50 weeks a year. Our kids no longer are needed on the farms during the summer. This would allow a more flexible schedule for the kids so they could, if they wanted, go off on vacations with their parents at any time fo the year.
    I propose that more and more courses me made available for youngsters that are relevant to working in today's world. For instance, I propose an optional eight year course in electronics, computers and communications. This would be taught by a monthly or bi-monthly magazine instead of text books, allowing the material to be more current.
    I propose that schools teach a wide variety of skills. Yes, I have a list.
    Many subjects really require a workshop or laboratory for hands-on work in addition to any theoretical information which can be gotten by reading or from a teacher. It is too expensive to furnish every school in the state with a group of workshops so I propose that they be built into tractor-trailers so the workshops can be moved from school to school and used for a few days or weeks by the students interested in taking advantage of them and then moved on to another school. In this way it would only take a few of each kind of workshop to service all of the schools in the state.
    To reduce the cost of constructing and maintaining these mobile workshops I propose that each school be responsible for the building and maintenance of one workshop. This would be an excellent work experience for the kids and would virtually elminate the labor costs.
    This would make available workshope and labs for wood and metal working, foundry, chemistry, physics, electronics, computers, audio recording, video production, sewing, cooking, drafting, art, cement-making, plumbing, electrical wiring, photography, driver's ed, flying simulation, printing, and so on.
    Courses can be made available on business subjects such as selling, accounting, purchasing, marketing, advertising, promotion, public speaking, business planning, financing, banking, etc. These could also be taught at night for interested business people as a source of revenue for the school system.

American Students

    You've probably read about the recent study of 500,000 children world-wide, except for Asia. They found that American school children were absolute tops in the world in one category: self-esteem. American students had the highest perception of how well they'd done. Well, at least we're teaching ’em something, even if it is a lie.
    In advanced math we were tied for last place. In physics we had a lock on last place.
    Sure, the excuse goes, we're comparing the whole student group, which includes more blacks and poor than it used to, with the elite of other countries. Baloney. Our elite are no match for the elite of other countries, and many countries have a higher percentage of their kids reaching the 12th grade than we do, and with far higher scores.
    A recent study by Public Agenda showed that 76% of college professors and 63% of employers said a high-school diploma from a public school is non guarantee of a basic education. 52% of professors said that incoming freshmen lacked the skills to do college-level work.
    One result of this is that high-tech employers are doing their best to recruit foreign educated workers. Of course Congress handled that problem by passing a law severely limiting the number of these educated workers that can be brought into the country. The employers are countering this by moving their development labs to other countries.
    Naturally, Congress has done little to stem to throngs of uneducated illegal immigrants pouring over our southern border, so we're keeping out the educated and letting the uneducated in. Smart move. This confirms my observation that the government makes a mess of everything it does.

Educational Resources

    With the internet making more and more resources available it is important that students learn how to access these resources. Further, with video courses growing in availability it is becoming possible for students to have the advantage of the finest performers doing the teaching, with their material prepared by the world's top experts, and with the advantage of almost anything imaginable in illustrative material via computer graphics. The day of the not very well informed teacher at the blackboard is fading away. Soon these materials will be available in full digital video and sound via the internet, making them accessible from anywhere in the world the student may travel.
    New Hampshire, which has always been innovative, has the opportunity to pioneer the use of these resources.
    New Hampshire, despite the fears of the Legislature, which stalled the project for several years, had the first North American tramway. The state-owned project paid for itself the first year it opened. This project was made to happen in 1938 by state senator Jack Eames from Littleton. Jack was a good friend of my grandfather, my father and me. Indeed I spent a good deal of time visiting Jack and his wife Blanche on their houseboat on Patridge Lake.
    New Hampshire also pioneered the state lottery, which has helped to provide funds for our schools. Funds which have not been as well allocated as might have been hoped.

Computers for Schools

    Kids love to play games with computers. But many of them also get deeply involved with their workings, both hardware and software. I propose a way to take advantage of that interest and to encourage it. Our next generation of programmers are right now in the lower school grades, so the more we can excite and encourage them, the better off will be our country in the future.
    Providing enough computers for our schools calls for a very serious investment.     And, considering that the practical lifetime of a computer is about three or four years, it is an ongoing investment.
    Since computers become obsolete rather than wearing out, I have a proposal for a way to provide our schools with very low cost computers. This would take advantage of the obsolescence and tax situation for businesses.
    Many computer makers are selling direct at a discount to schools for bulk sales. If a business that is about to buy say 50 computers would instead fund a school's buying them and using them for a year, they could take a large tax credit for the difference in the value of the computers when new and their value a year later as used, and slightly obsolete systems. This could reduce the cost of a computer system for a business from around $5,000 to $2,000, providing a tax credit of $3,000 for each system.
    Further, the students would be encouraged to learn to maintain and service the computers so that they could later provide this service to the business at a much lower cost than the use of a professional service company. Further still, the students would be encouraged to learn and use the software the business would use later so they could teach the business employees how to use the systems and would be available for help when needed and to teach new employees. The students would also be able to upgrade the systems for the businesses.
    This would greatly help the participating businesses by making it possible to use much better computer systems than they might otherwise be able to afford. It would give them an ongoing source of training and service for the equipment. And, best of all, would be the benefits to the students, who would gain practical real life experience with the computers and with the needs of business. Everyone would win in this partnership.
    I'd be surprised if some enterprising students didn't set up their own spare time computer service and training businesses to bring their skills to smaller non-participating businesses.
    A school could consolidate the program, making it available even to small firms needing just one or two computer systems, allowing them to come in on their next bulk purchase of computers. I envision this service being run by student groups, not the school faculty or administrators. This would help teach students about advertising, salesmanship, contracts, and customer service — all very valuable lessons for future employment or entreprenurial efforts.
    Students, being in contact with many businesses in their area, might be able to provide data inputting services in their spare time, thus earning money. Almost any business has a large amount of just plain data inputting that needs to be done which can't be handled by OCR systems. This work could be done on contract or a piecework basis, thos bypassing the minimum wage laws — which tend to keep youngsters from getting early work experience. The inimum wage laws, lobbied heavily by the unions, are more intended to keep youngsters from competing with union workers than to provide a so-called living wage for low skilled workers. Kids don't need a living wage, what they need is work experience and enough pay to attract them and keep them interested while they are learning about business. As their skills improve they'll soon learn how to get a better price for them.

School Maintenance

    Kids will keep their school a lot neater and cleaner if they are in charge of the routine maintenance. This duty can be rotated around, just as it is in the military. If a job is too big for the students to handle it could be bid out to a local company. This might include plumbing, heating, electrical and other work that calls for experts. But scubbing and sweeping the floors, emptying the waste baskets, changing light bulbs, toner for copiers, handling the mail, etc., could be handled by the students, substantially cutting the cost for this service.
    The students should be able to handle most computer service, repairs and upgrades.

School Costs

    By cutting maintenance costs and administrative overhead, it should be possible to cut school costs by 30-50%. We know this is possible because many parochial schools operate at half or less the cost of nearby public schools. And then we have the Sudbury Valley School and its clones as examples, also operating at half the cost of public schools. This could result in a substantial lowering of property taxes throughout the state.
    By following my computer acquisition proposal, plus the use of mobile laboratories and workshops, these facilities would be made available to all students in the state, and at a much lower cost than the present system.
    The idea would be to make these mobile units available for every student in New Hampshire for some time during the eight years from grades 5-12. A couple weeks of wood shop would teach them woodworking skills. Some workshops might require a longer period of use, so more of them would be needed to allow every interested student to build the needed skills.

The Curriculum

    The Sudbury Valley School has no curriculum, no grades, and no tests. Attendance isn't even compulsory. Their system is working very well. Instead of repeating everything about the school, I recommend that all interested persons read some of the books about this school. I've read eight books so far. An excellent introduction to the school is Daniel Greenberg's Free at Last, The Sudbury Valley School. It's available inexpensively from the school, 2 Winch Street, Framingham, Mass., 01701. Or call 508-877-3030. Their graduates are outstanding examples.
    About the only modification of their approach I'd suggest is providing the students with a list of the skills they may find valuable to them in later life, along with an explanation of why, and how to acquire the skills. Further, I'd have a book that explains what is out there to be learned, the benefits of learning these things, and how to go about learning each subject.
    The school has found that if you allow children to be driven by their thirst for knowledge instead of having one subject after another jammed down their throats they will outperform any normal public school youngster. They learn more and faster because they want to — because they're interested, and no one is forcing them.

My Own Experience

    Little that I was exposed to in high school or college has benefitted me in later life. I was about 28 when it finally dawned on me that only I was responsible for my education. From that time on I've been buying books about anything that has interested me and reading ’em. The result is that I've read thousands of books and I remember what’s in most of them. Several times a day I go to my library to check on some fact, to get a quote, or to refresh my understanding of something.
    In all my years in school I only remember having two teachers who made their subjects interesting. One was in high school. Mr. Dockett taught art and he was fabulous. When my mother went to the same school he got her so excited about art that she went on to art school (Pratt Institute) and became a commercial artist.
    The other outstanding teacher was in college and the course he made exciting was the last one you'd expect. Accounting! We students hated it when the class was over and could hardly wait to do our homework.
    Every course should be taught by someone who can make it come alive and be exciting. That's why I feel that the future for most teaching will be via video and DVDs, since there are so few performers who can communicate the excitment. With video we only have to find one great teacher in the world for each subject.


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5/28/06

Taking Orders

    From my earliest days I hated taking orders. Something left over from one or more past lives probably.
    My dad would get furious with me. He’d tell me to do something and I’d ask why. “Because I told you to,” was his angry answer.
    This attitude did not do well for me in school, where classrooms are run like prisons and the teachers the guards. In the first grade it was one finger up when I had to go to the toilet to do number one. And two fingers for number two.
    This response to being given orders was really put to a test during my four years in the Navy (1942-1946). Luckily, I had a very understanding captain on the submarine, so there weren’t any problems.
    I’ll do everything I can to comply when asked to do something. But told? Screw you!
    There’s a bunch of things I’d like to find out about my past lives if I can find a good hypnotist to regress me.
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5/27/06

Getting Even

    A friend came up with a truly fiendish way to harass people who’d caused him grief. It’s illegal, so don’t do it.
    There was this ham radio operator who had a neighbor with a cheap TV set which was getting interference when he operated and complaining to the FCC. Never mind that the TVs in the ham’s house had no problem.
    So, after considerable aggravation, my friend collected a bunch of those postage-paid cards and envelopes from magazines and junk mail. He had a fellow conspirator fill in the neighbor’s name and address, and mailed them from distant post offices, ordering books, magazines, CDs, information, and so on…all “to be billed,” of course.
    The resulting barrage of mail and phone demands for payment kept the neighbor busy for months.
    When the postal inspectors came around the handwriting on the cards didn’t match that of my ham friend.
    Caution: don’t piss me off. I’ve got cartons of those cards and envelopes saved up. Thousands.

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5/27/06

AHA!

    Since Mad Cow disease is normally only found in countries where the cows’ spines are sprayed with Phosmet, an organophosphate, to keep off the warble flies, I’ve been wondering how a cow in the U.S.. could have had Mad Cow, since we don’t (yet) have warble flies here.
    Suddenly, the light flashed. I was reading an article in the June 2006 American Agriculturist about the implanting of identification chips in animals so they can be tracked all their lives. And there it was! “The trace-back need arose in 2003 with the first reported U.S. case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.” That’s BSE. a.k.a., Mad Cow disease.
    Since it is no secret that some elements of the government would like to have every person in America (and then probably the world) implanted with a chip at birth so they can be tracked all through their lives, doing it to our animals was an important first step to get us used to the technology.
    Anyway, that’s a good explanation for the magical appearance of that Mad Cow in the U.S. three years ago.
    Scientist Mark Purdey, the leading expert on Mad Cow, has had a series of articles published in Acres U.S.A. and has been lecturing around the world, so the truth is out there for anyone interested.
    Truth seems to be the first loss when it comes to government actions. They have their agendas and a subservient press to pursue them.
    By the way, the human form of BSE is CJD, Creutzfield Jakob Disease. Interesting, if you prefer facts, the only human CJD cases so far have been people living downwind of the Phosmet factory in Birmingham, England.
    While I have no intention of eating fast food burgers made from cows fed ground up dead cows, pets put down by veterinarians, tons of chicken manure, and genetically modified corn…with the addition of bovine growth hormone (BGH) and antibiotics…or drinking any milk from these cows, these are not the cause of BSE, as much as the chemical industry would like to have us believe.
    Organophosphates were developed by the Nazis during WWII as a nerve gas.
    Prion biochemist David Brown of Cambridge University insists that there is no evidence of an infectious agent present in either the meat or milk of BSE cows.
    It is a shame on the Coast To Coast AM radio talk show that host George Noory is still having guests on recently who are parroting the prion theory, telling millions of listeners that it’s the feeding of dead cattle to cows that’s causing BSE.
    But then, this is the same program that recently had Mr. Lear on as a guest, seriously telling us that there are humans living on Mercury, Venus, Mars, and all the way out to Pluto. Oh, and that there is air on the Moon. And that all this has secretly been going on for over forty years.
    Oh, and a recent guest who assured the listeners that cell phones are not causing brain tumors. The leading researcher in the world, W. Ross Adey (K6UI), a personal friend of mine, on the subject of the effects of radio emissions on people has testified before Congress on this and I have a copy of his testimony available for $2 (Item #34).
    Take a couple minutes and fire an email to George to be more careful to have legitimate guests who know what they are talking about — george@coasttocoastam.com. Oh, and it’s about time he got over his anger at David Booth for not breaking his promise to Sister Lucia, and have Wayne Green on again.
    I hate to think how many people have died because they haven’t heard my message of how simple it is to cure any illness with no drugs.

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5/26/06

Oil Up 4 Grabs

    With the summer polar ice cap melting, naturally there’s more and more interest in the estimated 375 billion barrels of oil under it. And since the U.S., Russia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland have overlapping claims, we have the makings of worse than tensions between the claimers.
    The polar ice cap has shrunk 20% in the last 25 years, and expected to be ice-free in another 25 years. Global warming at work.
    There are two wild cards. One, is if what I suspect is the real cause of global warming, Planet-X, passes by and heads back out of the solar system, we might see global cooling rebuilding the Arctic ice pack.
    And the other will be the replacing of oil, coal and natural gas fuels with cold fusion engines, which will supply energy at less than a tenth the cost of oil and have no polluting by-products.
    So we’ll see how all this rolls out.

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5/26/06

Getting Stoned

    When I mentioned to my good friend Van, out in California, that we need to remineralize our crop lands with powdered rock, he quickly grabbed a hammer and reduced a nearby rock to rock dust, daubed some on a finger, and ate it.
    He called the next morning excitedly explaining what he’d done, that he’d had one of his best night’s sleep in years, and that he felt absolutely fantastic when he got up.
    That reminded me of Donald Weaver’s book, The Survival of Civilization, which goes into detail on the need to remineralize out farm lands with rock dust. Sure enough, on page 34, Don says he takes a quarter to a half teaspoon a day of powdered gravel dust. His book is reviewed on page 23 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom.
    Better health, it seems, is only a stone’s throw away…giving a new (and better) meaning to getting stoned.
    It helps explain why the people of Hunza, who irrigate their farmlands with the milky water from melted glaciers…and drink it…are virtually never sick, have no cancer and live in good health to over a hundred.
    Granite, I understand, is particularly loaded with a wide variety of minerals…and here I am in the Granite State. Maybe it’s time to grind down some of our mountains into mole hills to rehealthify those American with an interest in being healthy…sadly, a minority, judging from the lines in McDonald’s.
    And if we run out of New Hampshire mountains to grind, we can start on the thousands of old rock fences which go through our forests, reminders of the farms left behind when the farmers went west a hundred or so years ago. 
    Crops grown on remineralized land do not attract pests, so pesticides aren’t needed. These aren’t just organic crops, they’re super-organic. Let’s leave no stone unturned to get our farm lands remineralized. Let’s keep our noses to the grind stone. Well, ground stone.
    With the U.S. Public Health Service reporting that only 1.5% of Americans are healthy, the U.S. rating 89th among nations in our death rate, and 58.6% of our children unable to pass a minimum physical fitness test, we have to start making some serious changes in our diet. A raw food diet is great, but not if it’s loaded with pesticides and empty of the minerals our bodies need to be healthy.
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5/24/06

The AIDS Scam

    The May 29th Time, page 8, had an interview with Billy Graham’s son, Franklin. It explained that Franklin, in 2003, helped persuade the Bush Administration to earmark $25 billion for the AIDS “struggle.”
    Now, how come I know of two inexpensive, sure ways to cure AIDS with no drugs, and nobody involved in Congress or the Administration has a clue?
    With AIDS patients paying $60,000 a year for drugs that merely slow the progress of the disease, but don’t cure it, there’s obviously billions involved in keeping the simple cures secret.
    Dr. Bruno Comby, in his 1994 book, Maximize Immunity, was curing AIDS patients without fail by getting them to abstain from smoking, alcohol, and drugs, and adopt what he calls a “natural diet.” That’s a raw food diet.
    Dr. Lorraine Day (drday.com), who saved her life days before death by changing to a raw food diet, says, “There are NO incurable illnesses.”
    The second approach is to pass a very tiny electric current through the blood. This prevents the HIV virus from replication, and thus dying. This was discovered accidentally by two scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and patented 12 years ago. Look up patent #5,188,738. I published a circuit for a device, which used $19 in parts, in 1996 and was making copies available until the FDA stopped me. It was not approved by them, an $800 million ten year procedure. That it worked and had cured hundreds of AIDS patients in clinical trials was irrelevant.
    One letter to the editor of Time, to Franklin, or the Christine Corman, who wrote the article, won’t do much, but if a few dozen pour in from around the world, that might make a dent.
    You can help by writing The Editor, Time Magazine, Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, NY 10020. Let’s break this conspiracy of silence about AIDS.

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5/19/06

The Big Gas Secret

    With gas prices going up and up, we’re busy blaming the greedy oil companies and the oil countries. Well, they’re doing very well, thank you, but they aren’t what’s causing the trouble.
    The real villain is you. That’s right, you’re guilty as all hell, and it isn’t gas-guzzling cars, it was your vote in the last election. If you’d done as I’ve been asking, and stopped re-electing those Beltway crooks, our gas prices might be a lot more reasonable.
    Yep, Congress did it to us. Again. And Bush helped.
    The mess got started when Congress put through a 551-page energy bill which Bush signed into law last summer. Buried in the fine print was the mandate to replace the MBTE additive with corn-based ethanol. This has put a huge extra strain on the refining and distribution system.
    According to Larry Goldstein of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, “The gasoline crisis is made in the U.S.A., not in Iran or Venezuela or Nigeria. At least half the increase in gasoline prices is due to unintended consequences of the energy bill, but no one in Washington wants to admit that.”
    While crude prices have risen 21% since the end of 2005, gas is up 37%. Of $3.00 a gallon of gas, $1.65 goes for the oil, 66¢ for refining, 57¢ for taxes and 12¢ for distribution. That’s about 48¢ added to the refining cost by Congress and Bush. Maybe you can convince the guys you elected to cut that 48¢ they added out of the taxes until the refining costs come back down. When I fill my car’s 20-gallon tank I’m sending $11.40 to the government in taxes.
    If you ever started to add up how much you’re paying in taxes, over and above state and federal income taxes, you might start to wake up. Car and driver’s licenses, road tolls, ticket taxes for entertainment, phone calls, and so on.
    So, if you dutifully go to the polls during the primary this fall and re-elect the incumbent, you’re going to get more of the same. Has it crossed your mind yet that the reason politicians spend millions to get elected and endlessly re-elected is that the investment pays off big time?

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5/19/06

War With China?

    The media take their watchword seriously…”Good news does not sell papers.” They’ve been scaring the b’Jesus out of the gullable with an avian flu pandemic, global warming, hurricanes, oil prices and profits, war with Iran, the bad news from Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. Now it’s a possible war with China, complete with nukes.
I doubt it.
    The Chinese. like the Japanese, have about a 15-point IQ advantage over Americans. They are smarter. Plus there is the intentional dumbing down of Americans via our government-run public school system, the control of our media, and the fluoridation of our water.
    The Chinese learned a lesson from WWII that we didn’t. We beat the Japanese with our military, but then Japan changed tactics to business as war…and won the second round without firing a shot or getting a bomb dropped on them.
    While we have been sleeping, China is hot and heavy at war with us, and winning hands down.
    Their schools are better than ours. Well, every developed country in the world has better schools than we do. China is graduating 900,000 engineers a year while we are graduating 250,000, with a good percentage of them foreign students who go back home after graduation.
    With low wages, they are getting us to move our industries to China. They are getting our industries and our technology, and we are getting cheaper products to buy. America is funding the expansion of growth of Chinese business, and thus the Chinese economy.
    We’ve been losing one industry after another. Steel, electronics, etc., and China has been building it’s industrial and technological might with us paying the tab. They’ve also been amassing trillions of dollars of our debt, with which they could destroy our currency any time they decide to dump it on the world financial market.
    I’m suspicious of the tens of thousands of Chinese restaurants the Chinese government has been setting up in America. Their government has been setting up restaurants and buying houses for the workers, plus handling the food supply system. I notice that the restaurant workers, with the exception of the waiters, don’t seem to be bothering to learn English. And their restaurants are everywhere.
    In Antrim, a mile from my house, a town of 1,500 people, there’s one. In Hillsborough, the next town, ten miles away, with 3,000 population, there are three Chinese restaurants! Oddly, every couple of years or so there’s suddenly one day a completely new staff in the restaurants.
    A nuclear war? Why bother? They don’t need a military war to win a war.
    I’ll bet they’re enjoying our Mexican invasion. Some estimates put the illegals at more like 40 million, and we got a good idea of how they feel about the rest of us May first. No civilization has survived an unassimilated invasion. Whenever there are two tribes vying for land, there’s war. We see it today in the Balkans, Nigeria, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, and so on. We saw it here with the Indians vs. the whites.
    So we’re seeing American investors who used to be funding new American business, now in China, bringing billions with them to invest.
Nukes? It seems unlikely.

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5/17/06

Antibiotics

    Unless you have a source of organically grown meat…from animals never fed growth hormones or antibiotics, avoid the stuff.
    How come? 70% of all antibiotics made in the United States end up in healthy chickens, pigs and cows. And this you stuff sure don’t need in your body. The Union of Concerned Scientists reports that some 11,200 tons of antibiotics are fed to perfectly healthy farm animals each year as a health precaution.
    Health authorities (and several books) have warned that the widespread use of antibiotics makes disease-causing bacteria more resistant to medical treatment. Many germs are almost impervious to antibiotics now.
    My supermarket butcher and two local farms supply me with organic meat…which I eat raw. But then, I’m living in a semi-agricultural state, where there are still a few small independent farms.

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5/16/06

It’s the Money!

     The UNAIDS people recently reported about 40 million people worldwide have AIDS and around 4 million are dying a year. Since there are two inexpensive no-drug cures for AIDS that I (and the AMA and FDA) know about, how come all the secrecy?
     You know the answer.
     One of them is to change to a raw food diet and stop poisoning the body, per my Secret Guide to Health. The other is to pass a minute electric current through the blood for an hour or so a day for a couple of weeks. It takes about 50 millionths of an ampere and is painless. It can be done by anyone at home with a gadget that costs less than $20 in parts. It would cost under $5 if manufactured commercially.
     The current passing through the blood prevents any virus, microbe, fungus, or yeast infection from replicating, thus killing them. And yes, this has been proven with clinical trials.
     The treatment was discovered by two research doctors at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who promptly patented it (#5,188,264).
What a miracle this could be for people with AIDS, malaria, Lyme disease, and other blood illnesses!
     The problem? It would stop the sale of billions of dollars in drugs and hospital visits. And since almost three million of the deaths are in Sub-Saharan Africa, it would speed the population growth of the world significantly.
     While English in well on the way to becoming the world language, it is woefully inadequate when it comes to expressing feelings. So, when I searched for words to express my outrage when the extent of the scam…the cover-up…which is protecting the profits of the pharmaceutical-medical industry, plus HMOs, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, health insurance, and lawyers profiting from our making ourselves sick, I had no way to express the extent of this monstrous cabal.
     The simple fact is, through our ignorance, here in America we’re being screwed out of trillions of dollars and half of our normal lifespans. We don’t "get" cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and so on…we’re doing these diseases to ourselves and it’s time to blow the whistle to slow down the carnage.
     Yes, we’re making ourselves sick with our diet.

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5/15/06

Raising Kids

    No one says parenting is easy. There are a bunch of books on the subject…which few parents have bothered to read. Alas, like many other activities, the natural responses can often create long term problems.
     For instance, in learning to horseback ride the normal responses can quickly establish habits which defeat the process. The same goes for skiing. With both, you either take lessons from a good instructor or your chances of getting to be good at riding or skiing are low.
     With parenting, when the kid does something wrong the usual parental response is to get angry and punish the child.
     A 25-year study of 593 families showed that 63% of the kids of those whose parents were harsh or abusive developed depression, anxiety, drug abuse and other psychiatric ailments by the time they were adults. A University of New Hampshire study showed that virtually all teenage suicides were the result of childhood spanking.
     Animal trainers learned long ago that love, not punishment, was the key to successful animal training. Give them rewards when they do the right things. Animals (and children) want to please.
     This struck home with me. My father, when angered, would hit me and kick me. Major crimes meant being beaten with a hair brush when I was very young, and a razor strop later on. The result was teenage depression and thoughts of suicide.
     I was very fortunate that Dianetics came along when I was 28 and turned my life around. It only took a few days under hypnosis to re-live the beatings and erase their impact on my life. Suddenly, for the first time, I became aware of myself as me and the load from the past was no longer weighing me down. I began reading voraciously, and a couple years later I started my first business.
     Rewards can work miracles and punishment will come back to haunt parents. But getting this concept across to many parents…to get them to think instead of reacting when they are angry…is an alien approach. As my father used to say when he started beating me, "Stop crying or I’ll give you something to really cry about." When this didn’t work, he beat me harder and longer.

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5/14/06

Bunker Flooded!

     While wrapping some books in pages of a local newspaper, a headline about Long Trail Acres Farm in Antrim (NH) jumped out at me. Hey, that’s David Booth’s farm!
     After having a vision a couple years ago of the Yellowstone super volcano erupting, and then doing the research into the probability that his vision might be real, he built an underground bunker for his family to ride out the coming upheaval.
     I’ve written about his vision and the reports from vulcanologists confirming the possibility of his vision becoming a reality. Maybe you saw the TV movie. The details are in my $3 Catastrophe! booklet (catalog #13).
     Not wanting the bunker to go to waste until it was needed, Booth used it to grow mushrooms. The bunker, made from five ten by twenty-foot steel shipping containers, was buried under about ten feet of earth in back of his home. It had a kitchen, bathroom, food storage and bedrooms, all welded together. Ideal for mushroom-growing.
     The newspaper article had to do with the melting snow and torrential spring rains flooding his "underground mushroom house."
     Oops, he’d built in a ventilation system, but not drainage. So he called the Antrim fire department, which zipped over (less than a mile) and started pumping. When their pumps weren’t making much headway the hardware store brought over more hoses and pumps.
     The mushroom crop was saved, but the water took out their freezer. Crisenti’s Market, in nearby Hillsborough, stored the frozen food until they could get the freezer working again.
     Ah, the perils of living underground.
     If I ever decide to settle down I’ve been planning on building most of my new home underground. It’s not only safer, it costs very little to heat and cool. Yes, I’ll be sure it’s able to handle melting snow and rain.

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5/13/06

Socialism Sucks

     Though the concept of the government running things seems indelibly imprinted in liberal minds, can you cite any country where it’s been a success for the people?
     Michael Medved may be wrong about a long list of things, but he nailed it with, "The government makes a mess of everything it does."
     Like our government mandatory public school system, which is both by far the most expensive in the world and is turning out kids (I refused to use the term "students,") that are coming in last in international surveys.
     Another beaut is the efforts to help the needy cope with increasing rents in areas where housing is in short supply by establishing rent controls. Rent control advocates have never bothered to take a look at what that did to New York’s Bronx, where endless apartment houses are sitting empty, in ruins.
     Studies have shown that homelessness is more prevalent in cities with rent control. And, of course, what happens is that the wealthy soon take them over, while the rents on uncontrolled apartments keep rising dramatically due to the shortage.
     Rent controls are often established as a temporary measure to deal with an immediate crisis. Alas, there is nothing more permanent than a temporary government policy.
     Then there’s our Post Office monopoly. And our military procurement system. And so on. We have more government workers (I’m using the term loosely) than in manufacturing. One bureau after another, inexorably growing, with fewer and fewer benefits to the public that’s picking up the tab.
     A while back I proposed a practical system for cutting any government department in half within three years, and thus streamlining its operation, but far’s I know, no one paid any attention.
     Of course, if you don’t mind the big chunk the government takes out of your paycheck, fine. If you think you are getting your money’s worth…okay. By the time you add in all the taxes you are paying…on movie tickets, phone calls, gasoline, property, meals, state, federal, licenses, and so on, you’re working more for the government than your self. And there’s few of those taxes that couldn’t be drastically reduced if waste, redundancy and bureaucratic crapola were eliminated.
     Yes, you can actually do something about it other than watch the Red Sox, Martha Stewart, Michael Jackson, and so on. Start by Never Reelecting Anyone (NRA). Get the professional politicians out of government.
     Has it dawned on you that there’s a damned good reason why Senators will spend millions to get reelected? And Congressmen? Knock ’em out in the primaries and replace ’em with business people who will be happy to serve one term and go back to business.
     Right now, immediately upon election, the main business in Congress is starting the funding of the reelection campaign. With NRA in force they can get busy cleaning up the mess the professionals left for them…eliminating those juicy pork bills, cutting permanent staff, and so on. The Beltway is in desperate need of a cleaning out.

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 5/12/06

Smoke

     Maybe you missed the California Environmental Protection Agency report. It estimated second hand smoke is causing around 2,700 sudden infant death syndromes, 62,000 heart disease deaths for non-smokers and 26,000 new cases of asthma in children.
     With a mother and father that smoked, I was lucky to get out alive.

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5/11/06

Schools

     When is enough enough? Our government mandatory schools are a 19th century remnant. As Bill Symonds said, "Most of America’s 55 million children in kindergarten through 12th grade still attend schools designed for the industrial, if not the agrarian, era. Everything from the school calendar, which still reflects the rhythms of farm life, to chalk-and-textbook instruction are better suited for preparing kids for the past than the future."
    Our graduates are in competition with the entire world these days, and they are not hacking it. In international tests our kids are coming in at the bottom where it counts…in math and science. So, not just jobs but businesses are moving to countries where there’s a better educated work force available.
     Fixing decrepit school buildings, adding more teachers so classes can be smaller and increasing teacher pay aren’t cutting it. They’ve all be tried and failed.
We are in the 21st century and our schools are a hundred years or so behind the times.
     I’ve been proposing a whole new approach to education, but with few (if any) listeners. Hey, it’s your kids that are getting the dirty end of the stick and you’re not doing one damned thing about it. Turn off that damned hypnotizer box, forget the media rush of the day and do some homework.
     There is no shortage of people such as Iserbyt and Gatto blowing the whistle.
     Look, business is war and we’re not arming ourselves with educated kids for businesses. And I’m not talking about sitting through K-12 and college as providing an education. That’s a myth. Like millions of others, I went through that grinder and came out with no skills. The best I could do was a $40 a week job as a radio station engineer-announcer. And that was for an 80-hour week!
     The only reason I was able to pass the FCC license exam to get that engineer’s job was the superb nine-month electronics course the Navy gave when I joined to fight in WWII.

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5/10/06

Africa

     Been there yet? Unless you have you can’t even imagine what a mess it is.
     Yeah, I’ve been to a few of the African countries. Like a trip to Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, including a hunting safari in Northern Kenya for a couple of weeks. And a speaking trip to South Africa, with side trips to Swaziland and Lesotho.
     Africa is a continent with a bunch of small countries. The average country has a smaller economy than any city in the industrialized world with a population of 50,000. It’s output, 45 years after the end of colonialism, is only one percent of the world’s economy. There are fewer roads in Africa than Poland, and only 15% are paved.
     The continent is racked with AIDS and malaria…and wars. Democracy? Har-de-har. Honest governments? Snicker.
     Africa is a continent with little industry or infrastructure, and less education. They need roads, clean water, telephones, electricity, sanitation. Most of the billions we’ve "invested" in African countries has been siphoned off by the leaders into Swiss bank accounts.
     What can be done? There’s no good answer…other than, why should we care?
     My solution is to make education so inexpensive and available that it might eventually change things. But in much of the continent we’re up against thousands of years of the women doing the work, while the men hunted and sat around drinking. The only reason for an education was to be able to get a job and work, so being educated is equivalent to being a woman and men will have nothing to do with it.
     There’s a lot of wonderful land there which could be cultivated to grow super-organic crops, which would bring a premium on the world market.
     When the Europeans grabbed the land…mainly England, France, and Germany… they were unable to get the native men to work, so they had to import workers from India to build the railroads and roads.
     The South African mines have been able to hire black workers, but most will only work long enough to buy a farm and a couple of wives and retire. The mine’s efforts to get the workers to attend free schools have failed.

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5/05/06

Guest Workers

     The huge marches by illegal immigrants, waving Mexican flags and loudly demanding “rights,” didn’t sound or look anything like people who want to become American citizens. They want their language, their customs, and American money.
     These people are nothing like earlier immigrants, who came here, learned English, adopted out customs. and were proud to become Americans.
     With an admitted 12 million illegal aliens, and who knows how many actual, with some estimes closer to 20 million, we’ve been infiltrated. In the eyes of the law these people are all felons. They’ve broken the law., and Bush being wishy-washy about that doesn’t change the law.
     If enough people break a law, is that a reason for Congress to rewrite the law? Maybe it’s a reason to devote more effort on enforcing it. Bigger, more intelligent fences. More guards. Worse penalties for the law breakers…and I don’t mean our spending $30,000 a year to store them in our prisons.
     This is America. When you come here you are going to speak English and leave your old customs behind. Your women are not going to wear head scarves or burkas. You are not even going to speak your old language around the home.
     It’s time to stop screwing around. Let’s outlaw the mailing of any foreign language publications, or the licensing of radio station frequencies or TV channels, both of which are the property of the American citizens and handled by the FCC. No car or driver’s licenses.
     Let’s make it a felony for anyone to hire an illegal alien for any work. This will inconvenience a lot of commercial farms and maybe make our lettuce a little more expensive. Lettuce has almost no nutritive value anyway. And it’s probably loaded with pesticides.
     If we actually need more workers, let’s get Congress to increase the legal immigration limits. I’d like to see us letting in more educated, intelligent people and fewer from the bottom of the barrel.
     Millions of the illegals are taking advantage of the easy money here, sending tens of millions back to their families in Mexico every month. And they have no intention of ever becoming American citizens.
     Okay, first we have to find the illegals. Let’s start with one state at a time, bring in a bunch of federal agents to help the local police. Then, set up an alarm phone number, say 311, which will allow any business to alert the police when anyone with a Spanish accent visits them.
     The legal Hispanics will find it a major nuisance, but they’ll have documentation.

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5/1/06

Career Advisors

    Somehow I managed to get through seventeen years of life, right to high school graduation, without the subject of what kind of a career path I might take ever coming up.
    Oh, I knew I had to go to college. WWI aced my dad out of college. Instead he went to the New York Military Academy and then into the Army Air Corps. But he always felt inferior as a result, so my going to college wasn’t an option, it was a certainty.
    Colleges required applicants to have a language credit, so I took French in high school. I’ve always had a serious psychological problem with authority. When someone asks me to do something, no problem. But when they tell me to do it, I hate it. This did not help my relations with my dad, who was an order giver, not an asker.
    As early as I can remember, when he’d tell me to do something, I’d ask why. The usual answer was he’d spank me if I didn’t. And I did get spanked…starting at around two years old, with a hairbrush or a razor strop. Dad, angry, was “teaching me a lesson.” And when I cried, “Stop that or I’ll give you something to really cry about.”
    Dad left an enormous amount to be desired as a father. He never read to me. Never, in his whole life, did he ever sit down with me and talk.
    Once I got old enough to dress myself I spent my summers with my mother’s folks (Pop and Ma) at their summer cottage in Bethlehem (NH). After dinner I’d sit in Pop’s lap and he’d read fairy tales to me. Grimm’s, Uncle Remus.
    So I arrived at high school graduation without a clue about what I wanted to do with my life.
    For some reason I hated taking French, so of course I’d almost instantly fall asleep when I tried to memorize vocabulary. So I flunked French. Twice! And this in spite of my folks hiring a tutor to help me. This was at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn (NY).
    It was a great school and I enjoyed it, other than the French course. I had a good baritone voice, so I sang in the Choral Club. Every student…there were ten thousand…was screened upon entry and the top 100 voices were allowed to join the Choral Club. We rehearsed the second period every day and gave frequent radio concerts.
    I also joined the Radio Club (W2ANU), where the members helped me get my ham radio license. And the Savoyards, where we put on Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. I played the part of Koko, the Lord High Executioner (and the lead).
    The school said that, having flunked French twice, I couldn’t take it again. So my hope of having the language colleges required for entry were dashed. I didn’t care one way or the other.
    At this time (1937) my Dad was busy starting the first trans-Atlantic airline, American Export Airlines. It was funded by American Export Lines, America’s leading steamship line, with a dozen or so major liners. The captain of the Excambion was a good friend of my Dad’s. All the American Export ships started with ex…Exeter, Exminister, etc. Captain Grove’s son, Norman, was going to high school at McBurney School in Manhattan. So I transferred to McBurney…in the West Side YMCA building on West 63rd Street. It was an hour commute by subway each way every day, with a walk across Central Park from the subway station to the school.
    A summer French course got me back on schedule and two years later I graduated.
    As seniors, we were given the advantage of a professional career advisory service. After a bunch of tests I was advised that my plans to go to Dartmouth for a law degree weren’t realistic. They said I had the highest mechanical aptitude they’d ever measured, and that, since I was a radio amateur, I really should consider electrical engineering.
    So I applied to MIT. They took one look at my “C” grades and said no way. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was either less finicky or their recruiter saw something in me, and I was in. This was the fall of 1940, a year after WWII had started in Europe, and I was housed on the second floor of Church II in the freshman quadrangle, complete with my ham radio equipment.
    I was “rushed” by several fraternities, and decided on FEF. It was the only independent fraternity.
    I, of course, joined the Radio Club (W2SZ), the Players (where we put on The Importance of Being Ernest) and the Glee Club.
    Freshmen were required to stay for the summer, taking courses in metal and wood shop, and foundry.
    Came December 7th 1941, and America was at war. At 19, I knew I was prime draft material, so I tried first to enlist in the Army Air Force. They wanted no part of me and my hay fever.
    I spent the summer of 1942 working at G.E., in nearby Schenectady, testing transmitters being made for the Army. That experience made me sure that I’d never again work for a large company. Ugh!
    I finally ended up enlisting in the Navy. That’s a whole ‘nother story. Cut to four years later. I’ve been discharged from the Navy and back at Rensselaer for my Junior year, with the Government paying my tuition. They did that in order to ease the veterans back into the workforce gradually.
    By this time I had some perspective on careers and I knew for sure that I had no interest in being an engineer. That meant working for a big corporation. So, still being näive, I went to the psychology department for advice. I explained that the high school tests had resulted in me being advised to pursue electrical engineering. But now I knew I didn’t want to do that and I was considering changing to management.
    I was given a barrage of IQ, and other tests. Took me a couple days. The advisor looked over the results an explain that my IQ was somewhere in the top one one-hundredth of a percent, way beyond what they could measure, something well over 200, and I could take any damned course I wanted. I opted for Management Engineering (ManE).
    Hmm, I’d always wondered why I was different from the other kids. Hey, I was smarter.
    Rensselaer, being an engineering university, I still had to take a bunch of engineering courses, complete with heavy work with a log-log-duplex-decitrig slide rule. Sigh.
    But I was having fun with the Radio Club. In fact, though the president of the club had always been a senior, I was elected as a junior.
    That’s when I came up with the idea for a campus broadcasting station…WRPI. I built a transmitter and fed it’s output into the power lines so the station could be heard anywhere on the campus and dorms, but for only a few blocks away from the school. WTRY, Troy’s regular broadcasting station, donated an old mixing board and microphones. With our studio in the basement of Hunt III dorm, we were in business and we had a ball. Soon the club membership went from a couple dozen to over 400 and we had a regular daily schedule of music, news, and even plays…with the help of girls from Sage College, which was downtown Troy.
    Today WRPI is an FM station and the leading student activity.

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4/25/06

Immigration Solution

    With somewhere between 12 and 20 million illegal immigrants, a.k.a. undocumented workers, which includes who can even guess how many terrorists who have come in with them, Congress and the Administration are frozen into inaction by the pressures from employers taking advantage of the cheap labor.
    Okay, I have a solution to propose. A simple one.
    Look, most of the illegals are from Mexico, so how about looking to Mexico for a solution?
    It’s obvious that our immigration policy isn’t working, so let’s look at an alternative. Like the Mexican immigration laws.
    Mexico has a practical approach for their immigration policy that most Americans would love. But Mexican officials haven't been sharing it with us as they press Congress to adopt the McCain-Kennedy immigration-reform bill.
    That's too bad, because Mexico, which annually deports more illegal aliens than the United States, has much to teach us about how to handle immigration. For instance, under Mexican law it is a felony to be an illegal alien.
    As the Supreme Court and Congress seek to bring U.S. law in line with foreign legal norms, it's noteworthy that no one has suggested that the United States look at what Mexico might teach us about how to solve our illegal-immigration problem. Mexico has a single, streamlined law, seeking to ensure that foreign visitors and immigrants are in the country legally and have the means to sustain themselves economically.
    Their law insists that immigrants not destined to be burdens on society, be of economic and social benefit to society, and be of good character, with no criminal record.
    Their law also seeks to ensure that:
 • Immigration authorities have a record of each foreign visitor.
 • Foreign visitors do not violate their visa status.
 • Foreign visitors are banned from interfering in the country's internal politics.
 • Foreign visitors who enter under false pretenses are imprisoned or deported.
 • Foreign visitors violating terms of their entry are imprisoned or deported.
 • Anyone who aids in illegal immigration is imprisoned.
    Foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence has upset "the equilibrium of the national demographics, “if they are deemed detrimental to "economic or national interests," if they are not good citizens in their own country, if they have broken Mexican laws, or if "they are not found to be physically or mentally healthy." (Article 37)
    A National Population Registry tracks every "individual who comprises (sic) the population of the country," verifying each individual's identity. (Articles 85 and 86)
    A National Catalogue of Foreigners tracks foreign tourists and immigrants (Article 87), assigning each a tracking number. (Article 91)
    Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons:
    Foreigners who fail to obey a deportation order are to be punished. (Article 117)
    Deported foreigners who try to re-enter Mexico without authorization can be imprisoned for up to 10 years. (Article 118)
    Foreigners who violate terms of their visa may be sentenced for up to six years in prison. (Articles 119, 120, and 121) Foreigners who misrepresent the terms of their visa (as by working without a permit) can also be imprisoned.
    Under Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony: "A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of 300 to 5,000 pesos will be imposed on a foreigner who enters the country illegally." (Article 123)
    All of this runs counter to what Mexican leaders are demanding of the United States. The stark contrast between Mexico's immigration practices and its American immigration preaching reveals the Mexican government's agenda: to have a one-way immigration relationship with the United States.
    Let's call Mexico's bluff on its interference in U.S. immigration policy. Let’s propose, just to make a point, that North American Free Trade Agreement member nations standardize their immigration laws by using Mexico's law as a model.

And what are the Hispanic leaders saying? Here’s a sample.
 • Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets; "Go back to Boston!  Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die. Through love of having children, we are going to take over.
 • Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council. "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over. We are here to stay."
 • Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico, "The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."
 • Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas; "We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population . . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it."
 • Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party, "Remember 187--proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens--was the last gasp of white America in California."
 • Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton, "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
 • Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General, "We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California."

   Are these just the words of a few extremists?  Consider that these are all mainstream Mexican leaders.
    Did you know that immigrants from Mexico can come to this country and get preferences in jobs, education, and government contracts? It's called affirmative action or racial privilege. The President of Mexico could migrate here and immediately be eligible for special rights unavailable for Americans of European descent. Recently, a vote was taken in the U.S. Congress to end this practice. It was defeated. Every single Democratic senator except Ernest Hollings voted to maintain special privileges for Hispanic, Asian and African immigrants. They were joined by thirteen Republicans. Bill Clinton and Al Gore have repeatedly stated that they believe that massive immigration from countries like Mexico is good. They have also backed special privileges for these immigrants.

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04/22/06

Iraq News

    Here are some facts about Iraq that I doubt will make headlines in the mass media, where the “good news does not sell papers” mindset is firmly entrenched. But, despite the nightly reports of bombings, there’s some good news.
    For instance, in 2003 there were zero commercial radio or TV stations. Today there are 44 commercial TV stations and 72 commercial radio stations.
    The per-capita income of Iraqis increased by 30% between 2004 and 2005! And the gross domestic product is expected to climb by 17% by the end of this year.
    75% of Iraqi parents say education is better now than before the war. And 71% say that life in “good” now.
    The more important battle is economic, so the more we can help them start new businesses by organizing Business Incubator Groups and banks making micro-loans, the sooner the insurgents will find less and less local support. Beat ’em with business and jobs instead of guns.
    When our millions of the military came home after WWII Congress eased their re-entry into jobs with tuition-free college. When we invaded Iraq Rumsfeld immediately disbanded 400,000 soldiers and government workers, giving them no way to get jobs or to support their families. That’s right up there in contest for one of the stupidest military blunders of all time. And that set the stage for today’s insurgency.

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04/20/06

1.4 Mllion Suckers

    Dean Ornish, M.D., in a Newsweek guest column, pointed out that there were more than 400,000 coronary by-pass operations and over a million angioplasties, to the tune of more than $100 billion in 2005. He added that these procedures prolong life for only a small percentage of patients, and that a change in diet and lifestyle is a far better alternative. And a hell of a lot cheaper.
    That, of course, is what my Secret Guide to Health is all about.

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04/15/06

Cooper Wellness

 Since it’s getting time for me to have a second edition of my Secret Guide to Health, I’ve been doing my homework…looking for any new information I might add. So, when I heard about the Cooper Wellness Program at the Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas, I sent for information
 They have four, six, and thirteen day programs…costing, respectively, $3,020, $3,910, and $6,325. Whew! But, heck, if this could add a few years to your life, that’s a bargain. Even middle-aged folk might give a healthy change of life, complete with stress reduction, lots of aerobics, and other exercise, some thought after visiting a shopping mall and watching the seniors hobbling around with their walkers or in a cart. And those are the ones still able to get out of the nursing home or assisted living facility for the mall visit. Most can’t.
 At 84, and just a stroke or a heart valve away from a funeral or a nursing home, I perhaps have an elevated interest in keeping my long misused body going. And that means coddling my immune system so it can repair the mischief I’ve done with things like coffee and doughnuts, Danish, and a lifetime of ice cream. Thank heavens I never took up smoking or drinking. Oh, I tried ’em, but I didn’t like ’em enough to get enhabited. Odd, considering that as a WWI baby-boomer, I was raised in a time when everyone smoked and drank. Drink ’till-you-puke beer parties at the fraternity house every Saturday night.
 But, back to Dr. Cooper’s Center. Knowing that cooked food is toxic and disables the immune system, I was disappointed to see that they offer two cooking classes a week, plus visits to local restaurants. It looks like Dr. Cooper may be tops with aerobics, but has a lot to learn about the role nutrition has in maintaining good health and longevity. Tsk.
 Hey, Doc, you haven’t done your homework. Read the books by doctors Bieler, Comby, Day, Page, Price, and so on. Wise up!

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04/10/06

Presidential IQs

 A friend suggested I check www.lovenstein.org/report, where there was an estimation of presidential IQs since Hoover. They went by the men’s published works, an unscripted speeches.
 Clinton came in first with 182. Which proves that even geniuses can do some really stupid things. The bottom of the barrel was no real surprise…dubya, with a 91. Which helps explain his seemingly unlimited supply of stupid things to say. Bush-isms.
 His dad rang up a mighty 98. Wow!
 Jimmy Carter hit 175 on the IQ-meter, with Kennedy at 174. Nixon was 155, the best of the Republicans. Roosevelt, 147. Reagan did a tad better that Bush I, with a 105.
 Which proves, sort of, that it sure doesn’t take brains to be president…so, like the legend, I guess anybody can grow up to be president. Of course, that’s if they go to Yale and join the Skull and Bones Society. Oh, and have gone to a good prep school.

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04/05/06

Laid Off?

Over a million white-collar college educated workers were laid off last year. For the younger workers it’s a problem. For older workers, it’s a catastrophe!
Say, how about considering a cushion? You know, just in case? Like a home spare time business? I’ve run several successfully over the years.
Well, I’ve always been an entrepreneur, so I thought along those lines.
My first business was an outgrowth of my stamp collecting. I saw a need for unpicked stamps, so I formed the Elm Stamp Company, bought fifty-pound sacks of stamps and repackaged them in five-pound boxes. Not a bad business for a twelve year old. Did well.
In college I paid the fraternity cook to make sandwiches, which I had students on commission sell in the freshman and upper class dorms. Did well again.
When I got interested in sports car rallying I saw a need for rally computers and watches. So I went to Germany and got the Hanhart company to make special rally watches for me. And then to Liechtenstein to import their Curta currency calculators for rally computing. I ran small ads in the sports car magazines and did a land office business.
As an avid radio amateur I kept discovering books I found valuable. Presto, Radio Bookshop, which I started in 1958 and was quite profitable.
So, what interests do you have that might be exploited for a small business? It’s best to pick a specialized interest since it’s easier to reach your potential customers via the magazines they read.

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04/01/06
Outsourcing

 With India and China graduating 900,000 engineers a year, more than triple the number of U.S. grads, it’s no wonder that American firms are having to outsource more and more engineering work. Worse, we’re in the computer age and only 1.1% of American freshmen last year planned to major in computer science, down from 3.7% in 2000. Worse, about 25% of our computer science majors are foreign, and will be returning home after graduation.
 So, as the demand for software designers is growing, the supply is dropping off fast. Here, that is.
 If work can be done by experts in China or India at a fraction of U.S. wages, logically it isn’t going to be done here, so there’s not much incentive for U.S. students to spend tens of thousands of dollars and four to six grinding years to compete with those in India, where living costs are a fraction of ours.
 It looks as if we’re subsidizing the growth of China and India, with an eventual leveling of the playing field. And that field isn’t going to look anything like the way things are now.
 Congress, of course, has made things worse by making it very difficult for firms wanting to bring in skilled workers. Well-intentioned security restrictions treat everyone like a terrorist as a result of restrictions applied since 911. This has prevented tens of thousands of foreign students and skilled workers from entering our country.
 A Senate immigration bill is in limbo, while a House bill focuses on enforcement. Meanwhile it’s taking more than five months just to get a visa appointment at many U.S. Consulate offices overseas.

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03/25/06
Immigrants

America is a country of foreigners.
It all started about 400 years ago when a bunch of trouble-makers came over from England and established some colonies. Then, a hundred years later, when King George irritated them too much they revolted and formed the United States of America. And threw open the gates.
In came the Irish, Italians, Germans, and Jews from all over Europe. Within a generation they were assimilated…speaking English and intermarrying. Their kids were Americans. Their old cultures were replaced by the new one.
In the last few years Mexicans, by the millions, have poured into the US, but instead of assimilating, they’re holding on to their language and customs. Worse, unlike earlier immigrants, they’re mostly poor, uneducated and unskilled. Two-thirds have no high school diploma. And now their kids are dropping out of school, too. Unlike earlier immigration waves, they are not advancing quickly.
And, they’re costing all of us. Almost 30% are getting federal benefits. Their wages are 41% lower than the average American wage for men and 33% for women. And that pulls down wages for everyone.
Let me know when you think it’s time to close our borders to illegal aliens. Better yet, let your senator and representative know.

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03/20/06
The Government

The founding fathers set the government up with three branches…the administrative, the congressional and the judicial. All supposedly independent, and with the intention of keeping each other honest.
But, with the administration and the congress controlling who gets to be judges, the judicial branch has learned to play ball…or else.
One of Clinton’s first acts as President was to fire all 93 United States attorneys en masse. How’s that for a message! No wonder he was able to lie under oath with no legal repercussions.
When Attorney General Janet Reno picked career prosecutor Charles LaBella to head a campaign finance investigation and he had the balls to offer an opinion that was airtight according to the law, but contrary to the political one wanted by Reno. She fired him and his career was over.
Today the administration is running things totally. Both the judiciary and congress have learned to shut up and salute.
Can anything be done about this? Practically, no. That’s because the public is too busy being entertained to bother with politics.
My solution is simple: never reelect anyone (NRA). That’ll quickly get the politicians out of both the administration and congress. Wipe ’em all out in the primaries. And, without the possibility of being reelected, poof goes all those millions of campaign contribution dollars. We might even see the country being run by the people instead of the oil and pharmaceutical giants.
Okay Wayne, dream on.
Zzzzzz.

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03/15/06
Worst Enemies

Blacks need to stop trading on racial discrimination as an excuse for their problems. With the overwhelming majority of the two million prison population black, and with 74% of black students entering college failing to graduate after five years, it’s time for the concept of self-education as a way out of the mess to dawn.
The old excuse of poor schools doesn’t cut it any more. The lowest academic achievement is in cities where the mayor, superintendent of schools, most principals, and teachers are black. In cities like Washington, Philadelphia and Detroit, where the most money is spent on schools, the academic achievement is the lowest. Washington, D.C., ranks second in spending in the country and 49th in achievement.
The concept that there are very few well-educated poor people, and very few poorly educated wealthy, needs to get recognized.
Libraries are packed with books the blacks aren’t bothering to read. More and more education is available via the web. No matter what one’s interest, there’s educational material available. For free. Tons of it.

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03/10/06
Birth Defects

They’re about five times what they were fifty years ago. A recent survey showed that most of the malformations and almost all of the still births were attributable to the damage caused by drugs taken by the mother during pregnancy. And these are drugs that were found to be "safe" through extensive animal testing.
We’ve been brainwashed by the pharmaceutical industry and the media into believing in the use of drugs. How many mothers are even vaguely aware that something as simple and ordinary as aspirin is causing serious birth defects?
Hey, if you owned a TV station which was getting millions a year to run pharmaceutical ads, would you allow your newscasters to report bad news about drugs? Ditto magazines like Reader’s Digest, which had 26 pages of drug ads in a recent issue. Money rules, and to hell with lives lost or destroyed.

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03/05/06
NH Farming

Though the number of New Hampshire dairy farms has been dwindling in recent years, I predict we’re going to see an interest in getting more into operation.

How come? The increasing interest in switching to raw milk. And a demand for butter, cheese and ice cream made from raw milk. And I mean raw milk from cows that have never been given any bovine growth hormone (BGH) shots…and never had to have antibiotics…both of which come right through in the milk and are not affected by pasteurization.

Scientists are telling those few who are listening (or reading) that BHG is mighty similar to human growth hormone (HGH), and is considered a major factor in the sudden recent lowering of the age of puberty, with some girls as young as three years old going into puberty.

You can get the gory details by reading Dr. Robert Cohen’s Milk, The Deadly Poison. And mothers are innocently feeding this stuff to their trusting children! Cohen shows how the world incidence of breast cancer closely follows milk consumption. And milk is contributing to childhood diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, kidney stones, depression and allergies.

Dr. Weston Price reported in his survey of primitive tribes that many of them had raw milk in their diets and they had no cancer. diabetes, arthritis, and so on. Read his Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

I use about a half cup of raw milk a day with my breakfast bananas and strawberries. I get it from Sunnyfield Farm in Peterborough, Connolly Brothers Farm in Temple, or Country Critters Farm in Winchester.

State legislatures should get busy and make changes in the laws restricting the sale of raw milk and raw milk products.

I’m going to do my best to get the word around those who will listen, but it’s going to take some time to counter the pasteurized milk mustache campaign.

Unless you find a source for raw milk, your best bet is to switch to rice milk. Second choice would be organic milk, the best of a bad bargain. No, supermarkets do not sell raw milk. In many states it’s illegal.

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03/04/06
The Fine Print

The full page picture of a happy child in his mother’s arms got my attention. It was an ad for Adderall XR, for parents with children with ADHD.
What also got my attention, but I’ll bet not yours, was the next page, solid with eentsy mice-type. Ahh, the "fine print." Hmm, let’s see what’s hidden in there.

It starts out with effects such as psychosis, behavior disturbance and thought disorder. Oh, and growth suppression, sudden death (gee, sorry about that!), and cardiac (heart) abnormalities. It also says the stuff is addictive. Far’s I can see the stuff is about the same in these respects as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Valium, Ritalin, Effexor, Concerta, Luvox, Serzone and Selexa.

Well, drugging kids to calm them down sure beats the heck out of feeding them a healthy breakfast. Sugar Frosted cereal with pasteurized milk and Pop Tarts instead of a couple of two and a half minute soft boiled eggs, grapefruit, banana and orange. Even the breakfasts my mother fed me 80 years ago, with oatmeal, cream, and whole wheat toast is better. No jam, jelly, Danish, or doughnuts. No sugar.

It’s interesting that the contraindications warning started out with psychosis, since, far’s I’ve read, every one of the kids involved on school shootings has been on one of these drugs.

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03/03/06
Botched

We’ve botched up one invasion after another. Viet Nam, Somalia, Haiti, Afghanistan and Iraq. The last two, twice. So, what’s the problem? That’s easy…it’s leadership. We’ve got the weapons and the money, what we mostly lack is intelligence and creativity…the two qualities that assure a military officer will never get promoted.

I remember when it took an act of Congress to force the Navy to make Rickover an admiral.

Iraq is a mess, and not getting much better, despite our pouring billions into it. It’s been one huge blunder after another…the looting, the Abu Ghraib stupidity which cause enormous harm and netted nothing in information, the massive unemployment.

Today about 15% of Iraqis have reliable electricity. In Baghdad it’s only 4%!

Saddam was a tyrant, but at least the air conditioners were running when it got up to 120°. That’s how hot it was when I visited Baghdad and drove around the country. It’s like living in a sauna.

Worse, there’s no plan for what to do about the situation. D’uh?

Of course I have some suggestions, but even if you cared, what could you do about it? There’s no way to get anywhere near the leaders…or any use in trying to reason with them.

We’re mainly there for the oil, but we’re talking democracy. What Iraqis want are jobs so they can eat. And maybe buy an air conditioner. I’m talking capitalism…business, not politics. Politics doesn’t put yogurt and humus ba tahini on the table. I’m talking micro-loans for business startups.

Name one country we’ve invaded since WWII that’s the better for it.

It isn’t democracy that’s made America great, where the majority can screw the hell out of the minority, it’s capitalism.

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03/02/06
Teaching Thinking

A few schools have begun to practice what the Navy electronic schools were doing back in WWII…teaching by doing.

The Navy was able to take kids who didn’t know an ohm from a volt and, in just nine months, teach them to fix anything electronic…by understanding how and why things work.

Each course started out with chalk and talk, just like a regular school. Then, into the lab. We started by learning about power supplies, and then building one and testing it. Then we learned how different kinds of radios worked…and built a simple superheterodyne radio.

Once we understood how radios worked we were faced with a lab full of cleverly disabled radios to trouble-shoot. A resistor that looked fine…but wasn’t. A capacitor that was shorted. A defective tube.

And it went that way with transmitters, sonar, radar, test equipment, antennas, and motor-generators. Hands on teaching.

On a submarine our lives depended on our electronic equipment working…radios, transmitters, sonars, radars, depth sounders, and so on. And there was just me to keep it all working and fix it quickly when something stopped. I had to know what I was doing.

As they pointed out in Business Week, "Drilling students with lectures and long lists of facts doesn’t produce a thinking adult."

Back in 1990 President George-I pledged to make U.S. schools "first in the world in math and science" by 2000. We’re still at the bottom internationally. No wonder more and more brain work is being outsourced.

Kids will get interested in math and science when learning these subjects is fun and exciting. A lab full of disabled radios had us working in teams to find the problems, and each team trying to outdo the other. It was exciting!

Alas, few of our schools have changed much since the current system got started in the 1800s. Ask kids how many courses they’re taking are exciting.

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03/01/06
Education’s Future

Would you rather have a teacher with years of experience teaching thousands of students, or a grad student teacher? Would you rather be faced with chalk and a text book…or videos and state-of-the-art graphics? In other words, would you prefer what most colleges are offering today or what self-education is apt to be like in a few years? And is, right now, more and more, with on-line and DVD programs.

Oh, would you prefer to pay tens of thousands of dollars and dedicate four to six years of your life to the process, or a few hundred dollars sitting at home in your spare time at your computer?

Even better, suppose there’s a publication and an on-line resource which has user-ratings of the distance-learning products? Would you pay $25 a year for a monthly distance-learning review journal and on-line resource? You bet you would! One use would pay for it many times over.

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02/28/06
Alzheimer’s

This death sentence for the mind is striking 10% of people over 65, and 50% of those over 85! Hey, that’s either you or me! Well, the bad news is that it isn’t going to be me, so that leaves…you!

Unless, of course, you change your evil ways.

Alzheimer’s isn’t a curse from God, it’s something we cause with our behavior. We’re doing it to ourselves. The pharmaceutical industry, the only group with money for research, is looking for a drug they can sell to the four million Americans stricken with this disease. There’s no money in prevention or a drugless self-cure.

We have clues. Like the recent warnings by several doctors that getting flu shots for three years running increases the potential for Alzheimer’s by ten times! So much for the lemming rush every flu season for shots, with people in long lines waiting for their roll of the Alzheimer-loaded dice.
My mother died of Alzheimer’s, so I’ve a special interest. Sigh, if only I’d bothered to do any research while she was alive I’ll bet she could have been returned to a live, thinking person.

First, no more vaccinations, with their thimerasol (mercury and aluminum). Then, remove all amalgam fillings (they’re 50% mercury!). I’d get her on a raw food diet, with plenty of pure water, and exercise out in the sun every day so her immune system could recover from the usual daily toxic barrage and get busy repairing her brain.

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02/26/06
More $1 Cold Fusion Journal Specials

Issue #13 has reports on the cold fusion developments in Japan, and India, and a bunch of interesting articles, Oh, and I explain why we have inertia. Take that, Einstein.

Issue #14 has more on developments in Japan and India. Most important is information from Hal Putoff on Zero-Point Energy, which takes up a good deal of the issue. I explain why we have gravity in this issue in simple language. Amazingly, I didn’t get one negative comment from the readers.

Issue #15 had articles from physicists in India, japan, Belarus and Romania. Plus a report on the Third Russian Cold Fusion Conference.

Order #20-13, #20-14, #20-15…$1 each. $5 for the complete set of #5-6-13-14-15.

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02/20/06
W5606 Sheep?

Me, a sheep? Ba-a-h, that’s ridiculous. It’s the others, they’re sheep. Called sheeple, by the more frustrated activists.

Well, hey, what’re ya gonna do? Yeah, they lied to us about weapons of mass destruction. And a bunch of conspiracy nuts are telling us we’ve been lied to about 911, ever landing on the Moon, Flight 800, dental amalgam safety, vaccinations, global warming, cold fusion, the Federal Reserve, the IRS’ legitimacy, and so on. Ho hum.

So, what’s the big deal about fluoride in our drinking water? It’s supposed to be good for our teeth, right?

Move over, conspiracy theorists for a conspiracy factist.

The fact is, there’s no research showing fluoride benefits our teeth. So why is our government buying over 200,000 tons a year of this super-toxic waste product from aluminum and fertilizer manufacturing and dumping it into our public water supplies?

Both the Germans and the Russians added fluoride to the drinking water of their prisoners of war to make them stupid and docile. They found that fluoride, in time, would reduce a person’s will power by narcotizing an area of the brain.

Could our water be helping make us sheeple?

Add to that a public school system based on the Prussian schools, which were famous for turning out soldiers who would obey orders without question. D’uh! This, 150 years ago, was what our religious leaders wanted in their parishioners when they pressured Congress to make government-run public schools mandatory and it was just what industry needed when the industrial revolution came along a few years later. Factories wanted workers to do routine work and not ask questions.

Betcha anything you haven’t bothered to read Charlotte Iserbyt’s The Intentional Dumbing Down of America. It’s a powerfully referenced indictment of our government (public) school system.

So, we’re sedated by our water and dumbed by our school system, and we’re kept busy with lowest common denominator entertainment via TV, movies and rock groups. We’re not reading books, except for an occasional best-selling novel. Oh, and tons of comic books.
Now, which way did everyone go? Wait for meee!

Why am I reminded of that first Macintosh TV ad? Where’s that girl with the sledge hammer when we need her?

By the way, avoid fluoride tooth paste, also bottled water and soda, since most use fluorided water. And, fer heaven’s sake get a still and start drinking pure water. www.steamdistiller.com.

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2/19/06
Another $3 Cold Fusion Journal Special

The sixth issue of the Cold Fusion Journal had articles by David Moon, Testing a Theory of Deuteron Interactions Inside a Palladium Lattice; Olof Sundén (Switzerland), Centripetal de Broglie Waves Toward Particles at Rest Explain the Particle-Wave Duality; Prof. Chris Illert (Australia), Newly Discovered Halo-Nuclei, and their Implications for Cold Fusion; Mark Goldes, Supercold Fusion, the Pion Drive, and Nanoscale Robotic Trips to the Stars; Peter Gluck (Romania), Cold Fusion, A Case of Scipiology; Chubb and Chubb, More on Cavitation Fusion; Prof. Xing Zhong Li, News From China; James Carter, A Suggestion About Reactions; Chubb and Chubb, Fusion Reactions in Deuterided Palladium; David Deak, Theory and Design Concepts of Ultrasonic Sources.

Yes, this is a technical journal, with papers by some of the world’s leading physicists.
Send for Order #20-6 and enclose $3. 

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2/18/06
$3 Cold Fusion Special!

How real is the potential for cold fusion? I ran across some copies of the fifth issue of the Cold Fusion Journal. For a buck you can read a staff overview of the technology; a review of 55 of the Fourth International Conference on Cold Fusion papers (held on Maui); an article by Milo Wolfe on Energy From Particle Creation in Space; a staff report on the equipment needed for cold fusion research; an article on The Laws of Physics by Dan Sewell Ward, Ph.D. which explains why scientists so routinely fight every new discovery; a staff report on Quantum Mechanics; a construction article on building A Micro-Calorimeter; an article by David Deak, Ph.D. on Sono-Luminescence, which has been back in the news recently; a staff article on Feynman Diagrams for d+d Reactions; and Plasma Discharge Experiments by Elliott Kennel.

While we’re busy fighting wars for oil, the papers reviewed show cold fusion progress is being made by several groups in Japan, China, Italy, Sweden, France, Russia, Poland, and India. Eleven of the papers were presented by Japanese groups!

American researchers are severely hamstrung by the US Patent Office’s refusal to even consider any cold fusion patent applications.

As oil continues to run out will we fight more and more wars over it or gear up for the change to cold fusion?
Send for Order #20-5 and enclose $3. 

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2/17/06
Liver

As a kid I hated the stuff. Ugh! Even eighty years later I can remember some of the traumatic scenes where my father forced me to eat the stuff. That was, of course cooked liver, and I don’t like it any better today.

Well, from a health point of view, cooked liver is better than no liver. It has all kinds of wonderful nutritional properties. Like vitamins A, B12, D.E, K, folic acid, and minerals such as copper and iron.

Mothers who eat liver during the last trimester of pregnancy and the first trimester after the child’s birth, substantially increase the baby’s IQ. Like five to eight points. Textbooks before WWII recommended that pregnant women eat liver frequently.

Now that I’ve discovered how good it is raw I have it for supper several times a week. Oh, I cheat a little. I heat a frying pan, throw in a big dollop of organic butter, and sear the liver for about two seconds a side. This doesn’t cook it, but it does warm it up from refrigerator temperature.

I then cut it in to chunks, put it in my Ultimate Chopper and zzz it for a couple seconds, spoon the minced liver into a cup, salt and pepper it, and I’m ready to eat, along with a big bowl of salad. The whole process, including cleaning the Chopper, pan, turner, and meat scissors takes maybe two minutes.

My local supermarket butcher has had no problem getting me whole beef livers from local cows, few on grass, and never given any growth hormones of antibiotics. He slices it and freezes it for me. A few days ago he got me a buffalo liver. Same deal.

There are also two local farms that have raw milk available, and occasionally a liver and hamburger. Their cows are strictly organic, grass fed.

I’ve also been getting pork liver for my cat. I thaw out a slice once a week and cut it into little pieces for him, and wow, does he love it! Now and then, if I’ve forgotten to defrost my liver, I eat some of his. It tastes just like liver.

The Indians and the cowboys used to eat raw liver. When they’d kill a deer the first thing they’d eat was the liver. still warm. Primitive tribes in Africa and South America loved raw liver.

So what’s so great about liver? It has more nutriends ounce for ounce, than any other food. It’s Nature’s most concentrated source of vitamin A. It has loads of all the B vitamins, particularly B12, and lots of trace elements such as zinc, copper, and chromium.

Liver has an anti-fatigue factor which makes it a favorite with body-builders and athletes.

In a lab test with rats, one group was fed a standard diet, fortified with 11 vitamins, A second group had the same diet, but with 10 percent of the rations as powdered liver. After several weeks the rats were put into a drum of cold water. The first group swam an average of 13 minutes before giving up. The ones receiving the liver swam an average of 78 minutes!

The role of the liver is to get rid of toxins. It does not store them.

The recommendation is to eat at least a quarter pound of liver a couple times a week.

Remember, in The Incurables, Dr. Henry Bieler reported curing every one of the children in hospitals with "incurable" leukemia by taking them off all milk products and feeding them minced raw liver.

After reading the article on liver in the Spring Wise Traditions magazine (Weston A. Price Foundation, 4200 Wisconsin Ave. N.W. PMB 106-380, Washington, DC 20016), it seemed prudent to pass along what I’ve learned.

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02/16/06
Terabithia

A real prize awaited me at the Hancock dump Take-It or Leave-It building today. I’m so glad I went. It was a little 128-page paper-back book by Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia. I got so excited when I found it I could hardly wait to get home and read it.

I’d seen the story on TV several years ago and was deeply moved by it. It was a treasure I’ll never forget.

It’s a story of a friendship of a ten year old boy and girl.

It’s a 1997 book and numbered 0-590-13200-8, but marked as available through the school market. If you can find a copy you’ll love it.
Every now and then someone throws out a real treasure like that. If you don’t have a town dump, you’re missing an exciting part of life.

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02/15/06
Democracy

With socialism, the power is in the hands of the government. With democracy, the power is in the hands of the people. Well, it’s supposed to be, anyway. And it is, unless the people let it be taken away by their elected representatives.

So here we are at the beginning of the 21st century, in the world’s leading democracy, and we’ve turned health care over the government via Medicaid, Medicare, the FDA, NIH, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and so on. We’ve turned education over to the states and feds via compulsory schooling, mainly in government schools.

Hey, isn’t that socialism?

I’m preaching democracy, where personal responsibility is paramount. Personal responsibility for our health, our education and our welfare.
With welfare, what was instituted as a safety net has become a comfortable bed for millions.

We are not like ants in an anthill or worker bees in a beehive. We’re individuals. We’re all different. Screw peer pressure…I always have. My grandmother was always worrying about "what will the neighbors think?" Hey, march to your own drum. Forget the parade. Let the Hitlers, the Stalins and the Mao Tse Dungs have their huge parades. Oh, and what’s his name in North Korea with his ten million man army.

Health comes first. Without out it, wealth and wisdom are irrelevant. But where can you get reliable health information? Not from the government. Our legislators and the government departments all sold out to big business long ago. Big pharma, the food giants, the oil companies, and so on, own them. They’re bought and paid for.

To regain your health and maintain it, you have the choice of doing the research for yourself, or depending on the research I’ve done. What you can’t depend on is the government.

The bottom line for your health is ridiculously simple. Give your body the nutrition it’s been designed to use and stop putting toxic stuff into it. Oh, and give it plenty of pure water, exercise, sunlight, relaxation, and sleep. Does that make sense?

Wisdom? These days it’s delivered to your home via books, DVDs, videos, cassettes, magazines, and the Internet. By the ton. Who needs to sit in classes? Classes taught mainly by grad students and tenured professors who’ve never had to work for a living. If it’s interesting, get busy and learn about it. It’s easier than you think to become an expert.

Wealth? That’s your personal responsibility. Money is out there. Legally and, like information, by the ton. But going the beehive route isn’t going to cut it. The grammar school, college, a job with a big company, and a gold watch forty years later treadmill will get you retirement with an RV, but not much else. No yachts, Porsches, airplanes, or Arab horses.

Three years after I borrowed a thousand dollars on my car to start my first company I had a yacht (Chris-Craft Express Cruiser), airplane (Taylorcraft on floats), two Porsches (Speedster and Convertible-D), and an Arab horse. And, wow, was it fun! And I didn’t do anything a million other people couldn’t have done. Just, I did it and they didn’t.

Let me know when you’re ready to get started being healthy, wealthy and wise. Ready to take responsibility for your life. Ready to get off the couch, turn off the TV, and get serious.

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02/14/06
Social Security

I know you’re going to find this almost impossible to believe, but we’re being fed another bunch of hooey. Shades of WMDs. As Ollie used to say, "Look at the mess you’ve gotten us into now, Lou." It’s another Bush non-crisis crisis.

And the facts? Anyone interested in the facts?  Hmm, I was afraid not. Well, here they are anyway.

This year the Social Security payroll tax will bring in $180 billion more than it sends out. And, it’ll continue to provide Congress with money to borrow for pork projects until things break even about 2028. At that time it’ll have to start drawing on the $3.5 trillion that’s been borrowed. That money won’t run out until 2042.

Norman, the local psychic, says I’m going to live to be 120, so I’ll just make it to see what Congress does at that time.

Those are the Social Security Administration figures, The Congressional Budget Office says the surplus will run out in 2052. No wonder there’s a crisis now at the White House!

If you’ll wise up and stop reelecting those professional politicians, we might be able to elect someone who’s read Genetski’s Every Man A Millionaire. This explains how the system can be changed to emulate the one Chile has pioneered, where someone who never makes more than minimum wage all their life can retire with a million dollar nest egg.

On the other hand, if word of my personal health plan gets around and people start living to 150 instead of 75, that’ll throw a big monkey wrench into the works. Let’s do it!

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02/13/06
Gerrymandering

After the 1990 census the congressional districts in New Jersey were redrawn so that every incumbent member of Congress was guaranteed reelection. And the same thing happened in California, where not one seat changed party hands in the last election. Talk about rigging elections!
Of America’s 435 congressional districts, only about 35 had any real contests last November. And this is democracy? This is the political system Bush is trying to sell the world…via invasions?

In addition to being able to gerrymander their districts to virtually guarantee reelection, incumbents also have the advantage of easy access to the media, taxpayer-financed political headquarters, generous contributions from special interests, and free political mailings of so-called newsletters.
And you, buster, are the one making this mess possible. All you’d have to do to help flush that beltway toilet would be to turn out for the primaries, making damned sure that no incumbent is ever reelected. Never Reelect Anyone! Get some red, white and blue NRA bumper stickers printed. Put fliers under windshield wipers in parking lots. We don’t need or want professional politicians, living from one reelection campaign to the next, and asking how high when well-heeled lobbyists say jump.

If it didn’t pay off big time, why would the pols spend millions on their reelection campaigns? It’s called graft, and it is running the country, not us voter/taxpayers. And in the end we’re the suckers paying for our being asleep at the switch…the switch to someone new at every election. Flip the switch. Turn on the light of reason. Never reelect anyone.

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02/12/06
Education Problems

Our school system is a mess. But, you knew that, and this is the umpteenth time I’ve reported on it, complete with a proposed solution.

On the plus side, the mess is going to make the transition to a personal education paradigm easier. The 19th century school model doesn’t hold water any more. It’s sinking like a sieve.

Four year public college tuition went up 10% in 2004, and another 14% in 2003. And less than a quarter of well-qualified low-income students managed to earn a BA within six years, vs. about two-third of higher-income students.

The $500 billion K-12 industry isn’t doing much better, with American students continuing to maintain a firm grip at the bottom of international testing ranks. Well, at least we’re outstanding…in a way.

The states, faced with the federal unfunded No Child Left Behind Act have reacted just as one would expect…by making it easier for kids to pass. Just as they lowered the bar when SATs continued to sink. And grade inflation when there weren’t enough kids passing.

The March Ode magazine has a six-page article on the Sudbury Valley School…the one I’ve been writing about for the past dozen years. It’s quartered in an old mansion in Framingham (MA), has no classrooms, no curriculum, no tests or grades, and kids aren’t separated by age. Worse, the kids run the school. And, worse than that, it costs less than half as much to run as nearby public schools. There are eight books written about the school and because of its success, it’s being cloned around the country.

The kids learn what they want, when they want and because they want. What I’ve dubbed personal education.

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02/11/06
Medicaid

This handout is already 22% of state budgets. It’s paying more than 60% of the tab for nursing homes, and you haven’t seen anything yet. With 40 million baby boomers coming along, and most of them unknowingly busy developing debilitating chronic diseases with their diets, the pressure will be on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to deal with this coming avalanche of sickness.

Adding them to the current 50 million on Medicaid, we’ll have more people on the dole than we have working.

Let’s see, 40 million more sick seniors at an average of $25,000 a year is…? Lordy, that’s about $1 trillion additional!

So, do we continue to keep our blinders on or should we consider this a problem worthy of some thought? My solution, which I hope is no surprise, is to start getting the word around about how not to get sick. I’d rather see seniors out there having fun, running small businesses, playing golf, or RVing, than being tied to a rocking chair in a nursing home, like they did to my mother. And that means breaking the cone of silence imposed by the government, the media, and a few huge and enormously profitable industries on why we’re getting sick.

Massachusetts spent almost $2,000 each to care for 27,000 workers and their dependents at more than 130 companies who were part timers or new employees who didn’t qualify for employer coverage…including Wal-Mart, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Stop & Shop.

If you can find any company owner or CEO who will listen, tell ’em about raw food and my Secret Guide to Health. It could save their companies big time, and would help to get the word around.

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02/10/06
Education Fallacies

The teacher unions are understandably constantly pushing for more work and more pay for their members. Like the establishment of kindergarten classes, smaller classes, and higher teacher pay.

Unfortunately there is no group out there questioning these arguments. The public, a.k.a. taxpayers, the ones who have to pay for all this, have no easy source of reliable information.

Okay, what are the benefits of kindergarten? Well, it’s a substitute for day care, paid for by the state. Studies have shown no correlation between kindergarten and later school success.

The NEA mantra has, for years, been that smaller classes are better. Better for what? Well, they do mean we’ll need more teachers, but, again, studies haven’t shown any difference in educational outcome. Smaller classes aren’t helping the kids, just the teacher unions.

It stands to reason that higher pay would attract better teachers. Makes sense. Alas, studies have shown no correlation between teacher pay and student achievement. It’s another union scam.

A US News article put it clearly: "There’s nothing very mysterious about why our public schools are failures. When you select the poorest-quality students to be public school teachers, give them ironclad tenure, a captive audience, and pay them according to seniority rather than performance, why should the results be surprising?"

Thomas Sowell, who’s written some superb books on our school system, said that if he were to be elected president his first move would be to issue a Presidential Order closing all ed schools and to pay every ed school professor $1 million to never write another book or teach again. He said this would be one of the best bargains the country could make.

Encouraged by the testimony before the New Hampshire Economic Development Commission Educational Subcommittee, I’ve read dozens of the relevant books recommended by the experts. Thus armed, I’ve written a good deal on the subject. Enough so I was chosen to give the keynote speech at a national teachers conference.

By reading Rita Kramer’s Ed School Follies you’ll get an idea of why ed schools have been contributing to the continued drop in American student scores in international tests. We’re right there at the bottom…and sinking.

Being solution oriented, I’m pushing for a personal education revolution, one which will obsolete public schools as we know them today. It’s time to take off the slavery chains of compulsory school and encourage kids (or all ages) to learn what they want, when they want, and because they want.

When I wrote, back in 1975 that we’d one day see ads for computers on TV, I got laughed at. Well, now I’m telling you your going to be seeing ads for educational products on TV. Go ahead, start laughing.

But remember what Shaupenhauer said about new ideas. First, they’re ridiculed. Next, they’re fought bitterly by the establishment. Then, they’re accepted as having always been true.

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02/09/06
Investing

As the word gradually leaks out to the general public about the importance to their health of eating raw organic food, we’re going to see many new businesses starting to fill the need, from farms to supermarkets to restaurants. And we’ll see many of today’s giants gradually blowing away…if they are saddled with management blind to the future. Which most are.

The Whole Food Market chain has been growing at 17% annually by selling natural foods.

Since I’m an entrepreneur, I’m more interested in the potential for new businesses to fill the gap. I predict we’ll see thousands starting up, with many of them offering juicy investment potentials.

Small companies are generally run by entrepreneurs, with a good eye for the future. Large companies are run by boards of directors, with eyes firmly fixed on the past.

Thousands, then millions, of people will be demanding fresh, healthy fruit, vegetables and meats. No pesticides. No growth hormones or antibiotics in the meat. Guaranteed. Cows raised on grass, not fattened in feed lots. Pigs raised without trichinosis…like they do in Europe, where it’s safe to eat rare pork.

Until the transition is made from our present poisoned food we’ll be paying premium prices for the good stuff, but it’ll be a lot less expensive than the pharmaceuticals we’re taking are today. Wouldn’t you rather put your money into health than sickness? It’s your choice.

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02/08/06
Catastrophes

The media has been warning us that what happened in the Indian Ocean could happen to either of our coasts. How much attention have you been paying?

I’m wondering how much the Sumatra tsunami devastation has been covered up. And why? Professor McCanney recent said that, after studying the situation carefully, he estimated there were more like ten million lives lost than the 140,000 to 400,000 we’ve seen reported. So, who’s been counting and can we believe them?

Meanwhile we’re seeing more and more evidence that global warming is real. It’s changing our weather, causing more and bigger volcano eruptions and earthquakes, and the ice is melting from pole to pole, and we’re also being warned about a potential new flu pandemic.

What, me worry? Nope.

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02/07/06
Change, Or Else!

The times they are achangin, and you’d better change with ’em or be left in history’s dustbin, along with the dinosaurs. To perspectivise, let’s go back a bit. Let’s start with the Agricultural Age, where about 90% of Americans lived on farms and got their education from local school marms and Duffy’s reader..

Then came the Industrial Age and the public school system, where every child was forced by law to go to school and the schools all had to teach exactly the same things, turning out workers for the factories. The people moved to cities, leaving around 2% left on the farms.

A few years ago, with the help of the personal computer, we entered the Information Age. I don’t think many people have a grasp on what that’s meant. They see that things have changed, but they haven’t given much thought to what this means to them and their families.
What it’s done is lower the cost of communications.

I prefer to think of us now being in the Personal Age. The home telephone has been replaced by the personal cellphone. The Personal Communications Age.

The main frame million-dollar computers are now in millions of homes and on millions of laps. The Personal Computer Age.

Now, with my crystal ball in hand and my psychic hat on straight, I see three more "personal" ages ahead. And not all that far ahead. I see them as inevitable, no matter how much of a fight today’s establishment fights them.

The first is going to be the Personal Health Age, as word manages to get to the public, despite everything the government, the sickness industry and the major food industries can do. The word is too powerful to be hidden much longer. We are going to recognize that our health is our personal responsibility, not that of the government or doctors. This will spawn thousands of new businesses as it wipes out thousands of old ones.

Word is going to get out that there are no incurable illnesses, and that we’ve been lied to big time about poisons such as dental amalgam, vaccinations, fluoride, milk, and so on. Oh, and cooking. What’ll McDonalds, Pizza Hut and Dunkin Doughnuts look like in twenty years? Or will they be just memories.

The second will be the Personal Education Age. That’s right, no more public schools as we know them today. And that goes for colleges and universities too. Change, or blow away. No more rows of desks with a blackboard up front. Education will be available on DVD or via the Internet anywhere, anytime, and on any imaginable subject.

What will happen to some of the religions if the public has access to the facts of their creation and development?

The third will be the Personal Power Age. Like a home unit about the size of a dish-washer that provides all the heat and electricity for a home, and at a tenth or less the cost of oil. No more power grid. No more nuclear power plants or hydroelectric dams.

The power unit for a car, truck or small plane will be about the size of a bread-box.

My crystal ball is clear on these because we’ve already developed most of the technologies to make them happen. We don’t have to discover or invent anything new to raise baby’s IQs about 50 points over those today. Nor to teach kids to read books at a few seconds a page.

The day of going to grammar school, high school, college, getting a job with a large company, working forty years, retiring with a gold watch, buying an RV and driving around the country is past. The day of learning what you want, when you want and where you want is coming…and at a fraction of today’s school costs. The day of owning your own business is here, perhaps as an independent contractor for large companies. No being downsized or outsourced.

We’re into the personal communication, computer, health, and education age.

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02/06/06
It’s Personal

I need your help, so put on your thinking cap for me. Ask your grandfather about Uncle Don on WOR every night at six…that’s what he used to say. In today’s idiom, you’re my lifeline call for help on the road to the billion-dollar pyramid.

If you’ll check into the history, and not just taking my word for it, I think you’ll agree that my publications have been key in the development of two recent revolutions. One is the personal communications revolution, starting with the cellphone, with over two billion people worldwide busy burning out their brain cells with these contraptions. The other is the personal computer, with who knows how many people sitting there erasing spam and googling away their lives.

That should be enough for anyone, I agree, but apparently I’m not just anyone, so I have three more personal revolutions ready to roll out. And these will change the world far, far more than the first two. And that’s a lot.

Before I explain what’s up my sleeve, I want you to get your brain tuned to a creative peak so you can give me some help in my time of need. Meditation works for many people. I get my best ideas when showering. It’s got something to do with the negative ions generated.

Okay, here’s the skinny.

Revolution number three has to do with personal health. That’s right, instead of turning to a doctor for help with your health, a system that’s keeping 30% of us obese and 98% of us with some sort of chronic health problems. It’s a system held in place by the AMA, FDA, ADA, Medicare, Medicaid, HMOs, and a whole string of other such groups. Oh, and the pharmaceutical, tobacco, sugar, milk, big food, and other powerful industries.

Despite the potential opposition of these monumental vested interests, I think we can blindside ’em by getting the word out about how simple it is to reverse any illness and never get sick again…mainly via a lifestyle change.

The public, just forty years, ago never even dreamed that their telephones would shrink to cigarette-package size and be able to swap messages with anyone anywhere in the world, including pictures and music. And, soon, video.

The concept of a life with no illness, and living 120 to 200 years, is just as remote today and cellphones forty years ago. Doctors? We’ll need them and hospitals to deal with accidents, but we sure won’t be needing ’em for Alzheimer’s. Parkinson’s, cancer and such.

Revolution number four is personal education. Gone will be the 19th century school, with rows of desks, a semi-educated teacher, a blackboard and bells ringing every hour. Gone will be mid-terms and finals. Gone will be cramming for exams. Education will start prenatally and continue all our lives, driven by our interests and the fun, not by mandatory school attendance or the importance of a certificate saying one has been educated.

Education will be available via the web, DVDs, and other resources not even yet imagined. Humans are geared to learn and the personal educational revolution will free them to learn what they want., when they want, Anne because they want.

Technology has made a true information revolution available to us. Personally. And this is going to change everything.

It’ll help keep up the pace of technology developments. It’ll help eliminate poverty. And, by making truth more easily available, it’ll make it more difficult for politicians and big business to con us into wars. It’s also going to present some serious problems to those who have been used to maintaining power via inculcated religious beliefs.

What will a world of healthy people, living 150 years on the average, and almost all well educated, be like? Stick around and see for yourself. Better yet, would you be interested in being a revolutionary with me?

Okay, the fifth revolution is personal power. I mean power, like in electricity and moving vehicles, not in forcing people to do things. How about a world where energy costs less than a tenth that of oil …where it is non-polluting! This revolution will see homes with a unit about the size of a dish-washer that will provide all the heat and electricity the house needs, and for pennies a month. No more oil trucks. No more gas stations. No more power lines strung across the country…at least until an ice storm knocks ’em down. No more hydroelectric dams. No more mountains covered with windmills. No more nuclear waste.

What changes will low-cost energy make for third-world countries? It’ll change everything. Well-to-do families don’t have ten kids, they settle for one or two. This could stop the world’s population growth. And new farming technologies brought about by the personal health revolution can solve the food problem.

Okay, that’s the future. Now, I need your help in coming up with a name for the publishing company that’s going to get these revolutions into gear. It has to be simple. Like Byte, which started the personal computer revolution. Let’s see what you can do for me.

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02/05/06
Don’t Drink the water!

Did you miss the newspaper report on airline water being polluted? It’s bad enough that it’s dangerous to breathe the air, now we have to stick to bottled water to keep from getting sick.

According to the article’s health expert it isn’t safe for people with impaired immune systems (any who doesn’t fit that description these days?) should avoid drinking airline tap water, using ice cubes or even washing their hands with the restroom water.

My approach is to bring my own bottled water. Flights dehydrate our bodies, so it’s prudent to drink plenty of water, whether you’re thirsty or not.

Few people are drinking as much waster as their bodies need, even at home. Hey, read Your Body’s Many Cries For Water if you think I’m exaggerating. Your body is 70% water, so you need to keep refilling the tank. Wet cells are happy, healthier cells. All billions of them.

I don’t know about you, but my body lies to me. When it gets thirsty it says, hey, I need a snack, what’ve you got handy? So, unless the light bulb goes on, I reach for a few nuts and apple chunks instead of a glass of pure water.

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02/04/06
The Reader’s Digest

It’s no wonder that America is a country of drug addicts…and I’m not referring to the illegal ones, which is bad enough. The Digest, that icon of American magazines is thoroughly drug addicted. I counted 22 pages of drug ads in the February issue. That’s over ten percent of the magazine! And many of them had one page advertising the drug, followed by two pages of mice-type explaining the side-effects. D’ja ever bother to try and read it?

This is not a magazine that’s apt to be interested in publishing the news that any illness can be reversed by changing to a raw food diet and detoxing. That’s right, no more prescription drugs for people who are able to wean themselves off the great American burgers and fries diet.
Worse, after counting the drug ads, I went back and counted the ads for unhealthy food products. Like a milk mustache ad. 29 pages! If the Digest ever printed the truth about health they’d be out of business. Their addiction to drug and unhealthy food ads is keeping the magazine alive.

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02/03/06
Tsunamis

Time has warned us with a couple of articles on the potential for tsunamis to hit our coasts. Like the 1960 earthquake in Chile that killed 61 people on the Island of Hawaii, and then went on to kill at least 100 on Japan’s Honshu Island.

300 years ago an undersea earthquake’s tsunami hit the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, reshaping the coastlines.

In the Canary Islands the western slope of Cumbre Vieja volcano could collapse, sending 50-foot waves, traveling at hundreds of miles an hour, crashing into East Coast cities…like in "The Day After Tomorrow" movie. What good would even a two-hour warning be for New York City?

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02/02/06
Mercury

Until a few years ago, like everyone else, I hadn’t a clue as to how dangerous mercury is. I played with it as a kid, coating dimes. We handled it in school for physics experiments. When, after four years in the Navy during WWII, I got my first cavities, the Navy dentist filled my tooth with dental amalgam, which is about 52% mercury. Well, that’s what all dentists use, so big deal.

The big surprise came at a Tesla Society conference in Colorado Springs, when I attended a talk by Dr. Hal Huggins, a local dentist. He explained that mercury was a prime factor causing multiple sclerosis. And he backed it up with a video of a patient who was crippled in a wheel chair before having her amalgam replaced with plastic fillings. A few weeks later she was out playing tennis!

That reminded me of my grandmother, who lay in bed for years with multiple sclerosis before dying. She was an unknowing victim of Doc Teuksbury, the Littleton (NH) town dentist.

Today, though the American Dental Association and the FDA are still denying it, and thousands of dentists are still filling cavities with amalgam, the word is beginning to reach the public.

Now it’s clear that mercury is the main cause of not only multiple sclerosis, but also Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, ALS, and autism! Come to think of it, Dr. Fauvre, my dentist when I moved to New Hampshire, died of Alzheimer’s.

It’s also reported that dentists are the highest of any group with drug use, alcoholism, smoking and suicide.

Today, we’re getting exposed to mercury from all sorts of unexpected sources. The main one is still dental amalgam. Heck, there’s enough mercury in one of the large molars for the EPA to shut down a ten-acre fishing pond because the fish would be too toxic to eat.

The outgassing of mercury used in plastics is what causes that haze on the inside of your car’s windshield. It’s used in cement and in those new low-current fluorescent light bulbs, where the mercury slowly seeps through the glass and into your lungs. In cement it keeps fungus from growing. It’s also causing cement workers to have a high rate of Alzheimer’s.

A friend of mine sent me pictures of the mercury vapor outgassing from dental fillings fifty years old. Yep, the mercury was still slowly seeping out. Microscopic photos showed the tiny balls of mercury on the tooth’s surface.

Another serious mercury source is fish. You see, our manufacturing processes are dumping hundreds of tons of mercury into the atmosphere every year. This settles into our oceans and lakes and is stored in the bodies of fish.

Up there with dental amalgam is the mercury people are getting in their vaccinations. It’s called thimerosal, and the vaccine makers haven’t found anything safer to replace it so far. They start with plain mercury, then they convert it to methyl mercury, which is 1,000 times more potent. Next they hop it up to ethyl mercury, which is even more toxic. Then they add aluminum and the combo is 10,000 more toxic than plain mercury.
This is the stuff that’s in the 22 shots most babies are given by the age of two. The mercury-aluminum mix easily crosses the body-brain barrier and eats away the brain neurons, lowering the baby’s IQ and giving us an increasing number of autistic children. But this is a multi-billion dollar business, so it’s well protected by the government, which turns a blind eye to the consequences. Even the vaccines that claim to be "mercury free" are using thimerosal. So much for truth in advertising.

If you think I’m exaggerating about mercury and autism, check www.alt-corp.com.  

The medical journals have warned us that all it takes are flu shots for three years running to increase one’s chance of becoming an Alzheimer’s veggie by ten times. Whew!

Though the vaccines for children are not mandatory, you’d think they were according to school officials. But then they get between $50 and $100 per student for schools that make sure the children get all their shots.

Then, according to Dr. Jonathan Wright’s newsletter, Health and Human Services is paying $1,000 to the school district for every child that’s put on Ritalin.

Now, those flu shots. There’s story after story of nursing homes where all but one patient were given flu shots, and that patient was the only one not to get the flu! Several of the patients died.

Hundreds of tons of mercury are being dumped into the atmosphere every year from coal-fired power stations and crematoriums. This is absorbed by the oceans, where fish pick it up from their food and concentrate it. It’s best to just avoid eating fish, no matter the source.

Read the books on the subject by Dr. Hal Huggins (It’s All In Your Head) www.drhuggins.com; Dr. Gerard Judd (Good Teeth, Birth To Death); Tom Warren (Beating Alzheimer’s and Reversing Chronic Disease) www.tomwarren.net; Dr. Lydia Bronte (The Mercury In Your Mouth). Also, take a look at the article in the March 2005 Discover.

The message is simple: stop putting poisons into your body and get those already there out. If you have mercury fillings, find a dentist expert in removing them. And never, ever, be coerced into any vaccinations. Ever!

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02/01/06
The Flu and You

Well, you sure can’t say they’re not warning us. Articles in The New Yorker (Feb.28) and Fortune (Mar.7) tell us the world is ripe for the mother of all flu epidemics. Hundreds of millions dying horrible deaths. Nowhere near enough vaccine. What’s a person to do?

Never mind all that stuff about the elite who are running the world from behind the scenes wanting to thin down the population to around 500 million. Whatever does happen, no matter how it gets started, our main interest is in us and our families. If something awful does come down the line we want to get through it unscathed.

No matter how serious past epidemics, there have always been a few people who just didn’t get sick. Others got sick, but recovered. And for the rest it was pfft and a headstone in a graveyard somewhere.

So, how do you unscathe you and your family? Unless you’re a total newcomer to my stuff you know the answer: beef up your and your family’s immune systems. If you have an industrial strength immune system, nothing that’s "going around" will bother you, while your coffee-drinking, cooked food addict friends are writhing in pain and then demising…leaving you and the few other survivors to clean up the mess.

How do you build an industrial strength immune system? Simple: (a) stop putting poisons into your body; (b) give it the fuel it’s been designed to use; (c) give it plenty of sun, exercise and rest; (d) keep stress to a minimum.

The details are in my Secret Guide to Health. In detail.

Since the research is there for any journalist or scientist to find, it’s curious that not one of the stacks of health books I’ve collected has the whole story. Most of ’em cover what doctors are doing for patients who’ve made themselves sick. It’s cholesterol, vitamins, pain medication, and so on. Prevention? Huh? Reversing obesity? Well, heck, there’s the Atkins diet, right?

A new flu epidemic? So, line up like lemmings for flu shots. Pay no attention to the scientists who’ve been telling us that all it takes is flu shots three years in a row and you’ll have so much mercury injected into your body that you’ll have a ten times better chance of becoming a mindless Alzheimer’s veggie. Never mind that Alzheimer’s was virtually unknown a hundred years ago and now has millions costing us $35,000 and up a year for nursing care while the victims sit, tied to their rocking chairs, unable to recognize even close family members.

My mother went that route, so I know the territory personally. But, you know, it never even occurred to me at the time to question the doctors…to do any research. If I’d done my homework and had known what I know now my mother might still be with me. And the same goes for my father, who died of emphysema. I think of that every time I get a letter or a call from someone thanking me for saving their lives from this "incurable" illness.

So, enjoy that medium-rare steak and baked potato with sour cream and chives, but keep your memoirs up to date for your heirs. And if the promised deadly flu does arrive, be sure your will is current. Hey, how about adding a codicil naming me as the beneficiary of last resort, if everyone else you’ve named has died?

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01/31/06
Unconstitutional?

How much would our taxes be if we could get Congress to stop its social engineering? You know, like that experiment with alcohol prohibition, which brought us the Mafia, organized crime and Elliott Ness. Or like the laws against marijuana, which does a lot less harm and is far less addictive than alcohol or cigarettes.

Or rent control, which has destroyed one city after another.

Or Johnson’s War on Poverty, which has wasted billions, with no proven benefit to anyone but the government workers in the program.
The drug laws have poured billions of untaxed money into organized crime and the drug lords.

If the tobacco lobby wasn’t so powerful, Congress would have passed a law against cigarettes, which are about as addictive as anything gets, and slowly destroy the health of smokers, killing an estimates 400,000 Americans a year prematurely..

But then sugar is almost as addictive and destructive. When that secret gets out, will Congress make selling sugar a crime? Aspartame, too. And dental amalgam.

All of these social engineering programs are fundamentally unconstitutional…requiring to be implemented by the Supremes, a ridiculous stretch of the wording of the Constitution, and an ignoring of its intent.

As soon as something people want is made illegal, opportunists will provide alternate channels of supply and mark up the price. This pours billions of untaxed revenue into organized crime groups and street gangs, filling our prisons with the small fry…costing us billions more in taxes while they are waiting to get back on the streets.

Getting addicted to any drug is stupid, but passing laws to protect the stupid against their stupidity is even stupider.

When I went to college there was strong peer pressure to drink beer and smoke cigarettes. I thought these were stupid things to do, so I didn’t.
Oh, I tried cigarettes. Ugh! I tried beer. Ugh, again. It tasted the way I imagined horse piss would taste. My fraternity brothers said that I’d soon get to like the taste of beer and enjoy the kick cigarettes offered.

I think it helped that my father was addicted to cigarettes and booze. He’d been such a lousy dad I didn’t want to do anything that he enjoyed.

As long as you keep re-electing the turkeys who are doing social engineering at your expense, just shut up and pay your ever-increasing taxes.

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01/30/06
Testimonials

Nelson B Bolyard, Milpitas CA 95035. Wayne,  as I listened to you talking to Art Bell, I pulled out a dusty volume of old magazines off the bookshelf here in my shack (er, computer room). They bear the name KiloBaud Microcomputing and dates in 1978 and 1979, 25+ years ago. I had a just gotten a degree in computer science then, and was working on mainframes at that time, but the idea of having my very own computer, which your magazine seemed to show was not that far fetched, inspired my career. I'm happy to say that today I am friends with people whom I met through your mags (they were advertisers, I thought they were gods!). Today I live and work in Silicon Valley.  I moved here in '83 because I believed mainframes were dinosaurs. I gave up on ham radio, but not microcomputers. I tried to get through to you while you were still on the air, just to say THANKS for founding KB microcomputing and Byte. Those mags were seminal to many a career, including mine.

Ann Evelyn Akins. I am a single mom (former husband got promoted to heaven) and can tell you that I admire you and what you are doing to make this world a better place. If anyone out there contests what you say about florescent lighting, send them my way. I am living proof of what florescent lighting can do to a person. I have my own business as a graphics person and prefer it that way because I cannot work for any business where I am forced to work in florescent lighting because my body gives out. I think florescent lighting should be banned in all public places. What private citizens do is up to them and I do think that an informed person will automatically make the right decisions. Wayne, I have been following you for a number of years now and, if you get to the Chicago, Illinois area, would be pleased to attend any gathering where you would be speaking. It was wonderful to hear you on WLS this a.m.

John Simmons KB7UED. Thanks for getting me to change the way I think. Thanks for the health information—it has changed my life! I used to be on steroids for asthma, no more! I used to suffer from arthritis, no more! I am hypertensive and I can tell I may not need to use my medicine anymore. Who knows what else it is doing to me! To what can I attribute this dramatic health increase? Water, pure, whole foods, minerals, and attention to what I eat, and soon, exercise! I was so fat I could not get the energy to walk for health. Now, after many years of dormancy, my body is going crazy to exert! It is great to feel the surge of energy through me again! Lastly, I was a typical day to day blue collar worker, when in a stupor I tore my ligaments out. After many months in recovery (no health insurance) I had the chance to be recruited as an executive recruiter for the ad biz! Today, I am successful beyond anything I would have imagined. Your secret guide to wealth is right on the money. Over time I quit, my company ups the ante to retain me! Amazing! I do want to thank you though for getting me to think out of the box. My next big challenge is to regain my exceptional fitness level I had ten years ago. I will let you know how it goes. Keep up the good fight.

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01/29/06
Rich Indian

If you missed the Forbes article on the ten richest Indians, you missed learning about Anurag Dikshit, who’s worth $3.1 billion. He wrote the betting software that lets poker players around the world play one another. I didn’t think you’d want to miss knowing about him.

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01/28/06
Retirement Packages

According to an e-mail, Douglas Ivester of Coca Cola, who retired after laying off 6,000 employees, got $17.8 million, plus $3 million a year. And John McCoy of Bank One got $10.3 million, plus $3 million a year, after laying off 5,100 employees.

Well, I don’t know about Bank One, but I haven’t seen any let up in Coca Cola trucks delivering their poison to retailers, so the layoffs may have improved profits without hurting sales. And it seems unlikely that these jobs were moved to lower wage countries.

On the other hand, there are 11,100 people who really ought to read my Secret Guide to Wealth and break the employment/unemployment habit.
Coke = poison? Well, no one knows what’s in their secret formula (they were forced to remove the cocaine many years ago), but we do know there’s about 12 teaspoons of refined sugar in each can, and that it only takes one teaspoon of sugar to upset your body’s calcium-phosphorus ratio for 24 hours, leading to arthritis (at least). And who knows how much aluminum may be leached from the cans into your brain, contributing to Alzheimer’s—a disease that was almost unknown a hundred years ago? Diet Coke is laced with aspartame, which is even worse. Wait’ll you go wild and splurge a buck for my aspartame (NutraSweet) pamphlet. Buy some and hand them to people in the check-out line with diet drinks in their baskets.

There are no more retirement parties and gold watches, just a pink slip some Friday at 5 pm.

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01/27/06
Peak Oil

Peak oil is when more oil is being used every year than is being discovered.

Some petroleum geologists are telling us that we’ve now used up half of all known (and even suspected) oil deposits…that it’s all downhill from now. Read Kenneth Deffeyes’ Beyond Oil for this story.

Other experts claim there’ll be a lot more when Alaskan and coastal drilling off Florida and California are permitted. Plus an almost unlimited supply in the sands of Canada and Venezuela. Then we can turn coal into crude, and start tapping the frozen hydrocarbons off the coast of Alaska. Read Peter Huber’s The Bottomless Well for the details.

Then there are the abiotic oil enthusiasts, who claim the amount of oil is almost unlimited, that it doesn’t come from fossils, but is generated by the Earth itself and seeps up through cracks. The recent discovery of methane on Saturn’s moon, Titan, bolstered this theory.

I like the abiotic oil theory, but my question is this…if oil is seeping up from below the mantle, how come we don’t see big oil patches in our oceans, which cover about 90% of the planet?

If a cold fusion unit can be developed the oil problem will be moot. Unlimited energy at a fraction of oil’s cost, no power grid, no gas stations, no pollution. We may even be able to use nuclear waste as fuel, decontaminating it in the process.

But, with the administration led by oil families, and congress bought and paid for, cold fusion development has been stopped for now.

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01/26/06
Job Survival

Hey, wake up! Take your eyes off those ball games and the sports pages and wise up to the changes in the work place that have happened and are happening right now—changes that you’d better recognize if you don’t want to find yourself redundant.

Maybe you noticed that unskilled work has been eliminated as much as possible with machines. For instance, in 1970 it took 108 guys about five days to unload a timber ship. Now, with containerization, it takes eight guys one day. That’s almost a 99% reduction in man days. When a Wal-Mart or Amazon.com moves into your field you have to make some major changes in the way you’ve been doing business, and fast!

Maybe you’ve noticed that skilled work (blue collar) has been exported to Mexico, Taiwan, China, and other low wage countries. But have you noticed that white collar jobs are disappearing too?

They’re being replaced by computers and new communications systems, plus more and more are being exported to countries like India, where highly educated workers are paid around a third to a quarter our white collar wages.

The day when you could go to work for a large company and gradually work your way up through the ranks is almost a distant memory.
With business now international, the competition has forced companies to find the lowest cost work force, and to take advantage of modern computer, communications and transportation systems.

A generation ago I visited the Centronics company in Hudson NH. At the time they were the leading manufacturer in the world of computer printers. Their cheapest model sold for $3,500, and that was in 1975 dollars. The other day I bought a couple Epson color printers for $25 each—and they do a fabulous job.

Large manufacturing companies are tying their suppliers together via the Internet, and their supplier’s suppliers. Just-in-time delivery of parts for the car companies are routine, and that can go back two and three generations of suppliers. Business is no longer being done via orders sent by mail, they’re emailed or faxed. Speed.

This change in the business world hasn’t even begun to be reflected in the education our colleges are providing. Our college faculties are hopelessly out of touch with the reality of today, much less that of next year.

I’ve been advising youngsters that their best chance at success lies in having their own business, and that as far as I know, no colleges have yet made any serious effort to provide the education one needs to launch a successful entrepreneurial business. So I advise people to apprentice with a small business and learn that way.

With our American work force in head-to-head competition with the rest of the world, and with our school system one of the least effective of any of the developed countries (Albanian students outscore us), one has the choice of self learning or falling behind. You’d better get used to the concept of life long learning if you want to have any kind of a life. Brawn doesn’t cut it any more, it now takes brains to succeed. Brains and the perseverance to cultivate them.

Unfortunately, our American school system is almost totally irrevelant when it comes to teaching what one needs to know to be a successful entrepreneur. It’s almost totally out of touch with the 21st century business world.

Our grammar schools are failing, right from the first grade on. They’re not even teaching children to read. Have you paid any attention to what your kids are being taught? How relevant is it? Do we really need to be teaching every child solid geometry, but not how to get up in front of a group and speak? Or read music? Or about art, poetry, and music appreciation? Or reading a map?

It’s not all that difficult to educate yourself in any field…if you have the interest.

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01/24/06
Inflation

Is there an economist out there who can explain what the benefits of inflation are to the average person? I see it constantly watering down savings. Most of the things we buy lose about 40% of their value as we walk out of the store, and further aging doesn’t add much value…except for baseball cards and Tiffany lamps. Property tends to increase in value…if it’s in the right place. Houses tend to depreciate.

But we experience inflation just in the short run. By the time you’re 80, you’ve seen an unbelievable degree of inflation.

When I was a youngster a new car cost $390. The average family income was $2,000. A new house cost $7,000. Gas was 11¢ a gallon and a loaf of bread 9¢. My life expectancy then was 54 years. The Dow Jones average was 93.

By 1958 my brand new Porsche Speedster cost $3,300, my Taylorcraft airplane on floats $1,500, and my Chris-Craft speedboat $1,500. How much would a Porsche, seaplane, and speedboat cost today? My Chris-Craft Express Cruiser had two bunks, a kitchenette, toilet, and would pull six skiers at over 30 mph.

Now, where’s the inflation coming from? It’s the Fed that issues our money. When they issue a lot, it buys less. And who owns the Fed? Betcha don’t know. No, it isn’t our government. Congress gave the right to issue money to the Fed, a small group of privately owned banks, back in 1913.

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01/18/06
Thinking Outta The Box!

Far too many of the things we’ve all been taught to believe in are BUNK!

They are handed down to us by authorities…parents, teachers, politicians, religious leaders, and the media, so it’s easier to accept them than to go to the trouble of thinking and questioning them.

Okay, let’s see how many of the following you believe in.

  1. It’s safe to eat most of the food being sold in supermarkets.
  2. When we get sick our best bet is to go to a doctor for medication.
  3. The FDA is doing a pretty good job of protecting us from bum drugs.
  4. We’re still waiting for a cure for cancer.
  5. For mental problems we’d best see a psychiatrist.
  6. Vaccinations have been proven safe.
  7. AIDS is pretty much a death sentence disease.
  8. The idea of people being able to live 120 to 200 years in good health is ridiculous.
  9. Dental amalgam, as the ADA assures us, is safe for your fillings.
10. Of course we put men on the Moon thirty-five years ago.
11. Flight 800 really was brought down by a fuel tank explosion.
12. The Oklahoma City bombing was due to a bomb in a truck across the street.
13. Fluorides in our water help us have better teeth.
14. Fluoridated water is perfectly safe to drink and for showers
15. A college education gives us a better chance to be successful.
16. Our public school system is pretty good. It just needs a lot more money.
17. The World Trade Center attack was done by al-Qaeda Muslims
18. All this UFO stuff is for the crazies.
19. Reincarnation and past lives are baloney.
20. The Big Bang has been proven a fact by scientists.
21. Cold Fusion turned out to be a fiasco.
22. Radioactive waste should be buried in a mountain somewhere.
23. The Pearl Harbor attack came as a surprise to President Roosevelt.
24. The lack of WMD in Iraq came as a surprise to President Bush.
25. Ditto the lack of any Iraq connection to bin Laden or al-Qaeda.
26. Global warming is being caused by our burning fossil fuels.
27. Moving physical objects with our minds is baloney.
28. Saying bad things about ourselves doesn’t help make them happen.
29. There’s no easy solution to Muslim martyrs killing themselves.
30. The U.S. dollar is backed by the government.
31. Attention deficit disorder is not easily cured without drugs.
32. Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, etc., do not have a history of causing mania.
33. Aspartame (NutraSweet) is not causing multiple sclerosis and lupus.
34. Root canals are not causing serious health problems.
35. Milk is perfectly safe to drink.
36. Beef is safe to eat…including hamburgers.
37. Coffee is safe to drink.
38. Canned sodas are not contributing to Alzheimer’s.
39. Diet drinks and sugar-free products help weight loss.
40. Flu vaccinations are not contributing to Alzheimer’s.
41. America is not being quietly infiltrated by the Chinese.
42. Mad Cow disease is a serious danger.
43. All those crop circles are man-made.
44. Cell phones are safe to use.
45. Nearby power lines are not a health threat.
46. Coffee is not an addictive poison.
47, Diseases are caused by a lack of medication.
48. Children must have their vaccinations to enter school.
49. Baby formula is a good alternative to breast feeding.
50. Nobody can easily learn to read at 20,000 words per minute.
51. Time travel is bunk.
52. The American Cancer Society’s goal is to find a cure for cancer.
53. A simple cure for AIDS was not patented over ten years ago.
54. The devil (a.k.a. Satan) and hell are real.
55. The idea that anybody can learn to speak (with no accent) and think in a dozen languages in just a year or two is ridiculous.

If you believe any of these you need to get Outta The BOX and do your homework. I’ve done mine and I’ve published essays debunking all of the above.

Most, or all, of these beliefs are supported by the media, and probably your parents and teachers. But that doesn’t mean they’re true and you should be betting your health and even your life on many of them.

It’a time to wise up and stop being a patsy for the politicians, the food and medical industries, and the media. Don’t get suckered over West Nile or Mad Cow diseases. Don’t rush for a flu shot in panic.

Question everything. Thinking is fun, once you get the hang of it.

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01/17/06
Backward Nations

The African and many Mid-Eastern countries are still sitting around banging drums for music while the European countries are playing the piano and enjoying huge symphony orchestras. The museums of Damascus and Baghdad have little art. I wasn’t able to find museums in Lebanon, Jordan, and the other Muslim countries I’ve visited, but I’ve visited museums in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid, Rome, Taipei, and Stockholm. Plus I’ve visited or stayed in a bunch of German castles, which are museums in themselves.

A recent study by the United Nations shows that publications in Europe today are at least ten times as numerous as in Arab countries or in Africa. And that, obviously, has to do with literacy. Before Islam, Arabs were in the forefront in science and art, now they’re hanging back there with the Africans. Worse, their refusal to educate girls has thrown away half their society’s inborn talents and abilities.

My friends who have worked in Saudi Arabia complain that many Saudis refuse to waste their time on education because their families are wealthy from oil, so they don’t know how to do much. They have to hire help for the simplest jobs.

In the African countries, since all of the work is done by the women, the men avoid education, even when it’s offered free. The only reason they can see for an education is for work, and that’s something only women do. The mine owners in South Africa tried everything they could to help educate their workers. The worker’s goals were to work for a couple of years in the mines to make enough to buy some cows so they could attract a hard-working wife and retire. They wanted nothing to do with education.

Here, in America, blacks sentence themselves to poverty or crime refusing to "act white" by learning to speak English and they ridicule (and worse) blacks who do try to educate themselves. More "acting white."

The African refusal of education has resulted in the African countries being run by dictators, with around 99% of the population in poverty.
So, what’s the answer? Yes, maybe I have one.

When I visited New Caledonia I learned that when the French took over the island the native tribes had been at war with each other for a thousand years or so. So the French put in TV stations. The tribesmen had to stop fighting and get jobs so they could get a television set for their families. Then, they had to keep their jobs in order to buy the products being advertised. Ah, the power of television! No more war in New Caledonia.
In France the Citroen 2CV got the French off their bicycles. In Germany it was the Volkswagen. How about a combo go-kart and dune buggy that could sell for a few hundred dollars to get the Arabs off their camels? Oh, and let’s put in TV stations in every major city.

When I see what our community TV cable channels are doing with very little investment, I know I’m not talking billions. By airing old American shows like MASH and Lucy we can help people to learn English, a plus for them and for us. Hey, we might even provide reading lessons and other educational programs.

Our experiment in American Samoa with TV education for the whole island from one set of studios in Pago Pago worked out well. They did run into a snag when the teachers, who now had hundreds of students in their classrooms all around the island, wanted higher pay than if they had classes of two or three dozen students. And it got worse when it came to re-runs.

I’ll have to dig out the pictures of the studios and my cable ride to the transmitter for my website one of these days.

Hmm, do you know of any DVD programs that teach kids how to read? Please advise.

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01/16/06
Nanny

Michael Medved put it simply, "The government makes a mess of everything it does."

The government nanny, a.k.a. socialism, has made a mess of its school system, so-called health care, the post office, welfare, guarding our borders, protecting us from Vietnam, Iraq, Haiti, Grenada, Iraq again, Somalia, 911, the Oklahoma City bombs, Katrina, and so on. Oh, and the wars on drugs and poverty.

Congress, while pocketing billions from lobbyists and voting themselves a super-generous retirement package, has botched just about everything it’s touched. It’s generosity to themselves and their bribers has driven our taxes from 2% to over 40% of our incomes.
Life goes on in Congress as billions are stolen, with their help, via savings and loans, housing scandals, land management deals, military contracts, NASA, and so on.

Old timers, like me, remember when we sheep were shorn once a year every April 15th. Now, our shepherds shear us every payday. Well, it keeps us cool.

Never mind that socialism, and it’s ugly twins, communism and fascism, have all failed whenever tried.

So here we are with by far the most expensive government-run public school system in the world, and our college graduates can barely read…something they should have learned in the first grade. Our kids come in at the bottom in international surveys. And, despite the most expensive so-called health care system in the world, people in Albania are healthier, live longer, and have fewer infant deaths.

So much for the congress you keep re-electing. Now, how about our presidents? Let’s see, there was Nixon. Yes, I’m chuckling. And Carter. You had to be there to enjoy that monument to mismanagement. Reagan was a ray of hope. Followed by the Bush oil family, with a brief entertainment interlude via Clinton. Thanks, Arkansas…not all your excess chickenshit got fed to cows.

Ya gotta love the current White House team, with what looks like a puppet president and his handlers, Wolfowitz, Rice, and Rumsfeld…the guy who gave us aspartame and Iraq II.

All you have to do to upset this whole applecart is to get as many friends as you can to not vote for the incumbent in the primary. Never Re-elect Anyone! We can take the country back from the professional politicians at the ballot box. A revolution without guns. A democratic revolution.

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01/15/06
Beards

Why do some men wear beards or mustaches?

Try this one on and see how it fits.

Being an only child, I grew up surrounded by adults, so anything I tried to do, they could do better. I felt inferior…because I was. Call it an inferiority complex. And this reflected itself in my dealing with other kids. So I shied away from competitive sports…baseball, football.

I didn’t know how to talk with kids, since I’d been brought up talking with adults, and at school you aren’t allowed to talk with other kids.
My first glimpse at another frame of reference was when my mother made a Shadow outfit for me to wear at a kid’s costume party when I was twelve. I had a black cloak, black hat and a mask. In that outfit I was suddenly released from inhibitions. I was the life of the party. Transformation!

While in the Navy on war patrol I grew a mustache and beard. You can see a picture of me on the bulkhead of the Drum when you visit my old sub in Mobile (AL). Again I felt the freedom hiding my face provided. Wow!

Well, right from the start I knew that for some reason I was different from other kids, so my response was to be intimidated. It wasn’t until college, when they gave me an IQ test that the dawn broke. Hey, I really am different from everyone else! I’m smarter! A whole lot smarter!

Sure, it’s funny now, but none of my folks ever took the time to talk with me and explain.

When I see people with beards or just a mustache, I remember how I felt with that Shadow outfit at the party. I was suddenly freed.

Oh, the Shadow was the crime-fighting persona of Lamont Cranston in a long running radio series.

I’ve had a few beards working for me down through the years, and they all fit the profile of hiding their face. They were shy.

Sixty years ago beards were rare. My good ham friend Sam Harris wore one. I asked him about it and he commented that when he drew curious stares he often wondered if maybe his fly might be open. He was used to living behind the façade and thought it normal. These days it is, but then it wasn’t.

When I see men with beards today I want (but don’t) to say, hey, come out from behind that mask.

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01/14/06
Vaccinations

If your child or family member is harmed (like, dies) as a result of a vaccination (like for the flu) at least you can sue the drug company. Oh yeah? Maybe you haven’t read or heard about the latest, the Bioshield and Pandemic Vaccination and Drug Development Act of 2005. It’s nicknamed Bioshield 2 and it’s aim is to protect drug companies from any lawsuits resulting from the use of an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that people are forced by the government to take whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency.

No wonder more and more doctors are claiming that today’s so-called health care system is now the leading cause of death in America.

If the "properly prescribed" drugs don’t get you, hospital errors, doctor’s mistakes, or contracting a new disease while in the hospital will.

But, gee, look at the miracles vaccines have achieved. Well, I have, and what I’ve found reported by a number of reliable researchers is that the diseases supposedly conquered by vaccines were done away with by providing cleaner water, better sewage systems, fresher food, and less poverty. Healthy people with strong immune systems don’t get sick as easily.

Like smallpox for instance. It was on the decline by the time the vaccine was developed. When they checked, they found more people coming down with smallpox in groups that had been inoculated than in groups which hadn’t.

Recent studies have shown that the Amish, who refuse to be vaccinated, are not getting the illnesses vaccinations are supposed to prevent. And, their babies are not becoming autistic, like vaccinated babies are. It’s up to one in every 162 babies now…and the parade of shots goes on, making billions for the drug companies and doctors.

The interview with a vaccine researcher in the November The Free Press was interesting. After a long string of horror stories, it ended with the author saying he never would permit his children to be vaccinated.

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01/13/06
Medical Journals

Well, if an article on a new drug is published in a prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal like the British Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine or the Journal of the American Medical Association, it clearly must be reliable.

There’s a problem with that. It’s called medical ghostwriting. It works like this. A drug company hires a Ph.D. to write a report on their new drug that hypes the benefits and hides the negative side effects and failures. Ghostwriters do very well, often getting up to $20,000 for a report.
Once the report is done, the drug company recruits doctors to put their name as authors on the report, thus giving them prestige for having been published.

The New England Journal has admitted that 50% of their drug articles are ghostwritten. It’s probably closer to 100%.

The research the ghostwriters use for their sources are also paid for by the drug companies. Again, only positive research reports are used and any negative side effects don’t get reported if the researchers ever want to get another project.

Is it then any wonder that FDA-approved drugs, properly prescribed, kill 125,000 people a year? And that figure, like the others, is probably low.
So, we have checkbook scientific research, checkbook articles for the medical journals, paid ads by the drug companies in the medical journals, paid ads in our popular magazines, and also on the radio and TV.

Doctors, for the most part, are too busy to do more than scan the medical journals and listen to the visiting drug salesmen…known as detail men…who dole out samples and vacations to Maui for their better customers.

And where do you and your family come in? You’re the class A suckers paying for this two trillion dollar scam.

The FDA? They know where their bread is buttered, and you are not a part of the equation. They seem to be more interested in covering up supplement information and discoveries like the blood purifier which quickly cures AIDS and any other blood infection, than doing an honest job. They are busy protecting the drug industry, not the public.

Well, if you’re uninformed enough to make yourself sick with your diet, the wolves are out there waiting for you in doctor’s offices and hospitals.

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01/12/06
Water!

A nice note from Jussi in Fitchburg, Mass., says, "Your revolutionary idea, drinking good, clean water, and lots of it, got rid of my double vision. The city water was poisoning me. My cat loves it too."

In the same mail was an ad for the new C. Crane Company Mini Classic II Water Distiller…and only $750. What a bargain. Well, someone has to pay for those Coast to Coast ads they run.

The still I use costs $120 and does a beautiful job. Check www.steamdistiller.com. No, I don’t get a commission.

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01/11/06
How’s NH Doing?

With New Hampshire rated first of all the states in the lowest tax burden, the highest standard of living, the most livable state, and the lowest crime rate, should I keep pushing to make it even better?

Well, we come in second in health, fourth in having a college degree or better, and sixth in per capita income.

Hmm, well, let’s get up to first place on health and wealth, okay?

So look over the proposals I’ve made to Governor Lynch on 32 ways New Hampshire can be made an even better place to live, for businss and to vacation.

Imagine what the state would be like with tuition-free colleges, no taxes whatever, thousands of more small and medium-sized businesses, and millions of visitors coming here for vacations (bringing money).

It’s doable if we can get the Governor and the Legislature into gear.

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01/10/06
America - World Power

Well, we used to be…but look at us now! We’ve shipped a good deal of our manufacturing capability overseas; our government educational system is the worst (and by far the most expensive) in the developed world; we can’t even fight a minor war against an almost no-power country without calling on the National Guard and Reserves; we have a government that lies to us endlessly; we have the world’s largest trade deficit and a $7 trillion public debt.

We use to excel in electronics -  now our TVs, cameras, CD players, iPods, cellphones, and so on are all made in Asia.

If we had to fight a war against China we’d be up the creek. In electronics we not only don’t make the equipment, we don’t make any of the parts, nor do we even make the machines that make the parts.

We’re turning out fewer engineers and scientists than we used to. And, please remember, it was electronics that made the big difference in WWII.

In 1941 the British Empire was a world superpower, with Churchill claiming the Japanese would not dare to attack. But they did and totally defeated the British in the Far East in 11 weeks, capturing over 100,000 British officers and soldiers.

So, gee, what can we poor inconsequential citizens do about the mess we’ve allowed our professional politicians to make of our country? My prescription is simple…fire the lot. How? Never Re-elect Anyone. Kill ’em all off in the primaries. Clean out the Washington toilet.

It’ll take six years to get rid of all the Senators, but we can get a good start with Congress this coming election. Let’s take the first step toward saving our country and making it strong again. If we do nothing, nothing will change.

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01/09/06
The Genius!

Being raised as an only child, I grew up mainly with adults. This made it difficult to communicate with most kids. But, I found I tended to be a leader.

Neither my parents, my grandparents, nor my teachers ever broached the question of what I might want to do with my life. To my teachers I was just another of the kids in one of their classes. My grades were usually just barely passing.

I hated school. Mostly, it was boring and pointless. But the law said I had to go, so I felt like I was a slave with no free will.

High school was more fun. Having sung in the St, Paul’s Church choir as a boy soprano, when my voice changed to baritone as I entered high school, I got the routine voice test Erasmus High gave to all freshmen…and the next thing I knew I was a member of the Choral Club. We met at the second period every morning and practiced. Now and then we performed in assembly before the entire student body of 10,000. And we did some radio broadcasts. But this was way before tape recorders, so there’s no record of our performances.
I also joined the radio club, the camera club and the book club. The school had about 120 after school activities and clubs, so there was something for almost any interest. The club I liked best was The Savoyards, where we practiced and put on Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. I played the part of Koko in The Mikado, and Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance. Those were the lead parts.
I spent many, many hours in the dark room, developing film and enlarging my pictures. This was in the old black and white days.
When graduation time arrived I had to make a decision…what college should I attend? The singing teacher tried to get me to opt for a singing career, since I had an outstanding voice. But I didn’t see very many successful baritones out there, so I turned that path down. Maybe a lawyer? Dartmouth? Well, I was born in New Hampshire and had spent most of my summers there.

The school brought in career advisors, who put us through a battery of tests. My advisor explained that I had the highest mechanical ability they’d ever tested and, in view of my amateur radio interest, clearly I should go for an Electrical Engineering degree. Well, this was 1940, before the word electronics was popular.

Okay. Okay, I’ll go for EE.

The MIT screener took one look at my C grades and turned thumbs down. Well, how about RPI? The Rensselaer screener thought I had promise, so in the fall of 1940 I moved into the Hunt II dorm in the freshman quadrangle at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, complete with my ham radio equipment.

Like all of the other freshmen, I was wooed by the fraternities. Rushed, they call it. I joined Phi Epsilon Phi and moved into the fraternity house for the obligatory summer session.

I’ll memoirize my two years of school some other time.

Cut to December 7th, 1941 and Pearl Harbor. I’m 19 years old and prime draft meat. The next year I joined the Navy one day before the Troy Draft Board had me scheduled for induction. Whew!

Now, cut to four years later. The war is over, I’ve been released from bondage and the government is sending me back to school at their expense.

By this time I’d begun to almost start wising up. I knew that I really, really, didn’t want to be an engineer. Oh, I was superb at electronics. Give me a schematic and some test equipment and I could fix anything. And I loved it.

But the money wasn’t in repairing equipment, it was more in management. But, remembering the high school career advice, and still under its spell, I went to the psychology department at RPI and explained my problem.

The advisor there put me through another battery of tests over the next few days. Then, his advice was simple. He explained that since my IQ was way beyond what they could measure accurately, somewhere over 200 and in the top .01%, I could do any damned thing I wanted.

Well, I’d always knew I was different, but it had never occurred to me that it was IQ.

So I changed to a Man E course, Management Engineering. Which turned out to be just as boring as EE. What a huge waste of time! One course had me learning how to design bridges. Another how to make and test cement. Plus a welter of chemistry courses. And more calculus. But everything was an exercise in memorizing data in order to pass a test.

I got a big clue as to the value of this when I’d ask the upper classmen in my fraternity about something that I didn’t understand. The answers were the same, they’d passed that course and had no recollection of it.

I got a huge taste of that when, after four years in the Navy, I went back to school and had one last calculus course that was obligatory. I got out my old calculus books and found I had zero memory of what I’d taken. So I spent the summer going back over the first two years of calculus, and none of it did I remember. It was all totally new to me.

You know, though I’ve been in many businesses and published all kinds of technical magazines, I’ve never had the need to understand calculus.

I’ll tell you about my years in college sometime. There’s a lot to tell.

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01/08/06
Gilligan’s Island

A few years ago Carol Gilligan struck a powerful feminist note when she announced that adolescent girls were in a crisis. Her book, Failing At Fairness: How America’s Schools Cheat Girls, complained that our school system was biased heavily against girls, not giving them a fair shake. The media loved it and made a big deal out of the unfairness girls were suffering.

Then came a book by Christina Sommers, The War Against Boys, said Gilligan’s book had no facts to back it up. Indeed, the facts were to the contrary, and Sommers rolled ’em out, wave after wave, showing that girls are doing a whole lot better than boys in our school system.

According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, more female than male students enroll in high-level math and science courses. Girls outnumber boys in student government, honor societies, on school newspapers and debating societies! Far more girls go to college than boys.

The Department of Education published the results of huge survey showing that girls read more books, outperform boys in artistic and music ability; more study abroad and more join the Peace Corps. More boys than girls are suspended from school, held back or drop out, and are three times as likely as girls to be in special education programs. They’re four times as likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. In a recent year 4,493 young people committed suicide. This included 3,792 boys and 701 girls.
In a test girls outperformed boys by 14 points in reading and 17 points in writing.

The Search Institute surveyed 99,000 6th through 12th graders, asking questions about 40 critical building blocks for healthy development—such as motivation to achieve, sense of purpose in life, and confidence. Girls were ahead of boys in 34 of the 40 categories.

Despite the endless evidence that it’s boys who really need help, the Department of Education has put out over 300 pamphlets, books and working papers on gender equality, none aimed at helping boys. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala launched Girl Power! to raise our awareness of the needs of our demoralized girls. And the National Science Foundation spends millions a year on remedial programs to help girls with math and science.

All this is about money, of course, like any other scam. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has been reaping a wonderful harvest from fanning Gilligan’s fire, and never mind the mountains of contrary research data.

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01/07/06
Fat Kids

Your child’s food preferences are pretty much set by the age of four. If you feed them sugar-frosted cold cereal, doughnuts and poptarts for breakfast, you know what you’re going to get. If you feed them lots of fruit and eggs, they’re not going to plump up, develop type-2 diabetes, and be given Prozac to counter their ADHD in school.

Even eighty years ago this was known. I was raised on fruit, eggs, hot cereal with cream and no sweetening, and whole wheat toast. No jam or jelly.

My lunch box had a whole wheat and ham or liverwurst sandwich and an apple. No peanut butter and jelly.

Today, with what I’ve learned, it would be a bunch of grapes, a chunk of raw milk cheese, and a container of salad.

But it’s the toddler years where the good food habit is developed.

Giving ’em a lunch box with good stuff sure beats giving them money for fast food…which is what most parents of kids from 4 to 12 are doing…an estimated $30 billion a year. No wonder we’ve an epidemic of obese children.

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01/06/06
Eduscam

With the political rhetoric heating up toward another election November crescendo, one of the usual themes is the need for more money to be poured into our dismal, and getting progressively dismaler, public school system. Well, I don’t blame them, there’s campaign money in them thar hills for the dems. Millions, in fact, from the teacher’s union, the National Education Association.

It’s all about creating more jobs, of course. The NEA is pushing for mandatory summer school, smaller classes, and a 13th year for pupils who the teachers fail to educate in 12. This is the usual union make-work featherbedding for their members.

Then we have the spectacle of the Massachusetts teacher’s unions filing a lawsuit to stop the state from making math teachers take math tests. Maybe you remember the uproar a couple years ago when over half of the Massachusetts applicants for teaching jobs failed a very simple test.

Will more money stop the sliding student test scores? When we look at the figures we find that often the states spending the most per pupil are well below the average in test results, and for states below the average in spending to be near the top in test results. There are no studies showing that spending more, or having smaller classes, results in better test scores. None.

Yes, of course there’s a practical solution to our school system failing to educate our kids. Change the system.

I’ve made several proposals along this line based on some private schools which are graduating outstandingly well educated kids, and at less than half the cost of nearby public schools. But my master plan to reinvent our whole educational system is going to take the resources of someone like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs to get going. The upside is we’ll see a new trillion-dollar industry emerging. Bill and Steve, who were good friends of mine, are now surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable wall of advisors who screen their mail, so getting through to them is a challenge.

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01/05/06
Coffee News

Your morning Starbucks or Dunkin Doughnuts java gives you a boost, but what you may not have known is that it does so by tricking your body into a constant state of stress, according to a study from Duke University.

 "Moderate caffeine consumption makes a person react like he or she is having a very stressful day," said James Lane, associate research professor of psychiatry at Duke. "If you combine the effects of real stress with the artificial boost in stress hormones that comes from caffeine, then you have compounded the effects considerably."

In a study of 72 habitual coffee drinkers, the researchers found that subjects produced more adrenaline and had higher blood pressure on days when they drank caffeine compared with days they didn't. The study was funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. 

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01/04/06
Big and Little

Ah, the perils of working for big companies. With GM laying off 30,000 workers and closing a bunch of plants, Lucent Technologies slashing 16,000 from their payrolls, AOL Time Warner at least 2,000, Textron 3,600, Montgomery Ward closing down, Sears and J.C. Penny closing stores, these are nervous times for workers in big companies.

Worse, with there being significant signs of a downturn in the economy, this would force consumers to cut their spending, and that would force large companies to further trim their payrolls. And that will be very traumatic for a million or so who have cast their lot with big corporations.

Why do we go to school? Well, first because the government will take us away from our parents if we don’t. But the main aim of making kids go to school is so they will be employable. Get jobs. Become workers. Like ants or bees. Or termites.

Yes, there’s no question that everyone needs an education…to learn how to read, write and do arithmetic. Of course, as the prize-winning New York teacher, John Taylor Gatto, has pointed out, it only takes about a hundred hours for people to acquire these basic skills, yet a higher and higher percentage of our kids are able to spend sixteen years in government schools without achieving them. But, for big companies, they’re still employable.

Or, at least they were until better educated, far less expensive foreign workers became practical.

What future have we for barely literate college graduates?

The low-end jobs are being filled by around ten to twenty million illegal immigrants. So, what does that leave?

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1/03/06
Abortion

I have to laugh at myself. Here I am, about to try and reason with you about a religious and emotional issue, not one even remotely open to an open discussion or honest thought. It’s so emotional that some people are willing to kill over it.

As I’ve cited in a past essay, according to the Bible, which I quoted, God sanctioned the killing of babies. He ordered that they be ripped from the wombs of the sinners.

It’s easy to characterize pro-lifers as hypocrites. Where were they when Rwandans were massacring each other. Well, heck, those were Africa lives. That’s different…where families have ten and fifteen starving kids. And now millions are dying of AIDS and malaria…all completely and easily preventable.

Human life is far too easy to start…and the most fun thing there is to do. But what becomes of a baby whose mother was forced to have an unwanted child?

A woman I knew was brought up by a mother who never let her forget that she had ruined her mother’s life by being born. Her mother, a Catholic and a flaming liberal, was doing her liberal duty by dating a nasty, ugly, Jewish boy no other girl would go near. When she got pregnant they had to get married. She never forgave the child, and let her know it. The father was a piece of work. I remember when he gloated over cheating a man in business, who committed suicide as a result. The daughter, was, understandably, suicidal and eventually had to be committed to a mental hospital.

So, how precious is life, really?

And if it is so precious, how come virtually no one is saying boo about the pharmaceutical-medical industries cutting our lives about in half in their pursuit of trillions of dollars a year? Lives are of little consequence when money is involved. But, like massacres in Rwanda, the pro-lifers are dead silent about the deaths for dollars.

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01/02/06
Personal Marketing

With millions being laid off by the shrinking and merging of major (and minor) companies, plus outsourcing more and more jobs to lower wage countries, I’m not surprised at the spike in résumé-spam letters I’ve been getting.

It’s also exasperating.

If a layoff happens to you, please try to understand that you are now marketing a product: you. As a potential employer I want to know what you can do for me, not what you’ve done for others, other than as evidence that you may be able to do the same or better for me.

The secret to selling is to stress the user benefits, not how great the product is and its many features. How will I benefit from buying this product or hiring this person?

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01/01/06
Public Education

A newspaper column by Charlie Reese says the same things I’ve been writing about our school system. It’s why I’m so anxious to use technology to stop this destruction of our children’s minds.

He starts out, “Public education…or more accurately, compulsory government education…is a failure.” He goes on, “It’s created the largest market in the world for trash literature, trash television and trash movies.”

“60% of the college graduates in Massachusetts flunk the teacher-qualification exam.”

He points out that, “Business wants it to produce docile workers and mindless consumers. Various fanatics want it to produce cannon fodder for their respective ideological wars. Many parents just want public schools to baby-sit their brats so they can enjoy their soap operas in peace.”

Private schools? They’re, for the most part, not much better.

He says, “Don’t be fooled by cries for more money or promises of more reforms. Unless you see colleges of education(the source of a lot of nonsense) being shut down, the federal Department of Education being abolished, and the compulsory attendance laws repealed, you will know reforms are a sham.”

It’s a half-trillion dollar gravy train, with our children the innocent victims.

Okay, I hope you agree there’s a problem. A major problem. If you don’t, please start reading some of the books by John Taylor Gatto, Charlotte Iserbyt and Thomas Sowell.

Being solution oriented, I’m not just bitching about the system, I have a proposed solution and I’m going in implement it. It has to do with replacing rows of desks and imprisonment with self-education…using distance learning products like books, DVDs, videotapes, and so on.

I’ve already published a lot about this, so I won’t belabor it.

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