12/31/09

Misc. Notes
• More than 170 schools offer content free to the public on Apple iTunes U, which originated in 2004 as a way for colleges to distribute content privately to their own students.
• Walking reduces stress and builds bone to help prevent osteoporosis. It helps improve lung capacity, which tends to decline dramatically with age.
• Veggies are brain food. People who eat three servings of vegetables a day, particularly of the dark green leafy type, hang on to their mental abilities 40% longer than those who eat less than one daily. I love my dark green smoothies, made with putting four ripe bananas, a cup of water, and three cups of kale, collard greens, or Swiss chard into my blender. Yum!
• Health-care accounts for $1 in every $6 spent in the United States, and costs are climbing at twice the rate of inflation. Every year, an estimated 1.5 million families lose their homes because of medical bills. Although we have the world's most expensive health care system, 24 countries have a longer life expectancy and 34 have a lower infant mortality rate, according to the latest United Nations report.
• Health-care insurance premiums charged employers have soared over 119% in the last decade…four times faster than wage increases. A recent study showed that 46% of employers plan to shift more health-care costs to employees in 2010.
• Americans don't get nearly enough vitamin D. Salmon, egg yolks, and liver contain vitamin D. My lunches and dinners include all three of those, plus a couple of tablespoons of code liver oil every day. The sun is the best vitamin D source, and skin cancer is no problem if you are eating raw food.
• Fields plowed with copper-plated plows gave eight times higher corn and 40% greater in weight than iron plows.
• The United States, with 5% of the world's population, houses nearly 25% of the world's prisoners. We incarcerate 756 inmates per 100,000 population, nearly five times the world average. Approximately one in every 31 adults in the U.S. is in prison, in jail, or on supervised release…costing about $70 billion a year and has increased 40% over the past 20 years. The Justice Department estimates that 16% of the adult inmates, more than 350,000 of those incarcerated, suffer from mental illness. The percentage in juvenile custody is even higher. We lock up more people, for less violent crimes, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent, and isolated.
• The Bob Livingston Letter: "Most people foolishly believe that they control the political system through elections. Little do they know that the government and the corporate State own and control the State and the people. This fact is kept invisible through constant conditioning of the public mind. There has never been any more sophisticated propaganda than in the U.S. today. No serious issues are discussed on national media." And, "The drug cartel must have sickness and disease in order to have ongoing drug sales. If things get dull they create disease myths like the current swine flu scare." And, "Natural substances and whole natural raw foods are a threat to Big Pharma's symptom-controlled drugs."
• In an experiment by the University of Wisconsin, cats were fed a diet of irradiated food. Within three to four months the cats developed symptoms of neurological disorders such as a loss of vision, loss of mobility and paralysis. The FDA has approved the radiation of a large segment of the nation's food supply.
• Japanese scientists have found that the same levels of fluoride commonly put into large segments of the U..S. water supply are capable of transmuting normal cells into cancer sells. Research sponsored in 1983 by the American Cancer Institute showed that even very low levels of fluoride increased the incidence of tumors in experimental animals by a frightening 12% to 190%. Studies done in the U.S. and China showed that fluoride added to the water supply tends to lower the IQ, especially in children.

12/30/09

Dad
    In retrospect, I can't remember anytime in my life when dad showed any interest in me. He never talked with me. Never read to me. Never told me any jokes. Never talked about business. Never shared thoughts.
    We did play Russian Bank, a card game for two, a few times. And we played ping pong a few times. He wouldn't let me take piano lessons (4/19/09). When I made him angry he'd beat me.
    And he wasn't much nicer to mom. Of course, he was drunk a lot of the time. But there were almost nightly fights with mom, unless they had company over for dinner or to play bridge. When he'd hit her and knock her down, I'd run upstairs and hide in my room. Netta (mom's mother), would go up to her room when the fights began.
    While I was away at college and in the Navy for WWII dad had an affair with his secretary, as I learned from a family friend, and later confirmed after mom died, from her diaries.
    You know, I've been married three times, and I've had lots of opportunities to be unfaithful, but I've never once had an affair while I was married. Several while single. And a couple were with married women.
    When I got interested in radio, I gradually filled one end of the cellar with my ham radio equipment, but I don't recall my dad ever bothering to even look at it, much less ask any questions.
    And when I got interested in classical music I built quite a record collection. Far's I know, he never played one of my records. I don't think he had any interest in music of any kind. Nor in going to the movies.
    Mostly his life was his business and in the evenings either going out with mom for dinner with friends, or having them over for dinner, followed by bridge or some other card games. And drinking. When they'd go out to dinner I'd go down to the corner to the Chinese restaurant and have a 35¢ dinner of egg drop soup, chicken chow mein, and ice cream for dessert.
12/29/09

Dr. Blaylock
    His Excitotoxins is such a must read book that I subscribed to his newsletter  In one he discussed how poisonous mercury is. "Mercury is one of the most poisonous metals known, Doses of less than a millionth of a gram are toxic to brain cells." It "tends to accumulate in fatty parts of the body and remains for decades. It is important to understand that the brain is composed of 60% fats."
    "Mercury from vaccines is connected to autism and other neurodevelopmental brain problems." "Mercury also plays havoc with the immune system."
    Many, if not most, vaccines use thimerosal as an adjutant. As I mentioned (10/5/08), all it takes is flu shots three years in a row to give you ten times the chance of Alzheimer's.
    Of course the main source of mercury is from amalgam fillings, which are half mercury, allowing it to seep into the body as we chew…a major cause of multiple sclerosis. Read Dr. Huggins' It's All In Your Head.

12/28/09

Dr. Yarwood
    His approach is simple, "No doctor has ever cured an illness or disease. No medicine has ever cured an illness or disease. The only thing that can cure an illness or a disease is your body." As he says, "Toxins are silent killers." All diseases are caused by toxins, which prevent the body's immune system from keeping the body healthy.
    The trouble is the delay between putting toxins into your body and the appearance of cancer, or any other disease. But, as Dr. Yarwood says, "There are no incurable diseases." Once you stop barraging your immune system with toxins it'll get busy getting rid of any illness or disease. It's something to consider when you sit back, light another cigarette, and refill your liquor glass. Or sit down for a cooked meal of fast or slow food. Well, fast food is a half-fast way to eat. One way or another it'll kill you.

12/27/09

Cell Phones
    Despite every effort of the cell industry, the word is leaking out about the downside of these handy gadgets. Scientists have been confirming and reconfirming their dangers. Based on the work of my good friend Ross Adey, forty years ago, I've been warning that cell phone use will burn out brain cells, lowering one's ability to think and remember things, plus it's created hundreds of thousands of brain tumors.
    Carrying one on the belt will gradually eat away the calcium in the hip bone, making a fracture easier. And that can be a death sentence for an older person.
    They sure are handy, so it's no wonder hundreds of millions of kids are using them. But kid's heads, having a thinner skull, exposes them to even more radiation than adults.
    Users should keep the phone at least eight inches from their head, and use a headset connected with a voice tube instead of a wire. And keep it away from their body when it is turned on, waiting for calls.
    Though I'm the one that got the cell phone industry started, I've never used one. And won't.

12/26/09

Selling America
    With the dollar sinking in value, foreign buyers are enjoying a fire sale of American assets, recently to the tune of around $500 billion a year. Indeed, they own around $3 trillion more of American assets than we own of the rest of the world. So, more and more, we're ending up working for them and instead of being capitalists, were just wage earners. The end of that road can lead to us being colonized by purchase rather than conquest.
    Please take time out come election day to thank your congressman for looking the other way while the Fed has devalued the dollar. Hey, it's no hair off his hide, you've let him vote himself a generous personal retirement fund.

12/24/09

Presents
    Just two presents in my childhood stand out in my memory. No, stand out is the wrong term…just two I remember. Well, three, counting the Lionel electric train set. In the Christmases after that I'd get more track, electric switches, and more cars. Eventually it took up much of the living room floor.
    One was ten riding lessons when I was ten, which led me to having my own Arab horse the first time I made any real money. And the second was the Chem-Craft chemistry set and workbench, when I was seven. I had so much fun with that, like when I put a couple drops of glycerin in some potassium permanganate, and a few seconds later it would burst into flame. Hmm, that would make a nice delayed fuse for some mischief.
    The books, games, and clothes have all faded from memory, at least as birthday or Christmas presents…though I do still treasure my childhood books.
    When I was young dad got a kick out of the Santa Claus pretense. He'd wait until I'd gone to bed Christmas eve to go out and buy a tree. Then he and mom would decorate it and pile the presents under it as a surprise for me Christmas morning when I came down stairs.
    Alas, both of my wives separated when our daughters were one and a half years old, so I never got to pull the Santa routine. Nor, did I have an opportunity to bond with either of them as children. So the old Christmas tree decorations from my childhood are out in the barn on a shelf.
    The nicest present this year was a phone call from Jeff, down in West Virginia, just to tell me what a strong influence I've had on his life. And another from Jim Morrissett, who's been a good friend for some sixty years now when, as fellow hams, we met at the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth NJ.
     
12/21/09

American Education
    Our 19th-century mandatory, government-run public school system was designed on the industrial revolution model of taking raw materials of different sizes and shapes and from them turning out identical products. As Henry Ford was famous for saying of his Model T cars, “You can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.”
    So we take children with widely varying family backgrounds, interests, IQs, religions, skills, and sizes and do our best to homogenize them into identical, obedient people. And for our teachers we take the bottom 20% of the resulting students and put them through a super dumbing down experience Well, please read Rita Kramer’s Ed School Follies, where she attended 13 teacher’s colleges and reports on what she found and see if I’m exaggerating.
    We don’t need to just fix “the government knows best socialist indoctrinating system,” we need to start from scratch and revolutionize it. Since when are there any bureaucrats with brains? And if such an anomaly were to be found, the unfortunate would be in for vicious fights if he ever dared use his brains.
    We know how to teach babies to read, and to speak several languages…but only rarely are we doing this. Since the mommy-daddy family is long gone…it disappeared when the taxes got up around 50% where one wage earner could no longer support a family. We need far better day-care facilities that will educate our babies instead of pacifying them with Big Bird and Oscar all day.
    Between the federal bureaucrats, the teacher's unions, local school boards and hundreds of thousands of school administrators, I'd be surprised if even one percent of them has ever read any of the over 150 books I've got by experts on baby and child education. D'uh?
    The January U.S.News & World Report cover headline is "Will School Reform Fail?" The issue has 45 pages on schools, none offering much in the way of why our schools are doing such a terrible job, or what to do to solve the problem. It doesn't look as if the article authors have bothered to do much homework. Much on No Child Left Behind (NCLB), charter schools, standards, and vouchers. They're smoke screens to keep the public from wising up. See my 9/24/09 and 9/25/09 entries.
   
12/20/09

In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth and populated the Earth with broccoli, cauliflower and spinach, green and yellow and red vegetables of all kinds, so Man and Woman would live long and healthy lives.
Then using God's great gifts, Satan created Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and Krispy Creme Donuts. And Satan said, "You want some chocolate with that?"
And Man said, "Yes!" and Woman said, "and as long as you're at it, add some sprinkles." And they gained 10 pounds. And Satan smiled.
And God created the healthful yogurt that Woman might keep the figure that Man found so fair.
And Satan brought forth white flour from the wheat, and sugar from the cane and combined them. And Woman went from size 6 to size 14.
So God said, "Try my fresh green salad."
And Satan presented Thousand-Island Dressing, buttery croutons and garlic toast on the side.
And Man and Woman unfastened their belts following the repast.
God then said, "I have sent you heart healthy vegetables and olive oil in which to cook th em."
And Satan brought forth deep fried fish and chicken-fried steak so big it needed its own platter.
And Man gained more weight and his cholesterol went through the roof.
God then created a light, fluffy white cake, named it "Angel Food Cake," and said, "It is good."
Satan then created chocolate cake and named it "Devil's Food."
God then brought forth running shoes so that His children might lose those extra pounds.
And Satan gave cable TV with a remote control so Man would not have to get off the sofa.
And Man and Woman laughed and cried before the flickering blue light and gained pounds.
Then God brought forth the potato, naturally low in fat and brimming with nutrition.
And Satan peeled off the healthful skin and sliced the starchy center into chips and deep-fried them.
And Man gained pounds.
God then gave lean beef so that Man might consume fewer calories and still satisfy his appetite.
And Satan created McDonald's and its 99-cent double cheeseburger. Then said, "You want fries with that?"
And Man replied, "Yes! And super size them!"
And Satan said, "It is good."
And Man went into cardiac arrest.
God sighed and created quadruple bypass surgery.
Then Satan created HMOs.

12/19/09

DoDo
    Here's a script I wrote five years ago for my TV show. Alas, nothing has changed for the better.

    The United States is heading for a fall, agree more and more doom and gloomers.
    Egypt, then Greece, then Rome, then Spain, and what used to be Great Britain…before they lost India, Pakistan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Borneo, British Guyana, British Honduras, Jordan, and so on.
    America’s basic strength used to lie in our manufacturing might,. We invented things, we made them, and we exported them…bringing in foreign currency…which we used for growth. You can’t lift yourself by your boot straps. And we can’t grow just by shuffling the same money around within America.
    Today we’ve exported many major industries and are importing the products…which we pay for with money we’re borrowing from other countries, or by selling our assets to them. Like Sony buying a movie studio.
    We no longer make consumer electronic equipment. Or cameras. Our steel mills are going out of business. We’ve lost our clothing industry. My shirt was made in Mongolia, my pants in United Arab Emirates, my shoes in China, and my jacket in Korea. My radio controlled watch says Made In China.
    Our major industries are exporting as many jobs as they can to lower wage countries, and not just the factory jobs. Our all-powerful unions are being blown away. Middle-management is being replaced by computer data systems…called downsizing…and routine work is being sent abroad. Switchboard operators are automated. Are there any more stenos? “Miss. Smith, take a letter.”
    Those not totally asleep have been watching our colleges gradually fill with foreign students, with more of them graduating with science degrees than Americans. Now, if you’ve been paying attention, more and more foreign universities have caught up, so the number of Indian and Chinese students coming here has dropped precipitously, catching our universities by surprise…just as they’ve been investing hundreds of millions in more buildings.
    More and more economists have been predicting that this is going to result in the worst market crash in history.
    Well, we know that our grammar and high schools have been providing poorer and poorer educations for our kids. Colleges have had to spend billions providing basic remedial help to incoming students…many of whom can barely read. We know that on international tests out kids come in last…particularly in math and science. That’s a real bummer because there is little question about the future…it’s in technology…and the Chinese and Indians, in particular, are beating us hands down.
    By the way, The Chinese and Japanese have an edge on us that few people know about. On international IQ tests they come in an average of ten points over white Americans.
    So, is all lost? Are we on an inevitable downward spiral which will only end when wages world wide are equal? Will we keep buying dollar-an-hour labor made products until we run out of money and credit?
    What we need are some new products, which we can make here, and which the world will pay for…even when made by ten-dollar-an-hour workers. Yes, I have a couple suggestions…and they could be pioneered here in New Hampshire…putting us at the head of the line.
    We’ve been distracted by the fight over the Middle-East oil patch as panic has been spreading in the oil industry over the recognition that far more oil has been being used than has been discovered. Indeed, most of the so-called new oil has been “found” in old wells, where it wasn’t admitted to for tax reasons. Oil is running out, and since America runs on oil, we’re in deep do-do…as one of our oil presidents put it.
    When I was a kid in Bethlehem I had to get up in the morning and build a fire in the kitchen range to warm the kitchen. Then I’d refill the kerosene lamps and trim the wicks. I’d fill the tank at the end of the range with water from the rain barrel in back of the house, and when the water was warm I’d put some pails of it into a five-gallon sprinkler can, hoist it by pulley to the ceiling in the summer kitchen, out by the wood shed, and take a shower. The backhouse, as it was called, was out in back of the barn. You did your business and sprinkled some lime on it. Every spring I had to dig it out and put the diggings on the compost heap.
    My grandfather…and then my dad…grew a big garden every summer, so we had lots of fresh fruit and vegetables all summer and fall.
    So, what happens when oil gets more and more expensive, despite our taking over Iraq and then Iran? Solar isn’t going to cut it, nor wind power. Nor hydrogen. This will drive up the cost of electricity, food, the mail, and so on. But with no way for most people to make more money.
    Meanwhile we’re kept fat and dumbed down by our schools, television, movies, ball games, casinos, iPods, and pharmaceuticals. Oh, and googling the Internet.

12/18/09

The Bay
    When I was a kid in Brooklyn we'd sometimes visit Duff and Florence Prince, who had a summer cottage in the Marine Park section, down by Avenue U. The house was on stilts about six feet over the water at high tide. Next to it was another house on stilts, owned by Harry and Marge Trauerts. Harry had been a boyhood friend of my mother, when she went to Erasmus Hall High School.
    We'd drive about two miles to the boat basin at Avenue U, where Duff would pick us up in a rowboat and take us out to his cottage. Duff had a kayak, which made the swimming even more fun.
    Then we moved to Philadelphia, Merchantville NJ and Washington DC. By 1933, when we were back in Brooklyn, Flatbush Avenue had been extended from Avenue U out past Floyd Bennet airport across the Marine Parkway Bridge to Rockaway, and little boardwalks had been extended from the cottages to Avenue U over a hundred yards of tidal mud flats peopled with fiddler crabs. We didn't have to take a boat to the cottages, just drive out Flatbush Avenue Extension, park and walk across the boardwalk to the houses.
    When Duff got a place out in Oakdale, Long Island, my dad bought the Marine Park cottage. And when the hurricane of 1939 blew the second floor off the house next door, Harry sold that to dad too. The roof now made a fine place to lie in the sun, and the lower floor was just right for a ping pong table. So I got pretty good at ping pong. Well, the houses were not far from home and great for summer fun. In the winter the bay froze over, even though it was salt water.
    With the city condemning and going to demolish the Marine Park houses, which were on land the city owned, dad bought an unused boathouse out in Babylon, Long Island, making it so we could swim in the living room in the boat slip.
    But I still had fun in the Marine Park area later on, when I kept my float plane in Mill Basin, right across the Flatbush Avenue Extension, from where our houses used to be. And my Chris Craft Express Cruiser a block down in the East Mill Basin. And my horse, Colonel, a block away from my boat, and just a couple blocks from a great beach for riding.
    The practice area for my float plane was in Jamaica Bay, with Floyd Bennet airport on one side, with military planes practicing for me to dodge, and Idlewild (now Kennedy) airport on the other, with commercial panes taking off every few minutes through my practice area to dodge.
    It was nice having my plane, boat and horse, all just a ten-minute drive from home. Summer afternoons, after work, I'd go for a ride, then get in some water skiing with my good friend Jim Morrissett. Now, over fifty years later, I'm in daily email contact with Jim, who's out in California.
   
12/17/09

Podcast
    Wow! Now you can listen to a whole hour of Wayne Green being interviewed via a podcast. Go to http://www.rumerz.com and click on the little orange square over to the right, just under Listen to Rumerzradio - November 21, 2009. You can listen to the show or download it into iTunes for your iPod.

12/16/09

Honduras
    Hey, Obama, your recession is seriously hurting Honduras, Mexico and other Central American countries. The bank foreclosures on American homes has seriously impacted the building of more homes, putting millions of immigrants out of work, and thus slowing their flood of money to their home countries.
    In the case of Mexico the $25 billion of remittances make up about 4% of the country's gross domestic product. With Honduras, it's 26%, so our recession is having a very serious impact down south. Maybe you could spare some stimulus money to tide them over until you get the North American Union going and we're all one big happy bilingual family. Ooops, with Canada adding French, make that trilingual.

12/1/5/09

Organic Beef
    Once the cat is out of the bag about raw food and the people demand their meat be organic, it'll mean cows will have to be pastured…okay, pasturized…instead of being grown in stalls, stuffed with GM corn, BGH injections, and antibiotics.
    Well, we don't have anywhere enough pasture land available in the U.S. to keep up organically with our current beef consumption. But that may not be a serious problem, because once everyone is into eating raw meat, they're likely to be satisfied with smaller portions. I am, even though every bite is delicious. But then, so is every bite of the other things I'm eating. And each bite goes further because I chew it until it is liquid.
    Instead of having a plate with a big steak, a pile of mashed potatoes, and another of green beans, my meals have eight to twelve dishes of raw food. And every one of them delicious, so I don't need as much meat for a filling meal. Just a few spoons from each of the dishes and I'm comfortably full.
    With so much of our country's farmland poisoned by years of chemical fertilizer, followed by pesticides, we may have to turn to Africa or South America for enough organic crops to satisfy us, once we wise up and stop giving ourselves cancer with the poisonous junk we've been eating.
    For sure we're going to see a huge growth in back yard gardens, and there'll be a huge demand for greenhouses, organic soil, rock dust, and sea minerals.

12/14/09

Oklahoma
    Bravo Oklahoma! Where the legislature passed a law to round up illegal immigrants and send back where they came from. They quickly left for other states. Then they made the driver's license exams be printed only in English. And best of all, they passed a law making Oklahoma a Sovereign state, thus not under Federal Government directives, joining Utah, Montana and Texas, which have also done this.
    And, with the feds threatening to take away our guns, Oklahoma passed a law saying their people have the right to bear arms, and carry them in their vehicles.

12/13/09

Smoking
    When I was a kid dad smoked, mother smoked, both grandfathers smoked, and all my dad's friends smoked. They all also drank, even though it was during prohibition.
    So, when I was eight, I spent a dime, bought some cigarettes, and tried smoking. Ugh! I tried again when I was twelve, even trying a pipe. Ugh, again. So I never got addicted. And I was living in a time when cigarette ads were everywhere…full page magazine ads, newspapers, billboards, and on the radio.
    In the Navy during WWII most of my crewmates smoked. Heck, cigarettes were 50¢ a carton at the ship's service store. And they'd announce over the public address system aboard ship when the smoking lamp was lit…when the smokers were permitted to smoke. That's when we were on the surface and were bringing in outside air.
    When we got back stateside for a refit of the boat and had liberty every night, most of the crew tended to get together at The Irisher bar in downtown San Francisco so, to fit in, I started drinking with the guys. When that ended with the Drum going out for another patrol run and me being shipped to New London to teach electronics at the Submarine School, that also ended my drinking. The war ended before the Drum was able to get to Japan, so I served on the boat's last five war patrols.
    Smoking is a terrible drug addiction. It's expensive and helps disable the immune system, allowing cancers to grow instead of being trashed. It also raises hob with the lungs and generally gums up the works. But kids, seeing adults smoking, think it's macho to smoke, try it, and are soon addicted.
    So, in addition to getting everyone to change to raw food and avoid sugar and alcohol so their immune systems can trash any invading germs or viruses, add nicotine to the poisons to avoid. Let's start a campaign to make smoking an act of stupidity…which it is. Today, when you see someone in a movie or on TV smoking, you know this is a bad person.
    My sneaky plan to discourage teens from starting to smoke is to organize small senior groups to patrol malls on weekends, watching for teens smoking. They'd take pictures of the smokers and post ’em on a mall Stupid Kids bulletin board.

12/12/09

Doctors
    How come doctors are still pushing pills to get rid of disease symptoms instead of advising their patients to stop poisoning themselves so their immune systems can stop the cause of their symptoms? That's easy. Doctors all have to go through the ovinifying experience of public school, where they are prevented from ever learning to think, and learn to obey orders, dammit!
    They go on through medical school, which is run by the pharmaceutical industry (the most profitable industry in the world), where they endlessly memorize stuff for tests and then forget most of it. My college was the same way (and still is, sixty years later). Out of four years I had one course that was fun, and most of the rest I'd have to go out to the barn and find my old text books to even tell you what courses I took. Thank heavens for my ham radio activities and Lydia, the bright parts of my college life. Sigh.
    How do you go about getting across the idea to doctors that there are no incurable illnesses, when they've been taught for years that there are no curable illnesses, only alleviated symptoms? Cancer, our most popular illness, is not cured by chemo therapy, which about 3% survive. But the surviving patients are still doing what caused their cancer in the first place, so the symptoms return, and they eventually die. D'uh?
    Trying to get the public to think, when they've all been through the same public school mill, and have spent their lives doing what they are told, is a Sisyphean pursuit. And not only with health. Most people believe what they are told.. And that includes doctors.

12/11/09

Degrees
    As I explain in my Secret Guide to Wealth, getting a college degree is a huge waste of time and money, and makes it so the odds are you're unlikely to ever make the big bucks. Heck, I was thirty before I wised up and started my first business. Before that I worked as an engineer-announcer at small radio stations in Southern Pines NC, Hampton VA, and Sarasota FL. And as a TV cameraman in NYC, and a TV producer-director in Dallas and Cleveland. Then an engineer at Airborne Instruments Laboratory, and CEO of the Music Research Foundation.  You know, not one of those employers asked about my degree.
    Today the web can be an endless source of information on just about anything one wants to learn. YouTubeEdu and iTunesU have video and audio lectures for free by the best professors. For instance, MIT has video and audio of every course they offer, complete with lecture notes and tests. With over 200 colleges and universities on 32 countries making their material available via the web, the only thing holding people back is their interest in learning. Or one can go to MIT and spend up around $200,000 getting a degree.
    There's even an on-line free charter high school in Utah for kids who'd rather go to school at home.
    As the word gets around, universities are going to have to innovate to still be in business by 2020. Check Peer2Peer University.
    One's success in the world of 2020 will depend on their being self-motivated learners, so the sooner we can dump our current government-run public school system, which is purposely designed to discourage thinking and curiosity, our country is in deep trouble…with all that education out there for the asking, while our kids (and adults) sit watching ball games and sit-coms.
    We used to be the most educated country, now we're in tenth place and slipping fast.
    Check my 10/29/09, 9/24/09, and 6/18/09 entries.

12/10/09

Those Virgins
    A lot of us have been wondering where in hell the Muslims have been getting so many groups of 72 virgins for their suicidal martyrs. Well, there's a simple explanation that makes good sense. And that's the kind of explanation I prefer.
    Here's the deal. When the imams went up to paradise to recruit virgins for the expected martyrs, at first they were afraid they wouldn't be able to find any. What they finally came up with were 72 ugly old bad-tempered hags, who men had never had the slightest interest in when they were alive. And all it took was 72 of them because, when the martyrs arrived in paradise they'd take one look at their prize, turn to Allah and bitch about the bum deal. Allah has a good way to deal with complainers who haven't bothered to read the fine print on their martyr contract. Kinda like an escalator where the steps can all suddenly be tilted up, making it into a long slide.

12/9/09

Diabetes
    If you know anyone with diabetes (which I'm sure you do), please get them to Google "Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days" so they'll know about the DVD showing six people who went on a 30-day raw diet and completely cured their diabetes. I have the DVD and it sure tells the story I've been preaching for the last few years of the amazing power of a raw food diet. Or they can continue with the hypodermic and insulin shots, and probably being seriously overweight. Gee, what a tough decision!

12/8/09

Generation Y
    Ya wanta read Mark Bauerlein's The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. The bad news: Mark makes a good case of it.
    Our total socialist public school (government-run) system sucks. I still remember the visit from one of Sherry's 17 year old grandsons who had only read six books in his life and had no interest in reading more. So the SATs keep sinking, despite their level having to be steadily lowered by the test makers.
    Our kids are cell-phoning each other, burning out brain cells with every call. Plus doing it while driving, increasing their chances of having an accident. The brain does not multi-process. It can only work on one thing at a time. And the same goes for texting while driving, or even looking down at your iPod to see what you want to play. Two seconds later at 50 mph and it's uh oh…kaboom!
    Colleges are spending billions teaching new students basics they should have learned in public school, like how to read, and simple math. Not that colleges have a clue as to how to teach effectively. Well, just watch Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" episodes.
    So we have 50% of the high school seniors in Texas unable to name the country south of their state.


12/7/09

Pearl Harbor
    Naturally I was going to write about that long ago Sunday and the "dastardly attack" on Pearl. But, I checked, and I covered all that last year. Go check it out.
    But that attack was a cautionary tale about government secrecy. It took sixty years before we got the whole story via the Stinnett book. So we've got to give the conspiracy theorists a good deal of slack.
    Heck, we got a good dose of that just recently with the Climate-Gate exposure. Gee, I was right again when I called the whole man-made climate change idea a bunch of political baloney. I wonder how long it will take for the major media and networks to admit we've been Inconveniently Gored. Kyoto? Crapola!
    So, what else has the government, and probably the media lap-dogs, been lying about or covering up? Gee, make a list! Like the Moon landings, the Oklahoma City bombing, Waco, Amelia Earhart, cold fusion, Roswell, 911, and so on. All that secrecy and cover-up must be keeping legions of federal bureaucrats busy. No wonder the federal government has doubled in size in recent years.
    Yeah, 911. When the legendarytimesbooks.com catalog arrived the other day I counted 29 books about 911. None of them uncritical the government's story. Well, I've read a dozen of them. With all those books out there I haven't seen any need for me to add another, as I did with the Moon landings hoax and my Moondoggle. But, you know, despite all the books, I understand there are still dozens of people who believe the official government story.
   
12/06/09

2012
    Whether we're hit with a terrorist attack that brings down the power grid, such as setting off a nuke high over the country for an EMP blast, or a natural calamity, have you given any thought to what it would be like with no power? Probably for years?
    Without power, gas stations won't be able to pump gas. An EMP pulse from a nuke could wipe out all but our oldest cars, as well as anything else electronic. No radio, TV, telephone, etc. And without gas or trucks, stores will run out of food in a day or two. Oh, no heat at home unless you have a fireplace and plenty of wood. No water, either. City people will all die in a few weeks. 
    If you're the only one that has planned ahead, and have food and water stored, you'd better have some guns and ammo to protect it. You'll need guns to hunt for deer, turkeys, and other wild game. And did you have some seeds set aside to grow food? How about fishing tackle? You're living like it's back around three hundred years ago.
    With no government, and about 95% of Americans wiped out, you and a few surviving neighbors are on your own until help arrives from other countries.
    Might that "help" be in the form of a few million Chinese. Wow, an almost empty country, complete with already built cities, highways and factories, all sitting here, waiting. Oh, there will be a few natives to be rounded up and put on reservations, like the Europeans did when they first came here.
   
12/5/09

The Raw Fooder
    For breakfast I start with a half dozen or so spoons of orange slush. Then some grapefruit slush. Then grape slush. Next it's a bowl of berries and sliced bananas in raw milk. Straw, blue, black, or rasp berries. And for dessert, some of my healthy ice cream.
    For lunch it's ten pint containers of chopped vegetables (red cabbage, carrots, celery, asparagus, broccoli, turnip, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower) mixed with cole slaw sauce, chopped raw liver, little Veggie Bootie spinach puffs, tomato soup and kale smoothie. A few spoons of each, thoroughly chewed, and I'm full. Well, except for the ice cream dessert. And that's my big meal of the day.
    For supper, it's the same as breakfast.
    Between meals, if I get hungry, most of the time a glass of water does the job. But I do keep some cut up apples, a pot of honey and cinnamon, and one of golden raisins to munch with brazil nuts and raw almonds.

12/4/09

Gamble
    Would you be willing to gamble $24 in order to win $28,000 a year for life? Well, that's what my Secret Guide to Health can save you, if you do what it says. And that doesn't include a lifetime of avoided suffering for you and your family.
    Statistics show us that Americans are spending an average of $8,000 a year for every man, woman and child on sickness (deceptively called health care). So, for the average family of one and a half children, that's $28,000 a year you'll save if none of you ever get sick again.
    Imagine a lifetime for you and your family of no colds, flu, allergies, diabetes, overweight, cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, vaccinations, cavities, arthritis, macular degeneration, psoriasis, AIDS, ALS, ADHD, etc.
    I should charge more.

12/3/09

The Health Care Bill
    In view of the mess the government makes of everything it tries to run (like its wars an the public school system), the whole idea of turning over the running of the sickness exploitation industry to government bureaucrats is horrifying. Talk about a recipe for failure!
    Socialism, and it's brothers, communism and fascism, have failed everywhere they've been tried. Heck, that's what made such a mess of the Pilgrim's first year in Plymouth. And Jamestown. Talk about not learning from history!
    Our bureaucrat run school system is both the most expensive per student in the world, and turning out the poorest educated students. With the help of Medicare an Medicaid our so-called health care is by a wide margin the most expensive in the world, while we come in around 37th or worse in health comparisons.
    The hundreds of billions the government has been spending on its drug war has drugs on the street at record lower prices and general availability. Then there are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, orchestrated by the bureaucrats in the government and the military.
    When we let the government take over health care we can expect really lousy service, accompanied by record costs (a.k.a. higher taxes).
    Bitch about it now, loud and clear, to your senators and representatives, and then make sure they are looking for other work come November. Send them back to their old law firms and make room for a new set of politicians to get on the congressional gravy train.

12/02/09

Pensions
    They’re a 20th century artifact. With most businesses now in competition with the whole world, profit margins no longer allow for the accumulation of company pension funds. Heck, the biggest pension fund of all, Social Security, has regularly been spent by Congress as it was collected from us, leaving an IOU on the books in return. An IOU of very questionable value. If the Chinese stop lending us money to cover our debts, we’re up shit  creek.
    With our taxes running about 50% of our paychecks, it’s no wonder our main society bulwark, our middle class, is being whittled away. It’s tough making do with half of what we’re earning. No wonder the nuclear family is long gone, with both husbands and wives having to work to make as much as a husband alone used to. After taxes.
    And it’s just going to keep getting worse. We have about 40 million seniors today. By 2030 it's going to be 72 million…that is, of course, unless I’m able to get more people to change to raw food diets, in which case we could easily have well over a hundred million seniors. And they won’t want to be just sitting around on the porch in rocking chairs.
    Money for retirement? It looks as if we could well be on our own.

12/1/09

Time
    The December 7th issue of Time had a 19-page section on the year in health. I found none it of interest. On the plus side, for the magazine, it did attract 28 pages of Big Pharma ads. I particularly enjoyed the six-page Seroquel XR ad, with its four pages of tiny print no one will bother to read.

11/31/09

Mumble Baa…if you're:
  Overweight
  Did well in school
  Have a job
  Watch several hours of TV a day
  Get your vaccinations
  Re-elect your politicians
  No time or interest to read books
  Drink beer
  Don’t exercise much
  Like to conform with your clothes
  Spend time on Twitter and Facebook
  Use a cell phone
  Worry about global warming
  Like fast food
  Have a bunch of fillings and some root canals
  Floss
  Read a newspaper
  Like talk radio
  Haven’t traveled much
  Have a mortgage
  Kids going to public school
  Kids need medication
  Take several pills a day
  Watch ball games
  Kids have all their vaccinations
  Smoke
  Go to church/synagog/mosque

Yell BAH!!…if you're:
  A raw fooder
  Never going to re-elect anyone
  Trim
  Super-healthy
  Take no pills
  Take supplements daily
  Avoid vaccinations
  Watch some pre-recorded TV while eating meals
  Avoid restaurants
  Read lots of books (very few novels)
  Exercise daily
  Own your own business
  Think global warming is a crock
  Enjoy crossword puzzles
  Love to travel
  Play an instrument,

11/30/09

The Media
    The December U.S. News & World Report (it’s monthly now, instead of weekly) was devoted to health. Any mention of raw food? Har-de-har. With 21-1/2 pages of pharmaceutical ads, four pages of hospital ads, and 24 pages of ads for everything else in the 100-page issue, they wouldn’t dare leak the truth about health. It would put them out of business.
    Scary for the publisher, of the 24 non-sickness ad pages, six were by Chevy and two by Cadillac, ads unlikely to be repeated.
    Big Pharma has the media bought and paid for. Money trumps lives any time. The FDA is bought. Ditto Congress, though we could start fixing that mess come next year’s election by firing the lot and hoping the lesson is not lost on the newcomers. Dammit, we're supposed to be a republic, with us having a say in what goes on. Take those earmarks and shove them.
    Please let me know if you've found a publication that tells the truth about health.

11.29.09

Bribery
    Well, I’ve tried using reason to get you to change to a raw food diet, but that’s failed. Yes, I know, what the hell, wait until you get that cancer diagnosis and then you’ll change your diet. Or wait for a heart attack. Of course, a high percentage of first heart attack warnings are death. Ooops!
    Okay, now I’m resorting to bribery. Would you consider joining me in the fun I’m having with a raw food diet if I put an extra $150 a week in your pocket? That’s the price we’re paying, on the average, for every man, woman and child in America for sickness. $8,000 a year. Well, you divide the $2.5 trillion we’re spending on sickness every year by our population, and you’ll see where the $150 a week comes from.
    That’ll put the average American family or three and a half people about $28,000 richer every year.    
    So, all you have to do is stop slowly making your self sick by changing your diet to the food your body is designed to use and stop loading it with stuff it has to treat as toxic. Yeah, cooked food. And sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine. Or are you too weak-willed to kick your addiction to these?

11/27/09

The Lambada
    Sherry was sorting out some old papers and came across a story I’d written twenty years ago about our trip to Munich to video the Lambada dance craze. I think you’ll enjoy it.

Instant Munich:
    It all started in November 1989 when I heard a report on the radio about a Brazilian dance craze which was sweeping Europe…Germany in particular…something called the Lambada. I suggested to Sherry that this was worth checking out for her how-to-dance videos business.
    Nothing happened until she saw it on the evening TV news. That did it. She called Kathy Blake, the star of her videos, to see if she could teach the Lambada. Kathy had never heard of it, but she’d be glad to do a teaching video, if Sherry could get a tape of some people dancing so she could see how it’s done.
    Kathy, who knows the U. S. dance scene pretty well, checked around and could find no one who knew anything about the Lambada. Sherry did discover that CBS Records was planning to release a Lambada CD December first. Wouldn’t it be great to have a how to dance the Lambada video out at the same time!
    Sherry checked to see if she could get studio time, video mastering time, the fast duplication she’d need, labels printed for the tapes, printed boxes, etc.. Everything looked great except for one little detail…she couldn’t find anyone who had a clue on how to do the dance.
    On Thursday morning she asked me if I’d like to go over to Germany for the weekend to help her do a video on the Lambada. Having nothing more than my usual ton  of weekend work, I said sure, what the hell. We decided on Munich since I had some contacts there, and she got to work making the ticket, hotel and car reservations.
    Where were those $300 round trip fares when we needed ‘em? We already had tickets for a February Munich trip, but now they wanted $870 each for tourist class. That’s baloney! Try a travel agency. Our local agency was no help. Okay, check the ads in the Sunday paper. This approach worked, with the price getting down to around $500 each - still a long way from our February fare, but a bunch better than $875.
    We’d be flying on Pan Am, leaving at 5pm on Friday from Boston and then 7pm from New York, arriving 9:30 Saturday morning in Munich. We’d return Tuesday, giving us three days. The tickets would be sent overnight via Federal Express so they’d get here in time for us to catch our plane. Couldn’t we pick ’em up at the airport? “No, don’t worry, they’ll get there just fine.”
    I got busy and sent faxes to two of my Munich friends, telling them I’d be over Saturday and asking them to see what they could do about finding some Lambada dancing for me to tape.
    The Federal man came Friday morning…no tickets. Though it was now time to leave for the airport, Sherry called to see what’d happened. They’d goofed. She called Pan Am and explained that she’d paid for the tickets, but they’d been lost. Pan Am said “no problem, we’re  saving your seats for you, but of course, you’ll have to pay the $870 each.” No bloody way! She called the agent again…gee, we’re sorry we screwed up, we’ll get you tickets for next week..”
    Sherry’s voice raised an octave as she explained that we had to go today. “Okay, okay, go to the airport and call for further instructions.”
    We’d intended to get to the airport at 2:45 for a 4:45 flight. We skipped a short stop at a store to buy some VCR tapes on the way, so despite the hour delay on the phone with the agency, we got there at 2:45. She called and found that we were now on TWA, leaving at 3:07 for New York. We drove to the TWA terminal, getting there by 2:50.  Sherry cut to the head of the long line at the ticket counter, explaining our rush. The chap took forever to write the tickets, so at 3:00 I grabbed Sherry’s new portable Macintosh computer, which I figured might be a problem at security, and headed to the gate to see if I could hold the plane. Sure enough, I had a fight at the security barrier. I had to open the computer, turn it on and prove to them that it actually was a computer and not a clever bomb. Not knowing how to either open the computer or turn it on was an unfortunate information lapse for this moment…so I fussed and futtered until they gave up and waved me on.
    The gate was all the way at the end of the concourse, naturally. I made it, out of breath, just at 3:07 and nobody was there. Damn, missed the plane…probably had our bags on it too, since they’d been checked before the agonizingly slow ticket writing began. Any other time the plane would be late. An attendant suddenly came out of the gate door and started to lock it. Can we still get aboard, my wife is on the way with our boarding passes. “Have her hurry and I’ll try.”  So I went back to check the concourse and see if she was in sight. It probably was only a minute, but I aged a few hours. When she hove into view, cantering along. I waved her to run. The attendant took us down the jetway, maneuvered it back out to the still waiting plane, banged on the door and opened it. We’d made it. Whew! Great start for a trip. But not bad for learning about our flight 20 minutes before it was scheduled to leave from another terminal.
    New York went smoothly…if you call a two-mile hike to the next gate smooth.  I should have brought our folding bicycles. Once aboard we sat in the hot, sardine-packed tourist section for two and a half damned hours before they finally took off. Runway congestion, they said. Sherry helped by keeping her portable Macintosh with her in her seat in addition to her usual mini-suitcase of travel necessities. Her new portable Mac meets the military definition of portable. Anything six men can carry is designated portable.
    So we sat there, starving, hot and thirsty, working on a lifetime TWA bitterness. The stewardi were much too busy solving double seat problems to bother with passenger comfort. I finally managed to flag one down to get us a couple of pillows. I desperately needed one to help my back fit their crummy seats, which I think were designed for Quasimoto. Letting me know this was a truly major imposition, she brought just one pillow and huffed off.
    I passed the time by trying to figure out the instruction book which came with my new Atari pocket computer. Sherry set up her monster Macintosh in her lap, quickly cutting off the circulation to her legs. This had the benefit of keeping her feet from swelling. 
    I’ve been around microcomputers almost since the day they were invented, so I’m used to abstruse instructions written in computerese.  But the instructions…no, that’s the wrong word…the book of clues on how to use this miserable computer were far beyond anything I could handle. How Atari managed to end up with a total idiot for the author of their instruction book should make an interesting story. The rest of the people involved in printing the book probably never even tried to read it.
    I got the confounded thing by mail from Atari just days after it was announced, so I’m probably the first to find out that there is no way to actually use the computer. $650 down the tubes. Well, maybe I can send it back and get a refund. They have an 800 number which I’ll keep calling until I get better instructions. If that doesn’t work I’ll as ask my 73 Magazine readers to help call them for me.
    It’s a cute little computer and is supposed to do all sorts of great computer things. My Radio Shack laptop computer has spoiled me. Anyone can learn to use it in minutes. The Atari appears to require the memorization of hundreds of instructions. I can see where many people will have to be retrained after every coffee break. Computers are supposed to simplify things, not require a two-week course to use.
    This kept me busy until dinner finally was served at 10 pm…that’s 4 am German time. They made up for it by providing a really terrible meal. Yecch. I’ve got to stop depending on the airlines for food…particularly TWA. A salami sandwich would sure beat that bunch of garbage. Phooey.
    As soon as they cleared the trays I put in my ear plugs, put on my eye mask, snapped a travel pillow around my neck and headed for Nod. Three hours later they woke me up for breakfast. It was worse than dinner! Cups with flavorless fruit and an orange colored liquid.
    We arrived an hour behind schedule, despite some strong tail winds. Then came the wait for our bags. As the over 300 waiting people dwindled to dozens it was getting close to our scheduled flight on Luftansa to Munich, so I had Sherry go to find the tickets which were supposed to be waiting for us somewhere.
    About an hour after we landed the crowd at the carousel was down to me and two other equally frantic passengers…and no sign of my two suitcases. Everything I needed was in my suitcase, so a day or two delay would zap the whole trip. So I stood there, aging rapidly. Then, there they were!
    I loaded our two big aluminum bags on my cart and headed towards customs. With the time short I expected to be stopped, but I zipped right through. Which way to Lufthansa? Up the escalator! Holy mackerel, how‘m I going to get this load of stuff up there without it toppling over on me? Wayne Green, crushed by his luggage in Frankfurt. It turned out I wasn’t the first person to do this, so the cart was designed not to fall over backwards., even when loaded with two heavy suitcases, a “portable” computer, carry-on bags and overcoats. I had a monster load.
    Lufthansa simplified things by having over a hundred check-in counters. I ran past them all with the cart, looking desperately for Sherry. I don’t know how she turns invisible, but she‘s an expert. In the grocery, if I merely turn around to get something off a shelf, I look around and Sherry with our cart, is gone. Though I check ever aisle, she’s turned totally invisible.
    With our flight time approaching fast, she’d gone invisible again. I ran the entire barrage of Lufthansa counters again. Nope. It was right then I noticed that I’d managed to leave my own carry-on bag down by the baggage carousel. The one with my Atari and Radio Shack computers, my cash, credit cards and passport. Oops!
    Just as anxiety was pushing my blood pressure into the stroke zone Sherry came along. I handed her the cart to check in our bags and made a try at the 300 yard dash record, including the escalator. Then I had to get into the completely sealed off baggage area on the other side of customs. It turned out I was not the first person in history to forget a bag, so now all I had to worry about was whether someone had filched it or not.
    Nope, there it was, right where I’d blundered off without it. I ran back up and out the endless concourse to the gate area, arriving just in time for the flight…pant, pant. 45 minutes later we arrived in Munich. Our car was ready with no problems. They didn’t have a map of the city, so it took me a couple hours to find my hotel.
    The Saturday afternoon traffic was terrible. It took us over a half hour to drive the last couple blocks, once I located the hotel. Then I had to park the car. The garage suggested by the hotel was under the railroad station. It, and every other parking garage in the downtown area was full. It took over an hour waiting in the parking line before I was able to get into the garage. It was getting late by now and we still had to find some place to do our lambada video.
    When I finally got to the hotel room Sherry had unpacked the suitcases, gotten a call from one of my contacts and everything was arranged for the video that night. With only three hours sleep since 5 am Friday morning, we were running on empty, but the show must go on.
    We went downstairs from the hotel into the adjacent railroad station and had a fast bratwurst…delicious! The next stop was a nearby record store to see what they had. Sherry wanted lambada music and I was looking for German folk music. Sure enough, they had three lambada CDs, which we bought. We then walked to another nearby store and found a couple more! By then it was time to meet a lambada dancing teacher. I wasn’t about to take my car out of the garage or try to drive in that traffic, so we took a cab.
    Martinho and his wife, Bette, were waiting for us in his studio. He turned out to be a handsome black chap from Brazil. He’s been teaching the lambada and said he had arranged for us to do a video later at a night club around the corner. He and his wife demonstrated some lambada moves, but he didn’t want me to video him. He showed us a tape clip he’d made from a TV show of groups dancing the lambada and said he’d make a copy for us.
    The lambada, he explained, is a mixture of everything. It’s part salsa, part merengue, part cha cha, samba, mambo and so on. It’s also part very dirty dancing. Big part, as a matter of fact the lambada is the closest thing to the sex act a couple can do on a dance floor with their clothes on. I sensed instantly that this could be a huge hit in the U.S.
    Heck, if it’s so popular with the normally strait-laced Germans, imagine what Americans will do with it!
    The girls dress in micro-skirts with only bikini panties underneath. Their hip movements would make hula and belly dancers jealous. The man puts his leg between the girls legs and she humps the hell out of it, writhing with abandon to the exciting and fast lambada beat.
    Then the couple often picks up a third dancer from the admiring crowd, making either the man or the girl the middle of a writhing sex sandwich.  Some sandwiches build up to ten or more dancers all tightly stuck together, humping and hip-swiveling away.  Hey, this could be the greatest dance craze in history! It’s easy to learn, great fun to watch and exciting to do.
    After Martinho and Bette showed us the basic moves, we all went around the corner to the night club. Though it was already packed, the dancing hadn’t started yet. Everything had been arranged for me to do a video, but the dancing wouldn’t start until around 11 pm, another hour and a half. So we walked down the street to refuel. My second wind was pooping out…would I be able to stay awake until 11? A shared apple strudel helped us keep going.
    The time was well spent as Martinho explained how the lambada got started in a small town in Brazil. He said he planned to write an article on this…I said I’d love to publish it. It seems there was this one musical genius in this little town who came up with the music. Unfortunately he died three months ago. We certainly lucked out with Martinho, who’s not only from Brazil, but knows the whole history of the dance.

                                                   Lambada!

    The nightclub was packed solid by dance time, leaving only a small 20’ x 20’ dance floor open. The band started and one couple hit the floor in high gear. I had my camera going, trying to catch the hip, feet, and arm movements, panning up and down. Everything was moving at once.
    After a few minutes they picked up a third dancer…then couples peeled off from every side, packing the dance floor. I video’d as best I could, but all I could see was a writhing mass. There was no way to back away enough to see or photograph much more.  I gave up after another five minutes. No matter, I now had what we‘d come after and that was what mattered.
    We thanked Martinho for his help and taxied back to our hotel, ending a long, interesting and successful day.
Sunday
    With everything closed, there wasn’t much to do on Sunday. We walked around downtown and took pictures . The sun came out briefly to help my picture taking…then the light rain started again…and never let up.
    We video’d a Peruvian  group performing on the sidewalk…a German chap playing an accordion and singing…an American singer with his guitar…and a Chaplin mime. We remembered the sidewalk and subway performers we’d heard in Paris, New York, Chicago, New Orleans and so on. Hey, there’s a great idea for a DVD series…sidewalk performers of the world. All it would take is a good video recorder, some patience and a lot of travel.
    Sidewalk performers usually are very good since they get an enormous amount of practice before live audiences. Poor performers eventually are starved into some other line of work.
Monday
    We hit the record stores hard., finding more lambada CDs…13 in all. Plus I finally found the German music CDs I was after in department store and Woolworth in sidewalk bargain tables selling for from $5 to $11 each. Not bad compared to most of the lambada CDs ,which were more like $16 to $20.
An Idea Hits
    Just what I need, still another idea. It’s a curse. But my conviction that the lambada is going to make it big in America means there is going to be a heck of a demand for lambada CDs and cassettes. When I spot a coming demand that no one else has seen yet, that’s an opportunity.
    My first step will be to contact the independent record labels with lambada music and see about importing them. Then, how about point-of-purchase displays for record stores with a lambada CDs and cassettes, plus a video showing how to dance it? I’ll bet this dance will even wean lots of kids from rock music. We might even get some stores to bring in a VCR and show groups dancing the lambada.
    The media is going to go wild over this one. Religious and parent groups are going to go bananas when they see it in action. I believe it’s going to spread like a new flu epidemic, infecting almost everyone who comes into contact with it. The controversy will, as always, spread the contagion faster.
    Not only will we see a rash of lambada music, but I predict we’ll be seeing lambada clothes…lambada integrated with TV shows…in movies…music TV. How long before the fad blows over? This one has the potential to last and drive uptight people into frenzies for years.
    In addition to the first how-to-dance the lambada video by Kathy Blake, there’s also going to be a demand for how-to-teach videos. We might fly Martinho over to do such a video and do a TV/newspaper interview trip around the country if the dance gets going the way I think it will.
    We already have our Lufthansa tickets for a February Munich visit. This will give us three months too plan instead of one day. I’m not sure we can do much better though.
    The February trip was to take advantage of an el cheapo $300 round trip Lufthansa deal,. We’ll start in Munich and drive to Vienna, then Krakow, Prague and back to Munich…all in eight days. In Munich I hope to visit the Pilz CD manufacturing plant.  Mr. Pilz was away during this visit…plus I didn’t really have the time to take him up on his invitation.
    I’ll try to get together with amateur radio groups in each country and, if they’re interested, give talks on the radio problems we’re having in the U.S. I’ll also contact as many independent record companies (indies) as possible to see about importing their CDs and distributing them in the U.S. I may, by then, have a battery-powered video recorder to capture street music…if there is any in February. Bit cold.
    With only two days in each city I won’t have time to go skiing, but I’ll be checking out the record stores to see what they’re selling.
Tuesday
    Sherry went to all the trouble (and expense) of renting a beautiful Audi Quatro car and all we did was use it to drive to the hotel and back to the airport. Well, I had expected we’d visit the Pilz plant an hour out of town. Three days sure goes fast!
    The hotel room included a nice breakfast…bacon, sausage, eggs, cold cuts, the works. It’s too easy to overeat with that sort of buffet facing me every morning. Plus food stands every block or so with wursts and potato salad. Mmm.
    We got to the airport quickly, despite some light snow mixed with the rain. The TWA flight left just a little late and stopped off in Brussels to fill the seats. It’s over 8 hours going back…then three more in New York and an hour in Boston. It makes for a long travel day. It took 21 hours from home to the Munich hotel going over. It’s the same going back. That sure kills a day.
    I’m not complaining. Despite the excitement and problems, the trip was fun and should turn out to be very profitable, not just for Sherry, but for Music/NH too.

11/26/09

Thanksgiving II
    The story of the first Thanksgiving we were taught in school or via TV is just another fairy story. Yeah, the pilgrims came over on the Mayflower in 1620, they had a lousy harvest, and half of them died that winter. And then it happened again in 1622.
    Their experiment wasn’t working out. The system where everything they grew, animals they hunted and fish they caught were put into a common building for all to share had resulted in most of them waiting for others to do the planting, hunting and fishing. So they starved, stealing what they could from the Indians.
    In 1623 the governor of the colony, William Bradford, gave each of the surviving families their own piece of land and let them keep what they grew or caught for themselves. This resulted in a bumper crop that year, and by 1624, they were growing so much they were able to start exporting corn.
    Socialism has failed in every country it’s been tried. And here in America, too.
    They had the same disastrous result with the Jamestown, where less than half survived their first year.
    So, Thanksgiving is mainly a celebration of the success of free enterprise, something I wish Obama and the congress would recognize. Our socialist health care system, like our socialist public school system, is the most expensive per capita of the developed countries, and is giving us piss-poor results.
    Oh, by the way, I’m a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla, as I discovered in a hundred-year old genealogy I inherited.

11/25/09

Fluoride
    Some 70% of American public drinking water is fluoridated. A few years ago the people of Manchester NH voted to continue to have their water fluoridated, believing the propaganda that it was beneficial for the teeth.
    When scientists looked into it they found no reliable research that showed any benefit to teeth. In fact, it decays teeth from the inside out, and discolors them. Worse, they found that it was causing genetic damage, cancer, weakening bones, and lowering children’s IQ.
    The Germans and Russians added fluoride to their prisoners of war’s water to make them more docile. Hmm, isn’t that what our government leaders want of us taxpayers? Get busy, work, give us half of what you earn, and shut up. Oh, and keep re-electing us.
    Most European countries have banned it.
    What can you do? Well, avoid fluoride tooth paste and distill any water you use for drinking or cooking (if you’re still rendering your food toxic by cooking it). See www.steamdistiller.com. No, water filters don’t do a good job of removing fluoride. Check www.fluoridealert.org.
    Twelve Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry and Medicine have warned us about fluoride risks.

11/24/09

Swine Flu
    My email box runneth over with condemnations of the outrageous swine flu promotion, and then with reports of the victims it’s been making sick.
    Dr. Douglass did a fine job of summing it up with his:
7 reasons to skip the swine flu vaccine.
1. Swine flu dangers have been blown out of proportion.
2. Flu vaccines are worthless.
3. The swine flu vaccine contains potentially deadly additives.
4. The vaccine has never been tested.
5. The vaccine manufacturers are not liable for any vaccine-related illnesses or death.
6. Healthcare workers are refusing to get the swine flu vaccine.
7. The previous swine flu vaccine was linked to hundreds of deaths.
Douglass is the guy who used to publish Second Opinion, and now has The Douglass Report (www.DouglassReport.com). I also get Daily Dose emails from him.
    And while I’m H1N1-damning, I read where the 347 members of a US Navy ship were vaccinated with the swine flu vaccine, and 333 of them came down with the swine flu. Two died, including the captain.
    Then there was the time when the Navy, intent on vaccinating me against tetanus, came tha-a-a-t close to killing me (see 5/22/07 for the story).
    Crib deaths, almost unknown before, account for almost 10,000 US yearly deaths, now that babies are being vaccinated against childhood diseases. And the worst of all is the whooping cough vaccine, with is causing deaths and babies with irreversible brain damage.
    “The incidence of asthma has been found to be five times higher in vaccinated children than in unvaccinated children.” The Lancet. And, “It is officially admitted that all cases of polio in the US since the introduction of the vaccine, are caused by the vaccine. The same has been seen in Australia, England, and other countries.” Dr. Viera Scheibner. For more vaccination quotes see www.vaclib.org.
    The silver…no, make that gold…lining is the billions being raked in by the vaccine makers and the doctors administering the vaccines. So, heck, what’s a few deaths and autistic children? BFD. Well, whatever they invested this year on their media onslaught, sure has paid off big time. Their year-end bonuses this year should be outstanding.
   
11/23/09

Xmas Present
    With Thanksgiving initiating the Christmas buying season, I was thinking back over the more memorable presents I’d gotten as a kid. Well, there were the standard gauge Lionel electric trains…with more cars and accessories on ensuing Christmases. And those horseback riding lessons when I was twelve. Another major gift, when I was seven, was a workbench and a Chem-Craft chemistry set and a book of experiments for me to play with.
    Bet you don’t know that when you put a couple of drops of glycerin on some potassium permanganate it will soon start bubbling and then burst into flames.
    Toys that teach are something to be considered for your kids…as well as riding lessons. Or maybe that musical instrument he or she’s been asking about? What a wonderful skill to acquire. I wonder what my life might have been like if my dad had let me take piano lessons I so wanted when I was seven. And then again when I was fourteen (see 4/21/09). Sigh.

11/22/09

200?
    With every other mammal except man living between ten and seventeen times their age at puberty, obviously we should be living from 120 to 200. Maybe we’re doing something wrong.
    Well, gee, who the heck wants to live an extra hundred years doddering around a nursing home? On the bright side, since you’ll probably have Alzheimer’s, the other people in the nursing home will be new acquaintances every day. New friends.
    Studies of centenarians, on the other hand, show that most of them are in good health and a third of them still have all their marbles. The infirm tend to die off, with the more robust enjoying their extra years in good health. They’re out there walking, biking, and playing golf. They’re reading, painting, playing musical instruments, and some are continuing their work. The smokers, drinkers, and fatties are long gone.
    So, how can you get to a hundred in good health, and with all your marbles? I’d suggest using common sense, but since there doesn’t seem to be any such thing, let’s go with what science tells us.
    First, I hope it is no stretch to suggest that the best way to keep your body healthy is to give it the food, water, exercise and sleep it’s designed to use. Well, we sure aren’t doing that today!
    So, let’s start with the food. Our digestive system has been designed (or evolved) so our food must first be chewed thoroughly, allowing the saliva to start the digestive process, getting it ready for the stomach. Once chewed to a liquid and swallowed, the stomach pours on the acid to get the food ready for the colon to take the needed things out of it our body needs to keep our cells in good shape.
    We have a built in police force, alert to fight any invading poisons, germs, viruses, parasites, or fungi…our immune system. It also keeps busy checking every cell in your body, ready to trash any starting cancers or fix any other things that go wrong. It’s a combo personal doctor, repair and maintenance department.
    It’s kept pretty busy taking care of the endless invading germs and viruses…and repairing any cuts or other damage to the skin or bones.
    Where things go wrong are when the immune system is overwhelmed with poisons…like any food that’s short of the enzymes needed to digest it. Alas, when we heat food above 118° it’s enzymes are killed, along with the vitamins and phytonutrients. So the immune system has to drop everything and rush out the troops to fight this invading poison…leaving the door wide open for invading germs, and so on. Yes, cooking food makes it poison…a slow poison that gradually robs us of half our potential lives.
    While we know better than to down a spoon of strychnine, we’re oblivious to more subtle poisons such as caffeine, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, mercury, fluorides, chlorine, vaccinations, etc. Heck, one drop of pure caffeine injected into your body will kill you.
    Between watching five or more hours of TV a day, plus a few more hours on the internet, we get winded going up a flight of stairs. No, watching ball games does not exercise the brain. Your muscles and your brain are use-it-or-lose-it propositions. D’uh?
    To live in good health to over a hundred you’re going to have to adopt a whole new lifestyle. Remineralized organic raw food, plenty of pure water, exercise, and keeping your brain active. Well, it’s a lot easier to just load up at McDonalds, get fat, get cancer, waste a few hundred thousand bucks on chemo, and die. What the hell.
    Besides, a bunch of people living 200 years would raise hob with our restaurants, supermarkets, farming, nursing homes, social security, and current retirement ages. And it could put hundreds of thousands of doctors out of work, close hundreds of hospitals, and absolutely ruin the undertaking business. Meanwhile the New Hampshire tourist business would be booming.

11/21/09

Bum Dope
    At the dump today I picked up a 2006 Rodale Press hard bound copy in mint condition of Beat Diabetes Naturally by Drs. Murray and Lyon.
    Well, knowing how easy it is to cure diabetes in two weeks to a month with a raw food diet, I wanted to see what advice Rodale had to offer. Alas, 404 pages later, as I expected, the authors have their heads stuck firmly in the past and are totally unaware of the work or Drs. Day, Comby, Malkmus, and so on. No mention of raw food or the dangers of pasteurized milk. Lots of recommended canned and cooked foods.

11/20/09

Electric Cars
    The November issue of Inc had a ten-page article on electric vehicles. With the expected launch of the Chevy Volt next November, the interest in electric cars will be growing. Well, they’ll cut down on car exhaust, but until we replace the power generators supplying the national power grid, many using coal, oil, or natural gas, the net reduction in greenhouse gases probably won’t be significant.
    Of course, if by some miracle, cold fusion power is allowed to be implemented, that’ll get rid of the need for the power grid and energy will, essentially, be almost free…and no polluting byproducts.
    The main drawbacks of electric-powered vehicles are the size, weight, and small capacity of today’s batteries. That’s going to limit driving ranges to around 40 miles between charges. Or, with the Volt, until the auxiliary gas-powered engine kicks in to generate more electricity.
    Worse, the Volt is expected to be priced around $40,000. Ouch!
    What’s needed, of course, is a better electric storage system than today’s lead-acid wet-cell car batteries. Well, that’s been invented and patented, but few people are aware of it. Obviously none of the car companies know about it. I’d love to see a state-of-the-art automated factory to make these new batteries right here in New Hampshire. It’s going to be a trillion-dollar industry. Read my 11/5/09 and 7/16/08 entries for the low down on this battery.


11/19/09

Thanksgiving
     Other than childhood memories of Thanksgiving dinners with my family, the one that stands out was when I was in college and our fraternity cook quit on Thanksgiving morning. So I volunteered. Well, I hadn’t cooked before, but I’d watched my dad, so I knew what to do. And I’d helped mash the potatoes and turnip.
    I called dad for his dressing recipe and got to work. Everything came out perfectly for over a dozen fraternity brothers. Roast turkey, sage dressing, cranberry sauce (canned), mashed potatoes and turnip, giblet gravy, ending with pumpkin pie (bought). I even knew how to carve the turkey.
    Whew! What a responsibility!

11/18/09

Scientology
    Back in 1950, when I was working as an engineer/announcer at WSPB in Sarasota FL, the May issue of Astounding Science Fiction had an article by L. Ron Hubbard on Dianetics, the Science of Mental Health, a book he was just having published.
    He explained that an important survival strategy for living things was to avoid pain. That when we experienced pain, on a subconscious level we equated what we were seeing, hearing and feeling with that pain so that in the future when something like that happened we could automatically avoid it without having to stop and think. Like when, as a baby, you touch the hot stove and burn your fingers, from then on you’ll have a subconscious need to avoid touching stoves. He called these subconscious reactions engrams.
    And we gradually build up a collection of painful experiences we automatically avoid…some of which make good sense, and others not. And these are experiences which are either physically painful or mentally.
    Hubbard’s approach to deconditioning these conditioned responses was to put the person into a hypnotic state and then go back with them in memory and re-live the painful experience. He had the person explain what was being seen, heard, felt and thought at the time. He found that each time the incident was re-lived it had less and less emotional reaction for the person.
    The first time through the person would react to the pain or fear, but with repetition the reaction would lessen, changing to laughter, and finally to boredom. And from then on that particular painful memory (engram) would no longer subconsciously influence the person’s life.
    Hubbard’s book explained in detail how to hypnotize the person and how to get them to re-live their experiences. Wow! I had to try this out!
    My friend, and fellow announcer, was game. You can read the story of how I proved that Dianetics really worked in the Pregnancy section of my 4/19/09 posting. Well, it sure worked for me. When I saw what it could do I had to learn more about this, so I quit my job (just as I was offered a substantial raise) and went to the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth NJ for their six-week course.
    In the book, Hubbard explained that people who had all of their engrams removed were what he called “clear.” They had eidetic recall of everything they read, and so on.
    On arriving in Elizabeth I signed in and asked if there were any clears I could meet. The people working there laughed, explaining that clears were just Hubbard’s imagination and part of his science fiction background. And later I learned from Paul, the guy running the place, that the whole Dianetics idea wasn’t actually Hubbard’s, that he had by a stroke of luck, found the manuscript for it in a hospital when some guy had died and had dressed it up in science fiction fashion for his book.
    Well, that explained why the first half of the book was so flamboyantly typical of Hubbard, and then the second half, more of a practical instruction manual, totally different in tone.
    At the Foundation we students practiced on each other…called a flip-flop. The process was called auditing. First I’d audit Victor for an hour, and then I’d lie down and he’d audit me. And it worked wonderfully, with me “running out” the many beatings I’d gotten from my father. They started when I was two years old and got up early one Sunday morning. I found a bowl of doughnuts my dad had made for company the night before and I ate two of them. Bad decision. It resulted with my father angrily beating me with a hairbrush to "Teach me a lesson."
    As I grew older any sass or resistance to eat what was on my plate could get him to angrily bring out his razor strop and get me screaming in pain.
    When all those pains had been deconditioned, I no longer had thoughts of suicide and I got busy reading books on anything that interested me. Several thousand books later I’m still at it. I was freed! I was off and running with my life. And, without all that mess tying up my subconscious mind, I found my awareness substantially heightened.
    As I’ve mentioned, a University of New Hampshire study found that a high percentage of teen suicides involved chilhood beatings. Inflicting intense pain on a child, who is powerless to do anything about it, makes them feel like giving up. Lordy, animal trainers use love today instead of the whip.
    A good friend of mine, Dick Hussey, sent me a copy of that 1950 Astounding for my birthday a couple of months ago. What a fantastic present! That magazine was one of the milestones of change in my life. Like the day when an angel brought a box of radio parts into Sunday school and offered them to me (8/24/08).
    With Dianetics, any psychological problem can be solved. PTSD? Easy. Give me an hour or two. Any phobia can be cured. With Dianetics, a good auditor can do in a few hours what psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and psychologists wish they could do in years.
    But Hubbard had a problem. Auditors needed to have a license to go into business helping people, and the psychiatrists had that all tied up. You needed to have a medical degree. So Hubbard decided to make Dianetics into a religion, thus allowing auditors to give religious counseling legally. So, being a long time science fiction author (I have seven of his science fiction books), he had no problem in inventing a science fiction religion, Scientology.
    I found that while most people had psychological problems that I could help with, few had any interest in getting help, so I settled for auditing other Dianeticists who asked, and getting on with my life as a television producer, starting my first major business, and my first publication. I lost touch with the Foundation and never got involved with Scientology.
    Dianetics works, right out of the book. It’s a shame that Scientology has gotten such a bad name as a weirdo cult.

11/17/09

Jobs
    The November 23rd issue of Fortune had Steve Jobs on the cover as the “CEO of the Decade,” and they devoted a record-breaking 27 pages to the story.
    Well, between the Macintosh, the iPod and iPhone, Steve’s helped change the world. I do wish he’d paid attention to my letters and faxes, so he could have avoided pancreatic surgery, and then a liver transplant. And the worst part is that until he wises up about his diet, he’ll continue to be plagued by illnesses.
    I still remember that seventeen year old I met in early August 1976, when Sherry and I stopped by his dad’s house in Cupertino CA. Steve showed me the prototype of his Apple I computer, which Steve Wosniak had built. The “Woz” was the technical guy and Jobs was the promoter. Before that they’d been involved with making those telephone black boxes which allowed people to make free phone calls.
    The Apple I, instead of using a mother board with plug-in boards for the processor, memory, interfacing with a tape recorder, keyboard and a monitor, had everything on one board. I told Jobs I thought this as a significant improvement over the Altair 8800, which was the first microcomputer.
    When he asked what I thought they should do next, I explained that the first microcomputer expo would be in Atlantic City in two weeks and that he should be there. And if he couldn’t afford to fly, then take a bus.
    Sure enough, right across from my magazine booth was Jobs with his Apple I. At the end of the show he came over, all excited, “Wayne! Wayne! I got twelve orders! I’m in business.”
    Now, 33 years later, Steve has done well…for himself and for the industry. Just about every major new development in the personal computer field has been introduced first by Apple. Then there’s the iPod, which sure beats the hell out of the Walkman. Mine goes with me every day when I’m out walking…usually listening to a Coast to Coast AM podcast, a Garrison Keillor News from Lake Wobegon podcast, or the thousand or so pieces of music it randomly selects for me.
    I was there for Steve's introduction of the Macintosh, and published a Mac magazine (InCider) for a few years.
    I sure wish there was some way to get through to Steve and get him a copy of my Secret Guide to Health so he wouldn’t need any more operations or sick leave from Apple.


11/16/09

The 2012 Movie
    Well, you see, every so many thousand of years the sun heats up, causing earth’s core to heat up. And that, of course, allows the tectonic plates to shuffle around, causing massive earthquakes and tsunamis.
    If you want to watch two and a half hours of well-done graphics of cities collapsing, along with a flimsy plot of government leaders world-wide, saving themselves and their families (and a couple of Welsh corgis) via huge 21st century arks, built somewhere in China, here’s your chance.
    2012 alarmists will be disappointed at how little of the movie is devoted to airing their theories. But it was fun seeing the White House crushed, Michelangelo’s ceiling painting in the Sistine Chapel split by a quake, and the Yellowstone super-volcano blow. Oh, and California cities falling into the ocean.
    There were some actors in the movie. I thought I recognized one of them, but they didn’t have a lot to do other than jump aside as earthquakes split the ground next to them.


11/15/09

The Late Great
    When I was a kid Great Britain had an empire on which the sun never set. Canada, British Honduras, British Guyana, the British West Indies, Bermuda, and so on around the world. Well, they blew it…big time.
    Now America is fading away as the world leader. Not all that long ago the Mall of America in Minnesota was the largest shopping mall in the world. Today it’s not even in the top ten. Macao now has the largest casino in the world and is ahead of Las Vegas in gambling revenues. Bollywood is bigger than Hollywood. The largest passenger plane is being built in Europe. The tallest building is now in Dubai. Only two of the ten richest people are Americans.
    We’ve moved one industry after another to Asia, so the only way we’re making money these days is to borrow it from other countries or just print it. And once they wise up, we’re in big trouble as our dollar sinks out of sight. As a stamp collector, when I was a kid, I had German ten and twenty million mark stamps.
    Looking on the bright side, perhaps whatever catastrophe awaits us in 2012 will solve everything. Do ya think?

11/14/09

The Sickness Industry
    With our Department of Health telling us that only 1.5% of Americans are truly healthy, could it be that we’re doing something wrong? Okay, when we get sick we go to the doctor for help. Alas, none of the 126 medical schools teach doctors anything about disease prevention, only how to relieve the pain caused by the disease’s symptoms. How to turn off the body’s alarm system telling us something is wrong.
    Worse, the drugs have side effects. Often, wicked side effects.
    All of which helps explain why sickness is a $2.5 trillion dollars American industry. And why our pharmaceutical companies are the most profitable industry in America, where the top ten pharmaceutical companies made more profits last year than the other 390 on the Fortune 400 list combined.
    The industry spends around $100 million a year on campaign contributions and an army of lobbyists to make sure they never lose on any bill in Congress they want passed.
    Out front are some 790,000 doctors and 165,000 dentists, all dependent on our not wising up about why we’re getting sick.
    So, as you happily bite into that pizza, you’re on your way toward an expensive, very painful, and debilitating illness. Will it be cancer, like half of your friends? Maybe it’ll be a merciful sudden fatal heart attack. Well, that’ll save your family a bundle over the more popular cancer route, which can rack up several hundred thousand dollars before the casket closes.
    Or, like my dad’s mother, you can enjoy pies and cakes, and then, when your teeth start to rot, your friendly dentist will put in some amalgam fillings…and you’ll spend the next decade or two of your life with multiple sclerosis before you die.
    Then there’s this old man up in a tiny New Hampshire town, trying to get the news out that if people would stop putting poisons into and on their bodies they’d never get sick…and, if they are sick, they’ll get well, and with no side effects.

11/13/09

Ramifications
    If word does somehow leak out to the public about raw food, and the importance of avoiding poisons such as sugar, alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine, the eventual changes will be major. Imagine…no more liquor stores. No more cigarette machines. Or supermarkets. No burgers and fries, with a shake on the side. No Starbucks or Krispy Kreme shops. Big Pharma, our most prosperous industry by far, will be long gone.
    Very few nursing homes. About a tenth as many doctors and hospitals. And with everyone living in good health 120 to 200 years (and more), people will be retiring when they are 80 to 100. With a hundred years to enjoy oneself, and in good health, travel and entertainment businesses will be booming.
    We’ll need millions of small farms to produce the raw milk, and organic food the public will demand. No more factory-raised cows, chickens and pigs. No more chemical fertilizer or pesticides sprayed on crops. No more genetically modified crops.
    With the new super-batteries making electric cars practical, no more corn crops for ethanol.
    Fast food stores will be selling kale, spinach and other dark green smoothies, salads, and maybe even sashimi plates. Coke will go the way of sarsaparilla, a great memory of how we were cutting our lives in half in the 20th century. Starbucks and Dunkin Doughnuts will join the Woolworth’s Five and Ten Cent stores in history.
    If we still have supermarkets, I wonder what they’ll be like, with no row after row of boxed and canned food? And what, if anything, will be sold in vending machines?
    With so much of our society invested in cooked and processed food, getting the word out that every sickness we have we’re doing to ourselves, mainly by cooking our food, is going to take some time. With trillions of dollars depending on our current lifestyle, getting the word out is a monumental task. There is almost no money in health and we’re accustomed to half of us getting cancer. Those bald-headed kids dying of leukemia. Heck, let’s get another burger and let the government pay our hospital and burial bills. Make that a double.

11/12/09

Horse Manure
    A hundred years ago there were more horses in New York City than cars and the city was up to here in horse manure. Tens of thousands of tons of it a month. Phew!
    Then, along came Henry Ford and solved the problem.
    When I was a kid in the first grade in Philadelphia the post office was still using horse-drawn wagons. A couple blocks from our apartment was an ice house, where horse-drawn wagons backed up to take on hundred pound blocks of ice for the ice boxes in every home. The houses had a sign in the front window telling the ice men how many pounds to bring in. They’d cut off the ice blocks with ice picks and carry them to the back door of the houses with their ice tongs, take them in and put them in the kitchen ice box. My job was to empty the drip pan under the ice box several times a day.
    The milk man also had a horse-drawn wagon. Before dawn he’d bring a couple quart bottles of milk and put ’em on the back porch. On really cold mornings we’d find the bottle lid raised up an inch or two by the frozen milk.
    The Italian ices man also had a horse-drawn wagon, as did the umbrella man and knife sharpener.
    Just as technology saved our cities from being buried in manure, our current concerns over CO2 and global warming will blow away as a new battery technology makes electric cars practical and cold fusion replaces coal, oil, and nuclear-power generators, making the national power grid, with it’s millions of miles of wires, a memory for old men a hundred years from now.

11/11/09

Wise Up, Sucker
    If you are still happily munching on a burger, totally oblivious of how awful our meat industry has gotten, you are a prime sucker. We’re eating some thirty-five million cows a year, almost all raised under unspeakable factory conditions. They’re given growth hormone injections which makes them grow faster. But makes them sick, so they’re fed twenty-eight million pounds of antibiotics. And they’re fed genetically modified corn instead of grass.
    And we get those when we eat the meat, which explains why some girls are going into puberty as young as three and four years old.
    It isn’t any better with chickens and pigs. The November 9th The New Yorker had a review of a new book, Eating Animals, on the subject.
    The beef I eat comes from a nearby farm where the cows are fed grass. And my eggs are from their free range chickens. I get my raw milk there, too.
    If the poor suckers ever wise up and start demanding edible beef, chickens and pigs, it’ll put the big meat packers out of business and trigger the growth of millions of small family farms where the cows are grass-fed. And, if they wise up and eat their food raw, they’ll put hundreds of thousands of doctors out of business, thousands of hospitals, and all the drug companies.

11/10/09

College
    Nearly half the students at four-year colleges aren’t finishing, even after six years. It’s 41% for blacks, 47% for tans (Hispanics), and 59% for whites.
    Well, except for engineering, that’s probably no great loss for our country. Even with those poor figures we’ve a glut of English majors looking for work. Meanwhile we’re having to import Indian and Chinese engineers for what few companies wee have left that use engineers.
    A big part of the problem is that our public schools are barely teaching kids to read. And the educational system is such a miserable grind that few kids ever discover how much fun learning can be. As I’ve explained, our schools are purposely designed to prevent kids from learning to think. It’s a control thing. It’s all short term memory to pass tests. The nightly homework grind. And the super-grind for the finals. Fun? No way! 
    We need schools that are fun and teach kids to think. And we need the educational materials to facilitate this approach…like DVDs on any subject kids might want to look into. We don’t need to have millions of kids learning how to solve simultaneous equations. And if we want our kids to be able to speak a second language, let’s teach them when they are two years old and their brains are wide open to deal with languages. And get them started reading at two and three.

11/9/10

Child Meds
    PBS’s Frontline just did a show on the medication of children. And not a word came up about why children are hyperactive, just what meds to give them to stop it. Call it bipolar disorder and prescribe a bunch more medications.
    You want calm children? It’s simple! Just stop feeding them sugar this and sugar that. Jeeze, my mother knew that eighty years ago. I was fed cooked cereals with cream and no sugar. Whole wheat toast with no jam or jelly. Or peanut butter. Soft boiled eggs. Poached egg with hash or egg-on-toast. I never had any cold cereal until I went off to choir camp for a month when I was twelve.
    Sugar Frosted O’s with pasteurized milk and maybe a pop tart will give any child the heebie-jeebies. Today I’d feed my kids raw food, just like I’m eating. Soft boiled eggs have the yolk raw, so that’s fine. Ditto, poached. I love my orange and grapefruit slush, followed by bananas, and the berries in season with raw milk for breakfast.
    Mother had no cookies or muffins around. Her sandwiches were on whole wheat bread. And she usually read to me while I was eating…which may help explain why I’ve read so many books.
    When someone has a health or psychiatric problem it never occurs to doctors to find out what’s causing it and stop that. They’re totally trained to think in terms of medications to stop the symptoms. And when a med causes side effects (which most do), to prescribe more meds for those.

11/8/09

More 911
    Somehow I got on the Legendary Times Books mailing list. They’re at Box 6400, Oceanside CA 92052. So I checked their books on the 911 attack. Twenty-five of ’em! Golly, and I’ve only read a dozen so far. I’ve got to catch up!
    I know you’ll find this hard to believe, but none of them are in agreement with the official explanation of what happened that morning. With hardly any aspect of it. Buncha kooks, obviously. Our government wouldn’t lie to us or cover things up.
    Now, about that Obama birth certificate…


11/7/09

MS
    Since half of my grandmothers died of multiple sclerosis, I’ve been particularly interested in this bummer. So, when I saw the MS Veteran publication in the Manchester VA hospital, I grabbed a copy.
    It was only a quarterly eight-pager, but it was full color and printed on heavy weight glossy stock. Expensive. It had articles on a couple of drugs being used to treat MS.
    When I asked the doctors I met at the VA about aspartame, they were unfamiliar with it. And the Concord (NH) Hospital has diet Coke and diet ginger ale on their room service menu! No one I asked had a clue that aspartame is a major cause of MS. Blank stares.
    On my next visit I’ll ask if they are familiar with the work of Dr. Hal Huggins, who has been curing MS patients just by removing their dental amalgam fillings, which are half mercury…a deadly poison. That’s what killed my grandmother, but no one knew about it in those days.
    So we happily eat a standard American diet that will guarantee tooth decay. Our dentists, largely unaware of the MS consequences of amalgam fillings, happily fill our mouths with mercury, and the parade goes on. Our diet also guarantees we’re going to be overweight, so hey, drink diet sodas…thus, if the mercury doesn’t give you MS, the aspartame will. And your doctor will prescribe Fampridine or Naltrexone instead of having you get your amalgam fillings replaced by a dentist who is experienced in doing that, getting you to stop diet sodas, and encouraging you to change to a raw food diet so your immune system can stop fighting all that cooked food and get busy repairing the mess you’ve made.
    MS is pretty easy to cure…unless you go to your friendly family doctor, whose medical education probably ended in medical school. And he sure doesn’t have time to waste on the web. That could eat into his golf time. Or his pharmaceutical industry paid vacations.

11/6/09

Ham Radio
      Of course nothing very serious is really going to happen in 2012, but the worry-warts are gearing up just in case. They’re stocking up on food and ammo, and many are investing in a ham radio station. Well, if the power web goes down, we’re all in deep do-do.
    Without power, the gas station pumps won’t work, so trucking will stop. That means stores will run out of food. No radio. No TV. No telephone or cell phones. No internet. Panic. The only dependable communications, both short range and long, will be via amateur radio…at least as long as the car engine keeps running to charge the battery.
    Alas, we don’t have very many hams these days. You can read the story of what happened in my 11/22/08 entry. For almost twenty years after WWII most high schools had amateur radio clubs, so kids had all heard about the hobby. Today, with zero publicity and almost no school radio clubs, few people know the hobby exists.
    Back in the 1950s some 80% of the young hams went on to pursue high tech careers. With both India and China graduating about twelve times as many engineers are we are, what few of our high tech companies are left are having to import engineers to stay in business.
    It’s fun to be able to sit and talk with people all around the world. I’ve contacted hams in over 350 countries.
    Anyway, if something awful does come along you’re going to wish you’d made friends with a local ham. Or, maybe gotten a ham license yourself. It isn’t very difficult. Heck, it used to be that 50% of the new hams were either 14 or 15 years old.
    What could happen? Well, the Yellowstone super-volcano has been acting up and could blow. Planet-X might swing by, triggering a pole shift, as predicted by Nostradamus. Angry Muslims could easily sneak nukes into the country to take out a few cities, destroying the power web in the process. I’m going to heave a big sigh of relief when 2013 arrives.

11/5/09

Headlines
    This week’s US News, which now arrives in a pdf format instead of paper, started with lead articles on healthcare reform legislation and then the need for energy innovation. Hey, Barak, you need a couple more czars, if you don’t have them yet. Yes, I’m volunteering, of course.
    As the new Health Czar I’d be immediately assassinated before I could publicly reveal how easy it is to cure any illness with no drugs and never get sick again. Teams financed by the pharmaceutical, medical, food, health insurance, and lobbyist industries would vie to see who could get me first.
    As alternative energy czar the oil, coal, nuclear, hydro, wind and solar industries would put huge prices on my head in order to stop me before I could reveal the simplicity and low cost of cold fusion power. Well, I might be tempted to tease the wind and solar crowd with news of the capacitor battery, which would make those energy sources much more practical.
    Alas, since the main beneficiaries of health and low cost energy are the people, and they have no way to learn of them, nor any real voice to change things if they did…short of something like health and alternative energy czars speaking out…how about dropping Barak a note recommending me for the positions? Hey, a double-czar! He’s at The White House, Washington DC 20252. He needs a hand…after all, he’s young and totally inexperienced at the job, as we’ve seen from his actions so far.
    And if he doesn’t have an education czar yet, I’m willing to wear three hats and whip our school system into shape so we’re turning out the best educated high tech geniuses in the world. If we don’t make some major changes, and soon, America, as an empire, will be going the route of the English, German, Spanish, Roman and Greek empires. Pfft. 

11/4/09

The Middle East
    The commercialization of cold fusion would pull the plug on Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq’s major revenue source, putting all those Arabs back into their tents. It would also put serious crimps in the economies of Nigeria and Venezuela. Gee, what a shame.
    It would also shut up the uninformed jibber-jabber about CO2, global warming, and scuttle Al Gore’s carbon credits scam.
    Well, it’s time to shut down the national power web, with its coal, natural gas, oil, hydroelectric, and nuclear power stations. And get rid of a gazillion gas stations.
    With substantially lower transportation costs, food prices will drop. We might even see the Post Office put off another postage increase for an extra year. With the loss of billions in gas taxes, Congress and state legislatures will, of course, find other revenue sources.
    As cold fusion power spreads around the world there will be no further excuse for building nuclear power stations, including those that are actually being made to produce nuclear weapons.

11/3/09

Iraq
    With the Obama administration determined to withdraw American forces and leave the Iraqis to cope with the mess we’ve made, how many trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives have we wasted to no benefit to us or Iraq? Thanks, Bush. Oh, and Rumsfeld.
    Well, it’s been a wonderful bonanza for our arms makers and the contractors we’ve hired to do some of our fighting.
    Alas, Obama hasn’t brought me on board as his War Czar…or even consulted me on alternatives. Frankly, I’m pissed at being ignored like this. So, what would I advise if asked?
    First, to stop the suicide bombing and Muslims shooting at us, I’d bury those we’ve killed or have killed themselves, in pig shit, and show it on TV…as I explained in my 9/25/08 entry. No Paradise or virgins await them.
    I’d put in radio and TV stations in the major cities to provide news, educational programs and entertainment. Yes, with a lot of it in English, the world’s international language.
    To get them back working I’d provide funding for small family businesses. Microfinancing (1/2/07). I’d get business incubator groups organized in the cities to help get new businesses started (4/4/08). And I’d have a team of experts survey the availability of resources within easy shipping distance, and then nearby markets, for the possible startup of new industries (12/14/08).
    Iraq has a lot of desert which could be developed into organic farms using the Patterson irrigation system (5/2/08). With so much of our American farmland poisoned by years of chemical fertilizer and then pesticides, there could be a growing American market for organic food.
    Since we’re not using it any more we could lend them our Constitution. It’s got a pretty good set of rules to live by.
   
11/2/09

An AIDS Vaccine!
    The recent announcement of a successful HIV vaccine turns out, on closer inspection, to be unsupported, with successes no greater than chance.
    Still, they keep trying. As long as the word doesn’t get out that Dr. Comby has been curing every AIDS case he’s had just with a diet change, a pharmaceutical company will be able to make billions with a successful vaccine.
    The word about the blood purifier also curing every AIDS patient also has to be kept quiet. Well, the FDA has been doing it’s best to keep the public from learning about the Beck blood purifier, a simple little gadget which could be made to sell for about $5, which passes a tiny electric current through the blood and kills the HIV. I published an article in the May 1996 issue of my 73 magazine which showed how to build one at home with $19 in parts. See my 7/16/06, 1/16/08, 5/15/08, 10/22/08, 5/20/09, 7/25/09, and 10/19/09 entries.

11/1/09

Raw Milk
    If we can get the word out to the public on how toxic pasteurized milk is to their bodies and families, we can increase the demand for raw milk and, hopefully, do this in time to save the small farmer milk industry.
    You see, American farmers are up against both huge factory farms in California and the freighters full of powdered milk which are coming in from China…which is then rehydrated and sold as fresh milk.
    Those famous people shilling for the milk industry with their milk mustaches are helping millions of gullible Americans head to the hospitals with cancer, and then, a few tens of thousands of dollars later, to their morticians.
    I’m exaggerating? Do your homework…I have. Read Cohen’s Milk the Deadly Poison and the more recent (2007) The Raw Truth About Milk by Dr. Douglass. You’ll be out there looking for your nearest source of raw milk and warning anyone who will listen about pasteurized milk. Heck, pasteurized milk fed to a calf will kill it. And us too…slowly, expensively, and painfully.
    The dangers of raw milk have, of course, been enormously blown out of proportion. Raw milk is local, so there’s no billions of dollars of advertising to buy the interest of the media or votes in state legislatures.. Money talks, and our health is irrelevant.

10/31/09

How To Be Opinionated
    There are two basic approaches to achieving the state of being opinionated. One is to do your homework and know enough about things so you understand them. With this platform it’s difficult not to have opinions which are fairly difficult to shake.
    The other, much more popular approach, is to keep your homework to a minimum and substitute intuition for data. Then you parrot someone else’s equally unfounded opinions.
    Both approaches qualify you as opinionated, and both will tend to make you frustrating to others. The first type of person is difficult to sway because he knows what he’s talking about; the second because his ego is on line.
    So how do you deal with opinionated people? The best way is to agree with them, whether you do or not. The chap whose opinions are well-researched isn’t going to change unless you’ve done more homework than he has. You’re going to have to come up with new data for him. He’s the easiest to change, really, because if you are able to provide him with new information, he’ll re-evaluate the data that went into developing his opinions.
    The close-minded chap will just get mad, so there’s no benefit in trying to change his opinions.
    As an officially registered Opinionated Person, I’m amused at the reactions of people who want to change mine. I’m not sure I can recall the last time someone tried to use reason as an argument. The usual approach is to use repetition, often with increasing frustration and passion. When that doesn’t work, they shift to heavier duty emotion, working through sincerity, vehemence, on into anger. Boy, am I obstinate! No amount of "reasoning" changes my fixed opinions. "Crusty old SOB."

10/30/09

The Entrepreneurial Approach
    As an entrepreneur I have to be damned sure I’m right about business decisions. I’m betting the farm when I start a new business. With everything riding on it, I’m not going to last long if I’m depending on intuition instead of heavy duty homework for success. To put it scientifically, luck has been broken down into a set of universally fundamental laws (Murphy’s Laws), obviously designed by a malevolent higher intelligence to put you out of business. This is no arena for the intuitively opinionated.
    Since successful entrepreneurs are accustomed to doing their homework…as part of their basic survival pattern…they’re going to tend to be very difficult to deal with when it comes to opinions. Avoid them. Almost everyone avoids me. At first I worried that it might be an underarm problem, but not even the application of enough deodorant to keep an elephant half safe prevented clearings opening around me at cocktail parties and receptions. Now I avoid these soirees unless the hors d’oeuvres will offset the shunning.
    When you’ve done your homework, entrepreneuring isn’t as much of a gamble as many people believe. And when you consider the rewards vs. the potential losses, entrepreneuring wins hands down.
    I guess it all depends on what you want from life. When you consider that it’s not much more difficult to be successful than it is not to, the balance seems to shift toward considering a path through life which has a greater potential for success.
    So what’s "success?" For nit-pickers, let’s define it as being connected with the quality of life. Some of it is making money, but that’s incidental for entrepreneurs. Oh, we know we have to make money or else we won’t be able to achieve our goals, but you’re not going to find any studies which show that entrepreneurs are driven to make money.
    Though I’ve made a bunch down through the years, it’s been incidental and never driven me to live the life of the rich and famous. I don’t feel driven to show off or prove to others how great I am. I’ve got my goals and they’re what’s important.
    Goals are the main dividing line. A group once did a survey of the 1953 Yale graduating class, asking them what their goals were and what plans they had for achieving them. In 1973, they checked the same group to see how they’d done. At graduation, only 3% of the class had goals and plans. Twenty years later this 3% accounted for 97% of the entire class’ net worth. It’s almost enough to make a person think!

How To Fail
    That’s easy! Our educational system aims us at failure. If we’d planned it that way, we couldn’t have cooked up a better system for making sure that 99% of the people never make much money.
    For instance, there are three virtually sure-fire career paths which will assure you’ll never have a healthy positive net worth. One is to work for the government, including the military. The second is to work for a large corporation. The third is to teach. Professors really hate that concept when I’m giving college lectures.
    You need to read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, where the rich dad is his friend’s dad, who has his own business, and the poor dad is his, who is a college professor.
    Yes, it’s very soul satisfying to teach. But I find it even more soul satisfying to teach and make money, which, as a publisher, is what I do. I beat the system.
    So what do our colleges encourage? Golly, you can’t do much with a B.S. or B.A. You need to go on and get a master’s degree…then a doctorate. By then, having missed out on several years of practical business experience, you’re virtually unemployable. So you become a teacher.
    One of these days, either by dumb luck or by the intervention of a power higher than any of which I can conceive right now, there may develop a college which is worth kids investing four of the best years of their lives. Until then, my advice to youngsters is to stop wasting your life going to school and spend your time educating yourself.
    I agree it’s well worthwhile to have a broad education. I don’t agree that any school or college has yet found a good way to accomplish this. Lectures are garbage. You listen, take notes, memorize them, pass a test and then a year later have virtually no recollection of any details…and not much of the concepts involved. Garbage.
Textbooks are baloney too. In your entire life have you ever read a textbook that was fun to read? A textbook that got you excited about learning? More garbage.
    A survey of the people listed in Who’s Who showed that they averaged reading 20 books a year. They’ve made Who’s Who because they learned long ago that their education didn’t really start until they got out of our abysmal school system.
    People keep asking me how come I’m so damned good at this visionary thing? How did I know that microcomputers would become a huge industry? How did I see what the compact disc would do to the music industry right from the day it was introduced? How did I know that laptop computers would grow the way they have?
    Believe me, it wasn’t anything school did for me. I read a lot. Oh, I read a little fiction…love Clancy’s books…but 95% of my reading is, like the Who’s Who listees, non-fiction. I read about management, technology, business, psychology, words, selling, and so on. My library fills two whole rooms and most of the halls of my home.
Then there’s magazines. I don’t see how anyone who hopes to be successful can be ignorant about technology, government, education, and the world in general. I’d say that a minimal magazine subscription list for an entrepreneur (or any other well-educated person) would include Newsweek, Time, US News, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Discover, Scientific American, Popular Science, and The New Yorker. Of course, that’s only my opinion. I’m entitled to that, right?
    Newspapers? Waste of time! If it’s of any real importance it’ll be covered more concisely in a news magazine. If you’re going to get the data you need, you have to avoid wasting your time.
    In addition to the above magazines I also have to keep up with my special interests such as electronics, ham radio, computers, music, audio, and publishing.
    So why are entrepreneurs so important? Because they’ve supplied 82% of the new jobs in New Hampshire in the last few years. They’re our state’s major strength and our bulwark against recessions. And that’s my opinion.

10/29/09

Black, White And Tan
    We’ve always had racial problems in America. In the early days we solved them by wiping out most of the Indians. That was the Darwinian approach. Today we’re a softer, gentler nation, to re-coin a phrase.
    Well, some of us are kinder and gentler. If you watch TV, go to the movies or read the papers you know that distressingly large segments of our population don’t really qualify in the K and G departments. I’m not only writing about our criminals and the police, but also the religious groups that are willing to kill for their beliefs…such as those closing down abortion clinics. And let’s not forget the union groups willing to do almost anything to protect their interests, and that includes beating people and burning homes and cars. Kinder and gentler?
    I suppose you didn’t bother to watch the movie "Skokie" on TV. This was about what happened when the American Nazi party announced they would march in Skokie (IL), a city with a large Jewish population. For the ACLU it was a test of the First Amendment. For the Jews it was an incitement to kill.
    No, I’m not condoning mass murder, even though, from a philosophical view, it would come under the heading of a Darwinian survival of the fittest heading. I do get annoyed at selective anger over mass murders. I can understand the anger at the Chinese leaders for the massacre of all those students. I get a bit put out when I see our liberal media making a big deal out of this, but then ignoring the student massacre in Burma. How angry have we gotten over Stalin killing tens of millions? And Mao killing millions of Chinese? We managed to ignore those massive exterminations pretty well.
    We’re also rather sanguine about the mass murders in Portuguese Timor, in Sri Lanka, Liberia, Nigeria, Cambodia, Laos, and so on. Yes, we did manage to get partially upset over the Russian decimation of the Afghans. And we’ve almost gotten upset over the death squads in several Central American countries…in Argentina and Chile. We’re not sure how angry we are over the murder of Haitians and Cubans.
    Hitler wiped out about six million Jews, a fact of which we are reminded fairly regularly. He also wiped out about seven million non-Jews, which I don’t recall much complaining about. You know, Gypsies and other undesirables.
    Meanwhile, here in America we have our own race problems between blacks, whites and Hispanics. Of course, as I’ve mentioned, in the long run…it may take hundreds of years, but eventually we’ll all be intermarried and be a tan color. That seems inevitable.
    Since we have our racial problems right now, the fact that they’ll smooth out in a few hundred years doesn’t make things any better. We need to honestly face our present problems and come up with some practical solutions to them.

The Real Racial Problem
    An issue of Insight spilled the beans. The main topic was the difference in IQ between blacks and whites. This isn’t by any means a new subject, it’s just that the emotional backlash to it has been so hysterical that the facts have been fairly well obscured.
    Researchers in the IQ vs. race field have been so vilified that few people have dared to continue this work. Why is this so emotional, particularly with blacks? If we’re going to get our country back into shape to fight a global business battle, we’ve got to stop blinding ourselves to facts we don’t like and come to grips with reality.
    The fact is that there is a serious difference in the IQs of blacks, Hispanics and whites. In each group the IQs form a bell-shaped curve. We’ve established an IQ of 100 as the average for whites. On that basis blacks are centered on 85 and Hispanics on 90. Yes, I know all about the tests being claimed to be culturally biased. Well, that’s been completely refuted. Using the same tests we find that the Japanese IQ centers on 110. Yep, as a group they’re smarter than our whites.
    When I started visiting Africa 40-some years ago, I quickly saw for myself the difference. In Kenya I saw blacks who had been waiting on tables in the top restaurants for years still unable to understand any English. I found I had to learn Swahili if I wanted to ask for bread, a knife or a spoon.
    When I talked with white teachers at the University of Nairobi I discovered they were forced to graduate black students who were unable to read and write. When I went to the main post office in Nairobi and bought five seven shilling stamps, a group of four black postal clerks were unable to decide for sure how much the total should be. They had to ask an Indian clerk.
    I have run into some highly intelligent blacks from Ghana and Nigeria, so if it ever becomes possible to do more IQ research in Africa, I believe they’ll find that IQs vary considerably from tribe to tribe.
    These differences in IQ explain a lot of our problems in America. We’re trying to put children with IQs from the 60s on up to around 200 all through the same public school mill. This means that the lower IQ children are going to fail and keep failing…but not before dragging down everyone else. Our schools try to match their curriculum to the lowest common denominator, not the middle.
    We have this baloney we try to sell about everyone being created equal. Well, we aren’t. We’re created unequal in many ways…in sex, height, weight, beauty, intelligence, and so on. We’re all different in many ways, and that includes IQ.
    Now let me quote a bit from Insight. "The reason such groups as the Association of Black Psychologists, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Education Association oppose IQ testing for blacks, and indeed all forms of standardized testing for anyone, is that blacks on average score significantly lower on the tests than whites…so significantly that four times as many blacks as whites qualify as borderline mentally retarded or lower as a proportion of their respective populations. Futhermore, the test scores of fully half of all blacks indicate a mental capacity to perform, at best, skilled blue-collar jobs that require no ’book learning’ as part of training, jobs that were plenti¬ful, say, 60 years ago, but are dwindling in a globalized U.S. economy that has exported much of its manufacturing assembly work. By contrast, only 16% of whites score that low."
    "The different middle points for the two bell curves explain why few blacks…only 3%…score above 115. This is the figure that IQ experts cite as the minimum level for entering a learned pro¬fession, and these are the results they use to explain why many blacks lag in school."
    All is not bleak for blacks. "Intelligence does not account for every human talent. Athletic ability, musical talent, creativity, memory and people skills have little to do with intelligence; even borderline retarded people can play in orchestras."
    This explains why colleges have been having such a difficult time finding black teachers and students. There was a call for affirmative action for more black philosophy professors when they found that only 1% of them were black. When they checked the IQs of the professors they decided that this was about right. Only 1% as many blacks have the required IQ as whites.
    So are the rednecks right, are whites better than blacks? What does "better" mean" We’re all different. I have a very high IQ, so does that make me better than anyone with a lower IQ? No, just different. Yes, I’m better at some things, and a whole lot worse at others.
    I tend to think of having a high IQ being a lot like having a bigger computer. That’s fine, but a computer is no better than its programming or the data it has to draw upon. You need all three elements. The fastest computer made can’t do anything without software. And the best computer with superb software is helpless without data.
    Our government-run public school system, with it’s fixed curriculum, is totally unsuited for dealing with children with a wide variation of IQs. It’s part of the recipe for the current public school disaster.
    Compare that with the Sudbury Valley School, where the kids learn what they want, setting their own curriculums, and with spectacular results. Kids, if allowed, love to learn, right from the moment their heads pop out of their mother’s bellies. Sudbury doesn’t separate kids by age, gives no tests, and no grades, and costs less than half as much to run as nearby public schools.
    Let’s help our kids learn what they want and build skills. And run our schools fifty weeks of the year, with attendance voluntary so families can take vacations whenever convenient. Let’s help 75 IQ black and 200 IQ white kids build lots of skills and interests.

10/28/09

Food In Mouth Disease
    With 32% of Americans obese, as compared with 3% of the Japanese, we’re the fattest country in the world. With mountains of blubber waddling around our streets and those too fat to walk in carts in our supermarkets, when I see them I wish there was some way I could help.
    But they are prisoners of their addiction to fattening food. They face a life, mercifully a short one, of sickness, disease, ridicule and humiliation.
    I particularly enjoy getting letters and phone calls from people who, after reading my book, have lost fifty, a hundred, and even two hundred pounds. The magic of raw food. Alas, it takes a strong character to be able to make the decision for this major lifestyle change.
    And it is a whopping change. No more McDonalds. Nor restaurants. You have to find sources for organic food, free range eggs, and raw milk. T’aint easy for most city folk. No big problem here in New Hampshire. Your food preparation will probably be at your hands, with the help of a food processor and blender.
    Today I made some fresh raw tomato soup. No cooked tomato soup ever had so much flavor! Simple! I put a package of grape tomatoes and a generous helping of my cole slaw sauce in the blender and a minute later I had a couple pints of raw tomato soup.
    My sauce supply is running low so I’ll pick up a quart of Stonyfield organic plain yogurt tomorrow, put it in the blender with a cup of organic apple cider vinegar, a cup of extra virgin olive oil, a half cup of honey, and some celery seeds, sea salt and cracked pepper. A few seconds later I have almost two quarts of cole slaw sauce to mix with my minced veggies.
    For dinner I get out a dozen pint containers with chopped and sauced celery, asparagus, broccoli, carrots, yams, cabbage (the red cabbage is sweetest), Brussels sprouts, turnip, snow peas, cauliflower, tomato soup, spinach smoothie, and beef or buffalo liver. Each spoonful, which I chew thoroughly, is a taste treat. My, what wonderful flavors! After three or four spoons of each I’m full. Well, almost…I’ve left a little room for some of my super-healthy ice cream for dessert (7/1/09).
    So, how can I reach the third of Americans who are obese and the two-thirds who are overweight with what I’ve learned? “Hey, fatso, wise the hell up,” isn’t going to cut it.

10/27/09

Cleaning Out Government
    While the recession is forcing corporations to downsize and become more productive, there is far less pressure for city and state governments to follow suit…even despite bankruptcies.
    Let’s take New York as a marvelous example of how bad things can get…with no forseeable hope for any improvement.
    Between the fire, police, education, and sanitation department, city civil servant and the Transit Authority unions, New York is a terrible mess. It has 40% more employees per capita than other large cities…and they’re all doing their level best to bleed the city dry.
    One solution is to privatize as many services as possible. In those cities that have done this, 100% have saved money…an average of 25%…and the work done by the contractors was far better (Reader’s Digest, Jan. 92, p.39).
    Even if we’re able to unload city employees, we’re still going to have to re-educate them to work in the private sector. This is going to be a much more difficult challenge than retreading managers forced out of large corporations. I had an aunt who worked in the New York City Unemployment Service, so I have an idea of the mind-set we’ll be up against.
    Then there’s a little matter of accrued civil service time and retirement obligations. How do we counter the job-for-life socialist mind-set? Private enterprise has little need for people who’ve been trained for years never to make waves, to go by the rule book and never to think.
    I’m sure some will exclaim that not all city employees are like that! And I agree there are exceptions. But if we don’t face up to the worst possible scenario we’re asking for failure.
    And what can be done about work rules agreed to by a city that calls for employees to work five hours a day, 180 days a year, with 12 sick days and 12 paid holidays? How do we get school janitors (known as custodians) to sweep the floors daily? Of course, my solution would be to get the students to clean their rooms…just as they do in Japan…and fire a few janitors. There are very few school maintenance jobs students couldn’t do if they were given the responsibility. They could do carpentry, replace broken window panes, mop floors, shovel snow, empty trash, and so on. They might even take more pride in their schools as a result.
    We know the post office could cut costs enormously if Congress would allow private firms to deliver the mail. I’d like to see bidding for city sanitation work. Could motor vehicle departments be privatized? Why not?
    Private prisons are proliferating. How about private fire departments? Could we put that service up for bidding? Why not? Police? That’s a really tough one. Any ideas?
    The more we can eliminate unneeded state and city employees, the lower our taxes can be…and that will contribute considerably to our quality of life.
    I’ve looked down the long list of New Hampshire state departments and administrations with awe. I’ve been trying to find out what all these people are doing…wondering how many are really needed and how much overlap there is.
    In a private business we want to see a plan showing the costs and benefits of a new project before we fund it. Is this a poor concept to apply to government projects? How many state departments are cost effective? How many could be eliminated without leaving a trace? How many could be consolidated? How many really should be expanded? How many are efficiently run and are providing the promised benefits to the public?
    If we are going to shoot for the long run, we’ve got to pare down all state, county, city and town government expenses as much as we can. The more we have to pay for government, the less competitive our businesses will be with those in other countries. We’ve got to run our governments just as we would businesses, looking at the bottom line. We’ve got to make them cost effective, yet provide the product we want.
    Now it’s time to read my 11/16/06 entry on what happened in New Zealand when the socialist government was thrown out by the people. And then my 1/25/08 entry on how to get any government bureau to cut itself in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating.MM

10/26/09

Epilepsy
    The 60 Minutes program did it again! This time with a segment on treating epilepsy. Again, sickness treatment today is all about money and almost zero about health. Totally forgotten by the medical industry, hospitals, etc., is the simple cure for epilepsy discovered some eighty year ago at Johns Hopkins, where a simple diet change did the job.
    I reported on this in a 1996 73 magazine editorial, and reprinted it here on my 8/9/08 blog.
    I enjoyed the 60 Minutes lead segment exposé of multi-billion dollar Medicare fraud, and the shrugging indifference to it of the Medicare bureaucrats.
    If we could get the word around that a raw food diet, along with avoiding poisons like sugar, caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, would end virtually all illnesses, we could put Medicare and Medicaid out of business, along with the pharmaceutical industry and a few hundred thousand doctors.

10/26/09

The Brainwashing (this was a 1998 73 Magazine editorial)
     My grandmother went to the Dutch Reformed Church, so that’s where I went. My folks believed in the importance of going to college, so I went to college. I was so brainwashed…inculcated…with the beliefs of my parents that it took years before I began to be able to actually think for myself. And even longer before I was able to accept the responsibility for thinking for myself.
    It was a long time before I was able to start considering the possibility that virtually all of the things I had accepted as truths could be wrong. The process, for me, started with little things that didn’t make sense when I looked into them. And the more I read and asked questions, the more holes I found in the fabric that had made up my life…that makes up all our lives.
    As I read more and more about our diet, I had the problem of sorting out the more reliable information from the bogus. Whew! there’s a lot of bogus information (a.k.a. opinions) out there. But the more I read, the more the pieces of the puzzle began to fit together.
   The same thing happened when I began to research the education field. Plenty of baloney available there, too. But I found more and more experts that seemed dependable. Their information made sense and was backed by reliable research data. But what I found, as with diet, was nothing like what I’d been taught to believe by my folks. Or what we have all been led to believe by the media and our leaders. And this was what was behind my writing the Secret Guide to Wealth. If you are at all interested in making much money or in having a positive effect on the world, college will probably be a huge waste of your time and money.
    This happened again when I started researching religion. An awful lot of people are going to have nothing further to do with me when I say I doubt if any that are true believers in the Bible have ever bothered to read about the research that's been done into its origin. And, just in case I’ve left someone not thoroughly upset, the same goes for the Koran, the Torah, and the Baghavad Gita.

God Fearing
   Every so often I hear someone claim to be God fearing. Where is this notion that God is going to punish us if we offend him coming from? I’ve come to believe the basic idea is to love God and to love people, not to fear.
    The time was when animal trainers did it by punishing the animals when they did wrong. That approach has been thoroughly discredited. The best animal trainers today work using love and understanding, not pain. In another hundred years or so this message may even reach parents (and, I know you’re not going to believe this, teachers) and get them to teach their children with love and understanding instead of punishment. Recent studies have conclusively shown that teen suicides are tied to childhood punishment. Sure, it’s a lot easier to whack the kid when he’s a nuisance than to love him. We let our anger and frustration get in the way of common sense and the result is a time bomb.
    Since teaching through love and understanding is obviously nature’s way, I just flat out don’t believe that God doesn’t use the same system he’s built into His children — us and the animals. Many religions cement their power over their paying customers by threatening punishment from God. I love the long list of sins they’ve cooked up to keep people afraid, and continuing to pay. “Father, I have sinned.” I also love the way the churches own so much of Manhattan and big lumps of property all around the world. Tax free, of course.

My Aging Soap Box
    So here I am, preaching to a mostly disinterested crowd, pleading them (you) to start thinking — to start investigating all of the things you believe, to see if they are really true. Is the food you’re eating and drinking making you sick and killing you years sooner than possible? Do the keys to the kingdom of God lie in the hands of the clergy or in yours? I’ve mentioned that every well researched book on near death experiences tells us that the people who have died and come back from “heaven” all have a consistent story. They agree there is a force we call God. But after their experience they almost all give up going to church or belonging to any organized religion.
    If I can get you to break away from the accepted mass beliefs…belief in the food you’re eating, our school system, our religions, etc.…perhaps I can then convince you of the power of one. The power that one person can have to improve the world.

10/25/09

1909
    That’s the year my grandfather’s house was built in Brooklyn (NY). That was before electricity was available, so the house had gas pipes into the rooms and gas lamps for lighting. The furnace was coal-fired, with a big coal bin next to the furnace. There was a gas heater for the hot water which had to be lit and a timer set for how long it was to run. The furnace provided hot air which went through large pipes to registers in every room.
    When electricity came available, the house was wired and the gas pipe system no longer used, except for the kitchen stove and a living room heater.
    My grandfather, Tully Willson, had been working for the Denver gas company when his college friend, Henry L. Doughtery, came out to recruit him to work for him. Henry’s dad had died, leaving him a good deal of money and a factory building in Brooklyn. He wanted Tully to move with his wife Netta and daughter, Cleo (age 9), to Brooklyn and start the Improved Appliance Company. Tully would invent the products and Henry would make them in the factory and market them.
    So the Willson family moved to Brooklyn, to the new house at 1379 East 15th Street, just down the street from the Avenue M station on the Brighton Line of the BMT, which went from 57th Street Manhattan out to Coney Island, in Brooklyn.
    The business did well and Henry began investing in Pennsylvania oil wells, forming Cities Service Company. As cars proliferated, Cities Service grew, becoming Citco.
    When I was a kid it was my job to empty the drip pan under the ice box in the kitchen a couple times a day. We had a sign hanging in the front window telling the ice men when we needed ice and what size blocks we needed. They came along every day in their ice truck, with huge blocks of ice, which they cut down to the requested size with ice picks and then they brought the ice-box size ice, using ice tongs, down our driveway, up on the back porch into the kitchen and into the ice box. A couple times a week.
    When we needed more coal a coal truck would park out front and the coal men would put a coal chute through a basement window. They’d the raise the back of the truck so the coal could be let run into a coal barrel, which they’d tilt on its side and roll to the chute, pick it up and dump the coal down the chute. In the basement another man would catch it in his barrel, roll it to the coal bin, lift it up and dump in the coal.
    The postman came twice a day on weekdays, once on Saturday morning, ringing the front door bell twice as he slid the mail through the mail slot in the front door into the vestibule. Letters used a 2¢ stamp. Postcards were a penny. But this was when daily newspapers were 2¢ for The News and The Mirror (5¢ on Sunday), while the Herald Tribune was a lofty 3¢. The subway was a nickel. And at Coney island a nickel bought me a hot dog and a glass of orange drink.
    For a dime I’d get a pint cup of frozen custard with chocolate sprinkles, which would keep me busy all the way home on the subway.
    We kids mostly got around on roller skates. I remember skating up to the man with the horse-drawn Italian ices wagon and deciding what flavor I wanted and whether to get the 2¢ or the 3¢ paper cup. A few years later the ices man was replaced by the Bungalo-Bar truck, where a dime would buy me a cup of vanilla ice cream and orange ices and a little wooden spoon, Mmm. The Good Humor truck also came around, bells dingling, but a dime for their ice cream bar instead of a nickel from Bungalo Bar? No way. Heck, for a dime I could go to the soda fountain in the drug store down at the corner and get a hot fudge sundae.

10/24/09

Amelia,
    With the release of the movie about Amelia Earhart, which got a lot less than an enthusiastic review in Time, it’s interesting that the film perpetuates the fiction that she and Fred Noonan, her navigator, disappeared over the Pacific, leaving no trace.
    Looking back over my blog entries, I’ve covered the real Amelia story, so I won’t do it again. Check my 5/17/07, 7/11/07, 4/15/08, 5/14/09 and 9/12/09 entries…and wonder that none of those writing about Amelia or doing films have bothered to read the Goerner book, which my experience confirmed.

10/23/09

Empire Lost?
    Four hundred years ago, spurred by the stories of free land easily taken from primitive heathens, who were mostly busy fighting each other with bows and arrows, the English rushed over. Followed by the Scotch, Irish, and then French, Germans, and Italians. It was the land of opportunity.
    At first we farmed, subsisting on the land. Then came the discovery of gold and silver. We swarmed across the country. Next came the industrial revolution, where we soon led the world in producing clothes and machinery. Our one-room schoolhouses turned out millions of creative geniuses, pushing us ahead of the world in one technology after another. Electricity, lighting, automobiles, trains, mass food production, refrigeration, recordings, movies, and so on.
    Came wars and we had no problem out-producing our enemies with weapons.
    But things were going sour. Our New England clothing factories went dark and empty as the industry moved south, where the wages were lower. And then, fairly recently, to Asia and Africa, for even lower wages. My nicest winter shirts were made in Swaziland. My summer shirts in Mongolia and Bangladesh. My pants in United Arab Emirates. My winter shirt-coat in Swaziland. My dress pants in Mongolia and my lined winter pants in Pakistan. My shoes are mostly from China.
    It’s the same with all of our industries. By borrowing money from China our government has been able to keep what’s left of our car industry going. But, there being little China can buy from us to even the ledger, they’ve been buying American businesses and assets. And when China goes into the car business our car companies will be washed up.
    I’ve owned a lot of cars over the last 70 years, starting with a 1932 Ford. But the last American car I bought was a 1954 Ford Country Squire. I went on to Porsches, VWs, a Volvo, Toyotas, a Mazda, a Datsun, some Mercedes and a Honda. My wife has a 1957 Ford Thuderbird that’s been sitting in the garage for the last twenty years.
    There doesn’t seem to be any way for us to get our manufacturing back. And even if we manage to come up with new products, the lower wages and higher automation in China will easily put us out of business.
    Well, golly, there’s always our food production. Alas, it seems to me impossible for the news not to leak out that the only food to eat that’ll prevent illnesses like cancer are raw, organic food. And that’s not what we’re producing. And without a major revolution in food production, it’s not something we can produce. We’ve depleted our land of the minerals it takes to grow healthy crops…crops that don’t need pesticides to kill off the bugs sick plants attract.
    So we’ve been keeping crops growing with chemical fertilizers, and spraying them with poisons. Once the public starts wising up and demanding remineralized organic food, where are they going to get it? How long will it take to unpoison our big farms? Will we have to import it from South America and Africa? And pay for it how?

10/22/09

That Flu
    Let me put this diplomatically so I won’t offend you. If you stupidly sucked into getting a flu vaccination you are an ignorant jerk. You blindly do what you are told by the media and are totally unable to think for yourself. You are one of the sheeple. You have never learned to think and will go to lengths to avoid thinking. You do a minimum of work to get by and spend most of your time being entertained, complaining, and blaming others for your problems. If you read books, they’re novels. You also voted for Obama.

10/21/09

Success
    When I started my first business, manufacturing loud speaker cabinets for hi-fi nuts, my first move was to sign up for a course in advertising with the New York Advertising Club.
    In starting any new business the key to survival is getting your prospective customers to know your product exists, and that means advertising and promotion. I’ve watched some marvelous products die early deaths because the company owner didn’t know anything about these key elements of success. Or even, for that matter, how to sell.
    Pathetically few sales people ever bother to build their selling skills by reading books or taking courses in selling. And there are lots of excellent books available.
    What I learned about advertising made it so my company, started with $1,000 borrowed on my car, within two years was the largest manufacturer of speaker cabinets in the country, with seven factories under contract. I learned how to advertise, where to advertise, and how to measure the effectiveness of the media I was using for maximum profit.
    Later, when I started my first magazine, I did all the ad sales. So I read books on selling. And, being an expert on advertising, I was able to help those advertisers who were open to ideas, to run better, far more productive ads.
    When I got into publishing computer magazines I had to deal with advertising agencies and it was discouraging to find that hardly anyone in the agencies had every bothered to study advertising. They and their customers had no clue as to what they were doing. So most of their ads were of the “we’re great companies” type.
    It wasn’t much different with my own ad sales staff. I’d get them together for a meeting and show them some books from my collection on how to sell, urging them to borrow them. And I had tapes I’d made of lectures by top sales people. They weren’t interested.
    What I found that, with almost no exceptions, my sales people were doing the minimum amount of work necessary to bring in a pay check. When I started checking their phone records I was dismayed to find them spending so little time making sales calls. A few minutes a day.
    Well, it was easy work. I had the first and largest magazines in the field, so every company had to advertise with us.
    It isn’t very difficult to do some homework in any field and get to be one of the best at what you are doing. The top experts write books and give lectures. And now, with the web, more and more material is available at pdf prices. You can be a top bookkeeper, shipping clerk, or even a store clerk. But the higher pay comes to those out there bringing in the money, the sales people. Top sales people can really rake in the money.
    I just did a quick count, and I have over fifty books on selling on my bookshelves. And every one of them has some ideas that will make the reader a better sales person.
    My $40 video on how to generate an extra million dollars in sales with PR is still available. Promotion is highly effective and inexpensive, yet few businesses have a clue on how to use it. Hey, it’s free advertising! It works!
   
10/20/09

Whoppers
    Far’s I know, it’s been a long time since someone has produced a movie on the state of American food production, so few people have a clue as to what their putting into their bodies when they go to a McDonalds.
    Unless we pay a premium price for our beef we’re going to get meat that’s been factory-raised, with cows that have seldom seen the light of day, much less grass. They’re crammed with cheap genetically modified corn, bovine growth hormones so they grow faster, and antibiotics to keep them from getting too sick under their really terrible conditions. Indeed, 70% of the antibiotics being made are fed to animals.
    The hamburger is made mostly with meat that isn’t used for steaks or even stew. Plus they grind in plenty of fat, and just about everything except the hooves. And when some manure gets into it, so who’s to know?
    And it isn’t any better for the chickens or pigs, which are raised in such tight quarters they can hardly lie down, living their short lives up to here in their manure.
    Not that our fruit and vegetables are much healthier. Since the minerals plants and trees need to grow are long gone from our factory farm lands, they use chemical fertilizer to get things to grow. But, lacking the needed minerals, they’re not healthy, so they attract scavenger insects. No problem, just spray them with insecticide all through their growth. So, when we eat meat we load ourselves up with antibiotics and growth hormones. And when we eat fruit and vegetables we get pesticides. And we get both fat and sick. It is no accident that Americans are among the unhealthiest and shortest-lived of the developed nations.
    Well, look on the bright side. If we started paying attention to what we are eating food would cost a lot more and we couldn’t afford some of the luxuries we’ve become accustomed to. And we’d raise hob with our so-called health care industry, which these days is costing us an average of $7,000 a year for every man, woman and child. So, big deal that 1% of us are making more money than 95% of us combined…selling us incredibly over-priced pharmaceuticals and chemo therapies to “treat” the cancers we’re giving ourselves with our diets.
    So, what’ll it be, a Whopper or chicken nuggets? Mmmm.

10/20/09

Going Green!
    Politicians pay lip service to cleaning up pollution, but they’re guided infinitely more by money than honesty. And like with health, where there’s little money in health, and trillions in sickness, neither green personal living nor a green planet have many serious champions.
    The big business owners want money. And more money. And what that’s doing to the people in health, to our country, and the world, are irrelevant. Money buys power. It also buys the government and the media.
    Fortunately there is a small chink in their armor…the web. Yet, anyway. They own the radio and television networks, plus the newspapers, so honest health information is derided as quackery. Gotta buy more drugs and vaccinations if we want to be healthy.
    Cold fusion power could wipe out our need for oil, coal, and natural gas as fuels. Plus nuclear, wind and solar, with no polluting by-products, and at a fraction of the cost. That’s a lot of billion-dollar industries to wipe out. But, who would benefit from drastically lower energy costs? Mostly the makers of the products people would buy if they didn’t have to spend so much of their money on fuel. Stuff, mostly made in Asia by companies that don’t yet own Congress and our media.
    And, if the word could get around that just by changing to a raw, organic, remineralized food diet, we could save about $7,000 a year per American in sickness costs, plus untold misery, while living more like a couple hundred years in good robust health, how many people would be able to break their current eating habits? Call it a Green Diet for a green planet.
    Without the millions of tons of crud in our air from cars, power plants and factories, we’ll certainly have a greener planet. And when we wise up and stop putting poisons into our bodies, we’ll be rid of cancer, diabetes, and all the other diseases we’ve been causing ourselves. That’s living Green! What a world!
   
10/19/09

AIDS Schmaids
    An item in Time reported that an AIDS vaccine which had been reported as successful, on second look, wasn’t. Damn, there goes another multi-billion dollar vaccine product.
    From the item one would never guess that there are two proven no-drug cures for AIDS. One is to stop dumping toxic crap into your body so your immune system can get busy knocking out the HIV, as covered in Maximize Immunity by Dr. Comby, in my Secret Guide to Health, and the work of Drs. Day, Malkmus, and others.
    The other is to pass a tiny electric current through the blood so the HIV virus can’t replicate and dies, as patented by Dr. Lyman of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I published a simple ($19 in parts) circuit in my May 1996 issue of 73 Magazine for doing this. When I started to make reprints of the article available the post office said the blood purifier wasn’t authorized by the FDA, so there would be a $25,000 fine each time if I mentioned even the patent number in anything I mailed. FDA authorization is an $800 million ten year process, which is hardly worth investing to protect a gadget which could be made in quantity for under $5. So, we continue to have millions of people dying of AIDS…mostly in Africa.
    If you do some research you’ll find the evidence overwhelming that AIDS originated in a Maryland government lab and has been distributed mainly to the American gay community and native Africans.
    Toxic crap? Heck, millions of Americans would rather die slow, painful deaths than give up their burgers, fries and thick shakes. Or pizza.

10/18/09

60 Minutes
    The program laid an ostrich-sized egg this week. The first segment was on the swine flu, pushing vaccinations, and scaring viewers with the story of a kid who almost died. Shh, don’t even hint that vaccines have never been proven to work. And worse, are causing thousands of cases of multiple sclerosis from the thimerosal preservative. The sheeple are being driven by ceaseless promotion to Walgreens for their flu shots. Billions of dollars depend on the campaign.
    Then the second program segment was on leukemia. Shh, don’t tell the producers that Dr. Henry Bieler, fifty years ago, went into hospitals where there were kids with “incurable” leukemia, who were there to die, but who Dr. Bieler totally cured by taking them off all pasteurized milk products and feeding them minced raw liver. I have his book, The Incurables, which tells all about it.
    Dr. Comby has also been curing every leukemia patient of his with his raw food diet.

10/17/09

Undoing the Mess
    Not all that long ago we had the most prosperous and exciting country in the world. People came from all over to take advantage of the opportunities we offered them for better lives. We led the world into the industrial revolution and in new technologies.
    We produced great films, Broadway shows, and music. We had world-class artists and writers. Our farms were helping to feed the world. Our universities were world-famous.
    So, here we are today, with one of the world’s most expensive and least effective school systems. And ditto our so-called health care, where we are one of the sickest and shortest-lived of the developed countries. We’ve moved most of our manufacturing to other countries. We have, by far, the highest percentage of people in prison. We’re involved in two expensive no-win wars. Plus lost wars against poverty and drugs. Our government has enormously bloated in the last few years. We’re busy tanking the dollar. We’ve encouraged some twenty million illegal aliens to move in. Unemployment is at record levels and growing fast.
    The worst part is that we’ve done this to ourselves. We’re the ones who’ve elected (and endlessly re-elected) our CEO (the President) and our Board of Directors (Congress). Well, hell, we’ve been busy watching ball games and TV while happily bloating our bodies at McDonalds, Burger King, and their ilk.
    Yeah, a few million Americans are out of work, and a few million more are losing or have lost their homes, but hey, those Yankees! Or Red Sox! And the games on my billboard-sized LCD TV.
    Well, yeah, I guess we forgot to vote last time.
    Step one in turning the mess around is to get a new CEO and Board. We need new management. That translates into Never Re-elect Anyone. Make the incumbents into outcumbents. Get the politicians off the gravy train they’ve voted themselves. They’ve failed us, so dump ’em. Let’s stop making politician a career path in America and so as the founders of our country planned by getting business people to take time off to serve, and then go back to their businesses. What’s developed has been a hugely profitable career for used lawyers.
    The time was when America had no income tax. The government did just fine on import duties. Tariffs. And that helped make imported products a little more expensive, giving American-made products an edge to compensate for our higher wages.

10/16/09

Government Growth
    If your town or school library doesn’t have a copy of C. Northcote Parkinson’s Parkinson’s Law, the library is no damned good. The 1957 book, reviewed on page 24 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, is a must read. I have the hardbound, paperback and pocket book editions in my personal library.
    Parkinson, among other revelations when he studied government bureaus, found that they tended to grow at an average of 7% per year, with more and more people busy making work for each other.
    Now read my 1/25/09 entry for the whole story, and what can be done to reverse the growth. Indeed, there are few government bureaus that wouldn’t benefit us enormously if they were cut around 90%. No, make that 100%.

10/10/09

Ten-Ten
    A while back. Quite a while back, when most of the world’s electronic stuff was still made here in America by RCA, G.E., Sylvania, and a few other large companies, Asian companies started challenging us.
    Ten-Ten reminds me when that was the big holiday in Taiwan. There were huge electronic shows every October in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong…one after another, so visitors could attend all four shows in a two-week period to meet possible trading partners.
    Commerce Tours, in San Francisco, organized tours for Americans that attracted two to four hundred buyers every year. Naturally, as the publisher of communications, computer, and music magazines, I went on these tours, and after a couple of years, became the tour guide for a few more years.
    The Asian manufacturers of parts, radios and TVs had it easy, with low wages and high automation, while American companies were tied down by high union wages and rules. For instance, a TV factory in Korea I visited was so automated that there was only 15 minutes of labor required to make a TV set, starting with parts, and ending with a complete, tested, TV set in a carton, ready to be shipped to the U.S.
    I got to know Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, Seoul, and Hong Kong pretty well, with my early morning two to four mile walks around the cities. But I’ll never forget those Ten-Ten celebrations in Taiwan. Thousands of kids must have practiced for months to perform so perfectly. If you can find some videos of these on the web let me know.

10/6/09

Say Ba-a-a
    Swine flu! Swine flu! What a promotional crock! If you suckered into getting a swine flu shot you’re another patsy. You sure haven’t bothered to do any homework.
    As anyone who has researched vaccinations has found, they have never scientifically been proven of value, except for the vaccine makers and doctors administering them. Indeed, they often are the major cause of illnesses. And they weaken the immune system, contributing to degenerative diseases such as cancer and AIDS.
    In my 9/20/09 entry I pointed out that getting flu shots three years in a row gives one ten times the chance of getting Alzheimer’s. And for pregnant women, the potential for birth defects for their babies. With the famed 1918 flu pandemic, which killed millions, the dead were mostly those who went to their doctors. See my 8/6/06 essay.

10/4/09

Homeland Security
    When the Japanese attacked us in 1941, not knowing which of the Japanese living in America were to be trusted, to be safe, we put all of them in detention camps for the duration.
    So here we are, with militant Muslims our enemy…and no way to know which of the Muslims living in America they are. What’s our best bet to be on the safe side against further terrorist attacks?
    When our country got started we welcomed immigrants looking for a better way of life. But we put some restrictions on our welcome mat…that they adopt our language and customs, and become Americans. That was our price of admission.
    That approach worked well, with waves of immigrants arriving, prospering, and their children becoming Americans, rather than hyphen-Americans.
    However, until the war with Islam is over, and since we have no way of knowing which Muslims are potential terrorists, it would seem reasonable to be on the safe side and give them a choice of returning to their native country or moving into detention camps until the conflict is over.
    Further, since all immigrants presumably have come here to for a better way of life, we should be more insistent about their adopting our language and customs. Which would mean an end to our schools teaching in other than English, or there being foreign language publications, radio, or TV stations. Store signs would have to be in English.

10/2/09

Concord Hospital
    The place is enormous, with several huge buildings, overflowing with doctors and nurses. A monumental testimony to the way we’re mistreating our bodies. So, what caused my heart attack? Well, I found out.
    In addition to seemingly endless x-rays, the drawing of blood samples, a cardiogram, and other tests, all while tethered to IV tubes in both arms and EKG probes all over my chest, with their associated machines on wheels so I could be moved from one part of the hospital to another, I was given a menu so I could order food to be delivered to my room.
    With the exception of a fresh fruit cup, everything else was cooked. So much for my raw food diet. So I made do with the fruit cup. Four little pieces of raw fruit. And my water was mostly from the faucet, which they assured me had fluorides in it, or bottled water, complete with PCBs.
    The items on the menu that most awed me were the drink choices of various sodas, including Diet Coke and diet ginger ale. I asked the nurses about aspartame, but none had ever heard of it. I felt like I was in a twenty-year time warp.
    They let me see the cardiogram they did of my insides, and there were my arteries, caked with calcium. No wonder I’d had a heart attack! I asked the doctor why all that calcium? He thought it might have something to do with drinking milk.
    Oh, and they put me back on Coumadin to help thin my blood.
    When I got back home I checked for Coumadin side effects on the web and discovered an article published in Nutrition and Healing about Coumadin being one of the all-time worst hangovers from the heyday of patent medications. Yeah, it does thin the blood, but the damage it does in the process is awful, as revealed in the Journal of the American Academy of Neurology. You see, it virtually wipes out the vitamin K in the body, causing osteoporosis, arterial calcification, cognitive malfunction, and many, many other problems.
    So that’s where all that calcium in my arteries came from! The stuff that caused my heart attack!
    The article went on to explain that these days the easiest way to thin the blood is to take fish oil, which has no side effects. Fish oil works by making platelets so slippery that they can't stick together easily to form a clot.
    Among the side effects of my Coumadin experience were a severe itching of the legs, poor circulation in my fingers and toes, atrial fibrillation (irregular heart beat), and calcium loaded arteries. Thank you, VA, for making me a part of your Coumadin research. They have a section of the hospital and several doctors devoted to Coumadin patients.
    What am I going to do, in addition to taking more fish oil? More exercise. More pure water. And I’m going to get a tanning bed so I can beef up my vitamin D during the winter. Let’s see what that can do for my high blood pressure.
    Meanwhile, I’ll have to somehow try to deal with my VA Primary Care physician. Sigh.

10/1/09

Uh Oh!
    My right arm began to ache, and I could feel a tightness in my right chest. Hey! I’m having a heart attack! But it eased off after a few minutes and gradually faded away. Hmm, I’ve been eating raw food, so this shouldn’t be happening. Maybe I should check into the Manchester VA and see what in hell’s going on.
    A couple days later Sherry and I were driving to a Lion’s Club dinner in Westmoreland, where I was to be the speaker, when it hit again. But it didn’t go away this time. So, when we got there Sherry apologized, then took over the driving for me, while my arm ached terribly.
    An hour and a half later we got to the VA hospital, where I checked in at the emergency area. I was surprised to find the whole hospital almost totally deserted. Turns out they only deal with day patients, so I was ambulanced to the Concord Hospital, where they hooked me up with IVs and supplemental oxygen.
    By the next day, in addition to my now tamed heart attack, I had pneumonia. First time in my life for that! My lungs were full of blood and rattled like a paper flag in the wind when I breathed. And that went on for a couple days. It was four days before they let me go home.
    So, how did all this happen? Well, on my routine VA checkups I’d always had high blood pressure…probably because I’d been getting too little exercise. So my Primary Care physician put me on a Coumadin prescription to thin my blood. The hospital had a whole section devoted to handling a daily parade of Coumadin patients, so I suspected I was probably part of a research project.
    It was annoying to have to make the hour drive each way to the VA once a month, where they’d take a blood sample and an hour or two later a Coumadin doctor would tell me I needed to add or subtract a half a tablet to my routine a couple days a week. Worse, now I noticed that my pulse was acting erratically. Atrial fibrillation. That didn’t seem to bother my Primary Care doctor, so no big deal.
    But the whole idea of me taking pills for something instead of changing what’s causing the problem annoyed me. Alas, doctors aren’t taught what causes problems, only what medications to give to shut up the warning alarms that something is wrong.
    In June, after my Coumadin visit, I wasn’t given an appointment for the next month. Whew! Maybe that waste of time was finally over. When my Coumadin supply ran out I called the VA for a refill, but they said it couldn’t be refilled. Good deal. No more damned pills. Followed a few weeks later by the heart attacks.
    Wait’ll I tell you about the Concord Hospital!
   
9/25/09

Schools II
    By 2020 I hope our educational system will have changed enough so that homework will be practicing the piano or some other instrument. Practicing things like bowling, fencing, handball, tennis, and other one-on-one sports. Learning more magic tricks or new juggling routines. Building skills. Swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving, kayaking, kite flying, skiing, snow boarding, skating, skateboarding, horseback riding, water skiing, and so on. Oh, and growing a garden of their own.
    Anything they want to know about will be available via DVD (or the media of 2020) or via the web. And in any depth they want to pursue. By the way, producing and marketing educational programs will be a huge business by this time.
    No more grinding memorization of stuff for tests. Kids’ll be learning because they want to…because it’s fun! No more classrooms or lecture halls. No more black or white boards. No more bells telling kids it’s time to go to their next classroom.
    Ads on TV will be for these programs, and kids will be able to find out which of the programs is best by reading my magazine, which rates them by the users, just as I did when the compact disc was introduced and so many of the early CDs were lousy. So I published CD Review, which forced the major companies to upgrade their studios and equipment. Yeah, it’ll probably be an on-line magazine by then instead of paper.

9/24/09

Schools
    When I read that our esteemed leader, Barry Soetoro…well, that seems to have been his name when he was nine and went to Muslim school in Indonesia…wants to extend our kids school days by three hours, I wondered why in hell he couldn’t either read some books on the subject, or at least have the brains to get advice from someone who has. And there are some excellent books, like John Taylor Gatto’s Dumbing Us Down, and his The Underground History of American Education. And Charlotte Iserbyt’s The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America.
    Instead of going out to sit and watch ball games, or watch TV, I’ve read a whole bookcase of books on education. What I learned is that our government-run public school system has been intentionally designed to make us obedient, and not to learn to think or be creative. So we sit silently in rows of desks, obeying the dictator up front. Or else! And we dutifully short-term memorize stuff so we can pass a test the next day. I hated school, which I was required by law to attend. I was a slave. Shut up and say. “Baa.”
    Imagine schools in the future, which are open seven days a week, at least twelve hours a day, where the kids can come whenever they want and stay as long as they want. Where the school maintenance is done by the students. Where the school rules are decided by the students. And where the kids are not separated by age, where there are no tests and no grades. Where the kids study what they want to, because they want to. Where kids get together in groups to learn, bouncing ideas off each other. Well there already are schools like that, modeled after the Sudbury Valley School, in Framingham MA. There are eight books written about this school, and the graduates ace the SATs.
    The next step would be mobile labs (see my 4/5/08 entry) which go from school to school, allowing kids to do hands-on learning in a wide variety of fields…if they want to. And since the kids can take vacations whenever they want, run the schools 50 weeks of the year.
    I’d like to see a time when American kids are the best educated in the world, instead of coming in last on international surveys, and at the highest cost in the world. I’d like to see a new era of creative music, art and books result. Gee, even some interesting movies. Heck, we could cut our school costs enormously just by getting rid of the administrators. We don’t need ’em.

9/23/09

Bio
    For some reason I’ve never had any interest in team sports. In the 6th and 7th grades in Brooklyn, they walked our class a few blocks to the nearby PSAL (Public School Athletic League) field, where we played baseball and football. I hated it. I enjoyed bicycling and roller skating all around Brooklyn, and swimming the length of Coney Island during the summer. And Boy Scout camping trips to Staten Island. The only team effort I enjoyed was singing in the choral club.
    In high school I loved fencing, tennis and handball. Got pretty good at ’em. Have you ever played six-wall handball, where you play the front, back, floor, ceiling and two side walls as one? Wow, that’s fun!
    I can’t get over the tens of thousands in the stands watching ball games. Oh, I’ve tried it. I’ve watched ball games from the stands and the majors on TV. Boring. Ice hockey, too. In Madison Square Garden.
    My favorite sports are skiing and scuba diving. I’ve skied most of the areas on New Hampshire, Vermont, Utah and Colorado, and dived most of the islands of the Caribbean, the Red Sea, and all six of the Hawaiian Islands.
    By golly, I’m going to get my body back in shape and climb Mt. Washington again on my 90th birthday. I’ve been spending too much time at the computer beating down the piles of emails and not enough exercising.

9/22/09

Reunion II
    The big event at this year’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s (RPI) reunion is the dedication of a newly developed multi-million dollar sports area next to the school. Well, sports are fun to participate in, and even fun for many to watch, but what has that got to do with educating us so we can lead more productive and successful careers? Well, except for a very few sports stars, who make millions. But for 99.9% of the players and 100% of the crowd watching, it’s time taken away from building their eventual careers. It’s entertainment…as if television wasn’t providing more than enough of that.
    I can see having a track where the kids can get out there every day and jog a couple of miles to help keep them in shape. And a pool for swimming lessons and practice. My mother, who won swimming trophies in high school, taught me how to swim when I was seven, and I loved it. In high school the swimming coach wanted me to be on the school team, but I was too involved with being on the fencing team and it’s manager to accept.
    Look, RPI is a high-tech university. The kids should be mainly involved learning all they can about electronics, chemistry, physics, architecture, aeronautics, astronomy, agronomy, and new technologies. They should be busy discovering and developing new technologies. Like the new battery I want us to manufacture here in New Hampshire. Yet, when I google this new technology all I find are quotes about it lifted from my editorials in my Cold Fusion journal (see my 8/31/09 entry).
    If the school would spend more time entertaining the students with ideas and less watching or playing ball (or puck) games, we’d have more industry leaders developing. But, the education does need to be rounded. I’ve seen far too many inventors develop new exciting products, only to have them get lost because the inventor hadn’t a clue about how to market their brainstorm.

9/21/09

Bio
    When I was three years old my mother, for some reason I don’t recall, took me to the doctor, where he vaccinated me for something.
    Up until then I’d been a healthy child, except for a brief case of the measles. But afterwards it was one thing after another. Sinus trouble suddenly started, with daily Neosilvol or ephedrine drops in my nose, which did little good. For years I was rarely able to breathe through my nose.
    I still remember the time, when I was four, that I had earaches. It got so bad my mother called the doctor. He examined me and telephoned a second doctor to come check me. After the new doctor had examined me, both doctors went into the living room with my mother and dad to discuss it. Then, the four of them came back into my bedroom, circled the bed, and suddenly grabbed my arms and legs, while the new doctor put something over my mouth and gave me ether, with me screaming in terror over both my mother, father and the doctors holding me down. Well, wherever he did stopped my earaches.
    A couple months later it was my throat, where they removed my tonsils. And a couple months later another hospital visit while they removed my adenoids.
    It wasn’t until I was seven that the hay fever and allergies hit. The tests showed me to be allergic to an array of foods, trees, weeds, and animals. And this was before the invention of Kleenex, so I used up rolls of toilet paper blowing my nose every fall. I’d have to take a half dozen handkerchiefs to school every day.
    Thank you, “medical science” for the vaccination and whatever awful disease it saved me from. I still got colds and flu, and when I was ten, the mumps.

9/20/09

Decimation
    I don’t for a minute, no matter how good a case some scientists are making for it, believe that all the ballyhoo about the coming deadly swine flu epidemic actually is a plan for forcing us to get vaccinations that will permanently make us sterile…the object being to cut down the world population…starting here.
    Not that something like that might not be a good idea for the Muslims, who are seriously out-propagating everyone else all around the world.
    It’s bad enough that researchers are warning us that getting flu shots three years in a row gives us ten times the chance of Alzheimer’s. Well, something has been causing a disease that is now suffered by tens of millions of Americans, but was virtually unknown a hundred years ago.
    No matter how good a case Peter Duesberg makes in his Inventing The AIDS Virus, his 722-page, exhaustively referenced book, makes for AIDS having been developed in a Maryland government lab as a means of population control, I find the idea preposterous. As I also do with Dr. Eva Snead’s 968-page Some call it AIDS...I call it murder! And investigative reporter Jon Rappaport’s AIDS INC, Scandal of the Century.
    Though, it is curious that AIDS seems to have been targeted at homosexuals in America and in black African countries.


9/15/09

Amazing
    Considering how carelessly we treat our bodies, it’s amazing they are lasting as long as they do. The current design was firmed up back even before the cave man days and fitted the food supply of the time, with us eating raw meat and anything else we found that didn’t make us sick.
    These days we’re dumping in one poison after another…alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, pesticides, aspartame, chlorine and fluorides in our water, mercury, vaccinations, and the 600 pound gorilla, cooked food. Plus all kinds of toxic stuff we breathe and put on our skins. Sunlight and exercise? No time for that…we’ve gotta watch TV or go sit and watch some ball game or other.
    Even if we demand raw food we have to watch out for stuff that’s genetically modified, sprayed during its growth with pesticides, or irradiated.
    And still, half of us are making it into our 70s. A few are making it into their 80s and 90s, and a tiny fraction make it to 100. In Japan, where raw seafood (sashimi) is popular, twice as many percentage-wise are reaching 100 years.
    As I’ve mentioned, scientists tell us that if we were to give our bodies the nutrition, exercise, sunlight, pure water, and rest it’s been designed to use, it should last at least 150 years. And the Bible stories of people living two and three hundred years is a hint. But, not eating anything they’re selling at McDonalds.

9/14/09

Chemo
    Actor Patrick Swazey just died of pancreatic cancer. Well, he ignored the people suggesting alternatives and seemingly was unaware that the survival rate for chemo is about 3%. Really lousy odds. so, actually he died of the chemo treatment. Worse, since the few survivors of this very expensive route are still doing what caused their cancer in the first place, they’re probably going to get cancer again. And this is made even more certain in that the chemo poison spreads cancer cells through the body.
    Let’s see, at an average of $345,000 per cancer treatment, times a million cancer deaths, that’s $345 billion for the medical/pharmaceutical industry. Gee, who would want to mess with that bonanza?
    So, never mind a raw food diet, just make sure your medical insurance is paid up and will cover chemo. And, above all, trust your doctor.

9/13/09

The Flu
    The swine flu scare campaign, orchestrated by our beloved pharmaceutical industry to ensure bountiful vaccine sales, has worked pretty well. Alas, as the flu has spread the percentage of deaths has plummeted and seems now no more serious than the usual yearly flu deaths…which are mostly people with other health problems which the flu tips over the edge.
    The much-heralded yearly 36,000 flu deaths has been shown to be a gross exaggeration. But then our major media have little interest in good news and devote their headlines to bad news and scares. The old axiom, “Good news does not sell papers,” is still the guiding rule.
    Anyone who bothers to do any checking will find that those vaccinated have a much greater chance of dying. And, if that isn’t enough, the known side-effects of the stuff they put in the vaccines (adjutants like thimerosal and squaline), can do lasting harm…like causing Alzheimers.
    Right now those getting the deadly swine flu are sniffling for a couple days and that’s about it. And those on raw food diets will miss all the fun.

9/12/09

Amelia
    The Sept. 14th The New Yorker had a six-page article about Amelia Earhart by Judith Thurman which, like most of the recent stuff about Amelia, did fine until it came to her last trip around the world, where she disappeared.
    For some reason Amelia’s recent biographers seem unaware of the 1966 well-researched The Search for Amelia Earhart by Fred Goerner. For the full story of my involvement and what really happened to Amelia, read my 4/15/08 entry.
    Amelia kept her Lockheed at my dad’s airport and she used to come out to our house for dinner when I was seven and eight years old. I wonder if there’s anyone else still alive who knew her? Anyway, I learned the real (secret) purpose for her last trip a year before she made it. And, serendipitously, was in the right places in the Pacific a few years later to confirm what Goerner discovered.

9/11/09

911?
    Conspiracy theories intrigue me. I enjoy looking into them and consider myself a conspiracy factist. None of this theory baloney for me. So the 911 attack, with the ensuing arguments, almost had me doing a booklet listing the unexplained anomalies, as I did about the Moon landings, where I posed 45 unanswered questions suggesting the Moon landings never really happened. There’s a lot more than 45 unanswered questions when it comes to the 911 attack. I’ve got a dozen good books on the subject, and there must be more I’ve missed.
    It’s interesting that more and more of the men who put together the official 911 report are now raising questions that they feel should be answered, but were avoided by the report.
    With so many of the supposed hijackers having been found alive and well by reporters, there’s little to suspect that Sadam or Osama had anything to do with it. Well, it took almost sixty years before Robert Stinnett, with his  Day of Deceit, was able to expose the government secrecy hiding FDR’s part in forcing the Japanese to attack us, and knowing beforehand where and when they would attack.

9/10/09

Food Prices
    As the few of us who have wised up to the incredible power of a raw food diet are able to get the word out to others, the demand for organic food (and thus the prices) will, of course, increase. This will get more people and businesses to grow organic food.
    Then, as the word gets out about organic food grown on remineralized land, the demand for mineralized organic food will raise the prices, with the premium getting more people to grow it.
    We’ll be seeing an increased demand and therefore production of rock dust to remineralize farms and gardens. We’ll see more homes with gardens and teens growing gardens on unused farm land near their town after school and summers.
    Alas, what can be done about the millions of acres of farmland in the west and midwest that long ago ran out of minerals and has been enabled to continue to grow crops with chemical fertilizer, a process that grows sick plants which attract pests…so the crops have to be sprayed with pesticides, thereby rendering the land unable to be used to grow organic food.
    Have scientists yet figured out how to solve this problem? If they can’t, as prices for safe-to-eat food rise we’ll have to start looking for other countries to grow our mineralized organic food.
    Since states, like New Hampshire, were, a little over a hundred years ago, mostly farm land, but were abandoned for the cheaper midwestern farmland, where they also have a longer growing season. We may see more and more of our New Hampshire forests being cut down and the land, which has never been poisoned with chemical fertilizer and pesticides, put back into action.
    Can the vast wheat fields out west be reclaimed once the market for wheat disappears?
    Since most people have eaten raw vegetables and salads, the change to a raw vegan diet will be easier for them than one including raw meat. Ugh! Raw meat? Yeah, meat eaters live longer and are healthier than vegans, but vegan raw fooders are enormously more healthy and longer-lived than cooked vegan food eaters. No cancer, heart disease, and so on.
    The rising demand, and thus price, for organic raw milk and meat will, I predict, trigger the startup of millions of small farms. The August issue of New Hampshire ToDo listed 36 farms in the state which are producing organic raw milk and/or meat. Will we see a couple hundred of ’em in a few years? I sure hope so.
    Unless we can meet the rising demand for safe-to-eat food, it’ll be coming in from South America and maybe even Africa…probably frozen.
    What will our supermarkets look like without row after row of packaged and canned food? What will life be like without cancer, obesity, and the crippling diseases we have today? With us living to 150 or even a couple hundred years in good health, retirement ages will move up. And we’ll see more vacation and recreation possibilities opening up.

9/8/09

Baby Reading
    Babies, right out of the box, are learning machines. By ten months they can start recognizing words on flash cards, and by two years old be reading. And this gives them a major head start in life. Not bothering to do it is like crippling your child.
    My mother was too busy painting magazine covers for publishers to spend much time with me. This was before color photography had been invented, so color pictures had to be painted. So I didn’t learn to read until I was six, along with all the other first graders. But, once I learned, I was off on a reading spree, reading all of the Oz books and then the animal stories of Earnest Thompson Seton.
   You can find lots of baby learning information and supplies on the Web. See www.yourbabycanread.com, for instance.
    Of course, your baby is busy learning even before birth. I’ve written about that and need to write more. There’s
Prenatal Classroom - A parents guide for teaching your baby in the womb, by Van de Carr and Lehrer, Humanics Learning, Box 7400, Atlanta GA 30309. ISBN 0-89334-152-5, 161p, $13. This is a wonderful instruction book on how to communicate with your un¬born child, to teach it around 100 words, to like music, and to stimu¬late brain growth before birth. This will give your child a head start (pun intended) on life. It results in significantly higher IQs, which means that if you don’t use these techniques you are permanently dumbing your child down.
    Another excellent source is: The Secret Life of the Unborn Child - Verny & Kelly, Dell, ISBN 0-440-50565-8, 255p, 1981, $12. Unborn babies are capable of learning, can hear sounds and voices, and respond to them, including music; are sensitive to the parents feelings about them, and can even be taught to understand up to a hun¬dred words. This book tells how to do all this. The result is a measurably more intelligent, better adjusted, and healthier child. The book also has some great in¬formation on how and what to teach your child during it’s first year.
    Black mothers, in particular, need to do this since blacks, on the average, have 85 average IQs compared to whites 100. But, before you start feeling superior, you should know that Asians have a 10 IQ point average over whites. So, with China roaring ahead in education and manufacturing, we need every genius we can raise to hold our own. Oh, and they have about four times as many people.
   
9/7/09

Swine Flu
    There are more and more scare articles in the major media about how awful the swine flu epidemic is going to be this fall, and how important it is to be vaccinated. We may even have mandatory vaccinations and concentration camps for resistors..
    If you do your homework you’ll learn that the 1918 flu pandemic that killed 50 million people killed very few of the people who went to homeopathists, and none that went to the Kellogg clinic, where they were treated with lots of water to drink. It did kill a third of those who went to their regular (allopathic) doctors.
    No matter the pandemic, there are always some people who don’t get sick. These are those with strong immune systems. So, if you can stop shoveling poisons onto your immune system via your mouth for a while so it can do it’s job of protecting you from any invading germs, viruses, parasites or fungi, and you’ll sail through this flu season unaffected. Unless, of course they force you to be vaccinated.
    The vaccine has, of course, thimerosal in it, which is made up of mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde. The mercury and aluminum go to your brain, which is why doctors tell us that if you get flu shots three years in a row you have ten times the chance of getting Alzheimer’s.
    The more I read, the more convincing the data that the swine flu, like the AIDS virus, was developed in Maryland. Is it’s purpose to cut down the population, or just to generate a few hundred billion in vaccine sales?
    It’s interesting that just weeks after the swine flu vaccine was patented the first cases started showing up in Mexico. Wow, what timing!

9/6/09

Reunion?
    My alma mater. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been promoting the reunion of classes ending in four and nine for next month. Well, I’ve never gone to a reunion, so I thought I might this year. I looked to see what was doing for the class of ’44. Hmm, nothing mentioned before the class of ’49, so I called to check. No, nothing planned. In fact, no one from my class has registered to be there. Guess I won’t either.

9/5/09

Problems
    Well, there’s the million or so, mostly Mexicans, sneaking across our border every year, plus the twenty million illegals already here.
    Then there’s the thousands of Chinese restaurants, reaching into the smallest of towns, funded by the Chinese government. Even the houses for the restaurant workers are funded by China. Plus in those I’ve patronized, only the waiters seem to have made any effort to learn English. For instance, Hillsborough NH, with a population of 4,500, has three Chinese restaurants!
    Our good friends the Saudis have financed the building of over 5,000 mosques in the U.S., and are supplying books pushing Wahabbism, the most extreme of the Muslim religions (nonbelievers must be killed). And they warn their members not to befriend Americans.
    As in Europe, where the Muslims have been immigrating by the millions, they are staying in separate communities and, unlike in most European countries, where there are 1.5 children per family, the Muslims are raising six to eight per family, and indoctrinating them from their earliest years with Islam.
    Have you any proposals for countering these serious and growing problems? I see no good to our country to come from these silent invasions.

9/4/09

Weirdness
    Oh, great learned one, please explain for me why I’m experiencing the following phenomenon.
    My bedroom is kept at a constant 75° with an electric baseboard heater, no matter the outside temperature. My bed has a sheet and a blanket. Oh, and I don’t wear pajamas.
    Now, here’s what I can’t explain. When the outside temperature is in the 80s, even the sheet has me sweating. In the 60s and 70s outside I need the sheet. In the 30s to 50s I need the blanket to keep warm. From zero to 30° I have to put on a second blanket. And, the room temperature is always a steady 75°. I have an inside-outside thermometer by my bed.
    So, what’s going on? 

9/3/09

Birthday!
    For my 87th birthday (today) Daron arranged with the Kearsarge, a tour boat on Lake Sunapee, for Sherry and I to have a dinner cruise on the lake. It was a beautiful, comfortably warm day. Perfect for the evening cruise.
    The buffet dinner was just right for me. I skipped the cooked food and chowed down on cherry tomatoes and broccoli flowers.
    The lake is about eight miles long and a mile to two wide, so there’s plenty to cruise. The lake, like many of our New Hampshire lakes, is ringed with expensive vacation homes, many with docks and small boats. This is the lake where my friend Chuck Martin and I learned to wind surf a few years ago. There’s also a fine ski area on Mt. Sunapee, which overlooks the lake. I used to ski there when the area was run by the state, but after they sold it to a private company, skiing was no longer free for New Hampshire seniors, so I’ve had to settle for Cannon Mountain skiing, where the state still owns the area.
    The boat’s skipper was Al Peterson, and it didn’t hurt our making friends that he was a ham operator (K1YOT).
    It was a nice birthday present.
    Both my mother and dad died at 87, but that was before I knew about the power of raw food, else they might have been with us on the cruise. Dad died of emphysema, brought on by some forty years of smoking. Much of his last twenty years, after he stopped smoking, was spent with oxygen bottles. Mother had Alzheimer’s, no doubt exacerbated by her amalgam fillings and flu shots. I’m in excellent health.

9/2/09

Walnuts Anyone?
    Using Sonic Bloom, Dan Carlson is growing several acres of black walnut trees out in Wisconsin. When mature, which normally takes about 40-50 years, they’re worth about $10,000 each for the prized wood. Using Sonic Bloom, they’re maturing in only 20 years. With 250 trees per acre and a cost of $20 each for the saplings, that’s a total of $5,000 per acre to get started. Then, the trees, after only seven years, produce huge black walnuts which can be grown to $20 saplings, producing a $10,000 crop per tree over the 20 years. Thus a $20 sapling brings in $20,000 over the twenty years. A thousand dollars a year…times 250 trees per acre = $250,000 an acre per year. Less the cost of spraying with Sonic Bloom several times a year. A $5,000,000 crop after twenty years. Per acre.
    Naturally I’d like to see some of our little-used North Country planted with black walnut trees. Then, when they mature, with new crops coming along every year after that, we’d see factories springing up to manufacture black walnut wood products. New Hampshire could use the business.

9/1/09

Plant Growth
    Our agricultural colleges should be researching ways to make plants grow faster and better. I know of three ways to achieve this, so I naturally wonder what might result if all three of these were used at the same time.
    One approach is Dan Carlson’s Sonic Bloom, and I’ve a video from Dan showing the amazing results in Wisconsin, Mexico, Australia and Japan. When music is played to plants it opens the stomata on their leaves. They are then sprayed with a kelp solution, giving them an almost intravenous dose of the minerals they need to help them grow. And they’re growing to seven times normal. They also stay fresh longer after being picked, taste better when eaten, and give our bodies the minerals we need so we don’t have to take supplements for top notch health.
    A second approach, as described in Les Brown’s The Pyramid, is to build a pyramid-shaped greenhouse. In it Les grew giant fruits and vegetables that were better tasting, more insect repellent, and lasted longer after being picked.
    And third, is to put a magnet under the plant (north pole up) and then almost be able to sit there and watch the plants grow many times normal. Harbor Freight has 40mm diameter round magnets for $1.99 each.
    So, what might happen if we built a 30-foot square greenhouse, added Sonic Bloom and magnets under the plants? I’d love to see a stop-motion video of the resulting plant growth. What fun to sit down for dinner and eat as much as I could of a ten-pound tomato. Any interested experimenters?
    Once word starts getting out there’s going to be a big market for 30-foot greenhouses.

8/31/09

2040?
    Well, I’ve been hopeful that the technologies and solutions to the world’s problems that I’ve discovered could be implemented by 2020, but bringing about change can be a slow, and even painful, process…even though the change will improve everyone’s lives.
    “It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out. nor more doubtful of success, nor dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. Thus it arises that on every opportunity for attacking the reformer, his opponents do so with the zeal of partisans, the others defend him half-heartedly, so that between them he runs great danger.” Niccolo Machiavelli - Chapter 6 of The Prince.
    That said and acknowledged, let me paint a picture of the world of 2040 as it could be, just with the things we know today and not depending on any scientific or philosophical breakthroughs (which I predict will be inevitable). If Norman Moody, New Hampshire’s best-known psychic, is right I’ll be living to 2042, so I’ll be able to enjoy the world I’m hoping to help create.
    A world where there is no sickness, where doctors and hospitals are mainly needed to deal with accidents. No cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, asthma, or even yearly flu panics. No schizophrenia, PTSD, ADHD, or other psychological problems. We know how to do all this right now, it’s just going to take a few years to change people’s habits and replace some of today’s huge industries which are making us sick (or taking advantage of our sickness) with new, healthier ones.
    A world where our babies have 150 average IQs, and have learned to read, and are well on their way to learning several languages by the time they’re two. By four, kids will be reading books at a few seconds a page, and with good comprehension. Life-long learning products will be a big industry. Compulsory, government-run, public schools will be ancient history. As will today’s K-12 system. Well, government-run businesses, with bureaucrats making the decisions, has never succeeded anywhere that system (socialism) has been used.
    Colleges will be tuition-free, and at no cost to the government, as colleges and universities set up nearby business parks, where the students will work half days, thus paying for their tuition, while building wonderful business résumés. Colleges will, of course, run fifty weeks of the year and be able to graduate in three years or less.
    Cars, trucks, trains, and other powered machinery will be battery-powered, using batteries a hundredth the size and weight of today’s batteries. Where cars will be able to travel five hundred to a thousand miles on a charge, and recharge in minutes. Oil? For lubrication. The battery, by the way, has already been invented and patented.
    With the commercialization of cold fusion, homes and businesses will have a unit which will provide all of the heat and electricity needed, with plenty left over for recharging the family cars. No more oil. coal-fired or nuclear power stations or power grid criss-crossing the country. Or wind turbines and solar arrays.
    Politicians? With more intelligent and better educated kids, lawyer/politicians as a career path will go the way of royalty into the history books. Congress will be the way the men who started our country envisioned, with public-spirited business people serving a term or two and then going back to their businesses. With populations now able to communicate and think rationally, government will be much more transparent and minimal. Indeed, world governments will have reduced themselves to a minimum needed.
    Gone will be churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques, as the world has slowly relieved itself of the burden of organized religions, another benefit of kids being allowed to learn to think. Gone, also, will be religion-inspired terrorism, and wars.
    Our federal and state governments will be leaner, perhaps a quarter or less their size today, as my proposal for getting them to streamline, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating, is tested and then adopted world wide.
    Our federal and state prisoners will be living in remote tropical areas where they can grow their own food and form prison communities instead of sitting in cells for years. Computer communications system such as Skype will allow them to maintain contact (monitored, of course) with their families.
    Food will cost more than it does today as it is grown under remineralized organic conditions, and without  the virtual slave labor wages now being paid illegal aliens. The horrors of today’s beef, pork and chicken factories will be long gone as organic methods are adopted.
    No more chemical fertilizers or pesticides on the crops. No more growth hormones or antibiotics for the animals. Millions of new family farms. No more genetically modified (GM) crops.
    As the raw food diet is universally adopted our restaurant and fast-food menus will be far different from those today. Chicken McNuggets will be replaced by chicken sashimi (raw) with a spicy (and healthy) sauce (like that served in Japanese chicken restaurants today). Smoothies will replace those so-called milk-shakes. Pasteurized anything? Forget it! Hamburgers? No way! Now it’s beef tartare…ground organic beef with farm-raised egg and chopped capers.
    No more microwave ovens. And, who needs stoves to slave over any more?
    Inflation came to a screeching halt when Congress wised up, turned the issuing of our money over to the Treasury Department and put the Federal Reserve banks out of business. Maybe you’ve read how that mess got started back in 1913…by the same Congressional group that started the income tax. Well, it was only 2% on the wealthy, so who noticed?
    What’ll happen to Social Security when we’re living 150 years instead of 75? Scientists tell us that if we give our bodies the nutrition they’re designed to use, we should live at least 150 years. With hundred-year olds healthier than most half that age today, the retirement age is going to have to shift.
    When the new generation of kids, not (intentionally) prevented from learning to think or be creative by the government public school system, is replaced by higher IQ kids who have been encouraged to be creative, we’ll see a new world of literature, music, and other entertainment.
    All this can happen, but I’ll need your help. Let’s aim for 2020, and settle for 2040. And, if you’re an early adopter, you’ll be alive and healthy well beyond 2040.
   
8/30/09

Recession
    The more the federal government spends to bolster the economy, the more it has to make us to pay for it. And the more we’re taxed, the less we spend. And the less we spend, the more businesses have to cut back on staffs. And the more businesses cut back, the less states get in taxes, so they have to cut back on expenses…mainly employees and services.
    Unlike the feds, state governments can’t just print more hundred dollar bills, they have to balance their budget. So, the more the feds spend to bolster the economy, the more people will be unemployed, the more businesses will fail and the fewer state services we’ll have. Thanks, Obama.
    If I were in the White House the special interests would be lining up to assassinate me because I’d start telling the people how they could stop making themselves sick and cure any illness they have, making the pharmaceutical and food industry set up a joint task force to take me out. Then I’d make cold fusion development a prime R&D project, adding the oil, coal, and nuclear power interests to make sure the other assassination teams didn’t fail. They’d all be joined by the Federal Reserve Banks’ team and they’d resort to a nuke to shut me up, if that’s what it would take to keep me from having the Treasury issue our money instead of them.
    With my sneaky plan to end our two wars quickly, the Department of Offense and their offense contractors would surely field a team too.
    But, you couldn’t help yourself from electing Obama, even though it’s becoming more and more clear that he isn’t, and never has been, a natural born American citizen. Who had a Muslim father and went to a Muslim school as a child. If the word ever gets out on that and it turns out to be true, that would negate the last election. Whoa, would that put what’s his name and Cheney back in office? Uh, oh!

8/29/09

The PC Dawn
    T’was in 1973 that MITS, Ed Roberts’ little company in Albuquerque (NM), introduced one of the first digital calculators. It was a “four-banger,” which added, subtracted, multiplied and divided…for only $130, and they advertised it in my 73 magazine. It was the first electronic calculator and it we selling just fine until Casio came out with a much smaller one, selling for about $30. Ed had to do something, and fast.
    Well, as a hobby, he’d been building a digital computer. Though he didn’t have it working yet, he put together a kit to make his Altair 8800 computer and introduced it in January 1975. He picked that number because it was built around the 8080 computer chip. Ed figured computer hobbyists would iron out the bugs and get it working,. Which they soon did.
    It didn’t have a keyboard for inputting data, so I got one from SouthWest Technical Products (SWTP) in San Antonio (TX) and soon had one of Ed’s kits up and running. Only there was no software, so it couldn’t actually do anything. I saw the potential for it, but what it needed a magazine to help the hobbyists and pioneers communicate to help the technology develop. And to attract newcomers to the field and bring them up to speed.
    I needed an editor with some background in the field so I got in touch with the editors of computer club newsletters, and finally found one in Boston who was willing to come aboard.
    Short, relevant names are best for magazines, so I picked Byte and got busy sending letters to every company making things for computer hobbyists, asking for their customer mailing lists. And I wrote to all of the 73 authors who had submitted computer articles, asking for article submissions for my new magazine.
    When the customer lists came in I mailed them subscription letters. Normally such a mailing might be expected to pull a one or two percent response. I was getting twenty percent! Phenomenal!
    Next I sent letters to every potential advertiser and turned my 73 ad sales team loose, calling them.
    Then I sent letters to the ham radio stores that were carrying my 73, and called the national newsstand company that was distributing 73 to line up bulk copy sales.
    Sure enough, articles began arriving and by press time in late August for the October issue everything had come together. We had a couple thousand subscribers, a couple hundred ham radio stores bulk orders, and about ten thousand copies for newsstand distribution.
    In mid-September I flew to Salt Lake with copies of the first issue to see Sphere, a new entry in the field. From there I flew to Albuquerque to see MITS, and then to San Antonio to SWTP, where I found them about to introduce a computer kit to go with their keyboard.
   In January 1976 MITS had a first year anniversary conference for their users. Yes, I went. Not surprisingly, the question was raised as to what we might be able to do with our Altair 8800s, since there was no software yet available for it. The best suggestion was to use it to turn on and off a lawn watering system. Word processing was still way in the future.

8/28/09

Moon Rocks
    In case you missed the news, one of the Moon rocks was finally tested by someone other than NASA, and what they found raised more questions about the Moon landings some 40 years ago.
    I wondered what they did with the 800 pounds of Moon rocks the astronauts supposedly brought back. It turns out they were given to the governments of over a hundred countries back in the 1970s. Well, the one they gave to the Dutch, which has been on display in the Rijksmuseum in the Hague, finally got tested and was found to be made of petrified wood. Gee, did trees used to grow on the Moon?
    Har-de-har.

8/27/09

U.S. News & World Report
    A few months ago this weekly changed to a monthly, with weekly web downloads available in place of the printed magazines.
    When the September printed issue arrived I could see one of their problems. I’ve been commenting on the large number of drug ads in The Reader’s Digest, which recently went bankrupt. Well, the September U.S. News had 13 pages of drug ads in the first 38 pages of the magazine. One-third of the first part of the magazine was drug ads, and not one with anything interesting to see or read.
    This issue rated the colleges and universities. My alma mater, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), rated just barely in the top 50 universities, much to my lack of surprise. With very little encouragement I’d set up a segment of my web site for reprints of the 23 letters I’ve sent to their president, Shirley Ann Jackson (without one answer, or even an acknowledgment) suggesting ways the university could improve the product.
    When I was on the subcommittee of the N.H. Economic Development Commission I started researching to find out why the American school system is turning out kids who test at the bottom internationally. Well, I found out why, and was not all that surprised when I found it was intentional. Congress would be in deep trouble if Americans were taught to think instead of just doing as they are told.
    I’d like to see RPI become the top engineering university in America, but it would mean a major change in how they teach. And it could be tuition-free, graduating kids in three years instead of four to six.
    What will U.S. News do if I’m able to get the word out on how to cure any illness with no drugs? There would go most of their advertisers.
    So, let me know on those letters, okay?

8/26/09

Saucy
    Every bite of my dinners are delicious treats. And that’s while I’m eating a meal with carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, kale and liver. Yes, all raw, of course. When you cook those things they taste okay, but raw? Wow!
    Yes, I admit I cheat. The kale I enhance by putting four ripe bananas and a cup of distilled water into my blender, the stuffing in all the kale it’ll hold and blend. Kale smoothie, with the banana adding a sweetness that counters the dark green taste of kale, swiss chard, collard greens, etc.
    The liver (which I get from a local farm) I put in my Cuisinart and chop to a goo. Then I add sea salt and cracked pepper to taste. Since I’ve hated cooked liver all my life it wasn’t easy for me to even dare to try raw liver. What a wonderful surprise to have something so healthy taste so good! I love it!
    The other veggies I mince in the Cuisinart and then add my grandmother’s coleslaw sauce recipe. It’s a sweet-sour, creamy sauce, and easy to make. Put a cup of extra virgin olive oil into the blender. Add a cup of organic apple cider vinegar, and a half cup of organic honey. A half teaspoon of sea salt, a teaspoon of cracked pepper, two teaspoons of celery seeds, and a quart of Stoneyfield plain organic yogurt. Blend. This makes about a quart and two-thirds of sauce and you’ll love it. It’ll keep in the fridge for several months, ready to enliven your minced veggies.
    For dessert it’s my chocolate ice cream (see 7/1/09).
    One more thing…a very important thing. Chewing. Chew everything until it is liquid before swallowing (see 8/2/09). Since learning to chew I find I’m getting more flavor, eating less food to get full, and taking twice as long as others to eat.

8/25/09

Home Town
    It’s been several years since I’ve visited my old home town of Littleton (NH). It’s a small town a few miles north of Franconia Notch, which is where they have the Tramway, The Flume, and where the Old Man Of The Mountains used to be.
    What a difference a few years has made. Sigh. All the businesses used to be on Main Street. McCleod’s department store. Magoon’s grocery. C. Tabor Gates watch repair, Littleton Hardware, Silsby’s book store. Garald Silsby’s radio and TV repair. A couple of drug stores. Now, all gone.
    What used to be the meadows, just south of town, now has a Wal-Mart, Lowes, Shaw’s supermarket, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, and the other big-box type stores.
    The one thing that was unchanged was the three-story post office. How come such a huge post office for a town of five thousand? Well, it was built as a government project during the depression, but there was a little mistake. When it was finished everyone was amazed at it’s size, so someone checked and found they’d used plans meant for the new post office in Concord, the state capitol. Uh, oh!
    My old family home at 189 Main Street is now the Littleton Motel, with a sign claiming it to have been the first motel in New Hampshire, and founded in 1948.
    Considering how the town has changed, I kinda wish I hadn’t made the trip. It doesn’t seem like a small town any more.

8/24/09

Surprise From China
    What on earth could this well-wrapped package from Beijing that just came in the mail be? I attacked it with scissors, and there it was, 31 DVDs of Boston Legal’s five seasons, beautifully boxed! Golly, and I just ordered it a few days ago from a company I found on Google. All the way from China, and postmarked the 20th!
    Well, now I can stop taping the shows Tuesday nights from ion Television, and watch all those I’ve missed. It was a great birthday present to myself.

8/23/09

Boston Legal
    Somehow I managed to luck onto ion television and their Boston Legal reruns. See iontelevision.com for their schedule. It’s one of the funniest and best-written shows I’ve discovered. With daily shows at 5 pm, plus three on Tuesdays from 8-11 PM, that’s eight a week for me to tape and then watch while I’m eating. The shows are so great that I’ve been saving the tapes, which are piling up.
    When my old friend Jim Morrissett mentioned that DVDs of the show were available from his library I googled Boston Legal DVD and ordered a boxed set of the show’s all five seasons for $60 as a birthday present for me. That’ll fill me in on some of the shows I missed taping, plus provide me with top notch entertainment in a year or two when my memory has faded enough for them to be like new again.
    ion has also been rerunning the MASH and NCIS shows, which are still very entertaining.
    Hey, let me know if there are any TV shows I really shouldn’t be missing.

8/22/09

Scientific?
    Scientific American sure could use a better educated editor. Tsk. The September issue has two unscientific articles, one on mad cow disease and the other on AIDS…where the authors, Philip Yam and Christine Soares, are repeating the popular mythology instead of giving the facts.
    Mad cow disease is not caused by prions from feeding cows parts of animals, it’s caused by the British farmers spraying their cattle’s spines with Phosmet, an organophosphate, to keep off the warble flies…as I reported in my 8/6/08 entry.
    AIDS will not be “someday” tamed. I’ve already explained two simple, inexpensive, no-drug, ways of curing AIDS. See my 7/25/09 and 5/20/09 entries. Worse, Soares obviously didn’t bother to read the sources I've quoted on how AIDS got started.
    It makes me wonder if the magazine is as unscientific on things I haven’t personally researched.

8/21/09

Solutions!
    Our country is a mess. Here we are with by far the most expensive so-called health care system in the world, yet we’re way, way down the list when it comes to our health and longevity. And our school system is even worse. We’re mired in a couple of what look like no-win wars, having not learned any lessons from Korea or Vietnam. We have the highest percentage of our population in prison, and at astronomical cost. Our government has more than doubled in size in the last few years, with no discernible benefit to us. College costs have been growing at record rates. Gas prices? Wow! Unemployment, if the government would stop fudging the figures, is running over 20%, and is one of our fastest growth industries. Most of the others we’ve moved to Asia. Then there’s the so-called drug war. Well, we’ve sure lost that war too, with drugs available at record low prices. And how many thousand tons of nuclear waste have we amassed? Super-poisonous fluorides in our drinking water. Huge alarms over swine flu and mad cow diseases. A Congress seemingly bought and paid for by big business. And secretly programmable voting machines.
    Lordy!
    Oh, hell...I almost forgot inflation. And psychiatrists, who aren’t much better at curing mental illnesses than doctors are at curing physical diseases.
    For most of these problems I’ve proposed solutions in my blogs. Back when I was publishing a bunch of magazines, they would have been in my editorials.
    Okay, starting with the most important item for all of us…health, I’ve probably over-blogged about it, plus there’s my Secret Guide to Health, which explains how anyone can cure ANY illness they have with no drugs, and never get sick again.
    Education? Bettering our school system has been a major interest of mine. Heck, go check out my entries for 10/13/07 - 10/14/07 - 12/1/07 - 1/11/08  - 5/20/08 - 6/17/08 - 7/26/08 - 8/6/08 - 9/12/08 - 12/6/08 - 3/24/09 - 5/8/09.
    The two wars? Easy! Check my 9/25/08 entry. That could save us billions, plus a whole lot of lives.
    Prisons? Instead of our spending around $30,000 a year to house and entertain the inmates, I’ve proposed a way to cut that to more like $3,000 a year, while reducing recidivism. See 8/2/08.
    College costs have been going crazy. See my 1/26/08, 9/13/07 and 8/4/07 posts for a way to provide not only tuition-free college, at no government expense, but to enormously improve the educational results.
    Gas prices? Let’s have our cars run by electricity, powered by a battery a fiftieth the size and weight of today’s car batteries, and will only be needed to recharge every thousand miles. Oh, and it’ll only take a few minutes to recharge. See 3/6/08. Let’s put those Arabs back on their camels. And when we start new high-tech industries, let’s do what it takes to keep them here…like making those new batteries.
    Unemployment? Check my 4/4/08 entry about setting up Business Incubator Groups in towns to help start hundreds of thousands of new businesses.
    Why spend millions, or even billions, burying our nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain in Nevada when it can be used to generate power and be decontaminated in the process. See my 7/16/08 entry.
    Fluoride is a truly awful poison (see my 5/21/09 entry).
    The mad cow baloney that has people afraid to eat beef? The whole story is fascinating. See 8/6/08, and stop being suckered.
    My 6/17/08 entry includes the way voting machines are programmed to produce the desired winners.
    Why do we have inflation draining the value of our dollars? See 4/2/09 - 2/14/09 - 6/2/08 and 1/3/08. Boy, have we been suckered!
    Psychiatrists? Phooey! Anyone who’s good at Dianetics can get rid of PTSD in less than an hour (7/13/09).
    By developing cold fusion-powered home units to provide all the heat and electricity a family could use, and at around a hundredth the cost of oil, we can get rid of the electric power web and the need for nuclear power stations. See 8/3/09.
    Do you know anyone in Congress that might be interested in solutions? Or any talk shows that might dare to have such a controversial guest?
   
8/14/09

Dad
    Though my dad never went to church, he was a religious man, often mentioning our savior. “Jesus Christ, what the hell have you done?” And, for years he smoked Fatima cigarettes before he switched to Camels. Alas, the Fatima curse finally got him when he died of emphysema, after about twenty years on oxygen bottles.
    You know, I don’t ever recall him sitting down and talking with me. Or having the interest to teach me anything. I’ll have to write about him sometime.

8/12/09

Bio XIII
    As a kid I could never have a dog or a cat for a pet since my dad was allergic to them. So, when I got married and moved away from my folks, up to Peterborough (NH), it wasn’t long before I started having pets.
    The first was a little Italian Greyhound, which I picked up in London. The next stop was Paris, where people looked at it and said, “Petit Chien,” (tiny dog) pronounced tee-shan. So that became his name. I added a Burmese cat, and then a Thai Korat, a bright blue furred cat. An Afghan, a Scottish Deerhound, a goat, a couple horses, then greyhounds.
    One of the more interesting pets was a six-foot indigo snake from Florida. He loved hanging around my neck…probably more for the warmth than love. But he was fun. I’d put him around my neck when salesmen would come to the door and I loved it as they jumped back in fright. I raised mice for him to eat.
    Today I’m down to two cats, one a tabby and the other real furry.

8/11/09

Fed Up Yet?
    It is illegal to put on a prune juice bottle label that it can help treat chronic constipation…even though it’s true. You see, the pharmaceutical industry, with the help of their army of well-healed lobbyists, has gotten Congress to make it illegal to make any health claims for food or dietary products.
    The so-labeled prune juice company would not only be prohibited from selling the juice, but the company executives could be prosecuted both civilly and criminally.
    While the truth is that our health is mainly dependent on our diet, the drug industry wants us to believe that it mainly lies in taking their drugs.
    The basic truth of health is simple and common sense. Stop putting toxic things into and on your body so your immune system can do it’s job. And the most common poisons are cooked food, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine. I go into all the details in my Secret Guide to Health.

8/10/09

Healthy Babies
    The other evening, I saw an obviously pregnant young woman who was smoking. And I’ll bet neither she nor her husband, who was with her, knew any better. Sigh…birth defects, lowered IQ, etc.
    Another article in Healthkeeper cited research which showed that mothers who got more vitamin D during pregnancy had children that were taller, had thicker bones, and higher IQs. This favors babies born late summer or early fall. Whew! My birthday is September 3rd, so I lucked out. I also lucked out that my mother was living on her folk’s farm that summer, so she got lots of sun out there picking berries.
    It’s certain ultra-violet rays from the sun that make the difference. These do not pass through windows or glasses, and we need them both on our skin and in our eyes for the best vitamin D absorption. On sunny days I get out into the fields wearing shorts and no shirt to beef up my tan. I long ago got rid of my dark glasses. I prefer the fields because most of our roads are shaded by trees.

8/9/09

Silver Lining
    If, as the pharmaceutical industry intends, you are worried about the swine flu…or any other flu, as the flu season descends upon us…an article in Healthkeepers says the author, who travels a lot, takes along some colloidal silver as prevention.
    Big Pharma is hoping to sell a trillion dollars of swine flu vaccinations…maybe even mandated by the government, which has a history of asking how high when Big Pharma says jump. Well, leave those $35 shots, which could easily make you sicker than catching the flu from a friend…or even kill you…and use silver colloid, which costs about a penny a gallon to make on your kitchen counter. Heck, if they won’t let you on the plane with a small bottle of silver colloid, just take along my little colloid-making kit and make it when you get to the hotel. It only takes about 20 minutes to make a glass full..
    The article’s author takes a couple tablespoons a day to ward off anything floating around the plane’s cabin, and if he does get the flu he ups that to four ounces a day, which does the job.
    My $45 kit includes two heavy duty silver rods, a power supply, instructions, and a reprint of an article on the whole subject. Or you can check around and find a $199.99 unit (marked down from $200) that will do the same thing. If the price of silver keeps going up I may have to increase my price to $49.99. Damned inflation! When the hell are you going to help Ron Paul get rid of the Federal Reserve system?
    Big Pharma has been having a bonanza, scaring us with SARS and bird flu, now it’s swine flu. And if their shots make you sick or kill you, el tuffo, Congress has made them impervious to any product liability suits.

8/8/09

T’was Brillig
    My grandfather, F.E., could sit on our porch at the farm in the evening and recite poems he’d memorized. How about you? Have you any poems memorized?
    One of my best friends in high school, Ivan Rettinberg, had memorized Jabberwocky, from Alice’s Through the Looking Glass and What She Found There by Lewis Carroll. So I did too. Now, seventy years later, I still remember the poem. You can Google it…Jabberwocky poem. Let’s see if you can memorize it too.
    Alas, Ivan, shortly after graduating high school stuck a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
    A University of New Hampshire study showed that a high percentage of teenage suicides had to do with childhood beatings by their fathers.  My dad beat me whenever he got angry at something I said or did, and this started when I was two years old. So I understand the feeling of helplessness that could lead to a later suicide. Severe pain, and nothing you can do about it. And when you scream in pain he says to shut up of he’ll give you something to really cry about. My dad generally used a razor strop or a hairbrush, not just his hand.
    It wasn’t until Dianetics came along and I was able to erase all those pain memories that I stopped being depressed and started life over. You know, I’ve never been depressed again.
    Animal trainers learned long ago that they get by far the best results by using love instead of fear to train animals. When will fathers learn this? Yes, pain does teach a lesson, but not the one fathers think they are teaching, and the can suffer the results of their anger as Ivan’s father did.

8/7/09

Neither Dead Nor Sleeping
    A couple years after Netta, my mother’s mother, died, my mother was at the sink washing the dishes up at “the farm” in Bethlehem (NH) when one of the elastics holding her pants legs down broke. Mother said to herself, “Oh darn, I’ll have to drive down to Littleton and get a new elastic.”
    When she’d finished the dishes she felt like resting, so she sat down on the porch to read. But it was a little chilly, so she decided to go out to the barn and look in Netta’s old trunk for a shawl.
    In the barn, she dug down in the trunk and found a shawl, but when she shook it out, an elastic fell to the floor. “Netta, are you trying to tell me something?”
    Back on the porch, wearing Netta’s shawl, she looked over the magazines, but didn’t see any that was interesting. So she decided to go back out to the barn and pick a book from her father-in-law’s collection out there…something she’d never done before.
    Out of a couple of bookcases of books she picked one with a black binding, but no title on it. Back on the porch she opened the book. The title was, “Neither Dead, Nor Sleeping,” by May Sewall, published in 1920. It was the amazing story by a world famous woman of her communications with her deceased husband.
    Anyone who believes that when we die that’s the end should read this remarkable book. I’ve reviewed it on page 14 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, where I lamented that someone really ought to reprint this valuable book. Well, my good friend Dick Hussey has done just that. Now you can buy the book, complete with my Foreword by ordering it from any book store (Xlibris), or online via http://www.neitherdeadnorsleeping.com. It’s $30 in hard cover and $20 in paperback.  Get it!

8/6/09

Fifty Years Ago
    1959 was quite a year for me. Bear with an old man as he reminisces.
    I was the editor of CQ magazine, one of the two ham radio magazines. A dream job for me, since ham radio had been my major hobby for over twenty years by then. Paid well, too, at $10,000 a year. To put that into perspective that’s about $250,000 in today’s dollarettes…courtesy of The Federal Reserve’s inflation.
    The job was pure fun. My main interest was in building equipment, so I filled the magazine with exciting construction projects. And, since I’ve always lived in the future, rather than the past, I pushed emerging technologies. Well, that’s what got me the job in the first place. I’d discovered the excitement and fun of amateur radio teletype…much like today’s email. Using old junked teletype machines we could send messages to friends, and even get an automatic response that the messages had been received.
    This was so much fun that I just had to share it with as many hams as I could, so I started a little newsletter. This grew into a small monthly 36-page journal. And then the editor of CQ, Perry Ferrell, got me to do a monthly column on radio teletype (RTTY).
    When two friends of mine started a new magazine, Popular Electronics, they were looking for an editor. I knew that Perry, who was not a ham and unhappy with CQ’s publisher, would be perfect for the job. He was, and the next thing I knew I was being hired to replace him.
    I’d done well with my previous job as the manufacturer of hi-fi speaker cabinets, so I’d built up a collection of toys…like a 26-foot Chris Craft Express Cruiser, which could comfortably pull five water skiers and cruise along at over 35 knots, a Tecraft airplane on floats. And an Arab horse named Colonel.
    Oh yes, 1959. That’s when I got a PR release from Ex-Cell-O’s Pure Pak Division, a maker of milk cartons, about an upcoming trip around the world to promote their product. They’d made a deal with the Military Air Transport System (MATS) to provide a C54 plane and crew for the trip. In exchange Excello’s film crew, who would be doing a documentary of their milk carton factories, would also do one of the MATS operations. And, since the head of PR for Excello was a ham, Ralph Charbeneau, W8OLJ, there would be a ham radio station aboard the plane, and two ham operators. One was my old friend, CBS’ Bill Leonard W2SKE. When I heard that the other proposed operator had a heart problem I quickly called Ralph and volunteered…resulting in me getting an all expense-paid trip around the world, visiting hams in 26 countries. Two months of nirvana. Each country we visited was worthy of me writing at least a booklet. I’ll save all that for my ten-volume autobiography.
    Later in the year I got a call from the State Department asking if I would be a member of the United States delegation to the International Telecommunications Union conference in Geneva in October. Hey, you bet! And this was to be a critically important conference as far as amateur radio was concerned. You see, while amateur radio had licensees in many countries, it was mainly an American hobby, where we had more hams than in the rest of the world combined. So amateurs in other countries had little influence on their government’s positions on the allocation of frequencies for the hobby.
    To prepare for the conference I made a trip to Europe where I gave talks to amateur radio groups in Paris, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, Munich, Vienna, Venice, Milano, Genoa, Nice, Geneva, Bern, Zurich, Rotterdam, the Hague, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Kovenhagen. To get around I bought a bright red Porsche Convertible D at the factory, which I shipped home at the end of my trip.
    Fortunately the U.S. prevailed, so we hams were able to keep our ham radio frequency allocations. Whew! But it was close in several cases.
    Yep, that was quite a year!

8/5/09

Freedoms
    We are losing our freedoms slice by slice while you have been too busy watching TV to be bothered doing anything about it. I'm not normally much one for flag waving, but this is getting my goat. One of the reasons I spent four damned years in the Navy fighting WWII on a submarine was supposedly defending our liberty…our freedom. And now Americans are sitting on their fat asses, pissing away what millions of us fought for. And a lot died for.
    I got a letter today from a guy who is in prison. He says the police broke into his house, planted some drugs, then they confiscated his home, car, and bank account, and put him in prison. What can he do, he asked. We've been losing our freedoms to the DEA, the FBI, the IRS, and down through the alphabet, nibbled away one at a time.
    What can I tell him?

8/4/09

Motivation
    Harry Lewis W7JWJ was kind enough, some time ago, to send me a long and fascinating letter. I might even have published it in my ham magazine, but he asked me not to. I’ll bet he was worried about his reputation being tarnished by being associated with weird Wayne Green.
    Harry had a certificate for copying code at 79 wpm. He offered $1,000 to anyone who could beat him at copying the code. He’d taught thousands of people to copy the code. He pointed out that it had been taking longer and longer for people to learn to copy the code at 13 words per minute (wpm), the then requirement to get a ham license. In the 1930s it took averaged 12.5 hours of practice. By 1944 it was taking about 28 hours. By 1970 it was averaging 70 hours. It was now averaging 110 hours!
    Harry was convinced that diet was a big part of the problem. Well, I agree with him that the American diet has gone to hell in a handbasket. Sugar, chocolate, white flour, meat laced with hormones and antibiotics, and so on. Smoking and other poisons aren’t speeding up our brains any, either.
    Sure, our schools are part of the reason SAT scores have been plummeting, but so is the great American diet of hamburgers and fries, which provide virtually no usable nutrition for our bodies or brains. We wash down the hamburgers and fries with a coke or a glutinous “malt,” both toxic.
    If you or your children want to be able to think and be healthy you’ve got to shop in a different part of the supermarket. Over there in that tiny organic food section, buying fruit, vegetables and grass-fed meat.
    Motivation helps, too. Harry noticed that when military ops had the choice of learning to copy code at 40 wpm in two weeks and getting a cushy safe job with good pay vs. going to an active battalion they had a 100% success rate. Makes sense.
    I’ve found that concentrating on building a new skill makes it easy and fun to learn. The old never-say-die approach. When the Advertising Club of New York had a horseback riding outing I remembered how much fun I’d had as a kid in Washington (DC) riding in Rock Creek Park, so I decided to take lessons. I found a superb professional and took lessons several times a week…until I got very good at it. I read every book I could find, got an Arabian, and started training him. I rode horses everywhere I went…on the beaches and hills of California, the forests of Germany, the beaches and hills of Caribbean islands, the parks of Paris.
    When the head trainer at the Ringling Brothers stables in Sarasota saw me riding one of their horses he asked me to exercise his top show horse, Starlit Night. Wow! Now that was fun! I put the horse through all the dressage gates. The horse was amazingly responsive to my every signal, no matter how slight.
    Outside of my usual bragging, what I’m saying is that you can accomplish just about any skill you want to if you make it your business to do it. It takes motivation and determination. Never Say Die! And you can learn any skill you want to.
    I’d like to see our schools devote more effort to teaching kids skills…like swimming, diving, bowling, bicycle riding, driving, flying, skiing, archery, etc. I’ve published a list of skills in the past, so I won’t do it again. But how about you? Can you keep up with me on skis? Have you learned how to hot air balloon? Stunt kite flying? Juggling? How about parachuting? I love it! Scuba diving? Let’s see if you can use less air than I do. You can’t.
    In what skills or fields are you an expert? Have you learned anything you could write about and sell your teaching? That can be a nice home business. I’ve become an expert on nutrition and my book, The Secret Guide to Health is selling very well. As one of the founders and first secretary of American Mensa my book, The Secret Guide to Wisdom has sold thousands of copies. And, with a Ph.D. in entrepreneurial science, plus a lifetime of experience, my book, The Secret Guide to Wealth is also a best-seller. So what have you done or learned you can write about? Get busy with your word processor.

8/2/09

Organic Beef
    With almost the beef in our supermarkets raised in beef factories, where the cows are fed genetically modified corn, given bovine growth hormones (BGH), which are almost identical to human growth hormone (HGH), and which are suspected of helping cause girls as young as five and six to start sprouting breasts, plus they’re also fed antibiotics to counter the mastitis the BGH is causing, and which we get when we eat their meat, this is not healthy stuff for your body.
    Of course, then we cook it, which is bad enough for our digestive system, but then we chew it just enough to avoid an emergency visit from Heimlich, thereby avoiding the digestive properties of our saliva, which has been designed to get food into liquid form for the stomach to process. Then we make sure the stomach is unable to get the food ready for the colon to extract the vitamins, minerals, etc., to send to your cells by pouring in water, coffee, or some other liquid to dilute the hydrochloric stomach acid. It’s a miracle we’re living as long as we do.
    The partially digested meat, which the colon can’t handle, sticks there…for years. That stomach you see hanging over people’s belts, is many pounds of cooked, partially chewed, undigested slowly rotting meat.
    My supermarket chain has a Wild Harvest section where I can buy buffalo meat from animals which have been grass-fed and not shot with hormones and antibiotics. Organic. And beef is available from several nearby dairy farms which also provide me with raw milk and eggs. Yes, I eat all my meat and eggs raw.

8/1/09

Make Small Money…Lots of it!
    How’d you like to help really change people’s lives…and even make a few bucks doing it?
    My Secret Guide to Health exposes so-called “health care” as one of the biggest scams in the world. It explains how easy it is to cure any illness with no drugs, and at almost no cost. My book sells for $20, plus $4 s/h. So, how about you using your web smarts and selling my book for me? You sell my book for $24, including shipping in the U.S., then send or email me the order for $16 and I’ll do the packing and mailing. That’s right, you’ll make $8 profit for every sale you make of the most valuable health book in the world.
    Outside the U.S. the book is $28 postage paid, so you pay $20 for foreign sales.
    I’m set for MasterCard or Visa payments, but I don’t sneer at cash, checks or money orders. Whatever is easiest for you.
    Your biggest sales problem is people’s almost unshakable belief in doctors and the protection of the government. Well, the medical industry, as well as our government, are run by money. Money talks a lot louder than facts or lives, and the pharmaceutical industry knows this. It’s why they invest $45 billion a year in advertising and promotion. It’s why they have a hoard of well-healed lobbyists, reaching from the White House on down to your state legislature. It’s why most of the media isn’t about to reveal the secret to getting and staying well.
    With 50% of us getting cancer, and most of the rest eventually something else serious, you sure have no shortage of prospects. Hey, whether they are willing to accept the possibility that a raw food diet could save their lives or not, what have they to lose? It’s $24 vs. tens to hundreds of thousands of hospital bill dollars.
    This almost universal ignorance of the power of one’s immune system to reverse any illness, if permitted, is killing us at what should be the middle of our healthy lives.
    With the power of email, the Internet, twitter, facebook, etc., we are no longer prisoners of our government propaganda or our media’s bias. Now we can expose the truth, unblocked by the power of money to hide it.
    So, let’s see what you can do. Keep me busy mailing books and helping change the world. Let’s raise hell with social security by helping seniors to live longer in good health. Let’s aim at making Big Pharma live on in the history books. Remember, Dr. Schweitzer, in Africa, said he never saw a single case of cancer until the European diet was introduced. And Dr. Weston Price reported the same of primitive societies all around the world.
    The easy way to handle orders would be to send them to me by e-mail. Then I’d mail the books and charge your MasterCard of Visa with $16 for domestic orders or $20 for foreign orders. In case of orders for more than one book, the $4 s/h (and $8 for foreign) holds for total orders. It’s simpler that way. So, for domestic orders, you’d charge $44 for two books and I’d charge you $28. Or we can do it by mail.
    What’s afoot here is, essentially, guerrilla warfare against today’s entrenched drug, medical, and food industries. So, let’s get busy, infiltrate and slowly destroy them with truth…the one weapon they don’t have. They have been bleeding us of about $8,000 per man, woman and child per year, plus causing incredible pain and misery. Enough is enough!
    Of the Forbes top 400 American companies, the top ten Big Phara companies are making more profits than the next 390 combined. And we’re the patsies, with our almost unshakable belief in doctors.

8/3/09

Cold Fusion Gets Easier
    When Doctors Pons and Fleischmann, two respected chemists, stuck a palladium wire into a lithium and heavy water solution, and then passed a current through it for some days…suddenly the cell started generating far more heat than any chemical reaction could explain.
    Other scientists tried to replicate the experiment using palladium wire, sheets, and chunks. Some failed, but some succeeded. Those who failed went to the press to exposé P&F's fiasco. Those who succeeded kept working to refine to process…to make it work faster, more dependably, and generate more heat.
    Physicists were adamant that this was not fusion because there were so little radioactivity was detected. Impossible. So, lacking any theory for why this "anomalous heat" was being generated, researchers went by the seat of their pants (empirical, it's called), trying this and that. Some were even getting excess heat using nickel and plain water.
    The effect was best with metals having a lattice-like molecular construction such as palladium, nickel, rubidium, rhodium, and platinum. These metals acted like sponges, absorbing hydrogen. They found that around the time the lattices were 82% full of hydrogen the anomalous heat started appearing.
    Jim Patterson, an inventor, and not a chemist or physicist, figured that since the start of the reaction depended on the metal absorbing hydrogen as quickly as possible, the more surface area of the metal, the faster it would absorb the hydrogen. So he coated some polymer microspheres with palladium. Sure enough, the reaction started reliably in record time…in a few minutes instead of days. And the amount of heat increased amazingly. He demonstrated a cell at a power company conference which was generating over a thousand watts of heat with only one watt of drive. A thousand to one!
    Hmm, said I, if those microspheres work so well, why not eliminate the spheres and just use cheaper and easier to make finely powdered metal. That would have even more surface area. Or go the next step to a chelated metal? Heck, go to even smaller metal particles by making a colloidal suspension of the metal in the electrolyte solution? Talk about surface area!
    When I asked Patterson about this, he smiled and said he'd done just that and had some patents in the works. Jim's the chap who got the first cold fusion patent on his cell, and then the first patent claiming more energy out than in. Since that smacks of perpetual motion, which the patent office has always refused to even consider, this may be a historic first.
    Lest you think that colloidal metals are something mysterious and difficult to brew, they're something you can make on the kitchen table yourself. In minutes. No, this cold fusion research field doesn't take a million dollar laboratory to get in on the fun. Indeed, the leading American researcher in the field (before Jim) was Dennis Cravens, a young teacher at a small college in Vernon, Texas. Dennis set up a small lab in his garage and, investing less than $5,000 in his equipment, was a true pioneer. I first met Dennis when he was delivering a lecture on his work at the 3rd International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF-3) in Maui in 1993.
    With most of the world pretty well discovered, today's pioneers are in the high-tech fields, bringing us cellular radio, packet, personal computers, and such.
    Getting back to colloids. I ran into these first with my reading in the health area. It seems that colloidal silver is a miracle remedy for many problems. It's very easy to make. You merely put a couple pure silver rods in distilled water, add a little pure salt to make it conductive, and then pass a small current through it. In minutes you have a silver colloid solution. How much voltage does it take? 18 Volts is fine (three 9V batteries).
    What's a colloid? It's particles of metal so small that they remain suspended in a solution and don't sift out when left undisturbed. We're talking very small particles, just a few molecules each. That's why there is such an enormous surface area for the cold fusion reaction.
    Will it be Jim and Dennis demonstrating a cell generating 10,000 watts with one watt of drive, or you? How's your pioneering spirit? Have you ever had a desire to go where few have gone before? The threshold of the unknown isn't as far away as you think. I've been privileged to be good friends with several of our ham pioneers…Sam Harris W1FZJ, who did pioneering moonbounce work and invented the parametric amplifier, was a very good friend. As was John Williams W2BFD, the pioneer of radioteletype, Jack Babkes W2GDG with narrow-band FM, and Wes Schum W9DYV with sideband.
    The frontiers today are no further away than they were a century ago. But instead of Africa, Tibet and reaching the poles, they're in digital voice, spread spectrum, cold fusion, and the investigation of other anomalies of science. They're in rediscovering lost or buried past developments in the health and other fields, such as the work of Royal Rife, which should be reopened. Ditto Wilhelm Reich. There are some amazing things happening with magnets. Just reading some of the books on my review of books you're crazy if you don't read will open all sorts of pioneering opportunities to anyone with imagination and curiosity. Whole continents of science are still there to be discovered. Which will you be prouder of ten and twenty years from now, having watched ball games, or having helped pioneer a new technology? This stuff doesn't take formal education…indeed, that seems to be a drawback when it comes to original thinking. It doesn't take a lot of brains either. What it takes is the same thing success at anything takes: persistence. That's what sets life's winners apart from the rest of us.

7/30/09

Rain, Rain!
    The seemingly endless rain and concomitant clouds of mosquitoes followed another snowy winter, just as I reported 10/13/08 for last year. And, far’s I know (which is pretty far), this all has to do with the 7,000+ volcanoes under the oceans which are warming them, causing more water to evaporate into the air, bringing us rain, and then more rain.
    I’m not sure how the global warming fans have connected our SUVs with the increased volcano and earthquake activity, but I’ll bet they will. Hmm, could it have any connection with whatever has caused the Sun to have such a long sunspot minimum? I’d better check with the Planet-X fans.
   It rained yesterday evening and then deluged for a while, complete with a thunder storm. Rained all night. This morning it’s sunny for a little while, time for me to put on a long sleeved jacket with a hood and mosquito netting over my head and go pick raspberries before it starts raining again. It takes me about an hour to pick a couple quarts...an hour of fighting off the mosquitoes that attack any skin they can reach through the netting.
    I’ve learned a lesson. This fall we’ll get rid of the raspberry patch and I’ll buy ’em at the store next year.

7/25/09

AIDS 2009
    The article in the August Forbes on Ed Green’s (no relation, far’s I know) AIDS work in Africa made it clear that word of the two simple  sure-fire cures are still almost totally unknown. So we see Ed Green, along with Sonny Bono and Bill Gates pouring millions down the African AIDS rat hole. Or is it billions?
    If you scan through my postings for “AIDS” you’ll find I’ve already covered the subject. Cure #1 is to change to a raw food diet, along with stopping the other immune system toxins such as sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, mercury, etc. The immune system, once we stop poisoning it with cooked food and other toxins, can get rid of AIDS (HIV), as well as cancer and Alzheimer’s.
    To learn more about AIDS, who started it and why, read the books by Peter Deusberg, Jon Rappoport, and Dr. Eva Snead. I have. If your library doesn’t have them, what kind of a crummy library does your town have, anyway?
    The second cure is to kill it in the blood with a blood purifier. I published a circuit for this unit in the May 1996 issue of 73 Magazine (it used $19 in parts). But when I started making reprints of the article available the Post Office sued, saying that since this way of curing AIDS had not been authorized by the FDA (an $800 million, ten year process), it was fraudulent, so there would be a $25,000 fine for each copy I mailed. That little brush with Big Pharma cost me $30,000 in legal fees. But, since a diet change did the job, I put the blood purifier aside.

7/24/09

Balancing the Budget
    It’s simple…either we cut expenses drastically or increase taxes. A lot.
    Now, as a known outside-the-box thinker, I’ve a few proposals…on ways we can cut spending. A lot.
    First, let’s aim to cut healthcare spending, A lot. This will help both the public and the government save a bundle. Like one or two trillion a year. How? By getting the government to admit that any illness can be cured by adopting an organic raw food diet, and that this will keep people from getting sick. Leaving the care for accidents the main purview of the medical establishment.
    Then there’s our bloated state and federal governments. We could get rid of half of the bureaucrats, few of which are benefiting us, in about three years. But, hey, why stop there? (See my 1/25/09 entry for this one)
    When we replace oil with cold fusion power, at about a hundredth the cost for gas, there’s a few more trillion saved. Oh, no more electric bills, either.
    While we’re at it, let’s cut our $50 billion correctional facility costs by about 75-90%. (See 8/2/08 for details)
    When we put several hundred thousand doctors out of work, and a few million bureaucrats, we’re going to need a lot of jobs for them. My Business Incubator Group plan, which actually makes the government a profit, can do the job. (See 4/4/08 for this one)
    We’re throwing away billions on the Bush League middle-east wars. Let’s quickly win ’em and start cutting our military budget. Drastically. (See 9/25/08 for the details)
    College costs are a drop in the country’s budget, but a big deal for families with teenagers, so let’s eliminate college tuition costs, and at no government expense. (See my 1/26/08, 9/13/07 and 8/4/07 posts)
    How many billions could we save by ousting the illegal aliens? Billions we’re all having to pay?
    A few billion here, a few there, pretty soon it’s trillions and making a difference.

7/22/09

Newsweek
    The current issue has thirteen-plus pages of drug ads and only five pages of other ads. If word gets out about the enormous healthcare scam, Newsweek and a bunch of other magazines that are dependent on drug ads will be out of business. Could this in any way affect their editorial content? Har-de-har.
    And the same goes for radio and TV. I tape all of the shows I watch, but I sure can’t miss the endless drug ads as I fast forward through the commercials. Well, what other industry racks up such astronomical profits from their advertising? Maybe you missed the recent exposé of drug prices vs. their cost to make, with a hundred Lipitor tablets selling for $272.37, and only costing $5.80 to make.
    Newsweek recent went through a makeover. I hate the new format and sure won’t be renewing my subscription.
    Healthcare? Almost totally phony. Shh, don’t tell anyone they can cure the cancer their diet caused by changing their diet. The ability of the body to cure any illness and never get sick again just by stopping the barrage of poisons we’re putting in and on our bodies must be kept a secret for the drug cartel and today’s food suppliers to continue to rake in their billions. No, make that trillions.
    Every illness we get we do to ourselves. We don’t need drugs or vaccinations to be healthy, we just have to give our bodies the food they’re designed to use, plenty of pure water, exercise, sunlight, and sleep. A strong immune system can easily handle any invading germs, viruses, parasites, or fungi. That’s why, even in the worst pandemics, there are some people who don’t get sick.
    Addictions to nicotine, alcohol, sugar, and cooked food are lethal. Sure, slowly lethal, but still lethal. Slow, painful, expensive suicide.

7/21/09

Skilled Workers
    Did you watch the PBS program about the schools in China? China’s aim, like ours, is to provide their country with skilled workers, and their schools are leaving ours in the dust. Countries compete with each other by exporting products. And that means either by making products cheaper than competitors can, or better. Or both.
    The big money in exports obviously lies in high volume sales, which in turn means they are being made by big companies. It is these big companies which need skilled workers, so it makes sense from an international business viewpoint for a country to train as many skilled workers as possible. Remember, business is war today.
    Our public schools, as I’ve mentioned before, were first started by our church leaders as a way to assure them a steady supply of compliant church goers (and concomitant revenues). Then the industrial revolution came along, bringing a need for skilled workers for our factories. Our public schools had the aim of taking a diverse supply of young children and turning them into as nearly identical workers as possible for our giant industries. Workers who would do as they were told without asking questions so as not to stop our production lines.
    Well, that’s a good competitive strategy for a country, but it means that everyone will have to settle for about the same pay and a similar life style.
    I went through that mill, just like you did. And no one ever blew the whistle and said, hey wake up, being just one more bee in the hive isn’t your only alternative. One more skilled ant worker in the anthill. When WWII came along I was another warrior ant. I was a skilled worker ant at the General Electric Company, testing radio transmitters. I was a skilled worker ant at Airborne Instrument Laboratories as an engineer.
    Then, when I was 28, I finally wised up and started my first company. Since then I’ve been the editor and publisher of a bunch of high tech magazines in the ham radio, computer and digital audio fields. I’ve manufactured audio and computer products, started and run a chain of retail stores, imported and exported high tech products, and so on. But, you know, virtually none of the skilled worker education I went through in public school and college has every been of any use to me.
    I watched the Chinese children all doing well in trig and spherical trig. I’ve never needed any of that. Nor has the torture of “learning” calculus ever paid off for me, despite the wide variety of businesses I’ve run. Torture is not an exaggeration. I struggled through two years of calculus before I went into the Navy in 1942 to fight the Japs. Then, when I went back to school four years later, I had no memory whatever of the calculus I’d supposedly “learned” before the war…so I had to re-learn it all again. I’ve never needed any of it.
    So I’m preaching revolution. The next time you come out of the anthill take a look around. You really don’t have to live like that, in an apartment with an hour commute to work.
    Our country may want you to shut up and apply your working skills for a large corporation, but the route to freedom lies outside the anthill or hive. And it also lies outside of the few skills they’re forcing you to acquire in our public schools.
    Reading and writing are good skills, but as John Taylor Gatto, the prize winning teacher, has explained, this can be learned by almost anyone in 100 hours. A couple weeks. Arithmetic and algebra I’ve also found very useful. I remember learning about poetry along about the third grade, but I don’t recall ever being encouraged to write it. A fourth grade course in the fundamentals of art also has been helpful for me…first as a TV cameraman and director, and then as a magazine editor. But I wish I’d been encouraged to develop my art potential.
    They taught me to read music in the third grade, but not to write it. The reading part came in handy when I became a chorister at St. Paul’s Church, and then went on to sing in several first rate choruses. But I wish I’d been encouraged to write music.
    My Brooklyn public school had a weekly class for the whole school in classical music. That helped get me interested in hi-fi, which led to my first manufacturing company making loud speaker enclosures. It also helped get me interested in listening to classical music all through my life.
    As far as I know our public schools have stopped all that poetry, art and music nonsense in the lower grades. Hey, how many art museums have you visited? Have you ever tried sculpting, painting, writing poems or music?
    Most of the skills needed to be successful with your own business aren’t being taught…because that’s not in the interest of the big businesses, which are pretty much calling the tune. It’s their money that gets politicians elected, not yours, and not that of entrepreneurs.
    It’s too late for you, but how about your children or grandchildren? Do you want them to be skilled workers or entrepreneurs? Do you want them to be wage slaves or free persons?
    Oh yes, one more thing. These days it takes the work of two wage slaves to maintain an acceptable standard of living, but only one of a free person to do many times better.

7/20/09

Raspberries
    Two years ago the raspberry patch out in back of the house produced a bumper crop. I ate ’em as much as I could and froze the rest. The berry book recommended cutting the bushes back at the end of the season to about six inches. Alas, our handyman cut them down to two inches. So there were no berries last year.
    This year they were all back in full strength. The only problem was the several weeks of rain which had bred a record crop of mosquitoes. Swarms, ready to attack anything moving the minute I stepped out the door. Despite the 80°+ temperatures, picking raspberries was not a job to be performed in my usual bright sun attire…shorts and no shirt.
    I did pretty well with a long-sleeved sweatshirt and a scarf over my head. But no where near good enough. The mosquitoes were still winning too often. The winner was my hooded rain parka and a bug net over my face. With that combo, and at 85°, I was able to pick a quart in an hour, though I probably lost at least a quart of sweat in the process. I can see why they’re charging $5 for a pint of berries at the farmer’s market on Saturday.
    The payoff will be next winter when I have fresh raspberries for breakfast.

7/20/09

Beware The NSA
    A reader sent me a copy of a couple articles from Health Freedom News that got my attention. The first was a reprise of the work Dr. Robert Becker, reported in his fascinating book, Cross Currents. I've reviewed that book in on page 8 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, but I haven't gotten you to read it. I'd hoped to get at least a few of you fired up enough to start experimenting with ways to regrow missing body parts through the use of low voltages.
    The second part had to do with a friend of the author who had built a chamber which shielded a person totally from all electromagnetic fields. He put in antennas to detect the very low levels of frequencies given off by living creatures. He then built a wide-band amplifier to amplify the body emissions and feed them back at a high level to get positive feedback. He found that animals could tolerate the treatment for about 30 seconds. He found the results to be amazing. The animal's genes and cells which are programmed for aging and death seemed to be reset backwards.
    He found that three treatments a week apart was able to rejuvenate old and maimed cats and dogs. The next door neighbor's dog, for instance, had been hit by a car some years before and a hind leg crushed so it had to be amputated. And there was spinal cord injury. The dog's hair was graying and falling out, it was overweight and had trouble breathing. Three months later the hind leg had regrown, the spinal damage healed, the dog's hair had grown back, now black, it had lost the excess weight, and was breathing normally. It was young again.
    The physicist returned home a few days later to find the National Security Agency (NSA) cleaning out his papers and laboratory. They explained that he had no say in the matter. A few days later his house and lab were burned to the ground.
    The NSA is twice the size of the CIA and operates both in and out of the US. It monitors phone and radio communications worldwide. All long distance phone calls and faxes are subject to monitoring by the NSA.
    Now, if the above isn't total baloney, and I have no reason to suspect it is, maybe it's about time you started working on a shielded room and sending me information on building wide-band amplifiers. Considering the progress Becker made, the above isn't completely implausible.
    The article also mentioned a chap who has been working with magnetic fields. He immerses people in a strong field and body regeneration occurred. One man had a tumor which blocked 90% of his spinal cord, making him a quadriplegic. 104 hours of treatment totally healed the tumor and the paralysis. Another, blind from degeneration of his optic nerve, regained full sight after 6 hours in the magnetic field.
    Meanwhile, is any of that enough to get you to cut back on your TV and do some experimenting? Sigh, I thought not. But if you do decide to experiment, keep quiet about it so you or your lab don't suddenly disappear. Well, not 100% quiet. I expect some confidential reports which I'll memorize and burn.

7/19/09

Outraged
    I am outraged over the outrageous things people are getting outraged about. I'm up to here with political correctness and with the seemingly endless euphemisms invented to spare people's increasingly delicate sensibilities. Mental institutions, correctional facilities, Department of Defense, physically challenged, senior citizen, chairperson…phooey.

7/19/09

Identity
    There’s a strong tendency among our revered “health care givers” to categorize us. Back in the days when I was a certificated professional mental repair technician I quickly learned never to jump to any conclusions as to what was causing my patients troubles, based on seemingly similar cases I’d worked on. The fact is that we’re all different mentally as well as physically. And that difference goes right down to some basic levels.
    This came to mind as I was reading a fascinating book, The Pulse Test, by Dr. Arthur Coca. The book was originally published 45 years ago, and is available in a pocket book 1996 edition. It’s 186p, $5, and has ISBN 0-312-95699-1. Yes, it’ll be in my next update of my list of books you’re crazy if you don’t read.
    t points out that we’re all allergic to different things…foods, dust, pollens, and so on. It also points out that we are probably unaware of our sensitivity to most of these things, and that the results can be all kinds of lingering illnesses.
    On the bright side, the book explains how simple it is to find out what you are allergic to so you can avoid that allergen. It’s merely a matter of counting your pulse rate after eating or exposure to different substances. With foods you can isolate which are treated as hostile by your body just by checking your pulse several times after eating. Well, get the book.
    Yes, I’m selling my list of recommended books for $5. If I were selling the books, it would be a free catalog. But the list is the result of a lifetime of reading and the revenue from it goes for photocopying, folding, assembling, addressing and mailing it, plus money to buy more books. So far this month I’ve bought 17 more books, most of them on the recommendation of readers as books I really ought to read.
    Getting back to allergies, a recent TV documentary introduced me to Dr. Doris Rapp, who explained that many of the behavior problems kids have stem from allergies. Like hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, poor grades, fatigue, personality changes, poor concentration, depression, and so on. I probably should put her book, The Impossible Child, 161p, $11, ISBN 0-9616318-1-3, on my list, particularly for parents…though people of all ages can have these same reactions to allergens.
    My hay fever hit not long after childhood immunization shots. I had the usual scratch tests, where I was found allergic to dogs and cats, a few foods such as cheese, trees, grasses, and most pollens. Dr. Coca’s book explains that the scratch test misses many allergens and that the pulse test is much more reliable. It’s also one heck of a lot easier and cheaper. Which probably explains why few doctors are aware of the test, even though it’s been around for over 40 years.
    Apropos, I’ve already mentioned the inexpensive cure for epilepsy which one determined doctor has kept going at the John’s Hopkins Hospital, but which otherwise would have been lost.  See Epileptic Fits 8/9/08.
    I keep finding out about more and more buried medical treasures like these. But then the medical industry is in the hands of a few pharmaceutical companies, the music industry is totally under control of seven international music companies, six foreign-owned, and so it goes, with us paying the tab while we sit here watching ball games and drinking beer.

7/18/09

Stub-bor-en
    Why are you so stubborn? My patience is over 17% exhausted just trying to get you out of the endless maze in which you've been trapped all your life. Despite everything I've been preaching, you have been stubbornly refusing to even consider starting your own business. What does it take to blast you out of the sand trap of a nine-to-five? Have you got iron poor blood?
    Sure, I sucked into going to college so I could work for other people all my life. It wasn't until I was 28 that I managed to wake up. That's when I started my first real business…manufacturing loud speaker enclosures. I sent up a desk in one end of my bedroom in Brooklyn (NY) and hired Jordan Polly K2AZL as my first employee. The manufacturing was contracted out and one end of the cellar was set up as a shipping department. Next to the coal bin and laundry tubs. My ham shack filled the rest of the cellar. This grew within three years to about a $20 million business, but by then I'd had to rent outside offices and a warehouse.
    My grandfather had run his brake lining business from the same house twenty years earlier. He'd made millions inventing things, helping what is now known as Citgo get started with his college buddy Henry L. Dougherty. Dougherty put the profits from manufacturing my grandfather's inventions into oil. Then came the stock market crash and a million dollars in City Service stock dropped to being worth about $3,500. And my grandfather (Pop) went from being wealthy to needing to find something to do to get by.
    He first took over the management of Continental Can, rescuing them from bankruptcy. Then his uncle called, explaining that he'd invented a new and better brake lining. Pop drove out to East Brady, Pennsylvania see what this was all about and signed up to handle the eastern part of the country for Rex Hide brake lining. Customers loved it because the stuff didn't wear out every few thousand miles like the regular lining. Soon the cellar was filled with inventory and trucks were picking up shipments every day. The lining was molded out of carbon and rubber to fit brake drums, so when WWII came along and rubber was scarce the factory was closed down. And that was the end of Rex Hide.
    Pop, who smoked a pipe and cigars, died of pneumonia in his early 50s. Smoking had ruined his lungs.
Where am I heading with all this? I'm trying to get you to start thinking in terms of starting a small business in some field that will be real fun for you and run it out of your home until it gets too big to handle.
    I  started 73 magazine out of a small apartment in Brooklyn and ran it for two years before I moved everything to New Hampshire…into my new home in Peterborough. And I ran it, plus Byte, Microcomputing, 80-Micro, Desktop Computing, InCider, Run, and some other publications from there until I sold everything to IDG in 1983. Well, I did have to buy the house and barn next door for more magazine offices, a 24-room motel for software development, a house and barn in northern Peterborough for the book division, a house in West Peterborough for shipping, and so on. I gobbled up just about every available building in town. I probably shouldn't have let the growth get away from me like that.
    The nice thing about a mail order business is that you can run it from anywhere, and you can start small. PC Connection started out in a farmhouse in Marlowe (NH) and now they've taken over an entire shopping mall in Amherst for their offices.
    Look, you're never going to make much money working for someone else. The key to freedom is owning your own business. So find some innovative product and get started with an office at home like I did. My products these days are books, which I write. Well, this is the information age, but the problem is that there is so much information that everyone is in overload. So I do my research and simplify the information, making it all available in one book.
    Like in the health field. You can spend a fortune reading the endless books and newsletters, 99% of which are a waste of time. So I read ’em all, talk it over with people I've learned to trust, and then make dependable information available. Like this, for instance.
    If you have a product that people need it won't make any difference, at least for long, if the banking system fails, if the government collapses, or whatever.
    My wife Sherry discovered that there was a need for how-to-dance video lessons. She's running a nice business selling them from our farm on both VHS tape and DVDs. She’s got 125 of ’em so far and the customers love ’em..  
    So what are you using your living room for, watching TV? Our living room has two computer systems in addition to the TV. The study has a computerized video editing setup, and so on.
    Hey, are you still just sitting there? Why are you so stubborn? America really can be the land of the free (excerpt for the freedoms we have gradually ceded to the government), so start untying your bonds.

6/18/09

Standards
    The White House (Obama) is pushing for tougher educational standards, and budgeting $5 billion to support the effort.. And this means tougher tests for schools to prime their kids to pass. It has little to do with learning. As I've pointed out, our mandatory government public school system's goal is not so much education as indoctrinating kids to be subjects. Thinking adults can be a danger.
    This is the system where students are given material to memorize for tests. Alas, this is short term memory and has little to do with understanding and nothing to do with thinking.
    By far the best schools in America, schools in which children are taught to think and be resourceful…to be creative… are modeled after the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham MA. It's a school for kids from four to twenty, where there is no curriculum. Where kids study what they want because they want and when they want. The have a good library, plus the Internet as resources. They often work together in groups, and there are no tests and no grades. The kids are not separated by age, like our public schools, where the aim is to turn children with a wide variety of backgrounds and interests into as nearly identical end products as possible. Just like mass production from our factories. Well, that was when we had a lot of factories. Most of ’em have been moved to Asia, leaving today’s clueless graduates to find fast-food jobs…if they haven’t been filled by illegal immigrants.
    The Sudbury Valley School, by the way, costs less than half as much to run as the nearby public schools, and their graduates ace the SATs, so they can get into any college.
    When businesses are run by the government, this is called socialism…a system which has failed everywhere it’s been tried. Our government-run public school system is a perfect example, turning out kids who are coming in at the bottom in international tests, and at by far the highest cost of any country. So now Obama wants to throw another $5 billion into his massive school bureaucracy.
    A good start at changing the system would be to fire all of the school administrators, a group that is taking about 70% of the money allocated. The Sudbury Valley School let’s the students run the school. Heck, read about it…there are eight books on it. Google it. Next take out the desks and put in tables where the kids can get together in groups.
    Thomas Sowell, who wrote an excellent book, Inside American Education, proposes that all teacher’s colleges should be closed and the professors each given a million dollars to never teach again or write another book. He said this would be one of the best bargains the government has ever made.
    Bettering our school system has been a major interest of mine. Heck, go check out my entries for 10/13/07 - 10/14/07 - 1/11/08 - 5/1/09 - 5/20/08 - 6/17/08 - 7/26/08 - 8/6/08 - 9/12/08 - 12/6/08 - 3/24/09 - 5/8/09.

7/17/09

Moon Landings
    With the 40th anniversary of the Moon landings being celebrated (like on the cover of Time), I grabbed my conspiracy hat so I’d be ready for any true believers in NASA actually having made the trips forty years ago.
    My Moondoggle booklet ($5) proposes 45 good questions, but I’ll keep this simple. Check my entries: 4/4/09 - 1/11/08 - 12/10/07 - 10/10/07 and 5/27/07. Yes, I have carefully researched this one.
    Some of my old entries say the René book can be ordered from me. That came to an end a few weeks ago when René deceased himself.

7/16/09

Animals
    Right now I’m supporting a couple of cats, but I’ve had quite a few dogs down through the years. Plus some other stranger pets, such as a blue and yellow Brazilian macaw, an Indian rhesus monkey, and even a six-foot indigo snake.
    What I didn’t know until recently is that dogs and cats only live half to two-thirds as long if you feed them commercial pet food instead of raw meat. The same goes for people. Our bodies are designed to work best on raw food, including meat. When we cook it we shorten our lives and eventually get sick.
    The first warning comes when our teeth start having cavities or we have gum trouble, Hey, that’s your diet!
    My dad was allergic to animals, so I never had any pets as a kid. I made up for it when I got married and moved away from home, starting with Italian greyhounds. Golly, they’re cute! Later I graduated into full-sized greyhounds. They make wonderful pets, and they’re great with small children. Greyhound racetracks give them away once their racing days are over through REGAP, REtired Greyhounds As Pets.
    My first cat was a Burmese. He adored me and followed me everywhere. I tried a Siamese Korat, but he was so loving it was a nuisance. They’re a bright blue.
    Goats make nice pets too. They drove my visitors crazy by bouncing on top of their cars.
    Ducks, geese, chickens, rabbits and turkeys are great to have around the farm, but the friendliest was an African swan goose who’d climb into my lap to be petted. This is not a small bird.
    Horses are right up there with dogs in IQ. I had a great time training my Arab to obey imperceptible leg movements. I could ride him with no bridle and have him start, stop, go into any gait, turn, and so on, all with slight leg pressures. He just loved to show off, and so did I.
    My cat loves raw liver. He lets me know it’s time to eat by rubbing against my legs. When I head for the kitchen from my office he zooms down the stairs, like a flying squirrel, barely touching the stairs.
    I love living on a farm in New Hampshire. I can look out my office window and watch dozens of wild turkeys walking across the field. Or a half dozen deer in the front yard. We’ve a bunch of coyotes that howl and yip as they run through the woods in back of the house. I spotted a big gray wolf out by the compost heap one morning. And a fisher cat was living in the barn for a while. When the snow comes we see moose tracks in the woods.
    If you’ve read J. Allen Boone’s Kinship of All Life, you know it’s easy to learn to communicate with any living thing. Boone was taught how by a German shepherd dog. He even learned to communicate with a fly, who would come and land on his thumb when called.
    Using Boone’s technique I made a deal with the flies. If they would stay out of my kitchen I wouldn’t swat them. Previous to that I’d had to keep fly swatters handy all summer, swatting a dozen or so flies a day. After the deal it’s been rare for a fly to be in the kitchen, and when one does I open a window a crack and it flies right out.
    I made a similar deal with the ants, which used to parade into the kitchen every spring. There hasn’t been one since.
    Farmers are able to make deals with pests to just go to one small area of the crop and leave the rest alone. And it works.
    Animals can sense what we’re thinking. Rupert Sheldrake has a wonderful book, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home.
    I’ve read many stories about dogs and cats that have been left behind when a family moves and find their way to the family’s new home, sometimes thousands of miles away.
    How about the canary that pecked on the window of a home. The family recognized it as belonging to the woman living next door, so they went over to see if anything was wrong and found her on the floor with a heart attack. The canary saved her life.
    If you haven’t enjoyed the James Herriot books, you’ve missed a lot. PBS did a TV series on them a few years back that should be rerun.

7/15/09

Club Meetings
    Here are some ideas on how groups can get more members to come to the meetings. Yes, I’m an expert on this.
For some reason, when I join a club it isn’t long before I’m elected president. And one of the prime responsibilities of a club president is to grow the membership. It’s easy, once you get the hang of it.
    The secret? Make the meetings more interesting. And that means you’re not just the chairman of a group, you’re an impresario in show business.
    Business meetings are not fun, even if arguments get heated. So, what can you do about that? That’s easy, appoint an executive committee and relegate the business to that group. Then all they have to do is give a brief report on what they’ve done at the next club meeting.
    It’s fun to learn things. This can be satisfied by inviting interesting speakers for each meeting. Make the speaker the main attraction of the meeting. Having given talks to hundreds of clubs, I’m on familiar ground here. The rule is simple: keep the meeting as short as possible so the speaker can start speaking. I’ve watched meetings drone on, with arguments of the color the club house should be painted, and then a coffee-doughnut break. By the time I’m introduced most of the members are dozing off, the sugar load overwhelming the caffeine jolt. Look for controversial speakers.
    You want to get the members thinking. I have a long list of controversial subjects I enjoy talking about that I offer clubs to pick from. Like how anyone can cure any illness with no drugs. Or how any government department can be cut in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating. Or the promise of cold fusion to replace oil at a fiftieth the cost.
    Organize a welcoming committee to greet members and prospective members as they arrive. Have lapel stickers and a marking pen for names.
    Give members a good strong hint on what’s coming up at the next meeting that they won’t want to miss. This can be via a newsletter or via email. And it doesn’t hurt to have a club Web site. You could even record the speakers and offer their talks for download.
    When I was elected president of the Peterborough NH Chamber of Commerce the membership had dropped to less than a dozen. Well, all they had were business meetings. Yawn. So I set up an executive committee for that and brought in speakers. I had the governor, presidents of a couple colleges, the heads of three local banks at the same meeting, to explain why we should be doing business with their bank. That was a meeting no one will ever forget.
    The first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primaries flooded us with politicians, so I had my choice of those as speakers. I organized the Chamber members to have a bunch of good questions for them, too.
    These days I’d bring in a couple local farmers who are producing organic crops, raw milk, meat and eggs.
    A year later the membership had grown to over 200 and the meetings were packed.
    To help build membership I’d make sure that the club marketing committee gets as much newspaper and local radio exposure as possible. Invite potential members to the meetings. It’s easy to get newspaper space, once you know the ropes. I’ve produced a video on how to generate an extra $1 million in sales just by using PR. Well, the same approach will work for attracting new members.
    If you have any really interesting members, help them to get interviewed on local radio and TV shows. And don’t forget community TV. I did a weekly community TV show in Manchester NH. It won the Alliance for Community Media prize for the best science program. I’m kept busy giving talks to Chambers of Commerce, Rotary, Lions, Elks, veterans groups, and so on.
    Clubs that are creative will grow and prosper. You just have to make meetings so much fun that no one will want to miss one.

7/14/09

How American Mensa Got Started
    An article on British Mensa in the Village Voice got me to submit an application to join. This brought an IQ test, which I did and returned, along with dues. I’d always done well on IQ tests, though the schools and the Navy that had me do them hadn’t given me any scores, so I hadn’t thought much about it.
    As a “C” student, just barely getting through, I didn’t have any reason to think I was out of the ordinary.
    I did get a hint in high school when aptitude tests were given to help us seniors decide what kind of college might fit best with us. As a radio amateur and having spent several years at the workbench, I wasn’t surprised when they told me that I had one of the highest mechanical aptitudes they’d ever measured, and I really should consider going to an engineering university instead of Dartmouth for law.
    Well, okay. I wasn’t enthusiastic about law, it just seemed logical to go to a New Hampshire college since I was born in Littleton, New Hampshire. My folks had never brought up the subject of possible careers for me, so I’d never given it much thought.
    I applied to MIT. They took one look at my grade transcript and passed. Okay, how about Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York. They were a lot less picky and accepted me as an Electrical Engineering freshman. Oh, modified rapture.
    The courses were a bore. Fortunately my ingenuity at crib-note making, honed to perfection in high school, got me through the stupid courses…like “English literature since 1832.” Barely. “C” grades again. But I did have fun with my ham radio station in my dorm room, my activity in the Glee Club, and The RPI Players, where I was the sound man.
    Like most freshmen I joined a fraternity. So I moved my ham station from the dorm to the fraternity house.
    Then, on December 7, 1941, everything changed. I was 19 and prime trench bait for the Army. Worse, my grades were still stinko, which helped move my draft classification up several notches.
    I spent the summer vacation of 1942 testing transmitters being made for the Army by G.E. in Schenectady. Oh, I tried to join the Army Air Force, but when I admitted that I had hay fever they rejected me.
    I ended up joining the Navy a couple of days before the Troy draft board had me scheduled to appear for induction. Whew! How I got into the Navy is a story which could add several pages to this account, but it’s not relevant to this story.
    I signed on as a Radio Technician 3rd Class and started my schooling in radio and electronics. The first three months were on basics, at the Bliss Electrical School in Tacoma Park, Maryland. Then, off to Treasure Island in San Francisco for six more months on transmitters, receivers, sonar, radar and test equipment repairs.
    At Bliss, where I loved every minute of the courses, I graduated at the top of my class. I did the same at the Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island.
    Then, instead of taking a slot at the Naval research lab in Anacostia, Virginia, across from Washington, I volunteered for submarine duty. And that’s a story in itself. I’ve written a book about my submarine adventures. We came tha-a-a-at close to being sunk a few times, and we ended up being a top scoring boat. The USS Drum is on display in Mobile, Alabama.
    After the war I went back to RPI at the government’s expense. But by this time I’d almost begun to think. I didn’t see engineering as having as much of a future for me as management. That’s where the money and power are. I wanted to change my major.
    So I went to the school administration and explained that I’d selected EE as a result of the high school aptitude tests. Did that mean that I shouldn’t change to management? The psychology department gave me aptitude and IQ tests. The final report was that I had an IQ in the top 1/100th percentile, beyond where they could measure with any accuracy, somewhere over 200, and I could take any damned course I wanted.
    Aha, so that’s why I was so different from most of my friends, fraternity brothers, and classmates! That’s why I somehow became the leader in any group I joined.
    So when the Mensa IQ test came along I had no problem with it.
    It was the summer of 1960. Lordy, that’s almost 50 years ago! I’d read the article about Mensa and sent for an application. Mensa responded with an IQ test. Well, what the hell, so I did the test and sent it to London. A few weeks later I found myself member #15 in the US. Wow, that and a token got me a ride on the subway. Yeah, I was living in New York City at the time, and had been on and off for about 30 years. Brooklyn, actually.
    A few weeks later I got a phone call from Peter Sturgeon, the brother of a well-known writer, asking if I’d be interested in forming an American Mensa organization. Sure, why not? After all, I had plenty of time on my hands. I’d been fired from one of the best jobs in the world a few months earlier and had sold everything I could to get enough money together to put out the first issue of a new amateur radio magazine. I’d been the editor of one of the two amateur radio magazines, but when it got where the publisher owed me over a year’s back pay he fired me, promising to make it right. No, I never got a dime.
    As president of the Porsche Club of America I was active in running the club, putting on car rallies and gymkhanas. Those who participated in my rallies will never forget them. Then there was the Hudson Division Amateur Radio Convention, where I was in charge of organizing and selling the booth space to the commercial exhibitors.
    So Peter and two other New York Mensans and I got together in Peter’s Brooklyn apartment for the first American Mensa meeting. Since I had duplicating and addressing equipment which I was using for my new magazine, I was appointed secretary. I sent out meeting notices and a little newsletter to all known Mensans and we got together for the next few meetings at my home in Brooklyn. I served cider and doughnuts. After that the meetings were moved to Manhattan, in various member’s apartments.
    With my new amateur radio magazine growing rapidly in circulation I felt it was time to move from New York to some rural location. I ended up moving in June 1962 to Peterborough, New Hampshire, into a 260-year old 40-room house, which is an interesting story in itself. The house was free! All I had to do was maintain it and pay the taxes! Well, I didn’t have any money, so that’s all I could afford.
    For the next few years I was the Local Secretary for Mensa in New Hampshire. We held monthly dinners, always with interesting guest speakers, and New Hampshire Mensa grew. I published a newsletter, OzyMandius, which was more of a literary magazine than a newsletter. I was glad to get away from the New York Mensans who were so impressed by being officers that the internal fighting was awful.
    I felt that Mensa had the potential to be more than small groups of self-congratulatory people, smug with proof of their high intelligence, but I never was able to sell the idea.
    Peter moved to Switzerland, and I heard from him occasionally before he died. We’d both dropped our membership in Mensa, there not being any perceived benefits from it. New Hampshire Mensa no longer has monthly meetings with interesting speakers. My wife, Sherry, has a lifetime membership, so I’m able to re-affirm my decision to drop out.
    I see Mensa as an incredibly valuable untapped resource of brains, of which far too few are in positions of authority.

 7/13/09

PTSD
    Many of our returning troops, having been faced with the carnage caused by IEDs, snipers, RPGs, and suicide bombers, are traumatized. Even if we had enough psychiatrists to go around, they don't know what to do about what's happened to these guys.
    Well, I do. Give me an hour or two and I'll put all that PTSD stuff behind ’em.
    How come? Let's go back almost sixty years to when I read an article in Astounding Science Fiction. Read my 4/25/08 item for the full story of my introduction to Dianetics.
    All a therapist has to do to eliminate the impact of something stressful is to put the person under a light hypnosis and have them go back and relive the incident a few times. Each time the stressful impact is lessened until finally it disappears and will never bother them again.
    This process has the added benefit of freeing people’s minds of the pain of the memories so their memories are improved.

7/12/09

Resolutions
    Making resolutions is easy. Keeping them, something else. But, I’ve been pretty good at it.
    Thirty five years ago I got really tired of being fat, so I resolved to stop. At 260 pounds I went on a 1,500 calorie a day diet. And I kept on it for eight months, dropping 90 pounds. Even better, unlike 90% of dieters, I’ve never put the weight back on. I weigh about 160 today.
    Since over 75% of us today are overweight this isn’t a bad resolution to make. Fortunately, with what I’ve learned, it’s no longer necessary to count calories. Losing weight has never been easier, though it still calls for a lifestyle change. The new lifestyle has some enormous benefits. In addition to melting off the pounds painlessly, it’ll allow your body to stop fighting the poisons that have been making you sick and make it so you’ll never get sick again. That’s right, no cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and so on. Ever.
    No, I’m not peddling some magic product. What I’m going to tell you is going to make good old fashioned common sense.
    Okay, what’s the lifestyle change? I’ve already let the cat out of the bag: stop poisoning your body. Poisons? Like refined sugar, caffeine, alcohol, aspartame, pasteurized milk, beef, fluorides, mercury…and the most pernicious: cooked food. When you cook food it kills the enzymes your body needs to digest it, so your immune system sends out its white cells to fight it as toxic, and down goes your immune system…your body’s doctor and repair department.
    Is the prospect of getting over any illness you have, dropping those ugly unwanted pounds, and probably doubling your lifespan worthy of a lifestyle change resolution?

7/11/09

How To Ruin Christmas
    I hate Christmas, and you would too, if you’d had my experience.
    It all started when I was eleven. That’s the first time I was old enough to go downtown to shop by myself. Up until then Christmas had been a wonderful time. School was out for a week. And Christmas day meant piles of presents. What’s not to be excited about?
    We were living in Washington, D.C. at the time and a taxi anywhere in the city was 25¢. That’s about $5.00 in today’s dollarettes. So I went downtown to the department stores and bought presents for my mom and dad. My trip was more than rewarded Christmas morning when my mother just couldn’t get over how creative I’d been in my choice of presents for them. I felt great about it. Cloud nine.
    The next Christmas season I was at it again, searching the department stores for unusual presents. And I found them, but I was already beginning to feel the pressure. Mom was again surprised and delighted at the creativity of my presents.
    By the third Christmas the pressure was enormous to outdo myself. I found that just going into a department store was making me sick. I hadn’t a clue as to what to look for. In show business they call it flop sweat. Boy, could I identify with Scrooge. Christmas? Bah! Humbug!
    Now, at 87, I assure you that my childhood trauma permanently marked me.
    My mother was surprised at the creativity of my gifts and anxious to reward me for my thoughtfulness. She had no clue that she was going to ruin the holiday for me for the rest of my life.
    There’s no way I can give socks or a necktie for a present. A present has to be something the recipient would never have thought of and be delighted to get. It’s a curse.

7/10/09

Costa Rica
    A little while back Sherry and I spent a week in Costa Rica. What a disappointment! Every home and business is protected by iron bars on the windows and doors. Yards are surrounded by iron fences with razor wire on top…even way out in the country. When I carried a camera on the street people stopped me to advise I should keep it hidden so no one could grab it and run. We didn’t see any restaurants. The sidewalks are so narrow we had to walk single-file. When Sherry got too far behind me one evening a guy came out of a bar and groped her. 

7/9/09

Art Housholder
    An old ham radio friend of mine just died. Art Housholder (K9TRG) was a key ham repeater pioneer. He's the man who took my editorials to the top brass at Motorola, which kick-started the cell phone industry some forty years ago.
    For the last few years we've been in daily contact as he's forwarded some great email humor.
    Old time Chicago hams will remember Art's Spectronics ham store with the big frequency counter in the window so they could check the frequency accuracy of their mobile and hand ham equipment while parked out front.
    He'd show up at the yearly Las Vegas repeater conference with a suitcase full of Motorola hand transceivers (HTs). I bought an HT-220 from him, which I later passed on to King Hussein so he could use the repeater I took to Jordan and set up across the valley from his downtown palace.
    Sure, I told Art about raw food, but he was living in a nursing home the last few years and a prisoner of their food.

7/8/09

MD. Pay
    One third of the $2.4 trillion annual American healthcare bill is going to doctors ($744 billion!). Surgeons are making $261,000 and cardiologists well over $300,000. Are we getting our money's worth?
    Well, since the whole healthcare business is a huge scam, it's important for the doctors to be kept ignorant, with the AMA keeping a tight lid on how easy it is to cure any illness with no drugs. Quackery! Snake oil!
    So the American sheeple continue poisoning their bodies several times a day with cooked food, sugar, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, chlorine, fluoride, and mercury, and ante up the almost $8,000 per family member per year to the medical industry to pay for the damage they're doing to themselves. Oh, and cut their lives about in half.
    With medical-cost inflation now running about 6% a year that'll be some $500 more next year. And again the year after that. Is it time to change your diet yet? There must be some better use for all that money.
    I'm exaggerating? Do your homework…I have. At east check www.drday.com and www.comby.org. Read Dr. Comby's Maximize Immunity. Maybe get a copy for your family doctor.

7/7/09

My Aging Soap Box
    So here I am, preaching to a mostly disinterested crowd, pleading them (you) to start thinking…to start investigating all of the things you believe, to see if they are really true. Is the food you’re eating and drinking making you sick and slowly killing you years sooner than possible? Do the keys to the kingdom of God lie in the hands of the clergy or in yours? I’ve mentioned that every well researched book on near death experiences tells us that the people who have died and come back from “heaven” all have a consistent story. They agree there is a force we call God. But after their experience they almost all give up going to church or belonging to any organized religion.
    If I can get you to break away from the accepted mass beliefs…belief in the food you’re eating, our school system, our religions, etc.…perhaps I can then convince you of the power of one. The power that one person can have to change the world for the better.

The Power of One
    When I got interested in repeaters I saw them as an exciting new ham radio technology. I also saw them as a possible solution to get amateur radio going again after the so-called “incentive licensing” catastrophe…where almost 90% of our ham stores went out of business in a couple of years and ditto our manufacturers. That's when the Japanese ham equipment manufacturers moved in and took over. Totally.
    That was the worst disaster ever to hit our hobby and it was caused primarily by millionaire Mort Kahn W2KR, who as the Hudson Division Director, was secretly controlling the ARRL. He was abetted by Bill Eitel W6EI, the head of Eitel-McCullough (the tube manufacturer) and his lackey Bill Orr W6SAI.
    By publishing hundreds of repeater articles in 73, plus starting a magazine (The Repeater Bulletin) devoted to repeaters, and publishing one book after another on the subject, plus organizing repeater conferences around the country, repeaters emerged as the most active aspect of the hobby, growing from a couple dozen to over 8,000 in just two ot three years. It was our repeater technology developments that made it possible for Motorola to launch the cellular telephone industry.
    My success in helping to change the world just a tad with repeaters got me to see if I could do it again when the first personal computer kit was announced in 1975. In addition to starting the first magazines in this new field, I also organized the first industry standards conference. I picked Kansas City for the conference because it was equally far for all of the companies to travel. That’s how the Kansas City Standard for data storage came about.
    Yes, you can help change the world, possibly for the better. I helped with cell phones, personal computers and in several ways with compact discs. And I’m just a guy up here in New Hampshire. I’m a guy who takes advantage of serendipity instead of ignoring it.
    It was serendipity that got me to be one of the founders and first secretary of American Mensa. Two of the other founders never did anything further and the third moved to Switzerland and dropped out. And I did that even though I was up to here in starting 73 magazine at the time, as well as president of the Porsche Club   
    The year before had been busy for me, with a ham tour of Scandinavia in the spring, an around the world flight operating a ham station from the plane, stopping at 26 countries, during the summer, and representing the US as a delegate to the International Telecommunications Conference in Geneva in the fall. These were all exciting, but didn’t contribute much to moving the world ahead…though many of the things I learned on the trip formed the basis for my later influence on the development of Jordan as a high tech center.
    Serendipity (the gods? angels?) will offer you opportunities too. Grab them.

Your Influence
    You can make things happen. A recent Art Bell guest explained how anyone (including you) can cause clouds to reshape themselves. He said to pick a calm day with a few light clouds and then concentrate on one particular cloud, willing a hole to open in it. When the hole does open you’re going to get a whiff of a whole new world of understanding dawning for you. You can influence matter. And people. And the future. You are not just a prisoner in the slave gang of life with God calling all the shots. You can help make your luck. You can also, just by believing it, make your own bad luck. If you are a negative person you are going to continually have negative experiences. You are causing them.
    I try to reach out to those willing to think in my editorials and books, but I know I’m up against thoroughly ingrained brainwashing from your parents, teachers, friends and the media, so even tiny successes are a wonder. Can I get the ball rolling by getting a few of my readers to think? Hoping they (you) will, in turn pass along my message?
    Yes, you can influence a cloud. Yes, you can communicate with animals and plants. Yes, your cells are in communication with the whole of your body. Yes, there is a God, but there’s no evidence that “he’s” a vengeful God, or that what you say or think about him will in any way change his love. Those are human problems.
    Read, learn, and stop being screwed by people and organizations that want to take advantage of your ignorance and gullibility.
    Yes, college is necessary…if you’ve decided you want to be a teacher or to work for a large company all your life. Or to work for the government. But for most entrepreneurs it’s a ghastly waste of time and money. Read some of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad books.

7/6/09

The Blacks
    Some 600,000 blacks were saved from being murdered in the endless black African tribal wars by being sold as slaves and exported to America. Though slavery here ended over a hundred years ago, blacks haven't integrated as have most of the other immigrants, who came here for a better life.
    The 40 million of today's blacks, despite white efforts to help them via welfare, food stamps, Pell grants, student loans, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, legal services, Medicade, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs to the tune of trillions, are in poor shape. Crime and incarceration rates for blacks are seven times those of whites. Black illegitimacy is running 70% and the black dropout rate in some cities is over 50%. Black-on-white rapes are a hundred times those of the reverse, and robberies 139 times as common.
    What was that adage about teaching someone to fish instead of giving him a fish to eat? The white largess has, I suspect, helped drain blacks of the will to succeed.
    While I haven't visited all of the black countries in Africa, I have been to seven of them…and read about most of the others. They're all basket cases economically and keeping us entertained with their many wars. Things were progressing pretty well during the European colonialization era in the 19th century. Roads and railroads were built. Cities grew. European-run farms were producing export crops.
    What isn't mentioned all that often is that the Europeans, unable to get the blacks to work, had to import Indians to do the work. And they settled in, opening shops and businesses in the cities. Few black-run shops or businesses were to be found. Then, in the 20th century, colonialism collapsed, the blacks took back their countries, they kicked out the whites and Indians, and the countries went back to the bush. Without the white farmers there were no more farms. And wars sprung up everywhere. The current mess in Zimbabwe is typical.
    We have enough very successful black entertainers, actors, athletes, writers, actors, musicians, etc., so there's proof that blacks can, if they try, make it just fine. But few try.
    When I visited South Africa I learned that the gold mines offered classes to their black workers, but few would take them. Most were working in the mines just long enough to make money to buy a few cows and get married. You see, in their culture the women did all the work, while the men sat around taking it easy. And since education was only needed to get a job, going to a class was equivalent to being a woman.
    Far's I know there isn't one black-run country that isn't a god-awful mess. Anywhere. Dictators, poverty, wars.

7/5/09

Retribution
    The Time story on a California nursing home study was a shocker. But it merely confirmed what I’ve been reading in other reports on nursing home conditions around the country. So, when your parents have so destroyed their bodies that they can’t care for themselves any longer, are you going to condemn them to a few years of torture in a nursing home? Where they routinely starve, dehydrate, and neglect the more helpless old people?
    How about you? Will your kids dump you in a home once you have ruined your body and turned yourself into a virtual vegetable? Hey, that’s way off in the future, so why worry about it now? Let’s see, will we go out for a Big Mac, KFC, or a pizza tonight? Better drink diet Coke with it since you’re 50 pounds overweight. Right?
    I’ve forgotten whether it’s 40% or 50% of us are ending up in nursing homes, sitting there tied to a rocking chair, watching soap operas, Oprah and The View until the laughing reaper calls to you through that long tunnel with the light at the end. It can't be more than 50% because 50% of us are dying of cancer.
    I’ve explained everything you need to know to stop getting sick and add many healthy years to your life in my Secret Guide to Health. Hey, I’m in the same boat. I ate ice cream and desserts for over 70 years, so I know how difficult it is to change a lifetime of bad habits. I poisoned my body, dehydrated it, and avoided giving it the food it was designed to use. My folks taught me the same thing your folks taught you…to eat what everyone else is eating and when you get sick you go to the doctor and it’s his responsibility to fix the problem you’ve caused.

7/4/09

God Fearing
    Every so often I hear someone claim to be God-fearing. What makes more sense to me is to love God and to love people, not to fear.
    The time was when animal trainers did it by punishing the animals when they did wrong. That approach has, thankfully, been thoroughly discredited. The best animal trainers today work using love and understanding, not pain. In another hundred years or so this message may even reach parents (and, I know you’re not going to believe this, teachers) and get them to teach their children with love and understanding instead of punishment. Recent studies have conclusively shown that teen suicides are tied to childhood punishment. Sure, it’s a lot easier to whack the kid when he’s a nuisance than to love him. We let our anger and frustration get in the way of common sense and the result is a time bomb.
    Since teaching through love and understanding is obviously nature’s way, I just flat out don’t believe that God doesn’t use the same system he’s built into His children…us and the animals. Many religions cement their power over their paying customers by threatening punishment from God. I love the long list of sins they’ve cooked up to keep people afraid, and continuing to pay. I also love the way the churches own so much of Manhattan and big lumps of property all around the world. Tax free, of course.

7/3/09

America's In Trouble
    We've lost many of our manufacturing industries. Time was when we had huge clothing, car and truck, electronics, camera, steel, airplane, and so on industries…and these products sold everywhere in the world, bringing in money. Profits, which enhanced our standard of living.
    Today, when we buy the products from other countries, we're actually paying for them with loans. Buying on credit that our government is going to have to cover. Meanwhile we're printing billions of dollars of paper money and using that, with the result that America is trillions of dollars in debt. Now, how long can that last?
    Either we rebuild our manufacturing industries, or America will inevitably go the route of the British Empire, and before that the Spanish, Roman, and Greek Empires. They all went bankrupt, and look at ’em now! Ugh.
    To be competitive again, we'll have to make some major changes. Like improving our educational system, which is the pits. And we've got to stop wasting money on sickness, where we again are down there in the pits. The fact is we've been mainly busy being entertained with sports, TV, movies and the Internet, while our country has been going to hell in a handbasket.
    We're up to here in illegal aliens, an expensive, but totally failed war on drugs, a war on poverty which has millions lying around watching TV all day on welfare, a couple million at enormous expense in prison, a Congress totally bought and paid for by big business, and a government that has more than doubled in size in the last few years.
    We wouldn't have to waste two trillion on so-called health care every year if we could convince Americans to change to raw food diets of organic food, grown on remineralized land, and to stop their addiction to sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine. This would keep them away from doctors…now the number one cause of death in America. On a diet that gives our bodies the nutrition they were designed to need, we'll be living well over a hundred, and in excellent health. No flu. No cancer. No medications. No vaccinations. No walkers.
   
7/2/09

The Brainwashing
    My grandmother went to the Dutch Reformed Church, so that’s where I went. My folks believed in the importance of going to college, so I went to college. I was so brainwashed…inculcated…with the beliefs of my parents that it took years before I began to be able to actually think for myself. And even longer before I was able to accept the responsibility for thinking for myself.
    It was a long time before I was able to start considering the possibility that virtually all of the things I had accepted as truths could be wrong. The process, for me, started with little things that didn’t make sense when I looked into them. And the more I read and asked questions, the more holes I found in the fabric that had made up my life…that makes up all our lives.
    As I read more and more about our diet, I had the problem of sorting out the more reliable information from the bogus. Whew! there’s a lot of bogus information (a.k.a. opinions) out there. But the more I read, the more the pieces of the puzzle began to fit together.
   The same thing happened when I began to research the education field. Plenty of baloney available there, too. But I found more and more experts that seemed dependable. Their information made sense and was backed by reliable research data. But what I found, as with diet, was nothing like what I’d been taught by my folks. Or what we have been led to believe by the media and our leaders. And this was what was behind my writing the Secret Guide to Wealth. If you are at all interested in making much money or in having a positive effect on the world, college will probably be a huge waste of your time and money.
    This happened again when I started researching religion. An awful lot of people are going to have nothing further to do with me when I say I doubt if any who are true believers in the Bible have ever made an effort to read about the research that's been done into its origin. And, just in case I’ve left someone not thoroughly upset, the same goes for the Koran, the Torah, and the Baghavad Gita.

7/1/09

Banana Bonanza
    When Sherry and I drove to nearby Hillsborough for an antique car meeting at the High Tide restaurant we got there too early, so we said the heck with it and started home. On the way we stopped at Shaw's supermarket to see what they had in discounted produce.
    Wow! Fantastic! Piles of marked down over-ripe bananas…just what I need to make green smoothies and super-healthy ice cream. So we loaded up the cart with 22 packages of bananas at 25¢ a pound. 48 pounds, 128 bananas for only $12!
    It took me a couple hours to peel, cut ’em into chunks, and put ’em in the freezer in quart containers. Each quart, along with four eggs, two cups of raw milk and a couple tablespoons of cocoa powder, are all it takes to make great ice cream. So I'm set banana-wise for some three months.


6/30/09

Poisoning Yourself
[This was originally a 1995 editorial]
    If all of the near death reports on heaven are right, the closest thing approaching Hell in the hereafter is a life review where you experience the effects of your actions on others. If this is true the people working for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are going to have one hell of a time with this. Never mind the potential cures for serious illnesses they are blocking from the public. Just the miseries they have caused millions of people by refusing to ban aspartame (a.k.a. NutraSweet) from our foods should keep them busy.
    Yes, the aspartame manufacturer and the FDA all know what's happening, but this is a multi-billion dollar business, and is thus not regulated by health concerns, but by politics…which means money. The more I find out about the mess our government is making of things, the more frustrated I get, and the more impotent to do anything about it I feel. Sure, I can tell you. And you may mention it to a friend. But will you stop drinking diet sodas?
    People have a wide variety of sensitivities to aspartame. Pilots have lost their licenses due to their reaction to aspartame-sweetened drinks. One had a grand mal seizure. It induces dizziness, memory loss (just what you need!), visual problems, and confusion. Some of the health problems it has been found to help trigger are: chronic fatigue syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, epilepsy, manic depression, lupus, Alzheimer's, and even Lyme Disease.
    One airline pilot, after drinking two cups of diet hot chocolate, found his eyesight so blurry he could no longer read his instruments. I'd hate to have the pilot of a plane I'm on drinking diet soda.
    Even though aspartame complaints make up 80% of the complaints to the FDA, the agency has done nothing.
    Years ago, back when I was really fat and was trying new diets, fasting, and so on, I found a diet that sounded great. It included eating sparingly and filling up on diet soda. The sweetener at the time was cyclamate. So I bought several quarts of diet soda and got going.
    Two days into the diet I noticed that I could no longer read pocket book type. Hey, what's going on here? The third day I could no longer read typewriter type! By the fourth day the headlines were too blurry to read. I stopped drinking the cyclamates and bought glasses so I could read again. I wrote about my experience in 73 at the time. A couple months later the news of cyclamate reactions hit the media and they disappeared from the market.
    I don't know what the cyclamates did to my body, but my eyes never recovered. I had better than perfect vision one day and a week later I couldn't read anything without glasses. I used to be able to astound people by being able to read signs at a distance and incredibly small type up close.
    So, despite the complaints and the knowledge that aspartame is damaging people, it's endorsed by the FDA. Meanwhile, the blood purifier cure for AIDS that I've written about several times and which hasn't, to my knowledge, failed to work yet, is illegal. This device should be given careful testing to prove whether it can help cure AIDS victims. Can it help induce weight loss in people? Can it wipe out herpes and other miseries lurking in our blood?
    Dr. Hulda Clark says she has a simple cure for cancer. Instead of forcing her to flee the country the FDA should organize the testing of her approach. When Royal Rife invented a super powerful microscope and, as a result, was able to come up with a cancer cure using radio waves, was it tested? No, the FDA destroyed his microscopes and put him out of business. Gaston Naesens suffered a similar fate over his approach to curing cancer. When Wilhelm Reich discovered orgone and encouraged people to test it as a way to improve health the FDA destroyed his lab and put him in prison, where he died. In none of these cases were the approaches tested and found wanting. In all of these cases there were endless reports of amazing cures.
    The Scientologists were using a sensitive ohmmeter to help in their psychological counseling. The FDA broke into their Washington DC headquarters and confiscated the meters. There are probably some books dedicated to the outrages perpetrated by the FDA. I haven't seen them, so I can only write from my own experience. If I were ten years younger I wouldn't dare to write about the FDA. It would be just too risky. Now I'm old enough so I don't care what they do. That's one benefit of knowing you don't have a lot longer to live.
    On the other hand you may not be as sensitive to aspartame as others, so the reaction of your body (and mind) to it may be much less. Hey, it's your gamble. It's also something to keep in mind the next time you reach for a diet Pepsi or Coke.
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    Now, 14 years later, what has changed?

6/29/09

The Solutions
    In my editorials over the last few years I’ve tackled many of the problems besetting America (and much of the world, for that matter). I’ve proposed some fairly simple solutions to miseries such as our inexcusably lousy education system, drugs, high prison costs, cleaning up the horrible mess we’ve let Congress get in, the deficit, our bloated government (both state and federal), eliminating college tuition, cutting education costs by around 50%, and so on. As a member of the New Hampshire Economic Development Commission I did further research on these problems, put that together with my past ideas and presented the whole works as my report to the Commission. Urged on by friends (yes, I still have a few), I put the report into book form.
    My solutions may not be the best, but they all seem practical and do what’s needed…and most of them aren’t all that difficult to implement. We’re in a time when everyone seems stunned by the problems and few people are even thinking in terms of solutions. Well, most of our problems have been solved somewhere in the world before, so it’s more a question of finding these solutions and applying them here.
    We know the problems—I’ve proposed some practical solutions—now what can we do? The sorry fact is that the fox is guarding the hen house. Trying to convince politicians that capitalism is better than socialism calls for a leap of faith few will be able to manage. We had several politicians on the Economic Development Commission, so I know how deeply ingrained the whole socialist manifesto is with them. Private schools? Oh, my God! Get welfare people interested in working? Oh, I forgot to mention, the New Hampshire welfare people put in cable TV for that 22-year-old woman so she’d be able to watch more than just the four major channels during her long, empty days sitting at home. That costs $75 to have installed and I forget how much a month. Yes, they’re paying extra so she can have the movie channels. And you may be sure that this same outrageous nonsense is going on where you live and that you are paying for it. That comes out of (a) the 28% of your pay you never even see, (b) the other hidden taxes like those on business which make you pay more for products, and (c) the government’s borrowing from you to fund the deficit. And that’s money you’ll have to work for years to repay. Are you upset yet? What does it take?
    Another person I know has a sister who worked for the post office for a year and a half and then paid a doctor for a phony letter saying that she was suffering from stress. She was put on 2/3rds pay and retired at 22. She’s been happily living on this for the last twenty years, getting full postal worker medical and retirement benefits, and with no income taxes.
    There are endless examples like this…and these are the people who are going to fight any changes in the system. We’re supporting these leeches. We’re working hard to support them. We have to make do with old worn-out things…buy a cheaper car or rent an apartment instead of buying a home—send our kids to public school instead of a private school, thereby doing them irreparable harm…all so a welfare mother won’t have to learn to type and get a job doing data input. It makes you proud to be an American. It makes you want to re-elect the lousy ba . . . er . . . chaps who’ve been doing this to you, right?
    With both the Democrats and the Republicans promising lower taxes and both increasing taxes when in power, it’s no wonder so many Americans are fed up. And the challengers to the congressional seats aren’t promising anything different. Most of them are career politicians and will be the same as the present crew. Any fear of not being re-elected will immobilize them when it comes to making changes which the postal, civil service or educational unions oppose.
    So, as Pogo said, “We’ve met the enemy, and the enemy is us.” We just don’t care enough about having our money taken from us. We don’t care about the way they waste it. We don’t care that we’re being screwed. Oh, I suppose we care…a little…but not enough to take time from watching ball games or having a beer to actually try and do anything about it.
    One thing is certain, we can fight nature for a while, but eventually nature will win. The sooner we stop fighting against nature and start fighting for her, the sooner our quality of life as a country will start improving. God has been speaking, but not many have been listening.
    Please form Never Re-elect Anyone groups and can the politicians.

6/28/09

Those Standards
    I keep remembering Michael Medved's comment, " Everything the government does, it messes up." And that seems true in spades for it's messing our school system…proving again the failure of government planning things…called socialism.
    The No Child Left Behind record is, alas, typical of the way bureaucrats manage things vs. people in business…called capitalism. Basically, government work, while pretty reliable as a way to mark time through life, waiting for retirement, doesn't tend to attract the better educated or more intelligent workers.
    So I wasn't surprised at the report from National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) of the students deemed proficient in reading vs. their assessment by the states. Like Mississippi, where the state tests showed 89% of the fourth graders proficient, compared with 18% found by the NAEP. In Louisiana is was 67% vs. 20%, 52% vs. 20% for New Mexico, and 48% vs. 21% for California.
    Our kids aren't learning to read! And that is blocking them off from their ability to learn much of anything. What was that percentage of high school grads who were unable to find the U.S. on  world map? And they're not being taught to think or be creative…on purpose. Neither big business nor government does as well with a public that's able to think and be moved by thought instead of propaganda.
    More's the pity, now that over 170 schools are offering content free on Apple's iTunesU. There are also wonderful books, written by the top people in every field, which offer a priceless education for the few who take advantage of the resources.
    Rather than be too redundant, check my 9/15/08 and 5/8/09 entries on the subject.
    Our public schools are awful. I see while it's easy to teach kids two years old to read, our compulsory public school system is unable to accomplish this for high school grads.

6/27/09

Is There An Escape?
    Sure there is, but it means war. We civilians just barely outnumber the socialists in America. By the time you add up everyone sucking on the public teat…teachers, postal workers, state and federal civil servants, social workers, school administrators, our labor unions, welfare millions, and the military, you can see why we’re paying such high taxes and getting so little for it. Nothing is working well. We’re up to here in drugs, in crime, prison problems, clogged courts, welfare, the homeless, failed banks, failed loans, unemployment, lousy sewers, air we can see, polluted water, dying oceans, and so on.
    Now, are we game to start fighting back? Have we had enough yet? Or is it hopeless and we should just keep our heads down and avoid trouble as best we can? How many of us are “mad as hell” yet?
    Yes, I’m preaching revolution. I’m preaching war. No, not with guns and Molotov Cocktails, I’m talking about fighting first at the state level. I’m talking running for the state legislature and changing your state. I’m talking getting people who will bring change to Washington with a mandate to abolish compulsory education. Once they do that and private schools can compete with public schools, we’ll see capitalism take over.
    Once a private mail service is permitted the US Snail will blow away, just as Parcel Post has been decimated by UPS. Let’s privatize everything we can think of. Let’s get bids from private companies to run our prisons, car licensing, and so on.
    If we can get education out from under the socialist system we won’t need millions of government jobs to take care of underachievers.
    The best part is that we should be able to cut the costs of government by around 75% and thus cut our taxes significantly. We might even see the return of the one wage earner family…and mothers with the time to devote to their children.
     It looks to me as if capitalism is an idea whose time has come. It’s in line with nature. It’s in line with God’s rules. We’re paying the penalty for fighting Mother Nature…and it’s a stiff one.

6/26/09

Ham Radio
    It was seventy years ago I got my W2NSD ham radio license, and the hobby has provided me with an exciting and hugely fun life. With eight major amateur radio bands of frequencies to play with, each different from the other in it's ability to let us talk over various distances, we could talk just around locally, or anywhere in the world.
    Naturally, many of us set out to see how many different countries we could contact. I managed over 360. And, in countries where there was little or no amateur radio activity, it was huge fun to go there, set up a portable station, and help a few thousand fellow hams get credit for contacting another country.
    With something like fraternity brothers everywhere, it makes foreign travel really special.
    When I got started most hams built their own transmitters. It was particularly fun right after WWII, when the Army released huge supplies of no longer needed equipment, which we hams converted to work on our ham bands.
Then, as commercially-made ham equipment came available, home building was more for experimenters. And, as the equipment has gotten more sophisticated, home-made gear has become a rarity.
    With the moving of all our electronic manufacturing to Asia, electronic parts are no longer made in America, making home experimenting even more difficult.
    For many years our ham bands were active day and night, with every kilocycle filled. Alas, today when I tune the bands it is often a rarity to hear anyone talking. Few of today's kids are even aware of the hobby. When I give talks at colleges I always ask how many of my audience is familiar with ham radio. I see very few hands.
    Until 1963 the hobby had been growing at eleven percent a year for over twenty years. Then our national organization, the ARRL, got the FCC to propose a rule change which would have forced the hams to get a new license from the FCC if they wanted to continue using voice communications.
    You see, the ARRL had always been pushing their members to continue using Morse Code, as the hams all did in the beginning. But the reaction of the hams to this proposal was to lose interest in the hobby.
    Most the thousands of high school ham radio club blew away as a result. And when tens of thousands of hams put their equipment on the market for pennies on the dollar that closed down about 90% of the ham radio stores around the country and put all of the major manufacturers out of business.
    Without those school clubs, youngsters no longer had a way to learn about the hobby, and the number of new hams dropped way off.
    With me the most fun of the hobby was building equipment. Oh, I had fun making friends and in seeing how well I could do on weekend contests. And putting rare countries on the air was special fun. It got me to places like Swaziland, Navassa Island, Jordan, Lesotho, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Syria.
    Well, those are "done-thats" for me. I've too much to do these days to sit and chat with some chap in Argentina or Sweden. And, judging from the lack of signals on the ham bands these days, I'm not alone.
 
6/25/09

Microwaving
    Here's an interesting science project for you or your kids. It would be a great one for a school project.
    What you do is start two plants growing…like tomato pr strawberry plants. Water one with your regular tap water and the other with water you've microwaved first, then cooled.
    If what I've heard is true, the plant fed the microwaved water will die.
    If you're really interested in how different forms of water may affect plants you could expand your experiments to plants fed water which has been vortexed in a blender for a thirty seconds, another with water which has been out in the sun in a clear glass bottle for a couple of hours, one with water which has been sitting for an hour on the north pole of a magnet, one on water on the south pole, and one which has been vortexed, north poled, and in the sun.
    Send me pictures.

6/24/09

Autism
    Doctors in the UK found the measles virus in the intestines of children who developed autism after a healthy infancy. All of them developed autism after receiving the MMR vaccine. That's the combination of mumps, measles and rubella vaccination.
    Again, we've been conned by the medical industry. If you prefer to believe your kindly family doctor about vaccinations, at least do me the courtesy of reading a book or two exposing this scam. Like Coulter's Vaccination - Social Violence and Criminality - The Medical Assault on the American Brain (reviewed on page 23 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom). This exhaustively referenced book shows the connection between vaccinations and autism, mental retardation, criminality and a few other downsides…like death. About a thousand babies a year die. The medical industry calls that an acceptable loss.
    Or read Walene James' Immunization – the Reality behind the Myth (page 7, my Wisdom Guide).
    The July 2009 Nutrition & Healing newsletter confirms the link between vaccinations and autism. So, as a new parent, do you want to chance permanently brain-injuring your baby with the medical industry accepted baby vaccination barrage, or would you rather find them against your religion…like the Amish, where there is no autism? Your choice.
    There's sure a lot to be said for home birthing with a midwife.
    A recent PBS program showing how wild horses are tamed in minutes using a new technique also showed the same approach being used to help autistic children. They mentioned that about 15 out of every thousand kids is autistic. Hey, that’s 1.5%! How do you like those odds for your kids?
    An article in the Townsend Letter for Doctors pointed out that the link between the DPT shots given kids and autism has been confirmed. It’s the pertussis part that’s doing it. The vaccine can depress or even derange the immune system, especially for the very young. And a tetanus shot when I was a kid darned near killed me.
    If you’ll do your homework by at least reading the Walene James book, you’ll never endanger your family again by allowing inoculations.
    See also my 12/14/06 and 11/18/04 entries.

6/23/09

The American Holy War
    I’m asking all Americans to declare war…a holy war…a fundamentalist war…against socialism. Sure, we beat the heck out of socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe. We’ve even beat it in Vietnam, if you read the article in Rolling Stone by P.J. O’Rourke, on his visit there. The one place we haven’t beat socialism…the one place it’s going the strongest in the world and devastating the country in the process, is right here in America. That’s right, here in our US of A.
    It was socialism that destroyed the British Empire, turning Great Britain into Britain, and it’s socialism that is at the heart of what’s killing America. How did this pernicious anti-God, anti-life religion get such a powerful hold on the world?…and even on America? And how can we fight such a well inculcated religion?
    God? Religion? Yep, let me explain. A religion is defined as a belief upheld or pursued with zeal and devotion. Well, that’s what we have here.
    Religious fundamentalism is causing wars all around the world. Perhaps it’s time for us to take a close look at the fundamentals of life and start fighting for them here in America. So let’s take a close look at what we’ve been doing and how it fits in with the most basic laws of nature. Will you be offended if I suggest that the laws of nature are the laws of God?
    Okay, what is the most fundamental law for all living things? What is the most basic law of all? It’s staying alive, right? At least unless we’re really screwed up we’ll fight the hardest of all to stay alive. Indeed, this is basic rule number one. This is built right into the genetic pattern of every living thing. This built-in law also causes us an enormous amount of trouble, it being at the heart of all our mental illnesses and aberrant behavior. That’s one of the problems that always crops up when you have a law which is enforced, no matter how unreasonable the enforcement. This is a law which helps to kill us. That’s a strange dichotomy and may be difficult to grasp, but it’s logical.
    If self-preservation is rule one, what’s rule two? The preservation of yourself through your offspring. That’s why we have love, lust, and all those other great-feeling things we think about, talk about, and sing about. We’re talking a very, very basic law of nature. I hope you’ll agree that this qualifies as rule two. This is the rule which we feel driving us every day. This has to do with bikinis, deodorant soap, tight jeans and so on. It also leads to the concept of the survival of the fittest, which we might consider as rule three and the result of rules one and two.
    The reason even the smallest of boys tend to fight is in preparation for later life when they are going to have to fight for the choicest girls. It’s genetic. Men fight off other men to ensure the survival of their offspring. Women build nests. This survival of the life forms best adapted to winning the battle to propagate has resulted in the survivors we see around us today.
    Now let’s look at that survival of the fittest concept and think about it. This is where socialism comes in and screws things up. Socialism has as a basic concept the protection of the weak. We see it in welfare payments. We see it in our non-profit institutions. We have hearts. We’ve been taught to try and go against nature. We see our whole government working on this fundamental basis, perhaps ignoring the fact that nature is merciless. Nature (God?) abhors the weak and sacrifices them for the long term good of all life.
    Did democracy win against socialism in Europe? Of course not! It was capitalism that won. Capitalism is the epitome of the survival of the fittest. Socialism is the opposite…to help the weak to survive. Adam Smith’s The Wealth Of Nations, written around two hundred years ago, describes how capitalism works with an “invisible hand.” It ties in closely with rule one, self-preservation. It also ties in with rule two, survival of your genes. No wonder capitalism is winning!
    Capitalism is winning everywhere it’s permitted. Hong Kong and Singapore are capitalist societies and enormously successful. Neither are democratic, by the way. Vietnam is emerging from the chaos of its war at a record pace because capitalism is going strong there. Capitalism is doing pretty well here in America. It’s the socialist systems we have in place that are making us sick.
    Just take a look at our biggest social works…our public schools, the post office, the government bureaucracies, welfare, unemployment benefits, social security and so on. There isn’t one single thing that the socialist approach can do that the capitalist approach can’t do better and much, much cheaper.
    Our public schools cost more than double what our private schools do and provide a substantially lousier educational product. We have teacher’s unions to help protect the jobs of the incompetent teachers who are making a mess of our kids. Every study of the post office has shown that if the service was allowed to go private we’d get far better service at a fraction of the cost. Well, the same thing holds for every government-controlled service we enjoy.
    We know what a cesspool the whole welfare system is. Right here in my small town we have people on welfare. I’ve had employees quit so they could go on welfare and not have to bother working any more. They didn’t get as much money, but they never had to work again. One of my employees has a friend who does social work. One of her cases is a 22-year-old woman with two kids. She hasn’t worked in years. New Hampshire provides her with an apartment, it provides day care for the older child. None of your economy day care, mind you, we’re talking $90 a week day care. Plus the state spends $50 a week to provide taxi service to take the kid to the day care center and drive him back. Plus she gets food stamps.
    This woman has no marketable skills, nor is she being encouraged to develop any. She’s supposed to be getting advice from a social worker, but she’s refused to talk with the worker. No one knows how screwed up her younger baby is getting at the hands of this mother.
    I wish this was just an anomaly, but the more you read, the more exposés you see on TV, the more you know that something is fundamentally wrong in America. What was it about not screwing with Mother Nature? Well, we may have hundreds of millions of people who believe in the Koran, and hundreds of millions more who believe in The Bible, and more believing in the Baghavad Gita, and so on, but when I look for the hand of God, I see it in the fundamental rules of life. I see it clearly waving us on with rule one: self-preservation. With rule two: continue your life through your children. And I see capitalism in harmony with these dynamics and socialism fighting them…fighting God’s will. So that’s why I’m preaching fundamentalism. I’m not talking worship or spiritualism. I’m not talking mystical belief. I’m not talking churches and ritual. I’m not talking voodoo or reincarnation. I’m talking the rules which we all can see, feel and experience. I’m talking the rules which make sense.
    Are there any other self-evident rules? You bet, it’s just that they aren’t as all-powerful as number one and two. Our love and protection of family comes under number two. But beyond that we feel a kinship for our extended family…our group. We find there are times when belonging to a group definitely helps with self-preservation. I’m not sure this is a genetic rule. It may be a pragmatic one, but it’s one we learn, even if it isn’t genetic. Like the other rules, this one gets us into all sorts of trouble. You can see it going berserk in Yugoslavia, Checkoslovakia, Northern Ireland, India, Sri Lanka, Timor, Ethiopia, Sudan, and so on. It’s doing fairly well here in America, helping keep the blacks, whites and Hispanics at odds.
    Yes, we do need government. We just don’t need anywhere near as much government. Most of what the government is doing…or perhaps trying to do, but failing…could be done for a fraction of the cost and done infinitely better if we could reject the socialist mind set.
    What would our government be like if it was run like a business? Suppose inefficient and arrogant workers could be fired as they are in most for-profit businesses? Yes, we’d have to change our educational system so people would have the skills they need to do the work efficiently. Well, if we can get the government to stop forcing us under penalty of law to send our kids to public institutions, we’d have people with the needed skills and the enthusiasm to use them.
     We’ve made teaching such a lousy profession that it’s the poorest students who go for it…the people who don’t feel qualified to compete in the capitalist world. And who teaches the next generation of teachers? The lowest 20% of the previous generation. It’s no wonder we’re spending the most of any developed country on education and getting the worst results. Why, it’s almost enough to make a person think.

6/22/09

Chess
    How’s your chess game? Chess is a wonderful game to teach kids because it’s totally skill, with no chance element whatever. When you get involved with chess you soon discover that the more you learn about the game, the better you play. A good player will always trounce a lesser player. Aha! So how does one get to be a good player? You do that the same way you get good at anything else…you read a lot about it and you take some lessons from an expert. You’ll have to memorize hundreds of openings, and thousands of end-game closings. You learn to be aggressive or lose. The fact is that the game of chess is a wonderful teacher for life. It’ll teach you the fundamentals of business. You’ll learn to do your homework, be aggressive, and look for creative new approaches to old situations. You’ll learn the value of persistence.
    Go is another game of skill and its popularity in Asia has a good deal to do with the way the Asian countries have been running circles around us in business. Chess and Go teach qualities which are valuable to a country. They help teach the work ethic. You don’t win at chess unless you work at it, but if you do you’ll surely win. That’s great training for life.

6/21/09

Being One’s Best
    While watching one of Ross Perot’s commercials a few days before the election, I took particular note of a comment made by both Ross’ family and friends, that he urged them to not just be good or better, but to be the very best they could be in life. This is a philosophy worthy of consideration. It got me to thinking…have I done my best to be the best that I possibly can? How about you?
    There’s being your best at your work. What a shame it is when parents don’t teach their children the importance of doing their very best. To me that means knowing more about my work than my competitors. It means endlessly doing my homework…which isn’t actually work because it’s fun. It means attending conferences, taking classes, reading books, subscribing to magazines. I just bought a new stack of books and am working my way through them. Some are tedious to read because they’re poorly written, but most are wonderful and give me lots of ideas.
    When I took on my responsibility as a member of the New Hampshire Economic Development Commission I refused to let the politicians and their efforts to block the Commission from doing anything of significance hold me back.
    Whenever I take up a new interest I tend to go at it whole hog. When I got interested in horseback riding I took lessons…and more lessons. I found better and better experts, and soon I was teaching riding myself. And then I was teaching instructors! When I got into sports car rallying I first learned to navigate and then to drive. I developed a new navigation system which filled my shelves with trophies. I needed special watches which would keep time accurately all day, so I found a factory in Germany to make them for me and I imported them. I discovered a special pepper-grinder-like calculator used in Europe for currency conversions which was ideal for rallying. I went to the Curta factory in Liechtenstein and made a deal to import them for rallyists. I developed and printed my own rally tables, which were incredibly simple compared to those made by others. My customers were soon winning all the rallies.
    When I got interested in photography I read books, took lessons and spent endless hours in the school darkroom building my skills. I armed myself with everything from 35mm to 5x7 cameras. This helped be greatly when I became a TV cameraman at WPIX in New York and knew how to compose pictures. As a result I was made Chief Cameraman. Later, when I was a TV director in Dallas and Cleveland, I helped my cameramen get great pictures. In my early publishing days I took most of my own pictures.
    I didn’t take up skiing until I was 44, but then I went at it furiously. I took lessons and more lessons. In a few weeks I was skiing better than I ever thought I’d be able to in my life. So I took even more lessons. Now, in my 80s, I’m brittler and thus a bit more cautious on the trails, since breaking something would be extremely inconvenient. But I still tear down the mountains, having more fun than should be legal.
    Somehow my parents got across to me the concept of trying to be the best I could at whatever I got interested in. I’ve been preaching this idea, hoping others would see the value of this approach to life and adopt it. So how about you? Do you settle for less than your very best in what you do? Are you the best at work? Are you learning all you can or are you cheating yourself? When you gold brick through life you’re only cheating yourself.
    What challenge is there for you? What haven’t you done yet? Why not? What are your excuses?

6/20/09

Instinct?
     Now what in heck is instinct?
    European cuckoos, which are raised by birds of other species, migrate without guidance to precisely the spot in Africa where their parents migrated before them. Fish return to the streams where they were born to spawn. Turtles find the exact same beaches where they were born. Monarch butterflies make one migration, from the Great Lakes region to specific butterfly trees in Mexico. The examples that “science” explains as instinct are endless. So, what’s instinct?
    What science can’t explain, it gives a name to and ignores or denies.
    How do lost animals find their owners in places they’ve never been before? When a rat learns to navigate a maze, how can future unrelated generations be born with the knack for similar mazes? Is there a whole lot more to the adaptation of species than random Darwinian survival of the fittest?
    If you decide to do some research along these lines you’ll find organized science fighting you every inch of the way with ridicule, a refusal to publish your papers, and efforts to prevent any funding. Is it any wonder that our progress in non-accepted scientific fields has been so slow?
    In the US I’ve seen the efforts of the Department of Energy scientists to make absolutely sure that if a new cold fusion industry develops, it will be in Japan, not here in America.
    According to The Skeptical Inquirer, telepathy doesn’t exist, yet almost every day I experience it with Sherry. She’ll be driving along, with me in the back seat working, and I’ll suddenly look up and remark on a sign or something unusual. Every time, it’s something she’s particularly noted and wanted to tell me about, but didn’t want to interrupt my work.
    I’ve reviewed books for you on how to communicate with plants and animals. Science is doing well with microcircuit development, but sure has a long way to go, with other scientists vigorously resisting, toward understanding psi, instinct, and other such phenomenon it doesn’t understand and thus ignores or denies.
    The comforting thought is that virtually every scientific belief (law) is eventually shown to be either untrue, or just partly true. We do need to do a lot more research on human instincts. Obviously we have them, though they are not programmed in as powerfully as those of many animals, birds, reptiles and insects, but it would be nice to find out just what we’re up against in hard-wired programming.
    Your homework assignment is Rupert Sheldrake's The Presence of the Past.

6/19/09

Selenium
    As I read the news magazines I kept seeing obits for local well-known people who have died of a heart attack or stroke. Veterinarians solved that problem for animals decades ago. Farm animals don’t die of heart attacks or strokes. Farmers add pellets with the minerals which are almost universally missing from today’s crops to their animal’s feed. But don’t ask your doctor about preventative medicine, vitamins or minerals; they’re not his field. If doctors were taught anything about health maintenance instead of just about sickness repairs they wouldn’t be dying younger than the rest of us on the average.
    They’re only taught how to treat symptoms…which are your body's alarm system, telling you something has gone wrong.
    Cows, pigs and horses don’t die of heart attacks or Alzheimer’s because farmers give them the minerals they need with their feed. Well, that’s something for you to think about as the ambulance rushes you to the emergency ward. That old ounce of prevention. Or more likely, 50 mg of selenium or some other missing mineral that’s critically important to your body’s function.
    No, I’m no MD, nor even a DVM, so I don’t ask you to believe me. But I recommend you do your homework the way I have. I realize you may not have much time to read, what with your spending a little time at work, and then watching ball games, sitcoms, soaps, and talk shows, making you a living example of the boiled frog syndrome. That’s where, if you drop a frog into boiling water, he’ll jump right out. But if you put him in warm water with a fire under it, he’ll enjoy the warmth until he's boiled.
    And that’s the way it is with sugar, white bread, smoking, using drugs, and food that lacks the basic minerals and vitamins our bodies developed a dependency on over millennias of design. Our bodies were designed to work on raw wild foods. They were never designed to cope with coffee and doughnuts or Big Macs, fries, and a malt. So, either we have to figure some way to get our bodies the materials they need or settle for half a life. The expression, “You are what you eat,” is right.
    For instance, in one of the ham radio club newsletters there was a very nice obit about Travis Baird W9VQD. Travis stroked out (a mineral lack). He was into music, opera, speed skating, photography, sailing, football, computers, the violin, amateur television, and so on. Now he’s gone. Diet.
    Forty-one of the books in my review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read” are health oriented. The most important is Maximize Immunity by Dr. Bruno     Comby. That's the book that pushed me to an almost totally raw food diet.
    If you read The Secrets of the Soil, another of my recommended books, you’ll find out how to grow food that has the missing minerals.
    Ever since the invention of the flush toilet we’ve been getting rid of the minerals in our crops instead of refertilizing our fields with them, as people did up until this century. Now we use chemicals as fertilizer, and we’re suffering the consequences.
    Hmm, I wonder how many of you grew up on a farm with a back house and had to shovel out the privy every spring? My family’s farm in Bethlehem NH had no running water and no electricity, so I know what it is to take a flashlight out to the privy in back of the barn at night in the rain. And there was no heat until the first one up (me) started the fire in the kitchen stove with newspaper, kindling, and some kerosene to get the wood going fast. And another fire in the living room fireplace when it was really cold. While the stove was warming up I’d refill the kerosene lamps. The stove had a water tank at one end, so once the water was warm enough I’d scoop some out into a 5-gallon watering can. Then, in the summer kitchen, out by the woodpile, I’d hoist the can over my head with a pulley and take a fast shower. That part of the house was unheated by the stove, so 5 gallons of water was plenty.
    Few farms today have a privy, so farmers today are flushing what few minerals they’re getting in their food into their septic system, not into a privy and then the compost heap. You either get your missing trace minerals from a health store or you make the doctors even wealthier as you have your heart attack or stroke. Your choice.
    You can learn exactly what trace minerals your body needs by reading a most entertaining book by Dr. Joel Wallach. It’s Rare Earths—Forbidden Cures. 500 large pages, $20 from Wellness Lifestyle, Box 1222, Bonita CA 91908 - 800-755-4656. Yes, it’s reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom.

6/18/09

The Lost War
    Short quiz: What is the most expensive war in American history? It's a war that cost more than WWII, Korea, and Vietnam combined? Hint…it’s one we lost. One we lost in a big way. One that has brought about catastrophic changes in our country.
    It’s President Johnson’s (Lyndon) War on Poverty. Welfare. Welfare mothers. Hey, it’s your money your politicians are shoveling out. Over $10 trillion so far, and with no end in sight.
    When the government pays women welfare benefits equivalent to $15 an hour, over two times the minimum wage, not to work, what do you think this does to wages in those areas? To be “entitled” to this largess at our expense the women have to have children…the more the better…no job, and no husband that’s working.
    In 39 states welfare benefits are equivalent to about $16,600 a year. In eight it’s over $20,000.
    Later I’ll tell you about a woman with two children who is on welfare in my small New Hampshire town. Her food and apartment are provided, plus schooling for one child, complete with a paid driver to ferry the child to school and back every day. The woman is bitterly complaining that her welfare-provided cable TV only gives her two paid channels. Oh yes, her husband is working, but they are “separated.” A recent exposé on welfare showed a couple of women in Laconia (NH) sitting in their apartments getting fat on this same system. Work? And lose all those benefits? You’ve got to be kidding!
    So we complain about the single mothers. We complain about the loss of family values that’s turning out one generation after another of uneducated welfare mothers and resulting criminal children with no incentive or skills to work. Compassion gone berserk, and to hell with the survival of the fittest concept. We’re making sure that the least fit survive and proliferate, dragging us all down.
    What can you do about this mess you’ve meekly let fester? Two things. First, we’ve got to stop Congress from making things worse. Second, we’ve got to make sure Congress strikes out all of the laws they’ve made that are screwing us up. Get the feds out of the mercy business, which is just another name for socialism. My bumper-sticker approach to this is to start with Green’s NRA: Never Re-elect Anyone! Get those bribed (via lobbyists) scoundrels out of Washington. Let’s build a whole new breed of one-term politicians.
    But most important is to take a few days off from watching mind-numbing TV and educate yourself. There are some damned good books which will help you understand what’s gone wrong with our school system (which is a socialist disaster), with the war on poverty (which we lost), the war on drugs (which we’ve also lost), our so-called health-care system (another enormously overpriced socialist disaster), our “correctional institutions” (which exacerbate, not correct) and so on. Hey, we have the potential for having a pretty good country, but it’s going to take a lot of work by a lot of people to undo Congressional mischief and make it happen.
    The multi-level marketing (chain-letter) approach will work for us. First you educate yourself. Then you get two or three other people started being educated. And they do the same for two or three more. Then form a local action group. The next thing you know, we’ll have a movement.
    I’d like to see local political action clubs (PACs) get going. Members would be encouraged to read a book and report on it at the next meeting. There are an awful lot of books out there, but only a small percentage of them are both interesting and educational. By distributing the work of separating the wheat from the chaff, a group can easily do something that no one person could possibly accomplish.
    The next thing you know some entrepreneur will start collecting the book reports and submit them to me for publication. And I’ll pay for ’em. The resulting sale of the better books will help discourage publishers from unloading crap on us, and will encourage the writing of even better books.
    My $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom is a review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read,” and covers a wide variety of topics. Reading these books will beat the heck out of a college education, be thousands of dollars cheaper, and take several years less time. Maybe you can get some high school kids interested in learning to read.
    Perhaps I’ve let my idealism run away with me in even suggesting that we try to run our country on reason instead of fanaticism. Maybe screaming protesters and terrorism are the rule of the day and reason passé.
    Anyway, if you feel that people who prefer not to work are worth $335 billion of your money being taken out of your paycheck every year, then go back and watch that ball game on TV. As long as you’re satisfied that you’re getting your money’s worth it’s no problem. If you’d get Congress to stop wasting your money we could go back to where a one paycheck family could live comfortably and a mother could have the time to spend with her children.
    One reader suggested a way to solve the deficit problem would be to fire the top three layers of management of all federal bureaus on the basis that it’s unlikely that anyone lower down would notice much difference. Oh, the bureau’s jet planes would get less use. But why not fire ’em down five levels and start reducing the deficit instead of just stopping its growth?
    Oh yes, one more innovation. Since many of our more serious social problems have been caused by federal judges running amok, bypassing the legislative system, how about putting term limits on those rascals too? It would also be nice if we could somehow encourage the Supremes to stop trashing to Constitution. There is no place in the Constitution which supports the social programs Congress has enacted and the Supremes have endorsed.

6/17/09

Inertia
    All this puzzlement over why cold fusion is working, despite the passionate objections of several Very Important Physicists, forced me to read some books on the fundamentals of matter, something which my college curriculum managed to overlook to a shocking degree. But then, 60 years ago, there wasn’t very much to teach. The periodic table ended at 92 and nuclear fission was only touched on in Astounding Stories (now Analog).
    When they were teaching us about gravity, the student instructor got angry with me when I asked him what gravity was. It hadn’t occurred to him that the equation for the gravity force wasn’t gravity. And I didn’t know that no one had a good explanation for the force. Unless you buy Einstein's concept of gravity being some sort of strain on space-time.
    Now I find that there’s still some question about that theory, and that there still is no good understanding of why we have inertia. That’s been bothering me. But it’s also been a great help in discussing cold fusion when I can point out that physicists are still far from understanding the fundamentals of matter and forces, so why should we be surprised when they are unable to explain the cold fusion reaction?
    In an issue of Cold Fusion I proposed a way for protons to overcome the dread coulomb barrier. A flash of inspiration hit me when I saw the similarity between the plasma action which Eric Lerner proposed in The Big Bang Never Happened as that which explains the formation of solar systems, galaxies, and super galaxies, and that envisioned by Besant and Leadbeater a hundred years ago (see The Extra-Sensory Perception of Quarks by Stephen Phillips) when they meditated on the makeup of atoms and came up with a structure amazingly similar to our current ideas on quarks, sub-quarks, and string theory. And they described that same plasma action, a sort of ball-shaped toroid of spinning energy with one heck of a vortex in the center. My thanks to Advisor M.Srinivasan  of the Bhabha Atomic Physics Centre in Bombay for putting me on to the Besant work.
    I saw in that vortex the concentration of energy needed to overcome the coulomb barrier, thus allowing deuterium or hydrogen to be transmuted into helium. It seemed logical, but then, when I wrote about it, I fully expected to be put down for suggesting such a thing. To my surprise, which is an understatement, Chuck Bennet, and a couple other well-known scientists, bought my concept and used it to devise further research projects.
    Feeling my oats, I further editorially poked a stick at physicists by suggesting that maybe even sub-quarks aren’t fundamental particles (or wavicles), and that perhaps it has been a bit arrogant to assume that they’re anywhere near down to fundamentals when they get to quarks. The visions of Besant and Leadbeater, plus the further recent work in this area by Ron Cohen in Ontario, all describe seeing several more layers of abstraction below the quark and the electron.
    While in Colorado Springs for the Tesla Society science conference and mulling over what I would cover in my talk on cold fusion, inspiration hit. Suddenly I knew why we have inertia. When I pass on to the next whatever it is, I won’t be surprised to find that Dick Feynman was over there flashing messages to me. I think you’re going to like the simplicity of my explanation.
    With atoms spinning, and their component parts also spinning, let’s compare them all to a big bunch of gyroscopes. When you apply an outside force to a gyroscope, it resists, no matter which direction you push. F = ma. And it tends to stay in motion in the direction pushed. Just like what we experience as inertia. Now picture a box with a thousand gyroscopes in it, all spinning. Now picture the box with 2.75 gadzillion very, very tiny gyroscopes. Can it be all those spinning wavicles which result in inertia?
    Now, if I can catch up on my work a little, perhaps I can tune in to Feynman again and come up with a better answer for gravity than distorting the fabric of space-time. Could it have something to do with nuclear forces trying to hold things together?
    Bingo! Feynman did again, and I suddenly understood why we have gravity. It's those spinning balls we call atoms. The vortex action in the center that holds the atom together also attracts it to nearby atoms. Presto! We have gravity. Well, we see vortexes in action with tornadoes, where they suck up anything movable that's nearby. I sure wish I'd recorded my talk at the conference that day.
    While I was at the Tesla conference I went through their book store and picked up a dozen or so more books. Having read Maximize Immunity by Bruno Comby, and being all fired up by the strength and clarity of his ideas on how to regain health from any illness, I couldn’t help but quickly read Young Again by John Thomas. That's the book that has me taking a heaping teaspoon of cayenne pepper in a half-cup of apple juice every afternoon to help roto-root my arteries.
    John said one thing that made sense and helps explain the resistance to cold fusion by the establishment. Most of the breakthroughs in any field are made by amateurs, not the professionals. One gets a Ph.D. by memorizing endless stuff for memorization tests and working one’s way through college and grad school via that route. This is the opposite of the average inventor, a maverick who tends to think in concepts instead of memorization and regurgitation.
    A study by INC magazine showed that few successful entrepreneurs have bothered to finish college. An inventor is like an entrepreneur in that respect. Ph.D.'s, having been thoroughly trained to memorize and not to be original thinkers, are naturally resistant to anything that is going to upset what they’ve learned.
    I published a wonderful article by John Campbell in the first issue of 73 back in 1960. John explained why virtually every major creative scientific discovery has been made by amateurs. I’ve seen nothing in the last 35 years to challenge that idea. John was the editor of Analog magazine, and a good friend of mine. It was his long editorials about anything that happened to interest him at the moment that inspired me to do the same when I started publishing in 1951. I'm still at it.
    But doesn't the idea of all "matter" being made up of spinning stuff explain inertia? Scientists agree that quarks all have spin, just as Besant and Leadbeater envisioned.
   
6/16/09

History Lesson
    What did Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower have in common?
    Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work..
    Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal's after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.
    And then, in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican Nationals! The program was called 'Operation Wetback'. It was done so WWII and Korean Veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took 2 Years, but they deported them!
    Now...if they could deport the illegal's back then - they could sure do it today!
    If you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself.
    Reminder: Don't forget to pay your taxes…at least 12 million Illegal Aliens are depending on you!

6/15/09

Ford & GM
    Here's an email from the man who keeps my Mercedes cars in good running order:
 
    According to Forbes, the labor cost per hour, wages and benefits for hourly workers at Ford are $70.51 ($141,020 per year), at GM it's $73.26 ($146,520 per year), and at Chrysler it's $75.86 ($151,720 per year). While at Toyota, Honda, Nissan (in U.S.) it's $48.00 ($96,000 per year),
    According to AAUP and IES, the average annual compensation for a college professor in 2006 was $92,973 (average salary nationally of $73,207 + 27% benefits).
    Bottom Line: The average UAW worker with a high school degree earns 57.6% more compensation than the average university professor with a Ph.D., and 52.6% more than the average worker at Toyota , Honda or Nissan.
    Many industry analysts say the Detroit Three, must be on par with  Toyota and Honda to survive. This year's contract, they say, must be "transformational" in reducing pension and health care costs.
    What would "transformational" mean? One way to think about "transformational" would mean that UAW workers, most with a high school diploma, would have to accept compensation equal to that of the average university professor with a PhD.
    Then there's the "Job Bank" ... When a D3 (Detroit 3 carmaker) lays an employee off, that employee continues to receive all benefits - medical, retirement, etc., etc., PLUS an hourly wage of $31/hour.
    Here's a typical story....Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, signs in, and then starts working -- on a crossword puzzle. Pool hates the monotony, but the pay is good: more than $31 an hour, plus benefits. "We just go in and play crossword puzzles,
watch videos that someone brings in or read the newspaper," he says. "Otherwise, I just sit."
    Pool is one of more than 12,000 American autoworkers who, instead of installing windshields or bending sheet metal, spend their days counting the hours in a jobs bank set up by Detroit automakers as demanded by the United Auto Workers Union - UAW - as part of an extraordinary job security agreement.
    Now the D3 wants Joe Taxpayer to pick up this tab in a $ 25 Billion bailout package - soon to be increased to $45 Billion if Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton have their way.
    The "Big 3" want this money - not to build better autos. No. They want it to pay the tab for Medical and Retirement benefits for RETIRED auto workers. Not ONE PENNY would be used to make them more competitive, or to improve the quality of their cars.
    We ALL have problems paying for our Medical Insurance - but the Democrat leaders in Congress now want us to pay the Medical Insurance premiums of folks who have RETIRED from Ford, GM and Chrysler...............
    Does anyone know how a person making $12.00 to $15.00 an hour can purchase a vehicle built by someone making $70.00+ per hour?

6/1`4/09

Bribery
    My big goal is to get the word out on how easy it is to cure any illness and never get sick again by a change of diet. But, since that would put the pharmaceutical industry out of business, even getting a hint out to the public is almost impossible.
    Would Newsweek dare to print an exposé? The current issue has ten and a half pages of drug ads and only seven pages of non-drug ads. Money doesn't talk, it screams, drowning out truth. Time had thirteen and a half pages of drug ads. Without drug ads they'd both be out of business.
    It's the same with TV. As I fast-forward through the ads on the shows I watch while I'm eating, I see one drug ad after another. If people wise up about their food it could have a devastating effect on the advertising business. Gee!

6/13/09

The Muslim Invasion
    Can we learn from the mess in Europe, where Muslims have emigrated by the millions, yet have refused to accept the local language and customs, and have formed their own communities? Further, while the non-Muslims are averaging 1.4 children per family, the Muslims are averaging five. At that rate it won't take long before the Muslims will be in the majority.
    The same thing is starting here, with the Saudi's building over a thousand mosques and pushing Wahabiism, the most radical form of Islam. They're teaching their children that it will be their duty to kill any infidel. An infidel, by the way, is anyone who is not a Muslim.

6/12/09

Chaos
    While working on a second edition of my Secret Guide to Health I got to thinking about what might happen if I'm able to get the book into millions of hands instead of just thousands. What will happen if a million people start demanding organic produce, meat and raw milk?
    Even here in New Hampshire, where most of us are away from the big cities, there's no surplus of raw milk or grass-fed organic meat. An increase in demand is going to raise prices as more and more people realize they have to change their diets to raw, organic food if they want to recover from any illness they have and to make sure they aren't ever going to get sick.
    We do have an advantage in that almost all farming moved west a hundred years or so ago, so our land hasn't been poisoned by a hundred years of chemical fertilizers, followed by pesticides. It's covered by forests now, but the dirt is primo for organic farming once the trees have been removed. Oh, it'll need some rock dust to get the minerals back into it, but I don't think we'll have a serious shortage of granite to powderify here in "The Granite State."
    We've got to get our citizen's legislature to allow stores to sell raw milk. The demand will force the milk companies to turn to grass-fed cows with no BGH shots or antibiotics. Oh, and the grass will have to be grown on non-poisoned, remineralized pastures.
    The demand for healthy food will gradually transform the fast-food companies and our supermarkets. The midwest farmers are going to have to stop growing all that corn, clean up their land, and go organic. No more factory-raised beef and chickens, crammed full of genetically modified corn in tiny prisons.
    I think we'll be seeing greenhouses sprouting by the millions all across the country as families counter the high store prices for healthy food. I'll bet a high percentage of 'em will be pyramid shape and using Sonic-Bloom. Oh, you haven't yet read Les Brown's The Pyramid…see page 29 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review. The $3 book is available from Acres USA (800-355-5313), last I heard.
    Brown's pyramid-shaped greenhouses have grown vegetables over four times normal. They're more insect resistant, last longer after being picked, and are better tasting. Since using Sonic Bloom accomplishes about the same results, I wonder what would happen if both were used? Plant a seed and jump back!
    Maybe it's time to start gardening classes in our schools and encourage our teens to start home gardens. As people start wising up that their immune systems can cure any cancer (or anything else) by changing to a raw food diet, the demand for healthy food is bound to grow.
   
6/11/09

Babies & TV
    It's bad enough with the intentional dumbing down of our children by our public schools, now researchers tell us that letting babies watch TV is significantly adding to children's mental development problems.
    You see, babies learn language from their parents and don't from TV. The parent-child interaction is critical. So studies show that the more babies are exposed to TV the smaller vocabulary they build and the more problems they have later in communicating.
    This can put another strain on families when both parents have to work, so the baby has to be put in a day-care facility. Of course, a good day-care outfit would have foreign language personnel to teach the babies when their language-learning abilities are at a peak, which is a relatively short window of opportunity. During that period of brain development babies can learn many languages, be able to think in each of them, and speak without an accent.
    As I've explained before, our mandatory government-run public school system was initiated 150 years ago by religious leaders, who got Congress to get kids out of the one-room school houses, where our children had the highest literacy rate in our history, and into factory type schools, using the Prussian school system, which turned out the most obedient soldiers in the world.
    The factory process is designed to take raw material and turn out identical products. And, as Michael Medved so wisely put it, "The government makes a mess of everything it does." Hey, let me know if you can think of any exceptions. I can't.
   
6/10/09

Reform
    Lured by an article in the paper to a panel discussion on healthcare reform, I drove to Keene and sat through two hours of lecturing on the subject. The main goal of the meeting seemed to be to recruit people to go on a bus ride to Washington on the 25th for a mass demonstration to promote the passing of real health care reform legislation. They are demanding quality,  affordable healthcare for all!
    It took a while, but I finally was allowed a couple minutes to explain about self-care via raw food rather than going to doctors and hospitals. Far's I know I aroused interest in the idea among none of the 25 or so in the audience, nor the four presenters. They want one-pay health insurance, dammit.
    They're having busloads of protesters going there from all around the country. About 150 are expected to be going from New Hampshire in three buses.

6/9/09

Guests?
    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 our customs. and were proud to become Americans. Let's drop the hyphenated-Americans…like Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, and even African-Americans. If you don't want to be Americans, we don't want you here.
    With an admitted 12 million illegal aliens, and who knows how many actual…with some estimates 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 the President, 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 to enforcement. 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…which are already bulging with Hispanic criminals.
    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 unless you are a citizen and can speak English. No "Press 1 for English."
    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, and have almost none of the minerals our bodies need.
    We're spending billions giving the illegals sickness care, educating their kids, and even giving them social security payments. This is absolutely ridiculous.
    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…and a good reason to brush up on their English. Maybe even speaking it at home.

6/08/09

Going Green
Goal: To Make New Hampshire the healthiest, wealthiest, best-educated, and happiest state in America.
    We’ll need organic crops grown on remineralized land that hasn’t been poisoned with chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Fortunately, our farmers moved to the easier to use midwest farmland a hundred years ago, so most New Hampshire land has never been poisoned. Spreading powdered rock (granite) on our farm land will remineralize it to provide very healthy organic crops. And if we use Sonic Bloom we’ll have larger, faster-growing better-tasting crops.
    We’ll need clean water and fish from unpoisoned rivers and lakes, so we need to check our lakes for mercury. Many trees felled by the 1938 hurricane, their ends preserved with mercury, were thrown into our lakes. These need to be removed and the lakes allowed to clean themselves before it will be safe to fish them.
    We can help clean our air by investing in the R&D it will take to make cold fusion a practical energy source. Here’s non-polluting energy at a hundredth the cost of oil which will allow every home to generate all the heat and electricity a family can use, and almost free. No more oil or coal-fired power stations (or nuclear) fouling our air. If we can develop and manufacture the power units here in New Hampshire we’ll go a long way towards being the wealthiest state.
    Another step toward wealth would be to plant black walnut trees and growth them with Sonic Bloom technology. This legal crop, which would cost nothing to plant, could provide over $250,000 a year per acre and start a new wood industry for New Hampshire.

6/7/09

The Basics
    It's really just common sense. If we want to have a healthy body we should give it the quantity and quality of food it's designed to use, plenty of pure water, lots of exercise, plenty of sun, clean air, and adequate sleep.
    It sounds simple, but how many of those basics are you providing your body? Are the fruit and vegetables you're eating non-genetically modified and grown organically on remineralized soil? Your meat from grass-fed animals? Your milk non-pasteurized? Are you eating everything raw?
    About the only way to be sure of your drinking pure water these days is to distill it. Otherwise you're likely getting added stuff like chlorine, fluoride, lead, used pharmaceutical drugs, and other crud with it. See www.steamdistiller.com for an inexpensive still.
    Exercise? Har-de-har. Gee, no time for that…the ballgame will be on in a few minutes.
    Sunlight on the skin? Whadaya want, skin cancer? Melanoma? Newsflash: on a raw food diet you don't get skin cancer, just a tan skin.
    Clean air? Why do you think I'm living on a farm in New Hampshire and not in a city, like I did for years? Well, that's one very good reason.
    Sleep? You want a quiet, totally dark room.

6/2/09

Great Gifts
    One of my Brooklyn readers stopped by to visit. We had a great time talking, but the capper was his parting gift…a gift I'll treasure for the rest of my life. It was a mint copy of the 1950 Astounding Science Fiction magazine with the article by L.Ron Hubbard about Dianetics.
    Upon reading that article I quickly bought the book, read it, and then tested it out with a fellow announcer at WSPB in Sarasota, where we were working. The results were so spectacular I quit my job, just as I was offered a major raise, and drove to Elizabeth NJ to take a six-week course at the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation. See my 4/21/09 entry for the details on the test with Joe.
    What a thoughtful gift that almost sixty-year old magazine was. You see, Dianetics has had a major influence on my life.
    There are two other thoughtful gifts from my readers. Both, treasures. One is an oil painting of my WWII submarine, the USS Drum, by Don Lively. And the other is a hand-made beadspread that I use all winter, which was made by Jeanie Dicus.

6/1/09

Newsweek
    They've totally revamped the magazine, apparently guided by an art director gone wild. Take the 8-1/2 page article about Oprah. The first two pages have only a half page of text, and the rest is filled with huge headlines. The pull-quotes in the article are in 36-point type, and most of the pages have large pictures of Oprah. The article itself goes on and on about how crazy the health advice is that one gets watching the Oprah show. Indeed, the opening headline in 2-3/4-inch high type  is "CRAZY TALK."
    This came into some perspective when I counted the magazine's ad pages. There were ten pages of pharmaceutical ads and just nine other pages of ads.
    It's bad enough to have only 18 pages of ads in an 80-page magazine, where I would normally expect to see 25 to 35 pages of ads, but should the magazine in any way aggravate Big Pharma, it would be out of business. No, when I publish the second edition of my Secret Guide to Health, I'm not going to bother sending Newsweek a review copy.

5/31/09

Crossing The Equator
    That used to be a big deal, with ships having initiation ceremonies for first time crossers. Then, when the airlines started crossing the Equator, they issued certificates for the passengers.
    My first crossing was when I went on a hunting safari in Kenya, which straddles the Equator. So when I saw a sign showing the road I was on was crossing the Equator, I set up my 16mm camera and took pictures of me hopping back and forth across the equator. Hey, who else can brag they've crossed the Equator hundreds of times? And have the film to prove it.

5/30/09

Transfusions
    Doctors are doing millions of blood transfusions every year, and I’ll bet you’re completely convinced that this is a good, lifesaving procedure. My advice? Do everything you can to avoid one!
    I used to work in an office on 43rd Street in Manhattan. On the floor below our publishing offices was a blood bank, so I got a good look at their clientele over the five years I worked there…and it was mostly homeless winos, getting enough money for another bottle of the cheapest wine they could find.
    As I’ve mentioned, every cell in your body, and that includes every cell in your blood, is in constant contact with every other cell, even when separated from you by thousands of miles. When you get a transfusion of someone else’s blood, you’re getting a part of them integrated into your mind/body system, and not just your body. You’ll also get a good collection of any poisons they were carrying around, such as alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and any other drugs, viruses, microbes, parasites, fungi, or yeasts in their blood. And maybe some toxic metals, too.
    If you think I’m exaggerating, you haven’t bothered to read The Secret Life of Your Cells (p.5) yet. I’ve reviewed it in my $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom.
    Even though the new blood is the same type as yours, it is from another person and your immune system will get busy eliminating the invader. That’s just what you need at a time when you need all of the strength your immune system can muster to help you recover from whatever caused the doctors to give you the transfusion.
    If you have made any effort to develop your psychic ability, once you’ve had a transfusion you’ll be able to pick up many of the thoughts and feelings of the person from whom you’ve received the blood. One woman wrote a book about an organ transplant where she was able to sense the name of the donor and feel his feelings (A Change of Heart). And thousands of people have reported weird things resulting from blood transfusions. A recent lab test, with cells from an athlete’s heart, beat exactly in pace with his heart as he walked and ran, even though he was miles away.

5/29/09

Leno
    While I seldom have bothered to watch Jay’s interviews with celebs, I’ve always enjoyed his opening monologue and the following funny bitsR