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6/19/08
Cancer!
With one out of three of us getting cancer, soon to be one out of two, your chances of hearing the dread verdict from your doctor are pretty good. Or, more likely, ugly bad.
Ahead of you lie chemo, with it’s endless nausia and hair loss. Plus humongous expense, now averaging around $375,000 per cancer case (according to a Department of Commerce study), plus the likelihood of death. On the other hand, should you survive, since you will probably continue to do what caused the cancer in the first place, you can look forward to another in the not too distant future. 90% of cancers return.
The American Cancer Society tells us that surgery, radiation and chemotherapy seldon produce a cure.
Or, of course, you could change your diet so your immune system can get rid of the cancer for you, with no nausia, hair loss, or bankruptcy. And, without fail.
Even if your doctor knew about this simple, cost-free way to get rid of any cancer, he’d lose his license if he told you…accused of quackery. The medical industry is a business…a two, going on three, trillion dollar industry. It is supported by and supporting the multi-hundred billion dollar pharmaceutical industry…one of the most profitable industries in the world. And, like the oil and religion industries, also incredibly profitable, the very existance of the medical industry we know today depends on a massive cover-up to stay in business.
When dentist Hal Huggins published his It’s All In Your Head, proving that dental amalgam was causing multiple sclerosis, they yanked his license. At a Tesla Society conference in Colorado Springs Hal showed us a film of a patient who was crippled in a wheelchair with MS. Then, a few weeks after Hal removed her amalgam fillings she was out playing tennis. See page 8 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review of Hal’s book.
Unfortunately, the belief in doctors is so powerful that it is unlikely you’ll be able to get any friend or family member who gets cancer to listen or even try to do any investigation into an alternative vis my site or those of experts like www.drday.com, www.comby.org, and www.hacres.com.
6/18/08
Uh Oh!
It took years before the facts of cigarette addiction and health consequences managed to surface, despite the millions the industry invested in covering them up. Well, it was worth whatever the expense to get scientists to back the industry, while there was little money available to support unbiased studies. And the media, very comfortable with billions of dollars in cigarette ads, had a huge self-preserving interest in smothering any adverse information.
We have a similar situation when it comes to so-called “health care.” There’s little money in health and trillions in sickness. With a third of us getting cancer, soon to be one out of two, we have the situation where any doctor who prescribed a diet change rather than chemotherapy, radiation and operations would have his license yanked.
And it’s the same in the cell phone industry. One has to dig deep into the internet to find the brutal facts. What’s actually going on is far more serious than the global warming panic. As I have been warning for over thirty years, cell phones are a sleeping bomb that is going to screw up the whole world unless the word can be gotten past the industry wall around the facts. Like with cigarettes.
As the one person who was mainly responsible for the cell phone industry getting started, I’m appalled at the irresponsibility of the industry. Like the cigarette and sickness industries, human lives are of little interest when it comes to making money. Please take your ear plugs out while I blow the whistle. Again.
There are both short-term and long-term poblems with cell phone use. In the short term the antenna held next to the head is busy burning out brain cells, lowering the IQ, destroying memory and learning ability, and causing hundreds of thousands of brain tumors annually. This is particularly critical for youngsters, whose brains are still being built. The evidence is overwhelming that cell phones are causing severe biological disturbances in human cells.
Indeed, men who carry their cell phones in standby anywhere in their clothes produce much less sperm than those who do not. Worse, even those surviving sperm are likely to be unable to fertilize, or if they do, trigger birth defects.
One or two smothered scientific studies? No, over 15,000 have confirmed health hazards, with at least 66 studies showing the increase in brain tumors.
Even short term use has long term consequences, causing forgetfulness, sudden confusion, amd a loss of the ability to concentrate, calculate and coordinate. A two minute call can alter the natural electrical activity of a child’s brain for over an hour afterward, leading to psychiatric and behavioral problems. Worse, in the long run, scientists tell us, kids using cell phons can look forward to the possibioity of early onset Alzheimer’s and being functionally senile by the time they are thirty.
In England a study showed that heavy cell phone users under the age of forty were already retired as “unfit for future work” due to early onset dementia.
Using cell phones while driving is not only a distraction, they’ve been found to severely impair a driver’s memory and reaction times. And this effect continues for up to a half hour after making a call, increasing the probability of an accident. It’s comparable to the risk of driving while dead drunk.
With cell phone use exploding world wide, providing people with phones in vast areas of the world where there are no wires, what will the future be when hundreds of millions of people are in early senility and unable to work? We have some 277 million users in the US and Canada, while in Africa there are alreadu almost 350 million users, heading toward 450 million in another year or so. Then there are the hundreds of millions of new users in China and India. What a time bomb for the world!
What have I done?
6/17/08
Random Thoughts
The Sudbury Valley School
The present 19th century school system, which forces kids to memorize stuff for tests, isn’t teaching. They’re learning very little this way.
The Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA) is leading the way. They accept kids from four to twenty, they are not separated by age, and there is no curriculum. The kids learn what they want, because they want, and when they want. Their education is their responsibility and they love it. The school costs less than half that of nearby public schools to run and the students run the school. They make the rules. The results are spectacular.
There are no tests and no grades, yet their SATs are spectacular and they have no problem getting into any college they want.
There are a bunch of books about the school. See my Secret Guide to Wisdom.
Gold
There’s an old Chinese proverb, “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” Like our health care, correctional institutions, mental hospitals, and the Department of Defense. I think Central Intelligence Agency is a big stretch, too.
Secrecy
Considering how many things the government is keeping secret, it’s no wonder the number of workers has doubled in the last six years. Half of them are kept busy covering up secrets.
Wetbacks II
It’s no wonder they’re thronging over the border every night! We’ve got the golden welcome mat out there for them.
Free schooling, complete with free breakfasts and lunches. Understandably, over 50% are either obese or seriously overweight. Free medical service and day care for babies born to teen-agers as young as 13.
I see where both Hillary and Obama voted against making English our official language, plus they also voted to give illegal aliens Social Security payments.
Intent
The spooky action of intent is the basis of all religions. It’s something that few scientist are investigating, mainly because there’s no obvious way to make money from it.
Man has, from the first, ascribed things he didn’t understand to gods. And we’re still at it.
Well, it was a move ahead when they rolled all the god actions into one super god… God. These days many people envision God as a sort of super Santa Claus in a white robe, keeping track of how good or bad you are.
So, we have this system where in some spooky way every cell in our bodies is in instant communication with every other cell, even when separate by thousands of miles. And we have plants in some spooky way able to tap in to what we are thinking. Worse, we’re able to move physical things just with our thoughts. And we’re able to influence people at a distance without their knowing it. And we’re even able to tap into people who have died.
If you want something to happen, write it down and it’ll happen The power of intention. There’s a whole, huge field out there we should be researching so we can understand it and integrate it into our lives in a more controlled way.
This sum of all consciousnesses which we’re able to tap into, I call sigma…∑.
Slaves?
The conspiracy theorists make a pretty good case for the Illuminati being behind the curtain, pulling the strings. Their goal is to control the world, with all the people being essentially slaves. Hmm.
Well, our major media…radio and television networks, major newspapers… are controlled by just a few people, and they seem to be related to the small group that run the world’s major banks. Then there’s our public school system, which was intentionally designed to dumb us down and stifle creativity. Oh, and they keep us busy with religions and entertainment. It sure looks like things are under good solid control.
We’re being milked by our so-called health care system to the tune of $7,000 a year per person. And by taxes on everything immaginable.
Fluorides
It was reported in Epoch Times that fluoride weakens the bones, teeth and overall health. It’s causing aching bones, constipation, tremors, diminished IQ (particularly in children), bone and other cancers, premature aging, and birth defects. And it’s in the water supplies of more and more cities. Oh, it also makes people docile. One more reason our kids are coming in at the bottom of all industrial nations in international tests.
Voting Machines
They’ve been intentionally designed to be manipulated. Hogwash? Well, check it at www.votefraud.org. Plus I listened to one of the guys who programmed them on the "Coast To Coast" program explaining about it. There’s a $20 DVD on the subject from 800-770-8802. And a book, Hacked: High-Tech Election Theft in America.
Thanks Monsanto
Farmers in Iowa who have been harveting both genetically modified (GM) and natural corn have been testing the two varieties on their animals. Cows offered both kinds of corn all gathered around the natural corn. Once it was gone they nibbled a little on the GM corn and walked away.
Horses fed GM corn have lost their colts, and in India thousands of sheep have died after grazing on GM cotton. Hog ranchers have had their hogs become sterile after eating GM corn.
Though GM ingredients are getting into more and more food products our government requires no testing or labeling of GM foods. So Europe, Japan and other countries have banned American food imports. You can check food you’re thinking of buying at www.truefoodnow.org.
6/16/08
Arboretum
How I wish you had time to walk through the field across from my home with me. We’ve paths mowed to make the walking easy. It’s a religious experience to walk past carpets of pinks, then ground ivy, ground buttercups, monk hawkweed, and count the dozens of other kinds of wild flowers. Big patches of chick weed. And the gazillions of wild strawberry blossoms a few weeks ago are now gazillions of tiny wild strawberries, about a half inch long. Yum!
Earlier there were huge solid patches of violets, blue in some areas and white in others.
I counted thirty-one kinds of wild flowers, but that’ll be up to forty and even fifty as the summer continues. The wild blueberry bushes are loaded with ripening berries. It’s going to be a huge crop this year. The blackberry bushes are loaded with both blossoms and little green berries. Then there’s the dewberries, which are blossoming by the hundreds of thousands. Dewberries look and taste like blackberries, but they grow next to the ground instead of on higher bushes.
They may have a bee shortage elsewhere, but this field is alive with them trying to service all the flowers. They particularly like the red clover, which is growing over three feet high.
6/14/08
Vaccines
The next time a doctor or hospital recommends you get a flu shot or have your child be given shots, please get out Vaccination - Social Violence and Criminality by Harris Coulter, North Atlantic Books, 300p, 1990, ISBN 1-55643-084-1, $20. Subtitled: The Medical Assault on the American Brain. This carefully researched book makes it clear that childhood vaccinations have been and are causing terrible things to happen to millions of children. For instance, autism was virtually unknown until baby vaccinations. “Childhood vaccinatrions cause various type of mental retardation, ranging from a slight drop in IQ to total idiocy; they also generate dyslexia and other reading disabilities.” The book shows the steady decline in SAT scores and the correlation with the increased number of childhood vaccinations. My copy of the book is heavily high-lighted. The author makes a very good case for vaccinations to be responsible for the enormous increase in autism, dyslexia, hyperactivity, allergies, crime, hearing loss, asthma, mental and nervous system discorders, personality disorders, drug use, and diseases of the eyes and ears. The medical bureaucracy’s response to the mess vaccinations are making has been with Prozac, Ritalin, and Zoloft. Our schools have reacted with metal detectors to keep out guns and knives. Please read this book.
Viera Scheibner, Ph.D., after an extensive study of the medical literature, that there is no evidence whatever of the ability of vaccines to prevent any disease, Instead the studies showed that they cause illness and death. The adverse effects included autism, brain damage, hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, learning disability, dislexia, allergies, cancer, obesity, crib death, impulsive violence, and other conditions.
6/12/08
Father’s Day
It got me to thinking…about my dad. He was a lousy dad. He smoked all the time and drank every day. And evening.
My earliest memory of him was when I was two years old. I got up one Sunday morning and went downstairs, where I found a big bowl of doughnuts my dad had made for company the night before, after I’d gone to bed. So I ate a couple.When dad got up he discovered that two doughnuts were missing. He put me over his knee, grabbed a hairbrush and gave me a spanking I still remember. Two years old! But that was just the first of many spankings as he took out his anger on me.
Mother read to me when I was having meals by myself. Dad never read to me. Mother talked with me about things. Dad never did. She taught me how to swim. My grandfather (Pop) taught me how to ride a bicycle. I don’t recall dad ever actually talking with me or teaching me anything.
When I spent the summers with my mother’s folks at their farm in Bethlehem, Pop took me for walks in the woods and read to me after dinner, while I sat in his lap. Instead of spanking me when I did something wrong, Pop would reason with me. Dad’s approach, for instance when I balked at eating liver, was to lean over, knock me out of my chair and then get up and kick me.
He and mother had nightly fights, with him often hitting her.
When my mother died I came across her old diaries, where she wrote about dad having an affair with his secretary. That was when he was in his 40s, while I was off fighting WWII in the Navy.
I don’t recall him ever complimenting me or saying he was proud of me.
So, after all that, what kind of a dad was I? I never had a chance to be a dad. Both of my daughters left with their mothers when we divorced when they were a year and a half old. But I think I’d have been more like Pop.
6/6/08
Suckers!
Where do I start? Little is as we’ve been lead to believe. As Tim O’Shea put it, “We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated.”
If everybody believes something, it's probably wrong. We call that Conventional Wisdom. In America, conventional wisdom that has mass acceptance is usually contrived: somebody paid for it.
Examples:
* Pharmaceuticals restore health
* Vaccination brings immunity
* The cure for cancer is just around the corner
* When a child has a fever he needs Tylenol
* Hospitals are safe and clean.
* America has the best health care in the world.
* Americans have the best health in the world.
* Milk is a good source of calcium.
* You never outgrow your need for milk.
* Vitamin C is ascorbic acid.
* Aspirin helps prevent heart attacks.
* No child can get into school without being vaccinated.
* The FDA thoroughly tests all drugs before they go on the market.
* Chemotherapy and radiation are effective cures for cancer
* When your child is diagnosed with an ear infection, antibiotics should be given immediately 'just in case'
* Estrogen drugs prevent osteoporosis after menopause.
* Pediatricians are the most highly trained of al medical specialists.
* The purpose of the health care industry is health.
* HIV is the cause of AIDS.
* AZT is the cure for AIDS.
* Without vaccines, infectious diseases will return
* Fluoride in the city water protects your teeth
* Flu shots prevent the flu.
* Vaccines are thoroughly tested before being placed on the Mandated Schedule.
* Doctors are certain that the benefits of vaccines far outweigh any possible risks.
* The NASDAQ is a natural market controlled only by supply and demand.
* Chronic pain is a natural consequence of aging.
* Soy is a healthy source of protein.
* Insulin shots cure diabetes.
* After we take out your gall bladder you can eat anything you want
* Allergy medicine will cure allergies.
This is a list of illusions, that have cost billions and billions to conjure up. Did you ever wonder why you never see the President speaking publicly unless he is reading? Or why most people in this country think generally the same about most of the above issues?
How this whole set-up got started.
In Trust Us; We're Experts, Stauber and Rampton pull together some compelling data describing the science of creating public opinion in America. They trace modern public influence back to the early part of the last century, highlighting the work of guys like Edward L. Bernays, the Father of Spin. From his own amazing chronicle Propaganda, we learn how Edward L. Bernays took the ideas of his famous uncle Sigmund Freud himself and applied them to the emerging science of mass persuasion.
The only difference was that instead of using these principles to uncover hidden themes in the human unconscious, the way Freudian psychology does, Bernays used these same ideas to mask agendas and to create illusions that deceive and misrepresent, for marketing purposes.
6/5/08
Mischief
In high school my best friend was Charles Lombard Opitz (Charlie), whose ham call was W2MKO. That was back in 1938-40 at McBurney School, which was located in the West Side YMCA on West 63rd Street, Manhattan, just off Central Park.
It was an hour ride to and from school every day on the subway from Brooklyn, and then a walk across the park from 59th Street to 63rd. It was usually standing room only on the subway on the way to school.
Anyway, one day Charlie explained how easy it ws to make gunpowder. Mix some nitrate, sulphur, and charcoal together and pfft! To make it produce a lot of smoke add some antimony trisuphide. So, after a visit to a chemical company, I got busy carefully making a batch. I was deep into photography, so I used an old D72 developer can , about the size of a tennis ball, for my “bomb.” For a fuse I just mixed the nitrate and sulphur, so it would burn slowly.
I brought my bomb to school and showed it to Charlie. Okay, where can we set this off so no one will get hurt? After school we went into Central Park, looking for a good site. The best one we found was by the wall on the Fifth Avenue side, at around East 63rd Street. There was an exit from the park nearby and it was a place no one would be likely to visit.
I set up my bomb, inserted two soda straw fuses in series to give us plenty of time to get away, lit the fuse and we ran to the exit. From there we casually walked across Fifth Avenue and down East 63rd Street. Some workmen in a truck dropped some boards, making a loud bang, causing us to both jump. A few seconds later whoomp! And a cloud of white smoke arose from behind the park wall.
People were running everywhere, while we walked nonchelantly around the block and back to see the excitement. It was about that time that Mayor LaGuardia arrived in a motorcycle side car. There was a big crowd. We walked down to the 57th Street subway station and headed to Brooklyn.
There’s been a lot of interest in scrap books recently. I’ve got to find mine up in the attic somewhere with copies of the New York City newspaper Extra Editions that came out that evening. That was back when papers put out extra editions when something exciting happened.
Well, a few weeks earlier someone had set off a bomb at the World’s Fair, killing someone, so the city was bomb sensitive.
Considering all the attention we’d gotten, Charlie and I kept quiet about our prank, so no one ever found out who’d done it. Until my spilling the beans, almost 70 years later.
Charlie and I are in daily contact via email between W2NSD@aol.com (me) and chasopitz@aol.com.
6/4/08
WPIX 1948
During my childhood the subject of what do you want to be when you grow up never came up. We were an upper middle class family, so there was no question at all about my going on to college. This came to a head when I graduated high school and the career advisor people came in and gave us aptitude tests.
In view of my ham radio interest, and several years at the workbench building ham and hi-fi equipment, and “One of the highest mechanical aptitudes we’ve ever measured,” they advised electrical engineering. So I went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy (NY). When I was two years into this WWII came along, complete with the Selective Service (the draft).
One day before the Army grabbed my ass I joined the Navy and spent the next four years fighting the war. By the time I got out in 1946 I knew I didn’t want to be an engineer. So, with Uncle Sam paying my way via PL-16, I went back to RPI and changed to Management Engineering. By then it was obvious that there wasn’t much money in engineering, it was mostly in management.
Having worked for the summer of 1942 as a test engineer at G.E. on the already obsolete transmitters they were making for the Army, I knew I’d never work for a big corporation again. Phooey! So when I got out of college I got a job as an engineer-announcer at a small radio station in North Carolina which was owned by a chap who used to work for my dad. The eighty-hour week at 50¢ an hour (the then minimum wage) and no future got old after a few months, so I headed back to my parents house in Brooklyn.
Serendipity, or an obliging angel, got me a job when The Daily News decided to go into television. Bob Sullivan, a feature writer for the Sunday News, and an old family friend, was the connection. He’s the one who introduced me to classical music and Gilbert & Sullivan operettas when I was seven and we both lived near Philadelphia. He was a powerful force in my life.
I was hired on as an engineer, but I soon settled in as a cameraman…mainly as a result of the 3rd grade course in art appreciation I’d taken which had taught me how to compose pictures. I was so good at my camera work the director of the Gloria Swanson show had me doing entire one-hour shows on just my camera. And this was way before zoom lenses had been invented.
One day the program manager for KPIX in San Francisco visited and saw my work. He quickly offered me a job as a director, so I left WPIX just before the Christmas holidays and was due to go to San Francisco in a few days. A cousin out there located an apartment for me just two blocks from the station. Wow!
Then came a telegram saying the program manager had been fired and his plans canceled, including me. Rats!
So I ran an ad in Broadcasting and settled on another engineer-announcer job with WVEC in Hampton (VA). That was fun, but I kept looking for another TV job. A few months later I was hired on as a director to help put KBTV on the air in Dallas (TX).
The station was owned by a Texas oil man who had gotten the license back then the FCC was still issuing them. He sat on the license until the FCC said he had to either use the license or lose it.
My stint at WPIX was great fun. I worked daily with Gloria Swanson and many of her famous actor friends. I did regular shows with Sigmund Spaeth, the tune detective. And Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist. This was 1948, back before cable brought shows in from Chicago and the West Coast. It was before video recorders. This was live TV, every minute of it.
It was in the WPIX dressing room that I noticed one of the floor directors changing clothes and that he was wearing no underwear. I’d never seen that before, so I asked him about it. He said, other than custom and habit, what reason is there to wear underpants and undershirts. I couldn’t think of any, and that’s the last time I wore them myself.
6/3/08
Music
Certain pieces of music remind me of places or events, so I love it when they come up at random on my iPod. Like today the first piece that came up was The Trumpeter. That’s a baritone song I performed at a high school assembly.
The music teacher had been giving me singing lessons and had been pressuring me to become a professional baritone. I love to sing and had built up a pretty good repertoire, but I didn’t see that many baritones making money, so when I graduated the professional career advisors the school brought in had no problem in convincing me to go for electrical engineering. Well, I’d been into ham radio for several years and loved the hobby. I think I made the right choice.
A couple of pieces later (out of 1227 in my iPod) was the Romanian Rhapsody #1 by George Enesco. And that took me back to college, where I’d set up a public address system to cover the freshman quadrangle. I did it to promote my fraternity president, Allan Stokke, for president of the student council. I loved walking around the quadrangle, listening to that wonderful piece and still feel the thrill when I hear it. Yes, Allan won.
Whenever I hear Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer it reminds me of when I first heard it as the theme in “The Sting.” I said “Wow!” and went out and bought every Joplin LP I could find. I’ve written about how this got me find Scott Kirby and bring him to New Hampshire to digitally record all of Joplin’s songs for CDs in a state-of-the-art recording studio I built for him in my barn.
6/2/08
Hold The Mayo
A young woman, who had my health guide, and whose father is a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, arranged for me to have lunch with him, if I’d come to Minneapolis. I couldn’t pass up an opportunity like that, so I organized a talk session for my readers, and Sherry and I were on our way. This was in early September 2001.
The lunch went well, considering that what I was explaining to the doctor was how the Mayo could be put out of business by helping patients cure themselves of any illness by changing to a raw food diet and stopping such toxic activities as smoking, and drinking alcohol or coffee.
The big money in the so-called health care field lies in treatments, not in helping people to stop what has caused their illness and reversing it. There’s not much money in that. So I haven’t been surprised not to hear from the doctor again or to see any changes in the Mayo approach to treating their patients.
I was particularly frustrated when their “treatments” killed my friend King Hussein of Jordan, who had developed leukemia Oh, I tried to get through to him or his family, but got nowhere.
While in Minneapolis we stayed at the Radisson Towers hotel and I gave my talk there. On Sunday morning, September 9th, we were visiting one of the men who’d come to hear my talk. His room was high in one of the two hotel towers. We were sitting there talking when he suddenly stopped and said wouldn’t it be odd if a plane crashed into one of the hotel towers. Then he went back to what he had been talking about.
The next day we were on our way home to Manchester via the Newark Airport. A storm delayed our flight out of Minneapolis, so we arrived at Newark too late to catch the Manchester flight. Damn! Then I saw a Manchester flight on the departure board, so we grabbed a ride on one of those electric carts to get to the gate.
On the way a voice rang out, “Hey Wayne!” It was my good ham friend Dennis Kopecky (WJ2R), who worked for Continental Airlines. We hopped off the cart as Dennis explained that the departure was for Manchester, England, not New Hampshire.
We went with him to the Continental Lounge, where he got on a computer and arranged for us to get a flight to Boston, since there was nothing more to New Hampshire that night. The midwest storm had delayed a lot of flights, so the terminal was packed and all of the local hotels were fully booked with delayed passengers.
We called home to be picked up in Boston instead of Manchester and were on our way, arriving in Boston about one in the morning of September 11th. A few hours later all airline traffic stopped for a couple of days and the bridges across the Hudson were closed. Had it not been for Dennis spotting me and helping us get home we’d have been stranded for days in Newark. No hotels. No rental cars. No way for someone from home to get down to pick us up. Ouch! Instead we watched the 911 mess on TV from home in New Hampshire that morning.
5/31/08
Go To Asia
Thousands of Americans, who have not bothered to get a second opinion from my health guide, are taking their major surgery problems to Asian hospitals. Well, ours are the most expensive in the world, so faced with a $50,000 bill here vs. $5,000 or so in Bangkok, it’s well worth the trip. Of course, our $2 trillion health system, in addition to being by far the most expensive in the world, ranks 37th in the World Health Organization’s list of the world’s best health system.
McDonald’s, ever mindful of the slowly emerging health movement, has added salads to their menu. For $4.29 I got a bowl of lettuce (which has almost no nutritive value), some Newman dressing (no nutritive value), and a big slab of deep fried chicken breast, which is toxic as all hell (I gave it away).
Our total belief in doctors is costing us big bucks and years off our lives. And the few doctors who have learned the truth about health don’t dare speak out and disturb the $2 trillion bonanza our ignorance of health is costing us.
So we keep smoking, drinking alcohol and coffee, plus eating dead food and making the pharmaceutical industry wonderfully wealthy. The $5,000 Asian hospital surgery for the few who make the trip, is a drop in the bucket compared to the American hospital take on the rest. The biggest money-maker. of course, is cancer, with an average $435,000 each. And that doesn’t count the burial costs for most patients.
Dr. Day? Dr. Comby? Dr. Malkmus? Dr. Bieler? Wayne Green? Never heard of ’em.
5/30/08
Vaccinations
Time magazine, ever alert for any dangers to its advertisers, used their June 2nd cover to promote baby vaccinations. The cover blurb, “The Truth About Vaccines,” followed by, “Worried about autism, many parents are opting out of immunizations. How they’re putting the rest of us at risk,” should have credulous readers making vaccine makers and the medical industry a few hundred billion dollars richer. Hooray for vaccinations as a successful product.
The few people who take the time to do any research on the subject will never let their babies or themselves be vaccinated. If you don’t have my Secret Guide to Wisdom with the review of the Coulter’s Vaccination - Social Violence and Criminality, you can find it repeated in my 7/9/07 essay.
Vaccinations, like fluorides in our water, are a multi-billion dollar scam to milk those with an unshakable belief and trust in their doctors. Hmm, let’s see, where did I put my lab coat and stethoscope?
5/29/08
Sunlight
With summer actually here, it’s time to get out there and sop up those rays. Get a tan. Hey, it’s the best vitamin D there is. I’m out there in shorts and no shirt on my daily walk and counting the varieties of wild flowers. Twenty different yesterday in the field across from the house.
But what about sun-screen? Anything you put on your skin is going to be absorbed into your blood stream, and you don’t want most of the products they’re selling to put on our skins doing that! Including a lot of cosmetics.
Gee, won’t I be in danger of getting skin cancer? Melanoma? If you’re eating the Standard American Diet (SAD), melanomas are quite possible. Animals fed the SAD get melanomas, those fed raw foods don’t. Same with people. Raw fooders also don’t get fat, they’re healthier and live longer.
Well, how about those pesky mosquitoes? If a bug spray has even the slightest mention of Deet, avoid it, That stuff is serious poison. It’s absorbed through the skin and goes to the brain, killing brain cells. And you only have so many of those, so don’t waste ’em through ignorance.
5/28/08
Time Travel
Ridiculous! Yeah? How’d you like to try and explain to people a hundred years ago about car computers and global positioning that can tell you every turn to make to get anywhere in the country? And microwave ovens? Cell phones? Personal computers and PDAs? Wifi? Radio networks. Satellite television!
The first solid hint I had was when I saw seventeen thousand year old pictures from the caves in France, and there were UFOs in the sky! Alexander The Great wrote about them hovering over his battles in his diary.
Well, what’s the first thing we’ll do when we develop time travel? We’ll go back and do a history of our development. Also, since the cave drawings looked like the UFOs we’re seeing today, and no civilization is going to make the same model anything over a period of more than a few years, the logical explanation is time travel, not visitors from somewhere in the galaxy.
There well could be ETs visiting, but I suspect the bulk of the UFOs are from the future. This could also explain how UFOs flying next to our planes suddenly disappear and then re-appear again a little later.
Those slanty-eyed visitors? I suspect they are living robots, sent to do routine jobs. People who have met them tell us that there’s always a lag in communications.
Then there are the Men In Black. These may be sent back to fix any time travel problems travelers may have caused. We haven’t any clues as the rules of time travel. Going back and killing your grandfather could mess things up enough to need fixing.
A chap on talk radio claimed those crop circles, which are laid down in seconds, are markers for time travelers. Well, what other landmark is unique and lasts only a day or so?
Here we are in the 21st century and we’re just beginning to look into the power of our minds, into where our memories are stored and how, how our cells can be in instant communication with each other over any distance, and how we’re able to communicate with any living thing…including plants.
The next time you bump into an ET, ask him when he’s from…and let me know.
5/27/08
Fecund
The wild flowers have gone berserk. It’s already an incredible display. I wish you could walk through my yards with me. A thousand times more dandelions this year, and they’re huge! Many almost two feet high. Last years little patches of ground ivy are now carpet-sized areas, as are both the blue and white violets. There were a few wild strawberry blossoms in past years, now they’re everywhere and in some areas the ground seems paved with them. One area of the front lawn has hundreds of thousands of miniature white violets.
There are already 20 kinds of wild flowers in the field across from our house. Gee, I wish I had someone to share them with.
The wild blueberry bushes are loaded with blossoms and the first blackberry blossoms are already out. With rain promised for the next few days, we’re going to have one fabulous summer of berries and wild flowers.
5/26/08
Grains
A good friend, Dick Hussey, sent me a copy of Dr. Douglas Graham’s Grain Damage. Graham makes not a good, but an airtight, case for anyone interested in their long term health to stop eating grains. Yep, bread, pasta, and the lot. It’s a $10 52-pager from Foodnsport Press, 609 N. Jade Dr., Key Largo, FL 33037, foodnsport@aol.com.
In the 17th century physician Thomas Moffett said, We are digging our graves with our teeth.” Well, that was before cigarettes and modern advertising created that blight on health. Graham says, “If you find yourself in a hole and want to get out, first you have to stop digging.” Your ladder out of the health hole your teeth have gotten you into is education. Reading what the experts have discovered.
Graham, a thirty-year raw fooder, points out that, ”Vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants, and phytonutrients are damaged, deranged, or destroyed by the heat of cooking.” There is no scientific basis for eating cooked food. He explains that proteins, when they are heated, are unfit for human consumption.
Grain products contain gluten, which has opiods which lead to addictive eating. Worse, gluten is linked to learning disorders and schizophrenia.
If you read this book I doubt you’ll ever buy another loaf of bread. Not even whole wheat or rye. Or a pizza. If your health is of any concern, you’ll be eating mainly fruit and vegetables, like all of the apes do. About ten thousand years ago, when farming was invented, along with the use of fire to cook food, we didn’t do ourselves any favors.
Osteoporosis? Autism? Overweight? Stop eating grains. Dr. Graham has advised some of the world’s outstanding athletes on keeping in perfect condition.
After reading Graham’s book I’m enjoying my grapefruit, orange, grape and apple slushes even more. Plus kale, Swiss chard, and broccoli greens smoothies. And slightly frozen banana, egg, and raw milk desserts.
5/25/08
911
There are dozens of questions about the 911 attack that the government has refused to answer. And having read over a dozen books on the subject there’s no question in my mind that there’s a major cover-up. So, I sigh and add it to my list of major cover-ups.
Ex-Governor Jesse Ventura raised yet another big question recently when he pointed out that Silverstein bought the Twin-Towers (and Building 7) weeks before the attack, and had them insured for $7 billion. However, if the attack had not happened he would have had to spend over a billion dollars to rid the buildings of asbestos.
Gee whiz! Another coincidence!
5/24/08
Booth
David Booth called the other night. He moved a couple years ago from the next town (Antrim) here in New Hampshire to Tennessee. Something about being able to grow things better there.
Anyway, he said he has prostate cancer and has been given a month to live. Since he’s been a chain smoker for much of his life, as well as a chain boozer, I was wondering when this would catch up to him.
If Dave has the will power to stop smoking and drinking, and changes to a raw food diet, he could be around and healthy for many years to come. But nicotine is one of the most addictive poisons there is, which is why so few smokers are able to kick the habit. Worse, it triggers a need for alcohol.
To make matters worse for Dave, he’s surrounded by friends who smoke and drink. When I used to visit him his living room was filled with smoke. Cough, cough.
When I was a kid my folks, grandparents, and all their friends smoked. All the movie actors smoked. I tried cigarettes and after a few tries, no way. I tried a pipe, too, because my grandfather smoked a pipe. Ugh. He died in his 50s of pneumonia. My dad stopped smoking when he was 60 and lived to 87, but spent the last 20 years with an oxygen bottle next to him.
When I was in the navy all my buddies drank, so I joined in when we were on shore leave. As soon as I got out after the war, that was the end of my drinking. Not even beer or wine. Again, all my family drank. Every day.
I suspect that what may have saved me was my dad being such a lousy father that I didn’t want to have anything to do with anything he liked or did.
5/23/08
Cell Phones
Despite the industry’s every effort to keep it quite, the news that cell phones are causing brain tumors has even made it to Jay Leno mentioning it. I wonder how much the industry has invested on scientists not discovering this?
Over twenty years ago, when the leading researcher in the field, W. Ross Adey (K6UI), sent me copies of his published research papers showing what happens to brains when there are concentrated radio waves next to people’s heads, I started warning my ham radio readers to be sure to use a headset with their cell phones.
And this is particularly important for kids since their brains are still busy growing. The radio waves burn out brain cells, leading to memory loss and then a brain tumor.
Though I’m the one who triggered the start of the cell phone industry, I’ve never used one, and I’ve been trying to warn everyone I see using them.
By the way, those little button gadgets they sell to protect you are a scam. Get a headset and keep that little phone antenna a foot from your head.
5/22/08
Gas
The Coast talk show had an expert who explained what’s going on with gas prices, something the mainstream media hasn’t really explained.
He said the OPEC plan is to drive gas priced to $10 and $12 a gallon with the goal of causing a serious US depression. Then, the OPEC people, who have trillions at their disposal, will then come in and buy American assets for pennies on the dollar. Like our major media and networks.
Our recent outsourcing has brought billion of dollars to India, China and other countries, allowing previously poor people to get into middle class and buy cars. This has increased the demand for oil, but the OPEC people have refused to provide more, even though they have more than plenty. This has been driving up prices, which is starting to cripple our economy. Food prices are up and going upper.
Just in the last few weeks gas prices around here have gone up a dollar. In Britain it's $10 a gallon. At $10 a gallon and getting 20 miles per gallon, that’s 50¢ a mile! No more seven mile round trips to the Hancock post office for mail…I’ll let them deliver to our RFD mail box. And a lot fewer ten mile trips to the supermarket in Hillsborough. That’ll cost $10 just for gas! Ugh. It’s bad enough today at $4 for the round trip.
Maybe this is a good time to think about getting into the bicycle business.
5/21/08
Twas
When I was three years old my dad, who was working for he Department of Commerce, did a survey of America’s airport for them. This led to his being hired to design and build an airport for the city of Philadelphia. So we moved from an apartment in Brooklyn to one at 3000 Samson Street in Philadelphia.
Since the city’s current airport had little room for expansion, dad went looking for potential airport lands near the city he picked one just across the river in Camden (NJ), and we moved to a house in Merchantville (NJ), not far from the new Central Airport. It was one of the first in the country with cement paved landing strips.
While we were in Philly I got to be five years old (1927) and kindergarten at the Lee School, a couple blocks away. When I was six, and in the first grade, my dad arranged for me to be on the first commercial flight from Philadelphia to New York. Well, Newark, just across the river. This was the beginning of Luddington Airlines, owned by Tommy Luddington and Amelia Earhart. I think the plane was a twin engined Travelaire.
The Newark airport had a cinder landing strip and an office about the size of a mobile home. There were a couple of mayors and a governor aboard, with appropriate ceremonies when we landed. From there we flew to Lakehurst, where they kept the dirigibles. Then back to Philadelphia.
In school the next day I made my first public address, telling about my trip in assembly. Hero for a day.
Maybe someone can check the newspapers of the era for a story on the flight.
5/20/08
Schools
With seventy percent of eighth graders not proficient in reading, over a million high schoolers dropping out every year, and nearly a third of college freshmen having to take remedial math and English courses, it’s no wonder our kids are coming in at the bottom in international tests. In 17 of our largest cities the graduation rate is less than 50 percent!
So, what’s the answer? Clinton and Obama are for tougher testing. Yeah, sure, that’ll keep kids interested in staying in school.
Given the opportunity and the freedom, kids love to learn. Well, that’s what we all do, starting way back even in the prenatal period. Heck, read The Prenatal Classroom (see page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review) and you’ll see that a baby can learn around a hundred words and like music during pregnancy, stimulating the baby’s brain growth and significantly increasing it’s IQ. It gives the baby a big head start in life. Pun intended.
Given the opportunity and the means, children are learning machines. So we put them into classrooms with a dictator up front. Their text books suck big time. And most schooling consists of memorizing stuff from the boring textbooks as homework every night. Tests the next day of short term memory. This is education? Worse, much of the stuff crammed into them is of little or no interest to the kids. I still remember the math misery of solving simultaneous equations. You know, I’ve never run into a need for that skill in all the businesses I’ve been in. Phooey.
Then there’s that great goal for high school students…college…where those who can afford it and stay long enough can emerge with a Ph.D. I wonder how many Ph.D.’s end up making much money? For most grads the future is a job in a large company that’s never going to pay much.
A better approach is the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA), where there is no curriculum, where the kids learn what they want because they want. No memorization. No tests. No grades. And the kids are not separated by ages. They have the best brains in the world on any subject available through books. The kids run the school and it costs less than half as much to run as nearby public schools. The graduates are amazing and they can get into any college they want. There are eight books about the school and it’s being cloned around the country.
We want kids to learn to think and be creative, exactly what our public schools are intentionally designed to prevent. And have, very successfully. Check the Gatto book on the intentional dumbing down of our kids (pages 11 and 43 in my Wisdom Guide).
Just as the UAW has been driving car manufacturers out of the country, so the NEA has been making sure our kids get lousy educations. Take a look at the Ford plant in Brazil at http://info.det.com/video/indexcfm?=1189 and see for yourself.
5/19/08
Tariffs
This free trade stuff is exporting American jobs. When stuff can get made by Chinese workers getting 70¢ an hour that’s where the manufacturing jobs move. Okay, let’s even things a little by slapping an import tax (tariff) on the products. So, a couple weeks ago both senators Clinton and Obama signed on as sponsors of a bill that would impose higher tariffs on China…giving them campaign bragging rights for helping low-wage American workers to get jobs.
So, to somewhat simplify matters, a shirt Joe Sixpack would buy in Wal-Mart which was imported for $5 and cost $10, by the time the wholesaler and retailer got their share, would cost a little more. Say a $2 tariff was added, this would make a $10 shirt cost Joe $14, certainly slowing down his urge to buy.
Congress loves it. They get an extra $2 for earmarks and the Iraq war. Better off Americans are oblivious since they don’t shop at Wal-Mart anyway. They’re more into $50 and $100 shirts, which are not coming from China. And since we’re not going to get into making low-cost shirts any more, no jobs are gained. Joe is just hit with paying more for most of the stuff he buys…and so tends to buy less. Or, more likely, a plant will be built in Swaziland to turn out tariff-free $10 shirts. Like the ones I’ve been wearing. Yes, Swaziland.
5/18/08
Global Warming
It’s almost interesting that over 31,000 scientists have signed a petition saying that global warming is baloney. Gee, what have I been saying for the last few years?
My prediction has been that we would be seeing more and bigger earthquakes and the same for volcanoes. And that these would be affecting our weather. A few years ago it was estimated that there were around ten thousand underseas volcanoes. Now the experts are telling us there are over three million, so it’s no wonder the oceans have been heating up. This causes more water to evaporate, bringing us more rain and snow, which is what’s been happening, with record floods around the world. And wow, we sure had a record amount of snow last winter here in New Hampshire.
Our politicians, of course, made hay of the situation, blaming human activities for the mess. Well, we do tend to make a mess of things, but our activities are insignificant to what’s playing out. Hooray for Al Gore and the Kyoto Treaty pushers. Phooey.
So what’s in the future? More undersea volcano activity, warmer oceans, more rain, bigger floods, bigger tornadoes, more snow next winter, more and bigger earthquakes and land volcanoes. And if that Yellowstone super volcano lets loose, pfft could go California into the ocean for starters. Then the millions of tons of ash it throws into the stratosphere could bring on instant winter…for years or decades…keeping anything from growing world wide.
Robert Felix predicted this with his 1997 Not By Fire, But By Ice, which predicted we were about to enter another ice age. Nothing has happened in the last eleven years to cause him to change his prediction. Everything is right on schedule and we’re in a dither about going green.
Meanwhile there’s a tremendous silence from the White House and Congress over the way we’re being screwed over by the oil industry.
And the public, lead by the media, are more excited over Obama vs. Hillary, abortion, stem cell research, gay marriage, Darwinism, and other such important matters.
In the last ice age the oceans were over three hundred feet lower than today, and the ice sheets miles thick, covering most of America. No wonder they are burying seeds underground in Norway. They’ll be handy when the ice melts.
5/17/08
MCAM
That’s Manchester Community Access Media, where I did a half hour weekly TV show, Wise-up With Wayne. It was on Manchester Channel 23 three times a week for four years. It won first prize two years running for science shows and might have won more if the Northeastern Division of the Alliance for Community Media hadn’t stopped the competitions.
It was fun sitting there for a talking about how to cure oneself of any illness with no drugs; how to make lots of money; how to raise children with a 150 IQ average; how to cut any government department in half in three years with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating; making English our national language; how to eliminate AIDS and any other blood disease with no drugs; an inexpensive win-win solution for the Iraq mess; the real cause of global warming; non-polluting energy at a hundredth the cost of oil; cutting prison costs by 90%; making social security pay ten times what it is now; Etc.
The fly in the ointment was that, despite my discussing health subjects many times, and waving my Secret Guide to Health at the viewers, I wasn’t selling any books or even getting email. The reason was really very simple. MCAM, being a non-profit group with no advertising promotion budget or marketing staff, hardly anyone was watching the channel. Worse, most of the programming was religious and special interest shows, so the occasional channel surfer got used to ignoring the channel. Check it out and see their shows at www.MCAM.org.
I tried having them send copies of my shows to community cable access groups in four other New Hampshire towns, but still no book sales. So I gave up. They continued re-running my old shows for a couple years. Still no book sales or any sign there were any viewers.
Taping my shows was simple. A guy would set up a camera, monitor, and lights, cue me to start talking, and leave. Twenty-five minutes later he’d come back and tell me on the monitor it was time to end. Then, in the first couple years, he make a tape copy for me. After that the show was recorded on a DVD and a copy run off for me, I’ve since made DVDs of my taped shows, so now I have a couple hundred DVDs of my shows and no idea what to do with ‘em. I doubt anyone will be interested in sitting and watching a hundred hours of Wayne talking, so I haven’t looked into adding them to the site. I don’t know if MCAM still has my shows available on their site. They did for a long time.
Any suggestions?
5/15/08
The AIDS Cover-up
A Los Angeles Times editorial called for ending the search for an AIDS vaccine. Last year over a billion dollars was squandered on this quest. So, here we are, after 25 years of research, and nothing positive to show for it, vaccine-wise. That’s tough for the pharmaceutical companies, hoping to make hundreds of billions with one.
Never mind that over ten years ago two researchers (Drs. Lyman and Kaali) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York discovered a simple cure and even patented it. Possibly fearing what Big Pharma might do if their hope to make billions from a vaccine were burst, our researchers never published and, when asked about the subject, deny knowing anything about it.
But word did get out. A physicist friend of mine (Bob Beck) heard about it and checked. Sure enough, all it took to kill the AIDS virus was to pass a tiny (fifty millionths of an ampere) electric current through the blood. So he built a simple device to do the job. His unit used a clacking relay to reverse the current to prevent a build up of resistance against it. I felt that this could more easily be done with a couple transistors, so I asked the readers of my amateur radio magazine to see what they could do. The result was a simple circuit, using $19 in parts, which could clean the blood of any viruses, parasites, or germs. I published the circuit in my magazine and then made reprints available.
Next, came a suit by the post office which cost me about $30,000 in legal fees. Since the blood purifier was not authorized by the FDA, a ten year $800 million process these days, it was, by law, fraudulent, and there would be a $25,000 fine each for any information I mailed on the subject. And that even included my divulging their patent number of the Kaali patent.
There was little money in a simple cure, using a device that could be mass produced to sell for under $10, that could cure AIDS, malaria, bilharzia, and a bunch of other blood diseases. The money, hundreds of billions, was in doctor and hospital visits, and vaccines. Oh, and Bob Beck kind of died.
How long can this technology be covered up? Since there is a huge constituency depending on the current technology and hardly any for change, it may take a long time. Follow the money. Money doesn’t just talk, it acts to protect itself using whatever means it takes. And we’re the suckers paying up.
The media? With Big Pharma spending some $45 billion a year promoting their drugs and vaccines, not a chance.
5/14/08
Cover-up Costs
The oil industry, in collusion with the White House, Congress, the media, and even the nuclear power industry, have so far successfully covered up the success of cold fusion. And it’s costing us billions, maybe trillions. Bleeding us, and even driving up the cost of food, both in transportation costs, and the growing of corn for fuel. What better reason for the cover-up?
If you’ve heard of cold fusion at all, you’ve probably heard it didn’t pan out. Well, it did, and that scared the hell out of the oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar, and all the other energy industries.
If you were President Bush, with a family up to here in oil interests…or Dick Cheney, whose Halliburton has been making billions on government contracts in Iraq (one of the largest oil producing countries), the specter of cold fusion as an energy source with no polluting by-products, and a projected cost of a fiftieth or less that of oil, would have to be stopped at any cost.
The home of the future will have a unit about the size of a dish-washer which provides all the heat and electricity a family could need. The fuel? A little water. The car of the future will have no engine or gas tank, just a small generator to power electric motors driving the wheels. And the storage battery will be about the size of a cigar box.
How long can this technology be covered up? Since there is a huge constituency depending on the current technology and hardly any for change, it may take a long time. Follow the money. Money doesn’t just talk, it acts to protect itself using whatever means it takes.
The easy way is to figure I’m a nut case and forget about it. The thinking approach, one unfortunately seldom taken, would be to read my $3 (#20) booklet which explains in simple language how and why cold fusion works.
5/13/08
Scam
This one’s creative enough to mention.
Sherry got a letter with a magazine page clipping and a Post-It note saying, “Sherry try this. It really works!”
It was a get-rich-quick scheme from The Palm Associates Group, Inc, in Florida. For only $38 I could get everything I needed to send out “cash release forms” and reap millions.
The magazine page had been torn from Finance & Money Monthly, Winter/Spring 2008 Edition. When I Googled the magazine title I was totally unsurprised to find it unknown.
The letter was hand addressed, but with no return address. The note hand-written, with no signature, and the article/ad torn from a fictitious magazine, could easily con the unwary. Great scam!
I didn’t send the $38, but I suspect I’d be sent a list of names and a source for the magazine page to continue the scam.
5/12/08
Up On The Farm
As soon as I got to be old enough to be a small person and not a baby I started spending summers with Ma and Pop, known to the rest of the world as Netta and Tully Willson, up in Bethlehem (NH), where Ma, my grandmother, had to spend her summers to get away from the asthma she suffered if she stayed in Broken (NY).
They first tried a summer in Vermont, back in 1918, where my mother (18) made friends with Osa, later to become Osa Johnson and, with her husband Martin, make films in Africa which were famous in the 1920s.
The next summer they spent at the Valley View hotel in Bethlehem, run by Johnny McCauley, who did the cooking, and Mamie Stevenson, who did the baking. Bethlehem was so great for Ma’s asthma that they bought an old farm on Cherry Valley Road and spent their summers there from then on.
It was a wonderful place. About 150 acres, with an old barn and a cottage, and it was only about three miles from town on a triangle about a half mile on a side, with a milk farm on one leg (Midacre Farm) and the Longley’s on the other, and forest in the middle. Longley had owned a chain of restaurants in Connecticut and retired to Bethlehem with his daughter.
Word got out that there were two good looking young girls available, so my dad and Herb Pearce, from the next town, Littleton, started dating them. And then married them. I was born a little over a year later (1922), as was Helen Pearce.
Our farm had a telephone, three-two, ring three, and water that came down about five hundred feet of lead pipe from a spring up in the woods and into the cellar, where it went into a large ceramic jar. The jar was in a little closet and kept it cool for food storage. This was right under the kitchen, making it easy to pump water with the hand pump at the end of the sink.
Electricity? Nope, kerosene lamps. There were two Alladin lamps in the living room for brighter light. When I got old enough it was my job every morning to refill the lamps and trim the wicks.
After dinner I’d sit on Pop’s lap in the living room and he’d read Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Peter Rabbit stories to me.
Since we didn’t have running water we had an outhouse toilet. The backhouse, we called it, since it was out in back of the barn. In those days there were chamber pots kept under the beds and they were taken out in the morning and emptied in the grass in back of the house. I preferred to just pee off the porch, using different places so the grass wouldn’t get killed.
There was a garbage can in the backhouse, one of the kind with a foot lever to open the top, with lye inside and a scoop so we could sprinkle a little on the poop before leaving the backhouse. And every spring we’d shovel it out, adding last year’s poop to the garden for fertilizer. For those that liked to sit and read, a Montgomery Wards catalog was kept by the seat.
I got pretty good at shooting the .22 rifle. The idea was to kill any woodchucks in our fields because they dug holes which could cripple and kill a horse during the fall haying. And then there were the porcupines, which were attracted to the barn and would chew holes in the walls.
It was fun following the horses and mowing machines around the fields around the farm. Then the grass was raked into piles and heaved up on a wagon with pitchforks to help feed the Midacre Farm cows.
Between the kitchen and the back door was the summer kitchen, with a kerosene stove, an ice box, a shower area, and a large storage room for stove wood. This was way before chain saws, so Pop had to put logs on a stand and saw them into stove wood with a hand saw. The larger pieces had to be split with an axe.
At the end of the kitchen range was a tank which heated water for washing dishes and taking showers. The shower consisted of a garden sprinkler watering can, lofted into place with a small crank and pulley arrangement. The floor boards had plenty of room between them for the shower water to go right through. This part of the house wasn’t heated, so showers were a summer thing. But then, this was a summer cottage, not a year-round home. The shower area was curtained off for privacy.
We had no radio, only a Victrola and 78 rpm records. TV didn’t come along until many years later.
The fields that Pop had ’em stop mowing grew wonderful wild blueberries and blackberries. And our transparent and duchess apple trees kept Ma busy baking pies and baked apples. In the early days there were gooseberries, but the government came in and confiscated the bushes. It had to do with preventing the pine trees from getting blister rust. So the next time I had a slice of gooseberry pie was in northern Uganda.
I spent a good part of my time visiting the Listers at the Midacre farm, just around the triangle. They had a herd of Jersey cows and grew fields of corn for winter silage which they stored in their silo.
On many evenings Ma, Pop and I would walk the mile and a half around the triangle for exercise.
Around noon I’d walk about a third of a mile to the corner to our mail box. We were RFD#3 out of Littleton, and the mailman was a guy named Pansy. This was way before I’d ever heard of homosexuals, so I didn’t get the connection.
Once a week or so we’d walk about a mile down the hill to the Ammonoosuc River, put on bathing suits and go for a swim.
In the evening we’d sit out on the porch, where there were two hammocks and several chairs. When F.E., my dad;s father, who lived in Littleton, came up for dinner he’d sit on the porch and recite poetry.
And that’s the way it was some eighty years ago.
5/11/08
Commencement Address
In their wisdom no high schools have asked me to give a commencement address. But if one was so stupid as to ask, here’s what I’d say.
Okay kids, congratulations on completing twelve years of memorizing and being tested on stuff you’ve probably 99% forgotten by now. And for most of you, who are going on to college, you’re facing four years more of the same, little of which is going to be of much value to you in your careers.
The alternative is to skip a college education, get a four year head start on the others, and start making money.
Keep in mind, too, that a college degree, for most grads, is a ticket to a job in a large company. They’re the ones interviewing the grads for jobs. And that means a cubicle, not a lot of money, little potential for advancement, and even less freedom. A middle class home or apartment, an hour commute to and from work, and a boss.
The alternative, for the adventurous and gutsy is to take a route which will help you be able to have a business of your own, where you can make plenty of money and have the freedom to go places and do things that are fun. Better yet, make that not just a business of your own, but one which is so much fun you don’t see it as working.
I wish someone had wised me up when I graduated high school. Instead, they brought in professional career advisors who gave me tests and advised me, since I was a radio ham operator and loved building electronic equipment, that I should go to an engineering university and take electrical engineering.
Not knowing any better, and backed by parents who were thoroughly convinced that a college diploma was a necessity, I did what everyone else in my class did…I went to college. Four more years of memorizing to pass tests, and then forgetting almost all of it. In all the businesses I’ve had not one of the courses I took has ever been of value. And every one of my businesses have been great fun.
What I preach is to pick some field that is fun for you and get a job with a small company in that field. Then make it your business to learn everything there is about the business. Offer to help the people involved with bookkeeping, advertising, promotion, packaging, shipping, sales, purchasing, and so on. And when you are helping, read the magazines on the subject and every book you can find. Ask questions, search the web. Not only will you learn everything you need to know to run your own business, by then you’ll have a pretty good idea of a needed product or service.
Over 90% of new small businesses fail because the entrepreneurs haven’t done their homework. And there are no colleges I’ve heard of that teach what you need to know. So let someone else teach you…and pay you to learn, as I’ve proposed.
Or you can go to college and have fun playing football, baseball, and basketball for four years. That’s fine if your dad can pay for everything. But if you come out of it with sheepskin and a $20,000 or so debt, was that a good deal? And I’ve read that’s about the average. Well, it was a couple years go. It’ll probably more like $40,000 by the time you graduate, considering inflation and the tanking dollar.
With the massive outsourcing of technical and clerical jobs there’s already a job shortage for college graduates. What’s the likelihood it’ll be better in four years?
Without my successful businesses I never could have built the Been-There, Done-That list you’ll find on my web site.
5/10/08
Or Else
As we’ve been building up China and India by moving more and more of our industries there, they are becoming economic competitors. How long are we going to be in business when we have to buy the products they’re producing and they don’t need what little we’re producing?
If you’ve been keeping track you know that our school system is turning out the poorest educated kids of the developed world, and of course, at a much higher cost. We have by far the most expensive so-called health care, and yet we’re around 37th in health. We’re a fat, sick country. Our dollar is sinking out of sight. Illegals are pouring over our border. The Fed is flooding us with money, giving us serious inflation. Our media is staring off into space, whistling. And we have three major candidates promising us more of the same.
How long has it been since we’ve produced a really good piece of music, an outstanding movie, a book worth reading, or anything artistic?
Either we shape up or we’ll be another civilization in the trashbin of history. We’re fat and sick. We’re ignorant. We’re arrogant. And we’re not making much to sell any more. Our wars for oil are pissing off the world. We’ve a horribly bloated government. A ridiculously enormous military. A crooked congress and a puppet president. A stupendous deficit.
I’ve proposed practical solutions to our problems, but I sure need help in getting the ideas out to more people. Okay, how can I do it?
5/09/08
Super Capacitor
A few weeks ago (4/17) I discussed the Takahashi super capacitor. Well, it seems someone has reinvented one like it and they’re getting ready to go into production for the ZENN Motorcar Company. EEStor, Inc., has been awarded a patent and has twelve more pending.
The energy pack weighs about a hundred pounds and will provide enough energy to drive about 500 miles on a charge. It’ll recharge in five minutes on about $9 worth of electricity, compared with nearly $100 for gas at today’s prices, the equivalent of about 36¢ a gallon.
You can get more details at www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/big_news_eestor.php. My thanks to Irving Welsted for sending me the info.
5/7/08
Scams
They’re calling us sheeple. Well, many of us are like sheep, blindly following leaders to be shorn in the land of scams.
The ten biggest scams are our health care, our schools, our food supply, our money, our government, our wars, 911, our “correctional” system, energy, and our religions.
We are being defrauded, gulled, deceived, conned, fooled, screwed, scammed, bamboozled, swindled, duped, deluded, hoodwinked, gyped, rooked, cheated, victimized, mulcted, fleeced, tricked, milked, bilked, shafted, and ripped-off.
Here’s what’s possible, as I’ve proposed.
•Health: There will be no more illnesses when we get people to stop poisoning themselves. Any illness can be cured with no drugs.
•Education: Kids of 12, with 150 average IQs, able to read books at a few seconds a page, far better educated than today’s college graduates.
•Food: It would all be organic and with all the minerals now lost.
•Money: No more inflation.
•Government: cut to 10% of today’s size.
•Wars: No more.
•911: Expose the truth.
•Prisons: A tenth of today’s cost. Actually retrain prisoners.
•Energy: Cold fusion power at less than a tenth the cost of gas and oil.
•Religions: Pfft. All gone.
5/6/08
Some Ham History
As a ham magazine editor I’d been summoned to the Pentagon for a briefing. Briefing? It was anything but brief. The Air Force colonel obfuscated for over an hour, speaking Air Force jargon, which I translated as best I could into English. It had to do with the Air Force needing to take over some of our UHF ham bands for their radar.
When he got through, I asked if what I’d heard translated into the Air Force, faced with the problem of the Russians using radar jamming equipment in their bombers, was being countered by our setting up so many radar systems that even a fleet of bombers couldn’t jam then all?
That meant we hams would have to give up some of our UHF bands to make room for this mass of radar systems. I forget how many billions of dollars the whole thing was estimated to cost.
My question resulted in more obfuscation, and a shift to an even higher level of encrypted Air Force language. After my asking the question about four times I finally got a yes, that’s about what it all adds up to.
I told the colonel he and the Air Force master minds that thought up this one were crazy. I suggested they use technology instead of brute force to solve their problems, and that if they insisted on pursuing this I’d raise all the hell I could, and do my best to embarrass them.
Well, it never happened, though I don’t know if my grain of sand’s worth of resistance had any part in their abandoning the project. So we hams didn’t lose our 450 MHz band back in 1956.
5/4/08
Advertising
The first thing I did when I was starting my first manufacturing business was sign up for a course in advertising with the New York Advertising Club, one of the best investments I’ve ever made. What a pity courses like that aren’t taught in any colleges, as far as I know…which is pretty far.
As a publisher I’ve watched some wonderful products go to early deaths as a result of lousy advertising and promotion. It was the power of my ads, backed by an outstanding product, that pushed my hi-fi loud speaker enclosures to number one in the market and had me within two years with seven factories trying to keep up with the demand.
When I started publishing my ham radio magazine I did all the advertising sales for the first few years. You bet I read all of the books on selling I could find and I got good at it. The art of selling is very important in life. Schools should teach it. We need this art at our disposal every day. We need it when we want to get someone to do something. Or to let us do something.
The Ad Club course provided a simple, two-word key to advertising and selling. If you’re in sales, better get the two words “User Benefits” tattooed into the palm of your hand.
Take selling advertising for New Hampshire ToDo magazine. First, when approaching a potential advertiser, make sure you know that an ad will benefit the business. How do you know that? Simple, ask your current advertisers what their ads have done and are doing for them, so you’ll know you’re selling something that will benefit the potential new advertiser. So, if you fail to make the sale you’ll know it’s because you have to learn more about selling, not that the obstinacy or stupidity of the potential customer is the problem.
In talking with a potential customer as well as your old ones, always ask about what they’re doing that’s new. And what’s bringing customers back for more visits. What do their customers like best? These will give you clues as the how their ads can point out the benefits to potential customers. What’s different? What’s special?
Selling is a skill, a skill anyone can learn. It sure isn’t intuitive. And you won’t learn much from watching or listening to ads. You learn by reading books, taking courses, attending talks by experts and scouring the web for help. You build the skill the way you’d build any other skill, by studying and practice.
After each success or failure, review what happened. What could you have done better? What have you learned that will help next time?
Sales is a wonderful profession. In business the closer you are to where the money is coming in, the more opportunity you have to be higher paid. Working on commission gives you the opportunity to rack up the dough as you get better and better at the job. You’ll be making a lot more than the engineers and geniuses who developed the product. No matter how wonderful the product, without good advertising, promotion, and sales, you’re out of business.
Good salesmanship works every time. The first virgin I got into bed with me I convinced by telling her that sex was even better than baklava. Then I took her to a mideastern restaurant to try some baklava. It was a sale!
5/3/08
Raw Milk
With the big money (a.k.a. advertisers) being in pasteurized milk, when I heard that Time had done an article on raw milk I knew what I was going to see. Sure enough. A quote from John Sheeham, director of dairy-food safety at the FDA, likened drinking raw milk to “playing Russian roulette with your health. ”He further stressed that raw milk in any form “should not be consumed by any one at any time, for any reason.”
Since, when an industry whistles, the FDA dances to the tune, I have no trust whatever in this bunch of over-paid bureaucrats.
Yes, a hundred years ago there was a problem with undulant fever (Bang’s disease), which pasteurization killed…along with most of the nutrition, vitamins, enzymes, and so on. People with lactose intolerance have no problem with raw milk
Milk produced by cows raised on grass and silage, with no grains…and for sure no genetically modified corn…produce a very healthy raw milk.
Instead of depending on seriously biased reporting, do some reading, Like Robert Cohen’s Milk, The Deadly Poison. Check www.raw-milk-facts.com. Check Dr. Mercola’s raw milk information. And Dr. William Douglass. If you do your homework you’ll never let your family drink pasteurized milk again. And you’ll have a difficult time keeping your mouth shut in the supermarket when you see people with pasteurized milk cartons or jugs in their carts.
More state legislators should do their homework and change the restrictions on raw milk so more than six states allow raw milk to be sold in stores. Alas, as in so many things, money rules, and the big money is in commercialized pasteurized milk. Money doesn’t just talk, it’s the puppet-master running the world…in health, politics, food, energy, the dollar’s value, and so on.
5/2/08
Jordan
There must be some way to get through to King Abdulla of Jordan, I just haven’t found it yet. Okay, ask me why I want to get in touch with him.
Glad you asked. You see, with a small country like Jordan it’s possible that the kingdom isn’t under the tight control of industries that are bleeding the people dry as they are here in America and most of the developed world.
I’d like to sit down with the King Abdulla, as I did with his father, King Hussein, back in 1970, and get him enthused about making Jordanians the healthiest people in the world.
By getting Jordan to be a country where the people eat raw food, and avoid poisons such as caffeine, alcohol, aspartame, nicotine, sugar, mercury, vaccinations, cooked food, pharmaceuticals, etc., they could be the healthiest and longest-lived people on earth. And an example for the world.
Further, the need for organic crops could be filled simply via Jim Patterson’s patented irrigation system, which allows crops to be grown in the desert with a fraction of the water normally needed. Jim’s system feeds water and nutrients directly to the plant roots, eliminating the usual surface evaporation.
Healthy is great. But how about wealthy? Why not? And here the secret is to revolutionize their school system. Forget memorization. Forget tests. Forget grouping students by age. Get them to learn what they want, when they want, and because they want. No curriculum. Sure, have teachers available, if and when the students want them. But, encourage the kids to work in groups and learn together.
Help them teach themselves to read with DVDs. Provide great libraries, and teach them to speed read at several seconds a page, and with good comprehension. Teach them to think and be creative.
With a real education and creativity, they’ll be making money soon enough. Plenty of it.
Further, we know how to create children with around 150 IQs, so they have the potential for a new generation of creative geniuses. The world sure could use them.
Babies can easily learn to speak several languages if they’re exposed during the relatively short time their brains are wide open to learn language. They can be fluent in Arabic, English, Spanish, French, German, and so on.
But, can Jordanians be rescued from the prison of religion? Probably not. Pity.
5/1/08
Witless Protection
How can we keep our wits about us when we are surrounded and immersed by a health care system that’s totally dependent on keeping us sick? An educational system designed to keep us ignorant and subservient? Religions that take advantage of our seemingly unlimited credulity? A food supply system that guarantees our being unhealthy? An energy system that buries a proven low-cost, non-polluting energy source. A political system that guarantees the present health, education, religious and energy systems are maintained? Oh, and a media system which guarantees we won’t ask any serious questions?
Health.
If we all stopped poisoning our bodies we would put the pharmaceutical industry out of business, along with thousands of hospitals and hundreds of thousands of doctors, nursing homes, HMOs, health insurance, and assisted care facilities. Gone, too, would be most of the sugar, alcohol, tobacco, coffee, fertilizer, pesticide, GM seeds, packaged and canned food, and pasteurization industries. Oh, and the microwave oven industry and bakeries.
Our farms would grow organic produce, meat and eggs, and grow them on remineralized land.
But, since we’ve moved or are moving most of our manufacturing jobs to China, where could the millions of people now dedicated to keeping us sick get work? Maybe it’s better we pay the average $7,000 (and rising fast) each toward sickness costs.
Education.
Short-term memorization to pass tests discourages thinking and creativity. How’d you like to take your school tests again? The Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA) has no curriculum, tests or grading and the results are spectacular. The school costs less than half as much as other local government schools to run. Now, if they’d teach speed reading…wow! See www.speedreading4kids.com.
If we freed our mandatory public school system from its 1850 model we could have kids of twelve far better educated than today’s college graduates. And we’d have very few kids dropping out, because the new way would be so much fun.
We sure could use a new generation of highly educated, creative kids. Of course this would scare the hell out of the establishment. These kids wouldn’t be as likely to meekly allow crooked voting machines, be suckered by political propaganda, and settle for being sheep that are sheared by inflation, endless taxes, a poisonous food industry, a totally crooked so-called health care industry, and so on.
We might even start seeing really good movies, wonderful music, and other arts that have disintegrated. And I’ll bet they would get busy cutting the federal government back to about a tenth its current size. And bring our military back from 144 or so countries. And stop filling the Arizona desert near Tucson with thousands of unused Air Force planes. And endless warehouses of Army over-stocked materiel.
4/28/08
Cribbage
Cribbage players will enjoy this. If you’re not a cribbage player, why in hell not?
Anyway, Sherry and I play two or three games every day, so we’re used to some games moving fast, with ten twelve and fourteen point hands, and others hobbling along with two and four point hands, complete with dead cribs.
Well, yesterday we were blazing along with great hands, the pegs speeding around the board. Then I dealt Sherry a hand with three fives and a jack of hearts. She cut the cards and I turned up the five of hearts! The legendary perfect hand! Twenty-nine points, counting one for his nobs. The dream hand! Wow! And yes, she won the game. But, you know, she only won by two points. If a ten, jack, queen, king or five had turned up on the cut on the last hand I’d have won. A three turned up, so I only had four points instead of ten. Rats!
Cancer!
With one out of three of us getting cancer, soon to be one out of two, your chances of hearing the dread verdict from your doctor are pretty good. Or, more likely, ugly bad.
Ahead of you lie chemo, with it’s endless nausia and hair loss. Plus humongous expense, now averaging around $375,000 per cancer case (according to a Department of Commerce study), plus the likelihood of death. On the other hand, should you survive, since you will probably continue to do what caused the cancer in the first place, you can look forward to another in the not too distant future. 90% of cancers return.
The American Cancer Society tells us that surgery, radiation and chemotherapy seldon produce a cure.
Or, of course, you could change your diet so your immune system can get rid of the cancer for you, with no nausia, hair loss, or bankruptcy. And, without fail.
Even if your doctor knew about this simple, cost-free way to get rid of any cancer, he’d lose his license if he told you…accused of quackery. The medical industry is a business…a two, going on three, trillion dollar industry. It is supported by and supporting the multi-hundred billion dollar pharmaceutical industry…one of the most profitable industries in the world. And, like the oil and religion industries, also incredibly profitable, the very existance of the medical industry we know today depends on a massive cover-up to stay in business.
When dentist Hal Huggins published his It’s All In Your Head, proving that dental amalgam was causing multiple sclerosis, they yanked his license. At a Tesla Society conference in Colorado Springs Hal showed us a film of a patient who was crippled in a wheelchair with MS. Then, a few weeks after Hal removed her amalgam fillings she was out playing tennis. See page 8 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review of Hal’s book.
Unfortunately, the belief in doctors is so powerful that it is unlikely you’ll be able to get any friend or family member who gets cancer to listen or even try to do any investigation into an alternative vis my site or those of experts like www.drday.com, www.comby.org, and www.hacres.com.
6/18/08
Uh Oh!
It took years before the facts of cigarette addiction and health consequences managed to surface, despite the millions the industry invested in covering them up. Well, it was worth whatever the expense to get scientists to back the industry, while there was little money available to support unbiased studies. And the media, very comfortable with billions of dollars in cigarette ads, had a huge self-preserving interest in smothering any adverse information.
We have a similar situation when it comes to so-called “health care.” There’s little money in health and trillions in sickness. With a third of us getting cancer, soon to be one out of two, we have the situation where any doctor who prescribed a diet change rather than chemotherapy, radiation and operations would have his license yanked.
And it’s the same in the cell phone industry. One has to dig deep into the internet to find the brutal facts. What’s actually going on is far more serious than the global warming panic. As I have been warning for over thirty years, cell phones are a sleeping bomb that is going to screw up the whole world unless the word can be gotten past the industry wall around the facts. Like with cigarettes.
As the one person who was mainly responsible for the cell phone industry getting started, I’m appalled at the irresponsibility of the industry. Like the cigarette and sickness industries, human lives are of little interest when it comes to making money. Please take your ear plugs out while I blow the whistle. Again.
There are both short-term and long-term poblems with cell phone use. In the short term the antenna held next to the head is busy burning out brain cells, lowering the IQ, destroying memory and learning ability, and causing hundreds of thousands of brain tumors annually. This is particularly critical for youngsters, whose brains are still being built. The evidence is overwhelming that cell phones are causing severe biological disturbances in human cells.
Indeed, men who carry their cell phones in standby anywhere in their clothes produce much less sperm than those who do not. Worse, even those surviving sperm are likely to be unable to fertilize, or if they do, trigger birth defects.
One or two smothered scientific studies? No, over 15,000 have confirmed health hazards, with at least 66 studies showing the increase in brain tumors.
Even short term use has long term consequences, causing forgetfulness, sudden confusion, amd a loss of the ability to concentrate, calculate and coordinate. A two minute call can alter the natural electrical activity of a child’s brain for over an hour afterward, leading to psychiatric and behavioral problems. Worse, in the long run, scientists tell us, kids using cell phons can look forward to the possibioity of early onset Alzheimer’s and being functionally senile by the time they are thirty.
In England a study showed that heavy cell phone users under the age of forty were already retired as “unfit for future work” due to early onset dementia.
Using cell phones while driving is not only a distraction, they’ve been found to severely impair a driver’s memory and reaction times. And this effect continues for up to a half hour after making a call, increasing the probability of an accident. It’s comparable to the risk of driving while dead drunk.
With cell phone use exploding world wide, providing people with phones in vast areas of the world where there are no wires, what will the future be when hundreds of millions of people are in early senility and unable to work? We have some 277 million users in the US and Canada, while in Africa there are alreadu almost 350 million users, heading toward 450 million in another year or so. Then there are the hundreds of millions of new users in China and India. What a time bomb for the world!
What have I done?
6/17/08
Random Thoughts
The Sudbury Valley School
The present 19th century school system, which forces kids to memorize stuff for tests, isn’t teaching. They’re learning very little this way.
The Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA) is leading the way. They accept kids from four to twenty, they are not separated by age, and there is no curriculum. The kids learn what they want, because they want, and when they want. Their education is their responsibility and they love it. The school costs less than half that of nearby public schools to run and the students run the school. They make the rules. The results are spectacular.
There are no tests and no grades, yet their SATs are spectacular and they have no problem getting into any college they want.
There are a bunch of books about the school. See my Secret Guide to Wisdom.
Gold
There’s an old Chinese proverb, “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” Like our health care, correctional institutions, mental hospitals, and the Department of Defense. I think Central Intelligence Agency is a big stretch, too.
Secrecy
Considering how many things the government is keeping secret, it’s no wonder the number of workers has doubled in the last six years. Half of them are kept busy covering up secrets.
Wetbacks II
It’s no wonder they’re thronging over the border every night! We’ve got the golden welcome mat out there for them.
Free schooling, complete with free breakfasts and lunches. Understandably, over 50% are either obese or seriously overweight. Free medical service and day care for babies born to teen-agers as young as 13.
I see where both Hillary and Obama voted against making English our official language, plus they also voted to give illegal aliens Social Security payments.
Intent
The spooky action of intent is the basis of all religions. It’s something that few scientist are investigating, mainly because there’s no obvious way to make money from it.
Man has, from the first, ascribed things he didn’t understand to gods. And we’re still at it.
Well, it was a move ahead when they rolled all the god actions into one super god… God. These days many people envision God as a sort of super Santa Claus in a white robe, keeping track of how good or bad you are.
So, we have this system where in some spooky way every cell in our bodies is in instant communication with every other cell, even when separate by thousands of miles. And we have plants in some spooky way able to tap in to what we are thinking. Worse, we’re able to move physical things just with our thoughts. And we’re able to influence people at a distance without their knowing it. And we’re even able to tap into people who have died.
If you want something to happen, write it down and it’ll happen The power of intention. There’s a whole, huge field out there we should be researching so we can understand it and integrate it into our lives in a more controlled way.
This sum of all consciousnesses which we’re able to tap into, I call sigma…∑.
Slaves?
The conspiracy theorists make a pretty good case for the Illuminati being behind the curtain, pulling the strings. Their goal is to control the world, with all the people being essentially slaves. Hmm.
Well, our major media…radio and television networks, major newspapers… are controlled by just a few people, and they seem to be related to the small group that run the world’s major banks. Then there’s our public school system, which was intentionally designed to dumb us down and stifle creativity. Oh, and they keep us busy with religions and entertainment. It sure looks like things are under good solid control.
We’re being milked by our so-called health care system to the tune of $7,000 a year per person. And by taxes on everything immaginable.
Fluorides
It was reported in Epoch Times that fluoride weakens the bones, teeth and overall health. It’s causing aching bones, constipation, tremors, diminished IQ (particularly in children), bone and other cancers, premature aging, and birth defects. And it’s in the water supplies of more and more cities. Oh, it also makes people docile. One more reason our kids are coming in at the bottom of all industrial nations in international tests.
Voting Machines
They’ve been intentionally designed to be manipulated. Hogwash? Well, check it at www.votefraud.org. Plus I listened to one of the guys who programmed them on the "Coast To Coast" program explaining about it. There’s a $20 DVD on the subject from 800-770-8802. And a book, Hacked: High-Tech Election Theft in America.
Thanks Monsanto
Farmers in Iowa who have been harveting both genetically modified (GM) and natural corn have been testing the two varieties on their animals. Cows offered both kinds of corn all gathered around the natural corn. Once it was gone they nibbled a little on the GM corn and walked away.
Horses fed GM corn have lost their colts, and in India thousands of sheep have died after grazing on GM cotton. Hog ranchers have had their hogs become sterile after eating GM corn.
Though GM ingredients are getting into more and more food products our government requires no testing or labeling of GM foods. So Europe, Japan and other countries have banned American food imports. You can check food you’re thinking of buying at www.truefoodnow.org.
6/16/08
Arboretum
How I wish you had time to walk through the field across from my home with me. We’ve paths mowed to make the walking easy. It’s a religious experience to walk past carpets of pinks, then ground ivy, ground buttercups, monk hawkweed, and count the dozens of other kinds of wild flowers. Big patches of chick weed. And the gazillions of wild strawberry blossoms a few weeks ago are now gazillions of tiny wild strawberries, about a half inch long. Yum!
Earlier there were huge solid patches of violets, blue in some areas and white in others.
I counted thirty-one kinds of wild flowers, but that’ll be up to forty and even fifty as the summer continues. The wild blueberry bushes are loaded with ripening berries. It’s going to be a huge crop this year. The blackberry bushes are loaded with both blossoms and little green berries. Then there’s the dewberries, which are blossoming by the hundreds of thousands. Dewberries look and taste like blackberries, but they grow next to the ground instead of on higher bushes.
They may have a bee shortage elsewhere, but this field is alive with them trying to service all the flowers. They particularly like the red clover, which is growing over three feet high.
6/14/08
Vaccines
The next time a doctor or hospital recommends you get a flu shot or have your child be given shots, please get out Vaccination - Social Violence and Criminality by Harris Coulter, North Atlantic Books, 300p, 1990, ISBN 1-55643-084-1, $20. Subtitled: The Medical Assault on the American Brain. This carefully researched book makes it clear that childhood vaccinations have been and are causing terrible things to happen to millions of children. For instance, autism was virtually unknown until baby vaccinations. “Childhood vaccinatrions cause various type of mental retardation, ranging from a slight drop in IQ to total idiocy; they also generate dyslexia and other reading disabilities.” The book shows the steady decline in SAT scores and the correlation with the increased number of childhood vaccinations. My copy of the book is heavily high-lighted. The author makes a very good case for vaccinations to be responsible for the enormous increase in autism, dyslexia, hyperactivity, allergies, crime, hearing loss, asthma, mental and nervous system discorders, personality disorders, drug use, and diseases of the eyes and ears. The medical bureaucracy’s response to the mess vaccinations are making has been with Prozac, Ritalin, and Zoloft. Our schools have reacted with metal detectors to keep out guns and knives. Please read this book.
Viera Scheibner, Ph.D., after an extensive study of the medical literature, that there is no evidence whatever of the ability of vaccines to prevent any disease, Instead the studies showed that they cause illness and death. The adverse effects included autism, brain damage, hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, learning disability, dislexia, allergies, cancer, obesity, crib death, impulsive violence, and other conditions.
6/12/08
Father’s Day
It got me to thinking…about my dad. He was a lousy dad. He smoked all the time and drank every day. And evening.
My earliest memory of him was when I was two years old. I got up one Sunday morning and went downstairs, where I found a big bowl of doughnuts my dad had made for company the night before, after I’d gone to bed. So I ate a couple.When dad got up he discovered that two doughnuts were missing. He put me over his knee, grabbed a hairbrush and gave me a spanking I still remember. Two years old! But that was just the first of many spankings as he took out his anger on me.
Mother read to me when I was having meals by myself. Dad never read to me. Mother talked with me about things. Dad never did. She taught me how to swim. My grandfather (Pop) taught me how to ride a bicycle. I don’t recall dad ever actually talking with me or teaching me anything.
When I spent the summers with my mother’s folks at their farm in Bethlehem, Pop took me for walks in the woods and read to me after dinner, while I sat in his lap. Instead of spanking me when I did something wrong, Pop would reason with me. Dad’s approach, for instance when I balked at eating liver, was to lean over, knock me out of my chair and then get up and kick me.
He and mother had nightly fights, with him often hitting her.
When my mother died I came across her old diaries, where she wrote about dad having an affair with his secretary. That was when he was in his 40s, while I was off fighting WWII in the Navy.
I don’t recall him ever complimenting me or saying he was proud of me.
So, after all that, what kind of a dad was I? I never had a chance to be a dad. Both of my daughters left with their mothers when we divorced when they were a year and a half old. But I think I’d have been more like Pop.
6/6/08
Suckers!
Where do I start? Little is as we’ve been lead to believe. As Tim O’Shea put it, “We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated.”
If everybody believes something, it's probably wrong. We call that Conventional Wisdom. In America, conventional wisdom that has mass acceptance is usually contrived: somebody paid for it.
Examples:
* Pharmaceuticals restore health
* Vaccination brings immunity
* The cure for cancer is just around the corner
* When a child has a fever he needs Tylenol
* Hospitals are safe and clean.
* America has the best health care in the world.
* Americans have the best health in the world.
* Milk is a good source of calcium.
* You never outgrow your need for milk.
* Vitamin C is ascorbic acid.
* Aspirin helps prevent heart attacks.
* No child can get into school without being vaccinated.
* The FDA thoroughly tests all drugs before they go on the market.
* Chemotherapy and radiation are effective cures for cancer
* When your child is diagnosed with an ear infection, antibiotics should be given immediately 'just in case'
* Estrogen drugs prevent osteoporosis after menopause.
* Pediatricians are the most highly trained of al medical specialists.
* The purpose of the health care industry is health.
* HIV is the cause of AIDS.
* AZT is the cure for AIDS.
* Without vaccines, infectious diseases will return
* Fluoride in the city water protects your teeth
* Flu shots prevent the flu.
* Vaccines are thoroughly tested before being placed on the Mandated Schedule.
* Doctors are certain that the benefits of vaccines far outweigh any possible risks.
* The NASDAQ is a natural market controlled only by supply and demand.
* Chronic pain is a natural consequence of aging.
* Soy is a healthy source of protein.
* Insulin shots cure diabetes.
* After we take out your gall bladder you can eat anything you want
* Allergy medicine will cure allergies.
This is a list of illusions, that have cost billions and billions to conjure up. Did you ever wonder why you never see the President speaking publicly unless he is reading? Or why most people in this country think generally the same about most of the above issues?
How this whole set-up got started.
In Trust Us; We're Experts, Stauber and Rampton pull together some compelling data describing the science of creating public opinion in America. They trace modern public influence back to the early part of the last century, highlighting the work of guys like Edward L. Bernays, the Father of Spin. From his own amazing chronicle Propaganda, we learn how Edward L. Bernays took the ideas of his famous uncle Sigmund Freud himself and applied them to the emerging science of mass persuasion.
The only difference was that instead of using these principles to uncover hidden themes in the human unconscious, the way Freudian psychology does, Bernays used these same ideas to mask agendas and to create illusions that deceive and misrepresent, for marketing purposes.
6/5/08
Mischief
In high school my best friend was Charles Lombard Opitz (Charlie), whose ham call was W2MKO. That was back in 1938-40 at McBurney School, which was located in the West Side YMCA on West 63rd Street, Manhattan, just off Central Park.
It was an hour ride to and from school every day on the subway from Brooklyn, and then a walk across the park from 59th Street to 63rd. It was usually standing room only on the subway on the way to school.
Anyway, one day Charlie explained how easy it ws to make gunpowder. Mix some nitrate, sulphur, and charcoal together and pfft! To make it produce a lot of smoke add some antimony trisuphide. So, after a visit to a chemical company, I got busy carefully making a batch. I was deep into photography, so I used an old D72 developer can , about the size of a tennis ball, for my “bomb.” For a fuse I just mixed the nitrate and sulphur, so it would burn slowly.
I brought my bomb to school and showed it to Charlie. Okay, where can we set this off so no one will get hurt? After school we went into Central Park, looking for a good site. The best one we found was by the wall on the Fifth Avenue side, at around East 63rd Street. There was an exit from the park nearby and it was a place no one would be likely to visit.
I set up my bomb, inserted two soda straw fuses in series to give us plenty of time to get away, lit the fuse and we ran to the exit. From there we casually walked across Fifth Avenue and down East 63rd Street. Some workmen in a truck dropped some boards, making a loud bang, causing us to both jump. A few seconds later whoomp! And a cloud of white smoke arose from behind the park wall.
People were running everywhere, while we walked nonchelantly around the block and back to see the excitement. It was about that time that Mayor LaGuardia arrived in a motorcycle side car. There was a big crowd. We walked down to the 57th Street subway station and headed to Brooklyn.
There’s been a lot of interest in scrap books recently. I’ve got to find mine up in the attic somewhere with copies of the New York City newspaper Extra Editions that came out that evening. That was back when papers put out extra editions when something exciting happened.
Well, a few weeks earlier someone had set off a bomb at the World’s Fair, killing someone, so the city was bomb sensitive.
Considering all the attention we’d gotten, Charlie and I kept quiet about our prank, so no one ever found out who’d done it. Until my spilling the beans, almost 70 years later.
Charlie and I are in daily contact via email between W2NSD@aol.com (me) and chasopitz@aol.com.
6/4/08
WPIX 1948
During my childhood the subject of what do you want to be when you grow up never came up. We were an upper middle class family, so there was no question at all about my going on to college. This came to a head when I graduated high school and the career advisor people came in and gave us aptitude tests.
In view of my ham radio interest, and several years at the workbench building ham and hi-fi equipment, and “One of the highest mechanical aptitudes we’ve ever measured,” they advised electrical engineering. So I went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy (NY). When I was two years into this WWII came along, complete with the Selective Service (the draft).
One day before the Army grabbed my ass I joined the Navy and spent the next four years fighting the war. By the time I got out in 1946 I knew I didn’t want to be an engineer. So, with Uncle Sam paying my way via PL-16, I went back to RPI and changed to Management Engineering. By then it was obvious that there wasn’t much money in engineering, it was mostly in management.
Having worked for the summer of 1942 as a test engineer at G.E. on the already obsolete transmitters they were making for the Army, I knew I’d never work for a big corporation again. Phooey! So when I got out of college I got a job as an engineer-announcer at a small radio station in North Carolina which was owned by a chap who used to work for my dad. The eighty-hour week at 50¢ an hour (the then minimum wage) and no future got old after a few months, so I headed back to my parents house in Brooklyn.
Serendipity, or an obliging angel, got me a job when The Daily News decided to go into television. Bob Sullivan, a feature writer for the Sunday News, and an old family friend, was the connection. He’s the one who introduced me to classical music and Gilbert & Sullivan operettas when I was seven and we both lived near Philadelphia. He was a powerful force in my life.
I was hired on as an engineer, but I soon settled in as a cameraman…mainly as a result of the 3rd grade course in art appreciation I’d taken which had taught me how to compose pictures. I was so good at my camera work the director of the Gloria Swanson show had me doing entire one-hour shows on just my camera. And this was way before zoom lenses had been invented.
One day the program manager for KPIX in San Francisco visited and saw my work. He quickly offered me a job as a director, so I left WPIX just before the Christmas holidays and was due to go to San Francisco in a few days. A cousin out there located an apartment for me just two blocks from the station. Wow!
Then came a telegram saying the program manager had been fired and his plans canceled, including me. Rats!
So I ran an ad in Broadcasting and settled on another engineer-announcer job with WVEC in Hampton (VA). That was fun, but I kept looking for another TV job. A few months later I was hired on as a director to help put KBTV on the air in Dallas (TX).
The station was owned by a Texas oil man who had gotten the license back then the FCC was still issuing them. He sat on the license until the FCC said he had to either use the license or lose it.
My stint at WPIX was great fun. I worked daily with Gloria Swanson and many of her famous actor friends. I did regular shows with Sigmund Spaeth, the tune detective. And Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist. This was 1948, back before cable brought shows in from Chicago and the West Coast. It was before video recorders. This was live TV, every minute of it.
It was in the WPIX dressing room that I noticed one of the floor directors changing clothes and that he was wearing no underwear. I’d never seen that before, so I asked him about it. He said, other than custom and habit, what reason is there to wear underpants and undershirts. I couldn’t think of any, and that’s the last time I wore them myself.
6/3/08
Music
Certain pieces of music remind me of places or events, so I love it when they come up at random on my iPod. Like today the first piece that came up was The Trumpeter. That’s a baritone song I performed at a high school assembly.
The music teacher had been giving me singing lessons and had been pressuring me to become a professional baritone. I love to sing and had built up a pretty good repertoire, but I didn’t see that many baritones making money, so when I graduated the professional career advisors the school brought in had no problem in convincing me to go for electrical engineering. Well, I’d been into ham radio for several years and loved the hobby. I think I made the right choice.
A couple of pieces later (out of 1227 in my iPod) was the Romanian Rhapsody #1 by George Enesco. And that took me back to college, where I’d set up a public address system to cover the freshman quadrangle. I did it to promote my fraternity president, Allan Stokke, for president of the student council. I loved walking around the quadrangle, listening to that wonderful piece and still feel the thrill when I hear it. Yes, Allan won.
Whenever I hear Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer it reminds me of when I first heard it as the theme in “The Sting.” I said “Wow!” and went out and bought every Joplin LP I could find. I’ve written about how this got me find Scott Kirby and bring him to New Hampshire to digitally record all of Joplin’s songs for CDs in a state-of-the-art recording studio I built for him in my barn.
6/2/08
Hold The Mayo
A young woman, who had my health guide, and whose father is a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, arranged for me to have lunch with him, if I’d come to Minneapolis. I couldn’t pass up an opportunity like that, so I organized a talk session for my readers, and Sherry and I were on our way. This was in early September 2001.
The lunch went well, considering that what I was explaining to the doctor was how the Mayo could be put out of business by helping patients cure themselves of any illness by changing to a raw food diet and stopping such toxic activities as smoking, and drinking alcohol or coffee.
The big money in the so-called health care field lies in treatments, not in helping people to stop what has caused their illness and reversing it. There’s not much money in that. So I haven’t been surprised not to hear from the doctor again or to see any changes in the Mayo approach to treating their patients.
I was particularly frustrated when their “treatments” killed my friend King Hussein of Jordan, who had developed leukemia Oh, I tried to get through to him or his family, but got nowhere.
While in Minneapolis we stayed at the Radisson Towers hotel and I gave my talk there. On Sunday morning, September 9th, we were visiting one of the men who’d come to hear my talk. His room was high in one of the two hotel towers. We were sitting there talking when he suddenly stopped and said wouldn’t it be odd if a plane crashed into one of the hotel towers. Then he went back to what he had been talking about.
The next day we were on our way home to Manchester via the Newark Airport. A storm delayed our flight out of Minneapolis, so we arrived at Newark too late to catch the Manchester flight. Damn! Then I saw a Manchester flight on the departure board, so we grabbed a ride on one of those electric carts to get to the gate.
On the way a voice rang out, “Hey Wayne!” It was my good ham friend Dennis Kopecky (WJ2R), who worked for Continental Airlines. We hopped off the cart as Dennis explained that the departure was for Manchester, England, not New Hampshire.
We went with him to the Continental Lounge, where he got on a computer and arranged for us to get a flight to Boston, since there was nothing more to New Hampshire that night. The midwest storm had delayed a lot of flights, so the terminal was packed and all of the local hotels were fully booked with delayed passengers.
We called home to be picked up in Boston instead of Manchester and were on our way, arriving in Boston about one in the morning of September 11th. A few hours later all airline traffic stopped for a couple of days and the bridges across the Hudson were closed. Had it not been for Dennis spotting me and helping us get home we’d have been stranded for days in Newark. No hotels. No rental cars. No way for someone from home to get down to pick us up. Ouch! Instead we watched the 911 mess on TV from home in New Hampshire that morning.
5/31/08
Go To Asia
Thousands of Americans, who have not bothered to get a second opinion from my health guide, are taking their major surgery problems to Asian hospitals. Well, ours are the most expensive in the world, so faced with a $50,000 bill here vs. $5,000 or so in Bangkok, it’s well worth the trip. Of course, our $2 trillion health system, in addition to being by far the most expensive in the world, ranks 37th in the World Health Organization’s list of the world’s best health system.
McDonald’s, ever mindful of the slowly emerging health movement, has added salads to their menu. For $4.29 I got a bowl of lettuce (which has almost no nutritive value), some Newman dressing (no nutritive value), and a big slab of deep fried chicken breast, which is toxic as all hell (I gave it away).
Our total belief in doctors is costing us big bucks and years off our lives. And the few doctors who have learned the truth about health don’t dare speak out and disturb the $2 trillion bonanza our ignorance of health is costing us.
So we keep smoking, drinking alcohol and coffee, plus eating dead food and making the pharmaceutical industry wonderfully wealthy. The $5,000 Asian hospital surgery for the few who make the trip, is a drop in the bucket compared to the American hospital take on the rest. The biggest money-maker. of course, is cancer, with an average $435,000 each. And that doesn’t count the burial costs for most patients.
Dr. Day? Dr. Comby? Dr. Malkmus? Dr. Bieler? Wayne Green? Never heard of ’em.
5/30/08
Vaccinations
Time magazine, ever alert for any dangers to its advertisers, used their June 2nd cover to promote baby vaccinations. The cover blurb, “The Truth About Vaccines,” followed by, “Worried about autism, many parents are opting out of immunizations. How they’re putting the rest of us at risk,” should have credulous readers making vaccine makers and the medical industry a few hundred billion dollars richer. Hooray for vaccinations as a successful product.
The few people who take the time to do any research on the subject will never let their babies or themselves be vaccinated. If you don’t have my Secret Guide to Wisdom with the review of the Coulter’s Vaccination - Social Violence and Criminality, you can find it repeated in my 7/9/07 essay.
Vaccinations, like fluorides in our water, are a multi-billion dollar scam to milk those with an unshakable belief and trust in their doctors. Hmm, let’s see, where did I put my lab coat and stethoscope?
5/29/08
Sunlight
With summer actually here, it’s time to get out there and sop up those rays. Get a tan. Hey, it’s the best vitamin D there is. I’m out there in shorts and no shirt on my daily walk and counting the varieties of wild flowers. Twenty different yesterday in the field across from the house.
But what about sun-screen? Anything you put on your skin is going to be absorbed into your blood stream, and you don’t want most of the products they’re selling to put on our skins doing that! Including a lot of cosmetics.
Gee, won’t I be in danger of getting skin cancer? Melanoma? If you’re eating the Standard American Diet (SAD), melanomas are quite possible. Animals fed the SAD get melanomas, those fed raw foods don’t. Same with people. Raw fooders also don’t get fat, they’re healthier and live longer.
Well, how about those pesky mosquitoes? If a bug spray has even the slightest mention of Deet, avoid it, That stuff is serious poison. It’s absorbed through the skin and goes to the brain, killing brain cells. And you only have so many of those, so don’t waste ’em through ignorance.
5/28/08
Time Travel
Ridiculous! Yeah? How’d you like to try and explain to people a hundred years ago about car computers and global positioning that can tell you every turn to make to get anywhere in the country? And microwave ovens? Cell phones? Personal computers and PDAs? Wifi? Radio networks. Satellite television!
The first solid hint I had was when I saw seventeen thousand year old pictures from the caves in France, and there were UFOs in the sky! Alexander The Great wrote about them hovering over his battles in his diary.
Well, what’s the first thing we’ll do when we develop time travel? We’ll go back and do a history of our development. Also, since the cave drawings looked like the UFOs we’re seeing today, and no civilization is going to make the same model anything over a period of more than a few years, the logical explanation is time travel, not visitors from somewhere in the galaxy.
There well could be ETs visiting, but I suspect the bulk of the UFOs are from the future. This could also explain how UFOs flying next to our planes suddenly disappear and then re-appear again a little later.
Those slanty-eyed visitors? I suspect they are living robots, sent to do routine jobs. People who have met them tell us that there’s always a lag in communications.
Then there are the Men In Black. These may be sent back to fix any time travel problems travelers may have caused. We haven’t any clues as the rules of time travel. Going back and killing your grandfather could mess things up enough to need fixing.
A chap on talk radio claimed those crop circles, which are laid down in seconds, are markers for time travelers. Well, what other landmark is unique and lasts only a day or so?
Here we are in the 21st century and we’re just beginning to look into the power of our minds, into where our memories are stored and how, how our cells can be in instant communication with each other over any distance, and how we’re able to communicate with any living thing…including plants.
The next time you bump into an ET, ask him when he’s from…and let me know.
5/27/08
Fecund
The wild flowers have gone berserk. It’s already an incredible display. I wish you could walk through my yards with me. A thousand times more dandelions this year, and they’re huge! Many almost two feet high. Last years little patches of ground ivy are now carpet-sized areas, as are both the blue and white violets. There were a few wild strawberry blossoms in past years, now they’re everywhere and in some areas the ground seems paved with them. One area of the front lawn has hundreds of thousands of miniature white violets.
There are already 20 kinds of wild flowers in the field across from our house. Gee, I wish I had someone to share them with.
The wild blueberry bushes are loaded with blossoms and the first blackberry blossoms are already out. With rain promised for the next few days, we’re going to have one fabulous summer of berries and wild flowers.
5/26/08
Grains
A good friend, Dick Hussey, sent me a copy of Dr. Douglas Graham’s Grain Damage. Graham makes not a good, but an airtight, case for anyone interested in their long term health to stop eating grains. Yep, bread, pasta, and the lot. It’s a $10 52-pager from Foodnsport Press, 609 N. Jade Dr., Key Largo, FL 33037, foodnsport@aol.com.
In the 17th century physician Thomas Moffett said, We are digging our graves with our teeth.” Well, that was before cigarettes and modern advertising created that blight on health. Graham says, “If you find yourself in a hole and want to get out, first you have to stop digging.” Your ladder out of the health hole your teeth have gotten you into is education. Reading what the experts have discovered.
Graham, a thirty-year raw fooder, points out that, ”Vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants, and phytonutrients are damaged, deranged, or destroyed by the heat of cooking.” There is no scientific basis for eating cooked food. He explains that proteins, when they are heated, are unfit for human consumption.
Grain products contain gluten, which has opiods which lead to addictive eating. Worse, gluten is linked to learning disorders and schizophrenia.
If you read this book I doubt you’ll ever buy another loaf of bread. Not even whole wheat or rye. Or a pizza. If your health is of any concern, you’ll be eating mainly fruit and vegetables, like all of the apes do. About ten thousand years ago, when farming was invented, along with the use of fire to cook food, we didn’t do ourselves any favors.
Osteoporosis? Autism? Overweight? Stop eating grains. Dr. Graham has advised some of the world’s outstanding athletes on keeping in perfect condition.
After reading Graham’s book I’m enjoying my grapefruit, orange, grape and apple slushes even more. Plus kale, Swiss chard, and broccoli greens smoothies. And slightly frozen banana, egg, and raw milk desserts.
5/25/08
911
There are dozens of questions about the 911 attack that the government has refused to answer. And having read over a dozen books on the subject there’s no question in my mind that there’s a major cover-up. So, I sigh and add it to my list of major cover-ups.
Ex-Governor Jesse Ventura raised yet another big question recently when he pointed out that Silverstein bought the Twin-Towers (and Building 7) weeks before the attack, and had them insured for $7 billion. However, if the attack had not happened he would have had to spend over a billion dollars to rid the buildings of asbestos.
Gee whiz! Another coincidence!
5/24/08
Booth
David Booth called the other night. He moved a couple years ago from the next town (Antrim) here in New Hampshire to Tennessee. Something about being able to grow things better there.
Anyway, he said he has prostate cancer and has been given a month to live. Since he’s been a chain smoker for much of his life, as well as a chain boozer, I was wondering when this would catch up to him.
If Dave has the will power to stop smoking and drinking, and changes to a raw food diet, he could be around and healthy for many years to come. But nicotine is one of the most addictive poisons there is, which is why so few smokers are able to kick the habit. Worse, it triggers a need for alcohol.
To make matters worse for Dave, he’s surrounded by friends who smoke and drink. When I used to visit him his living room was filled with smoke. Cough, cough.
When I was a kid my folks, grandparents, and all their friends smoked. All the movie actors smoked. I tried cigarettes and after a few tries, no way. I tried a pipe, too, because my grandfather smoked a pipe. Ugh. He died in his 50s of pneumonia. My dad stopped smoking when he was 60 and lived to 87, but spent the last 20 years with an oxygen bottle next to him.
When I was in the navy all my buddies drank, so I joined in when we were on shore leave. As soon as I got out after the war, that was the end of my drinking. Not even beer or wine. Again, all my family drank. Every day.
I suspect that what may have saved me was my dad being such a lousy father that I didn’t want to have anything to do with anything he liked or did.
5/23/08
Cell Phones
Despite the industry’s every effort to keep it quite, the news that cell phones are causing brain tumors has even made it to Jay Leno mentioning it. I wonder how much the industry has invested on scientists not discovering this?
Over twenty years ago, when the leading researcher in the field, W. Ross Adey (K6UI), sent me copies of his published research papers showing what happens to brains when there are concentrated radio waves next to people’s heads, I started warning my ham radio readers to be sure to use a headset with their cell phones.
And this is particularly important for kids since their brains are still busy growing. The radio waves burn out brain cells, leading to memory loss and then a brain tumor.
Though I’m the one who triggered the start of the cell phone industry, I’ve never used one, and I’ve been trying to warn everyone I see using them.
By the way, those little button gadgets they sell to protect you are a scam. Get a headset and keep that little phone antenna a foot from your head.
5/22/08
Gas
The Coast talk show had an expert who explained what’s going on with gas prices, something the mainstream media hasn’t really explained.
He said the OPEC plan is to drive gas priced to $10 and $12 a gallon with the goal of causing a serious US depression. Then, the OPEC people, who have trillions at their disposal, will then come in and buy American assets for pennies on the dollar. Like our major media and networks.
Our recent outsourcing has brought billion of dollars to India, China and other countries, allowing previously poor people to get into middle class and buy cars. This has increased the demand for oil, but the OPEC people have refused to provide more, even though they have more than plenty. This has been driving up prices, which is starting to cripple our economy. Food prices are up and going upper.
Just in the last few weeks gas prices around here have gone up a dollar. In Britain it's $10 a gallon. At $10 a gallon and getting 20 miles per gallon, that’s 50¢ a mile! No more seven mile round trips to the Hancock post office for mail…I’ll let them deliver to our RFD mail box. And a lot fewer ten mile trips to the supermarket in Hillsborough. That’ll cost $10 just for gas! Ugh. It’s bad enough today at $4 for the round trip.
Maybe this is a good time to think about getting into the bicycle business.
5/21/08
Twas
When I was three years old my dad, who was working for he Department of Commerce, did a survey of America’s airport for them. This led to his being hired to design and build an airport for the city of Philadelphia. So we moved from an apartment in Brooklyn to one at 3000 Samson Street in Philadelphia.
Since the city’s current airport had little room for expansion, dad went looking for potential airport lands near the city he picked one just across the river in Camden (NJ), and we moved to a house in Merchantville (NJ), not far from the new Central Airport. It was one of the first in the country with cement paved landing strips.
While we were in Philly I got to be five years old (1927) and kindergarten at the Lee School, a couple blocks away. When I was six, and in the first grade, my dad arranged for me to be on the first commercial flight from Philadelphia to New York. Well, Newark, just across the river. This was the beginning of Luddington Airlines, owned by Tommy Luddington and Amelia Earhart. I think the plane was a twin engined Travelaire.
The Newark airport had a cinder landing strip and an office about the size of a mobile home. There were a couple of mayors and a governor aboard, with appropriate ceremonies when we landed. From there we flew to Lakehurst, where they kept the dirigibles. Then back to Philadelphia.
In school the next day I made my first public address, telling about my trip in assembly. Hero for a day.
Maybe someone can check the newspapers of the era for a story on the flight.
5/20/08
Schools
With seventy percent of eighth graders not proficient in reading, over a million high schoolers dropping out every year, and nearly a third of college freshmen having to take remedial math and English courses, it’s no wonder our kids are coming in at the bottom in international tests. In 17 of our largest cities the graduation rate is less than 50 percent!
So, what’s the answer? Clinton and Obama are for tougher testing. Yeah, sure, that’ll keep kids interested in staying in school.
Given the opportunity and the freedom, kids love to learn. Well, that’s what we all do, starting way back even in the prenatal period. Heck, read The Prenatal Classroom (see page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review) and you’ll see that a baby can learn around a hundred words and like music during pregnancy, stimulating the baby’s brain growth and significantly increasing it’s IQ. It gives the baby a big head start in life. Pun intended.
Given the opportunity and the means, children are learning machines. So we put them into classrooms with a dictator up front. Their text books suck big time. And most schooling consists of memorizing stuff from the boring textbooks as homework every night. Tests the next day of short term memory. This is education? Worse, much of the stuff crammed into them is of little or no interest to the kids. I still remember the math misery of solving simultaneous equations. You know, I’ve never run into a need for that skill in all the businesses I’ve been in. Phooey.
Then there’s that great goal for high school students…college…where those who can afford it and stay long enough can emerge with a Ph.D. I wonder how many Ph.D.’s end up making much money? For most grads the future is a job in a large company that’s never going to pay much.
A better approach is the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA), where there is no curriculum, where the kids learn what they want because they want. No memorization. No tests. No grades. And the kids are not separated by ages. They have the best brains in the world on any subject available through books. The kids run the school and it costs less than half as much to run as nearby public schools. The graduates are amazing and they can get into any college they want. There are eight books about the school and it’s being cloned around the country.
We want kids to learn to think and be creative, exactly what our public schools are intentionally designed to prevent. And have, very successfully. Check the Gatto book on the intentional dumbing down of our kids (pages 11 and 43 in my Wisdom Guide).
Just as the UAW has been driving car manufacturers out of the country, so the NEA has been making sure our kids get lousy educations. Take a look at the Ford plant in Brazil at http://info.det.com/video/indexcfm?=1189 and see for yourself.
5/19/08
Tariffs
This free trade stuff is exporting American jobs. When stuff can get made by Chinese workers getting 70¢ an hour that’s where the manufacturing jobs move. Okay, let’s even things a little by slapping an import tax (tariff) on the products. So, a couple weeks ago both senators Clinton and Obama signed on as sponsors of a bill that would impose higher tariffs on China…giving them campaign bragging rights for helping low-wage American workers to get jobs.
So, to somewhat simplify matters, a shirt Joe Sixpack would buy in Wal-Mart which was imported for $5 and cost $10, by the time the wholesaler and retailer got their share, would cost a little more. Say a $2 tariff was added, this would make a $10 shirt cost Joe $14, certainly slowing down his urge to buy.
Congress loves it. They get an extra $2 for earmarks and the Iraq war. Better off Americans are oblivious since they don’t shop at Wal-Mart anyway. They’re more into $50 and $100 shirts, which are not coming from China. And since we’re not going to get into making low-cost shirts any more, no jobs are gained. Joe is just hit with paying more for most of the stuff he buys…and so tends to buy less. Or, more likely, a plant will be built in Swaziland to turn out tariff-free $10 shirts. Like the ones I’ve been wearing. Yes, Swaziland.
5/18/08
Global Warming
It’s almost interesting that over 31,000 scientists have signed a petition saying that global warming is baloney. Gee, what have I been saying for the last few years?
My prediction has been that we would be seeing more and bigger earthquakes and the same for volcanoes. And that these would be affecting our weather. A few years ago it was estimated that there were around ten thousand underseas volcanoes. Now the experts are telling us there are over three million, so it’s no wonder the oceans have been heating up. This causes more water to evaporate, bringing us more rain and snow, which is what’s been happening, with record floods around the world. And wow, we sure had a record amount of snow last winter here in New Hampshire.
Our politicians, of course, made hay of the situation, blaming human activities for the mess. Well, we do tend to make a mess of things, but our activities are insignificant to what’s playing out. Hooray for Al Gore and the Kyoto Treaty pushers. Phooey.
So what’s in the future? More undersea volcano activity, warmer oceans, more rain, bigger floods, bigger tornadoes, more snow next winter, more and bigger earthquakes and land volcanoes. And if that Yellowstone super volcano lets loose, pfft could go California into the ocean for starters. Then the millions of tons of ash it throws into the stratosphere could bring on instant winter…for years or decades…keeping anything from growing world wide.
Robert Felix predicted this with his 1997 Not By Fire, But By Ice, which predicted we were about to enter another ice age. Nothing has happened in the last eleven years to cause him to change his prediction. Everything is right on schedule and we’re in a dither about going green.
Meanwhile there’s a tremendous silence from the White House and Congress over the way we’re being screwed over by the oil industry.
And the public, lead by the media, are more excited over Obama vs. Hillary, abortion, stem cell research, gay marriage, Darwinism, and other such important matters.
In the last ice age the oceans were over three hundred feet lower than today, and the ice sheets miles thick, covering most of America. No wonder they are burying seeds underground in Norway. They’ll be handy when the ice melts.
5/17/08
MCAM
That’s Manchester Community Access Media, where I did a half hour weekly TV show, Wise-up With Wayne. It was on Manchester Channel 23 three times a week for four years. It won first prize two years running for science shows and might have won more if the Northeastern Division of the Alliance for Community Media hadn’t stopped the competitions.
It was fun sitting there for a talking about how to cure oneself of any illness with no drugs; how to make lots of money; how to raise children with a 150 IQ average; how to cut any government department in half in three years with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating; making English our national language; how to eliminate AIDS and any other blood disease with no drugs; an inexpensive win-win solution for the Iraq mess; the real cause of global warming; non-polluting energy at a hundredth the cost of oil; cutting prison costs by 90%; making social security pay ten times what it is now; Etc.
The fly in the ointment was that, despite my discussing health subjects many times, and waving my Secret Guide to Health at the viewers, I wasn’t selling any books or even getting email. The reason was really very simple. MCAM, being a non-profit group with no advertising promotion budget or marketing staff, hardly anyone was watching the channel. Worse, most of the programming was religious and special interest shows, so the occasional channel surfer got used to ignoring the channel. Check it out and see their shows at www.MCAM.org.
I tried having them send copies of my shows to community cable access groups in four other New Hampshire towns, but still no book sales. So I gave up. They continued re-running my old shows for a couple years. Still no book sales or any sign there were any viewers.
Taping my shows was simple. A guy would set up a camera, monitor, and lights, cue me to start talking, and leave. Twenty-five minutes later he’d come back and tell me on the monitor it was time to end. Then, in the first couple years, he make a tape copy for me. After that the show was recorded on a DVD and a copy run off for me, I’ve since made DVDs of my taped shows, so now I have a couple hundred DVDs of my shows and no idea what to do with ‘em. I doubt anyone will be interested in sitting and watching a hundred hours of Wayne talking, so I haven’t looked into adding them to the site. I don’t know if MCAM still has my shows available on their site. They did for a long time.
Any suggestions?
5/15/08
The AIDS Cover-up
A Los Angeles Times editorial called for ending the search for an AIDS vaccine. Last year over a billion dollars was squandered on this quest. So, here we are, after 25 years of research, and nothing positive to show for it, vaccine-wise. That’s tough for the pharmaceutical companies, hoping to make hundreds of billions with one.
Never mind that over ten years ago two researchers (Drs. Lyman and Kaali) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York discovered a simple cure and even patented it. Possibly fearing what Big Pharma might do if their hope to make billions from a vaccine were burst, our researchers never published and, when asked about the subject, deny knowing anything about it.
But word did get out. A physicist friend of mine (Bob Beck) heard about it and checked. Sure enough, all it took to kill the AIDS virus was to pass a tiny (fifty millionths of an ampere) electric current through the blood. So he built a simple device to do the job. His unit used a clacking relay to reverse the current to prevent a build up of resistance against it. I felt that this could more easily be done with a couple transistors, so I asked the readers of my amateur radio magazine to see what they could do. The result was a simple circuit, using $19 in parts, which could clean the blood of any viruses, parasites, or germs. I published the circuit in my magazine and then made reprints available.
Next, came a suit by the post office which cost me about $30,000 in legal fees. Since the blood purifier was not authorized by the FDA, a ten year $800 million process these days, it was, by law, fraudulent, and there would be a $25,000 fine each for any information I mailed on the subject. And that even included my divulging their patent number of the Kaali patent.
There was little money in a simple cure, using a device that could be mass produced to sell for under $10, that could cure AIDS, malaria, bilharzia, and a bunch of other blood diseases. The money, hundreds of billions, was in doctor and hospital visits, and vaccines. Oh, and Bob Beck kind of died.
How long can this technology be covered up? Since there is a huge constituency depending on the current technology and hardly any for change, it may take a long time. Follow the money. Money doesn’t just talk, it acts to protect itself using whatever means it takes. And we’re the suckers paying up.
The media? With Big Pharma spending some $45 billion a year promoting their drugs and vaccines, not a chance.
5/14/08
Cover-up Costs
The oil industry, in collusion with the White House, Congress, the media, and even the nuclear power industry, have so far successfully covered up the success of cold fusion. And it’s costing us billions, maybe trillions. Bleeding us, and even driving up the cost of food, both in transportation costs, and the growing of corn for fuel. What better reason for the cover-up?
If you’ve heard of cold fusion at all, you’ve probably heard it didn’t pan out. Well, it did, and that scared the hell out of the oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar, and all the other energy industries.
If you were President Bush, with a family up to here in oil interests…or Dick Cheney, whose Halliburton has been making billions on government contracts in Iraq (one of the largest oil producing countries), the specter of cold fusion as an energy source with no polluting by-products, and a projected cost of a fiftieth or less that of oil, would have to be stopped at any cost.
The home of the future will have a unit about the size of a dish-washer which provides all the heat and electricity a family could need. The fuel? A little water. The car of the future will have no engine or gas tank, just a small generator to power electric motors driving the wheels. And the storage battery will be about the size of a cigar box.
How long can this technology be covered up? Since there is a huge constituency depending on the current technology and hardly any for change, it may take a long time. Follow the money. Money doesn’t just talk, it acts to protect itself using whatever means it takes.
The easy way is to figure I’m a nut case and forget about it. The thinking approach, one unfortunately seldom taken, would be to read my $3 (#20) booklet which explains in simple language how and why cold fusion works.
5/13/08
Scam
This one’s creative enough to mention.
Sherry got a letter with a magazine page clipping and a Post-It note saying, “Sherry try this. It really works!”
It was a get-rich-quick scheme from The Palm Associates Group, Inc, in Florida. For only $38 I could get everything I needed to send out “cash release forms” and reap millions.
The magazine page had been torn from Finance & Money Monthly, Winter/Spring 2008 Edition. When I Googled the magazine title I was totally unsurprised to find it unknown.
The letter was hand addressed, but with no return address. The note hand-written, with no signature, and the article/ad torn from a fictitious magazine, could easily con the unwary. Great scam!
I didn’t send the $38, but I suspect I’d be sent a list of names and a source for the magazine page to continue the scam.
5/12/08
Up On The Farm
As soon as I got to be old enough to be a small person and not a baby I started spending summers with Ma and Pop, known to the rest of the world as Netta and Tully Willson, up in Bethlehem (NH), where Ma, my grandmother, had to spend her summers to get away from the asthma she suffered if she stayed in Broken (NY).
They first tried a summer in Vermont, back in 1918, where my mother (18) made friends with Osa, later to become Osa Johnson and, with her husband Martin, make films in Africa which were famous in the 1920s.
The next summer they spent at the Valley View hotel in Bethlehem, run by Johnny McCauley, who did the cooking, and Mamie Stevenson, who did the baking. Bethlehem was so great for Ma’s asthma that they bought an old farm on Cherry Valley Road and spent their summers there from then on.
It was a wonderful place. About 150 acres, with an old barn and a cottage, and it was only about three miles from town on a triangle about a half mile on a side, with a milk farm on one leg (Midacre Farm) and the Longley’s on the other, and forest in the middle. Longley had owned a chain of restaurants in Connecticut and retired to Bethlehem with his daughter.
Word got out that there were two good looking young girls available, so my dad and Herb Pearce, from the next town, Littleton, started dating them. And then married them. I was born a little over a year later (1922), as was Helen Pearce.
Our farm had a telephone, three-two, ring three, and water that came down about five hundred feet of lead pipe from a spring up in the woods and into the cellar, where it went into a large ceramic jar. The jar was in a little closet and kept it cool for food storage. This was right under the kitchen, making it easy to pump water with the hand pump at the end of the sink.
Electricity? Nope, kerosene lamps. There were two Alladin lamps in the living room for brighter light. When I got old enough it was my job every morning to refill the lamps and trim the wicks.
After dinner I’d sit on Pop’s lap in the living room and he’d read Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Peter Rabbit stories to me.
Since we didn’t have running water we had an outhouse toilet. The backhouse, we called it, since it was out in back of the barn. In those days there were chamber pots kept under the beds and they were taken out in the morning and emptied in the grass in back of the house. I preferred to just pee off the porch, using different places so the grass wouldn’t get killed.
There was a garbage can in the backhouse, one of the kind with a foot lever to open the top, with lye inside and a scoop so we could sprinkle a little on the poop before leaving the backhouse. And every spring we’d shovel it out, adding last year’s poop to the garden for fertilizer. For those that liked to sit and read, a Montgomery Wards catalog was kept by the seat.
I got pretty good at shooting the .22 rifle. The idea was to kill any woodchucks in our fields because they dug holes which could cripple and kill a horse during the fall haying. And then there were the porcupines, which were attracted to the barn and would chew holes in the walls.
It was fun following the horses and mowing machines around the fields around the farm. Then the grass was raked into piles and heaved up on a wagon with pitchforks to help feed the Midacre Farm cows.
Between the kitchen and the back door was the summer kitchen, with a kerosene stove, an ice box, a shower area, and a large storage room for stove wood. This was way before chain saws, so Pop had to put logs on a stand and saw them into stove wood with a hand saw. The larger pieces had to be split with an axe.
At the end of the kitchen range was a tank which heated water for washing dishes and taking showers. The shower consisted of a garden sprinkler watering can, lofted into place with a small crank and pulley arrangement. The floor boards had plenty of room between them for the shower water to go right through. This part of the house wasn’t heated, so showers were a summer thing. But then, this was a summer cottage, not a year-round home. The shower area was curtained off for privacy.
We had no radio, only a Victrola and 78 rpm records. TV didn’t come along until many years later.
The fields that Pop had ’em stop mowing grew wonderful wild blueberries and blackberries. And our transparent and duchess apple trees kept Ma busy baking pies and baked apples. In the early days there were gooseberries, but the government came in and confiscated the bushes. It had to do with preventing the pine trees from getting blister rust. So the next time I had a slice of gooseberry pie was in northern Uganda.
I spent a good part of my time visiting the Listers at the Midacre farm, just around the triangle. They had a herd of Jersey cows and grew fields of corn for winter silage which they stored in their silo.
On many evenings Ma, Pop and I would walk the mile and a half around the triangle for exercise.
Around noon I’d walk about a third of a mile to the corner to our mail box. We were RFD#3 out of Littleton, and the mailman was a guy named Pansy. This was way before I’d ever heard of homosexuals, so I didn’t get the connection.
Once a week or so we’d walk about a mile down the hill to the Ammonoosuc River, put on bathing suits and go for a swim.
In the evening we’d sit out on the porch, where there were two hammocks and several chairs. When F.E., my dad;s father, who lived in Littleton, came up for dinner he’d sit on the porch and recite poetry.
And that’s the way it was some eighty years ago.
5/11/08
Commencement Address
In their wisdom no high schools have asked me to give a commencement address. But if one was so stupid as to ask, here’s what I’d say.
Okay kids, congratulations on completing twelve years of memorizing and being tested on stuff you’ve probably 99% forgotten by now. And for most of you, who are going on to college, you’re facing four years more of the same, little of which is going to be of much value to you in your careers.
The alternative is to skip a college education, get a four year head start on the others, and start making money.
Keep in mind, too, that a college degree, for most grads, is a ticket to a job in a large company. They’re the ones interviewing the grads for jobs. And that means a cubicle, not a lot of money, little potential for advancement, and even less freedom. A middle class home or apartment, an hour commute to and from work, and a boss.
The alternative, for the adventurous and gutsy is to take a route which will help you be able to have a business of your own, where you can make plenty of money and have the freedom to go places and do things that are fun. Better yet, make that not just a business of your own, but one which is so much fun you don’t see it as working.
I wish someone had wised me up when I graduated high school. Instead, they brought in professional career advisors who gave me tests and advised me, since I was a radio ham operator and loved building electronic equipment, that I should go to an engineering university and take electrical engineering.
Not knowing any better, and backed by parents who were thoroughly convinced that a college diploma was a necessity, I did what everyone else in my class did…I went to college. Four more years of memorizing to pass tests, and then forgetting almost all of it. In all the businesses I’ve had not one of the courses I took has ever been of value. And every one of my businesses have been great fun.
What I preach is to pick some field that is fun for you and get a job with a small company in that field. Then make it your business to learn everything there is about the business. Offer to help the people involved with bookkeeping, advertising, promotion, packaging, shipping, sales, purchasing, and so on. And when you are helping, read the magazines on the subject and every book you can find. Ask questions, search the web. Not only will you learn everything you need to know to run your own business, by then you’ll have a pretty good idea of a needed product or service.
Over 90% of new small businesses fail because the entrepreneurs haven’t done their homework. And there are no colleges I’ve heard of that teach what you need to know. So let someone else teach you…and pay you to learn, as I’ve proposed.
Or you can go to college and have fun playing football, baseball, and basketball for four years. That’s fine if your dad can pay for everything. But if you come out of it with sheepskin and a $20,000 or so debt, was that a good deal? And I’ve read that’s about the average. Well, it was a couple years go. It’ll probably more like $40,000 by the time you graduate, considering inflation and the tanking dollar.
With the massive outsourcing of technical and clerical jobs there’s already a job shortage for college graduates. What’s the likelihood it’ll be better in four years?
Without my successful businesses I never could have built the Been-There, Done-That list you’ll find on my web site.
5/10/08
Or Else
As we’ve been building up China and India by moving more and more of our industries there, they are becoming economic competitors. How long are we going to be in business when we have to buy the products they’re producing and they don’t need what little we’re producing?
If you’ve been keeping track you know that our school system is turning out the poorest educated kids of the developed world, and of course, at a much higher cost. We have by far the most expensive so-called health care, and yet we’re around 37th in health. We’re a fat, sick country. Our dollar is sinking out of sight. Illegals are pouring over our border. The Fed is flooding us with money, giving us serious inflation. Our media is staring off into space, whistling. And we have three major candidates promising us more of the same.
How long has it been since we’ve produced a really good piece of music, an outstanding movie, a book worth reading, or anything artistic?
Either we shape up or we’ll be another civilization in the trashbin of history. We’re fat and sick. We’re ignorant. We’re arrogant. And we’re not making much to sell any more. Our wars for oil are pissing off the world. We’ve a horribly bloated government. A ridiculously enormous military. A crooked congress and a puppet president. A stupendous deficit.
I’ve proposed practical solutions to our problems, but I sure need help in getting the ideas out to more people. Okay, how can I do it?
5/09/08
Super Capacitor
A few weeks ago (4/17) I discussed the Takahashi super capacitor. Well, it seems someone has reinvented one like it and they’re getting ready to go into production for the ZENN Motorcar Company. EEStor, Inc., has been awarded a patent and has twelve more pending.
The energy pack weighs about a hundred pounds and will provide enough energy to drive about 500 miles on a charge. It’ll recharge in five minutes on about $9 worth of electricity, compared with nearly $100 for gas at today’s prices, the equivalent of about 36¢ a gallon.
You can get more details at www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/big_news_eestor.php. My thanks to Irving Welsted for sending me the info.
5/7/08
Scams
They’re calling us sheeple. Well, many of us are like sheep, blindly following leaders to be shorn in the land of scams.
The ten biggest scams are our health care, our schools, our food supply, our money, our government, our wars, 911, our “correctional” system, energy, and our religions.
We are being defrauded, gulled, deceived, conned, fooled, screwed, scammed, bamboozled, swindled, duped, deluded, hoodwinked, gyped, rooked, cheated, victimized, mulcted, fleeced, tricked, milked, bilked, shafted, and ripped-off.
Here’s what’s possible, as I’ve proposed.
•Health: There will be no more illnesses when we get people to stop poisoning themselves. Any illness can be cured with no drugs.
•Education: Kids of 12, with 150 average IQs, able to read books at a few seconds a page, far better educated than today’s college graduates.
•Food: It would all be organic and with all the minerals now lost.
•Money: No more inflation.
•Government: cut to 10% of today’s size.
•Wars: No more.
•911: Expose the truth.
•Prisons: A tenth of today’s cost. Actually retrain prisoners.
•Energy: Cold fusion power at less than a tenth the cost of gas and oil.
•Religions: Pfft. All gone.
5/6/08
Some Ham History
As a ham magazine editor I’d been summoned to the Pentagon for a briefing. Briefing? It was anything but brief. The Air Force colonel obfuscated for over an hour, speaking Air Force jargon, which I translated as best I could into English. It had to do with the Air Force needing to take over some of our UHF ham bands for their radar.
When he got through, I asked if what I’d heard translated into the Air Force, faced with the problem of the Russians using radar jamming equipment in their bombers, was being countered by our setting up so many radar systems that even a fleet of bombers couldn’t jam then all?
That meant we hams would have to give up some of our UHF bands to make room for this mass of radar systems. I forget how many billions of dollars the whole thing was estimated to cost.
My question resulted in more obfuscation, and a shift to an even higher level of encrypted Air Force language. After my asking the question about four times I finally got a yes, that’s about what it all adds up to.
I told the colonel he and the Air Force master minds that thought up this one were crazy. I suggested they use technology instead of brute force to solve their problems, and that if they insisted on pursuing this I’d raise all the hell I could, and do my best to embarrass them.
Well, it never happened, though I don’t know if my grain of sand’s worth of resistance had any part in their abandoning the project. So we hams didn’t lose our 450 MHz band back in 1956.
5/4/08
Advertising
The first thing I did when I was starting my first manufacturing business was sign up for a course in advertising with the New York Advertising Club, one of the best investments I’ve ever made. What a pity courses like that aren’t taught in any colleges, as far as I know…which is pretty far.
As a publisher I’ve watched some wonderful products go to early deaths as a result of lousy advertising and promotion. It was the power of my ads, backed by an outstanding product, that pushed my hi-fi loud speaker enclosures to number one in the market and had me within two years with seven factories trying to keep up with the demand.
When I started publishing my ham radio magazine I did all the advertising sales for the first few years. You bet I read all of the books on selling I could find and I got good at it. The art of selling is very important in life. Schools should teach it. We need this art at our disposal every day. We need it when we want to get someone to do something. Or to let us do something.
The Ad Club course provided a simple, two-word key to advertising and selling. If you’re in sales, better get the two words “User Benefits” tattooed into the palm of your hand.
Take selling advertising for New Hampshire ToDo magazine. First, when approaching a potential advertiser, make sure you know that an ad will benefit the business. How do you know that? Simple, ask your current advertisers what their ads have done and are doing for them, so you’ll know you’re selling something that will benefit the potential new advertiser. So, if you fail to make the sale you’ll know it’s because you have to learn more about selling, not that the obstinacy or stupidity of the potential customer is the problem.
In talking with a potential customer as well as your old ones, always ask about what they’re doing that’s new. And what’s bringing customers back for more visits. What do their customers like best? These will give you clues as the how their ads can point out the benefits to potential customers. What’s different? What’s special?
Selling is a skill, a skill anyone can learn. It sure isn’t intuitive. And you won’t learn much from watching or listening to ads. You learn by reading books, taking courses, attending talks by experts and scouring the web for help. You build the skill the way you’d build any other skill, by studying and practice.
After each success or failure, review what happened. What could you have done better? What have you learned that will help next time?
Sales is a wonderful profession. In business the closer you are to where the money is coming in, the more opportunity you have to be higher paid. Working on commission gives you the opportunity to rack up the dough as you get better and better at the job. You’ll be making a lot more than the engineers and geniuses who developed the product. No matter how wonderful the product, without good advertising, promotion, and sales, you’re out of business.
Good salesmanship works every time. The first virgin I got into bed with me I convinced by telling her that sex was even better than baklava. Then I took her to a mideastern restaurant to try some baklava. It was a sale!
5/3/08
Raw Milk
With the big money (a.k.a. advertisers) being in pasteurized milk, when I heard that Time had done an article on raw milk I knew what I was going to see. Sure enough. A quote from John Sheeham, director of dairy-food safety at the FDA, likened drinking raw milk to “playing Russian roulette with your health. ”He further stressed that raw milk in any form “should not be consumed by any one at any time, for any reason.”
Since, when an industry whistles, the FDA dances to the tune, I have no trust whatever in this bunch of over-paid bureaucrats.
Yes, a hundred years ago there was a problem with undulant fever (Bang’s disease), which pasteurization killed…along with most of the nutrition, vitamins, enzymes, and so on. People with lactose intolerance have no problem with raw milk
Milk produced by cows raised on grass and silage, with no grains…and for sure no genetically modified corn…produce a very healthy raw milk.
Instead of depending on seriously biased reporting, do some reading, Like Robert Cohen’s Milk, The Deadly Poison. Check www.raw-milk-facts.com. Check Dr. Mercola’s raw milk information. And Dr. William Douglass. If you do your homework you’ll never let your family drink pasteurized milk again. And you’ll have a difficult time keeping your mouth shut in the supermarket when you see people with pasteurized milk cartons or jugs in their carts.
More state legislators should do their homework and change the restrictions on raw milk so more than six states allow raw milk to be sold in stores. Alas, as in so many things, money rules, and the big money is in commercialized pasteurized milk. Money doesn’t just talk, it’s the puppet-master running the world…in health, politics, food, energy, the dollar’s value, and so on.
5/2/08
Jordan
There must be some way to get through to King Abdulla of Jordan, I just haven’t found it yet. Okay, ask me why I want to get in touch with him.
Glad you asked. You see, with a small country like Jordan it’s possible that the kingdom isn’t under the tight control of industries that are bleeding the people dry as they are here in America and most of the developed world.
I’d like to sit down with the King Abdulla, as I did with his father, King Hussein, back in 1970, and get him enthused about making Jordanians the healthiest people in the world.
By getting Jordan to be a country where the people eat raw food, and avoid poisons such as caffeine, alcohol, aspartame, nicotine, sugar, mercury, vaccinations, cooked food, pharmaceuticals, etc., they could be the healthiest and longest-lived people on earth. And an example for the world.
Further, the need for organic crops could be filled simply via Jim Patterson’s patented irrigation system, which allows crops to be grown in the desert with a fraction of the water normally needed. Jim’s system feeds water and nutrients directly to the plant roots, eliminating the usual surface evaporation.
Healthy is great. But how about wealthy? Why not? And here the secret is to revolutionize their school system. Forget memorization. Forget tests. Forget grouping students by age. Get them to learn what they want, when they want, and because they want. No curriculum. Sure, have teachers available, if and when the students want them. But, encourage the kids to work in groups and learn together.
Help them teach themselves to read with DVDs. Provide great libraries, and teach them to speed read at several seconds a page, and with good comprehension. Teach them to think and be creative.
With a real education and creativity, they’ll be making money soon enough. Plenty of it.
Further, we know how to create children with around 150 IQs, so they have the potential for a new generation of creative geniuses. The world sure could use them.
Babies can easily learn to speak several languages if they’re exposed during the relatively short time their brains are wide open to learn language. They can be fluent in Arabic, English, Spanish, French, German, and so on.
But, can Jordanians be rescued from the prison of religion? Probably not. Pity.
5/1/08
Witless Protection
How can we keep our wits about us when we are surrounded and immersed by a health care system that’s totally dependent on keeping us sick? An educational system designed to keep us ignorant and subservient? Religions that take advantage of our seemingly unlimited credulity? A food supply system that guarantees our being unhealthy? An energy system that buries a proven low-cost, non-polluting energy source. A political system that guarantees the present health, education, religious and energy systems are maintained? Oh, and a media system which guarantees we won’t ask any serious questions?
Health.
If we all stopped poisoning our bodies we would put the pharmaceutical industry out of business, along with thousands of hospitals and hundreds of thousands of doctors, nursing homes, HMOs, health insurance, and assisted care facilities. Gone, too, would be most of the sugar, alcohol, tobacco, coffee, fertilizer, pesticide, GM seeds, packaged and canned food, and pasteurization industries. Oh, and the microwave oven industry and bakeries.
Our farms would grow organic produce, meat and eggs, and grow them on remineralized land.
But, since we’ve moved or are moving most of our manufacturing jobs to China, where could the millions of people now dedicated to keeping us sick get work? Maybe it’s better we pay the average $7,000 (and rising fast) each toward sickness costs.
Education.
Short-term memorization to pass tests discourages thinking and creativity. How’d you like to take your school tests again? The Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA) has no curriculum, tests or grading and the results are spectacular. The school costs less than half as much as other local government schools to run. Now, if they’d teach speed reading…wow! See www.speedreading4kids.com.
If we freed our mandatory public school system from its 1850 model we could have kids of twelve far better educated than today’s college graduates. And we’d have very few kids dropping out, because the new way would be so much fun.
We sure could use a new generation of highly educated, creative kids. Of course this would scare the hell out of the establishment. These kids wouldn’t be as likely to meekly allow crooked voting machines, be suckered by political propaganda, and settle for being sheep that are sheared by inflation, endless taxes, a poisonous food industry, a totally crooked so-called health care industry, and so on.
We might even start seeing really good movies, wonderful music, and other arts that have disintegrated. And I’ll bet they would get busy cutting the federal government back to about a tenth its current size. And bring our military back from 144 or so countries. And stop filling the Arizona desert near Tucson with thousands of unused Air Force planes. And endless warehouses of Army over-stocked materiel.
4/28/08
Cribbage
Cribbage players will enjoy this. If you’re not a cribbage player, why in hell not?
Anyway, Sherry and I play two or three games every day, so we’re used to some games moving fast, with ten twelve and fourteen point hands, and others hobbling along with two and four point hands, complete with dead cribs.
Well, yesterday we were blazing along with great hands, the pegs speeding around the board. Then I dealt Sherry a hand with three fives and a jack of hearts. She cut the cards and I turned up the five of hearts! The legendary perfect hand! Twenty-nine points, counting one for his nobs. The dream hand! Wow! And yes, she won the game. But, you know, she only won by two points. If a ten, jack, queen, king or five had turned up on the cut on the last hand I’d have won. A three turned up, so I only had four points instead of ten. Rats!