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6/30/09
Poisoning Yourself
[This was originally a 1995 editorial]
If all of the near death reports on heaven are right, the closest thing approaching Hell in the hereafter is a life review where you experience the effects of your actions on others. If this is true the people working for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are going to have one hell of a time with this. Never mind the potential cures for serious illnesses they are blocking from the public. Just the miseries they have caused millions of people by refusing to ban aspartame (a.k.a. NutraSweet) from our foods should keep them busy.
Yes, the aspartame manufacturer and the FDA all know what's happening, but this is a multi-billion dollar business, and is thus not regulated by health concerns, but by politics…which means money. The more I find out about the mess our government is making of things, the more frustrated I get, and the more impotent to do anything about it I feel. Sure, I can tell you. And you may mention it to a friend. But will you stop drinking diet sodas?
People have a wide variety of sensitivities to aspartame. Pilots have lost their licenses due to their reaction to aspartame-sweetened drinks. One had a grand mal seizure. It induces dizziness, memory loss (just what you need!), visual problems, and confusion. Some of the health problems it has been found to help trigger are: chronic fatigue syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, epilepsy, manic depression, lupus, Alzheimer's, and even Lyme Disease.
One airline pilot, after drinking two cups of diet hot chocolate, found his eyesight so blurry he could no longer read his instruments. I'd hate to have the pilot of a plane I'm on drinking diet soda.
Even though aspartame complaints make up 80% of the complaints to the FDA, the agency has done nothing.
Years ago, back when I was really fat and was trying new diets, fasting, and so on, I found a diet that sounded great. It included eating sparingly and filling up on diet soda. The sweetener at the time was cyclamate. So I bought several quarts of diet soda and got going.
Two days into the diet I noticed that I could no longer read pocket book type. Hey, what's going on here? The third day I could no longer read typewriter type! By the fourth day the headlines were too blurry to read. I stopped drinking the cyclamates and bought glasses so I could read again. I wrote about my experience in 73 at the time. A couple months later the news of cyclamate reactions hit the media and they disappeared from the market.
I don't know what the cyclamates did to my body, but my eyes never recovered. I had better than perfect vision one day and a week later I couldn't read anything without glasses. I used to be able to astound people by being able to read signs at a distance and incredibly small type up close.
So, despite the complaints and the knowledge that aspartame is damaging people, it's endorsed by the FDA. Meanwhile, the blood purifier cure for AIDS that I've written about several times and which hasn't, to my knowledge, failed to work yet, is illegal. This device should be given careful testing to prove whether it can help cure AIDS victims. Can it help induce weight loss in people? Can it wipe out herpes and other miseries lurking in our blood?
Dr. Hulda Clark says she has a simple cure for cancer. Instead of forcing her to flee the country the FDA should organize the testing of her approach. When Royal Rife invented a super powerful microscope and, as a result, was able to come up with a cancer cure using radio waves, was it tested? No, the FDA destroyed his microscopes and put him out of business. Gaston Naesens suffered a similar fate over his approach to curing cancer. When Wilhelm Reich discovered orgone and encouraged people to test it as a way to improve health the FDA destroyed his lab and put him in prison, where he died. In none of these cases were the approaches tested and found wanting. In all of these cases there were endless reports of amazing cures.
The Scientologists were using a sensitive ohmmeter to help in their psychological counseling. The FDA broke into their Washington DC headquarters and confiscated the meters. There are probably some books dedicated to the outrages perpetrated by the FDA. I haven't seen them, so I can only write from my own experience. If I were ten years younger I wouldn't dare to write about the FDA. It would be just too risky. Now I'm old enough so I don't care what they do. That's one benefit of knowing you don't have a lot longer to live.
On the other hand you may not be as sensitive to aspartame as others, so the reaction of your body (and mind) to it may be much less. Hey, it's your gamble. It's also something to keep in mind the next time you reach for a diet Pepsi or Coke.
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Now, 14 years later, what has changed?
6/29/09
The Solutions
In my editorials over the last few years I’ve tackled many of the problems besetting America (and much of the world, for that matter). I’ve proposed some fairly simple solutions to miseries such as our inexcusably lousy education system, drugs, high prison costs, cleaning up the horrible mess we’ve let Congress get in, the deficit, our bloated government (both state and federal), eliminating college tuition, cutting education costs by around 50%, and so on. As a member of the New Hampshire Economic Development Commission I did further research on these problems, put that together with my past ideas and presented the whole works as my report to the Commission. Urged on by friends (yes, I still have a few), I put the report into book form.
My solutions may not be the best, but they all seem practical and do what’s needed…and most of them aren’t all that difficult to implement. We’re in a time when everyone seems stunned by the problems and few people are even thinking in terms of solutions. Well, most of our problems have been solved somewhere in the world before, so it’s more a question of finding these solutions and applying them here.
We know the problems—I’ve proposed some practical solutions—now what can we do? The sorry fact is that the fox is guarding the hen house. Trying to convince politicians that capitalism is better than socialism calls for a leap of faith few will be able to manage. We had several politicians on the Economic Development Commission, so I know how deeply ingrained the whole socialist manifesto is with them. Private schools? Oh, my God! Get welfare people interested in working? Oh, I forgot to mention, the New Hampshire welfare people put in cable TV for that 22-year-old woman so she’d be able to watch more than just the four major channels during her long, empty days sitting at home. That costs $75 to have installed and I forget how much a month. Yes, they’re paying extra so she can have the movie channels. And you may be sure that this same outrageous nonsense is going on where you live and that you are paying for it. That comes out of (a) the 28% of your pay you never even see, (b) the other hidden taxes like those on business which make you pay more for products, and (c) the government’s borrowing from you to fund the deficit. And that’s money you’ll have to work for years to repay. Are you upset yet? What does it take?
Another person I know has a sister who worked for the post office for a year and a half and then paid a doctor for a phony letter saying that she was suffering from stress. She was put on 2/3rds pay and retired at 22. She’s been happily living on this for the last twenty years, getting full postal worker medical and retirement benefits, and with no income taxes.
There are endless examples like this…and these are the people who are going to fight any changes in the system. We’re supporting these leeches. We’re working hard to support them. We have to make do with old worn-out things…buy a cheaper car or rent an apartment instead of buying a home—send our kids to public school instead of a private school, thereby doing them irreparable harm…all so a welfare mother won’t have to learn to type and get a job doing data input. It makes you proud to be an American. It makes you want to re-elect the lousy ba . . . er . . . chaps who’ve been doing this to you, right?
With both the Democrats and the Republicans promising lower taxes and both increasing taxes when in power, it’s no wonder so many Americans are fed up. And the challengers to the congressional seats aren’t promising anything different. Most of them are career politicians and will be the same as the present crew. Any fear of not being re-elected will immobilize them when it comes to making changes which the postal, civil service or educational unions oppose.
So, as Pogo said, “We’ve met the enemy, and the enemy is us.” We just don’t care enough about having our money taken from us. We don’t care about the way they waste it. We don’t care that we’re being screwed. Oh, I suppose we care…a little…but not enough to take time from watching ball games or having a beer to actually try and do anything about it.
One thing is certain, we can fight nature for a while, but eventually nature will win. The sooner we stop fighting against nature and start fighting for her, the sooner our quality of life as a country will start improving. God has been speaking, but not many have been listening.
Please form Never Re-elect Anyone groups and can the politicians.
6/28/09
Those Standards
I keep remembering Michael Medved's comment, " Everything the government does, it messes up." And that seems true in spades for it's messing our school system…proving again the failure of government planning things…called socialism.
The No Child Left Behind record is, alas, typical of the way bureaucrats manage things vs. people in business…called capitalism. Basically, government work, while pretty reliable as a way to mark time through life, waiting for retirement, doesn't tend to attract the better educated or more intelligent workers.
So I wasn't surprised at the report from National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) of the students deemed proficient in reading vs. their assessment by the states. Like Mississippi, where the state tests showed 89% of the fourth graders proficient, compared with 18% found by the NAEP. In Louisiana is was 67% vs. 20%, 52% vs. 20% for New Mexico, and 48% vs. 21% for California.
Our kids aren't learning to read! And that is blocking them off from their ability to learn much of anything. What was that percentage of high school grads who were unable to find the U.S. on world map? And they're not being taught to think or be creative…on purpose. Neither big business nor government does as well with a public that's able to think and be moved by thought instead of propaganda.
More's the pity, now that over 170 schools are offering content free on Apple's iTunesU. There are also wonderful books, written by the top people in every field, which offer a priceless education for the few who take advantage of the resources.
Rather than be too redundant, check my 9/15/08 and 5/8/09 entries on the subject.
Our public schools are awful. I see while it's easy to teach kids two years old to read, our compulsory public school system is unable to accomplish this for high school grads.
6/27/09
Is There An Escape?
Sure there is, but it means war. We civilians just barely outnumber the socialists in America. By the time you add up everyone sucking on the public teat…teachers, postal workers, state and federal civil servants, social workers, school administrators, our labor unions, welfare millions, and the military, you can see why we’re paying such high taxes and getting so little for it. Nothing is working well. We’re up to here in drugs, in crime, prison problems, clogged courts, welfare, the homeless, failed banks, failed loans, unemployment, lousy sewers, air we can see, polluted water, dying oceans, and so on.
Now, are we game to start fighting back? Have we had enough yet? Or is it hopeless and we should just keep our heads down and avoid trouble as best we can? How many of us are “mad as hell” yet?
Yes, I’m preaching revolution. I’m preaching war. No, not with guns and Molotov Cocktails, I’m talking about fighting first at the state level. I’m talking running for the state legislature and changing your state. I’m talking getting people who will bring change to Washington with a mandate to abolish compulsory education. Once they do that and private schools can compete with public schools, we’ll see capitalism take over.
Once a private mail service is permitted the US Snail will blow away, just as Parcel Post has been decimated by UPS. Let’s privatize everything we can think of. Let’s get bids from private companies to run our prisons, car licensing, and so on.
If we can get education out from under the socialist system we won’t need millions of government jobs to take care of underachievers.
The best part is that we should be able to cut the costs of government by around 75% and thus cut our taxes significantly. We might even see the return of the one wage earner family…and mothers with the time to devote to their children.
It looks to me as if capitalism is an idea whose time has come. It’s in line with nature. It’s in line with God’s rules. We’re paying the penalty for fighting Mother Nature…and it’s a stiff one.
6/26/09
Ham Radio
It was seventy years ago I got my W2NSD ham radio license, and the hobby has provided me with an exciting and hugely fun life. With eight major amateur radio bands of frequencies to play with, each different from the other in it's ability to let us talk over various distances, we could talk just around locally, or anywhere in the world.
Naturally, many of us set out to see how many different countries we could contact. I managed over 360. And, in countries where there was little or no amateur radio activity, it was huge fun to go there, set up a portable station, and help a few thousand fellow hams get credit for contacting another country.
With something like fraternity brothers everywhere, it makes foreign travel really special.
When I got started most hams built their own transmitters. It was particularly fun right after WWII, when the Army released huge supplies of no longer needed equipment, which we hams converted to work on our ham bands.
Then, as commercially-made ham equipment came available, home building was more for experimenters. And, as the equipment has gotten more sophisticated, home-made gear has become a rarity.
With the moving of all our electronic manufacturing to Asia, electronic parts are no longer made in America, making home experimenting even more difficult.
For many years our ham bands were active day and night, with every kilocycle filled. Alas, today when I tune the bands it is often a rarity to hear anyone talking. Few of today's kids are even aware of the hobby. When I give talks at colleges I always ask how many of my audience is familiar with ham radio. I see very few hands.
Until 1963 the hobby had been growing at eleven percent a year for over twenty years. Then our national organization, the ARRL, got the FCC to propose a rule change which would have forced the hams to get a new license from the FCC if they wanted to continue using voice communications.
You see, the ARRL had always been pushing their members to continue using Morse Code, as the hams all did in the beginning. But the reaction of the hams to this proposal was to lose interest in the hobby.
Most the thousands of high school ham radio club blew away as a result. And when tens of thousands of hams put their equipment on the market for pennies on the dollar that closed down about 90% of the ham radio stores around the country and put all of the major manufacturers out of business.
Without those school clubs, youngsters no longer had a way to learn about the hobby, and the number of new hams dropped way off.
With me the most fun of the hobby was building equipment. Oh, I had fun making friends and in seeing how well I could do on weekend contests. And putting rare countries on the air was special fun. It got me to places like Swaziland, Navassa Island, Jordan, Lesotho, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Syria.
Well, those are "done-thats" for me. I've too much to do these days to sit and chat with some chap in Argentina or Sweden. And, judging from the lack of signals on the ham bands these days, I'm not alone.
6/25/09
Microwaving
Here's an interesting science project for you or your kids. It would be a great one for a school project.
What you do is start two plants growing…like tomato pr strawberry plants. Water one with your regular tap water and the other with water you've microwaved first, then cooled.
If what I've heard is true, the plant fed the microwaved water will die.
If you're really interested in how different forms of water may affect plants you could expand your experiments to plants fed water which has been vortexed in a blender for a thirty seconds, another with water which has been out in the sun in a clear glass bottle for a couple of hours, one with water which has been sitting for an hour on the north pole of a magnet, one on water on the south pole, and one which has been vortexed, north poled, and in the sun.
Send me pictures.
6/24/09
Autism
Doctors in the UK found the measles virus in the intestines of children who developed autism after a healthy infancy. All of them developed autism after receiving the MMR vaccine. That's the combination of mumps, measles and rubella vaccination.
Again, we've been conned by the medical industry. If you prefer to believe your kindly family doctor about vaccinations, at least do me the courtesy of reading a book or two exposing this scam. Like Coulter's Vaccination - Social Violence and Criminality - The Medical Assault on the American Brain (reviewed on page 23 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom). This exhaustively referenced book shows the connection between vaccinations and autism, mental retardation, criminality and a few other downsides…like death. About a thousand babies a year die. The medical industry calls that an acceptable loss.
Or read Walene James' Immunization – the Reality behind the Myth (page 7, my Wisdom Guide).
The July 2009 Nutrition & Healing newsletter confirms the link between vaccinations and autism. So, as a new parent, do you want to chance permanently brain-injuring your baby with the medical industry accepted baby vaccination barrage, or would you rather find them against your religion…like the Amish, where there is no autism? Your choice.
There's sure a lot to be said for home birthing with a midwife.
A recent PBS program showing how wild horses are tamed in minutes using a new technique also showed the same approach being used to help autistic children. They mentioned that about 15 out of every thousand kids is autistic. Hey, that’s 1.5%! How do you like those odds for your kids?
An article in the Townsend Letter for Doctors pointed out that the link between the DPT shots given kids and autism has been confirmed. It’s the pertussis part that’s doing it. The vaccine can depress or even derange the immune system, especially for the very young. And a tetanus shot when I was a kid darned near killed me.
If you’ll do your homework by at least reading the Walene James book, you’ll never endanger your family again by allowing inoculations.
See also my 12/14/06 and 11/18/04 entries.
6/23/09
The American Holy War
I’m asking all Americans to declare war…a holy war…a fundamentalist war…against socialism. Sure, we beat the heck out of socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe. We’ve even beat it in Vietnam, if you read the article in Rolling Stone by P.J. O’Rourke, on his visit there. The one place we haven’t beat socialism…the one place it’s going the strongest in the world and devastating the country in the process, is right here in America. That’s right, here in our US of A.
It was socialism that destroyed the British Empire, turning Great Britain into Britain, and it’s socialism that is at the heart of what’s killing America. How did this pernicious anti-God, anti-life religion get such a powerful hold on the world?…and even on America? And how can we fight such a well inculcated religion?
God? Religion? Yep, let me explain. A religion is defined as a belief upheld or pursued with zeal and devotion. Well, that’s what we have here.
Religious fundamentalism is causing wars all around the world. Perhaps it’s time for us to take a close look at the fundamentals of life and start fighting for them here in America. So let’s take a close look at what we’ve been doing and how it fits in with the most basic laws of nature. Will you be offended if I suggest that the laws of nature are the laws of God?
Okay, what is the most fundamental law for all living things? What is the most basic law of all? It’s staying alive, right? At least unless we’re really screwed up we’ll fight the hardest of all to stay alive. Indeed, this is basic rule number one. This is built right into the genetic pattern of every living thing. This built-in law also causes us an enormous amount of trouble, it being at the heart of all our mental illnesses and aberrant behavior. That’s one of the problems that always crops up when you have a law which is enforced, no matter how unreasonable the enforcement. This is a law which helps to kill us. That’s a strange dichotomy and may be difficult to grasp, but it’s logical.
If self-preservation is rule one, what’s rule two? The preservation of yourself through your offspring. That’s why we have love, lust, and all those other great-feeling things we think about, talk about, and sing about. We’re talking a very, very basic law of nature. I hope you’ll agree that this qualifies as rule two. This is the rule which we feel driving us every day. This has to do with bikinis, deodorant soap, tight jeans and so on. It also leads to the concept of the survival of the fittest, which we might consider as rule three and the result of rules one and two.
The reason even the smallest of boys tend to fight is in preparation for later life when they are going to have to fight for the choicest girls. It’s genetic. Men fight off other men to ensure the survival of their offspring. Women build nests. This survival of the life forms best adapted to winning the battle to propagate has resulted in the survivors we see around us today.
Now let’s look at that survival of the fittest concept and think about it. This is where socialism comes in and screws things up. Socialism has as a basic concept the protection of the weak. We see it in welfare payments. We see it in our non-profit institutions. We have hearts. We’ve been taught to try and go against nature. We see our whole government working on this fundamental basis, perhaps ignoring the fact that nature is merciless. Nature (God?) abhors the weak and sacrifices them for the long term good of all life.
Did democracy win against socialism in Europe? Of course not! It was capitalism that won. Capitalism is the epitome of the survival of the fittest. Socialism is the opposite…to help the weak to survive. Adam Smith’s The Wealth Of Nations, written around two hundred years ago, describes how capitalism works with an “invisible hand.” It ties in closely with rule one, self-preservation. It also ties in with rule two, survival of your genes. No wonder capitalism is winning!
Capitalism is winning everywhere it’s permitted. Hong Kong and Singapore are capitalist societies and enormously successful. Neither are democratic, by the way. Vietnam is emerging from the chaos of its war at a record pace because capitalism is going strong there. Capitalism is doing pretty well here in America. It’s the socialist systems we have in place that are making us sick.
Just take a look at our biggest social works…our public schools, the post office, the government bureaucracies, welfare, unemployment benefits, social security and so on. There isn’t one single thing that the socialist approach can do that the capitalist approach can’t do better and much, much cheaper.
Our public schools cost more than double what our private schools do and provide a substantially lousier educational product. We have teacher’s unions to help protect the jobs of the incompetent teachers who are making a mess of our kids. Every study of the post office has shown that if the service was allowed to go private we’d get far better service at a fraction of the cost. Well, the same thing holds for every government-controlled service we enjoy.
We know what a cesspool the whole welfare system is. Right here in my small town we have people on welfare. I’ve had employees quit so they could go on welfare and not have to bother working any more. They didn’t get as much money, but they never had to work again. One of my employees has a friend who does social work. One of her cases is a 22-year-old woman with two kids. She hasn’t worked in years. New Hampshire provides her with an apartment, it provides day care for the older child. None of your economy day care, mind you, we’re talking $90 a week day care. Plus the state spends $50 a week to provide taxi service to take the kid to the day care center and drive him back. Plus she gets food stamps.
This woman has no marketable skills, nor is she being encouraged to develop any. She’s supposed to be getting advice from a social worker, but she’s refused to talk with the worker. No one knows how screwed up her younger baby is getting at the hands of this mother.
I wish this was just an anomaly, but the more you read, the more exposés you see on TV, the more you know that something is fundamentally wrong in America. What was it about not screwing with Mother Nature? Well, we may have hundreds of millions of people who believe in the Koran, and hundreds of millions more who believe in The Bible, and more believing in the Baghavad Gita, and so on, but when I look for the hand of God, I see it in the fundamental rules of life. I see it clearly waving us on with rule one: self-preservation. With rule two: continue your life through your children. And I see capitalism in harmony with these dynamics and socialism fighting them…fighting God’s will. So that’s why I’m preaching fundamentalism. I’m not talking worship or spiritualism. I’m not talking mystical belief. I’m not talking churches and ritual. I’m not talking voodoo or reincarnation. I’m talking the rules which we all can see, feel and experience. I’m talking the rules which make sense.
Are there any other self-evident rules? You bet, it’s just that they aren’t as all-powerful as number one and two. Our love and protection of family comes under number two. But beyond that we feel a kinship for our extended family…our group. We find there are times when belonging to a group definitely helps with self-preservation. I’m not sure this is a genetic rule. It may be a pragmatic one, but it’s one we learn, even if it isn’t genetic. Like the other rules, this one gets us into all sorts of trouble. You can see it going berserk in Yugoslavia, Checkoslovakia, Northern Ireland, India, Sri Lanka, Timor, Ethiopia, Sudan, and so on. It’s doing fairly well here in America, helping keep the blacks, whites and Hispanics at odds.
Yes, we do need government. We just don’t need anywhere near as much government. Most of what the government is doing…or perhaps trying to do, but failing…could be done for a fraction of the cost and done infinitely better if we could reject the socialist mind set.
What would our government be like if it was run like a business? Suppose inefficient and arrogant workers could be fired as they are in most for-profit businesses? Yes, we’d have to change our educational system so people would have the skills they need to do the work efficiently. Well, if we can get the government to stop forcing us under penalty of law to send our kids to public institutions, we’d have people with the needed skills and the enthusiasm to use them.
We’ve made teaching such a lousy profession that it’s the poorest students who go for it…the people who don’t feel qualified to compete in the capitalist world. And who teaches the next generation of teachers? The lowest 20% of the previous generation. It’s no wonder we’re spending the most of any developed country on education and getting the worst results. Why, it’s almost enough to make a person think.
6/22/09
Chess
How’s your chess game? Chess is a wonderful game to teach kids because it’s totally skill, with no chance element whatever. When you get involved with chess you soon discover that the more you learn about the game, the better you play. A good player will always trounce a lesser player. Aha! So how does one get to be a good player? You do that the same way you get good at anything else…you read a lot about it and you take some lessons from an expert. You’ll have to memorize hundreds of openings, and thousands of end-game closings. You learn to be aggressive or lose. The fact is that the game of chess is a wonderful teacher for life. It’ll teach you the fundamentals of business. You’ll learn to do your homework, be aggressive, and look for creative new approaches to old situations. You’ll learn the value of persistence.
Go is another game of skill and its popularity in Asia has a good deal to do with the way the Asian countries have been running circles around us in business. Chess and Go teach qualities which are valuable to a country. They help teach the work ethic. You don’t win at chess unless you work at it, but if you do you’ll surely win. That’s great training for life.
6/21/09
Being One’s Best
While watching one of Ross Perot’s commercials a few days before the election, I took particular note of a comment made by both Ross’ family and friends, that he urged them to not just be good or better, but to be the very best they could be in life. This is a philosophy worthy of consideration. It got me to thinking…have I done my best to be the best that I possibly can? How about you?
There’s being your best at your work. What a shame it is when parents don’t teach their children the importance of doing their very best. To me that means knowing more about my work than my competitors. It means endlessly doing my homework…which isn’t actually work because it’s fun. It means attending conferences, taking classes, reading books, subscribing to magazines. I just bought a new stack of books and am working my way through them. Some are tedious to read because they’re poorly written, but most are wonderful and give me lots of ideas.
When I took on my responsibility as a member of the New Hampshire Economic Development Commission I refused to let the politicians and their efforts to block the Commission from doing anything of significance hold me back.
Whenever I take up a new interest I tend to go at it whole hog. When I got interested in horseback riding I took lessons…and more lessons. I found better and better experts, and soon I was teaching riding myself. And then I was teaching instructors! When I got into sports car rallying I first learned to navigate and then to drive. I developed a new navigation system which filled my shelves with trophies. I needed special watches which would keep time accurately all day, so I found a factory in Germany to make them for me and I imported them. I discovered a special pepper-grinder-like calculator used in Europe for currency conversions which was ideal for rallying. I went to the Curta factory in Liechtenstein and made a deal to import them for rallyists. I developed and printed my own rally tables, which were incredibly simple compared to those made by others. My customers were soon winning all the rallies.
When I got interested in photography I read books, took lessons and spent endless hours in the school darkroom building my skills. I armed myself with everything from 35mm to 5x7 cameras. This helped be greatly when I became a TV cameraman at WPIX in New York and knew how to compose pictures. As a result I was made Chief Cameraman. Later, when I was a TV director in Dallas and Cleveland, I helped my cameramen get great pictures. In my early publishing days I took most of my own pictures.
I didn’t take up skiing until I was 44, but then I went at it furiously. I took lessons and more lessons. In a few weeks I was skiing better than I ever thought I’d be able to in my life. So I took even more lessons. Now, in my 80s, I’m brittler and thus a bit more cautious on the trails, since breaking something would be extremely inconvenient. But I still tear down the mountains, having more fun than should be legal.
Somehow my parents got across to me the concept of trying to be the best I could at whatever I got interested in. I’ve been preaching this idea, hoping others would see the value of this approach to life and adopt it. So how about you? Do you settle for less than your very best in what you do? Are you the best at work? Are you learning all you can or are you cheating yourself? When you gold brick through life you’re only cheating yourself.
What challenge is there for you? What haven’t you done yet? Why not? What are your excuses?
6/20/09
Instinct?
Now what in heck is instinct?
European cuckoos, which are raised by birds of other species, migrate without guidance to precisely the spot in Africa where their parents migrated before them. Fish return to the streams where they were born to spawn. Turtles find the exact same beaches where they were born. Monarch butterflies make one migration, from the Great Lakes region to specific butterfly trees in Mexico. The examples that “science” explains as instinct are endless. So, what’s instinct?
What science can’t explain, it gives a name to and ignores or denies.
How do lost animals find their owners in places they’ve never been before? When a rat learns to navigate a maze, how can future unrelated generations be born with the knack for similar mazes? Is there a whole lot more to the adaptation of species than random Darwinian survival of the fittest?
If you decide to do some research along these lines you’ll find organized science fighting you every inch of the way with ridicule, a refusal to publish your papers, and efforts to prevent any funding. Is it any wonder that our progress in non-accepted scientific fields has been so slow?
In the US I’ve seen the efforts of the Department of Energy scientists to make absolutely sure that if a new cold fusion industry develops, it will be in Japan, not here in America.
According to The Skeptical Inquirer, telepathy doesn’t exist, yet almost every day I experience it with Sherry. She’ll be driving along, with me in the back seat working, and I’ll suddenly look up and remark on a sign or something unusual. Every time, it’s something she’s particularly noted and wanted to tell me about, but didn’t want to interrupt my work.
I’ve reviewed books for you on how to communicate with plants and animals. Science is doing well with microcircuit development, but sure has a long way to go, with other scientists vigorously resisting, toward understanding psi, instinct, and other such phenomenon it doesn’t understand and thus ignores or denies.
The comforting thought is that virtually every scientific belief (law) is eventually shown to be either untrue, or just partly true. We do need to do a lot more research on human instincts. Obviously we have them, though they are not programmed in as powerfully as those of many animals, birds, reptiles and insects, but it would be nice to find out just what we’re up against in hard-wired programming.
Your homework assignment is Rupert Sheldrake's The Presence of the Past.
6/19/09
Selenium
As I read the news magazines I kept seeing obits for local well-known people who have died of a heart attack or stroke. Veterinarians solved that problem for animals decades ago. Farm animals don’t die of heart attacks or strokes. Farmers add pellets with the minerals which are almost universally missing from today’s crops to their animal’s feed. But don’t ask your doctor about preventative medicine, vitamins or minerals; they’re not his field. If doctors were taught anything about health maintenance instead of just about sickness repairs they wouldn’t be dying younger than the rest of us on the average.
They’re only taught how to treat symptoms…which are your body's alarm system, telling you something has gone wrong.
Cows, pigs and horses don’t die of heart attacks or Alzheimer’s because farmers give them the minerals they need with their feed. Well, that’s something for you to think about as the ambulance rushes you to the emergency ward. That old ounce of prevention. Or more likely, 50 mg of selenium or some other missing mineral that’s critically important to your body’s function.
No, I’m no MD, nor even a DVM, so I don’t ask you to believe me. But I recommend you do your homework the way I have. I realize you may not have much time to read, what with your spending a little time at work, and then watching ball games, sitcoms, soaps, and talk shows, making you a living example of the boiled frog syndrome. That’s where, if you drop a frog into boiling water, he’ll jump right out. But if you put him in warm water with a fire under it, he’ll enjoy the warmth until he's boiled.
And that’s the way it is with sugar, white bread, smoking, using drugs, and food that lacks the basic minerals and vitamins our bodies developed a dependency on over millennias of design. Our bodies were designed to work on raw wild foods. They were never designed to cope with coffee and doughnuts or Big Macs, fries, and a malt. So, either we have to figure some way to get our bodies the materials they need or settle for half a life. The expression, “You are what you eat,” is right.
For instance, in one of the ham radio club newsletters there was a very nice obit about Travis Baird W9VQD. Travis stroked out (a mineral lack). He was into music, opera, speed skating, photography, sailing, football, computers, the violin, amateur television, and so on. Now he’s gone. Diet.
Forty-one of the books in my review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read” are health oriented. The most important is Maximize Immunity by Dr. Bruno Comby. That's the book that pushed me to an almost totally raw food diet.
If you read The Secrets of the Soil, another of my recommended books, you’ll find out how to grow food that has the missing minerals.
Ever since the invention of the flush toilet we’ve been getting rid of the minerals in our crops instead of refertilizing our fields with them, as people did up until this century. Now we use chemicals as fertilizer, and we’re suffering the consequences.
Hmm, I wonder how many of you grew up on a farm with a back house and had to shovel out the privy every spring? My family’s farm in Bethlehem NH had no running water and no electricity, so I know what it is to take a flashlight out to the privy in back of the barn at night in the rain. And there was no heat until the first one up (me) started the fire in the kitchen stove with newspaper, kindling, and some kerosene to get the wood going fast. And another fire in the living room fireplace when it was really cold. While the stove was warming up I’d refill the kerosene lamps. The stove had a water tank at one end, so once the water was warm enough I’d scoop some out into a 5-gallon watering can. Then, in the summer kitchen, out by the woodpile, I’d hoist the can over my head with a pulley and take a fast shower. That part of the house was unheated by the stove, so 5 gallons of water was plenty.
Few farms today have a privy, so farmers today are flushing what few minerals they’re getting in their food into their septic system, not into a privy and then the compost heap. You either get your missing trace minerals from a health store or you make the doctors even wealthier as you have your heart attack or stroke. Your choice.
You can learn exactly what trace minerals your body needs by reading a most entertaining book by Dr. Joel Wallach. It’s Rare Earths—Forbidden Cures. 500 large pages, $20 from Wellness Lifestyle, Box 1222, Bonita CA 91908 - 800-755-4656. Yes, it’s reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom.
6/18/09
The Lost War
Short quiz: What is the most expensive war in American history? It's a war that cost more than WWII, Korea, and Vietnam combined? Hint…it’s one we lost. One we lost in a big way. One that has brought about catastrophic changes in our country.
It’s President Johnson’s (Lyndon) War on Poverty. Welfare. Welfare mothers. Hey, it’s your money your politicians are shoveling out. Over $10 trillion so far, and with no end in sight.
When the government pays women welfare benefits equivalent to $15 an hour, over two times the minimum wage, not to work, what do you think this does to wages in those areas? To be “entitled” to this largess at our expense the women have to have children…the more the better…no job, and no husband that’s working.
In 39 states welfare benefits are equivalent to about $16,600 a year. In eight it’s over $20,000.
Later I’ll tell you about a woman with two children who is on welfare in my small New Hampshire town. Her food and apartment are provided, plus schooling for one child, complete with a paid driver to ferry the child to school and back every day. The woman is bitterly complaining that her welfare-provided cable TV only gives her two paid channels. Oh yes, her husband is working, but they are “separated.” A recent exposé on welfare showed a couple of women in Laconia (NH) sitting in their apartments getting fat on this same system. Work? And lose all those benefits? You’ve got to be kidding!
So we complain about the single mothers. We complain about the loss of family values that’s turning out one generation after another of uneducated welfare mothers and resulting criminal children with no incentive or skills to work. Compassion gone berserk, and to hell with the survival of the fittest concept. We’re making sure that the least fit survive and proliferate, dragging us all down.
What can you do about this mess you’ve meekly let fester? Two things. First, we’ve got to stop Congress from making things worse. Second, we’ve got to make sure Congress strikes out all of the laws they’ve made that are screwing us up. Get the feds out of the mercy business, which is just another name for socialism. My bumper-sticker approach to this is to start with Green’s NRA: Never Re-elect Anyone! Get those bribed (via lobbyists) scoundrels out of Washington. Let’s build a whole new breed of one-term politicians.
But most important is to take a few days off from watching mind-numbing TV and educate yourself. There are some damned good books which will help you understand what’s gone wrong with our school system (which is a socialist disaster), with the war on poverty (which we lost), the war on drugs (which we’ve also lost), our so-called health-care system (another enormously overpriced socialist disaster), our “correctional institutions” (which exacerbate, not correct) and so on. Hey, we have the potential for having a pretty good country, but it’s going to take a lot of work by a lot of people to undo Congressional mischief and make it happen.
The multi-level marketing (chain-letter) approach will work for us. First you educate yourself. Then you get two or three other people started being educated. And they do the same for two or three more. Then form a local action group. The next thing you know, we’ll have a movement.
I’d like to see local political action clubs (PACs) get going. Members would be encouraged to read a book and report on it at the next meeting. There are an awful lot of books out there, but only a small percentage of them are both interesting and educational. By distributing the work of separating the wheat from the chaff, a group can easily do something that no one person could possibly accomplish.
The next thing you know some entrepreneur will start collecting the book reports and submit them to me for publication. And I’ll pay for ’em. The resulting sale of the better books will help discourage publishers from unloading crap on us, and will encourage the writing of even better books.
My $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom is a review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read,” and covers a wide variety of topics. Reading these books will beat the heck out of a college education, be thousands of dollars cheaper, and take several years less time. Maybe you can get some high school kids interested in learning to read.
Perhaps I’ve let my idealism run away with me in even suggesting that we try to run our country on reason instead of fanaticism. Maybe screaming protesters and terrorism are the rule of the day and reason passé.
Anyway, if you feel that people who prefer not to work are worth $335 billion of your money being taken out of your paycheck every year, then go back and watch that ball game on TV. As long as you’re satisfied that you’re getting your money’s worth it’s no problem. If you’d get Congress to stop wasting your money we could go back to where a one paycheck family could live comfortably and a mother could have the time to spend with her children.
One reader suggested a way to solve the deficit problem would be to fire the top three layers of management of all federal bureaus on the basis that it’s unlikely that anyone lower down would notice much difference. Oh, the bureau’s jet planes would get less use. But why not fire ’em down five levels and start reducing the deficit instead of just stopping its growth?
Oh yes, one more innovation. Since many of our more serious social problems have been caused by federal judges running amok, bypassing the legislative system, how about putting term limits on those rascals too? It would also be nice if we could somehow encourage the Supremes to stop trashing to Constitution. There is no place in the Constitution which supports the social programs Congress has enacted and the Supremes have endorsed.
6/17/09
Inertia
All this puzzlement over why cold fusion is working, despite the passionate objections of several Very Important Physicists, forced me to read some books on the fundamentals of matter, something which my college curriculum managed to overlook to a shocking degree. But then, 60 years ago, there wasn’t very much to teach. The periodic table ended at 92 and nuclear fission was only touched on in Astounding Stories (now Analog).
When they were teaching us about gravity, the student instructor got angry with me when I asked him what gravity was. It hadn’t occurred to him that the equation for the gravity force wasn’t gravity. And I didn’t know that no one had a good explanation for the force. Unless you buy Einstein's concept of gravity being some sort of strain on space-time.
Now I find that there’s still some question about that theory, and that there still is no good understanding of why we have inertia. That’s been bothering me. But it’s also been a great help in discussing cold fusion when I can point out that physicists are still far from understanding the fundamentals of matter and forces, so why should we be surprised when they are unable to explain the cold fusion reaction?
In an issue of Cold Fusion I proposed a way for protons to overcome the dread coulomb barrier. A flash of inspiration hit me when I saw the similarity between the plasma action which Eric Lerner proposed in The Big Bang Never Happened as that which explains the formation of solar systems, galaxies, and super galaxies, and that envisioned by Besant and Leadbeater a hundred years ago (see The Extra-Sensory Perception of Quarks by Stephen Phillips) when they meditated on the makeup of atoms and came up with a structure amazingly similar to our current ideas on quarks, sub-quarks, and string theory. And they described that same plasma action, a sort of ball-shaped toroid of spinning energy with one heck of a vortex in the center. My thanks to Advisor M.Srinivasan of the Bhabha Atomic Physics Centre in Bombay for putting me on to the Besant work.
I saw in that vortex the concentration of energy needed to overcome the coulomb barrier, thus allowing deuterium or hydrogen to be transmuted into helium. It seemed logical, but then, when I wrote about it, I fully expected to be put down for suggesting such a thing. To my surprise, which is an understatement, Chuck Bennet, and a couple other well-known scientists, bought my concept and used it to devise further research projects.
Feeling my oats, I further editorially poked a stick at physicists by suggesting that maybe even sub-quarks aren’t fundamental particles (or wavicles), and that perhaps it has been a bit arrogant to assume that they’re anywhere near down to fundamentals when they get to quarks. The visions of Besant and Leadbeater, plus the further recent work in this area by Ron Cohen in Ontario, all describe seeing several more layers of abstraction below the quark and the electron.
While in Colorado Springs for the Tesla Society science conference and mulling over what I would cover in my talk on cold fusion, inspiration hit. Suddenly I knew why we have inertia. When I pass on to the next whatever it is, I won’t be surprised to find that Dick Feynman was over there flashing messages to me. I think you’re going to like the simplicity of my explanation.
With atoms spinning, and their component parts also spinning, let’s compare them all to a big bunch of gyroscopes. When you apply an outside force to a gyroscope, it resists, no matter which direction you push. F = ma. And it tends to stay in motion in the direction pushed. Just like what we experience as inertia. Now picture a box with a thousand gyroscopes in it, all spinning. Now picture the box with 2.75 gadzillion very, very tiny gyroscopes. Can it be all those spinning wavicles which result in inertia?
Now, if I can catch up on my work a little, perhaps I can tune in to Feynman again and come up with a better answer for gravity than distorting the fabric of space-time. Could it have something to do with nuclear forces trying to hold things together?
Bingo! Feynman did again, and I suddenly understood why we have gravity. It's those spinning balls we call atoms. The vortex action in the center that holds the atom together also attracts it to nearby atoms. Presto! We have gravity. Well, we see vortexes in action with tornadoes, where they suck up anything movable that's nearby. I sure wish I'd recorded my talk at the conference that day.
While I was at the Tesla conference I went through their book store and picked up a dozen or so more books. Having read Maximize Immunity by Bruno Comby, and being all fired up by the strength and clarity of his ideas on how to regain health from any illness, I couldn’t help but quickly read Young Again by John Thomas. That's the book that has me taking a heaping teaspoon of cayenne pepper in a half-cup of apple juice every afternoon to help roto-root my arteries.
John said one thing that made sense and helps explain the resistance to cold fusion by the establishment. Most of the breakthroughs in any field are made by amateurs, not the professionals. One gets a Ph.D. by memorizing endless stuff for memorization tests and working one’s way through college and grad school via that route. This is the opposite of the average inventor, a maverick who tends to think in concepts instead of memorization and regurgitation.
A study by INC magazine showed that few successful entrepreneurs have bothered to finish college. An inventor is like an entrepreneur in that respect. Ph.D.'s, having been thoroughly trained to memorize and not to be original thinkers, are naturally resistant to anything that is going to upset what they’ve learned.
I published a wonderful article by John Campbell in the first issue of 73 back in 1960. John explained why virtually every major creative scientific discovery has been made by amateurs. I’ve seen nothing in the last 35 years to challenge that idea. John was the editor of Analog magazine, and a good friend of mine. It was his long editorials about anything that happened to interest him at the moment that inspired me to do the same when I started publishing in 1951. I'm still at it.
But doesn't the idea of all "matter" being made up of spinning stuff explain inertia? Scientists agree that quarks all have spin, just as Besant and Leadbeater envisioned.
6/16/09
History Lesson
What did Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower have in common?
Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work..
Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal's after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.
And then, in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican Nationals! The program was called 'Operation Wetback'. It was done so WWII and Korean Veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took 2 Years, but they deported them!
Now...if they could deport the illegal's back then - they could sure do it today!
If you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself.
Reminder: Don't forget to pay your taxes…at least 12 million Illegal Aliens are depending on you!
6/15/09
Ford & GM
Here's an email from the man who keeps my Mercedes cars in good running order:
According to Forbes, the labor cost per hour, wages and benefits for hourly workers at Ford are $70.51 ($141,020 per year), at GM it's $73.26 ($146,520 per year), and at Chrysler it's $75.86 ($151,720 per year). While at Toyota, Honda, Nissan (in U.S.) it's $48.00 ($96,000 per year),
According to AAUP and IES, the average annual compensation for a college professor in 2006 was $92,973 (average salary nationally of $73,207 + 27% benefits).
Bottom Line: The average UAW worker with a high school degree earns 57.6% more compensation than the average university professor with a Ph.D., and 52.6% more than the average worker at Toyota , Honda or Nissan.
Many industry analysts say the Detroit Three, must be on par with Toyota and Honda to survive. This year's contract, they say, must be "transformational" in reducing pension and health care costs.
What would "transformational" mean? One way to think about "transformational" would mean that UAW workers, most with a high school diploma, would have to accept compensation equal to that of the average university professor with a PhD.
Then there's the "Job Bank" ... When a D3 (Detroit 3 carmaker) lays an employee off, that employee continues to receive all benefits - medical, retirement, etc., etc., PLUS an hourly wage of $31/hour.
Here's a typical story....Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, signs in, and then starts working -- on a crossword puzzle. Pool hates the monotony, but the pay is good: more than $31 an hour, plus benefits. "We just go in and play crossword puzzles,
watch videos that someone brings in or read the newspaper," he says. "Otherwise, I just sit."
Pool is one of more than 12,000 American autoworkers who, instead of installing windshields or bending sheet metal, spend their days counting the hours in a jobs bank set up by Detroit automakers as demanded by the United Auto Workers Union - UAW - as part of an extraordinary job security agreement.
Now the D3 wants Joe Taxpayer to pick up this tab in a $ 25 Billion bailout package - soon to be increased to $45 Billion if Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton have their way.
The "Big 3" want this money - not to build better autos. No. They want it to pay the tab for Medical and Retirement benefits for RETIRED auto workers. Not ONE PENNY would be used to make them more competitive, or to improve the quality of their cars.
We ALL have problems paying for our Medical Insurance - but the Democrat leaders in Congress now want us to pay the Medical Insurance premiums of folks who have RETIRED from Ford, GM and Chrysler...............
Does anyone know how a person making $12.00 to $15.00 an hour can purchase a vehicle built by someone making $70.00+ per hour?
6/1`4/09
Bribery
My big goal is to get the word out on how easy it is to cure any illness and never get sick again by a change of diet. But, since that would put the pharmaceutical industry out of business, even getting a hint out to the public is almost impossible.
Would Newsweek dare to print an exposé? The current issue has ten and a half pages of drug ads and only seven pages of non-drug ads. Money doesn't talk, it screams, drowning out truth. Time had thirteen and a half pages of drug ads. Without drug ads they'd both be out of business.
It's the same with TV. As I fast-forward through the ads on the shows I watch while I'm eating, I see one drug ad after another. If people wise up about their food it could have a devastating effect on the advertising business. Gee!
6/13/09
The Muslim Invasion
Can we learn from the mess in Europe, where Muslims have emigrated by the millions, yet have refused to accept the local language and customs, and have formed their own communities? Further, while the non-Muslims are averaging 1.4 children per family, the Muslims are averaging five. At that rate it won't take long before the Muslims will be in the majority.
The same thing is starting here, with the Saudi's building over a thousand mosques and pushing Wahabiism, the most radical form of Islam. They're teaching their children that it will be their duty to kill any infidel. An infidel, by the way, is anyone who is not a Muslim.
6/12/09
Chaos
While working on a second edition of my Secret Guide to Health I got to thinking about what might happen if I'm able to get the book into millions of hands instead of just thousands. What will happen if a million people start demanding organic produce, meat and raw milk?
Even here in New Hampshire, where most of us are away from the big cities, there's no surplus of raw milk or grass-fed organic meat. An increase in demand is going to raise prices as more and more people realize they have to change their diets to raw, organic food if they want to recover from any illness they have and to make sure they aren't ever going to get sick.
We do have an advantage in that almost all farming moved west a hundred years or so ago, so our land hasn't been poisoned by a hundred years of chemical fertilizers, followed by pesticides. It's covered by forests now, but the dirt is primo for organic farming once the trees have been removed. Oh, it'll need some rock dust to get the minerals back into it, but I don't think we'll have a serious shortage of granite to powderify here in "The Granite State."
We've got to get our citizen's legislature to allow stores to sell raw milk. The demand will force the milk companies to turn to grass-fed cows with no BGH shots or antibiotics. Oh, and the grass will have to be grown on non-poisoned, remineralized pastures.
The demand for healthy food will gradually transform the fast-food companies and our supermarkets. The midwest farmers are going to have to stop growing all that corn, clean up their land, and go organic. No more factory-raised beef and chickens, crammed full of genetically modified corn in tiny prisons.
I think we'll be seeing greenhouses sprouting by the millions all across the country as families counter the high store prices for healthy food. I'll bet a high percentage of 'em will be pyramid shape and using Sonic-Bloom. Oh, you haven't yet read Les Brown's The Pyramid…see page 29 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review. The $3 book is available from Acres USA (800-355-5313), last I heard.
Brown's pyramid-shaped greenhouses have grown vegetables over four times normal. They're more insect resistant, last longer after being picked, and are better tasting. Since using Sonic Bloom accomplishes about the same results, I wonder what would happen if both were used? Plant a seed and jump back!
Maybe it's time to start gardening classes in our schools and encourage our teens to start home gardens. As people start wising up that their immune systems can cure any cancer (or anything else) by changing to a raw food diet, the demand for healthy food is bound to grow.
6/11/09
Babies & TV
It's bad enough with the intentional dumbing down of our children by our public schools, now researchers tell us that letting babies watch TV is significantly adding to children's mental development problems.
You see, babies learn language from their parents and don't from TV. The parent-child interaction is critical. So studies show that the more babies are exposed to TV the smaller vocabulary they build and the more problems they have later in communicating.
This can put another strain on families when both parents have to work, so the baby has to be put in a day-care facility. Of course, a good day-care outfit would have foreign language personnel to teach the babies when their language-learning abilities are at a peak, which is a relatively short window of opportunity. During that period of brain development babies can learn many languages, be able to think in each of them, and speak without an accent.
As I've explained before, our mandatory government-run public school system was initiated 150 years ago by religious leaders, who got Congress to get kids out of the one-room school houses, where our children had the highest literacy rate in our history, and into factory type schools, using the Prussian school system, which turned out the most obedient soldiers in the world.
The factory process is designed to take raw material and turn out identical products. And, as Michael Medved so wisely put it, "The government makes a mess of everything it does." Hey, let me know if you can think of any exceptions. I can't.
6/10/09
Reform
Lured by an article in the paper to a panel discussion on healthcare reform, I drove to Keene and sat through two hours of lecturing on the subject. The main goal of the meeting seemed to be to recruit people to go on a bus ride to Washington on the 25th for a mass demonstration to promote the passing of real health care reform legislation. They are demanding quality, affordable healthcare for all!
It took a while, but I finally was allowed a couple minutes to explain about self-care via raw food rather than going to doctors and hospitals. Far's I know I aroused interest in the idea among none of the 25 or so in the audience, nor the four presenters. They want one-pay health insurance, dammit.
They're having busloads of protesters going there from all around the country. About 150 are expected to be going from New Hampshire in three buses.
6/9/09
Guests?
The huge marches by illegal immigrants, waving Mexican flags and loudly demanding “rights,” didn’t sound or look anything like people who want to become American citizens. They want their language, their customs, and American money.
These people are nothing like earlier immigrants, who came here, learned English, adopted our customs. and were proud to become Americans. Let's drop the hyphenated-Americans…like Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, and even African-Americans. If you don't want to be Americans, we don't want you here.
With an admitted 12 million illegal aliens, and who knows how many actual…with some estimates closer to 20 million, we’ve been infiltrated. In the eyes of the law these people are all felons. They’ve broken the law, and the President, being wishy-washy about that, doesn’t change the law.
If enough people break a law, is that a reason for Congress to rewrite the law? Maybe it’s a reason to devote more effort to enforcement. Bigger, more intelligent fences. More guards. Worse penalties for the law breakers…and I don’t mean our spending $30,000 a year to store them in our prisons…which are already bulging with Hispanic criminals.
This is America. When you come here you are going to speak English and leave your old customs behind. Your women are not going to wear head scarves or burkas. You are not even going to speak your old language around the home.
It’s time to stop screwing around. Let’s outlaw the mailing of any foreign language publications, or the licensing of radio station frequencies or TV channels, both of which are the property of the American citizens and handled by the FCC. No car or driver’s licenses unless you are a citizen and can speak English. No "Press 1 for English."
Let’s make it a felony for anyone to hire an illegal alien for any work. This will inconvenience a lot of commercial farms and maybe make our lettuce a little more expensive. Lettuce has almost no nutritive value anyway. And it’s probably loaded with pesticides, and have almost none of the minerals our bodies need.
We're spending billions giving the illegals sickness care, educating their kids, and even giving them social security payments. This is absolutely ridiculous.
If we actually need more workers, let’s get Congress to increase the legal immigration limits. I’d like to see us letting in more educated, intelligent people and fewer from the bottom of the barrel.
Millions of the illegals are taking advantage of the easy money here, sending tens of millions back to their families in Mexico every month. And they have no intention of ever becoming American citizens.
Okay, first we have to find the illegals. Let’s start with one state at a time, bring in a bunch of federal agents to help the local police. Then, set up an alarm phone number, say 311, which will allow any business to alert the police when anyone with a Spanish accent visits them.
The legal Hispanics will find it a major nuisance, but they’ll have documentation…and a good reason to brush up on their English. Maybe even speaking it at home.
6/08/09
Going Green
Goal: To Make New Hampshire the healthiest, wealthiest, best-educated, and happiest state in America.
We’ll need organic crops grown on remineralized land that hasn’t been poisoned with chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Fortunately, our farmers moved to the easier to use midwest farmland a hundred years ago, so most New Hampshire land has never been poisoned. Spreading powdered rock (granite) on our farm land will remineralize it to provide very healthy organic crops. And if we use Sonic Bloom we’ll have larger, faster-growing better-tasting crops.
We’ll need clean water and fish from unpoisoned rivers and lakes, so we need to check our lakes for mercury. Many trees felled by the 1938 hurricane, their ends preserved with mercury, were thrown into our lakes. These need to be removed and the lakes allowed to clean themselves before it will be safe to fish them.
We can help clean our air by investing in the R&D it will take to make cold fusion a practical energy source. Here’s non-polluting energy at a hundredth the cost of oil which will allow every home to generate all the heat and electricity a family can use, and almost free. No more oil or coal-fired power stations (or nuclear) fouling our air. If we can develop and manufacture the power units here in New Hampshire we’ll go a long way towards being the wealthiest state.
Another step toward wealth would be to plant black walnut trees and growth them with Sonic Bloom technology. This legal crop, which would cost nothing to plant, could provide over $250,000 a year per acre and start a new wood industry for New Hampshire.
6/7/09
The Basics
It's really just common sense. If we want to have a healthy body we should give it the quantity and quality of food it's designed to use, plenty of pure water, lots of exercise, plenty of sun, clean air, and adequate sleep.
It sounds simple, but how many of those basics are you providing your body? Are the fruit and vegetables you're eating non-genetically modified and grown organically on remineralized soil? Your meat from grass-fed animals? Your milk non-pasteurized? Are you eating everything raw?
About the only way to be sure of your drinking pure water these days is to distill it. Otherwise you're likely getting added stuff like chlorine, fluoride, lead, used pharmaceutical drugs, and other crud with it. See www.steamdistiller.com for an inexpensive still.
Exercise? Har-de-har. Gee, no time for that…the ballgame will be on in a few minutes.
Sunlight on the skin? Whadaya want, skin cancer? Melanoma? Newsflash: on a raw food diet you don't get skin cancer, just a tan skin.
Clean air? Why do you think I'm living on a farm in New Hampshire and not in a city, like I did for years? Well, that's one very good reason.
Sleep? You want a quiet, totally dark room.
6/2/09
Great Gifts
One of my Brooklyn readers stopped by to visit. We had a great time talking, but the capper was his parting gift…a gift I'll treasure for the rest of my life. It was a mint copy of the 1950 Astounding Science Fiction magazine with the article by L.Ron Hubbard about Dianetics.
Upon reading that article I quickly bought the book, read it, and then tested it out with a fellow announcer at WSPB in Sarasota, where we were working. The results were so spectacular I quit my job, just as I was offered a major raise, and drove to Elizabeth NJ to take a six-week course at the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation. See my 4/21/09 entry for the details on the test with Joe.
What a thoughtful gift that almost sixty-year old magazine was. You see, Dianetics has had a major influence on my life.
There are two other thoughtful gifts from my readers. Both, treasures. One is an oil painting of my WWII submarine, the USS Drum, by Don Lively. And the other is a hand-made beadspread that I use all winter, which was made by Jeanie Dicus.
6/1/09
Newsweek
They've totally revamped the magazine, apparently guided by an art director gone wild. Take the 8-1/2 page article about Oprah. The first two pages have only a half page of text, and the rest is filled with huge headlines. The pull-quotes in the article are in 36-point type, and most of the pages have large pictures of Oprah. The article itself goes on and on about how crazy the health advice is that one gets watching the Oprah show. Indeed, the opening headline in 2-3/4-inch high type is "CRAZY TALK."
This came into some perspective when I counted the magazine's ad pages. There were ten pages of pharmaceutical ads and just nine other pages of ads.
It's bad enough to have only 18 pages of ads in an 80-page magazine, where I would normally expect to see 25 to 35 pages of ads, but should the magazine in any way aggravate Big Pharma, it would be out of business. No, when I publish the second edition of my Secret Guide to Health, I'm not going to bother sending Newsweek a review copy.
5/31/09
Crossing The Equator
That used to be a big deal, with ships having initiation ceremonies for first time crossers. Then, when the airlines started crossing the Equator, they issued certificates for the passengers.
My first crossing was when I went on a hunting safari in Kenya, which straddles the Equator. So when I saw a sign showing the road I was on was crossing the Equator, I set up my 16mm camera and took pictures of me hopping back and forth across the equator. Hey, who else can brag they've crossed the Equator hundreds of times? And have the film to prove it.
5/30/09
Transfusions
Doctors are doing millions of blood transfusions every year, and I’ll bet you’re completely convinced that this is a good, lifesaving procedure. My advice? Do everything you can to avoid one!
I used to work in an office on 43rd Street in Manhattan. On the floor below our publishing offices was a blood bank, so I got a good look at their clientele over the five years I worked there…and it was mostly homeless winos, getting enough money for another bottle of the cheapest wine they could find.
As I’ve mentioned, every cell in your body, and that includes every cell in your blood, is in constant contact with every other cell, even when separated from you by thousands of miles. When you get a transfusion of someone else’s blood, you’re getting a part of them integrated into your mind/body system, and not just your body. You’ll also get a good collection of any poisons they were carrying around, such as alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and any other drugs, viruses, microbes, parasites, fungi, or yeasts in their blood. And maybe some toxic metals, too.
If you think I’m exaggerating, you haven’t bothered to read The Secret Life of Your Cells (p.5) yet. I’ve reviewed it in my $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom.
Even though the new blood is the same type as yours, it is from another person and your immune system will get busy eliminating the invader. That’s just what you need at a time when you need all of the strength your immune system can muster to help you recover from whatever caused the doctors to give you the transfusion.
If you have made any effort to develop your psychic ability, once you’ve had a transfusion you’ll be able to pick up many of the thoughts and feelings of the person from whom you’ve received the blood. One woman wrote a book about an organ transplant where she was able to sense the name of the donor and feel his feelings (A Change of Heart). And thousands of people have reported weird things resulting from blood transfusions. A recent lab test, with cells from an athlete’s heart, beat exactly in pace with his heart as he walked and ran, even though he was miles away.
5/29/09
Leno
While I seldom have bothered to watch Jay’s interviews with celebs, I’ve always enjoyed his opening monologue and the following funny bits…Jaywalking interviews, 99¢ Store stuff, etc. The Tonight Show will be hosted by Conan O’Brien from June first on, with Jay back in the fall with his own 10 PM show.
Having tried watching Conan on his Late Night Show, this will be the end of my taping the Tonight Show. Phooey.
I tape the CSI and Law & Order shows so I can watch them while I’m eating. Having learned to chew my food until it’s liquid, it usually takes me about an hour to eat a meal. By skipping the commercials I can watch one and a third programs per meal…four shows a day. I also tape the ION Television reruns of Boston Legal and NCIS, another five hours a week. And 60 Minutes on Sunday.
If there are any other shows you think I might really enjoy, please let me know.
5/28/09
Cribbage Coup
If you’re a cribbage player you’ll get a kick out of this.
Sherry and I play two or three games a day. So, today we’re playing and we were getting toward the end. Sherry almost had the game won, needing only eight more points to be out…and I was waay, way back there, needing 27 points to be out. Hopeless.
It was my deal, so Sherry melded first. Uh oh, she had just six points, so she was two shy of going out.
My hand wasn’t any better, just six, so I was 21 shy. The turn-up card, a nine, hadn’t helped me. Well, I’d put two threes in my crib, so with the nine that would only be four more points. But when I turned over the crib, Sherry had also put in two threes. Wow! Twenty-four points! So I won the game!
Has anyone ever gotten a twenty-four point crib before?
5/25/09
Star Drek
Lured by hopes and ballyhoo, Sherry and I drove to the cineplex for the latest Star Treck, We lasted about 45 minutes before giving up and getting our money back.
This supposed hit film drew us and three other people in the whole theater.
5/23/09
The Drum
If you get anywhere near Mobile AL this summer, please don’t miss a visit to my old home, the USS Drum (SS-228), which is on display in Battleship Park. See where I spent a couple years of my life sixty-five years ago…complete with pictures of me back then.
My book, Submarines in WWII (#10), tells what it was like and some of the close calls we had. Verrry close! It also explains what really happened to Amelia Earhart.
5/22/09
Talk Topics
If you have any connections to help get me radio or TV interviews, here are some of the topics I can discuss. The most important, by a wide margin, is health…but stations which might not survive without drug commercials might not want that brought up.
There are so many interesting things to talk about I could do a booklet just outlining them.
(1) But first are healthcare costs, which I think we could cut about 90% by getting the word out of a raw food diet's fantastic healing power.
(2) Then there's our most expensive and one of the worst in the developed world public school system. We know how to have children with 150 average IQs, who can speak many languages with no accent and think in any of them. Who can read books at a few seconds a page with good comprehension. How about colleges with no tuition, and at no cost to the government, who graduate students with vastly more knowledge and skills than today…and in only three years?
(3) Unemployment? By forming business incubator groups in every town we could, at no cost to the government, start hundreds of thousands...maybe millions...of new small businesses…and I don't mean mom and pop stores.
(4) How about a whole new trillion-dollar industry providing a non-polluting energy at a hundredth the cost of oil, with a small unit in every home that would supply all of the heat and electricity a family could want? No more gas stations, power web or power plants, with their pollution and nuclear waste.
(5) How about a way to cut our prison costs by about 90% and also greatly reduce recidivism?
(6) Our government has doubled in the last few years. How about a way to cut it in half or even much more, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating?
(7) And a way to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan quickly and with a minimum of fighting? And then an inexpensive way to rebuild the messes we've made there?
(8) How about an inexpensive quick cure for AIDS? And a penny-a-gallon super antibiotic anyone can make on the kitchen table?
(9) A way to make foreign aid pay off big time?
(10) A simple way to remineralize our farm lands to replace the lost minerals we need in our food?
(11) The Mad Cow baloney.
(12) How American Mensa was started…and the cell phone industry…and the personal computer industry…and the compact disc industry.
(13) How to chew…an important health skill almost no one has mastered.
(14) The Sun isn't the real cause of skin cancer.
(15) The real story of Amelia Earhart…I knew her.
(16) Cell phone dangers.
(17) How to turn nuclear waste into huge amounts of energy, eliminating it's radioactivity.
(18) How to end inflation.
(19) How about a new Social Security system which can pay ten times what seniors are getting today?
(20) And me being a passenger on the first commercial airline flight between Philadelphia and New York.
(21) How the Church of Scientology got started. I was there.
(22) And the real cause of global warming?
(23) A simple, fast, PTSD cure?
(24) Life-long-learning products…a new trillion-dollar industry.
(25) How about a new battery that's a hundredth the size and weight (and a tenth or less the cost) of today's car batteries?
Well, that's what comes to mind at the moment.
5/21/09
Don’t Drink the Water
Are you still drinking tap water? What does it take to get you to get an inexpensive still and start distilling that sewage your city or town is providing? You don’t need any of the toxic metals that come out of your spigots. Worse, you surely don’t want to put chlorine into your body, and the chances are that your water system has plenty of that poison.
But the most damaging of all the water additives are fluorides. Oh, there goes Wayne, on some sort of an ecological kick. Just look up the results of dozens of research lab reports and published peer-reviewed papers attesting to the genetic damage caused by fluorides. The research reports show clearly that as little as one part per million of fluorides in drinking water causes measurable genetic defects in sperm chromosomes, and that means some sort of genetic defect will be passed along to your children. And this is not going to be helpful. This can mean small or large birth defects, none beneficial. And these will, in turn be passed along to your grandchildren. Is that really what you want?
I started out buying gallon bottles of distilled water from the drug store, then I discovered www.steamdistiller.com, with a $120 still that does the job beautifully. Works like a charm and has paid for itself many times over.
The Dr. Yiamouyiannis book, Fluoride, the Aging Factor, which I’ve reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom, has the subtitle, “How to recognize and avoid the devastating effects of fluoride.”
You’ve read about the decreasing sperm count in American men. Well, fluoride in the water supply has been shown to do this. It’s a deadly poison, and helps knock the stuffing out of your immune system, making it easier to have cancer to get started. And no, it’s not even good for you or your children’s teeth. Do your homework and you’ll find that we’ve been screwed again by big business.
Just in case you are still, despite my warnings, drinking water laced with fluorides or using fluoride laced toothpaste, or even allowing your dentist to put fluoride on your or your children’s teeth, maybe you’d better find out the real story. Many school districts are allowing nurses to come into the schools and swab the children’s teeth with fluoride. Fluoride mottles teeth (called fluorisis), so if your child’s teeth get swabbed in school watch closely for the mottling, and when it shows up get a lawyer and sue the school board for a bundle.
Yes, in this best of all countries in the best of all times, your meats are laced with hormones, plus salmonella in your chicken. Your water has government added fluorides and chlorine, plus God knows what else, such as dioxin, which has seeped into our country’s aquifer. The air in your cities is poisoning your lungs.
Under pressure from the fluoride suppliers, our cities have added this carcinogen to your drinking water. The excuse is that it is supposed to help children’s teeth. A study of 480,000 children showed that it doubled their tooth decay. Researchers have estimated the fluorides in our water are causing about 60,000 people to die of cancer every year that otherwise wouldn’t.
Recently the EPA and National Research Council (NRC) okayed 4 ppm of fluoride in our drinking water, despite the evidence from double blind studies that even 1 ppm causes severe allergic reactions and destroys immune cells. If you do some homework you’ll find that the EPA has gone to extremes to hide the facts of fluoridation from the public. It’s a fascinating, but not particularly surprising story of corruption.
As Dr. Robert Carlton, a US EPA scientist put it, “Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century…if not of all time.”
With over half of the U.S. municipal water supplies being fluoridated, the chances that you and your family are being poisoned by this stuff is high. Poisoned? Recent studies have linked fluorides with osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and backache…and has been projected to cripple over 10% of people over 60.
For the young married couples it has been shown in two large Chinese studies to significantly lower children’s IQ. This influence starts during pregnancy, when the brain is developing the fastest, and has been confirmed by studies of the brains of aborted fetuses. Oh yes, there’s a much higher rate of miscarriages in areas with artificial fluoridation of the water.
Fluoride damages the central nervous system, causing hyperactivity and learning disabilities in children. One study showed that the greater the fluoride concentration in the water, the lower the fertility rate for women.
Other studies have shown fluoride to cause neural degeneration and it also seems to enhance the flow of aluminum to the brain, resulting in Alzheimer’s memory loss and confusion.
So, are you and your family still drinking and bathing in municipal water laced with fluorides? It’s okay for flushing your toilet, but it’s really bad news when taken internally.
Isn’t it about time to start either distilling your drinking water, or getting a reverse osmosis filter? Or don’t you worry about next week? Or care at all about giving your kids a break in life? Life is tough enough when you give your kids every opportunity you can without your permanently dumbing them down right from the beginning.
You know, I keep hearing people wondering why kids today are so out of control…why some kids grab a gun and start shooting classmates. Then I read about the effects of fluorides, sugar, aspartame, fluorescent lights, and other poisons on kids that weren’t there a hundred years ago and I wonder why the situation isn’t worse.
Yes, I’m trying to stop you from poisoning yourself. Or, perhaps it’s closer to say letting your government poison you and your family.
And yes, I’m well aware of the promotion fluorides have gotten, and how it’s so wonderful for children’s teeth that our caring government is, at our great expense, putting it into most of our city water supplies. So, am I an alarmist, or have I got the facts to back me up?
Fluoridated water has been shown to increase hip fractures and bone cancer. Just what you need. In the elderly, which is what you hope to eventually be, a hip fracture is often almost a death sentence.
Distill your drinking water and stop poisoning your body. Just because the aluminum companies have found a profitable market for their industrial waste is no reason for you to be sucker enough to drink it.
I don’t know if you care how smart your kids are, but will you knowingly help dumb them down?
Oh, are you still using fluoride-laced toothpaste? Just don’t swallow any of it. Kids have died doing that.
In a paper sent to me by Roger Masters of Dartmouth College I found the results of an extensive study of what happens to people who drink water which has been fluoridated.
Fluorine, as you probably know, is one of the most active elements known, so it should be no surprise that when it is added to our water supply that it attacks the pipes and the pipe lead solder joints. The amount of lead this adds to the water supply is significant enough so the study showed a children’s IQ difference of five points between fluoridated water and non-fluoridated. The study also showed that there is a consistent ten point IQ deficit when children are bottle fed instead of breast fed. This just confirms many other studies which have shown the same deficit.
A 15 point IQ loss can make the difference between a college acceptance and a high school drop out.
And those are just two easily controlled factors which will determine a child’s IQ for life. I’ve discussed several others in the past and I’ll try to put all of these together into a book to help new parents avoid turning their budding geniuses into morons through an ignorance of what’s involved.
The U.S. isn’t the first country to fluoridate water. The Germans and Russians added fluorides to the drinking water of concentration camp prisoners to make them more docile and apathetic. It’s also added to animal’s drinking water to make them more docile.
Fluoridation is illegal in every European country except Ireland. California fruits and vegetables sprayed with fluoride-based pesticides can’t be legally imported into any European country.
Are you and your family drinking this stuff? In all probability you are unless you’re distilling it first.
Fluoride in our water is resulting in less than 100,000 cancer deaths a year, so it’s no big deal. How’s it causing cancer deaths? Sodium fluoride inhibits the body’s enzyme functions, knocking the immune system down. In heavier concentrations it’s used as rat poison, where it causes the rats to starve to death, no matter how much they eat.
But, what about the cavities? When you start digging into the data you find that there has never been any research which has shown that sodium fluoride helps prevent cavities. Indeed, Toronto has had fluoridated water for over 36 years and they have far more cavities per person than Vancouver, which has no fluoride. The fact is that fluoridated water helps cause tooth decay. It also increases the aging process. Deaths in fluoridated areas are 5% higher than non-fluoridated.
Fluoride eats away the bones, causing them to become brittle and break more easily.
When you or your child uses fluoridated tooth paste 80% of the fluoride is absorbed sub-lingually within a minute unless it is spit out. No child should be allowed to use fluoridated tooth paste or to drink fluoridated water.
Classic Coke was tested and found to have 2.56 ppm of sodium fluoride. Diet Coke had 2.96 ppm. In fact it’s found in most bottled drinks and drinks from concentrate because the country’s bottling plants use fluoridated city water. Federal law does not require this to be disclosed on the label.
5/20/09
AIDS Update
[An 1996 editorial reprint]
In my Feb. 1994 editorial I mentioned a simple circuit which was claimed to be able to rid the blood of the HIV virus. This all stemmed from a report in Science News, March 30, 1991, page 207, where the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City reported that their researchers had discovered that when a very tiny current (about 50 µA) was passed through HIV-positive blood it eliminated the virus. This has since been reported in several other publications.
Now I know you’re going to find this totally impossible to believe, but this incredible break-through in what had been considered to be an incurable illness, made no detectable dent in the quest for a patentable and exploitable drug for AIDS. Nor did it apparently divert any of the hundreds of millions of research dollars seeking such a salable drug.
Just to make matters worse, along came Bob Beck, a physicist, who proposed treating the blood with the micro-current while in the body instead of having to take it out, treat it, and then put it back. How? Simple, just put a couple of electrodes on a person’s wrists, where the leg arteries are close to the surface, and apply enough voltage to induce the wanted micro-current. How much voltage does it take? Well, use an ohmmeter and Ohm’s Law for that. It turns out you will need around 10 Volts or less for most people. That’s enough for them to feel a tiny tingle. The blood stream is the path of least resistance through the body, so that’s where the microamperes flow.
Beck added a transistor to flick a relay, reversing the current twice a second, to prevent any polarization or electrophoretic ion migration. A flip-flop would draw less current and be quieter. I was going to publish the original diagram I got from Beck, but readers kept sending me improved circuits, plus there was some legitimate fear of an attack by the FDA.
I wish I was exaggerating about the American medical power structure. It’s a combination of the FDA, in bed with the AMA, the pharmaceutical industry, and the insurance companies. Understandably, none of them want to disturb the fantastic flow of money the present system provides. It’s a two trillion-dollar industry.
So here we are, two years down the line from my original editorial. I distributed hundreds of copies of a 16-page booklet with the Beck schematic at my own expense, figuring that if it could save some lives, fine. If not, I couldn’t see any possible harm that could come from the procedure. Beck says he now has over 200 medically certified AIDS cures via use of the blood purifier circuit in a locan clinic. Further, he hasn’t yet heard of anyone who has used it and failed. I’ve had calls of thanks from as far away as France, where a street musician in Nice called to tell me that the booklet I provided had saved his son’s life.
As I mentioned a few months ago, Beck, wanting to be sure that there were no side effects from using the circuit, zapped his own blood for a couple of hours in
stead of the recommended 20 minutes. The result was that his weight gradually dropped 65-pounds, going down to normal and then staying there, even though he claims he didn’t change his eating habits. He mumbled something about it resetting his appestat. His wife, being no dummy, zapped her blood too, and her weight went down to where it was when she was 17. I’ll have to hear from more people having success with this before I am completely convinced. If it does work reliably for weight control, the circuit is worth billions for that alone. But then I don’t suppose you have any interest in something entrepreneurial. Besides, you’d probably have the FDA all over you like flies on something.
I don’t suppose you’ve read “Racketeering In Medicine,” which I recommended recently?
Beck says there are several clinics outside the US, and thus beyond the reach of the FDA, that are using the blood purifier with great success.
Unless you’ve managed to acquire AIDS, you’ve probably ho-hummed most of the fuss about it. You’ve read about it being epidemic in Africa. You may have seen, but not read, several books saying HIV and AIDS are not connected, that AIDS is mostly a lifestyle problem. And you’ve seen the AIDS activist demonstrators on TV news shows being as visible as possible, demanding that congress spend more on AIDS research. More pork barrel money for the pharmaceutical companies and welfare for scientists.
I know that if I suddenly discovered I had AIDS and was told by doctors that there is no cure, I’d be out there investigating every possible alternative approach. Of course that presupposes that I’ve discovered that doctors don’t know everything. The more I read, the more I learn about how restricted most doctors have been in their training, and how few of them bother to even try to learn about alternatives, no matter how successful they are reported to be.
There are several excellent books I’ve read recently that every doctor should be made to read, books that I recommend to anyone with a serious illness of any kind. Someone should be publishing a newsletter on the subject, and writing books. If they are, I haven’t found ’em yet. The closest I’ve found so far is Dr. William Douglass’ books on chelation, AIDS, hydrogen peroxide, and UV therapy.
I’ve already written about “Maximize Immunity” by Dr. Comby and “Forever Young” by Thomas.
Getting back to the blood purifier, which also is reported to wipe out herpes and Eppstein Barr, let’s see what you can come up with as far as a simple circuit to supply the 50 µA. I’ll publish the best ones. (Note: I did in the May 1996 issue of 73)
I came close to being able to make a kit of the original Beck circuit available. One of our advertisers got the parts together for one and sent me a sample. Unfortunately, one of my editors put it in his drawer without telling me about it. It wasn’t until he left that I discovered the kit. I then sent it to Bob Beck to see what he thought. He gave it to the first serious AIDS case that came along, promising to send me a replacement. He’s been promising for a year. Meanwhile I’ve been up to here in assorted non-related problems, launching a cold fusion magazine, and so on.
But even if I did have a kit available, I’m not sure how I could market it without going to prison. The FDA is always ready to pounce, and they have as strong a record for reasonableness as the IRS. Since it costs an average of over $800 million to get a new drug or procedure okayed by the FDA, there is no way to get a new approach authorized when there is no drug company to foot the bill. Talk about a Catch-22!
5/18/09
Kids Smoking
[Another old editorial reprint]
When you see someone in a movie or on TV smoking these days you know they are going to turn out to be the bad guys. Oddly enough, I've had a similar experience in my own life. It almost got me to thinking.
Last year was a doozie, with a couple of my employees getting together to put me out of business so they could take it over. And those crumbs were my only smokers! And that may have been what brought about most of the trouble!
You see, once an hour they'd go outside for a 10-minute smoking break. With no work being done and time on their hands, they apparently hatched the plan. One can cook up a lot of mischief during an hour of smoking breaks every day. Paid breaks, of course.
We've got a high school just down the street, so we've a constant stream of kids going by. A distressing percentage of them are smoking. Kids start smoking because they think it's cool. They do it to impress their friends, not for any kick they get out of it.
So when I see a kid smoking I know that the kid isn't all that bright. You have to be pretty stupid these days to knowingly take on a lifetime expensive drug habit. I also know that the kid is a follower and not a leader…easily swayed by what others think, sheep-like, uncreative, a non-thinker, and probably has one heck of an inferiority complex. Insecure. Oddly enough, they start smoking to get respect, not having been taught that you have to earn respect. You can't build respect by being stupid.
I'm afraid I react the same way when I see kids with untied shoelaces, sloppy, baggy clothes, weird hair, jeans with holes in the knees, and so on. I know this is probably not an intelligent person. Sure, it's important to dress so that your friends are comfortable with you. I put on a business suit when I'm going to a business meeting. I dress so that everyone else is comfortable with the way I look, knowing that people put a lot of stock in their first impressions.
5/16/09
Your Property Confiscated!
[An editorial reprint from 1995]
What would be your reaction if your state were to decide to take your house and property from you with no compensation and then agree to let you keep using it only if you paid rent? And if you have a business, they’d also take your building and land, still with no compensation, and let you keep using it only if you paid rent?
Think about it. Would that be enough to make you mad? Would it be enough to get you to want to actually do something to fight back?
Well, if you think about it, that’s exactly the situation if your state has a property tax. The fact is you don’t really own your property. If you fail to pay the rent (tax), the state will take it away from you and auction it off to pay your unpaid rent. The purchaser won’t actually own it either, just being the new renter.
5/14/09
Foreign Competition
[This is a reprint of one of my 1995 editorials]
The production line workers who are out parading around with signs bemoaning the moving of their jobs to Mexico and Asia are bewildered. After all, they’ve been doing the same job for 20 years and getting regular raises. Now, suddenly, with no warning, the factory has closed! No warning? Well, not to the illiterate. And I count anyone illiterate who does not read, whether they have acquired the skill or not.
So we’ve got millions of people who have been totally surprised to be out of work. Not having been aware of the changes coming they’ve made no effort to build skills more relevant to the changing technology. The electronics factories in Asia not only use lower wage workers, but they are higher skilled because their school systems make ours look like the third world. Plus their factories are automated far beyond most of ours. Over ten years ago Samsung in Korea was making 13” TV sets by the zillions, with the whole process so automated that there was less than 15 minutes of labor in each set! It’s no wonder all of the American TV manufacturers have been blown away.
The better educated and higher skilled work forces in other countries are gradually taking away our manufacturing industries. We’ve countered by moving our factories abroad, and replacing middle management with computers and better communications systems to cut overhead. Today we have more people working for the government than we do in manufacturing. Of course, if I could get any politicians to listen to my ideas, we could cut the government work force in half within three years, and have the people involved cooperating enthusiastically. So what work will you be doing in ten years? That’s 2005, and not very far away. Will you have the education and the skills you need to cope with the technology and transportation mix of 2005? Or will you be blindsided? Remember, the American standard of living has been gradually dropping over the last 20 years, and there’s no sign of any change of this trend.
5/14/09
AIDS, Amelia, and Cold Fusion
[This is a reprint of one of my 1999 editorials]
The AIDS cure I described in my February editorial hasn’t hit Time yet, but it is finally getting published in some medical journals, so the word is starting to get around.
I sent letters to my two senators and representatives in Washington, asking if they were interested in the AIDS cure. One answered, saying I should get in touch with the FDA if I had a problem. So I wrote to the head of the FDA and to the Health cabinet member. You guessed it, after a month no answer. I also wrote to the editors of Time, Newsweek, US News, Forbes, Fortune, and a few other magazines. No answer from any of them.
Is it that no one of importance reads their mail any more? I read mine, but then I probably don’t count as a person of importance, except in my own mind.
Now I see that TNT is going to broadcast a film on Amelia Earhart. Well, they haven’t contacted me, and as far as I know, I’m probably the only person alive who really knows the inside story of her last trip. Frankly, I’m disappointed in you. I’ve written about this and you haven’t passed the word. So I watched the recent TV program about Amelia blunder around, and ditto the author of the recent Earhart book. Tsk. Yes, she was a spy for the Navy, and I knew it before she made her trip.
I’ve been hoping to get some people in congress interested in the cold fusion developments. I’ve had every bit as much success in getting answers on that tack.
Things have been moving fast in the cold fusion department. The University of Siena, Italy recently demonstrated a nickel-hydrogen system which generated lots of power and kept on doing it for weeks after all input was removed. It didn’t stop by itself, they had to stop it. This is particularly interesting in that the reaction has been at relatively high temperatures (around 500°F), so it’s a more efficient system. The estimates I’ve seen are on the order of 300 kilowatts from three grams of nickel. The university has not been forthcoming on their system for initiating the reaction, but from the pictures my editor took it doesn’t look very complicated. This is obviously not a chemical reaction.
Cold fusion presents a wonderful opportunity for experimenters. First, it doesn’t cost a bundle to experiment in the field. Second, it doesn’t take a Ph.D. in chemistry or physics, or anything else, for that matter. This is a whole new field and there are no experts yet. You could be one, if you wanted. Third, all of the research in this field so far has been empirical, which means everyone involved is trying this and that, and seeing what works and what doesn’t.
Pons and Fleischmann got started with this because they’d run across an anomaly that seemed worth checking out when palladium and deuterium were put in a lithium bath. It was much the same with Hydrosonics in Georgia, which has been manufacturing steam heating systems that use a new approach to water compression to heat the water. Then their customers started remarking on how efficient their systems were, so they tested one and found it was more than 100% efficient. Hey, what’s going on here?
In what fields have you become an expert? For that matter, what have you done with your life that has contributed even a little bit to the advancement of our society? One of the things that really disappointed me when I started going to the reunions of my old submarine buddies from WWII was that few of them had ever done anything of any significance since our time on the submarine. Indeed, that was the most important thing many of them have ever done.
It just isn’t all that difficult to become an expert in some field. In almost any field. When the microcomputer came along in 1975 I decided I’d have to learn how these darned things work. I went out and bought a stack of books on computer theory and started reading. When I found them difficult to understand (they were terrible…college texts), that gave me the idea to start Byte. I knew there would be hundreds of thousands of people in the same fix as a result of this revolutionary development.
No one knows yet how cold fusion actually works, so anyone new to the field is starting out fresh. Actually, a newcomer has an advantage. One of the things that has hurt cold fusion has been the know-nothing scientists who, because they don’t have an explanation for what’s happening, have been refusing to believe it. Their position is that every one of the research labs that has claimed positive results has made serious errors. It can’t happen. It hasn’t happened. Everyone is mistaken. One scientist and one journalist have staked their reputations on this with books they’ve published.
Amateurs have a great advantage in that they aren’t limited by what they know, only by what they don’t know.
So the next time you start reading about digital voice, digital data compression, video compression, or a crypto algorithm, don’t blonk out your eyes like that stupid old orphan and her even older dog, put on your pioneer hat and head for the hills of learning. How’s that for some creative clichés? Blonk that metaphor!
5/13/09
Unforgettable
There are moments in our lives we never forget. Like when I went skydiving and the moment came and I took that step out of the plane’s door into space. Or the evening when I had dinner with King Hussein of Jordan and the queen in their summer palace.
So when Art Bell, on his Coast To Coast AM radio show, asked astronaut Edgar Mitchell what it was like when he walked on the Moon and Mitchell said he didn’t remember, an alarm went off for me. That’s not something he could possibly ever forget. But that was just one more piece of evidence to add to the 45 reasons for questioning our ever having gone to the Moon I list in my Moondoggle booklet.
When I look into conspiracy theories, more often than I’d like, I find the conspiracy nuts are actually on to something. Well, remembering Aldous Huxley’s words, fifty year ago, “We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known,” and considering that our public school system was designed to prevent children from learning to think, it makes sense.
We’re kept busy working, in a large part to support the government, and entertained the rest of the time. And if that doesn’t do the job, they’ve added fluoride to our water to help keep us docile.
Lordy, there are still some Americans who believe Arab terrorists did the 911 attack.
5/11/09
Memories
My iPod has some 1,500 musical selections in it, and some bring back memories when I put it on shuffle. Like Schumann’s Traumerei (Sweet Dreams) takes me back to assembly at PS-99 in Brooklyn. They had a weekly music appreciation sessions for the whole school, and this was where I heard Traumerei for the first time.
Today Von Weber’s Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra came up, reminding me of a wonderful weekend I spent when my fraternity brother Hubert Mattice invited me to come home with him for a weekend to Middlburg NY.
Hubert and his sister both played the clarinet and they played the Concertino for me. But the best part of the weekend was Saturday night when they took me square dancing. It was my first experience and it was fantastic! What fun! “The first two ladies cross over, and by the gentleman stand. The next two ladies cross over, and all join hands. Honor your corner lady. Now honor your partner all. Swing the corner lady, and promenade the hall.” Then a few bars later, “The other way back, you’re going wrong” Yep, I still remember some of the calls over sixty years later.
So, have you tried square dancing? Golly, it’s fun…and it’s easy to learn the calls.
5/10/09
Advantage
Health insurance costs have been rising faster than inflation and are a major expense for industry. Indeed. they are helping move more of what’s left of American manufacturing to Asia.
By the way, it isn’t health insurance, it’s sickness insurance. And it’s the sickness exploitation, not the healthcare, industry. And despite our spending about 16% of our GDP on it, we are one of the sickest, shortest-lived people of the developed countries.
Alas, with there being little money in health and trillions in sickness, getting the word out about how to be healthy isn’t easy.
Well, there is one group that can benefit from health, and that’s employers. If they can help their workers to stop making themselves sick the money they’ll save will go right to the bottom line. And that’ll help make American industries more competitive internationally, not forcing them to move operations to Mexico or Asia to stay profitable.
It means educating their workers about healthy lifestyles.
When I go to the VA hospital in Manchester for my checkups I’m not surprised to find coffee and boxes of glazed and iced doughnuts in the waiting room. And a snack room of vending machines offering not one healthy piece of food or drink. No surprise, they have many seriously overweight doctors and employees. And, of course, food like that for the customers is good for business.
If American industry would get busy educating their employees…something our schools have failed to do…they could cut their operating costs by about 15%.
Our schools? More and more of them have turned their cafeteria function over to fast food franchises.
What a difference in our country’s health we could see if children were taught in kindergarten and the first grade to thoroughly chew their food before swallowing it, and to eat as much of their food raw and organic as they can.
When I worked at Airborne Instrument Labs they came around at ten every morning with a coffee, doughnuts and Danish wagon. Their health insurance would have been cheaper if they’d brought around apples, bananas, plums, and grapes. But, who knew back then?
5/9/09
Old Age
The reason we don’t see very many healthy, active, old people is that there aren’t very many. We have bodies, scientists tell us, that would be good for about 150 years if we’d take proper care of them. And that means giving them the nutrition, pure water, sleep, exercise and sun they’ve been designed to need.
Still, our bodies have an amazing ability to keep going, even when both deprived of those necessities, plus asked to deal with daily barrages of poisons. Fortunately, when we stop the poisons and give our bodies the necessities, they are able to repair much, if not all, of the damage that we’ve done.
It’s something to consider the next time you are tempted to poison your body with cooked food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, or drugs. That’s like putting sugar cubes in your car’s gas tank.
5/8/09
Education
John Taylor Gatto, the prize-winning New York teacher, has been exposing the myth that there is any connection between public schools and education for several years. His latest book, Weapons of Mass Instruction,
If you haven’t read his earlier books, Dumbing Us Down, and The Underground History of American Education, here’s the review of the Underground book from my Secret Guide to Wisdom (page 43):
John is the former New York State and New York City Teacher of the Year winner who quit teaching because he “could no longer do that to children.” The subtitle is, “A school Teacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling.” This is an utterly fascinating book. My copy is heavily highlighted. John has done a superb job of researching the history of American schools. It explains why our school graduates are coming out of the system uneducated and ignorant, many barely able to read and unable to make change or use a map. And that’s no accident. It explains why we haven’t had any creative geniuses in decades, and why entrepreneurialism has been dying. In Switzerland, where only 23 percent of the students go on to high school, they have the world’s highest per capita income. I know that none of the courses I took in high school or college have ever been of any practical use to me in any of the businesses I been in, and I’ve been in a lot.
My Weapons book is just as heavily highlighted. John explains that our mandatory public school system is purposely designed to prevent children from learning to think, and to do what they are told. And this makes a more manageable citizenry. One that rushes to get a vaccination when the media alarms them about a new flu epidemic. And the most obedient are those who get the highest test scores in school. Have you ever tried to reason with a straight-A student about anything? Puppets. Sheep. Don’t waste your time.
So what are our government leaders doing? They’re pushing for more testing. And here I am, doing my best to promote the Sudbury Valley type school, where there are no tests and no grades. Where there is no curriculum and the kids learn what they want because they want. And where the graduates have actually learned to think.
As John puts it, “Think of school as a conditioning laboratory, drilling naturally unique, one-of-a-kind individuals to respond as a mass.” “Highly centralized mass production economies can’t function well without colonizing individual minds and converting them into a mass mind. The conversion works best if started early, in the lower grades of elementary school, in kindergarten and pre-kindergarten.”
Hmmm, my C grades in school may help explain why I’ve managed to learn to think, much to the frustration of the establishment.
5/7/09
The Hudson River
The PBS series on the Hudson River sure brought back some wonderful memories. Sigh. And Audrey.
For some reason, when my mother taught me how to swim, I ignored the Australian Crawl, which she was pushing, and immediately headed for the bottom of the pool, much preferring to swim around under water.
We moved from Washington DC to Brooklyn when I was 12, about a half hour from Coney Island by the el, which ran in back of our house. My mother looked up the head lifeguard at Coney and sort of apprenticed me to him for the summer. This meant my swimming behind his pontoon boat as he rowed the three mile length of the beach. Great exercise.
In high school the swimming team coach wanted me to be on the team, but I preferred managing and being on the fencing team. In college I met my first swim fins. Love at first sight. Wow, what speed I could make under water with those!
Then we had a war. You’ve probably read about it in the history books. My fascination with amateur radio ended with me spending the last two years of the war as an electronic technician on a submarine.
Why am I going into all this when I started out writing about the Hudson River? Cheesh, you’re impatient. It’s all relevant, so settle down…the sex part will come.
One rest and recuperation stop after two of our patrol runs was Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Gorgeous spot. Most of the crew played baseball, drank beer (or gilly), watched a movie at night, played poker, and took it easy in our Quonset huts. I grabbed a Momson Lung from the boat and headed for the lagoon to explore the reefs. The coral was fantastic. I was hooked.
After the war, as soon as scuba gear was invented I got a tank and a compressor and went diving. I also started making trips to the Caribbean to dive. On a visit to Bermuda I got to talking with a gorgeous British girl, Audrey, who was working at the hotel desk. She was also into diving, so we kept in touch.
When she moved to New York we started dating. I had a Chris-Craft 23-foot Express Cruiser (slept two), which was great for picnics, diving and water skiing around Jamaica Bay and out to Fire Island. Okay, here comes the Hudson.
Audrey and I took a weekend trip up the Hudson to Albany, so the PBS show brought back the memories of the castles, Storm King Mountain, West Point, and so on. It was a trip I don’t think either of us will ever forget. The weather was perfect and it was private enough so we shed our clothes for most of the trip, stopping now and then to drift along, enjoying each other. We anchored in a little private cove for the night.
Alas, Audrey and her roommate, a gal from Australia, soon got jobs in Acapulco. Yes, of course I went down there to visit her. I’ve got some great photos of scuba our diving together.
She then moved to Hollywood and I stopped hearing from her. Sigh.
Audrey was gorgeous, but not very bright, so I wasn’t interested in pursuing an extended relationship. Lust is great, but one has to be practical in the long run.
Anyway, now you understand why I enjoyed the PBS program on the Hudson River for the memories it brought back.
5/6/09
Change
It wasn’t all that long ago, historically, when doctors routinely bled patients or used leeches to rid them of evil humours. Dr. Semmelwise got his ass kicked and lost his license for recommending doctors wash their hands between patients. The AMA decreed that any doctor caught washing his hands before an operation would lose his license to practice.
Today we have a few pariah doctors who have proven that any illness can be reversed (cured) by changing to a raw food diet and stopping poisons such as refined sugar, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, mercury, vaccinations, drugs, fluorides, chlorine and so on.
As word leaks out that cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and so on are caused mainly by our cooked food diets, the demand will ramp up for remineralized non-GM organic food. Our 2050 food industry will look nothing like today. No more chemical fertilizers. No more factory-raised beef, chicken, or eggs. Very few packaged food products. No more pasteurized milk, or pasteurized anything else. No more multi-acre supermarkets. Tens of millions of family gardens.
We won’t need but a fraction of today’s 798,964 physicians and 164,721 dentists. And we will no longer be bleeding the economy of about $8,000 a year for every American man, woman, and child. And, with most people living in good health well over a hundred, we’ll have to rethink the retirement age and make some big adjustments in social security.
Imagine what America could be by 2050 if we got busy unbloating the government, ended our wars, cut our prison costs in half (or better), cut education cost at least 50% (while greatly improving education), and got rid of the illegal immigrants. Oh, and changed to cold fusion power at a hundredth the cost of oil or coal.
With a new generation of high IQ kids who have been taught to think and be creative, our arts would flourish, as would the research and development of new technologies. Unlike about a hundred years ago, we no longer believe that everything that can be invented has been invented.
Let’s make it happen.
5/5/09
Visionary
Here’s that nice piece Computerworld did about me:
http://www.cio.com/article/444065/Tech_Visionary_and_Byte_Magazine_Founder_Wayne_Green_on_Changing_the_World
5/4/09
Diabetes Cure
Go to www.rawfor30days.com for info on their Simply Raw DVD showing six people with diabetes who go on a 30 day raw food diet and, as a result, cure their diabetes. To avoid legal problems they call it “reversing.”
Well, I’ve been telling you for several years now that changing to a raw food diet can reverse (cure) any illness. Yes, I know, after eating cooked food all your life it’s a whopping change. Pfft go all the fast food places. And almost all restaurants…except those with better salad bars. You’re on your own!
As more and more people wise up that they can cure their cancer by a diet change instead of making the medical industry an average of $340,000 richer…and probably dying…we’ll be seeing more raw food restaurants opening and the others adding raw food meals to their menus.
It’s an interesting and exciting adventure. It’s fun! My fridge these days is full of containers of grapefruit, orange and grape slush, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, banana slices and raw milk. And those are just for breakfast. I make the fruit slushes by pealing the skin and putting the fruit part in a blender. With grapes I just wash the seedless ones and de-seed the seeded ones before blending.
With half of us eventually getting cancer, mainly as a result of our eating cooked food, the addiction to cooked food has to be pretty powerful to overcome those odds. And that’s just cancer. Dr. Comby hasn’t found any illness that a change to raw food won’t reverse.
5/3/09
Corn
Thousands of our foods are being sweetened with high fructose cord syrup. Bummer. You see, this stuff prevents leptin from reaching the brain to tell you you’re full…so you keep on eating and eating. The stuff is very addictive.
This may be a boon to the manufacturers and retailers, but it’s making you fat…and let me remind you, there are no old fat people. Oh, and that fat is ugly.
If that isn’t enough to stop you buying that crap, also consider that virtually all corn products these day are made from GM corn (genetically modified), and that research with mice and rats has shown this to cause some serious reproductive problems.
5/2/09
More 911
Having read a dozen books on 911, plus watched the Zeitgeist and Loose Change movies, all going into details of the attack which the major media and the 911 Commission refuse to acknowledge, I was not surprised when the Coast To Coast AM show had an expert on a few day ago with further substantiation that the three buildings were demolished professionally, and not by the two planes.
He examined dust from the building sites and found it contained thermite, which is used for building demolition. Further, he found tiny balls of steel, which result when steel is heated beyond it’s melting point and then shot out into the air so it quickly cools.
You see, a fire from airplane fuel burning is nowhere near hot enough to melt steel.
Well, I won’t go into the long list of reasons to suspect that 911 was an inside job. Gee, there’s no way that everyone that would have to have been involved could keep that big a secret. Yeah? It took almost 60 years before the real Pearl Harbor story finally was exposed. Read Day of Deceit by Stinnett and you’ll see why there were no American aircraft carriers near Hawaii that day, only old, no longer needed battleships.
Having broken the Japanese codes, Roosevelt knew exactly when and where the attack would happen, and from which Japanese aircraft carriers.
5/1/09
Michael J. Fox
Isn’t anyone going to get through to Mike and wise him up about changing to raw food so he can cure his Parkinson’s?
What an impact it might make on our silent (on this subject) media if their poster boy for Parkinson’s were to suddenly cure himself!
Sure, having been fed cooked food almost from birth, we all get addicted to it. But some of us are able to overcome addictions better than others. So, you don’t have to quit cold turkey. Actually, if the turkey is raw you want it to be cold.
Heck, spend $12 on Victoria Boutenko’s 12 Steps to Raw Foods. It’s subtitled, How to End Your Addiction to Cooked Food.
Once you’ve changed to eating organic raw food your immune system will be able to get busy cleaning and repairing every part of your body. Bacteria, viruses, and parasites will no longer be able to invade you since there will no longer be toxins for them to feed on. Even mosquitoes will stop biting you.
4/30/09
Swine Flu II
The day and night super-coverage of a flu that looks like it could wipe out Mexico, solving our illegal immigration problem, has been a plus for me. The orders for my silver colloid-making kit have suddenly been pouring in as people who know better than to ever let anyone near them with a hypodermic needle, want to make the best antibiotic ever discovered for about a penny a gallon.
I doubt that pig, bird, or even the 1819 flu can surmount a few teaspoons of silver colloid. I’m exaggerating? You haven’t done your homework. Tsk.
Of course a raw food diet would allow your immune system to quickly dispatch any attacking flu virus, making the silver unnecessary. But you know that, it’s just that you are so totally addicted to cooked food that you have no problem sacrificing half of your potential life to maintain your addiction. Oh, and being fat. The same as smokers, even when they know what’s in store for them, are unable to stop smoking.
There are very few old smokers, and no old fat people.
4/27/09
Stupid
For some reason, probably programming left over from a previous life, I’ve always been immune to peer pressure. So when my friends started smoking I tried it and said phooey. Those jerks got addicted and stopped coming to reunions as they died off. And that was before the truth came out as to how deadly smoking is.
Today the only explanation I can see for teens wandering around smoking is stupidity. The idea of exposing oneself to one of the most addictive habits there is, one which will not only shorten your life considerably, but make your last years a living hell…is incredibly stupid.
But then, in their defense, they are all ex-convicts of our government-run (socialist) public school system, which has been purposely designed to stop kids from learning to think. They’re taught to memorize trivia for tests and
enjoy themselves. Be entertained. Play baseball, football, basketball, soccer, and so on. Watch six hours of TV a day. See how much beer they can drink before throwing up. And get laid as often as they can. The only books they’re reading are comic books.
Please let me know when you think it’s time to change our educational system.
4/26/09
Short Memory
On the April 19th 60 Minutes show they did a report on the newest confirmation of cold fusion as a non-polluting energy source that looks like it’ll cost about a hundredth as much as oil. Once this gets going it’ll end our need for oil, coal, natural gas, and even nuclear power. Well, I’ve been writing about that for fifteen years.
On tonight’s show there was a report on coal, where the aim was to reduce the CO2 emissions from coal-fired power generating plants. No mention of cold fusion. D’uh? Apparently the 60 Minutes teams don’t talk with each other.
4/25/09
Swine Flu
Oh, my God! Panic! Let’s make vaccinations mandatory! Oh, and don’t forget the thimerosal preservative so everyone will get their dose of mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde. Hello Alzheimer’s.
On the plus side of this new flu, this sure looks like a good time to invest in the vaccine-maker’s stocks. They’ll reap billions...maybe trillions...from the ensuing panic.
You know, even in history’s worst plagues there were always some people who didn’t get sick at all, and others who got a little sick and quickly recovered. It’s called the immune system. If you keep it strong you’ll be immune not only to swine flu, but to cancer, and so on. A strong immune system will protect you from any germ, virus, parasite or fungus attack.
If you’re still eating the Standard American Diet (SAD) you’re a sitting duck. Your immune system is a basket case. It’s no wonder half of Americans are getting cancer…they’ve put their built-in protection against it out of commission. It’s almost something to think of the next time you order a burger or some pizza.
4/24/09
Eeeyuk!
Though I’ve written about eating raw liver several times, I’m betting you’ve never had the guts to try it. Not one single taste.
The universal reaction is a yuk, I could never eat thaaat. Wow, talk about being conditioned! Dunno why I’m so different, but anything I see other people eating I’ll try. So I’ve eaten stuff like sea slugs, grasshoppers, worms, rattlesnakes, turtle steaks, fried baby birds, horse meat, blowfish, and snails. I liked ’em all.
I get my liver from local farms, so I know it’s organic. I cut it into chunks, chop ’em in my Cuisinart, reducing the liver to a thick liquid, add some sea salt and cracked pepper and...yum! I eat it with a spoon and I love it. You’ll like it too, if you can work up the courage to try it.
4/23/09
1960
That was quite a year for me. Like most years, it started in January, but this time, on the fifth anniversary of my being hired to edit CQ magazine, I got fired. Well, I’d been seriously considering quitting anyway.
When I took the job in January 1955 it was with an agreement with the publisher, Sandy Cowan, that my $10,000 salary would be boosted once I got the magazine into the black. Well, by September 1955, eight months later, I had the magazine making money. In the black. No promised raise. But I was having too much fun to quit.
So, instead of a raise, I asked for a half page ad to sell books to the readers as Radio Bookshop. No problem. This mail order book business started slow, but picked up steam, bringing in hundreds of book orders every month, and with books there’s a 40% profit. It paid for a trip to Europe for my folks and helped me be able to buy a Chris-Craft Express Cruiser, a Tecraft airplane on floats, an Arab horse, and a Porsche Speedster.
The magazine was doing well enough so Cowan was able to buy a good-sized yacht, with Cowan Publishing paying for it. And I started getting complaints from my authors that they weren’t getting paid. The company bookkeeper said the yacht had drained the money. I said I had to pay the authors or we wouldn’t get articles and columns. So he said if I paid them myself I’d get reimbursed.
By the time I’d shelled out over $10,000 to the authors, a year’s pay, Cowan fired me, promising to make good on the $10,000. Of course I never saw a dollar of that.
So I sold my airplane, Chris-Craft, and one of my two Porsches, and had just enough money to publish the first issue of 73 Magazine. What a gamble! It was immediately in the black!
As president of the Porsche Club I was also busy organizing car rallies and speakers for the monthly meetings, and that was the year I founded American Mensa, the high IQ society.
Busy year.
4/22/09
Grapes
They’re good! They taste good. They’re raw, so they’re healthy. And, if you shop the marked down shelves of your supermarket, the way I do, they can be quite a bargain. Like the bunch I bought yesterday, regularly $1.59 a pound, marked down to 25¢ a pound. I bought about seven pounds…all they had.
Now, here’s my secret for making them taste even better and be even healthier to eat. I wash ’em off carefully, put ’em in my blender, and blend the hell out of them at it’s highest speed for a couple of minutes…as I mentioned in my 4/10/09 entry.
You see, in order to give our body the best opportunity to take advantage of healthy food we must first chew it until it is liquid before swallowing it. With grapes, it’s easy to chew the soft part, but we just don’t bother thoroughly chewing the skin. We usually chew it enough to swallow it, and that’s that. Not good. The skin has some of the best stuff for our health.
When you blend your grapes you’ll get two major benefits. First, you’ll be surprised at how much more flavor you get when you eat the grape slush. The skin adds a lot to the flavor. Secondly, it’s a lot easier to chew until it’s liquid when it’s already a liquid. And your digestive system benefits from the now easily available fiber.
One more benefit…freezing the grape slush for storage doesn’t harm it.
4/21/09
Your Legacy
Though you may accomplish all kinds of wonderful things during your life, the most important legacy you’ll leave is your children. So, does it make sense for you to do everything you can to give your kids the best possible start toward being healthy and smart?
That’s your child winning the spelling bee, up there on the school stage singing a solo, getting stories published in the school magazine, with the lead part in a school play, running his or her popular web site, running a small business.
The world is in serious need of geniuses…Einsteins, Beethovens, DaVincis. Fortunately, there’s been enough research into the subject for someone…someone like me…to put it all together and provide a genius-making instruction book.
There’s no one thing you can do that’s going to produce a genius, but by the time you do the things, each of which has been shown to add to a baby’s IQ, we’re talking about an IQ raise of around 50 points over the average. And a 150 IQ qualifies a child as a genius.
Getting Started
Let’s divide this into three parts, pre-conception, during pregnancy, and post birth.
The genius process has to start well before conception with two healthy and loving parents. The use of toxic drugs such as caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, medications, vaccinations, or anything illegal by the parents can change the sperm or ovum DNA, introducing potential birth defects and slowing the baby’s brain development. Pfft goes your potential genius before you even get started. Yes, I said caffeine.
Once little Icky has gotten started, dad can go on and poison his body with addictive junk, like almost everyone else is doing. Hello Starbucks and Dunkin Doughnuts. That’s unless he and mom plan to start a second genius next year. Or dad gives a damn about his health. Or the lousy role model the kid will have for a father.
Mom is going to stick to a healthy diet, and she’s best supported by dad doing the same. She’s eating for two now, so the healthier her diet, the better off the baby will be. That means no poisons such as refined sugar, white flour products, non-organic food, and mainly a raw food diet. She’s going to need a supplement to make up for the lack of minerals in today’s farm products…at least until remineralizing farm lands with rock dust catches on. The supplement I like best is The Sun Is Shining from www.rawfood.com (800-205-2350). I take a heaping teaspoon every afternoon in a half cup of raw (unpasteurized) apple juice. We’re aiming for a genius, so let’s do it right.
Another sneaky, and very serious poison, is mercury. If either parent has amalgam fillings, they are putting mercury into their system with every bite of food or hot drink. And, it’s cumulative and proven to cause birth defects.
If either of you have any amalgam fillings, find a dentist experienced in replacing them, and stop the mercury assault on your body at least a year before the baby’s conception.
The other source of mercury is thimerosal, which is still used in many innoculations. This stuff is made up of mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde, none of which do you want in your body or screwing up your baby via your sperm or ovum.
Pregnancy
Rule number one for all living things is: survival. We humans have a built-in survival system which can be very helpful, and also cause all sorts of problems. Whenever something traumatic happens, we have an automatic system which records everything we’re hearing, seeing, and feeling at the time, equating these to pain, and thus to be avoided in the future. Once we touch a hot stove and burn ourselves we won’t have to consciously think about it to avoid hot stoves. It’s become automatic.
This has it’s benefits, and it’s drawbacks. L. Ron. Hubbard, in his 1950 book Dianetics, calls these engrams, and his book explains how to get rid of them when they’re causing trouble.
I read the book when it came out and shared it with Joe, a fellow announcer at WSPB in Sarasota (FL). Joe had a problem. Every time he was going to make an announcement he had to hit the “cough” switch by his microphone and give a little cough. So, using the book’s instructions, under a light hypnosis I asked him to go back to the first time he had to cough. I asked him how old he was. “Seven.” I asked if that was years, “No.” Okay, was it months? “Yes.”
From the things his mother was saying, and were recorded by little Joe as equal to pain, I found that when his mother was seven months pregnant she had had a bad cough, and every time she coughed it was painful to the baby. And she often explained, “Every time I get nervous I cough.”
Using the book’s instructions I erased the engram and Joe never had to cough again before making an announcement.
When Joe’s mother came to visit a few weeks later I asked her about the incident. Did she remember having a cough during her pregnancy? She did. From what little Joe had recorded I asked if she and her husband had been living in the back of a factory at the time, and did she go next door and live with the family there to get over her cough? Joe’s mother was totally nonplussed. This had not, to her memory ever been mentioned after Joe was born. She’d forgotten the name of the family, so I asked if it was the McAllen’s? It was.
This was powerful stuff and I wanted to learn more, so I quit my job, drove to Elizabeth (NJ) and took a six-week course in Dianetics at the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, under the direction of Hubbard himself. Well, that’s another story, but what you need to know, as a pregnant mother, is to shut the hell up whenever little Icky may have been hurt…by a cough, loud sounds, a fall, an accidental jab, and so on. Because Icky is going to faithfully record what’s going on, like a little tape recorder.
This is also why you should make sure during birth, which is a painful experience for the baby, that no one talk and the sounds be kept to a minimum. Keep it quiet.
There’s a lot more you can do to help your baby’s brain to develop during pregnancy…like playing classical music and reading to the your baby. Be sure to read The Prenatal Classroom (see page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom).
I’ll have a lot more on this…like breast feeding or a couple of years, teaching your baby a number of languages, and so on.
Encourage
When I was seven my folks had me stay with our cleaning lady for a weekend while they were away. She had a piano and when I showed some interest she showed me how to play chop sticks. In short order I was banging away with both hands, having a ball.
When my folks got back I told them how much fun I had and that I wanted to take piano lessons. My mother was supportive, but dad was furious. “No goddam way, I’m not going to have to sit and listen to him practicing his goddam piano lessons.”
It’s one thing to be a pushy parent and another to be supportive. When your child shows an interest in something, be encouraging. Let ’em take piano, guitar, or clarinet lessons. Or maybe they get interested in painting, so get them a paint set.
When I was twelve some friends of my folks were getting rid of their piano and offered it to me. Dad said, well, okay, as long as it’s upstairs in your room where I can’t hear it.
When the movers arrived with it, they had to take it all apart to try and get it up the stairs. But even the harp section wouldn’t make it, and it was also too large to fit through my bedroom window, so dad paid them to take it to the dump. Sigh. A few weeks later he left on a business trip and was gone for almost a year. He was working with American Export steamship lines, setting up the first trans-Atlantic airline using flying boats. So he was busy establishing seaplane bases in Belem, Brazil, Dakar, Senegal, Botwood, Newfoundland, Genoa, Beiruit, and Alexandria.
Pfft went a possible concert pianist or composer career.
4/20/09
Fair Enough
What a time I had last Saturday! It’s spring and the little fairs and expos are in high season.
I left the farm at 6:30 AM and drove to Manchester for the Antique Radio show, which started at 7:30. Then up to Concord at 9:00 for the Healthy Living Expo, where there were dozens of tables under tents, complete with samples of cheese, pizza, hot dogs, all sorts of candy, chips and dips, and even ice cream. It’ll take me quite a while to read the shopping bag full of interesting brochures I picked up.
From there I drove to Peterborough for the Greenerborough Festival, stopping off at Sunnyfield Farm to pick up my weekly gallon of raw milk and some lamb liver. Sunnyfield had an interesting demo at the fair of a sheep dog handling a group of sheep, and separating one on command, while still controlling the others. I filled another bag with the brochures from the forty exhibiting local eco-businesses…and said hello to quite a few old friends.
It was a fun morning. I know we have a lot doing here in New Hampshire, but these fairs and expos open me to all kinds of things I hadn’t known were going on.
4/19/09
Cold Fusion II
The 60 Minutes piece tonight may help pry the lid off the subject...though the producer played it safe by giving time to a skeptic.
Einstein opened the door with his E=MC2 equation, which showed that matter and energy are related…and that a tiny bit of matter was equal to an enormous amount of energy…like heat…since C is such a huge number (the speed of light).
McCubre’s demo used palladium and deuterium, but others have succeeded with nickel and water. No mention was made of the deuterium and palladium changing into silver, with a tiny bit of matter lost in the transition, which is where all the heat comes from. Good grief, that’s alchemy! See my 7/16/08 post for the details on how cold fusion works.
The show did mention that MIT tested cold fusion and reported it a failure. There was, of course, no mention that MIT fudged the test results to hide the excess energy developed to protect the money they were getting from the government for hot fusion research.
I still have a few copies of the rare premiere issue of Cold Fusion, which is dated May 1994, exactly fifteen years ago. It’s 100 pages have articles by Arthur C. Clarke and Nobel Prize winner Julian Schwinger and a bunch of other experts. Send me a ten dollar bill and I’ll mail a copy anywhere in the U.S…as long as they last.
The show mentioned that Dr. Fleischmann has diabetes and Parkinson’s. Please see if you can find an address so I can send him a copy of my Secret Guide to Health, which will help him solve those problems and stop his heading toward death.
Coincidentally, a DVD, “Simply Raw...Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days” came yesterday. Well, they’re not allowed to say they “cured” diabetes, so they say “reversed.” A group of diabetics went on a raw food diet together with Dr. Cousens for a month. They not only cured their diabetes, they got off all their meds, the fatties lost around 30 pounds, and everyone was happier and feeling great. See www.rawfor30days.com.
No mention was made of Dr. Pons, the other original discovered of cold fusion, so I guess he died.
Once the technology is R&D’d into marketable products, the world will start getting rid of oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear-powered systems. It’ll take a while, but there will be trillions of dollars made. This will also put solar and wind-powered systems out of business.
4/18/09
Antique Radio Show
Well, I had to go to Manchester for that one. Sure enough, there were a bunch of old radios. I saw very little ham equipment. One SX-100, without a cabinet. A bunch of tubes for $1 each.
I thought old issues of QST and CQ were of value to collectors. Nope. There were boxes of them, three years worth per box, with a price of one dollar a box. Sigh, that’s under 3¢ a magazine. So much for all those back issues I’ve been saving. One nice thing....there were no back issues of 73 being sold or given away.
4/13/09
Declare War
A chap called the other day, saying how much he enjoyed my 1992 book, Declare War!, and I should make it available again. Just what I need, another project. Well, it’s full of good ideas that are still valuable, so I’ll get busy and upgrade it for a second edition.
Anyway, here’s an explanation of what happened.
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The background
In the summer of 1991 a call came from Brian Grip, Governor Gregg’s assistant, saying the governor would appreciate it if I'd be willing to serve on a just-being-formed Economic Development Commission. He explained that since New Hampshire had been hit the worst of all fifty states by the 1990 recession they were asking best business brains they could find to help the governor and the legislature plan what should be done, both short and long range.
Though flattered to be considered one of the state’s best business brains, I warned Brian that if I was appointed to the Commission that I would take the job seriously and might turn out to be a royal pain. He said that was exactly why Governor Gregg wanted me.
My prediction was prescient. After a couple of meetings, when I saw the Commission being forced by Vice-Chairman Ed Dupont to abandon its primary purpose of helping the state get out of the recession, I started writing reports to the Commission members to get around my (and most other member’s) inability to be heard at the meetings.
I probably should explain that the governor was the Chairman of the Commission, but he never once attended a meeting, so they were run by Vice-Chairman Ed Dupont, the Senate President.
I was disappointed, but not surprised, when the material I'd covered in my reports came up for discussion, and Vice-Chairman Dupont gave no indication of being aware of it. When I asked him how come, he said he'd been, “too busy to read my reports.” Was it that he had no real interest in a job for which he’d accepted responsibility, or was some other agenda at work? I knew no one else was writing anything.
Meanwhile, several Commission members said they found my reports insightful and my proposals practical. They were perplexed at Ed’s refusal to even acknowledge my reports. My frustration over this situation and the seeming lack of Commission progress, resulted in my deciding to put eight months of my reports together and publish them as a book. I thought the public and the media should know that there were some simple ways for New Hampshire to quickly generate the needed jobs. I wanted them to know there really were some practical and inexpensive approaches to the problems caused by welfare, drugs, crime, overcrowded courts, high prison costs, our lobby-dominated Congress, the deficit, unbelievable bureaucratic waste, our destructive and ridiculously expensive school system, the high cost of health care, and so on. I saw no hint that any of the presidential candidates had a clue on solving our national problems.
Oh, I knew the vested interests would fight hard to keep things from changing, no matter how bad they were. With more government than manufacturing employees in America, how could even the most practical plan for reducing government be put in place? We have the foxes guarding the hen house at every turn, and the losers are the suckers who are paying the bills…the rest of us.
I hoped that once people understood how desperate the situation was, and that there really were practical and inexpensive solutions to our problems, that this might arouse enough of them from the narcotic of mindless TV sitcoms, ball games, and red-herring-chasing journalists, to start turning things around. And since the outlook for New Hampshire was bleak compared to most other states unless major changes were made, I was hoping the seeds of revolt could take root here. We needed to tackle this with the passion of a war. The situation we were in was revolting, so I was calling for revolt…revolt on a town level to generate jobs…revolt on a state level to start cleaning up the mess we'd silently, but disgustingly, been living with.
The first eight months of my reports were published under the title, "We the People Hereby Declare War on Our Lousy Government."
Since publishing those reports I continued to read, talk with people, read a lot more, and even, on rare occasions, tried to think. I added another six-foot bookshelf of books to my library, just looking for better answers to the problems besetting New Hampshire and America. If you have the patience to read what I’ve learned, I think you’ll like my perspective and may even become enthusiastic about some of my proposals.
I must admit that I tested many of my ideas on my 73 Amateur Radio Today readers before including them in my Commission reports. My 73 editorials have always been about many things other than amateur radio. As far as I know, I write longer editorials than any other magazine editor…and have been doing this since 1951, when I started my first publication. It seemed like a good idea to run my proposals by an audience of 100,000 high-tech oriented and above-average intelligence people, checking for possible weaknesses before proposing that New Hampshire adopt them.
What will follow are reports to the Commission subsequent to those in my book. They document my frustration with the proposed (but never submitted) "Final Report" from the Commission to the General Court (the governor and legislature)…plus there are quite a few new ideas on solving our problems which have evolved since the book was published in 1992.
I think you’ll find most of the material I discovered in New Hampshire and the resulting proposals for change I’ve suggested will translate to your state just as well, so I haven’t gone back and changed my references to my state.
One note: while I was born in Littleton NH, and have lived in the Peterborough NH area since 1962, I’ve also lived in Brooklyn NY, Philadelphia, Pennsauken NJ, Washington DC, Hampton VA, Southern Pines NC, Dallas, San Francisco, Sarasota FL, and Cleveland, plus I’ve visited most of the other states.
What will follow as I get time are updates to the book. In view of the bad taste militia groups have left, my “Declare War” title, while accurate, may be more palatable as 20-20 Foresight. I point out what I see in the future and what we can do to change it…or take advantage of it. My seer score is pretty good, having helped the world to have cellular telephones, personal computers and compact discs with my publications.
4/12/09
Jokes
In amongst the daily email telling me I’ve won lotteries, or that someone with my name has died in Nigeria, leaving millions, I get a few jokes to brighten my day…mostly from my old ham friend and repeater pioneer, Art Housholder.
Anyway, here are a few samples……
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Subject: Fw: Lie Detector
Roger was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmick. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change.
One day Roger came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It was a robot that Roger claimed was actually a lie detector.
It was about 5:30 that afternoon when Tommy, their 11 year old son, returned home from school. Tommy was over 2 hours late.
"Where have you been? Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?" asked Roger.
"Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project," said Tommy. The robot then walked around the table and slapped Tommy, knocking him completely out of his chair.
"Son," said Roger, "this robot is a lie detector, now tell us where you really were after school."
"We went to Bobby's house and watched a movie." said Tommy.
"What did you watch?" asked Marsha.
"The Ten Commandments." answered Tommy.
The robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him, knocking him off his chair once more.
With his lip quivering, Tommy got up, sat down and said, "I am sorry I lied. We really watched a tape called Sex Queen."
"I am ashamed of you son," said Roger. "When I was your age, I never lied to my parents."
The robot then walked around to Roger and delivered a whack that nearly knocked him out of his chair.
Marsha doubled over in laughter, almost in tears and said, "Boy, did you ever ask for that one! You can't be too mad with Tommy. After all, he is your son!"
With that the robot immediately walked around to Marsha and knocked her out of her chair.
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A biker is riding by the zoo, when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside, under the eyes of her screaming parents .
The biker jumps off his bike, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch Whimpering from the pain, the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified Parents, who thank him endlessly .
A New York Times reporter has watched the whole event. The reporter addressing the biker says, "Sir, that was the most gallant and brave thing I seen a man do in my whole life."
The biker replies, "Why, it was nothing really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger and acted as I felt right."
The reporter says, "Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a Journalist from The New York Times , you know, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page. So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?"
The biker replied, "I'm a United States Marine and a Republican."
The journalist leaves. The following morning, the biker buys a copy of The New York Times to see if it indeed reports news of his actions, and reads, on front page: U. S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH.
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A couple was invited to a Halloween party by a family friend, in which everyone was required to wear a mask. The wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone, and to make sure to say hello to her family. He protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed and there was no need for his good time to be spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went.
The wife, after sleeping for about an hour, woke without pain and as it was still early, decided to go to the party. Since her husband didn't know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching him to see how he acted when she was not with him.
So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, on the dance floor, dancing with every nice "chick" he could and copping a little feel here and a little kiss there. His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself, he devoted his time to her. She let him go as far as he wished, naturally, since he was her husband.
After more drinks he finally whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they went to one of the cars and made passionate love in the back seat. Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped away and went home, put her costume away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would make for his behavior.
She was sitting up reading when he came in, so she asked what kind of time he had. "Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you're not there.
"Then she asked, "Did you dance much?"
He replied, "I'll tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Brown and some other guys, so we went into the spare room and played poker all evening.
"You must have looked really silly wearing that costume playing poker all night!" she said with unashamed sarcasm.
"Actually, I gave my costume to your brother, apparently he had the time of his life.”
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Air Force One arrives at Heathrow Airport and President Obama strides to a warm and dignified reception from the Queen. They are driven in a 1934 Bentley to the edge of central London the matter another thought, .uU where they change to a magnificent 17th century carriage hitched to six white horses. They continue on towards Buckingham Palace waving to the thousands of cheering Britons; all is going well.
Suddenly the right rear horse lets fly with the most horrendous earth shattering fart. The smell is awful The fart shakes the coach, but the two dignitaries of State do their best to ignore the incident.
The Queen turns to President Obama, "Mr. President please accept my regrets...I am sure you understand there are some things that even a Queen cannot control."
President Obama, trying to be "Presidential," replied: "Your Majesty, do not give the matter another thought, until you mentioned it, I thought it was one of the horses."
4/11/09
Façade
The more I look into things, the more I discover what a fake world I’m living in. A fake world that almost everyone else believes is real and classes me as a nut case for even suspecting otherwise.
People believe in the religion they’ve been taught…in many cases so totally they are willing to die for it. I see religion as both the biggest con job in the world, but also one of the biggest industries.
Americans believe they can eat the food the government, their parents, the media, the sickness and food industries assure us are okay to eat. Yeah, but if you peek under the rock you’ll find we’re cutting our potential lives in half with out diets, but heck, the world is overpopulated anyway. So let’s not upset the multi-trillion dollar health care and commercial food industries that are depending on our ignorance.
Americans believe in our government-run compulsory public school system, even though our kids are about at the bottom in education compared to the rest of the developed countries. And the four and a half hours the average American watches TV every day from then on doesn’t seem to be adding much to their education once out of school.
We believe in our dollar, so shut the hell up about how the Federal Reserve Banks got started, how they’ve inflated our money, and the international bankers who own them.
How about our two wars? Why was it we started those? How are they going?
We are annoyed about gas prices, but not enough to look behind the door hiding cold fusion, which would give us unlimited non-polluting energy at about a hundredth the cost of oil, coal and natural gas. But that would not only put the oil giants (and Arabs) out of business, but also a zillion gas stations and the need for 157,810 miles of power lines and the 5,000 power stations feeding them electricity. Gee, no more nuclear waste from the nuclear power stations.
We’ve turned a blind eye as the government has quietly tripled in size in the last few years, driving up our taxes and saddling us with more armies of bureaucrats.
And how about our military budget, which is more than that of the next twenty countries combined? Do we really need troops in 144 countries? And acres upon acres of mothballed airplanes and ships? Let’s just not think about all that. Let’s see, what time are Oprah, The View and Dr. Oz on this afternoon? Oh, and that ball game tonight!
4/10/09
Guilty Pleasures
While my diet is mostly raw food these days, I do sneak in some poisons. Like the quarter of an onion bialy I have with my grape slush for breakfast.
Grape slush? When the local supermarkets put marked-down grapes on the discount shelves I buy ’em, wash ’em, and put ’em in my blender. In that way I’m able to get the fiber from the skins without having to spend so much time chewing. It’s a lot easier to eat grapes with a spoon. The grapes with seeds are more difficult since I have to do a cesarean on each to remove the babies before blending.
I slice the bialys in half and then toast both sides of the halves over the open flame of my little butane stove, gently charcoaling both sides. Next, on goes the Irish organic butter and then I cut the half bialy in half again, giving me four pieces of toasted bialy…good for four breakfasts.
So, I start off with a several tablespoons of grapefruit slush, then my quarter toasted bialy, which I cut into six bite-sized pieces, and several tablespoons of grape slush. The next course is a bowl with about a half cup of berries…blueberries, strawberries, or raspberries…and some slices of banana. I pour on about a half cup of raw milk and have at it.
One more guilty pleasure is about a dozen of the little Barbara’s Bakery Cinnamon Puffins (www.BarbarasBakery.com), which I’ve only found at Trader Joe’s. The ingredient list looks very healthy…but, they are cooked. I alternate the little puffs with my berries and banana slices in the raw milk.
4/9/09
Jordan
Back in 1970 a couple of ham radio friends called with the news that King Hussein of Jordan was on our 20 meter band. So I sent him a cable asking if he’d like some help in learning to use his equipment.
I got a cable right back saying sure, come on over. So I hopped on a plane and the next afternoon I was landing in Amman. The chap next to me at the window seat got excited, explaining that the King was here to meet the plane.
Wow!
But it turned out he was there to meet his daughter, who was on my flight. But he did have Hisham Ansari and another chap there to met me and drive me downtown to a hotel. Later they drove me to the summer palace on the outskirts of Amman, where I got to meet His Majesty, the Queen, and his children
I spent the next two weeks at the summer palace giving hams all around the world a short contact with Jordan, which was a new country for them. And His Majesty stayed up all night with me a few times, having a great time talking briefly with hundreds of hams.
Before leaving, I explained to His Majesty that at the time they weren’t teaching anything about electricity in the schools, so they had to bring in people from Switzerland and Germany at $200 or so a day to do simple things like install telephones. If he’d put ham radio clubs in his schools and youth clubs, kids would have a ball learning about electricity and radio. Just have a teacher go around to the clubs and help them learn.
He like the idea and assembled his government and military leaders so I could explain what I was proposing. It didn’t hurt that His Majesty added, “And it shall be so.”
I flew back home and quickly put together a set of rules and regulations for Jordan. I then asked the readers of my ham magazine to send me their unused ham equipment to send to Jordan for the kids.
A few days after I got back I got a call from the CIA. They wanted a list of what ham equipment they should send to Jordan for the King’s radio clubs.
The U.S. hams sent me loads of equipment, which I forwarded to the Jordanian Embassy in Washington to be sent to Jordan. I also got all of the books I could and sent them, too.
Cut to three years later when I was swapping pictures with a ham in Athens and His Majesty broke in. He was coming to the U.S. and would like to see me in Washington. I met him at Blair House, where he handed me an envelope with two first class tickets for me and my wife to come to Jordan, saying,, “I want you to see what you’ve done.”
I’d been pushing the use of ham repeaters atop mountains and high buildings to extend the range of our hand-transceivers (HTs) and mobile stations, so I packed a repeater and a suitcase full of HTs, and was off to Jordan.
With the help of Hisham Ansari, who had been the teacher for the radio clubs, we set up the repeater on a hill across from the downtown palace and gave HTs to His Majesty and a few other key people who now had their ham licenses.
I was driven by Hisham from Irbid in the north of Jordan to Aqaba in the very south, visiting and speaking to radio clubs in every city. I met and talked with over 425 Jordanian youngsters who were now licensed. I also was shown the ruins at Jarash, visited the “lost city” of Petra, and got to go scuba diving in the Red Sea with the Admiral of the Jordanian Navy.
Ten years later, on a trip around the world, I stopped off in Jordan again. His Majesty’s brother, Prince Raad, gathered together a room full of Royal Amateur Radio Society members and introduced me as the man who had done more for Jordan than anyone other than the king.
Well, Jordan was now far ahead of all the other Arab countries in technology. And I was treated to another visit to the lost city of Petra…one of the seven wonders of the world.
4/8/09
Say Baa-a
It is no accident that so much of the American public act much like sheep. If you’ll read the history they don’t teach in school…not that they teach much history of anything in school…you learn that our mandatory public school system was enacted by congress in the early 1800s, under considerable pressure from the religious leaders.
Their goal was to have our school system turn out more parishioners for them who would not ask questions. So they opted for the Prussian school system, which was famous for producing soldiers who would obey orders without question. The system was simple, by forcing children to memorize text book material for tests, it discouraged their developing the ability to learn to think. Don’t think…memorize. Cram for tests.
Soon after this system was established in America the industrial revolution came along, with its demand for millions of factory workers, where the ability to think or be creative was a nuisance, so our factory owners found the compulsory school system just what they needed.
And this memorization-test system is still in use today, from grade schools to high schools and right on through college curriculums. Is it any wonder that so few of our top successful entrepreneurs have college degrees? Or that creativity in American literature and music almost disappeared by the early 1900s?
Colleges today prepare their students to work for large corporations, where thinking and creativity are anathema. It helps explain why General Motors and our other American car companies are dying. They’re managed by college graduates, not entrepreneurs. Oh, and the same holds for our military
When Admiral Rickover came along, pushing for nuclear-powered ships and submarines, he was bitterly fought by the Naval establishment. Well, he believed that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line, even if it bisected two admirals. He made admiral only because President Roosevelt gave him the rank.
And, before that, there was captain Billy Mitchell, who believed that the Army Airforce could sink battleships. He was court-marshaled. My dad served under him at Langley Field in Virginia, when I was two years old.
Babies are learning machines, right from birth. They’re into everything. So, for our convenience, we imprison them in a playpen. I suspect the “pen” part has to do with penitentiary. And, unless blocked by our government-run public school system, will continue to learn about everything that interests them.
Congress loves the system they’ve established, which guarantees them a 95% vote for their reelection.
But, just to make sure with some over-kill, they’re adding fluoride to our drinking water. Well, it did such a good job of making cattle and German war prisoners docile, it was a natural to force on the public.
Say baaa.
4/7/09
Sawhorses
With the sound of chain saws buzzing from one end of New Hampshire to the other as road crews are busy cleaning up the mess the ice storm created last winter, I remembered back to my grandfather’s day at his summer vacation cottage up in Bethlehem, where I spent many of my childhood vacations.
The house was heated mainly by the kitchen wood stove, with some help from the living room fireplace at night. My grandfather (Pop) harvested wood from the nearby forest, cut it into stove-size lengths with a hand saw and a sawhorse. The larger pieces he cut up with an ax. It took weeks of work to cut, chop, and stack the wood in the woodshed, just off the kitchen to have enough just for the summer.
I don’t see sawhorses much any more, just the buzz of chain saws.
4/5/09
60 Minutes
The first segment of this evening’s 60 Minutes show had to do with a hospital closing in Las Vegas, leaving people who have been getting free care stranded. They interviewed people with cancer who could no longer get their $50,000 chemotherapy treatments free and were left to die.
Alas, no one at the hospital or on the 60 Minutes crew were aware of how easy it is to cure any cancer with no drugs. It’s a very tightly controlled secret that changing to a raw food diet and stopping the common poisons such as sugar, caffeine, and alcohol can work health miracles.
Of course, if this were even hinted at, the network would refuse to run the show. TV stations would start going the way of newspapers if the public ever learns how easy it is to cure any illness, and to never get sick again. Since I don’t watch any live TV, I see the almost endless drug ads flashing by as I fast forward through the commercials.
Without drug ads TV would be on hard times, and many magazines would blow away.
4/4/09
Mooned
Did we, forty years ago, manage to send several rockets to the Moon and back with men aboard? Are the doubters of the Apollo missions just another bunch of conspiracy theorists?
Like some 99.99%-plus of Americans, I accepted what I was seeing on TV and reading in the magazines. Hey, how could they possibly fake something this big? Then, Ralph René sent me a copy of his NASA Mooned America. This 186-page, large format, book made sense. I was going to have to look into this some more.
Next I found Bill Kaysing’s We Never Went To The Moon. Here was a guy who had worked for the company making the rocket engines for NASA pointing out that they’d never been able to make an engine with the power needed to get to the Moon. That the Apollo rockets all used smaller engines, capable only of reaching low Earth orbit.
Well, this was happening during the Vietnam war, when there was a huge need for something BIG to take the media and country’s attention off the war we were losing.
Next I read William Brian’s Moongate. It methodically attacked one scientific fallacy after another having to do with the Apollo missions. Like the impossibility of there being dust in a vacuum…and nowhere has NASA claimed there is any atmosphere on the Moon. No atmosphere, no possibility of dust.
Even more thorough was Dark Moon by Bennett and Percy, published out of England. 561-pages of obviously well-researched information. For instance, they went to the copy of the lander at the Space Museum in Washington and measured the hatch. It was several inches too small for the astronauts in their space suits to get through. Worse, there was no airlock, so every time the hatch was opened all of the air in the lander would immediately be sucked out. So where were the many tanks of air it would have taken to replace all that lost air? The book went on with one after another exposures of unanswered questions.
The same group also produced a very well done What Happened On The Moon video, which exposes the many obviously faked Moon photos.
The capper was a CBC show, which was aired in Canada, but not the U.S., showing the Moon filming being done in Stanley Kubrick’s studios outside of London, where his 2001 film was made.
So, yes, I’m a doubter. I put all I’d learned together in my $5 Moondoggle booklet.
4/3/09
Carrots
Those baby carrots you get in plastic bags are made from larger carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots. Once they’re cut and shaped, they’re dipped in a chlorine solution in order to preserve them. You’ll notice that after a few days in your refrigerator a white covering forms on the carrots. This is the chlorine resurfacing. Chlorine is a serious carcinogen that you really don’t want in your body.
Please avoid those cocktail carrots, as cute as they look.
I look for organic carrots. I wash them, cut ’em up and put ’em into my Cuisinart and mince ’em. Then I add some of my grandmother’s recipe coleslaw creamy-sweet-sour sauce and they’re absolutely delicious. And healthy.
The recipe is simple: two quarts of organic plain yogurt, two cups of extra-virgin olive oil, two cups of organic apple cider vinegar, a cup of raw honey, some sea salt, cracked pepper and celery seed to taste. Mix. Yum. It’s good with any minced vegetable…broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, etc.
4/2/09
Wisdom
So many things we all have been taught to believe by our parents, our schools, and the media aren't true that I hardly know where to start. Worse, our belief in many of these is so deeply embedded that most people’s first reaction is to think I’m a nut case for even suggesting we’ve been fooled about so many things.
With the help of the readers of my publications and many helpful talk radio show listeners, I’ve managed to sort out a collection of about a hundred books that will change your view of the world. I hope this won’t be more than you can handle! This is my $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom.
The books I’ve reviewed are all by authors who have carefully done their research. Top experts. The books are referenced and what they tell us makes sense. They don’t ask you to take anything on trust.
Okay, what kind of scams have we all been brainwashed into believing?
Well, let’s start with the medical industry. Once you start reading some of the exposé books I’ve reviewed you’re going to be appalled at the enormity of the deception. It’s the money, of course, just as with all of the other crooked schemes that have been screwing us. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, pharmaceutical and insurance companies, and nursing homes don’t make any money when we’re well. Wait’ll you read the lengths the AMA, together with their captive FDA, NIH, and so on through the medical alphabet, have gone to in order to keep low cost medical cures from us. You’ll try to never let a friend suffer chemo, radiation or by-pass surgery again!
Now, suppose for a moment that you are the chairman of the National Cancer Institute, pulling down ten to twenty million a year. You have over 10,000 employees and a campus of buildings, all working, mainly on government funds, to find a cure for cancer. What would you do if some small town doctor came in with an inexpensive sure cure for all cancers? Would you use every power you have to discredit him? Or would you just have him killed? Now, multiply that ethical dilemma by every one of the major illnesses that have been supporting multi-million dollar research efforts.
Yes, there’s a simple, no drug cure for cancer—indeed the same cure will work for virtually any illness. It took a lot of research to find the doctors who had discovered this miracle, but I have and I’m blowing my little tiny whistle. My Secret Guide to Health explains exactly why we get sick, and how, just by changing our lifestyles, we can recover totally from virtually any illness. Here, I review the books that resulted in this astounding revelation.
I guarantee you’ll never trust doctors and their $2.5 trillion industry again.
What else? How about feeding babies formula? Sure, if you don’t mind permanently lowering your child’s intelligence and resistance to disease. Call it partial mental crippling. How about immunization shots? Wait’ll find out about this $200 billion scam and the terrible damage it’s doing! Read the James book. Dental amalgam, which the ADA assures us is harmless, is making millions of people sick. Read the books by Judd, Bronte and Huggins and you’ll never trust a dentist again. Ditto root canals—read Meinig’s book.
You’ve read about our public school problems. Well once you understand the depth of the problems you’re going to either be very depressed or out there fighting to change things. Ditto our colleges.
There’s more? Lots! I’ll bet you don’t know how the Fed got in control of our money. It happened around 3 AM one morning in 1913 when a small group of Democrats in Congress met and passed the law turning over the issuing of our government’s money to the Fed—one of the biggest give-aways in history. Read David Icke’s book and be incredulous. I’ve also reviewed several other books which chronicle how crooked Congress is and has been.
Then there’s our correctional system which doesn’t correct anything. The war on drugs which has made drugs more available than ever and generated some huge world-wide crime syndicates. And the biggest drug importer? The CIA! Wait’ll you read Into The Buzzsaw!
How about our total belief in jobs? Now there’s a scam which keeps working stiffs from ever making much money. Yes, of course there’s a better way. Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, or my Secret Guide to Wealth.
The power companies have been spending a fortune playing down the damage the magnetic fields from their power lines are causing. Read the straight dope on this. This also holds for the damage cell phones held next to your head cause to your brain, and electric blankets to your body.
Are you still drinking tap water? You won’t once you know the real story of fluorides in your water.
Well, only a bonafide kook would believe that NASA faked the Moon landings 40 years ago, right? Then you sure don’t want to read the books by René and Percy. That’s your road to kookdom—you can trail along with me. They are both totally compelling.
My Secret Guide to Wisdom is your guide to the education you should have had in school, but that schools would never dare to teach. It’ll upset you, and after you’ve read the books I’ve reviewed, you’ll become a social pariah. No one will want to talk with you. They’ll much prefer ignorance and calling you crazy.
4/1/09
The Old Savior Shtick
For as far back as written records go, people have been believing in saviors. Under the guidance of religious Authorities, of course. And before that idols.
Millions...no, billions...are kept in thrall with the story of Jesus, unaware of the 1875 Kersey Graves book, which is still in print, The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors—Christianity Before Christ. Interestingly (to me), it shows that written records tell us that many of the saviors, going back thousands of years before Christ, were born of virgins, on December 25th, with three wise men at hand and a shining star in the sky. These guys had twelve disciples, worked miracles, and were crucified, only to rise three days later. Think of the odds!
There are probably many more books that blow the lid off organized religions down through history. Another I enjoyed is Tim Leedom’s, The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You To Read.
Religion is the biggest business in the world, with branch offices in every city, town and village in the world. It’s strength is based on the gullibility of the masses, who are either uneducated or mis-educated.
Mis-educated? Taught via memorizing things and then the short-term memory tested...rather than by thinking. Our American government-run mandatory school system, which was put in place by our religious leaders over 150 years ago, still is keeping us quietly controlled.
How’d you, with a high school degree and probably one from college too, like to take all those thousands of exams again as proof of your education? We short-term memorize our way through school. We’re not educated, we’re indoctrinated. Now shut up and stop asking questions.
3/26/09
Tea Leaves
With the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, when I was 19, and the country geared up for the war, I was prime draft board meat, so my being in college probably wasn't going to keep me out of the Army.
During the summer of 1942 I went to work at G.E. in Schenectady (NY) as a test engineer on the radio transmitters they were building for the Army, the BC-375 and BC-191 equipment. As a ham, I'd been building radio stuff for over six years, so I knew the radios I was testing and aligning at G.E. were using a design that was at least ten years old. Antiques.
With the draft board breathing down my neck I tried enlisting in the Army Air Force, but when I admitted I had hay fever, they rejected me. Hmm, lesson learned. Then Tom Jones, who'd worked for my dad at American Export Airlines, and had been a reserve Naval officer, so had been recalled to duty, put me in touch with Commander Bourne at the Naval Research Lab in Anacostia (VA), just across the river from Washington.
I took the train down and was interviewed by Bourne. I was just what he was looking for, but first I'd have to come up to date on the latest super secret radar and sonar equipment at the Navy school. A couple weeks later I reported to the Washington Navy Yard and was inducted. But, there was a problem. They were all out of uniforms, so they gave me a pass and told me to come back in ten days.
At the time it was illegal for a member of the military to dress in civilian clothes without special permission, so that was specified on my pass.
Back home in Brooklyn with my folks, my grandmother (Ma) and I went to Manhattan to shop. We lunched at the Gypsy Tea Room on Fifth Avenue, so I had my tea leaves read. The woman looked at my tea cup, then at me She was puzzled. She said that though I wasn't in uniform, I was in the service. She said someone with the initials TJ had a major influence on my life and that I'd soon be reporting to a large building, where in some way I'd come out with top honors. Weird.
I reported back to the Navy Yard, got my uniforms, and spent a few days with nothing to do. I had no problem waking up in the morning, since the Navy Band began practicing every morning at six on the floor above our barracks.
A couple weeks later I reported to Bliss Electrical School, in nearby Silver Spring (MD) for the first three months of my electronic education. Sure enough, it was a big building. The next three months were bliss for me. I loved learning the fundamentals of electronics, how capacitors, resistors, transformers, tubes, and coils worked and were designed. I spent every spare minute I could in the rec room with my ear glued to the radio, listening to the classical music programs. I still have the log of the music I heard.
I graduated three months later with top honors, just as the Gypsy had predicted, and was off to Treasure Island in San Francisco for six more months at the Radio Materiel School. I loved it there, too. Between poker games in the barracks and a sandwich business I organized, I didn’t have to draw a pay check for the whole six months. Weekends, I mostly spent listening to classical records at the San Francisco USO.
The school was super. First a classroom lecture on how things worked, and then into a lab with equipment to work on that had been fiendishly disabled, so we had to figure out what was wrong. Six months later we were able to repair anything electronic…receivers, transmitters, sonar, radar, motor-generators, antennas, and test equipment.
When I graduated, now as an Electronic Technician Second Class, I was supposed to notify Commander Bourne so he could transfer me to his lab. Instead, I figured that a safe lab job like that would be much better for someone with a family, so I volunteered for submarine duty…and spent the next two years on the USS Drum, sinking Japanese ships and being depth charged.
3/25/09
A Fix
We’z in a hell of a fix, mainly thanks to the Congress you’ve been able to stop yourself from reelecting. You know, the guys who snuck in over 8,000 earmarks to the stimulus package. Well, the beneficiaries of the earmarks happily got what their “donations” to their Congressman or Senator paid for.
By not establishing any import duties, Congress has successfully exported millions of American jobs, and the factories they worked in, mainly to Asia.
By turning a blind eye to the somewhere between thirteen and twenty million illegal aliens already here, mainly from Mexico, they’ve lowered the average American worker’s paycheck…helping gut the American middle class.
Now we’re faced with the imminent collapse of the Mexican government, which could have ten to twenty more million Mexicans rushing north to escape the drug cartels taking over.
Back when we had duties on imported goods as a way to protect our industries, the money eliminated the need for any income taxes. Do you still like the idea of free trade? I’d rather pay a little more for my next TV set and get my whole paycheck.
3/24/09
School
Charley Reese, a nationally syndicated columnist, wrote about helping his wife grade the essays of a group of college freshmen. “These college freshmen had somehow survived Head Start, kindergarten and 12 years of public school education without learning how to spell, punctuate or write an intelligible sentence.”
“I think public education is so messed up, it needs to be abolished…The public school industry—that’s what it has become—is so riddled with entrenched bureaucrats and too politicized to ever be reformed. It should simply be dismantled, along with colleges of education, which are hotbeds of claptrap.”
I experienced this first hand when Sherry’s 17-year old high school graduate visited. See my 12/4/07 posting. The kid had read only six books in his whole life and didn’t seem interested in trying to read more.
It’s easy to blame the kids for being so dumb, but the problem isn’t the kids, it’s our public school system…and it must be totally changed if our country is going to survive. Our kids are up against those in China and India, and they are leaving ours in the dust.
Our totally bribed professional politicians you have been unable to prevent yourself from reelecting to Congress (95% of the incumbents are reelected) have allowed our manufacturing jobs to be moved to Asia. We used to be a manufacturing powerhouse, now most everything we buy has a little Made In China sticker. The time was when we charged an import duty to give our workers a break. And these tariffs were enough so there was no need for an income tax. But that was before our government super-bloated.
As C. Northcote Parkinson noted, unchecked, government bureaus tend to grow steadily at about 7% per year.
There’s a simple question you can ask to find out whether a school is teaching kids to think or not. Ask if the kids are given homework upon which they will be tested.
We need to model our schools after the Sudbury Valley School, where there is no curriculum. Where the kids are allowed to learn whatever they want. Where there are no tests or grades. Where the kids are not separated by age. Kids love to learn, if we’ll let them.
We don’t need schools to be mandatory. If they’re fun, we won’t be able to keep kids away.
Kids that teach themselves learn to think and be creative. And they don’t forget what they’ve learned. How’d you like to have to take your high school exams again?
3/23/09
The Military
So, here we are, the nation with the biggest army, navy and air force in the world…with our forces spread out in 125 countries around the world, and supporting all this at a cost of more than the total of the next twenty top military-spending nations in the world combined. Is something wrong here?
There are two things we can thank Donald Rumsfeld for. One, as Secretary of Defense he planned the invasion of Iraq, ignoring the advice of his generals, resulting in a massive and expensive screw-up. Then there was his forcing the FDA to okay aspartame, made by Searle Labs, of which he had been the CEO before joining the government. My booklet #38 explains how terrible that stuff is.
Where does it say that we have to be the policeman for the world? So we’ve been pouring hundreds of billions into one war after another, going deeply into hock to do it. Meanwhile the government regulators have been fast asleep (or heavily bribed), allowing our banks to go bananas and self-destruct…helping to teach us the folly of saving money.
If we cut our military by about 90% we’d save trillions. So, what country is going to attack us? These days business is war, not the military. And the Chinese know this.
I’d like to see us decide to bring back out high tech industries, re-invent our schools so we have the smartest and best educated work force in the world, and pioneer real health care…which means taking care of our health rather than trying to fix what we’ve messed up with poor food and other poisons.
Once schools are changed so kids learn to think and be creative there may be less interest in spending one’s life being entertained and more in the excitement of learning something new. Hmm, where’s my Magic Marker?
3/22/09
Cold Fusion
The fire under the cold fusion pot is starting to heat up again with the recent Navy lab report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090324/ts_alt_afp/usscienceenergynuclear
This is the biggest threat to oil there is. Unlimited heat at around a hundredth the cost of oil. Totally non-polluting heat. Heck, this is also a threat to the electric power industry, nuclear power plants, and hydro-electric.
Forget about solar, wind, geothermal, and wave power. Cold fusion will put ’em all out of business. And without depleting any natural resources. Even nuclear waste can be used for fuel, eliminating it’s radioactivity in the process.
When Drs. Pons and Fleischman announced their discovery of the phenomenon in 1989 it was met with the usual scientific skepticism. Then, when a test at MIT showed no excess heat generated, the scientific community breathed a mass sigh of relief.
But others were getting positive results, so when I heard about a cold fusion conference being held on Maui, I decided to go. Well, I went out a few days early so I could scuba dive all six of the Hawaiian islands. At the conference I met Pons and Fleischmann and other researchers in the field of solid state physics. I also met Dr. Eugene Mallove, who’d written a book, Fire From Ice, on cold fusion. He left MIT in disgust when he discovered that pressure from their hot fusion researchers, afraid cold fusion might cut into their hot fusion funding, had quietly altered the cold fusion report data to show no excess heat.
Well, I’d helped the cell phone industry and personal computer industries get started with my publications, so I decided to see what I could do for cold fusion. And Mallove signed on to be my editor.
We started off with the May 1994 premiere 100-page, perfect bound, glossy issue. The newsstand sales were excellent and subscriptions were pouring in. Then, right after the fourth issue went to press, I came into the office one morning and found the cold fusion office had been cleaned out. The article files, subscription, authors, and advertiser records…the room was bare. A few weeks later I heard Mallove was starting Infinite Energy, his own magazine, with funding from Arthur C. Clarke.
I found a physicist from Vermont who was available and we were soon back in business, though with a more modest offset printed journal. I published all of Dr. Patterson’s cold fusion patents, and the research results. But, when the government, under pressure from oil interests (the Bush family made their money in oil), notified colleges and universities that any research in cold fusion done, even on an undergraduate level, would result in no more government funding for anything. And then the Secretary of Energy published a book on Cold Fusion, The Fiasco of the Century.
The Patent Office sidetracked all cold fusion patent applications into never-never land. Jim Patterson’s patents had been granted because the Patent Office has a special route for very old applicants who might not live long enough for the regular system. The head of this department apparently hadn’t gotten the word to squelch any cold fusion patent applications.
Mallove made the mistake of trying to organize a Congressional hearing on cold fusion, so he was found murdered one night. No, they never found who did it. Hmm, let me guess.
By early 2000 news in the field had dried up, so I had to throw in the towel. Even a NASA lab report in 1997 confirming cold fusion’s excess heat didn’t change things.
Now, with the recent Navy lab’s report, perhaps the heavy hand of the oil industry can be pried back.
If we can stop reelecting 95% of our Congress and Never Reelect Anyone, maybe we can get a cold fusion equipment manufacturing industry going and keep it here in America. All Congress has to do is put an import duty on competing products to protect our industry so it isn’t cheaper to have them made by Chinese slave labor.
I envision a cold fusion-powered unit for a home that would supply all of the heat and electricity a family could need, and at a hundredth or less the cost of oil. No more power grid, with its oil, coal, nuclear, and hydro-power generators.
3/21/09
The Mikado
Two people have had profound influences on my life. The first, when I was seven, was Bob Sullivan, who introduced me to classical music and Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, and the second was when I was thirteen and an angel appeared in church one Sunday when I was there for Sunday School. He had a carton of radio parts and asked if I was interested.
This came to mind as Sherry and I drove to Keene to watch Gilbert & Sullivan’s most popular operetta, The Mikado, at the Colonial theater. It was in 1937, over seventy years ago, that I played the part of Koko, the Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado in high school.
Operettas are the 19th century version of our musical comedies in that the performers both talk and sing, unlike opera, where everything is sung. The Gilbert & Sullivan operettas were British musical comedies from over a hundred years ago, so few kids today have even heard of them. Well, they’re missing out.
Erasmus Hall High School, in Brooklyn NY, had over 10,000 students and 120 after-school clubs. I joined the choral, radio, book, photography, and the Savoyards clubs. The Savoy theater in London was where the G&S operettas were first performed.
The radio club helped me get my ham license (W2NSD), and the Savoyards put on The Mikado. Wow, that was fun. The school chapel, which held around 3,000, was a great place to perform. Alas, that was years before tape or video recorders.
Having seen the British Savoyards troupe do The Mikado on one of their visits to New York, I had the pleasure of seeing Martyn Green do Koko. The Brits made a big deal out of enunciating every word clearly, something the group in Keene hadn’t mastered. Well, I know every word of the operetta, so I didn’t care. But Sherry doesn’t, so she missed a lot of the gags.
Our $55 each seats were in the mezzanine, and had less knee room than any airline seat I’ve been in. They had a nice orchestra and the music was fine.
For those of you who are familiar with the G&S operettas, I also played Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance while in high school.
3/18/09
Technology
We are in a high tech world and it’s getting higher tech. It’s worth while to keep this in mind if you are planning to have children because you’ll want to get them interested in technology early on.
I was very fortunate that my mother’s father, Pop, was into technology. Indeed, he was an inventor and I keep a picture of him on my desk. He’s sitting on the front porch in 1935, shortly before his death from pneumonia. Well, he was a smoker. Cigarettes, pipes, and cigars.
A box of old radio parts a man brought to church one Sunday when I was 13 got me started in electronics, and amateur radio kept me going for the next seventy years. When I went to electronic shows I found that a surprising many of the industry leaders started out as ham operators in their teens.
What fun I had, making friends all around the world. And later, when I had the money and time to travel, I was able to visit and stay with these friends for short visits. It brought a whole new dimension to travel. When I get some time I’ll scan my old slides so you can see how interesting my visits to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, and Swaziland were. And over a hundred other countries, where I was met and entertained by ham fraternity brothers.
So, in this age of the Internet, how can we attract youngsters to amateur radio? Heck, few teenagers have even heard of the hobby. With so many kids today unable to find the United States on a world globe, why would they want to spend their time talking with guys in countries they’ve never even heard of?
When I arrived in Afghanistan a local ham was there to meet me at the airport. He said, “Welcome to Kabul, the land of the soft stool.” I stayed with he and his family for a week, talking home and to friends around the world from his ham station. And he drove me to visit nearby villages and explained about the life there. Like the tribe that has devoted their lives to digging tunnels from the nearby mountains to bring the water from the melting snows to villages and fields for watering crops. The hobby has given me fantastic adventures, and I love the technology I’ve learned to master.
3/17/09
Guess Who
With Obama and Congress shoveling out the money by the billions, guess who is going to pay? You don’t need two guesses. Hey, the money has to come from somewhere. So, some will come via more and higher taxes, other will come by way of inflation, which is just another tax.
I’m reminded of 1929, when Wall Street got the whole world into trouble…the Great Depression. Along came FDR with the New Deal. But, you know, despite huge government expenses for the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built dams, the Works Progress Administration, which built roads and bridges, and the Civilian Conservation Corps, which planted a few million trees, double-digit unemployment wasn’t changed.
How’d FDR pay for all this government work? He raised the taxes on the wealthy to 79%, and then to 90%. And he instituted the withholding tax for everyone else, grabbing our money from our employers instead of waiting until April for the yearly IRS bill. If he hadn’t taken it a little at a time instead of all at once, as it used to be, there’d have been riots. Heck, he might not even have been elected to a third term.
His Agricultural Adjustment Administration was a beaut. It paid farmers federal dollars not to produce crops on part of their land. An army of AAA bureaucrats went around inspecting farms, even using aerial photography, to make sure farmers weren’t cheating by growing too many crops. So, by 1935 the U.S. had to import about 35 million bushels of corn, 36 million pounds of cotton, and 13 million bushels of wheat. Gee, thanks, Rosy. It’s no wonder the depression lasted over ten years, until WWII helped to end it.
Those hundreds of billions now being given to Wall Street, which our almost totally bribed government allowed to make the mess, are going to come from us, not Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. We’re going to have to work longer and harder for less, and for a long time. Of course, that’s if Planet-X, a pole shift, or some other calamity doesn’t come along. Viva 2012!
3/16/09
Change
With the major media bought and paid for by pharmaceutical industry advertising, it is going to be a slow job getting the word out that people can stop making themselves sick, and cure any illness they have, by changing to a raw organic food diet and avoiding poisons such as cooked food, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, vaccinations and drugs, both legal and illegal.
For that matter, the supply of organic food is so limited today that there’s no way in the foreseeable future to supply more than a small percentage of our population. So, as the word gets around, at first we’ll see organic food prices increasing. That’ll trigger more interest in home gardens. We’ll see schools encouraging teens to raise organic gardens after school.
As the demand for raw milk grows we’ll see a huge growth in small farms. And as the influence of the pasteurized milk industry fades we’ll see state legislators reversing their restrictions on marketing raw milk. Like recently, when the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture immediately rescinded a farmer’s milk permit when three families got food poisoning…complete with press releases naming the farm. It turned out that tests proved the milk to be free of any pathogens and that two of the families had been away on vacation when they got sick. But the harm was done. The media made a big deal out of the danger of raw milk and was silent when it was exonerated.
Meanwhile, we’re seeing a few raw food restaurants opening around the country. As the interest in care of health instead of so-called healthcare grows we’ll start seeing organic raw food options starting to appear in restaurants and the fast food chains.
Today’s food giants aren’t going to go out of business without a fight. It’s going to take a massive effort to unpoison millions of farm acres and remineralize them with rock dust. No more GM corn stuffed into cows. No more chickens raised, packed so tightly together they are unable to even stand. No more growth hormones or antibiotics in our meat. The candy businesses mostly kaput. Hershey selling raw chocolate. Buffalo once again roaming the plains? The west, grass lands again? It’s gonna take years.
3/15/09
The Fetus
Couples interested in having a healthy, high-IQ baby, have to start early laying the foundation. No pun intended. But, to have the best possible child, they have to start with their own healthy bodies so their sperm and ova will be as poisoned-free as possible.
Ideally this means they’ve been on raw food diets, with a minimum of sugar and no alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, or drugs…legal or illegal. Hey, this baby is going to be the greatest adventure of your life, so go all out.
All through pregnancy take time to read to the baby and play classical music. And if something happens that might cause the baby pain, be sure to keep quiet for a while. You see, if the baby is bumped or exposed to loud noises, it records any sounds or things that are said as equal to pain. And that includes mommy coughing or sneezing.
Since the baby is sharing the mother’s diet, this is of particular importance.
One of the basics of all life is to survive, and this means to avoid pain. See my 3/30/07 post.
Be sure to invest $13 in The Prenatal Classroom, as reviewed on page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom. Your baby will be able to recognize up to a hundred or so words at birth…and love good music.
I see where they’re starting babies learning to read words by the time they’re nine months old. And by the time they’re in the first grade the child can learn to read with both the left and right brain, abls to read pages of a book in a few seconds with good comprehension. See www.speedreading 4kids.com, and my 4/5/08 post.
Public school? Fugetabout it. By the time your baby genius is four it’s time to find a clone of the Sudbury Valley School, (Framingham, MA). Thankfully, this school is being cloned around the country. Download everything I’ve posted so you can search for the Sudbury Valley School, which I often refer to.
I wish my folks had known what we know now about pregnancy and raising babies. Both my dad and mother smoked and drank, though not to excess. And my mother fed me a relatively healthy diet as a child. See my 2/25/08 post.
One major warning! Don’t let ’em give your child any vaccinations. None! See 12/20/08. Oh, and I highly recommend having the birth done by a mid-wife rather than a doctor. And you should look into getting a device which goes over the tummy during pregnancy and, with a vacuum pump, reduces the pressure on the baby for use daily during the last months of pregnancy. It also makes the delivery simpler and faster.
With some extra effort families can raise children with 150 average IQs, with many topping 200 (geniuses). Our country sure could use a generation of geniuses, though it would raise holy hell with the political and big business groups who have been used to running the country for their benefit. It could seriously weaken the proletariat they’ve been milking.
3/14/09
Cities
Having lived in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Cleveland, Dallas, and San Francisco, our New Hampshire cities are more like large towns than cities. So we’ve managed to avoid most of the crime and poverty that one sees in larger cities.
With most of us living in small towns, we’ve no problem with street gangs, massive high school dropouts, crack houses, auto theft, rapes, or even many illigitimate births.
Our major cities, Manchester, Nashua, Concord and Portsmouth, basically have one short main street with shops and one or two shopping plazas, just out of town…a few blocks away.
3/13/09
College
It’s interesting that the cost of college, including tuition and fees, has risen three times as fast as the average family income. Even worse, student borrowers have increased 50% and their debts have doubled.
The belief in the importance of a college education has been solidly implanted, so those without a college diploma are considered failures…doomed in life to unimportant jobs.
My approach, before I realized what a waste of time and money college (as it is today) is, was to figure out how to make ’em tuition-free, and at no expense to the government. I’ve covered this pretty well in the past. Check my 1/26/08, 9/13/07 and 8/4/07 posts.
Colleges are not teaching the things entrepreneurs need to know to be successful. Their grads are aimed at working in a large business, so they don’t need to know how to sell, how to market products, and deal with banks. But the future of America doesn’t seem to be so much in the growth of a few huge businesses as in the starting and growth of smaller businesses.
We’ve watched most of the large manufacturers moving their factories to Asia, Mexico, and South America, and even outsourcing more and more of their middle-management work.
It would be wonderful if some colleges would change their offerings to educate entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, as I explain in my Secret Guide to Wealth, a teen’s better bet is to ignore college and find work with a small company in some field that’s fun, and let the owner pay for their entrepreneurial education.
Even worse, our colleges today are using the same teaching approach as our public schools, where you are given an assignment to read and then you are given a test on your memory of the material. The material, like a muscle, fades away if you don’t use it. How’d you like to be tested on what you “learned” in high school? Do you still know how to solve simultaneous equations?
3/12/09
Cancer
It would be interesting to see where all the donations to the American Cancer Society are being spent. A letter announcing their 2009 Fund Drive arrived, reminding me of how profitable sickness is and how little interest there seems to be in health…particularly with the media. And, with half of Americans getting cancer, it’s a particularly bountiful money tree for doctors, hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry.
So, if you are going to continue to eat cooked food, use pasteurized milk, drink coffee, and eat candy, make sure your sickness insurance is paid up, and can stand a half-million dollar hit. And it’s much better that you don’t talk with one of the few survivors of chemo or radiation treatments. It’s a lot more fun to bloat yourself at McDonalds and not worry.
For that matter, it is obviously unpatriotic to threaten one of our biggest and most profitable industries. Well, group of industries…like with the conglomerates filling the supermarket shelves with boxes of food products. Of course it starts way before that with the companies making chemical fertilizer and pesticides. Then there are the seed companies with their genetically modified seeds and the huge multi-million dollar farms growing this very non-organic produce. And GM corn fed cows, grown quickly with bovine growth hormone and loaded with antibiotics to counter the resulting mastitis. Cows that have never seen a pasture.
It isn’t any better for most of the chickens that reach the fast food companies or your supermarket shelves. It’s much better that you don’t bother reading about where most of your supermarket food comes from.
Remember, a hundred years ago (before supermarkets) cancer, Alzheimer’s and most of the things killing us today, were virtually unknown in America. They were mostly dying of pneumonia and tuberculosis.
3/11/09
School
Spose every class had a web site where the students could share their views on things. Where the kids were encouraged to get up and tell the class about books they’d read that the others might enjoy…and add the reviews to the class web site.
Where they could share their adventures and important events in their lives with their classmates. The fun things. The achievements. The really stupid things. Their hopes. Maybe pictures of a horse they rode, a sandcastle they built, a painting they made, interesting places they’d visited, playing an instrument, winning a race, getting an award, their pets…photos and videos. And anything worth more permanent saving from facebook, twitter, or their own sites. A kind of class album circa 2009.
What a treasure to download and save this at the end of the term. In all of the classes I took from kindergarten through college I only remember two kids, and they because they were so outrageous. In the nineth grade in Brooklyn Norman Golding and Myron Nussbaum will never be forgotten for their fights with the teacher…running around the classroom, throwing blackboard erasers at her.
3/10/09
Blacks
Many blacks, ignorant of history and inflamed by opportunists, are grumbling about slavery and some even want restitution. Hey, guys, slavery was the best thing that ever happened to your family. Without it, you wouldn’t exist.
Until slavery came along, making lives have some cash value, the African tribes were busy raiding their neighboring tribes and killing them, as we see in so much of Africa today. With slavery, the losers were sold to slave traders instead of killed.
Some 600,000 were shipped to America, and these have grown to around 40 million today. And, despite white efforts to improve life for blacks to the tune of trillions invested in welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, Medicaid, affirmative action, and poverty programs, the student drop out rate for blacks is over 50% in some cities, and illegitimacy is 70%!
Then there’s crime, where white criminals choose black victims 3% of the time and black criminals choose white victims 45% of the time. White women are raped by blacks over a hundred times more often than the reverse. And blacks rob whites 139 times as often as the reverse.
At Berkeley 42% of the blacks drop out vs. 16% of the whites. And blacks are 70% of our two million prison population.
Other immigrants have historically integrated into American society, adopting our language and customs. Perhaps the blacks could benefit from more strong leaders and perhaps start thinking of themselves as Americans rather than African-Americans.
3/9/09
J.B. Rhine
Soon after WWII Rhine, a professor at Duke University in North Carolina, began investigating things like telepathy, precognition, and if minds could influence matter (psychokenisis). And upsetting the hell out of the scientific community with his results.
When I finished college in 1948 I ignored the big company recruiters. I’d worked for G.E. in Schenectady during the summer of 1942, just before joining the Navy, and was determined to never again work for a large corporation. Phooey. Ugh.
Jack Younts, who used to work for my dad, and his wife Blitz, came to our house in Brooklyn for dinner several times. Blitz worked as an organist for the soap operas on NBC radio. My ham equipment was in the basement, but I had it set up so I could sit in the living room and talk over it. Blitz heard me talking and remarked on my voice, saying she thought I’d make an excellent announcer and that, if I was interested, she could set up an interview with Ben Grower, NBC’s top announcer.
A year later Jack quit his job and moved to Southern Pines NC, where he bought WEEB, a daytime radio station. So, when I got out of college I called Jack and asked if he could use another announcer. He said hell yes, to come on down.
When I got there and walked into the station, Jack asked if I had a First Class FCC Broadcast Engineering License. He hadn’t mentioned anything about that. Rats.
Jack handed me a study manual and said to take the train to Washington that night to get my ticket. So the next morning, when the FCC offices opened, I was there, along with a couple dozen others, to take the license exam. There were four parts to the exam, covering the rules, the radio theory and antenna technology. Piece of cake. I finished all four parts and had my license in hand before anyone else finished the first section.
The next morning I walked in with my license and, much to my amazement, Jack’s chief engineer resigned and I was the new chief (and only) engineer. It was a daytime station, so it was only on the air twelve hours a day…84 hours a week. As the only engineer I had to be there whenever it was on the air, so I was working 84-hour weeks at the then minimum wage of 50¢ an hour. $42 a week.
One of the other announcers was Ed Cox, who was also working with J.B. Rhine on his psychical research. I soon became one of the research subjects, though Ed’s special interest was investigating poltergeist phenomena.
At about this time Rhine discovered something that forced him to start his research all over. Ed explained it to me, but far’s I know this has never gotten widely known. What Rhine found out was that if his subjects anytime later learned what the right answers were, this significantly affected their scores.
We are so used to time being linear that it never occurred to anyone that learning something in the future could change things in the past. Rhine’s five cards had a cross, a circle, wavy lines, and so on one side of them. The experiment was to shuffle the cards and then have the person being tested guess which symbols were on the cards, one by one. If, after each guess, the card was turned over, this resulted in higher scores than when the experimenter didn’t show the subject the card faces. Weird.
So Rhine had to start his research all over again, making sure his subjects didn’t ever find out the right answers.
When I got an offer to work for Channel 11 in New York for much better pay, I moved back to Brooklyn with my folks.
3/8/09
Progress
Back in the 1930s there were just a few magazine titles being published, and they were mostly sold and delivered by neighborhood kids or on newsstands. I went door to door when I was eleven, soliciting subscriptions to Liberty. Then a truck would drop off the copies at my house, I’d put ’em in my Liberty bag, get on my bicycle and hand delivery them to my subscribers.
Those were the days when drug stores handled prescriptions and had a soda fountain counter with stools. Ice cream cones were a nickel and a sundae was ten cents most places, fifteen cents in some.
The mailman delivered to our door twice a day on weekdays and once on Saturday. But it was just mail…no magazines, no ads, no newspapers, no junk.
Today we’re seeing the Web challenging the magazine and newspaper industries. Big time. The economies are enormously attractive. No paper cost. No printing. No addressing. No postage. No newsstand unsold copies. And instant delivery.
When I started publishing my first magazine in 1960 I wrote the copy on a typewriter. I mailed that to the printer, where my copy was set into lead type on a Linotype machine. The illustrations were half-tone screened and etched into copper plates, which were nailed to wooden blocks. I then was sent proofs of the typesetting and the illustrations which I checked for errors and pasted into the magazine pages. I sent the pages to the printer, where the lead type and illustrations were put together on trays, and everything locked into place. They then mailed a proof for me by rolling ink over the tray, then putting the proof paper on it and rolling over it.
Every month I had to spend the last couple of days at the printer, checking the proofs and making corrections or changes. Each change had to be marked as a printer’s error (PE) or an author’s alteration (AA). The AAs were charged extra for.
Today the copy and illustrations come in from the staff and authors, who can be anywhere in the world, via the Web. The copy is edited, put into the page form on a Macintosh, and sent to the printer via the Web to be printed. Or it can be delivered via the Web in PDF form to subscribers, ready to read on their computer or print out. No more having to write my May editorials in March.
Kids in a few years are going to be surprised to see copies of old printed magazines up in the attic somewhere. Weekly? Monthly? Heck, we’ll be getting daily downloads from our magazines and newspapers, complete with ads. We’ll dump the downloads into our book readers, just as I dump the nightly Coast To Coast AM radio show into my iPod every day so I can listen to it when I’m driving somewhere or out on my daily walk.
With this medium for delivery we’ll be not only getting things to read, but videos and audios. And, as we’re able to cram more and more memory into smaller packages, instead of CDs and DVDs, we’ll store our movies, magazines and books on little chips. My fifty-some bookcases of books will be all instantly searchable from my little shirt-pocket computer.
Well, they laughed at me back in January 1976 when I described today’s laptop computer at a hamfest in Atlanta. I have a tape of the talk.
I’m getting downloads from Dr. Mercola every few days, some including videos. And I can save ’em either by copying what I want of the material or saving the whole pages. The future of magazines is not far off.
Gee, what’ll we do with all those trees we’ve been growing to make paper? Yoiks!
3/5/09
Health Care
If we actually took care of our health instead of depending on the government or insurance to pay when we’ve destroyed our health, we’d sure save a bundle. It’s running about $8,000 each for every many, woman, and child in America today. Yet, we’re one of the sickest and shorter-lived of the developed countries.
Any family interested in caring for their health will make sure the food they eat is healthy, that they get exercise, drink plenty of pure water, get lots of sun, play games, listen to good music, and avoid poisons such as sugar, caffeine, alcohol, drugs, mercury, vaccinations, and nicotine. In today’s America this is not easy.
It means avoiding about 99% of today’s food industry products and a 100% of the medical industry products and services. Of course, as more families adopt the care of their health as being important, we’ll be seeing more products and services aimed at this growing market. Like restaurants adding raw, organic food choices to their menus. We’ll have thousands of small farms springing up to provide raw milk and meat that’s actually healthy to eat. Farmers will be putting rock dust on their land so their crops can be organic and packed with the minerals our bodies need to be healthy. Goodbye Monsanto.
3/4/09
Failure
Researchers tell us that half of small businesses fail in their first year, and a decade later 90% have failed. Well, I doubt that any of the 90% that failed read my Secret Guide to Wealth before starting their business.
Our country is run by big business. They’ve pretty much bought and paid for Congress and the administrations, so our government run public school system and our colleges are designed to provide workers for big business. They don’t teach the things that a small businessman needs to know to be successful. My book explains how to get someone else to teach you everything you need to know to be successful, and to pay you to learn.
In any small business it’s critically important to know how to sell. Selling is not a natural talent, it’s a skill that has to be learned. The nice part is there are a bunch of excellent books written by the top experts. Get ’em and read ’em. After that practice makes perfect.
In my experience as a publisher, virtually no small (or big, for that matter) business owners have a clue about advertising. The first thing I did when I started my first business was take a course in advertising. That was one of the smartest moves I could have made. I learned how to advertise, where to do it and how to measure the results.
Later, when I was publishing magazines and dealing with both small and huge ad agencies, I saw no sign that anyone in those agencies had ever taken a course in advertising…or even read books on the subject. There are some excellent ones.
As a publisher of technical magazines, I tried to get my advertisers to take advantage of the power of new products announcements and test reports by my magazine staff on their products. Surveys showed that a simple new products announcement in the magazine could be relied to help sell as much product as a full page ad. And a favorable product review normally results in as many sales as ten full page ads.
To help small businesses learn how to prepare new products releases, and then how to get magazines and newspapers to publish them, I’ve a how to generate $1 million in extra sales DVD ($40) available (#52).
It’s important to know how to speak to groups with confidence, to have experience with accounting and dealing with banks…to understand about purchasing and outsourcing.
I get to a lot of business expos and I can testify that hardly any companies have a clue as to booth design or what literature to have available.
There’s a wide open opportunity for a business to make DVDs to help entrepreneurs be successful. DVDs on packaging, shipping, direct mail, web site design and marketing, email selling, newsletters, catalogs…oh, it’s almost endless.
3/3/09
Instant Zees
It is very satisfying to lie down on the bed for a nap at 3 pm, turn off the light, turn over on my left side, put a pillow between my legs, pull the other pillow under my head, and within a minute I’m sound asleep.
First, tell yourself when you’d like to wake up. When I do that I almost always wake up within a minute or two of my goal. I haven’t had to use an alarm in years.
You can do it too, once you condition your body and mind to the routine. The big trick is, instead of letting your mind think of things, to stop it. Think of nothing and feel how tired you are. It works every time for me. The next thing I know I wake up, right on schedule.
I keep my bedroom dark, day and night. It’s important to sleep in a dark and quiet room so the brain can sort things out, helping your memory. If there’s likely to be some noises outside my room I turn on an air filter to generate some white noise to mask any extraneous sounds.
3/2/09
Winter Clothes
These days, when many of us tend to keep our houses cooler than we used to so we can save on fuel, we need to make up the difference with warmer clothes. The best solution I’d found are a pair of flannel-lined pants and a combo shirt and jacket with a quilted lining from Haband.
They are both machine washable. The pants, called Ice House®, are flannel-lined twill, $35 for two pair. The shirt-coat is their Tailgater, which is $20. Two for $35. They come in five colors and all sizes. Call Haband at 800-742-2263 to start getting their catalogs and to order.
When I get up I jump into the pants, put on the coat, zip or snap-button it up, some sox and shoes, and I’m ready for the day, even when the kitchen is down around 60°. It takes me less than a minute to get dressed. And when I go outside I pull up the fleece hood to keep my head warm.
No, I don’t get a commission, I just like to share the good stuff I’ve found.
3/1/09
Teacher Pay
The educational magazines are full of discussions of the pros and cons of merit pay. Most educators seem for it, while the teacher unions are dead set against the whole idea. Thus it was interesting to find that, in general, tests of the concept have not been particularly successful. Yes, I have an idea on how to help teachers focus on improving their skills. It’s a sort of merit pay system.
I was very impressed when I visited Windsor University (Canada) and found that they’ve a system whereby their teachers are rated by the students on a wide range of things. That makes a lot of sense. It’s like business, where the customers rate the service they’re getting. The teachers know their jobs depend on good ratings from the students, which establishes a different relationship than normal. I suggest that high school students rate their teachers at least twice a year, perhaps on a simple one to ten rating on how good they consider the teacher has been at teaching them. I’d also ask for a peer evaluation by other teachers, plus an evaluation by the school principal.
I’d propose weighting the ratings, giving 50% of the weight to the students, 30% to the teachers, and 20% to the principal. A 1-10 rating by the students, a 1-6 by the teachers and a 1-4 by the principal would give a total of a possible 20.
Those with the top 20% ratings would get a merit pay bonus. Those in the bottom 20% might be urged to improve their teaching skills pronto or seek work elsewhere.
If we implement high school teacher evaluation, that will help kids focus their attention on learning.
We should consider the education we provide our children…note I did not say "give" our children…as important a part of our infrastructure as providing telephones, power, roads, and bridges. Without a well-educated work force we’re not going to be able to provide a quality of life which will keep America healthy.
Our work force in the year 2020 will depend on what we do now…on what Congress and the administration does…the strength of the support or the resistance of teacher unions…the support of school boards and teachers. But all of these factors will be enormously influenced by the dedication of our people. If very few care enough to push for changes, we’re not going to just stay in trouble, but it’ll get worse as other countries take away our businesses.
So what’s it to be…Monday night football and a few brews…or action? What is your local school board thinking? What are they doing? How about your state legislature? Your senators and congressmen? How about the governor?
Of course if you’re comfortable with our kids hanging around the malls, smoking cigarettes, cruising in their cars, throwing beer cans and used condoms on our back roads, fine. You’ll get what you’re comfortable with. But let’s not hear any complaints about your kid "going bad." They don’t go bad, they’re allowed to spoil.
2/22/09
Obama
Yes, I know it’s a total waste of effort to try and get in touch with the President, but I tried anyway…with the following letter:
President Obama,
Ask me how you can……
1. Cut health care costs up to 90%, making us the healthiest country in the world.
2. Replace oil with a proven non-polluting energy source at a fiftieth the cost, building a new multi-trillion dollar industry for America.
3. Make American students the world’s best educated, and at less than half today’s cost.
4. Cut the government in half (or more), with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating.
5. Quickly win the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, using brains instead of bullets.
6. Cut prison costs by at least 50% and reduce recidivism.
7. Jump-start millions of new small businesses to reduce unemployment.
8. Make colleges tuition-free at no government expense.
9. End inflation.
10. Turn the nuclear waste into energy, eliminating its radioactivity.
11. Remineralize our farmlands for healthier, organic crops.
12. Reduce battery size, weight and cost by more than 90% with a new technology.
13. Quickly and easily eliminate PTSD problems for returning troops.
14. Eliminate the need for nuclear power plants.
15. Cure AIDS quickly with an electronic blood purifier.
16. Cure any cancer with no drugs. In fact, there are NO incurable illnesses!
17. Raise a new generation of genius children with 150 average IQs, able to read books with good comprehension at a few seconds a page.
Accomplishing even half of these will make you the best President our country has ever had.
So, who is Wayne Green? Well, I founded American Mensa.
With my publications I founded the cell phone and personal computer industries.
Given keynote addresses at national communication, computer, education, music, and consciousness conferences. Given talks in 32 countries.
Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science.
WWII 1943-45 served on USS Drum SS-228, on display at Mobile AL.
Much, much more on my web site.
You’re going to love my solutions to our country’s problems.
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Oh rats! I forgot to add my plan for making foreign aid pay off big time instead of ending up in some dictator’s Swiss bank account.
Maybe you could get your congressman or senator to send my letter to the President, giving it a lot better chance.
Obama & Health
To get Americans to stop needing so-called health care, we’ll have to get them to stop putting poisons in and on their bodies. So, who will lose money if we start making ourselves healthy and reverse any illness we have?
Well, the big losers will be doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, nursing homes, medical machine and equipment makers, insurance companies, HMOs, undertakers, crematoriums, assisted living facilities, medical schools, the entire booze and beer industry, the tobacco industry, coffee companies and coffee shops, Starbucks, Dunkin Doughnuts, around 98% of our present food industry, milk companies, the loss of food and pharmaceutical advertising in newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, and even on the web. The demand will be for organic non-GM crops, eliminating around 98% of today’s farm production of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and meat.
Changing over to producing healthy food is going to cost trillions.
On the plus side, the beneficiaries of a change to health will be the 350 million Americans. Unfortunately, I’d guess that around 90% or so of them would rather continue their present eating habits than change…at least until their doctor tells them they have cancer.
There is one group that has a lot to gain from our making ourselves healthy…and fortunately it’s a group with considerable clout. It’s even one that has the full attention of Congress, so there may be some hope for us. These are the businesses which are footing a big part of the costs of our making ourselves sick. They’re more than fed up with the so-called health care costs, which in many cases (like GM), are putting companies out of business.
I’d like to see us the healthiest country in the world instead of being one of the least healthy, together with, by far, the highest sickness cost. That’s now at about $8,000 a year for very man, woman, and child. That’s crazy!
It would be fantastic if President Obama sort of quietly advised us to stop our addiction to poisons, encouraging us to work toward healthy diets and lifestyles. McDonald’s with banana-kale smoothies and chicken sashimi?
Obama & Oil
We hear about getting alternative energy from wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear power, hydro-electric, waves, tidal waters, geothermal, hydrogen fuel cells, natural gas, bio energy, and so on, but zero mention of cold fusion…the real elephant in the room…the biggest threat to oil by far…and they know it.
Jim Patterson, a Sarasota inventor, demonstrated a cold fusion cell the size of a coffee mug at an energy conference with one watt of electricity going in and 1,000 watts of heat coming out…for the length of the conference. Jim has kind of…died.
I’ve published the scientific papers by the world’s top solid-state physics experts, explaining how cold fusion works, and I have a little $3 booklet that explains how it works in simple language. I’ve also explained it in my 11/25/07 essay.
I’d like to see an R&D project to develop a unit, about the size of a home dish-washer, which could provide all the heat and electricity a family could need, and cost almost nothing to run. We’d have no more need for coal-fired or nuclear power plants. No more vulnerable power grid.
This would start a whole new, huge industry. It would also put oil and electric power generation and distribution out of business. So you can bet the doomed industries are going to put up a big anything goes fight.
Obama & Education
I’ve covered why our public school system s one of the worst in the world, and made that way intentionally. See my entries for 2/11/09, 1/2/09. and 9/12/08.
In this Obama is up against the teacher’s unions, the teachers, the school authorities, school boards, and text book publishers. And that goes from kindergarten right on up through graduate college degrees.
There’s no business right now that would benefit, so bringing about any change is a huge challenge. In the long run the future of our country is at stake. We need a new generation of kids who have average 150 IQs (geniuses). We need them enabled to think and be creative. We need educational materials that they are going to demand. DVDs on any imaginable subject that are fun to use. I’d love to see us start producing them here in America and make sure we don’t offshore any part of the new industry.
Obama & Government Bloat
With the Bush presidency allowing the federal government triple in size, with few of the millions of bureaucrats benefiting us, and certainly not generating revenues for the country, we need a drastic cut back. While I’d like to see the system used in New Zealand when the socialist government was kicked out of office (see my 11/16/06 entry), I’d be comfortable applying my 11/16/08 essay. This could cut the government in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating. But, hey, why stop there?
Obama & Afghanistan
In my 9/25/08 essay I went into detail on how Obama could put a fast end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus discourage Muslim terrorism anywhere else. Alas, out generals and admirals are promoted to these lofty offices via never causing any trouble. This weeds our creative thinkers, who are always trouble-makers. So, instead of letting the generals run the wars, let’s bring in some brain power and creativity. I think we could pretty much wrap up those wars in a week if we got clever.
Obama & Prisons
We have both the highest percentage of our people in prison and at the highest cost per prisoner per year. What a waste! Having not learned a thing from our making booze illegal, thereby generating huge crime syndicates…and Las Vegas…we’ve repeated the stupidity with drugs, which has resulted in the CIA making billions for use with their black ops and put a million or so of their competitors in prison. I’m exaggerating? Check my 8/2/08 essay. It also explains how prison costs can be cut by about 90%.
Obama & Unemployment
Instead of more and more government make-work projects, worsening the deficit, my proposal is to encourage the start of a million or so new small businesses, which would cost the government nothing. See my 4/4/08 essay for the details.
The idea is simple, let’s have each state organize Business Incubator Groups in their towns to help entrepreneurs get new businesses going. These will generate revenues for the communities, the state, and the country. And jobs.
Obama & Tuition
While there are some major changes needed in our colleges…like getting them to forget the old paradigm of memorizing stuff for tests, which discourages kids from developing the ability to think…today’s college costs can be killers. So let’s make tuition-free, as I’ve described in my 9/13/07 and 1/26/08 entries. And run ’em fifty weeks of the year so they can graduate in three years or less instead of four to six.
Further, they’ll be a whole lot better educated and even emerge with good résumés. Vacations? Any time of the year they want.
Obama & Inflation
With the government racking up record deficits and covering them by printing more money, unless something is changed. and soon, it looks as if we’re headed toward a crash of the dollar. How much of your money have you put into Swiss francs? Check my 1/3/08 posting for info on this, and my 6/21/08 posting.
We need to dump the Federal Reserve Banking system and go back to U.S. Treasury notes, backed by gold. We’ve been taken for a fantastic ride ever since 1913 by a few international bankers.
2/20/09
Wicked Good!
For Valentine’s Day I stopped by Nelson’s chocolate store on Main Street in Wilton to get a box of their chocolate turtles for Sherry. She loves ’em. I particularly enjoy their penuche fudge. A chunk of it lasts me weeks, since I take just a tiny nibble every day.
If you have a gift-giving occasion coming up where you don’t want to spend a lot of money, but want to give a gift that’ll definitely be remembered, get one of Nelson’s $10.95 chocolate assortments. Every bite of every piece is wicked good.
Oh, and they’ll have some special chocolate Easter bunnies they make for that holiday. The Nelson family has been making chocolates there since 1914, so they more than have the hang of it. Watch out Lindt, you have some powerful competition.
Wilton is a tiny town just west of Milford, on Route 101.
2/18/09
It Can’t Be True!
The massive cover-up of the simple secret of health…of how to cure any illness with no drugs…by the medical industry, the government, the media, and our schools, was a shocker for me. The whole idea of deliberately allowing millions of people to die so the medical industry could collect some $2.2 trillion a year, just in the United States, was awful. So-called health care is a huge phony, taking 16% of our money.
Worse, that was in addition to many billions wasted on psychotherapists and their drugs when there’s a proven simple way to cure any psychological problems people have without more than a few hours of therapy, and no drugs. I became an expert at this in 1950 and have a certificate to prove it.
Then there’s the cover-up of the success of cold fusion which, if allowed to be made public, would put oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear power and the electric power web out of business. Oh, and solar, wind, and other such alternative energy sources.
There’s a bunch of mini cover-ups like the Moon landings, 911, the Oklahoma City bombs, and UFOs.
I saved the biggest for last. Yes, bigger than the health care scam. This is the intentional dumbing of us down by our mandatory public school system. The system of short-term memorizing stuff for tests has been designed to prevent students from learning to think or to be creative. It’s aim is to use the mass production system to turn out workers for our industries, and have them as alike as possible. Then, to help keep them unaware of what’s going on, we’re kept entertained when we’re not sleeping or working with ball games, TV, movies, music, computer games, and so on.
Basically, we’re slaves, making huge amounts of money for the wizards behind the curtains. And wars are particularly profitable, so let’s have one of those every few years.
Oh darn, I left out the biggest con job of all…religions. You mean you haven’t watched www.zeitgeistmovie.com yet? Tsk.
2/16/09
What, Me Worry?
Addictions are a bitch! Smokers, even when they know that statistically each cigarette is going to take an average of 15 minutes off their lives, are unable to stop. The inevitability of a heart attack, lung cancer, or emphysema as a result…well that’s off somewhere in the future, so what the hell.
Ditto an addiction to alcohol, so let’s get a couple more six packs into the fridge. I grew up during prohibition, when booze was illegal. Yet everyone in my family drank and smoked. My dad even had a small bar from an old speakeasy in the basement of our home where he entertained his aviator friends. Like Amelia Earhart.
We get addicted to sugar, caffeine, and various drugs, all of which are hurting our health. So, half of us are getting cancer, two-thirds are overweight (there are no old fat people), and the rest are busy developing heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s. Parkinson’s, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and so on.
Of course, if people started taking their long term health seriously it could destroy a good part of our current culture. It’d put about 700,000 doctors out of business, about 80% of our hospitals, most of our fast food chains, drug stores, the pharmaceutical industry, almost all of today’s farming and packaged food industries, our huge supermarkets, etc.
Health stores would have fresh organic food instead of rack after rack of supplements and pharmaceuticals. We’d see millions of small farms springing up to produce organically grown fruits and vegetables, plus grow grass-fed cattle and buffalo. Free-ranging chickens instead of factory raised. Can openers would go the way of buggy whips. Ditto microwave ovens.
One of the first alarms that we’re wrecking our bodies are the teeth. If we were to change to healthy diets and stop the addictive poisons it would put 90% of the dentists out of business. Good riddance. I like the joke about the guy who sat down in the dentist’s chair, grabbed the dentist by the balls, and said, “We’re not going to hurt each other, are we?”
So, we’re going to need doctors, hospitals, drugs, and fast food joints, along with nursing homes, high fructose corn syrup, beer, booze, and cigarettes, for a long time into the future…while a few nut cases like me are taking care of our bodies and eating raw food. Oh, and Medicare, Medicaid, HMOs, sickness insurance, Big Pharma, and so on, for as long as we trust the AMA, FDA, NIH, the U.S. Department of Sickness, and other groups feasting on our addictions.
I shudder to think what will happen to Social Security and pensions when we start living to a hundred and up to robust health…even still enjoying sex and siring babies. The scientists tell us that if we were to give our bodies the nutrition they’re designed to use, pure water, exercise, sunlight and sleep, they should be good for 140 to 150 years. Would we still be retiring at 65?
2/15/09
Byte
The threads of the Byte story go back to my first marriage in 1961 to Virginia Londner. We got divorced in 1965, with me paying alimony and child support for daughter Tully for the next nine years…during which I married Lin. This was her second marriage, too. When that broke up and we divorced in 1974, I got back together with Virginia, though we didn’t re-marry. She took over as the office manager.
Back in the 60s I had an ad salesman who pulled a major boner. He sent letters to several potential advertisers offering them a free ad to prove the selling ability of 73 Amateur Radio Today magazine. I heard about this after one of the people sent a copy of the letter to our competitor, CQ magazine. They, of course sent copies to all of our advertisers and the next thing I knew I was getting phone calls and letters demanding refunds for ads we’d run. Ooops!
When I found out what had happened I conferred with the editor, Jim Fiske, and we agreed that the salesman had to go.
To get even he wrote the IRS to have them harrass us, and they did a great job of it. They came in, did an audit and disallowed expenses for the camera equipment we used for the magazine, our office furniture and so on. And that meant that for every dollar they disallowed as a business expense, that was an extra untaxed dollar on my personal remuneration and thus taxable, plus since the expense had been eight years earlier, there was a 8% interest per year charge. Also, that meant that the business had overstated it’s expenses and had thus earned the disallowed money as income and that, too was taxed, plus 8% per year interest. So, a $1,000 disallowed turned into a $3,000 IRS bill.
Naturally I reported all this in the magazine editorials as things went along.
When I looked for an attorney to defend me in court I found that they were all terrified of the IRS, which had a record of making life miserable for any attorneys who went up against them, with audits and even audits of their clients. I talked with New Hampshire Supreme Court Judge Amos Blandin, who had been a personal and family friend for years, He said he didn’t know of any attorneys who would dare take the case.
I finally found a lawyer in Massachusetts who had never tried a case before. It was the best I could do. The IRS brought one of their top attorneys from Washington and the case was heard in the Concord Federal Court. The result was my being convicted, even though the IRS proved nothing that I had ever done was wrong. The jurors, later, said that well, since I’d been indicted, I must have been guilty.
The result was a $20,000 fine. When I paid it the IRS agent explained that if I ever wrote anything about the IRS again they would put me in prison, and that they could put anyone in prison they wanted, whether they’d done anything wrong or not.
All of my trial was happily reported in the newspapers in March as a warning to any potential tax evaders. This is the time of year when the IRS is busiest with tax case trials.
In January 1975 MITS, a small company in Albuquerque (NM) put a computer kit on the market for computer hobbyists, their Altair 8800. They’d been advertising a $129 four-banger calculator in my 73 magazine, but when Sharp came out with one a fraction of the size, and for $20, MITS was in deep trouble. The computer kit was their answer.
Naturally I bought one and put it together. And I saw the future.
Next I bought all of the computer books I could find. But, I couldn’t understand them. They were all college texts, written by college professors for their classes. What was needed was a magazine, written in simple language for the pioneers in the field to communicate to help the technology develop and to help attract newcomers and bring them up to speed.
My ham radio magazine was titled 73, which in ham language stood for “best regards.” That was a hang over from the earliest ham operators, many of who had been Morse operators out west where the Winchester 73 was the gun of choice. So messages often ended with, “I will you my 73.” This shortened to just plain”73.”
So, I looked for a short computer word for a title and settled on Byte.
Next I sent letters to all of the 73 authors who had submitted computer oriented articles, asking them to send material for Byte. I wrote and called every company making any product of interest to computer hobbyists, asking for a list of the people who’d contacted them, asking for information. But, I obviously needed an editor who knew something about computers. Hmmm.
I started calling the editors of computer club newsletters around the country. None of them saw much future for the new microcomputers and declined. I finally found Carl Helmers, a kid down in Boston, who’d been doing a small newsletter. I brought him to Peterborough and we were off and running.
The articles soon started arriving, and the letters I was sending to the manufacturer lists were pulling 20% subscriptions! One or two percent is usually reason for joy with mail order promotions, so this was stupendous. I got in touch with the hundreds of ham radio stores that were selling my 73 magazine and got them to order bulk copies of Byte. My 73 newsstand distributer was game for the newsstand distribution, so I was all set.
Just five weeks after I started work on Byte the first issue went to press, dated September 1975. I grabbed a plane and flew to Salt Lake City to talk with the people at Sphere about advertising. First copies of the magazine had been shipped directly from the printer to me at Salt Lake.
From there I flew to Albuquerque to talk with Ed at MITS. Then to San Antonio to talk with the guys at Southwestern Technical Products, who had a computer keyboard on the market and were just about to announce their computer kit. I stopped off in Dallas to say hello to Ed Juge of Juge Electronivs, a 73 advertiser. I gave Ed a copy of Byte and explained what I saw as the potential future for microcomputers.
When the IRS matter was still unsettled, Virginia’s lawyer recommended that any new projects be put in her name so the IRS couldn’t step in and attach them. I published a couple of books with Virginia named as the publisher, and then, when I started Byte, that too was temporarily put in her name.
After a few issues the magazine was growing like crazy. Subscriptions were pouring in and ad sales were great. Then, one night I was out giving a talk to a ham radio club in Nashua, and when I got home I found the Byte office cleaned out and Virginia gone. She and Helmers had moved everything downtown to offices in the Guernsey Building and she had moved into a house with Manfred Peschke, an old lover of hers.
I quickly consulted a lawyer. He advised I get busy and start a new magazine, that suing Virginia and Manfred would cost tens of thousands of dollars and could take years. So I made an agreement with Virginia, if she’d reimburse the $100,000 it cost me to start the magazine, I wouldn’t sue. Of course I never saw a dollar of that.
So I shrugged and got busy starting a new magazine. The first issue of Kilobaud was dated January 1977. I later changed the name to Microcomputing. Well, it was aimed at computer hobbyists. In those days there still wasn’t much we could use them for.
Virginia ran Byte for a while and then sold it to McGraw-Hill for, I understand, $7 million. It went on to grow and become the largest magazine in the country, with around $100 million in yearly ad sales. But with massively poor management, the magazine eventually died and blew away.
Ed Juge folded his ham radio store and went to work for Radio Shack, putting out one of the best-selling personal computers, the TRS-80, which grabbed 40% of this new market.
2/14/09
Inflation
Unless most of our economists are wrong, the printing of money by the Fed to cover the stimulus presents to banks and industries, which are ramping up the deficit, are going to lead to a speeding up of inflation. Like happened in Germany after WWI. When I started stamp collecting as a kid I had ten and twenty million mark German stamps. A first class U.S. stamp then was 2¢.
Google Zimbabwe and you’ll find that country is in the same fix right now.
As a living relic to our past I remember, as a kid, going to Coney island and getting a hot dog with an orange drink for a nickel. Huge frozen custard cones were a nickel.
As I explained in my 1/3/08 posting, when America was formed the Treasury issued our currency. Then, in 1913, Congress turned the job over to the Federal Reserve Banks. During the 137 years the Treasury issued our money there was zero inflation. Since The Fed took over we’ve had 2,174% inflation. A 1913 dollar is worth 4.6¢ today.
I’m afraid we haven’t seen anything yet.
It’s most encouraging that our New Hampshire General Court’s Concurrent Resolution 6 is a statement of the desire for major changes, stating "any Act by the Congress of the United States, Executive order of the President...which assumes a power not delegated to the government of the United States of America by the Constitution...shall constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States of America by the [Federal] government."
This resolution is a statement of New Hampshire sovereignty.
Thus, New Hampshire can be made a refuge from the economic problems besetting our country, and perhaps serve as a guide for other states, nine of which have or are in the process of declaring sovereignty.
For instance, to help solve the growing unemployment, let’s form Business Incubator Groups in our larger towns, as I described in my 4/4/08 entry. This will help hundreds of new businesses get started, all needing employees.
Inflation? Instead of waiting for the dollar to tank so they can introduce the Amero, how about New Hampshire issuing its own currency?
2/11/09
How we can produce world-class youngsters.
Will a child grow up to be a Nobel prize winner? A movie star? A president? A billionaire? A garbage man? A homeless person? What is it that makes such an enormous difference in how kids turn out? How much genetics? How much of it is family influence? How much is education? And can we really separate family influence from education?
The molding of an individual starts at conception with the raw genetic codes. There is still a lot we have to learn about genetics and in what ways these codes influence our lives. We know that with insects, animals and birds the genetic instructions determine an amazing amount of their behavior. We're still trying to find out how much of human behavior is inborn and how much is learned.
Scientists are hard at work deciphering the genes, primarily in an attempt to find defective genetic codes which tend to make people susceptible to certain illnesses. This is the Genome Project, a billion-dollar research effort. I suspect that, while this information is going to be valuable in extending people's lives, that we're still going to have to tackle the other part of the equation, the way in which the mind triggers these defective genes into action. There's a psychological aspect to all illnesses, including those with a genetic predisposition.
If we can consider the education of a person as the whole life experience after conception…the entire "nurture" experience…we'll have a lot better chance at producing the kind of children we hope we'll have when we first start a new life. Do you have any question whatever that what happens during the nine months of pregnancy does have an effect on the resulting child? If you aren't sure about this you need to do some homework and read some of the references I'll give. Stanislav Grof, in particular, has done a good deal of research on the influence in later life of things that happen to a child before it's born. I've personally researched this aspect of life on over a hundred people, though I haven't published any research papers. I did this because I found, as did Grof, that present time difficulties were often a direct result of things that had happened during pregnancy.
The Prenatal Classroom is a parents guide for teaching your baby in the womb, by Van de Carr and Lehrer, Humanics Learning, Box 7400, Atlanta GA 30309. ISBN 0-89334-152-5, 161p, $13. This is a wonderful instruction book on how to communicate with your unborn child, to teach it around 100 words, to like music, and to stimulate brain growth before birth. This will give your child a head start (pun intended) on life. It results in significantly higher IQs, which means that if you don’t use these techniques you are permanently dumbing your child down.
So let's break up the educational process for children into several age brackets. First I'll discuss more about education during pregnancy. Next I'll tackle the first year of life, when the child begins to crawl. The third age is the terrible twos when the child starts learning to talk and walk. Then we have three years of pre-school we need to understand. If we add in the kindergarten year that's four pre-school educational years. By the time children enter school about 90% of their lifetime patterns are already formed, so there's no way to downplay the critical importance of those first five years and how much they determine what kind of adult will eventually develop. I hope you've seen the movies of interviews with children at 7 - 14 - 21 - 28 - 35 - 42, so you know how amazingly little people change after the age of seven. Even if they'd documented 'em at five I doubt you'd see many significant changes.
Next we'll tackle the eight years of grammar school, the four years of high school, and finally the four years of college. Please try to remember that the above format is what we're living with right now and that the two things we know about it is that (a) the results are terrible and (b) the cost is about double that of other countries. Leave it to us to pay double and get a lousy product in exchange. That's surprisingly like the deal we've gotten on our cars, isn't it? And health care too. Or how about those toys sold in supermarkets in big boxes and fall apart in minutes? Well, America has long been considered the richest country in the world, so it should be no surprise that we've got crooks taking advantage of us at every turn.
If you decide to have a child, how important is it to you to do all you can to give the child the very best chance at being an outstanding adult? How much effort is it worth on your part? And don't you wish your parents had known enough to give you such a fantastic start in life? It's almost unbelievable how many illnesses and personality disorders can be avoided when you understand how best to handle the early periods of a child's life. I hope this makes sense.
The down side of all this is that our present educational system, starting from pre-natal care, through birth, day care, primary and secondary school, and even college are awful and every step of the unnecessarily long and destructive process needs radical change. The up side is that most of us recognize that the end product is faulty, so there are some pressures for change. The down side is the formidable array of well funded opponents to change.
There are other problems impeding change. There's the difficulty of getting people to take the trouble to understand what's happening. Like the Barnes & Noble survey which showed that 50% of the books people buy they don't read. And I know this from my own book when I meet someone who says he's read it and then is surprised and excited when I explain about something which was covered in the book.
Remember, two-thirds of the people didn't really support the American revolution. It was just a relatively small group that made that happen, with one third of the people dragging their heels and another third supporting the British.
In 1961 William Lederer wrote A Nation of Sheep, rubbing our American noses in our collective ignorance about our government. Alas, in the last 48 years little seems to have changed, but unless it does there is every prospect of our government collapsing under the weight of the deficit…and if that bomb is avoided somehow, there's still the prospect of losing in competition with our far better-educated foreign competitors. The world ahead is a high-tech world. Low-skilled, low-pay jobs are being exported as dropping communications and transportation costs make this not just practical, but unavoidable.
If we don't come to grips with this change by improving our educational system and producing the high-tech educated work force needed to compete in the world market, our American quality of life will continue to deteriorate...if not collapse.
I'll be tackling our educational system, dealing with it differently for each of the age groups I've outlined. Each age calls for an understanding of how the mother, family, community and government needs to adapt to provide the best end result. Actually, having seen so few examples of enlightened government action, and recalling Michael Medved's observation that "The government makes a mess of everything it does," which is totally in line with my own experience, my inclination is to keep government as far away from education as possible.
Our present educational system was designed on the factory assembly line approach with the goal of turning out a standard product for use in our manufacturing assembly lines. There are two basic drawbacks to this. We now need knowledge workers instead of production-line workers…and then there's the little problem that production lines only work well when the raw materials for the process are uniform. People are all different, so our attempt at production-lining education has failed. What we need to do is recognize that every person is different and develop a way to customize education so it will meet the needs of everyone. And this is where I'm heading. Hold tight.
Setting better educational goals.
While I think we are in agreement that we must concentrate on developing the best high-tech oriented work force we can if you’re going to attract high-tech businesses to your state, we’re still going to need to develop a good crop of musicians, composers, artists, poets and (ugh), even journalists and writers. Thus we want to attract as many youngsters to high-tech as we can by making it exciting and fun, but we don’t want to force anyone into high-tech.
The more (and earlier in life) we can expose youngsters to the possibilities open to them, giving them a taste of science as well as the arts, the better able they will be to make their own decisions. In line with the basic concept of freedom and helping kids accept the concept, I favor making introductory courses available in all areas of science and the arts. I said available, not mandatory.
I’m not sure how to come to grips with the need youngsters have to live within defined limits. We know that it’s not possible to give kids unlimited freedom. They just don’t have the experience to handle many decisions which could hurt them for life. Kids do better and are happier when they understand the limitations imposed. They do accept them more readily when the reasons for the limits are understood. Of course children vary widely in their need for limits. It’s a difficult situation for parents and educators, who tend to be over-protective. Children have to be given the leeway to learn from their mistakes. It’s just that we want to protect them from mistakes which could be catastrophic.
Unreasonable restrictions tend to be self-defeating. The youngster that sees restrictions as emotionally or religiously based rather than in their interests, is likely to rebel. We want to develop a child’s confidence in authority and in self. We don’t do this with a rash of unthought-out restrictions. I’m afraid I was a nuisance to my parents because I’ve never done well in accepting authority. When I was told to do something, I asked why. And “because I told you to” was not a good reason. Oh, I’d do it, this being preferable to a beating, but I resented what seemed like a unreasonable demands. I’d never have made a good slave.
Once we've recruited the parents into the educational loop with their kids we may be able to help kids make educational choices on the basis of their interests and goals. Yes, it's difficult for a youngster to have any firm goals in life during school years, but we should be able to help them via a series of videos which are narrated by people who have been successful in different fields explaining what the benefits and drawbacks are of entering those fields.
It was a talk by a submarine commander to my class in radar school during the war which helped me choose that branch of the service. Indeed, as I've explained before, I chose that hazardous sea duty over working in a Naval research lab in Washington, and one big reason was that on a submarine I knew I'd have a maximum of freedom in my work.
And that's the way it was. It was my responsibility to see that the radar, radio, and sonar equipment was in top form. In addition I got the excitement of operating the radar and sonar during our attacks on the enemy. Lacking bureaucratic supervision I invented ways to operate my equipment faster and more effectively than other submarines could.
If youngsters pursue some special interests in their education and then later decide to change, our customized educational system should be flexible enough to accommodate this.
If taught right, science and technology are fun and exciting. Once we let kids know about this, and back it up with science hobby clubs, we'll have our high tech work force and America will be on top of the heap.
When we go to a 50-week school year and improve the efficiency of our teaching techniques; when we are better able to take advantage of interactive computer learning systems; when we harness the potential of satellite teaching, we may be able to start kids working part time on related jobs earlier and teach them even more via work-related experience.
The current (old) system of forcing kids to memorize stuff to pass tests is a remnant of the factory production way of teaching. It is a key way to discourage thinking and creativity, neither of which were wanted for factory workers when the industrial revolution got started. Nor by our religious leaders, whose livelihood depended on their parishioner’s thinking-free belief.
We are going to have to come to grips with technology and adopt the better aspects earlier. This will mean experimentation rather than fear and avoidance on the part of teachers.
The end result will be a bunch of world-class top performers, not only in high tech fields, but in the arts, education, and even in government.
I’ll have a lot more on this.
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6/30/09
Poisoning Yourself
[This was originally a 1995 editorial]
If all of the near death reports on heaven are right, the closest thing approaching Hell in the hereafter is a life review where you experience the effects of your actions on others. If this is true the people working for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are going to have one hell of a time with this. Never mind the potential cures for serious illnesses they are blocking from the public. Just the miseries they have caused millions of people by refusing to ban aspartame (a.k.a. NutraSweet) from our foods should keep them busy.
Yes, the aspartame manufacturer and the FDA all know what's happening, but this is a multi-billion dollar business, and is thus not regulated by health concerns, but by politics…which means money. The more I find out about the mess our government is making of things, the more frustrated I get, and the more impotent to do anything about it I feel. Sure, I can tell you. And you may mention it to a friend. But will you stop drinking diet sodas?
People have a wide variety of sensitivities to aspartame. Pilots have lost their licenses due to their reaction to aspartame-sweetened drinks. One had a grand mal seizure. It induces dizziness, memory loss (just what you need!), visual problems, and confusion. Some of the health problems it has been found to help trigger are: chronic fatigue syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, heart disease, epilepsy, manic depression, lupus, Alzheimer's, and even Lyme Disease.
One airline pilot, after drinking two cups of diet hot chocolate, found his eyesight so blurry he could no longer read his instruments. I'd hate to have the pilot of a plane I'm on drinking diet soda.
Even though aspartame complaints make up 80% of the complaints to the FDA, the agency has done nothing.
Years ago, back when I was really fat and was trying new diets, fasting, and so on, I found a diet that sounded great. It included eating sparingly and filling up on diet soda. The sweetener at the time was cyclamate. So I bought several quarts of diet soda and got going.
Two days into the diet I noticed that I could no longer read pocket book type. Hey, what's going on here? The third day I could no longer read typewriter type! By the fourth day the headlines were too blurry to read. I stopped drinking the cyclamates and bought glasses so I could read again. I wrote about my experience in 73 at the time. A couple months later the news of cyclamate reactions hit the media and they disappeared from the market.
I don't know what the cyclamates did to my body, but my eyes never recovered. I had better than perfect vision one day and a week later I couldn't read anything without glasses. I used to be able to astound people by being able to read signs at a distance and incredibly small type up close.
So, despite the complaints and the knowledge that aspartame is damaging people, it's endorsed by the FDA. Meanwhile, the blood purifier cure for AIDS that I've written about several times and which hasn't, to my knowledge, failed to work yet, is illegal. This device should be given careful testing to prove whether it can help cure AIDS victims. Can it help induce weight loss in people? Can it wipe out herpes and other miseries lurking in our blood?
Dr. Hulda Clark says she has a simple cure for cancer. Instead of forcing her to flee the country the FDA should organize the testing of her approach. When Royal Rife invented a super powerful microscope and, as a result, was able to come up with a cancer cure using radio waves, was it tested? No, the FDA destroyed his microscopes and put him out of business. Gaston Naesens suffered a similar fate over his approach to curing cancer. When Wilhelm Reich discovered orgone and encouraged people to test it as a way to improve health the FDA destroyed his lab and put him in prison, where he died. In none of these cases were the approaches tested and found wanting. In all of these cases there were endless reports of amazing cures.
The Scientologists were using a sensitive ohmmeter to help in their psychological counseling. The FDA broke into their Washington DC headquarters and confiscated the meters. There are probably some books dedicated to the outrages perpetrated by the FDA. I haven't seen them, so I can only write from my own experience. If I were ten years younger I wouldn't dare to write about the FDA. It would be just too risky. Now I'm old enough so I don't care what they do. That's one benefit of knowing you don't have a lot longer to live.
On the other hand you may not be as sensitive to aspartame as others, so the reaction of your body (and mind) to it may be much less. Hey, it's your gamble. It's also something to keep in mind the next time you reach for a diet Pepsi or Coke.
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Now, 14 years later, what has changed?
6/29/09
The Solutions
In my editorials over the last few years I’ve tackled many of the problems besetting America (and much of the world, for that matter). I’ve proposed some fairly simple solutions to miseries such as our inexcusably lousy education system, drugs, high prison costs, cleaning up the horrible mess we’ve let Congress get in, the deficit, our bloated government (both state and federal), eliminating college tuition, cutting education costs by around 50%, and so on. As a member of the New Hampshire Economic Development Commission I did further research on these problems, put that together with my past ideas and presented the whole works as my report to the Commission. Urged on by friends (yes, I still have a few), I put the report into book form.
My solutions may not be the best, but they all seem practical and do what’s needed…and most of them aren’t all that difficult to implement. We’re in a time when everyone seems stunned by the problems and few people are even thinking in terms of solutions. Well, most of our problems have been solved somewhere in the world before, so it’s more a question of finding these solutions and applying them here.
We know the problems—I’ve proposed some practical solutions—now what can we do? The sorry fact is that the fox is guarding the hen house. Trying to convince politicians that capitalism is better than socialism calls for a leap of faith few will be able to manage. We had several politicians on the Economic Development Commission, so I know how deeply ingrained the whole socialist manifesto is with them. Private schools? Oh, my God! Get welfare people interested in working? Oh, I forgot to mention, the New Hampshire welfare people put in cable TV for that 22-year-old woman so she’d be able to watch more than just the four major channels during her long, empty days sitting at home. That costs $75 to have installed and I forget how much a month. Yes, they’re paying extra so she can have the movie channels. And you may be sure that this same outrageous nonsense is going on where you live and that you are paying for it. That comes out of (a) the 28% of your pay you never even see, (b) the other hidden taxes like those on business which make you pay more for products, and (c) the government’s borrowing from you to fund the deficit. And that’s money you’ll have to work for years to repay. Are you upset yet? What does it take?
Another person I know has a sister who worked for the post office for a year and a half and then paid a doctor for a phony letter saying that she was suffering from stress. She was put on 2/3rds pay and retired at 22. She’s been happily living on this for the last twenty years, getting full postal worker medical and retirement benefits, and with no income taxes.
There are endless examples like this…and these are the people who are going to fight any changes in the system. We’re supporting these leeches. We’re working hard to support them. We have to make do with old worn-out things…buy a cheaper car or rent an apartment instead of buying a home—send our kids to public school instead of a private school, thereby doing them irreparable harm…all so a welfare mother won’t have to learn to type and get a job doing data input. It makes you proud to be an American. It makes you want to re-elect the lousy ba . . . er . . . chaps who’ve been doing this to you, right?
With both the Democrats and the Republicans promising lower taxes and both increasing taxes when in power, it’s no wonder so many Americans are fed up. And the challengers to the congressional seats aren’t promising anything different. Most of them are career politicians and will be the same as the present crew. Any fear of not being re-elected will immobilize them when it comes to making changes which the postal, civil service or educational unions oppose.
So, as Pogo said, “We’ve met the enemy, and the enemy is us.” We just don’t care enough about having our money taken from us. We don’t care about the way they waste it. We don’t care that we’re being screwed. Oh, I suppose we care…a little…but not enough to take time from watching ball games or having a beer to actually try and do anything about it.
One thing is certain, we can fight nature for a while, but eventually nature will win. The sooner we stop fighting against nature and start fighting for her, the sooner our quality of life as a country will start improving. God has been speaking, but not many have been listening.
Please form Never Re-elect Anyone groups and can the politicians.
6/28/09
Those Standards
I keep remembering Michael Medved's comment, " Everything the government does, it messes up." And that seems true in spades for it's messing our school system…proving again the failure of government planning things…called socialism.
The No Child Left Behind record is, alas, typical of the way bureaucrats manage things vs. people in business…called capitalism. Basically, government work, while pretty reliable as a way to mark time through life, waiting for retirement, doesn't tend to attract the better educated or more intelligent workers.
So I wasn't surprised at the report from National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) of the students deemed proficient in reading vs. their assessment by the states. Like Mississippi, where the state tests showed 89% of the fourth graders proficient, compared with 18% found by the NAEP. In Louisiana is was 67% vs. 20%, 52% vs. 20% for New Mexico, and 48% vs. 21% for California.
Our kids aren't learning to read! And that is blocking them off from their ability to learn much of anything. What was that percentage of high school grads who were unable to find the U.S. on world map? And they're not being taught to think or be creative…on purpose. Neither big business nor government does as well with a public that's able to think and be moved by thought instead of propaganda.
More's the pity, now that over 170 schools are offering content free on Apple's iTunesU. There are also wonderful books, written by the top people in every field, which offer a priceless education for the few who take advantage of the resources.
Rather than be too redundant, check my 9/15/08 and 5/8/09 entries on the subject.
Our public schools are awful. I see while it's easy to teach kids two years old to read, our compulsory public school system is unable to accomplish this for high school grads.
6/27/09
Is There An Escape?
Sure there is, but it means war. We civilians just barely outnumber the socialists in America. By the time you add up everyone sucking on the public teat…teachers, postal workers, state and federal civil servants, social workers, school administrators, our labor unions, welfare millions, and the military, you can see why we’re paying such high taxes and getting so little for it. Nothing is working well. We’re up to here in drugs, in crime, prison problems, clogged courts, welfare, the homeless, failed banks, failed loans, unemployment, lousy sewers, air we can see, polluted water, dying oceans, and so on.
Now, are we game to start fighting back? Have we had enough yet? Or is it hopeless and we should just keep our heads down and avoid trouble as best we can? How many of us are “mad as hell” yet?
Yes, I’m preaching revolution. I’m preaching war. No, not with guns and Molotov Cocktails, I’m talking about fighting first at the state level. I’m talking running for the state legislature and changing your state. I’m talking getting people who will bring change to Washington with a mandate to abolish compulsory education. Once they do that and private schools can compete with public schools, we’ll see capitalism take over.
Once a private mail service is permitted the US Snail will blow away, just as Parcel Post has been decimated by UPS. Let’s privatize everything we can think of. Let’s get bids from private companies to run our prisons, car licensing, and so on.
If we can get education out from under the socialist system we won’t need millions of government jobs to take care of underachievers.
The best part is that we should be able to cut the costs of government by around 75% and thus cut our taxes significantly. We might even see the return of the one wage earner family…and mothers with the time to devote to their children.
It looks to me as if capitalism is an idea whose time has come. It’s in line with nature. It’s in line with God’s rules. We’re paying the penalty for fighting Mother Nature…and it’s a stiff one.
6/26/09
Ham Radio
It was seventy years ago I got my W2NSD ham radio license, and the hobby has provided me with an exciting and hugely fun life. With eight major amateur radio bands of frequencies to play with, each different from the other in it's ability to let us talk over various distances, we could talk just around locally, or anywhere in the world.
Naturally, many of us set out to see how many different countries we could contact. I managed over 360. And, in countries where there was little or no amateur radio activity, it was huge fun to go there, set up a portable station, and help a few thousand fellow hams get credit for contacting another country.
With something like fraternity brothers everywhere, it makes foreign travel really special.
When I got started most hams built their own transmitters. It was particularly fun right after WWII, when the Army released huge supplies of no longer needed equipment, which we hams converted to work on our ham bands.
Then, as commercially-made ham equipment came available, home building was more for experimenters. And, as the equipment has gotten more sophisticated, home-made gear has become a rarity.
With the moving of all our electronic manufacturing to Asia, electronic parts are no longer made in America, making home experimenting even more difficult.
For many years our ham bands were active day and night, with every kilocycle filled. Alas, today when I tune the bands it is often a rarity to hear anyone talking. Few of today's kids are even aware of the hobby. When I give talks at colleges I always ask how many of my audience is familiar with ham radio. I see very few hands.
Until 1963 the hobby had been growing at eleven percent a year for over twenty years. Then our national organization, the ARRL, got the FCC to propose a rule change which would have forced the hams to get a new license from the FCC if they wanted to continue using voice communications.
You see, the ARRL had always been pushing their members to continue using Morse Code, as the hams all did in the beginning. But the reaction of the hams to this proposal was to lose interest in the hobby.
Most the thousands of high school ham radio club blew away as a result. And when tens of thousands of hams put their equipment on the market for pennies on the dollar that closed down about 90% of the ham radio stores around the country and put all of the major manufacturers out of business.
Without those school clubs, youngsters no longer had a way to learn about the hobby, and the number of new hams dropped way off.
With me the most fun of the hobby was building equipment. Oh, I had fun making friends and in seeing how well I could do on weekend contests. And putting rare countries on the air was special fun. It got me to places like Swaziland, Navassa Island, Jordan, Lesotho, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Syria.
Well, those are "done-thats" for me. I've too much to do these days to sit and chat with some chap in Argentina or Sweden. And, judging from the lack of signals on the ham bands these days, I'm not alone.
6/25/09
Microwaving
Here's an interesting science project for you or your kids. It would be a great one for a school project.
What you do is start two plants growing…like tomato pr strawberry plants. Water one with your regular tap water and the other with water you've microwaved first, then cooled.
If what I've heard is true, the plant fed the microwaved water will die.
If you're really interested in how different forms of water may affect plants you could expand your experiments to plants fed water which has been vortexed in a blender for a thirty seconds, another with water which has been out in the sun in a clear glass bottle for a couple of hours, one with water which has been sitting for an hour on the north pole of a magnet, one on water on the south pole, and one which has been vortexed, north poled, and in the sun.
Send me pictures.
6/24/09
Autism
Doctors in the UK found the measles virus in the intestines of children who developed autism after a healthy infancy. All of them developed autism after receiving the MMR vaccine. That's the combination of mumps, measles and rubella vaccination.
Again, we've been conned by the medical industry. If you prefer to believe your kindly family doctor about vaccinations, at least do me the courtesy of reading a book or two exposing this scam. Like Coulter's Vaccination - Social Violence and Criminality - The Medical Assault on the American Brain (reviewed on page 23 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom). This exhaustively referenced book shows the connection between vaccinations and autism, mental retardation, criminality and a few other downsides…like death. About a thousand babies a year die. The medical industry calls that an acceptable loss.
Or read Walene James' Immunization – the Reality behind the Myth (page 7, my Wisdom Guide).
The July 2009 Nutrition & Healing newsletter confirms the link between vaccinations and autism. So, as a new parent, do you want to chance permanently brain-injuring your baby with the medical industry accepted baby vaccination barrage, or would you rather find them against your religion…like the Amish, where there is no autism? Your choice.
There's sure a lot to be said for home birthing with a midwife.
A recent PBS program showing how wild horses are tamed in minutes using a new technique also showed the same approach being used to help autistic children. They mentioned that about 15 out of every thousand kids is autistic. Hey, that’s 1.5%! How do you like those odds for your kids?
An article in the Townsend Letter for Doctors pointed out that the link between the DPT shots given kids and autism has been confirmed. It’s the pertussis part that’s doing it. The vaccine can depress or even derange the immune system, especially for the very young. And a tetanus shot when I was a kid darned near killed me.
If you’ll do your homework by at least reading the Walene James book, you’ll never endanger your family again by allowing inoculations.
See also my 12/14/06 and 11/18/04 entries.
6/23/09
The American Holy War
I’m asking all Americans to declare war…a holy war…a fundamentalist war…against socialism. Sure, we beat the heck out of socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe. We’ve even beat it in Vietnam, if you read the article in Rolling Stone by P.J. O’Rourke, on his visit there. The one place we haven’t beat socialism…the one place it’s going the strongest in the world and devastating the country in the process, is right here in America. That’s right, here in our US of A.
It was socialism that destroyed the British Empire, turning Great Britain into Britain, and it’s socialism that is at the heart of what’s killing America. How did this pernicious anti-God, anti-life religion get such a powerful hold on the world?…and even on America? And how can we fight such a well inculcated religion?
God? Religion? Yep, let me explain. A religion is defined as a belief upheld or pursued with zeal and devotion. Well, that’s what we have here.
Religious fundamentalism is causing wars all around the world. Perhaps it’s time for us to take a close look at the fundamentals of life and start fighting for them here in America. So let’s take a close look at what we’ve been doing and how it fits in with the most basic laws of nature. Will you be offended if I suggest that the laws of nature are the laws of God?
Okay, what is the most fundamental law for all living things? What is the most basic law of all? It’s staying alive, right? At least unless we’re really screwed up we’ll fight the hardest of all to stay alive. Indeed, this is basic rule number one. This is built right into the genetic pattern of every living thing. This built-in law also causes us an enormous amount of trouble, it being at the heart of all our mental illnesses and aberrant behavior. That’s one of the problems that always crops up when you have a law which is enforced, no matter how unreasonable the enforcement. This is a law which helps to kill us. That’s a strange dichotomy and may be difficult to grasp, but it’s logical.
If self-preservation is rule one, what’s rule two? The preservation of yourself through your offspring. That’s why we have love, lust, and all those other great-feeling things we think about, talk about, and sing about. We’re talking a very, very basic law of nature. I hope you’ll agree that this qualifies as rule two. This is the rule which we feel driving us every day. This has to do with bikinis, deodorant soap, tight jeans and so on. It also leads to the concept of the survival of the fittest, which we might consider as rule three and the result of rules one and two.
The reason even the smallest of boys tend to fight is in preparation for later life when they are going to have to fight for the choicest girls. It’s genetic. Men fight off other men to ensure the survival of their offspring. Women build nests. This survival of the life forms best adapted to winning the battle to propagate has resulted in the survivors we see around us today.
Now let’s look at that survival of the fittest concept and think about it. This is where socialism comes in and screws things up. Socialism has as a basic concept the protection of the weak. We see it in welfare payments. We see it in our non-profit institutions. We have hearts. We’ve been taught to try and go against nature. We see our whole government working on this fundamental basis, perhaps ignoring the fact that nature is merciless. Nature (God?) abhors the weak and sacrifices them for the long term good of all life.
Did democracy win against socialism in Europe? Of course not! It was capitalism that won. Capitalism is the epitome of the survival of the fittest. Socialism is the opposite…to help the weak to survive. Adam Smith’s The Wealth Of Nations, written around two hundred years ago, describes how capitalism works with an “invisible hand.” It ties in closely with rule one, self-preservation. It also ties in with rule two, survival of your genes. No wonder capitalism is winning!
Capitalism is winning everywhere it’s permitted. Hong Kong and Singapore are capitalist societies and enormously successful. Neither are democratic, by the way. Vietnam is emerging from the chaos of its war at a record pace because capitalism is going strong there. Capitalism is doing pretty well here in America. It’s the socialist systems we have in place that are making us sick.
Just take a look at our biggest social works…our public schools, the post office, the government bureaucracies, welfare, unemployment benefits, social security and so on. There isn’t one single thing that the socialist approach can do that the capitalist approach can’t do better and much, much cheaper.
Our public schools cost more than double what our private schools do and provide a substantially lousier educational product. We have teacher’s unions to help protect the jobs of the incompetent teachers who are making a mess of our kids. Every study of the post office has shown that if the service was allowed to go private we’d get far better service at a fraction of the cost. Well, the same thing holds for every government-controlled service we enjoy.
We know what a cesspool the whole welfare system is. Right here in my small town we have people on welfare. I’ve had employees quit so they could go on welfare and not have to bother working any more. They didn’t get as much money, but they never had to work again. One of my employees has a friend who does social work. One of her cases is a 22-year-old woman with two kids. She hasn’t worked in years. New Hampshire provides her with an apartment, it provides day care for the older child. None of your economy day care, mind you, we’re talking $90 a week day care. Plus the state spends $50 a week to provide taxi service to take the kid to the day care center and drive him back. Plus she gets food stamps.
This woman has no marketable skills, nor is she being encouraged to develop any. She’s supposed to be getting advice from a social worker, but she’s refused to talk with the worker. No one knows how screwed up her younger baby is getting at the hands of this mother.
I wish this was just an anomaly, but the more you read, the more exposés you see on TV, the more you know that something is fundamentally wrong in America. What was it about not screwing with Mother Nature? Well, we may have hundreds of millions of people who believe in the Koran, and hundreds of millions more who believe in The Bible, and more believing in the Baghavad Gita, and so on, but when I look for the hand of God, I see it in the fundamental rules of life. I see it clearly waving us on with rule one: self-preservation. With rule two: continue your life through your children. And I see capitalism in harmony with these dynamics and socialism fighting them…fighting God’s will. So that’s why I’m preaching fundamentalism. I’m not talking worship or spiritualism. I’m not talking mystical belief. I’m not talking churches and ritual. I’m not talking voodoo or reincarnation. I’m talking the rules which we all can see, feel and experience. I’m talking the rules which make sense.
Are there any other self-evident rules? You bet, it’s just that they aren’t as all-powerful as number one and two. Our love and protection of family comes under number two. But beyond that we feel a kinship for our extended family…our group. We find there are times when belonging to a group definitely helps with self-preservation. I’m not sure this is a genetic rule. It may be a pragmatic one, but it’s one we learn, even if it isn’t genetic. Like the other rules, this one gets us into all sorts of trouble. You can see it going berserk in Yugoslavia, Checkoslovakia, Northern Ireland, India, Sri Lanka, Timor, Ethiopia, Sudan, and so on. It’s doing fairly well here in America, helping keep the blacks, whites and Hispanics at odds.
Yes, we do need government. We just don’t need anywhere near as much government. Most of what the government is doing…or perhaps trying to do, but failing…could be done for a fraction of the cost and done infinitely better if we could reject the socialist mind set.
What would our government be like if it was run like a business? Suppose inefficient and arrogant workers could be fired as they are in most for-profit businesses? Yes, we’d have to change our educational system so people would have the skills they need to do the work efficiently. Well, if we can get the government to stop forcing us under penalty of law to send our kids to public institutions, we’d have people with the needed skills and the enthusiasm to use them.
We’ve made teaching such a lousy profession that it’s the poorest students who go for it…the people who don’t feel qualified to compete in the capitalist world. And who teaches the next generation of teachers? The lowest 20% of the previous generation. It’s no wonder we’re spending the most of any developed country on education and getting the worst results. Why, it’s almost enough to make a person think.
6/22/09
Chess
How’s your chess game? Chess is a wonderful game to teach kids because it’s totally skill, with no chance element whatever. When you get involved with chess you soon discover that the more you learn about the game, the better you play. A good player will always trounce a lesser player. Aha! So how does one get to be a good player? You do that the same way you get good at anything else…you read a lot about it and you take some lessons from an expert. You’ll have to memorize hundreds of openings, and thousands of end-game closings. You learn to be aggressive or lose. The fact is that the game of chess is a wonderful teacher for life. It’ll teach you the fundamentals of business. You’ll learn to do your homework, be aggressive, and look for creative new approaches to old situations. You’ll learn the value of persistence.
Go is another game of skill and its popularity in Asia has a good deal to do with the way the Asian countries have been running circles around us in business. Chess and Go teach qualities which are valuable to a country. They help teach the work ethic. You don’t win at chess unless you work at it, but if you do you’ll surely win. That’s great training for life.
6/21/09
Being One’s Best
While watching one of Ross Perot’s commercials a few days before the election, I took particular note of a comment made by both Ross’ family and friends, that he urged them to not just be good or better, but to be the very best they could be in life. This is a philosophy worthy of consideration. It got me to thinking…have I done my best to be the best that I possibly can? How about you?
There’s being your best at your work. What a shame it is when parents don’t teach their children the importance of doing their very best. To me that means knowing more about my work than my competitors. It means endlessly doing my homework…which isn’t actually work because it’s fun. It means attending conferences, taking classes, reading books, subscribing to magazines. I just bought a new stack of books and am working my way through them. Some are tedious to read because they’re poorly written, but most are wonderful and give me lots of ideas.
When I took on my responsibility as a member of the New Hampshire Economic Development Commission I refused to let the politicians and their efforts to block the Commission from doing anything of significance hold me back.
Whenever I take up a new interest I tend to go at it whole hog. When I got interested in horseback riding I took lessons…and more lessons. I found better and better experts, and soon I was teaching riding myself. And then I was teaching instructors! When I got into sports car rallying I first learned to navigate and then to drive. I developed a new navigation system which filled my shelves with trophies. I needed special watches which would keep time accurately all day, so I found a factory in Germany to make them for me and I imported them. I discovered a special pepper-grinder-like calculator used in Europe for currency conversions which was ideal for rallying. I went to the Curta factory in Liechtenstein and made a deal to import them for rallyists. I developed and printed my own rally tables, which were incredibly simple compared to those made by others. My customers were soon winning all the rallies.
When I got interested in photography I read books, took lessons and spent endless hours in the school darkroom building my skills. I armed myself with everything from 35mm to 5x7 cameras. This helped be greatly when I became a TV cameraman at WPIX in New York and knew how to compose pictures. As a result I was made Chief Cameraman. Later, when I was a TV director in Dallas and Cleveland, I helped my cameramen get great pictures. In my early publishing days I took most of my own pictures.
I didn’t take up skiing until I was 44, but then I went at it furiously. I took lessons and more lessons. In a few weeks I was skiing better than I ever thought I’d be able to in my life. So I took even more lessons. Now, in my 80s, I’m brittler and thus a bit more cautious on the trails, since breaking something would be extremely inconvenient. But I still tear down the mountains, having more fun than should be legal.
Somehow my parents got across to me the concept of trying to be the best I could at whatever I got interested in. I’ve been preaching this idea, hoping others would see the value of this approach to life and adopt it. So how about you? Do you settle for less than your very best in what you do? Are you the best at work? Are you learning all you can or are you cheating yourself? When you gold brick through life you’re only cheating yourself.
What challenge is there for you? What haven’t you done yet? Why not? What are your excuses?
6/20/09
Instinct?
Now what in heck is instinct?
European cuckoos, which are raised by birds of other species, migrate without guidance to precisely the spot in Africa where their parents migrated before them. Fish return to the streams where they were born to spawn. Turtles find the exact same beaches where they were born. Monarch butterflies make one migration, from the Great Lakes region to specific butterfly trees in Mexico. The examples that “science” explains as instinct are endless. So, what’s instinct?
What science can’t explain, it gives a name to and ignores or denies.
How do lost animals find their owners in places they’ve never been before? When a rat learns to navigate a maze, how can future unrelated generations be born with the knack for similar mazes? Is there a whole lot more to the adaptation of species than random Darwinian survival of the fittest?
If you decide to do some research along these lines you’ll find organized science fighting you every inch of the way with ridicule, a refusal to publish your papers, and efforts to prevent any funding. Is it any wonder that our progress in non-accepted scientific fields has been so slow?
In the US I’ve seen the efforts of the Department of Energy scientists to make absolutely sure that if a new cold fusion industry develops, it will be in Japan, not here in America.
According to The Skeptical Inquirer, telepathy doesn’t exist, yet almost every day I experience it with Sherry. She’ll be driving along, with me in the back seat working, and I’ll suddenly look up and remark on a sign or something unusual. Every time, it’s something she’s particularly noted and wanted to tell me about, but didn’t want to interrupt my work.
I’ve reviewed books for you on how to communicate with plants and animals. Science is doing well with microcircuit development, but sure has a long way to go, with other scientists vigorously resisting, toward understanding psi, instinct, and other such phenomenon it doesn’t understand and thus ignores or denies.
The comforting thought is that virtually every scientific belief (law) is eventually shown to be either untrue, or just partly true. We do need to do a lot more research on human instincts. Obviously we have them, though they are not programmed in as powerfully as those of many animals, birds, reptiles and insects, but it would be nice to find out just what we’re up against in hard-wired programming.
Your homework assignment is Rupert Sheldrake's The Presence of the Past.
6/19/09
Selenium
As I read the news magazines I kept seeing obits for local well-known people who have died of a heart attack or stroke. Veterinarians solved that problem for animals decades ago. Farm animals don’t die of heart attacks or strokes. Farmers add pellets with the minerals which are almost universally missing from today’s crops to their animal’s feed. But don’t ask your doctor about preventative medicine, vitamins or minerals; they’re not his field. If doctors were taught anything about health maintenance instead of just about sickness repairs they wouldn’t be dying younger than the rest of us on the average.
They’re only taught how to treat symptoms…which are your body's alarm system, telling you something has gone wrong.
Cows, pigs and horses don’t die of heart attacks or Alzheimer’s because farmers give them the minerals they need with their feed. Well, that’s something for you to think about as the ambulance rushes you to the emergency ward. That old ounce of prevention. Or more likely, 50 mg of selenium or some other missing mineral that’s critically important to your body’s function.
No, I’m no MD, nor even a DVM, so I don’t ask you to believe me. But I recommend you do your homework the way I have. I realize you may not have much time to read, what with your spending a little time at work, and then watching ball games, sitcoms, soaps, and talk shows, making you a living example of the boiled frog syndrome. That’s where, if you drop a frog into boiling water, he’ll jump right out. But if you put him in warm water with a fire under it, he’ll enjoy the warmth until he's boiled.
And that’s the way it is with sugar, white bread, smoking, using drugs, and food that lacks the basic minerals and vitamins our bodies developed a dependency on over millennias of design. Our bodies were designed to work on raw wild foods. They were never designed to cope with coffee and doughnuts or Big Macs, fries, and a malt. So, either we have to figure some way to get our bodies the materials they need or settle for half a life. The expression, “You are what you eat,” is right.
For instance, in one of the ham radio club newsletters there was a very nice obit about Travis Baird W9VQD. Travis stroked out (a mineral lack). He was into music, opera, speed skating, photography, sailing, football, computers, the violin, amateur television, and so on. Now he’s gone. Diet.
Forty-one of the books in my review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read” are health oriented. The most important is Maximize Immunity by Dr. Bruno Comby. That's the book that pushed me to an almost totally raw food diet.
If you read The Secrets of the Soil, another of my recommended books, you’ll find out how to grow food that has the missing minerals.
Ever since the invention of the flush toilet we’ve been getting rid of the minerals in our crops instead of refertilizing our fields with them, as people did up until this century. Now we use chemicals as fertilizer, and we’re suffering the consequences.
Hmm, I wonder how many of you grew up on a farm with a back house and had to shovel out the privy every spring? My family’s farm in Bethlehem NH had no running water and no electricity, so I know what it is to take a flashlight out to the privy in back of the barn at night in the rain. And there was no heat until the first one up (me) started the fire in the kitchen stove with newspaper, kindling, and some kerosene to get the wood going fast. And another fire in the living room fireplace when it was really cold. While the stove was warming up I’d refill the kerosene lamps. The stove had a water tank at one end, so once the water was warm enough I’d scoop some out into a 5-gallon watering can. Then, in the summer kitchen, out by the woodpile, I’d hoist the can over my head with a pulley and take a fast shower. That part of the house was unheated by the stove, so 5 gallons of water was plenty.
Few farms today have a privy, so farmers today are flushing what few minerals they’re getting in their food into their septic system, not into a privy and then the compost heap. You either get your missing trace minerals from a health store or you make the doctors even wealthier as you have your heart attack or stroke. Your choice.
You can learn exactly what trace minerals your body needs by reading a most entertaining book by Dr. Joel Wallach. It’s Rare Earths—Forbidden Cures. 500 large pages, $20 from Wellness Lifestyle, Box 1222, Bonita CA 91908 - 800-755-4656. Yes, it’s reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom.
6/18/09
The Lost War
Short quiz: What is the most expensive war in American history? It's a war that cost more than WWII, Korea, and Vietnam combined? Hint…it’s one we lost. One we lost in a big way. One that has brought about catastrophic changes in our country.
It’s President Johnson’s (Lyndon) War on Poverty. Welfare. Welfare mothers. Hey, it’s your money your politicians are shoveling out. Over $10 trillion so far, and with no end in sight.
When the government pays women welfare benefits equivalent to $15 an hour, over two times the minimum wage, not to work, what do you think this does to wages in those areas? To be “entitled” to this largess at our expense the women have to have children…the more the better…no job, and no husband that’s working.
In 39 states welfare benefits are equivalent to about $16,600 a year. In eight it’s over $20,000.
Later I’ll tell you about a woman with two children who is on welfare in my small New Hampshire town. Her food and apartment are provided, plus schooling for one child, complete with a paid driver to ferry the child to school and back every day. The woman is bitterly complaining that her welfare-provided cable TV only gives her two paid channels. Oh yes, her husband is working, but they are “separated.” A recent exposé on welfare showed a couple of women in Laconia (NH) sitting in their apartments getting fat on this same system. Work? And lose all those benefits? You’ve got to be kidding!
So we complain about the single mothers. We complain about the loss of family values that’s turning out one generation after another of uneducated welfare mothers and resulting criminal children with no incentive or skills to work. Compassion gone berserk, and to hell with the survival of the fittest concept. We’re making sure that the least fit survive and proliferate, dragging us all down.
What can you do about this mess you’ve meekly let fester? Two things. First, we’ve got to stop Congress from making things worse. Second, we’ve got to make sure Congress strikes out all of the laws they’ve made that are screwing us up. Get the feds out of the mercy business, which is just another name for socialism. My bumper-sticker approach to this is to start with Green’s NRA: Never Re-elect Anyone! Get those bribed (via lobbyists) scoundrels out of Washington. Let’s build a whole new breed of one-term politicians.
But most important is to take a few days off from watching mind-numbing TV and educate yourself. There are some damned good books which will help you understand what’s gone wrong with our school system (which is a socialist disaster), with the war on poverty (which we lost), the war on drugs (which we’ve also lost), our so-called health-care system (another enormously overpriced socialist disaster), our “correctional institutions” (which exacerbate, not correct) and so on. Hey, we have the potential for having a pretty good country, but it’s going to take a lot of work by a lot of people to undo Congressional mischief and make it happen.
The multi-level marketing (chain-letter) approach will work for us. First you educate yourself. Then you get two or three other people started being educated. And they do the same for two or three more. Then form a local action group. The next thing you know, we’ll have a movement.
I’d like to see local political action clubs (PACs) get going. Members would be encouraged to read a book and report on it at the next meeting. There are an awful lot of books out there, but only a small percentage of them are both interesting and educational. By distributing the work of separating the wheat from the chaff, a group can easily do something that no one person could possibly accomplish.
The next thing you know some entrepreneur will start collecting the book reports and submit them to me for publication. And I’ll pay for ’em. The resulting sale of the better books will help discourage publishers from unloading crap on us, and will encourage the writing of even better books.
My $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom is a review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read,” and covers a wide variety of topics. Reading these books will beat the heck out of a college education, be thousands of dollars cheaper, and take several years less time. Maybe you can get some high school kids interested in learning to read.
Perhaps I’ve let my idealism run away with me in even suggesting that we try to run our country on reason instead of fanaticism. Maybe screaming protesters and terrorism are the rule of the day and reason passé.
Anyway, if you feel that people who prefer not to work are worth $335 billion of your money being taken out of your paycheck every year, then go back and watch that ball game on TV. As long as you’re satisfied that you’re getting your money’s worth it’s no problem. If you’d get Congress to stop wasting your money we could go back to where a one paycheck family could live comfortably and a mother could have the time to spend with her children.
One reader suggested a way to solve the deficit problem would be to fire the top three layers of management of all federal bureaus on the basis that it’s unlikely that anyone lower down would notice much difference. Oh, the bureau’s jet planes would get less use. But why not fire ’em down five levels and start reducing the deficit instead of just stopping its growth?
Oh yes, one more innovation. Since many of our more serious social problems have been caused by federal judges running amok, bypassing the legislative system, how about putting term limits on those rascals too? It would also be nice if we could somehow encourage the Supremes to stop trashing to Constitution. There is no place in the Constitution which supports the social programs Congress has enacted and the Supremes have endorsed.
6/17/09
Inertia
All this puzzlement over why cold fusion is working, despite the passionate objections of several Very Important Physicists, forced me to read some books on the fundamentals of matter, something which my college curriculum managed to overlook to a shocking degree. But then, 60 years ago, there wasn’t very much to teach. The periodic table ended at 92 and nuclear fission was only touched on in Astounding Stories (now Analog).
When they were teaching us about gravity, the student instructor got angry with me when I asked him what gravity was. It hadn’t occurred to him that the equation for the gravity force wasn’t gravity. And I didn’t know that no one had a good explanation for the force. Unless you buy Einstein's concept of gravity being some sort of strain on space-time.
Now I find that there’s still some question about that theory, and that there still is no good understanding of why we have inertia. That’s been bothering me. But it’s also been a great help in discussing cold fusion when I can point out that physicists are still far from understanding the fundamentals of matter and forces, so why should we be surprised when they are unable to explain the cold fusion reaction?
In an issue of Cold Fusion I proposed a way for protons to overcome the dread coulomb barrier. A flash of inspiration hit me when I saw the similarity between the plasma action which Eric Lerner proposed in The Big Bang Never Happened as that which explains the formation of solar systems, galaxies, and super galaxies, and that envisioned by Besant and Leadbeater a hundred years ago (see The Extra-Sensory Perception of Quarks by Stephen Phillips) when they meditated on the makeup of atoms and came up with a structure amazingly similar to our current ideas on quarks, sub-quarks, and string theory. And they described that same plasma action, a sort of ball-shaped toroid of spinning energy with one heck of a vortex in the center. My thanks to Advisor M.Srinivasan of the Bhabha Atomic Physics Centre in Bombay for putting me on to the Besant work.
I saw in that vortex the concentration of energy needed to overcome the coulomb barrier, thus allowing deuterium or hydrogen to be transmuted into helium. It seemed logical, but then, when I wrote about it, I fully expected to be put down for suggesting such a thing. To my surprise, which is an understatement, Chuck Bennet, and a couple other well-known scientists, bought my concept and used it to devise further research projects.
Feeling my oats, I further editorially poked a stick at physicists by suggesting that maybe even sub-quarks aren’t fundamental particles (or wavicles), and that perhaps it has been a bit arrogant to assume that they’re anywhere near down to fundamentals when they get to quarks. The visions of Besant and Leadbeater, plus the further recent work in this area by Ron Cohen in Ontario, all describe seeing several more layers of abstraction below the quark and the electron.
While in Colorado Springs for the Tesla Society science conference and mulling over what I would cover in my talk on cold fusion, inspiration hit. Suddenly I knew why we have inertia. When I pass on to the next whatever it is, I won’t be surprised to find that Dick Feynman was over there flashing messages to me. I think you’re going to like the simplicity of my explanation.
With atoms spinning, and their component parts also spinning, let’s compare them all to a big bunch of gyroscopes. When you apply an outside force to a gyroscope, it resists, no matter which direction you push. F = ma. And it tends to stay in motion in the direction pushed. Just like what we experience as inertia. Now picture a box with a thousand gyroscopes in it, all spinning. Now picture the box with 2.75 gadzillion very, very tiny gyroscopes. Can it be all those spinning wavicles which result in inertia?
Now, if I can catch up on my work a little, perhaps I can tune in to Feynman again and come up with a better answer for gravity than distorting the fabric of space-time. Could it have something to do with nuclear forces trying to hold things together?
Bingo! Feynman did again, and I suddenly understood why we have gravity. It's those spinning balls we call atoms. The vortex action in the center that holds the atom together also attracts it to nearby atoms. Presto! We have gravity. Well, we see vortexes in action with tornadoes, where they suck up anything movable that's nearby. I sure wish I'd recorded my talk at the conference that day.
While I was at the Tesla conference I went through their book store and picked up a dozen or so more books. Having read Maximize Immunity by Bruno Comby, and being all fired up by the strength and clarity of his ideas on how to regain health from any illness, I couldn’t help but quickly read Young Again by John Thomas. That's the book that has me taking a heaping teaspoon of cayenne pepper in a half-cup of apple juice every afternoon to help roto-root my arteries.
John said one thing that made sense and helps explain the resistance to cold fusion by the establishment. Most of the breakthroughs in any field are made by amateurs, not the professionals. One gets a Ph.D. by memorizing endless stuff for memorization tests and working one’s way through college and grad school via that route. This is the opposite of the average inventor, a maverick who tends to think in concepts instead of memorization and regurgitation.
A study by INC magazine showed that few successful entrepreneurs have bothered to finish college. An inventor is like an entrepreneur in that respect. Ph.D.'s, having been thoroughly trained to memorize and not to be original thinkers, are naturally resistant to anything that is going to upset what they’ve learned.
I published a wonderful article by John Campbell in the first issue of 73 back in 1960. John explained why virtually every major creative scientific discovery has been made by amateurs. I’ve seen nothing in the last 35 years to challenge that idea. John was the editor of Analog magazine, and a good friend of mine. It was his long editorials about anything that happened to interest him at the moment that inspired me to do the same when I started publishing in 1951. I'm still at it.
But doesn't the idea of all "matter" being made up of spinning stuff explain inertia? Scientists agree that quarks all have spin, just as Besant and Leadbeater envisioned.
6/16/09
History Lesson
What did Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower have in common?
Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work..
Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal's after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.
And then, in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican Nationals! The program was called 'Operation Wetback'. It was done so WWII and Korean Veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took 2 Years, but they deported them!
Now...if they could deport the illegal's back then - they could sure do it today!
If you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself.
Reminder: Don't forget to pay your taxes…at least 12 million Illegal Aliens are depending on you!
6/15/09
Ford & GM
Here's an email from the man who keeps my Mercedes cars in good running order:
According to Forbes, the labor cost per hour, wages and benefits for hourly workers at Ford are $70.51 ($141,020 per year), at GM it's $73.26 ($146,520 per year), and at Chrysler it's $75.86 ($151,720 per year). While at Toyota, Honda, Nissan (in U.S.) it's $48.00 ($96,000 per year),
According to AAUP and IES, the average annual compensation for a college professor in 2006 was $92,973 (average salary nationally of $73,207 + 27% benefits).
Bottom Line: The average UAW worker with a high school degree earns 57.6% more compensation than the average university professor with a Ph.D., and 52.6% more than the average worker at Toyota , Honda or Nissan.
Many industry analysts say the Detroit Three, must be on par with Toyota and Honda to survive. This year's contract, they say, must be "transformational" in reducing pension and health care costs.
What would "transformational" mean? One way to think about "transformational" would mean that UAW workers, most with a high school diploma, would have to accept compensation equal to that of the average university professor with a PhD.
Then there's the "Job Bank" ... When a D3 (Detroit 3 carmaker) lays an employee off, that employee continues to receive all benefits - medical, retirement, etc., etc., PLUS an hourly wage of $31/hour.
Here's a typical story....Ken Pool is making good money. On weekdays, he shows up at 7 a.m. at Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne, signs in, and then starts working -- on a crossword puzzle. Pool hates the monotony, but the pay is good: more than $31 an hour, plus benefits. "We just go in and play crossword puzzles,
watch videos that someone brings in or read the newspaper," he says. "Otherwise, I just sit."
Pool is one of more than 12,000 American autoworkers who, instead of installing windshields or bending sheet metal, spend their days counting the hours in a jobs bank set up by Detroit automakers as demanded by the United Auto Workers Union - UAW - as part of an extraordinary job security agreement.
Now the D3 wants Joe Taxpayer to pick up this tab in a $ 25 Billion bailout package - soon to be increased to $45 Billion if Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton have their way.
The "Big 3" want this money - not to build better autos. No. They want it to pay the tab for Medical and Retirement benefits for RETIRED auto workers. Not ONE PENNY would be used to make them more competitive, or to improve the quality of their cars.
We ALL have problems paying for our Medical Insurance - but the Democrat leaders in Congress now want us to pay the Medical Insurance premiums of folks who have RETIRED from Ford, GM and Chrysler...............
Does anyone know how a person making $12.00 to $15.00 an hour can purchase a vehicle built by someone making $70.00+ per hour?
6/1`4/09
Bribery
My big goal is to get the word out on how easy it is to cure any illness and never get sick again by a change of diet. But, since that would put the pharmaceutical industry out of business, even getting a hint out to the public is almost impossible.
Would Newsweek dare to print an exposé? The current issue has ten and a half pages of drug ads and only seven pages of non-drug ads. Money doesn't talk, it screams, drowning out truth. Time had thirteen and a half pages of drug ads. Without drug ads they'd both be out of business.
It's the same with TV. As I fast-forward through the ads on the shows I watch while I'm eating, I see one drug ad after another. If people wise up about their food it could have a devastating effect on the advertising business. Gee!
6/13/09
The Muslim Invasion
Can we learn from the mess in Europe, where Muslims have emigrated by the millions, yet have refused to accept the local language and customs, and have formed their own communities? Further, while the non-Muslims are averaging 1.4 children per family, the Muslims are averaging five. At that rate it won't take long before the Muslims will be in the majority.
The same thing is starting here, with the Saudi's building over a thousand mosques and pushing Wahabiism, the most radical form of Islam. They're teaching their children that it will be their duty to kill any infidel. An infidel, by the way, is anyone who is not a Muslim.
6/12/09
Chaos
While working on a second edition of my Secret Guide to Health I got to thinking about what might happen if I'm able to get the book into millions of hands instead of just thousands. What will happen if a million people start demanding organic produce, meat and raw milk?
Even here in New Hampshire, where most of us are away from the big cities, there's no surplus of raw milk or grass-fed organic meat. An increase in demand is going to raise prices as more and more people realize they have to change their diets to raw, organic food if they want to recover from any illness they have and to make sure they aren't ever going to get sick.
We do have an advantage in that almost all farming moved west a hundred years or so ago, so our land hasn't been poisoned by a hundred years of chemical fertilizers, followed by pesticides. It's covered by forests now, but the dirt is primo for organic farming once the trees have been removed. Oh, it'll need some rock dust to get the minerals back into it, but I don't think we'll have a serious shortage of granite to powderify here in "The Granite State."
We've got to get our citizen's legislature to allow stores to sell raw milk. The demand will force the milk companies to turn to grass-fed cows with no BGH shots or antibiotics. Oh, and the grass will have to be grown on non-poisoned, remineralized pastures.
The demand for healthy food will gradually transform the fast-food companies and our supermarkets. The midwest farmers are going to have to stop growing all that corn, clean up their land, and go organic. No more factory-raised beef and chickens, crammed full of genetically modified corn in tiny prisons.
I think we'll be seeing greenhouses sprouting by the millions all across the country as families counter the high store prices for healthy food. I'll bet a high percentage of 'em will be pyramid shape and using Sonic-Bloom. Oh, you haven't yet read Les Brown's The Pyramid…see page 29 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review. The $3 book is available from Acres USA (800-355-5313), last I heard.
Brown's pyramid-shaped greenhouses have grown vegetables over four times normal. They're more insect resistant, last longer after being picked, and are better tasting. Since using Sonic Bloom accomplishes about the same results, I wonder what would happen if both were used? Plant a seed and jump back!
Maybe it's time to start gardening classes in our schools and encourage our teens to start home gardens. As people start wising up that their immune systems can cure any cancer (or anything else) by changing to a raw food diet, the demand for healthy food is bound to grow.
6/11/09
Babies & TV
It's bad enough with the intentional dumbing down of our children by our public schools, now researchers tell us that letting babies watch TV is significantly adding to children's mental development problems.
You see, babies learn language from their parents and don't from TV. The parent-child interaction is critical. So studies show that the more babies are exposed to TV the smaller vocabulary they build and the more problems they have later in communicating.
This can put another strain on families when both parents have to work, so the baby has to be put in a day-care facility. Of course, a good day-care outfit would have foreign language personnel to teach the babies when their language-learning abilities are at a peak, which is a relatively short window of opportunity. During that period of brain development babies can learn many languages, be able to think in each of them, and speak without an accent.
As I've explained before, our mandatory government-run public school system was initiated 150 years ago by religious leaders, who got Congress to get kids out of the one-room school houses, where our children had the highest literacy rate in our history, and into factory type schools, using the Prussian school system, which turned out the most obedient soldiers in the world.
The factory process is designed to take raw material and turn out identical products. And, as Michael Medved so wisely put it, "The government makes a mess of everything it does." Hey, let me know if you can think of any exceptions. I can't.
6/10/09
Reform
Lured by an article in the paper to a panel discussion on healthcare reform, I drove to Keene and sat through two hours of lecturing on the subject. The main goal of the meeting seemed to be to recruit people to go on a bus ride to Washington on the 25th for a mass demonstration to promote the passing of real health care reform legislation. They are demanding quality, affordable healthcare for all!
It took a while, but I finally was allowed a couple minutes to explain about self-care via raw food rather than going to doctors and hospitals. Far's I know I aroused interest in the idea among none of the 25 or so in the audience, nor the four presenters. They want one-pay health insurance, dammit.
They're having busloads of protesters going there from all around the country. About 150 are expected to be going from New Hampshire in three buses.
6/9/09
Guests?
The huge marches by illegal immigrants, waving Mexican flags and loudly demanding “rights,” didn’t sound or look anything like people who want to become American citizens. They want their language, their customs, and American money.
These people are nothing like earlier immigrants, who came here, learned English, adopted our customs. and were proud to become Americans. Let's drop the hyphenated-Americans…like Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, and even African-Americans. If you don't want to be Americans, we don't want you here.
With an admitted 12 million illegal aliens, and who knows how many actual…with some estimates closer to 20 million, we’ve been infiltrated. In the eyes of the law these people are all felons. They’ve broken the law, and the President, being wishy-washy about that, doesn’t change the law.
If enough people break a law, is that a reason for Congress to rewrite the law? Maybe it’s a reason to devote more effort to enforcement. Bigger, more intelligent fences. More guards. Worse penalties for the law breakers…and I don’t mean our spending $30,000 a year to store them in our prisons…which are already bulging with Hispanic criminals.
This is America. When you come here you are going to speak English and leave your old customs behind. Your women are not going to wear head scarves or burkas. You are not even going to speak your old language around the home.
It’s time to stop screwing around. Let’s outlaw the mailing of any foreign language publications, or the licensing of radio station frequencies or TV channels, both of which are the property of the American citizens and handled by the FCC. No car or driver’s licenses unless you are a citizen and can speak English. No "Press 1 for English."
Let’s make it a felony for anyone to hire an illegal alien for any work. This will inconvenience a lot of commercial farms and maybe make our lettuce a little more expensive. Lettuce has almost no nutritive value anyway. And it’s probably loaded with pesticides, and have almost none of the minerals our bodies need.
We're spending billions giving the illegals sickness care, educating their kids, and even giving them social security payments. This is absolutely ridiculous.
If we actually need more workers, let’s get Congress to increase the legal immigration limits. I’d like to see us letting in more educated, intelligent people and fewer from the bottom of the barrel.
Millions of the illegals are taking advantage of the easy money here, sending tens of millions back to their families in Mexico every month. And they have no intention of ever becoming American citizens.
Okay, first we have to find the illegals. Let’s start with one state at a time, bring in a bunch of federal agents to help the local police. Then, set up an alarm phone number, say 311, which will allow any business to alert the police when anyone with a Spanish accent visits them.
The legal Hispanics will find it a major nuisance, but they’ll have documentation…and a good reason to brush up on their English. Maybe even speaking it at home.
6/08/09
Going Green
Goal: To Make New Hampshire the healthiest, wealthiest, best-educated, and happiest state in America.
We’ll need organic crops grown on remineralized land that hasn’t been poisoned with chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Fortunately, our farmers moved to the easier to use midwest farmland a hundred years ago, so most New Hampshire land has never been poisoned. Spreading powdered rock (granite) on our farm land will remineralize it to provide very healthy organic crops. And if we use Sonic Bloom we’ll have larger, faster-growing better-tasting crops.
We’ll need clean water and fish from unpoisoned rivers and lakes, so we need to check our lakes for mercury. Many trees felled by the 1938 hurricane, their ends preserved with mercury, were thrown into our lakes. These need to be removed and the lakes allowed to clean themselves before it will be safe to fish them.
We can help clean our air by investing in the R&D it will take to make cold fusion a practical energy source. Here’s non-polluting energy at a hundredth the cost of oil which will allow every home to generate all the heat and electricity a family can use, and almost free. No more oil or coal-fired power stations (or nuclear) fouling our air. If we can develop and manufacture the power units here in New Hampshire we’ll go a long way towards being the wealthiest state.
Another step toward wealth would be to plant black walnut trees and growth them with Sonic Bloom technology. This legal crop, which would cost nothing to plant, could provide over $250,000 a year per acre and start a new wood industry for New Hampshire.
6/7/09
The Basics
It's really just common sense. If we want to have a healthy body we should give it the quantity and quality of food it's designed to use, plenty of pure water, lots of exercise, plenty of sun, clean air, and adequate sleep.
It sounds simple, but how many of those basics are you providing your body? Are the fruit and vegetables you're eating non-genetically modified and grown organically on remineralized soil? Your meat from grass-fed animals? Your milk non-pasteurized? Are you eating everything raw?
About the only way to be sure of your drinking pure water these days is to distill it. Otherwise you're likely getting added stuff like chlorine, fluoride, lead, used pharmaceutical drugs, and other crud with it. See www.steamdistiller.com for an inexpensive still.
Exercise? Har-de-har. Gee, no time for that…the ballgame will be on in a few minutes.
Sunlight on the skin? Whadaya want, skin cancer? Melanoma? Newsflash: on a raw food diet you don't get skin cancer, just a tan skin.
Clean air? Why do you think I'm living on a farm in New Hampshire and not in a city, like I did for years? Well, that's one very good reason.
Sleep? You want a quiet, totally dark room.
6/2/09
Great Gifts
One of my Brooklyn readers stopped by to visit. We had a great time talking, but the capper was his parting gift…a gift I'll treasure for the rest of my life. It was a mint copy of the 1950 Astounding Science Fiction magazine with the article by L.Ron Hubbard about Dianetics.
Upon reading that article I quickly bought the book, read it, and then tested it out with a fellow announcer at WSPB in Sarasota, where we were working. The results were so spectacular I quit my job, just as I was offered a major raise, and drove to Elizabeth NJ to take a six-week course at the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation. See my 4/21/09 entry for the details on the test with Joe.
What a thoughtful gift that almost sixty-year old magazine was. You see, Dianetics has had a major influence on my life.
There are two other thoughtful gifts from my readers. Both, treasures. One is an oil painting of my WWII submarine, the USS Drum, by Don Lively. And the other is a hand-made beadspread that I use all winter, which was made by Jeanie Dicus.
6/1/09
Newsweek
They've totally revamped the magazine, apparently guided by an art director gone wild. Take the 8-1/2 page article about Oprah. The first two pages have only a half page of text, and the rest is filled with huge headlines. The pull-quotes in the article are in 36-point type, and most of the pages have large pictures of Oprah. The article itself goes on and on about how crazy the health advice is that one gets watching the Oprah show. Indeed, the opening headline in 2-3/4-inch high type is "CRAZY TALK."
This came into some perspective when I counted the magazine's ad pages. There were ten pages of pharmaceutical ads and just nine other pages of ads.
It's bad enough to have only 18 pages of ads in an 80-page magazine, where I would normally expect to see 25 to 35 pages of ads, but should the magazine in any way aggravate Big Pharma, it would be out of business. No, when I publish the second edition of my Secret Guide to Health, I'm not going to bother sending Newsweek a review copy.
5/31/09
Crossing The Equator
That used to be a big deal, with ships having initiation ceremonies for first time crossers. Then, when the airlines started crossing the Equator, they issued certificates for the passengers.
My first crossing was when I went on a hunting safari in Kenya, which straddles the Equator. So when I saw a sign showing the road I was on was crossing the Equator, I set up my 16mm camera and took pictures of me hopping back and forth across the equator. Hey, who else can brag they've crossed the Equator hundreds of times? And have the film to prove it.
5/30/09
Transfusions
Doctors are doing millions of blood transfusions every year, and I’ll bet you’re completely convinced that this is a good, lifesaving procedure. My advice? Do everything you can to avoid one!
I used to work in an office on 43rd Street in Manhattan. On the floor below our publishing offices was a blood bank, so I got a good look at their clientele over the five years I worked there…and it was mostly homeless winos, getting enough money for another bottle of the cheapest wine they could find.
As I’ve mentioned, every cell in your body, and that includes every cell in your blood, is in constant contact with every other cell, even when separated from you by thousands of miles. When you get a transfusion of someone else’s blood, you’re getting a part of them integrated into your mind/body system, and not just your body. You’ll also get a good collection of any poisons they were carrying around, such as alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and any other drugs, viruses, microbes, parasites, fungi, or yeasts in their blood. And maybe some toxic metals, too.
If you think I’m exaggerating, you haven’t bothered to read The Secret Life of Your Cells (p.5) yet. I’ve reviewed it in my $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom.
Even though the new blood is the same type as yours, it is from another person and your immune system will get busy eliminating the invader. That’s just what you need at a time when you need all of the strength your immune system can muster to help you recover from whatever caused the doctors to give you the transfusion.
If you have made any effort to develop your psychic ability, once you’ve had a transfusion you’ll be able to pick up many of the thoughts and feelings of the person from whom you’ve received the blood. One woman wrote a book about an organ transplant where she was able to sense the name of the donor and feel his feelings (A Change of Heart). And thousands of people have reported weird things resulting from blood transfusions. A recent lab test, with cells from an athlete’s heart, beat exactly in pace with his heart as he walked and ran, even though he was miles away.
5/29/09
Leno
While I seldom have bothered to watch Jay’s interviews with celebs, I’ve always enjoyed his opening monologue and the following funny bits…Jaywalking interviews, 99¢ Store stuff, etc. The Tonight Show will be hosted by Conan O’Brien from June first on, with Jay back in the fall with his own 10 PM show.
Having tried watching Conan on his Late Night Show, this will be the end of my taping the Tonight Show. Phooey.
I tape the CSI and Law & Order shows so I can watch them while I’m eating. Having learned to chew my food until it’s liquid, it usually takes me about an hour to eat a meal. By skipping the commercials I can watch one and a third programs per meal…four shows a day. I also tape the ION Television reruns of Boston Legal and NCIS, another five hours a week. And 60 Minutes on Sunday.
If there are any other shows you think I might really enjoy, please let me know.
5/28/09
Cribbage Coup
If you’re a cribbage player you’ll get a kick out of this.
Sherry and I play two or three games a day. So, today we’re playing and we were getting toward the end. Sherry almost had the game won, needing only eight more points to be out…and I was waay, way back there, needing 27 points to be out. Hopeless.
It was my deal, so Sherry melded first. Uh oh, she had just six points, so she was two shy of going out.
My hand wasn’t any better, just six, so I was 21 shy. The turn-up card, a nine, hadn’t helped me. Well, I’d put two threes in my crib, so with the nine that would only be four more points. But when I turned over the crib, Sherry had also put in two threes. Wow! Twenty-four points! So I won the game!
Has anyone ever gotten a twenty-four point crib before?
5/25/09
Star Drek
Lured by hopes and ballyhoo, Sherry and I drove to the cineplex for the latest Star Treck, We lasted about 45 minutes before giving up and getting our money back.
This supposed hit film drew us and three other people in the whole theater.
5/23/09
The Drum
If you get anywhere near Mobile AL this summer, please don’t miss a visit to my old home, the USS Drum (SS-228), which is on display in Battleship Park. See where I spent a couple years of my life sixty-five years ago…complete with pictures of me back then.
My book, Submarines in WWII (#10), tells what it was like and some of the close calls we had. Verrry close! It also explains what really happened to Amelia Earhart.
5/22/09
Talk Topics
If you have any connections to help get me radio or TV interviews, here are some of the topics I can discuss. The most important, by a wide margin, is health…but stations which might not survive without drug commercials might not want that brought up.
There are so many interesting things to talk about I could do a booklet just outlining them.
(1) But first are healthcare costs, which I think we could cut about 90% by getting the word out of a raw food diet's fantastic healing power.
(2) Then there's our most expensive and one of the worst in the developed world public school system. We know how to have children with 150 average IQs, who can speak many languages with no accent and think in any of them. Who can read books at a few seconds a page with good comprehension. How about colleges with no tuition, and at no cost to the government, who graduate students with vastly more knowledge and skills than today…and in only three years?
(3) Unemployment? By forming business incubator groups in every town we could, at no cost to the government, start hundreds of thousands...maybe millions...of new small businesses…and I don't mean mom and pop stores.
(4) How about a whole new trillion-dollar industry providing a non-polluting energy at a hundredth the cost of oil, with a small unit in every home that would supply all of the heat and electricity a family could want? No more gas stations, power web or power plants, with their pollution and nuclear waste.
(5) How about a way to cut our prison costs by about 90% and also greatly reduce recidivism?
(6) Our government has doubled in the last few years. How about a way to cut it in half or even much more, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating?
(7) And a way to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan quickly and with a minimum of fighting? And then an inexpensive way to rebuild the messes we've made there?
(8) How about an inexpensive quick cure for AIDS? And a penny-a-gallon super antibiotic anyone can make on the kitchen table?
(9) A way to make foreign aid pay off big time?
(10) A simple way to remineralize our farm lands to replace the lost minerals we need in our food?
(11) The Mad Cow baloney.
(12) How American Mensa was started…and the cell phone industry…and the personal computer industry…and the compact disc industry.
(13) How to chew…an important health skill almost no one has mastered.
(14) The Sun isn't the real cause of skin cancer.
(15) The real story of Amelia Earhart…I knew her.
(16) Cell phone dangers.
(17) How to turn nuclear waste into huge amounts of energy, eliminating it's radioactivity.
(18) How to end inflation.
(19) How about a new Social Security system which can pay ten times what seniors are getting today?
(20) And me being a passenger on the first commercial airline flight between Philadelphia and New York.
(21) How the Church of Scientology got started. I was there.
(22) And the real cause of global warming?
(23) A simple, fast, PTSD cure?
(24) Life-long-learning products…a new trillion-dollar industry.
(25) How about a new battery that's a hundredth the size and weight (and a tenth or less the cost) of today's car batteries?
Well, that's what comes to mind at the moment.
5/21/09
Don’t Drink the Water
Are you still drinking tap water? What does it take to get you to get an inexpensive still and start distilling that sewage your city or town is providing? You don’t need any of the toxic metals that come out of your spigots. Worse, you surely don’t want to put chlorine into your body, and the chances are that your water system has plenty of that poison.
But the most damaging of all the water additives are fluorides. Oh, there goes Wayne, on some sort of an ecological kick. Just look up the results of dozens of research lab reports and published peer-reviewed papers attesting to the genetic damage caused by fluorides. The research reports show clearly that as little as one part per million of fluorides in drinking water causes measurable genetic defects in sperm chromosomes, and that means some sort of genetic defect will be passed along to your children. And this is not going to be helpful. This can mean small or large birth defects, none beneficial. And these will, in turn be passed along to your grandchildren. Is that really what you want?
I started out buying gallon bottles of distilled water from the drug store, then I discovered www.steamdistiller.com, with a $120 still that does the job beautifully. Works like a charm and has paid for itself many times over.
The Dr. Yiamouyiannis book, Fluoride, the Aging Factor, which I’ve reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom, has the subtitle, “How to recognize and avoid the devastating effects of fluoride.”
You’ve read about the decreasing sperm count in American men. Well, fluoride in the water supply has been shown to do this. It’s a deadly poison, and helps knock the stuffing out of your immune system, making it easier to have cancer to get started. And no, it’s not even good for you or your children’s teeth. Do your homework and you’ll find that we’ve been screwed again by big business.
Just in case you are still, despite my warnings, drinking water laced with fluorides or using fluoride laced toothpaste, or even allowing your dentist to put fluoride on your or your children’s teeth, maybe you’d better find out the real story. Many school districts are allowing nurses to come into the schools and swab the children’s teeth with fluoride. Fluoride mottles teeth (called fluorisis), so if your child’s teeth get swabbed in school watch closely for the mottling, and when it shows up get a lawyer and sue the school board for a bundle.
Yes, in this best of all countries in the best of all times, your meats are laced with hormones, plus salmonella in your chicken. Your water has government added fluorides and chlorine, plus God knows what else, such as dioxin, which has seeped into our country’s aquifer. The air in your cities is poisoning your lungs.
Under pressure from the fluoride suppliers, our cities have added this carcinogen to your drinking water. The excuse is that it is supposed to help children’s teeth. A study of 480,000 children showed that it doubled their tooth decay. Researchers have estimated the fluorides in our water are causing about 60,000 people to die of cancer every year that otherwise wouldn’t.
Recently the EPA and National Research Council (NRC) okayed 4 ppm of fluoride in our drinking water, despite the evidence from double blind studies that even 1 ppm causes severe allergic reactions and destroys immune cells. If you do some homework you’ll find that the EPA has gone to extremes to hide the facts of fluoridation from the public. It’s a fascinating, but not particularly surprising story of corruption.
As Dr. Robert Carlton, a US EPA scientist put it, “Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century…if not of all time.”
With over half of the U.S. municipal water supplies being fluoridated, the chances that you and your family are being poisoned by this stuff is high. Poisoned? Recent studies have linked fluorides with osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and backache…and has been projected to cripple over 10% of people over 60.
For the young married couples it has been shown in two large Chinese studies to significantly lower children’s IQ. This influence starts during pregnancy, when the brain is developing the fastest, and has been confirmed by studies of the brains of aborted fetuses. Oh yes, there’s a much higher rate of miscarriages in areas with artificial fluoridation of the water.
Fluoride damages the central nervous system, causing hyperactivity and learning disabilities in children. One study showed that the greater the fluoride concentration in the water, the lower the fertility rate for women.
Other studies have shown fluoride to cause neural degeneration and it also seems to enhance the flow of aluminum to the brain, resulting in Alzheimer’s memory loss and confusion.
So, are you and your family still drinking and bathing in municipal water laced with fluorides? It’s okay for flushing your toilet, but it’s really bad news when taken internally.
Isn’t it about time to start either distilling your drinking water, or getting a reverse osmosis filter? Or don’t you worry about next week? Or care at all about giving your kids a break in life? Life is tough enough when you give your kids every opportunity you can without your permanently dumbing them down right from the beginning.
You know, I keep hearing people wondering why kids today are so out of control…why some kids grab a gun and start shooting classmates. Then I read about the effects of fluorides, sugar, aspartame, fluorescent lights, and other poisons on kids that weren’t there a hundred years ago and I wonder why the situation isn’t worse.
Yes, I’m trying to stop you from poisoning yourself. Or, perhaps it’s closer to say letting your government poison you and your family.
And yes, I’m well aware of the promotion fluorides have gotten, and how it’s so wonderful for children’s teeth that our caring government is, at our great expense, putting it into most of our city water supplies. So, am I an alarmist, or have I got the facts to back me up?
Fluoridated water has been shown to increase hip fractures and bone cancer. Just what you need. In the elderly, which is what you hope to eventually be, a hip fracture is often almost a death sentence.
Distill your drinking water and stop poisoning your body. Just because the aluminum companies have found a profitable market for their industrial waste is no reason for you to be sucker enough to drink it.
I don’t know if you care how smart your kids are, but will you knowingly help dumb them down?
Oh, are you still using fluoride-laced toothpaste? Just don’t swallow any of it. Kids have died doing that.
In a paper sent to me by Roger Masters of Dartmouth College I found the results of an extensive study of what happens to people who drink water which has been fluoridated.
Fluorine, as you probably know, is one of the most active elements known, so it should be no surprise that when it is added to our water supply that it attacks the pipes and the pipe lead solder joints. The amount of lead this adds to the water supply is significant enough so the study showed a children’s IQ difference of five points between fluoridated water and non-fluoridated. The study also showed that there is a consistent ten point IQ deficit when children are bottle fed instead of breast fed. This just confirms many other studies which have shown the same deficit.
A 15 point IQ loss can make the difference between a college acceptance and a high school drop out.
And those are just two easily controlled factors which will determine a child’s IQ for life. I’ve discussed several others in the past and I’ll try to put all of these together into a book to help new parents avoid turning their budding geniuses into morons through an ignorance of what’s involved.
The U.S. isn’t the first country to fluoridate water. The Germans and Russians added fluorides to the drinking water of concentration camp prisoners to make them more docile and apathetic. It’s also added to animal’s drinking water to make them more docile.
Fluoridation is illegal in every European country except Ireland. California fruits and vegetables sprayed with fluoride-based pesticides can’t be legally imported into any European country.
Are you and your family drinking this stuff? In all probability you are unless you’re distilling it first.
Fluoride in our water is resulting in less than 100,000 cancer deaths a year, so it’s no big deal. How’s it causing cancer deaths? Sodium fluoride inhibits the body’s enzyme functions, knocking the immune system down. In heavier concentrations it’s used as rat poison, where it causes the rats to starve to death, no matter how much they eat.
But, what about the cavities? When you start digging into the data you find that there has never been any research which has shown that sodium fluoride helps prevent cavities. Indeed, Toronto has had fluoridated water for over 36 years and they have far more cavities per person than Vancouver, which has no fluoride. The fact is that fluoridated water helps cause tooth decay. It also increases the aging process. Deaths in fluoridated areas are 5% higher than non-fluoridated.
Fluoride eats away the bones, causing them to become brittle and break more easily.
When you or your child uses fluoridated tooth paste 80% of the fluoride is absorbed sub-lingually within a minute unless it is spit out. No child should be allowed to use fluoridated tooth paste or to drink fluoridated water.
Classic Coke was tested and found to have 2.56 ppm of sodium fluoride. Diet Coke had 2.96 ppm. In fact it’s found in most bottled drinks and drinks from concentrate because the country’s bottling plants use fluoridated city water. Federal law does not require this to be disclosed on the label.
5/20/09
AIDS Update
[An 1996 editorial reprint]
In my Feb. 1994 editorial I mentioned a simple circuit which was claimed to be able to rid the blood of the HIV virus. This all stemmed from a report in Science News, March 30, 1991, page 207, where the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City reported that their researchers had discovered that when a very tiny current (about 50 µA) was passed through HIV-positive blood it eliminated the virus. This has since been reported in several other publications.
Now I know you’re going to find this totally impossible to believe, but this incredible break-through in what had been considered to be an incurable illness, made no detectable dent in the quest for a patentable and exploitable drug for AIDS. Nor did it apparently divert any of the hundreds of millions of research dollars seeking such a salable drug.
Just to make matters worse, along came Bob Beck, a physicist, who proposed treating the blood with the micro-current while in the body instead of having to take it out, treat it, and then put it back. How? Simple, just put a couple of electrodes on a person’s wrists, where the leg arteries are close to the surface, and apply enough voltage to induce the wanted micro-current. How much voltage does it take? Well, use an ohmmeter and Ohm’s Law for that. It turns out you will need around 10 Volts or less for most people. That’s enough for them to feel a tiny tingle. The blood stream is the path of least resistance through the body, so that’s where the microamperes flow.
Beck added a transistor to flick a relay, reversing the current twice a second, to prevent any polarization or electrophoretic ion migration. A flip-flop would draw less current and be quieter. I was going to publish the original diagram I got from Beck, but readers kept sending me improved circuits, plus there was some legitimate fear of an attack by the FDA.
I wish I was exaggerating about the American medical power structure. It’s a combination of the FDA, in bed with the AMA, the pharmaceutical industry, and the insurance companies. Understandably, none of them want to disturb the fantastic flow of money the present system provides. It’s a two trillion-dollar industry.
So here we are, two years down the line from my original editorial. I distributed hundreds of copies of a 16-page booklet with the Beck schematic at my own expense, figuring that if it could save some lives, fine. If not, I couldn’t see any possible harm that could come from the procedure. Beck says he now has over 200 medically certified AIDS cures via use of the blood purifier circuit in a locan clinic. Further, he hasn’t yet heard of anyone who has used it and failed. I’ve had calls of thanks from as far away as France, where a street musician in Nice called to tell me that the booklet I provided had saved his son’s life.
As I mentioned a few months ago, Beck, wanting to be sure that there were no side effects from using the circuit, zapped his own blood for a couple of hours in
stead of the recommended 20 minutes. The result was that his weight gradually dropped 65-pounds, going down to normal and then staying there, even though he claims he didn’t change his eating habits. He mumbled something about it resetting his appestat. His wife, being no dummy, zapped her blood too, and her weight went down to where it was when she was 17. I’ll have to hear from more people having success with this before I am completely convinced. If it does work reliably for weight control, the circuit is worth billions for that alone. But then I don’t suppose you have any interest in something entrepreneurial. Besides, you’d probably have the FDA all over you like flies on something.
I don’t suppose you’ve read “Racketeering In Medicine,” which I recommended recently?
Beck says there are several clinics outside the US, and thus beyond the reach of the FDA, that are using the blood purifier with great success.
Unless you’ve managed to acquire AIDS, you’ve probably ho-hummed most of the fuss about it. You’ve read about it being epidemic in Africa. You may have seen, but not read, several books saying HIV and AIDS are not connected, that AIDS is mostly a lifestyle problem. And you’ve seen the AIDS activist demonstrators on TV news shows being as visible as possible, demanding that congress spend more on AIDS research. More pork barrel money for the pharmaceutical companies and welfare for scientists.
I know that if I suddenly discovered I had AIDS and was told by doctors that there is no cure, I’d be out there investigating every possible alternative approach. Of course that presupposes that I’ve discovered that doctors don’t know everything. The more I read, the more I learn about how restricted most doctors have been in their training, and how few of them bother to even try to learn about alternatives, no matter how successful they are reported to be.
There are several excellent books I’ve read recently that every doctor should be made to read, books that I recommend to anyone with a serious illness of any kind. Someone should be publishing a newsletter on the subject, and writing books. If they are, I haven’t found ’em yet. The closest I’ve found so far is Dr. William Douglass’ books on chelation, AIDS, hydrogen peroxide, and UV therapy.
I’ve already written about “Maximize Immunity” by Dr. Comby and “Forever Young” by Thomas.
Getting back to the blood purifier, which also is reported to wipe out herpes and Eppstein Barr, let’s see what you can come up with as far as a simple circuit to supply the 50 µA. I’ll publish the best ones. (Note: I did in the May 1996 issue of 73)
I came close to being able to make a kit of the original Beck circuit available. One of our advertisers got the parts together for one and sent me a sample. Unfortunately, one of my editors put it in his drawer without telling me about it. It wasn’t until he left that I discovered the kit. I then sent it to Bob Beck to see what he thought. He gave it to the first serious AIDS case that came along, promising to send me a replacement. He’s been promising for a year. Meanwhile I’ve been up to here in assorted non-related problems, launching a cold fusion magazine, and so on.
But even if I did have a kit available, I’m not sure how I could market it without going to prison. The FDA is always ready to pounce, and they have as strong a record for reasonableness as the IRS. Since it costs an average of over $800 million to get a new drug or procedure okayed by the FDA, there is no way to get a new approach authorized when there is no drug company to foot the bill. Talk about a Catch-22!
5/18/09
Kids Smoking
[Another old editorial reprint]
When you see someone in a movie or on TV smoking these days you know they are going to turn out to be the bad guys. Oddly enough, I've had a similar experience in my own life. It almost got me to thinking.
Last year was a doozie, with a couple of my employees getting together to put me out of business so they could take it over. And those crumbs were my only smokers! And that may have been what brought about most of the trouble!
You see, once an hour they'd go outside for a 10-minute smoking break. With no work being done and time on their hands, they apparently hatched the plan. One can cook up a lot of mischief during an hour of smoking breaks every day. Paid breaks, of course.
We've got a high school just down the street, so we've a constant stream of kids going by. A distressing percentage of them are smoking. Kids start smoking because they think it's cool. They do it to impress their friends, not for any kick they get out of it.
So when I see a kid smoking I know that the kid isn't all that bright. You have to be pretty stupid these days to knowingly take on a lifetime expensive drug habit. I also know that the kid is a follower and not a leader…easily swayed by what others think, sheep-like, uncreative, a non-thinker, and probably has one heck of an inferiority complex. Insecure. Oddly enough, they start smoking to get respect, not having been taught that you have to earn respect. You can't build respect by being stupid.
I'm afraid I react the same way when I see kids with untied shoelaces, sloppy, baggy clothes, weird hair, jeans with holes in the knees, and so on. I know this is probably not an intelligent person. Sure, it's important to dress so that your friends are comfortable with you. I put on a business suit when I'm going to a business meeting. I dress so that everyone else is comfortable with the way I look, knowing that people put a lot of stock in their first impressions.
5/16/09
Your Property Confiscated!
[An editorial reprint from 1995]
What would be your reaction if your state were to decide to take your house and property from you with no compensation and then agree to let you keep using it only if you paid rent? And if you have a business, they’d also take your building and land, still with no compensation, and let you keep using it only if you paid rent?
Think about it. Would that be enough to make you mad? Would it be enough to get you to want to actually do something to fight back?
Well, if you think about it, that’s exactly the situation if your state has a property tax. The fact is you don’t really own your property. If you fail to pay the rent (tax), the state will take it away from you and auction it off to pay your unpaid rent. The purchaser won’t actually own it either, just being the new renter.
5/14/09
Foreign Competition
[This is a reprint of one of my 1995 editorials]
The production line workers who are out parading around with signs bemoaning the moving of their jobs to Mexico and Asia are bewildered. After all, they’ve been doing the same job for 20 years and getting regular raises. Now, suddenly, with no warning, the factory has closed! No warning? Well, not to the illiterate. And I count anyone illiterate who does not read, whether they have acquired the skill or not.
So we’ve got millions of people who have been totally surprised to be out of work. Not having been aware of the changes coming they’ve made no effort to build skills more relevant to the changing technology. The electronics factories in Asia not only use lower wage workers, but they are higher skilled because their school systems make ours look like the third world. Plus their factories are automated far beyond most of ours. Over ten years ago Samsung in Korea was making 13” TV sets by the zillions, with the whole process so automated that there was less than 15 minutes of labor in each set! It’s no wonder all of the American TV manufacturers have been blown away.
The better educated and higher skilled work forces in other countries are gradually taking away our manufacturing industries. We’ve countered by moving our factories abroad, and replacing middle management with computers and better communications systems to cut overhead. Today we have more people working for the government than we do in manufacturing. Of course, if I could get any politicians to listen to my ideas, we could cut the government work force in half within three years, and have the people involved cooperating enthusiastically. So what work will you be doing in ten years? That’s 2005, and not very far away. Will you have the education and the skills you need to cope with the technology and transportation mix of 2005? Or will you be blindsided? Remember, the American standard of living has been gradually dropping over the last 20 years, and there’s no sign of any change of this trend.
5/14/09
AIDS, Amelia, and Cold Fusion
[This is a reprint of one of my 1999 editorials]
The AIDS cure I described in my February editorial hasn’t hit Time yet, but it is finally getting published in some medical journals, so the word is starting to get around.
I sent letters to my two senators and representatives in Washington, asking if they were interested in the AIDS cure. One answered, saying I should get in touch with the FDA if I had a problem. So I wrote to the head of the FDA and to the Health cabinet member. You guessed it, after a month no answer. I also wrote to the editors of Time, Newsweek, US News, Forbes, Fortune, and a few other magazines. No answer from any of them.
Is it that no one of importance reads their mail any more? I read mine, but then I probably don’t count as a person of importance, except in my own mind.
Now I see that TNT is going to broadcast a film on Amelia Earhart. Well, they haven’t contacted me, and as far as I know, I’m probably the only person alive who really knows the inside story of her last trip. Frankly, I’m disappointed in you. I’ve written about this and you haven’t passed the word. So I watched the recent TV program about Amelia blunder around, and ditto the author of the recent Earhart book. Tsk. Yes, she was a spy for the Navy, and I knew it before she made her trip.
I’ve been hoping to get some people in congress interested in the cold fusion developments. I’ve had every bit as much success in getting answers on that tack.
Things have been moving fast in the cold fusion department. The University of Siena, Italy recently demonstrated a nickel-hydrogen system which generated lots of power and kept on doing it for weeks after all input was removed. It didn’t stop by itself, they had to stop it. This is particularly interesting in that the reaction has been at relatively high temperatures (around 500°F), so it’s a more efficient system. The estimates I’ve seen are on the order of 300 kilowatts from three grams of nickel. The university has not been forthcoming on their system for initiating the reaction, but from the pictures my editor took it doesn’t look very complicated. This is obviously not a chemical reaction.
Cold fusion presents a wonderful opportunity for experimenters. First, it doesn’t cost a bundle to experiment in the field. Second, it doesn’t take a Ph.D. in chemistry or physics, or anything else, for that matter. This is a whole new field and there are no experts yet. You could be one, if you wanted. Third, all of the research in this field so far has been empirical, which means everyone involved is trying this and that, and seeing what works and what doesn’t.
Pons and Fleischmann got started with this because they’d run across an anomaly that seemed worth checking out when palladium and deuterium were put in a lithium bath. It was much the same with Hydrosonics in Georgia, which has been manufacturing steam heating systems that use a new approach to water compression to heat the water. Then their customers started remarking on how efficient their systems were, so they tested one and found it was more than 100% efficient. Hey, what’s going on here?
In what fields have you become an expert? For that matter, what have you done with your life that has contributed even a little bit to the advancement of our society? One of the things that really disappointed me when I started going to the reunions of my old submarine buddies from WWII was that few of them had ever done anything of any significance since our time on the submarine. Indeed, that was the most important thing many of them have ever done.
It just isn’t all that difficult to become an expert in some field. In almost any field. When the microcomputer came along in 1975 I decided I’d have to learn how these darned things work. I went out and bought a stack of books on computer theory and started reading. When I found them difficult to understand (they were terrible…college texts), that gave me the idea to start Byte. I knew there would be hundreds of thousands of people in the same fix as a result of this revolutionary development.
No one knows yet how cold fusion actually works, so anyone new to the field is starting out fresh. Actually, a newcomer has an advantage. One of the things that has hurt cold fusion has been the know-nothing scientists who, because they don’t have an explanation for what’s happening, have been refusing to believe it. Their position is that every one of the research labs that has claimed positive results has made serious errors. It can’t happen. It hasn’t happened. Everyone is mistaken. One scientist and one journalist have staked their reputations on this with books they’ve published.
Amateurs have a great advantage in that they aren’t limited by what they know, only by what they don’t know.
So the next time you start reading about digital voice, digital data compression, video compression, or a crypto algorithm, don’t blonk out your eyes like that stupid old orphan and her even older dog, put on your pioneer hat and head for the hills of learning. How’s that for some creative clichés? Blonk that metaphor!
5/13/09
Unforgettable
There are moments in our lives we never forget. Like when I went skydiving and the moment came and I took that step out of the plane’s door into space. Or the evening when I had dinner with King Hussein of Jordan and the queen in their summer palace.
So when Art Bell, on his Coast To Coast AM radio show, asked astronaut Edgar Mitchell what it was like when he walked on the Moon and Mitchell said he didn’t remember, an alarm went off for me. That’s not something he could possibly ever forget. But that was just one more piece of evidence to add to the 45 reasons for questioning our ever having gone to the Moon I list in my Moondoggle booklet.
When I look into conspiracy theories, more often than I’d like, I find the conspiracy nuts are actually on to something. Well, remembering Aldous Huxley’s words, fifty year ago, “We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known,” and considering that our public school system was designed to prevent children from learning to think, it makes sense.
We’re kept busy working, in a large part to support the government, and entertained the rest of the time. And if that doesn’t do the job, they’ve added fluoride to our water to help keep us docile.
Lordy, there are still some Americans who believe Arab terrorists did the 911 attack.
5/11/09
Memories
My iPod has some 1,500 musical selections in it, and some bring back memories when I put it on shuffle. Like Schumann’s Traumerei (Sweet Dreams) takes me back to assembly at PS-99 in Brooklyn. They had a weekly music appreciation sessions for the whole school, and this was where I heard Traumerei for the first time.
Today Von Weber’s Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra came up, reminding me of a wonderful weekend I spent when my fraternity brother Hubert Mattice invited me to come home with him for a weekend to Middlburg NY.
Hubert and his sister both played the clarinet and they played the Concertino for me. But the best part of the weekend was Saturday night when they took me square dancing. It was my first experience and it was fantastic! What fun! “The first two ladies cross over, and by the gentleman stand. The next two ladies cross over, and all join hands. Honor your corner lady. Now honor your partner all. Swing the corner lady, and promenade the hall.” Then a few bars later, “The other way back, you’re going wrong” Yep, I still remember some of the calls over sixty years later.
So, have you tried square dancing? Golly, it’s fun…and it’s easy to learn the calls.
5/10/09
Advantage
Health insurance costs have been rising faster than inflation and are a major expense for industry. Indeed. they are helping move more of what’s left of American manufacturing to Asia.
By the way, it isn’t health insurance, it’s sickness insurance. And it’s the sickness exploitation, not the healthcare, industry. And despite our spending about 16% of our GDP on it, we are one of the sickest, shortest-lived people of the developed countries.
Alas, with there being little money in health and trillions in sickness, getting the word out about how to be healthy isn’t easy.
Well, there is one group that can benefit from health, and that’s employers. If they can help their workers to stop making themselves sick the money they’ll save will go right to the bottom line. And that’ll help make American industries more competitive internationally, not forcing them to move operations to Mexico or Asia to stay profitable.
It means educating their workers about healthy lifestyles.
When I go to the VA hospital in Manchester for my checkups I’m not surprised to find coffee and boxes of glazed and iced doughnuts in the waiting room. And a snack room of vending machines offering not one healthy piece of food or drink. No surprise, they have many seriously overweight doctors and employees. And, of course, food like that for the customers is good for business.
If American industry would get busy educating their employees…something our schools have failed to do…they could cut their operating costs by about 15%.
Our schools? More and more of them have turned their cafeteria function over to fast food franchises.
What a difference in our country’s health we could see if children were taught in kindergarten and the first grade to thoroughly chew their food before swallowing it, and to eat as much of their food raw and organic as they can.
When I worked at Airborne Instrument Labs they came around at ten every morning with a coffee, doughnuts and Danish wagon. Their health insurance would have been cheaper if they’d brought around apples, bananas, plums, and grapes. But, who knew back then?
5/9/09
Old Age
The reason we don’t see very many healthy, active, old people is that there aren’t very many. We have bodies, scientists tell us, that would be good for about 150 years if we’d take proper care of them. And that means giving them the nutrition, pure water, sleep, exercise and sun they’ve been designed to need.
Still, our bodies have an amazing ability to keep going, even when both deprived of those necessities, plus asked to deal with daily barrages of poisons. Fortunately, when we stop the poisons and give our bodies the necessities, they are able to repair much, if not all, of the damage that we’ve done.
It’s something to consider the next time you are tempted to poison your body with cooked food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, or drugs. That’s like putting sugar cubes in your car’s gas tank.
5/8/09
Education
John Taylor Gatto, the prize-winning New York teacher, has been exposing the myth that there is any connection between public schools and education for several years. His latest book, Weapons of Mass Instruction,
If you haven’t read his earlier books, Dumbing Us Down, and The Underground History of American Education, here’s the review of the Underground book from my Secret Guide to Wisdom (page 43):
John is the former New York State and New York City Teacher of the Year winner who quit teaching because he “could no longer do that to children.” The subtitle is, “A school Teacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling.” This is an utterly fascinating book. My copy is heavily highlighted. John has done a superb job of researching the history of American schools. It explains why our school graduates are coming out of the system uneducated and ignorant, many barely able to read and unable to make change or use a map. And that’s no accident. It explains why we haven’t had any creative geniuses in decades, and why entrepreneurialism has been dying. In Switzerland, where only 23 percent of the students go on to high school, they have the world’s highest per capita income. I know that none of the courses I took in high school or college have ever been of any practical use to me in any of the businesses I been in, and I’ve been in a lot.
My Weapons book is just as heavily highlighted. John explains that our mandatory public school system is purposely designed to prevent children from learning to think, and to do what they are told. And this makes a more manageable citizenry. One that rushes to get a vaccination when the media alarms them about a new flu epidemic. And the most obedient are those who get the highest test scores in school. Have you ever tried to reason with a straight-A student about anything? Puppets. Sheep. Don’t waste your time.
So what are our government leaders doing? They’re pushing for more testing. And here I am, doing my best to promote the Sudbury Valley type school, where there are no tests and no grades. Where there is no curriculum and the kids learn what they want because they want. And where the graduates have actually learned to think.
As John puts it, “Think of school as a conditioning laboratory, drilling naturally unique, one-of-a-kind individuals to respond as a mass.” “Highly centralized mass production economies can’t function well without colonizing individual minds and converting them into a mass mind. The conversion works best if started early, in the lower grades of elementary school, in kindergarten and pre-kindergarten.”
Hmmm, my C grades in school may help explain why I’ve managed to learn to think, much to the frustration of the establishment.
5/7/09
The Hudson River
The PBS series on the Hudson River sure brought back some wonderful memories. Sigh. And Audrey.
For some reason, when my mother taught me how to swim, I ignored the Australian Crawl, which she was pushing, and immediately headed for the bottom of the pool, much preferring to swim around under water.
We moved from Washington DC to Brooklyn when I was 12, about a half hour from Coney Island by the el, which ran in back of our house. My mother looked up the head lifeguard at Coney and sort of apprenticed me to him for the summer. This meant my swimming behind his pontoon boat as he rowed the three mile length of the beach. Great exercise.
In high school the swimming team coach wanted me to be on the team, but I preferred managing and being on the fencing team. In college I met my first swim fins. Love at first sight. Wow, what speed I could make under water with those!
Then we had a war. You’ve probably read about it in the history books. My fascination with amateur radio ended with me spending the last two years of the war as an electronic technician on a submarine.
Why am I going into all this when I started out writing about the Hudson River? Cheesh, you’re impatient. It’s all relevant, so settle down…the sex part will come.
One rest and recuperation stop after two of our patrol runs was Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Gorgeous spot. Most of the crew played baseball, drank beer (or gilly), watched a movie at night, played poker, and took it easy in our Quonset huts. I grabbed a Momson Lung from the boat and headed for the lagoon to explore the reefs. The coral was fantastic. I was hooked.
After the war, as soon as scuba gear was invented I got a tank and a compressor and went diving. I also started making trips to the Caribbean to dive. On a visit to Bermuda I got to talking with a gorgeous British girl, Audrey, who was working at the hotel desk. She was also into diving, so we kept in touch.
When she moved to New York we started dating. I had a Chris-Craft 23-foot Express Cruiser (slept two), which was great for picnics, diving and water skiing around Jamaica Bay and out to Fire Island. Okay, here comes the Hudson.
Audrey and I took a weekend trip up the Hudson to Albany, so the PBS show brought back the memories of the castles, Storm King Mountain, West Point, and so on. It was a trip I don’t think either of us will ever forget. The weather was perfect and it was private enough so we shed our clothes for most of the trip, stopping now and then to drift along, enjoying each other. We anchored in a little private cove for the night.
Alas, Audrey and her roommate, a gal from Australia, soon got jobs in Acapulco. Yes, of course I went down there to visit her. I’ve got some great photos of scuba our diving together.
She then moved to Hollywood and I stopped hearing from her. Sigh.
Audrey was gorgeous, but not very bright, so I wasn’t interested in pursuing an extended relationship. Lust is great, but one has to be practical in the long run.
Anyway, now you understand why I enjoyed the PBS program on the Hudson River for the memories it brought back.
5/6/09
Change
It wasn’t all that long ago, historically, when doctors routinely bled patients or used leeches to rid them of evil humours. Dr. Semmelwise got his ass kicked and lost his license for recommending doctors wash their hands between patients. The AMA decreed that any doctor caught washing his hands before an operation would lose his license to practice.
Today we have a few pariah doctors who have proven that any illness can be reversed (cured) by changing to a raw food diet and stopping poisons such as refined sugar, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, mercury, vaccinations, drugs, fluorides, chlorine and so on.
As word leaks out that cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and so on are caused mainly by our cooked food diets, the demand will ramp up for remineralized non-GM organic food. Our 2050 food industry will look nothing like today. No more chemical fertilizers. No more factory-raised beef, chicken, or eggs. Very few packaged food products. No more pasteurized milk, or pasteurized anything else. No more multi-acre supermarkets. Tens of millions of family gardens.
We won’t need but a fraction of today’s 798,964 physicians and 164,721 dentists. And we will no longer be bleeding the economy of about $8,000 a year for every American man, woman, and child. And, with most people living in good health well over a hundred, we’ll have to rethink the retirement age and make some big adjustments in social security.
Imagine what America could be by 2050 if we got busy unbloating the government, ended our wars, cut our prison costs in half (or better), cut education cost at least 50% (while greatly improving education), and got rid of the illegal immigrants. Oh, and changed to cold fusion power at a hundredth the cost of oil or coal.
With a new generation of high IQ kids who have been taught to think and be creative, our arts would flourish, as would the research and development of new technologies. Unlike about a hundred years ago, we no longer believe that everything that can be invented has been invented.
Let’s make it happen.
5/5/09
Visionary
Here’s that nice piece Computerworld did about me:
http://www.cio.com/article/444065/Tech_Visionary_and_Byte_Magazine_Founder_Wayne_Green_on_Changing_the_World
5/4/09
Diabetes Cure
Go to www.rawfor30days.com for info on their Simply Raw DVD showing six people with diabetes who go on a 30 day raw food diet and, as a result, cure their diabetes. To avoid legal problems they call it “reversing.”
Well, I’ve been telling you for several years now that changing to a raw food diet can reverse (cure) any illness. Yes, I know, after eating cooked food all your life it’s a whopping change. Pfft go all the fast food places. And almost all restaurants…except those with better salad bars. You’re on your own!
As more and more people wise up that they can cure their cancer by a diet change instead of making the medical industry an average of $340,000 richer…and probably dying…we’ll be seeing more raw food restaurants opening and the others adding raw food meals to their menus.
It’s an interesting and exciting adventure. It’s fun! My fridge these days is full of containers of grapefruit, orange and grape slush, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, banana slices and raw milk. And those are just for breakfast. I make the fruit slushes by pealing the skin and putting the fruit part in a blender. With grapes I just wash the seedless ones and de-seed the seeded ones before blending.
With half of us eventually getting cancer, mainly as a result of our eating cooked food, the addiction to cooked food has to be pretty powerful to overcome those odds. And that’s just cancer. Dr. Comby hasn’t found any illness that a change to raw food won’t reverse.
5/3/09
Corn
Thousands of our foods are being sweetened with high fructose cord syrup. Bummer. You see, this stuff prevents leptin from reaching the brain to tell you you’re full…so you keep on eating and eating. The stuff is very addictive.
This may be a boon to the manufacturers and retailers, but it’s making you fat…and let me remind you, there are no old fat people. Oh, and that fat is ugly.
If that isn’t enough to stop you buying that crap, also consider that virtually all corn products these day are made from GM corn (genetically modified), and that research with mice and rats has shown this to cause some serious reproductive problems.
5/2/09
More 911
Having read a dozen books on 911, plus watched the Zeitgeist and Loose Change movies, all going into details of the attack which the major media and the 911 Commission refuse to acknowledge, I was not surprised when the Coast To Coast AM show had an expert on a few day ago with further substantiation that the three buildings were demolished professionally, and not by the two planes.
He examined dust from the building sites and found it contained thermite, which is used for building demolition. Further, he found tiny balls of steel, which result when steel is heated beyond it’s melting point and then shot out into the air so it quickly cools.
You see, a fire from airplane fuel burning is nowhere near hot enough to melt steel.
Well, I won’t go into the long list of reasons to suspect that 911 was an inside job. Gee, there’s no way that everyone that would have to have been involved could keep that big a secret. Yeah? It took almost 60 years before the real Pearl Harbor story finally was exposed. Read Day of Deceit by Stinnett and you’ll see why there were no American aircraft carriers near Hawaii that day, only old, no longer needed battleships.
Having broken the Japanese codes, Roosevelt knew exactly when and where the attack would happen, and from which Japanese aircraft carriers.
5/1/09
Michael J. Fox
Isn’t anyone going to get through to Mike and wise him up about changing to raw food so he can cure his Parkinson’s?
What an impact it might make on our silent (on this subject) media if their poster boy for Parkinson’s were to suddenly cure himself!
Sure, having been fed cooked food almost from birth, we all get addicted to it. But some of us are able to overcome addictions better than others. So, you don’t have to quit cold turkey. Actually, if the turkey is raw you want it to be cold.
Heck, spend $12 on Victoria Boutenko’s 12 Steps to Raw Foods. It’s subtitled, How to End Your Addiction to Cooked Food.
Once you’ve changed to eating organic raw food your immune system will be able to get busy cleaning and repairing every part of your body. Bacteria, viruses, and parasites will no longer be able to invade you since there will no longer be toxins for them to feed on. Even mosquitoes will stop biting you.
4/30/09
Swine Flu II
The day and night super-coverage of a flu that looks like it could wipe out Mexico, solving our illegal immigration problem, has been a plus for me. The orders for my silver colloid-making kit have suddenly been pouring in as people who know better than to ever let anyone near them with a hypodermic needle, want to make the best antibiotic ever discovered for about a penny a gallon.
I doubt that pig, bird, or even the 1819 flu can surmount a few teaspoons of silver colloid. I’m exaggerating? You haven’t done your homework. Tsk.
Of course a raw food diet would allow your immune system to quickly dispatch any attacking flu virus, making the silver unnecessary. But you know that, it’s just that you are so totally addicted to cooked food that you have no problem sacrificing half of your potential life to maintain your addiction. Oh, and being fat. The same as smokers, even when they know what’s in store for them, are unable to stop smoking.
There are very few old smokers, and no old fat people.
4/27/09
Stupid
For some reason, probably programming left over from a previous life, I’ve always been immune to peer pressure. So when my friends started smoking I tried it and said phooey. Those jerks got addicted and stopped coming to reunions as they died off. And that was before the truth came out as to how deadly smoking is.
Today the only explanation I can see for teens wandering around smoking is stupidity. The idea of exposing oneself to one of the most addictive habits there is, one which will not only shorten your life considerably, but make your last years a living hell…is incredibly stupid.
But then, in their defense, they are all ex-convicts of our government-run (socialist) public school system, which has been purposely designed to stop kids from learning to think. They’re taught to memorize trivia for tests and
enjoy themselves. Be entertained. Play baseball, football, basketball, soccer, and so on. Watch six hours of TV a day. See how much beer they can drink before throwing up. And get laid as often as they can. The only books they’re reading are comic books.
Please let me know when you think it’s time to change our educational system.
4/26/09
Short Memory
On the April 19th 60 Minutes show they did a report on the newest confirmation of cold fusion as a non-polluting energy source that looks like it’ll cost about a hundredth as much as oil. Once this gets going it’ll end our need for oil, coal, natural gas, and even nuclear power. Well, I’ve been writing about that for fifteen years.
On tonight’s show there was a report on coal, where the aim was to reduce the CO2 emissions from coal-fired power generating plants. No mention of cold fusion. D’uh? Apparently the 60 Minutes teams don’t talk with each other.
4/25/09
Swine Flu
Oh, my God! Panic! Let’s make vaccinations mandatory! Oh, and don’t forget the thimerosal preservative so everyone will get their dose of mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde. Hello Alzheimer’s.
On the plus side of this new flu, this sure looks like a good time to invest in the vaccine-maker’s stocks. They’ll reap billions...maybe trillions...from the ensuing panic.
You know, even in history’s worst plagues there were always some people who didn’t get sick at all, and others who got a little sick and quickly recovered. It’s called the immune system. If you keep it strong you’ll be immune not only to swine flu, but to cancer, and so on. A strong immune system will protect you from any germ, virus, parasite or fungus attack.
If you’re still eating the Standard American Diet (SAD) you’re a sitting duck. Your immune system is a basket case. It’s no wonder half of Americans are getting cancer…they’ve put their built-in protection against it out of commission. It’s almost something to think of the next time you order a burger or some pizza.
4/24/09
Eeeyuk!
Though I’ve written about eating raw liver several times, I’m betting you’ve never had the guts to try it. Not one single taste.
The universal reaction is a yuk, I could never eat thaaat. Wow, talk about being conditioned! Dunno why I’m so different, but anything I see other people eating I’ll try. So I’ve eaten stuff like sea slugs, grasshoppers, worms, rattlesnakes, turtle steaks, fried baby birds, horse meat, blowfish, and snails. I liked ’em all.
I get my liver from local farms, so I know it’s organic. I cut it into chunks, chop ’em in my Cuisinart, reducing the liver to a thick liquid, add some sea salt and cracked pepper and...yum! I eat it with a spoon and I love it. You’ll like it too, if you can work up the courage to try it.
4/23/09
1960
That was quite a year for me. Like most years, it started in January, but this time, on the fifth anniversary of my being hired to edit CQ magazine, I got fired. Well, I’d been seriously considering quitting anyway.
When I took the job in January 1955 it was with an agreement with the publisher, Sandy Cowan, that my $10,000 salary would be boosted once I got the magazine into the black. Well, by September 1955, eight months later, I had the magazine making money. In the black. No promised raise. But I was having too much fun to quit.
So, instead of a raise, I asked for a half page ad to sell books to the readers as Radio Bookshop. No problem. This mail order book business started slow, but picked up steam, bringing in hundreds of book orders every month, and with books there’s a 40% profit. It paid for a trip to Europe for my folks and helped me be able to buy a Chris-Craft Express Cruiser, a Tecraft airplane on floats, an Arab horse, and a Porsche Speedster.
The magazine was doing well enough so Cowan was able to buy a good-sized yacht, with Cowan Publishing paying for it. And I started getting complaints from my authors that they weren’t getting paid. The company bookkeeper said the yacht had drained the money. I said I had to pay the authors or we wouldn’t get articles and columns. So he said if I paid them myself I’d get reimbursed.
By the time I’d shelled out over $10,000 to the authors, a year’s pay, Cowan fired me, promising to make good on the $10,000. Of course I never saw a dollar of that.
So I sold my airplane, Chris-Craft, and one of my two Porsches, and had just enough money to publish the first issue of 73 Magazine. What a gamble! It was immediately in the black!
As president of the Porsche Club I was also busy organizing car rallies and speakers for the monthly meetings, and that was the year I founded American Mensa, the high IQ society.
Busy year.
4/22/09
Grapes
They’re good! They taste good. They’re raw, so they’re healthy. And, if you shop the marked down shelves of your supermarket, the way I do, they can be quite a bargain. Like the bunch I bought yesterday, regularly $1.59 a pound, marked down to 25¢ a pound. I bought about seven pounds…all they had.
Now, here’s my secret for making them taste even better and be even healthier to eat. I wash ’em off carefully, put ’em in my blender, and blend the hell out of them at it’s highest speed for a couple of minutes…as I mentioned in my 4/10/09 entry.
You see, in order to give our body the best opportunity to take advantage of healthy food we must first chew it until it is liquid before swallowing it. With grapes, it’s easy to chew the soft part, but we just don’t bother thoroughly chewing the skin. We usually chew it enough to swallow it, and that’s that. Not good. The skin has some of the best stuff for our health.
When you blend your grapes you’ll get two major benefits. First, you’ll be surprised at how much more flavor you get when you eat the grape slush. The skin adds a lot to the flavor. Secondly, it’s a lot easier to chew until it’s liquid when it’s already a liquid. And your digestive system benefits from the now easily available fiber.
One more benefit…freezing the grape slush for storage doesn’t harm it.
4/21/09
Your Legacy
Though you may accomplish all kinds of wonderful things during your life, the most important legacy you’ll leave is your children. So, does it make sense for you to do everything you can to give your kids the best possible start toward being healthy and smart?
That’s your child winning the spelling bee, up there on the school stage singing a solo, getting stories published in the school magazine, with the lead part in a school play, running his or her popular web site, running a small business.
The world is in serious need of geniuses…Einsteins, Beethovens, DaVincis. Fortunately, there’s been enough research into the subject for someone…someone like me…to put it all together and provide a genius-making instruction book.
There’s no one thing you can do that’s going to produce a genius, but by the time you do the things, each of which has been shown to add to a baby’s IQ, we’re talking about an IQ raise of around 50 points over the average. And a 150 IQ qualifies a child as a genius.
Getting Started
Let’s divide this into three parts, pre-conception, during pregnancy, and post birth.
The genius process has to start well before conception with two healthy and loving parents. The use of toxic drugs such as caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, medications, vaccinations, or anything illegal by the parents can change the sperm or ovum DNA, introducing potential birth defects and slowing the baby’s brain development. Pfft goes your potential genius before you even get started. Yes, I said caffeine.
Once little Icky has gotten started, dad can go on and poison his body with addictive junk, like almost everyone else is doing. Hello Starbucks and Dunkin Doughnuts. That’s unless he and mom plan to start a second genius next year. Or dad gives a damn about his health. Or the lousy role model the kid will have for a father.
Mom is going to stick to a healthy diet, and she’s best supported by dad doing the same. She’s eating for two now, so the healthier her diet, the better off the baby will be. That means no poisons such as refined sugar, white flour products, non-organic food, and mainly a raw food diet. She’s going to need a supplement to make up for the lack of minerals in today’s farm products…at least until remineralizing farm lands with rock dust catches on. The supplement I like best is The Sun Is Shining from www.rawfood.com (800-205-2350). I take a heaping teaspoon every afternoon in a half cup of raw (unpasteurized) apple juice. We’re aiming for a genius, so let’s do it right.
Another sneaky, and very serious poison, is mercury. If either parent has amalgam fillings, they are putting mercury into their system with every bite of food or hot drink. And, it’s cumulative and proven to cause birth defects.
If either of you have any amalgam fillings, find a dentist experienced in replacing them, and stop the mercury assault on your body at least a year before the baby’s conception.
The other source of mercury is thimerosal, which is still used in many innoculations. This stuff is made up of mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde, none of which do you want in your body or screwing up your baby via your sperm or ovum.
Pregnancy
Rule number one for all living things is: survival. We humans have a built-in survival system which can be very helpful, and also cause all sorts of problems. Whenever something traumatic happens, we have an automatic system which records everything we’re hearing, seeing, and feeling at the time, equating these to pain, and thus to be avoided in the future. Once we touch a hot stove and burn ourselves we won’t have to consciously think about it to avoid hot stoves. It’s become automatic.
This has it’s benefits, and it’s drawbacks. L. Ron. Hubbard, in his 1950 book Dianetics, calls these engrams, and his book explains how to get rid of them when they’re causing trouble.
I read the book when it came out and shared it with Joe, a fellow announcer at WSPB in Sarasota (FL). Joe had a problem. Every time he was going to make an announcement he had to hit the “cough” switch by his microphone and give a little cough. So, using the book’s instructions, under a light hypnosis I asked him to go back to the first time he had to cough. I asked him how old he was. “Seven.” I asked if that was years, “No.” Okay, was it months? “Yes.”
From the things his mother was saying, and were recorded by little Joe as equal to pain, I found that when his mother was seven months pregnant she had had a bad cough, and every time she coughed it was painful to the baby. And she often explained, “Every time I get nervous I cough.”
Using the book’s instructions I erased the engram and Joe never had to cough again before making an announcement.
When Joe’s mother came to visit a few weeks later I asked her about the incident. Did she remember having a cough during her pregnancy? She did. From what little Joe had recorded I asked if she and her husband had been living in the back of a factory at the time, and did she go next door and live with the family there to get over her cough? Joe’s mother was totally nonplussed. This had not, to her memory ever been mentioned after Joe was born. She’d forgotten the name of the family, so I asked if it was the McAllen’s? It was.
This was powerful stuff and I wanted to learn more, so I quit my job, drove to Elizabeth (NJ) and took a six-week course in Dianetics at the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, under the direction of Hubbard himself. Well, that’s another story, but what you need to know, as a pregnant mother, is to shut the hell up whenever little Icky may have been hurt…by a cough, loud sounds, a fall, an accidental jab, and so on. Because Icky is going to faithfully record what’s going on, like a little tape recorder.
This is also why you should make sure during birth, which is a painful experience for the baby, that no one talk and the sounds be kept to a minimum. Keep it quiet.
There’s a lot more you can do to help your baby’s brain to develop during pregnancy…like playing classical music and reading to the your baby. Be sure to read The Prenatal Classroom (see page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom).
I’ll have a lot more on this…like breast feeding or a couple of years, teaching your baby a number of languages, and so on.
Encourage
When I was seven my folks had me stay with our cleaning lady for a weekend while they were away. She had a piano and when I showed some interest she showed me how to play chop sticks. In short order I was banging away with both hands, having a ball.
When my folks got back I told them how much fun I had and that I wanted to take piano lessons. My mother was supportive, but dad was furious. “No goddam way, I’m not going to have to sit and listen to him practicing his goddam piano lessons.”
It’s one thing to be a pushy parent and another to be supportive. When your child shows an interest in something, be encouraging. Let ’em take piano, guitar, or clarinet lessons. Or maybe they get interested in painting, so get them a paint set.
When I was twelve some friends of my folks were getting rid of their piano and offered it to me. Dad said, well, okay, as long as it’s upstairs in your room where I can’t hear it.
When the movers arrived with it, they had to take it all apart to try and get it up the stairs. But even the harp section wouldn’t make it, and it was also too large to fit through my bedroom window, so dad paid them to take it to the dump. Sigh. A few weeks later he left on a business trip and was gone for almost a year. He was working with American Export steamship lines, setting up the first trans-Atlantic airline using flying boats. So he was busy establishing seaplane bases in Belem, Brazil, Dakar, Senegal, Botwood, Newfoundland, Genoa, Beiruit, and Alexandria.
Pfft went a possible concert pianist or composer career.
4/20/09
Fair Enough
What a time I had last Saturday! It’s spring and the little fairs and expos are in high season.
I left the farm at 6:30 AM and drove to Manchester for the Antique Radio show, which started at 7:30. Then up to Concord at 9:00 for the Healthy Living Expo, where there were dozens of tables under tents, complete with samples of cheese, pizza, hot dogs, all sorts of candy, chips and dips, and even ice cream. It’ll take me quite a while to read the shopping bag full of interesting brochures I picked up.
From there I drove to Peterborough for the Greenerborough Festival, stopping off at Sunnyfield Farm to pick up my weekly gallon of raw milk and some lamb liver. Sunnyfield had an interesting demo at the fair of a sheep dog handling a group of sheep, and separating one on command, while still controlling the others. I filled another bag with the brochures from the forty exhibiting local eco-businesses…and said hello to quite a few old friends.
It was a fun morning. I know we have a lot doing here in New Hampshire, but these fairs and expos open me to all kinds of things I hadn’t known were going on.
4/19/09
Cold Fusion II
The 60 Minutes piece tonight may help pry the lid off the subject...though the producer played it safe by giving time to a skeptic.
Einstein opened the door with his E=MC2 equation, which showed that matter and energy are related…and that a tiny bit of matter was equal to an enormous amount of energy…like heat…since C is such a huge number (the speed of light).
McCubre’s demo used palladium and deuterium, but others have succeeded with nickel and water. No mention was made of the deuterium and palladium changing into silver, with a tiny bit of matter lost in the transition, which is where all the heat comes from. Good grief, that’s alchemy! See my 7/16/08 post for the details on how cold fusion works.
The show did mention that MIT tested cold fusion and reported it a failure. There was, of course, no mention that MIT fudged the test results to hide the excess energy developed to protect the money they were getting from the government for hot fusion research.
I still have a few copies of the rare premiere issue of Cold Fusion, which is dated May 1994, exactly fifteen years ago. It’s 100 pages have articles by Arthur C. Clarke and Nobel Prize winner Julian Schwinger and a bunch of other experts. Send me a ten dollar bill and I’ll mail a copy anywhere in the U.S…as long as they last.
The show mentioned that Dr. Fleischmann has diabetes and Parkinson’s. Please see if you can find an address so I can send him a copy of my Secret Guide to Health, which will help him solve those problems and stop his heading toward death.
Coincidentally, a DVD, “Simply Raw...Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days” came yesterday. Well, they’re not allowed to say they “cured” diabetes, so they say “reversed.” A group of diabetics went on a raw food diet together with Dr. Cousens for a month. They not only cured their diabetes, they got off all their meds, the fatties lost around 30 pounds, and everyone was happier and feeling great. See www.rawfor30days.com.
No mention was made of Dr. Pons, the other original discovered of cold fusion, so I guess he died.
Once the technology is R&D’d into marketable products, the world will start getting rid of oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear-powered systems. It’ll take a while, but there will be trillions of dollars made. This will also put solar and wind-powered systems out of business.
4/18/09
Antique Radio Show
Well, I had to go to Manchester for that one. Sure enough, there were a bunch of old radios. I saw very little ham equipment. One SX-100, without a cabinet. A bunch of tubes for $1 each.
I thought old issues of QST and CQ were of value to collectors. Nope. There were boxes of them, three years worth per box, with a price of one dollar a box. Sigh, that’s under 3¢ a magazine. So much for all those back issues I’ve been saving. One nice thing....there were no back issues of 73 being sold or given away.
4/13/09
Declare War
A chap called the other day, saying how much he enjoyed my 1992 book, Declare War!, and I should make it available again. Just what I need, another project. Well, it’s full of good ideas that are still valuable, so I’ll get busy and upgrade it for a second edition.
Anyway, here’s an explanation of what happened.
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The background
In the summer of 1991 a call came from Brian Grip, Governor Gregg’s assistant, saying the governor would appreciate it if I'd be willing to serve on a just-being-formed Economic Development Commission. He explained that since New Hampshire had been hit the worst of all fifty states by the 1990 recession they were asking best business brains they could find to help the governor and the legislature plan what should be done, both short and long range.
Though flattered to be considered one of the state’s best business brains, I warned Brian that if I was appointed to the Commission that I would take the job seriously and might turn out to be a royal pain. He said that was exactly why Governor Gregg wanted me.
My prediction was prescient. After a couple of meetings, when I saw the Commission being forced by Vice-Chairman Ed Dupont to abandon its primary purpose of helping the state get out of the recession, I started writing reports to the Commission members to get around my (and most other member’s) inability to be heard at the meetings.
I probably should explain that the governor was the Chairman of the Commission, but he never once attended a meeting, so they were run by Vice-Chairman Ed Dupont, the Senate President.
I was disappointed, but not surprised, when the material I'd covered in my reports came up for discussion, and Vice-Chairman Dupont gave no indication of being aware of it. When I asked him how come, he said he'd been, “too busy to read my reports.” Was it that he had no real interest in a job for which he’d accepted responsibility, or was some other agenda at work? I knew no one else was writing anything.
Meanwhile, several Commission members said they found my reports insightful and my proposals practical. They were perplexed at Ed’s refusal to even acknowledge my reports. My frustration over this situation and the seeming lack of Commission progress, resulted in my deciding to put eight months of my reports together and publish them as a book. I thought the public and the media should know that there were some simple ways for New Hampshire to quickly generate the needed jobs. I wanted them to know there really were some practical and inexpensive approaches to the problems caused by welfare, drugs, crime, overcrowded courts, high prison costs, our lobby-dominated Congress, the deficit, unbelievable bureaucratic waste, our destructive and ridiculously expensive school system, the high cost of health care, and so on. I saw no hint that any of the presidential candidates had a clue on solving our national problems.
Oh, I knew the vested interests would fight hard to keep things from changing, no matter how bad they were. With more government than manufacturing employees in America, how could even the most practical plan for reducing government be put in place? We have the foxes guarding the hen house at every turn, and the losers are the suckers who are paying the bills…the rest of us.
I hoped that once people understood how desperate the situation was, and that there really were practical and inexpensive solutions to our problems, that this might arouse enough of them from the narcotic of mindless TV sitcoms, ball games, and red-herring-chasing journalists, to start turning things around. And since the outlook for New Hampshire was bleak compared to most other states unless major changes were made, I was hoping the seeds of revolt could take root here. We needed to tackle this with the passion of a war. The situation we were in was revolting, so I was calling for revolt…revolt on a town level to generate jobs…revolt on a state level to start cleaning up the mess we'd silently, but disgustingly, been living with.
The first eight months of my reports were published under the title, "We the People Hereby Declare War on Our Lousy Government."
Since publishing those reports I continued to read, talk with people, read a lot more, and even, on rare occasions, tried to think. I added another six-foot bookshelf of books to my library, just looking for better answers to the problems besetting New Hampshire and America. If you have the patience to read what I’ve learned, I think you’ll like my perspective and may even become enthusiastic about some of my proposals.
I must admit that I tested many of my ideas on my 73 Amateur Radio Today readers before including them in my Commission reports. My 73 editorials have always been about many things other than amateur radio. As far as I know, I write longer editorials than any other magazine editor…and have been doing this since 1951, when I started my first publication. It seemed like a good idea to run my proposals by an audience of 100,000 high-tech oriented and above-average intelligence people, checking for possible weaknesses before proposing that New Hampshire adopt them.
What will follow are reports to the Commission subsequent to those in my book. They document my frustration with the proposed (but never submitted) "Final Report" from the Commission to the General Court (the governor and legislature)…plus there are quite a few new ideas on solving our problems which have evolved since the book was published in 1992.
I think you’ll find most of the material I discovered in New Hampshire and the resulting proposals for change I’ve suggested will translate to your state just as well, so I haven’t gone back and changed my references to my state.
One note: while I was born in Littleton NH, and have lived in the Peterborough NH area since 1962, I’ve also lived in Brooklyn NY, Philadelphia, Pennsauken NJ, Washington DC, Hampton VA, Southern Pines NC, Dallas, San Francisco, Sarasota FL, and Cleveland, plus I’ve visited most of the other states.
What will follow as I get time are updates to the book. In view of the bad taste militia groups have left, my “Declare War” title, while accurate, may be more palatable as 20-20 Foresight. I point out what I see in the future and what we can do to change it…or take advantage of it. My seer score is pretty good, having helped the world to have cellular telephones, personal computers and compact discs with my publications.
4/12/09
Jokes
In amongst the daily email telling me I’ve won lotteries, or that someone with my name has died in Nigeria, leaving millions, I get a few jokes to brighten my day…mostly from my old ham friend and repeater pioneer, Art Housholder.
Anyway, here are a few samples……
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Subject: Fw: Lie Detector
Roger was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmick. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change.
One day Roger came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It was a robot that Roger claimed was actually a lie detector.
It was about 5:30 that afternoon when Tommy, their 11 year old son, returned home from school. Tommy was over 2 hours late.
"Where have you been? Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?" asked Roger.
"Several of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project," said Tommy. The robot then walked around the table and slapped Tommy, knocking him completely out of his chair.
"Son," said Roger, "this robot is a lie detector, now tell us where you really were after school."
"We went to Bobby's house and watched a movie." said Tommy.
"What did you watch?" asked Marsha.
"The Ten Commandments." answered Tommy.
The robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him, knocking him off his chair once more.
With his lip quivering, Tommy got up, sat down and said, "I am sorry I lied. We really watched a tape called Sex Queen."
"I am ashamed of you son," said Roger. "When I was your age, I never lied to my parents."
The robot then walked around to Roger and delivered a whack that nearly knocked him out of his chair.
Marsha doubled over in laughter, almost in tears and said, "Boy, did you ever ask for that one! You can't be too mad with Tommy. After all, he is your son!"
With that the robot immediately walked around to Marsha and knocked her out of her chair.
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A biker is riding by the zoo, when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside, under the eyes of her screaming parents .
The biker jumps off his bike, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch Whimpering from the pain, the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified Parents, who thank him endlessly .
A New York Times reporter has watched the whole event. The reporter addressing the biker says, "Sir, that was the most gallant and brave thing I seen a man do in my whole life."
The biker replies, "Why, it was nothing really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger and acted as I felt right."
The reporter says, "Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a Journalist from The New York Times , you know, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page. So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?"
The biker replied, "I'm a United States Marine and a Republican."
The journalist leaves. The following morning, the biker buys a copy of The New York Times to see if it indeed reports news of his actions, and reads, on front page: U. S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH.
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A couple was invited to a Halloween party by a family friend, in which everyone was required to wear a mask. The wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone, and to make sure to say hello to her family. He protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed and there was no need for his good time to be spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went.
The wife, after sleeping for about an hour, woke without pain and as it was still early, decided to go to the party. Since her husband didn't know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching him to see how he acted when she was not with him.
So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, on the dance floor, dancing with every nice "chick" he could and copping a little feel here and a little kiss there. His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself, he devoted his time to her. She let him go as far as he wished, naturally, since he was her husband.
After more drinks he finally whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they went to one of the cars and made passionate love in the back seat. Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped away and went home, put her costume away and got into bed, wondering what kind of explanation he would make for his behavior.
She was sitting up reading when he came in, so she asked what kind of time he had. "Oh, the same old thing. You know I never have a good time when you're not there.
"Then she asked, "Did you dance much?"
He replied, "I'll tell you, I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete, Bill Brown and some other guys, so we went into the spare room and played poker all evening.
"You must have looked really silly wearing that costume playing poker all night!" she said with unashamed sarcasm.
"Actually, I gave my costume to your brother, apparently he had the time of his life.”
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Air Force One arrives at Heathrow Airport and President Obama strides to a warm and dignified reception from the Queen. They are driven in a 1934 Bentley to the edge of central London the matter another thought, .uU where they change to a magnificent 17th century carriage hitched to six white horses. They continue on towards Buckingham Palace waving to the thousands of cheering Britons; all is going well.
Suddenly the right rear horse lets fly with the most horrendous earth shattering fart. The smell is awful The fart shakes the coach, but the two dignitaries of State do their best to ignore the incident.
The Queen turns to President Obama, "Mr. President please accept my regrets...I am sure you understand there are some things that even a Queen cannot control."
President Obama, trying to be "Presidential," replied: "Your Majesty, do not give the matter another thought, until you mentioned it, I thought it was one of the horses."
4/11/09
Façade
The more I look into things, the more I discover what a fake world I’m living in. A fake world that almost everyone else believes is real and classes me as a nut case for even suspecting otherwise.
People believe in the religion they’ve been taught…in many cases so totally they are willing to die for it. I see religion as both the biggest con job in the world, but also one of the biggest industries.
Americans believe they can eat the food the government, their parents, the media, the sickness and food industries assure us are okay to eat. Yeah, but if you peek under the rock you’ll find we’re cutting our potential lives in half with out diets, but heck, the world is overpopulated anyway. So let’s not upset the multi-trillion dollar health care and commercial food industries that are depending on our ignorance.
Americans believe in our government-run compulsory public school system, even though our kids are about at the bottom in education compared to the rest of the developed countries. And the four and a half hours the average American watches TV every day from then on doesn’t seem to be adding much to their education once out of school.
We believe in our dollar, so shut the hell up about how the Federal Reserve Banks got started, how they’ve inflated our money, and the international bankers who own them.
How about our two wars? Why was it we started those? How are they going?
We are annoyed about gas prices, but not enough to look behind the door hiding cold fusion, which would give us unlimited non-polluting energy at about a hundredth the cost of oil, coal and natural gas. But that would not only put the oil giants (and Arabs) out of business, but also a zillion gas stations and the need for 157,810 miles of power lines and the 5,000 power stations feeding them electricity. Gee, no more nuclear waste from the nuclear power stations.
We’ve turned a blind eye as the government has quietly tripled in size in the last few years, driving up our taxes and saddling us with more armies of bureaucrats.
And how about our military budget, which is more than that of the next twenty countries combined? Do we really need troops in 144 countries? And acres upon acres of mothballed airplanes and ships? Let’s just not think about all that. Let’s see, what time are Oprah, The View and Dr. Oz on this afternoon? Oh, and that ball game tonight!
4/10/09
Guilty Pleasures
While my diet is mostly raw food these days, I do sneak in some poisons. Like the quarter of an onion bialy I have with my grape slush for breakfast.
Grape slush? When the local supermarkets put marked-down grapes on the discount shelves I buy ’em, wash ’em, and put ’em in my blender. In that way I’m able to get the fiber from the skins without having to spend so much time chewing. It’s a lot easier to eat grapes with a spoon. The grapes with seeds are more difficult since I have to do a cesarean on each to remove the babies before blending.
I slice the bialys in half and then toast both sides of the halves over the open flame of my little butane stove, gently charcoaling both sides. Next, on goes the Irish organic butter and then I cut the half bialy in half again, giving me four pieces of toasted bialy…good for four breakfasts.
So, I start off with a several tablespoons of grapefruit slush, then my quarter toasted bialy, which I cut into six bite-sized pieces, and several tablespoons of grape slush. The next course is a bowl with about a half cup of berries…blueberries, strawberries, or raspberries…and some slices of banana. I pour on about a half cup of raw milk and have at it.
One more guilty pleasure is about a dozen of the little Barbara’s Bakery Cinnamon Puffins (www.BarbarasBakery.com), which I’ve only found at Trader Joe’s. The ingredient list looks very healthy…but, they are cooked. I alternate the little puffs with my berries and banana slices in the raw milk.
4/9/09
Jordan
Back in 1970 a couple of ham radio friends called with the news that King Hussein of Jordan was on our 20 meter band. So I sent him a cable asking if he’d like some help in learning to use his equipment.
I got a cable right back saying sure, come on over. So I hopped on a plane and the next afternoon I was landing in Amman. The chap next to me at the window seat got excited, explaining that the King was here to meet the plane.
Wow!
But it turned out he was there to meet his daughter, who was on my flight. But he did have Hisham Ansari and another chap there to met me and drive me downtown to a hotel. Later they drove me to the summer palace on the outskirts of Amman, where I got to meet His Majesty, the Queen, and his children
I spent the next two weeks at the summer palace giving hams all around the world a short contact with Jordan, which was a new country for them. And His Majesty stayed up all night with me a few times, having a great time talking briefly with hundreds of hams.
Before leaving, I explained to His Majesty that at the time they weren’t teaching anything about electricity in the schools, so they had to bring in people from Switzerland and Germany at $200 or so a day to do simple things like install telephones. If he’d put ham radio clubs in his schools and youth clubs, kids would have a ball learning about electricity and radio. Just have a teacher go around to the clubs and help them learn.
He like the idea and assembled his government and military leaders so I could explain what I was proposing. It didn’t hurt that His Majesty added, “And it shall be so.”
I flew back home and quickly put together a set of rules and regulations for Jordan. I then asked the readers of my ham magazine to send me their unused ham equipment to send to Jordan for the kids.
A few days after I got back I got a call from the CIA. They wanted a list of what ham equipment they should send to Jordan for the King’s radio clubs.
The U.S. hams sent me loads of equipment, which I forwarded to the Jordanian Embassy in Washington to be sent to Jordan. I also got all of the books I could and sent them, too.
Cut to three years later when I was swapping pictures with a ham in Athens and His Majesty broke in. He was coming to the U.S. and would like to see me in Washington. I met him at Blair House, where he handed me an envelope with two first class tickets for me and my wife to come to Jordan, saying,, “I want you to see what you’ve done.”
I’d been pushing the use of ham repeaters atop mountains and high buildings to extend the range of our hand-transceivers (HTs) and mobile stations, so I packed a repeater and a suitcase full of HTs, and was off to Jordan.
With the help of Hisham Ansari, who had been the teacher for the radio clubs, we set up the repeater on a hill across from the downtown palace and gave HTs to His Majesty and a few other key people who now had their ham licenses.
I was driven by Hisham from Irbid in the north of Jordan to Aqaba in the very south, visiting and speaking to radio clubs in every city. I met and talked with over 425 Jordanian youngsters who were now licensed. I also was shown the ruins at Jarash, visited the “lost city” of Petra, and got to go scuba diving in the Red Sea with the Admiral of the Jordanian Navy.
Ten years later, on a trip around the world, I stopped off in Jordan again. His Majesty’s brother, Prince Raad, gathered together a room full of Royal Amateur Radio Society members and introduced me as the man who had done more for Jordan than anyone other than the king.
Well, Jordan was now far ahead of all the other Arab countries in technology. And I was treated to another visit to the lost city of Petra…one of the seven wonders of the world.
4/8/09
Say Baa-a
It is no accident that so much of the American public act much like sheep. If you’ll read the history they don’t teach in school…not that they teach much history of anything in school…you learn that our mandatory public school system was enacted by congress in the early 1800s, under considerable pressure from the religious leaders.
Their goal was to have our school system turn out more parishioners for them who would not ask questions. So they opted for the Prussian school system, which was famous for producing soldiers who would obey orders without question. The system was simple, by forcing children to memorize text book material for tests, it discouraged their developing the ability to learn to think. Don’t think…memorize. Cram for tests.
Soon after this system was established in America the industrial revolution came along, with its demand for millions of factory workers, where the ability to think or be creative was a nuisance, so our factory owners found the compulsory school system just what they needed.
And this memorization-test system is still in use today, from grade schools to high schools and right on through college curriculums. Is it any wonder that so few of our top successful entrepreneurs have college degrees? Or that creativity in American literature and music almost disappeared by the early 1900s?
Colleges today prepare their students to work for large corporations, where thinking and creativity are anathema. It helps explain why General Motors and our other American car companies are dying. They’re managed by college graduates, not entrepreneurs. Oh, and the same holds for our military
When Admiral Rickover came along, pushing for nuclear-powered ships and submarines, he was bitterly fought by the Naval establishment. Well, he believed that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line, even if it bisected two admirals. He made admiral only because President Roosevelt gave him the rank.
And, before that, there was captain Billy Mitchell, who believed that the Army Airforce could sink battleships. He was court-marshaled. My dad served under him at Langley Field in Virginia, when I was two years old.
Babies are learning machines, right from birth. They’re into everything. So, for our convenience, we imprison them in a playpen. I suspect the “pen” part has to do with penitentiary. And, unless blocked by our government-run public school system, will continue to learn about everything that interests them.
Congress loves the system they’ve established, which guarantees them a 95% vote for their reelection.
But, just to make sure with some over-kill, they’re adding fluoride to our drinking water. Well, it did such a good job of making cattle and German war prisoners docile, it was a natural to force on the public.
Say baaa.
4/7/09
Sawhorses
With the sound of chain saws buzzing from one end of New Hampshire to the other as road crews are busy cleaning up the mess the ice storm created last winter, I remembered back to my grandfather’s day at his summer vacation cottage up in Bethlehem, where I spent many of my childhood vacations.
The house was heated mainly by the kitchen wood stove, with some help from the living room fireplace at night. My grandfather (Pop) harvested wood from the nearby forest, cut it into stove-size lengths with a hand saw and a sawhorse. The larger pieces he cut up with an ax. It took weeks of work to cut, chop, and stack the wood in the woodshed, just off the kitchen to have enough just for the summer.
I don’t see sawhorses much any more, just the buzz of chain saws.
4/5/09
60 Minutes
The first segment of this evening’s 60 Minutes show had to do with a hospital closing in Las Vegas, leaving people who have been getting free care stranded. They interviewed people with cancer who could no longer get their $50,000 chemotherapy treatments free and were left to die.
Alas, no one at the hospital or on the 60 Minutes crew were aware of how easy it is to cure any cancer with no drugs. It’s a very tightly controlled secret that changing to a raw food diet and stopping the common poisons such as sugar, caffeine, and alcohol can work health miracles.
Of course, if this were even hinted at, the network would refuse to run the show. TV stations would start going the way of newspapers if the public ever learns how easy it is to cure any illness, and to never get sick again. Since I don’t watch any live TV, I see the almost endless drug ads flashing by as I fast forward through the commercials.
Without drug ads TV would be on hard times, and many magazines would blow away.
4/4/09
Mooned
Did we, forty years ago, manage to send several rockets to the Moon and back with men aboard? Are the doubters of the Apollo missions just another bunch of conspiracy theorists?
Like some 99.99%-plus of Americans, I accepted what I was seeing on TV and reading in the magazines. Hey, how could they possibly fake something this big? Then, Ralph René sent me a copy of his NASA Mooned America. This 186-page, large format, book made sense. I was going to have to look into this some more.
Next I found Bill Kaysing’s We Never Went To The Moon. Here was a guy who had worked for the company making the rocket engines for NASA pointing out that they’d never been able to make an engine with the power needed to get to the Moon. That the Apollo rockets all used smaller engines, capable only of reaching low Earth orbit.
Well, this was happening during the Vietnam war, when there was a huge need for something BIG to take the media and country’s attention off the war we were losing.
Next I read William Brian’s Moongate. It methodically attacked one scientific fallacy after another having to do with the Apollo missions. Like the impossibility of there being dust in a vacuum…and nowhere has NASA claimed there is any atmosphere on the Moon. No atmosphere, no possibility of dust.
Even more thorough was Dark Moon by Bennett and Percy, published out of England. 561-pages of obviously well-researched information. For instance, they went to the copy of the lander at the Space Museum in Washington and measured the hatch. It was several inches too small for the astronauts in their space suits to get through. Worse, there was no airlock, so every time the hatch was opened all of the air in the lander would immediately be sucked out. So where were the many tanks of air it would have taken to replace all that lost air? The book went on with one after another exposures of unanswered questions.
The same group also produced a very well done What Happened On The Moon video, which exposes the many obviously faked Moon photos.
The capper was a CBC show, which was aired in Canada, but not the U.S., showing the Moon filming being done in Stanley Kubrick’s studios outside of London, where his 2001 film was made.
So, yes, I’m a doubter. I put all I’d learned together in my $5 Moondoggle booklet.
4/3/09
Carrots
Those baby carrots you get in plastic bags are made from larger carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots. Once they’re cut and shaped, they’re dipped in a chlorine solution in order to preserve them. You’ll notice that after a few days in your refrigerator a white covering forms on the carrots. This is the chlorine resurfacing. Chlorine is a serious carcinogen that you really don’t want in your body.
Please avoid those cocktail carrots, as cute as they look.
I look for organic carrots. I wash them, cut ’em up and put ’em into my Cuisinart and mince ’em. Then I add some of my grandmother’s recipe coleslaw creamy-sweet-sour sauce and they’re absolutely delicious. And healthy.
The recipe is simple: two quarts of organic plain yogurt, two cups of extra-virgin olive oil, two cups of organic apple cider vinegar, a cup of raw honey, some sea salt, cracked pepper and celery seed to taste. Mix. Yum. It’s good with any minced vegetable…broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, etc.
4/2/09
Wisdom
So many things we all have been taught to believe by our parents, our schools, and the media aren't true that I hardly know where to start. Worse, our belief in many of these is so deeply embedded that most people’s first reaction is to think I’m a nut case for even suggesting we’ve been fooled about so many things.
With the help of the readers of my publications and many helpful talk radio show listeners, I’ve managed to sort out a collection of about a hundred books that will change your view of the world. I hope this won’t be more than you can handle! This is my $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom.
The books I’ve reviewed are all by authors who have carefully done their research. Top experts. The books are referenced and what they tell us makes sense. They don’t ask you to take anything on trust.
Okay, what kind of scams have we all been brainwashed into believing?
Well, let’s start with the medical industry. Once you start reading some of the exposé books I’ve reviewed you’re going to be appalled at the enormity of the deception. It’s the money, of course, just as with all of the other crooked schemes that have been screwing us. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, pharmaceutical and insurance companies, and nursing homes don’t make any money when we’re well. Wait’ll you read the lengths the AMA, together with their captive FDA, NIH, and so on through the medical alphabet, have gone to in order to keep low cost medical cures from us. You’ll try to never let a friend suffer chemo, radiation or by-pass surgery again!
Now, suppose for a moment that you are the chairman of the National Cancer Institute, pulling down ten to twenty million a year. You have over 10,000 employees and a campus of buildings, all working, mainly on government funds, to find a cure for cancer. What would you do if some small town doctor came in with an inexpensive sure cure for all cancers? Would you use every power you have to discredit him? Or would you just have him killed? Now, multiply that ethical dilemma by every one of the major illnesses that have been supporting multi-million dollar research efforts.
Yes, there’s a simple, no drug cure for cancer—indeed the same cure will work for virtually any illness. It took a lot of research to find the doctors who had discovered this miracle, but I have and I’m blowing my little tiny whistle. My Secret Guide to Health explains exactly why we get sick, and how, just by changing our lifestyles, we can recover totally from virtually any illness. Here, I review the books that resulted in this astounding revelation.
I guarantee you’ll never trust doctors and their $2.5 trillion industry again.
What else? How about feeding babies formula? Sure, if you don’t mind permanently lowering your child’s intelligence and resistance to disease. Call it partial mental crippling. How about immunization shots? Wait’ll find out about this $200 billion scam and the terrible damage it’s doing! Read the James book. Dental amalgam, which the ADA assures us is harmless, is making millions of people sick. Read the books by Judd, Bronte and Huggins and you’ll never trust a dentist again. Ditto root canals—read Meinig’s book.
You’ve read about our public school problems. Well once you understand the depth of the problems you’re going to either be very depressed or out there fighting to change things. Ditto our colleges.
There’s more? Lots! I’ll bet you don’t know how the Fed got in control of our money. It happened around 3 AM one morning in 1913 when a small group of Democrats in Congress met and passed the law turning over the issuing of our government’s money to the Fed—one of the biggest give-aways in history. Read David Icke’s book and be incredulous. I’ve also reviewed several other books which chronicle how crooked Congress is and has been.
Then there’s our correctional system which doesn’t correct anything. The war on drugs which has made drugs more available than ever and generated some huge world-wide crime syndicates. And the biggest drug importer? The CIA! Wait’ll you read Into The Buzzsaw!
How about our total belief in jobs? Now there’s a scam which keeps working stiffs from ever making much money. Yes, of course there’s a better way. Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, or my Secret Guide to Wealth.
The power companies have been spending a fortune playing down the damage the magnetic fields from their power lines are causing. Read the straight dope on this. This also holds for the damage cell phones held next to your head cause to your brain, and electric blankets to your body.
Are you still drinking tap water? You won’t once you know the real story of fluorides in your water.
Well, only a bonafide kook would believe that NASA faked the Moon landings 40 years ago, right? Then you sure don’t want to read the books by René and Percy. That’s your road to kookdom—you can trail along with me. They are both totally compelling.
My Secret Guide to Wisdom is your guide to the education you should have had in school, but that schools would never dare to teach. It’ll upset you, and after you’ve read the books I’ve reviewed, you’ll become a social pariah. No one will want to talk with you. They’ll much prefer ignorance and calling you crazy.
4/1/09
The Old Savior Shtick
For as far back as written records go, people have been believing in saviors. Under the guidance of religious Authorities, of course. And before that idols.
Millions...no, billions...are kept in thrall with the story of Jesus, unaware of the 1875 Kersey Graves book, which is still in print, The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors—Christianity Before Christ. Interestingly (to me), it shows that written records tell us that many of the saviors, going back thousands of years before Christ, were born of virgins, on December 25th, with three wise men at hand and a shining star in the sky. These guys had twelve disciples, worked miracles, and were crucified, only to rise three days later. Think of the odds!
There are probably many more books that blow the lid off organized religions down through history. Another I enjoyed is Tim Leedom’s, The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You To Read.
Religion is the biggest business in the world, with branch offices in every city, town and village in the world. It’s strength is based on the gullibility of the masses, who are either uneducated or mis-educated.
Mis-educated? Taught via memorizing things and then the short-term memory tested...rather than by thinking. Our American government-run mandatory school system, which was put in place by our religious leaders over 150 years ago, still is keeping us quietly controlled.
How’d you, with a high school degree and probably one from college too, like to take all those thousands of exams again as proof of your education? We short-term memorize our way through school. We’re not educated, we’re indoctrinated. Now shut up and stop asking questions.
3/26/09
Tea Leaves
With the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941, when I was 19, and the country geared up for the war, I was prime draft board meat, so my being in college probably wasn't going to keep me out of the Army.
During the summer of 1942 I went to work at G.E. in Schenectady (NY) as a test engineer on the radio transmitters they were building for the Army, the BC-375 and BC-191 equipment. As a ham, I'd been building radio stuff for over six years, so I knew the radios I was testing and aligning at G.E. were using a design that was at least ten years old. Antiques.
With the draft board breathing down my neck I tried enlisting in the Army Air Force, but when I admitted I had hay fever, they rejected me. Hmm, lesson learned. Then Tom Jones, who'd worked for my dad at American Export Airlines, and had been a reserve Naval officer, so had been recalled to duty, put me in touch with Commander Bourne at the Naval Research Lab in Anacostia (VA), just across the river from Washington.
I took the train down and was interviewed by Bourne. I was just what he was looking for, but first I'd have to come up to date on the latest super secret radar and sonar equipment at the Navy school. A couple weeks later I reported to the Washington Navy Yard and was inducted. But, there was a problem. They were all out of uniforms, so they gave me a pass and told me to come back in ten days.
At the time it was illegal for a member of the military to dress in civilian clothes without special permission, so that was specified on my pass.
Back home in Brooklyn with my folks, my grandmother (Ma) and I went to Manhattan to shop. We lunched at the Gypsy Tea Room on Fifth Avenue, so I had my tea leaves read. The woman looked at my tea cup, then at me She was puzzled. She said that though I wasn't in uniform, I was in the service. She said someone with the initials TJ had a major influence on my life and that I'd soon be reporting to a large building, where in some way I'd come out with top honors. Weird.
I reported back to the Navy Yard, got my uniforms, and spent a few days with nothing to do. I had no problem waking up in the morning, since the Navy Band began practicing every morning at six on the floor above our barracks.
A couple weeks later I reported to Bliss Electrical School, in nearby Silver Spring (MD) for the first three months of my electronic education. Sure enough, it was a big building. The next three months were bliss for me. I loved learning the fundamentals of electronics, how capacitors, resistors, transformers, tubes, and coils worked and were designed. I spent every spare minute I could in the rec room with my ear glued to the radio, listening to the classical music programs. I still have the log of the music I heard.
I graduated three months later with top honors, just as the Gypsy had predicted, and was off to Treasure Island in San Francisco for six more months at the Radio Materiel School. I loved it there, too. Between poker games in the barracks and a sandwich business I organized, I didn’t have to draw a pay check for the whole six months. Weekends, I mostly spent listening to classical records at the San Francisco USO.
The school was super. First a classroom lecture on how things worked, and then into a lab with equipment to work on that had been fiendishly disabled, so we had to figure out what was wrong. Six months later we were able to repair anything electronic…receivers, transmitters, sonar, radar, motor-generators, antennas, and test equipment.
When I graduated, now as an Electronic Technician Second Class, I was supposed to notify Commander Bourne so he could transfer me to his lab. Instead, I figured that a safe lab job like that would be much better for someone with a family, so I volunteered for submarine duty…and spent the next two years on the USS Drum, sinking Japanese ships and being depth charged.
3/25/09
A Fix
We’z in a hell of a fix, mainly thanks to the Congress you’ve been able to stop yourself from reelecting. You know, the guys who snuck in over 8,000 earmarks to the stimulus package. Well, the beneficiaries of the earmarks happily got what their “donations” to their Congressman or Senator paid for.
By not establishing any import duties, Congress has successfully exported millions of American jobs, and the factories they worked in, mainly to Asia.
By turning a blind eye to the somewhere between thirteen and twenty million illegal aliens already here, mainly from Mexico, they’ve lowered the average American worker’s paycheck…helping gut the American middle class.
Now we’re faced with the imminent collapse of the Mexican government, which could have ten to twenty more million Mexicans rushing north to escape the drug cartels taking over.
Back when we had duties on imported goods as a way to protect our industries, the money eliminated the need for any income taxes. Do you still like the idea of free trade? I’d rather pay a little more for my next TV set and get my whole paycheck.
3/24/09
School
Charley Reese, a nationally syndicated columnist, wrote about helping his wife grade the essays of a group of college freshmen. “These college freshmen had somehow survived Head Start, kindergarten and 12 years of public school education without learning how to spell, punctuate or write an intelligible sentence.”
“I think public education is so messed up, it needs to be abolished…The public school industry—that’s what it has become—is so riddled with entrenched bureaucrats and too politicized to ever be reformed. It should simply be dismantled, along with colleges of education, which are hotbeds of claptrap.”
I experienced this first hand when Sherry’s 17-year old high school graduate visited. See my 12/4/07 posting. The kid had read only six books in his whole life and didn’t seem interested in trying to read more.
It’s easy to blame the kids for being so dumb, but the problem isn’t the kids, it’s our public school system…and it must be totally changed if our country is going to survive. Our kids are up against those in China and India, and they are leaving ours in the dust.
Our totally bribed professional politicians you have been unable to prevent yourself from reelecting to Congress (95% of the incumbents are reelected) have allowed our manufacturing jobs to be moved to Asia. We used to be a manufacturing powerhouse, now most everything we buy has a little Made In China sticker. The time was when we charged an import duty to give our workers a break. And these tariffs were enough so there was no need for an income tax. But that was before our government super-bloated.
As C. Northcote Parkinson noted, unchecked, government bureaus tend to grow steadily at about 7% per year.
There’s a simple question you can ask to find out whether a school is teaching kids to think or not. Ask if the kids are given homework upon which they will be tested.
We need to model our schools after the Sudbury Valley School, where there is no curriculum. Where the kids are allowed to learn whatever they want. Where there are no tests or grades. Where the kids are not separated by age. Kids love to learn, if we’ll let them.
We don’t need schools to be mandatory. If they’re fun, we won’t be able to keep kids away.
Kids that teach themselves learn to think and be creative. And they don’t forget what they’ve learned. How’d you like to have to take your high school exams again?
3/23/09
The Military
So, here we are, the nation with the biggest army, navy and air force in the world…with our forces spread out in 125 countries around the world, and supporting all this at a cost of more than the total of the next twenty top military-spending nations in the world combined. Is something wrong here?
There are two things we can thank Donald Rumsfeld for. One, as Secretary of Defense he planned the invasion of Iraq, ignoring the advice of his generals, resulting in a massive and expensive screw-up. Then there was his forcing the FDA to okay aspartame, made by Searle Labs, of which he had been the CEO before joining the government. My booklet #38 explains how terrible that stuff is.
Where does it say that we have to be the policeman for the world? So we’ve been pouring hundreds of billions into one war after another, going deeply into hock to do it. Meanwhile the government regulators have been fast asleep (or heavily bribed), allowing our banks to go bananas and self-destruct…helping to teach us the folly of saving money.
If we cut our military by about 90% we’d save trillions. So, what country is going to attack us? These days business is war, not the military. And the Chinese know this.
I’d like to see us decide to bring back out high tech industries, re-invent our schools so we have the smartest and best educated work force in the world, and pioneer real health care…which means taking care of our health rather than trying to fix what we’ve messed up with poor food and other poisons.
Once schools are changed so kids learn to think and be creative there may be less interest in spending one’s life being entertained and more in the excitement of learning something new. Hmm, where’s my Magic Marker?
3/22/09
Cold Fusion
The fire under the cold fusion pot is starting to heat up again with the recent Navy lab report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090324/ts_alt_afp/usscienceenergynuclear
This is the biggest threat to oil there is. Unlimited heat at around a hundredth the cost of oil. Totally non-polluting heat. Heck, this is also a threat to the electric power industry, nuclear power plants, and hydro-electric.
Forget about solar, wind, geothermal, and wave power. Cold fusion will put ’em all out of business. And without depleting any natural resources. Even nuclear waste can be used for fuel, eliminating it’s radioactivity in the process.
When Drs. Pons and Fleischman announced their discovery of the phenomenon in 1989 it was met with the usual scientific skepticism. Then, when a test at MIT showed no excess heat generated, the scientific community breathed a mass sigh of relief.
But others were getting positive results, so when I heard about a cold fusion conference being held on Maui, I decided to go. Well, I went out a few days early so I could scuba dive all six of the Hawaiian islands. At the conference I met Pons and Fleischmann and other researchers in the field of solid state physics. I also met Dr. Eugene Mallove, who’d written a book, Fire From Ice, on cold fusion. He left MIT in disgust when he discovered that pressure from their hot fusion researchers, afraid cold fusion might cut into their hot fusion funding, had quietly altered the cold fusion report data to show no excess heat.
Well, I’d helped the cell phone industry and personal computer industries get started with my publications, so I decided to see what I could do for cold fusion. And Mallove signed on to be my editor.
We started off with the May 1994 premiere 100-page, perfect bound, glossy issue. The newsstand sales were excellent and subscriptions were pouring in. Then, right after the fourth issue went to press, I came into the office one morning and found the cold fusion office had been cleaned out. The article files, subscription, authors, and advertiser records…the room was bare. A few weeks later I heard Mallove was starting Infinite Energy, his own magazine, with funding from Arthur C. Clarke.
I found a physicist from Vermont who was available and we were soon back in business, though with a more modest offset printed journal. I published all of Dr. Patterson’s cold fusion patents, and the research results. But, when the government, under pressure from oil interests (the Bush family made their money in oil), notified colleges and universities that any research in cold fusion done, even on an undergraduate level, would result in no more government funding for anything. And then the Secretary of Energy published a book on Cold Fusion, The Fiasco of the Century.
The Patent Office sidetracked all cold fusion patent applications into never-never land. Jim Patterson’s patents had been granted because the Patent Office has a special route for very old applicants who might not live long enough for the regular system. The head of this department apparently hadn’t gotten the word to squelch any cold fusion patent applications.
Mallove made the mistake of trying to organize a Congressional hearing on cold fusion, so he was found murdered one night. No, they never found who did it. Hmm, let me guess.
By early 2000 news in the field had dried up, so I had to throw in the towel. Even a NASA lab report in 1997 confirming cold fusion’s excess heat didn’t change things.
Now, with the recent Navy lab’s report, perhaps the heavy hand of the oil industry can be pried back.
If we can stop reelecting 95% of our Congress and Never Reelect Anyone, maybe we can get a cold fusion equipment manufacturing industry going and keep it here in America. All Congress has to do is put an import duty on competing products to protect our industry so it isn’t cheaper to have them made by Chinese slave labor.
I envision a cold fusion-powered unit for a home that would supply all of the heat and electricity a family could need, and at a hundredth or less the cost of oil. No more power grid, with its oil, coal, nuclear, and hydro-power generators.
3/21/09
The Mikado
Two people have had profound influences on my life. The first, when I was seven, was Bob Sullivan, who introduced me to classical music and Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, and the second was when I was thirteen and an angel appeared in church one Sunday when I was there for Sunday School. He had a carton of radio parts and asked if I was interested.
This came to mind as Sherry and I drove to Keene to watch Gilbert & Sullivan’s most popular operetta, The Mikado, at the Colonial theater. It was in 1937, over seventy years ago, that I played the part of Koko, the Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado in high school.
Operettas are the 19th century version of our musical comedies in that the performers both talk and sing, unlike opera, where everything is sung. The Gilbert & Sullivan operettas were British musical comedies from over a hundred years ago, so few kids today have even heard of them. Well, they’re missing out.
Erasmus Hall High School, in Brooklyn NY, had over 10,000 students and 120 after-school clubs. I joined the choral, radio, book, photography, and the Savoyards clubs. The Savoy theater in London was where the G&S operettas were first performed.
The radio club helped me get my ham license (W2NSD), and the Savoyards put on The Mikado. Wow, that was fun. The school chapel, which held around 3,000, was a great place to perform. Alas, that was years before tape or video recorders.
Having seen the British Savoyards troupe do The Mikado on one of their visits to New York, I had the pleasure of seeing Martyn Green do Koko. The Brits made a big deal out of enunciating every word clearly, something the group in Keene hadn’t mastered. Well, I know every word of the operetta, so I didn’t care. But Sherry doesn’t, so she missed a lot of the gags.
Our $55 each seats were in the mezzanine, and had less knee room than any airline seat I’ve been in. They had a nice orchestra and the music was fine.
For those of you who are familiar with the G&S operettas, I also played Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance while in high school.
3/18/09
Technology
We are in a high tech world and it’s getting higher tech. It’s worth while to keep this in mind if you are planning to have children because you’ll want to get them interested in technology early on.
I was very fortunate that my mother’s father, Pop, was into technology. Indeed, he was an inventor and I keep a picture of him on my desk. He’s sitting on the front porch in 1935, shortly before his death from pneumonia. Well, he was a smoker. Cigarettes, pipes, and cigars.
A box of old radio parts a man brought to church one Sunday when I was 13 got me started in electronics, and amateur radio kept me going for the next seventy years. When I went to electronic shows I found that a surprising many of the industry leaders started out as ham operators in their teens.
What fun I had, making friends all around the world. And later, when I had the money and time to travel, I was able to visit and stay with these friends for short visits. It brought a whole new dimension to travel. When I get some time I’ll scan my old slides so you can see how interesting my visits to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, and Swaziland were. And over a hundred other countries, where I was met and entertained by ham fraternity brothers.
So, in this age of the Internet, how can we attract youngsters to amateur radio? Heck, few teenagers have even heard of the hobby. With so many kids today unable to find the United States on a world globe, why would they want to spend their time talking with guys in countries they’ve never even heard of?
When I arrived in Afghanistan a local ham was there to meet me at the airport. He said, “Welcome to Kabul, the land of the soft stool.” I stayed with he and his family for a week, talking home and to friends around the world from his ham station. And he drove me to visit nearby villages and explained about the life there. Like the tribe that has devoted their lives to digging tunnels from the nearby mountains to bring the water from the melting snows to villages and fields for watering crops. The hobby has given me fantastic adventures, and I love the technology I’ve learned to master.
3/17/09
Guess Who
With Obama and Congress shoveling out the money by the billions, guess who is going to pay? You don’t need two guesses. Hey, the money has to come from somewhere. So, some will come via more and higher taxes, other will come by way of inflation, which is just another tax.
I’m reminded of 1929, when Wall Street got the whole world into trouble…the Great Depression. Along came FDR with the New Deal. But, you know, despite huge government expenses for the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built dams, the Works Progress Administration, which built roads and bridges, and the Civilian Conservation Corps, which planted a few million trees, double-digit unemployment wasn’t changed.
How’d FDR pay for all this government work? He raised the taxes on the wealthy to 79%, and then to 90%. And he instituted the withholding tax for everyone else, grabbing our money from our employers instead of waiting until April for the yearly IRS bill. If he hadn’t taken it a little at a time instead of all at once, as it used to be, there’d have been riots. Heck, he might not even have been elected to a third term.
His Agricultural Adjustment Administration was a beaut. It paid farmers federal dollars not to produce crops on part of their land. An army of AAA bureaucrats went around inspecting farms, even using aerial photography, to make sure farmers weren’t cheating by growing too many crops. So, by 1935 the U.S. had to import about 35 million bushels of corn, 36 million pounds of cotton, and 13 million bushels of wheat. Gee, thanks, Rosy. It’s no wonder the depression lasted over ten years, until WWII helped to end it.
Those hundreds of billions now being given to Wall Street, which our almost totally bribed government allowed to make the mess, are going to come from us, not Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. We’re going to have to work longer and harder for less, and for a long time. Of course, that’s if Planet-X, a pole shift, or some other calamity doesn’t come along. Viva 2012!
3/16/09
Change
With the major media bought and paid for by pharmaceutical industry advertising, it is going to be a slow job getting the word out that people can stop making themselves sick, and cure any illness they have, by changing to a raw organic food diet and avoiding poisons such as cooked food, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, vaccinations and drugs, both legal and illegal.
For that matter, the supply of organic food is so limited today that there’s no way in the foreseeable future to supply more than a small percentage of our population. So, as the word gets around, at first we’ll see organic food prices increasing. That’ll trigger more interest in home gardens. We’ll see schools encouraging teens to raise organic gardens after school.
As the demand for raw milk grows we’ll see a huge growth in small farms. And as the influence of the pasteurized milk industry fades we’ll see state legislators reversing their restrictions on marketing raw milk. Like recently, when the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture immediately rescinded a farmer’s milk permit when three families got food poisoning…complete with press releases naming the farm. It turned out that tests proved the milk to be free of any pathogens and that two of the families had been away on vacation when they got sick. But the harm was done. The media made a big deal out of the danger of raw milk and was silent when it was exonerated.
Meanwhile, we’re seeing a few raw food restaurants opening around the country. As the interest in care of health instead of so-called healthcare grows we’ll start seeing organic raw food options starting to appear in restaurants and the fast food chains.
Today’s food giants aren’t going to go out of business without a fight. It’s going to take a massive effort to unpoison millions of farm acres and remineralize them with rock dust. No more GM corn stuffed into cows. No more chickens raised, packed so tightly together they are unable to even stand. No more growth hormones or antibiotics in our meat. The candy businesses mostly kaput. Hershey selling raw chocolate. Buffalo once again roaming the plains? The west, grass lands again? It’s gonna take years.
3/15/09
The Fetus
Couples interested in having a healthy, high-IQ baby, have to start early laying the foundation. No pun intended. But, to have the best possible child, they have to start with their own healthy bodies so their sperm and ova will be as poisoned-free as possible.
Ideally this means they’ve been on raw food diets, with a minimum of sugar and no alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, or drugs…legal or illegal. Hey, this baby is going to be the greatest adventure of your life, so go all out.
All through pregnancy take time to read to the baby and play classical music. And if something happens that might cause the baby pain, be sure to keep quiet for a while. You see, if the baby is bumped or exposed to loud noises, it records any sounds or things that are said as equal to pain. And that includes mommy coughing or sneezing.
Since the baby is sharing the mother’s diet, this is of particular importance.
One of the basics of all life is to survive, and this means to avoid pain. See my 3/30/07 post.
Be sure to invest $13 in The Prenatal Classroom, as reviewed on page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom. Your baby will be able to recognize up to a hundred or so words at birth…and love good music.
I see where they’re starting babies learning to read words by the time they’re nine months old. And by the time they’re in the first grade the child can learn to read with both the left and right brain, abls to read pages of a book in a few seconds with good comprehension. See www.speedreading 4kids.com, and my 4/5/08 post.
Public school? Fugetabout it. By the time your baby genius is four it’s time to find a clone of the Sudbury Valley School, (Framingham, MA). Thankfully, this school is being cloned around the country. Download everything I’ve posted so you can search for the Sudbury Valley School, which I often refer to.
I wish my folks had known what we know now about pregnancy and raising babies. Both my dad and mother smoked and drank, though not to excess. And my mother fed me a relatively healthy diet as a child. See my 2/25/08 post.
One major warning! Don’t let ’em give your child any vaccinations. None! See 12/20/08. Oh, and I highly recommend having the birth done by a mid-wife rather than a doctor. And you should look into getting a device which goes over the tummy during pregnancy and, with a vacuum pump, reduces the pressure on the baby for use daily during the last months of pregnancy. It also makes the delivery simpler and faster.
With some extra effort families can raise children with 150 average IQs, with many topping 200 (geniuses). Our country sure could use a generation of geniuses, though it would raise holy hell with the political and big business groups who have been used to running the country for their benefit. It could seriously weaken the proletariat they’ve been milking.
3/14/09
Cities
Having lived in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Cleveland, Dallas, and San Francisco, our New Hampshire cities are more like large towns than cities. So we’ve managed to avoid most of the crime and poverty that one sees in larger cities.
With most of us living in small towns, we’ve no problem with street gangs, massive high school dropouts, crack houses, auto theft, rapes, or even many illigitimate births.
Our major cities, Manchester, Nashua, Concord and Portsmouth, basically have one short main street with shops and one or two shopping plazas, just out of town…a few blocks away.
3/13/09
College
It’s interesting that the cost of college, including tuition and fees, has risen three times as fast as the average family income. Even worse, student borrowers have increased 50% and their debts have doubled.
The belief in the importance of a college education has been solidly implanted, so those without a college diploma are considered failures…doomed in life to unimportant jobs.
My approach, before I realized what a waste of time and money college (as it is today) is, was to figure out how to make ’em tuition-free, and at no expense to the government. I’ve covered this pretty well in the past. Check my 1/26/08, 9/13/07 and 8/4/07 posts.
Colleges are not teaching the things entrepreneurs need to know to be successful. Their grads are aimed at working in a large business, so they don’t need to know how to sell, how to market products, and deal with banks. But the future of America doesn’t seem to be so much in the growth of a few huge businesses as in the starting and growth of smaller businesses.
We’ve watched most of the large manufacturers moving their factories to Asia, Mexico, and South America, and even outsourcing more and more of their middle-management work.
It would be wonderful if some colleges would change their offerings to educate entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, as I explain in my Secret Guide to Wealth, a teen’s better bet is to ignore college and find work with a small company in some field that’s fun, and let the owner pay for their entrepreneurial education.
Even worse, our colleges today are using the same teaching approach as our public schools, where you are given an assignment to read and then you are given a test on your memory of the material. The material, like a muscle, fades away if you don’t use it. How’d you like to be tested on what you “learned” in high school? Do you still know how to solve simultaneous equations?
3/12/09
Cancer
It would be interesting to see where all the donations to the American Cancer Society are being spent. A letter announcing their 2009 Fund Drive arrived, reminding me of how profitable sickness is and how little interest there seems to be in health…particularly with the media. And, with half of Americans getting cancer, it’s a particularly bountiful money tree for doctors, hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry.
So, if you are going to continue to eat cooked food, use pasteurized milk, drink coffee, and eat candy, make sure your sickness insurance is paid up, and can stand a half-million dollar hit. And it’s much better that you don’t talk with one of the few survivors of chemo or radiation treatments. It’s a lot more fun to bloat yourself at McDonalds and not worry.
For that matter, it is obviously unpatriotic to threaten one of our biggest and most profitable industries. Well, group of industries…like with the conglomerates filling the supermarket shelves with boxes of food products. Of course it starts way before that with the companies making chemical fertilizer and pesticides. Then there are the seed companies with their genetically modified seeds and the huge multi-million dollar farms growing this very non-organic produce. And GM corn fed cows, grown quickly with bovine growth hormone and loaded with antibiotics to counter the resulting mastitis. Cows that have never seen a pasture.
It isn’t any better for most of the chickens that reach the fast food companies or your supermarket shelves. It’s much better that you don’t bother reading about where most of your supermarket food comes from.
Remember, a hundred years ago (before supermarkets) cancer, Alzheimer’s and most of the things killing us today, were virtually unknown in America. They were mostly dying of pneumonia and tuberculosis.
3/11/09
School
Spose every class had a web site where the students could share their views on things. Where the kids were encouraged to get up and tell the class about books they’d read that the others might enjoy…and add the reviews to the class web site.
Where they could share their adventures and important events in their lives with their classmates. The fun things. The achievements. The really stupid things. Their hopes. Maybe pictures of a horse they rode, a sandcastle they built, a painting they made, interesting places they’d visited, playing an instrument, winning a race, getting an award, their pets…photos and videos. And anything worth more permanent saving from facebook, twitter, or their own sites. A kind of class album circa 2009.
What a treasure to download and save this at the end of the term. In all of the classes I took from kindergarten through college I only remember two kids, and they because they were so outrageous. In the nineth grade in Brooklyn Norman Golding and Myron Nussbaum will never be forgotten for their fights with the teacher…running around the classroom, throwing blackboard erasers at her.
3/10/09
Blacks
Many blacks, ignorant of history and inflamed by opportunists, are grumbling about slavery and some even want restitution. Hey, guys, slavery was the best thing that ever happened to your family. Without it, you wouldn’t exist.
Until slavery came along, making lives have some cash value, the African tribes were busy raiding their neighboring tribes and killing them, as we see in so much of Africa today. With slavery, the losers were sold to slave traders instead of killed.
Some 600,000 were shipped to America, and these have grown to around 40 million today. And, despite white efforts to improve life for blacks to the tune of trillions invested in welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, Medicaid, affirmative action, and poverty programs, the student drop out rate for blacks is over 50% in some cities, and illegitimacy is 70%!
Then there’s crime, where white criminals choose black victims 3% of the time and black criminals choose white victims 45% of the time. White women are raped by blacks over a hundred times more often than the reverse. And blacks rob whites 139 times as often as the reverse.
At Berkeley 42% of the blacks drop out vs. 16% of the whites. And blacks are 70% of our two million prison population.
Other immigrants have historically integrated into American society, adopting our language and customs. Perhaps the blacks could benefit from more strong leaders and perhaps start thinking of themselves as Americans rather than African-Americans.
3/9/09
J.B. Rhine
Soon after WWII Rhine, a professor at Duke University in North Carolina, began investigating things like telepathy, precognition, and if minds could influence matter (psychokenisis). And upsetting the hell out of the scientific community with his results.
When I finished college in 1948 I ignored the big company recruiters. I’d worked for G.E. in Schenectady during the summer of 1942, just before joining the Navy, and was determined to never again work for a large corporation. Phooey. Ugh.
Jack Younts, who used to work for my dad, and his wife Blitz, came to our house in Brooklyn for dinner several times. Blitz worked as an organist for the soap operas on NBC radio. My ham equipment was in the basement, but I had it set up so I could sit in the living room and talk over it. Blitz heard me talking and remarked on my voice, saying she thought I’d make an excellent announcer and that, if I was interested, she could set up an interview with Ben Grower, NBC’s top announcer.
A year later Jack quit his job and moved to Southern Pines NC, where he bought WEEB, a daytime radio station. So, when I got out of college I called Jack and asked if he could use another announcer. He said hell yes, to come on down.
When I got there and walked into the station, Jack asked if I had a First Class FCC Broadcast Engineering License. He hadn’t mentioned anything about that. Rats.
Jack handed me a study manual and said to take the train to Washington that night to get my ticket. So the next morning, when the FCC offices opened, I was there, along with a couple dozen others, to take the license exam. There were four parts to the exam, covering the rules, the radio theory and antenna technology. Piece of cake. I finished all four parts and had my license in hand before anyone else finished the first section.
The next morning I walked in with my license and, much to my amazement, Jack’s chief engineer resigned and I was the new chief (and only) engineer. It was a daytime station, so it was only on the air twelve hours a day…84 hours a week. As the only engineer I had to be there whenever it was on the air, so I was working 84-hour weeks at the then minimum wage of 50¢ an hour. $42 a week.
One of the other announcers was Ed Cox, who was also working with J.B. Rhine on his psychical research. I soon became one of the research subjects, though Ed’s special interest was investigating poltergeist phenomena.
At about this time Rhine discovered something that forced him to start his research all over. Ed explained it to me, but far’s I know this has never gotten widely known. What Rhine found out was that if his subjects anytime later learned what the right answers were, this significantly affected their scores.
We are so used to time being linear that it never occurred to anyone that learning something in the future could change things in the past. Rhine’s five cards had a cross, a circle, wavy lines, and so on one side of them. The experiment was to shuffle the cards and then have the person being tested guess which symbols were on the cards, one by one. If, after each guess, the card was turned over, this resulted in higher scores than when the experimenter didn’t show the subject the card faces. Weird.
So Rhine had to start his research all over again, making sure his subjects didn’t ever find out the right answers.
When I got an offer to work for Channel 11 in New York for much better pay, I moved back to Brooklyn with my folks.
3/8/09
Progress
Back in the 1930s there were just a few magazine titles being published, and they were mostly sold and delivered by neighborhood kids or on newsstands. I went door to door when I was eleven, soliciting subscriptions to Liberty. Then a truck would drop off the copies at my house, I’d put ’em in my Liberty bag, get on my bicycle and hand delivery them to my subscribers.
Those were the days when drug stores handled prescriptions and had a soda fountain counter with stools. Ice cream cones were a nickel and a sundae was ten cents most places, fifteen cents in some.
The mailman delivered to our door twice a day on weekdays and once on Saturday. But it was just mail…no magazines, no ads, no newspapers, no junk.
Today we’re seeing the Web challenging the magazine and newspaper industries. Big time. The economies are enormously attractive. No paper cost. No printing. No addressing. No postage. No newsstand unsold copies. And instant delivery.
When I started publishing my first magazine in 1960 I wrote the copy on a typewriter. I mailed that to the printer, where my copy was set into lead type on a Linotype machine. The illustrations were half-tone screened and etched into copper plates, which were nailed to wooden blocks. I then was sent proofs of the typesetting and the illustrations which I checked for errors and pasted into the magazine pages. I sent the pages to the printer, where the lead type and illustrations were put together on trays, and everything locked into place. They then mailed a proof for me by rolling ink over the tray, then putting the proof paper on it and rolling over it.
Every month I had to spend the last couple of days at the printer, checking the proofs and making corrections or changes. Each change had to be marked as a printer’s error (PE) or an author’s alteration (AA). The AAs were charged extra for.
Today the copy and illustrations come in from the staff and authors, who can be anywhere in the world, via the Web. The copy is edited, put into the page form on a Macintosh, and sent to the printer via the Web to be printed. Or it can be delivered via the Web in PDF form to subscribers, ready to read on their computer or print out. No more having to write my May editorials in March.
Kids in a few years are going to be surprised to see copies of old printed magazines up in the attic somewhere. Weekly? Monthly? Heck, we’ll be getting daily downloads from our magazines and newspapers, complete with ads. We’ll dump the downloads into our book readers, just as I dump the nightly Coast To Coast AM radio show into my iPod every day so I can listen to it when I’m driving somewhere or out on my daily walk.
With this medium for delivery we’ll be not only getting things to read, but videos and audios. And, as we’re able to cram more and more memory into smaller packages, instead of CDs and DVDs, we’ll store our movies, magazines and books on little chips. My fifty-some bookcases of books will be all instantly searchable from my little shirt-pocket computer.
Well, they laughed at me back in January 1976 when I described today’s laptop computer at a hamfest in Atlanta. I have a tape of the talk.
I’m getting downloads from Dr. Mercola every few days, some including videos. And I can save ’em either by copying what I want of the material or saving the whole pages. The future of magazines is not far off.
Gee, what’ll we do with all those trees we’ve been growing to make paper? Yoiks!
3/5/09
Health Care
If we actually took care of our health instead of depending on the government or insurance to pay when we’ve destroyed our health, we’d sure save a bundle. It’s running about $8,000 each for every many, woman, and child in America today. Yet, we’re one of the sickest and shorter-lived of the developed countries.
Any family interested in caring for their health will make sure the food they eat is healthy, that they get exercise, drink plenty of pure water, get lots of sun, play games, listen to good music, and avoid poisons such as sugar, caffeine, alcohol, drugs, mercury, vaccinations, and nicotine. In today’s America this is not easy.
It means avoiding about 99% of today’s food industry products and a 100% of the medical industry products and services. Of course, as more families adopt the care of their health as being important, we’ll be seeing more products and services aimed at this growing market. Like restaurants adding raw, organic food choices to their menus. We’ll have thousands of small farms springing up to provide raw milk and meat that’s actually healthy to eat. Farmers will be putting rock dust on their land so their crops can be organic and packed with the minerals our bodies need to be healthy. Goodbye Monsanto.
3/4/09
Failure
Researchers tell us that half of small businesses fail in their first year, and a decade later 90% have failed. Well, I doubt that any of the 90% that failed read my Secret Guide to Wealth before starting their business.
Our country is run by big business. They’ve pretty much bought and paid for Congress and the administrations, so our government run public school system and our colleges are designed to provide workers for big business. They don’t teach the things that a small businessman needs to know to be successful. My book explains how to get someone else to teach you everything you need to know to be successful, and to pay you to learn.
In any small business it’s critically important to know how to sell. Selling is not a natural talent, it’s a skill that has to be learned. The nice part is there are a bunch of excellent books written by the top experts. Get ’em and read ’em. After that practice makes perfect.
In my experience as a publisher, virtually no small (or big, for that matter) business owners have a clue about advertising. The first thing I did when I started my first business was take a course in advertising. That was one of the smartest moves I could have made. I learned how to advertise, where to do it and how to measure the results.
Later, when I was publishing magazines and dealing with both small and huge ad agencies, I saw no sign that anyone in those agencies had ever taken a course in advertising…or even read books on the subject. There are some excellent ones.
As a publisher of technical magazines, I tried to get my advertisers to take advantage of the power of new products announcements and test reports by my magazine staff on their products. Surveys showed that a simple new products announcement in the magazine could be relied to help sell as much product as a full page ad. And a favorable product review normally results in as many sales as ten full page ads.
To help small businesses learn how to prepare new products releases, and then how to get magazines and newspapers to publish them, I’ve a how to generate $1 million in extra sales DVD ($40) available (#52).
It’s important to know how to speak to groups with confidence, to have experience with accounting and dealing with banks…to understand about purchasing and outsourcing.
I get to a lot of business expos and I can testify that hardly any companies have a clue as to booth design or what literature to have available.
There’s a wide open opportunity for a business to make DVDs to help entrepreneurs be successful. DVDs on packaging, shipping, direct mail, web site design and marketing, email selling, newsletters, catalogs…oh, it’s almost endless.
3/3/09
Instant Zees
It is very satisfying to lie down on the bed for a nap at 3 pm, turn off the light, turn over on my left side, put a pillow between my legs, pull the other pillow under my head, and within a minute I’m sound asleep.
First, tell yourself when you’d like to wake up. When I do that I almost always wake up within a minute or two of my goal. I haven’t had to use an alarm in years.
You can do it too, once you condition your body and mind to the routine. The big trick is, instead of letting your mind think of things, to stop it. Think of nothing and feel how tired you are. It works every time for me. The next thing I know I wake up, right on schedule.
I keep my bedroom dark, day and night. It’s important to sleep in a dark and quiet room so the brain can sort things out, helping your memory. If there’s likely to be some noises outside my room I turn on an air filter to generate some white noise to mask any extraneous sounds.
3/2/09
Winter Clothes
These days, when many of us tend to keep our houses cooler than we used to so we can save on fuel, we need to make up the difference with warmer clothes. The best solution I’d found are a pair of flannel-lined pants and a combo shirt and jacket with a quilted lining from Haband.
They are both machine washable. The pants, called Ice House®, are flannel-lined twill, $35 for two pair. The shirt-coat is their Tailgater, which is $20. Two for $35. They come in five colors and all sizes. Call Haband at 800-742-2263 to start getting their catalogs and to order.
When I get up I jump into the pants, put on the coat, zip or snap-button it up, some sox and shoes, and I’m ready for the day, even when the kitchen is down around 60°. It takes me less than a minute to get dressed. And when I go outside I pull up the fleece hood to keep my head warm.
No, I don’t get a commission, I just like to share the good stuff I’ve found.
3/1/09
Teacher Pay
The educational magazines are full of discussions of the pros and cons of merit pay. Most educators seem for it, while the teacher unions are dead set against the whole idea. Thus it was interesting to find that, in general, tests of the concept have not been particularly successful. Yes, I have an idea on how to help teachers focus on improving their skills. It’s a sort of merit pay system.
I was very impressed when I visited Windsor University (Canada) and found that they’ve a system whereby their teachers are rated by the students on a wide range of things. That makes a lot of sense. It’s like business, where the customers rate the service they’re getting. The teachers know their jobs depend on good ratings from the students, which establishes a different relationship than normal. I suggest that high school students rate their teachers at least twice a year, perhaps on a simple one to ten rating on how good they consider the teacher has been at teaching them. I’d also ask for a peer evaluation by other teachers, plus an evaluation by the school principal.
I’d propose weighting the ratings, giving 50% of the weight to the students, 30% to the teachers, and 20% to the principal. A 1-10 rating by the students, a 1-6 by the teachers and a 1-4 by the principal would give a total of a possible 20.
Those with the top 20% ratings would get a merit pay bonus. Those in the bottom 20% might be urged to improve their teaching skills pronto or seek work elsewhere.
If we implement high school teacher evaluation, that will help kids focus their attention on learning.
We should consider the education we provide our children…note I did not say "give" our children…as important a part of our infrastructure as providing telephones, power, roads, and bridges. Without a well-educated work force we’re not going to be able to provide a quality of life which will keep America healthy.
Our work force in the year 2020 will depend on what we do now…on what Congress and the administration does…the strength of the support or the resistance of teacher unions…the support of school boards and teachers. But all of these factors will be enormously influenced by the dedication of our people. If very few care enough to push for changes, we’re not going to just stay in trouble, but it’ll get worse as other countries take away our businesses.
So what’s it to be…Monday night football and a few brews…or action? What is your local school board thinking? What are they doing? How about your state legislature? Your senators and congressmen? How about the governor?
Of course if you’re comfortable with our kids hanging around the malls, smoking cigarettes, cruising in their cars, throwing beer cans and used condoms on our back roads, fine. You’ll get what you’re comfortable with. But let’s not hear any complaints about your kid "going bad." They don’t go bad, they’re allowed to spoil.
2/22/09
Obama
Yes, I know it’s a total waste of effort to try and get in touch with the President, but I tried anyway…with the following letter:
President Obama,
Ask me how you can……
1. Cut health care costs up to 90%, making us the healthiest country in the world.
2. Replace oil with a proven non-polluting energy source at a fiftieth the cost, building a new multi-trillion dollar industry for America.
3. Make American students the world’s best educated, and at less than half today’s cost.
4. Cut the government in half (or more), with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating.
5. Quickly win the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, using brains instead of bullets.
6. Cut prison costs by at least 50% and reduce recidivism.
7. Jump-start millions of new small businesses to reduce unemployment.
8. Make colleges tuition-free at no government expense.
9. End inflation.
10. Turn the nuclear waste into energy, eliminating its radioactivity.
11. Remineralize our farmlands for healthier, organic crops.
12. Reduce battery size, weight and cost by more than 90% with a new technology.
13. Quickly and easily eliminate PTSD problems for returning troops.
14. Eliminate the need for nuclear power plants.
15. Cure AIDS quickly with an electronic blood purifier.
16. Cure any cancer with no drugs. In fact, there are NO incurable illnesses!
17. Raise a new generation of genius children with 150 average IQs, able to read books with good comprehension at a few seconds a page.
Accomplishing even half of these will make you the best President our country has ever had.
So, who is Wayne Green? Well, I founded American Mensa.
With my publications I founded the cell phone and personal computer industries.
Given keynote addresses at national communication, computer, education, music, and consciousness conferences. Given talks in 32 countries.
Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science.
WWII 1943-45 served on USS Drum SS-228, on display at Mobile AL.
Much, much more on my web site.
You’re going to love my solutions to our country’s problems.
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Oh rats! I forgot to add my plan for making foreign aid pay off big time instead of ending up in some dictator’s Swiss bank account.
Maybe you could get your congressman or senator to send my letter to the President, giving it a lot better chance.
Obama & Health
To get Americans to stop needing so-called health care, we’ll have to get them to stop putting poisons in and on their bodies. So, who will lose money if we start making ourselves healthy and reverse any illness we have?
Well, the big losers will be doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, nursing homes, medical machine and equipment makers, insurance companies, HMOs, undertakers, crematoriums, assisted living facilities, medical schools, the entire booze and beer industry, the tobacco industry, coffee companies and coffee shops, Starbucks, Dunkin Doughnuts, around 98% of our present food industry, milk companies, the loss of food and pharmaceutical advertising in newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, and even on the web. The demand will be for organic non-GM crops, eliminating around 98% of today’s farm production of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and meat.
Changing over to producing healthy food is going to cost trillions.
On the plus side, the beneficiaries of a change to health will be the 350 million Americans. Unfortunately, I’d guess that around 90% or so of them would rather continue their present eating habits than change…at least until their doctor tells them they have cancer.
There is one group that has a lot to gain from our making ourselves healthy…and fortunately it’s a group with considerable clout. It’s even one that has the full attention of Congress, so there may be some hope for us. These are the businesses which are footing a big part of the costs of our making ourselves sick. They’re more than fed up with the so-called health care costs, which in many cases (like GM), are putting companies out of business.
I’d like to see us the healthiest country in the world instead of being one of the least healthy, together with, by far, the highest sickness cost. That’s now at about $8,000 a year for very man, woman, and child. That’s crazy!
It would be fantastic if President Obama sort of quietly advised us to stop our addiction to poisons, encouraging us to work toward healthy diets and lifestyles. McDonald’s with banana-kale smoothies and chicken sashimi?
Obama & Oil
We hear about getting alternative energy from wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear power, hydro-electric, waves, tidal waters, geothermal, hydrogen fuel cells, natural gas, bio energy, and so on, but zero mention of cold fusion…the real elephant in the room…the biggest threat to oil by far…and they know it.
Jim Patterson, a Sarasota inventor, demonstrated a cold fusion cell the size of a coffee mug at an energy conference with one watt of electricity going in and 1,000 watts of heat coming out…for the length of the conference. Jim has kind of…died.
I’ve published the scientific papers by the world’s top solid-state physics experts, explaining how cold fusion works, and I have a little $3 booklet that explains how it works in simple language. I’ve also explained it in my 11/25/07 essay.
I’d like to see an R&D project to develop a unit, about the size of a home dish-washer, which could provide all the heat and electricity a family could need, and cost almost nothing to run. We’d have no more need for coal-fired or nuclear power plants. No more vulnerable power grid.
This would start a whole new, huge industry. It would also put oil and electric power generation and distribution out of business. So you can bet the doomed industries are going to put up a big anything goes fight.
Obama & Education
I’ve covered why our public school system s one of the worst in the world, and made that way intentionally. See my entries for 2/11/09, 1/2/09. and 9/12/08.
In this Obama is up against the teacher’s unions, the teachers, the school authorities, school boards, and text book publishers. And that goes from kindergarten right on up through graduate college degrees.
There’s no business right now that would benefit, so bringing about any change is a huge challenge. In the long run the future of our country is at stake. We need a new generation of kids who have average 150 IQs (geniuses). We need them enabled to think and be creative. We need educational materials that they are going to demand. DVDs on any imaginable subject that are fun to use. I’d love to see us start producing them here in America and make sure we don’t offshore any part of the new industry.
Obama & Government Bloat
With the Bush presidency allowing the federal government triple in size, with few of the millions of bureaucrats benefiting us, and certainly not generating revenues for the country, we need a drastic cut back. While I’d like to see the system used in New Zealand when the socialist government was kicked out of office (see my 11/16/06 entry), I’d be comfortable applying my 11/16/08 essay. This could cut the government in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating. But, hey, why stop there?
Obama & Afghanistan
In my 9/25/08 essay I went into detail on how Obama could put a fast end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus discourage Muslim terrorism anywhere else. Alas, out generals and admirals are promoted to these lofty offices via never causing any trouble. This weeds our creative thinkers, who are always trouble-makers. So, instead of letting the generals run the wars, let’s bring in some brain power and creativity. I think we could pretty much wrap up those wars in a week if we got clever.
Obama & Prisons
We have both the highest percentage of our people in prison and at the highest cost per prisoner per year. What a waste! Having not learned a thing from our making booze illegal, thereby generating huge crime syndicates…and Las Vegas…we’ve repeated the stupidity with drugs, which has resulted in the CIA making billions for use with their black ops and put a million or so of their competitors in prison. I’m exaggerating? Check my 8/2/08 essay. It also explains how prison costs can be cut by about 90%.
Obama & Unemployment
Instead of more and more government make-work projects, worsening the deficit, my proposal is to encourage the start of a million or so new small businesses, which would cost the government nothing. See my 4/4/08 essay for the details.
The idea is simple, let’s have each state organize Business Incubator Groups in their towns to help entrepreneurs get new businesses going. These will generate revenues for the communities, the state, and the country. And jobs.
Obama & Tuition
While there are some major changes needed in our colleges…like getting them to forget the old paradigm of memorizing stuff for tests, which discourages kids from developing the ability to think…today’s college costs can be killers. So let’s make tuition-free, as I’ve described in my 9/13/07 and 1/26/08 entries. And run ’em fifty weeks of the year so they can graduate in three years or less instead of four to six.
Further, they’ll be a whole lot better educated and even emerge with good résumés. Vacations? Any time of the year they want.
Obama & Inflation
With the government racking up record deficits and covering them by printing more money, unless something is changed. and soon, it looks as if we’re headed toward a crash of the dollar. How much of your money have you put into Swiss francs? Check my 1/3/08 posting for info on this, and my 6/21/08 posting.
We need to dump the Federal Reserve Banking system and go back to U.S. Treasury notes, backed by gold. We’ve been taken for a fantastic ride ever since 1913 by a few international bankers.
2/20/09
Wicked Good!
For Valentine’s Day I stopped by Nelson’s chocolate store on Main Street in Wilton to get a box of their chocolate turtles for Sherry. She loves ’em. I particularly enjoy their penuche fudge. A chunk of it lasts me weeks, since I take just a tiny nibble every day.
If you have a gift-giving occasion coming up where you don’t want to spend a lot of money, but want to give a gift that’ll definitely be remembered, get one of Nelson’s $10.95 chocolate assortments. Every bite of every piece is wicked good.
Oh, and they’ll have some special chocolate Easter bunnies they make for that holiday. The Nelson family has been making chocolates there since 1914, so they more than have the hang of it. Watch out Lindt, you have some powerful competition.
Wilton is a tiny town just west of Milford, on Route 101.
2/18/09
It Can’t Be True!
The massive cover-up of the simple secret of health…of how to cure any illness with no drugs…by the medical industry, the government, the media, and our schools, was a shocker for me. The whole idea of deliberately allowing millions of people to die so the medical industry could collect some $2.2 trillion a year, just in the United States, was awful. So-called health care is a huge phony, taking 16% of our money.
Worse, that was in addition to many billions wasted on psychotherapists and their drugs when there’s a proven simple way to cure any psychological problems people have without more than a few hours of therapy, and no drugs. I became an expert at this in 1950 and have a certificate to prove it.
Then there’s the cover-up of the success of cold fusion which, if allowed to be made public, would put oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear power and the electric power web out of business. Oh, and solar, wind, and other such alternative energy sources.
There’s a bunch of mini cover-ups like the Moon landings, 911, the Oklahoma City bombs, and UFOs.
I saved the biggest for last. Yes, bigger than the health care scam. This is the intentional dumbing of us down by our mandatory public school system. The system of short-term memorizing stuff for tests has been designed to prevent students from learning to think or to be creative. It’s aim is to use the mass production system to turn out workers for our industries, and have them as alike as possible. Then, to help keep them unaware of what’s going on, we’re kept entertained when we’re not sleeping or working with ball games, TV, movies, music, computer games, and so on.
Basically, we’re slaves, making huge amounts of money for the wizards behind the curtains. And wars are particularly profitable, so let’s have one of those every few years.
Oh darn, I left out the biggest con job of all…religions. You mean you haven’t watched www.zeitgeistmovie.com yet? Tsk.
2/16/09
What, Me Worry?
Addictions are a bitch! Smokers, even when they know that statistically each cigarette is going to take an average of 15 minutes off their lives, are unable to stop. The inevitability of a heart attack, lung cancer, or emphysema as a result…well that’s off somewhere in the future, so what the hell.
Ditto an addiction to alcohol, so let’s get a couple more six packs into the fridge. I grew up during prohibition, when booze was illegal. Yet everyone in my family drank and smoked. My dad even had a small bar from an old speakeasy in the basement of our home where he entertained his aviator friends. Like Amelia Earhart.
We get addicted to sugar, caffeine, and various drugs, all of which are hurting our health. So, half of us are getting cancer, two-thirds are overweight (there are no old fat people), and the rest are busy developing heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s. Parkinson’s, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and so on.
Of course, if people started taking their long term health seriously it could destroy a good part of our current culture. It’d put about 700,000 doctors out of business, about 80% of our hospitals, most of our fast food chains, drug stores, the pharmaceutical industry, almost all of today’s farming and packaged food industries, our huge supermarkets, etc.
Health stores would have fresh organic food instead of rack after rack of supplements and pharmaceuticals. We’d see millions of small farms springing up to produce organically grown fruits and vegetables, plus grow grass-fed cattle and buffalo. Free-ranging chickens instead of factory raised. Can openers would go the way of buggy whips. Ditto microwave ovens.
One of the first alarms that we’re wrecking our bodies are the teeth. If we were to change to healthy diets and stop the addictive poisons it would put 90% of the dentists out of business. Good riddance. I like the joke about the guy who sat down in the dentist’s chair, grabbed the dentist by the balls, and said, “We’re not going to hurt each other, are we?”
So, we’re going to need doctors, hospitals, drugs, and fast food joints, along with nursing homes, high fructose corn syrup, beer, booze, and cigarettes, for a long time into the future…while a few nut cases like me are taking care of our bodies and eating raw food. Oh, and Medicare, Medicaid, HMOs, sickness insurance, Big Pharma, and so on, for as long as we trust the AMA, FDA, NIH, the U.S. Department of Sickness, and other groups feasting on our addictions.
I shudder to think what will happen to Social Security and pensions when we start living to a hundred and up to robust health…even still enjoying sex and siring babies. The scientists tell us that if we were to give our bodies the nutrition they’re designed to use, pure water, exercise, sunlight and sleep, they should be good for 140 to 150 years. Would we still be retiring at 65?
2/15/09
Byte
The threads of the Byte story go back to my first marriage in 1961 to Virginia Londner. We got divorced in 1965, with me paying alimony and child support for daughter Tully for the next nine years…during which I married Lin. This was her second marriage, too. When that broke up and we divorced in 1974, I got back together with Virginia, though we didn’t re-marry. She took over as the office manager.
Back in the 60s I had an ad salesman who pulled a major boner. He sent letters to several potential advertisers offering them a free ad to prove the selling ability of 73 Amateur Radio Today magazine. I heard about this after one of the people sent a copy of the letter to our competitor, CQ magazine. They, of course sent copies to all of our advertisers and the next thing I knew I was getting phone calls and letters demanding refunds for ads we’d run. Ooops!
When I found out what had happened I conferred with the editor, Jim Fiske, and we agreed that the salesman had to go.
To get even he wrote the IRS to have them harrass us, and they did a great job of it. They came in, did an audit and disallowed expenses for the camera equipment we used for the magazine, our office furniture and so on. And that meant that for every dollar they disallowed as a business expense, that was an extra untaxed dollar on my personal remuneration and thus taxable, plus since the expense had been eight years earlier, there was a 8% interest per year charge. Also, that meant that the business had overstated it’s expenses and had thus earned the disallowed money as income and that, too was taxed, plus 8% per year interest. So, a $1,000 disallowed turned into a $3,000 IRS bill.
Naturally I reported all this in the magazine editorials as things went along.
When I looked for an attorney to defend me in court I found that they were all terrified of the IRS, which had a record of making life miserable for any attorneys who went up against them, with audits and even audits of their clients. I talked with New Hampshire Supreme Court Judge Amos Blandin, who had been a personal and family friend for years, He said he didn’t know of any attorneys who would dare take the case.
I finally found a lawyer in Massachusetts who had never tried a case before. It was the best I could do. The IRS brought one of their top attorneys from Washington and the case was heard in the Concord Federal Court. The result was my being convicted, even though the IRS proved nothing that I had ever done was wrong. The jurors, later, said that well, since I’d been indicted, I must have been guilty.
The result was a $20,000 fine. When I paid it the IRS agent explained that if I ever wrote anything about the IRS again they would put me in prison, and that they could put anyone in prison they wanted, whether they’d done anything wrong or not.
All of my trial was happily reported in the newspapers in March as a warning to any potential tax evaders. This is the time of year when the IRS is busiest with tax case trials.
In January 1975 MITS, a small company in Albuquerque (NM) put a computer kit on the market for computer hobbyists, their Altair 8800. They’d been advertising a $129 four-banger calculator in my 73 magazine, but when Sharp came out with one a fraction of the size, and for $20, MITS was in deep trouble. The computer kit was their answer.
Naturally I bought one and put it together. And I saw the future.
Next I bought all of the computer books I could find. But, I couldn’t understand them. They were all college texts, written by college professors for their classes. What was needed was a magazine, written in simple language for the pioneers in the field to communicate to help the technology develop and to help attract newcomers and bring them up to speed.
My ham radio magazine was titled 73, which in ham language stood for “best regards.” That was a hang over from the earliest ham operators, many of who had been Morse operators out west where the Winchester 73 was the gun of choice. So messages often ended with, “I will you my 73.” This shortened to just plain”73.”
So, I looked for a short computer word for a title and settled on Byte.
Next I sent letters to all of the 73 authors who had submitted computer oriented articles, asking them to send material for Byte. I wrote and called every company making any product of interest to computer hobbyists, asking for a list of the people who’d contacted them, asking for information. But, I obviously needed an editor who knew something about computers. Hmmm.
I started calling the editors of computer club newsletters around the country. None of them saw much future for the new microcomputers and declined. I finally found Carl Helmers, a kid down in Boston, who’d been doing a small newsletter. I brought him to Peterborough and we were off and running.
The articles soon started arriving, and the letters I was sending to the manufacturer lists were pulling 20% subscriptions! One or two percent is usually reason for joy with mail order promotions, so this was stupendous. I got in touch with the hundreds of ham radio stores that were selling my 73 magazine and got them to order bulk copies of Byte. My 73 newsstand distributer was game for the newsstand distribution, so I was all set.
Just five weeks after I started work on Byte the first issue went to press, dated September 1975. I grabbed a plane and flew to Salt Lake City to talk with the people at Sphere about advertising. First copies of the magazine had been shipped directly from the printer to me at Salt Lake.
From there I flew to Albuquerque to talk with Ed at MITS. Then to San Antonio to talk with the guys at Southwestern Technical Products, who had a computer keyboard on the market and were just about to announce their computer kit. I stopped off in Dallas to say hello to Ed Juge of Juge Electronivs, a 73 advertiser. I gave Ed a copy of Byte and explained what I saw as the potential future for microcomputers.
When the IRS matter was still unsettled, Virginia’s lawyer recommended that any new projects be put in her name so the IRS couldn’t step in and attach them. I published a couple of books with Virginia named as the publisher, and then, when I started Byte, that too was temporarily put in her name.
After a few issues the magazine was growing like crazy. Subscriptions were pouring in and ad sales were great. Then, one night I was out giving a talk to a ham radio club in Nashua, and when I got home I found the Byte office cleaned out and Virginia gone. She and Helmers had moved everything downtown to offices in the Guernsey Building and she had moved into a house with Manfred Peschke, an old lover of hers.
I quickly consulted a lawyer. He advised I get busy and start a new magazine, that suing Virginia and Manfred would cost tens of thousands of dollars and could take years. So I made an agreement with Virginia, if she’d reimburse the $100,000 it cost me to start the magazine, I wouldn’t sue. Of course I never saw a dollar of that.
So I shrugged and got busy starting a new magazine. The first issue of Kilobaud was dated January 1977. I later changed the name to Microcomputing. Well, it was aimed at computer hobbyists. In those days there still wasn’t much we could use them for.
Virginia ran Byte for a while and then sold it to McGraw-Hill for, I understand, $7 million. It went on to grow and become the largest magazine in the country, with around $100 million in yearly ad sales. But with massively poor management, the magazine eventually died and blew away.
Ed Juge folded his ham radio store and went to work for Radio Shack, putting out one of the best-selling personal computers, the TRS-80, which grabbed 40% of this new market.
2/14/09
Inflation
Unless most of our economists are wrong, the printing of money by the Fed to cover the stimulus presents to banks and industries, which are ramping up the deficit, are going to lead to a speeding up of inflation. Like happened in Germany after WWI. When I started stamp collecting as a kid I had ten and twenty million mark German stamps. A first class U.S. stamp then was 2¢.
Google Zimbabwe and you’ll find that country is in the same fix right now.
As a living relic to our past I remember, as a kid, going to Coney island and getting a hot dog with an orange drink for a nickel. Huge frozen custard cones were a nickel.
As I explained in my 1/3/08 posting, when America was formed the Treasury issued our currency. Then, in 1913, Congress turned the job over to the Federal Reserve Banks. During the 137 years the Treasury issued our money there was zero inflation. Since The Fed took over we’ve had 2,174% inflation. A 1913 dollar is worth 4.6¢ today.
I’m afraid we haven’t seen anything yet.
It’s most encouraging that our New Hampshire General Court’s Concurrent Resolution 6 is a statement of the desire for major changes, stating "any Act by the Congress of the United States, Executive order of the President...which assumes a power not delegated to the government of the United States of America by the Constitution...shall constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States of America by the [Federal] government."
This resolution is a statement of New Hampshire sovereignty.
Thus, New Hampshire can be made a refuge from the economic problems besetting our country, and perhaps serve as a guide for other states, nine of which have or are in the process of declaring sovereignty.
For instance, to help solve the growing unemployment, let’s form Business Incubator Groups in our larger towns, as I described in my 4/4/08 entry. This will help hundreds of new businesses get started, all needing employees.
Inflation? Instead of waiting for the dollar to tank so they can introduce the Amero, how about New Hampshire issuing its own currency?
2/11/09
How we can produce world-class youngsters.
Will a child grow up to be a Nobel prize winner? A movie star? A president? A billionaire? A garbage man? A homeless person? What is it that makes such an enormous difference in how kids turn out? How much genetics? How much of it is family influence? How much is education? And can we really separate family influence from education?
The molding of an individual starts at conception with the raw genetic codes. There is still a lot we have to learn about genetics and in what ways these codes influence our lives. We know that with insects, animals and birds the genetic instructions determine an amazing amount of their behavior. We're still trying to find out how much of human behavior is inborn and how much is learned.
Scientists are hard at work deciphering the genes, primarily in an attempt to find defective genetic codes which tend to make people susceptible to certain illnesses. This is the Genome Project, a billion-dollar research effort. I suspect that, while this information is going to be valuable in extending people's lives, that we're still going to have to tackle the other part of the equation, the way in which the mind triggers these defective genes into action. There's a psychological aspect to all illnesses, including those with a genetic predisposition.
If we can consider the education of a person as the whole life experience after conception…the entire "nurture" experience…we'll have a lot better chance at producing the kind of children we hope we'll have when we first start a new life. Do you have any question whatever that what happens during the nine months of pregnancy does have an effect on the resulting child? If you aren't sure about this you need to do some homework and read some of the references I'll give. Stanislav Grof, in particular, has done a good deal of research on the influence in later life of things that happen to a child before it's born. I've personally researched this aspect of life on over a hundred people, though I haven't published any research papers. I did this because I found, as did Grof, that present time difficulties were often a direct result of things that had happened during pregnancy.
The Prenatal Classroom is a parents guide for teaching your baby in the womb, by Van de Carr and Lehrer, Humanics Learning, Box 7400, Atlanta GA 30309. ISBN 0-89334-152-5, 161p, $13. This is a wonderful instruction book on how to communicate with your unborn child, to teach it around 100 words, to like music, and to stimulate brain growth before birth. This will give your child a head start (pun intended) on life. It results in significantly higher IQs, which means that if you don’t use these techniques you are permanently dumbing your child down.
So let's break up the educational process for children into several age brackets. First I'll discuss more about education during pregnancy. Next I'll tackle the first year of life, when the child begins to crawl. The third age is the terrible twos when the child starts learning to talk and walk. Then we have three years of pre-school we need to understand. If we add in the kindergarten year that's four pre-school educational years. By the time children enter school about 90% of their lifetime patterns are already formed, so there's no way to downplay the critical importance of those first five years and how much they determine what kind of adult will eventually develop. I hope you've seen the movies of interviews with children at 7 - 14 - 21 - 28 - 35 - 42, so you know how amazingly little people change after the age of seven. Even if they'd documented 'em at five I doubt you'd see many significant changes.
Next we'll tackle the eight years of grammar school, the four years of high school, and finally the four years of college. Please try to remember that the above format is what we're living with right now and that the two things we know about it is that (a) the results are terrible and (b) the cost is about double that of other countries. Leave it to us to pay double and get a lousy product in exchange. That's surprisingly like the deal we've gotten on our cars, isn't it? And health care too. Or how about those toys sold in supermarkets in big boxes and fall apart in minutes? Well, America has long been considered the richest country in the world, so it should be no surprise that we've got crooks taking advantage of us at every turn.
If you decide to have a child, how important is it to you to do all you can to give the child the very best chance at being an outstanding adult? How much effort is it worth on your part? And don't you wish your parents had known enough to give you such a fantastic start in life? It's almost unbelievable how many illnesses and personality disorders can be avoided when you understand how best to handle the early periods of a child's life. I hope this makes sense.
The down side of all this is that our present educational system, starting from pre-natal care, through birth, day care, primary and secondary school, and even college are awful and every step of the unnecessarily long and destructive process needs radical change. The up side is that most of us recognize that the end product is faulty, so there are some pressures for change. The down side is the formidable array of well funded opponents to change.
There are other problems impeding change. There's the difficulty of getting people to take the trouble to understand what's happening. Like the Barnes & Noble survey which showed that 50% of the books people buy they don't read. And I know this from my own book when I meet someone who says he's read it and then is surprised and excited when I explain about something which was covered in the book.
Remember, two-thirds of the people didn't really support the American revolution. It was just a relatively small group that made that happen, with one third of the people dragging their heels and another third supporting the British.
In 1961 William Lederer wrote A Nation of Sheep, rubbing our American noses in our collective ignorance about our government. Alas, in the last 48 years little seems to have changed, but unless it does there is every prospect of our government collapsing under the weight of the deficit…and if that bomb is avoided somehow, there's still the prospect of losing in competition with our far better-educated foreign competitors. The world ahead is a high-tech world. Low-skilled, low-pay jobs are being exported as dropping communications and transportation costs make this not just practical, but unavoidable.
If we don't come to grips with this change by improving our educational system and producing the high-tech educated work force needed to compete in the world market, our American quality of life will continue to deteriorate...if not collapse.
I'll be tackling our educational system, dealing with it differently for each of the age groups I've outlined. Each age calls for an understanding of how the mother, family, community and government needs to adapt to provide the best end result. Actually, having seen so few examples of enlightened government action, and recalling Michael Medved's observation that "The government makes a mess of everything it does," which is totally in line with my own experience, my inclination is to keep government as far away from education as possible.
Our present educational system was designed on the factory assembly line approach with the goal of turning out a standard product for use in our manufacturing assembly lines. There are two basic drawbacks to this. We now need knowledge workers instead of production-line workers…and then there's the little problem that production lines only work well when the raw materials for the process are uniform. People are all different, so our attempt at production-lining education has failed. What we need to do is recognize that every person is different and develop a way to customize education so it will meet the needs of everyone. And this is where I'm heading. Hold tight.
Setting better educational goals.
While I think we are in agreement that we must concentrate on developing the best high-tech oriented work force we can if you’re going to attract high-tech businesses to your state, we’re still going to need to develop a good crop of musicians, composers, artists, poets and (ugh), even journalists and writers. Thus we want to attract as many youngsters to high-tech as we can by making it exciting and fun, but we don’t want to force anyone into high-tech.
The more (and earlier in life) we can expose youngsters to the possibilities open to them, giving them a taste of science as well as the arts, the better able they will be to make their own decisions. In line with the basic concept of freedom and helping kids accept the concept, I favor making introductory courses available in all areas of science and the arts. I said available, not mandatory.
I’m not sure how to come to grips with the need youngsters have to live within defined limits. We know that it’s not possible to give kids unlimited freedom. They just don’t have the experience to handle many decisions which could hurt them for life. Kids do better and are happier when they understand the limitations imposed. They do accept them more readily when the reasons for the limits are understood. Of course children vary widely in their need for limits. It’s a difficult situation for parents and educators, who tend to be over-protective. Children have to be given the leeway to learn from their mistakes. It’s just that we want to protect them from mistakes which could be catastrophic.
Unreasonable restrictions tend to be self-defeating. The youngster that sees restrictions as emotionally or religiously based rather than in their interests, is likely to rebel. We want to develop a child’s confidence in authority and in self. We don’t do this with a rash of unthought-out restrictions. I’m afraid I was a nuisance to my parents because I’ve never done well in accepting authority. When I was told to do something, I asked why. And “because I told you to” was not a good reason. Oh, I’d do it, this being preferable to a beating, but I resented what seemed like a unreasonable demands. I’d never have made a good slave.
Once we've recruited the parents into the educational loop with their kids we may be able to help kids make educational choices on the basis of their interests and goals. Yes, it's difficult for a youngster to have any firm goals in life during school years, but we should be able to help them via a series of videos which are narrated by people who have been successful in different fields explaining what the benefits and drawbacks are of entering those fields.
It was a talk by a submarine commander to my class in radar school during the war which helped me choose that branch of the service. Indeed, as I've explained before, I chose that hazardous sea duty over working in a Naval research lab in Washington, and one big reason was that on a submarine I knew I'd have a maximum of freedom in my work.
And that's the way it was. It was my responsibility to see that the radar, radio, and sonar equipment was in top form. In addition I got the excitement of operating the radar and sonar during our attacks on the enemy. Lacking bureaucratic supervision I invented ways to operate my equipment faster and more effectively than other submarines could.
If youngsters pursue some special interests in their education and then later decide to change, our customized educational system should be flexible enough to accommodate this.
If taught right, science and technology are fun and exciting. Once we let kids know about this, and back it up with science hobby clubs, we'll have our high tech work force and America will be on top of the heap.
When we go to a 50-week school year and improve the efficiency of our teaching techniques; when we are better able to take advantage of interactive computer learning systems; when we harness the potential of satellite teaching, we may be able to start kids working part time on related jobs earlier and teach them even more via work-related experience.
The current (old) system of forcing kids to memorize stuff to pass tests is a remnant of the factory production way of teaching. It is a key way to discourage thinking and creativity, neither of which were wanted for factory workers when the industrial revolution got started. Nor by our religious leaders, whose livelihood depended on their parishioner’s thinking-free belief.
We are going to have to come to grips with technology and adopt the better aspects earlier. This will mean experimentation rather than fear and avoidance on the part of teachers.
The end result will be a bunch of world-class top performers, not only in high tech fields, but in the arts, education, and even in government.
I’ll have a lot more on this.
2/10/09
Reincarnation
Past lives? My first personal encounter with past lives was in 1950, when I read L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health. The book made sense to me, so I tested it out with Joe, a fellow announcer at WSPB, in Sarasota, as I described in my 3/30/07 entry. The results of that test were so convincing I quit my job and went to the Hubbard Dianetic Foundation in Elizabeth (NJ) to learn all I could about the process.
What happened totally changed my life, as I described in my 4/25/08 entry.
Anyway, one day I was working with a woman who wanted help with a problem she was having. So I put her under a light hypnosis and asked her to return to the first time this had happened to her. Much to my surprise she was in a past life. Okay, I treated it just as I would a painful incident in her present lifetime and deconditioned the pain from the incident.
But, being a scientist, I wanted to find out whether this as really from a past life or her mind’s using that excuse to protect itself from a present-life painful incident. So I asked her to walk down the main street of the town she’d lived in during the past life, one she’d never visited in this lifetime. I asked her to tell me the names of the stores as she walked down the main street.
Next, I got in touch with a fellow ham radio operator living in that town and asked him to check with his grandfather about the stores on the main street when he was a youngster. He called back and confirmed everything, even though most of the stores had been out of business for years…like the C. Tabor Gates watch repair store, next to Silsby’s book store.
As I understand it, the Bible embraced reincarnation, until the references were taken out in 533. Now memories of past lives are attributed to the work of the devil.
As I explained in my 2/4/08 entry, Norman Moody, a local psychic says I’ve been an engineer all down through history,
Reincarnation
Past lives? My first personal encounter with past lives was in 1950, when I read L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health. The book made sense to me, so I tested it out with Joe, a fellow announcer at WSPB, in Sarasota, as I described in my 3/30/07 entry. The results of that test were so convincing I quit my job and went to the Hubbard Dianetic Foundation in Elizabeth (NJ) to learn all I could about the process.
What happened totally changed my life, as I described in my 4/25/08 entry.
Anyway, one day I was working with a woman who wanted help with a problem she was having. So I put her under a light hypnosis and asked her to return to the first time this had happened to her. Much to my surprise she was in a past life. Okay, I treated it just as I would a painful incident in her present lifetime and deconditioned the pain from the incident.
But, being a scientist, I wanted to find out whether this as really from a past life or her mind’s using that excuse to protect itself from a present-life painful incident. So I asked her to walk down the main street of the town she’d lived in during the past life, one she’d never visited in this lifetime. I asked her to tell me the names of the stores as she walked down the main street.
Next, I got in touch with a fellow ham radio operator living in that town and asked him to check with his grandfather about the stores on the main street when he was a youngster. He called back and confirmed everything, even though most of the stores had been out of business for years…like the C. Tabor Gates watch repair store, next to Silsby’s book store.
As I understand it, the Bible embraced reincarnation, until the references were taken out in 533. Now memories of past lives are attributed to the work of the devil.
As I explained in my 2/4/08 entry, Norman Moody, a local psychic says I’ve been an engineer all down through history,
2/9/09
Taxes
Our whole tax system stinks! So let’s talk about it.
“Axe The Tax” may be a great bumper-sticker slogan, but how realistic is it in a world where people want more and more services? Want? No, demand! We want unemployment payments. We want welfare. We want family services. We want free hospital service for the indigent. We want prisons. We want more police protection. We want our courts to act faster. We want drug dealers caught and locked up. We want prostitutes off our streets and kept off. We want shorter lines at the Motor Vehicle Department. We want better roads. We want bridges that aren’t crumbling. We want faster postal service. We want cheaper power. We want better health service. We want less hassle about our use of wet lands. What we don’t want is to pay the bill for all this.
Is there any way we can have everything we want, including not paying for it all? No one has worked that out yet, so the next step for us is to figure out how to get someone else to pay for as much of these services as possible. The poor say the rich should pay. The rich say, hey, we worked hard to get rich, so it’s unfair to punish us for working harder and longer by making us pay for services for the lazier people. And by “lazier” the rich don’t mean just those who are not shouldering their fair share of the work right now, but those who didn’t spend the time and effort to get an education which would permit them to make more money, and who have not made an effort since school to continue their education.
Most of the wealthy are not putting four to six hours a night watching TV or in sitting at bars like Cheers. They are not out every night at discos or cruising. They’re doing their homework. They’re busy reading, attending evening classes, going to lectures, working on business projects and so on.
Of course we do have some sports figures and entertainers who flaunt their wealth on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," but even these people keep their money invested in stocks and bonds, so their money is being used by industry to grow. The more we tax it, the less money there'll be to start and expand businesses and the poorer we and our country will be. So when Obama says he's going to tax the rich, I know we're all going to pay several times over for every dollar he takes.
And if our businesses can't get investors to buy their stocks, we'll lose more industries to China and India. That what you want?
Deciding what’s fair.
Step one, if we’re going to try and tackle the problem logically instead of avoiding it, is to admit that we must eventually try to come up with a system which we all agree is fair, since in a democracy the majority makes the rules. The fairest system would have people pay for the services they agree they want to buy.
I think we can come up with a system which takes into consideration the almost universal tendency to let others do as much of the work as possible and to try and get others to pay as much of the load as we can connive. To do this we need to get away from democracy and go to another political system. No, not communism, nor socialism, nor even fascism…I’m suggesting we give a political system that’s been around for a couple hundred years and defeated every other political system that’s challenged it…I’m suggesting we consider trying capitalism.
Oh, I like some aspects of democracy. The parts that I suspect are rotting our country are the socialist parts. Our strength lies in the capitalist part. Our socialist systems are failing us just as they’ve failed every other country that’s tried them. Sure, we have a lot of good people. But we also have a lot of crooks and people who will cheerfully let others do all the work. I’ve had times in my life when I knew exactly how this felt…times when I was out of work and enjoyed the comfort of an unemployment check and got into the habit of taking it easy. It was a lot less stressful to get by on less and not have to face interviews and endless rejection. I can understand why people are willing to put up with the hassles of welfare and make do with less.
Yes, we need a safety net to help people in trouble, but we don’t need to turn the net into a hammock.
If we can let go of the socialist concept that everyone should share equally, no matter how hard they work (or don’t), and accept the capitalist approach where those that work harder get to enjoy the fruits of their labor, a lot of our problems will evaporate. I agree that there are elements of the capitalist system which can be taken advantage of. We do have to cope with monopolies and other unfair practices. We haven’t yet figured a way to get everyone to be fair or honest…and I suspect that’s going to take awhile. But it’s a worthwhile goal.
What state services are really needed? Let’s axe the rest.
Being in up to the chin in government services, many of which seem somewhat less than necessary, let’s hold our breath and not worry about making waves. Let’s give some thought to why we need a state government in particular. Once we’re able to establish a minimum of needed state government services we can compare that to the monumental bunch of services that have gradually evolved…and we’ll continue to be stuck with unless we go back to the drawing board.
There’s a good deal of resistance to increasing taxes. This is understandable, considering the endless media coverage of federal waste. To mind come the HUD mess, the savings and loan mess, the banking mess, the investment mess, the sub-prime mess, and so on. Have we any reason not to expect that the same sort of stuff is going on in state governments? It just isn’t big enough to make the evening news and generate a media feeding frenzy of a federal mess.
We know that a lack of media attention is no guarantee that anything is going right. Journalists are famous for missing enormous stories for long periods of time.
Enough of the polemics, now let’s tackle what we need in the way of minimum state government. For instance we need some sort of record of who owns what land. We need police and fire protection for ourselves and property. We need roads and highways, including maintenance. Are there any other really basic needs? Oh yes, laws. Without laws the police would be out of work.
In addition to needs there are a lot of conveniences we’re willing to support communally such as power, telephone, sewers, water, and trash removal. We might add cable TV to that. I suppose water, power and sewers are more of a need than a convenience these days.
Okay, even if you add to the list, I think you’ll find that most of the services I’ve listed can be (and usually are) provided by for-profit companies. Where public services try to compete with private, private companies almost invariably are less costly and provide better service. The logical extension of that concept is to privatize as many of the state operated services as possible. When you give it some thought you can see that most state-run services can be privatized.
No, I didn’t list education as a state function. We’ve tried that and we already know it (a) doesn’t work at all well, and (b) costs about twice as much as doing it with private schools. And, yes, I’m familiar with all of the reasons why we absolutely must have public education. Then, if we are able (and will bother) to read, we find that school administration is eating up 50-80% of our public educational budgets. I’m reminded of the income tax Governor Florio of New Jersey instituted so he wouldn’t have to can a bunch of highly paid civil servants…like the Chairman of the Board of Regulatory Commissioners ($95,000), the director of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority ($92,500), the New Jersey Lottery Commissioner ($82,500), etc.
It would be interesting to sit down and plan a new state government, one dedicated to serving its customers, us New Hampshirites. I’d vend out every possible service and keep the state commissions and departments to a bare minimum. Further, I’d charge a small commission to the privatized services which would go toward their regulatory costs. It should cost much less to monitor the selling of motor vehicle plates and driver’s licenses than to run the business.
If we form the citizen's customer service group we'll get feedback from our people which will help us get rid on unneeded civil "servants." We'll gradually be able to get rid of waste, officiousness, and paperwork overkill. This approach might be able to cut state government costs by 50% within five years, but frankly I'll be surprised if we aren't able to do much better than that.
Then the next step is to get a group together and come up with a more practical system of taxation. I believe that when we have what people see as an efficient and customer-oriented government, there will be little resistance to paying for it on a basis which is fair to everyone. I don't think anyone can blame us for being upset over taxes, considering the way we see our money being wasted. And we know for certain that if we allow any more taxes the money is just going to be mostly wasted or siphoned off by special interests (graft).
Taxes
Our whole tax system stinks! So let’s talk about it.
“Axe The Tax” may be a great bumper-sticker slogan, but how realistic is it in a world where people want more and more services? Want? No, demand! We want unemployment payments. We want welfare. We want family services. We want free hospital service for the indigent. We want prisons. We want more police protection. We want our courts to act faster. We want drug dealers caught and locked up. We want prostitutes off our streets and kept off. We want shorter lines at the Motor Vehicle Department. We want better roads. We want bridges that aren’t crumbling. We want faster postal service. We want cheaper power. We want better health service. We want less hassle about our use of wet lands. What we don’t want is to pay the bill for all this.
Is there any way we can have everything we want, including not paying for it all? No one has worked that out yet, so the next step for us is to figure out how to get someone else to pay for as much of these services as possible. The poor say the rich should pay. The rich say, hey, we worked hard to get rich, so it’s unfair to punish us for working harder and longer by making us pay for services for the lazier people. And by “lazier” the rich don’t mean just those who are not shouldering their fair share of the work right now, but those who didn’t spend the time and effort to get an education which would permit them to make more money, and who have not made an effort since school to continue their education.
Most of the wealthy are not putting four to six hours a night watching TV or in sitting at bars like Cheers. They are not out every night at discos or cruising. They’re doing their homework. They’re busy reading, attending evening classes, going to lectures, working on business projects and so on.
Of course we do have some sports figures and entertainers who flaunt their wealth on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," but even these people keep their money invested in stocks and bonds, so their money is being used by industry to grow. The more we tax it, the less money there'll be to start and expand businesses and the poorer we and our country will be. So when Obama says he's going to tax the rich, I know we're all going to pay several times over for every dollar he takes.
And if our businesses can't get investors to buy their stocks, we'll lose more industries to China and India. That what you want?
Deciding what’s fair.
Step one, if we’re going to try and tackle the problem logically instead of avoiding it, is to admit that we must eventually try to come up with a system which we all agree is fair, since in a democracy the majority makes the rules. The fairest system would have people pay for the services they agree they want to buy.
I think we can come up with a system which takes into consideration the almost universal tendency to let others do as much of the work as possible and to try and get others to pay as much of the load as we can connive. To do this we need to get away from democracy and go to another political system. No, not communism, nor socialism, nor even fascism…I’m suggesting we give a political system that’s been around for a couple hundred years and defeated every other political system that’s challenged it…I’m suggesting we consider trying capitalism.
Oh, I like some aspects of democracy. The parts that I suspect are rotting our country are the socialist parts. Our strength lies in the capitalist part. Our socialist systems are failing us just as they’ve failed every other country that’s tried them. Sure, we have a lot of good people. But we also have a lot of crooks and people who will cheerfully let others do all the work. I’ve had times in my life when I knew exactly how this felt…times when I was out of work and enjoyed the comfort of an unemployment check and got into the habit of taking it easy. It was a lot less stressful to get by on less and not have to face interviews and endless rejection. I can understand why people are willing to put up with the hassles of welfare and make do with less.
Yes, we need a safety net to help people in trouble, but we don’t need to turn the net into a hammock.
If we can let go of the socialist concept that everyone should share equally, no matter how hard they work (or don’t), and accept the capitalist approach where those that work harder get to enjoy the fruits of their labor, a lot of our problems will evaporate. I agree that there are elements of the capitalist system which can be taken advantage of. We do have to cope with monopolies and other unfair practices. We haven’t yet figured a way to get everyone to be fair or honest…and I suspect that’s going to take awhile. But it’s a worthwhile goal.
What state services are really needed? Let’s axe the rest.
Being in up to the chin in government services, many of which seem somewhat less than necessary, let’s hold our breath and not worry about making waves. Let’s give some thought to why we need a state government in particular. Once we’re able to establish a minimum of needed state government services we can compare that to the monumental bunch of services that have gradually evolved…and we’ll continue to be stuck with unless we go back to the drawing board.
There’s a good deal of resistance to increasing taxes. This is understandable, considering the endless media coverage of federal waste. To mind come the HUD mess, the savings and loan mess, the banking mess, the investment mess, the sub-prime mess, and so on. Have we any reason not to expect that the same sort of stuff is going on in state governments? It just isn’t big enough to make the evening news and generate a media feeding frenzy of a federal mess.
We know that a lack of media attention is no guarantee that anything is going right. Journalists are famous for missing enormous stories for long periods of time.
Enough of the polemics, now let’s tackle what we need in the way of minimum state government. For instance we need some sort of record of who owns what land. We need police and fire protection for ourselves and property. We need roads and highways, including maintenance. Are there any other really basic needs? Oh yes, laws. Without laws the police would be out of work.
In addition to needs there are a lot of conveniences we’re willing to support communally such as power, telephone, sewers, water, and trash removal. We might add cable TV to that. I suppose water, power and sewers are more of a need than a convenience these days.
Okay, even if you add to the list, I think you’ll find that most of the services I’ve listed can be (and usually are) provided by for-profit companies. Where public services try to compete with private, private companies almost invariably are less costly and provide better service. The logical extension of that concept is to privatize as many of the state operated services as possible. When you give it some thought you can see that most state-run services can be privatized.
No, I didn’t list education as a state function. We’ve tried that and we already know it (a) doesn’t work at all well, and (b) costs about twice as much as doing it with private schools. And, yes, I’m familiar with all of the reasons why we absolutely must have public education. Then, if we are able (and will bother) to read, we find that school administration is eating up 50-80% of our public educational budgets. I’m reminded of the income tax Governor Florio of New Jersey instituted so he wouldn’t have to can a bunch of highly paid civil servants…like the Chairman of the Board of Regulatory Commissioners ($95,000), the director of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority ($92,500), the New Jersey Lottery Commissioner ($82,500), etc.
It would be interesting to sit down and plan a new state government, one dedicated to serving its customers, us New Hampshirites. I’d vend out every possible service and keep the state commissions and departments to a bare minimum. Further, I’d charge a small commission to the privatized services which would go toward their regulatory costs. It should cost much less to monitor the selling of motor vehicle plates and driver’s licenses than to run the business.
If we form the citizen's customer service group we'll get feedback from our people which will help us get rid on unneeded civil "servants." We'll gradually be able to get rid of waste, officiousness, and paperwork overkill. This approach might be able to cut state government costs by 50% within five years, but frankly I'll be surprised if we aren't able to do much better than that.
Then the next step is to get a group together and come up with a more practical system of taxation. I believe that when we have what people see as an efficient and customer-oriented government, there will be little resistance to paying for it on a basis which is fair to everyone. I don't think anyone can blame us for being upset over taxes, considering the way we see our money being wasted. And we know for certain that if we allow any more taxes the money is just going to be mostly wasted or siphoned off by special interests (graft).
2/8/09
Unemployment
With daily news reports of millions more being fired, are we headed for another huge depression?
Hey, there are plenty of jobs…they’re just not advertised.
People who are out of work want jobs. They’re not interested in semantics or concepts, they need to have a paycheck coming in. What they don’t realize is that it’s this rigid frame of reference which may be keeping them from getting a job.
A person who’s done just one thing over and over for years, who doesn’t know how to do anything else and who isn’t willing to even try something different, is going to have a difficult time finding work…particularly if the work they’ve been doing has had to be exported to lower wage countries.
Getting mad at a company for moving low-skill jobs to Mexico, China or India isn’t the answer. Trying to get Teddy Kennedy to pass a law stopping jobs from being moved, the knee-jerk liberal approach, isn’t it either. One fundamental law of the god of capitalism is competition. That goes right to one of Mother Nature’s most basic laws, the survival of the fittest…and you don’t succeed when you try to fool Mother Nature…not for long.
The logical approach to survival is to build all the skills you can. The more skills you have, the more opportunity you have to be higher on the food chain…to make more money. To a limited degree you can build skills by going to school and taking courses. Reading books helps even more. But the best teacher of skills is doing and that means exposing oneself to new situations and then taking advantage of the opportunity.
There are millions of jobs out there waiting for people who are aggressive enough to find them. Most of these jobs are not represented by an empty place on a production line, or an empty office. Most of these jobs won’t be listed in the help-wanted section of the newspaper or registered with state unemployment offices. So how can people find these “invisible” jobs?
Applying to company employment departments…we now call it human resources…is unlikely to be productive. The people who tend to settle into these jobs are seldom known for their creativity. Most of the help their companies really need isn’t known to the people doing the hiring.
Someone who has spent several years on a production line doing work that’s been exported to China is going to have to be creative. They may be wonderfully expert in putting dolls together or in making plastic spoons, but when those skills are no longer paying off, perhaps it’s time to think in terms of something completely different. How much skill does it take to get on the telephone and make sales calls? It sure doesn’t take much to get started.
There is a need to be able to speak good English, so people who’ve never bothered to learn our language are at a serious disadvantage. For instance, not long ago I started a new publication in the music field, so I needed people to get on the telephone and call record stores and ask if they’d be interested in selling it in their magazine department. It didn’t take much skill to handle these calls.
Sure, a good sales person can average a higher percentage of sales, but even a beginner can win out by brute force…by making more calls. A person interested in learning will read everything available on how to make sales calls…and there are plenty of books, and even a magazine or two. They’ll experiment with various approaches. They’ll ask potential customers why they failed to make the sale. They’ll talk with other telemarketers and learn from their experiences.
Instead of coming to work late, taking frequent breaks, long lunches and leaving early, they’ll get in early, organize their work, and start making calls. They’ll work right on through until 9 pm or so, when businesses finally close on the West Coast. Lunch? They’ll eat between making calls. In California they'll be to work by 5 am, making east coast calls.
They’ll also be like industrial vacuum cleaners in finding out more about the product or service they're selling. They want to be able to counter every possible objection to the sale, so they need to know the product…and also know the competition.
Success in the 2000s lies in giving the customers exactly what they want, when they want it, and at a price they want to pay. That may seem trite, but companies that keep these three factors in mind are unlikely to fail. A smart sales person will also keep in close touch with the customer service department. What complaints are they getting? Quality? Delivery? Shipping or billing errors?
And once problems are evident, has anyone made an effort to solve the problems so the complaints won’t keep coming in? The sales person who’s on the ball will follow up on these things…after all, problems aren’t going to help sales. Word gets around.
The unemployed person looking for work could do worse than talk with the owner or manager of the company and ask to work in customer’s service, pointing out that this is one of the most critically important jobs in the whole company. It’s here that the tip of icebergs turn up, so the manager needs someone who not only can solve problems for the customers, but make sure that whatever it was that went wrong doesn’t continue to cause trouble. Someone is needed with the persistence to overcome even the most ingrained company problems.
If I were looking for work I’d head for the owner or president and ask for a few minutes. If he doesn’t have it, then this isn’t going to be a very good place to work anyway. When you get your opening you talk about his company, not about you. You ask him what problems he has. In what areas could more business be developed? Has he some new products or services being created which will call for some expansion? Of course he does…you either grow and expand or you die. Nature doesn’t like things not changing
If it’s a medium-sized company you might make it your business to meet someone working there and buy them a lunch. You want to find out everything you can about their business, including what areas might be ripe for growth or change. This will give you an advantage when you talk with the president. You’ll be able to ask far more intelligent questions about the business.
Once you see where there’s an opportunity for you, then you write a letter to the president thanking him for his time and pointing out a need you’ve seen in his company. Then explain why you are the ideal person to fill that need, citing your past relevant experiences. This is not a time to ask about salaries, vacations, benefits, sick days, medical coverage and so on. You are building a career, not looking for a place to sit for eight hours a day. Your interest is in what you can do for the company and the president, not what they can do for you. Focus on that.
Forget résumés. Forget the human resources manager. Make your own spot in the company. They’ll find some place for a desk and get you a computer.
If you really want work you can find it. I just look at my own company and I see endless opportunities. Yes, I need someone to build some shelves right now. Well, that’s pretty menial work…probably below you, right? Sure, but if those shelves are built quickly and look nice, I’ve got some book cases that need setting up to hold more inventory. And then I need someone to drive around New Hampshire and see about getting my Secret Guide to Health into book stores. Sure, a sales letter and brochure will help, but nothing beats a personal sales visit. That ought to keep someone busy for a couple weeks.
There are hundreds of radio talk shows and their producers are not yet aware of how desperately they need me as a guest. And loads of book reviewers who should be getting a review copy of my health guide.
Once those are done I’ll have a long string of other jobs waiting. If the person gets really good at selling I might let him try to find some assistants to get my stuff into even more sales outlets. The next thing you know he’s got a sales force. Or she.
My advice would be to head for a smaller company. Big outfits are busy downsizing. They’re looking for ways to get rid of people, more than areas for growth. It’s a poor atmosphere in which to try and get ahead. They’re moving production out of the country, cutting middle management, and looking for poor performers to eliminate. You have to work twice as hard just to break even in a place like that. And remember the odds…90% of all new jobs are in small companies. You’ve got enough problems without fighting those odds.
It helps to pick an industry with which you’re familiar, but it isn’t critical. If you’ve begun to develop a spirit of survival you may find that getting good at what you are doing is more important to you than ball games, watching TV, going bowling or making your kid’s lives miserable.
Now, in the spirit of feedback…of customer service…let me know how you make out. It doesn’t make any difference whether you’re 20 or 60, the rules are the same. When you’re young you can promise all kinds of learning. When you’re old you can promise all kinds of experience…plus an interest in learning even more.
An article in Inc. mentioned a chap looking to hire sales people makes it a practice to hang up on people calling about the job. He knows that a good sales person has to be persistent, so if that puts them off, they aren't likely to be of much use to him anyway.
Perseverance is one of the most important characteristics one can develop for success. It'll beat out education, experience, and even brains. And that goes double in sales.
Unemployment
With daily news reports of millions more being fired, are we headed for another huge depression?
Hey, there are plenty of jobs…they’re just not advertised.
People who are out of work want jobs. They’re not interested in semantics or concepts, they need to have a paycheck coming in. What they don’t realize is that it’s this rigid frame of reference which may be keeping them from getting a job.
A person who’s done just one thing over and over for years, who doesn’t know how to do anything else and who isn’t willing to even try something different, is going to have a difficult time finding work…particularly if the work they’ve been doing has had to be exported to lower wage countries.
Getting mad at a company for moving low-skill jobs to Mexico, China or India isn’t the answer. Trying to get Teddy Kennedy to pass a law stopping jobs from being moved, the knee-jerk liberal approach, isn’t it either. One fundamental law of the god of capitalism is competition. That goes right to one of Mother Nature’s most basic laws, the survival of the fittest…and you don’t succeed when you try to fool Mother Nature…not for long.
The logical approach to survival is to build all the skills you can. The more skills you have, the more opportunity you have to be higher on the food chain…to make more money. To a limited degree you can build skills by going to school and taking courses. Reading books helps even more. But the best teacher of skills is doing and that means exposing oneself to new situations and then taking advantage of the opportunity.
There are millions of jobs out there waiting for people who are aggressive enough to find them. Most of these jobs are not represented by an empty place on a production line, or an empty office. Most of these jobs won’t be listed in the help-wanted section of the newspaper or registered with state unemployment offices. So how can people find these “invisible” jobs?
Applying to company employment departments…we now call it human resources…is unlikely to be productive. The people who tend to settle into these jobs are seldom known for their creativity. Most of the help their companies really need isn’t known to the people doing the hiring.
Someone who has spent several years on a production line doing work that’s been exported to China is going to have to be creative. They may be wonderfully expert in putting dolls together or in making plastic spoons, but when those skills are no longer paying off, perhaps it’s time to think in terms of something completely different. How much skill does it take to get on the telephone and make sales calls? It sure doesn’t take much to get started.
There is a need to be able to speak good English, so people who’ve never bothered to learn our language are at a serious disadvantage. For instance, not long ago I started a new publication in the music field, so I needed people to get on the telephone and call record stores and ask if they’d be interested in selling it in their magazine department. It didn’t take much skill to handle these calls.
Sure, a good sales person can average a higher percentage of sales, but even a beginner can win out by brute force…by making more calls. A person interested in learning will read everything available on how to make sales calls…and there are plenty of books, and even a magazine or two. They’ll experiment with various approaches. They’ll ask potential customers why they failed to make the sale. They’ll talk with other telemarketers and learn from their experiences.
Instead of coming to work late, taking frequent breaks, long lunches and leaving early, they’ll get in early, organize their work, and start making calls. They’ll work right on through until 9 pm or so, when businesses finally close on the West Coast. Lunch? They’ll eat between making calls. In California they'll be to work by 5 am, making east coast calls.
They’ll also be like industrial vacuum cleaners in finding out more about the product or service they're selling. They want to be able to counter every possible objection to the sale, so they need to know the product…and also know the competition.
Success in the 2000s lies in giving the customers exactly what they want, when they want it, and at a price they want to pay. That may seem trite, but companies that keep these three factors in mind are unlikely to fail. A smart sales person will also keep in close touch with the customer service department. What complaints are they getting? Quality? Delivery? Shipping or billing errors?
And once problems are evident, has anyone made an effort to solve the problems so the complaints won’t keep coming in? The sales person who’s on the ball will follow up on these things…after all, problems aren’t going to help sales. Word gets around.
The unemployed person looking for work could do worse than talk with the owner or manager of the company and ask to work in customer’s service, pointing out that this is one of the most critically important jobs in the whole company. It’s here that the tip of icebergs turn up, so the manager needs someone who not only can solve problems for the customers, but make sure that whatever it was that went wrong doesn’t continue to cause trouble. Someone is needed with the persistence to overcome even the most ingrained company problems.
If I were looking for work I’d head for the owner or president and ask for a few minutes. If he doesn’t have it, then this isn’t going to be a very good place to work anyway. When you get your opening you talk about his company, not about you. You ask him what problems he has. In what areas could more business be developed? Has he some new products or services being created which will call for some expansion? Of course he does…you either grow and expand or you die. Nature doesn’t like things not changing
If it’s a medium-sized company you might make it your business to meet someone working there and buy them a lunch. You want to find out everything you can about their business, including what areas might be ripe for growth or change. This will give you an advantage when you talk with the president. You’ll be able to ask far more intelligent questions about the business.
Once you see where there’s an opportunity for you, then you write a letter to the president thanking him for his time and pointing out a need you’ve seen in his company. Then explain why you are the ideal person to fill that need, citing your past relevant experiences. This is not a time to ask about salaries, vacations, benefits, sick days, medical coverage and so on. You are building a career, not looking for a place to sit for eight hours a day. Your interest is in what you can do for the company and the president, not what they can do for you. Focus on that.
Forget résumés. Forget the human resources manager. Make your own spot in the company. They’ll find some place for a desk and get you a computer.
If you really want work you can find it. I just look at my own company and I see endless opportunities. Yes, I need someone to build some shelves right now. Well, that’s pretty menial work…probably below you, right? Sure, but if those shelves are built quickly and look nice, I’ve got some book cases that need setting up to hold more inventory. And then I need someone to drive around New Hampshire and see about getting my Secret Guide to Health into book stores. Sure, a sales letter and brochure will help, but nothing beats a personal sales visit. That ought to keep someone busy for a couple weeks.
There are hundreds of radio talk shows and their producers are not yet aware of how desperately they need me as a guest. And loads of book reviewers who should be getting a review copy of my health guide.
Once those are done I’ll have a long string of other jobs waiting. If the person gets really good at selling I might let him try to find some assistants to get my stuff into even more sales outlets. The next thing you know he’s got a sales force. Or she.
My advice would be to head for a smaller company. Big outfits are busy downsizing. They’re looking for ways to get rid of people, more than areas for growth. It’s a poor atmosphere in which to try and get ahead. They’re moving production out of the country, cutting middle management, and looking for poor performers to eliminate. You have to work twice as hard just to break even in a place like that. And remember the odds…90% of all new jobs are in small companies. You’ve got enough problems without fighting those odds.
It helps to pick an industry with which you’re familiar, but it isn’t critical. If you’ve begun to develop a spirit of survival you may find that getting good at what you are doing is more important to you than ball games, watching TV, going bowling or making your kid’s lives miserable.
Now, in the spirit of feedback…of customer service…let me know how you make out. It doesn’t make any difference whether you’re 20 or 60, the rules are the same. When you’re young you can promise all kinds of learning. When you’re old you can promise all kinds of experience…plus an interest in learning even more.
An article in Inc. mentioned a chap looking to hire sales people makes it a practice to hang up on people calling about the job. He knows that a good sales person has to be persistent, so if that puts them off, they aren't likely to be of much use to him anyway.
Perseverance is one of the most important characteristics one can develop for success. It'll beat out education, experience, and even brains. And that goes double in sales.
2/7/09
T’was
As your living link with the past, here’s some memories from living in Brooklyn in the 1930s in a house built in 1909 with my folks, and my mother’s folks.
The house had three bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor, one bedroom for my dad and mother, the second for Pop and Ma, mother’s folks, and the third was used as an office for Pop’s Rexhide brakelining business. So I had to sleep in the attic, which was unheated (and not insulated, either). Hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
My job, as the first one up, was to go down the cellar in my pajamas and light the gas water heater. I’d turn the timer to two hours and light it with a match. Next I’d shake down the ashes in the furnace and shovel them into the ash can. Then shovel coal from the nearby coal bin into the furnace and refill the two coffee cans that were just inside the furnace door with water to provide humidity in our hot-air heated house.
On real cold nights I’d find the fire burned out, so I’d have to start it again. This meant crumpled-up newspaper, topped with some kindling wood, and then some coal. A little later more coal. Then more.
The bathroom had a flush toilet. Only the tank for the water was above the toilet, up near the ceiling, and, instead of a little flushing knob, there was a pull chain.
The bathtub had a hose going from the faucet up to the shower head, which was held in place with a circle of pipe, holding the shower curtain.
Once showered and dressed, it was down to the kitchen, where I emptied the drip pan under the icebox and brought in the milk from the back porch. Every house had a sign in the front window to show the iceman whether we needed 25, 50, or 75 pounds of ice. We hung it with the number on top that we needed.
The milk man delivered quart bottles of milk to our back porch early every morning. Later in the day the ice truck would come and the iceman would cut off a block from the large ice blocks with his ice pick and bring it into the kitchen with his ice tongs and heft it into the icebox.
Supermarkets? Not yet. We’d call the Bohack grocery “down at the corner” on the phone with our order and a boy on a bicycle would shortly arrive, walk in the back door, holler “Bohack,” and leave the box of groceries on the table.
The postman came twice a day, ringing the front door bell twice. Only once on Saturdays. And this was way, way before junk mail bad been invented. We got letters, not catalogs, magazines and fliers. Magazines? I sold subscriptions to Liberty in my area and once a week a truck would drop off the copies for my subscribers. I put them in my Liberty bag and hopped on my bicycle to deliver them.
It was easy to get around. The Avenue M Brighton Line subway stop was right down at the corner of our street. For a nickel I could go anywhere in the city. Three short blocks away were the Coney Island Avenue trolley, which went from Prospect Park to Coney Island, and three blocks in the other direction, the Ocean Avenue trolley, which went from downtown Brooklyn out to Sheepshead Bay. Trolleys were a nickel for adults and 2¢ for kids.
The Brighton Line local started from Central Park in Manhattan, went all the way down to the end of Manhattan Island, through the tunnel to Brooklyn and out to Coney Island. It was a subway until it reached Avenue H in Brooklyn, where it emerged and was on a hill about thirty feet high from there out. This hill ran right in back of our house. It didn’t take long to get used to the noise as the trains went by every few minutes.
Stores sprung up around every subway stop, and movie theaters near many. At the Avenue M stop we had a drug store, cigar store, Chinese laundry, a barber shop, a cleaner and presser shop, the Bohack grocery, a Chinese restaurant, hardware store, radio repair shop, a deli, a small restaurant, a movie theater, and so on.
The Italian ices man came around with a horse-drawn wagon during the summers with 2¢ and 3¢ cups for us kids going around on roller skates. The knife and scissors sharpening man also had a horse-drawn wagon.
Pop, who smoked cigars, pipes and cigarettes, died of pneumonia when I was 13, so that was the end of the Rexhide brakelining dealership, allowing me to move from the attic to the bedroom that had housed the business’ office.
T’was
As your living link with the past, here’s some memories from living in Brooklyn in the 1930s in a house built in 1909 with my folks, and my mother’s folks.
The house had three bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor, one bedroom for my dad and mother, the second for Pop and Ma, mother’s folks, and the third was used as an office for Pop’s Rexhide brakelining business. So I had to sleep in the attic, which was unheated (and not insulated, either). Hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
My job, as the first one up, was to go down the cellar in my pajamas and light the gas water heater. I’d turn the timer to two hours and light it with a match. Next I’d shake down the ashes in the furnace and shovel them into the ash can. Then shovel coal from the nearby coal bin into the furnace and refill the two coffee cans that were just inside the furnace door with water to provide humidity in our hot-air heated house.
On real cold nights I’d find the fire burned out, so I’d have to start it again. This meant crumpled-up newspaper, topped with some kindling wood, and then some coal. A little later more coal. Then more.
The bathroom had a flush toilet. Only the tank for the water was above the toilet, up near the ceiling, and, instead of a little flushing knob, there was a pull chain.
The bathtub had a hose going from the faucet up to the shower head, which was held in place with a circle of pipe, holding the shower curtain.
Once showered and dressed, it was down to the kitchen, where I emptied the drip pan under the icebox and brought in the milk from the back porch. Every house had a sign in the front window to show the iceman whether we needed 25, 50, or 75 pounds of ice. We hung it with the number on top that we needed.
The milk man delivered quart bottles of milk to our back porch early every morning. Later in the day the ice truck would come and the iceman would cut off a block from the large ice blocks with his ice pick and bring it into the kitchen with his ice tongs and heft it into the icebox.
Supermarkets? Not yet. We’d call the Bohack grocery “down at the corner” on the phone with our order and a boy on a bicycle would shortly arrive, walk in the back door, holler “Bohack,” and leave the box of groceries on the table.
The postman came twice a day, ringing the front door bell twice. Only once on Saturdays. And this was way, way before junk mail bad been invented. We got letters, not catalogs, magazines and fliers. Magazines? I sold subscriptions to Liberty in my area and once a week a truck would drop off the copies for my subscribers. I put them in my Liberty bag and hopped on my bicycle to deliver them.
It was easy to get around. The Avenue M Brighton Line subway stop was right down at the corner of our street. For a nickel I could go anywhere in the city. Three short blocks away were the Coney Island Avenue trolley, which went from Prospect Park to Coney Island, and three blocks in the other direction, the Ocean Avenue trolley, which went from downtown Brooklyn out to Sheepshead Bay. Trolleys were a nickel for adults and 2¢ for kids.
The Brighton Line local started from Central Park in Manhattan, went all the way down to the end of Manhattan Island, through the tunnel to Brooklyn and out to Coney Island. It was a subway until it reached Avenue H in Brooklyn, where it emerged and was on a hill about thirty feet high from there out. This hill ran right in back of our house. It didn’t take long to get used to the noise as the trains went by every few minutes.
Stores sprung up around every subway stop, and movie theaters near many. At the Avenue M stop we had a drug store, cigar store, Chinese laundry, a barber shop, a cleaner and presser shop, the Bohack grocery, a Chinese restaurant, hardware store, radio repair shop, a deli, a small restaurant, a movie theater, and so on.
The Italian ices man came around with a horse-drawn wagon during the summers with 2¢ and 3¢ cups for us kids going around on roller skates. The knife and scissors sharpening man also had a horse-drawn wagon.
Pop, who smoked cigars, pipes and cigarettes, died of pneumonia when I was 13, so that was the end of the Rexhide brakelining dealership, allowing me to move from the attic to the bedroom that had housed the business’ office.
2/6/09
Book Review
How could I go wrong buying The Immune Advantage from Prevention Health Books (2002). The cover says: “The Powerful Natural Immune-Boosting Program to help you: Prevent Disease; Enhance Vitality; Live a Longer, Healthier Life.” And: “The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Health.”
And on the back cover, “Nothing science has discovered can match the power and effectiveness of your immune system—when it is operating at full capacity. That’s why boosting your immune system is the single most important thing you can do for your health.”
I’ve no argument with the hype. It’s what I’ve discovered too. It’s what in the 468 pages that make the book a total bust. Yeah, avoid junk food. But not a word about raw food, just pages and pages of cooking recipes. No mention of avoiding pasteurized milk. No, it recommends fat-free milk. Raw meat? The only thing it had to say about that was to treat it like it was poison and make sure it never touches anything else. Danger! Salmonella! E. Coli! I could find no redeeming aspects to the book.
Is it possible that the doctors who wrote this and the editors are out of touch with the real world? Or don’t they dare reveal the truth about protecting our immune systems because that could cost the publishers big pharma advertising? Money couldn’t possible trump truth, could it?
2/5/09
Kidney Stones
The raw food diet will cure ’em, but take some time. A note from my friend Marcel LeRoi says that a friend of his who was going to the hospital several times a week and facing an operation for his kidney stones, learned about an alternative. He took a tablespoon of Arm & Hammer baking soda dissolved in water every two hours…and within two days he was completely cured. He said there are reports of this also working with some cancers, which grow rapidly in an acid PH, while a high PH of 7.0 and above kills cancer cells.
Makes sense.
Book Review
How could I go wrong buying The Immune Advantage from Prevention Health Books (2002). The cover says: “The Powerful Natural Immune-Boosting Program to help you: Prevent Disease; Enhance Vitality; Live a Longer, Healthier Life.” And: “The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Health.”
And on the back cover, “Nothing science has discovered can match the power and effectiveness of your immune system—when it is operating at full capacity. That’s why boosting your immune system is the single most important thing you can do for your health.”
I’ve no argument with the hype. It’s what I’ve discovered too. It’s what in the 468 pages that make the book a total bust. Yeah, avoid junk food. But not a word about raw food, just pages and pages of cooking recipes. No mention of avoiding pasteurized milk. No, it recommends fat-free milk. Raw meat? The only thing it had to say about that was to treat it like it was poison and make sure it never touches anything else. Danger! Salmonella! E. Coli! I could find no redeeming aspects to the book.
Is it possible that the doctors who wrote this and the editors are out of touch with the real world? Or don’t they dare reveal the truth about protecting our immune systems because that could cost the publishers big pharma advertising? Money couldn’t possible trump truth, could it?
2/5/09
Kidney Stones
The raw food diet will cure ’em, but take some time. A note from my friend Marcel LeRoi says that a friend of his who was going to the hospital several times a week and facing an operation for his kidney stones, learned about an alternative. He took a tablespoon of Arm & Hammer baking soda dissolved in water every two hours…and within two days he was completely cured. He said there are reports of this also working with some cancers, which grow rapidly in an acid PH, while a high PH of 7.0 and above kills cancer cells.
Makes sense.
2/4/09
Raw Ice Cream?
You bet! It’s easy to make and healthy to eat. Cheap, too.
Put four ripe bananas into your blender, add three large organic eggs (free ranging chickens), two cups of raw milk, and a couple heaping tablespoons of cocoa powder. Blend and put into your freezer. Then, three or four hours before the meal, move it to your fridge so it’ll soften and be easy to eat.
I shop for the over-ripe bananas that have been marked down to around 25-30¢ a pound. I peel ’em, cut into chunks and freeze until I’m ready to make ice cream or kale smoothies.
Once you try this you’ll be keeping several quarts of raw ice cream in your freezer, ready for future meals.
2/3/09
Fake!
The Winter/Spring issue of the Journal of Healing Discoveries, with a $7.95 cover price, arrived unexpectedly in the mail. Eight bucks for a twenty-page journal? Yeah, sure.
The twenty pages were all devoted to selling KürZyme, pronounced cure-zime. Hard sell. But, there was no mention of the product’s price, only endless promises that I’d get my money back if it didn’t produce significant results in my health.
How could I go wrong? The list of ingredients went on for pages. Twenty-six of them, including Vitamins A and E, rose hips, grape seed extract, flax seed extract, tumeric, magnesium, zinc, ginko biloba, butcher’s broom, lycopene, broccoli, carrots, spinach, Mojave yucca, rutin, quercetin, ginseng, selenium, kelp, Irish moss, green tea extract, etc. They didn’t say whether it comes in a powder or gels.
So I called the 800-number. It’s $60 a month, and they wanted me to spend $179.95 for a three month supply. On my raw food diet how could anything make me feel better? I passed up the opportunity.
2/2/09
Daily Talks
Three years ago, when David Booth was living over in the next town (Antrim) he asked me to do a short daily video webcast for his www.whatdoesitmean.com. So, here for historical (or hysterical) semi-interest, are some of the material I covered.
Talks #1:
Hi, Wayne Green, looking under the media’s rug for the worlds news sweepings for Wednesday, December 7, 2005.
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said 64 years ago, this is a date that will live in infamy. But what Frank neglected to mention was that the infamy wasn’t the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it was his forcing the Japanese to attack, knowing when and where they were going to attack, and then keeping that knowledge from his Pearl Harbor commanders.
You see, Frank had a problem. Hitler had overrun most of Europe, and Britain was easy meat to finish off the job. But the polls showed the American people 82% opposed to our getting into the European war. Something drastic had to be done to change public opinion. So, in one move after another, culminating with an American embargo of Japan in July 1941, which cut off their oil, Frank made a war with Japan inevitable.
He had lots of warning of the attack, including radio intercepts and our breaking of the Japanese code. He knew where their aircraft carrier fleet was and where it was heading. Further, just to make sure, he’d replaced the competent command at Pearl with Admiral Kimmel and General Short, who were not his brightest chiefs.
He made sure all our aircraft carriers were somewhere else, leaving mainly some old battleships, which were no longer of much value in the carrier war era.
You can read the details, which Robert Stinnett took years to uncover, in his 400 page Day of Deceit — The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor. This isn’t the only exposé book. There’s also Deceit At Pearl Harbor and Pearl Harbor Final Judgment.
The attack had its desired effect. The next day we were at war with Japan and Germany, and I, who was a 19-year old college student at the time, was prime meat for the draft board. Yes, I survived the war, but not without a bunch of stories to tell.
When the government is able to cover up something as huge as the Pearl Harbor attack for sixty years, it raises the question: what else is being covered up?
The 1941 rumors of the deceit were dismissed by the media as ridiculous conspiracy theories. Funny thing, but the more we seriously investigate conspiracy theories, the more government cover-ups we seem to find. Like, what’s an explanation for the two napalm canisters photos of the second plane crashing into the World Trade Center show attached underneath the plane?
Make a list. UFOs, the crash at Roswell, the Kennedy assassination, the safety of fluoride in our water, dental amalgam, aspartame, pasteurized milk, and vaccinations. Then there’s global warming, cold fusion, the Flight 800 crash, the Mad Cow disease scare, the Oklahoma City bombs…it’s a long list.
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Vanuatu, the small South Pacific island nation, is back in the news again. This time it’s not their volcano, but the news that a hundred families have had to move about a thousand feet back from the ocean, which has been rising due to global warming.
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In response to a new study on the growing children’s obesity pandemic, Congress was urged yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences to restrict the marketing of junk food to children.
That’s probably easier than getting parents to supervise their children’s eating and stop buying junk for their kids.
My mother, eighty years ago, made sure I ate healthy meals. No cold cereals with pasteurized milk and sugar. No jam or jelly. No white bread. No sodas. No cookies. No candy. So I grew up with perfect teeth and good health.
The Academy urged food companies to stop targeting children with “spokescharacters” such as SpongeBob Square Pants and Barbie dolls.
It would also help if schools wouldn’t make it so easy for kids to get junk food. Fat chance.
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That’s the best I could do for you today. Maybe tomorrow will be better. Hey, I’m kidding!
Talks #2
Hi, Wayne Green again, with the bottom of the news for Saturday, December 10th, 2005.
A new UN report estimates there are 40 million people worldwide infected with HIV, and that 40,000 Americans are acquiring HIV a year, with nearly half of them blacks. What’s been kept secret from them (and you) by the FDA and the AMA is the inexpensive, swift, no-drug cure for AIDS discovered by Drs. Lyman and Kaali at the prestigious Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York…and patented over ten years ago. Check patents #5,188,738 and 5,091,152.
The doctors accidentally discovered that when they passed a tiny electric current through the blood it kept any virus, microbe, parasite, fungus or yeast infection living in the blood from multiplying, causing it to die. It didn’t hurt the blood cells, which are made in the bone marrow and don’t multiply in the blood.
All that’s needed to wipe out AIDS is a small power unit to supply a pulsed 35 volts, a device which could be made in China for under five dollars, and a couple wires to fasten above the two arteries at the wrist for an hour a day for a few weeks. It’s a painless process which rids the blood of any infections such as AIDS, malaria, and schistosomiasis…also known as bilharzasis.
The downside, of course, would be the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars in AIDS medications and a renewed explosion of the African population. It would also make Bill Gates look like an idiot for wasting billions of his dollars on AIDS medications for Africans without bothering to do his homework.
It’s dangerous to sell these blood purifiers, since they are not authorized by the FDA, an $800 million ten year process. Michael Forrest, who did this, was tracked down in Paraguay, arrested, and brought back to Wisconsin for trial. The FDA’s job is to protect the pharmaceutical industry, not the public.
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Here’s some news for mothers of small babies. A new study has found that use of a pacifier during sleep reduced the chances of a baby suffering from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) by 90 percent. Furthermore, pacifiers eliminate the increased risk associated with babies who sleep on their stomach or in soft bedding…factors that have been shown to increase the risk of SIDS as much as ten-fold.
"A baby who sleeps on his stomach without a pacifier has a 2.5 times greater risk of SIDS," explains De-Kun Li, a reproductive epidemiologist with Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., who led the research. "If you use a pacifier, the baby's risk disappears."
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As predicted in Professor McCanney’s 2002 Planet-X book, there have been more and more reports of large meteor strikes, volcanoes acting up, and earthquakes. Scientists have reported the Alaska’s Augustine volcano’s activity, with the dome having raised. And there were reports of meteors lighting up the sky in Alaska and Australia. Earthquakes were reported today in Alaska, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Washington state. A few days ago one shook the St. Louis area.
It’s particularly interesting that many of these earthquake reports also tell us of their being associated with a loud boom, like a sonic boom.
Professor McCanney also predicted that as Planet-X entered our solar system we would see all the planets heating up and the Sun going crazy. Which, along with the earthquakes, volcanoes, and meteors, is just what’s being reported. Is this another case of a government cover-up, and if so…why?
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There’s a lot more stuff down there on the bottom of the media waste basket. I’ll see what I can find for tomorrow.
Talks #3
Hi, Wayne Green with the dull edge of today’s world news, Sunday, December 11th, 2005.
With the barrage of scare headlines about a flu pandemic, millions of people are dutifully lining up for flu shots. The vaccine manufacturers, well aware of the many potential side effects (such as death), are pushing congress to exempt them from lawsuits. Bills by Senators Bill Frist and Richard Burr are being pushed through to accomplish this protection.
You know, I haven’t seen a hint anywhere in the news explaining that if you have a strong immune system you don’t have to worry about the flu. And if you do insist on compromising your immune system so your body can’t fight off invading germs or viruses, at least have some silver colloid on hand. It only costs about a penny a gallon to make on your kitchen table and it works like magic.
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An animal behaviourist says she's figured out what dogs are doing when they make that excited panting noise while playing or anticipating a much desired walk. They're laughing.
Patricia Simonet, development and program coordinator for Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service, also found that the sound of dog laughter comforts other dogs.
When she played a recording of "play panting" through the speaker system at a shelter in Spokane Valley, all the barking dogs quieted within a minute.
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Now, I can use some help from you. A year ago I sent a letter to New Hampshire’s Governor Lynch outlining a plan to cut the state employees so-called health care costs. Actually, it’s sickness exploitation. My plan was to educate the employees in the prevention of illness by getting them to change their lifestyles. Naturally I got no response from the Governor.
A few weeks ago I gave him a copy of my Secret Guide to Health. I know he hasn’t bothered to read it because he hasn’t called.
Now, here’s where you can help. Go to my waynegreen.com site, download the letter, and send a copy to Governor Lynch, State House, Concord, NH 03301. A few hundred letters from all around the world may break through the wall around him.
If the state starts being able to cut its sickness costs, other states and businesses will take notice and we might be able to start a health revolution. It’s worth a try.
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Will tomorrow bring better news? Har-de-har. And, if it did, you can bet the media won’t mention it. Nor will I. Good news does not sell papers or increase web site traffic.
Talks #4
Hi, here’s Wayne Green’s bottom of the news report for Monday, December 12th, 2005.
Report number one: It’s colder than a witches tit here in New Hampshire.
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The millions of Muslims who have escaped the poverty and repression of their home countries, have brought the customs which caused their problems with them to Europe, Australia and the U.S. In Europe they’ve settled in their own areas and keep pretty much to themselves. Well, other than rioting and burning a few hundred cars in Paris. Rioting has also been reported in Australia.
I’m reminded of a similar situation in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania a few years back, where the Indians caused the same problem and were eventually kicked out of the countries. And the same problem in Fiji with the Chinese, which almost came to a war.
We have similar problems in the U.S. with immigrant groups who insist on preserving their customs and religions instead of joining the melting pot system of becoming just plain Americans.
So we have Italian-Americans, German-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, and so on. Can we ever get rid of the hyphens?
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Scientists have reported that the Earth’s magnetic pole has been shifting toward Siberia. They didn’t say anything about why. Could this be tied in with what’s causing global warming and the change in the Gulf Stream? If the Earth’s magnetic field is caused by the movement of ocean currents around the world, as some scientists have proposed, this would explain the movement of the magnetic pole.
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Scientists investigating the Sumatra earthquake now tell us that while most earthquakes last for 30 seconds or so, the Sumatra quake shook for at least eight minutes, rupturing the planet along a 750 mile fault and the Indian plate slipped 33 to 50 feet.
With more and more earthquakes being reported around the world, and volcanoes everywhere acting up, have you given any thought to being prepared. Just in case?
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The year 2005, the World Wildlife Fund said, is shaping up as the worst for extreme weather, with the hottest temperatures, most Arctic melting, worst Atlantic hurricane season and warmest Caribbean waters. It’s also been the driest year in decades in the Amazon, where a drought may surpass anything in the past century.
The Amazon River basin, the world's largest rain forest, is grappling with a devastating drought that in some areas is the worst since record keeping began a century ago. It has evaporated whole lagoons and kindled forest fires, killed off fish and crops, stranded boats and the villagers who travel by them, brought disease and wreaked economic havoc.
And in Alaska, the rapidly disintegrating Columbia Glacier, which has shrunk in length by 9 miles since 1980, has reached the mid-point of its projected retreat, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. The glacier is now discharging nearly 2 cubic miles of ice annually into the Prince William Sound.
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In world terms, it barely rated a blip on seismographs around the globe, but the earthquake which shook the Fort William area yesterday was the biggest to hit Scotland in 20 years. The Constabulary was inundated with calls after a loud late-night rumble and tremors shook a huge chunk of the West Highlands during the quake which hit three on the Richter scale.
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British teachers have been warned to protect younger children being terrified by Father Christmas…and not to send Christmas cards to fellow pupils in order not to waste paper. I wonder what the postal authorities think of that? Oh, and in order not to traumatize tender egos, competitive games should be avoided…because the losers might feel bad.
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There’s lots more news kicking around the bottom of the media wastebasket, so I’ll be back tomorrow with more of the dregs.
Talks #5
Hi, Wayne Green, with what little I’ve been able to fish out of the media cesspool for Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
Flash: Researchers have discovered that totally brainwashed Americans have been unable to keep themselves from re-electing their Senators and Congressmen.
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The Fiji Islands were rocked by a 6.8 quake today. A 6.7 quake hit in the mountains of Afghanistan today. And a 5.0 quake rocked Wellington, New Zealand, causing minor damage and no reported casualties.
In Oklahoma it was an outbreak of geysers…spewing mud and gas high into the air. Some were only a quarter mile apart, while others were up to 12 miles.
So, what’s going on, with geysers, earthquakes, more and more active volcanoes being reported?
My take on this is covered in my Catastrophe booklet.
What does it mean to you? It means that, unless you are in a mental fog, you’ll make an effort to be prepared in case an earthquake, hurricane, ice storm or tsunami might leave you on your own for a few days.
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Yesterday the American Public Health Association reported that 23.1% of Americans are now considered obese, double the 1990 level.
I have a news flash for you fatties. If you change to a raw food diet your body will automatically get rid of all that fat…no matter how much you eat. Thirty years ago I was a 260-pound mound of blubber. I changed my diet, lost 100 pounds, and have kept it off.
Remember, as you order those fries, there are no old fat people.
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Australia seems to have sprung a leak. maybe they dug one of those holes too deep because there have been reports of kangaroos in Wisconsin. A driver, who thought he might have hit a coyote or fox was amazed to find it was a 50-pound kangaroo. He’s having it stuffed so people will believe his story.
Back in January another kangaroo was found, never claimed by anyone, and is on exhibit in the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison.
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As Charlie Reese pointed out in a recent column, “Our present public education system cannot sustain this nation. We have college graduates who don’t know eighth-grade English grammar or even how many states were in the union in 1945.” He explained that the system is not going to be reformed. Between the politicians, the education bureaucrats and the teacher’s unions, it will continue to deteriorate.
My solution is a technology revolution, not reform. Blindside the politicians, educrats and unions. The adventurous will read my proposals for change in the posting on my web site of my letters to Governor Lynch. These are letters that should be sent to every state governor.
Well, I’ve spearheaded a couple of technology revolutions so far, so give me a hand with another. Let’s not let American go the route of the Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Spanish and British empires.
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With today’s computers and communications, more and more companies are encouraging their workers to work at home. With Skype, you can sit and talk over the Internet for free. Anywhere. Yep, I’m a Skype user.
The current Business Week has an article on the growth of this phenomenon. 40% of IBM’s work force has no office at the company. The prediction is that 40% of America’s workforce will be distributed by 2012. Agilent, in 2003, closed 48 of its sales offices and had the employees working from home. Today 70% of their workforce is remotely connected either some or all of the time.
New Hampshire ToDo magazine has no central office. All of the people work from their homes. And love it.
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Will I have some really good news for you tomorrow? Not a chance. You’d just yawn. Now go out there and point and laugh at some fat people. But watch out you don’t get a fat lip.
Talks #6
Space Radiation
With Bush not being satisfied with the largest deficit in history and promising us a manned base on the Moon, and send astronauts to Mars, it’s time to raise a few questions. Now, I realize that such an effort would be a huge bonanza to California, Texas and Florida, where most of the money would be spent, but all the rest of us are going to have to pay the whopping tab.
First, he said, we’ll send robots and then we’ll send astronauts.
Say, exactly why are we going to do all this? We have a lot of problems that need tackling here on Earth without doing that Moon stuff again. Here’s America with the highest cost sickness care in the world, but with third world results. And with the highest cost school system in the world…yet our students come in at the bottom in international tests. We have a lot of things that need fixing here before we blow a trillion or three sending expeditions into space. That’s around $5,000 per taxpayer average. Whew!
Well, robots won’t be all that expensive. We’ve already sent them successfully to the Moon and Mars. But how are we going to keep astronauts alive on such trips?
Radiation is a serious problem. The government agrees that the maximum lifetime dose is 25 rads, and that death begins at 500 rads. So how much radiation will they have to contend with going through Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts? And then how much in outer space and on the Moon…which has no protective Van Allen Belt?
According to the Journal of Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine the dose astronauts would get in the Van Allen Belts would be 280,000 rads per day. That’s 3.2 rads per second.
There are two main belts, the inner and outer rings. The inner ring starts at about 4,500 miles out and extends to 6,400 miles. At 6.8 miles per second, an astronaut would have to spend about 588 seconds transiting the Belt, gathering avout 1,790 rads. Talk about a crispy critter!
We know there has to be more radiation in space coming from the Sun. That’s what keeps the Van Allen Belts alive. The estimates are that space radiation is about a tenth that of the Belts, or 0.32 rads per second. Thus, a twelve-day trip, like Apollo 17 supposedly did, would give a total exposure of 320,000 rads. And that’s only if the Sun doesn’t have any flares heading their way at thousands of miles per second, plus heavy doses of X-rays.
Astronauts in near-Earth orbit who got a little further out, but still thousands of miles inside the Van Allen Belts, reported flashing lights in the heads and had to be brought back down quickly.
If we’re going to keep our astronauts alive in space we’re going to have to protect their ships and their space suits with several inches of lead.
I ask again…why are we doing this?
We’ve spent hundreds of billions on the space shuttle and space lab…and what have we gotten from it other than watching a couple of the shuttles self-destruct? Nothing of any scientific or commercial value has resulted. And for a fraction of the cost European rockets have been getting most of the satellites into orbit.
I’m a big techology fan, but I really hate to see our government blowing billions on poorly conceived projects such as the linear accelerator and hot fusion.
Talks #7
Homeland Security?
Should we laugh or cry over Homeland Security photographing and fingerprinting foreign arrivals at our airports? The result has been a further delay for arriving passengers, almost universal anger from the European countries, and I hate to think how many millions of dollars for the manufacture, installation, maintenance, and extra people needed to operate the system. Make that billions, considering the sophisticate computer system needed…and that’s even if the software is done in India, which much of it is these days.
I’ll be more convinced that this isn’t a hare-brained stupidity if I hear about the Border Patrol setting up entry gates along the Mexican border for the nightly flood of illegals. We have twelve to twenty million illegal aliens in the country, with an expected half million more swarming in this year. Aliens from almost anywhere coming here to do what?
If I were running a terrorist group I’d send my people through Mexico, not Kennedy or Logan Airport. That way they could bring any guns, explosives or suitcase nukes along they wanted. By the ton, just like drugs. For a little extra the Mexican police would help.
How come all those illegals? We have the welcome mat out. They don’t have to pay any taxes, but do consume government services…especially medical care and education. By law, these services can’t be denied them. In fact, it’s illegal for a hospital to even ask about a patient’s citizenship or immigration status.
California estimates that medical service for illegals is costing the state over $3 billion a year.
Do you get the feeling that if you pay for emergency medical service you’re a chump?
Employers who hire illegals pay them in cash, thus evading employment taxes. And, with the work being done off the books, the revenues can be the same, avoiding income taxes. This makes it tougher for their competitors, who then have to do the same.
Talks #8
Belief
Belief is the thief of reason.
Think about that.
A friend of mine’s parting words during a radio interview were, “I believe we went to the Moon and I don’t want to hear any more about it.”
If you know much about hypnotism you know that hypnotized persons can exhibit phenomenal strength. They can be made to feel pain or not to feel it, even during serious surgical operations. They can be made blind, or selectively blind. They can remember any moment of their lives and relive it as if it were happening right then.
With post-hypnotic suggestion a subject can be told that when the hypnotist touches his nose the subject will take off his jacket. When the hypnotist touches his tie the subject will put his coat back on.
Much to the amusement of everyone watching the subject will take his jacket off and put it on a dozen times, each time with what is to the subject a rational explanation for the action. Eventually the subject will realize that something is wrong…particularly if everyone is laughing.
Now, consider that a belief acts much like post-hypnotic suggestion. My friend was upset because I was citing one argument after another which challenged his belief in the Apollo Moon missions.
So, what do you believe in?
I’m not sure I’ve ever been much into believing. My position has been that the evidence for some subject is very convincing. But, as I’ve added to my essays for the last 50 years, if a reader has reliable evidence to the contrary, I’m open for the input. What I don’t want is emotional attacks from believers who are upset that I’ve disturbed a belief.
There’s this long list of things that many people have been brainwashed (hypnotized) into believing. Oh, this holds for addictions too. Rationalizations they use as excuses…and really believe. Sadly, few people have the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood.
I face this problem when I try to reason with people about health. They are so totally inculcated with the belief that some outside force has made them sick…germs, a virus, evil eye, accident…that the concept that their own activity may be the root cause is unthinkable. And that all they have to do to cure their illness or disease is to stop doing what caused it.
As Hawkins in his Power Vs. Force says, “Even when a person intellectually knows his behavior is self-destructive, this knowledge has no necessary deterrent effect whatsoever; intellectual recognition of our addictions has never given us the power to control them.”
The rare person who is able to transcend his beliefs will find that we are being lied to steadily about almost everything. How do you go about breaking a hypnotic system like that?
Most people really believe in doctors. They believe the government is behind the dollar. They believe we really did put men on the Moon 40 years ago. They believe in only one bomb at Oklahoma City. They believe Oswald killed Kennedy, that Flight 800 had a gas tank explosion, that Amelia Earhart was lost over the Pacific. They believe they can safely eat hamburgers, diet colas, cooked food, pasteurized milk, coffee, doughnuts, beer, and so on. They believe in Social Security as a safety net. They believe the Japanese surprised us at Pearl Harbor. They believe our Senators and Representatives when they say that donations to their re-election funds don’t influence their votes. They believe that fluorides are being put into our drinking water for our benefit. They believe the official story of the 9/11 disaster. They believe that higher teacher pay and smaller classes will improve our schools. That dental amalgam isn’t causing multiple sclerosis. That root canals are safe. That vitamin and mineral supplements aren’t necessary for health. That sugar is not an addictive poison. That vaccinations are safe.
It’s an almost endless list.
Fortunately, 99.999% of us are kept so busy with entertainment we don’t have the time, even if we had the curiosity, to look into the validity of our beliefs. We’re kept busy with the newscasts, politics, watching sports…from golf to basketball, and all ball sizes and shapes in between. And pucks. Movies, trash TV, sitcoms, cop shows, reality shows, ad infinitum. Oh, and music. Oddly enough, classical music turns out to be good for our bodies. With rock and rap, kids are put into a hypnotic trance where the lyrics go directly to the subconscious as orders to be obeyed. Kids don’t know why they act out these repetitive post-hypnotic suggestions.
Speaking of kids (well, writing), if you have any, how much time do your spend talking with them? My dad, in my entire life at home, never spent any time actually talking with me. Oh, I tried a few times, but he’d get angry. My mother did a few times, but not often. I don’t recall dad ever talking intellectually with anyone about anything. This isn’t selective memory, I have cartons of tapes I made of our lightweight dinnertime conversations.
Neither my mother or dad read books. Nor magazines. They didn’t write either. Oh, they knew how, it’s just that it wasn’t of any interest to them. They never had any interest in my school work. None.
In view of the above, perhaps you can understand why the theme of my writing is to Wise Up. Challenge your beliefs. Read books. My review of about a hundred books that you’re crazy if you don’t read in my Secret Guide to Wisdom will start you on the path to actually thinking. And what a path it is!
I don’t pay any attention to TV news programs. Waste of time. If it’s important, but not being kept quiet by the government, it’ll be in Newsweek or Time. For other info I depend on Business Week, The New Yorker, Nexus, Forbes, and Fortune.
I try not to waste time. We live around 657,000 hours. The first 100,000 are spent being a young kid. After about 185,000 we’re out of school are working. We work about 100,000 hours before we retire. We eat and sleep about 200,000 hours. That leaves us around 172,000 hours to commute, be with our families, be entertained, vacation, and maybe educate ourselves. Which may explain why I try to spend every hour I can reading books instead of watching ball games or TV. What little TV I watch I tape first so I can zip through the 17 minutes of commercials an hour. And I only watch while I’m eating my meals.
Alas, I haven’t worked an eight-hour day in decades. I sleep about seven hours…six at night and an hour in the afternoon. I listen to Coast-to-Coast on my iPod while I’m out fast walking or driving somewhere. I spend about 15-minutes a day doing two crossword puzzles…to help keep my mind sharp. I read about an hour or two a day, depending on how far I’m behind in my work and how often the phone rings.
Most of my work I enjoy, so I’m having fun when I’m on talk shows, taking with people on the phone, writing, and researching. I do have routine stuff like entering book orders in the computer, and packing orders to mail, which isn’t fun. And this gets really hectic after I’ve been on the Coast-to-Coast program as a guest. Whew! Weeks of frantic order handling and printing more books ensues.
Then I say to Sherry, “Hey, let’s go to Stuttgart for a zeppelin flight.” Or she’ll organize a fast trip to Orlando or Aruba for a few days. The flights are usually free using credit card airline miles.
If you still believe in the dangers of mad cow disease, flu shots, chemo for cancer, prescription drugs, and that emphysema can’t be cured, it’s time to take off your hypnotic blinders and wise the hell up. I’ll help, if you’ll let me.
Then, there’s your religious beliefs. Uh, oh...I better not go into that.
Talks #9
Wasting Disease
Please do your best to get across the concept to your children (or, more likely, your grandchildren), that there are very few well educated poor people…and also, very few uneducated wealthy people. You might also sneak in the idea that our schools provide only the fundamentals of education…reading and writing. Whether they are going to be really educated or not is entirely up to them.
There are all sorts of educational sources…books by the top brains in any field, the Internet, DVDs, CDs, magazines, and so on. But these are only of value to those who actually use them…and do that instead of wasting one’s time on entertainment.
A life devoted to watching ball games and trash TV isn’t going to pay off. Sure, they’re fun, but it’s a lot more fun in the long run to be able to get that Harley, if you want, or to be able to travel when and where you want, anywhere in the world. The streets of Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, London and Berlin are as familiar to me as Boston or San Francisco.
I’m all for sports, but only if I’m doing them. I love to ski, scuba dive and ride horseback. I like to do things, not watch others doing them. If you’re a good reader you can get a good way through a book in the time you waste watching a ball game. And that’s something you’ll always have.
Or you can sit and watch Judge Judy, Maurey, Oprah, The View, and reruns.
Talks #10
Anti-dementia
As the producer of over a hundred how-to-dance DVDs, Sherry was excited to read a New England Journal of Medicine report that ballroom dancing has been found to significantly reduce the risk of developing dementia. It’s not just the exercise or the romantic implications, it seems to have to do with the need to memorize intricate dance steps. You can get her catalog via www.waynegreen.com
Other beneficial activities were learning a new language or musical instrument, and doing crossword puzzles. Thanks to the gift of a ton of old New York Times puzzles and cryptograms from Rocky in Santa Clara, I’ve been doing two and four crosswords a day for years. Love ’em. No signs of dementia yet, unless you class my conviction that the Apollo missions were faked as a sign.
2/1/09
Exhuming: #77 (Written Aug. 2003)
That’s the phone number women should remember if they’re driving alone and an unmarked police car starts blinking to pull them over. It calls the local police dispatcher.
Lauren, a 19 years old college student was driving one afternoon to visit a friend when an unmarked car pulled up behind her and turned on his rooftop flashing red light. She dialed #77 and asked in about it. He said there was no police car supposed to be in that area and to keep driving, that he had back-up on the way. Ten minutes later four cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her.
The man turned out to be a convicted rapist and was wanted for other crimes.
When flashed by a police car you have the right to continue until you reach a safe place to stop, such as at a service station. Better yet, keep a cell phone at hand so you can dial #77.
2/1/09
Exhuming: Blinders (Written Dec. 2000)
One has to be significantly data-challenged (ignorant) or be wearing blinders to doubt that there really are UFOs, and that aliens are visiting us…and have been for a long, long time.
These thoughts came to mind when I read a SETI League release about a 100th amateur radio telescope being built in New Jersey. Look, guys, unless you’ve been living in a data-free cave, it’s well established that the aliens communicate telepathically, which means their communications in all liklihood are instantaneous, not restricted by even galactic distances, and are wideband.
But, instead of pursuing some powerful hints on ways we can develop and use mind skills, what we’ve got are people building bigger bonfires for longer range smoke signal communications.
2/1/09
Exhuming: Global Crime (Written in Feb. 2000)
As a result of several years of hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator John Kerry, it’s Chairman, has written a book, The New War. It’s 210 pages chronicles the extent that crime has gone global, with the world’s major crime and terrorist groups now cooperating in the running of a $1 trillion crime industry.
They’re operating much as international corporations do, but with the goal of taking over countries and running them for the benefit of the cooperating syndicates. They already essentially control Russia, Colombia, Nigeria, Mexico, and several Caribbean nations. Their tools of business are bribery, murder and intimidation.
This new global crime cooperative has little opposition to its growth. The nations of the world have no system for cooperatively combating this threat. Each has its police systems, but there are no international laws, nor international police, so the crime cooperative is able to play one country against another.
Senator Kerry’s book goes into detail about the problems and the scale of the threat—which could easily escalate into the use of terrorist tools such as nuclear weapons or biological attacks on our cities. What it doesn’t do is propose any realistic solution to the problem. Nor is there even one tiny hint of legalizing drugs as a way to take the enormous profits out of their sale, their main source of revenue. That’s just too hot a potato for any politician to touch.
Without the hundreds of billions in drug profits from American customers, it is unlikely that the crime/terrorist coalition would hold together.
The longer the crime groups are able to function, the more they branch out into other fields. There’s no mention in Kerry’s book of how the crime families in America got started as a result of liquor prohibition, and are now powerful influences in dozens (if not hundreds) of businesses. Just try getting involved with the newsstand delivery of newspapers and magazines without dealing with the Mafia and see what happens to you (and your family). Ditto with hat checking, garbage collection, beer delivery, radio station music director bribery, and so on. Oh, yes, gambling too. Let’s not forget who built Las Vegas.
Sure, alcohol is a problem, particularly for alcoholics. But passing laws against it only raised the price people had to pay, making it so enormously profitable that a whole new industry was spawned. And exactly the same thing has happened with drugs.
You might want to keep in mind, speaking of Mexico, that their government has been encouraging millions of their people to move to America, with the long range plan of getting back the territories they lost to us in the Mexican-American war of 1848. Hmmm, there goes California, Texas, New Mexico and Nevada. Darn!
2/1/09
Exhuming: Lunatrix (Written Jan. 2004)
A Canadian listener was kind enough to send me a copy of a recent CBC TV Documentary, Dark Side of the Moon, which thoroughly exposed NASA’a faking the films and photos of the first trip to the Moon, Apollo 11.
President Nixon, in the middle of the very unpopular Viet Nam war, desperately needed something spectacular to take the public’s attention off the war. When he got word that NASA wouldn’t be able to do the job, it was time for plan B. Under the cover that a backup was needed in case the films of the Moon landing were spoiled by solar radiation, the CIA, under the direction of then CIA Director General Vernon Walters, enlisted Stanley Kubrick’s help.
Kubrick, using his 2001 A Space Odyssey sets in the MGM studios in Boren Woods, just outside London, and a small production team sworn to secrecy, made the films. Afterwards, the team members were given new identities, plenty of money, and resettled in out of the way places around the world.
But then, Nixon got more and more worried that one of them might eventually spill the beans, disgracing NASA and America for the fraud. So he asked General Walters to make sure this couldn’t happen. He did.
One by one the team was “taken care of.” Andy Rogers, the sound man, was burned alive in a strange car crash. Jim Dahl, the assistant director under Kubrick, was found drowned in his back yard pool. Vince Brown was found cut up into little pieces in Patagonia. The police reported it as a suicide. Vince Brown, the assistant director, was tracked down and killed in the Kerguelen Islands. The CIA even filmed his murder.
Bob Stein, the set designer, hid out in a Yeshiva in Brooklyn for ten years before they found him. He was beaten up and after six months in the Mt. Sinai Hospital, suddenly died one morning.
Even though Kubrick, the last surviving member of the filming team, barricaded himself in his home for years, they finally got him too.
They showed an interview with General Walters where he promised the next morning to tell the details of what had happened. By coincidence, though quite healthy, he died that night of a stroke.
The documentary also goes into what happened to the three members of the Apollo 11 trip. Michael Collins was the one who supposedly stayed in the command module circling the Moon while Aldrin and Armstrong landed.
Collins disappeared from sight. For good. Armstrong secluded himself in a monastery. Aldrin went into a deep depression, became a serious alcoholic and wandered the streets, talking to himself.
I met Buzz briefly in Monaco in 1995, where I was attending a cold fusion conference, but at that time I had no hint of the Apollo hoaxes.
The “One step for a man,” pictures America and the world were shown of Armstrong’s walking on the Moon were those shot by the Kubrick team in London.
The documentary just brushed over whether Apollo 11 went to the Moon. Or where the pictures from the other Apollo missions were taken. They concentrated just on the Apollo 11 pictures, with confirming commentaries by Nixon’s advisors Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig, Secretary of State Henry Kissenger, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Lawrence Eagleburger.
They did point out that the boot print in the Moon dust was impossible, since there’s no moisture there to hold the dust together for a print. And that the flag waving where there’s no atmosphere was a bad technical flub they should have caught.
There’s more than enough evidence to prove that the Apollo missions were all faked. In addition to this CBC documentary there’s Did We Go To The Moon, which Fox aired in 2002, plus the almost three-hour long What Really Happened On The Moon.
2/1/09
Exhuming: Our Schools (Written Dec. 2005)
In his Inaugural Address in 1965, Lyndon Johnson, laid out the plans for his Great Society. It was the heyday of liberalism. After civil rights, education topped the agenda. LBJ signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the first federal education law in U.S. history, focused on disadvantaged children.
Now, after 40 years and trillions of tax dollars spent on public education, how are we doing?
Well, that depends. Sam Dillon reports in Sunday's New York Times:
After Tennessee tested its eighth-grade students in math this year, state officials at a news conference called the results "a cause for celebration." Eighty-seven percent of students performed at or above the proficiency level. Mississippi's fourth-graders did even better at math, with 89 percent performing at or above proficiency levels. Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, Texas and Alaska reported equally exciting results.
The only problem? These were the results of tests designed by the state education officials. On the test mandated by No Child Left Behind, only 22 percent of Tennessee's eighth-graders passed, and only 18 percent of fourth-graders in Mississippi could do fourth-grade arithmetic. By national standards, four of every five kids in the Tennessee and Mississippi public schools are failing.
The conclusion is obvious… the state education officials have been dumbing-down tests so even the slowest kids could pass in order to keep the federal dollars flowing. They have been colluding in a fraud to deceive parents, kids and the feds about the progress, or lack of it, being made by their public schools.
The ultimate test, of course, is how American kids stack up in a world where leadership in math and science eventually translates into military power and business dominance. In all recent world tests the Chinese on the mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Korea come in at or near the top, and Americans bring up the rear.
The lying has been going on for a long time. Between the 60s and the 90s, Americans worried over the falling math and English SAT scores. Teachers complained the tests were unfair, So they were made easier.
"Humankind cannot stand too much reality," said T.S. Eliot. The reality is that American public education is a disaster. American children are not learning as they used to.
How come? Classrooms are far smaller. Teacher salaries are much higher. School budgets are larger. It cost about $250 a year to educate a child in Washington, D.C., in 1950, which translates to $2,500 today, the cost of educating kids in Washington schools is over $10,000 each. While that’s the highest in the nation, the test scores are the lowest.
At the turn of the century, pundits were saying that not only had the 20th century been "the American Century," the 21st would be, as well. The Brits were probably saying the same thing back in 1900.
So, what’s the answer? The American public school system is such a mess that little can save it. The government, as it does with everything it tackles, has only made things worse. It’s time for an educational revolution. And, yes, I know how to get it started.
In a recent letter to President Bush I proposed revamping our educational system so kids of 12 will be far better educated than today’s college graduates. Able to read books at a few seconds a page with good comprehension, and at a fraction of today’s school costs. I’ll bet I don’t even get a postcard from him. (I didn’t)
2/1/09
US News
The February issue was the first of their monthly instead of weekly editions. Well, it was getting pretty thin, dominated by drug ads. I counted 24 pages of ’em in this issue, and ten other ad pages. The cover said the issue was “A complete guide to Health & Wellness” But it was the same old stuff, with little mention of raw food. Oh, and they like vaccines. I don’t. And I found little about the immune system.
So they have twelve issues a year instead of 52, and they’ve extended my subscription two issues for every four I paid for. Gee, thanks, guys.
1/31/09
Amos Blandin
Every month we publish one of Amos Blandin’s poems in New Hampshire ToDo. He didn’t want them published while he was alive because so many of them are sentimental, and he was a judge on the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
I had the priviledge of knowing Amos for many years. He was a good fishing buddy of my dad and grandfather, F.E. Green. I even had an opportunity to sit and talk with him when I landed my seaplane in the Second Connecticut Lake, in northern New Hampshire, one summer and dropped in at the cabin where he was staying to say hello when he was there for a fishing vacation.
Here’s one of his poems.
Sidney Day
The hill belongs to Sidney Day
Though he's left it now and moved away
In September's blue and November's grey
It will always belong to Sidney Day
The little red house, the big red barn
The three hundred acres of upland farm
The curve of the river far below
Where the current winds so still and slow.
The view to the north through October's haze
When early frosts set the hill ablaze
The sweep to the south on a day in spring
When the warm winds blow and the first birds sing
The pasture swamp on an April night
When the frogs sing loud and the stars shine bright
The splash of the brook, the wet earth's musk
The snowdrift agleam, a ghost in the dusk
The kitchen lamp that shines at night
To the hunter lost a beacon light
I'd be wandering yet, men used to say
Except for that light of Sidney Day
There are other things that are Sidney's too
Through seventy years a course so true
A way of life that was never small
A smile and a kindly word for all
And they still belong to Sidney Day
Though he left last fall and moved away
I hate to go; I want to stay
But I'm too old to farm, said Sidney Day
Yet the rocks and even the winds that blow
Mayflowers in bloom at the edge of snow
The very earth has become in some strange way
No longer a hill but Sidney Day
I wonder when we move away
Will we leave as much as Sidney Day?
1/30/09
Wake Up, America!
So here we are in a supposed democracy, but where the government and big business are in total control. And many of us are working our asses off to pay for it.
This is no accident. Our government instituted a mandatory public school system which was purposely designed to discourage our learning to think or be creative…making us easier to manage. Then there’s the oil industry which, for almost twenty years has got the government to prevent the development of cold fusion power, an energy source with no polluting byproducts which could provide power at around a fiftieth the cost of oil.
And let’s not skip the pharmaceutical industry, which runs the medical schools and has, so far, been almost totally successful in hiding the fact that any illness can be cured with no drugs. They use the same teaching technique used by our public schools and colleges to discourage thinking via insisting on memorization, followed by memory tests.
We’re kept dumbed down, entertained, and taxed to the limit. And we dutifully re-elect 95% of the congressional masters. We vote to fluoridate our water. We line up for gas, even at $4 a gallon. We even line up for vaccinations.
Where’s the alarm bell button?
1/29/09
Sun Spots
The big news is that there aren’t any. The even bigger, and perhaps more alarming news is that never in recorded history, which goes back to Galeleo, has there been anything like this.
Normally the sun has a sunspot peak every eleven years, like clockwork, and then they subside almost vanishing for a couple of years. What has the experts worried is that this prolonged inactivity may allow the Van Allan Belt to fade, making us more open to the sun’s radiation, causing more freak births.
Worse, historians tell us that a few million years ago the sun erupted with solar flares which were so intense they started fires which burnt most of earth’s forests, laying down a one to two-foot layer of ash world wide. The smoke and ash in the air blocked the sun, starting an ice age.
Robert Felix, whose 1997 Not By Fire, But By Ice, predicted an ice age to come very soon, on a recent radio interview said that events are progressing just as he predicted.
Well, isn’t it nice to have something to worry about other than the world’s economic mess?
1/28/09
How American Mensa Got Started
An article on British Mensa in the Village Voice got me to submit an application to join. This brought an IQ test, which I did and sent back, along with dues. I’d always done well on IQ tests, though the schools and the Navy that had me do them hadn’t given me any scores, so I hadn’t thought much about it.
As a “C” student, just barely getting through, I didn’t have any reason to think I was out of the ordinary.
I did get a hint in high school when aptitude tests were given to help us seniors decide what kind of college might fit best with us. As a radio amateur and having spent several years at the workbench, I wasn’t surprised when they told me I had one of the highest mechanical aptitudes they’d ever measured, and I really should consider going to an engineering university instead of Dartmouth for law.
Well, okay. I wasn’t enthusiastic about law, it just seemed logical to go to a New Hampshire college since I was born in Littleton, New Hampshire.
So I applied to MIT. They took one look at my grade transcript and passed. Okay, how about Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York. I guess they were a lot less picky than MIT, because they accepted me as an Electrical Engineering freshman. Oh, modified rapture.
The courses were a bore. Just more of the high school memorizing stuff and then a test of my memory. Fortunately, my ingenuity at crib note making, honed to perfection in high school, got me through the boring courses. Barely. “C” grades again. But I did have fun with my ham radio station in my dorm room and my activity in the Glee Club, and The RPI Players (I was the sound man).
I joined a fraternity and moved my ham station from the dorm to the fraternity house.
Then, on December 7, 1941, the world changed. I was 19 and prime trench bait for the Army. Worse, my grades were still stinko, which helped move my draft classification up several notches.
I spent the summer vacation of 1942 testing transmitters being made for the Army by G.E. in Schenectady. I tried to join the Army Air Force, but when I admitted that I had hay fever they threw me out.
I ended up joining the Navy a couple of days before the Troy draft board had me scheduled to appear for induction. Whew! How I got into the Navy is a story which could add several pages to this account, but it’s not relevant to this story.
I signed on as a Radio Technician 3rd Class and started my schooling in radio and electronics. The first three months were on basics, at the Bliss Electrical School in Tacoma Park, Maryland, now Montgomery College. Then, off to Treasure Island in San Francisco for six more months on transmitters, receivers, sonar, radar and test equipment repairs.
At Bliss, where I loved every minute of the courses, I graduated at the top of my class. I did the same at the Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island.
Then, instead of taking a slot at the Naval research lab in Anacostia, Virginia, across from Washington, I volunteered for submarine duty. And that’s a story in itself. I’ve written a book about my submarine adventures. We came tha-a-a-at close to being sunk a few times, and we ended up being a top scoring boat. The USS Drum is on display in Mobile, Alabama.
After the war I went back to RPI at the government’s expense. But by this time I’d almost begun to think. I didn’t see electronics as having as much of a future for me as management. That’s where the money and power are. I wanted to change my major.
So I went to the school administration and explained that I’d selected EE as a result of the high school aptitude tests. Did that mean that I shouldn’t change to management? The psychology department gave me aptitude and IQ tests. The final report was that I had an IQ in the top 1/100th percentile, beyond where they could measure with any accuracy, and I could take any damned course I wanted.
Aha, so that’s why I was so different from most of my friends, fraternity brothers, and classmates! That’s why I somehow became the leader in any group I joined.
So when the Mensa IQ test came along I had no problem with it.
It was the summer of 1960. Lordy, that’s almost 50 years ago! I’d read the article about Mensa and sent for an application. Mensa responded with an IQ test. Well, what the hell, so I did the test and sent it to London. A few weeks later I found myself member #15 in the US. Wow, that and a token got me a ride on the subway. Yeah, I was living in New York City at the time, and had been on and off for about 30 years. Brooklyn, actually, with my folks.
A few weeks later I got a phone call from Peter Sturgeon, the brother of a well-known writer, asking if I’d be interested in forming an American Mensa organization. Sure, why not? After all, I had plenty of time on my hands. I’d been fired from one of the best jobs in the world a few months earlier and had sold everything I could to get enough money together to put out the first issue of a new amateur radio magazine. I’d been the editor of one of the two amateur radio magazines, but when it got where the publisher owed me over a year’s back pay he fired me, promising to make it right. No, I never got a dime.
I was also the president of the Porsche Club of America and active in running the club and putting on car rallies and gymkhanas. Those who participated in my rallies will never forget them. Then there was the Hudson Division Amateur Radio Convention, where I was in charge of organizing and selling the booth space to the commercial exhibitors.
So Peter and two other New York Mensans and I got together in Peter’s Brooklyn apartment for the first American Mensa meeting. Since I had duplicating and addressing equipment which I was using for my new magazine, I was appointed secretary. I sent out meeting notices and a little newsletter to all known Mensans and we got together for the next few meetings at my home in Brooklyn. I served cider and doughnuts. After that the meetings were moved to Manhattan, in various member’s apartments.
With my new amateur radio magazine growing rapidly in circulation I felt it was time to move from New York to some rural location. I ended up moving in June 1962 to Peterborough, New Hampshire, into a 260-year old 40-room house, which is an interesting story in itself. The house was free! All I had to do was maintain it and pay the taxes! Well, I didn’t have any money, so that’s all I could afford.
For the next few years I was the Local Secretary for Mensa in New Hampshire. We held monthly dinners, always with interesting guest speakers, and New Hampshire Mensa grew. I published a newsletter, OzyMandius, which was more of a literary magazine than a newsletter. I was glad to get away from the New York Mensans who were so impressed by being officers that the internal fighting was awful.
I felt that Mensa had the potential to be more than small groups of self-congratulatory people, smug with proof of their high intelligence, but I never was able to sell the idea.
Peter moved to Switzerland, and I heard from him occasionally before he died. We’d both dropped our membership in Mensa, there not being any perceived benefits from it. New Hampshire Mensa no longer has monthly meetings with interesting speakers. My wife, Sherry, has a lifetime membership, so I’m able to re-affirm my decision to drop out.
I see Mensa as an incredibly valuable untapped resource of brains, of which far too few are in positions of authority.
1/27/08
Travel
It doesn’t have to cost thousands of dollars to travel, despite what those travel agency ads promote. You don’t have to go Queen Mary II style. I’m a thrifty traveler. In fact I’ve published two volumes on my travels as guides on el cheapo travel.
Since I’ve visited 146 countries so far, I think I qualify as an expert. How about a trip Sherry and I made to Europe. We flew first class to Munich, where we rented an Audi and drove to Vienna for some of the famous Linzer torte (and sightseeing), then on to Krakow in Poland with a visit to the salt mines. From there to Prague and then back to Munich. We stayed in first class hotels and ate at good restaurants. And how much did the whole trip cost? Under a thousand dollars!
How’d we do it that cheaply? The flights cost nothing. We just used our Continental Airlines credit card miles.
We often take advantage of the bargain fares to London over the Thanksgiving weekend. Like $500 for the round trip flight, plus a first class hotel, free breakfast, and two London shows. We leave Wednesday evening, get there Thursday morning, rest most of the day, with a show that evening. Then all day Friday and Saturday to sightsee. Like we took a bus tour to Bath and Stonehenge on our last trip. On another we took a train up to Kirton and a walk through nearby Sherwood Forest. They once had a special deal on Lordships so, as the Lord of Kirton, I wanted to visit my town.
Then another show Saturday night and a flight home Sunday morning. We’ve been to London for three days and haven’t missed a day of work!
A few years ago I read an article in Forbes about lighter-than-air. They said that the Zeppelin Company still had tourist flights over Germany. Well, I’d never been up in a Zeppelin, so we flew over to Frankfort, drove down to Stuttgart, and had a great flight all around the city, with me hanging out the gondola windows snapping pictures.
What a thrill to pass right over the Solitude Castle. In 1958, when I was the President of the Porsche Club of America, I escorted 180 people over to pick up their new Porsches at the factory. The company had the new cars all lined up in front of the castle for us to pick up. We spent the next day at the Solitude race track that went by the Castle, with instruction from Porsche’s top racing drivers. What a kick racing our new Porsches around the track, which was a winding country road about ten miles long and closed off to other traffic for the day. It was a ball drifting through the turns at over 100 mph.
If Europe or Asia is too far for you, there’s plenty to see and do in your state. There’s so much to do in New Hampshire that I publish a magazine on it. NH ToDo. We’ve got county fairs, balloon festivals, one of the greatest fireworks displays in the world, a bunch of mountains to climb (46 over 4,000 feet), steam train rides, caves to explore, fabulous skiing, and the wildest autumn leaf displays this side of Northern China.
We’ve got lakes and white water to kayak or canoe. The Cog Railway up Mt. Washington. It’s endless. Golf, skiing, snowmobile trails, the Cannon Mountain Tramway. If you’re within driving distance, spend some weekends here. It won’t be long before you’ll be looking for at least a cabin…or maybe a permanent move. These days, more and more, we can work from home. NH ToDo has no offices. Everyone works from home. No commuting.
But there are some places that you really should plan to see. Like the Taj Mahal. Like climbing the Great Wall in China and visiting the terra cotta army in Xian. There’s the lost city of Petra in Jordan. I’ve been there twice!
You say you can’t afford to travel? How come? If you had your own business, and I don’t mean a mom and pop store or a restaurant, you’d have the money and the freedom to travel. I have a book on the subject, my Secret Guide to Wealth.
Like most everyone else I worked for others for a few years before I wised up and started my own business. I borrowed $1,000 on my car and started making hi-fi speaker enclosures. Within a couple of years I had seven factories under contract and was doing the usual…a Porsche, an airplane, an Arab horse, and a small yacht. Stuff like that. I got all that out of my system. Done that. But I also
Raw Ice Cream?
You bet! It’s easy to make and healthy to eat. Cheap, too.
Put four ripe bananas into your blender, add three large organic eggs (free ranging chickens), two cups of raw milk, and a couple heaping tablespoons of cocoa powder. Blend and put into your freezer. Then, three or four hours before the meal, move it to your fridge so it’ll soften and be easy to eat.
I shop for the over-ripe bananas that have been marked down to around 25-30¢ a pound. I peel ’em, cut into chunks and freeze until I’m ready to make ice cream or kale smoothies.
Once you try this you’ll be keeping several quarts of raw ice cream in your freezer, ready for future meals.
2/3/09
Fake!
The Winter/Spring issue of the Journal of Healing Discoveries, with a $7.95 cover price, arrived unexpectedly in the mail. Eight bucks for a twenty-page journal? Yeah, sure.
The twenty pages were all devoted to selling KürZyme, pronounced cure-zime. Hard sell. But, there was no mention of the product’s price, only endless promises that I’d get my money back if it didn’t produce significant results in my health.
How could I go wrong? The list of ingredients went on for pages. Twenty-six of them, including Vitamins A and E, rose hips, grape seed extract, flax seed extract, tumeric, magnesium, zinc, ginko biloba, butcher’s broom, lycopene, broccoli, carrots, spinach, Mojave yucca, rutin, quercetin, ginseng, selenium, kelp, Irish moss, green tea extract, etc. They didn’t say whether it comes in a powder or gels.
So I called the 800-number. It’s $60 a month, and they wanted me to spend $179.95 for a three month supply. On my raw food diet how could anything make me feel better? I passed up the opportunity.
2/2/09
Daily Talks
Three years ago, when David Booth was living over in the next town (Antrim) he asked me to do a short daily video webcast for his www.whatdoesitmean.com. So, here for historical (or hysterical) semi-interest, are some of the material I covered.
Talks #1:
Hi, Wayne Green, looking under the media’s rug for the worlds news sweepings for Wednesday, December 7, 2005.
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said 64 years ago, this is a date that will live in infamy. But what Frank neglected to mention was that the infamy wasn’t the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it was his forcing the Japanese to attack, knowing when and where they were going to attack, and then keeping that knowledge from his Pearl Harbor commanders.
You see, Frank had a problem. Hitler had overrun most of Europe, and Britain was easy meat to finish off the job. But the polls showed the American people 82% opposed to our getting into the European war. Something drastic had to be done to change public opinion. So, in one move after another, culminating with an American embargo of Japan in July 1941, which cut off their oil, Frank made a war with Japan inevitable.
He had lots of warning of the attack, including radio intercepts and our breaking of the Japanese code. He knew where their aircraft carrier fleet was and where it was heading. Further, just to make sure, he’d replaced the competent command at Pearl with Admiral Kimmel and General Short, who were not his brightest chiefs.
He made sure all our aircraft carriers were somewhere else, leaving mainly some old battleships, which were no longer of much value in the carrier war era.
You can read the details, which Robert Stinnett took years to uncover, in his 400 page Day of Deceit — The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor. This isn’t the only exposé book. There’s also Deceit At Pearl Harbor and Pearl Harbor Final Judgment.
The attack had its desired effect. The next day we were at war with Japan and Germany, and I, who was a 19-year old college student at the time, was prime meat for the draft board. Yes, I survived the war, but not without a bunch of stories to tell.
When the government is able to cover up something as huge as the Pearl Harbor attack for sixty years, it raises the question: what else is being covered up?
The 1941 rumors of the deceit were dismissed by the media as ridiculous conspiracy theories. Funny thing, but the more we seriously investigate conspiracy theories, the more government cover-ups we seem to find. Like, what’s an explanation for the two napalm canisters photos of the second plane crashing into the World Trade Center show attached underneath the plane?
Make a list. UFOs, the crash at Roswell, the Kennedy assassination, the safety of fluoride in our water, dental amalgam, aspartame, pasteurized milk, and vaccinations. Then there’s global warming, cold fusion, the Flight 800 crash, the Mad Cow disease scare, the Oklahoma City bombs…it’s a long list.
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Vanuatu, the small South Pacific island nation, is back in the news again. This time it’s not their volcano, but the news that a hundred families have had to move about a thousand feet back from the ocean, which has been rising due to global warming.
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In response to a new study on the growing children’s obesity pandemic, Congress was urged yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences to restrict the marketing of junk food to children.
That’s probably easier than getting parents to supervise their children’s eating and stop buying junk for their kids.
My mother, eighty years ago, made sure I ate healthy meals. No cold cereals with pasteurized milk and sugar. No jam or jelly. No white bread. No sodas. No cookies. No candy. So I grew up with perfect teeth and good health.
The Academy urged food companies to stop targeting children with “spokescharacters” such as SpongeBob Square Pants and Barbie dolls.
It would also help if schools wouldn’t make it so easy for kids to get junk food. Fat chance.
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That’s the best I could do for you today. Maybe tomorrow will be better. Hey, I’m kidding!
Talks #2
Hi, Wayne Green again, with the bottom of the news for Saturday, December 10th, 2005.
A new UN report estimates there are 40 million people worldwide infected with HIV, and that 40,000 Americans are acquiring HIV a year, with nearly half of them blacks. What’s been kept secret from them (and you) by the FDA and the AMA is the inexpensive, swift, no-drug cure for AIDS discovered by Drs. Lyman and Kaali at the prestigious Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York…and patented over ten years ago. Check patents #5,188,738 and 5,091,152.
The doctors accidentally discovered that when they passed a tiny electric current through the blood it kept any virus, microbe, parasite, fungus or yeast infection living in the blood from multiplying, causing it to die. It didn’t hurt the blood cells, which are made in the bone marrow and don’t multiply in the blood.
All that’s needed to wipe out AIDS is a small power unit to supply a pulsed 35 volts, a device which could be made in China for under five dollars, and a couple wires to fasten above the two arteries at the wrist for an hour a day for a few weeks. It’s a painless process which rids the blood of any infections such as AIDS, malaria, and schistosomiasis…also known as bilharzasis.
The downside, of course, would be the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars in AIDS medications and a renewed explosion of the African population. It would also make Bill Gates look like an idiot for wasting billions of his dollars on AIDS medications for Africans without bothering to do his homework.
It’s dangerous to sell these blood purifiers, since they are not authorized by the FDA, an $800 million ten year process. Michael Forrest, who did this, was tracked down in Paraguay, arrested, and brought back to Wisconsin for trial. The FDA’s job is to protect the pharmaceutical industry, not the public.
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Here’s some news for mothers of small babies. A new study has found that use of a pacifier during sleep reduced the chances of a baby suffering from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) by 90 percent. Furthermore, pacifiers eliminate the increased risk associated with babies who sleep on their stomach or in soft bedding…factors that have been shown to increase the risk of SIDS as much as ten-fold.
"A baby who sleeps on his stomach without a pacifier has a 2.5 times greater risk of SIDS," explains De-Kun Li, a reproductive epidemiologist with Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., who led the research. "If you use a pacifier, the baby's risk disappears."
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As predicted in Professor McCanney’s 2002 Planet-X book, there have been more and more reports of large meteor strikes, volcanoes acting up, and earthquakes. Scientists have reported the Alaska’s Augustine volcano’s activity, with the dome having raised. And there were reports of meteors lighting up the sky in Alaska and Australia. Earthquakes were reported today in Alaska, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Washington state. A few days ago one shook the St. Louis area.
It’s particularly interesting that many of these earthquake reports also tell us of their being associated with a loud boom, like a sonic boom.
Professor McCanney also predicted that as Planet-X entered our solar system we would see all the planets heating up and the Sun going crazy. Which, along with the earthquakes, volcanoes, and meteors, is just what’s being reported. Is this another case of a government cover-up, and if so…why?
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There’s a lot more stuff down there on the bottom of the media waste basket. I’ll see what I can find for tomorrow.
Talks #3
Hi, Wayne Green with the dull edge of today’s world news, Sunday, December 11th, 2005.
With the barrage of scare headlines about a flu pandemic, millions of people are dutifully lining up for flu shots. The vaccine manufacturers, well aware of the many potential side effects (such as death), are pushing congress to exempt them from lawsuits. Bills by Senators Bill Frist and Richard Burr are being pushed through to accomplish this protection.
You know, I haven’t seen a hint anywhere in the news explaining that if you have a strong immune system you don’t have to worry about the flu. And if you do insist on compromising your immune system so your body can’t fight off invading germs or viruses, at least have some silver colloid on hand. It only costs about a penny a gallon to make on your kitchen table and it works like magic.
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An animal behaviourist says she's figured out what dogs are doing when they make that excited panting noise while playing or anticipating a much desired walk. They're laughing.
Patricia Simonet, development and program coordinator for Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service, also found that the sound of dog laughter comforts other dogs.
When she played a recording of "play panting" through the speaker system at a shelter in Spokane Valley, all the barking dogs quieted within a minute.
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Now, I can use some help from you. A year ago I sent a letter to New Hampshire’s Governor Lynch outlining a plan to cut the state employees so-called health care costs. Actually, it’s sickness exploitation. My plan was to educate the employees in the prevention of illness by getting them to change their lifestyles. Naturally I got no response from the Governor.
A few weeks ago I gave him a copy of my Secret Guide to Health. I know he hasn’t bothered to read it because he hasn’t called.
Now, here’s where you can help. Go to my waynegreen.com site, download the letter, and send a copy to Governor Lynch, State House, Concord, NH 03301. A few hundred letters from all around the world may break through the wall around him.
If the state starts being able to cut its sickness costs, other states and businesses will take notice and we might be able to start a health revolution. It’s worth a try.
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Will tomorrow bring better news? Har-de-har. And, if it did, you can bet the media won’t mention it. Nor will I. Good news does not sell papers or increase web site traffic.
Talks #4
Hi, here’s Wayne Green’s bottom of the news report for Monday, December 12th, 2005.
Report number one: It’s colder than a witches tit here in New Hampshire.
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The millions of Muslims who have escaped the poverty and repression of their home countries, have brought the customs which caused their problems with them to Europe, Australia and the U.S. In Europe they’ve settled in their own areas and keep pretty much to themselves. Well, other than rioting and burning a few hundred cars in Paris. Rioting has also been reported in Australia.
I’m reminded of a similar situation in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania a few years back, where the Indians caused the same problem and were eventually kicked out of the countries. And the same problem in Fiji with the Chinese, which almost came to a war.
We have similar problems in the U.S. with immigrant groups who insist on preserving their customs and religions instead of joining the melting pot system of becoming just plain Americans.
So we have Italian-Americans, German-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, and so on. Can we ever get rid of the hyphens?
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Scientists have reported that the Earth’s magnetic pole has been shifting toward Siberia. They didn’t say anything about why. Could this be tied in with what’s causing global warming and the change in the Gulf Stream? If the Earth’s magnetic field is caused by the movement of ocean currents around the world, as some scientists have proposed, this would explain the movement of the magnetic pole.
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Scientists investigating the Sumatra earthquake now tell us that while most earthquakes last for 30 seconds or so, the Sumatra quake shook for at least eight minutes, rupturing the planet along a 750 mile fault and the Indian plate slipped 33 to 50 feet.
With more and more earthquakes being reported around the world, and volcanoes everywhere acting up, have you given any thought to being prepared. Just in case?
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The year 2005, the World Wildlife Fund said, is shaping up as the worst for extreme weather, with the hottest temperatures, most Arctic melting, worst Atlantic hurricane season and warmest Caribbean waters. It’s also been the driest year in decades in the Amazon, where a drought may surpass anything in the past century.
The Amazon River basin, the world's largest rain forest, is grappling with a devastating drought that in some areas is the worst since record keeping began a century ago. It has evaporated whole lagoons and kindled forest fires, killed off fish and crops, stranded boats and the villagers who travel by them, brought disease and wreaked economic havoc.
And in Alaska, the rapidly disintegrating Columbia Glacier, which has shrunk in length by 9 miles since 1980, has reached the mid-point of its projected retreat, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. The glacier is now discharging nearly 2 cubic miles of ice annually into the Prince William Sound.
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In world terms, it barely rated a blip on seismographs around the globe, but the earthquake which shook the Fort William area yesterday was the biggest to hit Scotland in 20 years. The Constabulary was inundated with calls after a loud late-night rumble and tremors shook a huge chunk of the West Highlands during the quake which hit three on the Richter scale.
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British teachers have been warned to protect younger children being terrified by Father Christmas…and not to send Christmas cards to fellow pupils in order not to waste paper. I wonder what the postal authorities think of that? Oh, and in order not to traumatize tender egos, competitive games should be avoided…because the losers might feel bad.
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There’s lots more news kicking around the bottom of the media wastebasket, so I’ll be back tomorrow with more of the dregs.
Talks #5
Hi, Wayne Green, with what little I’ve been able to fish out of the media cesspool for Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
Flash: Researchers have discovered that totally brainwashed Americans have been unable to keep themselves from re-electing their Senators and Congressmen.
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The Fiji Islands were rocked by a 6.8 quake today. A 6.7 quake hit in the mountains of Afghanistan today. And a 5.0 quake rocked Wellington, New Zealand, causing minor damage and no reported casualties.
In Oklahoma it was an outbreak of geysers…spewing mud and gas high into the air. Some were only a quarter mile apart, while others were up to 12 miles.
So, what’s going on, with geysers, earthquakes, more and more active volcanoes being reported?
My take on this is covered in my Catastrophe booklet.
What does it mean to you? It means that, unless you are in a mental fog, you’ll make an effort to be prepared in case an earthquake, hurricane, ice storm or tsunami might leave you on your own for a few days.
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Yesterday the American Public Health Association reported that 23.1% of Americans are now considered obese, double the 1990 level.
I have a news flash for you fatties. If you change to a raw food diet your body will automatically get rid of all that fat…no matter how much you eat. Thirty years ago I was a 260-pound mound of blubber. I changed my diet, lost 100 pounds, and have kept it off.
Remember, as you order those fries, there are no old fat people.
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Australia seems to have sprung a leak. maybe they dug one of those holes too deep because there have been reports of kangaroos in Wisconsin. A driver, who thought he might have hit a coyote or fox was amazed to find it was a 50-pound kangaroo. He’s having it stuffed so people will believe his story.
Back in January another kangaroo was found, never claimed by anyone, and is on exhibit in the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison.
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As Charlie Reese pointed out in a recent column, “Our present public education system cannot sustain this nation. We have college graduates who don’t know eighth-grade English grammar or even how many states were in the union in 1945.” He explained that the system is not going to be reformed. Between the politicians, the education bureaucrats and the teacher’s unions, it will continue to deteriorate.
My solution is a technology revolution, not reform. Blindside the politicians, educrats and unions. The adventurous will read my proposals for change in the posting on my web site of my letters to Governor Lynch. These are letters that should be sent to every state governor.
Well, I’ve spearheaded a couple of technology revolutions so far, so give me a hand with another. Let’s not let American go the route of the Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Spanish and British empires.
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With today’s computers and communications, more and more companies are encouraging their workers to work at home. With Skype, you can sit and talk over the Internet for free. Anywhere. Yep, I’m a Skype user.
The current Business Week has an article on the growth of this phenomenon. 40% of IBM’s work force has no office at the company. The prediction is that 40% of America’s workforce will be distributed by 2012. Agilent, in 2003, closed 48 of its sales offices and had the employees working from home. Today 70% of their workforce is remotely connected either some or all of the time.
New Hampshire ToDo magazine has no central office. All of the people work from their homes. And love it.
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Will I have some really good news for you tomorrow? Not a chance. You’d just yawn. Now go out there and point and laugh at some fat people. But watch out you don’t get a fat lip.
Talks #6
Space Radiation
With Bush not being satisfied with the largest deficit in history and promising us a manned base on the Moon, and send astronauts to Mars, it’s time to raise a few questions. Now, I realize that such an effort would be a huge bonanza to California, Texas and Florida, where most of the money would be spent, but all the rest of us are going to have to pay the whopping tab.
First, he said, we’ll send robots and then we’ll send astronauts.
Say, exactly why are we going to do all this? We have a lot of problems that need tackling here on Earth without doing that Moon stuff again. Here’s America with the highest cost sickness care in the world, but with third world results. And with the highest cost school system in the world…yet our students come in at the bottom in international tests. We have a lot of things that need fixing here before we blow a trillion or three sending expeditions into space. That’s around $5,000 per taxpayer average. Whew!
Well, robots won’t be all that expensive. We’ve already sent them successfully to the Moon and Mars. But how are we going to keep astronauts alive on such trips?
Radiation is a serious problem. The government agrees that the maximum lifetime dose is 25 rads, and that death begins at 500 rads. So how much radiation will they have to contend with going through Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts? And then how much in outer space and on the Moon…which has no protective Van Allen Belt?
According to the Journal of Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine the dose astronauts would get in the Van Allen Belts would be 280,000 rads per day. That’s 3.2 rads per second.
There are two main belts, the inner and outer rings. The inner ring starts at about 4,500 miles out and extends to 6,400 miles. At 6.8 miles per second, an astronaut would have to spend about 588 seconds transiting the Belt, gathering avout 1,790 rads. Talk about a crispy critter!
We know there has to be more radiation in space coming from the Sun. That’s what keeps the Van Allen Belts alive. The estimates are that space radiation is about a tenth that of the Belts, or 0.32 rads per second. Thus, a twelve-day trip, like Apollo 17 supposedly did, would give a total exposure of 320,000 rads. And that’s only if the Sun doesn’t have any flares heading their way at thousands of miles per second, plus heavy doses of X-rays.
Astronauts in near-Earth orbit who got a little further out, but still thousands of miles inside the Van Allen Belts, reported flashing lights in the heads and had to be brought back down quickly.
If we’re going to keep our astronauts alive in space we’re going to have to protect their ships and their space suits with several inches of lead.
I ask again…why are we doing this?
We’ve spent hundreds of billions on the space shuttle and space lab…and what have we gotten from it other than watching a couple of the shuttles self-destruct? Nothing of any scientific or commercial value has resulted. And for a fraction of the cost European rockets have been getting most of the satellites into orbit.
I’m a big techology fan, but I really hate to see our government blowing billions on poorly conceived projects such as the linear accelerator and hot fusion.
Talks #7
Homeland Security?
Should we laugh or cry over Homeland Security photographing and fingerprinting foreign arrivals at our airports? The result has been a further delay for arriving passengers, almost universal anger from the European countries, and I hate to think how many millions of dollars for the manufacture, installation, maintenance, and extra people needed to operate the system. Make that billions, considering the sophisticate computer system needed…and that’s even if the software is done in India, which much of it is these days.
I’ll be more convinced that this isn’t a hare-brained stupidity if I hear about the Border Patrol setting up entry gates along the Mexican border for the nightly flood of illegals. We have twelve to twenty million illegal aliens in the country, with an expected half million more swarming in this year. Aliens from almost anywhere coming here to do what?
If I were running a terrorist group I’d send my people through Mexico, not Kennedy or Logan Airport. That way they could bring any guns, explosives or suitcase nukes along they wanted. By the ton, just like drugs. For a little extra the Mexican police would help.
How come all those illegals? We have the welcome mat out. They don’t have to pay any taxes, but do consume government services…especially medical care and education. By law, these services can’t be denied them. In fact, it’s illegal for a hospital to even ask about a patient’s citizenship or immigration status.
California estimates that medical service for illegals is costing the state over $3 billion a year.
Do you get the feeling that if you pay for emergency medical service you’re a chump?
Employers who hire illegals pay them in cash, thus evading employment taxes. And, with the work being done off the books, the revenues can be the same, avoiding income taxes. This makes it tougher for their competitors, who then have to do the same.
Talks #8
Belief
Belief is the thief of reason.
Think about that.
A friend of mine’s parting words during a radio interview were, “I believe we went to the Moon and I don’t want to hear any more about it.”
If you know much about hypnotism you know that hypnotized persons can exhibit phenomenal strength. They can be made to feel pain or not to feel it, even during serious surgical operations. They can be made blind, or selectively blind. They can remember any moment of their lives and relive it as if it were happening right then.
With post-hypnotic suggestion a subject can be told that when the hypnotist touches his nose the subject will take off his jacket. When the hypnotist touches his tie the subject will put his coat back on.
Much to the amusement of everyone watching the subject will take his jacket off and put it on a dozen times, each time with what is to the subject a rational explanation for the action. Eventually the subject will realize that something is wrong…particularly if everyone is laughing.
Now, consider that a belief acts much like post-hypnotic suggestion. My friend was upset because I was citing one argument after another which challenged his belief in the Apollo Moon missions.
So, what do you believe in?
I’m not sure I’ve ever been much into believing. My position has been that the evidence for some subject is very convincing. But, as I’ve added to my essays for the last 50 years, if a reader has reliable evidence to the contrary, I’m open for the input. What I don’t want is emotional attacks from believers who are upset that I’ve disturbed a belief.
There’s this long list of things that many people have been brainwashed (hypnotized) into believing. Oh, this holds for addictions too. Rationalizations they use as excuses…and really believe. Sadly, few people have the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood.
I face this problem when I try to reason with people about health. They are so totally inculcated with the belief that some outside force has made them sick…germs, a virus, evil eye, accident…that the concept that their own activity may be the root cause is unthinkable. And that all they have to do to cure their illness or disease is to stop doing what caused it.
As Hawkins in his Power Vs. Force says, “Even when a person intellectually knows his behavior is self-destructive, this knowledge has no necessary deterrent effect whatsoever; intellectual recognition of our addictions has never given us the power to control them.”
The rare person who is able to transcend his beliefs will find that we are being lied to steadily about almost everything. How do you go about breaking a hypnotic system like that?
Most people really believe in doctors. They believe the government is behind the dollar. They believe we really did put men on the Moon 40 years ago. They believe in only one bomb at Oklahoma City. They believe Oswald killed Kennedy, that Flight 800 had a gas tank explosion, that Amelia Earhart was lost over the Pacific. They believe they can safely eat hamburgers, diet colas, cooked food, pasteurized milk, coffee, doughnuts, beer, and so on. They believe in Social Security as a safety net. They believe the Japanese surprised us at Pearl Harbor. They believe our Senators and Representatives when they say that donations to their re-election funds don’t influence their votes. They believe that fluorides are being put into our drinking water for our benefit. They believe the official story of the 9/11 disaster. They believe that higher teacher pay and smaller classes will improve our schools. That dental amalgam isn’t causing multiple sclerosis. That root canals are safe. That vitamin and mineral supplements aren’t necessary for health. That sugar is not an addictive poison. That vaccinations are safe.
It’s an almost endless list.
Fortunately, 99.999% of us are kept so busy with entertainment we don’t have the time, even if we had the curiosity, to look into the validity of our beliefs. We’re kept busy with the newscasts, politics, watching sports…from golf to basketball, and all ball sizes and shapes in between. And pucks. Movies, trash TV, sitcoms, cop shows, reality shows, ad infinitum. Oh, and music. Oddly enough, classical music turns out to be good for our bodies. With rock and rap, kids are put into a hypnotic trance where the lyrics go directly to the subconscious as orders to be obeyed. Kids don’t know why they act out these repetitive post-hypnotic suggestions.
Speaking of kids (well, writing), if you have any, how much time do your spend talking with them? My dad, in my entire life at home, never spent any time actually talking with me. Oh, I tried a few times, but he’d get angry. My mother did a few times, but not often. I don’t recall dad ever talking intellectually with anyone about anything. This isn’t selective memory, I have cartons of tapes I made of our lightweight dinnertime conversations.
Neither my mother or dad read books. Nor magazines. They didn’t write either. Oh, they knew how, it’s just that it wasn’t of any interest to them. They never had any interest in my school work. None.
In view of the above, perhaps you can understand why the theme of my writing is to Wise Up. Challenge your beliefs. Read books. My review of about a hundred books that you’re crazy if you don’t read in my Secret Guide to Wisdom will start you on the path to actually thinking. And what a path it is!
I don’t pay any attention to TV news programs. Waste of time. If it’s important, but not being kept quiet by the government, it’ll be in Newsweek or Time. For other info I depend on Business Week, The New Yorker, Nexus, Forbes, and Fortune.
I try not to waste time. We live around 657,000 hours. The first 100,000 are spent being a young kid. After about 185,000 we’re out of school are working. We work about 100,000 hours before we retire. We eat and sleep about 200,000 hours. That leaves us around 172,000 hours to commute, be with our families, be entertained, vacation, and maybe educate ourselves. Which may explain why I try to spend every hour I can reading books instead of watching ball games or TV. What little TV I watch I tape first so I can zip through the 17 minutes of commercials an hour. And I only watch while I’m eating my meals.
Alas, I haven’t worked an eight-hour day in decades. I sleep about seven hours…six at night and an hour in the afternoon. I listen to Coast-to-Coast on my iPod while I’m out fast walking or driving somewhere. I spend about 15-minutes a day doing two crossword puzzles…to help keep my mind sharp. I read about an hour or two a day, depending on how far I’m behind in my work and how often the phone rings.
Most of my work I enjoy, so I’m having fun when I’m on talk shows, taking with people on the phone, writing, and researching. I do have routine stuff like entering book orders in the computer, and packing orders to mail, which isn’t fun. And this gets really hectic after I’ve been on the Coast-to-Coast program as a guest. Whew! Weeks of frantic order handling and printing more books ensues.
Then I say to Sherry, “Hey, let’s go to Stuttgart for a zeppelin flight.” Or she’ll organize a fast trip to Orlando or Aruba for a few days. The flights are usually free using credit card airline miles.
If you still believe in the dangers of mad cow disease, flu shots, chemo for cancer, prescription drugs, and that emphysema can’t be cured, it’s time to take off your hypnotic blinders and wise the hell up. I’ll help, if you’ll let me.
Then, there’s your religious beliefs. Uh, oh...I better not go into that.
Talks #9
Wasting Disease
Please do your best to get across the concept to your children (or, more likely, your grandchildren), that there are very few well educated poor people…and also, very few uneducated wealthy people. You might also sneak in the idea that our schools provide only the fundamentals of education…reading and writing. Whether they are going to be really educated or not is entirely up to them.
There are all sorts of educational sources…books by the top brains in any field, the Internet, DVDs, CDs, magazines, and so on. But these are only of value to those who actually use them…and do that instead of wasting one’s time on entertainment.
A life devoted to watching ball games and trash TV isn’t going to pay off. Sure, they’re fun, but it’s a lot more fun in the long run to be able to get that Harley, if you want, or to be able to travel when and where you want, anywhere in the world. The streets of Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, London and Berlin are as familiar to me as Boston or San Francisco.
I’m all for sports, but only if I’m doing them. I love to ski, scuba dive and ride horseback. I like to do things, not watch others doing them. If you’re a good reader you can get a good way through a book in the time you waste watching a ball game. And that’s something you’ll always have.
Or you can sit and watch Judge Judy, Maurey, Oprah, The View, and reruns.
Talks #10
Anti-dementia
As the producer of over a hundred how-to-dance DVDs, Sherry was excited to read a New England Journal of Medicine report that ballroom dancing has been found to significantly reduce the risk of developing dementia. It’s not just the exercise or the romantic implications, it seems to have to do with the need to memorize intricate dance steps. You can get her catalog via www.waynegreen.com
Other beneficial activities were learning a new language or musical instrument, and doing crossword puzzles. Thanks to the gift of a ton of old New York Times puzzles and cryptograms from Rocky in Santa Clara, I’ve been doing two and four crosswords a day for years. Love ’em. No signs of dementia yet, unless you class my conviction that the Apollo missions were faked as a sign.
2/1/09
Exhuming: #77 (Written Aug. 2003)
That’s the phone number women should remember if they’re driving alone and an unmarked police car starts blinking to pull them over. It calls the local police dispatcher.
Lauren, a 19 years old college student was driving one afternoon to visit a friend when an unmarked car pulled up behind her and turned on his rooftop flashing red light. She dialed #77 and asked in about it. He said there was no police car supposed to be in that area and to keep driving, that he had back-up on the way. Ten minutes later four cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her.
The man turned out to be a convicted rapist and was wanted for other crimes.
When flashed by a police car you have the right to continue until you reach a safe place to stop, such as at a service station. Better yet, keep a cell phone at hand so you can dial #77.
2/1/09
Exhuming: Blinders (Written Dec. 2000)
One has to be significantly data-challenged (ignorant) or be wearing blinders to doubt that there really are UFOs, and that aliens are visiting us…and have been for a long, long time.
These thoughts came to mind when I read a SETI League release about a 100th amateur radio telescope being built in New Jersey. Look, guys, unless you’ve been living in a data-free cave, it’s well established that the aliens communicate telepathically, which means their communications in all liklihood are instantaneous, not restricted by even galactic distances, and are wideband.
But, instead of pursuing some powerful hints on ways we can develop and use mind skills, what we’ve got are people building bigger bonfires for longer range smoke signal communications.
2/1/09
Exhuming: Global Crime (Written in Feb. 2000)
As a result of several years of hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator John Kerry, it’s Chairman, has written a book, The New War. It’s 210 pages chronicles the extent that crime has gone global, with the world’s major crime and terrorist groups now cooperating in the running of a $1 trillion crime industry.
They’re operating much as international corporations do, but with the goal of taking over countries and running them for the benefit of the cooperating syndicates. They already essentially control Russia, Colombia, Nigeria, Mexico, and several Caribbean nations. Their tools of business are bribery, murder and intimidation.
This new global crime cooperative has little opposition to its growth. The nations of the world have no system for cooperatively combating this threat. Each has its police systems, but there are no international laws, nor international police, so the crime cooperative is able to play one country against another.
Senator Kerry’s book goes into detail about the problems and the scale of the threat—which could easily escalate into the use of terrorist tools such as nuclear weapons or biological attacks on our cities. What it doesn’t do is propose any realistic solution to the problem. Nor is there even one tiny hint of legalizing drugs as a way to take the enormous profits out of their sale, their main source of revenue. That’s just too hot a potato for any politician to touch.
Without the hundreds of billions in drug profits from American customers, it is unlikely that the crime/terrorist coalition would hold together.
The longer the crime groups are able to function, the more they branch out into other fields. There’s no mention in Kerry’s book of how the crime families in America got started as a result of liquor prohibition, and are now powerful influences in dozens (if not hundreds) of businesses. Just try getting involved with the newsstand delivery of newspapers and magazines without dealing with the Mafia and see what happens to you (and your family). Ditto with hat checking, garbage collection, beer delivery, radio station music director bribery, and so on. Oh, yes, gambling too. Let’s not forget who built Las Vegas.
Sure, alcohol is a problem, particularly for alcoholics. But passing laws against it only raised the price people had to pay, making it so enormously profitable that a whole new industry was spawned. And exactly the same thing has happened with drugs.
You might want to keep in mind, speaking of Mexico, that their government has been encouraging millions of their people to move to America, with the long range plan of getting back the territories they lost to us in the Mexican-American war of 1848. Hmmm, there goes California, Texas, New Mexico and Nevada. Darn!
2/1/09
Exhuming: Lunatrix (Written Jan. 2004)
A Canadian listener was kind enough to send me a copy of a recent CBC TV Documentary, Dark Side of the Moon, which thoroughly exposed NASA’a faking the films and photos of the first trip to the Moon, Apollo 11.
President Nixon, in the middle of the very unpopular Viet Nam war, desperately needed something spectacular to take the public’s attention off the war. When he got word that NASA wouldn’t be able to do the job, it was time for plan B. Under the cover that a backup was needed in case the films of the Moon landing were spoiled by solar radiation, the CIA, under the direction of then CIA Director General Vernon Walters, enlisted Stanley Kubrick’s help.
Kubrick, using his 2001 A Space Odyssey sets in the MGM studios in Boren Woods, just outside London, and a small production team sworn to secrecy, made the films. Afterwards, the team members were given new identities, plenty of money, and resettled in out of the way places around the world.
But then, Nixon got more and more worried that one of them might eventually spill the beans, disgracing NASA and America for the fraud. So he asked General Walters to make sure this couldn’t happen. He did.
One by one the team was “taken care of.” Andy Rogers, the sound man, was burned alive in a strange car crash. Jim Dahl, the assistant director under Kubrick, was found drowned in his back yard pool. Vince Brown was found cut up into little pieces in Patagonia. The police reported it as a suicide. Vince Brown, the assistant director, was tracked down and killed in the Kerguelen Islands. The CIA even filmed his murder.
Bob Stein, the set designer, hid out in a Yeshiva in Brooklyn for ten years before they found him. He was beaten up and after six months in the Mt. Sinai Hospital, suddenly died one morning.
Even though Kubrick, the last surviving member of the filming team, barricaded himself in his home for years, they finally got him too.
They showed an interview with General Walters where he promised the next morning to tell the details of what had happened. By coincidence, though quite healthy, he died that night of a stroke.
The documentary also goes into what happened to the three members of the Apollo 11 trip. Michael Collins was the one who supposedly stayed in the command module circling the Moon while Aldrin and Armstrong landed.
Collins disappeared from sight. For good. Armstrong secluded himself in a monastery. Aldrin went into a deep depression, became a serious alcoholic and wandered the streets, talking to himself.
I met Buzz briefly in Monaco in 1995, where I was attending a cold fusion conference, but at that time I had no hint of the Apollo hoaxes.
The “One step for a man,” pictures America and the world were shown of Armstrong’s walking on the Moon were those shot by the Kubrick team in London.
The documentary just brushed over whether Apollo 11 went to the Moon. Or where the pictures from the other Apollo missions were taken. They concentrated just on the Apollo 11 pictures, with confirming commentaries by Nixon’s advisors Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig, Secretary of State Henry Kissenger, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Lawrence Eagleburger.
They did point out that the boot print in the Moon dust was impossible, since there’s no moisture there to hold the dust together for a print. And that the flag waving where there’s no atmosphere was a bad technical flub they should have caught.
There’s more than enough evidence to prove that the Apollo missions were all faked. In addition to this CBC documentary there’s Did We Go To The Moon, which Fox aired in 2002, plus the almost three-hour long What Really Happened On The Moon.
2/1/09
Exhuming: Our Schools (Written Dec. 2005)
In his Inaugural Address in 1965, Lyndon Johnson, laid out the plans for his Great Society. It was the heyday of liberalism. After civil rights, education topped the agenda. LBJ signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the first federal education law in U.S. history, focused on disadvantaged children.
Now, after 40 years and trillions of tax dollars spent on public education, how are we doing?
Well, that depends. Sam Dillon reports in Sunday's New York Times:
After Tennessee tested its eighth-grade students in math this year, state officials at a news conference called the results "a cause for celebration." Eighty-seven percent of students performed at or above the proficiency level. Mississippi's fourth-graders did even better at math, with 89 percent performing at or above proficiency levels. Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, Texas and Alaska reported equally exciting results.
The only problem? These were the results of tests designed by the state education officials. On the test mandated by No Child Left Behind, only 22 percent of Tennessee's eighth-graders passed, and only 18 percent of fourth-graders in Mississippi could do fourth-grade arithmetic. By national standards, four of every five kids in the Tennessee and Mississippi public schools are failing.
The conclusion is obvious… the state education officials have been dumbing-down tests so even the slowest kids could pass in order to keep the federal dollars flowing. They have been colluding in a fraud to deceive parents, kids and the feds about the progress, or lack of it, being made by their public schools.
The ultimate test, of course, is how American kids stack up in a world where leadership in math and science eventually translates into military power and business dominance. In all recent world tests the Chinese on the mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Korea come in at or near the top, and Americans bring up the rear.
The lying has been going on for a long time. Between the 60s and the 90s, Americans worried over the falling math and English SAT scores. Teachers complained the tests were unfair, So they were made easier.
"Humankind cannot stand too much reality," said T.S. Eliot. The reality is that American public education is a disaster. American children are not learning as they used to.
How come? Classrooms are far smaller. Teacher salaries are much higher. School budgets are larger. It cost about $250 a year to educate a child in Washington, D.C., in 1950, which translates to $2,500 today, the cost of educating kids in Washington schools is over $10,000 each. While that’s the highest in the nation, the test scores are the lowest.
At the turn of the century, pundits were saying that not only had the 20th century been "the American Century," the 21st would be, as well. The Brits were probably saying the same thing back in 1900.
So, what’s the answer? The American public school system is such a mess that little can save it. The government, as it does with everything it tackles, has only made things worse. It’s time for an educational revolution. And, yes, I know how to get it started.
In a recent letter to President Bush I proposed revamping our educational system so kids of 12 will be far better educated than today’s college graduates. Able to read books at a few seconds a page with good comprehension, and at a fraction of today’s school costs. I’ll bet I don’t even get a postcard from him. (I didn’t)
2/1/09
US News
The February issue was the first of their monthly instead of weekly editions. Well, it was getting pretty thin, dominated by drug ads. I counted 24 pages of ’em in this issue, and ten other ad pages. The cover said the issue was “A complete guide to Health & Wellness” But it was the same old stuff, with little mention of raw food. Oh, and they like vaccines. I don’t. And I found little about the immune system.
So they have twelve issues a year instead of 52, and they’ve extended my subscription two issues for every four I paid for. Gee, thanks, guys.
1/31/09
Amos Blandin
Every month we publish one of Amos Blandin’s poems in New Hampshire ToDo. He didn’t want them published while he was alive because so many of them are sentimental, and he was a judge on the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
I had the priviledge of knowing Amos for many years. He was a good fishing buddy of my dad and grandfather, F.E. Green. I even had an opportunity to sit and talk with him when I landed my seaplane in the Second Connecticut Lake, in northern New Hampshire, one summer and dropped in at the cabin where he was staying to say hello when he was there for a fishing vacation.
Here’s one of his poems.
Sidney Day
The hill belongs to Sidney Day
Though he's left it now and moved away
In September's blue and November's grey
It will always belong to Sidney Day
The little red house, the big red barn
The three hundred acres of upland farm
The curve of the river far below
Where the current winds so still and slow.
The view to the north through October's haze
When early frosts set the hill ablaze
The sweep to the south on a day in spring
When the warm winds blow and the first birds sing
The pasture swamp on an April night
When the frogs sing loud and the stars shine bright
The splash of the brook, the wet earth's musk
The snowdrift agleam, a ghost in the dusk
The kitchen lamp that shines at night
To the hunter lost a beacon light
I'd be wandering yet, men used to say
Except for that light of Sidney Day
There are other things that are Sidney's too
Through seventy years a course so true
A way of life that was never small
A smile and a kindly word for all
And they still belong to Sidney Day
Though he left last fall and moved away
I hate to go; I want to stay
But I'm too old to farm, said Sidney Day
Yet the rocks and even the winds that blow
Mayflowers in bloom at the edge of snow
The very earth has become in some strange way
No longer a hill but Sidney Day
I wonder when we move away
Will we leave as much as Sidney Day?
1/30/09
Wake Up, America!
So here we are in a supposed democracy, but where the government and big business are in total control. And many of us are working our asses off to pay for it.
This is no accident. Our government instituted a mandatory public school system which was purposely designed to discourage our learning to think or be creative…making us easier to manage. Then there’s the oil industry which, for almost twenty years has got the government to prevent the development of cold fusion power, an energy source with no polluting byproducts which could provide power at around a fiftieth the cost of oil.
And let’s not skip the pharmaceutical industry, which runs the medical schools and has, so far, been almost totally successful in hiding the fact that any illness can be cured with no drugs. They use the same teaching technique used by our public schools and colleges to discourage thinking via insisting on memorization, followed by memory tests.
We’re kept dumbed down, entertained, and taxed to the limit. And we dutifully re-elect 95% of the congressional masters. We vote to fluoridate our water. We line up for gas, even at $4 a gallon. We even line up for vaccinations.
Where’s the alarm bell button?
1/29/09
Sun Spots
The big news is that there aren’t any. The even bigger, and perhaps more alarming news is that never in recorded history, which goes back to Galeleo, has there been anything like this.
Normally the sun has a sunspot peak every eleven years, like clockwork, and then they subside almost vanishing for a couple of years. What has the experts worried is that this prolonged inactivity may allow the Van Allan Belt to fade, making us more open to the sun’s radiation, causing more freak births.
Worse, historians tell us that a few million years ago the sun erupted with solar flares which were so intense they started fires which burnt most of earth’s forests, laying down a one to two-foot layer of ash world wide. The smoke and ash in the air blocked the sun, starting an ice age.
Robert Felix, whose 1997 Not By Fire, But By Ice, predicted an ice age to come very soon, on a recent radio interview said that events are progressing just as he predicted.
Well, isn’t it nice to have something to worry about other than the world’s economic mess?
1/28/09
How American Mensa Got Started
An article on British Mensa in the Village Voice got me to submit an application to join. This brought an IQ test, which I did and sent back, along with dues. I’d always done well on IQ tests, though the schools and the Navy that had me do them hadn’t given me any scores, so I hadn’t thought much about it.
As a “C” student, just barely getting through, I didn’t have any reason to think I was out of the ordinary.
I did get a hint in high school when aptitude tests were given to help us seniors decide what kind of college might fit best with us. As a radio amateur and having spent several years at the workbench, I wasn’t surprised when they told me I had one of the highest mechanical aptitudes they’d ever measured, and I really should consider going to an engineering university instead of Dartmouth for law.
Well, okay. I wasn’t enthusiastic about law, it just seemed logical to go to a New Hampshire college since I was born in Littleton, New Hampshire.
So I applied to MIT. They took one look at my grade transcript and passed. Okay, how about Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York. I guess they were a lot less picky than MIT, because they accepted me as an Electrical Engineering freshman. Oh, modified rapture.
The courses were a bore. Just more of the high school memorizing stuff and then a test of my memory. Fortunately, my ingenuity at crib note making, honed to perfection in high school, got me through the boring courses. Barely. “C” grades again. But I did have fun with my ham radio station in my dorm room and my activity in the Glee Club, and The RPI Players (I was the sound man).
I joined a fraternity and moved my ham station from the dorm to the fraternity house.
Then, on December 7, 1941, the world changed. I was 19 and prime trench bait for the Army. Worse, my grades were still stinko, which helped move my draft classification up several notches.
I spent the summer vacation of 1942 testing transmitters being made for the Army by G.E. in Schenectady. I tried to join the Army Air Force, but when I admitted that I had hay fever they threw me out.
I ended up joining the Navy a couple of days before the Troy draft board had me scheduled to appear for induction. Whew! How I got into the Navy is a story which could add several pages to this account, but it’s not relevant to this story.
I signed on as a Radio Technician 3rd Class and started my schooling in radio and electronics. The first three months were on basics, at the Bliss Electrical School in Tacoma Park, Maryland, now Montgomery College. Then, off to Treasure Island in San Francisco for six more months on transmitters, receivers, sonar, radar and test equipment repairs.
At Bliss, where I loved every minute of the courses, I graduated at the top of my class. I did the same at the Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island.
Then, instead of taking a slot at the Naval research lab in Anacostia, Virginia, across from Washington, I volunteered for submarine duty. And that’s a story in itself. I’ve written a book about my submarine adventures. We came tha-a-a-at close to being sunk a few times, and we ended up being a top scoring boat. The USS Drum is on display in Mobile, Alabama.
After the war I went back to RPI at the government’s expense. But by this time I’d almost begun to think. I didn’t see electronics as having as much of a future for me as management. That’s where the money and power are. I wanted to change my major.
So I went to the school administration and explained that I’d selected EE as a result of the high school aptitude tests. Did that mean that I shouldn’t change to management? The psychology department gave me aptitude and IQ tests. The final report was that I had an IQ in the top 1/100th percentile, beyond where they could measure with any accuracy, and I could take any damned course I wanted.
Aha, so that’s why I was so different from most of my friends, fraternity brothers, and classmates! That’s why I somehow became the leader in any group I joined.
So when the Mensa IQ test came along I had no problem with it.
It was the summer of 1960. Lordy, that’s almost 50 years ago! I’d read the article about Mensa and sent for an application. Mensa responded with an IQ test. Well, what the hell, so I did the test and sent it to London. A few weeks later I found myself member #15 in the US. Wow, that and a token got me a ride on the subway. Yeah, I was living in New York City at the time, and had been on and off for about 30 years. Brooklyn, actually, with my folks.
A few weeks later I got a phone call from Peter Sturgeon, the brother of a well-known writer, asking if I’d be interested in forming an American Mensa organization. Sure, why not? After all, I had plenty of time on my hands. I’d been fired from one of the best jobs in the world a few months earlier and had sold everything I could to get enough money together to put out the first issue of a new amateur radio magazine. I’d been the editor of one of the two amateur radio magazines, but when it got where the publisher owed me over a year’s back pay he fired me, promising to make it right. No, I never got a dime.
I was also the president of the Porsche Club of America and active in running the club and putting on car rallies and gymkhanas. Those who participated in my rallies will never forget them. Then there was the Hudson Division Amateur Radio Convention, where I was in charge of organizing and selling the booth space to the commercial exhibitors.
So Peter and two other New York Mensans and I got together in Peter’s Brooklyn apartment for the first American Mensa meeting. Since I had duplicating and addressing equipment which I was using for my new magazine, I was appointed secretary. I sent out meeting notices and a little newsletter to all known Mensans and we got together for the next few meetings at my home in Brooklyn. I served cider and doughnuts. After that the meetings were moved to Manhattan, in various member’s apartments.
With my new amateur radio magazine growing rapidly in circulation I felt it was time to move from New York to some rural location. I ended up moving in June 1962 to Peterborough, New Hampshire, into a 260-year old 40-room house, which is an interesting story in itself. The house was free! All I had to do was maintain it and pay the taxes! Well, I didn’t have any money, so that’s all I could afford.
For the next few years I was the Local Secretary for Mensa in New Hampshire. We held monthly dinners, always with interesting guest speakers, and New Hampshire Mensa grew. I published a newsletter, OzyMandius, which was more of a literary magazine than a newsletter. I was glad to get away from the New York Mensans who were so impressed by being officers that the internal fighting was awful.
I felt that Mensa had the potential to be more than small groups of self-congratulatory people, smug with proof of their high intelligence, but I never was able to sell the idea.
Peter moved to Switzerland, and I heard from him occasionally before he died. We’d both dropped our membership in Mensa, there not being any perceived benefits from it. New Hampshire Mensa no longer has monthly meetings with interesting speakers. My wife, Sherry, has a lifetime membership, so I’m able to re-affirm my decision to drop out.
I see Mensa as an incredibly valuable untapped resource of brains, of which far too few are in positions of authority.
1/27/08
Travel
It doesn’t have to cost thousands of dollars to travel, despite what those travel agency ads promote. You don’t have to go Queen Mary II style. I’m a thrifty traveler. In fact I’ve published two volumes on my travels as guides on el cheapo travel.
Since I’ve visited 146 countries so far, I think I qualify as an expert. How about a trip Sherry and I made to Europe. We flew first class to Munich, where we rented an Audi and drove to Vienna for some of the famous Linzer torte (and sightseeing), then on to Krakow in Poland with a visit to the salt mines. From there to Prague and then back to Munich. We stayed in first class hotels and ate at good restaurants. And how much did the whole trip cost? Under a thousand dollars!
How’d we do it that cheaply? The flights cost nothing. We just used our Continental Airlines credit card miles.
We often take advantage of the bargain fares to London over the Thanksgiving weekend. Like $500 for the round trip flight, plus a first class hotel, free breakfast, and two London shows. We leave Wednesday evening, get there Thursday morning, rest most of the day, with a show that evening. Then all day Friday and Saturday to sightsee. Like we took a bus tour to Bath and Stonehenge on our last trip. On another we took a train up to Kirton and a walk through nearby Sherwood Forest. They once had a special deal on Lordships so, as the Lord of Kirton, I wanted to visit my town.
Then another show Saturday night and a flight home Sunday morning. We’ve been to London for three days and haven’t missed a day of work!
A few years ago I read an article in Forbes about lighter-than-air. They said that the Zeppelin Company still had tourist flights over Germany. Well, I’d never been up in a Zeppelin, so we flew over to Frankfort, drove down to Stuttgart, and had a great flight all around the city, with me hanging out the gondola windows snapping pictures.
What a thrill to pass right over the Solitude Castle. In 1958, when I was the President of the Porsche Club of America, I escorted 180 people over to pick up their new Porsches at the factory. The company had the new cars all lined up in front of the castle for us to pick up. We spent the next day at the Solitude race track that went by the Castle, with instruction from Porsche’s top racing drivers. What a kick racing our new Porsches around the track, which was a winding country road about ten miles long and closed off to other traffic for the day. It was a ball drifting through the turns at over 100 mph.
If Europe or Asia is too far for you, there’s plenty to see and do in your state. There’s so much to do in New Hampshire that I publish a magazine on it. NH ToDo. We’ve got county fairs, balloon festivals, one of the greatest fireworks displays in the world, a bunch of mountains to climb (46 over 4,000 feet), steam train rides, caves to explore, fabulous skiing, and the wildest autumn leaf displays this side of Northern China.
We’ve got lakes and white water to kayak or canoe. The Cog Railway up Mt. Washington. It’s endless. Golf, skiing, snowmobile trails, the Cannon Mountain Tramway. If you’re within driving distance, spend some weekends here. It won’t be long before you’ll be looking for at least a cabin…or maybe a permanent move. These days, more and more, we can work from home. NH ToDo has no offices. Everyone works from home. No commuting.
But there are some places that you really should plan to see. Like the Taj Mahal. Like climbing the Great Wall in China and visiting the terra cotta army in Xian. There’s the lost city of Petra in Jordan. I’ve been there twice!
You say you can’t afford to travel? How come? If you had your own business, and I don’t mean a mom and pop store or a restaurant, you’d have the money and the freedom to travel. I have a book on the subject, my Secret Guide to Wealth.
Like most everyone else I worked for others for a few years before I wised up and started my own business. I borrowed $1,000 on my car and started making hi-fi speaker enclosures. Within a couple of years I had seven factories under contract and was doing the usual…a Porsche, an airplane, an Arab horse, and a small yacht. Stuff like that. I got all that out of my system. Done that. But I also