Saturday, January 8, 2011

Hatin' Palin - Gunning for the Presidency




This is a very funny piece of commentary by Megan Fox who is a Palin fan as I admit, I am. I have never seen so vitriolic an attack on a political person by the media in my life.

It was also the making of the Palin upcoming presidential candidacy and her recent success in using the media to make her fortune and present her personal message.   As I posted at the very beginning, all the negative stuff invented to stop her merely made her immune later.  This is now later. 

This lady is going to shoot her way into the Whitehouse and I am going to have fun using that image while she does it.

I do not think that her candidacy will be a romp simply because two other candidates are also deemed deserving at least.  A great ticket would be Palin - Romney inasmuch as Romney could be as important for the same reasons as Cheney.

However, her sheer charisma and ability to communicate is quite capable of rolling over all opposition.  Her alignment with the tea party makes traditional vote hustling in Iowa et al very unpredictable.  She is obviously both the Tea Party favorite and the favorite of core republican voters.  I simply think that the usual elites will be unable to stand up to her after a show of token resistance.

And since the Democrats have fired all plausible bullets at her already in the past campaign, they are in trouble trying to stop her at all. 

Hatin’ Palin – Why She Provokes the Left



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Palin Derangement Syndrome

Hatin’ Palin – Why Palin Provokes the Left’s Fury

When Sarah Palin first stepped onto the national stage (in the hottest red high heels anyone ever saw) this country was changed forever. It will be remembered in history as the moment conservative women stepped onto the grid in a meaningful way. In the same instant, the Left froze in terror and a seething hatred began to build until it could no longer be contained and was unleashed in the most brutal assault on a woman in politics this nation has ever seen. The most vile and disgusting remarks were made about her family, her baby’s paternity, hermarriage and her motherhood. Late night comics made rape jokes about her minor daughter and degraded her by calling her a “stewardess” and “sexy secretary.”

Leftist website the Daily Kos started the rumors about Trig not being Sarah’s child, but if you look for the story today you will find this message on the Kos, “I’m sorry, I can’t seem to find that story.” Typical. It went down the memory hole. But here’s one that didn’t go down the memory hole thanks to screen grabs and smart bloggers: Alan Colmes, creepy Ichabod Crane look-a-like, had the audacity to suggest Palin didn’t seek proper pre-natal care during her pregnancy. This is rich coming from a guy for whom “pre-natal care” includes visits to Planned Parenthood butchers. Colmes tried to delete the story when he realized what a jerk he was for posting it. That’s what leftists call “courage.”

MSNBC used faked, highly sexualized photos of Sarah in a news broadcast which they later had to grovel over. But it didn’t stop them from flippantly arguing they were just having some “fun.” I’m curious as to whatNewsweek‘s excuse was for allowing a Sarah Palin doll dressed up in a sexy school-girl outfit, shirt unbuttoned to show off a red bra to be featured in one of their stories about Palin. The hatred was (and still is) palpable. But why? The following are the top ten reasons leftist moonbats hate Sarah Palin.

10. She’s Prettier Than You (and She Couldn’t Care Less)

“Caribou Barbie,” they sneered while insinuating anyone as attractive as Palin couldn’t possibly house a brain behind that stunning face. And she is stunning. Palin is one of those beautiful women for whom doors open, heads turn and lesser beauties fade. She’s one of those girls I imagine had a hard time keeping girlfriends if any were too self-conscious to be lost behind the radiance that is Sarah.

And yet, she is the most unassuming beauty queen I ever saw. How many women on TV can you name who would be caught dead in waders (giant rubber pants with suspenders that make even a taut size 4 look like she weighs 200lbs) and slugging giant halibut with a billy club? And yet, there she is on her show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, without a stitch of makeup, hair a mess, up to her elbows in fish guts (having a marvelous time) and still managing to look better than most Cover Girls. It must really burn Maureen Dowd that on her best day (with professional makeup artists) she can’t hold a candle to Sarah Palin working a slime line.

This might explain why Dowd has repeatedly said nasty things like Palin is “one nutty puppy,” and has a penchant for “naughty monkey high heels.” I’m willing to bet there’s more than a little jealousy that no one would look twice at her in those same (fabulous) shoes.

Of course, Palin doesn’t care about any of this and would probably not approve of my bringing it up, but I can’t help myself. Much of the hatred from the Left (especially from the women) stems from this type of petty jealousy. And who could blame them? Conservative women in politics tend to be more attractive than leftist politicians. Usually that’s because conservatives do their hair and wear makeup versus the Janeane Garofalo approach which involves not showering and wearing big clunky spectacles last seen on Buddy Holly.
It might also have to do with the optimistic, baby-loving, country-loving, family-centered outlook conservative women embrace. It’s better for your pores to have a spirit of love. It reminds me of a country song (doesn’t everything?) We’re just like you. Only prettier.

9. She’s Married to the Father of All Her Children (i.e. Traditional Family)

Despite the best efforts of the tabloid media (and by tabloid I mean the major networks) to implode the Palins’ marriage, they failed. Sarah and her high school sweetheart, Todd, are still happily married and doing just fine. They have mutual admiration for each other and it shows. Everything out of Sarah’s mouth regarding her husband is complimentary. (I hope Kate Goesslin took notes for her next marriage.)

The other thing that sticks in the craw of the Left is the non-traditional setup of this traditional marriage. Sarah brings home the bacon and Todd cares for the babies and cooks! It’s a “feminist’s” dream come true right?Gloria Steinem once said,

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don’t know that men can do what women can do. That’s absolutely crucial. We can’t go on doing two jobs.

Seems like the Palins know this very well. But it does not endear them to the Left. Sarah has everything the lefty-fems said they wanted. A career, children, a husband who embraces his feminine side and helps around the house and yet they hate her for it. Probably because they’ve never been able to achieve the dream they sold for themselves.

A post-script in this category is Sarah Palin as fertility goddess. This powerful archetypal image is something the faux feminists have laid claim to, presupposing that women because of their fertility power and life-giving ability were at one time in ancient herstory revered and worshiped. I took the college indoctrination courses and there is no proof of this nonsense of course. Only a couple of cave paintings and carvings that look like ancient porn to me. But the fertility goddess image lasts and is still a powerful one in the mind of mankind.

Sarah is a modern fertility goddess. Her five children are proof and her sexual attractiveness only increases with the evidence of her fertility. In the basic caveman mind of man, she is the epitome of the perfect mate who clearly has no trouble procreating and has retained her sexual allure. Not only do her five children give evidence of her fertility, but Sarah is so potent it has spilled over onto her oldest daughter who has begun the ancient cycle again by giving birth. Sarah is a grandmother! And yet, her fertility on display is like catnip for most people (men especially.) Her status as a grandmother doesn’t diminish her attractiveness at all.

The leftist feminists are tied in knots over this one. On one hand they want to embrace the fertility goddess in all women. (For them this means attending several showings of the Vagina Monologues per year and staring endlessly at their hoohas with hand-held mirrors.) They are the advocates of goddess worship.

The Great Goddess was worshiped as the feminine life force deeply connected to nature and fertility, responsible both for creating life and for destroying life

This connection progressive feminists feel to the ancient fertility goddess is deep. There are many exhaustive tomes on the subject. But the pagan feminists abhor women who have more than one or two children and refer to them as “breeders.” They revere women who advertise they killed the evidence of their fertility through abortions. They know there is a disconnect in this thinking. They may not be able to explain it, but they feel it when they look at Sarah and her brood. They want to deride her for her choice but you can’t help wondering if they secretly wish they had the same freedom. It is as if they know what she is should be respected based on all their beliefs, but beliefs be damned, she’s not one of them. Her failure to tow the leftist line makes every accomplishment null and void. Faux feminists hate Sarah for illustrating a basic truth about them; “feminists” are leftists first.

8. She Encourages Character Building, Not Eyebrow Tweezing

Contrary to my opening item regarding her beauty, Sarah does not care about looks. (Which oddly enough just makes her more attractive.) And she’s teaching her girls the same thing. There was a moment on the show when they were all traveling in their RV and Willow and Bristol were razzing each other like sisters do. They got to talking about one of them having a “uni-brow” and teasing ensued. Sarah quickly put an end to it by declaring, “Girls, that’s enough about physical appearances.”

I thought about this and how much different Alaska is from any other “reality” show on TV. I hate that they even put it in that category. It is much more like a documentary on Alaska and its natural resources than anything else. It reminds me of my all time favorite PBS classic, Wild Wild World of Animals. When I think of reality TV I think of all the scandalous misbehaving, as showcased on idiot shows like the Kardashians, Real Housewives and Rock of Love. There is nothing even remotely comparable to Alaska in any of these formats. No one is getting breast implants, knocking over tables, making out in hot tubs, picking up chicks in bars by insulting them, or getting horrible face lifts. (Oh where have you gone Bruce Jenner? Our nation turns it’s horrified eyes from you.)

The Left thought Sarah’s “reality” show was going to be a great source of ridicule, but all it has done is highlight to America how bereft of values the Left truly is. We all know progressives control television. The leftist cultureshapes entertainment. Their idea of family, that started with the Osbournes and has given us the dysfunctional Goesslins, the drunken and stoned Anna Nicole-Smith, Hugh Hefner’s misogynistic lifestyle, is seriously lacking. Watching the Palin’s incredibly normal (albeit more interesting than most) family makes the Left look more vile than ever.

In fact, there is a warning at the beginning of Alaska that says something to the effect of, “this show may be disturbing to some viewers.” Who? Democrats? It shocks me they can air The Jersey Shore with no such warning, but watching the Palins go fishing and camping is “disturbing?”

Americans relate to the Palins. We don’t let our kids swear, we don’t let them deride each other, and we don’t give them boob jobs for their birthdays. We encourage our children to work, to earn their way. We recognize that allowing children to stay too long nestled on the parental teat will make it all too easy to transition to thegovernment teat when we’re gone. This one idea is like garlic to vampires for leftists. Where will their new troops come from if we teach the next generation to be self-sufficient? We see ourselves in the Palins and that makes it increasingly difficult for the Left to proclaim her bat@$?t crazy. They hate that.

7. She Likes Guns

Girls with guns. You would think this is an idea at least the “feminists” would get behind. What’s more empowering than a chick with firepower? Hollywood sure understands the draw. If it weren’t for the girls withguns obsession on film, Angelina Jolie would be stealing small-town girls’ husbands and appearing on the Jerry Springer Show. But alas, even as popular as sharpshooter women are in the movies, the lefty-fems can’t get behind real women who want to own and use guns. Instead, they advise us to passively fight off our attackers and get raped quietly hoping to survive. Do you think anyone would even try to attack Sarah in a dark alley? That girl is probably strapped 5 times over with extra clips in her fanny pack.

Watching Sarah at the gun range is fun. She’s an excellent shot and you can see she loves it and enjoys mastering a skill most women shy away from. The Left hates this because young girls, who know deep down they really aren’t empowered at all when it comes to protecting themselves from evil men, might be inspired by her and enroll in shooting classes. Sarah could single-handedly usher in a whole new era of girls with guns and it’s about time! Let’s give those rapists something to fear. This is not good for the Left. They have been so obtuse about “gun control” for so long and it’s got to end. Illinois is one of two states left without conceal carry rights and has some of the highest crime in the nation.

Sarah’s weekly lessons in the art of shooting and the importance of Second Amendment rights is doing more for the education of young women than any public school health class. Gun sales have increased this Christmas and guess who’s buying? Sarah has opened the dialogue among women about the importance of self-defense. This is an offense the leftists cannot forgive.

6. She Hunts

All leftists hate hunters. It always cracks me up that during the presidential election cycles we will invariably be bombarded with hilarious photos of the limp-wristed leftist candidate trying to carry a gun on some pheasant hunt while appearing cool. Nine times out of ten, he’s carrying it wrong or struggling under the weight of the unwieldy thing he’s never before touched, let alone fired. The reason they do this is not because they’ve discovered a love for hunting but because the majority of Americans believe in hunter’s rights and either are or are married to, or have family members who are hunters! During an election, progressives must lie and try to pretend to be like most Americans when in reality, they are anything but!

They usually out themselves like Obama and his famous “bitter clingers” line,

[T]hey get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment

They just don’t understand why anyone would rather fill their freezer with totally organic meat they tracked, shot, skinned and butchered themselves instead of paying twice as much for worse quality at Whole Foods. And, like Kate Goesslin, they can’t figure out why anyone would want to slog through the cold, rain and mud when there are hotels with restaurants where food magically appears in front of you. They just have no concept of the pioneer spirit, they are so removed from it with hands freshly exfoliated and moisturized with something that cost more than most American’s weekly grocery budgets. So it’s no mystery when Sarah shows us how she stocks her freezer for the low cost of a few bullets and some serious hiking, the Left recoils in horror. Self-sufficiency isn’t on the menu of totalitarian regimes. The little people must be made to rely on the government for their very existence. Those who don’t are a threat to the power structure.

5. She’s Pro-Life and Lives It

Of all the reasons to hate Sarah Palin (if you’re a moonbat) this is the one they won’t say out loud but believe me, it’s at the top of the list. In the leftist manual, a woman should never even consider keeping a disabled child. And if she actually does it, she is regarded as a freak. Someone who has no consideration for the groaning planet, heavy with the weight of too many people. A leftist believes even healthy babies should be pruned for the good of the species, so you can imagine their outrage at a person who willingly brings a child into the world who is less than perfect to consume more precious resources.

This may be the most disgusting of all leftist beliefs. The absolute  arrogance of the Left is astounding. They believe they can be the arbiters of life and death, that only they know what is best for all of us and the planet andthe universe for that matter. How would we survive without them telling us what to do? It’s a mystery.

It pierces their souls (if they have souls) when a woman such as Sarah makes a choice for life because they don’t have the moral character to make the same choice. Their guilty conscience makes them hate anyone who has more compassion than they. Progressives love to talk about compassion but their words never require them to actually be compassionate. When someone else lives in a compassionate way (and isn’t ideologically copacetic) it sears what is left of the conscience inside a leftist. It reminds them who they really are; people who advocate for the killing of the most helpless among us. (Death-loving tyrannical eugenicists.)

4. You Can’t Rattle Her

Despite the attacks, which unarguably have been the worst and most vicious in history, Sarah is still standing, never once bowing her head in defeat. Not only is she still standing, she ridicules and tweaks the Left regularly. They hate this. A few examples of Sarah’s refusal to be cowed come to mind.

During a speech to the Tea Party Sarah referred to three bullet points written on her hand. The media jumped all over this as proof that she is dumber than rocks.

Former Alaska half-term governor Sarah Palin delivered a highly-anticipated and ridiculously lucrative speech to around 1,100 supporters at the Tea PartyConvention last night, but she couldn’t get through it without a few notes scrawled on her hand.
Well, this is ironic. Moments after criticizing President Obama as “charismatic guy with a teleprompter” at the National Tea Party convention tonight, Sarah Palin sat down for a Q&A session—and appeared to read notes written on her hand.

Of course, Sarah was not hiding the notes on her hand and I believe intentionally gave the cameras a view so these hypocritical attacks would happen. Sure enough, they raced to the presses to yell about how stupid she is for using notes before realizing…hey wait a minute. Obama can’t even talk to schoolchildren without every word typed out for him on a teleprompter. The guy is so dependent on it, he started to reintroduce people he just introduced moments earlier during a speech at the National Academy of Sciences.

If that weren’t bad enough, he also thanked himself during another teleprompter flub while he and the PM of Ireland couldn’t seem to get their speeches straight. Strangely enough there’s no video. But it would take a simpleton indeed not to see the difference between three bullet points and every word typed out for you on a teleprompter.

My favorite media tweak by Sarah has to be her Thanksgiving message to all 57 States. If you haven’t read it, please do. It’s absolutely hilarious. And one more reason so-called liberals hate Sarah Palin. She keeps “refudiating” everything they say. (Just Google the word “refudiate” and witness for yourself the double standard when it comes to verbal gaffes.)

3. Her Children (and Husband) are Native Americans

We all know how much the Left loves to co-opt ethnic groups. But Todd Palin’s Inuit heritage isn’t helping the progressive media feel warm and fuzzy toward the Palins. In fact, they’ve never mentioned it. I only learned that the Palins are of Inuit descent from watching Alaska. The bend-over-for-Obama media doesn’t want you to know that this family is Native American. In fact, they’ve been so horrible to them, if any of us found out the Palins are actually brown people we could have accused them of being….racists! What do they have against the Inuit people exactly? Maybe we should start asking that question. Haven’t Native Americans been abused enough?

The Palin children are one quarter Inuit. That means they will be eligible for affirmative action placement and all sorts of yummy leftist treats (maybe even their own casino!) They should be totally immune to the vitriol of the Left. But no, progressives only care about minorities when it suits them. Instead of endearing them to the Left, their minority status has only made the Palins more hated.

2. She Loves Jesus

Everybody knows the Left only proclaims to love Jesus during elections. If anyone should mention Jesus’ name at any other time of the year they must be some sort of fundamentalist FREAK. Sarah has never been ashamed of her faith and is willing to admit she prays for guidance. This makes her a major target. A “bitter clinger,” if you will. One of those psychos who believes a man once walked on water. They took her faith and turned it into an outrageous excuse to accuse her of not believing in dinosaurs. This came from Matt Damon’s mouth and if Matt Damon said it, it must be true! And everyone knows Christians (who actually believe the Bible is true) are crazy nutjobs who want to ban books and refuse to believe people come from apes.

 The problem is, most people in this country identify as Christians and we know we’re not crazy and so by default we know she’s not crazy either. This makes the left hate her and us more than ever.

1.  She’s Not a Democrat

The number one reason the left hates Sarah Palin is because she’s not one of them. Rest assured, if she was pro-abortion and pro-big government, they would be announcing her as the second coming of Fidel Castro. (I would have said Christ, but we all know how much they despise Him.) She has outsmarted them at every turn. Everything they said would be her demise has made her more popular. The Dancing With the Stars debacle was hilarious. They were so mad about Bristol doing well, but imagine how different it would be if Chelsea Clinton had gone on the show? They tried to impugn Bristol for everything. Her clothes were too dowdy, then they were too racy, it’s a fluff show, no one will take her seriously…they just couldn’t make up their minds on how to get rid of her. Kevin DuJan at Hillbuzz.org made sure they failed. Good times.

Then the “reality show” came out and they were sure they’d be able to ridicule her for that too. Pundits on both sides called it “un-presidential,” without watching it. I would like to remind them that Ronald Reagan once played opposite a chimpanzee. And contrary to being about entertainment, Alaska is far more. It’s a brilliant show packed full of conservative values that is communicating to the young in their language. It is simply brilliant. And really, what’s worse to a leftist than Sarah Palin doing something smart?

The real reason they hate Sarah is because no one on their side has anywhere near the charisma, star power, and influence as she does. And they’re pea green with envy!

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Whatever the reasons, it’s a certainty that no other woman has ever been hated as much as Sarah Palin in modern history. Her remarkable ability to rise above it and even laugh at it is a lesson we could all use and more than enough proof to me that she has what it takes to stare down opposition and any challenge you can throw at her. I’ve always been a fan, but the more I get to know her, the more certain I am that Sarah is the next best thing since Ronald Reagan. Her uncanny ability to make leftists writhe with anger and hatred (and dare I say fear) warms my insides. I could definitely stand to see her do that to them for eight years from the inside of the White House. Here’s to hoping the Oval Office gets a new rug soon (a bear rug.)

Strain Seen





This is far from the days of making a bad guess and attempting to design an experiment to illuminate the guess.  We are now able to actually see the behaviors setting up before generating the result.

This surely means that we will refine our working knowledge of material fabrication with a theoretical basis of high confidence.  The challenges ahead will need that ability.  We are approaching the need to fabricate skins a few atomic layers at a time whose behavior must be managed.  This is another such step and is important for that.

Most important for now we have actually seen the behavior.

Man-made muscle fibers help scientists understand strain on plastics


21:14 December 23, 2010

Scientists have used biosynthetic muscle fibers to observe the changes that polymers exhibit when subjected to mechanical stress (Image: TUM)

Scientists tasked with creating better plastic films have been at a loss when it comes to observing how synthetic polymers react under mechanical stress – the polymers are just too small for a microscope to keep track of while being stretched. Now a team of physicists from Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) has come up with a solution.

They’re using a muscle filament protein to build polymer networks that can be observed by a microscope, and by doing so have already determined why some polymers get tougher with repeated stress, while others get softer.

Prof. Andreas Bausch and his colleagues are utilizing the protein actin to create the biosynthetic networks, as actin filaments are easily seen through a fluorescence microscope – even when they’re moving while being stretched. By combining a rheometer (used to study mechanical properties of materials) and a confocal microscope, they were able to film the actin network in three dimensions throughout the mechanical deformation process.

According to the TUM team, the fashion in which the network structure reorganizes itself lies behind the difference in stress responses of different plastic polymers.

The research was recently published in the journal Nature Communications.

Inflammation Thoughts






The take home thought here is that inflammation is an indicator of an imbalance of proteins in the affected region.  It arguably supports therapies that stimulate all this.  Because rigor is still lacking, a lot of this is mere guess work.

Forgetting propaganda about the immune system may at least eliminate another flawed misdirection as often happens in medicine.

The idea that a protein imbalance can be corrected is a useful idea.  It is certainly no more wrong in terms of application.  One leads to a dose of anti inflammatories and the other perhaps to a massage.  Either will not harm and either may actually help.  Better still, take an aspirin and get a massage as the first step in any regimen.  Then ask your doctor if there is a real problem.

Again this helps open eyes to possibilities denied by medical misdirection far too unwittingly common.

Inflammation: Take a Look at the Lymphological View

Sunday, December 26, 2010 by: Karl J West CL, PCE, citizen journalist




(NaturalNews) In 2001, the medical community began admitting that inflammation is a common denominator of every degenerative disease known to man. The life`s work of Dr. C. Samuel West should therefore have been officially validated. Today the official story on inflammation is primarily one of blame on the immune system. According to current medical consensus - your immune system might be out to get you! However, there seems to be many gaps in the usual explanations for inflammation. The ability to see these gaps is the ability to recognize measures that can prevent inflammation and much of what results in virtually any disease process.


Inflammation is not a single phenomena. It is a group of a great deal of combined phenomenon that may only be properly explained through lymphology or cellular ecology. The main thing to understand about inflammation is the way that the initial process impacts the cell environment and therefore the organisms that become exposed to those conditions. It is obvious that the conditions in which these cells must interact must be corrected before we can expect to correct how the organisms function and behave.


One aspect of inflammation that is particularly neglected in formal educational institutions is the way that blocked circulation by way of "trapped plasma proteins" produce the conditions that result in any degenerative disease one might care to name (and in no way have the conventional medical curriculum ever properly implicated trapped plasma proteins in the causation of any disease). So it is an amazing dichotomy when inflammation itself is such a process of blocked circulation and is finally determined to be a common denominator of every disease, and yet the immune system is found to be the culprit of it all...


In the 70`s Dr. C. Samuel West became the first in the world to lecture publicly on "trapped plasma proteins" and developed a method of activating the lymphatic system dynamically that he called The Art of Lymphasizing, a group of techniques used to disassociate the plasma proteins and pull out the excess fluid from around the cells. As Dr. West taught, "this brings the oxygen back into the cells and turns on the electric generators that give each part of the body the power to work properly".


The original Art of Lymphasizing is a combination of deep breathing, bouncing, stroking, compressing tissues, and energy techniques that have been used successfully by tens of thousands of people around the world.


Today, the Academy Dr. West founded is adding stretching, yawning, earthing, vibratory techniques, percussion, and a system of contraction and relaxation to the "Art". Yet they are quick to call people's attention to the fact that every ancient culture on the face of the planet has a ritual of activating their lymphatics in one way or another; all animals in nature have ways of activating lymphatics, and there is in reality an unlimited variety of ways in which to effectuate the lymphatic system.


Performed regularly or as needed people can use various methods of lymphatic effectuation to bring their cells back into the vacuum packed state found in all healthy tissues. This describes a way to fully reverse the anoxic conditions that always precede every case of chronic inflammation; or to fully reproduce the conditions that enable the aerobic life process (and healing) once again.


Sources for this story include: The Golden Seven Plus One by Dr. C. Samuel West DN, ND, Chemist & Lymphologist

Arthur C. Guytons Textbook of Medical Physiology 2nd & 8th Editions.
Introduction to The Science of Lymphology & The Art of Lymphasizing by Dr. C. Samuel West.

About the author
Karl J. West is the current acting President of the International Academy of Lymphology. As one of Dr. C. Samuel West's offspring he began his experiences in the field of Health Care at a very young age. He is currently focusing on his writing and studying the works of other leaders in the field.

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"The divinity within compels each of us to spread the truth and the light we have come to know and trust. Let us be EMPOWERED and united in our hearts and minds for the equal manifestation of all our virtuous dreams: 'A Healer in Every Home'." KJW

Small Shark Victory




This is long overdue.  There is nothing sustainable about the present shark fin fishery.  The fish itself is not short lived or particularly rapid in reproduction.  Thus it is easy to quickly deplete stocks.

On top of that the flesh requires special handling if one wants to use it.  Otherwise it becomes quickly tainted with urine taste.  Removing the skin is no joy either.  All this means is that the cutting out of fins is usually the only real value to fishermen.  The rest is chucked.

Again we begin another small step toward managing the marine environment properly.  I fear we will not do it right until every fisherman is driven out of business by their own greed as happened on the Grand Banks.  That has not recovered.



Victory for sharks: U.S. bans shark finning
By John Platt   Dec 22, 2010




It won't get the same press as the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but the U.S. made an important conservation leap this week by banning the deadly practice of shark finning.
The Shark Conservation Act, passed Tuesday, bans the controversial yet lucrative fishing practice of catching sharks, cutting off their fins and dumping the still-living creatures back into the water where they slowly and painfully drown.
Shark fins are highly prized for their use in shark fin soup. Many shark populations around the world have dropped 90 percent or more as a result of rampant overfishing.
The U.S. actually banned shark finning in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico in 2000, but loopholes in that law allowed the practice to continue in the Pacific. The new law requires fishing vessels to retain the entire shark carcass while at sea, a measure that will help authorities track the number of sharks that are caught and which vessels come from nations that have more lax shark conservation rules. It also forbids any vessel in U.S. waters from carrying shark fins unless they remain attached to the shark's body. 
"We've finally realized that sharks are worth more alive than dead," Oceana's Elizabeth Griffin Wilson said in a prepared statement after the act passed the Senate on Monday. "While shark fins and other shark products are valuable, the role sharks play in the marine ecosystem is priceless. The U.S. has helped set a high standard for other countries and international management organizations to follow."

The act was a long time coming. It was first introduced on January 6, 2009, and passed a vote in the House of Representatives on March 2 of that year. It was delayed in the Senate this year when Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) demanded that the $5 million bill pay for itself, a feat accomplished through cuts in the federal fisheries grant program. It was finally voted on by the Senate Monday, then again by the House on Tuesday. It now awaits President Obama's signature.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Mass Bird Die Off Panic


This story is a bit much, but the press is running with it and what would have been a series of natural events is getting celebrity treatment.  It is winter, folks.  In fact for most it is the worst part of winter until we get a break in the weather.  Wild populations are also already stressed because it has already been around a long time and it has been nasty.

Where were those red winged black birds feeding?

Exhausted birds flying into a sudden cold front would put paid to a lot of critters.  And conditions have been that nasty this year.

The same is true for fish which can be suddenly overwhelmed for a sudden change in temperature in normal currents.

We have always known that a seriously colder winter was going to severely cull the wild populations that have expanded nicely over the past decade or two.

This is a seriously colder winter.


Brazil, Sweden and New Zealand hit with strange phenomena as speculation rages
Paul Joseph Watson

Wednesday, January 5, 2010

The mass bird and fish die-offs that have affected parts of the U.S. over the last week have now gone global, with Sweden, Brazil and New Zealand becoming the latest countries to experience a phenomena that has sparked both scientific intrigue and apocalyptic panic in equal measure.


Following the sudden deaths of thousands of birds that fell over Beebe Arkansas on New Year’s Eve, in addition to 100,000 dead fish found along a 20-mile stretch between the Ozark Dam and Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County, 500 dead blackbirds and starlings weresubsequently discovered in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.

Large numbers of dead birds were also found in Kentucky around Christmas and more were found in the following days. Earlier this week, tens of thousands of small fish were found washed up in the Chesapeake Bay area. Despite their deaths being blamed on a cold snap, experts are bewildered that the fish didn’t swim to warmer waters as would be their normal response.

In a separate report emailed to us by an Alex Jones Show listener, more dead birds were seen near St. Louis, Missouri.
“I just wanted to let Alex now that I encountered over a hundred blackbirds killed on Christmas Day. This was about 30 miles south of St. Louis, MO near highway 55. The intersection was covered with them,” states the email.

The phenomenon has now gone global, with dead jackdaw birds falling to their deaths across central Sweden shortly before midnight on Tuesday.

In New Zealand, hundreds of dead snapper have washed up on Coromandel beaches. The fish looked fat and healthy, ruling out the weather or starvation as a cause of death.

“People at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay, on the north-east of the peninsula, were stunned when children came out of the sea with armfuls of the fish and within minutes the shore was littered with them,” reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

Meanwhile, in Brazil, 100 tons of fish (sardine, croaker and catfish) have turned up dead off the coast of Parana over the course of the last week.

“Apart from Paranagua, (Edmir Manoel) Ferreira said the dead fish are starting to appear in other coastal towns,” reports Parana Online. “The dead fish are going to Antonina, and Guaraqueçaba. We need an urgent solution to this,” he warned.

The number of different cases of dead birds and fish around the U.S. and globally has been matched by the myriad of different explanations as to the cause of their demise. While some theories are rooted in scientific verbiage, others have taken on an altogether more spiritual and apocalyptic context.

The more mundane causes are cited as fireworks, localized hail, power lines, or other temporary phenomena that caused the birds to panic and fly into one another. However, this doesn’t explain why similar events are occurring in different areas of the country or indeed the world and it doesn’t address the issue of mass fish deaths.

As we have documented, the primary suspects should always be governments given the fact that they have routinely engaged in secret testing of biological and electromagnetic weapons that have detrimentally impacted both humans and animals many times in the past.

Others point to the New Madrid fault zone coming to life again as a result of being disturbed by the BP oil spill and threatening the onset of a series of mega-earthquakes which will hit Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. Why this would be preceded by mass bird deaths is not properly explained.

An example of one of the more esoteric theories behind the die-offs was explained by controversial Pastor James David Manning, who labeled the phenomena a “Global Katrina 2,” and an act of “biological warfare,” voicing his belief that the strange sequence of die-offs was a harbinger of tribulation and the biblical end times.

Web searches for bible prophecies and end time scenarios have exploded as some Christians fear that the mass die-offs mark the beginning of a series of catastrophes.

“Internet keyword searches continue to register off the charts. Queries like “dead fish Bible,” dead birds and fish Revelation,” dead birds and fish die End Times.” were being entered by the million Tuesday,” writes Jim Hagerty, with forum moderators kept busy answering questions about the opening of the Seventh Seal and whether or not a great pestilence will follow soon.

It seems unavoidable that the closer we get to 2012 and the onset of the widely prophesied end times theory, where a series of cataclysmic or transformative events will coincide with the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan Long Count calendar, which will subsequently herald the end of the world or the beginning of a new spiritual age, that every bizarre event will be cited as evidence of this coming transformation.

The mass deaths of birds in particular strike a resonant chord within the human psyche for a number of sociological and cultural reasons, not least of which is the fact that they are often seen as an early warning system for harm that could later come to human beings, which of course is where the term “canary in the coal mine” originates.

Although mass die-offs of birds and fish are by no means unprecedented, any increase in their regularity will combine easily with 2012 fever to whip up more frenzy and wide-eyed speculation. This in turn will distract millions of Americans from both real environmental crises that could be connected to the bird deaths, as well as very real political conspiracies and financial plots that continue to spell doomsday for the very existence of the American republic, with no reliance on idle speculation about Mayan calendars or 2012 end times prophecies.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.