The rate that things are changing on planet Earth is amazing and seems to be speeding up all the time. The video below shows some astounding facts, not just about the pace of technology but also about populations. As well as the massive impact of technology, it also shows facts (particularly about China and India) that are likely in time to effect the worlds balance of economic power.
Its a fascinating video, I hope you enjoy it.
Categories: Miscellaneous
Tagged: changing populations, china, impact of technology, india, rate of change
As per my last posting, I get regular emails from www.Avaaz.org. They campaign on environmental and sensitive political issues. They have their fingers on sensitive pulses and know when key meetings between decision makers are scheduled. Obviously the lobbyists for the polluting companies that do not want such tight environmental controls know too and they will be busy talking to the decision makers. But what do we, the little guy do. We don’t have the resources to lobby decision makers all the world and if we did, why would they listen to us. Only by joining our voices together can we, the little guy be heard.
That is where Avaaz comes in. They set up petitions for a variety of subjects, they inform their large database of little guys, they collate the names and then they deliver the petitions to the decision makers. Will the decision makers listen? Well in many cases they are elected officials, so if they have enough voters petitioning, then yes they will. Besides, it is always better to try than not to try. If we don’t act, but the lobbiests for the dirty polluting companies do act, then the decision makers will only know one side of the story. We have to try.
I do not intend to discuss the political stances taken by Avaaz as this is not intended to be a political blog. All I will say is, that if you disagree with their political campaigns, then ignore them and only respond to the environmental campaigns. However, if you are interested in fighting to save the planet, then visit Avaaz, chose your language and go to the “sign up” link.
Categories: Evironmental · Miscellaneous
Tagged: avaaz, climate campaign, climate change, environmental law, environmentall protection
Every now and then I receive emails from Avaaz, who are an online environmental and political lobbying group. I received one such email 2 days ago which I have cut and pasted below. If you are interested in preserving the environment, then please read it. Without any more ado, over to Avaaz:
We’ve received an unusual message: a video sent back in time from the future … by a talking fridge named “Coldy.” Click the picture to watch the video and take action now:
But the most-polluting companies want to sell dirty products cheaply, and avoid green investment. It’s up to us to make sure EU negotiators hear the clear voice of thousands of citizens across Europe — and not just the voices of industry lobbyists. Click below to watch the video and sign the petition — it will be delivered to negotiators this Thursday:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/refrigerator_revolution_video
Categories: Evironmental · Miscellaneous
Tagged: avaaz, climate action, climate change, environment, environmental law, green technology, save the planet
The Internet has been a bit busy lately with people sending each other videos of popcorn being cooked within seconds by mobile phones. 3 or 4 mobile phones (cell phones) are placed in a circle, with uncooked popcorn in the middle. The “experimenters” then call the mobile phones around the popcorn. The video shows the popcorn jumping into the air as they are cooked.
See below:
This obviously causes concern, because if mobile phones can do that to popcorn so quickly, what are they doing to our brains? Well although I agree that there is a risk with using mobile phones too much, the videos appear to be a hoax. See the video below which shows you how it is done:
Of course there will always be somebody that wants to take it a step further, so I have added this video just for fun. Enjoy:
Categories: Health · Miscellaneous
Tagged: cell phone, cook popcorn with cell phones, hoax, mobile phones, pop corn, trick
This is a fascinating piece of film that is being passed around at the moment. It shows movements of large aircraft (as yellow dots) over a 24 hour period, condensed down to 2 minutes. The amount of activity is quite astounding.
After 9/11, the USA grounded all aircraft flights in and out of their country. I have been told (though I can’t verify it) that this led to a measurable difference in the Earths temperature. The USA is one biggest users of aircraft and is of course receiving many flights from foreign countries. However, if a measurable difference can be made by just the USA alone banning flights, how much difference are we as a race making to our planet when you see all the flights from Europe, Asia etc that were not involved with the USA flight ban.
Then ask yourself, if that is aircraft alone, then what difference are all our cars, trains and industry making? Questions like that can make you go mad. Anyway, enjoy the film.
Categories: Evironmental · Miscellaneous
Tagged: 24 hour air traffic, aircraft flights, environment, pollution, save the earth
I only found out about this by chance, but today (15th October) is Blog Action Day. The aim is to get thousands of bloggers to unite and all talk about the same subject, which this year is poverty. The aim is “to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web”. As most bloggers have different areas of interest, they should write about how poverty encroaches on those interests.
My main area of interest is health, so I would like to talk about it from 2 angles. First of all from a First World perspective, then from a Third World Perspective.
A serious health issue in the developed First World can cause a lot of hardship. Not only for the sick person who is unable to work, but also if they require a full time carer (who is usually a family member), then the carer cannot work either. Having been a carer to my partner, Michele, who sadly passed away after a very long fight with cancer, I can vouch as the financial strain.
The UK government gives a carers allowance, but it is a pittance and you have to qualify for it. The public policy states that the government supports carers to look after loved ones at home. Of course they do, it is a very cheap option for the government, keeps the hospital beds free and the family bare the brunt of the cost. Add to this, Michele was following mainly alternative therapies which cost an arm and a leg and the government will not help with this either. When you are in that position of having to reduce your income because you can’t work, yet your expenses are rising due to the costs of treatment, you are facing a nightmare situation.
There must be hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in this trap of just having to keep spending, borrowing, spending, borrowing and being completely hamstrung as to being able to do anything about it. Many will lose their homes. This can be an extremely lonely place to be as few people will help you. Some will even stop coming to visit you as they feel uncomfortable around illness. Many people end up isolated and feeling very alone (both patient and carer).
If you want to help poverty but you don’t feel that you have any spare money to donate, then maybe you can just give some time instead. Go and visit a sick friend. Take them out for a few hours and give their carer a break too, as that is the person who has to carry the burden of everything in that household.
However, bad it is in developed World, it has to be even worse in the Third World, where often the medical supplies are simply just not there. Many people die of diseases that can be easily cured in the West because they (or their government) can not afford the medicines.
Pharmaceutical companies are not about making medicines to cure people, they are all about making medicines to make money. They can only make money if they can patent something. I have pointed out before that in the days of the sailing ships, it was discovered that oranges and limes (Vitamin C) could cure scurvy, one the most feared diseases of the day. Hence the nickname of “Limeys” for Brits. However, if that were to be discovered today, Vitamin C could never be promoted as a cure for scurvy because nobody can patent oranges and limes. Hence nobody would pay the enormous sum of money to complete the FDA (or other countries equivalent) testing.
This means that many very cheap herbal and nutritional cures (like limes for scurvy) cannot be used in the West and the West will not supply “unproven” medicines to the Third World. It all protects the interests of the Pharmaceutical companies. I believe that some international body (maybe the UN World Health Organisation) should pay for and oversee the testing of herbal and nutritional remedies by the FDA, so that they too can be accepted as cures and medicines. Funding for this testing should be divided between the governments of the richer countries, this way no firm or corporation is out of pocket, yet many cheap herbal and nutritional remedies/medicines could be made available to the poorest countries of the world who suffer the worst diseases, but can afford the least medicines. It would also reduce the costs of health care in the West too. Somewhere a campaign has to be set up to lobby for this.
Finally, Nutronix International market an advanced colloidal silver solution, that has been proven in African trials to cure malaria. However, it has yet to be sanctioned by the FDA, so the West will not be supplying this cheap cure to the worst hit African countries. Nutronix however have taken their own initiative and are asking customer to purchase bottles of the colloidal silver solution at a special low price to donate to African malaria clinics. For every bottle donated by a customer, Nutronix will be donate another bottle of colloidal silver solution for free.
For just $10, you could save a child’s life from Malaria.
Categories: Health · Miscellaneous
Tagged: advanced silver solution, being a carer, blog action day, Colloidal Silver Solution, Health, herbal remedies, malaria, nutritional remedies, poverty
An interesting article from The Independent (UK):
Drinking water supplies are to be tested for the presence of prescription drugs amid fears that rivers are being contaminated by the growing quantity of pharmaceuticals flushed unwittingly down the drain.
The Government has commissioned scientists to test river water at intake points where it is abstracted for human consumption, The Independent can reveal. They will also test drinking water after it has been through the water-treatment cycle.
Under a pilot project to begin next year, supplies will be examined for about five of the most common and potentially dangerous prescription drugs. The experts will meet over the next few weeks to decide which drugs to look for and where testing should be carried out. However, an insider said this was likely to be at selected sites on the river Thames because its water-catchment area covered the most densely populated part of the country.
Categories: Chemical Sensitivity · Evironmental · Miscellaneous
Tagged: drinking water, drugs in tap water, tap water, water polution
As per my last posting, I have recently lost my partner, Michele, to cancer. 3 days later I also lost my father who passed peacefully in his sleep at the age 89. People have different ways of dealing with loss and I hope that this posting might help others going through the same thing to find some comfort. Most religions or forms of spirituality believe that the soul lives on, or that you are reincarnated.
When I was very young, I remember our local priest, Father Pierson telling us that before a baby is born, it is warm secure and comfortable inside its mothers womb. During birth, when it is being pushed out of this safe environment, it must feel like death is coming. It is the end of life as the baby knows it. But instead it is being born into a much wider world to grow far beyond the limitations of the womb.
So it is explained Father Pierson, that when our soul leaves our earthly body, it feels like death is coming, but you are really being born into an even wider world of far greater possibilities.
I also like the story told by the famous American motivational speaker and author, Anthony Robins. He relays how his son came home upset one day because a school friend had passed away. Anthony Robins told his son not to feel too bad, because his friend had become a “butterfly” now. The son stopped; “what do you mean, a butterfly”?
Anthony Robins explained that when a caterpillar starts to change into a butterfly it goes into a cocoon. To the outside world, the cocoon looks dead. But the caterpillar is not dying, it is transforming into something better and more beautiful. He continued that his sons friend had also transformed into something better and more powerful, and though we can no longer see him, he is still there and can see us.
I told this story when I said a few words at Michele’s funeral. She used to teach dance and always told her girls to smile when dancing. I told those there that every they saw a butterfly, they should think of Michele . . . . and smile.
Categories: Miscellaneous
Tagged: bereavement, coping with bereavement, death, passing on
This posting will make more sense if you read Part 1 as well.
Having read a very good posting on Dr Buttar’s blog, I was inspired to write an additional posting on this subject. As Dr Buttar points out, many mainstream doctors readily issue pharmaceutical drugs to treat a symptom, when the route cause can often be eliminated by dietary or lifestyle adjustments.
So why will doctors seldom issue nutritional/lifestyle advice, whilst (as Dr Buttar points out) readily issuing drugs that often have toxic side effects?
I would say that there are 2 reasons:
I suspect that the “don’t sue me” culture is the reason that very little training is giving to nutrition as it is safer for them not to go there. This is why in the Part 1 of these postings, I advocate that herbal/nutritional methods should be tested to the same degree as pharmaceutical drugs, so that doctors can issue them without fear of recrimination. The only trouble with that is, who would fund testing of things likes herbs, which cannot be patented (therefore no big profits derived from the enormous expense of testing)? I have made suggestions to answer that question in Part 1.
Categories: Health · Miscellaneous
Tagged: alternative medicines, cure disease, Dr buttar, FDA, fda approval, herbal medicine, medicine, nutritional supplements
As per my original posting on this subject, there are many cheap herbs and other nutritional supplements that can cure many ailments. However, there are legal restrictions on making any claims to this effect. This is because a great deal of very expensive trials are required to approve any substance as a cure for any given condition. Nobody is prepared to pay to test herbs as they cannot be patented (therefore no one could recoup the enormous amount of money spent on the testing).
I mentioned in an earlier posting, how I had read an article on research into using turmeric to treat cancer. The article stated that there was hope that they could make a drug from it soon. Why not just use the turmeric? Because you can’t patent it.
No patent = No significant profit.
I know from my own personal experience that colloidal silver works, but I’m not allowed to say that it will cure any specific conditions.
At one time in history, herbal remedies were all we had and would be administered by the wise old lady of the village. Well if it didn’t work, the wise old lady would soon be re-named the stupid old hag. Nobody had heard of the placebo effect back then and it had a very long history of working.
So why did this method of healing all but die out. Well I suspect that many wise old ladies got burnt as witches, as they had knowledge of “strange” things. Many people would call it “woo” nowadays. Villages became towns and towns became cities and old ways got replaced by more modern medicines, some of which are more effective, but many of which have side effects. There is place for both in today’s world, especially in the poor nations where disease is rife and they have trouble affording modern medicines.
Even if the herbal medicines are less effective, if it means that the price will allow a poor country to treat many more of their countrymen than they could otherwise do, then it is worth pursuing. Please see my first posting on this subject for a suggestion on how this might feasibly be achieved.
Categories: Health · Miscellaneous
Tagged: alternative medicines, cure disease, drug approval, fda approval, herbal, herbal medicine, medicine, medicine approval, nutritional supplements, vitamin supplement
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