Nov 2, 2014

Dumplings Instead of Bread?



It just popped into my head that sometimes cooking outdoors might make it hard for some to bake bread with their supper.

Why not just use your favorite dumpling recipe and spoon the dumplings right on top of your stew to cook.

One pot, no fuss, no muss!!

Blessings,  Suzanne

American Concentration Camps: “Will Be Used To Enforce Medical Martial Law For The Sick… And To House Political Dissidents”

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For a number of years, the topic of FEMA Camps (i.e. American concentration camps) have been rumored to exist. Jesse Ventura, on his show, Conspiracy Theory, revealed to the public the existence of FEMA Camps in such a dramatic fashion that the episode has been banned from public viewing.
Through the years, there has been much speculation about the existence of FEMA Camps and their true purpose. Recent events surrounding the recent Ebola crisis, are making it clear that the camps, as well as other co-opted public facilities (e.g. stadiums, malls, etc.) will be used to enforce medical martial law for both the sick as well as anyone else who the government determines is a (health) risk to the well-being of the public. Am I saying that the camps will be used to house political dissidents? This is undeniably true. This article traces the inception of FEMA camps to the present and intended purpose. This article will also expose the fact that it will not just be Ebola victims going to these camps where there will be medical facilities.

REX 84

REX 84 is the “granddaddy” of the modern era FEMA camp legislation. When the REX 84 FEMA Camp program was created by people such as Lt. Col. Oliver North, who was both National Security Council White House Aide, and NSC liaison to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and John Brinkerhoff, the deputy director of “national preparedness” programs for FEMA’s role in the creation of the camps, our ultimate fate for future generations of Americans was sealed.
The existence of the Rex 84 plan was first revealed during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported by the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987.
” These camps are to be operated by FEMA should martial law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general’s signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached.”
“The (FEMA) camps all have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the detention facilities. Many also have an airport nearby. The majority of the camps can house a population of 20,000 prisoners.
Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive mental health facility and can hold thousands of people”.
The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a “mass exodus” of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Since 1987 we have had an estimated 25-30 illegal aliens enter the United States and these camps were not used for “rounding up the mass exodus” of illegal aliens, nor, is this article suggesting that is what should have happened. The point being, the government is lying about the existence of these camps, despite irrefutable legislative proof. Not one illegal alien was sent to a FEMA camp in the recent Central American exodus this past summer, NOT ONE!
Some observers believe that as many as 4 million may have illegally crossed the border since the beginning of this year. Regardless, the stable of 800 existing FEMA camps remain untouched.

Why Aren’t 800 FEMA Camps Enough?

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On September 23, 2011, the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA conducted a disaster drill in Denver, Colorado that they called Operation Mountain Guardian.The plan was all-inclusive and basically shut down the Denver metropolitan area including Denver International Airport, many malls, many schools and several other public venues including Sports Authority Field where the Denver Broncos play professional football. Why didn’t this event put people in the streets by the tens of thousands? To rub salt in the wound a similar drill was conducted at Giants Stadium in New York in the same year.
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(Got Freedom?)
In September of 2011, Simon Properties, the largest owners of malls in North America inked a deal with DHS to allow their malls to be used as detention centers in times of “national emergency”.
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CBS News Admitted FEMA Camps Are Real

Did you know that during Hurricane Sandy, CBS actually admitted to the existence of FEMA camps? I was able to obtain documents and photos which can be accessed in an article entitled CBS News Admits FEMA Camps Are Real. The article also details how the FEMA has privately contracted with vendors who can erect temporary FEMA camps within 24-72 hours as original authentic FEMA/KBR communications were revealed.
Your soon to be new accommodations are described in this PDF attachment, published by the Army (FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations (PDF). This document tells you that This is what a typical American FEMA camp looks like. The camps will eventually be run for foreign assets, presumably UN troops. Internment can occur for a variety of reasons including the stripping of one’s citizenship for political views which can get one to be declared to be a “sovereign citizen”. Medical incarceration would also be a reason that could land Americans into these camps. This document is less than a year old.

Medical Martial Law and HHS Run FEMA Camps

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Recently, more attention has been brought to the subject of FEMA camps in the context of the present Ebola scare.
Whether you know it or not, your future reservations remain untouched by the most recent immigration crisis. Soon it will be time to go on the vacation of your life. And this is one of the ways that you will get there.

The Legal Authority to Send “SUSPECTED” Ebola Patients to FEMA Camps and Anyone Suspected of Having Been Exposed!

Before one can “legally” transport Ebola patients to “death camps” and await the inevitable, the public must be reassured that the rule of law is being followed.
When Ebola strikes, the changes in the handling of Ebola patients have already been planned for through a series of legal actions, most of them are Executive Orders.
For example, the Executive Order, entitled Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases, amends Executive Order 13295, passed by George W. Bush in April 2003, which allows for the, “apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals”, and Ebola is specifically mentioned. Obama’s executive order, entitled Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases, amends Bush’s Executive Order 13295, which allows for the, “apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases.”
Obama has granted his administration the authority to detain, in any manner deemed necessary, any person who demonstrates any degree of respiratory distress. This means people with noninfectious asthma could be detained.
The CDC has greatly expanded guidelines which permit the government to quarantine people with “fatigue” and lists this as a potential Ebola symptom. Anyone THOUGHT to be exposed to an Ebola patient can be quarantined. CDC has opened themselves up to the likelihood that Ebola can be transmitted even from people who are not presently symptomatic at the time of transmission. This goes hand in hand with present CDC measures that allow for the quarantine of non-symptomatic persons.

Medical Martial Law FEMA Camps to Be Run By HHS

In the event of a pandemic, the Secretary of Human Health Services (HHS) will assume operational control of Federal emergency public health and medical response.

“Ambulance” Contracts Will Deport Americans to FEMA Camps

I have found evidence supporting these claims in a federal document entitled Emergency Support Function #8 (ESF #8) – Public Health and Medical Services Annex.
This document can be accessed by Googling “ESF #8″ and you will arrive at the following listing and a PDF will appear.
[PDF]Emergency Support Function #8 – Public Health and Medical
www.fema.gov/…/emergency_s…
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Medical Services include responding to medical needs associated with mental health, ….. assistance are executed by ESF #8 in coordination with DHS/FEMA. … primarily for communications, aircraft, and the establishment of base camps.
ESF #8 established the national ambulance contract, which is designed to provide support for evacuating seriously ill or injured patients.
HHS will enlist the VA and Department of Defense assets (e.g. the military) in support of providing “transportation assets, operating and staffing NDMS Federal Coordination Centers, and processing and tracking patient movements from collection points to their final destination reception facilities” (emphasis added).

The Ebola Detainment Centers (FEMA Camps) Have No Real Medical Facilities

Look at the participating partners in the “hospital” detainment centers in the EFS #8 document. This list is very revealing as to the intended purpose of these camps.
Support Agencies:
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Interior
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of Veterans Affairs
Environmental Protection Agency
General Services Administration
U.S. Agency for International Development
U.S. Postal Service
American Red Cross
Sometimes, it is not what a person says that is important, it is what they do not say. In the above list of Ebola detainment centers, I don’t see the CDC or the National Institute of Health listed. Nor do I see any legitimate medical organizations. I don’t even see the presence of any “volunteer” medical organizations such as Doctors Without Borders. Does anyone else find it disturbing that the transport of very sick people will be conducted and the end point is devoid of any medical treatment organizations and/or facilities?
These camps are death camps. There is not one shred of evidence that these camps are intended to treat or even make comfortable people who will contract Ebola or be exposed to Ebola. The most disturbing thing is that these camps will be death camps for relatively healthy people.
If you are a person who is unlucky enough to be discovered to have asthma or merely be temporarily suffering from congestion in one’s lungs from allergies or a simple cold, you could find yourself on one of the Federally approved ambulance services (bus, train, plane) and headed to your final destination.

Conclusion

I cannot shake a story that the late Larry Grathwohl told me regarding a conversation he had with Bill Ayers. Larry’s conversation took with Ayers while he was serving as an FBI special informant sent to investigate Ayers organization, the Weatherman Underground. Ayers is also he man who launched President Obama’s political career from the living room of his Chicago area home.
Grathwohl revealed on my talk show, that he asked Ayers, the then leader of the radical group the Weathermen Underground, in a meeting of about 25 well-to do fellow Weatherman, most with advanced degrees from Ivy League Universities, what the Weathermen planned to do when they achieved their goal of a communist take over the government. Grathwohl stated that Ayers paused for a moment and then said that it was likely that about 50 million Americans will have to be re-educated in concentration camps located in the American Southwest, and that about 25 million would have to be eliminated, meaning that they would have to be murdered. The potential implications are stunning.
To this day, two years later, and even after Larry’s passing, these words still haunt me.
Dave Hodges is an award winning psychology, statistics and research professor, a college basketball coach, a mental health counselor, a political activist and writer who has published dozens of editorials and articles in several publications such as Freedom Phoenix, News With Views, and The Arizona Republic.
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Learn the facts - Ebola carriers can be infectious without symptoms; symptoms merely increase transmissibility

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(NaturalNews) Nearly everything that the government has been saying about how and when Ebola is transmissible is turning out to be false, as evidenced by yet another peg in the Ebola matrix of lies coming undone. Even if an Ebola carrier is not showing symptoms, admits the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly on its website, he or she can still spread the disease to others.

This is not what the CDC has been saying publicly, of course. The health agency almost violently insists that it is impossible to catch Ebola from someone who is not yet showing symptoms. Except that it actually is possible, according to a 1999 study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Researchers from the CDC discovered during a 1995 Ebola outbreak in the Republic of Congo that viral antigen was present in nearly all patients, regardless of which acute phase of illness they were presently suffering. Though the virus was found to be present in different amounts depending on symptom severity, it was still there and still transmissible.

On its website, the CDC still admits this to be true, but for some reason refuses to talk about it on the national news. The contraindicating message being sent to the country is that Ebola is no big deal -- unless a person is showing symptoms, you are free to eat, drink and be merry without a care in the world!

CDC says Ebola victims can still spread disease without symptoms

But here's what the CDC quietly admits on its website, which changes the game entirely:

"Ebola virus is usually detectable in patients' blood at the time of fever and symptom onset, although Ebola virus RNA levels at the time of fever and symptom onset are typically low (near the detection threshold limits) and in some patients may not be reliably detectable during the first 3 days of illness," reads a section on their website entitled "Laboratory Data."

What this suggests, of course, is that a person who contracts Ebola may or may not begin to show symptoms before detectable levels of the virus are present in his or her blood. And if the virus is present, there is at least some risk that it can spread to others, even if the quantity of the viral load is less than it would be when full symptoms are present.

Ebola has been known to spread without symptoms for nearly 15 years

Back in 2000, scientists from Europe and the U.S. confirmed that Ebola can spread without symptoms. Asymptomatic infected individuals were found to carry around the virus for up to two weeks after first being exposed to it, and before showing symptoms, according to results of a study published in The Lancet.

It had been suspected previously that Ebola is capable of transmitting without symptoms, though this study was the first of its kind to actually prove this. The full extent of how long the virus can persist remains unknown, but based on what is known, the threat of infection is much more significant than the public is being told.

According to a report published by The New York Times, the team that conducted the research studied 25 individuals who never developed symptoms at all, though they turned out to be carriers of Ebola. Using the standard detection techniques at the time, the scientists were unable to identify the Ebola virus in the seemingly health patients, but a technique known as polymerase chain reaction uncovered the truth.

"It's not entirely clear that they can't transmit the disease," stated Dr. Bruce Beutler, an American medical doctor and researcher who won a Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2011, concerning nurses like Kaci Hickox who are not yet showing symptoms of Ebola.

"It could be people develop significant viremia [where viruses enter the bloodstream and gain access to the rest of the body], and become able to transmit the disease before they have a fever, even," said Dr. Beutler. "People may have said that without symptoms you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about that being 100 percent true. There's a lot of variation with viruses."

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Can Openers – The Most Neglected Survival Tool?

I recently saw an episode of the “Survivorman” series (I have a LOT of respect for Les Stroud). He was given a ‘surprise’ item by his crew – a survival kit sealed in a can, with a pop-top lid. Mr. Murphy was laughing that day,so, of course, the aluminum tab broke off in his hand. Les was not defeated, because he had a can opener on his multi-tool, and laughed about it. It made me think. In an emergency situation, how are you going to open those food cans?
  1. An electric can opener. I have never liked these. Big, noisy, and if the power is out, make a great paperweight. If my hands get stiffer, I may reconsider this preference.
  2. You can do it “John Wayne Cowboy Movie”-style by pushing/pounding a knife blade through the can top and ‘cutting’ it off. The can will be opened. You will probably cut yourself on the jagged edges. Your knife is now useful as a prybar, but don’t call it sharp.
  3. Use a Swiss Army/Boy Scout/Multitool can opener blade. If the blade doesn’t lock, you can bet it will fold up on you and pinch you painfully every damn time. Leaves almost as jagged an edge as the Bowie knife.
  4. The military-surplus P-38 can opener. THE best piece of kit that Uncle Sam ever issued. I have had one on my keychain since 1971. When the 100-packs go on sale at SportsmansGuide, I pick one up and give them away to friends and family. One in every kit/pouch, etc. I have. It’s STILL a much better screwdriver/prybar than a can opener. The new P-51 version is bigger and might be easier on older fingers. It works, but still a lot of effort and still leaves a jagged edge than can cut you.
  5. A cheap grocery store/megamart hand can opener. The rotary version of the p-38. It costs 3 bucks,works ok, sorta, mostly.
  6. A medium-price grocery store/megamart hand can opener. The 6-8 dollar version. Instead of a wedge, a round steel cutting blade. These leave non-jagged edges. Instead of something that will just rip your skin and make you bleed a bit, now a nice sharp edge on the can-top and inner edge that can REALLY cut you deeply like a straight razor..
  7. My choice: A “Safety” can opener. About 10 bucks at the same grocery store/megamart. Instead of a blade that cuts down into the can, the cutting edge is mounted at 90 degrees to the can, and cuts through the rolled metal lip of the can, not the top itself. I stick one of these in every tote that has cans in it, just in case. I have one ‘dummy-corded’ to my catering kit, because they seem to ‘walk away’. A note: these DO NOT work on standard aluminum beer/soda cans because of the curve below the lip. Use a stick or something to knock-in the tab. An old-school “churchkey” opener isn’t a bad idea as a backup, either. See below for warnings.
OK, so why pick a 10 dollar tool instead of a 10 cent tool?
I have ‘em all (except the electric). My P-38’s are everywhere – GREAT multitaskers, and sometimes, you go with what you have. Mr. Right There, not Mr. Right. Ideal? Not even close.
  1. No sharp edges to rip up your hands. If you have never had to use 4 bandaids, 3 nitrile gloves and half a roll of PVC electrician’s tape after opening a can of beans with a borrowed can opener at a Chili competition, this may not seem like an obvious advantage. It is. No Crap. Other people don’t want your blood in their lunch.
  2. The can top and the cutting blade doesn’t go into the can. Instant top for leftovers. (store safely). Was that can being run over by mice and roaches for a year? Was it soaking in post-hurricane sewage-laden water? Did you sanitize the cutting blade and the can? Guess what? Your canned food is no longer pasteurized.
Keep safe. We’re all in this together.

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Boosting Your Immune System: 6 Things You Need to Be Eating

6 Things You Need to Be Eating
Do you want glowing skin, boundless energy, and a nearly super-human resistance to germs and viruses?
It’s time to step up your nutritional game. With flu season bearing down on us, we’re hearing a lot in the media about how we should be rolling up our sleeves for a toxic flu shot. Instead, perhaps we should be focused on immunity-boosting foods that will help our bodies to fight off the bugs that come knocking. Last week, we discussed what NOT to eat, but it’s a lot more fun to think about the delicious bounty we should be consuming.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
~Hippocrates
There are so many wonderful nutritious whole foods out there that it would be impossible to make a comprehensive list of everything that enhances your immune system. It probably goes without saying that I strongly recommend organic, local versions of these items whenever possible. If you can’t get the food locally, the next best choice is usually frozen, since that was done at peak ripeness. Food that was picked two weeks ago while unripe, then shipped and artificially ripened, just doesn’t have the same benefits. As well, not all of these foods are healthy for everyone. Obviously, if you’re lactose intolerant, you shouldn’t be downing a glass of raw milk. If you’re a vegetarian, look for other sources of certain nutrients. Adapt these suggestions to fit your lifestyle.

Garlic

Garlic contains the chemical compound “allicin”, which can also be found in veggies like onions and leeks to a smaller degree. It also contains beneficial levels of sulfur, arginine, oligosaccharides, flavonoids, and selenium. One study showed that daily consumption of garlic increased subject’s resistance to the common cold by 2/3s and a shorter duration of symptoms for those who did catch a cold.
One hundred forty-six volunteers were randomized to receive a placebo or an allicin-containing garlic supplement, one capsule daily, over a 12-week period between November and February. They used a five-point scale to assess their health and recorded any common cold infections and symptoms in a daily diary. The active-treatment group had significantly fewer colds than the placebo group (24 vs 65, P < .001). The placebo group, in contrast, recorded significantly more days challenged virally (366 vs 111, P < .05) and a significantly longer duration of symptoms (5.01 vs 1.52 days, P < .001). Consequently, volunteers in the active group were less likely to get a cold and recovered faster if infected. Volunteers taking placebo were much more likely to get more than one cold over the treatment period. An allicin-containing supplement can prevent attack by the common cold virus. (source)
Simply including garlic in your cooking is a delicious way to reap the benefits. As well, include things like onions, shallots, and leeks in your diet.

Tea

Both black and green teas increase your resistance to illness. Both types of tea contain L-theanine, an amino acid that can not only improve your physical health, but also your mental health. L-theanine enhances the function of gammadelta T lymphocytes. These t-cells are your body’s first line of defense against the microbes that can make you sick. A Harvard study showed that the production of antibacterial proteins was up to five times higher in the tea drinkers than in non tea drinkers, via blood tests.
These primed gammadeltaT cells have an enhanced capacity to proliferate and to secrete cytokines upon ex vivo exposure to a wide variety of microbes and tumor cells. The largest dietary source of alkylamines is L-theanine, an amino acid unique to tea beverages that is catabolized to ethylamine. Supplementation of subjects with capsules containing L-theanine and catechins has recently been shown to decrease the incidence of cold and flu symptoms, while enhancing gammadelta T cell function. (source)
For optimum benefits, consume at least 3 cups of black or green tea per day.

Beef

When I say, beef, not just any old hunk of cow will do. It’s better to go with smaller servings and to spend the extra money for grass-fed, hormone free beef to reap the maximum immune-boosting benefits.
The reason beef is so great for your immune system is because of the mineral zinc. Even a small deficiency in that mineral has been linked to increased incidences of infection.
Zinc deficiency impairs overall immune function and resistance to infection. Mild to moderate zinc deficiency can be best detected through a positive response to supplementation trials. Zinc supplementation has been shown to have a positive effect on the incidence of diarrhea (18% reduction, 95% CI: 7-28%) and pneumonia (41% reduction, 95% CI: 17-59%), and might lead to a decrease in the incidence of malaria. Zinc has also proven to decrease the duration of diarrhea by 15% (95% CI: 5-24%). Maternal zinc supplementation may lead to a decrease in infant infections. Two studies have shown zinc supplementation to decrease child mortality by more than 50%. Zinc clearly has an important role in infant and childhood infectious diseases. (source)
Although not as bountiful as beef, other sources of zinc are seeds (especially pumpkin), shellfish, poultry, pork, and dairy products. If you do happen to get sick, grab some organic zinc lozenges and chomp them throughout the day to help fend off your illness.

Raw Dairy Products and Probiotics

This one is hotly debated, but many people believe that raw dairy products build more than just strong bones. Dr. Weston Price was a dentist who traveled to world to research the link between nutrition, dental health, and overall physical health back in the1930s. Price hypothesized that as indigenous groups shifted away from their traditional diets towards Western diets, that they became less healthy. The processing that Western food undergoes to be “safe”, according to Price, stripped away vitamins and necessary nutrients. In particular, Price was a proponent of raw, unpasteurized dairy products and healthy, naturally occurring fats. (You can read more about Price’s research in his book: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration)
A scholarly paper presented to the British Columbia Center for Disease Control debunks the myths that raw milk is dangerous. When milk is pasteurized the levels off these nutrients decrease to nearly non-existent amounts: B2, B12, C, E, and folic acid. Not only that, pasteurization destroys the components of milk that are beneficial to your immune system.
Raw milk contains many components that kill pathogens and strengthen the immune system. These include lacto-peroxidase, lacto-ferrin, anti-microbial components of blood (leukocytes, B-macrophages, neutrophils, T-lymphocytes, immunoglobulins and antibodies), special carbohydrates (polysaccharides and oligosaccharides), special fats (medium chain fatty acids, phospholipids and spingolipids), complement enzymes, lysozyme, hormones, growth factors, mucins, fibronectin, glycomacropeptide, beneficial bacteria, bifidus factor and B12-binding protein. These components are largely inactivated by the heat of pasteurization and ultrapasteurization. (source)
Whichever type of dairy you choose for your family, the immune-boosting benefits can increase even further when the milk is cultured. This increases the probiotic goodness, vitamins, enzymes, and active cultures and makes your body inhospitable to the bacteria you do not want coming to stay. Don’t limit yourself to yogurt. Cultured milk products can be things like sour cream and creme fraiche, buttermilk, cultured butter, clabbered milk, yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese, feta cheese, fresh cheese, queso fresco cheese, cheddar cheese…the list goes on and on. You can find out how easy it is to make your own cultured dairy products from THIS E-BOOK.
A study undertaken in Sweden followed 181 factory workers over the course of an 80-day time span. It showed significant results to support including probiotics in the diet to enhance the immune system. Those who drank a daily supplement of the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri took 33% fewer sick days than those who did not.
If you’re purchasing commercial dairy products, look for “live and active cultures” on the label.

Mushrooms

Everyone’s favorite fungi offers major immune-boosting power. Dr. Douglas Schar, the director of the Institute of Herbal Medicine in Washington, DC, has spent a great deal of his career studying the effects of mushrooms on the immune system.
In Europe, several mushrooms have been used as panaceas with particular application in the treatment of poisoning, venomous bites, infectious disease, and loss of immune function. They were used to treat conditions that required on an active immune system, whether that was an infectious disease or a bite in which venom was injected into the body. They were called tonics and were used when a person faced what was formerly described as debility or loss of vitality. Today, we know “debility” often results from a failed or failing immune system.
The allopathic medical community often ridicules the lists of traditional uses of medicinal plants. Admittedly, claims that a mushroom was used to treat snake bite, tuberculosis, hepatitis, poisoning, influenza, debility, and rheumatoid arthritis seem a bit incredible. However, there is a common thread to all of these conditions. They are all caused by either a failing immune system or are improved by an active immune system. Many panaceas have in the laboratory proven to be immune system stimulants. This is the case with several European medicinal mushrooms.
For the ethnobotanist, it is interesting to note the use of medicinal mushrooms in Europe parallels the Native American use of Echinacea purpurea. Echinacea purpurea was used to treat rattlesnake bite, insect bite, wounds, burns, and coughs and colds. A list that, again, suggests its proven action on the immune system.
It would appear medicinal mushrooms have been used since the earliest day as medicine in Europe. In 1991, hikers discovered the remains of a man that died 3500 years ago in the Italian Alps. The discovery was well covered by the media though certain key facts were omitted. The frozen man had a medicine bag attached to his person which contained a pair of medicinal mushrooms. (source)
In particular, the Maitake mushroom has been valued medicinally for its antiviral properties, however the edible (and delicious) Enoki and Shiitake mushrooms are also beneficial. They all contain polysaccharides, glycoproteins, ergosterols, triterpenoids. These compounds increase the production and activeness of white blood cells, which work more aggressively to protect you from illness.

Organic Fruits and Vegetables

Increasing your consumption of fruits and vegetables will help load up your system with vitamins (like C) and antioxidants. Antioxidants improve the immune system by destroying detrimental free radicals.
Oxygen-derived free radicals are important in both natural and acquired immunity. Neutrophil and macrophage phagocytosis stimulates various cellular processes including the “respiratory burst” whereby increased cellular oxygen uptake results in the production of the potent oxidant bactericidal agents, hypochlorous acid and hydroxyl radical. In addition, nitric oxide, a gaseous radical produced by macrophages, reacts with superoxide to form peroxynitrite, also a potent bactericidal agent. Conversely, oxidative stress may be detrimental in acquired immunity by activation of nuclear factor kappa B, which governs gene expression involving various cytokines, chemokines, and cell adhesion molecules, among others. However, antioxidant supplementation essentially reverses several age-associated immune deficiencies, resulting in increased levels of interleukin-2, elevated numbers of total lymphocytes and T-cell subsets, enhanced mitogen responsiveness, increased killer cell activity, augmented antibody response to antigen stimulation, decreased lipid peroxidation, and decreased prostaglandin synthesis. (source)
By opting for organic fruits and vegetables, you’re getting all of the benefit while not forcing your immune system to fend off the toxic additions of herbicides, pesticides, and GMOs.

Easy ways to get mega-nutrition:


  • Make soup. When you make a pot of soup, you can meld delicious bone-broth with loads of garlic, onion, and mushrooms, as well as nutrient dense vegetables. Start dinner each night with a piping hot serving of soup. It’s like a satisfying bowl of vitamins. Soup also makes a simple, healthy weekday lunch.
  • Drink tea. Even coffee lovers can fit in a few cups of tea. For an added bonus, try some delicious black tea chai with raw milk.
  • Eat consciously. Make a point of consuming a minimum of 2-3 servings per day of food with immunity benefits.
  • Prep foods in advance. Make things easy on yourself. Keep a fruit salad and green salad in the fridge, ready to scoop out. Stock up on kefir and yogurt (or make it yourself). Have supplies close at hand that make a cup of tea as simple as bringing water to a boil. Make a big pot of soup in the crockpot to provide healthy meals throughout the week. Make good choices so simple that you won’t even be tempted to opt for foods that are not beneficial.
  • Invest in some high quality supplements. For those days when your food intake is not the best, consider some nutritional supplements. It’s important to remember that food is the most accessible source of nutrients. Supplements run a distant second, but they can still help. Things like Vitamin D3, Vitamin C, Selenium, probiotics, zinc, odor free garlic tablets, and a quality multivitamin can help keep your immune system fueled. Even though they are more expensive, invest in the best quality of supplements that you can find. Some supplements contain GMOs, sugar, and artificial sweeteners – all things on the list of consumables that you should be avoiding. Then these are combined with low-quality nutritional ingredients. This could actually have the complete opposite of the desired effect. If you aren’t getting high quality supplements, don’t waste your money on the cheap versions.

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Nov 1, 2014

U.S. government: Ebola is safer than the flu; high-risk carriers free to mingle with the public

Ebola

(NaturalNews) When it comes to infectious disease, the medical contradictions practiced by the U.S. government are nothing short of staggering. Consider the striking contradiction between the government's policy on unvaccinated schoolchildren vs. its policy on allowing possible Ebola carriers to travel freely among the public as long as they are "asymptomatic" (i.e. showing no symptoms):

Schoolchildren who are unvaccinated are routinely ordered sent home from public schools, even if they aren't infected with anything and show no symptoms whatsoever. Parents are told their children "might be a risk to other children," and the concept of isolation is strenuously invoked to isolate unvaccinated children -- who aren't even sick -- from vaccinated children.

But when it comes to Ebola, all those explanations are thrown out the window. Ebola carriers, we're told, "aren't a threat to the public" as long as they are showing no symptoms. In Maine yesterday, a federal judge just slapped down any quarantine restrictions on the Ebola nurse Hickox. "The judge said there's no need to restrict her movements because she's not infectious because she's showing no symptoms," reported AP. [1] "Kaci Hickox is free to travel unrestricted..." says AP.

So wait a minute. How can asymptomatic Nurse Hickox -- who was trained by the CDC as an "intelligence officer" by the way -- be totally safe to run around with the public even though she might have Ebola, but asymptomatic children who weren't vaccinated are deemed so dangerous to the public that they have to be isolated from other children even when they aren't sick?

Either the vaccine zealots have been lying to us all along or the federal government is placing us all in danger of Ebola infections.

Ebola has a fatality rate approaching 70%, but it's considered safer than the flu

As you ponder all this, remember these indisputable facts:

• Ebola has a 50% - 70% fatality rate. Diseases which are routinely targeted for vaccinations -- such as influenza -- have a fatality rate that's just a small fraction of one percent.

• Ebola can incubate in a person for weeks without being detectable or causing any symptoms. A person can be asymptomatic for up to 42 days and then suddenly break out with full-blown Ebola even though they tested negative for Ebola up to that point.

• Many outbreaks of communicable diseases among children (measles, mumps, etc.) continue to occur among vaccinated children. In one case, 97% of children affected by a mumps outbreak were already vaccinated for the mumps. In some cases, in fact, vaccinated children appear to be triggering the outbreaks according to recent studies.

• Merck virologists who worked on vaccines there filed a False Claims Act report with the federal government, charging Merck with falsifying clinical evidence to fraudulently make it appear their vaccines worked, when in reality the human blood samples were being spiked with animal antibodies. "Merck also added animal antibodies to blood samples to achieve more favorable test results, though it knew that the human immune system would never produce such antibodies, and that the antibodies created a laboratory testing scenario that "did not in any way correspond to, correlate with, or represent real life ... virus neutralization in vaccinated people," according to the complaint.

• A CDC scientist recently went public with an admission that the CDC has long known vaccines were linked to a huge increase in the risk of autism in African-American children. The entire mainstream media censored the story and refused to cover this explosive development for the simple reason that the media is largely controlled by the vaccine / pharma corporations. Therefore, you will never learn any truth about vaccines, immunity or pharmaceuticals from the mainstream media.

Federal judge all but admits the vaccine zealotry of schoolchildren is "bad science"

In rendering his decision to allow Nurse Hickox to freely travel among the U.S. public, Judge Charles C. LaVerdiere all but admitted the nation's vaccine policies among schoolchildren are also based on bad science.

"The court is fully aware of the misconceptions, misinformation, bad science and bad information being spread from shore to shore in our country with respect to Ebola," he wrote, in a sentence that could just as easily replace the word "Ebola" with "measles, mumps or whooping cough."

When that "bad science" supports the vaccine industry, however, it is fully enforced by the government and public schools. But when there is no vaccine available for a disease like Ebola, suddenly the idea that a possible Ebola carrier should be isolated from everyone else is called "bad science."

And why? Because the nurse is "asymptomatic," of course. If you don't show symptoms, you can't spread it, we're told. But this same line of reasoning is never applied to schoolchildren. What makes Nurse Hickox so special? Does she have mutant X-Men powers of disease resistance that no children possess? Not likely. The more likely explanation is that we are being lied to.

"Science" is made up along the way

What you're really witnessing in all this is how government and industry conspire to make up whatever "science" they want to fit the commercial outcome they desire. (Vaccine sales and spreading pandemics to boost future vaccine sales.)

When they want to set Nurse Hickox free to potentially spread Ebola to more people, they call the idea of isolation "bad science." But when they want to enforce a national mandatory vaccination scheme for children, they call the isolation of unvaccinated children "good science." Meanwhile, any parent who says their unvaccinated child is safe to mingle with other children as long as they aren't symptomatic will be viciously accused of following "bad science"... even though this is precisely the argument of the federal judge in Maine who implied his decision was all based on "good science."

Confused? That's all by design. You're supposed to obediently believe whatever quackery the CDC and vaccine industry tells you. You are not supposed to actually think rationally and clearly about underlying principles of epidemiology, because that would shatter the lies of the infectious disease industry.

The truth is science is immediately abandoned in any government decision involving infectious disease. There are no guiding principles. There is no underlying rigorous framework of scientific reality. There is only a government that makes up anything it wants along the way and then coerces everyone else into compliance with whatever senseless scheme it wants to propagandize at the moment.

And if you want confirmation of all this, just watch and see what happens when an Ebola vaccine is commercially available. At that point, all the government and media information on all this will be deliberately reversed, and people who refuse to be vaccinated against Ebola will be called out as "a danger to the public" even if they show no symptoms. Anyone invoking the Nurse Hickox decision of October 31, 2014 to claim that asymptomatic people are no danger to the public will be deemed an "anti-government conspiracy theorist" and described as a "kook" in mainstream media publications that pander to vaccine interests.

If schoolchildren possibly had Ebola, they would be considered safer by the courts than children with the flu

The final realization in all this will really jolt you into an awakened state. Based on the court decision in Maine, the U.S. government now considers children who might have the flu to be far more dangerous than children who might have Ebola.

A child who might have Ebola would be told to return to school and mingle with other students as long as they are asymptomatic. This is true even though Ebola can be transmitted via aerosolized particles as the CDC recently admitted. But a child with the flu, or measles, or mumps would be ordered to stay home even if they showed no symptoms.

The conclusion from all this? According to the U.S. government, Ebola is safer than the flu.

Yep, a level-4 biohazard hemorrhagic fever virus with a fatality rate approaching 70% is safer to have circulating around than someone who might have caught the flu.

This is how insane the U.S. government has now become, and this is why the claims that Ebola decisions are based on "rigorous science" are little more than a pathetic joke.

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[1] http://apnews.myway.com/article/20141031/us-...

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What’s Wrong with FEMA’s Plan for You?

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With a budget of almost 14 Billion dollars in 2013, you would expect that FEMA would have the resources at its disposal to really be able to assist the public prior to any disaster. If you haven’t already; I recommend going out to the FEMA website to see what their recommendations are for getting prepared. FEMA, through their Ready.gov website is the government’s office that addresses most of the specific topics of the prepper movement so I was surprised at the information I found on their site. Actually, I wasn’t completely surprised because I did write about National Preparedness Month and how I believed that as an agency their communications left me completely underwhelmed.
Regardless, I went out again today with fresh eyes to see what I could learn from FEMA. I say that because I truly believe that our government should have the smartest people in our country in positions like this, right? I mean if you are an agency that deals with disaster you need to have the top disaster experts in the world giving out advice, right?
FEMA breaks the topics on their website down into a few categories to start with:
  • Be Informed – This is where FEMA says you can “Learn what protective measures to take before, during and after an emergency”.
  • Make a Plan – “Prepare Plan and stay Informed for Emergencies”
  • Build A Kit – “Build a kit for disasters to be prepared.”
So at first glance this seems like a good start. I went under “Be Informed” to learn what protective measures I could take and decided to start with pandemic. The first thing to notice is that they mention influenza pandemic and I didn’t see anything about Ebola, but let’s just assume that anything bad enough to spawn a Pandemic would be covered by FEMA. They mention having a two week supply of food and water, plenty of prescription drugs, copies of your health records and to talk with family members about how they should be cared for if they get sick. Lastly they ask you to volunteer and get involved.
During an actual Pandemic (this is the page that FEMA has for Pandemic information) they recommend avoiding close contact with people who are sick (Really??) staying home from work if possible and the usual suspects of covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze and washing your hands.
A pandemic by definition is when a disease is prevalent throughout an entire country, continent or the whole world. I am going to add my own addendum that there must be a relatively high loss of life. With that definition, the only other pandemic any living person has seen (I don’t count AIDs or SARS) was the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 that killed an estimated 30 to 50 million people in two years. In the United States alone over 675,000 people died in two years!! When FEMA is supposed to be informing you about what to do for a Pandemic that is the best they can do?!!!

Lists of phone numbers does not prepare you for a disaster

Maybe I am over reacting and this is sound advice? Perhaps, but look at Ebola where they say you are contagious for up to 21 days. If you are supposed to stay indoors for three weeks, you would be mighty hungry that last week if you only stored two weeks of food wouldn’t you? The World Health Organization states that people with Ebola can still transmit the disease though semen for up to 7 weeks after they have recovered. Is it possible that a two week plan might leave you seriously under prepared for the next pandemic?
Obviously I take issue with the plans FEMA seems to have for sheltering in place should that be necessary during a pandemic so I went over to their Make A Plan page and then down to the Plan to Protect yourself and your family link. The page seems worthless to me and the most prominent item on the page is a link to download their Family Communication Plan which is really just a sheet for you to write down phone numbers, a meeting place and medical insurance information. I don’t see how this is a realistic plan. Phone numbers are helpful I guess and having your dentist’s phone number would be a good thing if you are having a tooth emergency but I expected more again from FEMA.
A family survival plan is more than just simply writing down phone numbers and being truly prepared requires more than two weeks of food; especially during a pandemic. FEMA it seems has always recommended the most basic information and supplies that anyone probably already has on hand. Is this preparing or are they trying to cater to our lazy side? Is this the lazy person’s way to prepare? Just write down some phone numbers that won’t help you at all and keep the regular amount of food you probably already have on hand and no worries! But while you’re at it, FEMA does recommend some social messaging shout outs you can use.

FEMA doesn’t have a plan for you

You can go lots of places on FEMA’s website and there is some good advice, but on balance I get the sense that either FEMA is trying to lower everyone’s expectations for any real disaster to the point of leaving millions under prepared or they are simply out of touch with reality. I know people who have been without power for longer than two weeks in the winter and this wasn’t considered a disaster by any stretch. When we imagine disaster, it will probably take FEMA two weeks just to get out and do anything if you are foolish enough to believe that you only have to hold out until they get there. Once FEMA does arrive, they are no magic savior. Remember Hurricane Sandy when the FEMA office closed? They actually had the mental sharpness to hang up signs informing the public, who presumably was going to the offices for assistance, that they were closed “due to the weather”. You can’t rely on anyone else in a disaster so it’s important that you take the responsibility for your life and the lives of those you care about into your own hands.
FEMA doesn't want to get out in the storm to help you.
FEMA doesn’t want to get out in the storm to help you.
So what are my solutions since I seem to know everything? First thing is that will admit that I don’t know everything but I don’t believe there are any one size fits all plans for preppers. You can’t just say store 2 weeks of food and think that will do for just about any disaster. Everyone has to have their own plan that has been carefully structured based upon the needs, resources and skills of your family/group with a strategic consideration of the potential threats you face. Here’s my take on FEMA’s 3 points.
  • Be Informed – Make sure you know what is going on in your home, city, region, state and country. Staying informed doesn’t have anything to do with sports scores, reality TV or what the latest star is doing that has gotten her in trouble. Being informed is knowing what is going on around you (situational awareness) and what is going on that could affect you. Learn as much as you can right now about different ideas and perspectives. I like to think we cover a lot of bases on the Prepper Journal, but there are dozens of other sites out there that offer a ton of great information too. Check out our prepper resources section for a second opinion on practically anything related to prepping or survival.
  • Make a Plan – Once you have considered who you are prepping for, it then makes sense to ask what are you prepping for. Once you have the answers to those two questions you can start working on a plan that will work for you personally, that addresses the needs of your family with regard to the threats you have identified. Your plan won’t look like mine, but there might be similarities. What works for you might not work for a single mother in the city.
  • Build A Kit – I don’t think the normal supplies I would consider for someone to be adequately prepared would fit into anything I would call a “kit”. A kit sounds like a box that sits in the closet. If you want to be prepared you will need to begin stocking up on supplies and that means different things to different people. There are lots of bases to cover but the most important begin with food, water, shelter and security.
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Security
Make your plan to fit your family, to take into consideration where you live and what you are dealing with. You will make better choices than any bureaucracy and your family will be better off with you than at any FEMA shelter regardless of the disaster. FEMA doesn’t have a plan for you. They have a plan to maintain order for the masses and hopefully prevent chaos. You are the only one that is going to keep your family’s needs in the front of your focus. Take steps now to ensure you aren’t living with FEMA’s idea of what is important.
What’s your plan?

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