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Is Investing in Cryptocurrency a Good Idea?
How Safe is Cryptocurrency really?
Investing in Cryptocurrency has yielded extraordinary returns for some, but the industry remains fraught with risks.
According to a recent interview with a senior official, the US Secret Service has seized bitcoin worth over $102 million from criminals since 2015. According to reports, the investigations resemble tracing illicit emails, and the Secret Service has seized cryptocurrencies in 254 separate incidents during this time period. Others praised the efforts to apprehend criminals and restore investor confidence in the Bitcoin market.
By investing in cryptocurrencies in 2022, you could become extremely wealthy, but you could also lose all of your money. Cryptocurrency investments are risky, but they can be extremely lucrative.
Cryptocurrencies are an excellent investment if you wish to gain direct exposure to the demand for digital currency. Investing in the stocks of companies with exposure to bitcoin is safer but potentially less lucrative.
Let's examine the advantages and disadvantages of cryptocurrency investment.
Is Cryptocurrency an investment with low risk?
Investing in cryptocurrencies is risky due to a multitude of variables. In contrast, new evidence indicates that bitcoin will endure.
The dangers posed by cryptocurrencies
Stock markets are less susceptible to hacking and other criminal activity than cryptocurrency exchanges. Investors whose digital currencies have been stolen have incurred significant losses as a result of security breaches, prompting numerous exchanges and third-party insurers to offer hacker protection.
Additionally, storing cryptocurrencies securely is more difficult than storing stocks or bonds. Cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) make buying and selling Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) relatively easy, but many individuals prefer not to store their digital assets on exchanges due to the risks associated with allowing a third party to control access to their assets.
Some Bitcoin users favor offline "cold storage" solutions, such as hardware wallets, but cold storage presents its own challenges. The greatest risk is losing your private key, as you will be unable to access your cryptocurrency without it.
Moreover, the success of a cryptocurrency project in which you invest cannot be ensured. Many of the thousands of competing blockchain projects are fraudulent. Only a small percentage of cryptocurrency projects will be successful in the long run.
If countries view cryptocurrencies as a threat as opposed to an innovative technology, regulators may take action against the entire cryptocurrency industry.
The cutting-edge technology of cryptocurrencies raises the stakes for investors. Much of the technology is in its infancy and has not been rigorously tested in real-world settings.
Acceptance of cryptocurrency
The cryptocurrency and blockchain industries are strengthening despite the risks. As critical financial infrastructure is built, institutional-grade custody services become more accessible to investors. Professional and private investors now have access to the tools necessary to manage and safeguard their cryptocurrency holdings.
For cryptocurrencies, futures markets are forming, and many businesses are gaining direct access to the bitcoin market. On their respective platforms, Block (NYSE:SQ) and PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) facilitate the purchase and sale of bitcoin. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested by Block and other companies in Bitcoin and other digital assets. At the start of 2021, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) acquired Bitcoin worth $1.5 billion. By February 2022, the manufacturer of electric vehicles reported holding approximately $2 billion in bitcoin. MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), a developer of business intelligence software, has been amassing Bitcoin since 2020. It had amassed $5.8 billion in cryptocurrencies by the end of 2021 and pledged to acquire more with excess operating revenue.
Even though a variety of factors continue to influence the riskiness of cryptocurrencies, the market is maturing, as evidenced by the increasing rate of adoption. Individual investors and corporations seek direct exposure to cryptocurrencies because they believe it is secure enough for large-scale investments.
Is cryptocurrency a prudent long-term investment?
Numerous cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, are established with lofty objectives that can be attained over extended periods of time. Even though the success of any cryptocurrency project cannot be assured, early investors in a successful cryptocurrency project can be rewarded handsomely in the long run.
For a cryptocurrency initiative to be considered a long-term success, it must first achieve widespread adoption.
Bitcoin is an investment with a long-term horizon.
As the most popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin benefits from the network effect, which means that its notoriety increases its desirability. Bitcoin is viewed by many speculators as "digital gold," but it can also be used as a digital currency.
In contrast to fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen, the supply of bitcoin is fixed, leading investors to believe that the cryptocurrency's value will increase over time. Bitcoin is limited to less than 21 million coins, while conventional currencies are issued at the central bank's discretion. Numerous investors believe that Bitcoin's value will rise as the value of fiat currencies falls.
Those who believe Bitcoin could become the first truly global currency are optimistic about its widespread adoption as a digital payment method.
Investing for the long term in Ethereum
Ether is the Ethereum platform's native currency, and investors can purchase it to diversify their portfolios. Bitcoin is considered digital gold, whereas Ethereum is developing a global computing platform that will enable a vast ecosystem of decentralized applications and a number of other cryptocurrencies ("dApps").
Due to the large number of cryptocurrencies built on its platform and the open-source nature of decentralized applications, Ethereum has the potential to generate long-term value through the network effect (dApps). On the Ethereum platform, smart contracts that execute automatically based on terms entered directly into the contract code are possible.
Users must contribute Ether to the Ethereum network in exchange for the execution of smart contracts. Smart contracts have the potential to disrupt and create entirely new markets within industries such as real estate and finance.
As global adoption of the Ethereum platform grows, the utility and value of the Ether token increase. Those who believe in the long-term viability of the platform can directly profit by purchasing Ether.
That does not imply that Ethereum faces no obstacles. Solana (CRYPTO:SOL), Polygon (CRYPTO:MATIC), and Avalanche (CRYPTO:AVAX) are all "Ethereum Killers" designed to manage smart contracts and utilize a blockchain infrastructure capable of processing more transactions per second than Ethereum. Additionally, the speed is more cost-effective for users. Ethereum is the most popular platform for smart contracts, however.
Should you invest in Cryptocurrencies?
Bitcoin can help diversify a portfolio because Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have historically had low price correlations with the U.S. stock market. Investing in cryptocurrency as part of a diversified portfolio is probably a good idea if you believe its usage will increase over time. Ensure that you have a solid investment thesis for each cryptocurrency you intend to purchase. This will assist you in comprehending why the currency will endure. If you conduct adequate research and acquire as much information as possible about investing in cryptocurrencies, you should be able to manage investment risk as part of your overall portfolio.
If buying cryptocurrencies seems too risky, there are alternative ways to capitalize on the cryptocurrency boom. You can invest in an exchange like CME Group (NASDAQ:CME), which facilitates the trading of cryptocurrency futures, by purchasing shares of companies such as Coinbase, Block, and PayPal, or by investing in an exchange that facilitates the trading of cryptocurrency futures. Investing in these companies may be beneficial, but it lacks the upside potential of investing directly in cryptocurrencies.


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'Generation rent' offers opportunity for Liverpool's build-to-rent investors
Construction work is under way at residential schemes in Liverpool Waters. Picture by Tony McDonough
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City Residential managing director Alan Bevan says the increasing number of people who cannot afford to buy a home are demanding high standards from their landlords. Tony McDonough reports
Construction work is under way at MODA's 'rent only' development at Liverpool Waters. Picture by Tony McDonough
Liverpool is set to see a rise in build-to-rent (BTR) residential developments as the number of people unable to afford to buy their own homes continues to rise.
One of the city's leading residential property experts, Alan Bevan, says the so-called "generation rent" is now demanding higher standards from rented homes – providing an opportunity for institutional BTR investors.
In his quarterly update on Liverpool's residential property market, the managing director of City Residential, says there was a desire across the political spectrum to push up standards in the residential sector, offering an attractive environment for BTR investors.
He explained that tougher legislative and taxation measures had put the squeeze on traditional buy-to-let landlords with older properties making it more difficult for them to maintain the standards many renters were now demanding.
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Bad publicity around the fractional sales investment model, where private investors buy individual apartments, was also helping to highlight the attractiveness of the BTR model.
One of the most high-profile BTR developments in Liverpool right now is Moda Living's £82m, 34-storey skyscraper, the Lexington, in Princes Dock Liverpool Waters. All of its 325 apartments will be exclusively for rent.
"With BTR delivering new, well managed, highly amenitised schemes it is not surprising that the sector appears to have the political support it has and appears to be performing well in many of the early schemes built so far," said Mr Bevan.
"Apart from the obvious differential in quality one of the issues that we are experiencing with the existing PRS (private rented sector) market is that many of the developments/apartments are now 10/15 years old and are beginning to require upgrading/improvement works to satisfy the very growing demands of generation rent.
"Given the other financial/legislative demands on landlords many are struggling/unwilling to carry out these required works and are therefore suffering with static rents/losing tenants."
Moda's 34-storey scheme the Lexington, on the right of this trio of buildings, will offer 325 homes for rent
Affordable schemes
He added that the rise in popularity of BTR won't mean other models won't continue to be part of the mix with PRS, in particular, remaining a popular class of investment.
Mr Bevan also said that renters were prepared to pay a little bit more for the extra quality of amenities. But he warned that if there is an economic downturn then peoples' budgets will tighten and he urged developers and investors to focus on more affordable schemes.
"While there is no doubt there is room in all of the UK cities for top end, expensive BTR schemes we can't help but feel the sector may be better concentrating on mid market product with affordable rents and lower levels of amenity," he said.
"Renters are customers and they have a tendency to tighten their wallets in tougher times and this may well extend to their choice of rental home if they need to reduce their outgoings."
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OHANAEZE WRITES IGP: WHY ARE FULANI HERDSMEN ALLOWED TO CARRY AK-47 GUNS.
Posted on March 4, 2020 by Admin.
Apex Igbo sociocultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has written an open letter to the Inspector General of Police over the sighting of herdsmen in possession of AK-47 in Anambra state.
The letter titled, The Road to Anarchy, signed by the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo told the IGP that they will not fold their arms and allow gun-toting marauding Fulani herdsmen to continue harassing, raping, maiming and killing them in their own homes.
The Inspector General of Police sir, Ohanaeze Ndigbo is alarmed by this wanton act because of the danger it portends. This raises the following questions:
Is the bearing of unlicensed firearms (especially sophisticated ones like Ak-47) no longer illegal and therefore punishable in breach in the laws of this country?
Do we now have different laws for different ethnic groups in Nigeria? If it were to be members of IPOB or any other group other than Fulani that bear such illegal arms what fate would befall them?
Does the impetuous action and utterance of the Fulani leaders not a clear and definite invitation to anarchy? If everybody in this country, irrespective of tribe, carries such firearms to protect himself, will the security agencies be able to contain the mayhem that will ensue?
Can the IGP imagine what fate that would have befallen any Igbo leaders in any part of the North who dare challenge their hosts and the police with such impunity and callousness?
"Mr Inspector General of Police sir, Ohanaeze Ndigbo believes that there is enough tension in the country already to allow room for more. But, it is only a tree that they tell it will be cut down and it remains motionless waiting for the axe.
"The principle of self-defense is even enshrined in the statutes of the country. Peaceful coexistence is a prerequisite for development.
"The police is by statute empowered, equipped and expected to make peace between two warring factions and not to take sides or protect one group.
"The action of the police in Anambra State is, to say the least, despicable and a tacit invitation to anarchy. Except a coward, nobody will ever run away from his fatherland and leave it for another to occupy. Ndigbo are not cowards.
"The behaviour of the police probably explains why it is only police commissioners from a particular part of the country that are posted to Igbo land. This also tends to lay credence to the fears being harboured by our people that even the military laying siege on Igbo land are here to protect the interest of an ethnic group. Not only have Ndigbo been marginalised in this country, they are even being pushed to the brink.
"It is always said that no country survives a second civil war.
"Like I always say, Ndigbo are ever capable of defending themselves. They will not fold their arms and allow gun-toting marauding Fulani herdsmen to continue harassing, raping, maiming and killing them in their own homes. We are law-abiding, hospitable and always ready to coexist with others as friends and brothers but not as foes and at a supreme price.
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The Afanifere Omotekun ,the Yoruba Vigilante body responsible for protection of life property and defending the general well-being of the people are fully armed without the I G P's instruction . And Ohaneze is writing letter, cowards.
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Democratic strategist advocates for compromise
January 27, 2015 | Events, Features, UToday, Honors
By Meghan Cunningham
Despite how it might appear, American politics right now are not as divided as they have ever been, but there is a strong resistance to compromise that is causing a gridlock in Washington, political strategist Paul Begala said in a speech Wednesday at The University of Toledo.
Begala
In his talk peppered with jabs at his Republican counterparts, the former adviser to President Bill Clinton said politicians need to be open to other opinions and work together to move the country forward.
His visit to UT was part of the Jesup Scott Honors College Lecture Series.
Begala noted how intense political polarity led to the Civil War, and mentioned an instance in the past where a congressman bludgeoned another with a cane on the Senate floor over a difference of opinion.
"So we're not the most polarized we've ever been, but we are the most paralyzed, at least in modern times," he said.
Begala told a story about how even during Clinton's impeachment process, he worked with Newt Gingrich and other Republicans to double funding for the National Institutes of Health. But now? Politicians don't make the deals. Government has grinded to a halt and compromise has become a dirty word, he said.
"We are rewarding shutdowns and showdowns instead of compromise," he said.
Part of the problem, he noted, is a diverse media pallet where people can choose to get their news from a source they agree with, rather than being challenged with a different perspective. Another concern is politicians pandering to their gerrymandered bases.
As the demographics of the country continue to change, politicians need to embrace the adapt-or-die model, and so far Democrats are adapting better than Republicans, Begala said. Embracing the rising American electorate — young people, Latinos and unmarried women — will lead to future successful elections.
But success in office to get things done will continue to require collaboration. Begala suggested nonpartisan investments in the sciences or infrastructure as good opportunities to start to come together. But, he said, it is up to the voters to demand that principled compromise.
The final lecture in the second annual series will be from Toledo Museum of Art Director Brian Kennedy, who will speak Tuesday, March 24, at 7 p.m. in Doermann Theater. Visit utoledo.edu/honorslecture for more information.


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Sherpa who has climbed Everest 9 times already--
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/31/mount-everest-lhakpa-sherpa-climbed-nine-times-world-record
This is so sad, the same problems that plagued Princess Diana and Meghan Markle--
misogyny, racism.
The other book to read is Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air.
Woman found dead with 8 foot python around her neck.
https://wpta21.com/news/top-stories/2019/10/31/police-found-woman-unresponsive-with-8-foot-python-around-her-neck/
Fire destroys Shuri Castle on Okinawa
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774973894/fire-sweeps-through-historic-japanese-castle
Herrigge leaves fox news for CBS
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/media/catherine-herridge-fox-news-cbs/index.html
ISIS confirms leader's death, announces new leader.
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/775038966/isis-confirms-baghdadis-death-and-names-his-successor
Trump reveals classified name of hero dog.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-dog-medal-conan-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-isis-photograph-military/
Winning shot, of Simi Valley fire.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-30/easy-fire-photo-air-force-one-reagan-library
very dangerous wild fires whipped up by Santa Ana winds.
Pentagon--video from raid--
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/politics/pentagon-baghdadi-raid-video/index.html
His name is al-Baghdadi "of Baghdad"
not "Baghdadi"
anyway--
Trump tweets fake photo of himself giving medal to hero dog.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/us/politics/trump-dog.html
Dog image was Googled.
And trump dares accuse media of "fake news."
Zuckerberg defends political ads, while Twitter bans them--
https://www.insider.com/mark-zuckerberg-defends-political-ads-after-twitter-bans-them-2019-10
I made the right choice in 2016.
Nicole Wallace calls laura ingrahan "chicke sh**"
https://www.salon.com/2019/10/30/msnbcs-nicolle-wallace-swears-at-laura-ingraham-after-fox-news-host-attacks-alexander-vindman_partner/
House Rules Com Debate, live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOgp-3qQmo
New Shero=Mrs Torres.
". . . and if this is (unsatisfactory), then I invite you to LA County Fair, where everything is fair."
Still hero, Jamie Raskin.
summary--There is not Ken Star bc there is no special prosecutor her, WE are building the case.
Impeachment is the charge.
The actual trial will be in the Senate.
Civics 101.
NSC fearful of Trump backlash
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/politics/national-security-council-donald-trump-impeachment/
Fecal transplant patient dies--who wants someone's poop in their body?
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fecal-transplant-led-patient-s-death-here-s-what-happened-n1074081
Ten past lives of the Buddha
http://www.buddha-images.com/temiya-jataka.asp
Kupperman testimony only on Thursday
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/28/politics/judge-impeachment-court-case/index.html
Ukraine expert Vindman's statement.
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/28/774256868/read-ukraine-expert-lt-col-alexander-vindmans-opening-statement
Execllent lecture Yuval Harari--how humans conquered the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5_W2ecr0r4
The audience is very curious, seems to consist only of men, as if women can't think.
Trump and Chicago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/trump-chicago-visit.html
Fire near Getty Center LA
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-10-28/getty-fire-getty-center-museum-art-is-safe
One of my favorite places, but not a good time to visit now.
So many fires in CA.
After being boo-ed last night at Nats game, today trump attacked Chicago Police Chief in Chicago at Police confce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NmX4GdLFn8
Army general also says he "does not know source" of some of details in Al-Baghdadi raid that trump spilled, such as "screaming and whimpering" and the dog.
Submissions strategies --
https://hannahkarenajones.com/2011/10/02/the-4-rules-of-polite-simultaneous-submissions/
Only if you are a writer, and write all the time, and interested in getting published.
If you never write anything, or you only write for radio in Burmese, no point, right?
Also if like Emily Dickensen you write for the drawer. Or if you've written something already, and gotten it published, and that's yr life's work, that's that. There are people like that, bc I talked to them about writing another book, and they just shook their heads.
the final nail in T's coffin has finally arrived--Pete Souza has spoken
https://washingtonpress.com/2019/10/27/evidence-suggests-trump-staged-war-room-photo-after-isis-leader-death-while-golfing-during-mission-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Wapo--Al-Baghdadi raid--more detail
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-forces-launch-operation-in-syria-targeting-isis-leader-baghdadi-officials-say/2019/10/27/081bc257-adf1-4db6-9a6a-9b820dd9e32d_story.html
Best piece yet on Al-Baghdadi raid--hydra
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-death-isis-leader-trump-syria-war-a9173431.html
from Twitter--
Ben Taub
@bentaub91
The Kurds continued to help the C.I.A. nail Baghdadi even as they scrambled to survive in the wake of Trump's betrayal. A U.S. official told the NYT that Syrian and Iraqi Kurds "provided more intelligence for the raid than any single country." https://nytimes.com/2019/10/27/us/politics/baghdadi-isis-leader-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Complete transcript of trump announcing al Baghdadi death--
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/us/trump-transcript-isis-al-baghdadi.html
The thing is--
he set it up so Turkey invaded Kurd lands and Kurds were killed and had to flee.
Prisoners (ISIS) and families went free. Turkey has now invaded former free Kurdistan that existed for 5 years.
US has removed forces protecting Kurds and re-assigned them to Syria oil fields. They have not been brought home.
Nancy Pelosi "Is Iraq home?"
This sounds like trump projecting his own fears, besides, everyone should know that these terrorist groups are set up as separate cells, so knocking out leader, whether Bin Ladin or al Baghdadi has little effect.
Trump could not even spell al Qaeda in previous tweets.
Saturday Night Live spoofs trump, erdogan, ISIS etc--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw3M1x5m7h8
ISIS leader believed to have been killed in US raid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DokOj-DyFUE
Earth--how our planet was formed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHUTbq-j0UU
Richard Attenborough--Life of Mammals
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2om4dd
Harvard lecture--what killed the dinosaurs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRNA_xct5JU
It's a little over 1 hr and very good, very clear for non-scientist like me.
Rick Wilson's Ukraine Clown Posse
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/ukraine-clown-posse-rick-wilson-revels-in-trumps-misery-after-his-idiotic-plan-to-smear-biden-falls-apart/
Illustration from Wilson article.
Amnesty International pressuring Burma to be refered to ICC
https://www.rfa.org/burmese/program_2/ai-pressure-take-action-myanmar-army-10242019090448.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/25/trump-organization-consider-sale-dc-hotel-lease-sources-say/
Robin Bell Visuals projects For Sale sign on trump DC hotel
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vOGwaelYZdxB
Federal Judge rules DOJ must turn over Mueller Report (unredacted) to House Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3Zg7AW2kE
Duchess Meghan style-
https://www.instyle.com/news/meghan-markle-red-leather-pencil-skirt
Elijah Cummings' funeral was live on CNN for HOURS.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/elijah-cummings-funeral/index.html
Moving and inspiring speeches.
Barr completely out of line--acting like trump's personal lawyer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/25/explosive-william-barr-news-points-trumps-weakness-panic/
Berlin Wall in needlepoint
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/where-berlin-wall-once-stood-180973332/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
Human Rights Watch--things that can get you arrested in Thailand
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/24/thailand-peaceful-critics-prosecuted
bellyache sh**h**e owns trump--
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/467383-reporter-posts-heated-phone-call-with-kellyanne-conway
She's also looking like Hell lately.
Cartoon from 2017.
Nearly 11 PM. Mourners continue to file past Rep. Elijah Cummings' coffin in the Capital Building, Washington, DC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMQgEqd7zsk
Jutstice Dept. does trump's bidding--said to open criminal investgn into "origins of Russia probe."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/politics/john-durham-criminal-investigation.html
This is the true witch hunt instigated by trump.
#ImpeachTrumpPenceBarrDurhand
Public viewing till tomorrow morning, Rep. Elijah Cummings lying in state.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, lying in state in Capitl Buildng
Take a look it's very movng
Ppl file silently past, some break down & cry
Maybe some wre co-workers Maybe some r fr Baltimore
There's a mix of races
It's a gd chance to see inside of Captl
Video--Cummings' remains arrive at The Capital for lying in state.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/cummings-memorial
Elijah Cummings' life in photos.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/politics/gallery/elijah-cummings/index.html
Three day memorial services for Rep. Elijah E. Cummings "Your legacy is secure."
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/10/23/barack-obama-elijah-cummings-funeral-remarks/
Now--Elijah Cummings Lying in State.
https://www.cnn.com/specials/live-video-1?adkey=bn
Before you rail at "immigrants taking American (i. e. white) jobs---
Kyi Kaung
@KyiKaung
Eye-opening--these are the people who cook our food, clean our houses and gardens, pick our harvests, clean our windows. Do almost all the heavy lifting. Have pity, empathy and generosity. #TrumpIsARacist
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@raju
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Hiding in plain sight, in Queens, New York City. https://nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/23/nyregion/basements-queens-immigrants.html
? via @nytimes
Plot etc of movie The Joker 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_(2019_film)
While Speaker Pelosi was out of town attending her brother's funeral, gop repubs--
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/opinion/impeachment-hearing-republicans.html
stormed SCIF taking in their cell phones illegally and holding things up for 5 1/2 hours.
#ArrestMattGaetz is now trending on Twitter, Zuckerberg was grilled by AOC and Beatty, and trump made more jumbled statements, talking about "wall in Colorado"--abt 20 people stood up and applauded
and then walked back his mistake
, tweeting he made the joke "kiddingly"
I was away from Internet one day, and look what happened.
Cartoon by Clay Bennett from his Twitter account.
Pavarotti--documentary--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavarotti_(film)
Damning testimony against trump ref quid pro quo with Ukraine from Ambassador Taylor
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-ukraine-testimony/index.html
Fashion--cow prints, couples--
https://www.instyle.com/fashion/george-amal-clooney-couple-style-outfits
Jimmy Carter fell again and fractured pelvis--
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/22/jimmy-carter-falls-suffers-pelvic-fracture-plains-georgia-home/4060831002/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/
Global warming novels
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/5-novels-about-climate-change-to-read-now
so-called cabinet meeting a bag full of LIES.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-21/trump-impeachment-inquiry-cabinet-meeting-emoluments
Present Thai king--
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/king-maha-vajiralongkorn-of-thailand-strips-his-consort-of-royal-titles-disloyalty-today-2019-10-21/
Justice Dept distances itself from Rudy G--but Barr still preaching religion.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/20/politics/justie-department-distances-rudy-giuliani-brian-benczkowski-meeting/index.html
2nd rung career officials need to stand up to trump crime cabal.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange struggles to recall his name and age--
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/wikileaks-julian-assange-at-hearing-struggles-to-recall-name-age.html
This is a state sanctioned torture of someone speaking truth to power, and needs to stop.
If whistle blowers celebrated, he should be too.
Pelosi and Schiff travel to Afghanistan and Jordan, to reassure US allies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-leads-a-surprise-delegation-to-jordan-for-vital-discussions-on-syria-crisis/2019/10/20/e749d058-f353-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html
CNN--Mulvaney shaky in WH even before that disastrous, bumbling "press conference"
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/20/politics/mulvaney-white-house-trump-impeachment-inquiry/index.html
A must watch--Rachel Maddow connects the dots.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oligarch-used-giuliani-as-means-to-gain-trump-s-favor-reports-71650885773
Rachel Maddow's new book Blowout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USVSkmnkdjo
I didn't know Rachel was "frontline reporter" earlier--
but I do know she has a Ph D from Oxford.
Well, I can't compete with someone like her who has a show to herself on a major network.
20 ancient coffins found near Luxor in Egypt
Angela Landsbury is 94 today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ0ODCMC6xs
Ukrainian billionaire Dmitry Firtash gave Giuliani dirt docs
https://time.com/5699201/exclusive-how-a-ukrainian-oligarch-wanted-by-u-s-authorities-helped-giuliani-attack-biden/
New translations Hans Fallada--who wrote in Nazi Germany and in prison.
https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-My-Own-Country-Prison-ebook/dp/B00SOMLAJ6/ref=pd_cp_351_2/139-6110209-0225023?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00SOMLAJ6&pd_rd_r=4431ea37-25b8-4d33-a386-4ce2e59c8766&pd_rd_w=3oe02&pd_rd_wg=EYRry&pf_rd_p=0e5324e1-c848-4872-bbd5-5be6baedf80e&pf_rd_r=ZT3XWKN9EJQFWQQ983GN&psc=1&refRID=ZT3XWKN9EJQFWQQ983GN#reader_B00SOMLAJ6
I'm going to try and read all of them as like what I write.
Good article on Impeachment--historical +
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/465343-beware-the-34th-month-of-trumps-presidency
From 2014 James Watson said he was selling his Nobel Prize.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11261872/James-Watson-selling-Nobel-prize-because-no-one-wants-to-admit-I-exist.html
Genghis Khan full movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxoBfbhoEmo
Pompeo refuses to answer Q whether he met with Guiliani in Warsaw.
https://www.wsmv.com/news/news-talks-one-on-one-with-secretary-of-state-mike/article_bba02bde-ec8a-11e9-9632-23457ce242a4.html
Rachel Maddow with Pod Save America on Impeachment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Q2qNQrsAw
Stealing Green Mangoes--a memoir by Sunil Datta
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-10-04/review-stealing-green-mangoes-sunil-duttta
clay pots Burma
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/world/asia/myanmar-buddhism-water-clay-pots.html
but dipping same cup into pot and drinking spreads disease.
Mrs T building tennis pavilion on WH grounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c28fmSlc1kM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_KAWLtX8lA
Pence refuses 5 times to answer Qs
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-refuses-five-times-answer-questions-donald-trump-alleged-quid-pro-quo-ukraine-1464312
John Lennon would have been 79 today.
Photos copyright K M Kaung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOgFZfRVaww
Trump betrayed the Kurds
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-09/trumps-syria-policy-shows-the-president-at-his-worst
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/syria-turkey-military-offensive-dle-intl/index.html
Death at Rangoon Airport.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/21/death-in-yangon-day-my-fiance-died
Chihuly look alike projects with recycled or new plastics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yndPwAMGEgg
You need pour acrylic paints in bottles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03ywxiPV2s
this is more advanced--another one uses hair dryer, but need adult supervision
and this last one is the best, by a school art teacher for children + adults 7 and up.
Start saving recycled bottles right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wnbuCLglcw
Dale Chihuly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZBv1oRwto
Whiplash--demonstrations in Kiev, Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1180786092762681346
Key republicans split with Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/464476-key-republicans-split-with-trump-on-biden-investigation-push
The Empire of Cotton--
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Cotton-History-Sven-Beckert/dp/0375713964#reader_0375713964
Dallas, witness in Amber G murder trial fatally shot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/us/botham-jean-murder-witness-fatally-shot.html
WH subpoenaed for Trump Ukraine documents.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/read-subpoena-house-democrats-sent-white-house-trump-ukraine-documents-n1062766
CIA lawyer made crimnal referal to DOJ, wh then did nothing--
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/cia-s-top-lawyer-made-criminal-referral-whistleblower-s-complaint-n1062481
Pentagon Ukraine military aid freeze documents--
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/03/pentagon-ukraine-military-aid-freeze-025455
More than amzing--some Soyuz fliers return to earth.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/three-space-station-fliers-wrap-up-mission-with-return-to-earth/
It's getting hilarious--trmp calls on China to investigate Bidens
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-live-updates/2019/10/03/5f81ec5a-e55c-11e9-a6e8-8759c5c7f608_story.html
It's he who put tariffs on Chinese imports.
If I were China, I'd much rather find dirt on d j t.
Pathological narcsism--trmp is unfir for office.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/george-conway-trump-unfit-office/599128/
Impeachment--new phase starts Thursday (tomorrow)
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/766154470/political-storm-clouds-glower-as-dems-open-new-phase-in-impeachment-case
trmp WH disseminated conspiracy theories i e LIES--think on that.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/watchdog-who-probed-clinton-emails-to-brief-lawmakers-on-ukraine
Bernie Sanders has 2 heart stents put in--
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/us/politics/bernie-sanders-health.html
Bezos attends Jamal Khashoggi Memorial in Istanbul.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/bezos-attends-vigil-in-istanbul-for-saudi-journalist-khashoggi
Very good Van Gogh site--
https://www.tfsimon.com/auvers-sur-oise.html
van Gogh drawings--
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/arts/Van-Gogh-Drawings-See-the-Light.html
Beautiful pen and ink drawing of Jamal Khashoggi--from Washington Post
Portrait illustration by David Despau for The Washington Post; Based on a photo by the Asahi Shimbun
epstein used shell co w Dubai businessman's name to buy Great St James
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article235224877.html?fbclid=IwAR0AYX2TzfYaK5WtK5nvdog04U-Ctp6Rt6s1TR7xmpdPuEdY_-WDZI-RFxs
trmp delayed funds for victims of human trafficking
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-admin-delays-funds-human-trafficking-victims-would-help-non-n1060841
It's not "bullying" when Congress asks for testimony.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-01/pompeo-blocks-impeachment-testimony
Rachel Maddow--
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/maddow-explained-ukraine-scandal-to-stephen-colbert-trump-is-going-to-get-impeached-for-it/
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/politics/trump-impeachment-senate/index.html
NYC bans term "illegal alien"--institutes fine.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/463767-new-york-city-bans-term-illegal-alien-institutes-fines-up-to-250k
So-called DOJ vs FBI's Andrew McCabe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/judge-to-doj-decide-on-charging-andrew-mccabe-by-nov-15-or-face-release-of-fbi-records/2019/10/01/3e169168-e3c4-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html
VA police officer suspended after helping ICE --
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/463936-virginia-police-officer-suspended-for-cooperating-with-ice-in-turning
Mouse in WH fell out of trmp's hair.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/463815-reporters-scramble-after-mouse-falls-from-white-house-ceiling
Why Barr went to Rome--
https://www.thedailybeast.com/barr-went-to-rome-to-hear-a-secret-tape-from-joseph-mifsud-the-professor-who-helped-ignite-the-russia-probe
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Guideline urges ample supply of medicine in rural areas
2023-01-16 09:12:00China Daily Editor : Li Yan ECNS App Download
Special: Battle Against Novel Coronavirus
A medical volunteer team, composed of a medical university professor and his postgraduate students, test a rural resident's blood oxygen saturation level in Chenzhou, Hunan province, last week. They also delivered health kit packages to those living in remote areas. (Photo by Cao Zhengping/For China Daily)
Local governments must make sure medications and antigen test kits are readily available in rural areas, according to a guideline released on Wednesday.
Issued by the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism, the country's COVID-19 control task force, the guideline said antigen test kits or nucleic acid tests must be made readily available for fever patients. Village health clinics must ensure they have at least a two-week supply of medication, to which vulnerable groups or those with financial difficulties should have priority access.
Local authorities are also tasked with conducting regular inspections, delivering medication, transporting patients to bigger hospitals and raising awareness about epidemic control, it said. Efforts must also be made to guide villagers to get vaccinated, wear masks and avoid gatherings and spending time with elderly relatives with underlying illnesses.
Media reports of indiscriminate use of antibiotics and hormonal drugs in treating fever patients in the countryside have underscored the importance and timeliness of the official guidance from health authorities.
Last month, officials attending a meeting on COVID-19 control in rural regions described the Chinese countryside as "vast, populous and thinly resourced".
They warned that the expected mass migration for Spring Festival this month would create a new challenge for epidemic control in such areas, where a large number of elderly people live.
The officials also asked for more support for the rural healthcare system in terms of medication, equipment, human resources and funds, and to improve the system's capacity to address challenges brought by the epidemic.
The spread of COVID-19 in the countryside has cast a spotlight on the use of antibiotics and hormonal treatments by rural medics to treat fever patients.
On Dec 30, WeChat account Fancaiju published an article praising the long-standing practice conducted by "barefoot doctors", or farmers with minimal basic medical and paramedical training, to treat fever patients. The article, among others shared on social media, made dangerous claims that COVID-19 patients could be treated with antibiotics and other medications that could bring about harmful and even fatal side effects.
Epidemiologists have said that antibiotics, which can trigger fatal allergies, are ineffective in treating COVID-19 or other infections induced by viruses, and should only be given to COVID-19 patients if there's clear evidence of bacterial-induced complications.
Long-term use could also lead to antibiotic resistance. More than 1.2 million people died worldwide from antibiotic-resistant infections in 2019, according to a peer-reviewed research article published in The Lancet last year. That figure exceeded that of major potentially fatal illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and malaria.
Though hormonal drugs have been used to treat COVID-19 patients in clinical settings, the usage has generally been for those in critical condition. Side effects include elevated blood sugar, porous bones and gastrointestinal ulcers.
Earlier this month, gmw.cn, a news website run by mainstream newspaper Guangming Daily, published a commentary criticizing the WeChat article as being misleading and out of touch with the realities in the countryside.
The newspaper said the use of drugs including antibiotics to treat fever with unknown causes was in fact a last-ditch option in case of temporary shortages of medicines and overcrowded hospitals. Such treatments had never been included in China's general treatment plans for COVID-19 patients.
The issue has raised alarm among health officials, too.
On Dec 13, authorities in Huangshi, Hubei province, issued an order to discipline medics who used such drugs in rural areas to treat COVID-19 patients. The document cautioned against the use of antibiotics, hormonal drugs and vitamins, and asked rural medics not to prescribe intravenous drips unnecessarily.
A report released by the National Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Information Network in 2020 said the random use of antibiotics was the leading cause of adverse drug reactions, without specifying the percentage. Some 30 percent of such reactions were detected among adults age 65 and older.
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Points To Ponder
The Feet - The Foundation
Southwest Family Chiropractic
Keeping You Healthy, Naturally!
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls who live under tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom." -- Attributed to Dr. Benjamin Rush, M.D., a signer of the Declaration of Independence
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." - Jim Rohn
The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. Ben Franklin
The doctor of the future will prescribe no drugs but will interest his patients in the care and nutrition of the human frame and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I might remember. Involve me and I'll understand. Proverb
I don't agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire
You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well. Wayne Dyer
The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. John Stuart Mill
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill. Marcel Proust
"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate." Hubert H. Humphrey
He, who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb
Cawadias (1953) said, "the history of medicine has shown that, whenever medicine has strayed from clinical observation, the result has been chaos, stagnation, and disaster."--British Medical Journal, Oct 8th, 1955, p.867 (Quoted in Clinical Medical Discoveries by Beddow Bayly)
"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." - Voltaire
The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day." - Dr. Herbert Ley, Commissioner of the FDA, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/2/70
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person. Socrates, (470-399 BC).
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases. Moliere (1622-1672).
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines. Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790).
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians. Paracelsus, (1493-1541 AD).
An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses. But the regular profession stands firm in its belief that such experience is worthless and the whole history is one of quackery and delusion. William James (1842-1910).
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. Mark Twain (1835-1910).
To protect herbalists from persecution by the Company of Physicians and Chirurgeons. Company of Surgeons in London, minding their own gain, and doing nothing for the profit or ease of the diseased, have sued, troubled and vexed honest persons (herbalist) ... Said persons have not taken anything for their pains and skill...Surgeons have small cunning, yet take great sums of money and do little for it. Act of Parliament, 1512 AD. Appendix 2, chapter 2. p.2
Samuel Thomson (1769-1843, herbalist) so upset New Hampshire doctors that they persuaded the state legislature to pass a law specifically naming him, not for practicing medicine 'illegally' ('the usual charge with which to charge non-allopathic practitioners') but to prevent him (from) healing people without charging them." - Donald Law, A Guide to Alternative Medicine.
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off balance. Prince Of Wales Charles
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. Philipus A Paracelsus
The entire medical profession of the United States in so far as its organization is concerned, is today at the mercy of one man and a board of trustees that is subservient to him." - Editorial, Illinois Medical Journal, Dec. 1922, p.478.
The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching. Clarence Darrow, (1857-1938).
... I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the re-vaccinated cases (of smallpox) as 'pustular eczema, varioloid' or what not - except smallpox. George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950).
(allow access of cancer patients to) "unconventional therapies, (i.e.) any method used for the control and cure of cancer which has not been approved by the Federal FDA." - Cancer Therapeutic Research Bill of 1981, State of Florida, HB747 passed by legislature, vetoed by governor.
(The AMA is) "just another mean trust." Harry S. Truman.
"...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved. Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group. Jimmy Carter.
I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it. Ronald Reagan.
"In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective. US Congressman Philip M. Crane, Congressional Record, 1975.
"Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind. ...the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question. US Congressman Philip M. Crane, Congressional Record, 1975.
Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice. US Congressman Philip M. Crane, Congressional Record, 1975.
More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed. Dr. Alex Carrel 1912 Nobel Prize in Medicine
"Money appropriated for FDA in 1945 (was) $3 million; in 1968, $66 million. Number of employees in 1945, approximately 850; in 1968, 5100. Seizures of foods in 1945, 2504; in 1968, 384. Injunctives for violative foods in 1945, 26; in 1968, 3.... Prosecutions for violative foods, in 1945, 278; in 1968, 70. - US Congressman L.H. Fountain (In Beatrice T. Hunter, Mirage of Safety.
22 of 52 top (FDA) officials have worked for regulated industries, or organizations that cater to those industries...During a hearing held in 1969 by the House Inter-governmental Relations Subcommittee, it was disclosed that of 49 high ranking FDA officials who had recently resigned or retired, 37 joined or served as consultants to regulated industries. Michael Jacobson, Food for People, Not for Profit.
Anyone may logically wonder why this information has not been put into proper investigative format and presented toward various medical bodies. The answer is simple. With the powerful alliance of the media, the federal agencies and orthodox medical groups, anyone attempting to present such...would be destroyed with orchestrated cries of 'Quackery.' There is ample evidence to document this beyond question. US Congressman Larry McDonald, MD.
Control of the (AMA) is solidly in the hands of a layman of whom most AMA members have never heard of. (a) former executive director of AMPAC - the American Medical Political Action Committee.
He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably. Proverb
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end. Julius Erving
It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease. Sir William Osler, (1849-1919); Father of Modern Medicine
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Napoleon Bonaparte
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. Sir William Osler
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. Ivan Illich
Nobody in the science and medical departments (in the ACS - American Cancer Society) is capable of doing real science...They don't know how to prevent cancer or cure patients; instead, they close the door on innovative ideas. ACS money goes to scientists who put on the best show to get grants, or who have friends on the grant-giving panels. American Cancer Society Science Editor (for 25 years), ACS Science Writers' Conference originator, Pat McGrady, Sr.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it. Proverb
The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. Dr. David Baltimore, 1975 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. Sir William Osler
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. Anthony Robbins
The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual. Anthony Robbins
When it was first introduced, the claims for penicillin were also a minority view, and it (penicillin) was suppressed for 11 or 12 years. - Congressman Larry McDonald, MD. (in Steven Fredman, MD and Robert Burger, Forbidden Cures.)
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
Richard M Nixon