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FORUM: Possible Fukushima-related Anomalies — Deformations, Yellow Rain, Metallic Taste in Mouth, etc.

Published: September 1st, 2012 at 12:18 am ET
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  • StillJill StillJill
    April 25, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    Here's some "possible-fukushima-anomalies",…

    My first tomato has a leg growing out of it,….or, is it an arm?
    This is in the greenhouse,….although roomie does feed with tapwater whenever my back's turned! :-(

    Someone please tell me why I bother?

    Will someone please hold the, "Bang head here" paper up,….about 5'6"???

    Thanks!


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  • What-About-The-Kids
    April 27, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    Has anyone in the Seattle area (or elsewhere in the PNW) noticed anything different about the pollen "fallout" (for want of a better word…) this Spring?

    Last Spring, during the initial Fuku fallout episodes, we had tons of bright yellow pollen (we think it was pollen?) rain down on our cars and yards, etc.

    This Spring, the pollen is a strange beige-like color, different from last year's bright yellow color. I just discovered piles of it collected in evaporated rain puddles on a basketball in a local park many of our local kids play in. The piles of pollen are beige, as is the stuff that has continued to fall on our cars over the past couple of weeks. I am hoping it is not radioactive, of course, but I don't have a Geiger Counter, so I have no way of knowing. I wonder if there is a way I could have our local officials test it?
    Given so many kids play there, it would be well worth the effort.

    I also noticed today that I am once again "shocking" things and people I touch with a static electric charge, something I had noticed I was doing a lot when getting out of my car last Spring and Summer.

    Why is it back, this "static electricity" today? Is there something in the wind? It had rained lightly the past couple of days prior to today. Today it has been partly cloudy with "sunbursts." Last weekend and Monday it was sunny and warm.

    Just some observations and questions I wanted to share.


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  • xdrfox
    April 29, 2012 at 8:12 am

    Radiation in the food chain ??? : |

    1200 + Dead Pelicans in Northern Peru, Same Region as Mass Dolphin Die-Off
    To Mass Animal Death On Sunday, April 29, 2012
    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2076/695/

    More Mass Animal Deaths in Pacific… http://mass-animal-death.beforeitsnews.com/


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  • Jebus Jebus
    April 29, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    The Japanese nuclear meltdown may have reduced New Zealand's muttonbird population.

    A study near Auckland has found a third of the birds, also known as sooty shearwater or titi, failed to return this summer after spending the southern winter in their northern hemisphere base near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

    Department of Conservation researcher Graeme Taylor says the birds that did return were in a poor condition.

    A separate study by Ngai Tahu and Te Papa of 30 chicks from the Ti Ti Islands, near Stewart Island, found no trace of radioactive material – making them safe to eat.

    http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/104545/muttonbird-numbers-lower


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  • WorseThanChernobyl
    April 29, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    I am in Seattle right now and happened to come across a small vacant lot with three mutated dandelions in it. I took pictures but don't think I am allowed to post them directly on here. I will upload them when I am home and post a link. There may have been more messed up plants in that field, as I only looked for a minute or two.


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  • WorseThanChernobyl
    April 29, 2012 at 11:30 pm

    It was near Razzi's pizza, near the back parking lot area. In the greenwood area… Not sure what part of Seattle that is. Maybe North?


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  • KONDY KONDY
    May 1, 2012 at 1:55 pm

    Another sudden, unexplained heart attack in a 20+ year old athlete:

    Alexander Dale Oen, a world champion swimmer who was one of Norway's top medal hopes for the London Olympics, died during a training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona. He was 26.

    http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/47245296/


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  • What-About-The-Kids
    May 1, 2012 at 3:59 pm

    Correction (for the grammar police) :-D LOL:

    "You've just got to wonder…"

    or:

    "You just have to wonder…"

    Take your pick. ;-)


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  • KONDY KONDY
    May 2, 2012 at 7:46 pm

    Was reading up on Chernobyl and found this fascinating piece of information:

    "That's because potassium runoff from fertilizers blocks the absorption of cesium-137."

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/04/pictures/110426-chernobyl-25th-anniversary-wildlife/#/chernobyl-wildlife-fish-poachers_34169_600x450.jpg

    Now if I can find this out, WHY ISN'T IT BEING DONE IN FUKUSHIMA??? They could have put potassium around the reactors in between the shore to block the cesium from running into the ocean!!!


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      May 2, 2012 at 7:57 pm

      Wow! Good find, Kondy! You've got a good point there…if YOU can dig this up, why can't TEPCO?

      Now the question is: would potassium also block the hundreds of other man-made isotopes leaking into the environment from Fukushima?


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    • xdrfox
      May 2, 2012 at 8:39 pm

      KONDY,
      This is a good find, … But we still have almost 1,700 other isotopes to deal with and plutonium !

      : |


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    • jec
      May 3, 2012 at 6:57 pm

      Probably someone will say "No can do" its pollution!..bet there is an environmental consideration..and since NO RADIATION is running into the oceans per TEPCO..and all in cold shutdown stage (safe RIGHT?).
      Sad no one from either Japans government, researchers, or
      TEPCO figured out the lessons from Chernobyl..or even READ the lessons learned. Someone did travel to review the health issues..cost $$$ for Japan. All to see what has been written about for years. Radiation is not safe at any level for humans or life on earth…


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  • xdrfox
    May 4, 2012 at 8:23 pm

    state emergency Whooping cough outbreak strikes Washington state

    May 4, 2012 – WASHINGTON – More than 1,100 cases of whooping cough have already been diagnosed this year in Washington State, nearly doubling the number seen in typical “peak” years. Washington State is gearing up for one of the worst epidemics of pertussis in nearly seven decades. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that causes a nasty and often severe cough. It is particularly dangerous for young infants. Public health officials have confirmed more than 1,100 cases of whooping cough so far this year in Washington State. Thankfully, no deaths have been reported from this year’s outbreak but 20 infants have been hospitalized already with the illness. Washington’s governor Christine Gregoire announced yesterday that state emergency …

    http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/blogs/pertussis-whooping-cough-outbreak-strikes-washington-state


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  • xdrfox
    May 5, 2012 at 9:10 pm

    Tacomagroove
    May 5, 2012 at 8:46 pm · Reply
    Mutated roses california.
    Nuclear Deformed Rose Stem
    Published on May 5, 2012 by believersunderground
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-arCjIm3BEk#!


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  • StillJill StillJill
    May 6, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    Not looking for sympathy,….but I want it to not be a surprise when I really fall apart for a spell. My Mama chihuahua is in the death dance for certain. The last two weeks she couldn't potty, so wouldn't eat. Somehow she became a wrack of bones,…she's lost bladder control now for three days. Pee pee pads aren't cutting it,…now there's blood in her urine all over her pillows. She shakes and bobs and weaves,…can't walk, won't try.

    I am ready for her to go,…have anointed us both. Deciding if I should have her euthanized,…or die peacefully (hopefully), at home.

    Wishing I'd moved earlier,…but she's almost 13,…and developed cancer two months after fuku blew #3!!!!!

    She was GASSED last March, April, and May,…to the point of hospitalization x2. Total radiation sickness symptoms,..poo poo'd by vet–"mucoid enteritis". Oh well,….such is life post 3/11!

    She'll FINALLY get to be with Ashley Noel again,…they were inseparable! :-)


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
      May 6, 2012 at 12:16 pm

      Miss Clarkson, you get our sympathy…loads of it…looking for it or not!!
      Pee in her urine sounds very very painful.
      If I were you, I'd let her go now and put her to sleep….you surely had an awesome time together.

      Peace


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    • NoNukes NoNukes
      May 6, 2012 at 12:30 pm

      StillJill,

      I'm so sorry for your Mama chihuahua. She reminds me of my Sadie dog, full of bladder cancer but so strong until the very last. I will be thinking of you both.


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    • selfsovereign
      May 6, 2012 at 12:52 pm

      I still get upset everytime I think of trying to save my best friends (dog,cat,horses,chickens) when they get old and break down.
      My herbology ALWAYS utterly fails me when I have had to face leukemia, kidney failure and the like.
      I always wish part of me would die with them, but thats just me being selfish and cowardly.
      Take care of yourself, when you find time. I nearly lost it(or have I already?) after getting 2hrs a night of sleep for nearly a fortnight while trying to care for an unforgettable, old, handsomely noble cat (leukemia) we took in off the street. Terrible episode, but I'd do it again, and try even HARDER! Mortality sucks.
      I suppose we wouldn't try so hard to comfort/save them if they weren't such a defining character in the story of our lives. Love knows no bounds.
      When our friends become interwoven into our heart and soul, their departure, for any reason, is heartshattering.

      Hugs all around


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      • StillJill StillJill
        May 6, 2012 at 4:18 pm

        Thanks a lot Mission!

        Selfsoverign,….your words take away my alone-ness!

        Have never loved an animal this way,…close, but not THIS!
        She licks my tears,…and has always placed me before herself. I started calling her my Mama two years ago when the cancer was at it's worst. Incredible old soul inside of this one.


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      May 6, 2012 at 11:28 pm

      Dear Sweet StillJill. My heart goes out to you and your little "Mama." Sending you big {{{hugs}}} and much love. You and your dear little Mama are in my thoughts and prayers. xoxo


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  • StillJill StillJill
    May 6, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    Tears of thanks. I feel you all!


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  • Mission Mission
    May 6, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    My best karma your way StillJill.
    Hope you make it to Florida. That is where I am.


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  • Mission Mission
    May 8, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    Constant metal taste in mouth now. Nausea and diarrhea.
    Tired out feeling. Low energy. Chronic cough that won't stop.
    Yellow pollen is everywhere. Maybe it's the season. I don't know.

    Eating is hard and I have no appetite.

    Thank you TEPCO.


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  • andii
    May 8, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    @Mission
    I don't know where you are but metalic tastes is coming from ionisation effect in your mouth. It can happen if you are detoxing but if you also have nausea, diarrhea, tireness and cough….all very suspect. Eat clay and detox. I guess moving away isn't an option for you right now :( Please take care.


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  • Mission Mission
    May 8, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    I live in St Petersburg, Florida andii. I will try the caly and everything else I can think of.
    The lack of appetite is hard to deal with and the nausea.
    I thought this part of Florida was a good place.
    Sadly, I think our whole tiny blue planet is sick from us and the nuclear power monster that has been created by mad scientists.

    Somehow, someway, that monster must be killed.
    No Nukes!!


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    • alasanon
      May 8, 2012 at 8:28 pm

      yeah, I was trusting the food from Florida over Cali, ID, OR or WA. You seemed to have a fallout respite on the maps, compared to most places!…
      Maybe you are having some effects from the BP spill?? That did impact many people's immune systems–I know people from west FL who were wiped out after just a little swimming in the Gulf & eating seafood there. They are now very ill–disabled!
      Also, you have to watch the thyroid. I read that FL got a dose of radioiodines early on in the disaster…hopefully, you have supplements for that. If the thyroid takes a hit, it can leave you wide open for anything…


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    • andii
      May 10, 2012 at 7:31 am

      @mission
      I am so sorry about your lack of apetite etc
      I was recommended Living Clay Co from one of the members here.
      Watch the video. Even though it is mined in CA (I now don't touch food from the west coast), it is at least closed mine as supposed to open mining.
      http://livingclayco.com/company1.html

      FL may not get affected by FUKU compared to the west coast but you have your own contaminating the area heavily :(


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      • Mission Mission
        May 10, 2012 at 7:45 am

        What many do not know is that the corexit is still being sprayed in the gulf. Some of it is being sprayed just under the surface.
        I got a heavy dose of it two years ago while caught in a rainstorm. I knew it was bad news when the rain burned my skin everywhere I got wet.
        There is also the nuclear reactors over in Tampa. They admit leaking tritium. I drink it in the public drinking water.

        I felt a plume of something pass over almost four days ago. The air mass changed and a hot dry wind blew. Afterwards I got nausea and the metal taste in my mouth.

        I will watch the video and see the clay you recommend andii. And I thank you for caring. That means a great deal to me.


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        • Bobby1
          May 11, 2012 at 9:09 am

          There was a nasty plume that went over the east coast a few days ago, I had flu symptoms and metal taste too. There was an explosion at a chemical plant in Japan that stored depleted uranium, and there was a steam and smoke event at Fuku. I'm not which event caused this, or both of them.


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  • alasanon
    May 8, 2012 at 8:15 pm

    People are really letting their guards down now…a year later..
    I saw so many people running around in the rain today with no protection, little kids, women of child-bearing age, babies, pets, everyone…
    Who knows if the rain has very elevated contamination exactly–the air seems better minus the Jet Stream lately. But, the head of the Health Dept for the state issued warnings not to drink rainwater in Spring 2011 because of Fukushima, which has not been contained, and Chernobyl was quite a clear warning for us all on the dangers of bad rain!… sigh…it's creepy to see people chance it, willingly!
    Has anyone heard anything about the radioactivity of the pollen coming down in Tokyo or the U.S.??? Curious!… thanks, all.


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    • alasanon
      May 8, 2012 at 8:18 pm

      When I say chance it, I mean running in short shirt & short shorts, no hat, with your baby in an open carriage in a downpour…. I saw several scenes like that lately. :/

      But, the food supply is the real killer. We deserve more info AND warnings!!! We paid our taxes–hello!


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  • a female faust a female faust
    May 9, 2012 at 2:13 pm

    FUKUSHIMA: POSSIBLE CAUSES & COVER UPS:

    (in response to

    http://enenews.com/webcam-mystery-man-press-conference-tepco-disclose-actual-situation-inside-plant-video

    but comments were closed…..)

    a reason why he had to be silent that was not mentioned:

    http://femalefaust.blogspot.com/2011/10/perhaps-you-can-help-me-would-like-to.html


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  • mungo mungo
    May 10, 2012 at 7:11 am

    her dad worked in japan clearing up debris last year…13:15 10 May

    Japanese, Russian working to save 1-yr old Anna from leukemia
    VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, May 10, Kyodo

    A group of Japanese and Russians are seeking donations to save the life of one-year-old Anna Melnikova, the daughter of a Russian rescue-team member who worked in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, following last year's earthquake and tsunami disaster.

    Born in May last year, Anna was diagnosed with acute leukemia last month in Khabarovsk, and is now receiving treatment at a Tokyo hospital.

    While a hospital official said Anna has a high chance of being cured if she receives appropriate treatment, she would need to be hospitalized for about 18 months at a cost of around 40 million yen.


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  • Sickputer
    May 10, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    The new Snow White movie folks wanted to buy this apple from me:

    http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc458/sickputer/Fukooedapple.jpg

    (Just kidding) It was a Washington state apple bought 3 weeks ago by my brother who photographed it and promply ate it!

    (OK he knows a lot about Fukuland, but he's OCD and a spendthrift!)

    I thought what a cute smile the little apple had to give and how deceptive looks can be. It may have been perfectly non-toxic, but I doubt it.

    I'll stick to my Chile apples…bought some more yesterday. Wish I was down there breathing Chile air to tell you the truth.

    But I want to take 50 relatives and I don't have those kind of finances. That is the dilemna for so many Japanese. Leaving close relatives behind is not an option for 99%. If they all are asked to evacuate it could happen, but voluntary evacuation is constrained by two things: love for family who can't or won't leave, and lack of money.


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  • StillJill StillJill
    May 11, 2012 at 12:23 am

    One down,…one to go.

    Roommate's dog had a grand mal seizure an hour ago,…lasted over 15 minutes,…then he died. My roommate and his brother carried the 100# dog out to one of their trucks to haul to the dump in the morning. Then I heard them laughing and carrying on. Not a tear.

    I just reamed them both a new one.

    The dog is being buried in the yard.

    My dog is hanging by a thread.

    This is getting too bloody REAL!

    I miss Doc!

    Crying rivers!


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  • Sickputer
    May 11, 2012 at 12:34 am

    Hang in there SJ! I know how hard it is to keep dogs safe from fallout. Obviously they live closer to the soil , get out in snow around here in winter and drink rainwater… I try to keep fresh water pots for my dogs to prevent this. It was hard to lose one of our dogs to a seizure/heart attack last month. Not even three years old. I hope your pet did not suffer too long.


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  • StillJill StillJill
    May 11, 2012 at 10:21 am

    Seizure/heart attack got him too. No,…I held him in my arms,…..as best I could,…it only took 15 minutes. He was so deeply into the seizure, that I knew he wasn't conscience of pain, or anything. He sure was loved on by me since Dec! He was a smiler,…

    He had a shitty owner and a terrible life. I am glad it is over for "Dobie"!

    Rest in peace my friend! (I'm sure your heart was FULL of cesium holes!) :-(


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      May 12, 2012 at 11:16 pm

      Dear StillJill…I am so sorry to hear what you've been through this past week. :-( What a loving, kind gesture, to hold that poor dear dog while he slipped away. Sigh…may he rest in peace.

      In honor of you, Dobie the dog, and your doggie Mama, as well as all here and in Japan and elsewhere who have themselves, or their pets, suffered losses or health issues due to nuclear contamination or exposure, I dedicate this poem which just kind of came to me in a stream of consciousness kind of way early this morning (even before coffee!) :-)

      Not a prize winning rhyme by any stretch of the imagination, but it felt good getting it out of my head and down on paper. :-) So here's to you, my friends. May the END of all nuclear power be in our near future.


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      • What-About-The-Kids
        May 12, 2012 at 11:31 pm

        Nuclear Rain

        My brain has been hijacked by Fuk-u-shi-ma
        And I don't like-it-one-bit
        Instead of sweet dreams
        Full of brilliant new schemes
        My head feels like throwing a fit

        Rad-i-a-tion is raining
        In places untold
        Causing plants to mutate
        And succumb to strange mold

        Our poor pets declining
        Their health in the tank
        The people are dying
        From illnesses rank

        Fuk-u-shima is crying out
        HELP US, OH PLEASE
        Our governments' left us
        To rot with disease

        FUK-U-SHIMA, OH HELP US
        They cry in their pain
        Fuk-u-shima, the land of
        The Nuclear rain


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        • StillJill StillJill
          May 12, 2012 at 11:42 pm

          WATK's,….you would make 'or-well' proud!

          You make me proud!

          Like Heart once said,….she wants every soul that died, or will die,…to KNOW that WE LOVED THEM!

          Your poem speaks to those tears we surely have for every stillborn, or dead and dying person affected by these poisons all over our beautiful earth! :-(


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          • What-About-The-Kids
            May 13, 2012 at 12:16 am

            Aww, shucks, StillJill. Thank you for the kind words. Or-Well was such an inspiration to us all here. Sure miss his brilliance! :-) I hope his absence here is due to getting a book deal to publish is Fuku poetry, and he's working too hard to have time to post here of late. :-)

            Yes, we must NEVER forget all the poor children and families and individuals whose lives have been forever changed by Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and all the countless nuclear "accidents" and "leaks" we were never told about.

            The numbers against nuclear are growing steadily. I just read that 80% of the people in Japan are now AGAINST nuclear power! Now THAT'S progress! The momentum is growing steadily around the globe!

            Go, enenewsers!


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    • Cindy Cindy
      May 22, 2012 at 12:15 pm

      Oh StillJIll…My heart aches for you! We lost our beloved Sass kitty a couple of months ago…she developed a Huge Cancerous growth on her PAW!! The Dr Vet thought it was odd too..since she was very healthy. Then a friend tells me that her friend's kitty had the VERY Same growth on her kitty's paw! Her kitty just died a few weeks later! Something is killing our pets and NO ONE is investigating! WTF???
      Please heal your broken heart knowing your beloved doggie is romping over the Rainbow Bridge…playing happily in the green, green grass!


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  • Mission Mission
    May 11, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    StillJill, I can't stand reading about the effects on pets, since I got a cat I am trying to protect somehow.
    Rest assured. I read all here.
    I cry for the pets, and the humans all.

    I can barely stand the news sometimes. It breaks my heart.


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  • StillJill StillJill
    May 11, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    I am sorry mission,…to have been so graphic. I have never held something in my arms while life passed out of them. I am shaken more than I had expected. I can barely look at my roommate.

    Living with sociopaths is hard work.


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  • Mission Mission
    May 11, 2012 at 7:34 pm

    No SJ< I am glad you felt free to share. To me, this is what this site is all about, sharing.
    we find it all out here, no matter what it is and learn much together.
    I know I certainly have as this site progresses. I learn much that I wish I did not know. I share it when I think others are listening. I spoke to a pregnant woman today waiting for a bus, and told her I hoped her baby was born safe and sound. I asked her had she heard about Fukushima and she not much. I proceeded to give her a short explanation, one she seemed to appreciate and listen to on the ongoing madness. I also reached about four others, all waiting on the next bus just like me.
    I feel like after a year of following this site, checking the k=links, and watching those videos, someone has to speak out and tell the world what is happening to us all.
    Pets are just as important to me as anything else on this tiny blue sphere we all share…
    And that has to understand what is going on.
    Again, I think you for sharing StillJill… always..take care my new friend. Like the rest of the posters here.
    I certainly care.


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  • StillJill StillJill
    May 11, 2012 at 9:32 pm

    Bless you mission,…for you words here to me, to us all, but most particularly, the words you so bravely shared with that young Mom-to-be,…and four others!

    I have had 'it' go well a few times also,…rare,…yet strengthening as hell.

    It is VERY good to feel the feelings after someone listens!

    I speak occasionally to newer listeners, about a poster here about 8 months ago or so, from Hawaii. I had posted a funky, misspelled piece on, "How to maybe survive Fuku on a shoestring". Well, about three weeks later, a newer poster came on asking if anyone had that particular post, as he hadn't copied it and wished he had. (He explained having a rather large family, and these detox aids are not cheap). My list was the cheaper tools.

    Anyway,….when I'm really down,…about no one listening,….I envision one of his daughters or granddaughters dancing healthy on the beach somewhere in Hawaii,…healthier because she is taking baking soda, epsom salt, lugol's iodine, and some cheap PDZ zeolite!

    That's my story,….and God said I could stick with it! :-)


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      May 22, 2012 at 12:55 am

      Mungo, thanks for posting this. I read the story and it is indeed disturbing.

      Here's a comment after the article that describes an old munitions dump in the area which leaked contained chemicals which into some monitoring wells there. How ghastly…wonder if this is the cause of the teens' various rare autoimmune disorders they have developed? How many similar things such as this are happening in our communities??? :-(

      Comment from article:

      "In addition to the general sanitation advice, I would think some environmental testing would be in order here. Unless these girls in this limited geographical area have hygiene habits markedly different from the rest of the population of girls in broader areas with similar autoimmune initiating diseases, there might be another factor making them susceptible."

      "Quote:Most of them live along the I-10 West corridor between Camp Bullis all the way up to Boerne."

      "Camp Bullis, San Antonio, Texas"

      "Quote: In mid-2001 it was reported that an old chemical weapons dump on the installation may pose a threat to the underground Edwards and Trinity aquifers. In 1938 soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Sam Houston buried hundreds of sealed-glass vials containing mustard gas and other chemical weapons in trenches at Camp Bullis. The weapons dump was used in the 1950's, when it was common for the military to bury chemical weapons, after denaturalizing them with Trichloroethene, or TCE…."


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      • What-About-The-Kids
        May 22, 2012 at 12:57 am

        (continued)…

        …"That TCE has contaminated some monitoring wells at Camp Bullis and could potentially contaminate the aquifers. The landfill was discovered in 1995 when digging equipment at the post unearthed 33 bottles of mustard gas, phosgene, chloropicrin and other incapacitating gases. Recovered Chemical Warfare materiel included 25 Chemical Agent Identification Set (CAIS)."

        Comment:

        "TCE for one is a compound linked to autoimmune disorders."


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  • milk and cheese milk and cheese
    May 17, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    The innocents, whether animal or human, suffer through no fault of their own.
    You were good to the poor dog, Stilljill.
    I am only sorry that you had to do it. And it sounds as if you are in an area that is heavily irradiated. Is there no way for you all to move?


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  • mungo mungo
    May 18, 2012 at 7:31 am

    20-year-old Vermilion girl found dead at BGSU, loved college life
    Published: Friday, May 18, 2012

    By JASON HENRY
    jhenry@MorningJournal.com


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  • mungo mungo
    May 18, 2012 at 7:32 am

    The 20-year-old Vermilion woman was found dead in her Bowling Green apartment Wednesday from what is believed to be a sudden illness. The cause of death remains unknown, but her mother, Mitzi Mankin, said it appeared she had the flu.
    …
    Her daughter had just finished the school year at BGSU and moved to an apartment for the summer. She’d returned home on May 10 and by Saturday she felt a little nauseated. When Mitzi Mankin took her daughter back to her apartment on Monday, she had a low-grade fever. On Tuesday, Mankin went to campus health center and was told it was likely a case of the flu going around. On Wednesday, she was found dead.
    …
    The Wood County Coroner’s Office will perform a toxicology test to determine the cause of death, but no apparent reason was visible, Mitzi Mankin said. She said the coroner suspects it might have been a viral infection that reached the heart.


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  • Bobby1
    May 20, 2012 at 9:10 am

    My symptoms have taken a sharp turn for the worse in the past 3 weeks or so. Flu-like symptoms, metal taste, occasional severe pain. I am now having difficulty functioning… the previous bouts have been unpleasant and scary, but this is affecting my ability to work & live.

    The proteinuria in urine has gotten much worse, and I am suspecting amyloidosis. This would affect the heart. The pharmaceutical treatments for this are toxic, and with my chemical sensitivity, the treatment might be worse than the disease.


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      May 21, 2012 at 6:19 pm

      Bobby1, I'm so sorry your health has taken a turn for the worse, lately. Perhaps spending too much time worrying about Fukushima isn't the best thing for your health either? Maybe you should take a break from the forum and spend time nurturing yourself? Just a thought. I'm considering doing this as well, as one's psyche can only take such doom and gloom news so much, for so long…

      You can always check back in after some R & R. Who knows? You may just feel rejuvenated enough by the break that you find some "spontaneous healing" happening in your body! :-)

      Feel better soon! Healing {{{hugs}}} to you!


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      • majia
        May 21, 2012 at 6:27 pm

        We are feeling very poorly in AZ

        My husband's cough is getting worse. Allergy season is over. My asthma is very bad now and my sinuses bleeding slightly.

        It could be from the 5 fires that have ranged around us over the last week.

        However, that smoke is going to contain incinerated fallout.

        My kids seem exhausted but otherwise ok.

        Not sure whether they are just tired from school or whether it is the smoke/fallout


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        • What-About-The-Kids
          May 21, 2012 at 6:46 pm

          I'm so sorry to hear you and your husband haven't been feeling well, Majia. :-( I experienced smoke and ash-filled skies several times when I lived in So. California. I remember feeling tired, too, so that may be why your kids are tired. Do you have HEPA filters in your home?

          Seattle actually had several amazingly beautiful sunny days recently, and the air felt pretty clean, until the last day when they started spraying the chemtrails fast and furiously before the new storm front moved in. It has been unseasonably balmy, so I'm hoping it is just due to coming from the South, rather than from the North. Haven't checked the Jet Stream report for awhile, so not sure if that is the cause.

          Did you read the latest study from the D.O.E.'s Pacific Northwest Labs,showing that "air pollution" causes thunderheads to form which actually warm the air which could contribute to global warming?

          http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=925

          Wondering if in studying the fallout plumes wafting from Japan, they discovered this new-found phenomenon, which in turn may be causing the strange weather with unseasonable tornadoes in unusual places?

          A cold front is supposed to be moving in today on the heels of this warm front storm. Not sure if it will bring Fuku'd rain with it or not…


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          • majia
            May 21, 2012 at 7:30 pm

            Thank you What about the kids

            Two hepa filters running and just bought another one.

            No doubt the radiation from fukushima is affecting weather in inexplicable ways

            New Scientist, dated Oct 2 2011 "Arctic Ozone Hole Breaks All Records"
            http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20988-arctic-ozone-hole-breaks-all-records.html

            The New Scientist is covering research published in Nature

            Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss in 2011. Nature 478,469–475(27 October 2011) doi:10.1038/nature10556
            http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7370/full/nature10556.html


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            • What-About-The-Kids
              May 21, 2012 at 7:41 pm

              You're welcome, Majia. I am glad you have the HEPA filters running. I hope you're all feeling better soon. Any plans for a summer vacation? Maybe you can head to somewhere where the air is cooler and cleaner?

              Yes, I remember reading that report about the hole in the ozone layer. :-( Wondering if the seemingly increased chemtrail spraying post-Fuku is to help add a "protective" layer in our atmosphere to counteract the effects of radiation fallout possibly burning a hole in our ozone? Who knows….

              (I say "seemingly" increased, as I only learned about chemtrail spraying after 3/11, so I have no understanding of whether it has indeed increased or if it is at the same level as pre-3/11.)


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            • Sickputer
              May 22, 2012 at 1:29 am

              Majia sez: "Two hepa filters running and just bought another one"

              SP: I hear you. I just replaced my high capacity Lowes filters at 20 bucks a piece. Had them for one month (rated for 90 days) and they were already very gray and packed with dust. My AC was straining to get return air.

              Hope you get to feeling better. I think my lungs have not felt this way since the drug cartel burned a million acres for pot farm clearing back in 1999. That was some really fine particulate so I sympathize you have the double whammy of Nukashambles fallout and the big fires north of you. The wind looks better for the next few days, but you sure have some high temperatures in the air.


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        • NoNukes NoNukes
          May 22, 2012 at 1:00 am

          Majia, I am so sorry that you are feeling worse and that you have been surrounded by fire, smoke and fallout. I had bad sinus problems in March, and a strange nosebleed (not isolated, constant). Since, symptoms have fluctuated in April and May. Lots of healthy people in SF Bay Area with bronchitis, pneumonia. I hope that you all feel better soon. Maybe I will start marking a calendar for a record.


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          • majia
            May 22, 2012 at 1:18 am

            I think it is the smoke but Potrblog detected 20X background without jet stream overhead.

            That is rather scary.

            It could be something local. Perhaps it is just accumulated fallout brought down in precipitation.

            Bad either way.

            My uncle, who lived in the SF bay area, just succumbed to cancer on Sunday. He had been expected to live longer.

            His cancer had spread rapidly recently.

            best wishes and night all


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    • Bobby1
      May 21, 2012 at 10:37 pm

      What-About-The-Kids, thank you. I'm at the point where I don't want to talk about the symptoms anymore, but suffice it to say that they are not from depression or a pessimistic outlook.

      The coal-mine canary thing is at an end, time to stop chirping, it's all about simply trying to endure this now. I just wanted to get my thoughts in about the most recent plumes, this is a whole new level.


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      • What-About-The-Kids
        May 22, 2012 at 12:31 am

        Hi Bobby1, Sure, I understand. I appreciate your sharing any information you wish to in this forum. It's one of the things I cherish about the forum, our sharing of such information. You never know just how or who it may help. :-)

        I didn't mean to imply your current symptoms are caused by depression. I only meant that by taking a break, there might be an added benefit of some stress relief, which could help make the symptoms easier to deal with, and as I said, perhaps may even bring some healing to you. :-)

        In any case, whatever you decide to do, I wish you healing and comfort, knowing we care about you. :-)


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      • majia
        May 22, 2012 at 12:50 am

        Bobby1

        Have you considered medical marijuana?

        There is quite a bit of research showing that it has tumor suppressing and neural-regenerative capabilities.

        Maybe it can help combat some of the other symptoms of radiation contamination as well.

        I also found a study that I posted some time ago about the radiation combating effects of melatonin.

        I wish we knew what foods were most contaminated. I was deeply concerned by the latest Potrblog video.

        Take care!


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        • Bobby1
          May 22, 2012 at 8:00 am

          majia, medical marijuana is illegal in this state. Besides, there is every reason to believe that the outdoor crops grown in California are heavily contaminated.

          The enjoyable "high" that people get from it, to me, is a negative side-effect. Very unpleasant. It is like some nasty medicine with weird side-effects.


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      • alasanon
        May 26, 2012 at 3:39 pm

        Bobby, Sorry that you're not feeling well out here. :( I think the air seems better around D.C. for this season without the Fuku cloud hovering overhead. And I'm out there passing thorugh it everyday. I do think the tap water may be more messed up?? I've noticed that people's hair looks noticeably more "frazzled" lately?? I don't have any hair thinning or falling out, but the texture may seem different(?). (However, I understand that they add chloramine to the public water supply at this time of the year.) Hopefully, I'm mostly dealing with external, rather than internal contamination, although it still could sink in your pores?! I think it's hard to get a good shower filter. I don't have any other physical complaints, except I don't like having to watch my diet…and the wondering?!!…No aches or pains here, thus far, thankfully!


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    • NoNukes NoNukes
      May 22, 2012 at 12:45 am

      Bobby1, I don't like the spike in proteinuria and amyloidosis. I am so sorry that you are in pain, and it is threatening your ability to work and live. What does your dr. say? A search brought up that fish oil, Curcumin, zinc, Vit D, flaxseed meal, Parthenolide (a compound from Feverfew) and most of all, soy (non-gmo) may be helpful with proteinuria, as you know, most likely. Oh, and shutting down nuclear, @#$%^&. Also, food allergies may make it worse, gluten/wheat and milk/casein are top suspects, etc. and vegetarian/vegan may help. I know that you are already limited food-wise, but I have now turned vegetarian since it helped so much with my post-Fukushima ulcer. I never thought that would happen, but it is not as bad as I thought.

      One list:
      http://www.greenmedinfo.com/disease/proteinuria

      Thank you so much for writing about your symptoms, geiger counters are not picking up the whole story (how can we have a 40000 microsievert thyroid dose and hardly a blip on the geigers?) Also Alpha radiation, etc. I think that our bodies are able to tell a greater truth, and you have been a leader on this, as in much else. Please keep us posted, just to let us know how you are doing.

      I have been having kidney pain for the first time in my life the last 3 (?) months. The only good news I have is that I feel like we had a bit of break the last few days, so hopefully everyone downwind is due for that, too, although it may be coming to an end now.


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      • What-About-The-Kids
        May 22, 2012 at 1:12 am

        Hi NoNukes, It is good to hear from you and hear your advice on healthy eating. I too find eating no meat really helps. Many family and friends are going vegan too. Not quite there yet myself though. :-)

        It is interesting that you too felt we had better air the past several days (we're both on the West Coast, you in N. CA and me, in Seattle. I need to check what's coming our way now on the satellite.

        I was watching our sunset tonight, same direction where the new front is coming in. It was beautiful, but strangely otherworldly at the same time; several of the clouds in the foreground were a strange, flat oblong shape, kind of like large flattened fish. I couldn't help feeling like I was on Venus instead of planet Earth.

        Seemed to fit the surreal nature of what we've been reading about here on enenews. Ok, maybe I'm just projecting my over-active imagination onto my perception of the world, ya think?…;-D LOL

        Still, that is what it felt like tonight here in Seattle. Wishing you all a good night's sleep! :-)


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        • NoNukes NoNukes
          May 22, 2012 at 2:05 am

          Thanks, What-About-The-Kids, I know what you mean! The fog here was otherworldly, surreal tonight, too. We went up to the park tonight and I mentioned it to my husband, who downplayed it, for whatever that is worth. It just didn't look like normal fog, and I've seen a lot of fog. I am projecting, how can we not? Either way, it looks like I will be hogging the jet stream for most of this week, it is south of you for a long while. Sweet dreams to you!

          http://www.weatherimages.org/data/imag192.html


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        • richard richard
          May 22, 2012 at 2:16 am

          I'm a vegetarian veteran, over 25 years without ever sonsuming meat.

          It's one of the better parts of my life. I cannot even think to eat meat, it's something I can never do again in my life, unless maybe under threat of starvation.

          I'm fine, I'm fit, I rock'n'roll.

          For some people, it can't workout, and I wont push them about it. But if you get the chance embrace freedom from meat… there are so many benefits I cannot begin to list them.

          Great health is one of them.


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          • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
            May 22, 2012 at 3:36 am

            Hey, 25yrs-veggie here as well :-)
            Also trying the 5-a-day-thingie (fruit or veggies).
            I take no supplements whatsoever.
            Just a daily fix of mixed nuts and/or tofu (or seitan, my latest addiction).
            And moderate exercise!


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            • richard richard
              May 22, 2012 at 3:51 am

              hi b&b.. great to hear my vege friend :)

              i don't concern myself with supplements either. (i understand women may need more iron then men, so i don't make any calls in either direction.. just speaking for myself).

              tofu's not something i chase down :) but some nuts and lots of salads and vegies, breads and cheeses – that's about it (oh, i forgot, the odd chocolate cake :) )

              light exercise, try for an hour a day. not happy with myself if i start missing days. in fact, i'm home now, heading out the door in a few minutes into the cool evening night ;)

              but hey, i still have to watch the wieght, currently about 2 kilos over my preffered. no one's perfect, especially me :)


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      • Bobby1
        May 22, 2012 at 8:15 am

        NoNukes, I think the inflammation & other symptoms boil down to my brain not releasing enough dopamine… the immune system damage has screwed up the hormone balance. Treating this on a symptom level is not gonna work, I need to work on the cause.

        A good friend of mine who died of cancer 2 years ago had similar symptoms. In the last conversation we had, he blamed his doctor for prescribing steroids. We have the same doctor.


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        • NoNukes NoNukes
          May 22, 2012 at 12:23 pm

          Bobby1, I am so sorry for your loss of your friend. I can say this for Western medicine, the institutions have been great at training people to wash their hands. That's about all the "something nice" I can say today. What, 80%+ of their treatments are either antibiotics or steroids? Plus, how many are complicit with the nuclear industry? Steroids are so hard to take, they have me wandering the halls at night immediately.

          It sounds far more complicated than throwing some Vit D and Curcumin at the problem to fix it, although I wish it would, of course. It is interesting to me that all of those things, with the exception of soy, are also on the list for radiation, we should all probably be taking them anyway, if possible. My thyroid antibody level went from 660 down to 75 when I went off of gluten, so a focus for me, but everyone is different. You deserve all the dopamine that you can handle, Bobby1, and I hope that it improves soon.


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        • majia
          May 22, 2012 at 1:51 pm

          I absolutely don't trust modern medicine anymore.

          August 7, 1920 The New York Times reported “Radium Benefits Shown at Clinic: Post-Graduate Declares It to Be A Specific for Superficial Malignant Growth” with only “trifling ill-effects” (p. 12).

          The article states boldly that “radium will cure cancer that is readily accessible to treatment with this element.”

          According to the article, radium was identified as a cure for cancer when a scientist received a skin burn after pocketing pitchblende.

          Radium’s capacity to destroy tissue led to experiments with its applications to tumors.

          Radium was also glowingly described in the article as a curative for tuberculosis and for skin rigidities caused by accidents.


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      • KONDY KONDY
        May 22, 2012 at 12:28 pm

        @ NoNukes – Thanks for the greenmedinfo site link!!


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  • Cindy Cindy
    May 21, 2012 at 10:47 am

    Here's the video I took of a hummingbird having seisures while trying to feed. He died a few minutes later. It looked exactly like the Tanuki on the Live Fuku Feed.

    http://youtu.be/5zH-KNv37tg

    What do you guys think?


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      May 21, 2012 at 6:15 pm

      Cindy, that is so sad and quite disturbing. Poor little bird. :-( Whatever caused it, it obviously was toxic.

      I am concerned about whether the food put into hummingbird feeders is really healthy for the birds. (not saying your food caused it, though, as it would be hard to determine from just watching your video.)

      But if you think about it, it is like allowing the bird to "binge" easily on nectar which he usually would have to work to gather himself. So perhaps having so much nectar available to the bird, right in one place may not be healthy for it?

      (Kind of like giving a kid sitting in front of the tv a half gallon of ice cream and a spoon. Lack of exercise and easy access to too much food, esp. junk food, is likely a cause of the obesity epidemic in the U.S….though some suspect it's link with diabetes may suggest exposure to radiation, which attacks the thyroid and other organs, might be part of the problem…)

      Just my initial reaction after watching the video, since you asked for our thoughts. :-) What do you think?


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      • Cindy Cindy
        May 21, 2012 at 11:53 pm

        Thank you for your comment! I appreciate all the responses. I guess it could be a number of things but I guess too it's everything "combined"? We have really noticed a decrease in our goldfinches too. We would have literally Dozens at the feeder & on the ground fighting for the thistle seed. Now we are lucky to have 4 total! Yes…what are we doing to the earth? Those people should have to pay dearly.


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        • richard richard
          May 22, 2012 at 12:10 am

          You said it Cindy "Those people should have to pay dearly"!

          Exactly. The mob.media.corp.guv have ripped the soul out of life on earth. They must pay. Heavily. No quarter given. The ignorant, selfish crooks need to be locked up at fukushima for eternity.

          Keep doing your great job of sustaining the wildlife. They'll need our help more then ever to get thru the poisonous world laid out to them. That's if we live thru it.


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          • Spectrometising
            May 22, 2012 at 12:53 am

            Yep, i agree richard.

            I am intensely collecting remnant native vegetation from the area and hoping an army of those who have been temporarily distracted by the global warming fad and all those other distractions can prioritise and start with the basics also.

            I even have seen a hummingbird pair that now visit since some of the natives from the area i have saved/propagated are nectar producing. The insecticide/herbicide sprayed by the forestry industry remains a big concern here in Australia where i live, to native insects and every kind of animal.

            In my opinion Cindy is spot on, and starting by looking in the backyard and later if time permits, looking at the other stuff.

            Where i live, the forestry used to be chopping trees and letting everything grow back, not poisoning the forest floor with all its diversity and planting with cloned gums and pines in the name of some mythical/futuristic belief that merely planting clones of trees will prevent extinction by increasing oxygen and changing the weather, good grief.
            :-)

            Personally, i think the weather is controlled by the solar cycles and the sun seems to have something to do with all the earthquakes too.

            Hmm…i am still thinking about all these things myself, and all i can do is prioritise to the best of my ability.


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            • richard richard
              May 22, 2012 at 2:05 am

              @Spectrometising – nice work (but hard as well i'm sure). Do you document any of it … a blog or some such?

              I realise that's extra work, but it may help draw more attention and assistance.

              Also, I saw your notes about chemtrails with anne. I'm still not in on this party, but I'm following your reports, particularly related to pesticides.

              Man, this circus just doesnt stop. So many tangents. Jeesh.

              I'll stick with stopping atomics for now ;)


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    • Spectrometising
      May 21, 2012 at 8:02 pm

      Gday Cindy, i am looking at agricultural herbicide/pesticide use which seems to be increasing all the time. Before allowing anyone to help you jump to conclusions immediately about fukushima, make sure you see what kind of agriculture is happening in your area.

      Pesticides do exactly what you describe.

      For instance in Australia:

      "Many of these birds are dependent on nectar and blossom from the older trees. Young trees are very poor providers of blossom and nectar. If too many of the older trees are removed to extend plantations, and plantations have a short rotation time of 25 to 30 years, this will drastically reduce the availability of nectar and blossoms for these birds."

      http://hancockwatch.nfshost.com/docs/animals.htm#content_top


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  • Tumrgrwer Tumrgrwer
    May 21, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    My good friend up here on cobb mt. fed the humming birds for 30+ years. Hundreds of them would come for his dilutted treats, mostly water with no colors added. No harm ever seemed to come to them. Recently those birds are hard to find, hang out in much fewer numbers than years previous. A few a day, never more than that at any one time. The birds used to scrap/play fight over it in the air waiting their turn. Something has caused terrible harm to our wildlife…the earth and us! It's so hard to proove it was from Fukushity, but what else could do this?


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      May 21, 2012 at 7:45 pm

      Yes, many have reported here a decrease in animal and bird and insect sightings post-Fuku. I have seen just one hummingbird around our home lately, and he doesn't stay long, just grabs a quick sip and darts off elsewhere.

      Fortunately, we have plenty of wonderful blossoms here in Western Washington for them to dine on. :-) But having only moved here a couple of years ago, I can't say whether the hummingbird population has suffered or not.


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  • Cindy Cindy
    May 21, 2012 at 11:46 pm

    I only use Organic Raw Cane Sugar & Spring water (not even tap water) to feed our Hummingbirds. We do not use any kind of pesticide whatsoever. I live in Western Oregon and we do have a nice family of Hummers hitting our feeders this time of year. We only want to feed them the VERY best since we know they are being bombarded by radiation & pesticides constantly.


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      May 22, 2012 at 12:44 am

      Hi Cindy, It is so sweet of you (literally and figuratively speaking!) ;-) to care about your local birds. I could spend hours just watching birds. They bring such joy to our lives. It is something my mother taught me. She always had a backyard full of birds. She fed them too, and they loved her and her backyard. :-)

      Speaking of sugar, did you read the latest study which says it is a toxin in our bodies? I just wonder if it is healthy for birds, even diluted with water? It is not the natural nectar from flowers that their bodies have adapted to eating. See my point?

      Also, since Fuku, I question everything. So for example, we know that Hawaii was hammered pretty hard with some of the highest levels of Fuku fallout, even higher than Oregon and Washington and California. So I wonder what this has done to the sugar crop there, as I believe much of our sugar comes from Hawaii? If sugar was already bad for us, how much worse is it now, should the fallout have effected it?

      Sigh…I guess sometimes I think and question just a bit too much…


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  • bleep_hits_blades
    May 22, 2012 at 2:45 am

    Has it gotten harder to get a prescription for Vicodin?

    I have never used pharmaceuticals, not even aspirin, etc., but my back problems have gotten progressively more painful, and the only thing that works to cut the pain (not totally get rid of it; nothing does that, at least nothing I have tried)is Vicodin, and I have been refused a prescription for it by a couple of doctors (have not gone to many doctors, chiros, etc. but none of them has helped). I am amazed that I can be in so much pain and yet they will not prescribe the only thing that works. I have gotten some from a friend, who has long-standing pain problems and a doctor who does prescribe for him. I don't like leaning on my friend all the time, and the pain has gotten so bad that I really can't handle it.

    I could have fibromyalgia, I could have a tumor in my chest (X ray showed a possible 'mass'), and/or the pain could be bone pain as there are some problems there, some degeneration. Have not dragged myself to the doctor for more tests etc. esp. not more radiation-exposure tests like CAT scan or magnetic resonance imaging.

    I read a comment on enenews, just today I think it was, that obliquely referred to its being difficult to get the pain meds that actually work prescribed for one, and so I am just trying to find out more.

    It seems strange that a 68 y.o. woman, formerly in good health and with no history of substance abuse is being refused much needed pain med. prescriptions.


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    • Cindy Cindy
      May 22, 2012 at 12:06 pm

      YES it is!!! Me TOO! I am well…I don't want to say! Haa-haa! but I did get my AARP card a while ago and threw it out! LOL!
      I am in EXCELLENT health and have only needed migraine meds every 6 or 9 months or so…other than that I take Nothing.
      I recently blew out a disc & fractured vertabrae in my lower back. My Doctor did NOT want to prescribe ANYTHING stronger than tylenol w/ codeine..(you can buy that over the counte in Canada!!!) I "fired" him and went to a D.O. He reluctantly…after having to go to the emergency room..gave me a script for percs. I had to sign a Lengthly Opiate Contract which gives them permission to pull my script any time or if my pain meds Don't work…to take me off of them too! I have never abused Anything! I even almost cancelled my health insurance from my company because for over 9 years I NEVER used it! YES…something weird is going on…why is the Million dollar question??


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      • bleep_hits_blades
        May 23, 2012 at 4:59 am

        Cindy, from your pic you certainly don't look like AARP material. Look more like a kid.

        Someone today told me that only certain doctors can prescribe narcotics – something like that. Anyway he gave me the name of one and said I could use his name, so maybe I am in business.

        After a lifetime avoiding drugs, because I didn't want to develop a problem, I have come to appreciate the charms of opiates, at least the one kind I have tried. MJ has this existential edge for me, as if I am staring life in the face a bit too nakedly and what I see is a bit unsettling; speed is fine if you want to be speedy, but usually I don't; but the Vicodin just gives me a subtle warm, relaxed, happy feeling – a really 'all's right with the world' feeling – as well as getting rid of the GD PAIN! in my back! for a while!

        I did get some kava and tried that tonight. It made me feel sedated, sort of dulled. Not a great feeling, but better than anxiety. I might imbibe some before going to the doctor to be told that I have lung cancer…


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        • Cindy Cindy
          May 23, 2012 at 11:56 am

          LOL! Seriously! I am AARP & that pic was taken 2 yrs ago… I still get carded occasionally to the SHOCK of my 24 & 22 yr olds!
          I agree with you.. I really hate having my "reality" shifted or changed due to artificial substances. I was able to try Kava a year ago…made me Super Tired but was a nice numb!
          I am SO sorry about your worries and horrible pain.. I too used to be, up until 18 months ago, a literally "Spring out of Bed" sortta person..now I can barely get out of bed without screaming and crying. My Fiance was sweet enough to buy me a TempurPedic..and it's really helped at night, but somedays..NOTHING helps. I pray you find some kind of relief.
          And then all of THIS FUKU crap Happens! GEEZ!!!


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    • ironysteele ironysteele
      May 23, 2012 at 2:57 am

      try rumafan you can get it on ebay, it is only spices and herbs from mex and india. cucucum is the main ing. i had such pain from rheuma arthritis. every move i made for a couple of years was painful. then, within an hour of taking one pill, i was able to take steps two at a time. unbelievable. i take one a day and i am fine. if i forget, i ll start to get the pain back, but if i just maintain one a day, i am 17 again. it has been very good for me. maybe it would help you. it is over the counter. i get mine out of mexico. but have seen them on ebay. there is a plus or plus premium. i see no difference and tried both. about 25 bucks for thirty pills.


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      • bleep_hits_blades
        May 23, 2012 at 4:48 am

        ironysteele, I will try the Rumafan if I can find it. do you mean cucucum or cucumin ? Anyway, I wrote it down. Rumafan.Ebay.

        This is a whole new world for me that I wish I had not learned existed. Argh. But I appreciate all of the suggestions; and it just helps to see that I am not alone. I have felt kind of picked on by fate or something – the usual 'why me'?

        Now I am imagining all sorts of scenarios involving people in pain with no pain meds, like in olden times and etc. And animals, too. It makes me wonder what kind of world it actually is, with so much suffering built into it. I've had a hard enough time dealing with the arrogance, evil, and stupidity – now this – suffering – endless, undeserved suffering.


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  • richard richard
    May 22, 2012 at 3:11 am

    @bleep. Sorry to hear of your back problem and pain. I'm not at all aware of most things medical, so I can't offer a lot.

    A girlfriend of mine has arthritis and recieves an injection about once a month to reduce inflammation (and pain) as I'm aware. But I am trully hopeless at the medicinal names. Maybe it's an approach you can take. I'll contact my friend and see what she's using, will get back to you.

    (ps, my email is buried in this site, not sure if you saw it, but i'd be happy to have an 'offsite' chat with you if you wish).


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    • bleep_hits_blades
      May 22, 2012 at 3:29 am

      Richard, If you would give your e/m address again, that would be nice. Needless to say, I won't give it to anyone else.

      I am really desperate with this pain problem. I've never had anything like it before. It sounds melodramatic but the truth is I really can't go on like this.

      I believe that my health problems are due to Fukushima – both the resulting depression, and then this back problem which manifested a few months after 3/11 and has grown progressively worse; I have other symptoms as well and seem to be quite seriously ill.

      I'm very philosophical about dying soon – I've lost my enthusiasm for life, am totally discouraged about this world of ours – or rather, its human controllers and what they have made of it – but being in so much pain is intolerable. It just amazes me that the doctors won't prescribe Vicodin even when so very much needed, and then I read that passing comment here on enenews today about there being a reluctance to prescribe it even when obviously needed.

      There are actually some countries, like Thailand, in which many of these prescription drugs are available o.t.c. A friend of mine lives in Thailand, but he tried to send something to a friend in the USA and the men in suits showed up at his (the friend's) door. Govt. seems vigilant about all the wrong things for all the wrong reasons.


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      • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
        May 22, 2012 at 3:40 am

        Morning bleep, I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling well.
        Can you do the slightest bit of exercise to ease your pain??
        I hope richard's friend has a good advice for you….
        I can't help other than to send you a good vibe around this lovely planet……swoooosh….got it?

        *cheers bleep


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      • richard richard
        May 22, 2012 at 4:03 am

        ok, it's called cortisone. like i say, i am certainly no doctor, so please consult with you own doctor. (end of disclaimer rant :) )

        you've probably already heard of these steroid based medications.

        "Steroids (short for corticosteroids) are synthetic drugs that closely resemble cortisol, a hormone that your body produces naturally. Steroids work by decreasing inflammation and reducing the activity of the immune system. They are used to treat a variety of inflammatory diseases and conditions"

        http://arthritis.webmd.com/arthritis-painkillers-7/corticosteroids

        more info …

        http://www.arthritis.org.au/?gclid=CKvlnba1k7ACFfBSpgodb3b7oA

        _______________________________________________________
        this is a temporary address and it wont exist for long.

        richard 2012 at hush mail dot com

        apply the usual restitching


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  • bleep_hits_blades
    May 22, 2012 at 4:25 am

    Thanks, Richard – I've heard of cortisone (and that it is not that good for us – in fact some bad stories are coming back to me). Anyway, I have a feeling it would not work for me. I don't think inflammation is my problem.

    Anyway, thanks for taking an interest.

    It's ironic that one so adamantly opposed to pharmaceuticals and Big Pharma should have done such a turn-around. Kind of what they call a 'comeuppance,' I guess. I have just never had any problems with serious pain before. It has opened my mind to how much suffering there is and has been in the world – before there were pharmaceutical drugs, and also animals, wounded, etc.


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    • richard richard
      May 22, 2012 at 5:42 am

      ok on the corstisone. my friend has had chronic A and pain for most of her life, as far as i'm aware it's the only way she can live a sane life sometimes. with it all, there's bound to be some consequence.

      i'm naive on these medical things, i've been fortunate. and no silver bullet i suppose.

      hopefully there is a solution to be found.


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    • Cindy Cindy
      May 22, 2012 at 12:10 pm

      Ok…I'm really big into "healthy alternatives". Please don't take this the wrong way…only take it in the caring way I'm typing it. Have you ever considered Medical Marijuana? I have friends who literally threw their narcotics away and only use this as "rescue" medicine when needed and they are coping w/ the pain Better than with the Pharm stuff. I would Totally understand if this isn't for some people..and I truly respect that. I just wanted to offer something that I've personally seen work. Please take care…get better… Love reading your posts!


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    • Tumrgrwer Tumrgrwer
      May 22, 2012 at 2:04 pm

      Don't go for any injections bleep, I have similar issues with the back and neck with over 6 surgical procedures including fusion with hardware in neck and lower back. The only thing that works for me is Avinza, timed release morphine. I have used all the pain meds the docs got and all have seriouse side effects causing harm to the liver and other internal organs. Nearly impossible to function on most of them, I have no head rush feeling or high at all, in fact this medication has had the least effect on my well being than the others. I know morphine sounds terrible, but pain is deadly serious stuff. A little MJ works wonders for any breakthrough pains. These herbs/flowers were put here for a reason, just saying.


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      • bleep_hits_blades
        May 22, 2012 at 2:55 pm

        Tumrgrwer, & Cindy, thanks so much for the replies. I have gotten to the point of desperation – literally. The pain has gotten gradually worse, over several months, and at this point if I don't have a pain med that works (I am totally dependent on a friend who manages to get me some) I am going to be thinking seriously about suicide because it is just impossible to want to stay alive if you are in bad pain all or almost all of the time, day & night. (This is a totally new experience for me, btw.)

        When not in pain, I am OK – have low energy, & pain still comes if I try to be active at all even for short periods, but I don't mind being a 'couch potato' & I have a kind neighbor (my angel, I call her) who helps me with shopping & errands.

        Do you think I would have better luck getting a prescription for Avinza? There is this unwillingness to prescribe Vicodin, which does work for me – is the only thing I have found that does knock out the pain. (I am wondering about Kava (?) – might it help?)

        I know these drugs are toxic to the liver, but bottom line is the pain is unbearable & even if it shortens my life due to liver damage, I must find a way to relieve the pain.

        RE MJ, I have tried it; it does not knock out the pain noticeably at all. I have noticed no pain relief to speak of when I take it. Also, although in the past I have used it recreationally, now I really don't like the doped, sedated, slowed-down way it makes me feel.


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        • What-About-The-Kids
          May 22, 2012 at 3:38 pm

          Dear Bleep, My heart goes out to you in your suffering. Please keep searching for a medical professional you respect and who will understand your needs and give you help in finding the right pain relief for you. If you mention what you have said here, a competent professional won't just leave you hanging, knowing how desperate you have become to seek relief from your pain and suffering.

          Perhaps seeking out a wholeistic doctor? There IS a solution that is right for you out there somewhere. You just need to find the right medical professional who understands your needs and wishes.

          Please keep looking and don't give up, ok? We need you here, as your participation has been a vital part of our information sharing!

          Sending healing {{{hugs}}} and wishing you comfort and relief from the pain very soon. Take good care of yourself. :-)


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        • Tumrgrwer Tumrgrwer
          May 23, 2012 at 1:36 am

          Sorry it took so long to get back at you bleep, but the Avinza flat out works, mention a pain med and one doctor or another has given it to me nearly all of them. Then I found a pain specialist, at that time I was taking; Valium, Soma, Oxy Contin and Norco with an anti colesterol kicker, the bloody statin. Now I take one medicine and some MJ, that's it. Please bleep, get some help with those thoughts of suicide, I know just how bad it can be and buddy it's not as bad as it could be and things change from day to day. I'm at keen at me dot com if you need to talk about things. I'll be there for you.


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        • Cindy Cindy
          May 23, 2012 at 12:06 pm

          Did you know there are TWO kinds of MJ? Sativa and Indica. The Indica will make you Tired and sleepy. The Sativa will give you a Buzzy energetic feel. I never knew this until a friend who has a MJ Medical Card told me this. So….if you were thinking of giving it another try…try to find the Sativa. It's a little harder to grow, hence it's a little harder to find. Sativa grows to over 15 feet! Anyone can grow Indica..even in a closet! Haa-haa!
          Take care… talk to you soon.


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  • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
    May 22, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    There are hundreds of natural remedies; herbs, homeopathics, vitamins and foods that have anti pain and anti inflammatory properties.

    Check it out. Just an intro; ginger is one of those…

    All about berries and ginger; healing foods and herbs; via A Green Road Blog
    http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/all-about-berries-and-ginger-healing.html


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  • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
    May 22, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    The Best Natural Anti-inflammatories & Pain Relievers; via A Green Road Blog
    http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/best-natural-anti-inflammatories-pain.html


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  • Tumrgrwer Tumrgrwer
    May 22, 2012 at 2:49 pm

    Thanks for this AGR, have tried so many things it makes my head swim. If one wants to be nearly free of pain and have a somewhat clear head, it's best to go natural. If that doesnt' work one has to do what one has to do to get out of pain. Spleenectomy, 5 metatarsals removed from R foot, R knee dislocated, 5 lower back procedures culminating in ss implants, 3 level fusion of neck with titanium, 4 shoulder surgeries, resection of pancreas tumor, resection of R lung tumor, resection of liver and kidney tumor and and the list goes on. Sorry to bore, but when it comes to pain…there are no magic remedies. What works for some may make others sick.

    Bleep, please keep your head up, please, please help keep us informed.


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    • What-About-The-Kids
      May 22, 2012 at 3:44 pm

      Tumrgrwer, what a fighter you are! I am simply amazed to hear about all you have endured and yet, you keep on ticking, as the saying goes. :-) You are an amazing example of our body's resiliency, and ability to endure a whole heck of a lot.

      Geesh, the next time I find myself complaining about some relatively minor ailment, feeling sorry for myself, I will think of you and your amazing endurance, and think twice before I complain again… ;-)

      Keep up the good fight! You are an inspiration! :-)


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    • bleep_hits_blades
      May 22, 2012 at 3:49 pm

      Tumrgrwer, wow, you have been through SO much! See, that is what I can't & won't do. I don't like doctors & hospitals. It's not really a heart-pounding phobia, but it tends to keep me out of doctors' offices & hospitals.

      You weren't boring at all – thanks for sharing what you have been through.

      AGRoad – I am pretty sure none of the things you mention would touch this pain. It is so bad that even the Vicodin won't touch it when I try to get up & move around – do a bit of housework, try to ride my bike a couple blocks to the store, & pain returns.

      So thanks AGR & Cindy for your suggestions, but this is a heavy- duty kind of situation I've got going & these more natural pain relievers just don't impact it at all – in fact I am 'getting my affairs in order' in terms of leaving what I have to my son, etc. because I think I am seriously ill.

      At this point I'm OK with that & pretty much 'prepared to meet my Maker' – more prepared to do that than go thru what you, Tumrgrwer, have been thru with the medical establishment – but am not in a hurry to exit this plane of existence – as long as I can control the pain. What I want to do is take pain meds & continue with my life for as long as it lasts (which I don't think is going to be very long, whether I do or don't go see a doctor).

      Frankly, the rad. poisoning of the globe & of me personally (age 68), has been/continues to be such that I think my prognosis is not good.(I live in Hawaii).


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      • Tumrgrwer Tumrgrwer
        May 23, 2012 at 1:50 am

        bleep in Hawaii, let me have a couple doctors names and maybe I can get my pain specialist to help me get him some imformation about pain and the results. Without this medicine, (Avinza), I would be a goner long before now. It works wonders and who cares if we get hooked, the big pharmas have been trying to do that to all of us anyway. At our age, your 10 years older sir, we should not have do deal with doctors worrying about people like us selling our medicne on the street to make ends meet instead of taking it. That is their big concern you know, selling it and getting someone dead. The Avinza is very expensive, I can only aford it due to a settlement with an insurance company and I should be able to get it for life. Oxy contin is no good,It never seemed to work on the pain, just makes you high as a kite, in my opinion, nearly killed me trying to get off the crap. It is very addictive, ungodly addictive nothing like coming down from the real morphine stuff. If nothing else try MS contin, it's a timed released tab also but shorter duration than the Avinza but doesn't cost nearly as much. My daughter is flying over next month for a quick vacation, hope she dosen't get to radiated cause she won't listen to pops.


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  • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
    May 22, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    One strategy in war is to combine forces and powers into a holistic program, addressing multiple items and multiple layers; physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, etc.

    Trying one thing at a time is a recipe for failure.

    It is like an army that is up against a superior force of men, and all of them are attacking. Playing defense just does not work.

    Sometimes one has to call in reinforcements and call up the allies and go at 'the enemy' with a lot of things, all at the same time.

    Each thing matters, but the holistic picture is what makes the difference.

    Start small, and keep adding on modalities until success appears.

    The tide of battle can turn on the smallest of things, once the balance of powers is reached.

    There is always hope. Never give up.


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    • Tumrgrwer Tumrgrwer
      May 23, 2012 at 1:55 am

      Thanks again AGR, you are on top of it. Just love your blog by the way. "There is always hope. Never give up." I love that one, I blame it on my 5 kids and 7 grand kids. As long as I'm breathing, there will be hope! After that the aura can take over.


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  • ChasAha ChasAha
    May 22, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    At the end of last summer (2011) I reported here about dieing birds, sickly/runt cats and an apparent increase in snakes. I live in the Sierra Mountain Foothills of Central California.

    Now (2012) at the beginning of summer the number of snakes has yet again increased in my opinion.

    I am not a biologist nor an animal researcher. But I do have a keen ability to observe and I would say there is no doubt that a MAJOR uptick in the snake population is apparent. Crushed snakes are literally littering the roads.

    My basic theory would be that dieing birds and rodents or aborted births add to the snake population's diet. Thus adding, at least for now, to the overall increase in the number of snakes.


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  • PhilipUpNorth philipupnorth
    May 22, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    Sometimes I just have to pause and reflect on how courageous some of the people who contribute to ENEnews on a daily basis are. You guys simply knock my socks off. (Oxycodone works for the pain my Mother goes through. Mother is 97, and has bone on bone joint pain in arms and legs.) Really, you guys are the boss. Sending hugs and best wishes. Many thanks for all you do here. :)


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  • bleep_hits_blades
    May 22, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    Thanks to all of you for your thoughts & suggestions & good wishes. I've been into natural foods most of my adult life, avoided Big Pharma and their drugs that always have harmful side-effects. In fact I've been a bit preachy about it, self-righteous, the whole trip.

    But now they are what stand between me and 24-hour-a-day misery.

    I've learned some new names – Avinza, Oxycontin, Vicodin – learned I need something for 'moderate to severe pain'… but no one will prescribe them for me.

    Really what difference does it make at my age and declining health if I do get hooked?

    I don't get it.

    Anyway, thanks for the information, and for telling your stories, and for the kind words and sympathy. When you're hurting, kind words really do help.


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  • ironysteele ironysteele
    May 23, 2012 at 3:03 am

    again, try the rumafan. all natural. look it up, ive never seen a bad thing writen about it by those taking it. of course the med doctors say you should take the hard stuff. i was on methotoxitrate. got so violently ill i thought i was going to die. it makes you get cirosis, but they claim your quality of life was better, (before it kills you). i take no aspirin no prescription meds, just the rumafan. (sometimes a little pot, but mainly for fun). i was ready to die, now i feel fantastic again. i am 48.


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  • Mission Mission
    May 23, 2012 at 6:58 am

    I hang here reading daily on this forum.
    I am 55 and suffering from a number of medical issues. Autoimmune disease..i.e., Lupus, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue. Been off big Phrama now four years. …
    I find help with the joint and body pain in a number of places.
    Meditation, listening to new age music. Taking long hot baths.
    And smoking Cannabis.
    My ulcerated stomach cares not for any kind of pills. Brings a sharp bolt of pain like a sword inserted through my left abdomen.
    MJ does help, in the sense that it puts the pain in the next room and at least I am not staring it in the face.
    Eating well and making careful choices with moderate exercise helps too.
    But whatever works for each of us matters the most.
    I thank you all for the suggestions you post. I read them carefully.


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