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Clay Shirky explains what these bills actually represent.

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Coded for destruction

Rise of the machine digital control. Arbitrary code bombarding the brain stem and frontal cortex. Your thoughts preprogrammed, your actions recorded for future processing. Computer Algorithms shaping our minds and decisions made at the speed of light.

This is not a sc-fi movie plot. Maybe it was, maybe it is, maybe it will be. For now, it is How algorithms shape our world by Kevin Slavin.

Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for — and increasingly controlled by — algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can’t understand, with implications we can’t control.

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The Big “C”

It is getting many of my friends. Dog got it way back in the mid 90′s. It (or probably the Chemo) killed him. Elmo got it and is fighting it with Chemo and the latest update is that his tumor has shrunk. Jen, my buddy, died from a brain tumor that THC heals, but she didn’t have that option. My Mom’s friend (and new friend to me) Ruth has it.

I have many friends and relatives who have or had cancer: some live and some died.

But what is it and why do we have it on earth?

Abnormal Angiogenesis is the culprit and the hallmark of every type of cancer. We will all, 100% of us, experience microscopic cancer cells within our lives (especially if we live to be around 70). Many of us will have these small cancers well before then. But, we may never develop a mass of cancerous cells UNLESS angiogenesis occurs (the body’s ability to make blood vessels that feed the cancer). If we stop angiogenesis, we stop the cancer. Here is a very good description of the details of how and why:

Mr William Li tells us that it is not enough to use angiogenesis to stop cancers that are already surviving and growing in our body, but the best way is to stop the blood vessels in the first place. But how? Of course, via nutrition. Dr Mercola explains it even further, then adds this very important information about vitamin D:

It’s virtually impossible to discuss cancer prevention today without discussing vitamin D, as the scientific evidence of its anti-cancerous benefits is truly impressive.

For example, intake of vitamin D3 and calcium could potentially prevent 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer annually in the United States and Canada, according to a complex computer prediction model.

This model also predicted that 75 percent of deaths from these cancers could be prevented with adequate intake of vitamin D3 and calcium.

Theories linking vitamin D to certain cancers have been tested and confirmed in more than 200 epidemiological studies, and understanding of its physiological basis stems from more than 2,500 laboratory studies, according to epidemiologist Cedric Garland, DrPH, professor of family and preventive medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Dr. Garland is widely regarded as the leading epidemiologist on vitamin D and its relation to health. He led one of the latest studies on vitamin D for cancer prevention and proposed a new model of cancer development — dubbed DINOMIT– that is centered on a loss of cancer cells’ ability to stick together.

The model is a departure from the older model of cancer development, which centers on genetic mutations as the earliest driving forces behind cancer. According to Dr. Garland:

“The first event in cancer is loss of communication among cells due to, among other things, low vitamin D and calcium levels. In this new model, we propose that this loss may play a key role in cancer by disrupting the communication between cells that is essential to healthy cell turnover, allowing more aggressive cancer cells to take over.”

So clearly, no cancer prevention plan is complete without this simple lifestyle modification.

Normalizing your vitamin D levels with safe amounts of sun exposure is one of the most effective, and least expensive, strategies that is available to most people. Ideally, you’ll want to monitor your vitamin D levels to make sure your levels stay within a therapeutic range year-round.

Here are several additional strategies you can incorporate to virtually eliminate your cancer risk:

1. Control your insulin levels by limiting your intake of processed foods and sugars as much as possible.
2. Get appropriate amounts of animal-based omega-3 fats.
3. Exercise. One of the primary reasons exercise works is that it drives your insulin levels down. Controlling insulin levels is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your cancer risks.
4. Have a tool to permanently erase the neurological short-circuiting that can activate cancer genes. Even the CDC states that 85 percent of disease is caused by emotions. It is likely that this factor may be more important than all the other physical ones listed here, so make sure this is addressed. My particular favorite tool for this purpose, as you may know, is the Emotional Freedom Technique.
5. Only 25 percent of people eat enough vegetables, so by all means eat as many vegetables as you are comfortable with. Ideally, they should be fresh and organic. However, please understand that, frequently, fresh conventionally grown vegetables are healthier than organic ones that are older and wilted in the grocery store. They are certainly better than no vegetables at all, so don’t use that as an excuse. If you are a carb nutritional type you may need up to 300 percent more vegetables than a protein nutritional type.
6. Maintain an ideal body weight.
7. Get enough high-quality sleep.
8. Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners and air pollution.
9. Boil, poach or steam your foods, rather than frying or charbroiling them.

Obviously, the best approach to cancer is to avoid it in the first place. Good diet, sleep, and certain minor changes in lifestyle can help avoid cancers. But what if much of the food you have access to is some of the main culprits in the cause? What if cancer cells feed on fructose (which is sugar, especially the refined stuff, and most especially the high fructose corn syrup found in virtually everything, including breads and soft drinks, etc)?

WASHINGTON — Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.

Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.

They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.

“These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation,” Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote.

“They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to reduce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated actions may disrupt cancer growth.”

Cool. So avoiding sugars, especially refined sugars like the mess they put in cokes and bread is a way to limit the ability of these cancers to form and grow. And this is something my family has been doing for a while, although getting it ALL out is virtually impossible, if you ever buy anything at the grocery store or at a fast food restaurant.

Now, something that is extremely interesting and seems to bolster this idea about added sugars, is a recent study that found that researchers cannot find cancer in ancient humans or dinosaurs. Meaning that cancers are a relatively recent phenomena (the Greeks first knew of cancers over 2,000 years ago), but it was relatively obscure. The rapid rates we see now can conceivably be connected to the food and nutrition of today’s man. Read the words of Professor Rosalie David in the following UK Mail Online article:

Cancer ‘is purely man-made’ say scientists after finding almost no trace of disease in Egyptian mummies

‘In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare.

‘There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.

‘The important thing about our study is that it gives a historical perspective to this disease. We can make very clear statements on the cancer rates in societies because we have a full overview. We have looked at millennia, not one hundred years, and have masses of data.

‘Yet again extensive ancient Egyptian data, along with other data from across the millennia, has given modern society a clear message – cancer is man-made and something that we can and should address.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1320507/Cancer-purely-man-say-scientists-finding-trace-disease-Egyptian-mummies.html#ixzz12zUUJ63Z

So, cancer was relatively unknown back before the industrial age and the age that we started this insane diet that we now embark upon. It gets worse the more of the refined sugars and bad nutrition are attributed. But, many of us are growing older and have a lifetime of consuming this crap. Is it too late? What if we get cancer? What should we do?

Elmo is getting Chemo and it seems to work. But, in many cases, this is not the case. I want to present the following movie, especially for my friend Ed at Not Another CONspiracy. Ed’s sister is extremely sick and near death. She is scared and I understand that fear. Her only recourse is additional chemo which could likely kill her, for much of that stuff is toxic and as I explained earlier, is what I believe got Dog many years ago.

That is just part 1 of 13 and well worth every minute. Please watch the entire series. I loved this film for its information and hope.

You can find the entire playlist here:

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I want to add that the “sick care industry” wants you sick. You MUST understand this simple point. If you aren’t sick, they make no money. To this end, we must always realize that there is a profit motive to keep people eating this crap… not only for the food manufacturers that cut corners and save money using less than healthy ingredients, but there is an undeniably HIGH profit motive in the so-called “health care industry”.

I can attest to this simply from my last visit to my doctor (which has now been over 6 months). There, I ask the Nurse practitioner if diet and exercise could help my blood pressure and lose weight? This person is MUCH larger than I was at the time and basically told me that it might help, but medications would help also.

See how that works?

If these people actually understood the body and how it uses nutrition to fight illness, that story would be what I preach to you now.

But that is NOT, by and large, what the health care industry is interested in. Cause if I get healthy and have no reason to go see them, they make no money.

This ain’t rocket science, you know?

Now, I wonder if this could also be the prime issue with MANY of our diseases like Alzheimer’s, etc? Could we stop many of the debilitating diseases simply by diet, nutrition and exercise?

(Oh, and don’t be freaked out over a coffee enema… I have had barium shoved up my hiney, so there)

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