The article below came from Health Optimization and Wellness report which comes from Dr. Buttar's office. It provides a good explanation of why the masses are continually poisoned by mainstream cancer treatments.
Alternative Versus Traditional Cancer Treatments
by Joni Bell
The reason alternative cancer treatments are not more widely known has little to do with their alleged therapeutic ineffectiveness and far more to do with political control and the therapy marketplace.
Many of the treatments are on the “unproven methods of cancer management” list maintained by the American Cancer Society which is, effectively, a “blacklist”.
Medical doctors will know little if anything at all about alternative cancer treatments for a number of reasons.
Medical schools don’t teach alternative treatments and medical journals rarely contain articles about alternative treatments. Medical journals are published for the allopathic establishment, and they are mostly financed by advertisements from pharmaceutical companies. Doctors receive a lot of negative information about alternative treatments from the American Medical Association (AMA) and the pharmaceutical industry.
Internet “Quackwatches” and so forth decry alternative therapies even when there is contradictory evidence to their effectiveness plus their state medical boards may fine them heavily, suspend their license to practice or even revoke it.
The American Cancer Society (ACS), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other Government cancer bodies will not investigate or promote alternative treatments. If your doctor prescribes treatments that are not FDA approved, he or she can be sued or lose their license. A medical doctor can only prescribe treatments that are Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved. Their state medical boards may fine them heavily, suspend their license to practice or even revoke it.
The federal government can close them down and confiscate their property and they may lose their right to see patients in hospitals not to mention other doctors/peers openly ridicule and criticize them. It is no wonder your doctor will not know or tell you about alternative cancer treatments, because they could literally lose everything they have and worked for their whole lives.
There are many alternative treatments for cancer that will not provide Big Pharma a single penny of revenue, much less profits. This means these same treatments will not provide the media with a single penny of revenue. Guess which treatments the media pushes?
There is a war going on in medicine today; a war between orthodox medicine and alternative medicine. The war is being fought with money and information. The war is to control what you know, and don’t know, about cancer treatments. When a new discovery is made, it comes down to the profitablity. If there is no profit, the treatment is buried.
Find a natural substance that cures something, bury this fact, then fabricate, synthesize, and mutate the key natural substance, then patent the mutation, and make huge profits.
That is why there is “no scientific evidence” for alternative treatments, no one is looking, because they cannot be patented and thus are not profitable enough. The reason there is no official “scientific evidence” for alternative cancer treatments and cancer prevention treatments is that they are not highly profitable to Big Pharma. It is impossible, by law, for a substance to be considered to have “scientific evidence” unless Big Pharma submits it to the FDA, and they will only submit things that are very, very profitable to them.
To the cancer establishment, a cancer patient is a profit center. The actual clinical and scientific evidence does not support the claims of the cancer industry. Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best. Decades of the politics-of-cancer-as-usual have kept you from knowing this, and will continue to do so unless we wake up to their reality.
Joni Bell has many years of extensive study in the area of natural cancer prevention and treatment. He has numerous success stories of people being diagnosed living cancer free with use of alternative methods
Friday, December 10, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
DONE BY CHRISTMAS
The last 6 or 7 weeks have been difficult but things are definitely looking up. The wounds from the previous two surgeries are starting to heal up nicely. The former melanoma sight is actually starting to look like skin. Although it still probably has a few weeks to heal, it actually looks like it may look like a leg again at some point. I have been up and walking for a little over a week now, slowly improving daily. Today was the first day I was able to exercise since the day of the first surgery, October 18. Long time for me!
The plan was to come back to Charlotte and finish up what was hopefully the last month of treatments. The melanoma was successfully removed, but there was concern about the cancer possibly spreading from the surgery, especially since the immune system can be weakened during surgery and from time spent in the hospital. I started back at Dr. Buttar's office last Tuesday. I was feeling very run down this time last week. I had been stuck on bed rest for almost 6 weeks, 2 surgeries did a number on me as well as being stuck on painkillers I wanted no part of for 2 or 3 weeks. After Tuesday at Buttar's I felt much better. The IV treatments did wonders for me. I was surprised at how quickly my energy levels came back. Unbelievable stuff! I was given the first of the final AARSOTA shot last Tuesday. The doctor and I talked about this previously and he decided it was best to go ahead with the round of shots although I thought they were unnecessary( probably because I was feeling so run down, a large needle in the ass and possible reaction were not all that appealing at the time). His rational was that if things had spread, they would be relatively small and weak and now would be the time to turn up the immune system on high alert and get rid of it once and for all. He said that if I had no reaction to the AARSOTA shot that meant there was nothing for the immune system to fight, meaning that there is not a hint of cancer left in the my body.
I had no reaction whatsoever! Great news!! I knew in my heart that after the surgery was performed that any trace of cancer was gone, although it was nice to have it confirmed by the doctor!
The plan is to go two days per week for the next three weeks to finish up the last 3 AARSOTA shots then be done. Possibly a maintenance program every two weeks to once every month for a little while to keep the body in good working order. By Christmas I should be done with all of this once and for all!!!!!!
A little side not to this story. I was at home last weekend packing up to come down to Charlotte to start treatment again. Nurse Johnna came up to drive me back to Charlotte and was staying the weekend. She was looking through the book shelves in my dad's living room and pulled the book ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT the Seven Stages of Power and Healing by Caroline Miss from the shelf. Johnna commented what a great book it was and asked me dad whose it was. He told us that it was my mothers book. I swear I have looked through this bookshelf literally hundreds of times and never saw this book. These particular shelves are not that big. This is a book I would have remembered seeing. At the time it was no big deal, but I decided to take it back to Charlotte and read it while at Dr. Buttar's office. I get back to Buttar's and started reading it. (It is a fantastic book and I would recommend anyone reading it, especially if faced with some type of illness.)
I am reading the book on Tuesday and I notice that there are scribbled lines throughout the book. I paged through the book and noticed them throughout, often times at parts that seemed relevant to what I was going through at the moment. I wasn't sure where these lines had come from. It looked like a young child or someone very drunk was doing the underlining. It struck my as very strange, but I forgot about it until the next day when I was back reading at Buttar's office. I was getting the AARSOTA shot that day and was a bit nervous. This was really a make or break day for me. If I had no reaction to the shot, I was done, if there were some sort of reaction I may have to continue treatments. It was a bit of a stressful day for me. I began reading again and it dawned on me where the scribbles had come from. My mother had been reading this book some 10-12 years ago while she was going through cancer treatments as well. (For those of you who don't know the story of my mother, the lines were scribbled because she had brain surgery and lost some of the function of her writing hand. She had trouble writing amongst other things, but she never gave up on anything!) It hit me like a ton of bricks, she was reading the very same material I was at that critical moment in my life more than a decade ago and the message in the book could not have been more fitting. After the initial shock and sadness thinking about her not being around, I felt an overwhelming sense of calm I have never felt in my life. I knew at that moment, that the cancer was gone for good. Before she died she told all of us she would be with us always, I could not think of a moment I needed her more and she responded. Truly amazing!!!!! The events that lead me to seek out a better way than the outdated, barbaric cancer treatment mostly available today seem like a bizarre series of very random events, although I know better. Things really do happen for a reason!!!!!!
These are two of the sentences she had underlined more than a decade ago.
" Release the need to know why things happen as they do, and to trust that whatever the reason is, it is a part of a grander spiritual design."
"Let me know what I am able to know and trust that behind all events, no matter how painful, there is a reason from which all good can come"
This may seem like a coincidence to some, a miracle to others. The piece of mind and the connection I felt to my mother at that point was truly amazing. I felt she was sitting next to me letting me know life is just beginning!
The plan was to come back to Charlotte and finish up what was hopefully the last month of treatments. The melanoma was successfully removed, but there was concern about the cancer possibly spreading from the surgery, especially since the immune system can be weakened during surgery and from time spent in the hospital. I started back at Dr. Buttar's office last Tuesday. I was feeling very run down this time last week. I had been stuck on bed rest for almost 6 weeks, 2 surgeries did a number on me as well as being stuck on painkillers I wanted no part of for 2 or 3 weeks. After Tuesday at Buttar's I felt much better. The IV treatments did wonders for me. I was surprised at how quickly my energy levels came back. Unbelievable stuff! I was given the first of the final AARSOTA shot last Tuesday. The doctor and I talked about this previously and he decided it was best to go ahead with the round of shots although I thought they were unnecessary( probably because I was feeling so run down, a large needle in the ass and possible reaction were not all that appealing at the time). His rational was that if things had spread, they would be relatively small and weak and now would be the time to turn up the immune system on high alert and get rid of it once and for all. He said that if I had no reaction to the AARSOTA shot that meant there was nothing for the immune system to fight, meaning that there is not a hint of cancer left in the my body.
I had no reaction whatsoever! Great news!! I knew in my heart that after the surgery was performed that any trace of cancer was gone, although it was nice to have it confirmed by the doctor!
The plan is to go two days per week for the next three weeks to finish up the last 3 AARSOTA shots then be done. Possibly a maintenance program every two weeks to once every month for a little while to keep the body in good working order. By Christmas I should be done with all of this once and for all!!!!!!
A little side not to this story. I was at home last weekend packing up to come down to Charlotte to start treatment again. Nurse Johnna came up to drive me back to Charlotte and was staying the weekend. She was looking through the book shelves in my dad's living room and pulled the book ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT the Seven Stages of Power and Healing by Caroline Miss from the shelf. Johnna commented what a great book it was and asked me dad whose it was. He told us that it was my mothers book. I swear I have looked through this bookshelf literally hundreds of times and never saw this book. These particular shelves are not that big. This is a book I would have remembered seeing. At the time it was no big deal, but I decided to take it back to Charlotte and read it while at Dr. Buttar's office. I get back to Buttar's and started reading it. (It is a fantastic book and I would recommend anyone reading it, especially if faced with some type of illness.)
I am reading the book on Tuesday and I notice that there are scribbled lines throughout the book. I paged through the book and noticed them throughout, often times at parts that seemed relevant to what I was going through at the moment. I wasn't sure where these lines had come from. It looked like a young child or someone very drunk was doing the underlining. It struck my as very strange, but I forgot about it until the next day when I was back reading at Buttar's office. I was getting the AARSOTA shot that day and was a bit nervous. This was really a make or break day for me. If I had no reaction to the shot, I was done, if there were some sort of reaction I may have to continue treatments. It was a bit of a stressful day for me. I began reading again and it dawned on me where the scribbles had come from. My mother had been reading this book some 10-12 years ago while she was going through cancer treatments as well. (For those of you who don't know the story of my mother, the lines were scribbled because she had brain surgery and lost some of the function of her writing hand. She had trouble writing amongst other things, but she never gave up on anything!) It hit me like a ton of bricks, she was reading the very same material I was at that critical moment in my life more than a decade ago and the message in the book could not have been more fitting. After the initial shock and sadness thinking about her not being around, I felt an overwhelming sense of calm I have never felt in my life. I knew at that moment, that the cancer was gone for good. Before she died she told all of us she would be with us always, I could not think of a moment I needed her more and she responded. Truly amazing!!!!! The events that lead me to seek out a better way than the outdated, barbaric cancer treatment mostly available today seem like a bizarre series of very random events, although I know better. Things really do happen for a reason!!!!!!
These are two of the sentences she had underlined more than a decade ago.
" Release the need to know why things happen as they do, and to trust that whatever the reason is, it is a part of a grander spiritual design."
"Let me know what I am able to know and trust that behind all events, no matter how painful, there is a reason from which all good can come"
This may seem like a coincidence to some, a miracle to others. The piece of mind and the connection I felt to my mother at that point was truly amazing. I felt she was sitting next to me letting me know life is just beginning!
Monday, November 15, 2010
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP CELL PHONE RADIATION GUIDE
Cell phone radiation is a fairly new thing in today's modern world. Today, everyone has a cell phone, young children included. I don't think we will truly know the effects for another ten or twenty years. Until then, it is better to be on the safe side.
Anything that emits radiation is potentially dangerous and therefore should be handled with care. Cell phones are no different. I am sure the cell phone industry is doing their best to spread lies and misinformation about the potential dangers. Common sense tells me that holding a cell phone that emits radiation that close to the brain is bound to cause problems. This list may be helpful to limit radiation exposure as much as possible.
EWG’s Guide to Reduce Cell Phone Radiation Exposure
Cell phones emit radiation to send voice and text messages to the other caller. Health risks aren’t confirmed, but some (not all) studies of frequent cell phone users suggest increased risks for brain and mouth tumors and children’s behavior problems.
To be on the safe side, follow the tips below to reduce exposures.
1. BUY A LOW-RADIATION PHONE
Look up your phone on EWG’s buyer’s guide. (Your phone's model number may be printed under your battery.) Consider replacing your phone with one that emits the lowest radiation possible and still meets your needs.
2. USE A HEADSET OR SPEAKER
Headsets emit much less radiation than phones. Choose either wired or wireless (experts are split on which version is safer) using our cell phone headset guide. Some wireless headsets emit continuous, low-level radiation, so take yours off your ear when you're not on a call. Using your phone in speaker mode also reduces radiation to the head.
3. LISTEN MORE, TALK LESS
Your phone emits radiation when you talk or text, but not when you're receiving messages. Listening more and talking less reduces your exposures.
4. HOLD PHONE AWAY FROM YOUR BODY
Hold the phone away from your torso when you're talking (with headset or speaker), not against your ear, in a pocket, or on your belt where soft body tissues absorb radiation.
5. CHOOSE TEXTING OVER TALKING
Phones use less power (less radiation) to send text than voice. And unlike when you speak with the phone at your ear, texting keeps radiation away from your head.
6. POOR SIGNAL? STAY OFF THE PHONE
Fewer signal bars on your phone means that it emits more radiation to get the signal to the tower. Make and take calls when your phone has a strong signal.
7. LIMIT CHILDREN’S PHONE USE
Young children’s brains absorb twice the cell phone radiation as an adult’s. EWG joins health agencies in at least 6 countries in recommending limits for children’s phone use, such as for emergency situations only.
8. SKIP THE “RADIATION SHIELD”
Radiation shields such as antenna caps or keypad covers reduce the connection quality and force the phone to transmit at a higher power with higher radiation
Anything that emits radiation is potentially dangerous and therefore should be handled with care. Cell phones are no different. I am sure the cell phone industry is doing their best to spread lies and misinformation about the potential dangers. Common sense tells me that holding a cell phone that emits radiation that close to the brain is bound to cause problems. This list may be helpful to limit radiation exposure as much as possible.
EWG’s Guide to Reduce Cell Phone Radiation Exposure
Cell phones emit radiation to send voice and text messages to the other caller. Health risks aren’t confirmed, but some (not all) studies of frequent cell phone users suggest increased risks for brain and mouth tumors and children’s behavior problems.
To be on the safe side, follow the tips below to reduce exposures.
1. BUY A LOW-RADIATION PHONE
Look up your phone on EWG’s buyer’s guide. (Your phone's model number may be printed under your battery.) Consider replacing your phone with one that emits the lowest radiation possible and still meets your needs.
2. USE A HEADSET OR SPEAKER
Headsets emit much less radiation than phones. Choose either wired or wireless (experts are split on which version is safer) using our cell phone headset guide. Some wireless headsets emit continuous, low-level radiation, so take yours off your ear when you're not on a call. Using your phone in speaker mode also reduces radiation to the head.
3. LISTEN MORE, TALK LESS
Your phone emits radiation when you talk or text, but not when you're receiving messages. Listening more and talking less reduces your exposures.
4. HOLD PHONE AWAY FROM YOUR BODY
Hold the phone away from your torso when you're talking (with headset or speaker), not against your ear, in a pocket, or on your belt where soft body tissues absorb radiation.
5. CHOOSE TEXTING OVER TALKING
Phones use less power (less radiation) to send text than voice. And unlike when you speak with the phone at your ear, texting keeps radiation away from your head.
6. POOR SIGNAL? STAY OFF THE PHONE
Fewer signal bars on your phone means that it emits more radiation to get the signal to the tower. Make and take calls when your phone has a strong signal.
7. LIMIT CHILDREN’S PHONE USE
Young children’s brains absorb twice the cell phone radiation as an adult’s. EWG joins health agencies in at least 6 countries in recommending limits for children’s phone use, such as for emergency situations only.
8. SKIP THE “RADIATION SHIELD”
Radiation shields such as antenna caps or keypad covers reduce the connection quality and force the phone to transmit at a higher power with higher radiation
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP PESTICIDE GUIDE
http://static.foodnews.org/pdf/2010-foodnews-data.pdf
The link above is the Environmental Working Group's data on pesticides on fruits and vegetables consumed in this country. I have provided other lists similar but this is by far the most comprehensive list I have seen. This is the most thorough chart in regards to the number of pesticides used per fruit/vegetable, how many pesticides were used on the entire commodity, pesticides in parts per million found on the fruit/ vegetable etc...
This list is insane! Celery was found to have the most pesticides used. The samples tested were found to have 13 different pesticides. Eating 13 different pesticides is suicide. Many pesticides tested on their own have been linked to many health problems in humans. However, it is nearly impossible for anyone to tell the harmful effects of mixing 13 different pesticides and the danger it poses to the human body.
Strawberries and peaches were also amongst the fruits and veggies with the highest pesticide content. Stay away from all non organic fruits and veggies that are high on the list at all cost. Eating these is like sprinkling rat poison on your food before eating to add flavor.( 13 different rat poisons for some tested) Fruits and vegetables with the lowest amount of pesticides are asparagus and onions. This is a useful list to use when choosing to buy organic or non organic. Obviously buying organic as much as possible is ideal. This list includes all NON organic fruits and vegetables. These pesticides are not found on organic crops. Pass this list along. I often hear the arguement that organic foods are much more expensive and not worth the price. Prevention is much cheaper than treatment for serious disease!
The link above is the Environmental Working Group's data on pesticides on fruits and vegetables consumed in this country. I have provided other lists similar but this is by far the most comprehensive list I have seen. This is the most thorough chart in regards to the number of pesticides used per fruit/vegetable, how many pesticides were used on the entire commodity, pesticides in parts per million found on the fruit/ vegetable etc...
This list is insane! Celery was found to have the most pesticides used. The samples tested were found to have 13 different pesticides. Eating 13 different pesticides is suicide. Many pesticides tested on their own have been linked to many health problems in humans. However, it is nearly impossible for anyone to tell the harmful effects of mixing 13 different pesticides and the danger it poses to the human body.
Strawberries and peaches were also amongst the fruits and veggies with the highest pesticide content. Stay away from all non organic fruits and veggies that are high on the list at all cost. Eating these is like sprinkling rat poison on your food before eating to add flavor.( 13 different rat poisons for some tested) Fruits and vegetables with the lowest amount of pesticides are asparagus and onions. This is a useful list to use when choosing to buy organic or non organic. Obviously buying organic as much as possible is ideal. This list includes all NON organic fruits and vegetables. These pesticides are not found on organic crops. Pass this list along. I often hear the arguement that organic foods are much more expensive and not worth the price. Prevention is much cheaper than treatment for serious disease!
Sunday, November 14, 2010
OPT OUT OF BODY SCANNERS AT AIRPORTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many of you will be flying over the next month for the holidays. Some will be flying multiple times and I believe it is important to know the new health dangers at airports. Many of you have probably read in the news about the new TSA body scanners now being used at most major airports. There is a lot of controversy surrounding these devices. The machines expose you to very high levels of concentrated radiation which we already know is a major cause of cancer. Not to mention these machines seem to be very invasive. Do some research and make your own decision as to whether you want to walk through them. You have the option to opt out of it and be groped by a TSA agent instead. Many of the major airlines as well as pilot unions have urged their pilots to opt out of these because of the exposure to radiation. I would advise all of you to follow suit. Below is part of an article from the website prisonplanet.com talking about the dangers of the devices.
Airport body scanners could lead to an increase in skin cancers according to scientists at Columbia University, who warn that the dose emitted by the naked x-ray devices could be up to 20 times higher than originally estimated, in another clear example of how the scanners are completely illegal, dangerous to public health, and need to be removed immediately.
Dr David Brenner, head of Columbia University’s centre for radiological research, warns that children and people with gene mutations whose bodies are less able to repair damage to their DNA are most at risk.
“If all 800 million people who use airports every year were screened with X-rays then the very small individual risk multiplied by the large number of screened people might imply a potential public health or societal risk. The population risk has the potential to be significant,” said Brenner.
Brenner’s research shows that the scanners will likely contribute to an increase in a common type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma which affects the head and neck.
“If there are increases in cancers as a result of irradiation of children, they would most likely appear some decades in the future. It would be prudent not to scan the head and neck,” added Brenner.
Brenner has urged medical authorities to look at his work, pointing to the dangerous notion of mass scanning millions of people without proper oversight.
“There really is no other technology around where we’re planning to X-ray such an enormous number of individuals. It’s really unprecedented in the radiation world,” said Brenner.
Similar concerns to those explored in the Columbia University study were voiced back in February by the influential Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety, who warned in a report that the scanners increase the risk of cancer and birth defects and should not be used on pregnant women or children.
Despite governments claiming that backscatter x-ray systems produce radiation too low to pose a threat, the organization concluded in their report that governments must justify the use of the scanners and that a more accurate assessment of the health risks is needed.
Pregnant women and children should not be subject to scanning, according to the report, adding that governments should consider “other techniques to achieve the same end without the use of ionizing radiation.”
“The Committee cited the IAEA’s 1996 Basic Safety Standards agreement, drafted over three decades, that protects people from radiation. Frequent exposure to low doses of radiation can lead to cancer and birth defects, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,” reported Bloomberg.
In the United States, people can refuse the body scanner and opt for an aggressive and intrusive hand-search, but people traveling out of the UK and other areas of Europe don’t even get the choice – they are forced to go through the scanner if asked and cannot refuse or they are banned from traveling. Despite the media reporting universal acceptance of the scanners, in reality 600 formal complaints had been made about the devices in the first two months of their usage alone.
The alarming health concerns surrounding body scanners have been equaled by the shaky legality of the devices. In the UK, the scanners break child porn laws which forbid the production of indecent images of children, but the UK transport authorities have broken the law and mandated that children be required to pass through the machines.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) also wrote a letter to the UK government warning that the scanners broke privacy laws.
As we have highlighted, not only do the body scanners pose health risks but they also violate the fundamental human right of the innocent to be protected against strip-searches.
Despite official denials that the images produced by the devices show details of genitalia, journalists who have investigated trials of the technology have reported that details of sexual organs are “eerily visible”.
Indeed, as we have previously highlighted, when the scanners were first introduced at Australian airports in 2008 it was admitted that the X-ray backscatter devices don’t work properly unless the genitals of people going through them are visible. “It will show the private parts of people, but what we’ve decided is that we’re not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities,” said Melbourne Airport’s Office of Transport Security manager Cheryl Johnson.
Attempts to keep this under wraps by lying about the images produced are an effort to head off challenges to the legality of the devices. Historically, civil lawsuits where an individual has been strip searched by a member of the opposite sex have proven to be successful in North America.
Courts have consistently found that strip searches are only legal when performed on a person who has already been found guilty of a crime or on arrestees pending trial where a reasonable suspicion has to exist that they are carrying a weapon. Subjecting masses of people to blanket strip searches in airports reverses the very notion of innocent until proven guilty.
Barring people from flying and essentially treating them like terrorists for refusing to be humiliated by the virtual strip search is a clear breach of the basic human right of freedom of movement.
Several examples of airport security staff abusing the use of the devices have already come to light since their introduction earlier this year.
Indian film star Shahrukh Khan told a BBC talk show that naked images of his body from the scanner were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London. Heathrow denied the claim but Khan himself never retracted the story, and had no apparent motive for making it up.
Heathrow authorities were unable to deny a later example of the scanners being abused, when it emerged that a Heathrow worker had perved over a naked image of a female colleague after she passed through one of the devices, before commenting, “I love those gigantic tits”.
Jo Margetson, 29, reported John Laker, 25, to the police after she had entered the x-ray machine by mistake and Laker took the image before making lewd comments.
In Miami, a TSA worker in Miami attacked a colleague who had made fun of his small penis after he passed through a scanner device. The story again emphasized the fact that authorities were brazenly lying in claiming that the images produced by the devices did not show intimate details of genitalia.
Airport body scanners could lead to an increase in skin cancers according to scientists at Columbia University, who warn that the dose emitted by the naked x-ray devices could be up to 20 times higher than originally estimated, in another clear example of how the scanners are completely illegal, dangerous to public health, and need to be removed immediately.
Dr David Brenner, head of Columbia University’s centre for radiological research, warns that children and people with gene mutations whose bodies are less able to repair damage to their DNA are most at risk.
“If all 800 million people who use airports every year were screened with X-rays then the very small individual risk multiplied by the large number of screened people might imply a potential public health or societal risk. The population risk has the potential to be significant,” said Brenner.
Brenner’s research shows that the scanners will likely contribute to an increase in a common type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma which affects the head and neck.
“If there are increases in cancers as a result of irradiation of children, they would most likely appear some decades in the future. It would be prudent not to scan the head and neck,” added Brenner.
Brenner has urged medical authorities to look at his work, pointing to the dangerous notion of mass scanning millions of people without proper oversight.
“There really is no other technology around where we’re planning to X-ray such an enormous number of individuals. It’s really unprecedented in the radiation world,” said Brenner.
Similar concerns to those explored in the Columbia University study were voiced back in February by the influential Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety, who warned in a report that the scanners increase the risk of cancer and birth defects and should not be used on pregnant women or children.
Despite governments claiming that backscatter x-ray systems produce radiation too low to pose a threat, the organization concluded in their report that governments must justify the use of the scanners and that a more accurate assessment of the health risks is needed.
Pregnant women and children should not be subject to scanning, according to the report, adding that governments should consider “other techniques to achieve the same end without the use of ionizing radiation.”
“The Committee cited the IAEA’s 1996 Basic Safety Standards agreement, drafted over three decades, that protects people from radiation. Frequent exposure to low doses of radiation can lead to cancer and birth defects, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,” reported Bloomberg.
In the United States, people can refuse the body scanner and opt for an aggressive and intrusive hand-search, but people traveling out of the UK and other areas of Europe don’t even get the choice – they are forced to go through the scanner if asked and cannot refuse or they are banned from traveling. Despite the media reporting universal acceptance of the scanners, in reality 600 formal complaints had been made about the devices in the first two months of their usage alone.
The alarming health concerns surrounding body scanners have been equaled by the shaky legality of the devices. In the UK, the scanners break child porn laws which forbid the production of indecent images of children, but the UK transport authorities have broken the law and mandated that children be required to pass through the machines.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) also wrote a letter to the UK government warning that the scanners broke privacy laws.
As we have highlighted, not only do the body scanners pose health risks but they also violate the fundamental human right of the innocent to be protected against strip-searches.
Despite official denials that the images produced by the devices show details of genitalia, journalists who have investigated trials of the technology have reported that details of sexual organs are “eerily visible”.
Indeed, as we have previously highlighted, when the scanners were first introduced at Australian airports in 2008 it was admitted that the X-ray backscatter devices don’t work properly unless the genitals of people going through them are visible. “It will show the private parts of people, but what we’ve decided is that we’re not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities,” said Melbourne Airport’s Office of Transport Security manager Cheryl Johnson.
Attempts to keep this under wraps by lying about the images produced are an effort to head off challenges to the legality of the devices. Historically, civil lawsuits where an individual has been strip searched by a member of the opposite sex have proven to be successful in North America.
Courts have consistently found that strip searches are only legal when performed on a person who has already been found guilty of a crime or on arrestees pending trial where a reasonable suspicion has to exist that they are carrying a weapon. Subjecting masses of people to blanket strip searches in airports reverses the very notion of innocent until proven guilty.
Barring people from flying and essentially treating them like terrorists for refusing to be humiliated by the virtual strip search is a clear breach of the basic human right of freedom of movement.
Several examples of airport security staff abusing the use of the devices have already come to light since their introduction earlier this year.
Indian film star Shahrukh Khan told a BBC talk show that naked images of his body from the scanner were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London. Heathrow denied the claim but Khan himself never retracted the story, and had no apparent motive for making it up.
Heathrow authorities were unable to deny a later example of the scanners being abused, when it emerged that a Heathrow worker had perved over a naked image of a female colleague after she passed through one of the devices, before commenting, “I love those gigantic tits”.
Jo Margetson, 29, reported John Laker, 25, to the police after she had entered the x-ray machine by mistake and Laker took the image before making lewd comments.
In Miami, a TSA worker in Miami attacked a colleague who had made fun of his small penis after he passed through a scanner device. The story again emphasized the fact that authorities were brazenly lying in claiming that the images produced by the devices did not show intimate details of genitalia.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
RECOVERING FROM SURGERIES
It is time for an update, its been a little while. I am in the process of recovering from the two surgeries in the last few weeks. The first surgery was to remove the large legion on my leg. The surgery was done by Dr. J Raj who is the chief of plastic surgery at Fairview Hospital. The melanoma site was completely walled off to the rest of my body just as Dr. Buttar had predicted. There was no spreading to any other parts of the leg. Dr. Raj was initially concerned that the tumor had grown onto the tendon of my leg and that could pose a major problem. This was not the case, the surgeon said it could not have gone any better.
The surgery went well, although a much larger chunk of skin was taken than I had anticipated. I had a hole in my leg the size of a softball for about a week. Extremely painful!!!! Dr, Raj told me had I gone through the "traditional" treatment the area would have been at least twice the size. Having an open wound for a week on that part of your body was some of the worst pain I had ever experienced in my life!
After about a week of the wound being open, Dr. Raj went back in and performed a skin graph. The donor site was taken from my right thigh. The doctor compared the graph to a cheese grader. The skin that is taken off of the leg is so thin you can see through it if held up to a light. The wound from the donor site is a 5 by 10 inch rectangle which has a thin piece of gauze as dressing to cover it up and that is it. My right leg where the graph was given is in a half cast just below my knee. I have been totally immobilized since last Wednesday. I was instructed to not move at all. The graphed area is wrapped in a cast, as well as hooked up to a wound vac. The wound vac is a sponge attached to the wound with a tube connected to a little pump. The pump sucks out all of the drainage to expedite the healing process. The doctors and nurses have all raved that this can cut the healing time in half.
The doctor was very happy with the results of the second surgery as well. I have an appointment on Thursday to hopefully remove the splint and the wound vac and get back to some sort of normalcy. I am confidant that the process will continue to go in the direction we had initially anticipated and by Christmas of this year I will be free and clear of this nonsense forever. I am scheduled to go back to Dr. Buttar's clinic in the next month or so and get one last round of the AARSOTA shots as a precaution. He was concerned that any time you cut into something with cancer, it tends to spread. My immune system is back working properly so this will not be an issue but a worthwhile precaution to close out this process.
I will continue to update more in the near future. I have been in a lot of pain and taking a lot of pills ( which I tried to refuse until the pain came on) and have not felt much like typing. I appreciate all of the calls, e mails and texts. If I have not responded I apologize. These last few weeks have been difficult and talking has not been on the top of my list. I want to thank everyone who has been so helpful in the last few weeks. Lots of good food and love have come to the house and that has been a blessing. I want to thank all of my helpers, I am sure I have been a total pain in the ass and I sincerely appreciate all you have done!!!!!!!
Please take some of the information in the previous posts and put it to good use. This year has been totally crazy and I believe had I known what I know now I would not have had to have gone through all of this. Cancer is mostly preventable!!!!! Use the information wisely and don't let this happen to you. The crazy thing is the way I went is most likely much less physically taxing and probably much less painful than the traditional route and this has not been fun!!!!!
The surgery went well, although a much larger chunk of skin was taken than I had anticipated. I had a hole in my leg the size of a softball for about a week. Extremely painful!!!! Dr, Raj told me had I gone through the "traditional" treatment the area would have been at least twice the size. Having an open wound for a week on that part of your body was some of the worst pain I had ever experienced in my life!
After about a week of the wound being open, Dr. Raj went back in and performed a skin graph. The donor site was taken from my right thigh. The doctor compared the graph to a cheese grader. The skin that is taken off of the leg is so thin you can see through it if held up to a light. The wound from the donor site is a 5 by 10 inch rectangle which has a thin piece of gauze as dressing to cover it up and that is it. My right leg where the graph was given is in a half cast just below my knee. I have been totally immobilized since last Wednesday. I was instructed to not move at all. The graphed area is wrapped in a cast, as well as hooked up to a wound vac. The wound vac is a sponge attached to the wound with a tube connected to a little pump. The pump sucks out all of the drainage to expedite the healing process. The doctors and nurses have all raved that this can cut the healing time in half.
The doctor was very happy with the results of the second surgery as well. I have an appointment on Thursday to hopefully remove the splint and the wound vac and get back to some sort of normalcy. I am confidant that the process will continue to go in the direction we had initially anticipated and by Christmas of this year I will be free and clear of this nonsense forever. I am scheduled to go back to Dr. Buttar's clinic in the next month or so and get one last round of the AARSOTA shots as a precaution. He was concerned that any time you cut into something with cancer, it tends to spread. My immune system is back working properly so this will not be an issue but a worthwhile precaution to close out this process.
I will continue to update more in the near future. I have been in a lot of pain and taking a lot of pills ( which I tried to refuse until the pain came on) and have not felt much like typing. I appreciate all of the calls, e mails and texts. If I have not responded I apologize. These last few weeks have been difficult and talking has not been on the top of my list. I want to thank everyone who has been so helpful in the last few weeks. Lots of good food and love have come to the house and that has been a blessing. I want to thank all of my helpers, I am sure I have been a total pain in the ass and I sincerely appreciate all you have done!!!!!!!
Please take some of the information in the previous posts and put it to good use. This year has been totally crazy and I believe had I known what I know now I would not have had to have gone through all of this. Cancer is mostly preventable!!!!! Use the information wisely and don't let this happen to you. The crazy thing is the way I went is most likely much less physically taxing and probably much less painful than the traditional route and this has not been fun!!!!!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
ANOTHER CANCER LIE
I am dually pissed off about your doctor's ignorance on nutrition as well as the lies these large cancer organizations spread to raise money. I got an e mail from someone today trying to raise money for the Susan Komen raise to the cure. Honestly, I have not done a lot of research into their organization and cannot really comment about them as a whole. However, the e mail stated this in regards to breast cancer.....
Your breast health…
The greatest risk factors for breast cancer are being female and growing older. Breast cancer knows no boundary, be it age, gender, socio-economic status or geographic location. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. That's one in eight within your company, school and organization!
The key to survival is early detection. Three simple steps for early detection are regular mammograms, clinical exams and breast self-exams. And, remember, breast cancer affects more than just the patient; friends and family need support too.
I assume this is the company line from the organization. This is a complete fucking lie!!!!!!!!!!! " The greatest risk factors for breast canccer are being female and growing older." What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The greatest risk for getting cancer is neither of these. Healthy women who stay away from toxic chemicals and poison, chemical laiden foods, drink clean water, exercise and have a healthy outlook on life do not get cancer. These organizations use fear to raise money. "If you are a women, you have a great chance of getting breast cancer, there is nothing you can do but hope you dont get it." This is a fear tactic which is obviously working wonderfully.
These organizations are often times fronts for the pharmaceutical and medical scanning industies to scare women into gettting unnecessary and often cancer causing procedures. They do nothing to educate the public on what causes cancer ( contrary to what they say, the causes of cancer are very evident) and how to protect yourself. All these organizations ever talk about is screenings, which are extremely profitable and often times expose women to unnecessary amounts of radiation( another cancer causer). Then, once the screenings find cancer, they push you to these " miracle" drugs that usually destroy any quality of life. Breast cancer is completely preventable, yet these organizations never promote this. Any organization that is not about proper education has some alterior motive. Educate yourself, stop listening to these bullshit fundraising giants talking about how they are so close to stamping out cancer. The way to stamp out cancer is to stop using poison products and force these large companies to stop making them.
Cancer will disappear when the public is educated enough to stop polluting their bodies and we force the big companies to stop polluting our water supplies. Do not sit back and be a victim and hope you dont get cancer. Being proactive is the only way to stamp out cancer, pumping billions of dollars to "charity" organizations has not, and will not work!!!!!!!!
I see these big cancer walks and see these women who are "survivors" and feel sickened knowing many of them will not survive more than five years. They are often uneducated to the devastating long term effects there treatment will have on them. They have not been educated to change the habits that put them there in the first place. Be very careful about which organizations you donate your time and money to. Many of them are wolves in sheeps clothing. The ACS being the worst of all!!!!
Your breast health…
The greatest risk factors for breast cancer are being female and growing older. Breast cancer knows no boundary, be it age, gender, socio-economic status or geographic location. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. That's one in eight within your company, school and organization!
The key to survival is early detection. Three simple steps for early detection are regular mammograms, clinical exams and breast self-exams. And, remember, breast cancer affects more than just the patient; friends and family need support too.
I assume this is the company line from the organization. This is a complete fucking lie!!!!!!!!!!! " The greatest risk factors for breast canccer are being female and growing older." What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The greatest risk for getting cancer is neither of these. Healthy women who stay away from toxic chemicals and poison, chemical laiden foods, drink clean water, exercise and have a healthy outlook on life do not get cancer. These organizations use fear to raise money. "If you are a women, you have a great chance of getting breast cancer, there is nothing you can do but hope you dont get it." This is a fear tactic which is obviously working wonderfully.
These organizations are often times fronts for the pharmaceutical and medical scanning industies to scare women into gettting unnecessary and often cancer causing procedures. They do nothing to educate the public on what causes cancer ( contrary to what they say, the causes of cancer are very evident) and how to protect yourself. All these organizations ever talk about is screenings, which are extremely profitable and often times expose women to unnecessary amounts of radiation( another cancer causer). Then, once the screenings find cancer, they push you to these " miracle" drugs that usually destroy any quality of life. Breast cancer is completely preventable, yet these organizations never promote this. Any organization that is not about proper education has some alterior motive. Educate yourself, stop listening to these bullshit fundraising giants talking about how they are so close to stamping out cancer. The way to stamp out cancer is to stop using poison products and force these large companies to stop making them.
Cancer will disappear when the public is educated enough to stop polluting their bodies and we force the big companies to stop polluting our water supplies. Do not sit back and be a victim and hope you dont get cancer. Being proactive is the only way to stamp out cancer, pumping billions of dollars to "charity" organizations has not, and will not work!!!!!!!!
I see these big cancer walks and see these women who are "survivors" and feel sickened knowing many of them will not survive more than five years. They are often uneducated to the devastating long term effects there treatment will have on them. They have not been educated to change the habits that put them there in the first place. Be very careful about which organizations you donate your time and money to. Many of them are wolves in sheeps clothing. The ACS being the worst of all!!!!
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