References

Seeing Through Propaganda

These days there is so much disinformation around that it is really hard to distinguish what is really going on most of the time. There is an excellent cartoon of Brave New World vs 1984 going around that depicts it all very well. Just click on the image to see the whole thing or go to www.recombinantrecords.net. This excerpt from Brave New World Revisited gives us guidelines for feeling what is authentic or not.

Death By Smart Meter

Death By Smart Meter

I've just been reading the book The Body Electric by Robert O. Becker, written in 1985. Last night I read a rather interesting bit of history about how the Russians zapped the US Ambassador's office in Moscow for years. It is disappointing to realize, that this happened years ago and that the sympto ...

Diet and Culture of Abkhasian Centenarians

Diet and Culture of Abkhasian Centenarians

The Abkhasians had a way of life that is out of reach for modern man, or so it seems! One of the arguments that is often used to promote modern medical technology (vaccinations etc) is that we are living to be much older than we used to. I must point out that even with all of our advanced medical te ...

C.S. Lewis on Monsanto

C.S. Lewis on Monsanto

This is a post I have been meaning to write for ages, its been floating about my head for a couple years, so I should be able to say what I mean by now. I just went through all of my old notebooks and whatnot trying to find my favorite quotes which I pulled out from C.S. Lewis' book That Hideous Str ...

Foods to Detoxify Radiation Poisoning

Foods to Detoxify Radiation Poisoning

The following is quoted from the book Culinary Treasures of Japan: The Art of Making and Using Traditional Japanese Foods by John and Jan Belleme. The Japanese are currently facing impossible times with the earthquake, tsunami and now their nuclear plants leaking radioactive materials. Of all the na ...

Distillery Dairies – Factory Farm History 101

Distillery Dairies – Factory Farm History 101

Many people have been asking me what the problem is with pasteurization lately, and seem rather confused about why anyone would want to drink raw milk as most of us have grown up hearing the stories of how children were dying until we started pasteurizing milk. As usual, this isn't a simple black an ...

Germ Theory vs Cellular Theory

Germ Theory vs Cellular Theory

In 2003 when I first started writing for Healthy Options magazine in New Zealand I did a three day fast and spent a couple days at the Auckland library (some people do prayer and fasting, I do reading and fasting-heh). Now those of you who do fasts know that it is a good way to clear your mind and g ...

Edible Oil Wars: Early 1900s USA

Edible Oil Wars: Early 1900s USA

Please take some time and read the full article here, it is really long and actually has two parts! I have extracted my favorite sections and it is still very long. I have left out some of the very interesting examples of traditional societies foods, as well as the history and description of how veg ...

Haiti History – Trial of the Massacres of Raboteau

Haiti History – Trial of the Massacres of Raboteau

This post, from my series of posts on the history of Haiti, taken from Dr. Paul Farmer's book Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor gives excerpts of the history of Haiti, especially surrounding the massacre that took place in Raboteau. On April 22, 1994, during the ...