Early cavemen in Europe ate human meat as part of their everyday diet, new research suggests.

A new study of fossil bones in Spain shows that cannibalism was a normal part of daily life around 800,000 years ago among Europe’s first humans.

Bones from the cave, called Gran Dolina, show signs of cuts and other marks which will have been made by early stone tools.

Among the bones of bison, deer, wild sheep and other animals, scientists discovered the butchered remains of at least 11 human children and adolescents.

The bones also displayed signs of having been smashed to get the nutritious marrow inside and there was evidence that the victims’ brains may also have been eaten.

Striek marks on the bone at the base of the skull also indicated that the humans had been decapitated according to the study’s co-author José Maria Bermúdez de Castro.

Bermudez de Castro, of the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain, told National Geographic: ‘Probably then they cut the skull for extracting the brain. The brain is good for food.’

Scientists believe that early man ate fellow humans both to fulfill his nutritional needs and to kill off neighbouring enemy tribes.

Bones of humans that had been eaten spanned a period of around hundred thousand years, indicating that the practice was not just confined to times when food was scarce.

And the fact that the bones were discarded with those of other animals suggests that there was no religious significance to the practice.

Archaelogists work on the dig in Sierra de Atapuerca where many bones from early humans have been found since the early 90s>

The ‘defleshed’ bones were found in excavations in the Sierra de Atapuerca in the north of Spain

Because human and animal remains were tossed away together, the researchers speculate that cannibalism had no special ritual role linked to religious beliefs.

Bermudez de Castro said that the area surrounding the caves would have been a rich source of food so there would have been little need to turn to cannibalism as a last resort.

Instead the practice was probably more widely used as a way of dealing with competition from neighbouring tribes.

Children will have been targeted as they would have been less capable of defending themselves, the study suggests.

ARTICLE SOURCE: Daily Mail.com

OK, so I was about to wrap things up and call it a night from defending the universe, when I decided to take one last jaunt thru the forums of ATS.

After quickly perusing the RSS feeds for anything newsworthy I settled on checking one last post and WOW !!!!…the claims made by the member MaxBlack literally had me racing to doublecheck the YouTube sources he listed.

If this is a HOAXED story then remember ya heard it hear first, but just imagine for a moment the ramifications if its not.

In any event I’ll shut up so you can dive into it for yourself and afterwards lets hear what you think.

ATS Member Alarmed by Strange findings-Seeks help

I care that others are informed and are as fully aware as I am about a matter of great importance and great impact to our daily lives. I will provide my sources, my process and my limited findings. Afterward, if you feel as I do that something is in need of true investigation, then my goal would have been achieved by this thread.

Afterward, it is my hope that the adults in the audience and within ATS admin staff would do whatever can be done to try and find someone, some agency or even some foreign interested party to assist in further and more scientific examination of what has been now observed by BP ROV Operations for some time now that the public is not aware of as fully as the public needs to be informed about.

While the claims have been many and the attention all placed on oil leaks and blow out preventers and Corexit contamination and possible methane sea floor explosions and assassinations and strange deaths and as such it does not surprise me that this subject matter has gotten zero coverage and or interest in the public’s ability to be aware of what is going on that should truly matter more to us that all the other distractions.

While the subject matter is fantastic, it will take a brief review of only the information necessary to get you to see that what I am stating is as verifiable as it can get without personally going to 5500ft of water and looking for myself. This fact alone makes what I am about to discuss difficult, but I promise that if you stick with the premise and follow with me through my process, then and only then will you be able to discern what I am so concerned about why my sense of alarm is necessary. Let me begin.

In July of this year, I was following up on some leads about nano engineered organisms and a suspected ancient Stargate find in the Gulf and well one thing led to another. Anyway, one day I found on You Tube a video poster by the name of BeePeeOilDisaster that was recording these strange bugs that ate through metal. That is what got me looking at the BP ROV camera feeds in the first place.

Over time these bugs collectively got together one day and formed a small but select grouping. Later a slow metamorphous began with a luminescent skin tissue appeared or what appeared as some type of skin that you could almost see through like some invisibility ability, but anyway, over time that small grouping of those small bugs began hovering around one single bug.

In time, that single leader controlling bug started to change into an eye and well to say the least, I myself was staggered at what I was seeing. Later, weeks of continued coverage of this blob thing was still being captured by BP ROV Operations and so I kept analyzing videos from BeePeeOilDisaster. Anything I have found can be duplicated by anyone of even marginal intelligence by looking at my sources and later I will fully explain the software I used and how I got the results I am offering.

BP ROV Operations lately has been monitoring a huge blob like organism that is of gigantic proportions. That small cluster of bugs a month ago has turned into this big gigantic one and while with all the strange growth properties of the bugs and the intelligence being exhibited, is indeed puzzling, this blob has grown so big that they have multiple BP ROV cameras on in and it is that BP ROV Camera that I have come to show as an example of what is being seen but not discussed on any conspiracy site let alone ATS.

While I tried to introduce a thread and some discussion on the matter, I found being laughed at less than successful and have since kept my findings for the most part to myself and what I have put out there for people to see has alarmed many. It is alarming because once you can see the results of what I did and you understand that I am not some faker hoaxer, is when this subject matter sinks in deep and makes one concerned.

I am offering the two video links to the videos that I used to find my current results and my process in getting those photos to look like they do. While those of you who don’t believe in You-Tube videos, well just suck it up and consider my findings before blowing a brain cell.

I would warn those that watching BeePeeOilDisaster videos can be a dull chore because of course the messenger talks like deputy dog and most don’t consider anything after that judgment call. All I ask is that you listen to his commentary once through, then mute it and do some image investigation. His raw footage is what produced everything I have ever done on the matter. With that in mind, please show some patience for how BeePeeOilDisaster talks and try to listen to the message. Then look with your own eyes and judge for yourself if what I am about to explain is logical and more than possible.

Link to Video #1 will be showing some huge claw grabbing a huge eel and dragging it down under the crust of the beast. Watch the video and remember the camera view. Remember that the eel getting grabbed and drug down under is approximately 20 ft long. That makes the grabber in the first video a huge claw that catches it and then drags it towards itself. Key to remember here is that of the camera angle. It will matter for video #2.

Link to video #2 will be to the latest BP ROV observation of the huge blob creature and my use of color filters to see what BP is seeing from directly overhead at about 500 ft height over the blob creature.

Now let me discuss my process after viewing video sources. When I viewed the videos I paused, screen captured using Capture and then after naming the picture I open it in IrFran View editor. Once in IrFran View, I go to view, negative and then I return to view again and go to color correction. This is where I played with the colors to produce a visible image for me to show. No magic, no expensive software, just screen capture, negative, color correction and a save. Anyone can do it.

I am offering two current photos to consider and afterward when you have concluded what I have, would you please do what you can to bring attention to the matter . We need to know whether it is self replicating and if this big one is going to hatch millions more. Any creature over five football fields long is a monster and I don’t care what dictionary you use, to me anything over 15 ft is a monster. For crying out loud, it’s eating a 20ft eel like some leftover chicken wing.

Take a look at my photo evidence findings and thank you for taking the time to consider this thread and my thoughts on the subject. Please do what you can to get someone of true investigative authority to do something. The public deserves to know and someone deserves to answer because it’s not like they don’t know what is going on. They have been watching as long as I have and with their inside knowledge and special cameras they know full well what is there and that is why they watch.

Of note, in my blob photos is the fact that there is a BP ROV camera on the back of the blob and that camera is the exact one in my mind based on angle that captured the eel getting killed and drug down under. The second video shows the outline and if nothing more ATS and others, any creature that size with a spine and claws that big that eats 20f t long eels is something we better discuss. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.

Thanks again and please do what you can to get someone to investigate. After six days of worry I must now sleep.

ORIGINAL POST Above Top Secret.com

Much of the fluoride added to municipal water supplies across the United States is imported from China, and is contaminated with heavy metals, according to a warning by Bernard Miltenberger, president of the Pure Water Committee of Western Maryland.

In a letter published in the Cumberland Times-News, Miltenberger notes that he first became aware of the issue in an engineering report for the city of Boulder, Colo. The report noted that the fluoridation chemicals used for the city’s water had been evaluated, and were found to contain lead levels of 40 milligrams per bag and arsenic levels of 50 milligrams per bag. The bags were being imported from China under no regulatory monitoring of acid or salt content.

Miltenberger then visited the Frostburg Water Filtration Plant in Maryland and noticed that the fluoride bags were not labeled with any importation information. He contacted the plant’s chemical supplier, Univar USA, and was then referred to Sovay fluorides. Sovay informed him that the fluoride had been manufactured by Shanghai Minthchem Development in China.

“This type of trade from a country with a track record of lead paint on toys to antifreeze in cough syrup medicine is completely unacceptable,” Miltenberger writes.

Heavy metal contamination is only the latest concern to emerge over the practice of water fluoridation, which has been controversial since its inception. Fluoride is a well-known toxic chemical, as Miltenberger notes:

“The material safety data sheets from Solvay fluorides show that a teaspoon amount of five grams of sodium fluoride can be fatal to an average size man of 70kg. … chronic toxicity by oral route may cause skeletal and dental fluorosis, thyroid, testes, kidney, liver, ambiguous carcinogenic and mutagenic effects, fetotoxic and fertility effects.”

Miltenberger also notes that fluoride toothpaste contains a warning that anyone who consumes more than a pea-size amount should contact a poison control center at once. This amount of toothpaste contains as much fluoride as just eight ounces of fluoridated water. A prescription-strength fluoride supplement marketed by Colgate warns that children under the age of six should not consume doses regularly added to municipal water.

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A gene therapy in the form of a thick gel is about to revolutionize wound treatment. The gel is called Nexagon, and when you apply it to a wound, it reprograms the cells to heal more quickly and efficiently.

Unlike an antibiotic cream, which promotes healing by preventing infection, Nexagon is actually speeding up your body’s healing process. Or, in the case of ulcers, it’s jumpstarting a healing process that’s failed to start. Doctors have been testing Nexagon on people with chronic ulcers on their legs, which are wounds that essentially never heal or take at least six months to do so. After just four weeks, some patients reported they were completely healed up.

According to the Associated Press:

The gel, named Nexagon, works by interrupting how cells communicate and prevents the production of a protein that blocks healing. That allows cells to move faster to the wound to begin healing it.

Though it has only been tested on about 100 people so far, experts say if it proves successful, the gel could have a major impact on treating chronic wounds, like leg or diabetes ulcers, and even common scrapes or injuries from accidents.

In most chronic wounds, Becker said there is an abnormal amount of a protein involved in inflammation.

To reduce its amount, [cell biologist David] Becker and colleagues made Nexagon from bits of DNA that can block the protein’s production. “As that protein is turned off, cells move in to close the wound,” Becker said. The gel is clear and has the consistency of toothpaste.

In an early study on leg ulcers, scientists at the company Becker co-founded to develop the gel found that after four weeks, the number of people with completely healed ulcers was five times higher in patients who got the gel versus those who didn’t. The average leg ulcer takes up to six months to heal and 60 percent of patients get repeated ulcers . . . The gel has also been used on a handful of people who have suffered serious chemical burns to their eyes, including a 25-year-old workman in New Zealand who accidentally squirted liquid cement into one of his eyes. In that case and five others, after Nexagon was applied, the outer lining of the patients’ eyes and the blood vessels within them regrew, saving their vision. In the U.S., the gel has been granted approval by the Food and Drug Administration for serious eye injuries.

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Hmmmm…Spidey senses tingling…I sense….Nanobot technology !
No thanks, I’ll heal the natural way…I dont need no stankin nanobots !

This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, “12 Events That Will Change Everything,” which appears in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American. The presentation was created by Zemi Media. This is how propaganda and the very beginnings of Predictive Programming begin, and Scientific America is no stranger to either of the two.
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This was caught by a BP ROV cam moments before the Los Angeles earthquake recently. Could it a huge Methane pocket caused by the BP oil spill ?
In any event, this raises an entirely new set of questions, especially the enigma of the hollow earth theory.

The eruption in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia has left Scientists and Geologists stunned and dumbfounded. This is truly an amazing event. The global scientific community has not even began to piece together an explanation into this perplexing phenomenon. Whatever it is, I’m sure its not a good thing. This type of event has no rhyme nor reason.

The first two parts of this series describes the negative effects that some commonly consumed chemicals have on the body and brain. This third and final part looks at some natural ways to keep the brain healthy and provides tips to rid the body of dangerous substances. In other words, how to fight back against the dumbing down of society!

Parts I and II of this series of articles identified some toxic substances found in common foods and medicines and described some of their effects on the human brain. The main culprits discussed were aspartame, mercury, fluoride and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Whether these substances disturb the nervous system, decrease cognitive function, impair judgment, or affect the memory, the net result is the general dumbing down of society.

All is not doom and gloom, however. Nature, with its wonderful tendency to restore equilibrium, provides us humans the cure to almost any affliction we might develop. Ancient healers even believed that nature helped humans discover the cure to their illnesses in subtle and mysterious ways:

“The plant might also be considered worthy of veneration because from its crushed leaves, petals, stalks, or roots could be extracted healing unctions, essences, or drugs affecting the nature and intelligence of human beings – such as the poppy and the ancient herbs of prophecy. The plant might also be regarded as efficacious in the cure of many diseases because its fruit, leaves, petals, or roots bore a resemblance in shape or color to parts or organs of the human body. For example, the distilled juices of certain species of ferns, also the hairy moss growing upon oaks, and the thistledown were said to have the power of growing hair; the dentaria, which resembles a tooth in shape, was said to cure the toothache; and the palma Christi plant, because of its shape, cured all afflictions of the hands.”
- Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages

So, after dwelling in the awful world of poisonous chemicals and corrupted officials, the only fitting way to conclude this series of articles is to explore the all-natural ways to restore health.

Stop the Toxicification

Warning: This article provides tips to naturally detoxify the body. If you are in need of a serious detox program, please consult a professional.

The first step in ridding your body from poisons is, quite logically, to stop ingesting poisons. It sounds simple enough, but this step is probably the most difficult, as many toxins are found in everyday foods and even tap water. An increased vigilance is necessary in everyday life and, sometimes, some annoying actions must be taken to keep the toxins out of your body. Nevertheless, once you actually feel your body and mind healing, you’ll be proud of your efforts.

Before we look at the ways to avoid specific toxins, here are some general guidelines any health-conscious person should apply at all times: Avoid processed foods and artificial drinks. Instead, look for organic and locally grown produce or, even better, grow your own fruits, vegetables and herbs. By doing so, you automatically avoid many harmful substances, including MSG, HFCS, pesticides, sodium fluoride and mercury. You also save money, which is always nice. When buying groceries, always read the labels and, as they say, if you can’t read it, don’t eat it.

Here are specific ways to avoid particular toxins:

Avoiding Fluoride

There are two types of fluoride: calcium fluoride and sodium fluoride. Calcium fluoride is naturally found in water sources, while sodium fluoride is a synthetic waste product of the nuclear, aluminum, and phosphate fertilizer industries. Guess which type is found in our water? Right, the nasty one. Regular water filters such as Brita do a good job in reducing the taste of metals and chemicals in the water but they do not filter out the fluoride. Purifying the water through reverse osmosis is the most effective way to remove sodium fluoride from water.

Some processed foods also contain high concentrations of sodium fluoride, including instant tea, grape juice products, and soy milk for babies, so once again, avoid processed foods. Also, switch to a fluoride-free toothpaste (or at least try not to swallow the $0.93 Colgate you bought at Walmart).

Consuming foods rich in calcium and magnesium help prevent fluoride intoxication, as they prevent the poison from attaching to the body.

“Magnesium is a very important mineral that many are lacking. Besides being so important in the metabolism and synthesis of nutrients within your cells, it also inhibits the absorption of fluoride into your cells! Along with magnesium, calcium seems to help attract the fluorides away from your bones and teeth, allowing your body to eliminate those toxins. So during any detox efforts with fluoride, it is essential that you include a healthy supplemental dose of absorbable calcium/magnesium as part of the protocol.”
- Paul Fassa, How to Detox Fluoride from Your Body

Avoiding Mercury

First, if you or your children are being vaccinated, always request a Thimerosal-free shot. Second, avoid fish and seafood with high mercury levels; fish with the highest levels of mercury are marlin, orange roughy, shark, swordfish, tilefish and tuna (ahi, albacore and Yellowfin). Some seafood has low mercury levels, making them safer to consume, including anchovies, catfish, clam, crab, shrimp, flounder, salmon, sardine, tilapia and trout. As rule of thumb, bigger fish contain more mercury since they eat smaller fish and absorb all their mercury, and live longer, allowing mercury to build up.

As seen in Part II of this series, some foods containing HFCS are also contaminated with mercury. Here’s the chart produced by the EPA:

Avoiding Aspartame

Always read labels and avoid “sugar-free” products. Aspartame is found in soft drinks, over-the-counter drugs & prescription drugs (very common, listed under “inactive ingredients”), vitamin & herb supplements, yogurt, candy, breath mints, cereals, sugar-free chewing gum, cocoa mixes, coffee beverages, instant breakfasts, gelatin desserts, frozen desserts, juice beverages, laxatives, milk drinks, shake mixes, tabletop sweeteners, tea beverages, instant teas and coffees, topping mixes and wine coolers.



Avoiding HFCS

Read the labels and if you find high fructose corn syrup at the top the list of ingredients, tell the product “oh no you didn’t!”, snap your fingers with attitude and put it back on the shelf. Ignore the confused looks of other shoppers.

We will now look at some all-natural ways to detox the body from harmful substances.

Cilantro

The standard procedure for removing heavy metals from the body is called “chelation.” It is accomplished by administering a chelating agent – usually dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) – that binds to the heavy metals in the body and cause them to be naturally flushed out. This type of treatment is quite strenuous, has many side-effects and should be undertaken only with medical supervision.

If, however, you believe that ridding the body of a harsh substance with another harsh substance might be self-defeating, I tend to agree with you. Fortunately there are herbs and spices that naturally act as chelating agents: Cilantro does a great job at it.

The most widely used and loved herbs and spices worldwide are derived from the same plant, Coriandrum sativum. The leaves of this plant are frequently referred to as cilantro, while the seeds are most commonly called coriander. Other than making any dish spectacular, the herb has the unique power of neutralizing mercury.

“This kitchen herb is capable of mobilizing mercury, cadmium, lead and aluminum in both bones and the central nervous system. It is probably the only effective agent in mobilizing mercury stored in the intracellular space (attached to mitochondria, tubulin, liposomes etc) and in the nucleus of the cell (reversing DNA damage of mercury).”
- Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD, Chelation: How to remove Mercury, Lead, & other Metals

Chlorella: Cilantro’s Side-Kick

In addition to repairing and activating the body’s detoxification functions, chlorella is known to bind to all known toxic metals and environmental toxins and facilitate their evacuation. This makes chlorella cilantro’s perfect sidekick.

“Because cilantro mobilizes more toxins then it can carry out of the body, it may flood the connective tissue (where the nerves reside) with metals, that were previously stored in safer hiding places.

This process is called re-toxification. It can easily be avoided by simultaneously giving an intestinal toxin-absorbing agent. Our definite choice is the algal organism chlorella. A recent animal study demonstrated rapid removal of aluminum from the skeleton superior to any known other detox agent.

Cilantro causes the gallbladder to dump bile — containing the excreted neurotoxins — into the small intestine. The bile-release occurs naturally as we are eating and is much enhanced by cilantro. If no chlorella is taken, most neurotoxins are reabsorbed on the way down the small intestine by the abundant nerve endings of the enteric nervous system”
– Ibid

Garlic

We may not be sure if garlic actually repels vampires, but we can be certain it repels toxins from the body.

“Garlic contains numerous sulphur components, including the most valuable sulph-hydryl groups, which oxidize mercury, cadmium and lead and make these metals water-soluble. (…) Garlic also contains the most important mineral, which protects from mercury toxicity, bioactive selenium.”
- Ibid

So, garlic zaps mercury and lead and helps the body evacuate the metals from the body. Perhaps bad breath is the way to good health.

Turmeric (Curcuma)

This plant from the ginger family is widely used in Southeast Asia as a spice and its cleaning powers have been renowned for centuries. Turmeric is enshrined in Ayurvedic medicine as the king of spices. The bitter spice helps cleanse the liver, purify the blood, and promotes good digestion and elimination. It possesses powerful anti-inflammatory properties, but none of the unpleasant side effects of anti-inflammatory drugs. It has been used for skin cleansing, color enhancement and food preservation.

Turmeric steps up the production of three enzymes–aryl-hydrocarbon-hydroxylase, glutathione-S-transferase, and UDP-glucuronyl-transferase. These are chemical “knives” that break down potentially harmful substances in the liver. Turmeric offers similar protection for people who are taking medications such as methotrexate and other forms of chemotherapy, which are metabolized by, or shuttled through, the liver.
– James A. Dukes, Ph D., Dr. Duke’s Essential Herbs

Scientific studies have recently discovered that mixing black pepper with tumeric exponentially increases its healing properties on the body. No wonder traditional South Asian recipes often combine the two spices. So don’t hold back … grind some black pepper into that tumeric!

Omega-3

It is not a secret that consuming the fatty acids found in fish brings many healthy benefits. The acids do wonders for our brains. In fact, Omega-3 is literally our brain’s fuel, helping to maintain its core functions. Our most important organ heavily relies on Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), two long-chain Omega-3 fatty acids that our bodies cannot create. The only way to obtain those acids is through diet.

“Most health professionals believe that DHA is the fatty acid that is most important for healthy structure and development of the brain and for vision so it is vital that there is enough DHA in the diet during pregnancy and in the first few years of a child’s life. EPA on the other hand, is essential for healthy functioning of the brain on a day to day basis, which means that throughout your life you need a constant supply of EPA.”
- David McEnvoy, Why Fish Oil is Brain Fuel

Here are some facts about Omega-3 that are of particular interest in the context of those articles:

* Research by the University of Western Australia found that women who took fish oil supplements during the latter part of their pregnancy had babies with better hand-to-eye coordination, were better speakers and could understand more at the age of two and a half than babies whose mothers who were given olive oil instead.
* A study by Aberdeen University, led by professor Lawrence Whalley, found that fish oil helps the brain to work faster, increases IQ scores and slows down the aging process.
* The Durham trials led by Dr. Madeleine Portwood have consistently found that fish oil improves behaviour, concentration and learning in the classroom.
* Researcher Natalie Sinn in Australia found fish oil to be more effective than Ritalin for ADHD.
* Hibbeln et al. looked at diet in 22 countries and found an significant association between low fish consumption and post-natal depression.
* Dr. Malcolm Peet found that ethyl-EPA, a highly concentrated form of Omega 3, dramatically reduces depression.

Fish oil also plays an important role in ridding the brain of unwanted substances:

The fatty acid complexes EPA and DHA in fish oil make the red and white blood cells more flexible thus improving the microcirculation of the brain, heart and other tissues. All detoxification functions depend on optimal oxygen delivery and blood flow. EPA and DHA protect the brain from viral infections and are needed for the development of intelligence and eyesight. The most vital cell organelle for detoxification is the peroxisome. These small structures are also responsible for the specific job each cell has.

In the pineal gland the melatonin is produced in the peroxisome, in the neurons dopamine and norepinephrine, etc. It is here, where mercury and other toxic metal attach and disable the cell from doing its work.”
- Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD, Chelation: How to remove Mercury, Lead, & other Metals

That is all well and good, but what are the best sources of fish oil? Consuming large quantities of fish would be the logical choice, but knowing that many species contain high levels of mercury, doing so might actually cause further damage to the brain. For this reason, Omega-3 supplements are probably the best way to keep the body well-stocked with EPA and DHA.

When selecting an Omega-3 supplement, you need to make sure it is molecularly distilled and is high in both DHA and EPA, especially DHA. Molecular distillation is a special process that removes all the toxins from the oil (including mercury), ensuring it is safe for human consumption. Avoid low-grade products. They often contain low levels of fatty acids and are filled with other oils and preservatives.

Final Advice: Sleep, Sweat and Stimulate

* Sufficient sleep is vital to keeping the body and the brain in good condition. Conversely, sleep deprivation impairs one’s ability to think handle stress, maintain a healthy immune system and moderate one’s emotions.

* Regular exercise is critically important for detoxification. It allows the evacuation of toxins through skin while improving the entire metabolism.
* Stimulate your brain: read, think, meditate and challenge it constantly.

In Conclusion

This article examines the ways to avoid harmful substances in everyday products and looks at a handful of all-natural ways to free the body from their poisonous grasp. In addition to providing us the necessary nutrients used by the body to evacuate toxins, the natural substances described in this article also help maintain general heath. Regularly consuming cilantro, garlic, turmeric and Omega-3 boosts the immune system, improves rational thinking and increases memory. The amazing properties of those simple ingredients are only now being (slowly) documented by science, but they have been used by cultures worldwide for centuries.

We are conditioned to treat ailments caused by artificial products with other artificial products, that, in turn, can cause other ailments. It is only by breaking this vicious circle that we can reclaim ownership of our brains and reach our fullest potential. So, today’s a new day: Put down the cheeseburger-flavored Doritos … and change your life.

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A young woman sits at a computer, she is highly intelligent, skilled and part of the US Military’s UAV Ground Control Station team. Three thousand miles away her target sleeps in his bed. Little does he know a Predator is bearing down on him and his companions, in their camouflaged hideout.

Silent and deadly the remote controlled UAV approaches it’s target. A minuscule time delay is followed by the lighting up of the militant hideout.

Target acquired.

Our beautiful and deadly assassin takes another sip of her coffee.

The future of warfare, a terrifying disconnected killing machine.

UAVs are launched at actual combat locations but flight control, and weapons operations are done by a mix of military and contract personnel sitting in the USA, often in communication and coordination with on-the-ground units. Control is fully electronic “real time” via satellite uplink/downlink, including computer controlled loiter mode.

This is the ultimate war by proxy. A proxy that takes the dehumanisation of warfare to a whole new level. The glory and honour of meeting your opponent in battle and looking him the eye is long gone, and has been for some time.

In the future many of our ‘soldiers’ will have the ability to treat the army as a nine to five. A quick day in the office fighting simulated battles thousands of miles away, then return home to their families.

However these battles are not just simulations, and they do not only affect the bad guys. In war civilians will always pay the highest price, and in this high tech cyber war this truth remains.

How many civilians have been killed in the U.S. drone war in Pakistan? The number could be as high as 320 innocents, according to an analysis released today by the New America Foundation. That’s about a third of the 1,000 or so people slain in the robotic aircraft attacks since 2006.

These figures do not take into account operations since October 2009, as we know drone strikes have been increased considerably since then.

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ET is more likely to be sending out short, directed messages than continuous signals beamed in all directions, experts said.

”This approach is more like Twitter and less like War and Peace,” said Californian physicist Dr James Benford, president of Microwave Sciences Inc.

He and twin brother Gregory, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Irvine, looked at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) from the aliens’ point of view.

They concluded that Seti scientists may have been taking the wrong approach for the past five decades.

Up to now scientists have listened out for unusual blips or bleeps from targeted nearby stars.

Despite 50 years of searching, no-one has yet been able to come up with evidence of an extraterrestrial signal. However, many scientists are convinced we are not alone in the universe.

”Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources,” said Gregory Benford. ”Broadcasting is expensive, and transmitting signals across light years would require considerable resources.”

Writing in the journal Astrobiology, the Benfords claim that an alien civilisation would strive to reduce costs, limit waste and make its signalling technology efficient.

They propose that alien signals would be pulsed and narrowly directed in the one to 10 gigahertz broadband signal range.

Seti has been focusing its receivers on the wrong kind of signals, and also looking in the wrong direction, they claimed.

Rather than pointing their antennae at nearby stars, scientists should be aiming at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

”The stars there are a billion years older than our Sun, which suggests a greater possibility of contact with an advanced civilisation than does pointing Seti receivers outward to the newer and less crowded edge of our galaxy,” said Gregory Benford.

”Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The Seti effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to a answer those questions.”

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Recombinant DNA technology, which combines DNA sequences not normally found together in nature, was pioneered by A. Dale Kaiser and Peter Lobban at Stanford University in 1972 through 1974. The technology became truly practical when Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, and Hamilton Smith isolated restriction endonucleases by 1978. Recombinant DNA offered exciting possibilities: curing genetic illnesses in human beings and animals, or creating completely new plants or animals to serve Mankind. Perhaps, it seemed, tropical hardwoods like mahogany or teak could be modified to grow in places like the United States, or cacao, coffee, and tea. We get flour from wheat and fiber from flax; perhaps these plants could be combined into one that would supply us with both food and clothing. Mangroves, found along tropical coasts, can grow in salt water. Perhaps their genes could be combined with those of food crops like tomatoes or grain and we could grow our crops in sea water along dry sea coasts like Peru and northern Chile, or southern or Baja California. The possibilities seemed limitless, but it turned out that creating such things would involve multiple genes and was more difficult than expected. Some useful products have come from recombinant DNA, but not quite what we had hoped for. However, since the technology was developed, the world has seen a good many terrible and seemingly new diseases emerge. Are these just normal mutations of existing diseases, or illnesses that had always lurked in remote rainforests or deserts and have spread due to immigration and air travel, or is it something more sinister? Our own U.S. and other governments have long experimented with biological warfare, and a Congressional investigation in the early nineteen seventies revealed that the U.S. government, for one, had experimented on our own people by releasing relatively mild and already known diseases around cities, causing some fairly severe illnesses and at least a few deaths. Could some of these seemingly new diseases be the result of DNA technology applied to biological warfare experimentation followed by the accidental…or even deliberate…release of the bacteria and viruses into the environment?

AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is caused by the HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus. It was first noted in 1981, and genetic research supposedly shows that it originated in west central Africa, possibly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…but, if so, why was it never described before 1981? It is true that a British subject named David Carr died in 1959 of an undiagnosed illness with symptoms very similar to AIDS, but why, if it was AIDS, were other cases not noted during that period? Keep in mind that at least some AIDS symptoms can be caused by a number of other infectious agents, singly or in combination. Also, one possible explanation for the disease being so widespread in Africa, even among heterosexuals, may be misdiagnosis…many African AIDS cases may actually be simple malnutrition, malaria, and other conditions. There is a theory that the disease somehow jumped from chimpanzees to humans, possibly due to someone being bitten by a chimp. But there are darker theories; researcher and writer Leonard Horowitz has suggested that it came from infected chimpanzees used to make hepatitis B vaccine given to African and American homosexuals in the nineteen seventies. Others have claimed that the disease, whatever its origin, was deliberately introduced into smallpox and polio vaccines given to Africans. There is no proof of this.

Beginning in 1994 the world was introduced to a truly gruesome disease called a flesh eating bacteria. Actually, the organism does not eat flesh, but secretes toxins that kill the flesh, leading to gangrene, and often ending in a slow, agonizing death, or amputations and/or permanent scarring. The condition is actually caused by several antibiotic-resistant bacteria like streptococcus pyrogenes, streptococcus aureus, vibria vulnificus, clostridium perfringens, and bacteroides fragilis. It seems unlikely that researchers would even produce, let alone release several new diseases at once with all designed to produce the same symptoms, and we know that overuse of antibiotics has led to resistant bacteria. But it still seems strange that there is no clear description of these symptoms prior to 1994.

Equally gruesome is the Ebola virus, or Ebola hemorrhagic fever, spread by bodily fluids, which destroys blood vessel walls, leading to internal hemorrhaging as well as external, and the destruction of internal organs. The first recognized outbreak was at a Belgian mission hospital in the Ebola River Valley in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also found in several animal species, and there was an outbreak among monkeys in the U.S. in 1989. There are five varieties, and, although the disease is not very contagious, one variety, the Zaire Ebola virus, has about an eighty to ninety percent fatality rate. A disease that is slow and unlikely to spread seems an unlikely candidate for bacteriological warfare, but things do not always go as planned, and the designers may have hoped for it to be more contagious. And this is the same part of the world where AIDS is believed to have originated.

Hantavirus, or hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), was first noted in New Mexico in 1993. It is spread by rodents, mainly in the Americas, and is an often fatal but not very contagious respiratory disease which can also cause HFRS, or hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, and this variant appears to be more common in eastern Asia. Other forms of the disease appeared in Korea during the Korean War (1950-1953), but not the respiratory variant, although Indian legends may refer to it, and antibody tests supposedly show survivors had been infected with it as far back as 1959. So it may have been a natural illness that existed all along, but bear in mind that bacteriological warfare may have been carried out by either side in Korea, and there is still no clear proof that the respiratory variant existed before 1993.

Giardia lamblia, also known as lamblia intestinalis and giardia duodenalis, is a water borne flagellated protozoan that infects the small intestine, causing diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, and weight loss, and which can be inhibited, but not cured, by a low carbohydrate diet. The disease was not reported prior to the development of recombinant DNA technology, although it may have been observed under a microscope by Leeuwenhoek in 1681 and by other researchers in the nineteenth century. But there is no hard proof of its existence prior to the last few decades.

Lyme fever, or Lyme disease, is caused by a spirochete bacterium, borrelia burgdorferi, and a closely related disease, a relapsing fever, is caused by another spirochete, borrelia hermsii. Both of these are carried and spread by ticks, infect animals and humans, and cause long term and often serious illness including symptoms of arthritis. The disease was never reported until it appeared in 1975 around Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Near Connecticut is Long Island, and the northern part of the island is a somewhat mysterious, even sinister area. American Nazis had a camp there up until WWII, used for large gatherings, and Nazi saboteurs paddled ashore on Long Island during the war. The top secret Brookhaven National Laboratory is located near Montauk Point at the northern end of the island, and the area was once visited by the sinister and mysterious Aleister Crowley, a man heavily involved with the occult. Several mysterious plane crashes have occurred just off Long Island. Near Long Island is the much smaller Plum Island, the location of the PIADC, or Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Anthrax research was carried out here, and biological warfare research, supposedly targeting only livestock. And Plum Island is only a few miles offshore from Old Lyme.

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Last week Dick Cheney underwent a procedure to install a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) which runs on a battery and pumps blood through the body. This device is worn on the outside of the body. The procedure was done last week and revealed to the public on July 14, 2010.

The LVAD flows continiously and does not pulse therefore, Mr. Cheney no longer has a pulse. If you were to check his wrist you would feel – nothing. The valves of the heart normally open and close giving us the familiar thump-thump. Mr. Cheneys valves are now closed.

The device is expected to last 3 to 5 years but can be replaced at any time.

But the device does have one almost creepy side effect. The former vice president will not have a pulse, according to Dr. Alan Stewart, director of the Aortic Surgery Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center.

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So…folks its official, the man we already knew that didn’t have a heart, now doesn’t have a heartbeat nor a pulse.

Robo-Cheney MUST outlive YOU !

In movies, such as Dr. Frankenstein, there is a “mad scientist” who conducts experiments that break the rules of humanity and ethics. Sometimes the mad scientist is testing his inventions on humans and animals, while others are trying to create new species. In this article, you will encounter some of the mad scientists that do not appear in books or movies, but who exist in real life.

JOHANN CONRAD DIPPEL

Johann Conrad Dippel was actually born at Castle Frankenstein near Darmstadt, Germany. His main course of studies involved theology, philosophy and alchemy at the University of Giessen. However, he soon found himself in hot water over his opinions regarding theology. During his dabbling in the world of alchemy, he grew interested in creating artificial life. His escapades would involve robbing graves and performing horrific experiments on cadavers. It was his goal to achieve what he called a ‘soul transplant.’

Interestingly, there is a legend that tells of Dippel being run out of town by upset locals after a tower at Castle Frankenstein had been blown up with nitroglycerine. However, this is just a rumor because the substance didn’t even exist at the time of his exploits. There is also no connection between Dippel and the character that Mary Shelley created.

All of Dippel’s work was not at a complete loss. During one of his alchemical experiments, he did come up with “Prussian blue” dye, which enjoyed a great deal of commercial accolades. Other experiments that he conducted included the creation of an animal oil made out of bones, blood and other animal products. This was called Dippel’s Oil and was promoted as an ‘elixir of life.’ Some say that he also boiled human body parts in large vats.

GIOVANNI ALDINI

Aldini had scientific success running through his family tree. He was the nephew of the man who developed the theory of muscular electricity. The field of science that interested Aldini was galvanism and electricity. He spent his time taking a look at the medical uses of electricity, how to power lighthouses, and conducted experiments on how to use electricity for preservation. However, he became a mad scientist because of his traveling horror show that made stops throughout Europe.

He would electrify human and animal bodies for entertainment purposes. Aldini gave a performance in 1803 at the Royal College of Surgeons in London that attracted bad publicity. With his conducting rods, he caused the muscles in the body of a hanged criminal named George Foster to contract and distort. The crowd became instantly frightened.

Interestingly, Aldini was rewarded for his efforts by the emperor of Austria when he was made a knight of the Iron Crown and a councilor of state at Milan. When he died, he bequeathed a large sum to establish a school of natural science for artisans at Bologna.

Sometimes animals are crossbred with one another to create stronger species, as seen in the case of dog breeding. And then, there are experiments regarding hybrids that cross the line. In this article, you will learn of one such scientist who pushed the boundaries of science, as well as a scientist who had an obsession with testing an infectious disease on himself.

ILYA IVANOVICH IVANOV

Born close to the late 1800s, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian scientist who lived during the Stalinist era. He chose to conduct his unethical experiments on animals by using artificial insemination to create a host of hybrids. To his credit, he produced Zeedonks (a cross between a zebra and donkey), Zubrons (a combination of the now extinct European bison and cow), as well as an antelope-cow, a mouse-rat, a mouse-guinea pig, and a guinea pig-rabbit.

Ivanov started to cross the line when he started experiments with humans and apes. In an experimental station set up in French Guinea, the scientist went about inseminating female chimpanzees with human sperm in hopes of generating a pregnancy. Luckily, this did not occur.
He truly crossed the line when he proposed inseminating human females with sperm from an orangutan. The French colonial government declined to allow such experiments. What Ivanov accomplished was toying with the limits of interfertility. Today, scientists use direct genetic manipulation and cloning to accomplish some of the things that Ivanov was attempting to do.

STUBBINS FFIRTH

In the 1800s, Stubbins Ffirth was a doctor in training that worked in Philadelphia. He believed that yellow fever was not an infectious disease, and decided that it was OK to test it out on himself. First he poured infected vomit onto open wounds – cutting his arm and smearing on the vomit. He poured the vomit into his eyeballs. He fried the vomit and inhaled the fumes, and even went as far as to drink the vomit. He went on to test his theory by using infected blood, saliva, and urine.

He did not become sick, but not because yellow fever was not infectious. Because he did not contract yellow fever, Ffirth thought that his hypothesis was correct. However, an injection directly into the bloodstream of the disease was needed for it to pass, which is what a mosquito does went it bites one of its victims. To make matters worse for Ffirth’s endeavors, it was later proven that the samples that he used for experiment were no longer contagious and came from patients who were in the late stages of the disease.

Ffirth believed that yellow fever cases dropped in the wintertime and felt that the reasoning behind it was due to the heat and stresses that come in the summer months. It was a fact that the disease was significantly widespread in the summer, but not for the reasons that Ffirth gave. 60 years later, Carlos Finlay (a Cuban scientist) would highlight the link between mosquitoes and the spread of yellow fever.

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