Human Being

Hemp Facts

2008-08-25T09:48:00.002+02:00

HOW DANGEROUS IS IT ???

Annual Causes of Death in the United States

Tobacco	435,000
Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity	365,000
Alcohol	85,000
Microbial Agents	75,000
Toxic Agents	55,000
Motor Vehicle Crashes	26,347
Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs	32,000
Suicide	30,622
Incidents Involving Firearms	29,000
Homicide	20,308
Sexual Behaviors	20,000
All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect	17,000
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Such As Aspirin	7,600
Marijuana	0

DRUG & "DRUG" FACTS: Annual Causes of Death in the United States

Hemp Facts:

At a volume level of 81%, hemp oil is the richest known source of polyunsaturated essential fatty acids (the "good" fats). It's quite high in some essential amino acids, including gamma linoleic acid (GLA), a very rare nutrient also found in mother's milk.

Hemp can yield 3-8 dry tons of fiber per acre. This is four times what an average forest can yield.

Hemp can displace cotton which is usually grown with massive amounts of chemicals harmful to people and the environment. 50% of all the world's pesticides are sprayed on cotton. Hemp fibers are longer, stronger, more absorbent and more mildew-resistant than cotton.

Hemp can displace wood fiber and save forests for watershed, wildlife habitat, recreation and oxygen production, carbon sequestration (reduces global warming), and other values.

Because of its importance for sails (the word "canvas" is rooted in "cannabis") and rope for ships, hemp was a required crop in the American colonies.

Right now in Elkhart, Indiana, Johnson Controls is manufacturing door panels for Chrysler Sebring convertibles using a product called Eco-Cor that they created. Eco-Cor is stronger, lighter, more fire resistant, and cheaper to produce than other plastics. Eco-Cor is composed of 25% hemp fibers and Johnson Controls imports it from Canada. The number of products is endless. Ford specialist Ellen Lee says this is "potentially a billion-dollar industry."

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper.

Why is marijuana illegal ?

War on a Plant

Marijuana - The First Twelve Thousand Years

Being the Ruling Species

2008-05-30T04:02:00.003+02:00

Being the ruling species on this planet
doesnt make us better than the other species on this planet
nor does it make us more important than other species
it just makes us the ruling species.

we govern..
we decide and shape things

and right now, it seems to me that
we
ain't shaping them well..

ask the other species...
ah, yes, i forgot
you can't.

half of them
don't understand
our ways
of communicating

the other half
is dead

America run by an elitist, sexist lobby, and by the way, who killed Bobby?

2008-05-13T09:04:00.001+02:00

COPIED ENTIRELY FROM http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48358-2004Apr3?language=printer
SO GO AND READ IT THERE, I GUESS IT'S EASIER TO READ THAN HERE

Bush, Kerry Share Tippy-Top Secret
Yalies Bush and Kerry Share a Patrician Past Of Skull and Bones

By Don Oldenburg
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 4, 2004; Page D01

NEW HAVEN, Conn.

People passing through on High Street barely notice the cryptlike Greco-Egyptian building called the Tomb.

On a snowy March morning, Yale professor Ingeborg Glier hurries to class past the grim, practically windowless, brown limestone mausoleum. For 138 years it has housed Skull and Bones -- a secret society that links President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, and is imagined by some to be the most potent in the nation's history.

"I know it exists but that's about as much as I know," says Glier, who has taught Germanic language and literature at Yale for 34 years. "Once in a while there is a sort of furtive person slinking into this building."

Bulldozing a stump in front of the Tomb's towering padlocked front doors, grounds worker Dawn Landino says that after 19 years on the job she knows "nothing" about the secret society. "I never see anyone around the Tomb," she says. "I think it's more of an after-hours club."

New Haven cabby Gerald Walthall grins knowingly. "They're supposed to have Geronimo's bones in there, but they could be anyone's bones," he says. "College kids do crazy things. . . . But because Skull and Bones doesn't tell you anything, people suspect it."

Rick Beckwith flips sausages and eggs on the grill at the Yankee Doodle diner, a Yale institution three blocks away. "From what I hear," says the New Haven native, whose grandfather opened the popular eatery 54 years ago, "it's the most powerful secret society at Yale. Looking at the number of powerful people who come out of Yale, Skull and Bones is probably everything it's made out to be."

It's no secret that Bush and Kerry are both Yalies. Bush graduated in 1968, Kerry in '66. It's no secret either that they both come from privileged preppy backgrounds. What remains shrouded in mystery is their membership in Skull and Bones, an elite, covert club for which involvement continues long past the last refrain of "Pomp and Circumstance" on graduation day.

Never before have two Bonesmen run against each other for the presidency. It's a coincidence of historic political proportions.

"What is so staggering about two Bonesmen running against each other for president is that it's a tiny club with 15 members a year and only 600-some living at any time. What are the odds?" says Alexandra Robbins, author of the 2002 book "Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power."

Don't bother asking Bush and Kerry the odds. Both would rather advocate raising taxes. Neither talks publicly about Skull and Bones -- except to say he can't talk about it.

Neither man responded to repeated requests for interviews for this article. But when Tim Russert asked Bush about Skull and Bones in February on "Meet the Press," the president said: "It's so secret we can't talk about it." When Russert asked Kerry last August what it meant that both he and Bush are Bonesmen, the Massachusetts senator replied: "Not much because it's a secret."

But the fact that both presidential candidates are Bonesmen raises a different question: How has Skull and Bones imprinted them?

Some critics say Bones produces elitist leaders who are myopic on America's social and economic challenges. Others argue that for presidential candidates to profess loyalty to a secret society -- particularly one that for a time didn't admit minorities and women -- is contrary to democratic principles.

Chicago writer and educator Steve Sewall, son of revered Yale English professor Richard B. Sewall, has even called for Bush and Kerry to resign from Skull and Bones. "They can be loyal to it, but they can't place that loyalty above the loyalty to the nation they serve," he argues.

"It is really by definition an extremely exclusive club for the wealthy and connected," says Bill Minutaglio, a Texas journalist and author of "First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty." "Put all that together and suddenly, in the year 2004, realize the two men who are running for the most important office on the planet Earth come out of that exact same mausoleum, and it should give you pause and reason to think about what it means to be privileged, enabled and protected in the United States."

A Legacy of Leadership

Skull and Bones was created in 1832 by Yale student William H. Russell, heir to a fortune made in the opium trade. During his travels, Russell linked up with an occult society in Germany and returned to New Haven with thoughts of starting a chapter, according to documents purloined during an 1876 Tomb break-in.

Rejecting the day's anti-Masonic movement that deplored all things secret, Russell lured a select few of his most promising classmates into a covenant -- sworn to secrecy for fear of repercussions by the faculty and for the prestige of exclusiveness.

Twenty-four years later, in 1856, the corporate parent of the thriving secret society, the Russell Trust Association, built the Tomb across the street from Old Campus, the university's original structures. At some early point, the society settled on a membership formula that remains today: Every spring, senior Bonesmen tap 15 juniors, students considered the most promising future leaders.

A roster of Bones alumni, known as "patriarchs," surfaced in the mid-1980s. Included are names of the nation's oldest, wealthiest and most powerful dynasties -- Whitney, Adams, Lord, Rockefeller, Payne, Pillsbury, Weyerhaeuser. Other famous names on the list: poet Archibald MacLeish; writer John Hersey; political commentator William F. Buckley; Time-Life founder Henry Luce; investment banker Dean Witter Jr. and Morgan Stanley founder Harold Stanley, among others who built Wall Street; diplomat Averill Harriman and FedEx founder Frederick Smith.

Bush's father, former president George H.W. Bush, is a Bonesman, as was his grandfather, Sen. Prescott Bush. And the family married into even more Bones links on the Walker side. As for Kerry, his brother-in-law from his first marriage was Bones; his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, was married to the late Sen. John Heinz, whose father was Bones.

Bones alumni show up as luminaries of the political power grid throughout history -- Supreme Court justices, federal judges, U.S. senators and congressmen, Cabinet members, CIA officials. And, yes, presidents -- though more Bonesmen had the president's ear than the job.

The first Bonesman in the White House was William Howard Taft, whose father was an original member. The two Bush administrations restored Bones to the presidency. If Kerry is elected, it will mean three of the last four presidents have been Bonesmen.

This legacy of Bones prominence is not surprising since Yale, like all prestigious universities, theoretically is attended by the nation's best and brightest, many of whom are from wealthy and powerful families -- a circle of success. Bones taps those who the members think are the most promising of this promising pool. But with its veil of secrecy, Bones also inspires far-fetched conspiracy theories. Skull and Bones has been accused of being a satanic group, an international Mafia, and an incubator of future agents of a "New World Order."

What feeds such suspicions is that Bonesmen are like a cross between Forrest Gump and Zelig -- always in the picture at major historical crossroads: Bonesmen oversaw development of the atomic bomb and influenced the decision to use it on Japan. They managed the postwar occupation of Germany. They helped shape U.S. Cold War policies. They were policymakers during the Vietnam War. They have ties to the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission -- two hot-button organizations for conspiracy theorists.

Conspiracy theorists have a field day over the fact that Bonesmen were among the founders of the Central Intelligence Agency. They love to point out that statues of the patriot spy Nathan Hale, Yale 1773, stand on both the university's campus and the CIA's headquarters in Langley.

But there's a simple explanation for the "cloak-and-gown connection," says Gaddis Smith, Yale history professor emeritus who is writing a book on modern Yale. During the Second World War, bright students from Yale, Harvard and Princeton were recruited into the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor of the CIA.

"Part of it was they found more people with European language skills here than they would out of Nebraska State," says Smith. After the war, the new CIA continued to recruit Yale grads, as well as other Ivy Leaguers -- no big conspiracy there.

As for Hale, captured 30 minutes into his first mission, he was "the nation's first and least successful spy," says Smith. He is remembered for his final words before British troops hanged him: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Says Ron Rosenbaum, a journalist who wrote the first Bones exposé in a 1977 Esquire article and continues to investigate the society: "Many of the people who helped shape the American national character in the past century had their character shaped in part by the bones of Skull and Bones, but this is not a secret cabal that rules the world. It is an underreported network of influence and power."

Believing the society was exclusionary, William Sloane Coffin, Bones '49, refused to associate with it during the '60s and '70s, when, as Yale's chaplain, he was renowned for his civil rights and antiwar leadership. But even so, he says today, Bones brothers leave Yale bound together for life and determined to make a difference.

Caught in the Courtyard

Much of what's public about Skull and Bones is lore, and some of it sounds more sophomoric than snobbish. Most Bones alumni contacted for this story did not reply; a few spoke, though willingness to be identified was rare.

To research her book, Robbins -- Yale '98 and a member of Scroll and Key, another Yale secret society -- says she contacted more than 300 Bonesmen; about 100 talked, but few would be identified. And since the book was published, she has been snubbed by fellow Key members.

Rosenbaum says much of his information comes from disenchanted girlfriends of Bonesmen. Rosenbaum became fascinated with Skull and Bones when, as an undergraduate in the same class as Bush, he lived next to the Tomb. After nightfall one Saturday in April 2001, he and a videotaping crew hid on a perch in Weir Hall overlooking the Tomb's back courtyard and filmed what he believes was the climax of a Skull and Bones initiation. It was a ritual that sounds like a frat party gone medieval.

The ceremony was coarse with sexual taunts, loud with shrieking and groaning, and centered on "mystical mumbo jumbo," Rosenbaum says. Bonesmen emerged in hooded robes, some carrying skulls and femur-sized bones, one dressed as the devil, another in a George W. Bush mask. Each of the 15 initiates knelt, kissed a skull and had his throat ceremoniously cut.

"This is conjecture," says Rosenbaum, "but I feel that the death imagery is designed to instill a sense of mortality, to turn preppy Prince Hals into people who have a sense of a larger mission in life."

After initiation, new members spend a week with Bones patriarchs on Deer Island, the 40-acre New York "resort" the Russell Trust Association owns on the St. Lawrence River. In the 2000 movie "The Skulls," a fictional murder mystery based loosely on Bones legend, the gathering is a hedonistic welcome that showers sports cars, fat bank accounts and prostitutes on the increasingly smug initiates. Robbins and Rosenbaum say the reality is more likely a G-rated version.

In September, the 15 new members are said to meet twice weekly to reveal their sexual histories. Some accounts say each member lies naked in a stone coffin and describes his most intimate experiences while masturbating, but Robbins speculates that the coffin confessions went out of style decades ago and Bonesmen now fess up more civilly.

The goal, supposedly, is to create lasting bonds. "That's why they do the sexual history," she says. "If you want to form best friendships as quickly as possible, it makes sense."

"Quirky, mawkish, sophomoric, whatever you want to call it," says Coffin, who just published "Credo," a book of reflections. "I can only say that in 1949, even for a pretty skeptical guy like me, it worked. It worked for the whole group."

The Secret Handshake

What is a network of friendships to some is an old-boy network to others.

"There's no specific creed that they are supposed to go out and spread," says Robbins. "They do have this agenda to further and bolster their superiority complex . . . and to get its members into positions of power, and to have those members hire other members into similar positions of power."

Many would argue that's how any fraternity -- or any circle of friends and associates, for that matter -- would operate.

Since Bush moved into the White House, he has nominated or appointed at least 10 Bonesmen to prestigious positions -- among them the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bill Donaldson, '53; Assistant Attorney General Robert McCallum, '68; General Counsel to the Office of Homeland Security Edward McNally, '79; and his close friend Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Roy Austin, '68.

"What's interesting about Bush is how he distances himself from the Eastern Establishment while he is installing it in high offices," says Robbins.

Bush has also benefited from Bones on his path to power. His first real job, the financing of his first oil company, his lucrative partnership owning the Texas Rangers baseball team, the big money backing his campaigns -- all had Bones backing, says Minutaglio.

"George W. went from being a self-described 'Good-time Charlie' to president of the United States largely with the help of an inner circle of his parents' friends, his own trusted pals, and brothers from Yale and Skull and Bones," he says.

But what bothers Minutaglio more is the influence he thinks Bones has had on Bush. "The Bushes like to talk about folks who are 'good men,' and they use that term almost in the sense of King Arthur and the Round Table," he says.

For a chunk of its history, Skull and Bones was criticized as a male WASP stronghold. While numbers aren't accessible, Smith and Robbins say Bones has tapped Jews since the 1930s and blacks and gays since the '60s, though only in token numbers until recent decades. Since the '90s, according to Robbins and Yale President Richard Levin, Yale's growing ethnic diversity has been reflected in Bones membership.

But the old-boy network couldn't accept women quite as easily. After Yale began admitting women in 1969, the first Bonesmen to try to tap them were in the Class of '71. The attempt was thwarted by outraged patriarchs -- among them McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson; investment banker Jonathan Bush, George W.'s uncle; and John "Tex" McCrary, the public relations legend. They threatened to shut the Tomb for a year and choose the next Bones class themselves.

In 1991, the patriarchs did lock down the Tomb to rebuff that class's intention to tap women. After a lawsuit was filed, women were approved narrowly. Since then, speculates Robbins, Bones has tapped five to eight women per class.

Russell Cangelosi, Bones '72 and a high school history teacher and head football coach in Tennessee, says Bones always sought diversity, in one way or another. "Where else would a jock . . . get to debate issues with an actor, a singer, a symphony musician, or a writer for the Yale Daily News? You can't get a bunch like that to agree on very much of anything, much less conspire as a group. Yet, the experience is priceless."

View From the Top

Arguably, in the larger context of Yale itself, Skull and Bones doesn't seem quite so mysterious. Framed on the wall in Yale President Richard Levin's office in Woodbridge Hall is the founding charter, dated 1701. By today's standards, it sounds plebeian: To establish a college where youth "may be fitted for publick employment both in church and civil state."

For more than three centuries, Yale has seen its job as educating future leaders -- from the 14 Yalies who served on the Continental Congress and four signers of the Declaration of Independence to four of the past six U.S. presidents (the two Bushes; Bill Clinton, Yale Law '67; and Gerald Ford, Yale Law '41).

This year's Democratic primary was flush with Yalies, in addition to Kerry: Joe Lieberman, '64 and Yale Law '67, and Howard Dean, '71. They and President Bush were undergrads when then-Yale President Kingman Brewster proclaimed Yale's goal to be to produce "one thousand male leaders every year." After Brewster turned the university coed in 1969, the statement was trimmed to "one thousand leaders."

Levin, who has been president for 11 years, often refers to Yale as "a laboratory for leadership." Aside from the university's acclaimed academic life, Yale provides undergrads a wealth of opportunities to lead. Registered on campus are 250 student organizations.

"With only 1,300 seniors, roughly one in five or six becomes the head of an organization," says Levin, sitting in the rocking chair favored by Yale President Ezra Stiles in the 1780s.

Lieberman was chairman of the Yale Daily News. Kerry was president of the Yale Political Union, the long-standing debate forum on campus. Bush presided over Delta Kappa Epsilon, the national fraternity founded more than 150 years ago at Yale.

Former Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke, Yale '71, recalls that during his junior year, he proposed to Yale administrators that the class start a child-care center -- a rarity then. "Rather than having somebody say, 'That's a silly idea' or 'Come back 20 years from now when you're successful and can fund it,' there was encouragement. There was a sense of 'Give it a try and see what you can do,'" says Schmoke, now dean of Howard Law School. "Yale embraces the notion of its students thinking like leaders and doing what leaders do."

Moreover, Lieberman, Kerry, Bush and Dean were at Yale during a politically potent 11-year span ripe for sparking leadership. The early '60s were a time when a dashing Ivy-educated president inspired a generation to ask what they could do for their country. By the time Kerry gave the Class Day speech before graduation, Vietnam was turning bad and he expressed his class's concerns about the war. But true to the Yale motto, "For God, for Country and for Yale," he enlisted in the Navy and served.

Two years later, Bush and the class of '68 straddled the cultural divide that split the nation over mounting casualties and diminishing credibility in a controversial war. By the time Dean graduated in '71, the Yale campus, and nation, was a powder keg of disaffection.

"No doubt politics was in the air, it was something people talked about and thought about," says Levin. "But the specific thing about Yale is that it's really less a creation of the '60s than it is a product of long tradition."

Looking out of his office windows, Levin can see Scroll and Key's headquarters. In a sense, Skull and Bones is just a microcosm of Yale's culture of leadership, he suggests. "The truth is, it looks more prominent from the outside than from the inside. . . . It is not fraught with all the significance that the outside world tends to give to it."

What the Launderer Saw

Outside the Tomb, a laundry service truck pulls up to the curb. Ben Barrett climbs out and goes down a flight of steps to a basement side door and returns with a large bag of dirty laundry.

He regularly picks up Skull and Bones's dirty laundry.

Ever anything weird?

"Just tablecloths, napkins," he says.

No hooded robes? No devil costumes?

"Nope. Just linens and tablecloths."

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I JUST FOUND OUT, TO MY SURPRISE, FROM WATCHING THE MOVIE "BOBBY"
THAT THE PRESIDENT-TO-BE WAS MUCH LIKE GHANDI, MARTIN LUTHER KING AND SIMILAR PEOPLE WHO WERE TOO GOOD TO LIVE

IN THESE LINKS YOU WILL FIND A FRAGMENT OF THE ANSWER HOW AND WHY HE WAS KILLED
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/nov/20/usa.features11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_assassination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2006/11/who_shot_bobby_kennedy_1.html
http://www.crimemagazine.com/05/robertkennedy,0508-5.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047517/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308055/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48358-2004Apr3?language=printer
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/c/c9/SS_diary-may18.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Lobby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_President's_Commission_on_CIA_activities_within_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_drug_laws
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sturgis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapata_Corporation

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Quit Yo Spasms

2008-04-15T02:06:00.001+02:00

Like my dad sayz: "You ain't got to do anything, but die."

That's also arguable, 'cause death is a direct consequence of dna-altering process.
But that is another story...

Still.. quit all this information-age-hysteria, always getting there before they do... Quit the grabbing game you've been taught to play since childhood, quit tripping people cause you think they might take your candy.

I'm sure there's some relaxing techniques that you can learn... but i don't wanna copy paste them here.
Anyway, that would be false.. just live your life, try to just enjoy it.. even briefly...
Just walk among the trees, in the sun and breathe the spring air...
And think of all the others who are trying to do the same...
Maybe then the spasm will go away.
......
......
There you go again... :|

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Help Me

2008-04-02T12:13:00.001+02:00

A song by The Beatles. Lennon sings and you think... poor man. He needs help. But that's not it.
Lennon don't need no help. He's got it made. Life made him a man who can help others. So he's actually saying help him.. help her. He sings your thoughts as you struggle through life, alone. They're saying: if only something fell from the sky and gave me a good start on my dreams. Well those things happen believe it or not. You might actually decide to help someone, sometime in the future. We all could do that. There is a definite possibility regarding this hypothetical situation.

I don't need help! ... but then again.. maybe i do?
:D?

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antioxidants and free radicals

2008-03-13T23:52:00.001+01:00

antioxidants and free radicals

Antioxidants are protective substances that help to neutralize the damaging effects of oxidative reactions occurring within in our cells. The major dietary antioxidants are the vitamins A, C, E and betacarotene plus the minerals selenium, zinc, copper and manganese. They work by neutralizing damaging free radicals, either on their own or through incorporation into antioxidant enzymes.

WHAT ARE FREE RADICALS?

As in politics, a free radical is a highly unstable entity that races round picking fights and causing damage. The chemical version consists of a variety of molecular fragments which carry a negative electrical charge.

These unstable free radicals collide with other cell molecules until they achieve stability by neutralizing their charge either through stealing a positive charge from another molecule or by off-loading their own negative one. This process is known as oxidation. It is estimated that every cell in our body is subjected to 10,000 free radical oxidations per day. This is potentially serious as:

• Oxidized cholesterol is more likely to stick to artery walls and fur them up.

• Oxidized DNA can trigger gene mutations and cancers.

• Oxidization within the eye lens may trigger cataracts.

• Oxidized cell membranes and fats lead to premature wrinkling and skin ageing.

• It is estimated that 40 per cent of sperm damage is due to the harmful effects of free radicals. Oxidized DNA in sperm can lead to:

• subfertility

• developmental abnormalities in offspring

• an increased risk of childhood cancers in offspring.

Free radicals are generated by our normal metabolic processes. Men with diabetes whose blood sugars are not tightly controlled generate twice as many free radicals as non-diabetic males. Smokers and others passively exposed to inhaled cigarette smoke or exhaust fumes also generate twice as many as their non-smoking peers.

Exposure to X-ray irradiation and to ultra-violet sunlight is a potent source of free radicals due to the energy in these waves activating and damaging cell molecules. This is one reason why both types of rays are linked with cancer. Other environmental agents that generate increased numbers of free radicals are the actions of alcohol and other drugs, especially antibiotics.

ANTIOXIDANTS

Antioxidants work by mopping up the negative charge on the free radicals without themselves becoming damaged. Their effects are summative and interlinked for example, vitamin E that has mopped up a free radical is regenerated by a chemical interaction with vitamin C.

If we can keep our levels of antioxidants optimally high, most free radicals can be neutralized before they cause any damage. That means ensuring an adequate dietary intake of vitamins C, E and betacarotene, and of the trace minerals selenium, zinc, copper and manganese.

Many experts now consider that reference nutrient intakes of antioxidant vitamins are inadequate. They were formulated to prevent deficiency diseases before the important antioxidant functions were understood.

The diets of thousands of people have been analysed and their dietary intakes of antioxidants compared with the subsequent incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and cancer. Researchers have found that those with the highest dietary antioxidant intakes have the lowest risk of developing these common killer diseases.

As a result of this work, the most protective intakes of antioxidant vitamins seem to be:

• Vitamin C: 100250 mg/day

• Vitamin E: 3080 mg/day

• Betacarotene: 15 mg/day.

Smokers and people with diabetes probably need to double these intakes. Various studies have found that:

• The risk of angina is three times higher in men with low intakes of vitamins E, C and betacarotene.

• The risk of CHD is reduced by up to 25 per cent in men taking vitamin E supplements for two years or more.

• Men with the highest intake of betacarotene have a 25 per cent lower risk of CHD.

• A high intake of vitamin C lowers the risk of CHD in men by 40 per cent and the risk of dying from it by 35 per cent.

• High intakes of betacarotene also seem to protect against cancers of the mouth, throat, larynx, oesophagus, stomach, large bowel, bladder and lung.

Vitamins C, E and betacarotene plus the mineral zinc have their own separate and combined beneficial effects on sperm health (see Chapters 19 and 20). These effects are mostly due to their antioxidant properties.

The Perfect Mix Search - VITAMIN E

2008-03-13T23:40:00.002+01:00

The Perfect Mix Search VITAMIN E:

Vitamin E supplementation as an antioxidant that, at the least, can help prevent damaging lipid oxidation and some of the health concerns associated with it.The trial involved 22 runners who performed in a 50km 'ultramarathon'. Half of the runners were given daily supplements of 1,000 milligrams vitamin C and 400 international units of vitamin E for six weeks prior to the race, while the other half ate only their normal, healthy diet.An analysis of biomarkers in the control group showed significant increases in lipid peroxidation following the race - these biomarkers were at levels that are often seen after someone has had a heart attack. The runners taking vitamins C and E were comparatively normal."This study clearly showed that supplementation with these antioxidant vitamins could help prevent the significant levels of lipid oxidation that are associated with intense exercise," said Angela Mastaloudis, co-author on the study.She added that the people who did not take supplements but had a vitamin E intake around the amount recommended by US health authorities did not gain those protective benefits.The findings may have ramifications far beyond people who undergo unusual exercise regimens. Oxidative stress and higher levels of lipid oxidation are seen in a wide range of health problems, ranging from diabetes to heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, smoking and even obesity, the researchers said.

Conclusion: 400 IU probably, but since it can be toxic in large quantities, BE CAREFUL! I personally took 400 IU for a while and felt GREAT.

The Perfect Mix Search - Vitamin C

2008-03-13T23:25:00.001+01:00

The Perfect Mix Search

VITAMIN C:

HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?

While a mere 60 mg a day can prevent scurvy, the deficiency disease first identified by Dr. James Lind in 1753, it would be illogical to assume that this is the optimal dose. A survey of doctors in the US found that those who were healthiest consumed at least 250 mg of vitamin C per day. A recent survey has shown that a person's vitamin status is a good predictor of their mortality risk. High blood vitamin C levels indicate a low risk for cardiovascular disease and certain types of cancer and other immune based diseases. Optimal intakes to reduce risk of such conditions would appear to be at least 500 mg per day.

Vitamin C produced per day by different animal species
(equivalent for 70 Kg Man)

Goat 2,280 - 13,300 mg
Rat 2,737 - 13,902 mg
Rabbit 1,547 - 15,820 mg
Cow 1,099 - 1,281 mg
Mouse 2,352 - 19,250 mg
Sheep 1,736 mg
Cat 336 - 2,800 mg

Dr. Michael Colgan investigated how much vitamin C we use by giving increasing daily doses and measuring excretion. "Only a quarter of our subjects reached their vitamin C maximum at 1,500 mg a day. More than half required over 2,500 mg a day to reach a level where their bodies could use no more. Four subjects did not reach their maximum at 5,000 mg." Increasing vitamin C intake from 50 mg to 500 mg tends to double serum vitamin C levels. Increasing intake to 5,000 mg a day will double serum levels again.

How Much Is Too Much?
Dr. Robert Cathcart believes the ideal intake for any individual is the highest level they can tolerate without loose bowels. On the basis of his experience with 11,000 patients over 14 years this bowel tolerance level may be 10 to 15 grams in a healthy person, 30 to 60 grams in a person with a cold, and over 199 grams per day in a person with a serious infectious illness. During an infectious illness the best clinical results have been achieved by maintaining high vitamin C levels in the blood through 3 or more grams every four hours.
Fortunately, vitamin C is one of the least toxic substances known to man. Four studies gave 10 grams of vitamin C to over 3000 patients without a single reported incidence of toxicity. Other than the bowels there has not been one single case of toxicity resulting from taking vitamin C supplements, despite unfounded reports of potential risk for kidney stones, raising blood uric acid levels, or 'rebound' scurvy. It is unlikely that any vitamin has been tested to such an extent for toxicity and it is safe to assume that supplemental levels of at least 10 grams a day, or up to bowel tolerance, are completely safe.
WHAT IS OPTIMUM
Whichever way you look at it the figures come out in the same ballpark. The optimum intake is likely to be in the region of 1,000 mg (1 gram) to 10,000 mg (10 grams) per day, If you are in the grips of cardiovascular disease, an infectious or immune system disease, or cancer the ideal level may be much higher. If you drink excessive amounts of alcohol, live in a polluted city, have a stressful lifestyle, take drugs including aspirin, or smoke, your optimal intake will again be raised. An intake of 200 to 300 mg of vitamin C per day is required to raise the average smoker's vitamin C level to that of a non-smoker. An intake of around 50 mg per cigarette probably affords maximum protection.
Albert Szent Gyorgi, who isolated vitamin C in 1928, recommends 1 gram daily. Dr. Michael Colgan takes 5 grams daily. Dr. Linus Pauling takes 10 to 18 grams daily. I take 5 grams daily on top of a diet rich in food sources of vitamin C. The choice is yours.
SOURCE
( I "STOLE" THIS HELPFUL HEALTHY INFO FROM ) : http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/mega_1_1.html

CONCLUSION: So, it's probably in between 1g and 5g a day. Much less than we get anyway.

*** THIS MIGHT JUST BE A HOAX, AN ATTEMPT TO GET YOU TO BUY MORE SUPPLEMENTS, BUT THEN AGAIN, IT'S CERTAINLY NOT TOO FAR AWAY FROM THE TRUTH.

Goat	2,280 - 13,300 mg
Rat	2,737 - 13,902 mg
Rabbit	1,547 - 15,820 mg
Cow	1,099 - 1,281 mg
Mouse	2,352 - 19,250 mg
Sheep	1,736 mg
Cat	336 - 2,800 mg

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Nations at War

2008-01-25T00:47:00.001+01:00

Why do these things happen?

Someone has allways been able to convince mass quantities of young men that another large group of young man has gone CRAZY and wants to kill them all!
And that other group has their own figure of authority that will assure them of the fact that it's the other group of young man that's gone CRAZY and that they are the ones who should be killed.

Yet, wherever you go - people seem to be quite the same - they live their lives, eat, drink, dress themselves, they fall in love with someone, live their happy and miserable lives.
No one seems CRAZY to me !
Where are these men who have decided to kill everyone they can and rule the world by force ?
Who says we want to go and rip each other heads off and guts out ?
It seems that these CRAZY people are very few, yet, CRAZY as they are, they allways somehow manage to convince mass quantities of young men that another large group of young man has gone CRAZY and wants to kill them all.!

Are you willing to believe this ?

I bet you secretly yearn to go and rip some young dude's heart out ?

I bet that's what you wanna remember for the rest of your days, that,
"right" or "not", you robbed another human being of it's life.
It was in it's prime, still willing to learn and experience things,
pretty things and ugly things, and then you came and SNUFFED it's life out !

I bet that feels good.
That sure is something to tell your grandchildren about with pride.
So that when they grow up, they too can believe the story,
and follow in their grandfather's footsteps,
so they can kill themselves
a couple of young fellas.

The Solution To All Our Problems

2007-12-26T02:47:00.002+01:00

THE SOLUTION TO ALL OUR PROBLEMS

IS
TO
ACCEPT
AND
UNDERSTAND
ONE THING
:::
YOUR ONLY PURPOSE IN LIFE
IS
TO MAKE OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES BETTER
AND
AT ONCE
ALL OF A SUDDEN
YOU WILL HAVE SOLVED ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS
ALL OF MY PROBLEMS
EVERYONE'S...
:::
CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF
THE MATHEMATICAL EQUATION DOESN'T LIE

Who i'd like, totally, like... love to meet

2007-12-26T02:18:00.001+01:00

Someone liiike...

Marisa

Chloe

Patricia

Mila

.... and other interesting persons
from around the world :)

:)))

Chris Rock done EXPLAAAAAAAINED sum' thingz !

2007-08-11T14:39:00.000+02:00

It's happened AGAIN today !

The same mind-reading kinda shit..
like the one i had with Waking Life and similar stuff...

It was like someone took my exact thoughts, some of the most important ones at that, wrote 'em down and based this stand-up comedy show i was watching upon them.

I was watching Chris Rock standups like "Never Scared" and "Bigger and Blacker" and let me tell you one thing:

THIS GUY EXPLAAAAAINED....

Yes, he done EXPLAAAAINED, like we say here in Serbia.

Y'know - he explained some shit - to the fullest.

And it's good to see that...... Someone knows!

Yeah, he exaggerates a bit sometimes but all that stuff, all the exclusive, over-punctuated shit this man says is NECCESARY.
Yes, it's NECCESARY to get into some people's thick heads and make them LISTEN.
Make them UNDERSTAAAAND, you know?
This is good - - - but this is BAAAD.
This i like, but that other stuff I DOOON'T, y'know?

The man (C.R.) says:
"Everybody's so busy wantin to be down with the gang, going
"i'm a conservative - i'm liberal, i'm a conservative - i'm liberal"
THAT'S BULLSHIT !!

Be a fuckin PERSON.... LISTEN !!

Let it swirl arround your head! ............THEN - form an oppinion.

NO - NORMAL - DECENT - PERSON - IS ONE THING.

I got some shit i'm conservative about, i got some shit i'm liberal about......"

.....
and THAT'S EXACTLY MY POINT !!
Fuck your gang, your party, your clique, your clan.

Never make up your mind IN ADVANCE.

NO - NORMAL - DECENT - PERSON - DOES THAT ! ! !
..............
And the whole stand-up(s) he did. Everything he said... it's too much to quote here.. I'm down with all o'that.
Even when he bashes and disses some groups of people on a general basis.
IT'S NECCESARY !
PEOPLE JUST DON'T LISTEN!
THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND UNLESS YOU BREAK IT DOWN FOR THEM.
EVEN EXAGGERATE A LITTLE, OR A LOT...
IT'S NECCESARY !

Just go find, watch Chris Rock's standups.
That dude EXPLAINED
...nuff said.

AND PLEASE READ MY PREVIOUS POSTS !

COMMENT !

PAR-TI-CI-PATE !
..
THANK YOU !

Nismo

2007-08-01T03:12:00.000+02:00

This is just my sorry-ass song about
how my girlfriend and me split-up simply
because we didn't love each other enough.
It's in Serbian, but you don't need to
know what it says anyway.
So just skip it.
There's better things 2 read here.

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Ja sam chesto bio aljkav
Ti josh cheshtje sebichna
A nismo se bash dovoljno
Ni voleli ti i ja

Ja sam stalno bio zbunjen
A ti malo naporna
Ne, nismo se bash dovoljno
Ni voleli ti i ja.

Ja te ipak opet vidim
Svaki dan u mislima
A pitam se da li i ti
Vidish isto shto i ja

Kao uvek, k'o ranije,
Kada si sve videla,
Kao da si mi iz glave
Misli prepisivala

I znala si josh i tada
Koliko si meni vazna
I koliko ce da boli
Kada odesh dalje, mala

Ali to sad nema veze
I napokon shvatam ja
Da i nismo bash dovoljno
Voleli se ti i ja.

The "ROBIN HOOD" Law

2007-07-22T04:36:00.004+02:00

The New "Robin Hood" Law OR
The Start of Equal Opportunities OR
Whatever You Want to Call It

INTRODUCTION
(feel free to skip this part)

I know (in fact.. i think) i'm not the first one to come up with this idea but the way i am, i will never consult literature just to make sure.
I've allways respected other people's opinions and when they match or closely resemble mine i am very proud and feel great accomplishment and satisfaction, but i will never be a blind follower of anyone or anything. I will question highest authorithies and might even totally disapprove of something the whole world says i shoud approve of. I think you should do the same thing and allways think for yourself.
No philosopher or scientist (or any other "great unquestionable authority" on anything) can ever tell you how to live and perceive your life or what kind of human being you will be.
You should only judge yourself for you will allways know when you could have done the right thing, but didn't.
Even when you fool yourself and lie to yourself, you will know.

STRAIGHT TO THE POINT

What i've been thinking about for quite some time is beginning to have a name attached to it in my thought patterns or whatever they are. It's because you allways have to find a way to transfer, to convey your message upon other people. Some of them are smarter than you, some aren't, but we are not better or worse because of it. All people like it when they see or hear thoughts of another human being that they can understand.
So i have gradually over time began to use a name that about sums up my main point in this matter - The Robin Hood Law.
I've wanted to somehow start this topic off anywhere and on any scale. Local or global. Big or small. Doesn't matter just as long as it doesn't end up like some of my other ideas that get overwhelmed with a swarm of fresh, new ones. Didn't want it to happen to this one. Allthough it might not be the greatest idea i ever had (and forgotten about) i think it's rather important.
The idea is (and i will draw it for you) that we have a society built upon centuries and milleniums of rather primitive, uncivilized, unjust history. History that was allways shaped and influenced by blind accumulation of power. By power i mean assets, in most, but not all cases. Gold, land, slaves, money, any kind of goods were blindly accumulated because that's the way a man could feel safe and in control. In those cruel and primitive days it often seemed like the only thing to do in order to get what you want, in order to have any real influence on the world arround you. More power and when you get it, more power. In any form.
The 21st century, or the information age brought a flood of opinions expressed, thoughts exchanged and we are witnessing a sort of a revolution going on in terms of common people speaking out and teaming up, collaborating to correct what they see is wrong arround them or simply trying to improve an average man's life... or more precisely, every man's life.
It's happening right now and it's "in its diapers", so to speak.
It's not a violent revolution, you might even exclude the word revolution alltogether.
It's a river that's calmly and confidently flowing toward it's natural goal, whatever or wherever it may be.

I've drawn a picture

It represents the earth and it's population concerning their "financial" status.
The GREEN part of our planet is in "the safe" meaning that they can do anything they want because their existence is assured. They won't starve and they don't have to live in the parts of the world where human rights are the last on the list of priorities. They enjoy a very comfortable life, endulge themselves in every possible way that they can imagine, with a few worthy exceptions that stop to think and really do care about other people, their needs and their rights.

The YELLOW part represents those of us who have the opportunity to make a difference, the majority of people on this planet who work for a living, didn't inherit tons of gold or oil, whatever people inherit these days. They don't cheat anyone and don't really care about "making it big" or they're not determined/tallented enough to realy "make it big" in terms of accumulating power. Some of these people work and live very hard lives, with occasional bits of joy and very little time for entertainment or anything else they would wanna do besides work for survival. Nobody is really asking them what they think is wrong or what should be fixed with the money and products they generate and provide services that make the world tick and make all the "wealthy" people more wealthy. I could go on and on but thats enough i think.

The RED part represents the people who are not able to choose their way in life. They are simply pushed into a situation that will make them starve, die of disease or a bullet or a bomb, or radiation.. or be a victim of intollerance and ignorance.

Now the first picture i drew isn't entirely accurate. It's too optimistic, healthy and sane to represent our reality.
A more accurate
and an even worse drawing :)
looks like this.

...I KNOW, I KNOW
IT LOOKS LIKE A BROKEN CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATION : ))))

BUT THIS IS NOT FUNNY !! : ))
NO, REALLY, IT'S NOT. : |

Here you can see our world, deformed through milleniums of struggle for power.

The GREEN "spike" on top is all-but-completely-detached from the rest of the population.
A lot of the YELLOW-status people are poisoned by the idea of getting into the imaginary "spike", an idea supported by nothing but imaginary numbers in secret bank accounts.
The YELLOW-statuspeople are intentionally being poisoned and lied to in order to keep this illusion of power and make people envy the ones who are "better off" and hunger for it.
All in order to stop the people from getting what they really want, what they know is right and true, but are too busy chasing after their crumbs of power.
The people "in the RED" are standing on thin ground, the earth is eroding arround them. The sun is burning through the holes, and they have no home, nowhere to hide. Nobody taught them how to survive. Nobody was there to feed them untill they got bigger. All they ever got was misery and death.
This world doesn't love them, and they don't have to think about it. It's obvious.

What i'm proposing is a law, an initiative in any form. To enforce moderation of power. To cut a little bit off the spike and move it right down to the erroding bottom. Every now and then when things get too rough. And no organisations. No human aid -you-can't-see-what-we're-doing-but-it's-all-good kind of thing. An exact ammount (based on a percentage) shall be subtracted, and then evenly divided.

And maybe i'll continue this story later... right now it's very hot and the dawn is upon this part of the beautiful world we all call Earth.

Well what do you say?
Would you vote for the Robin Hood Law?
No more all-powerfull people who can do what ever they want with anyone or anything?
No more 2 people doing exact same jobs but for 20 times less money compared to one another?
No more poor tortured human beings who never had their chance?
Would you vote for something like that?
Education, creation, working together to make this world better and safer and pretty as it once was?
WOULD YOU?

P.S.
AFTER i wrote this i looked up "Robin Hood Law" on Google and to my surprise there allready is such a thing. But it's some minor Texas (USA) law which is ok by my standards (concerns taxes and education) but not really related to my idea and it obviously doesn't solve any major problems.

Free

2007-07-15T00:41:00.000+02:00

This is a poem i wrote a few years back,
entitled "Free", now translated into English.

Free

You're free only if you love all of them,
The ugly, the stupid and the ill-tempered men.

Whilst in the Dungeon of Despise, you'll suffer.
There's no one to warm your heart and to buffer

The hate that rots and freezes you inside,
Forever trapped, in your Dungeon you will hide.

2007-07-15T00:39:00.000+02:00

Just some thoughts which turned into a rhyme in my head.
Not exactly all-positive stance. Not entirely correct.
More of a neutral, balanced point of view that says
"i will not waste myself on useless, futile attempts.
giving & helping someone who will never learn anything
from it is a waste. there are better, more important things
2 do".

Share

I share with the ones that want to share
And care 'bout the ones that want to care

Won't share with the ones that will not share
Nor care 'bout the ones that do not care

I don't really require/demand anything of you.
Only that which you wantz 2 give me.

Though i'd like you 2 do only good things and true
And if i'm wrong than please forgive me.

Share with the ones that want to share
Care 'bout the ones that want to care

Don't share with the ones that will not share
Nor care 'bout the ones that do not care

When someone asks you Who You Are...

2007-07-13T21:22:00.000+02:00

I was watching this movie called "One Giant Leap" with my friends the other day, and i felt as if someone took my own thoughts from the past 10 or 15 years and put them on a roll of film. It's allways nice to hear and see your own thoughts and ideas being so perfectly and punctually explained.

Nothing new to me but watching this movie brought a great sense of joy and satisfaction, accomplishment, reassurance. Someone knew the truth and had the means to convey it upon more and more people.
The education is starting. We are getting civilized at last. No one can stop the human being from thinking! It happened once before also... with a movie called Waking Life.

Sometimes i come to these points through conversation with my friends but we rarely manage to reach this level of relevance. Usually when i tried to convey my thoughts i would get a response like "You're living in faerytale land. Stop being naive... stop dreaming, wake up." ... it's not a point if the person i was having the conversation with agreed with me or not - they would allways (well, allmost allways, and i consider that being very lucky) end the conversation with a conclusion like "You have to start thinking practically, people have no time for dreams nowdays, you have to come down to earth and think about yourself... make some money... don't be so soft and naive, don't think about what's right and good all the time..." and similar statements.

I remember my ex-girlfriend once told me that i got to step on people in order to climb and get what i want. Allthough she understood me and wanted the exact same things she was taught by life itself that you got to be mean to people if you want their respect.
But what she (and all those other people who learned one way or another that you have to be evil in order to succeed and achieve your goals) didn't or wouldn't understand is that you teach others just the way someone taught you.

If you're lucky, you will escape this machine, this system of education or mis-education.... counter-education, and you will think for yourself. You will not just "be practical" when you're exactly the oposite of that. You will not think about gaining more power relentlessly threading on other people. You will not teach others to work against each other as if they simply CAN'T WORK TOGETHER. Simply because all the things we do, we do them out of need for something better than we allready have, something we need, or think we need. That's not an individual thing.

You're not the first man in the history of mankind who wanted to eat good food and be healthy, breathe clean air, not worry about getting shot or poisoned by radiation. You're not the first man who wants to raise his children and see them play happily with other children. These are all mutual goals. The last thing we need to do in order to achieve our goals is fight against each other. The last thing we need to teach each other is not to trust anyone, which is "common knowledge" nowdays. Why are we so good at teaching each other destruction and deceit?

If i subtract from your "belongings" and add to mine, i will get much less then if we multiply our efforts and split the benefits in two. A simple calculation leads to reason. You just have to disregard what the world has "taught" you, or what has been forced upon your mind, and start thinking for yourself. It's not an easy thing to do. I struggle with it every day, but it's a worthy struggle and it brings me great joy whenever i win a fight against my "dark side".

Just by living you are obviously trying to make things better for yourself. That's what we all do, otherwise we would just kill ourselves right now. You just have to forget going through life superficially as if someone else has decided what you will think and know and understand that there's a lot of people who don't want YOU to learn anything at all. They need you to think this way in order for them to satisfy their own greed. It's like a disease, and the ones "at the top" keep spreading it "downwards" on this scale of "power", while all of you who embrace this way of life are bound to end up unhappy and feel empty no matter how much power you accumulate.

So whenever someone asks you Who You Are....
what is your answer?

"A doctor"... "a computer expert".. "stock broker"... "journalist" - that's just what you do.
Sometimes it's just the way you make money because you have to survive.

THAT'S NOT WHO YOU ARE !

You are,
in fact,
a
HUMAN BEING,
and
what YOU DO
is
YOU LIVE!

Human Being

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Who i'd like, totally, like... love to meet

Chris Rock done EXPLAAAAAAAINED sum' thingz !

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