Monday, August 13, 2012

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Platform of the Green Party of Mississippi
Adopted June 2004, Revised May 2012
I. Democracy
II. Social Justice and Equal Opportunity
III. Environmental Sustainability

We, the members of the Green Party of Mississippi, affirm as our first principle that government may only exist as an instrument whereby the People may govern themselves. Governments may exist only with the consent of the People which the People may withdraw or withhold at any time. The purpose of government is to secure and preserve to the People as individuals the inherent rights of all individual human beings. These rights include, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." We affirm our intention to work for the respect and acknowledgement of individual human rights by all people and governments consistent with the values and principles set forth in this Platform. We affirm that we do this work as one small part of the greater work of all Greens and their progressive allies towards the establishment and/or maintenance of free and democratic government in all our respective states throughout the world.
1. Corporate Intrusion into the Political Process
a. The greatest threat to what is left of our democracy after many years of assaults on the sovereignty of the American people is the ability of special interests to purchase the loyalty of those who are nominally the people's elected representatives. This purchase is accomplished through a corrupt system of campaign finance and corporate lobbying based on soft money contributions, political action committees, and post-public service rewards. We are unalterably opposed to this system and, in the name of the freedom and democracy for which this nation is supposed to stand, will do everything in our power to bring about its destruction.
b. We propose comprehensive campaign finance reform. including caps on spending and contributions at the national and state levels, and/or full public financing of elections to remove undue influence in political campaigns. We will work to ban or greatly limit political action committees and restrict soft money contributions. We also support significant lobbying regulation, including strict rules that disclose the extent of political lobbying via gifts and contributions, broad based reforms of government operations, congressional reorganization, and ethics laws at every level of government.
2. We support instant runoff voting. Instant runoff voting is already in use in several other countries and some municipalities in the U.S.. It allows voters to rank their choices first, second, third, etc. and operates like a series of runoff elections, but without the expense of holding an actual runoff election. If a voter's first choice doesn't win, the vote transfers to the second choice, and so on. Instant runoff voting allows voters to vote their conscience without "wasting" their vote on a candidate not likely to win, or being forced into choosing between the "lesser of two evils.
3. We favor the passage of a "clean money" law such as that of Arizona whereby any candidate who gathers 200 checks from individuals of $5 each becomes eligible for more than $25,000 in public money. The cost of the program would be paid by a $5 state income tax check-off, a dollar for dollar tax credit of up to $50 for direct contributions to the system, and a 10% surcharge on civil and criminal fines.
4. The intrusion of corporations into American political life must be stopped. Corporations are artificial persons not endowed with the same rights to free speech, freedom of religion, and other constitutional rights as natural persons. We therefore favor an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Mississippi that recognizes these rights to accrue only to "natural persons."
5. Municipal political parties should be allowed to organize without the existence of state or county parties.
6. County political parties should be allowed to organize without the existence of a state party.
7. We favor the passage of a fusion law similar to that of the state of New York allowing different political parties to nominate the same candidate for state, county, and municipal political offices.
8. Individuals should be allowed to be members of a state political party without being members of a county or municipal party.
9. We oppose at-large elections as diluting the voting strength of minorities.
10. No Mississippi elected official should be compensated by law at more than twice the individual median income for Mississippians. If our elected officials want salary increases they should be required to earn them by raising the standard of living of the people they presumably represent.
11. We support sunshine laws that open up the political system to access by all citizens. We call for vigorous enforcement of existing open meeting and open records laws in Mississippi.
12. We call for election days to be designated state holidays and for other measures calculated to inform, educate, and motivate voters. Among these measures should be state-organized voter registration outreach to all high school seniors.
13. The state law denying felons their voting rights even after they have served their sentences and completed their paroles is unjust to ex-convicts who are sincerely attempting to rehabilitate themselves and unconstitutional under the Eighth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. We believe that it should be repealed.
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A. Education
1. The ultimate purpose of education, although it should include job training, is to help children become scholars and citizens taught to question, reason, and discern, not employees and consumers taught to produce, consume, and obey. This is the guiding principle behind all Green Party of Mississippi education policies.
2. We believe in ridding public schools of all institutionalized commercial messages and marketing tactics targeted at students.
3. We support school funding equalization so that schools in poor districts receive as much per-student funding as schools in wealthy districts.
4. We support action by the state designed to improve performance by rural and under funded school districts. Such programs would include incentives to students to enter the teaching profession and incentives to teachers to work in disadvantaged districts. Counties in which all or some public schools fail to reach an adequate level of academic achievement should be encouraged to consolidate.
5. End tracking and train teachers to deal with multiple levels of achievement in the same classroom.
6. We support programs to train teachers through an apprenticeship system which includes hands-on classroom experience under the supervision of experienced teachers.
7. We support classroom programs whereby the more advanced students in a class tutor the less advanced.
8. Birth control information and sexually-transmitted diseases (STD)-prevention information should be disseminated through a program of sex education. We support realistic, practical instruction, not limited to "abstinence only" programs. Mississippi's infamous teen pregnancy rate, usually the highest in the nation, and the spread of STD's, especially AIDS and HIV are public health issues that must be addressed rationally and scientifically.
9. We oppose school vouchers, for-profit, and religious charter schools.
10. We support the repeal of the law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in all Mississippi public school classrooms. All copies of the Ten Commandments now in Mississippi classrooms should be returned to their donors.
11. We call for the public election of local school superintendents.
12. All employers should be encouraged to provide a certain amount of paid time off, upon request and on a regular basis, for parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's education.
13. All children should have access to a choice of fully funded academic and vocational post-secondary educational services. Stipends should provide living expenses and all books, fees, and tuition should be publicly funded.
14. We favor bilingual education. Children whose first language is not English need instructional programs that retain and improve command of their native language while building English proficiency.
15. We favor enhanced foreign language and cultural instruction in primary and secondary schools as a way to prepare students to live in a global society.
16. To raise the quality of higher education in Mississippi, we favor the hiring of larger numbers of full time, tenure track university faculty and thus, decreased dependence on adjunct, part-time faculty and teaching assistants; the reduction of the standard instructor teaching load in the Community College system to the national average, four courses per term; regional and national candidate searches to fill faculty slots in the Community College system; and the raising of university faculty salaries to the Southeastern average as a tool for faculty recruitment and retention.
17. We support the right of faculty and staff at all state educational institutions to form unions and enter into collective bargaining agreements with school boards and the Community College and Institutions of Higher Learning Boards.
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B. Health Care
1. We believe that the state of Mississippi should support publicly owned county and regional hospitals as a step towards universal healthcare.
2. We support state-financed malpractice insurance to enable doctors and nurses to practice in the state of Mississippi without unreasonable expenses and without fear of unfair malpractice claims.
3. We support state-financed healthcare provider education at in-or-out-of-state accredited programs to be reimbursed by practice in the underserved rural areas of Mississippi after graduation.
4. The state of Mississippi should not interfere with reproductive freedom. Abortion should be covered by state healthcare funding.
5. We support initiatives to address the epidemic of AIDS and HIV disease, including education, availability of condoms, and access to healthcare for HIV-infected individuals.
C. Economic Justice/Social Safety Net
1. We support an immediate increase of the legal hourly wage to at least $2.00 over the federal minimum wage in all municipalities and counties in the state of Mississippi and in all state funded hourly wage positions. Corporations receiving state, county, and municipal contracts should be required to pay their employees a living wage.
2. We support state funding of living wage jobs in community and environmental service.
3. We oppose the use of the state of Mississippi's eminent domain powers to acquire land or other property for the use of corporations or other for-profit entities. The power of eminent domain must be used for the public good and not for the enrichment of private interests.
4. We favor financial and technical incentives for the creation of worker or consumer cooperatives or democratic public enterprises.
5. We favor financial and technical incentives for the creation of publicly owned community banks or consumer credit unions.
6. We favor the elimination of sales taxes on food, utilities for residential consumption, pharmaceuticals and other basic necessities.
7. We favor an increase to 8% of the oil severance tax.
8. We support an increase in the tobacco tax.
9. We propose that the Mississippi State Legislature fully match the federal child care block grant so that Mississippi can avail itself of all federal funds available for this purpose.
10. We believe that corporations and wealthy property owners should be taxed to provide restricted funds for vocational, academic, and extracurricular education.
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D. Management-Labor Relations
1. Mississippi right-to-work laws must be repealed. We support the right of employees to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.
2. We support the enactment of "labor peace laws" requiring employers to allow union organizers access to their premises and employees for organizing purposes without interference or reprisals against employees or organizers.
3. We support the passage of a law requiring employers to provide a written statement of cause before they may fire an employee.
4. We support the passage of a law prohibiting camera surveillance of employees and surveillance of employee Email traffic.
5. Temporary employment agencies and other contractors should be regulated, and fair treatment, pay, and security should be guaranteed for their employees.
6. A State Labor Commission should be created to oversee union elections for workers not covered by the NLRA (as amended) and not allowed NLRB elections. This definition would include state and municipal employees and farm labor. It could also include employees of some medium-sized businesses with 10 or more employees.
7. We contend that workers have a basic human right to a safe and healthful workplace. Thus, workplace health and safety regulations must be enforced rigorously; workplaces should be open to state safety inspection without advance notice; health and safety whistleblowers must be protected from discharge and harassment; accidents or death on the job should be subject to investigation and possible criminal prosecution.
E. Criminal Justice
1. Abolish private prisons. Allowing private individuals to profit by subjecting their fellow citizens to involuntary servitude is suggestive of slavery.
2. We favor rehabilitation of prisoners. To that end, we support access to education and job training for prisoners.
3. We support halfway houses, fines, restitution, and community service as alternatives to the continued expansion of the prison-industrial complex.
4. We call for the repeal of Mississippi's "three strikes" law. This law has crowded our prisons with nonviolent offenders and devoured revenue that could be spent on education or the protection of the environment.
5. We oppose damage caps for lawsuits. We favor the repeal of all laws imposing them. Individuals and businesses that commit illegal acts must be brought to account.
6. We condemn the doctrine of sovereign immunity and favor legislation making it illegal for state officials and agencies to invoke it. If private individuals are to be answerable for their crimes in courts of law then public officials must be also. No government has the right to expect its citizens to obey its laws if it does not obey them itself.
7. We support vigorous enforcement of laws against cruelty to animals, especially the anti-dog fighting and anti-cockfighting laws.
8. We support independent civilian review of complaints of police misconduct.
9. We support the legalization of industrial hemp.
10. We oppose mandatory drug testing by employers except in situations involving the operation of vehicles and equipment where there is a danger to human life. We favor the passage of laws making such testing illegal in the state of Mississippi.
11. We support the abolition of the death penalty in the state of Mississippi.
12. We condemn the USA Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act as steps towards the creation of a police state. We call on all state, county, and municipal law enforcement organizations to refuse to cooperate with the Federal government in the enforcement of all unconstitutional provisions of this legislation. We also call for all county and municipal governing bodies to pass resolutions condemning the Patriot Act as unconstitutional and dangerous to democracy.
13. We call for the establishment of a state commission to investigate the feasibility of decriminalizing, taxing, and regulating private possession and use of marijuana.
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F. Civil and Equal Rights
1. We support the formation of a State Commission on Civil Rights to examine and recommend action on past and present injustices and inequities among Mississippians.
2. We support comparable worth legislation to equalize the pay of women and minorities with that of white males.
3. We support the formation of a State Commission on Reparations to study the question of reparations for slavery.
4. We support legislation guaranteeing gays and bisexuals the same access to civil marriage as heterosexuals. Laws denying them such access are unjust and unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
5. We call for immediate passage of legislation banning job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender.
6. We support legislation prohibiting discrimination in housing, hiring, or health care based on HIV status or AIDS diagnosis.
7. We call for a change in the state child support laws to make unearned income part of the basis of the calculation of court-ordered child support.
8. No one should be denied the right to adopt or hold custody of children on the basis of gender, race, religion, ethnic origin, age, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.
G. Free Speech
1. The right of the individual to freedom of speech is inherent in his or her existence as a human being and should in no way be abridged by the state of Mississippi. This principle includes state government employees and teachers and students in public schools.
2. The airwaves are a valuable public property. We thus support the cultivation of "community radio." We believe that the FCC should allow for a new service of small, locally-owned FM stations.
3. We also call for the creation and funding of genuine public access TV channels by all the cable providers in the state and for the creation of modest production facilities in at least one network TV station in each major media market in the state to facilitate citizen access. To fund such access, we call for a state surcharge to be paid by all corporate broadcast entities and cable or satellite TV providers in the state. This surcharge would be proportional to the power and reach of their signals, or, in the case of cable or satellite TV providers, the number of households enrolled. These monies would be made available to applicants for public access airtime to be used for the discussion of public issues and paid to the originating broadcast facility to cover the expense of production and broadcasting.
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H. Native Americans
1. We support the self-determination of the Choctaw and any other Native American tribe indigenous to Mississippi and resident in the state before 1900.
2. We support legislation allowing the state of Mississippi to grant official recognition to Mississippi Native American tribes.
3. We recognize the sovereignty of Native American tribal governments.
I. Immigration
1. State laws allowing employers to import employees from foreign countries and pay them less than minimum wage by hiring them as temporary workers are a form of peonage. We favor and call for their immediate repeal.
J. Housing
1. We support passage of equitable landlord-tenant laws in all counties and municipalities.
K. Community Involvement
1. We support legislation and public policies that encourage establishment of consumer co-ops, micro loan funds, and local currencies.
2. We support direct democracy through town meetings. We favor the passage of municipal ordinances requiring public officials to hold such meetings. Such meetings should be empowered to pass and/or repeal municipal ordinances, as well as to monitor, instruct, and recall representatives elected to municipal, state, and federal office.
L. Banking for People
1. We support a law capping interest rates on all loans including credit cards in the state of Mississippi at 1% over the Prime lending rate.
2. We support a law against rollovers whereby a late payment causes the interest rate on a loan to double. Rollovers are a form of extortion and all lenders who engage in this practice should be imprisoned for no less than five years and be required to make restitution to their victims.
3. We support the promotion of credit unions as an alternative to the legalized swindling practiced by easy credit lenders. Every Mississippian, regardless of employer or place of residence, should have access to a credit union.
4. We support a cap on fees for cashing checks at 0.1% of the value of the check, but no more than $5.
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A. Energy Policy
1. We oppose the deregulation of utilities. Public utilities are too important to our citizens and businesses to allow prices to become subject to the vagaries of the marketplace.
2. We call for the development of a state energy policy including taxes and/or fines on energy waste and credits for alternative and sustainable energy use such as solar, wind, hydrogen, and biomass. In addition to corporate tax credits for viable alternative energy creation or conservation projects, we also call for such credits for individuals or contractors who design into or add onto personal homes active energy producing/saving devices.
3. We encourage state agencies to incorporate energy-saving and alternative power generation technologies as feasible in all state-owned buildings.
B. Nuclear Energy Policy
1. We oppose nuclear energy and call for a decommissioning and phase-out of current nuclear plants.
2. The Green Party of Mississippi opposes the transportation of nuclear waste through Mississippi to Yucca Mountain or any other facility.
3. We support a law requiring the owners of Grand Gulf Nuclear Plant to allow independent, public-access radiation monitoring.
4. We oppose construction or expansion of any nuclear plants in Mississippi.
C. Waste Disposal
1. We support local ordinances and state laws requiring businesses applying for zoning permits to disclose any toxic substances which may be used or produced at the site.
2. We favor comprehensive and systematic recycling programs for state and local governments.
3. We call for a "bottle bill" to place a deposit (5 cents) on all non-returnable glass, plastic, and metal packages of beer and soft drinks. The intended effect of the deposit is to reduce litter along our highways and other roads and to encourage recycling.
4. We call for the reduction of the public sector waste stream and especially for the development of viable recycling programs for all waste paper generated by state offices and by the state university and public school systems.
5. We call for measures by which organic trash collected by municipal and county waste management-lawn clippings, leaf and pine straw, dead fall and trimmed tree branches-would be composted and the resulting mulch and compost made available to farmers, home gardeners, and the state.
D. Fossil Fuels
1. We support incentives to enable local communities to build bike paths and sidewalks in order to reduce auto-based transportation.
2. We also call for the creation of carpool lanes and other incentives to carpooling in metro areas throughout Mississippi.
3. We call for state tax credits-either savings on vehicle tag costs or income tax deductions or both-to be granted to those consumers who buy "hybrid" gas electric vehicles or other alternative-fuel vehicles that meet rigid fuel economy and exhaust emissions standards.
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E. Renewable Energy
1. We support the use of tax-exempt bonds to allow publicly owned utilities to finance conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy project.
F. Transportation Policy
1. We support publicly financed mass transit in Mississippi's metropolitan areas.
2. We advocate the use of existing highway corridors when new highways are constructed. Rather than exercising eminent domain to acquire land for highway construction, Highway Department planners should first examine the feasibility of widening existing roadways.
G. Clean Air
1. We favor state legislation on the California model requiring stricter clean air and fuel efficiency standards.
2. We favor state legislation underwriting low interest loans for the replacement of high-pollution older vehicles which have been licensed in Mississippi for at least the preceding five years with low-pollution vehicles, to be available to each owner of such an older vehicle.
H. Land Use
1. We support the full funding and expansion of our state parks system.
2. We propose to overhaul Forestry Commission rules with the aim of protecting all our remaining old-growth forests, The revised rules will prohibit clear cutting on public land and promote sustainable forestry practices on both public and private lands.
3. We support a review of all state land-use policies.
4. We call for stricter public scrutiny and control over wetlands reduction, flood control and river-redirection projects.
5. We call for a moratorium on the cutting of mature deciduous trees on all public lands and call for the creation of incentives to protect and preserve these native species on private lands throughout Mississippi.
6. We will implement an immediate ban on the building of logging roads in state forests at taxpayer expense. These roads cost more to build than they bring in revenue and contribute to soil erosion and silting of streams.
7. End any state subsidies that encourage the export of raw logs and other minimally processed forest products (pulp, chips, carts, slabs, etc.) to out-of-state mills. Instead, provide incentives to local mills and in so doing create jobs for the people of Mississippi.
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I. Water
1. We support the promotion of water conservation by the state of Mississippi.
2. We oppose the privatization of municipal water services.
3. We acknowledge Native American rights regarding water and urge that courts and state water engineers do the same.
4. We support the creation of green belts around our urban areas to rein in sprawl and promote development of the inner city.
J. Agriculture
1. We support organic farming methods and endorse the efforts of Mississippi's organic farmers to organize statewide to promote them.
2. We support cooperative farming and oppose agribusiness. We support farmers markets and on-site and u-pick-em operations.
3. We propose to abolish all state subsidies and tax breaks for agribusiness while maintaining them for small farmers and cooperative farmers. We support incentives to promote small-scale family farms, biological diversity in crop cultivation, and regional approaches to food supplies rather than the transportation of food over long distances to markets.
4. We wish to create incentives to increase diversity in forest plantings to promote wildlife habitat, the diversity of our ecosystems, and the natural beauty of our rural lands.
5. We propose to institute the teaching of organic and sustainable farming, including permaculture methods, in Mississippi's agricultural colleges. State universities should be given a mandate to perform research into organic farming methods and integrated pest management as a way to replace chemical biocides and fertilizers.
6. We propose incentives to promote the use of integrated pest management and the phasing out of biocides.
7. We propose a ban on genetic engineering and the release of genetically engineered organisms in the state of Mississippi. This ban includes "terminator gene" plants that produce sterile seeds.
8. Farmers have the right to save viable seed they have grown. This right contributes to sustainable farming. Contracts that prohibit farmers from saving seeds from their harvest for planting the following season should be made illegal.
9. We support pollution fees for the use of non-organic fertilizers, the resulting revenue to pay for environmental restoration.
10. We support rapid completion and implementation of state regulations defining "organic food," including both produce and livestock.
11. We support the use of work projects, goats, and other sustainable methods to control undergrowth rather than spraying herbicides, especially near communities.
12. We support a state program, including incentives and research at the state's agricultural schools, to promote the growing of industrial hemp, kenaf, and other non-tree sources of raw material for the manufacture of paper.

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Morgellons Help & CDC Kriezer Cover-up

CDC/Kaiser 'Groundbreaking'
Morgellons Study A Fraud!
By Cliff Mickelson
CMicke1065@aol.com
1-19-8
Much sound and fury is currently being generated by mainstream media concerning the recent CDC announcement that Kaiser Permanente has been selected by the CDC to conduct a "groundbreaking" study into the causes and nature of what the CDC and Kaiser both euphemistically (and erroneously) term Morgellons "syndrome."
In the opening news conference statement to the press, The CDC's principle investigator
Dr. Michele Pearson, with his Kaiser counterpart, Dr. Joe Selby at his side, sets the tone for a CDC position on this issue that can only be described as disingenuous at best.
"There is insufficient information," intones Dr. Pearson, "to determine whether persons who identify themselves as having this condition, have common cause for their symptoms or may share common risk factors."
This statement speaks volumes. One can only suppose that the good doctor is either stunningly under-informed or is a deliberate liar. In light of readily available information that has come into the possession of this writer, Dr. Pearson and his friends over at Kaiser Permanente appear to be fully informed as to the scope and nature of this affliction.
Furthermore, the CDC is quite clearly aware that there already exists a large body of professional Morgellons research that has been done under the organized auspices of former Morgellons Research Foundation scientist Dr. Randy Wymore.
Dr.Wymore, the current head of Morgellons research at the prestigious school of pharmacology at Oklahoma State University, has personally briefed CDC officials in the past. Nonetheless, the Atlanta based organization showed very little interest in the subject of Morgellons or in Dr. Wymore's revolutionary findings concerning the growing danger this affliction poses to society at large.
The CDC is also aware that there exists a large compendium of additional work available for referencing. A great deal of research has been performed in the last few years by a select number of other professionally qualified medical-field researchers including such well known notables as Dr.William Harvey, Dr Hildegard Stannigar, and Dr. Rahim Karjoo
In his opening CDC press conference statement Dr. Pearson uses the term "common risk factors" as a descriptive term... For those who are the uninitiated, that is CDC doublespeak for drug abuse or delusional mental illness.
This denigrating and underhanded remark is a direct slap in the face of Morgellons patients, many of whom are children, senior citizens, teachers, nurses or other medical professionals. Such eye-opening statements belie the truth behind the thought processes taking place in the halls of the CDC. They give the astute observer an inkling of what lays in store for "Morgies" who are trusting enough to ignore the telegraphed meaning of such implied signals.
For reasons they have apparently chosen not to make public, the CDC has therefore deliberately decided to ignore, negate and suppress the considerable body of nearly three years worth of ongoing, highly qualified field work by others outside the CDC nexus. They have chosen instead to form an unholy alliance with the largest HMO/insurer in the world, Kaiser Permanente.
By marginalizing professional research that has already taken place during the CDC's long and curious absence from the Morgellons issue, they are now seen to be suddenly setting themselves up as the sole judge of any consequence in the public eye. This is a very dangerous and powerful position for an organization with a track record like the CDC to be allowed to place itself in. Morgellons sufferers had best beware.
In what is probably the biggest conflict of interest since convicted felon Henry Blodget was hired as a Wall Street securities analyst, the Kaiser "fox" is now being given the keys to the CDC's hen house. In return, it appears that the CDC expects the obliging chickens to gratefully invite him in for dinner.
It may well be that the CDC announcement concerning the much ballyhooed Morgellons research grant is little more than self-serving bureaucratic sound and fury...or it may be that a much darker and deadlier game is being played. A cursory study of the CDC's woeful lack of past interaction with the Morgellons community will open a Pandora's box of questions that beg answers .
There is little doubt that the CDC knows how to play the political game. Based on past experience, many Morgies are of the opinion that the Kaiser "study" is little more than under-funded pork, a shuck, a jive, political chicanery and, at worst, a cynical lip service designed to throw a fog over the clever methodology of how bureaucracies with something to hide engage in issue assassination.
So why, we might wonder, would the Mandarins of the CDC engage in such transparently duplicitous behavior? Why would they spend hard earned tax dollars for information that already exists and could be had with a simple conference call or two? Well, the answer is at once simple and yet Byzantine.
It is germane to note that by their own malfeasant admission, over the last eight years the CDC has received thousands upon thousands of requests for help from Morgellons victims. All of these pleas, until now, fell upon deaf ears. Not one red cent was ever spent to determine what it was that was taking place not only across America but around the world as well. Meanwhile the CDC has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on an unending parade of fizzled "non-event" epidemics that have come and gone during that same time frame. A number of these high dollar non-event epidemics affected less than a dozen people across the country while others never materialized at all!
As the white rabbit would say: Curiouser and curiouser!
Now, at the behest of the Morgellons study, the CDC is dipping into the trough of public tax dollars once again. This time however, the bucket has come up woefully short. A pitiful $360 K is all that is earmarked for this study!
Let's think about that for a moment. $360 K is less than the price of an average split-level home in Los Angeles County. What will 360 K buy in today's world of bloated research budgets? The salaries of the research staff alone should total more than that. What can we assume will be the cost of high technology tests and other high tech equipment needed to insure accurate Morgellons test results? Modern research tests can easily run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Private researcher, Dr.Hildegaard Stannigar, reports that she has independently spent $39,000 of private money on such tests and that many more tests are still in need of performing.
It doesn't take an accountant to figure out that three hundred and sixty thousand dollars is not going to buy much in the way of a reliable study...and..It doesn't take a Weatherman to figure out which way the wind is blowing in the halls of the CDC.
Morgellons activists need to wake up and smell the coffee. The CDC has no intention of solving the Morgellons mystery. Those who think otherwise need to review the history of the CDC's hostile and dismissive interaction with the Morgellons community over the span of the last eight to ten years. Under modest scrutiny it becomes painfully apparent that this study is a farce and a fraud.
What it is actually being sold to the gullible among us is smoke and mirrors. For a variety of hidden reasons the CDC is offering up the public expedient of having done their "part."
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the daggers are being sharpened in the dark hallways of Kaiser and the CDC. Morgellons victims who, in their current desperation, rush to embrace these bureaucratic assassins of Faith and Hope would do well to wear extra body armor.
-Cliff Mickelson-
 
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Sunday, July 22, 2012

"Got Sunshine" in Plublic Service ? ? ?

AN AMERICAN VALUE

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Science and Medicine

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

2 Days of Morgellons "worms?" 'popping out'

After 2 Days of "coal tar" + 1/2 box of
Baking Soda baths:
These 'Morgellon worms? all 'popped out' between yesterday and Today. This Morgellons has become 'systemic' affecting my skin, diegestive track (they cover the inside of d-track causing digestive dysfuntion), going into and covering my lungs (damage functiioning of villi and aveoli), fatigue, cognitive issues (it is in skull), eye sight problems, sore (+ 'worms shown above', they actualy 'pop' up to 2-3 feet and you here them hit the ground), joint ploblems, both major joints and minor including pain in fingers. It, Morgellons, "CIRCULATES" and causing muscle deterioration, with "Morgellons Jell" creating resiviors in legs, calves and thighs and arms...)
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Joel (who i went to youth group @ age 17, as his father, John, was Our Pastor) Osteen on "Money", "wealth" and "No Church Salery". His father, John, who originally preached in India, before moving to Houston, ALWAYS emphasize the TV program was "an Outreach", and they would NEVER ask for money (though there is a bookstore for tapes and literature).

Friday, July 13, 2012

Green Party Pres. nominee: Dr Jill Stein

http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

About Jill Stein

Dr. Jill Stein is a mother, housewife, physician, longtime teacher of internal medicine, and pioneering environmental-health advocate.
She is the co-author of two widely-praised reports, In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, published in 2000, andEnvironmental Threats to Healthy Aging, published in 2009. The first of these has been translated into four languages and is used worldwide. The reports promote green local economies, sustainable agriculture, clean power, and freedom from toxic threats.
Her "Healthy People, Healthy Planet" teaching program reveals the links between human health, climate security, and green economic revitalization. This body of work has been presented at government, public health and medical conferences, and has been used to improve public policy.
Jill began to advocate for the environment as a human health issue in 1998 when she realized that politicians were simply not acting to protect children from the toxic threats emerging from current science. She offered her services to parents, teachers, community groups and a native Americans group seeking to protect their communities from toxic exposure.
Jill has testified before numerous legislative panels as well as local and state governmental bodies. She played a key role in the effort to get the Massachusetts fish advisories updated to better protect women and children from mercury contamination, which can contribute to learning disabilities and attention deficits in children. She also helped lead the successful campaign to clean up the "Filthy Five" coal plants in Massachusetts, an effort that resulted in getting coal plant regulations signed into law that were the most protective around at that time. Her testimony on the effects of mercury and dioxin contamination from the burning of waste helped preserve the Massachusetts moratorium on new trash incinerator construction in the state.
Jill has appeared as an environmental health expert on the Today Show, 20/20, Fox News, and other programs. She was also a member of the national and Massachusetts boards of directors of the Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her efforts to protect public health has won her several awards including: Clean Water Action's "Not in Anyone's Backyard" Award, the Children's Health Hero" Award, and the Toxic Action Center's Citizen Award.
Having witnessed the ability of big money to stop health protective policies on Beacon Hill, Jill became an advocate for campaign finance reform, and worked to help pass the Clean Election Law. This law was approved by the voters by a 2-1 margin, but was later repealed by the Massachusetts Legislature on an unrecorded voice vote.
In 2002 ADD activists in the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party approached Dr. Stein and asked her to run for Governor of Massachusetts. Dr. Stein accepted, and began her first foray into electoral politics. She was widely credited with being the best informed and most credible candidate in the race.
She has twice been elected to town meeting in Lexington, Massachusetts. She is the founder and past co-chair of a local recycling committee appointed by the Lexington Board of Selectmen.
In 2003, Jill co-founded the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, a non-profit organization that addresses a variety of issues that are important to the health and well-being of Massachusetts communities, including health care, local green economies, and grassroots democracy.
Jill represented the Green-Rainbow Party in two additional races – one for State Representative in 2004 and one for Secretary of State in 2006. In 2006 she won the votes of over 350,000 Massachusetts citizens – which represented the greatest vote total ever for a Green-Rainbow candidate.
In 2008, Jill helped formulate a "Secure Green Future" ballot initiative that called upon legislators to accelerate efforts to move the Massachusetts economy to renewable energy and make development of green jobs a priority. The measure won over 81 per cent of the vote in the 11 districts in which it was on the ballot.
Jill was born in Chicago and raised in suburban Highland Park, Illinois. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1973, and from Harvard Medical School in 1979. Jill enjoys writing and performing music, and enjoys long walks with her Great Dane, Bandita. Dr. Stein lives in Lexington with her husband, Richard Rohrer, also a physician. She has two sons, Ben and Noah, who have graduated from college in the past few years.
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Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Green Party candidate Jill Stein might not have a good chance against Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, but she has one edge they don’t: her campaign has qualified for federal matching funds.
On July 1, Stein, a physician, became the first Green Party presidential candidate to quality for federal matching funds. Stein joins Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, another third-party candidate who has also qualified for federal matching funds.
Johnson has already received $230,059 in federal matching dollars. Reform Party candidate Buddy Roemer, who has suspended his campaign, received a total of $351,961. As soon as possible, Stein intends to submit her qualifying papers to the Federal Elections Commission, which has 15 days to vet her donations and approve her application.
The matching funds come from a $3 donations that taxpayers can make on their annual tax return. To become eligible for the match, a presidential candidate must be nominated by a political party and raise at least $5,000 in each of at least 20 states. The federal government then matches up to $250 of a donor’s total contributions.
Neither Obama nor Romney receive matching funds because their campaigns plan to raise and spend more than the matching fund limits allow. However, the elections commission has approved about $418 million each for the Republican and Democratic conventions.
“It is a big deal,” said Ben Manski, campaign manager for Stein. Achieving matching-fund status will build the Green Party’s credibility and visibility, Stein said. “I think what it shows is that the Green Party continues to matter and has staying power.”
Florida is among 22 states where Stein raised enough money to qualify for matching funds. She has not yet filed campaign finance reports naming her Florida donors. However, her website reports that as of July 1 she collected $187,412 in contributions, including $5,839 in Florida.
Although various incarnations of the Green Party of the United States have been around since 1996, the party’s most notable presidential candidate was Ralph Nader, who earned the party’s nomination in 1996, 2000 and 2004. In August 2011, actress/comedian Roseanne Barr announced her candidacy on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, declaring that she would not run as a Democrat or a Republican, “because they both suck and they’re both a bunch of criminals.”
Stein, 60, a Lexington, Mass. woman who once ran against Romney for governor, secured a majority of Green Party delegates after the California primary on June 5 and she is expected to officially accept the party’s nomination at its convention, which begins today in Baltimore.
Stein’s platform, called the Green New Deal, includes: creating private and public sector jobs programs; wiping out student loan debt and providing tuition-free education through college; breaking-up Wall Street’s big banks and nationalizing the private-bank dominated Federal Reserve Bank; abolishing the Electoral College and requiring voter-marked paper ballots; cutting military spending in half; promoting green technologies and businesses; and overturning the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizen’s United case, which paved the way for unlimited spending by corporations and labor unions in elections for Congress and the president, as long as the dollars are independent of the campaigns they are intended to help.
After speculation that Stein might name Barr as her running mate, Stein announced on Wednesday that Cheri Honkala, an advocate for the homeless, was her choice for vice president. Honkala is the national coordinator for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. She grabbed headlines in 2011 when she unsuccessfully ran for sheriff of Philadelphia and vowed to end evictions if elected. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/national-govt-politics/green-party-presidential-candidate-jill-stein-qual/nPrMX/ 
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Internationally Renowned Environmentalist Launches Run For U.S. Congress Citing Need For Massive Reorganization Of Government And Business To Deal With World Crises
(Distributed by the Green Party of the United Sates, http://www.gp.org)

For Immediate Release
May 9, 2012

Contact: Ryan D. Harbage
Tel: (347) 470-0210
Email: info@votecolin.org


A New York City author whose book and documentary film No Impact Man helped bring climate change into popular consciousness today announces his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives. Colin Beavan PhD will run on the Green Party ticket in New York's 8th Congressional District, following the vacancy left by the retirement of Representative Edolphus Towns.

Beavan rose to prominence as a spokesman for the international environmental movement after worldwide press and media interest followed the release of his film and book. His campaign, citing "growing world crises" in climate, environment, economics, and energy production, calls for a complete change in priorities including an end to consumption-based economics, massive decentralization of government and business, and huge investment in local communities.

"The economic system is supposed to make people safer and happier, but it can no longer do that because it wasn't designed to deal with our new planetary crises," says Beavan. "The tired old Democratic/Republican debate over taxation isn't going to fix it. We need to create a new, more stable system based on investment in people and local communities instead of shareholders and corporations. We have to face up to climate change, the end of oil, and the failure of consumption to make people happy. Robust local economies help solve all these problems."

Government investment in local businesses creates ten times more jobs than investment at the national level. Local economies have lower reliance on foreign oil and create less climate pollution. Creating conditions to allow people, talent and profits to stay within their communities lowers crime, increases access to education and provides support to at-risk populations like children and the elderly.

"We have a crazy system where our communities' human and financial capital are siphoned away by far-away corporations and government. Then, we beg the same institutions to send us jobs and services. What if we strengthened our communities and didn't have to send our wealth away in the first place? We'd have healthier communities, happy and safer people, much less crime and a greater quality of life for all."

Colin Beavan's campaign organization is an all-volunteer group of citizens who have decided to leave their previous party affiliations out of disillusionment with the lack of solution-based conversation in American politics. Beavan's campaign will issue a series of policy positions in the coming weeks, all of which will be based on strengthening community health, happiness and security in the 8th Congressional District. The campaign will launch a series of listening meetings, to solicit the views of the community in two weeks.

Meanwhile, basic campaign policies, based on strengthening local community include:



  • Corporate money out of politics

  • A constitutional amendment making the right to vote inalienable

  • Massive voter registration and civic engagement promotion

  • Keeping youth out of prison (treatment not incarceration)

  • An end to stop and frisk

  • Food stamps for use at farmer's markets

  • Tax breaks for sole proprietorships

  • Massive shift of military spending towards education

  • U.S. leadership on climate change mitigation and adaptation

  • Community-based assisted living programs for the elderly

  • Encouragement of service rather than product-based economies

  • Prioritizing human connection before goods consumption



The non-electoral goals of Beavan's campaign include:



  • Instigating conversation about emergent world issues effectively ignored by Democrats and Republicans

  • Modeling civility and cooperation in politics

  • Massive voter registration

  • By running a volunteer campaign organization, modeling renewed civic participation to community, nation, and world

  • Promoting community self-determination


All the relevant documentation has been filed with Federal Elections Commission to make Beavan's candidacy official. He is uncontested in his congressional district's Green Party primary and will go straight to general election in November. The Green Party's ballot status in New York State means his name will appear on the ballot.

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Colin Beavan rose to prominence as a spokesperson on environmental and quality of life issues after his year-long experiment in extreme environmental living, No Impact Man, exploded in the international media. He is the founder and executive director of No Impact Project, an international non-profit that empowers citizens to make choices that support the planet, their communities, and help them live a happier, healthier life.

A long-time activist, he sits on the board of directors of New York City's Transportation Alternatives, and is on the advisory councils of Just Food and 350.org , a global organization dedicated to solving the climate crisis. Prior to becoming a champion of the environment, Colin earned his PhD at the University of Liverpool, spent a decade helping social housing providers, drug treatment agencies and hospitals get funding, and wrote books.

The campaign website is at http://www.votecolin.org.
Hi-res images can be found at http://www.votecolin.org/media

For further information or to arrange an interview with Colin Beavan, please contact Ryan Harbage at (347) 470-0210 or info@votecolin.org.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/252016/october-08-2009/colin-beavan

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/84653/april-09-2007/colin-beavan

http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/

http://www.noimpactdoc.com/index_m.php

http://us.macmillan.com/noimpactman/ColinBeavan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ctt7FGFBo

Green Party to Democratic apologists: The message of the Wall Street protests is not 'Vote Democrat'
GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org

Video and Livestreaming:
Green Party Occupy America http://www.gp.org/campaigns/occupy-america/index.php
Cheri Honkala, Green candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, visits Occupy Wall Street http://vimeo.com/29997382
Cheri Honkala speaks at Occupy DC http://www.vimeo.com/30200014
Interview with New York Green Mark Dunlea at Occupy Wall Street http://www.gp.org/video/display.php?ID=59
Interview with Michael O'Neil, Secretary of the Green Party of New York State, Occupy Wall Street http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcQYUyfUyY


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders sharply criticized Democratic Party supporters online and in the media who have tried to turn the ongoing Occupy Wall Street, Occupy America, and October 2011 demonstrations across America into an appeal to vote Democrat and reelect President Obama in 2012.

Many of the protesters have expressed their disgust with two-party politics (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wall-street-protesters-disgusted-parties-14687840) and the influence of corporate money. Organizers have rejected attempts to shoehorn the movement into any party and assert that the protesters come from diverse political persuasions.

Greens, who are participating in the protests and among the organizers, have pointed to the Green Party's alternative vision for America, as expressed in the Green New Deal (http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/08/11/62-green-candidates-endorse-green-new-deal) and on the party's web site (http://www.gp.org).

The Green Party offers a platform for peace, economic security for working people, millions of new green jobs in conservation and clean energy development, an end to fossil fuel addiction, real steps for curbing global climate change and restoring the health of the planet, universal health care (Medicare For All), and reforms that would limit the power of corporations and restore the promise of participatory democracy and fair elections. Green candidates do not accept corporate money.

Mark Dunlea, co-founder of the Green Party of New York State: "The Democratic Party does not speak for the Occupy Wall Street, Occupy America, and October 2011 protesters. No political party speaks for the protesters, not even the Green Party. The protesters speak for themselves. The Green Party has endorsed and joined the demos because we share the same frustration and anger as the other protesters. Greens are there because we bring alternative ideas like the Green New Deal. And we're there because we encourage the 99 percent -- We The People -- to organize, end pro-corporate two-party rule, and replace the politicians in public office who enabled Wall Street's theft of America's future. This can only happen through an independent alliance with the same diversity we're seeing at the protests: labor activists, Greens, progressives, anarchists, libertarians, nonvoters, disappointed Democrats and Republicans, and all others who want real change."

Sanda Everette, co-coordinator of the Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of California: "If pro-Democrat web sites and the media believe that the message of the protests is 'Vote Democrat' and 'Reelect Obama' in 2012, they've missed the point. The current demonstrations became necessary after Election Day 2008, when too many liberal, progressive, and antiwar Democrats declared 'Mission Accomplished' with Barack Obama's election victory. The Democratic Party has proved itself as dedicated to Wall Street as the GOP. We look forward to more protests and direct action as the election season unfolds, especially during the 2012 Democratic and Republican conventions."

Farheen Hakeem, Green candidate for the Minnesota State Senate in District 61 (http://www.farheenhakeem.org) and co-chair of the Green Party of the United States: "Say no to the parties of war and corporate money! That's our message to all Americans who are worried about the dangerous direction that the two Titanic Parties have steered our country. If the field of presidential candidates is limited to incumbent Obama and the Republican nominee after the primaries, then everything the Wall Street protesters are talking about will be erased from the election season debate and from the media. Hopes for a progressive challenge in the Democratic primaries are unrealistic. The challenger will inevitably be defeated by the Obama campaign juggernaut, which is already loaded with corporate campaign checks, and the challenger's supporters will find themselves muzzled, with the expectation that they'll vote Democrat."

Terry Baum, Green candidate for Mayor of San Francisco (http://terryjoanbaum.com): "Barack Obama received more Wall Street money than any other candidate in US history. Instead of change, the Obama Administration gave us Phase 2 of the Bush-Cheney agenda: more Wall Street bailouts, more endless war, more offshore oil drilling and the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline, more mountaintop detonation mining. Instead of financial security for Americans, we got plans to slash Social Security and Medicare. We got minimal assistance for people facing home foreclosures and more crushing debt for college students. We got silence about the racist death penalty and record-high mass incarceration of young black, brown, and poor people in a greedy private prison system. We got a health care bill with mandates that are a direct public subsidy for the insurance industry (originally a Republican proposal), but no universal health care or controls for skyrocketing medical costs. We got impunity for Bush officials who authorized torture and other war crimes -- and more extraordinary rendition, more warrantless surveillance of US citizens, more erosion of due process, more persecution of whistleblowers, and even a secret presidential hit list of Americans targeted for assassination."

Cheri Honkala, Green candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia (http://www.cherihonkala.com) running on an anti-foreclosure platform, speaking at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC on October 6: "What I'm doing is not symbolic. It's concrete and Bill and Aida and Glenn who's here with me today, like millions of people across this country are gonna lose their homes... unless you take this seriously and not just march about it, pray about it, and sing about it but help me fill every damn poll in Philadelphia where there's a birthplace of revolution and change... We can do this again in this country and take our country back!"

See also:

"Green Party of the US endorses, joins 'October 2011' protest against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and 2012 austerity budget"
Green Party media advisory, September 27, 2011
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=450

October 2011 http://october2011.org ? ? ?> > >for 'Help';

Thursday, July 12, 2012

W E ~ B E ~ J A M M I N G

in the Name of I AM ALLAH

Song of the Dead

Jah
p r o v i d e s


....................... * * * .................................. George Carlin on 'Big Picture' & Ignorance of Large Issues ny distractions of Propaganda w/out "Critical Thougt"... "Citisens capable of Critical Thought" ........ B E K I N D & W A L K A W A R E

Monday, July 9, 2012

Lord says 'MOVE' 305 5th Ave NE Magee MS 39111

http://www.healthsciences.okstate.edu/morgellons/vision.cfm
i have mogellons and Hope to be traveling to Tulsa, OK, to meet with the Health Science Department and Dr Wymore.  We have to get the Property for sale by Century 21 before i go to Tulsa & OK State University. Here is the 18 acres and house for sale. We have been "God/Allah/Spirit of the Universe, /the Almighty One" tending this property with Love and Care for 7 years Now. >>>... but, "When the Lord says you gotta move, you better Move"!
The video below the Picassa Pictures  is Dr Wymore followed by video on the City halfway, 40 miles each, Jackson, MS, the State Capital and Hattieburg South twords the Coast & Home of "Southern Misss" (University)
(pictures that are for the 18 acres and for Sale, but also to turn over the Care of it to  "Some One(s)" that emerses in the Beauty of this Place called "HOME" (New 'caretakers'), and of this Community of Magee, with its , Clean Air and Peaceful Rural Natural Beauty!
::: 305 5th Ave NE, Magee, MS  39111  (!7.9 acres):::
https://picasaweb.google.com/102740605180585590491/3055thAve39111#slideshow/5762484611285280722
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You are invited to view William and Lynn McLean's photo album: 305 5th Ave, 39111
305 5th Ave, 39111
305 5th Ave NE, Magee 39111 -
Jul 6, 2012
by William and Lynn McLean
18 acres (17.9) deer, turkey, fox, hawk + water cranes, beavor, fox, rabbits ... Nature & Life ... Beautiful Sunsets and change of Seasons! Fruit Trees, 45 Blueberry bushes, Garden area and Pecan Tree Field.

Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.
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Morgellons – A Response from Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D. May 12, 2009 ( update:http://www.healthsciences.okstate.edu/morgellons/docs/Wymore-position-statement-2-19-07.pdf  )
 
From Here : http://www.morgellons-uk.net/
Some of what I do know (or at least what I think if a philosopher argues with the word “know): Morgellons is a physical pathology. It is not a simple subset of a psychiatric disorder Multiple forensic tests (FTIR, mass-spec, etc) at multiple locations have confirmed that the Morgellons fibers are not identifiable as a known compound. The fibers are a fairly pure organic compound containing: carbon (single & double bonds), hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, at least one methyl group, maybe a sulfur group and a few unclear FTIR peaks. They are quite heat resistant and not dissolvable in lab-type solvents or detergents. The red & blue colors of the analyzed fibers are neither dyes nor pigments in any conventional sense. Attempts to use fixatives for EM analysis have been ongoing for months ( have not been trivial lab exercises) and will hopefully yield results in the near future. Thanks to a large donation outside commercial labs will be doing analyses that we cannot do “inhouse” as soon as non-trivial details can be worked out. We are looking at a possible connection with Agro-bacterium. Multiple physicians are participating in this. Morgellons is not a skin disease. It is a systemic condition affecting multiple organs. It does not seem to be highly contagious. People who “fight Morgellons” seem to do better than those who isolate themselves and resign themselves to a downward spiral. This is true of most chronic conditions. Just an observation. Cure is a word I am hesitant to use, but I have met one person who has been symptom free for about 3 years after discontinuing treatment. That person reported that they did a long-term course of high-dose antibiotic, anti-fungal and anti-helmenthic meds. Several people have claimed to be cured, but this is the only one I have personally met that has remained symptom-free for multiple years after discontinuing all treatments. I am not a physician and can give no recommendations for treatment. This person was not seen or treated by any physicians at OSU-CHS. I am merely passing this information on as a personal observation. I will keep working to try to identify the cause of Morgellons. At the moment I have no research-based, front-runners for the cause.
With respect, RSW
Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D. Director,
OSU-CHS Center for the Investigation of Morgellons Disease
 Associate Professor of Pharmacology Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
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http://youtu.be/09354zHyLRg TREE OF KNOWLEDGE/LIFE

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

This Land Is Your Land (Born July, 1912)Woody Guthrie

This Land Is Your Land
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.
As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.
I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding:
This land was made for you and me.
When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.
As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.

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