dichloroacetate, magic-bullet cancer cure?
Posted 10 July 2007
If there is just one person reading this I would urge you to linger a little longer and not jump to conclusions about this site, or its author, too quickly. I am a concerned citizen of this planet, particularly about the tight grip official mainstream media has on information.
For example:
I was reminded today about Professor Barry Marshall’s struggle to get the medical science establishment to accept his discovery that a simple and common bacterium was the main cause of most stomach ulcers and some cancers, and that they could be cured with antibiotics.
It took at least 15 years of ridicule and shameful insults, sponsered by drug companies with huge investments in more complicated medications, before patents ran out and doctors were ‘allowed’ to prescribe cheap and effective cures. Patients needlessly suffered for more than fifteen years for crying out loud! (see prof Marshall’s foundation website.
Now it might be happening again. The huge drugs industry is blocking, blanking and ignoring dichloroacetate (DCA) at a potentialy huge cost economicaly to health care providers and to cancer sufferers and their families and friends. You can find a good summary about how it works in this University of Southern Mississippi’s campus newspaper article, and information about the original research at the University of Alberta’s official DCA website.
Lobby your government representatives, physicians and national drug approval organisations to make them take notice of this research. It is likely to save billions of dollars/pounds and millions of lives.
See below, my rant about global warming for another example of how the science establishment can so effectively control the media at a huge cost to the rest of us for their own financial gain.
an unholy stench
Posted 9 July 2007
I want that incredible breed of uniquely selfish fascists, namely smokers, to understand something about this non-smoker’s position on the recent change in the law.
I find it mind-numbingly startling that the legislation allows the police to ignore complaints of continued pollution in enclosed spaces on the grounds that ‘it is an environmental issue for the council to deal with and not a police matter’.
What pile of wank infested dim-shittery allowed that to happen? If you are breaking the law, you are breaking the bloody law, no?
Why does it irk me so, you might ask? Well, I don’t care about the alleged health affect because the science looks dodgy to me. Too many variables in the lives of people to draw such certain conclusions, especially when you bare in mind the psychological make up of a typical smoker, which is the point I will eventually get to.
I have never met a smoker who isn’t cast-iron, premier division, card-carrying selfish from the bottom up, top down and inside out. How else can you explain a willingness to pollute an enclosed, space single-handedly or in groups, so completely with no regard whatsoever for anything or anybody else?
The rudely bald fact is that it STINKS, a particularly foul and rotten stench that impregnates everything it touches. No amount of dangly chemical pine trees can mask it; no amount of ‘Febreze’ can cloak it and no matter how far down wind you get, it is still minging from the very core of your lungs even when you are not smoking.
Smokers use this drug for its psychotropic affects. It changes them, calms them, changes their relationship to food (or physiologically interferes with their metabolism). It makes it easy for them to ‘pull sickies’, drive without regard for life and limb, jump queues, own cats that shit in their neighbours gardens, own dogs that don’t get their shit picked up, claim benefits that cannot possibly pay for their extremely expensive habit, raise the next generation of knife carrying school bullies etc. (you know who I mean).
The exchequer know that the percentage who smoke will never vary too much or they would never have sanctioned this new law. We need that £4 billion because only £1.5 billion is spent on treatment allegedly a direct result of smoking, so that leaves £2.5 billion for the pot and we do need it, especially for our nice shiny new nuclear submarines.
But, my point is, I don’t really care about the money or the health of self-harmers. I care about being made to stink by people with no self-control. Just as I would care about equally psychologically damaged people randomly selecting me for execution because the ‘voices told them to’, or hedonists keeping me awake all night.
It is a good law, which would not be necessary if humanity was as evolved as we like to think we are. I was recently in the north of Engerland (I live in the south for my sins) where I overheard a conversation in a cafe. A customer from Scotland was expressing dismay that the law was not yet in force. She was braver than me because I was merely expressing it quietly to my companion.
It amazed me then, just as it always has, that smokers have the temerity to light-up in such a small space and just a week before the law change. Why not practice or accept defeat gracefully and control yourself for thirty minutes for pity’s sake?
Gone to the Dogs
Posted 8 June 2007
originally posted May 2005
After much internal debate I dragged my weary, sick bones to the polling station last Thursday. I was actually ill, so I did have to make a bit of a physical effort but as the polling station is only 50 metres away, I can’t really complain. To be precise, it is 50 metres away as the crow flies, and about 80 metres by Shanks’ pony.
It didn’t exactly go smoothly though. I was first through the door and desperate to get back to bed but I didn’t have my ‘voting card’. I will probably never know whether ‘they’ never attempted to deliver it or if they mis-delivered it. I do worry that some low-life identity thief is trying to figure out how to use the information it contains to bleed me dry.
Anyhoo, back in the local school, the 150 quid a day polling official tried to tell me that as I didn’t have my card I couldn’t vote. ‘So’, I said ‘I am not allowed to exercise my democratic right because you failed to deliver my card?’ She checked and gave me a ballot paper. I asked what would happen if some low-life scus bucket turned up with my card, expecting her to show me the red button she would press, which would activate a squadron of helicopter borne special forces. Au contraire, it turns out that they would be allowed to vote on a pink ballot paper. ‘Bugger me’ I thought.
The question is, what happens to the pink ballot paper at the count, and does anybody investigate this crime?
What about all the other lazy dogs who didn’t vote? If you are not willing to get off your fat arses to vote (even if it for nobody on a spoilt paper) don’t you dare whine about anything you don’t like about this god-forsaken shit-hole excuse for a country.
I’ve done my bit so I reserve the right to whine without restriction. You can shut up. Now!
So what have my fellow ingrate Britons done to themselves this time? Put the same lying, National Socialist back in power. The lessons of history (30s Germany) have still not been learned. Remember, you read it here first. The selfish, greedy self-obsessed, tiny-minded, bigoted, ignorant ingrates have decided that personal possessions, house-prices, tax-levels etc are more important than world peace, starving millions and planetary disaster. I feel all warm and proud.
Click on the Make Poverty History link and do something to make up for it.
turd flu
Posted 8 June 2007
originally posted October 2005
Save me from turd flu, the stuff that you catch from bullshit. I don’t know what to do. I can’t stop my self catching it by wearing a face mask because it spreads through the spoken and written word. I’m constantly having to stuff my fists in my ears and smear my eyes with hot tar to stop myself hearing and seeing the evil. I may also have to stuff festering underwear in my mouth in-case I unwittingly spread it when I speak.
Oh shit, I will have to chop off my hands to stop myself typing it but even that might not be enough. They would just give me a device that allows me to use my computer with a joystick stuffed up my backside. Nothing can stop me bullshitting.
Wait though, I could exile myself to a dark cave in my beloved Scottish highlands and eat roots and bugs and grow my hair and beard to an unfashionable length. I could paint stick animals on the wall and scare away tourists with blood curdling screams. There is some hope you know. But, how do I stop all the other bullshit. What if I overhear a stalker as they stagger in their finery to their prey’s doom.
As for pandemics, what about the birds? Who is going to vaccinate them or treat them with anti-virals, which the drugs barons will make another fortune from? Just in case anybody hasn’t noticed, by the way, the birds are flying south at the moment, so there is not much danger of wild birds bringing flu to the UK just now. And if they catch it while they are on their winter break, they will die before they get back here. Also, I have never had intimate relations with an avian and I don’t intend to, even if I have to live alone in a cave. This is not a specist issue, I just don’t find even the cutest ones sexually attractive. They are usually too scared to get within sneezing distance of me too. Pigeons in cities and towns are, on the other hand, a bit too close for comfort.
Charles Kennedy - did he jump or was he pushed?
Posted 8 June 2007
originally posted January 2006
Is it right that an alcoholic should be forced to quit as leader of the Liberal-Democrat party? Yes, and I’ll tell you why and as someone partly qualified to comment; my father died when I was 20, many years ago, as a result of years of alcohol abuse. I have not inherited my father’s so called illness but I do have a clear memory of living with an alcoholic and of seeing how one functions in the working environment. I don’t care how brilliant Charles Kennedy is/was, he cannot be functioning reliably while still struggling to defeat his addiction. His brain and other organs ARE damaged. His judgment IS impaired and his reasoning IS unreliable, and that is all there is to it.
So, is alcoholism an illness? Yes but only in so far as an addiction to a self-harming habit is an illness. It is like all other addictions - a mental illness and is treated as such whatever secondary physical damage has been done or treatment is necessary. This is an important distinction but not because mental illness is a reason to discriminate but because it is an opportunity to emphasise how common mental illness is. We have an appalling attitude to mental illness in this country (in most countries I expect) because the media only ever talks about it in the context of axe wielding maniacs who were ‘mentally ill’ and ‘irresponsibly let loose on a defenceless community’.
The perception is that anyone suffering from a mental illness is therefore an axe wielding maniac.I don’t doubt that if Charles Kennedy was to continue boozing uncontrollably for a couple more decades he could well wind up sleeping under a railway bridge with an axe at his side but right now he simply has an addiction, which therapy or counselling (including AA sessions) would help with. This is equally true of all those with the mental illnesses like phobias such as an irrational fear of spiders, for example. They are unlikely to kill anybody with an axe, unless they throw one at a spider and hit a passing stranger by mistake. They do, however, have a serious and often debilitating mental illness.
I did vote for the man’s party because New Labour have lurched too far towards National Socialism and the Tories have lost the plot. The Lib-Dems do have a radical agenda that could start to heal many of this country’s ills and if they are to stand any chance of improving their still barely influential position, they need to be better than the others.
However, it looks obvious to me that Charles Kennedy has been booted out for other reasons. There appears to be a movement in the Lib-Dems that looks frighteningly familiar. I can see ‘young blood’ rising with the same stench an Blair/Brown/Mandelson about them and that is worrying. Who is pulling these peoples’ strings and why do we keep falling for them? Please Liberal Democrats everywhere, be careful who you vote for. This country does not need another Blair/Brown combination. It’s trendy but it’s not clever!
He was pushed but he should have jumped far sooner but the self-deceit alcoholics become masters of may have permanently destroyed his political career.
Vegetarianism 101
Posted 1 June 2007
originally published elsewhere at another time
Vegetarians don’t eat dead animal flesh (meat)! Animal is a word with more than one meaning in modern usage but the first meaning given in the Oxford English Dictionary is the one that matters from a Vegetarian point of view. Fish, birds and everything else that walks, crawls, flies, swims or wriggles are animals. Somebody who eats any of them is not a Vegetarian! Vegetarians are not Vegans. Vegetarians eat dairy products such as milk, cheese and eggs (unfertilised), Vegans do not (and have many other restrictions). Vegetarians believe that it is not necessary to kill any animal in order to eat, and may make other animal product related life-style choices. Fruitarians only eat plant products that can be harvested without killing the plant. Some people are predominantly Vegetarian but ‘lapse’ to satisfy particular occassional desires or perhaps when away from home because of a lack of nutritional Vegetarian options. While they are lapsed they are not Vegetarian.
All cells in the Human body are regularly replaced but some more frequently than others. It is possible that after being vegetarian for many years some of the longest living cells in your body will remain ‘manufactured’ from some of the components of animal products consumed previously. You may never become a non-animal mammal.
Some Vegetarians also eat meat substitutes made from fungi and soya derived products amongst others, but many do not (especially because most soya is genetically modified). Many Vegetarians would prefer that their food does not resemble meat in any way. The difference is usually related to how an individual became Vegetarian in the first place. If the choice was idealogical (’eating animals is bad or unnecessary’ or for religious reasons) then they may also choose not to eat the substitutes. This will be particularly true for people who have been Vegetarian from childhood. Others choose Vegetarianism because they don’t like what is fed to animals or injected into them or object to their treatment, so believe that the resulting meat is harmful or unethically produced. Such Vegetarians may still like the taste of meat so may eat the substitutes.
Vitamin B12 can only be derived from animal products because it derives from a bacteria that lives in the guts of animals. It is essential for life but symptoms of a deficit may be slow to manifest because the liver stores a supply that can last for years. A lack of B12 will eventually kill and research suggests that plant derived substitutes are not properly absorbed by the body. It is found in eggs and cheese so Vegetarians eating these should be OK. Vegans and Fruitarians will become ill and eventually die if they don’t take B12 supplements.
The food Vegetarians eat (often labelled as such, or in separate compartments in shops) is also suitable for Omnivores. People who eat meat often turn up their noses at Vegetarian food, which would often have been the healthiest and tastiest food they had consumed for years, if only they had tried it.
Equally, it is very easy to follow a strict Vegetarian diet and eat extremely unhealthily. A Vegetarian can quite easily avoid anything green, avoid any protein, eat a great deal of fat and sugar and generally consume food of poor nutritional value. A Vegetarian can smoke, drink vats of alcohol and do absolutely no excercise content in the knowledge that no animal died contributing to his or her early expiration.
