Apr 18 commentary

Combine these two:

There is a crisis in health freedom. On April 30, 2007 the FDA will close the public comment period on a "Guidance" which will classify every alternative practice as medicine so that only licensed physicians can carry out the procedure AND vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc., will suddenly become "untested drugs" which will be forbidden.

Bad? Real Bad! But public outcry can stop this assault on your health and your freedom.

Spread the word! Tell everyone in your Circle of Influence, professionals, alternative practitioners, nutrient and herb companies, everyone! Let them know how important their participation is to make sure the FDA backs off from this repressive course.

Please share this link:  http://tinyurl.com/2u7ghc  FDA Regulators Using Legal Trickery to Kill Alternative Procedures and Products

Next item: Great short two minute video, narrated by Aaron Russo (who by the way is an Italian American Jew) who refutes beautifully just how manipulative the American media is in propagandizing Americans into believing that Iranian President Ahmadinejad said he wanted to "wipe Israel off the map."  Russo links you to CSPAN which shows Ahmadinejad's exact words and Russo shows how even 60 minutes censored the most important part of Ahmadinjad's speech, which dispels the myth that Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map.
Here is just a  short transcript of Ahmadinejad's speech and what the American media intentionally suppressed:
"The Iman said, this regime occupying Jerusalem, must vanish from the page of time. [So if one said, "the Bush regime occupying the White House must vanish from the page of time."  Then I guess anyone who wants to see Bush Impeached could be accused of wanting America to be wiped off the map.What propaganda!  What a bunch of horse****!]
Here is more of what he said and was censored:
"I think that the Israeli government is a fabricated government and I have talked about the solution. The solution is democracy.  We have said allow Palestinian people to participate in a free and fair referendum to express their views.  What we are saying only serves the cause of durable peace. We want durable peace in that part of the world. A durable peace will only come about with once the views of the people are met. -Iranian President Ahmadinejad

Next item. So shock jock don imus got fired. He managed to denigrate a college womans basketball team in two ways in a single sentance. He called them nappy headed, which of course refers derogatorily to their race, and he called them ho’s, which is common slang for whores. I find it interesting that the major complaint is over the racial slur, and not the allegation that they rent out their bodies for sexual purposes. Now im not black and im not a woman, but I cant help but think that the whore comment is far more injurious than the racial slur. Funny that the media focuses on one while ignoring the other. Here is another take on the imus episode, off of my favorite astrology site, thecosmicpath.com: A few weeks back, during the Walter Reed scandal, Imus went absolutely CRAZY about the generals and the administration’s neglect of the wounded soldiers. Of course, the eclipses were setting off his chart. Imus does an enormous amount of fundraising for wounded vets among his other charities. Imus IS a vet ~ with a loud and clear voice and a wide-ranging audience, fairly conservative and an older white guy. GE, a major defense contractor, owns MSNBC. First Dan Rather with those papers about George going AWOL, was silenced, and now Imus.. These folks are good. They even got a leftie group, Media Matters, to coordinate the hit. Nothing like a bunch of lefties taking out a major voice criticizing the administration‘s behavior. She then got further into politics. From thecosmicpath.com: Of course, with all this activity we need to look a smidge deeper to notice what the Imus distraction obscures from being covered by the press. Whenever there is one of these corporate media frenzies, I check what political situation is being ignored (on purpose?). It appears there are "missing emails" in the US Attorney firings. Oops! Karl happened to hit his delete key. Congress wants his emails? Mr. Rove and his merry band of at least 50 other folks using GOP provided computer equipment and email servers managed to lose their emails! The point of using GOP provided computer equipment was to avoid complying with the Hatch law to preserve presidential papers and, of course, emails, in their official government computers. However, they WERE at their government desks, in their role as a government employee and sending those emails during their day-to-day work or activities.
Looks like "missing emails" will be our version of the 18 minutes of erased tape from the Nixon Watergate era , Fawn and Ollie shredding documents in the basement during the Iran-Contra era and, to be non-partisan, sperm on a blue dress in Clinton‘s era. I thought Senator Leahey was going to pop a blood vessel when he found out the White House deleted the emails! It was a classic dog ate their email account moment. Should Patrick Fitzgerald re-open his Plame leak investigation now that we know the boys have secondary email accounts?
Nothing to fear, IF the GOP deletes emails the way they handle the war and Katrina, the missing emails will be found! Once on the internet, always on the internet! Congress only needs an excellent forensics computer searcher. OR, perhaps we can access the missing emails using the NSA data mining stuff collected by yet another part of our government. I would LOVE that! And, I bet that once we get INTO searching around in Karl’s and his merry boys email accounts, who knows what we might find? .

Next item: Gov. Bill Richardson recently signed a bill that makes New Mexico the 12th state in the Union to allow medical use of marijuana. However they went further than any previous state by deciding that instead of just allowing the compassionate medical practice, new mexico would get into the business of producing and distributing the herb, something Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington have not quite come to grips with. In New Mexico, you will soon be able to go to your doctor who, if it's appropriate, will write a prescription for medicinal cannabis. The patient will then make a purchase through a state-regulated facility. No more argument about how many plants a medical marijuana patient may cultivate, no more arguments about the compassionate shops that sell cannabis even though they face the risk of federal drug agents raiding their legal stores, no more concern that those who use the drug are also cultivating it for sale. Stay tuned. This could get really interesting.

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