How’s this for an
interesting science
experiment? Now
what are you going to
do?
Don't
know
how
much
any
of
you
use
your
microwave
but
I
offer
this
for
your
consideration.
Definitely
food
for
thought.
(excuse
the
pun)
Microwaved Water - See What It Does To Plants Below is a science fair project. In it she took filtered water
and divided it into two parts. The first part she heated to
boiling in a pan on the stove, and the second part she heated
to boiling in a microwave. Then after cooling she used the
water to water two identical plants to see if there would be
any difference in the growth between the normal boiled water
and the water boiled in a microwave. She was thinking that
the structure or energy of the water may be compromised by
microwave. As it turned out, even she was amazed at the
difference.
I have known for years that the problem with microwaved
anything is not the radiation people used to worry about, It's
how it corrupts the DNA in the food so the body can not
recognize it. So the body wraps it in fat cells to protect itself
from the dead food or it eliminates it fast. Think of all the
Mothers heating up milk in these "Safe" appliances. What
about the nurse in Canada that warmed up blood for a
transfusion patient and accidentally killed them when the
blood went in dead. But the makers say it's safe. Never mind
then, keep using them. Ask your Doctor I am sure they will
say it's safe too. Proof is in the pictures of living plants dying.
Remember You are also Living. Take Care. FORENSIC RESEARCH DOCUMENT Prepared By: William P. Kopp
A. R. E. C.. Research Operations
TO61-7R10/10- 77F05
RELEASE PRIORITY: CLASS I ROO1a
Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following: 1). Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven
causes long term - permanent - brain damage by "shorting
out" electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or
de-magnetizing the brain tissue].
2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the
unknown by-products created in microwaved food..
3). Male and female hormone production is shut down
and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.
4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual
[long term, permanent] within the human body.
5). Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food
is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no
benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that
cannot be broken down.
6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free
radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.
7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous
growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased
rate of colon cancer in America ..
8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes
cancerous cells to increase in human blood.
9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune
system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum
alterations.
10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory,
concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of
intelligence.
Have you tossed out your microwave oven yet?
After you throw out your microwave you can use a toaster oven as a replacement. It works well for most and is nearly as quick.
A convection oven is even better, as it cooks faster and more evenly and browns beautifully, too. (Convection ovens are inexpensive, and have a fan that distributes the heat more evenly. Almost as fast as a microwave, and lots safer!)
Oct 29,2010
Thought you might enjoy this
interestingprayer
given in Kansas a the opening session of their Senate. It
seemsprayer
still upsets somepeople.
When Minister Joe Wright was asked to openthe
new session of the
Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual
generalities,but this is:
what they heard:
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask
your forgiveness and to seek your direction and
guidance. We know Your Word says, ' Woe to those
who call evil good, ' but that is exactly what we
have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed
our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it
the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it
welfare..
We have killed our unborn and called it
choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it
justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our
children and called it
building self esteem.....
We have abused power and called it
politics.
We have coveted our neighbor ' s possessions
and called it
ambition.
We have pollutedthe
air with profanity and pornography and called it
freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values
of our forefathers and called it
enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts
today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free..
Amen!
The response was immediate. A number of
legislators walked out during the prayer in
protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian
Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than
5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls
responding negatively. The church is now receiving
international requests for copies of this prayer
from
India , Africa and Korea .
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on
his radio program, '
The Rest of the Story, ' and
received a larger response to this program than any
other he has ever aired.
With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep
over our nation and wholeheartedly become our
desire so that we again can be called
'one nationunder God. '
If possible, please pass this prayer on to
your friends... ' If you don't stand for something,
you will fall for everything. '
Think about this: If you forward this
prayer to everyone on your
e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be
heard by the world.
Josh Beaver
V.I.S.E. Company
Versatile Independent Steel Erectors
www.visecompany.com
Cinnamon and Honey
May cure what ales you
Cinnamon and Honey
Honey is the only food on the
planet that will not spoil or
rot. It will do what some call
turning to sugar. In reality
honey is always honey.. However,
when left in a cool dark place
for a long time it will do what
I rather call "crystallizing".
When this happens I loosen the
lid, boil some water, and sit
the honey container in the hot
water,
turn off the heat and let it
liquefy. It is then as good as
it ever was. Never boil honey or
put it in a microwave. To do so
will kill the enzymes in the
honey.
Cinnamon and Honey
Bet the drug companies won't
like this one getting around.
Facts on Honey and Cinnamon:
It is found that a mixture of
honey and Cinnamon cures
most diseases. Honey is produced
in most of the countries of the
world. Scientists of today also
accept honey as a 'Ram Ban'
(very effective) medicine for
all kinds of diseases. Honey
can be used without any side
effects for any kind of
diseases.
Today's science says that even
though honey is sweet, if taken
in the right dosage as a
medicine, it does not harm
diabetic patients. Weekly
World News, a magazine in Canada
, in its issue dated 17
January,1995 has given the
following list of diseases that
can be cured by honey and
cinnamon as researched by
western scientists:
PIMPLES:
Three tablespoons of honey and
one teaspoon of cinnamon powder
paste. Apply this paste on the
pimples before sleeping and wash
it next morning with warm water.
If done daily for two weeks, it
removes pimples from the root.
HEART DISEASES: Make a paste of
honey and cinnamon powder,
apply on bread, instead of jelly
and jam, and eat it regularly
for breakfast. It reduces the
cholesterol in the arteries and
saves the patient from heart
attack. Also,
those who have already had an
attack, if they do this process
daily, they are kept miles away
from the next attack. Regular
use of the above process
relieves loss of breath and
strengthens the heart beat.
In
America and Canada , various
nursing homes have treated
patients successfully and have
found that as you age, the
arteries and veins lose their
flexibility and get clogged;
honey and cinnamon revitalize
the arteries and veins.
ARTHRITIS: Arthritis patients may take
daily, morning and night, one
cup of hot water with two spoons
of honey and one small teaspoon
of cinnamon powder. If taken
regularly even chronic arthritis
can be cured. In a recent
research conducted at the
Copenhagen University, it was
found that when the doctors
treated their patients with a
mixture of one tablespoon Honey
and half teaspoon Cinnamon
powder before breakfast, they
found that within a week, out of
the 200 people so treated,
practically 73 patients were
totally relieved of pain, and
within a month, mostly all the
patients who could not walk or
move around because of arthritis
started walking without pain.
BLADDER INFECTIONS: Take two tablespoons of
cinnamon powder and one teaspoon
of honey in a glass of
lukewarm water and drink
it. It destroys the germs in the
bladder.
CHOLESTEROL: Two tablespoons of honey and
three teaspoons of Cinnamon
Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea
water, given to a cholesterol
patient, was found to reduce the
level of cholesterol in the
blood by 10 percent within two
hours. As mentioned for
arthritic patients, if taken
three times a day, any chronic
cholesterol is cured. According
to information received in the
said Journal, pure honey taken
with food daily relieves
complaints of cholesterol.
COLDS: Those suffering from common
or severe colds should take one
tablespoon lukewarm honey with
1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily
for three days. This process
will cure most
chronic cough, cold, and
clear the sinuses.
UPSET STOMACH: Honey taken with cinnamon
powder cures
stomach ache and also
clears
stomach ulcers from the
root.
GAS:
According to the studies done in
India and Japan , it is revealed
that if Honey is taken with
cinnamon powder the stomach is
relieved of gas.
IMMUNE SYSTEM: Daily use of honey and
cinnamon powder strengthens the
immune system and protects the
body from bacteria and viral
attacks. Scientists have found
that honey has various vitamins
and iron in large amounts.
Constant use of Honey
strengthens the white blood
corpuscles to fight bacterial
and viral diseases.
INDIGESTION: Cinnamon powder sprinkled on
two tablespoons of honey taken
before food relieves acidity and
digests the heaviest of meals.
INFLUENZA:
A scientist in Spain has proved
that honey contains a natural '
Ingredient' which kills the
influenza germs and saves the
patient from flu..
LONGEVITY:
Tea made with honey and cinnamon
powder, when taken regularly,
arrests the ravages of old age.
Take four spoons of honey, one
spoon of cinnamon powder, and
three cups of water and boil to
make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup,
three to four times a day. It
keeps the skin fresh and soft
and arrests old age. Life spans
also increase and even a 100
year old, starts performing the
chores of a 20-year-old.
SKIN INFECTIONS:
Applying honey and cinnamon
powder in equal parts on the
affected parts cures
eczema, ringworm and all
types of skin infections.
WEIGHT LOSS:
Daily in the morning one half
hour before breakfast on an
empty stomach, and at night
before sleeping, drink honey and
cinnamon powder boiled in one
cup of water. If taken
regularly, it reduces the weight
of even the most obese person.
Also, drinking this mixture
regularly does not allow the fat
to accumulate in the body even
though the person may eat a high
calorie diet.
CANCER: Recent research in Japan and
Australia has revealed that
advanced cancer of the stomach
and bones have been cured
successfully. Patients suffering
from these kinds of cancer
should daily take one tablespoon
of honey with one teaspoon of
cinnamon powder for one month
three times a day.
FATIGUE:
Recent studies have shown that
the sugar content of honey is
more helpful rather than being
detrimental to the strength of
the body. Senior citizens, who
take honey and cinnamon powder
in equal parts, are more alert
and flexible. Dr. Milton, who
has done research, says that a
half tablespoon of honey taken
in a glass of water and
sprinkled with cinnamon powder,
taken daily after brushing and
in the afternoon at about
3:00 P.M. when the
vitality of the body starts to
decrease, increases the vitality
of the body within a week.
BAD BREATH:
People of South America , first
thing in the morning, gargle
with one teaspoon of honey and
cinnamon powder mixed in hot
water, so their breath stays
fresh throughout the day.
HEARING LOSS: Daily morning and night
honey and cinnamon powder, taken
in equal parts restores hearing.
Remember when we were kids? We
had toast with real butter and
cinnamon sprinkled on it!
You might want to share this
information with a friend,
kinfolks and loved ones.
Everyone needs healthy help
information ~ what they do with
it is up to them ~ share with
your email buddies!!!!!
Jesus was smoking…a reality check for the masses
Today the AP (Associated Press) ran a story that really
touched my heart. It was entitled “6-story
Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning”.
In today’s society we have
forgotten the laws of G-d and the law of the Bible that this country was founded
upon.
Instead we have gone on a
rampage of ideas and theologies that would have made the Greeks of old blush
with shame.
Even if it was not
against one of the primary commandments not to create a graven image, one would
have to contemplate if it were right to create an image of a person that no one
alive has even seen and that there is no known image off. So one would have to
ask, who is this guy with his arms out? I think I understand the concept of
wanting someone to look up to, but I think it is so wrong to not know who you
are looking up to or in this case worshiping an unknown spiritual being in the
form of a statue. Truly it is a great sadness that we do not put as much
effort in to caring for each other as went into this statue.
Perhaps the biggest lesson in
this is that monuments of stone and mortar or in this case fiberglass, foam and
steel are not real and cannot help us, it
could not even save itself.
Article in its entirety
below….
6-story
Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning
AP – FILE
-- A Nov. 17, 2004 file photo shows traffic on I-75 just north of the Monroe,
Ohio, going by a …
44 mins ago
MONROE,
Ohio – A six-story-tall
statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was
struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground,
police said.
The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks,
had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid
Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati.
The
lightning strike set the statue ablaze around 11:15 p.m., Monroe police
dispatchers said.
The
sculpture, 62 feet tall and 40 feet wide at the base, showed Jesus from the
torso up and was nicknamed
Touchdown Jesus because of the way the arms were raised, similar to a
referee signaling a touchdown. It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a
steel frame, which is all that remained early Tuesday.
The fire
spread from the statue to an adjacent amphitheater but was confined to the attic
area, and no one was injured, police Chief Mark Neu said. The fire department
would release a monetary
damage estimate Tuesday, he said.
Travelers
on Interstate 75 often were startled to come upon the huge statue by the
roadside, but many said America needs more symbols like it. So many people
stopped at the church campus that church officials had to build a walkway to
accommodate them.
The
4,000-member,
nondenominational church was founded by former horse trader Lawrence
Bishop and his wife. Bishop said in 2004 he was trying to help people, not
impress them, with the statue. He said his wife proposed the Jesus figure as a
beacon of hope and salvation and they spent about $250,000 to finance
it.
The newest illegal aliens from Mexico and
the threat to the small American farm...
Once again the government is saving us from
the threat of illegal aliens, crossing the borders in the dead of night, only
this time they are chasing ducks, that's right you heard me ducks. Muscovy
ducks to be exact. The only none mallard breed of duck, these ducks are
also one of the oldest and thought to be the best tasting of ducks of any duck
species. They come originally from Central America, some have made there way up
threw Mexico and into Texas. Some were introduced by make believe governments in
places like Florida and at that time they served a real purpose, but because of
poor management have over run many areas and killed off mallards or inbred them
its genetics, killing of the mallards ducks and other birds. I agree this is a
horrible problem, but the fault of the small well maintained family farms.
Many small farms, including mine raise
them, most for there meat which is red like beef, but lower in fat and still
great tasting. I myself raise them for eggs. None have ever escaped,
darn things are worth too much to lose one and besides, the males don't even
fly, which brings me to the next part of the story. The FWS has added to
its migratory bird bill the out law of the Muscovy making it illegal to own or
propagate under most circumstances. It is really crazy IMHO as they gave no
warning, but at the end of this month; March 31, 2010 it makes it illegal to
buy, sell or trade eggs or birds or posses a carcass of said duck.
In a time when families are turning back to
small farms, we have laws that prevent them from that very thing. Please
do not take my word for it, click on the link below and read it for yourself and
tell me how we can stop a duck from crossing the border but not a human....lol
A teacher was arrested today
at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while
in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a
calculator.
At a morning press
conference, the Attorney General
said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did
not identify the man, who has been charged by the
FBI with carrying weapons
of math instruction.
'"Al-Gebra is a problem for
us," the Attorney General said. "They derive solutions by means and extremes,
and sometimes go off on tangents in search of
absolute values." They use
secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as "unknowns", but we
have determined that they belong to a
common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every
country.
As the
Greek philanderer
Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'.
When asked to comment on the
arrest, President Obama said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of
math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes." White House
aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound
statement by the President. It is believed that the
Nobel Prize for Physics will follow.
A new way to see the news....
Dec 2,2009
Just put your mouse on a city
anywhere in the world and the newspaper
headlines pop up...
Double click and the page gets
larger.... I thought you all would like to know
about this site, if you don't already.
I also found you can read the
entire paper on some if you click on the right
place.
Handmade chocolates, artisanal cheeses, vintage Champagne —
consumers are thinking twice about splurging on such luxurious goods
during the tough economic times. But sales of at least one fancy
food item have held up: gourmet turkeys that easily cost $100 or
more.
Mark Scherzer, center, sends one of his 95
heritage turkeys off for slaughter, as Peter Davies, rear,
gathers other birds on their 40-acre farm in Germantown, N.Y.
“It’s a hot item,” said Bill Niman, a prominent advocate for
sustainable agriculture who this year jumped into the so-called
heritage turkey market — older breeds of birds that had all but
disappeared until championed by preservationists and foodies.
He raised 2,500 birds for
Thanksgiving and “sold every bird.”
Mr. Niman’s turkeys were priced at $6.99 a pound. Many small
farmers sell their birds direct to customers for as much as $10 a
pound, or 10 to 20 times the cost of a typical supermarket turkey.
That means a heritage turkey big enough for a large Thanksgiving
gathering, say 18 pounds, can run $180. Even at that price, farmers
who breed heritage turkeys are recording brisk sales.
Heritage turkeys are old-fashioned breeds that resemble their
wild ancestors more closely than do modern breeds. Devotees say they
are more flavorful and have a higher proportion of dark meat than
the modern birds.
But even with high demand and prices to match, many of the
producers say they are having trouble making money. That is because
the old-time breeds — with names like Black Spanish and Bourbon Red
— take longer and cost far more to raise than their modern
competition, a turkey breed known as the Broad-Breasted White.
Broad-breasted turkeys grow quickly, have lots of white meat and are
docile enough that they can easily be mass-produced in large-scale
poultry operations.
The heritage breeds were popular 100 years ago but almost
disappeared until preservationists, sustainable agriculture
advocates and food enthusiasts worked to bring them back into vogue.
They are generally raised on small farms, allowed to feed on pasture
and roam freely. While broad-breasted birds can mature in 14 weeks,
heritage birds take 28 weeks.
Enthusiasts say they taste better and have firmer, darker meat.
But the birds also come with a compelling story that a frozen
Butterball can’t match. Breeds from a bygone era, allowed to run
free, are promoted as the edible embodiment of older ways of farming
and eating — a political statement with a side of cranberry sauce.
“The prices seem very high at first, if you compare them to a
bird at the supermarket,” said Mark Scherzer, who raised about 95
heritage turkeys this year on his 40-acre farm in Germantown, N.Y.
“But when you consider the slaughtering at our scale, you’re paying
a premium for that. You’re feeding them organic grain and it takes
them more than twice as long to get to market size.”
Mr. Scherzer and his partner, Peter Davies, raised their price
this year to $10 a pound, from $8.75 last year. Mr. Scherzer said
only a few customers balked at the higher price and they had no
difficulty selling all their birds. Still, he said, farmers do not
make an outsize profit.
He and his partner paid $9 each for day-old poults from a
hatchery last spring. And on Monday, they trucked the birds to a
slaughterhouse that charged $10 a head to kill them. Those costs
alone put the cost for each bird well above the retail price of a
typical supermarket turkey. That also does not include the expenses
of high-end organic feed, labor, overhead and birds lost to illness
or predators.
“Ten bucks a pound for turkey is a whole bunch of money,” said Ed
Di Gangi, who nonetheless was happy to pay $81 for a heritage bird
that weighed a bit more than eight pounds. He bought the bird at a
Pittsburgh farmers market from Margaret Henry, a farmer from
northwest Pennsylvania. “There’s certainly sticker shock, but it’s
not something we do all the time,” he said.
Mr. Di Gangi, 61, who manages a hospital communications center
and lives in suburban Pittsburgh, said that over the last year he
had been paying more attention to where his food comes from. With a
heritage bird, he feels he will have a healthier meal and support a
local organic farmer instead of a commercial turkey mill.
But he has had some bemused responses from friends who got free
turkeys in supermarket promotions.
“There have been a couple of blank stares, a couple of ‘Oh wows’
and a couple of, ‘Why are you doing that?’ ” Mr. Di Gangi said.
It is not clear how many heritage birds are sold each
year. A conservative estimate, according to some
producers, is 20,000 to 30,000 birds. That is a blip
compared with the 273 million broad-breasted turkeys
produced annually in the United States (46 million of
those are eaten on Thanksgiving).
Liz Martinez checks groceries,
including a turkey from Bill Niman, who raised
2,500 for Thanksgiving and sold them all.
Stephanie Turco and her husband, Paul Alward, raised
about 400 heritage turkeys last year on their farm in
New Paltz, N.Y. But feed costs soared and they had a
hard time selling the birds, priced at $7 a pound, at
the height of the recession. Renting space at a freezer
to store unsold birds increased their costs further.
This year, they raised only about 60 birds, selling them
for $7.50 a pound.
“If we wanted to really make money on them, they
should be $12 a pound,” she said. “The question is, does
it pay for the farmer to do it?”
Frank Reese, a renowned breeder, has helped lead the
crusade to save the heritage breeds and works with
farmers associated with his Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch
in Lindsborg, Kan., to market 9,500 turkeys a year. Most
are sold on the Internet, through a company called
Heritage Foods USA and shipped to buyers by overnight
delivery.
Mr. Reese ran into problems this year when the
slaughterhouse he had used shut, forcing him to truck
his turkeys to Illinois and Ohio for processing,
increasing his costs by about 10 percent.
“Our turkeys are very expensive, not because of the
turkey but because of the processing and shipping,” he
said. “The problem is the infrastructure to support
truly honest-to-God sustainable agriculture is not
there.”
Mr. Niman, who has begun breeding birds on his farm
in Marin County, Calif., is looking for ways to overcome
such obstacles. He envisions building a network of
farmers to raise heritage birds, working together to
lower the cost of feed, processing and marketing as
volume increases.
Until then, he said, there are plenty of people
“willing to pay $100 for an exceptional turkey that’s
more reflective of how things were at one time and it’s
supporting traditional agriculture.” He added, “And the
birds taste dramatically different.”
On Wednesday, President Obama
pardoned his first Thanksgiving turkey.
There is something wrong with this
concept.
Here is how our beloved national
tradition works: One lucky turkey gets to live — and fly first class
to Disneyland, where he is grand marshal in the Thanksgiving Day
parade (I am not making this up). While another nameless bird gets
slaughtered in his place.
It’s “A Tale of Two Cities,” except
somehow I doubt that the doomed turkey volunteered for the job.
Who mourns the Backup Bird? What
fickle finger of fate decided that he should literally get the ax,
while the one who was supposed to go next lives happily ever after
on the Big Thunder Ranch in Frontierland?
The president did not seem all that
thrilled with his role. “There are certain days that remind me of
why I ran for this office. And then there are moments like this,
where I pardon the turkey and send it to Disneyland,” he said.
His daughters, who were trotted out
as the alleged champions of the turkey pardon, looked as if they’d
be perfectly happy to retract. Malia, who noted that the bird
reminded her of “a large chicken” seemed particularly
unenthusiastic.
The National Turkey Federation
named the bird Courage, perhaps in memory of Benjamin Franklin’s
contention that the bald eagle was a bird of bad moral character
while the turkey was “though a little vain and silly, a bird of
courage.” If Franklin’s argument had prevailed and the turkey,
rather than the bald eagle, had become the national symbol, would we
still be eating them? Would the turkey farmers still be in business?
What does eagle taste like, anyway?
These are the whims of fate that we
celebrate on the day before Thanksgiving, when one random, somewhat
sullen-looking bird gets pardoned while another goes to the
presidential dinner table.
The turkey-pardoning is supposed to
be a long-running national tradition, but it officially only goes
back to George (the Good One) Bush and 1989. Since Thanksgiving is a
holiday that’s particularly rich in long-running traditions, 20
years barely counts as an impulsive gesture.
If we want a political tradition,
we can do better. Let’s all just gather around the family computer
and watch that video of Sarah Palin discussing Thanksgiving in front
of a bloody turkey abattoir.
There was actually no mention at
the presidential pardon of what the Obamas themselves were going to
be eating on Thanksgiving. While the turkey federation traditionally
donates a live bird for the ceremony and dead ones for the White
House dinner, the oven-ready birds seem to be the ones that the
president and the girls were taking to a Washington charity. As to
the menu at the White House, a spokesman said it would involve
“traditional foods and family favorites,” but declined to give
details.
We all know that Obama is extremely
logical. He must understand that the only way for this pardoning
ritual to make sense would be if he spared the backup turkey, and
the backup’s backup, all the way down the line.
Then he could announce the creation
of a new vegetarian Thanksgiving to commemorate the day the Pilgrims
and the Indians got together over a steaming platter of parsnips.
But since this is keep-it-cool,
middle-of-the-road Barack Obama, he would probably skip both the
drama and the turkey and go meatless without telling anybody.
After all, if the word got out, who
knows how many tea parties it would spark? Birthers would probably
claim that no one actually born in the United States would consider
celebrating Thanksgiving without a turkey. Glenn Beck would weep
over the incipient loss of our freedom to consume really dry meat on
a holiday. Rumors would arise that Michelle does not really love her
national cuisine.
Whatever they’re eating, the Obamas
will undoubtedly discuss the things they want to give thanks for
this year. You wonder what the president would say. He can always
mention his family. Not every man has daughters loyal enough to
accompany him through a cheesy turkey-pardoning.
But when he tries counting his
blessings, does the specter of President Karzai rise up through the
mashed potatoes? Do the brussels sprouts all look like little
versions of Joe Lieberman threatening a filibuster? If it turns out
that there is a turkey, and someone inevitably remarks that it looks
like the biggest ever, does Obama think they’re talking about the
unemployment rate?
It’s not really fair. The president
knows he could jump-start the economy, fix health care and do his
ambitious energy policy — if only the last administration hadn’t cut
taxes, started two wars and created a new, large Medicare
entitlement without paying for any of it.
When he’s not making his way
through Thanksgiving photo-ops, he’s adding up the numbers over and
over in his mind, and sending mental daggers at the Republicans who
are yelling at him about deficits that they created.
Although what else could he expect
in a Washington that thinks you can pardon your turkey and eat it,
too?
Why Are Internment Camps Being Built?
by Chuck Baldwin
August 11, 2009
The Internet is abuzz with news about the construction of internment
camps all across America. Of course, "mainstream" media outlets refuse to
touch the subject; or if they do, they pooh-pooh the story; they do what
Glenn Beck recently did: try to debunk the story as fallacious and impugn
people who speak of it as "conspiracy nuts." The fact that the Becks,
Hannitys, Limbaughs, and O'Reillys of the media circus refuse to deal with
the construction of large numbers of internment camps does not make them
disappear, however.
For starters, all anyone need do to begin a serious investigation of the
subject of internment camps is Google the phrase "FEMA Camps." There is more
than enough evidence in that search engine alone to keep one busy with some
in-depth private investigation of the subject for quite a while.
Another URL to check out is this one from the June 2009 Idaho Observer:
As people read my columns all across America, I have had numerous readers
contact me, saying that they have personally witnessed the transportation of
construction materials used for internment camps, have actually worked in
and around them, or have personally seen such camps. These eyewitness
testimonies have come from very credible people, including law enforcement
and military personnel, as well as airline pilots and construction workers.
Just a few weeks ago, I was aboard a cross-country flight when the
passenger I was sitting next to (a total stranger) asked me to take a look
out the window. He asked, "Do those look like internment camps to you?" I
was astonished that the man (1) would even know to notice such a
potentiality, and (2) would be so bold as to ask such a question of a total
stranger. I must say, I was extremely happy to make his acquaintance. And we
had a very warm and invigorating discussion the rest of the trip.
We were flying over Colorado, over extreme wilderness terrain, and, yes,
right in the middle of nowhere, the buildings and surrounding features that
I saw sure looked like internment camps to me. Of course, flying at over
30,000 feet in the sky makes it difficult for any kind of detailed analysis
to take place; that is for sure.
Then, a friend recently brought this URL to my attention:
This is an advertisement by the National Guard promoting the Military
Occupational Specialty (MOS) of "Internment/Resettlement Specialist."
Question: why does the National Guard need to recruit
Internment/Resettlement Specialists? What do they know that we should know?
Furthermore, I have had military personnel tell me that many of the US
military bases that have been recently "closed" are also being prepared as
large-scale "holding areas."
Obviously, the question that begs to be asked is, "Who is the US
government planning to intern and resettle?" And another question is, "How
many people are they planning to intern that would require the massive
number of camps that are apparently being constructed?"
Some suggest that these facilities are being prepared for large numbers
of illegal immigrants. This seems extremely doubtful, however, considering
the propensity of the federal government to (1) do next to nothing to
seriously curtail the flood of illegal aliens into America, (2) do virtually
nothing to apprehend illegals known to be in the US, and (3) do everything
it can to facilitate the release of those illegals incarcerated by State and
local authorities. To think that the federal government intends to place
thousands of illegal aliens in internment camps borders on lunacy. If
anything, the federal government (with either Democrats or Republicans in
charge) has done everything it can to (1) entice illegals to come to
America, and (2) provide every incentive for them to stay illegally in this
country after having entered. I feel safe in saying that we can eliminate
the possibility that these camps are being prepared for illegal aliens.
Others suggest that these internment camps are being constructed to
accommodate "enemy combatants" from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Yet, the
total number of these types of detainees is miniscule compared to the
detention space being constructed. Can one really imagine the need to build
facilities that could accommodate prisoners numbering in the tens of
thousands to house a few hundred foreign troops? I don't think so.
Then, of course, there are those who continue to deny that these
internment camps exist at all. But then, were there not thousands of Germans
who denied the existence of concentration camps during World War II? These
types of people would refuse to believe the sun came up in the east if the
government spinmeisters told them it didn't.
That our federal government is building large numbers of "holding areas"
or internment camps seems to be an established fact. The only questions that
remain are "Why?" and "For whom?"
At this point, the imagination can take us anywhere, but it is not a
little disconcerting when the same federal government that is building these
internment camps begins categorizing Christians, conservatives, people who
support the Second Amendment, people who oppose abortion and homosexual
marriage, people who oppose the North American Union and the New World
Order, people who oppose the United Nations and illegal immigration, and
people who voted for Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin as "extremists," or
"potential dangerous militia members."
Anyone knows that before a government can begin persecuting and
imprisoning large groups of people, they must first marginalize them. As
someone said, "Just because you are paranoid does not mean they really
aren't trying to get you."
In fact, an argument could be made that by today's politically correct
definition, America's Founding Fathers would be categorized as "paranoid,"
"extremists," or "potential dangerous militia members." I would even go so
far as to question the patriotism of anyone today that is not a little
paranoid. This federal government has certainly earned whatever paranoia
citizens feel.
Feelings of paranoia notwithstanding, why is the federal government
constructing large numbers of internment camps, and who does the government
plan on incarcerating in those camps? Those questions still need to be
answered.
P.S. If you live within driving distance of Oklahoma City, or Tulsa,
Oklahoma, I will be appearing at several events in this area this Thursday
and Friday, August 13 and 14. I would love to meet any of my readers who
could attend these meetings. For details, go here:
*If you appreciate this column and want to help me distribute these
editorial opinions to an ever-growing audience, donations may now be made by
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Make sure you read to the end. You will be amazed.
Let's hear it for
Costco! (This is just mind-boggling! )
Make sure you read all the way past the list of the drugs. The
woman that
signed below is a Budget Analyst out of federal Washington , DC
offices.
Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active
ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a
lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a
search
of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the
active
ingredients found
in drugs approved by the
FDA. As we have revealed in past issues of Life
Extension a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States
contain active ingredients
made in other countries. In our independent
investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we
obtained
the actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular
drugs sold in America .
**
Celebrex:100 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $130.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.60
Percent markup: 21,712%
*
*
Claritin:**10 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71
Percent markup: 30,306%
*
*
Keflex:**250 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.88
Percent markup: 4,696%
*
*
Norvasc:**10 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.14
Percent markup: 134,493%
*
*
Paxil:**20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $7.60
Percent markup: 2,898%
*
*
Prevacid:**30 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77
Cost of general active ingredients: $1..01
Percent markup: 34,136%
*
*
Prilosec**: 20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97
Cost of general active ingredients $0.52
Percent markup: 69,417%
*
*
Prozac:**20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) : $247.47
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.11
Percent markup: 224,973%
*
*
Tenormin:**50 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.13
Percent markup: 80,362%
*
*
Vasotec:**10 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.20
Percent markup: 51,185%
*
*
Xanax:**1 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024
Percent markup: 569,958%
*
*
Zestril:**20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) $89.89
Cost of general active ingredients $3.20
Percent markup: 2,809%
*
*
Zithromax:** 600 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $1,482.19
Cost of general active ingredients: $18.78
Percent markup: 7,892%
*
*
Zocor:**40 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $8.63
Percent markup: 4,059%
*
*Zoloft:**50 mg
Consumer price: $206.87
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.75
Percent markup: 11,821%
*
*
Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought
everyone
should know about this.
It pays to shop around! This helps to solve the mystery as to why
they can
afford to put a Walgreen's
on every corner. On Monday night, Steve
Wilson,
an investigative reporter for Channel 7 News in Detroit , did a story on generic drug prices
gouging by pharmacies. He found in his
investigation
that some of these
generic drugs were marked up as much as 3,000%
or more.
So often we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs, and
usually rightfully so. But in this case, the fault clearly lies
with the
pharmacies themselves. For example if you had to buy a
prescription
drug,
and bought the name brand, you might pay $100 for 100 pills.
The pharmacist might tell you that if you get the generic
equivalent, they
would only cost $80, making you think you are saving $20. What the
pharmacist is not telling you is that those 100 generic pills may have
only cost him $10!
At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson
whether or
not there were any pharmacies that did not adhere to this practice,
and he
said that Costco consistently charged little over their cost for the
generic drugs.
*
*
I went to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and get its
online price. It says that the in-store prices are consistent with the
online prices.. I was appalled. Just to give you one example from
my own
experience I had to use the drug Compazine which helps prevent nausea in
chemo patients.
*
*I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at
CVS. I
checked the price at Costco, and I could have bought 100 pills for
$19.89.
For 145 of my pain pills, I paid $72.57. I could have got 150 at
Costco for $28.08.
I would like to mention, that although Costco is a 'membership' type
store,
you do NOT have to be a member to buy prescriptions there as it is a
federally regulated substance. You just tell them at the door that you
wish to use the pharmacy, and they will let you in.
I am asking each of you to please help me by copying this letter, and
passing it into your own e-mail, and send it to everyone you know
with an
e-mail address.
**
Sharon L. Davis
Budget Analyst
U.S. Department of Commerce
Room 6839
Office Ph:
202-482-4458
Office Fax:
202-482-5480
E-mail Address:**sdavis@doc.
gov
http://us.mc464. mail.yahoo. com/mc/compose? to=sdavis@ doc.gov
CERN admits black hole ripped in
space by Large Hadron Collider
by Rich Bowden - Apr 1 2009, 04:03
Inside the ATLAS
solenoid cryostat. Image:
Copyright/CERN.
A spokesperson for the
European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has
confirmed the fears of many in the scientific world after
revealing that the reason for the sudden closure of the
Large Hadron Collider, the world's most expensive physics
experiment, was not due to "technical
problems" as previously stated, but because its
controversial particle collisions have sensationally
rendered a "tiny black hole" in the fabric of space.
"I can confirm that, yes, the first stages of the
experiment resulted in the appearance of a miniscule black
hole," said the spokesperson to gathered reporters
on Monday. "The black hole is being kept under quarantine
and our scientists have been monitoring its progression," he
explained.
Situated deep underground on the French-Swiss border, the
$10 billion USD Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had been opposed
by many scientists who warned of the related dangers of the
massive particle collision experiment.
The huge, ring-shaped LHC has been designed to give
scientists an opportunity to re-create and study the origins
of the universe and to end the search for the elusive Higgs
Boson or 'God particle'.
Many had bitterly said the consequences could be as
extreme as the Earth being sucked into the black hole the
LHC collisions may create as a side effect of the
experiment. Others claimed time travellers with more
sophisticated technology than ours could make use of the
hole to invade the Earth and enslave mankind.
The
particle
physics experiment began with great
fanfare on September 10, 2008, only to be mysteriously
closed down nine days later. An announcement by CERN blamed
mechanical failure between two
superconducting magnets, a reason deemed
strange at the time by scientists and theorists not involved
in the experiment.
After confirming the incredible real reason for the
closure of the LHC, the CERN spokesperson went on to placate
reporters present by saying that his organization did not,
at this stage, see any danger to the Earth's existence.
However, when asked by reporters at CERN headquarters how
the agency kept a black hole under quarantine, the
spokesperson admitted, "With great difficulty ladies and
gentlemen, with great difficulty."
The Obama administration's shadowy Special Crisis
Operations (SCO) executive, Mr. C. Norris, told Washington
reporters at a hastily-arranged news conference that his
elite team was monitoring the situation closely and was
ready to resolve any emerging crisis once it had "sorted out
this global warming business and the current financial
mess."
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Stephen Hawking, author of
the best seller A Brief History of Time, explains to a full
house in Bovard Auditorium that black holes aren't as black
as they are painted. Photo credit Taylor Faust
Celebrated physicist, Stephen
Hawking, delivered an inspiring speech to a full house in
Bovard Auditorium on March 10. USC College Dean Howard
Gillman kicked off the event by introducing Nick Warner,
professor of physics, mathematics and astronomy. Hawking was
Warner’s academic adviser while he studied at the University
of Cambridge.
Warner said that Hawking has contributed
greatly to popularizing science with his successful book
A Brief History of Time, which sold
10 million copies and focuses on
black holes and the
big bang theory. With a lifetime spent studying
cosmology and black holes, Hawking’s scientific prowess has
also been captured by Hollywood in “Star Trek,” “Futurama”
and “The Simpsons” television shows.
“Hawking has completely changed the way
scientists think about black holes by first showing they are
real natural phenomena and then giving us remarkable new
insights into how
quantum theory implies that they must evaporate,” Warner
said.
Hawking’s lecture focused on black holes,
a term coined by American physicist John Wheeler. Hawking
discussed the history of black holes beginning with British
physicist John Michell in 1783, who suggested that there
might be “Dark Stars” whose gravity is strong enough to trap
light and prevent the stars from being seen from far away.
Two Americans, Albert Michelson and
Edward Morley, proved that the speed of light is invariant
and does not depend upon where it comes from. Therefore,
Michell’s picture of Dark Stars is not entirely correct.
Next, Albert Einstein weighed in with his
theory of relativity where space and time are no longer
independent entities, but rather different directions in
four-dimensional space-time.
Einstein’s theory demonstrates that
space-time is curved by the presence of matter. Hawking said
it is like putting a heavy ball on a rubber sheet, the sheet
bends and if you increase the weight of the ball then
eventually, at a critical mass and size, the ball will make
a bottomless hole in the sheet that particles can get into,
but not out of. Stars do the same to the curving of space
and time, and at a critical mass and size a star will
collapse into a black hole.
From outside a black hole, you cannot
tell what is inside. Hawking noted that you can throw
television sets, diamond rings or your worst enemy into a
black hole — he is humorous as well as brilliant. All the
black hole remembers is the total mass and the state of
rotation.
The boundary of a black hole is the event
horizon where gravity is strong enough to pull light back.
Hawking likened it to going over Niagara Falls in a canoe.
If you are above the falls, you can get away if you paddle
fast enough. But once over the edge you are lost, there is
no way back.
Hawking also described how he discovered
that particles could slowly leak out of black holes and
release energy. A miniature black hole of the mass of a
mountain could generate enough power to supply the world’s
energy needs. However, the energy would be difficult to
harness as the power could not be maintained in a power
station. It would drop through the floor and end up at the
center of the Earth.
Scientists have searched for miniature
black holes but to no avail. Hawking said this is a pity as
he would have garnered a Nobel Prize. However, if a black
hole is found through the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the
world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator), he
interjected humorously, he will get a Nobel Prize after all.
Hawking also described how black holes
seem to conflict with one of the fundamental ideas of
science, namely determinism: That is, given enough detail
about the state of the universe at present one can predict
the future and reconstruct the past. The fact that black
holes can absorb matter and then emit something completely
different means that black holes appear to undermine
determinism. However, Hawking believes he has found a
resolution in the ideas of Richard Feynman, who believes
that quantum theory involves looking at all possible
alternative histories.
This perspective also supports the idea
that if you fall into a black hole, you may come out in
another universe. If there is a large hole and if it is
rotating, you may pass through it and into another universe.
So, you cannot come back to our universe. Though Hawking
said that he is keen on space flight, he is not willing to
transport himself to another universe.
Hawking said that the message from his
talk is that black holes are not the eternal prisons once
thought. If you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up.
There is a way out.
Provided by USC College
Tending Nurse Claimed Spanish Influenza Outbreak of 1918
Caused by Vaccinations
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/spanishfluvaccineconnection09dec06.shtml
December 9, 2006
Forward courtesy of Jason<jasonbarnettnz@yahoo.com>
Swine Flu Expose - by Eleanora I. McBean, Ph.D., N.D.
http://whale.to/vaccine/sf.html
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CHAPTER 2 THE SPANISH INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC OF 1918 WAS CAUSED
BY VACCINATIONS
----Excerpt---
"I WAS AN ON-THE-SPOT OBSERVER OF THE 1918 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC"
The first World War was of a short duration, so the vaccine makers were
unable to use up all their vaccines. As they were (and still are) in
business for profit, they decided to sell it to the rest of the population.
So they drummed up the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history. There
were no epidemics to justify it so they used other tricks. Their propaganda
claimed the soldiers were coming home from foreign countries with all kinds
of diseases and that everyone must have all the shots on the market.
The people believed them because, first of all, they wanted
to believe their doctors, and second, the returning soldiers certainly had
been sick. They didn’t know it was from doctor-made vaccine diseases, as the
army doctors don’t tell them things like that. Many of the returned soldiers
were disabled for life by these drug-induced diseases. Many were
insane from postvaccinal encephalitis, but the doctors called it
shell shock, even though many had never left
American soil.
The conglomerate disease brought on by the many poison
vaccines baffled the doctors, as they never had a vaccination spree
before which used so many different vaccines. The new disease they had
created had symptoms of all the diseases they had injected into the man.
There was the high fever, extreme weakness, abdominal rash and intestinal
disturbance characteristic of typhoid. The diphtheria vaccine caused lung
congestion, chills and fever, swollen, sore throat clogged with the false
membrane, and the choking suffocation because of difficulty in breathing
followed by gasping and death, after which the body turned black from
stagnant blood that had been deprived of oxygen in the suffocation stages.
In early days they called it Black Death. The other
vaccines cause their own reactions — paralysis, brain damage, lockjaw, etc.
When doctors had tried to suppress the symptoms of the
typhoid with a stronger vaccine, it caused a worse form of typhoid which
they named paratyphoid. But when they concocted a stronger
and more dangerous vaccine to suppress that one, they created an even worse
disease which they didn’t have a name for. What should they call it? They
didn’t want to tell the people what it really was — their own Frankenstein
monster which they had created with their vaccines and suppressive
medicines. They wanted to direct the blame away from themselves, so they
called it Spanish Influenza. It was certainly not of
Spanish origin, and the Spanish people resented the implication that the
world-wide scourge of that day should be blamed on them. But the name stuck
and American medical doctors and vaccine makers were not suspected of the
crime of this widespread devastation — the 1918 Flu Epidemic. It is only in
recent years that researchers have been digging up the facts and laying the
blame where it belongs.
Some of the soldiers may have been in Spain before coming
home, but their diseases originated in their own home-based U.S.
Army Camps. Our medical men still use that same dodge. When their
own vaccines (required for travel) cause vaccine diseases abroad they use
this as grounds for a scare campaign to stampede people into the vaccination
centers. Do you remember the Hong Kong Flu and the
Asian Flu and the London Flu scares? These were
all medically-made epidemics mixed with the usual common colds which people
have every year.
Now (1976) we are being worked on again by the vaccine
-epidemic makers in their effort to force another multi million dollar
vaccine sale caper. Their con men have already talked President Ford into
handing over $135 million dollars to start their vaccine racket. Even the
insurance companies refused to become involved with such an obviously
dangerous and crooked scheme. So, again the medical and drug con men induced
the appropriate government officials to guarantee insurance against the,
possible billions of dollars in law suits which could be brought against the
vaccine promoters if the vaccine campaign is carried out as planned. It’s a
good thing Ford was voted out of office. It’s too bad he wasn’t "dumped"
before he paid the poison squad the MONEY’ to poison the whole population.
However, we don’t yet know if President Carter will be any better. Will he
be held in the grip of the medical and drug dictatorship? Or will he
investigate — learn the truth — reverse the decisions and make the vaccine
makers return the money taken from the taxpayers under false pretenses?
The statement of the swine flu vaccine promoters to the
effect that the vaccine is harmless, is false, and the statement that it
will protect against flu is false. Fifty-six people died after the shots,
some within 48 hours. There is confusion and disagreement among the doctors
about all aspects of the vaccine, from the safety and effectiveness to the
necessity for it, who should have it and who should be warned against it.
Their scare-head campaign cry is that the swine flu is like
the 1918 flu which killed 20,000,000 people. They don’t have any usable and
provable blood samples from the 1918 flu epidemic to prove it. That was 58
years ago, and the doctors were just as confused and inefficient then as
now. However, one thing is certain — the 1918 Spanish Influenza was
a vaccine-induced disease caused by extreme body poisoning from the
conglomeration of many different vaccines. The soldiers at Fort Dix
who were said to have had Swine Flu had been injected with a large variety
of vaccines like the vaccines which caused the 1918 flu epidemic. The flu
epidemic at Fort Dix was in no way related to swine. There were no swine at
camp (unless we want to sarcastically call the vaccine promoters who caused
the diseases -"swine.")
By Ken Adachi, (E-mail)
http://educate-yourself.org/fc/
Introduction & Overview
There are a number of alternative healing therapies that work so well and
cost so little (compared to conventional treatment), that Organized
Medicine, the Food & Drug Administration, and their overlords in
the Pharmaceutical Industry (The Big Three) would rather the public
not know about them. The reason is obvious: Alternative, non-toxic therapies
represent a potential loss of billions of dollars to allopathic (drug)
medicine and drug companies.
The Big Three have collectively engaged in a medical conspiracy
for the better part of 70 years to influence legislative bodies on both the
state and federal level to create regulations that promote the use of
drug medicine while simultaneously creating restrictive, controlling
mechanisms (licencing, government approval, etc) designed to limit and
stifle the availability of non-drug, alternative modalities. The conspiracy
to limit and eliminate competition from non-drug therapies began with the
Flexner Report of 1910.
Abraham Flexner was engaged by John D. Rockefeller to run
around the country and 'evaluate' the effectiveness of therapies taught in
medical schools and other institutions of the healing arts. Rockefeller
wanted to dominate control over petrolem, petrochemicals, and
pharmaceuticals (which are derived from 'coal tars' or crude oil). He
arranged for his company, Standard Oil of New Jersey to obtain a
controlling interest in a huge German drug cartel called I. G. Farben.
He pulled in his stronger competitors like Andrew Carnegie and JP
Morgan as partners, while making other, less powerful players,
stockholders in Standard Oil. Those who would not come into the fold "were
crushed" according to a Rockefeller biographer (W. Hoffman, David: Report
on a Rockefeller {New York:Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1971}page 24.)
The report Flexner submitted to The Carnegie Foundation was titled
"Medical Education in the United States and Canada". Page 22 of the report
said: "the privileges of the medical school can no longer be open to
casual strollers from the highway. It is necessary to install a
doorkeeper who will, by critical scrutiny, ascertain the fitness of the
applicant, a necessity suggested, in the first place, but consideration for
the candidate, whose time and talents will serve him better in some other
vocation, if he be unfit for this, and in the second, by consideration for a
public entitled to protection from those whom the very boldness of modern
medical strategy equips with instruments that, tremendously effective for
good when rightly used, are all the more terrible for harm if ignorantly or
incompetently employed".
All too often, politicians are prepared to enact laws that rob citizens
of yet another constitutional freedom under the banner of "public
protection". Needless to say, congress swallowed the recommendations of this
report hook, line, and sinker. It was decided that the American Medical
Association (AMA), would be the "doorkeeper". The AMA was now empowered
to certify or de-certify any medical school in the country on the grounds of
whether that school met the AMA's standards of "approved" medicine.
The AMA came into existence in 1847. It is a private organization of
allopathic physicians which serves the interests of its members, especially
when it comes to influencing favorable legislation. It functions in every
sense of the word as a union, although its members wear white collars
instead of blue. Giving the AMA the power over the certification of medical
schools is the equivalent of giving the Teamsters Union the exclusive right
to decide on the laws of interstate commerce and transportation. Is it any
wonder that the total number of medical schools in the United States went
from 160 in 1906 (before the Flexner Report) to 85 in 1920 and further down
to 69 schools in 1944? A little like putting the fox in charge of the hen
house, no?
Not surprisingly, Flexner 'found' that any discipline that didn't use
drugs to help cure the patient was tantamount to quackery and charlatanism.
Medical schools that offered courses in bioelectric Medicine, Homeopathy or
Eastern Medicine, for example, were told to either drop these courses from
their curriculum or lose their accreditation and underwriting support. A few
schools resisted for a time, but eventually most schools cooperated (or were
closed down). A similar scenario was played out in Canada. It was attempted
in England against Homeopathy, but it failed due to the personal
intervention of the Royal Family who had received much relief and healing at
the hands of Homeopathic healers in the 19th century. By the way, the AMA
was found guilty of conspiracy against chiropractors in 1987 by a federal
judge and fined a couple of million dollars. Here in America, a relentless
campaign of misinformation, fraud, deception, and suppression of alternative
therapies and healers has been in place for the better part of this century
in order to keep highly effective alternative therapies from reaching any
significant plateau of public awareness. Control is exerted through
"news items" and propaganda from pro-establishment organizations like The
American Medical Association, The American Cancer Society, The Diabetes
Foundation, etc.; local medical boards; and government agencies like the
FDA, The National Institute of Health (NIH), and The National
Cancer Institute (NCI), The National Academy of Science, etc.
with the full cooperation of main-stream media of course .
Over the past decades, hundreds of caring, concerned, and conscientious
alternative healers have been jailed and abused like common criminals for
the "crime" of curing people of life-threatening diseases in an "unapproved"
manner by heavy-handed government agents who swoop down on clinics with
drawn guns, flax jackets, and Gestapo manners. All the while, these same
agents and agencies posture themselves before TV cameras and the public
under the ludicrous pretense of being servants of the people and protectors
of the common good.
The medico-drug cartel was summed up by J.W Hodge, M.D., of Niagara
Falls, N.Y., in these words: 'The
medical monopoly or medical trust, euphemistically called the American
Medical Association, is not merely the meanest monopoly ever organized, but
the most arrogant, dangerous and despotic organization which ever managed a
free people in this or any other age. Any and all methods of healing the
sick by means of safe, simple and natural remedies are sure to be assailed
and denounced by the arrogant leaders of the AMA doctors' trust as fakes,
frauds and humbugs Every practioner of the healing art who does not ally
himself with the medical trust is denounced as a 'dangerous quack' and
impostor by the predatory trust doctors. Every sanitarian who attempts to
restore the sick to a state of health by natural means without resort to the
knife or poisonous drugs, disease imparting serums, deadly toxins or
vaccines, is at once pounced upon by these medical tyrants and fanatics,
bitterly denounced, vilified and persecuted to the fullest extent.'
(see The Drug
Story for more revelations about the AMA, the House of Rockefeller and
the pharmaceutical industry)
At long last, however, the public's consciousness seems to have finally
reached a critical mass and is now beginning to seriously question the
efficacy and appropriateness of using orthodox therapies and allopathic
medicine in general. Thank God. It's been too long overdue.
Understanding the Nature of Ill Health and Disease
The entire approach and foundation of Orthodox Medicine is based on Luis
Pasteur's Germ Theory, a flawed concept. A disease condition is
viewed by the orthodoxy as an isolated event, confined to the area in which
it manifests itself (E.g. an ear infection, eye infection, gum infection,
lung cancer, skin cancer, etc. ). Under this theory, for unknown reasons,
microbes or tumors indiscriminately grow in the patient and must be cut
(surgery), burned (radiation), or poisoned (drugs) out of the body. In the
orthodox model, the solution is sought through mechanical and
chemical means. Seeking to understand WHY the infection or disease
condition appeared in the first place, is not seriously explored. The quick
fix with a prescription for drugs to smother the symptoms is the typical
orthodox 'answer'.
A contemporary of Pasteur, Antoine Bechamp, had a different
opinion as to why disease conditions 'took hold'. Bechamp felt that the
ENVIRONMENT, or the ECOLOGY of the blood played the critical role in
deciding whether disease conditions would manifest or not.
Alternative medicine explores the stressors (environmental,
biological, chemical, psychological, and emotional) in a patient's life that
cause a weakening of a particular energy field; which in turn allows
the manifestation of a disease condition in a weakened area. In order to
maintain a state of health, all energy systems within the body need to exist
in a state of balance or equilibrium. Imbalance leads to
conditions of discomfort (dis-ease) which eventually spirals into ill health
if not corrected. The Chinese and Indians (Ayurvedic medicine) had worked
all of this out thousands of years ago.
Orthodox or Allopathic Medicine utilizes poisonous substances (drugs) in
non-lethal dosages in order to suppress symptoms in an affected area.
This approach neither addresses the cause of the disease condition,
nor is it responsible for healing the patient. Rather, the use of drugs
often will temporarily mask the outer manifestations of the malady,
while at the same time, drive the disease deeper into the body...only to
reappear at a later date, as a more serious, and chronic health threat.
One of the many flaws of the orthodox approach is that it focuses on the
disease condition itself, rather than the patient. The term
wholistic (or holistic) originally sprang up to distinguish those
physicians whose diagnostic gestalt considers all of the physical,
emotional, and spiritual energies interacting with the patient.
Do not assume that the only difference between allopathic and alternative
medicine, however, is an honest difference of opinion in the philosophies
and views on the origin of disease states. Hardly!. There is, in truth, a
concerted, organized agenda -concocted, planned, and contrived by the
international pharmaceutical companies and organized medicine to suppress
any and every alternative, non-drug therapy that WORKS. Why?
Because they want people to keep on coming back for more treatments
and more drugs.
A curedpatient is a lost source of income. A sick patient
who is marginally "improved" is a manageable patient.
Managing patients means routine office visits and renewing of drug
prescriptions. Therefore, a manageable patient is a continuing source of
income; a cash cow if you will. Multiply that by a few hundred million
people and you get an idea why this deceit is being put upon you. The
profits from the so called "health-care" industry are staggering!
The thrust of the orthodox pharmaceutical agenda is to provide
temporary relief, while never addressing the cause of the disease
condition. This agenda insures regular visits to the doctor's office and
requires the patient to routinely return to the pharmacy to refill his
prescriptions. This is what the game is all about folks, plain and simple.
Deny it or Deal with it,...Stick with it or Get Out of it! ... your choice.
The patient's immune system and the immune system alone is responsible
for healing and recovery from ill health. The use of drugs and vaccines
represents an assault on the immune system. In some cases, the use of a
particular drug might be a wise choice to speed healing and recovery for the
patient, but the use of natural, orthomolecular therapies and substances
(substances normally found in Nature) that can more effectively address the
cause of the disease should be considered first because natural
substances work in harmony with Nature. They aid and stimulate the
body to truly cure itself, without the terrible millstone of drug
side-effects.
The human body is predisposed to heal itself and to exist as a healthy,
thriving organism. We inhibit that process by ingesting unhealthy foods,
fouling our inner environment with toxins, and relying upon poisonous
substances to treat disease conditions.
Unlike 'miracle drugs' and other 'drug breakthroughs', you will never see
or hear anything from mainstream media about most of the therapies described
here. The Big Three see to that, but you can still glean this information
from the alternative health press, books, web sites, and at health expos.
Some of these alternative therapies require high-tech equipment and
specialized knowledge, but many, many others can be done at home without
third party intervention or supervision. It's amazing, but true, that
many of the most effective healing therapies (even for grave,
life-threatening disease conditions) are simple things that you can do
for yourself at home. You simply have to educate yourself and
take responsibility for your own health.
The following is a brief overview of some alternative therapies that have
demonstrated themselves to be effective and readily obtainable, usually at a
low to modest cost. This list is far from complete. As time permits, the
description and scope of these and other therapies will be added to, and
expanded upon.
Oxygen Therapies
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
Oxygen therapies encompass more than the application of regular oxygen
(O2), although regular oxygen can speed and assist healing; especially when
used in higher-than-normal concentrations and under pressure, such as used
in Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has
been traditionally used for rapid detoxification in acute situations, but it
also has shown to be extremely efficacious for new stroke victims. It
has been found that almost all of the usual conditions (paralysis, slurred/
no speech, etc.) associated with a stroke can be minimized or eliminated
entirely by subjecting the patient to a hyperbaric oxygen treatment
within the first 36 hours of a stroke. The quicker the patient can be
treated from the onset of the stroke, the better the results. Even cases
started a few days or even weeks after a stoke have shown remarkable
results. HBOT has also proven helpful in cases involving other forms of
brain damage as well.
Singlet Oxygen Therapies
Oxygen atoms can be configured into certain quasi-stable arrangements
that will allow a single oxygen atom to be released. This atom is called a
singlet oxygen (O1) . For therapeutic purposes, single atoms of oxygen can
be released from hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) which breaks down to water (H2O)
and a singlet oxygen (O1), and also from ozone (O3), which reduces to oxygen
(O2) and a singlet oxygen . When a singlet oxygen atom is released within
the body, it is highly reactive and will oxidize (reduce or break
down) the molecular structure of undesirable and harmful organisms
(bacteria, foreign proteins, etc.) and diseased tissue (E.g. cancer cells).
This high-energy form of oxygen (O1) possesses a greatly enhanced healing
capacity than that exhibited by regular oxygen (O2).
Hydrogen Peroxide
A bottle of 3½ % Hydrogen Peroxide is available in any pharmacy for under
a dollar and can be used daily to keep the mouth and gums germ-free (always
use full strength and try to retain in the mouth as long as possible). It
should also be conscientiously applied to disinfect any type of oral
infection, cut, sore, or wound that one may encounter. For external use, the
drug store variety of hydrogen peroxide is OK, but it does have some low
levels of contaminants in it. For internal use, it's wiser to use
Food-grade hydrogen peroxide. You can make your own 3½ % hydrogen
peroxide by diluting 35% food-grade hydrogen peroxide by a ratio of 10:1
with distilled water. However, that should not stop you from using
pharmacy-grade hydrogen peroxide externally- if you are in normal health.
People trying to recover from serious diseases such as AIDS or cancer need
to be more concerned about ingesting contaminants. 35% Food-Grade Hydrogen
Peroxide is available at many farm supply outlets and by mail order. Since
it's more concentrated, 35% hydrogen peroxide can produce spectacular
results when intelligently applied. Hydrogen peroxide can also be applied
either internally as injections (directly into a cancerous tumor for
example) or intravenously into the blood stream. If properly diluted,
hydrogen peroxide can also be ingested.
Medical Cartel Sponsored 'Studies'
Of course, you have to know what you're doing. At higher concentrations,
H2O2 is powerful and can burn tissue, but look to the alternative health
press for information from practitioners who are actually using this
therapy. Don't expect on an honest accessment from the allopathic crowd.
Like most cheap, unpatentable natural solutions, the
pharmaceutical/organized medicine cartel will try to frieghten you off from
using these therapies with scares stories of exaggerated dangers, ommision
of relevant data, and insertion of misleading statements.
For example, they will point to rat studies that show increassed stomach
cancers from ingesting H2O2. By promoting this 'study', the cartel wants you
to draw the conclusion that you will get stomach cancer from
injesting hydrogen perozide without actually saying it. No additional
details such as the concentration of the peroxide administered, frequency of
dosage, quantity given vis a vis body weight etc., are provided about the
'study' in these press reports-only the bottom line conclusion:.
Of course, most knowledgeable researchers know that rat studies don't
equate to people studies. Rat studies, in fact, have an extremely limited
range of applicability for purposes of human extrapolation. In addition,
most studies are funded by pharmaceuticals or government agencies and they
have an agenda that has nothing to do with sincere scientific inquiry. Ralph
Moss and Linus Pauling are two individuals who come to mind who looked at
different cartel sponsored 'studies' and clearly demonstrated that the Big
Boys can and will skew a 'study' in any direction they wish it to go.
Scientific honesty among cartel sponsored investigative groups is a myth.
All medical schools, teaching universities, and government health
organizations such as the National Institute of Health (NIH), National
Cancer Institute, National Academy of Science, etc., etc. are all under the
cartel's propaganda umbrella.
Ozone Ozone (O3) is
composed of three atoms of oxygen lightly bound together. One of those atoms
can easily break away and form regular oxygen (O2) and a singlet oxygen atom
(O1). Through oxidation, the singlet oxygen atom is capable of producing
amazing healing results. Ozone can be produced with a hot or "cold" spark,
with ultraviolet light, or with a method invented by Nikola Tesla
called cold plasma ozone production. The cold plasma method produces
much larger quantities of ozone and is the preferred means of
production for therapeutic purposes. Larger, cold plasma ozone machines can
only be legally purchased outside of the United States, but there are
underground 'suitcase' size units being manufactured clandestinely in the
U.S.. Smaller
cold plasma
ozone generators, however, are legally available in the U.S.as water
pruifiers (send e-mail <Ken
Adachi, Editor> for more info).
All cold plasma ozone generators can easily produce high quality
Ozonated Water, which can be ingested as often as desired. The effects
of drinking ozonated water on a regular basis can be very healthful. People
with serious disease conditions will notice more-pronounced effects in a
shorter space of time than those who are in good health, but the benefits of
ozonated water are realized by all who use it, whether you have a serious
health concern or not. The ozone from the ozonated water passes into the
bloodstream via the stomach/small intestines and provides the benefits of
ozone without the need for expensive equipment. Some people notice a very
slight sensation of light headedness the first time they drink ozone water.
It's temporary and usually only happens the first time- if at all. The
reaction is due to slightly more oxygen reaching the brain than normal.
Ingested daily, ozone water will progressively send ozone into deeper
tissues of the body, oxidizing non organic drug residues and hidden, dormant
pathogens. You might be surprised to learn that the virus that gave you
chicken pox as a child or herpes as a young adult is still hidden deep
within the body such as in the nerve ganglion at the base of the spine. Your
immune system developed antibodies which normally hold these residual bugs
in check, but that doesn't mean that the bugs are gone, as any person who
suffers recurrent bouts of herpes will attest. But if you hit them long
enough and hard enough with ozone (or certain other alternative therapies),
they will be gone-for good.
Another useful product that can be applied topically is called
Ozonated Olive Oil. It is made by bubbling ozone through olive oil for a
considerable period of time (weeks) until the olive oil eventually becomes
saturated with the ozone molecules and becomes much thicker. Afterwards, the
product can be applied as a balm to infected areas and will often greatly
promote and/or speed healing.
Methods of Ozone Application
Medically, ozone can be applied in different ways. One of the oldest
methods, used in Germany for over 60 years, is called Autohemotherapy.
This technique involves removeing about a pint of blood, ozonating it, and
return it intravenously to the patient. It works, but it's rather limited in
the amount of ozone applied.
Another method has the patient hooked up to a dialysis type machine with
blood coming out one arm, going through the machine for ozonation, and
returned via tubes hooked up to the other arm. You get a lot more ozone into
the body with this technique, but the pumping mechnaisms used to push the
blood around can damage the membranes of the red blood cells somewhat.
A third technique is called Ozone Injection. Like its name
implies, the ozone is carefully and slowly injected into the patient. Ozone,
remember, is composed of oxygen atoms. Oxygen dissolves into the
blood; it does not form bubbles in the bloodstream like air, which is
composed of oxygen and 80% nitrogen. Many ozone specialist prefer this later
method, but each of these ozone techniques have their advocates.
There are a number of devices that use specialized electric fields
to alter the function or condition of targeted tissue, organisms, or cells
within the body. These electric fields can be programmed to promote the
healing of healthy tissue or inhibit the growth of undesired organisms.
Where there are electric fields , there are also magnetic fields,
usually rotated at 90 degress to each other. The interplay of the electric
and magnetic fields play a role in this therapy, but the frequency, the
shape of the wave, the duration and polarity of the pulse, etc., all play
into the mix and can make the difference between success or failure
depending on the care and attention given to these parameters.
This is not necessarily a new technology. At the turn of the 19th
century, Nikola Tesla patented many Electro-inventions that
demonstrated incredible health-promoting attributes; some of them based on
the use of his high frequency, high voltage DC pulse generator circuits
which produced a new ether-derived form of energy called
Radiant
Energy. Tesla had even patented a highly efficient cold plasma ozone
generator by 1893.
Dr. Royal Rife
In the late 20's and early 1930's, Dr.Royal Raymond Rife from
San Diego, California, developed a high powered microscope which he used in
conjunction with a frequency generator. Using special UV light, Rife's
mircroscope was capable of 60,000x magnification! This degree of
magnification allowed him to observe LIVE virus and bacteria organisms while
he applied the MOR (Mortal Oscillatory Resonance) frequency from his
frequency generator via plasma tube radiation of the energy. He was able to
destroy all manner of disease organisms (including cancer related organisms)
by merely 'tuning' the generator to the correct resonant frequency of
these organisms and applying the oscillating electric fields via the plasma
driven, "Beam Ray Tube". Everything in the universe, living or dead, and its
own resonant frequency. If you apply this exact resonant frequency
to the object or organism, it will begin vibrating until it literally
shatters itself. You've all seen the wine glass and the opera singer
demonstration. Same deal for microbes.
60,000x magnifications is an unheard of degree of magnification in a
light microscope, even by today's technical standards. Today's electron
microscope can deliver high magnification, but it can only view DEAD
organisms. The ability to view micro organims in a LIVING state is of great
importance to diagnostic and therapeutic goals. This is an extremely
important point to understand.
Rife's microscope played no role in the actual destruction of the
pathogenic organisms, but it allowed him to view the effects of the electric
fields from the Beam Ray Tube upon the organism itself. As Rife adjusted and
tuned his frequency generator to the correct frequency, he was able to
observe the disintegration of the bacteria, parasite, or virii under the
influence of the resonant electro-magnetic fields exerted by the Beam Ray
Tube.
At first, Rife's enormous accomplishments were ballyhooed in the press.
He was feted and hosted by the local medical elites of the day who were
hoping to climb onto the Glory Bandwagon with him and get their mug
published in the newspaper as a supporter and cohort of the "man who could
finally end cancer". But the Big Boys finally caught up with him. I'm
referring to the string pullers in organized medicine and the pharmaceutical
industry. Needless to say, once word of Rife's success began to spread too
wide, he was quickly 'neutralized' by organized medicine and demoralized
into obscurity (unending court litigation, charges of quakery, intimidation
of financial supporters, the burning down of laboratories, etc...the "usual'
routine). His principle persecutor was the head of the American Medical
Association and chief editor of the Journal of the American Medical
Association. His name was
Dr.
Morris Fishbein and he never treated a patient in his life. He was
motivated more by an unmitigated lust for greed and power, and less by a
desire to save lives. Failing to convince Rife to sell him the exclusive
rights to his technique and therapy, Fishbein set out to crush Rife with a
vengence. The outrageous injustices against Rife by Fishbein and the medical
establishment are explained in great depth in a book by Barry Lynes called
The Cancer Cure That Worked.
Fortunately, we have physicist
Gary Wade, a
specialist in Rife technology, available to readers of this web site. He
will explain to you exactly how Rife achieved his amazing results and
how YOU can learn how to apply Rife's hard earned technology yourself. You
should waste no time in examing Gary's extraordinay and generously shared
insights in
Rife technology. Some of the best books about Rife were written by Barry
Lynes (E.g. The Cancer Cure That Worked). Dr James Bare of
Albuquerque, New Mexico has also published a manual and video on how to
build your own Rife device
( http://www.rt66.com/~rifetech/
). See this special page devoted to
Royal Rife
links that will bring you to many excellent web sites talking about Rife
and his work (http://educate-yourself.org/cancer/rifelinks.shtml).
Geroges Lakhovsky
Another brilliant observer and thinker was the Russian-born engineer,
Georges
Lakhovsky. Lakhovsky theorized that the genetic filaments stands within
the nucleus of a living cell acted as a coil and exhibited all the
properties properties required of an oscillator; namely:
inductance, capacitance, and resistance. Lakhovsky postulated
that all living cells, including disease organisms, could act as both
an emitter and receiver of very high frequency oscillations.
According to his theory, a state of health or disease was dependent on
whether the oscillations from healthy cells were maintained (a state of
equilibrium) or were overtaken by the oscillations of disease-causing cells
(disequilibrium). He found that he could boost the oscillatory level of
weakened cells and overcome disease by attaching a simple coil-shaped
'antennae' to the affected area and leaving it in place. Lakhovsky referred
to these antennae as oscillating circuits and they were worn by people as
collars, belts, or bracelets. He claimed that his 'antennae' captured and
focused sympathetic waves from the cosmos (cosmic waves) which
resonated with harmonics of the fundamental frequency at which the
weakened cell oscillated.
Whenever additional oscillating energy (from cosmic waves), of the same
frequency or harmonics of that frequency, are introduced into an oscillating
circuit (the nucleus of the cell), the oscillations within that cell will be
strengthened through a phenomena of physics called resonance.
According to Lakhovsky, the now-strengthened oscillations emanating from the
formerly weakened human cell could now overtake the oscillations of the
disease-causing organisms and cause them to diminish in strength and
subsequently die off.
Lakhovsky conducted an experiment with plants in 1924 to establish the
validity of his theory. He inoculated ten potted geranium plants with a
plant disease that causes cancerous tumors. Coiled around the stem of
one
of the geraniums, he affixed an open ended coil of thick copper wire
about 30 cm in diameter. It was held in place by an ebonite stake stuck into
the pot. While the other nine inoculated geraniums quickly succumbed to the
cancerous disease, the one geranium with the attached coil (the 'antennae)
sloughed off the cancerous growth and thrived into
a
robust and healthy plant. Lakhovsky had similar success when these
antennae coils (the 'oscillating circuits ' mentioned above) were used with
people and animals. He later expanded his research with the development of
the Multi-Wave Oscillator (explained below).
Lakhovsky's Multi-Wave Oscillator (MWO)
Geroges Lakhovsky published an extremely important book into French,
German, Italian, and Spanish in the 1920's called The Secret of Life.
Unfortunately, it wasn't available in English until September, 1939-at the
very outbreak of World War II. Occupied with the emerging drama of World War
II, the book went unnoticed and unreviewed. Thanks to Dr Bob Beck, however,
many researchers are today re-discovering Lakhovsky's astounding
Multi-Wave
Oscillator. This instrument manufactures a broad range of high frequency
pulsed signals that radiate energy into patient via two resonators: one
resonator acting as a transmitter and the other as a receiver. The patient
sits on a wooden stool in between the two resonators and is exposed to these
energies for about 15 minutes. These energies increase the resonance of
healthy cells and create disequilibrium in disease organisms. His clinical
results created a lot of excitement in Europe where his reputaion quickly
spread. You can read more about the MWO on the
Georges
Lakovsky page. Interested readers can obtain a reprint of Lakhovsky's
The Secret of Life and The Waves That Heal by Mark Clement from
Educate-Yourself (see the
Products page).
Bob Beck Rescues Lakhovsky's MWO from Obscurity
In the early 60's, Dr Bob Beck found an original Lakhovsky
Multi-Wave Oscillator in the basement of a well known southern California
hospital. He took it apart and described exactly how it was built in a
series of articles published by Borderlands in 1963. After Beck's
articles were published, a number of builders began to assemble MWO's and
the word started to spread.
Two MWO builders who lived on the west coast, using the information
contained in Beck articles, began making and selling a lot of Multi Wave
Oscillators. Apparently they worked fairly well because the FDA got word of
the MWO's growing popularity and told Beck to come to Washington. Beck and
the two builders were told to lay off promoting the MWO and stop building
them. They were told in no uncertain terms to cease and desist immediately
...or else.
Beck and one of the MWO builders, Ed Skillings, complied, but the
second builder, Ralph Bergstresser, was determined to keep going, so he
actually formed a church dedicated to the worship of the MWO. Yes, you read
that correctly. And, for a couple of years at least, his 'parishioners' were
able to come to church, sit around the MWO-perched high atop an altar, with
resonator antennas glowing - and received the 'blessed waves' from the
Sacred Oscillator. It helped a lot of church goers, until the 'pastor' was
finally thrown into the slammer by the Feds and had his modern version of
the Ark of the Covenant hauled away. He got out after a couple of years, but
still went on building MWO's anyway, distributing them through underground
sources. Many present day owners of properly working MWO's are either using
units built by or copies of the "pastor's" work (now why isn't there an
Oscar category reserved for a guy like that?).
In recent years, different electro-medicine units have been promoted at
health expos and through magazine articles, interviews, books, etc.. One of
the more interesting devices is the blood electrifier of Dr Bob
Beck. I've seen laboratory reports and Institutional Review Board
studies that seem to clearly support claims made by Dr BobBeck that his
blood electrification device has caused 'complete spontaneous remission' in
literally thousands of AIDS patients, cancer patients, and chronic fatigue
sufferers among others. Dr Beck discovered the possibilities offered by
blood
electrification after reading a short article in 1991 in a
journal called Science News.
The Discovery
In the Fall of 1990, two
researchers, Drs William Lyman and
Steven Kaali, working at Albert Einstein Medical College in New
York City made an important discovery. They found that they could inactivate
the HIV virus by applying a low voltage direct current electrical potential
with an extremely small current flow to AIDS infected blood in a test tube.
Initially, they discovered this in the lab by inserting two platinum
electrodes into a glass tube filled with HIV-1 (type 1) infected blood. They
applied a direct current to the electrodes and found that a current flow in
the range of 50-100 microamperes (uA) produced the most effective
results. Practically all of the HIV viral particles were adversely
affected while normal blood cells remained unharmed. The viral
particles were not directly destroyed by the electric current, but rather
the outer protein coating of the virus was affected in such a way as to
prevent the virus from producing reverse transcriptase, a necessary
enzyme needed by the virus to invade human cells. Reverse transcriptase
allows the virus to enter a human T cell line (called CEM-SS)
and commandeer the DNA reproduction machinery. After using the host cell to
reproduce itself into thousands of new virii, the swollen host cell (now
called syncytiaorgiant cell) will burst and spew the
contents into the bloodstream or lymph system. This is how the virus
spreads, but lacking reverse transcriptase, the HIV virus can't invade the
host cell and it becomes vulnerable to destruction by the body's immune
system. (The
details of
this experiment can be read from Kaali's patent application.)
Getting the Word Out?
A brief announcement of this discovery appeared in The Houston
Post (Mar 20, 1991), then in Science News
(Mar. 30, 1991 pg. 207) and later in Longevity
magazine: (Dec.1992 pg. 14). Following their work in the Fall of 1990, Kaali
and Lyman presented their findings at the First
International Symposium on Combination Therapies (an AIDS conference) in
Washington DC on March 14th, 1991. Kaali outlined two methods for treating
an AIDS patient with this new therapy: One method involved removing a small
amount of blood, electrifying it and then returning it to the patient's
body. The second method involved sewing a miniature electrifying power
supply along with two tiny electrodes directly into the lumen of an artery.
For long term treatment, the mini electrifying unit needed to be removed and
relocated to a new artery site after 30-45 days since scar tissue and
calcification forming around the implant unit would lead to artery blockage.
Kaali (along with co-inventorPeter
Schwolsky) filed for a patent on this
implantable electrifying device on Nov 16, 1990 and nine months later was
granted patent #5,139,684
on August 18, 1992. It's interesting to note two things here:
1. In order to obtain a patent from the United
States Patent Office, Kaali and Schwolsky had to prove that the
device works as claimed. Lacking solid proof, patents are simply not
granted.
2. Very often it takes years to obtain a
patent, yet this patent was granted in only nine months; a further
indication to me of the strength their proven claims
It's also interesting to note that other
than the 3 publications mentioned above and the March '91 AIDS conference,
nothing again appeared in print, radio, or TV about this important
discovery as a potential treatment and cure for AIDS from Kaali and company.
Most knowledgeable observers feel that Kaali and Lyman's discovery was
intentionally suppressed following the March '91 AIDS conference
presentation. If AIDS research was on the level and not the
sham that it
actually is, this should have made front page news around the world. By the
way, in July (2000), a woman with Mycoplsma Incognitus (Gulf War
Illness) E mailed me and told me (after reading this story) that she had
called Albert Einstein College and spoke directly with Dr William Lyman, one
of the co-discoverers of blood electrification. She wanted to know how
effective he thought blood electrifiation would work against mycoplasma.
Lyman told her that he had no idea what she
was talking about. He denied knowing anything about blood electrifiction and
couldn't give her any information about it at all. Such is the vice grip
power of the medical cartel.
Enter Dr Bob Beck
A man named Professor Walter Schnitder drew Dr Robert C. Beck'sattention tothe above mentioned item in Science News.
Beck looked up the patent and decided to try and duplicate the therapy, but
he wanted to do it non-invasively; that is by applying the electric current
from outside the body. Now if you apply a direct current (DC) potential to
the skin, you're going to get an electrolysis effect and that can
cause problems, so Beck designed a circuit that varied the voltage with an
alternating current (AC) at a very low frequency and avoided the
electrolysis problem. The waveform that Beck chose is not the typical sine
wave seen in AC household outlets, but rather is a bi-phasic square wave.
Square waves generate a large number of harmonics. Harmonics are
frequency multibles of the original frequency. For example, a 4 Hertz (hz)
square wave can produce harmonics (with the right equipment) of 8 hz, 16 hz,
32 hz, etc. right up into the radio frequency range. Beck finally
settled on 3.92 hz as the ideal base frequency and assembled a schematic of
the simple square wave oscillator , including a complete parts list. He used
short, one inch lengths of stainless steel welding rods with attached wires
for electrodes and started to experiment on himself.
Gradually, he began feeling stronger, had more energy and started losing
his excessive weight (he was over 300 lbs at the time). After a 7 or
8months, his weight was down to 150 lbs and he felt better than ever. He
went on the lecture circuit, talked for free, and gave the schematic and
related construction/protocol information away without charge. AIDS
patients, particularly, experienced dramatic reversals of their
deteriorating conditons using the blood electrifier, but the unit seemed to
help many other conditions as well, whether autoimmune, viral, or bacterial
in origin. (more information about Beck's papers and protocols can be
obtained by contacting the
Editor)
Pulsed, Electro-Magnetic Therapy
Pulsed- low, mid, and high frequency AC signals, when applied to the
body, can produce therapeutic electric/ magnetic fields. Properly
configured, they can also produce scalar waves. The special
attributes of scalar waves were first described mathematically by James
Clerk Maxwell in 1873, and later by Nikola Tesla. A certain type of
pulsed electro-magnetic field, with their attendant scalar waves, seems to
stimulate re-growth and regeneration in injured tissue. Covalent waves
(conventional sine waves) do not have the same effect. Dr Robert O.
Becker, M.D., discusses this phenomena in two of his recent books that
deal with electro-medicine: The Body Electric (1985) and Cross
Currents (1990).
"You are what you eat! ". Did your mother ever tell you that? Well, mine
did, but I didn't appreciate the wisdom of those words until I approached
middle age. Today, I realize that the biggest impediment to enjoying a truly
robust state of health is the Standard American Diet (aptly abbreviated,
SAD). While we could spend a lot of time on details, a short version of the
SAD diet can be summarized as follows: Refined andprocessed foods
can ruin your health and lower your immunity, setting you up for disease
conditions.
In order to obtain a higher level of immunity and improved health, it's
necessary to stop eating processed, refined foods and start eating whole,
unprocessed raw-as-possible vegetables, beans, grains, nuts, sea plants
(seaweed), a small amount of fish life if you want animal protein, and lots
of pure, clean water.
Change Gradually
If you try to change everything about your diet all at once, you won't stick
with it. Go slow. Change one item at a time and get accustomed
to the healthier alternative before tackling another.
Start with soft drinks (or soda). All soft drinks are
simply ruinous to your health. Coke, 7-Up, Pepsi, Sprite, Dr Pepper,
etc. It's ALL GARBAGE and it's RUINING YOUR HEALTH. Read the ingredients on
the side of a can of soda. It will usually list 17-24 grams of sugar. That's
the equivalent of 6-10 teaspoons of sugar with each and every 12 oz
can that you're guzzling down. When you ingest refined sugar, you lower your
body's immunity for FOUR HOURS. If you're drinking soft drinks here and
there throughout the day, then you're keeping your immunity suppressed
all day long. People with suppressed immunity seem to easily pick up
every bug that's going around. Have you ever noticed that little connection
in people (especially teenagers) who drink sodas all day long?
Another problem with soft drinks is the tremendous amount of PHOSPHOROUS
that's contained in them. Large amounts of phosphorous are bad news for the
body because they combine with other minerals (like Calcium) and tie them up
for eventual excretion. Now calcium is a mineral that your body DOES NEED in
large amounts in your bloodstream for daily use. If your soft drink is
yanking the calcium out of your blood stream, where does the body get
the calcium it needs for everyday jobs? Why, it gets it from your teeth
and bones!
Women who are worried about osteoporosis would be way ahead of the
game by avoiding soft drinks (and excess animal protein),
instead of going broke buying calcium supplements at the health food store
(which are mostly exiting out the other end anyway).
Replace the soft drinks with WATER. It usually takes a couple of days to
break a sugar addiction (oh, you never thought of YOU as being addicted to
anything? Well, answer me this: Do you have a CRAVING for soft drinks when
you don't have them? If you do, then you are definitely addicted).
Satisfy your desire for sugar by eating sweet fruit (like banannas) during
the adjustment period. Eventually you will come to love drinking water,
especially ozonated
water. . The more you drink, the better you'll feel. Try it.
To be continued
The Budwig Diet
Germany's 90 year old Dr Joanna Budwig, nominated 6 times for
the Nobel Prize, has made the most remarkable discovery of them all!
After 30 years of research, she has found that 2 simple food items: 1.
Flax Seed Oil (cold-pressed, unprocessed) and 2. Low Fat Cottage
Cheese will CURE or prevent many forms of cancers and a long list of
other degenerative disease including cardiovascular diseases and skin
diseases! Unprocessed flax seed oil provides 2 essential fatty acids
seriously deficient in the standard American diet: Linolenic and Linoleic
acids. These two unsaturated fatty acids have 3 high-energy double bonds
(pi-electrons) in their outer electron shells. These fatty acids affect the
membranes of animal cells and permit a thousand-fold increase in oxygen
transport and assimilation! By substantially increasing the oxidation
potential within the cell, Dr Budwig proved what her German predecessor, Dr
Otto Warburg, had discovered 30 years earlier: cancer cells cannot survive
in an oxygen-rich environment. With sulfur-rich protein and calcium provided
by the cottage cheese, all the elements are in place for membrane repair and
increased energy transfer. A 2001 news item posted on the Internet from Duke
University caught my attention (and ire) claiming to be hot on the trail of
a 'new' discovery concerning the anticancer benefits of flax seed oil. I
contacted the editor and set him straight on a few historical facts. To
recover from cancer, the Budwig Diet needs to be taken in conjunction with a
strict, health-promoting diet free of processed, devitalized foods (see the
Gerson Therapy below).
Urine Therapy
In 1945, John W. Armstrong published a book called The Water of Life,
A Treatise on Urine Therapy. The book explored the difficult-to-accept
idea that drinking one's own urine will promote healing and restore health
to those afflicted with grave illnesses. Martha Christy also published a
book on this topic titled Your Own Perfect Medicine in the late
1980's. I highly recommend reading both of them. Christy's approach is more
technical and includes injections of prepared urine tissue and taking urine
drops under the tongue.
Armstong's approach is simpler: To resolve life-threatening disease
conditions, drink every drop of your own urine and neither eat nor drink
anything else until you are completely well!! In his book, Armstong provides
the history of many, many patients with a variety of serious conditions
(cancers, massive infections, heart conditions, etc.) who were frequently
near The End. In some cases, the patient was so gravely disabled, that he
couldn't produce any urine of his own. In those cases, Armstong would 'jump
start' the patient with his own urine. Afterwards, the patient was able to
produce a small amount of his own. With each subsequent ingestion of urine,
the patient would gain in both strength and relief from pain. For the most
serious cases, patients drank nothing but their own urine for periods of 90,
120, 150 days! Some, even longer. Armstrong points out that rubbing the body
with old urine (for a substantial period of time, E.g.1-2 hours) is a
necessary adjunct treatment to ingestion in very serious cases. In less
severe cases, rubbing with old urine will clear up most skin conditions and
produce a smooth, blemish-free skin if applied regularly (ladies, take
note). Why this works is explained at length in the books, but briefly the
1. replenishment of vital tissues lost to the ill patient through the
urine and the
2. reingestion, refinement, and re-filtering of antibodies and other
immune enhancing substances allows the body to exclusively concentrate on
destroying, unclogging, and removing the offending organisms and diseased
tissue, without the burdens of routine work such as digestion and normal
detoxification
Of course, we normally think of both urine and stool elimination as
waste, but urine, unlike feces, is totally sterile. Mind you, it's the
filtrate of your own blood. Many people in normal health drink urine daily
in order to keep their health and maintain physical beauty. Get the books
and read them. In the event of survival difficulties, this simple technique
can save your life.
Beyond the Urine Therapy Story, I knew I had discovered a trusted and
kindred spirit when Armstong began the book's Introduction with the
following words: "Owing to the increasing part played by vested interests in
many branches of human endeavor, not least in the very lucrative providing
of remedies for disease, intelligent members of the public, are growing more
and more distrustful of orthodox medical methods."
He continued the book's Introduction by asking why, after more than 50
years (as of 1945), can orthodox cancer researchers only offer the knife,
radium, or X-rays to address this malignancy after so much time, money, and
effort has been expended to discover its cause and cure? The author further
inquires, why, after so many letters from doctors testifying to the highly
unsatisfactory results of radium treatment (repeatedly published in the
British Medical Journal), did the Cancer Ring ( the Cancer Establishment or
Cancer Industry as we would refer to it today) continue to tout radium as
the "best" therapy? Finally, why, did the Cancer Research Ring, who "still
asks the public to donate large sums of money towards the discovery of a
cure", continuously discount and belittle effective treatments for cancer,
when those therapies were proposed by practitioners of non-orthodox
medicine?
58 years later, nothing much has changed when it comes to the politics of
Big Medicine. Today, we know the answers to John Armstrong's questions. Only
the most naive and uninformed among us continue to believe the party line
spouted by the pharmaceutical/medical establishment and their propaganda
flunkies such as the The American Cancer Society: "The Cure for
Cancer is just around the Corner"; "Get a Checkup and Write a Check"; "The
Race for The Cure"; " Marathon to Beat Breast Cancer"; etc. It's pure rot:
nothing but lies to bilk the trusting and believing public out of their
money and fend the appearace of doing honest research. The promoters and
planners of these publicity/ fund raising events deserve the greatest
possible condemnation for their deceit.
Here is an
article about tomatoes being hit
by their equivalent of the
bubonic plague:
PLANT DISEASE HIT EASTERN
VEGGIES EARLY AND HARD - Yahoo
Article
Tomato plants have been
removed from stores in half a
dozen states as a destructive
and infectious plant disease
makes its earliest and most
widespread appearance ever in
the eastern United States.
Late blight — the same disease
that caused the
Irish Potato Famine in
the 1840s — occurs sporadically
in the Northeast, but this
year's outbreak is more severe
for two reasons: infected plants
have been widely distributed by
big-box retail stores and rainy
weather has hastened the spores'
airborne spread.
The disease, which is not
harmful to humans, is extremely
contagious and experts say it
most likely spread on garden
center shelves to plants not
involved in the initial
infection. It also can spread
once plants reach their
final destination,
putting tomato and potato plants
in both
home gardens and
commercial fields at risk.
Meg McGrath, professor of
plant pathology at
Cornell University, calls late
blight "worse than the Bubonic
Plague for plants."
"People need to realize this is
probably one of the worst
diseases we have in the
vegetable world," she said.
"It's certain death for a
tomato plant."
Tomato plants have been removed
from Home Depot,
Wal-Mart, Lowe's and
Kmart stores in all six New
England states, plus New York.
Late blight also has been
identified in all other East
Coast states except Georgia, as
well as Alabama, West Virginia
and Ohio, McGrath said.
It is too early in the season to
know whether infected plants
will taint large crops or
negatively affect commercial
growers. But if that happens,
growers could be forced to raise
prices to cover costs associated
with combating the disease.
Agriculture officials in the
various states still are trying
to determine where the outbreak
started. One major grower,
Alabama-based Bonnie Plants,
supplies most of the tomato
plants to big-box stores, but it
is unclear whether the plants
were infected before or after
leaving the supplier's multiple
greenhouses.
"There's no way in the world you
can pin this on one plant
company, but we just happen to
be the biggest," said Dennis
Thomas, the company's general
manager.
The company has regularly
inspected greenhouses in 38
states, including Maine, New
Hampshire and New York. Its most
recent inspections — in New
Jersey and Pennsylvania — found
no evidence of disease.
"We've not been written up one
time for any late blight disease
that was confirmed," Thomas
said, noting that Bonnie Plants
sprays seedlings before shipping
them to stores, but that doesn't
happen after the plants arrive.
He said the company was
proactive in removing plants
once the outbreak occurred.
In the meantime, plant experts
are warning gardeners to be on
the lookout for the disease and
to take quick action if it crops
up. The first sign is often
brown spots on
plant stems, followed by
nickel-sized olive-green or
brown spots on the tops of
leaves and fuzzy white fungal
growth underneath. Tomato fruit
will show firm, brown spots.
Spraying with fungicides can
control late blight if begun
before symptoms appear, but many
plant experts recommend removing
and destroying the plants
instead to prevent spores from
traveling.
Donald Flannery, executive
director of the Maine Potato
Board, said the state's potato
farmers are concerned, but not
in crisis mode.
"It's pretty easy to make our
growers aware of it, that's the
simple part. But what we've
started to do is really reach
out to
home gardeners throughout
Maine to ask them to be very
diligent about checking their
tomato plants or potato plants,"
he said.
Hilary Chapman of Hopkinton, N.H.,
hasn't yet seen any signs of
blight on her four tomato plants
— two she planted from seed and
two purchased from a small local
greenhouse.
"I have one plant that has two
tomatoes on it, and everything
looks good," she said, "but I'll
be watching."
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Ok so your homeless and reading this from a
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Not why are you reading this silly, why are
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I had some one email me this today and I think
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other than the warm fuzzy feeling knowing that one more person will be off the
street tonight ...who knows you could be sitting a Jacuzzi by dark.
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Ok folks well I have a lot to say today.
Where to start: Ok we will start with our most
basic right.
The right to bear arms, now I am not some
crazy person who is going tell you that the bad guys are coming to take all the
guns away, but honestly it may in the future come to that and why should we let
it. Daily we are silently and almost un-notables loosing more and more of
our Creator given rights.
If you watch the news than you only know half
the story. That is how online papers like the one you are reading happen.
Some of us wanted the rest of the story. Now back to what I was saying.
Please consider joining NRA for free and
defending the right to bear arms.
January 20-2009
January 19 2009
January 13 2009
Hi friends and well wishers...on today's paper we thought we
would try and say some thing nice about President Bush, no really I mean it...so
what follows is 100 things he has done for us as posted by the white house.
Please do not drink or do important work while reading this as hysterical
laughter can cause many mishaps in the American home.
I have included the original link for your viewing pleasure...
100 THINGS AMERICANS MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATION RECORD
KEPT AMERICA SAFE
For more than seven years after September 11, 2001, prevented another •
attack on our homeland.
Waged the Global War on Terror
Removed threatening regimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, which freed • 50 million
people.
Weakened the al-Qaeda network and its affiliates. •
Disrupted terrorist plots and built a coalition of more than 90 nations to •
fight terrorism.
Transformed Our Approach to Combating Terrorism After the 9/11 Attacks
Transformed the United States military and retooled the Department of •
Defense to meet 21st century challenges.
Established the Director of National Intelligence, the National •
Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Homeland
Security Council. Shifted the FBI’s focus from investigating terrorist attacks
to preventing them.
Advocated for and signed the Patriot Act, the Intelligence Reform and •
Terrorism Prevention Act, and a modernization of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act.
Protected the United States Homeland
Arrested and convicted terrorists in the United States and captured and •
isolated key financiers and facilitators of terrorism.
Expanded the Border Patrol and improved border security. •
Created the Transportation Security Administration, built a consolidated •
watchlist program, and strengthened programs for screening individuals entering
the United States.
Provided approximately $27 billion in homeland security grants, increased •
national preparedness, protected key infrastructure, and strengthened the
capabilities of all levels of government.
the administration of president george w. bush
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Improved cargo screening and security at U.S. ports and increased •
containerized cargo screening overseas.
Invested more than $38 billion in public health and medical systems, created
• a biothreat air monitoring system, and developed a national strategy and
international partnership on avian and pandemic flu.
Advanced Missile Defense and Counterproliferation Efforts, and Prevented our
Enemies from Threatening America and our Allies with Weapons of Mass Destruction
(WMD)
Secured a commitment from North Korea to end its nuclear weapons • program.
Persuaded Libya to disclose and dismantle all aspects of its WMD and •
advanced missile programs and renounce terrorism.
Withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and operationalized • missile
defense.
Dismantled the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network. •
Established the Proliferation Security Initiative and multilateral coalitions
• to stop WMD proliferation and strengthen our ability to locate and secure
nuclear and radiological materials around the world.
Halved the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile five years ahead of schedule. •
PROMOTED LIBERTY ABROAD
Removed Totalitarian Regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq and Helped Transform
Both Nations into Emerging Democracies and Allies in the War on Terror
Helped establish an emerging democratic Afghan government and helped •
improve the lives of the Afghan people, especially women and children.
Helped establish an emerging democratic Iraqi government and the Iraqi •
Army, and ordered the surge of U.S. forces, which dramatically reduced violence
and created the conditions for political and economic progress.
Established innovative programs, such as Provincial Reconstruction Teams, •
to help create the conditions for peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Created Institutions to Propel the Spread of Democracy Worldwide, Helped
Oppressed People Secure their Freedom, and Strengthened Support for Dissidents
and Democracy Activists
Created international organizations to promote the spread of freedom • abroad
and more than doubled funding to promote democracy worldwide.
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Generated international pressure to end the Syrian occupation of Lebanon •
and helped restore democracy and civilian rule in Pakistan.
Supported the development of democracy in Ukraine and Georgia and • helped
establish Kosovo as an independent, multi-ethnic democracy.
Focused international attention and applied tough sanctions on oppressive •
regimes in Burma, Belarus, Zimbabwe, and other nations, and bolstered civil
society activists in countries such as Cuba and Venezuela.
Confronted Threats and Helped Defuse Regional Conflicts
Worked with our international partners to confront Iran’s destructive •
policies and to pressure Iran to suspend nuclear enrichment.
Laid the foundation for a future Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and • a
democratic Palestinian state by launching direct negotiations between Israel and
the Palestinian Authority (PA) at the Annapolis Conference and working with the
PA to build accountable institutions.
Led the international response to the genocide in Darfur and worked to end •
major conflicts in Africa.
HELPED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD THROUGH A NEW APPROACH TO
DEVELOPMENT
Doubled foreign assistance worldwide and transformed our foreign • assistance
programs to increase transparency and hold governments accountable for making
democratic and economic reforms.
Helped save millions of lives through the President’s Emergency Plan for •
AIDS Relief and the President’s Malaria Initiative.
Committed $350 million over five years to treat more than 300 million •
people suffering from seven neglected tropical diseases and became the first,
and largest, contributor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and
Malaria.
Created the Millennium Challenge Corporation, which holds recipient •
countries of foreign aid accountable to make political and economic reforms,
expanded the African Growth and Opportunity Act, and provided debt relief to
impoverished nations.
Created programs that will help educate more than 65 million children in •
the developing world.
Provided more than $16 billion for global food aid and more than • $10
billion for disaster relief and other humanitarian efforts worldwide since 2001.
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STRENGTHENED AMERICA’S INTERESTS AND ALLIANCES ABROAD
Transformed the State Department and our approach to diplomacy to • help
spread democracy worldwide and combat the conditions that breed terrorism.
Transformed the NATO Alliance by inviting new members, launching • operations
around the globe, and developing 21st century capabilities.
Improved our relationship with China, while encouraging democratic • change,
transformed our alliances with democracies in East Asia, and strengthened our
partnership with the European Union to advance freedom around the world.
Signed an historic civil nuclear agreement with India, worked with Brazil •
to develop and promote alternative fuels, and developed broad strategic
partnerships with both countries.
Worked with Mexico and Central American nations to combat drug • cartels and
gangs and helped Colombia fight narco-terrorism and restore democratic
governance.
LOWERED TAXES, INSTITUTED PRO-GROWTH POLICIES, AND ADDRESSED ECONOMIC
CHALLENGES
Provided tax relief to every American who pays income taxes, which helped •
fuel more than six years of uninterrupted economic growth and 52 consecutive
months of job growth.
Helped businesses grow and add workers by reducing the tax burden. •
Led the response to the 2008 financial crisis. •
REDUCED WASTEFUL SPENDING AND IMPROVED GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS AND
ACCOUNTABILITY
Reduced the growth of non-security discretionary spending from a rate of • 16
percent to below the rate of inflation.
Saved taxpayers nearly $40 billion over five years through sensible •
entitlement reform and by terminating and reducing ineffective Federal programs.
Delivered transparency to the earmark process. •
Increased the accountability, transparency, and effectiveness of the Federal
• Government, which improved the Government’s performance and helped save
billions of dollars.
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IMPROVED EDUCATION FOR EVERY AMERICAN CHILD
Held public schools accountable, through the No Child Left Behind Act, • for
producing results for all students and required highly-qualified teachers in
every classroom.
Raised reading and math scores and narrowed the achievement gap between •
white and minority students.
Provided parents with more information about school performance and • choices
for students stuck in low-performing schools, and created the first Federal
school-choice program.
Increased the size of college Pell Grants to an all-time high and nearly •
doubled support for the Pell Grant program.
Established the Helping America’s Youth Initiative, led by First Lady Laura •
Bush, to help adults connect with at-risk children.
REFORMED MEDICARE AND ADDED A PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT
Provided more than 40 million Americans with better access to prescription •
drugs through the market-based Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit.
Added preventive screening programs to Medicare. •
Increased competition and choices by stabilizing and expanding Private • Plan
Options through the Medicare Advantage program, and increased enrollment to
nearly 10 million Americans.
STRENGTHENED AMERICA’S H
ealthcareSYSTEM
Empowered Americans to take charge of their health care decision-making • by
establishing tax-free Health Savings Accounts.
Infused transparency about price and quality into the health care system •
and launched an initiative to make electronic health records available to most
Americans within 10 years.
Helped provide treatment to nearly 17 million people by establishing or •
expanding 1,200 community health centers focused in high-poverty areas.
Bolstered funding for medical research, which contributed to medical •
breakthroughs and new discoveries, including the HPV cancer vaccine.
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IMPROVED LIVES BY ENGAGING FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND PROMOTING
VOLUNTEERISM
Helped millions in need by expanding partnerships with nonprofits and •
leveling the playing field for faith-based and community organizations.
Created USA Freedom Corps following 9/11 to help Americans volunteer • to
serve causes greater than themselves.
PROVIDED UNPRECEDENTED RESOURCES FOR VETERANS
Increased total funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs more than • 98
percent since 2001 and helped millions of veterans receive expedited and
improved care.
Instituted reforms for the care of wounded warriors, many of which were •
based on the recommendations of the Dole-Shalala Commission, and dramatically
expanded resources for mental health services.
Expanded education benefits for service members and veterans, increased •
placement and career counseling for returning veterans, and significantly
reduced the processing time for disability claims.
Reduced the number of homeless veterans by nearly 40 percent from 2001 • to
2007.
SUPPORTED AMERICAN WORKERS BY INCREASING TRADE, JOB TRAINING, AND
COMPETITIVENESS
Expanded and Enforced Trade Agreements to Open New Markets for American
Products
Leveled the playing field for American workers by increasing the number of •
countries partnered with the U.S. on free trade agreements from three to 14.
Negotiated and signed a trade agreement that helped increase U.S. exports •
to Central America by nearly $8 billion from 2005 to 2008.
Helped American Workers and Businesses Remain Competitive
Created the American Competitiveness Initiative to help Americans • compete
in the global economy and increased research and development funding.
Invested nearly $1 billion in new job training initiatives to prepare workers
• for 21st
century jobs and ensured fair pay for American workers.
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Helped make broadband access available in 99 percent of America’s zip
• codes.
Created a new National Space Policy to ensure the continued free access and •
use of space for peaceful purposes and to help advance America’s economic
competitiveness.
SET A BRIGHT COURSE FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE
Took Unparalleled Action to Advance Cooperative Conservation and Protect the
Environment
Created the world’s largest fully protected marine area and protected our •
oceans by taking action to end overfishing and conserve habitats.
Improved and protected the health of more than 27 million acres of Federal •
forest and grasslands and protected, restored, and improved more than three
million acres of wetlands.
Instituted policies that helped reduce air pollution by 12 percent from 2001
• to 2007 and adopted new policies that will produce even deeper reductions.
Provided more than $6.5 billion to repair and improve our national parks, •
launched the National Parks Centennial Initiative, and established the Preserve
America Initiative with First Lady Laura Bush to protect our cultural and
natural heritage.
Advanced America’s Energy Security and Took Steps to Develop Cleaner, More
Efficient Sources of Energy
Called for and signed legislation to reduce U.S. gasoline consumption by •
tens of billions of gallons of fuel and significantly improve energy efficiency.
Instituted policies that helped quadruple ethanol production to more than •
six billion gallons.
Removed the executive prohibition on offshore exploration for oil and gas. •
Provided nearly $18 billion to research, develop, and promote alternative •
and more efficient energy technologies such as biofuels, solar, wind, clean
coal, nuclear, and hydrogen.
Encouraged the deployment of new nuclear reactors in the United States, •
which resulted in the first license applications to construct and operate new
nuclear power plants in 30 years.
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Reduced Crime, Lowered Teen Drug Use, Protected Vulnerable Children, and
Helped Make America a More Equitable Country
Launched innovative strategies that contributed to the lowest overall •
incidence of reported crime in three decades.
Convicted nearly 1,300 individuals of corporate fraud and corruption. •
Reduced drug use among teens by 25 percent. •
Rescued more than 575 children from sexual exploitation, arrested and •
convicted thousands of suspects, and helped recover nearly 400 missing children
since 2002 by strengthening the AMBER Alert program.
Protected the right to vote for generations to come by reauthorizing the •
Voting Rights Act and advanced civil rights.
Reduced Homelessness and Aided Struggling Homeowners
Reduced the number of chronically homeless people by approximately • 30
percent between 2005 and 2007.
Helped more than two million individuals and families keep their homes by •
launching FHA Secure and helping to facilitate the HOPE NOW Alliance.
Improved Transportation and Import Safety and Protected American Consumers
Implemented congestion relief and safety measures that have made our •
highways and airways safer and more efficient.
Increased import safety for American consumers. •
Enacted the Do Not Call List, which 145 million Americans have utilized • to
reduce unwanted telemarketing calls.
STOOD ON PRINCIPLE, REFUSED TO PUT OFF TOUGH DECISIONS, AND SHOWED THE WAY
AHEAD
Advanced a Culture of Life
Outlawed partial birth abortion, ensured that every infant born alive is •
protected, established consequences for violence toward unborn children, and
took steps to protect the rights of health care providers to act according to
their conscience.
Provided government funding for stem cell research while refusing to •
sanction the destruction of human life.
Prohibited foreign nongovernmental organizations that receive U.S. tax •
dollars for family planning from performing or actively promoting abortion.
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Appointed Judges Committed to Ruling by the Letter of the Law
Appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice •
Samuel Alito, and more than one-third of all active Federal judges, who will not
legislate from the bench.
Confronted Climate Change through Innovation and without Harming our Economy
Set the country on course to stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions •
below projected levels by 2025 and invested more than $44 billion in climate
change-related programs.
Worked to build international consensus on practical actions to address •
climate change as a global issue.
Demonstrated Leadership on Reforming Entitlement Programs, the Immigration
System, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
Proposed initiatives to fix Social Security and address the greatest threat
to • America’s fiscal future—the uncontrolled growth of Federal entitlements.
Laid out a comprehensive plan to reform and fix our broken immigration •
system.
Warned of the risk that government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and •
Freddie Mac posed to America’s financial security beginning in 2001.
Directed Unprecedented Preparations for a Smooth Presidential Transition
Led the most comprehensive and forward-leaning effort in modern history • to
facilitate a smooth and effective transition.
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100 THINGS AMERICANS MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATION RECORD
KEPT AMERICA SAFE
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 – recognizing that terrorism
represented an ongoing threat to our Nation – President Bush took the fight to
the enemy to defeat the terrorists and protect America. The President deployed
all elements of national power to combat terrorism, which had previously been
considered primarily a "law enforcement" issue, and established the principle
that the use of violence against civilians cannot be justified by any cause. He
transformed our military and strengthened our national security institutions to
wage the War on Terror and secure our homeland. The President also made missile
defense operational and advanced counterproliferation efforts to help prevent
our enemies from threatening us, and our allies, with weapons of mass
destruction. There have been no attacks on American soil since 9/11, and because
of the actions taken by President Bush, America is safer and more secure.
For more than seven years after September 11, 2001, prevented another •
attack on our
homeland. Protected our Nation and prevented another attack on U.S. soil for
more than seven years, modernized our national security institutions and tools
of war, and bolstered our homeland security.
Waged the Global War on Terror
Removed threatening regimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, which freed 50
• million people.
Removed the Taliban from power and brought freedom to the people of Afghanistan.
Freed Iraqis from the rule of Saddam Hussein, a dictator who murdered his own
people, invaded his neighbors, and repeatedly defied United Nations resolutions.
• Weakened
the al-Qaeda network and its affiliates. Captured or killed hundreds of
al-Qaeda leaders and operatives in more than two dozen countries with the help
of partner nations. September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is in U.S.
custody and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, was
killed in 2006. Removed al-Qaeda’s safe-haven in Afghanistan and crippled
al-Qaeda in Iraq, including defeating al-Qaeda in its former stronghold of Anbar
Province.
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• Disrupted
terrorist plots and built a coalition of more than 90 nations to fight terrorism.
Partnered with nations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin
America on intelligence sharing and law enforcement coordination to break up
terrorist networks and bring terrorists to justice. Successfully disrupted
terrorist plots such as the 2006 plan to blow up airplanes flying from the
United Kingdom to the United States and Canada.
Transformed Our Approach to Combating Terrorism After the 9/11 Attacks
Transformed the United States military and retooled the Department
• of Defense to meet
21st century challenges. Provided our military with the tools, equipment,
and resources to combat terrorism and other emerging threats and started moving
American forces from Cold War garrisons in Europe and Asia so they can deploy
more quickly to any region of the world. Increased the size of our ground forces
and number of unmanned aerial vehicles and strengthened special operations
forces by increasing resources, manpower, and capabilities. Modernized and
transformed the National Guard from a strategic reserve to an operational
reserve. Reshaped our military command structure by establishing Northern
Command and Africa Command, creating a new strategic command responsible for
protecting America against long-range attacks, and doubling funding for Special
Operations Command, which is now the lead command for the War on Terror.
Increased the Defense Department’s base budget more than 70 percent since 2001,
including increased funding for military pay and benefits and research and
development.
Established the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the National •
Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the Department of Homeland Security, and the
Homeland Security Council (HSC). Shifted the FBI’s focus from investigating
terrorist attacks to preventing them. Established a unified, collaborative
intelligence community, led by the DNI, to ensure information is shared among
all intelligence and law enforcement professionals so they have the information
they need to protect the American people. Established the NCTC to break down
barriers that restricted the sharing of information between the law enforcement
and intelligence communities. Created an additional 66 fusion centers to help
Federal, State, and local authorities coordinate and collaborate more
effectively in combating terrorism. Consolidated 22 agencies and 180,000
employees under one agency, the Department of Homeland Security, to foster a
comprehensive, coordinated approach to protecting our country. Established the
HSC at the White House to ensure the
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effective coordination and implementation of all homeland security-related
activities among executive departments and agencies. Combined the
counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and intelligence elements of the FBI
under the leadership of a senior FBI official. Created the Terrorist Screening
Center and a National Security Division at the Department of Justice.
• Advocated
for and signed the Patriot Act, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention
Act, and a modernization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Updated FISA to adapt to new advances in technology and give our law enforcement
professionals and future administrations the tools they need to monitor what the
terrorists are planning, while respecting the liberties of the American people.
Enacted vital legislation such as the Patriot Act and the Intelligence Reform
and Terrorism Prevention Act to close dangerous gaps between our law enforcement
and intelligence communities and enable them to work closely and collaboratively
to identify and disrupt terrorist plots and protect American lives.
Protected the United States Homeland
• Arrested
and convicted terrorists in the United States and captured and isolated key
financiers and facilitators of terrorism. Arrested and convicted more than
two dozen terrorists and their supporters in America since 9/11. Froze the
financial assets in the United States of hundreds of individuals and entities
linked to terrorism.
Expanded the Border Patrol and improved border security• . Doubled the
Border Patrol to more than 18,000 agents, equipped the Border Patrol with better
technology and new infrastructure, and effectively ended the process of catch
and release at the border. Increased border security and immigration enforcement
funding by more than 160 percent and constructed hundreds of miles of fencing
and vehicle barriers.
• Created
the Transportation Security Administration, built a consolidated watchlist
program, and strengthened programs for screening individuals entering the United
States. Instituted a process to screen every commercial air passenger in the
country, launched credentialing initiatives to better identify passengers, and
expanded the Federal air marshal program. Replaced the multiple watchlists that
were in place prior to 9/11 with a single, consolidated watchlist, and
incorporated biometrics in screening and identifying individuals entering our
country. Created US-VISIT to screen foreign travelers and prevent terrorists
from entering America. Required secure identification at our ports of entry to
better monitor individuals entering the United States.
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• Provided
approximately $27 billion in homeland security grants, increased national
preparedness, protected key infrastructure, and strengthened the capabilities of
all levels of government. Developed a comprehensive plan that clearly
defines roles and responsibilities for protecting critical infrastructure, such
as chemical facilities, dams, and nuclear plants for all levels of government,
private industry, non-governmental agencies, and tribal partners. Forged a new,
comprehensive cybersecurity policy to improve the security of government and
military computer systems and made protecting these systems a national priority.
Developed the National Response Framework and the National Strategy for Homeland
Security, which strengthened homeland security efforts across all levels of
government.
• Improved
cargo screening and security at U.S. ports and increased containerized cargo
screening overseas. Increased scanning of cargo containers for potential
radiological and nuclear threats to more than 98 percent of all containers
entering the supply chain via U.S. seaports. Created the Transportation Workers
Identification Credential, a Federal ID for port employees to ensure that
workers who have access to our ports do not pose a threat to our Nation.
Implemented the National Strategy for Maritime Security, a coordinated Federal
response to threats, and worked with Federal, State, local, and industry
partners to secure our ports. Worked with international partners to employ the
Container Security Initiative in 58 foreign seaports, which resulted in 86
percent of all U.S.-destined containerized cargo being screened overseas before
entering the U.S. supply chain.
• Invested
more than $38 billion in public health and medical systems, created a biothreat
air monitoring system, and developed a national strategy and international
partnership on avian and pandemic flu. Built programs to ensure early
warning and rapid response to a biological attack or any event that threatens
the health and safety of Americans. Increased the Strategic National Stockpile
of vaccines, antibiotics, and antidotes to prepare for chemical, biological,
radiological, and nuclear incidents or attacks, including enough smallpox
vaccine for every American and 60 million courses of antibiotics for anthrax.
Implemented a groundbreaking air monitoring system in 30 cities that could help
save lives in the event of a biological attack. Developed mitigation strategies
and guidelines for controlling influenza outbreaks in communities, and made
significant investments in vaccines, antiviral medications, and research to
respond to a potential outbreak of avian or pandemic flu. Better protected our
agriculture and food sectors through increased education,
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training, surveillance systems, and inspection capabilities. Worked with
international partners such as Australia, Canada, the European Union, and Japan
to ensure a coordinated response to a possible outbreak.
Advanced Missile Defense and Counterproliferation Efforts, and Prevented our
Enemies from Threatening America and Our Allies with Weapons of Mass Destruction
(WMD)
• Secured a
commitment from North Korea to end its nuclear weapons program. Created a
multi-lateral framework, the Six-Party Talks, which secured a commitment from
North Korea to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs.
• Persuaded
Libya to disclose and dismantle all aspects of its WMD and advanced missile
programs and renounce terrorism. Worked with the United Kingdom to persuade
Libya to verifiably dismantle its chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, and Missile
Technology Control Regime-class missile programs. Removed 1.8 metric tons of
uranium hexafluoride and more than 500 metric tons of centrifuge components and
related materials. Persuaded Libya to renounce terrorism and accept
responsibility for prior acts of terror, and normalized our relations with Libya
as a result of its actions.
• Withdrew
from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and operationalized missile defense.
Signed agreements for missile defense sites in the Czech Republic and Poland to
help protect America and its allies from the threat of WMD delivered by
ballistic missiles. Obtained NATO endorsement of plans to deploy missile defense
assets in Europe.
•
Dismantled the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network. Dismantled and
prevented the reconstitution of this extensive, international network that had
spread sensitive nuclear technology and capability to Iran and North Korea.
Established the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and multilateral
• coalitions
to stop WMD proliferation and strengthen our ability to locate and secure
nuclear and radiological materials around the world. United more than 90
nations under the PSI to take cooperative action to stop the spread of weapons
of mass destruction, their delivery systems, and related materials. Established
the 22-country G-8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and
Materials of Mass Destruction and the 75-member Global Initiative to Combat
Nuclear Terrorism to reduce the threat of a nuclear terrorist attack. Secured
the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540, which required
all United Nations
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members to take and enforce actions against the proliferation of WMD and
related materials. Created the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office and the Nuclear
Materials Information Program, which have bolstered our ability to detect the
illicit movement of nuclear and radiological materials and identify their
sources.
• Halved
the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile five years ahead of schedule. Set a new
goal of an additional 15 percent reduction by 2012.
PROMOTED LIBERTY ABROAD
President Bush has promoted the spread of freedom as the great alternative to
the terrorists’ ideology of hatred, because expanding liberty and democracy is
the best way to defeat the extremists and protect the American people. President
Bush also acted quickly and decisively to help end international crises that
arose during his term in office and to confront regimes that threatened our
Nation and world security. By working to spread liberty in these volatile
regions, the President has helped make the American people safer by combating
the conditions that breed extremism.
Removed Totalitarian Regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq and Helped Transform
Both Nations into Emerging Democracies and Allies in the War on Terror
• Helped
establish an emerging democratic Afghan government and helped improve the lives
of the Afghan people, especially women and children. Supported the creation
of an Afghan government that is elected by its people, respects the rule of law,
and guarantees women the right to vote. Helped stand up the Afghan National Army
and police force. Provided humanitarian, development, and security assistance to
help Afghanistan rebuild its economy, civil society, and vital institutions such
as hospitals and schools. More than six million children, approximately two
million of whom are girls, are now in Afghan schools, compared to fewer than one
million in 2001. Created the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council to promote
public-private partnerships between U.S. and Afghan institutions and to mobilize
private sector resources to support Afghan women.
• Helped
establish an emerging democratic Iraqi government and the Iraqi Army, and
ordered the surge of U.S. forces, which dramatically reduced violence and
created the conditions for political and economic progress. Supported the
creation of a democratic Iraqi government that is operating under one of the
most progressive constitutions in the Arab
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world, and helped train and equip more than half a million Iraqi Army and
police forces. Helped Iraq’s young democracy build its civil society and
economy, including efforts to build a functional judicial system and implement
economic reforms that led to a dramatic reduction in inflation and an increase
in economic growth and business registrations. Ordered the surge in Iraq and
helped create the conditions that allowed Iraq’s leaders to pass vital
legislation, work towards national unity, and implement economic reforms. Since
the surge was implemented, total security incidents and ethno-sectarian violence
have been drastically reduced, Iraqi security forces are now responsible for
security in 13 of 18 provinces, including al-Qaeda in Iraq’s former stronghold
of Anbar Province, budgets and numerous legislative measures - including a
Provincial Election Law - have been passed and reconciliation is moving forward.
Successfully negotiated a Strategic Framework Agreement and a Security Agreement
with Iraq, which will further strengthen the relationship between our nations,
provide the United States with vital protections and authorities to continue our
mission to help stabilize Iraq, and establish a path for U.S. forces to reduce
their presence in Iraq and return home on success.
•
Established innovative programs, such as Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs),
to help create the conditions for peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Deployed PRTs comprised of military and civilian experts to ensure security
gains are followed by real improvements in daily life. Helped local communities
strengthen their economies and create jobs, deliver basic services, improve
governance and fight corruption, and build or repair key infrastructure such as
roads, bridges, hospitals, and schools. Supported grassroots efforts, such as
the Sons of Iraq movement, to help the Iraqi people improve security and drive
extremists from their communities. Created Agricultural Development Teams in
Afghanistan to help farmers feed their people and become more self-sufficient.
Created Institutions to Propel the Spread of Democracy Worldwide, Helped
Oppressed People Secure their Freedom, and Strengthened Support for Dissidents
and Democracy Activists
• Created
international organizations to promote the spread of freedom abroad and more
than doubled funding to promote democracy worldwide. Proposed and initiated
the U.N. Democracy Fund, which consists of nearly $100 million in contributions
from more than 30 member nations, to finance projects that build and strengthen
democratic institutions, promote human rights, and ensure the participation of
all
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groups in democratic processes. Created the Asia-Pacific Democracy
Partnership, which has begun to provide election observation in the Asia-Pacific
region. Secured approval of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which
obligates governments to promote and defend democracy among and in the 34
members of the Organization of American States. Set up the Middle East
Partnership Initiative, which has provided nearly $500 million to advance
women’s rights, educational reform, economic opportunity, and democratic
governance. Increased the budget for the National Endowment for Democracy by
more than 150 percent since 2001. Doubled democracy funding from Fiscal Year
2001 to Fiscal Year 2008 to promote the spread of liberty abroad and protect the
American people by addressing the conditions that breed terrorism.
• Generated
international pressure to end the Syrian occupation of Lebanon and helped
restore democracy and civilian rule in Pakistan. Strengthened our
relationship with and support to a democratic Lebanon. Called for and supported
parliamentary elections in Pakistan that reflected the will of the people and
ended more than eight years of military rule.
• Supported
the development of democracy in Ukraine and Georgia and helped establish Kosovo
as an independent, multi-ethnic democracy. Supported civil society and
democratic activists during the successful Orange Revolution in Ukraine and Rose
Revolution in Georgia, and fostered the development of civil societies in both
countries. Supported Georgia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and economic
recovery in the wake of Russia’s August 2008 invasion, including a $1 billion
economic and humanitarian support package. Recognized Kosovo as an independent
and sovereign state in February 2008.
Focused international attention and applied tough sanctions on • oppressive regimes in
Burma, Belarus, Zimbabwe, and other nations, and bolstered civil society
activists in countries such as Cuba and Venezuela. Met with activists from
more than 35 countries and helped unify democracy advocates and boost the
international standing of the opposition in countries run by totalitarian and
oppressive regimes. Imposed travel and financial sanctions on repressive
regimes, select individuals, and those who provide them with material support.
First Lady Laura Bush hosted an event at the United Nations headquarters to draw
international attention to human rights abuses in Burma, and has been a leading
advocate for human rights in Burma. Established the Commission for Assistance
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to a Free Cuba to reassure the Cuban people that the United States stands
ready to help them transition toward democracy and provided $400 million to
promote democratic change in Cuba. Supported pro-democracy forces in Venezuela,
Bolivia, and Nicaragua, and supported election observation missions in
Guatemala, Bolivia, Honduras, Venezuela, and Haiti.
Confronted Threats and Helped Defuse Regional Conflicts
• Worked
with our international partners to confront Iran’s destructive policies and to
pressure Iran to suspend nuclear enrichment. Worked with European partners
to limit Iran’s ability to procure weapons and finance terrorism, and initiated
targeted sanctions against Iran’s Quds Force. Gathered support for and won
passage of three United Nations Security Council resolutions that impose
sanctions on Iran and require Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment and other
proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities.
• Laid the
foundation for a future Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and a democratic
Palestinian state by launching direct negotiations between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority (PA) at the Annapolis Conference and working with the PA
to build accountable institutions. Became the first U.S. Administration to
call for a two-state solution, worked to secure Israeli, Palestinian, and
international support, and committed the United States to help create the
conditions where two democratic states can live side by side in peace and
security.
• Led the
international response to the genocide in Darfur and worked to end major
conflicts in Africa. Issued sanctions against the Bashir regime, provided
funding and support for peacekeepers, including $1.5 billion in new funding
since 2004 for African peacekeepers destined for Darfur, and led the
humanitarian response to the crisis through more than $2 billion in food and
medical assistance. Helped end conflicts in Angola, the Democratic Republic of
Congo, Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, as well as Sudan’s north-south civil
war, by using diplomacy and providing historic levels of resources. Led the
international effort to maintain peace and secure a National Unity Government in
Kenya following the political crisis and disputed election in December 2007.
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HELPED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD THROUGH A NEW
APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT
President Bush established a new paradigm for development assistance that
treats recipient nations as full partners while insisting that our joint efforts
achieve measurable results. The key to this success is partner countries that
govern justly, invest in the health and education of their people, and use the
power of free trade and free markets to lift people out of poverty. The
President believes that every human life has matchless value, that to whom much
is given, much is required, and that it is the responsibility of America to help
people in need across the world. In addition to improving the lives of millions
around the globe, these programs also help combat the conditions that enable
terrorists and extremists to recruit new members.
• Doubled
foreign assistance worldwide and transformed our foreign assistance programs to
increase transparency and hold governments accountable for making democratic and
economic reforms. Doubled foreign assistance worldwide from 2000 to 2007
through new programs that are centered on the principles of country ownership,
good governance and the rule of law, accountability, and economic reform.
Doubled foreign assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa and put the United States on
track to double assistance again by 2010, and doubled bilateral assistance to
Latin America.
• Helped
save millions of lives through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
(PEPFAR) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). Supported life-saving
treatment for more than 2.1 million people and care for more than 10 million
people (including more than four million orphans and vulnerable children) around
the world through PEPFAR. More than 237,000 babies have been born HIV-free due
to PEPFAR’s programs to prevent mothers from passing the virus to their
children. Reauthorized PEPFAR, which will support treatment for a total of at
least three million people, help prevent 12 million new infections, provide care
for 12 million people (including five million orphans and vulnerable children),
and commit billions of dollars to fight malaria and tuberculosis. Committed $1.2
billion in funding through the PMI over a five-year period, which is on track to
help reduce malaria deaths by 50 percent in 15 targeted countries in Sub-
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Saharan Africa. The President and First Lady Laura Bush hosted the 2006 White
House Summit on Malaria to establish a united effort to combat the disease, and
in 2007, more than six million insecticide-treated mosquito nets were
distributed through PMI affiliates.
• Committed
$350 million over five years to treat more than 300 million people suffering
from seven neglected tropical diseases and became the first, and largest,
contributor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
Pledged $350 million over five years to target seven major neglected tropical
diseases and provide treatment for more than 300 million people in Africa, Asia,
and Latin America. Contributed more than $3.3 billion to the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
• Created
the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), which holds recipient countries of
foreign aid accountable to make political and economic reforms, expanded the
African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), and provided debt relief to
impoverished nations. Established a new paradigm for foreign assistance
through the MCC by investing in countries that govern justly, invest in their
people, and encourage economic freedom. The MCC has signed agreements, which
seek transformational change in the development of recipient countries, for $6.7
billion in grant funding for 35 countries. Expanded AGOA to provide trade
assistance and benefits to nations that have instituted economic reforms to help
their people. Helped nations in Sub-Saharan Africa develop their economies and
farming capabilities and created new markets for U.S. goods and services.
Secured debt cancellation agreements for impoverished nations by working with
the IMF, World Bank, African Development Bank, and the Inter-American
Development Bank. Expanded the use of microloans to spur investment and improve
the lives of people in the developing world and to fight the conditions that
breed extremism and terrorism.
• Created
programs that will help educate more than 65 million children in the developing
world. Launched the Africa Education Initiative, which committed $600
million over eight years to increase access to education opportunities for tens
of millions of children in Africa. In 2007, the President and First Lady
announced the Initiative for Expanding Education, which committed an additional
$525 million to provide greater access to quality education. Established the
Partnership for Latin American Youth, a three year, $75 million initiative to
help disadvantaged youth learn English and improve their ability to find jobs.
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• Provided
more than $16 billion for global food aid and more than $10 billion for disaster
relief and other humanitarian efforts worldwide since 2001. Led the world in
providing food aid to alleviate worldwide hunger and food assistance to people
in oppressed nations. Led the relief effort in response to the Indian Ocean
tsunami in 2004 and provided critical support to the relief effort for Cyclone
Nargis that devastated Burma and for earthquake relief in Pakistan. Provided
vital resources to respond to tropical storms in the Caribbean and Central
America, among others. Worked with 24 other nations to create an operational
global tsunami warning system that provides warnings in the Atlantic, Pacific,
and Indian Oceans. Carried out hospital ship missions to provide medical care
and treatment to people in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Asia-Pacific
region.
STRENGTHENED AMERICA’S INTERESTS AND ALLIANCES ABROAD
President Bush used diplomacy to strengthen our relationships with other
nations and bolster our standing in the world community. Through his work to
invigorate international alliances and partnerships, the President has made
America and the world safer and more secure.
•
Transformed the State Department and our approach to diplomacy to help spread
democracy worldwide and combat the conditions that breed terrorism. Focused
U.S. diplomatic efforts to promote democratic, well-governed states that respond
to the needs of their people, reduce poverty, and conduct themselves responsibly
in the international system. Repositioned Department staff to higher priority
locations and transformational missions, constructed new overseas diplomatic
facilities, created an active response corps to deploy quickly to respond to
crises, and improved our ability to operate in post-conflict areas. Increased
the base budget for the Department of State and international programs by more
than 70 percent since 2001.
•
Transformed the NATO Alliance by inviting new members, launching operations
around the globe, and developing 21st century capabilities. Helped secure
several new democracies with the expansion of NATO to include Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, and Albania. Led the
push for NATO to undertake out-of-area
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security missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Darfur. Helped improve NATO’s
military capacity by establishing a NATO Response Force. Expanded NATO’s
political dialogue and partnerships with non-member states.
• Improved
our relationship with China, while encouraging democratic change, transformed
our alliances with democracies in East Asia, and strengthened our partnership
with the European Union to advance freedom around the world. Expanded
economic cooperation with China by establishing regular, high-level economic
engagement between U.S. and Chinese officials. Called on China to adopt
democratic changes and become a responsible international stakeholder, and
worked to improve relations between China and Taiwan. Strengthened alliances
with countries such as Japan and South Korea through a major force realignment
and relocation program and by strengthening multilateral, regional institutions
such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summits. Signed a new Strategic
Defense Trade Treaty with Australia and a new Strategic Framework Agreement with
Singapore. Collaborated with our European allies on issues of common interest
such as combating terrorism, Middle East peace, Afghanistan and Iraq
reconstruction, HIV/AIDS and global health issues, the economy, and energy
security.
• Signed an
historic civil nuclear agreement with India, worked with Brazil to develop and
promote alternative fuels, and developed broad strategic partnerships with both
countries. Completed the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative and
worked to expand cooperation with India on a broad range of issues including
defense, science, technology, and the promotion of democracy. Increased
cooperation with Brazil in the research and development of ethanol and other
biofuels and supported the expansion of the international market for biofuels.
Established the Brazil-United States CEO Forum to strengthen the economic and
commercial ties between Brazil and the United States.
• Worked
with Mexico and Central American nations to combat drug cartels and gangs and
helped Colombia fight narco-terrorism and restore democratic governance.
Established the Merida Initiative with Mexico and Central American nations to
break the power and impunity of drug cartels and criminal gangs. Provided
resources and assistance to help Colombia combat narco-terrorist organizations.
Kidnappings, terrorist attacks, and murders have dropped significantly in
Colombia since 2002.
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LOWERED TAXES, INSTITUTED PRO-GROWTH POLICIES, AND ADDRESSED
ECONOMIC CHALLENGES
President Bush provided the largest tax relief in a generation and reduced
the tax rate for every American who pays income taxes. Americans would have paid
an additional $1.3 trillion in taxes by the end of 2007 had it not been for the
President’s tax relief packages, which fueled more than six years of
uninterrupted economic growth and 52 consecutive months of job growth. This
unprecedented growth was ended by the turbulence in the housing and credit
markets, which the President responded to with bold action.
• Provided
tax relief to every American who pays income taxes, which helped fuel more than
six years of uninterrupted economic growth and 52 consecutive months of job
growth. Reduced individual income tax rates, doubled the child tax credit,
created a new 10 percent bracket rate, provided marriage penalty relief,
eliminated income taxes for 13 million American taxpayers, and began a phase-out
of the estate tax.
• Helped
businesses grow and add workers by reducing the tax burden. Reduced tax
rates on dividends and long-term capital gains, which helped lead to an increase
in capital gains realizations of approximately 150 percent and an increase in
dividend income growth from an average annual rate of approximately 8.5 percent
in the 20 years before the tax cut to an average rate of more than 14 percent
after the tax cut. Provided increased expensing for small businesses, which made
it cheaper for them to invest in new equipment.
• Led the
response to the 2008 financial crisis. Addressed the weakness in the economy
early in 2008 by leading the bipartisan passage of an economic growth package
that boosted consumer spending and encouraged businesses to expand. Responded
with bold action when the financial crisis intensified by leading the passage
and implementation of a rescue plan that helped address the root of the
financial crisis, protected the deposits of individuals and small businesses,
and helped ensure credit would remain available to individuals and families.
Convened a summit with the leaders of the G-20 nations to discuss efforts to
strengthen economic growth, deal with the financial crisis, reaffirm a
commitment to free market principles, and lay the foundation for reform to help
ensure that a similar crisis does not happen again.
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REDUCED WASTEFUL SPENDING AND IMPROVED GOVERNMENT
EFFECTIVENESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
President Bush instituted policies that reduced wasteful Federal spending,
saved taxpayers billions of dollars, and brought greater accountability and
effectiveness to the Federal Government. The President reduced the growth of
non-security discretionary spending to levels below the rate of inflation,
issued an Executive Order making it an official policy of the Federal Government
"to spend taxpayer dollars effectively, and more effectively each year," enacted
sensible entitlement reform, and cut and reduced unnecessary government
programs. The President also brought greater transparency to the earmark process
and government regulations, and held Federal agencies and employees accountable
by creating sound management practices.
• Reduced
the growth of non-security discretionary spending from a rate of 16 percent to
below the rate of inflation. Inherited non-security discretionary spending
at a rate of 16 percent growth and brought it down to under three percent
growth, which is below the rate of inflation.
• Saved
taxpayers nearly $40 billion over five years through sensible entitlement reform
and by terminating and reducing ineffective Federal programs. Enacted the
Deficit Reduction Act, which reduced the annual growth of mandatory spending and
will save approximately $300 per taxpayer.
• Delivered
transparency to the earmark process. Set up an online public database at
earmarks.omb.gov that exposed thousands of earmark projects that totaled tens of
billions of dollars. Called for and signed legislation requiring the disclosure
of earmarks and their sponsors to achieve greater accountability. Issued an
Executive Order that directed agencies to ignore earmarks that were not subject
to an up-or-down vote by Congress.
• Increased
the accountability, transparency, and effectiveness of the Federal Government,
which improved the Government’s performance and helped save billions of dollars.
Required all Federal programs to have clear, quantifiable outcome and efficiency
goals, and ensured agency performance ratings and Federal earmarks, contracts,
grants, and loans are readily transparent to the general public. Required all
employees to be rated on their performance relative to their goals, and required
that salary increases for all Senior Executives and approximately 20 percent of
all Federal employees be based on performance. Since 2004, reduced improper
payments by $8 billion, reduced underutilized real property by $8 billion,
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and projected to reduce the cost of commercial services more than $1 billion
per year. Generated average annual net benefits from new regulations: the
quantified value of the environmental, public health, and welfare improvements
from regulations issued during this Administration average approximately $26
billion per year, compared to approximately $6.5 billion per year during the
previous Administration. Improved access to a wide range of Federal services by
launching citizen-centered websites, including sites that help people file tax
returns, apply for Federal jobs, grants, and loans, and plan vacations at
national parks.
IMPROVED EDUCATION FOR EVERY AMERICAN CHILD
President Bush transformed the Federal Government’s approach to education
through No Child Left Behind, which brought greater accountability to schools,
options to parents of children in underperforming schools, and results to
students. Since No Child Left Behind took effect, test scores have risen,
accountability has increased, and we have begun to close the achievement gap
between white and minority students. President Bush also increased funding for
the Pell Grant program to help make college affordable for more American
students.
• Held
public schools accountable, through the No Child Left Behind Act, for producing
results for all students and required highly-qualified teachers in every
classroom. Ensured that States set standards that required students to be
able to read and do math at grade level, and held schools accountable if they
did not help their students meet these standards. Increased the percentage of
highly-qualified teachers in classrooms from 87 percent in the 2003-04 school
year to 94 percent in the 2006-07 school year. Created the $100 million Teacher
Incentive Fund, which rewards teachers who improve student achievement in
high-need school districts.
• Raised
reading and math scores and narrowed the achievement gap between white and
minority students. Instituted policies that helped fourth-grade students
achieve their highest reading and math scores on record and eighth-grade
students achieve their highest math scores on record. Increased the percentage
of first-grade students reading at grade level in 44 of 50 States. Helped
African-American and Hispanic students post all-time highs in several categories
on national assessments.
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• Provided
parents with more information about school performance and choices for students
stuck in low-performing schools, and created the first Federal school-choice
program. Gave parents the opportunity to choose a better public school, a
public charter school, or a tutor if their child’s school doesn’t improve.
Provided funding to more than half of all public charter schools in the country
to expand alternatives for students in struggling schools. Since 2000, the
number of charter schools in the United States has more than doubled.
Established the D.C. Opportunity Scholarships program, the first Federal
school-choice program, which provided more than 2,600 students with scholarships
to attend the private or religious school of their choice.
Increased the size of college Pell Grants to an all-time high and nearly
• doubled
support for the Pell Grant program. Increased the maximum Pell Grant award
to more than $4,700, the largest amount ever, and increased funding for the Pell
Grant program from $8.8 to $16.2 billion. Expected to help more than 5.5 million
Americans attend college in the 2008-09 school year - 1.2 million more than in
the 2001-02 school year.
•
Established the Helping America’s Youth Initiative, led by First Lady Laura
Bush, to help adults connect with at-risk children. Created the Interagency
Working Group on Youth Programs through an Executive Order, which has further
advanced efforts to improve the lives of at-risk children.
REFORMED MEDICARE AND ADDED A PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT
President Bush instituted the most significant reforms to Medicare in nearly
40 years, most notably through a prescription drug benefit, which has provided
more than 40 million Americans with better access to prescription drugs. The
President also added preventive screening programs to Medicare to help diagnose
illnesses earlier, and increased competition and choices available to Medicare
beneficiaries.
• Provided
more than 40 million Americans with better access to prescription drugs through
the market-based Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. Established competition
among private drug plans, which contributed to a 40 percent decline in the
actual average 2008 premiums for Medicare drug coverage compared to original
estimates. Projected overall program spending between 2004 and 2013 is
approximately $240 billion lower, nearly 38 percent, than originally estimated.
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• Added
preventive screening programs to Medicare. Improved the quality of health
care for Medicare beneficiaries by adding preventive screening programs to help
diagnose illnesses earlier.
• Increased
competition and choices by stabilizing and expanding Private Plan Options
through the Medicare Advantage program, and increased enrollment to nearly 10
million Americans. Increased private plan enrollment from 4.7 million in
2003 to nearly 10 million in 2008 (more than 20 percent of all Medicare
beneficaries). Ensured nearly every county in America has a private plan choice,
many with zero dollar premiums and supplemental benefits.
STRENGTHENED AMERICA’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
President Bush enacted policies to help Americans receive the care they need
at a price they can afford and also infused transparency and innovation into the
health care system. The President created tax-free Health Savings Accounts to
help Americans take charge of their health care decision-making, and increased
funding for medical research, which contributed to medical breakthroughs such as
the development of the HPV cancer vaccine.
• Empowered
Americans to take charge of their health care decision-making by establishing
tax-free Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Enabled more than six million
Americans who have enrolled in HSA-eligible plans to save money tax-free for
current and future medical expenses.
• Infused
transparency about price and quality into the health care system and launched an
initiative to make electronic health records available to most Americans within
10 years. Directed Federal agencies to inform beneficiaries of the prices
paid to doctors and hospitals and empowered Americans to find better value and
better care, largely through increased competition. Ordered Federal agencies to
use improved health IT systems to facilitate the rapid exchange of electronic
health information to improve the quality of care for Americans.
• Helped
provide treatment to nearly 17 million people by establishing or expanding 1,200
community health centers focused in high-poverty areas. Increased the number
of patients treated at health centers by more than 60 percent, to nearly 17
million people, since 2001.
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• Bolstered
funding for medical research, which contributed to medical breakthroughs and new
discoveries, including the HPV cancer vaccine. Increased funding at the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary Federal agency for medical
research, by more than 44 percent since 2001, and fulfilled the commitment to
double the NIH budget over the five year period from 1998 to 2003. This
contributed to breakthroughs such as the development of the HPV cancer vaccine,
advances in cell reprogramming, the development of the Cancer Genome Atlas, and
the completion of the Human Genome Project.
IMPROVED LIVES BY ENGAGING FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND
PROMOTING VOLUNTEERISM
President Bush launched the Faith-Based and Community Initiative and USA
Freedom Corps to strengthen the nonprofit sector and mobilize volunteers to help
those in need across the country and around the globe. These initiatives have
mobilized America’s armies of compassion in a determined attack on need and have
demonstrated remarkable results in the lives of countless individuals and
communities.
• Helped
millions in need by expanding partnerships with nonprofits and leveling the
playing field for faith-based and community organizations. Developed
grassroots partnerships, set clear, Constitutional guidelines for the use of
public funds by faith-based organizations, and established faith-based and
community-service offices at 11 Federal agencies. These partnerships helped
provide care for more than ten million people affected by HIV/AIDS, supported
the recovery of more than 200,000 addicts, and matched mentors with
approximately 100,000 children of prisoners.
• Created
USA Freedom Corps following 9/11 to help Americans volunteer to serve causes
greater than themselves. Helped match Americans with service opportunities
by creating Citizen Corps and Volunteers for Prosperity and by strengthening
programs such as AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps. Between 2002 and 2007,
Americans donated more than 49 billion hours of service.
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PROVIDED UNPRECEDENTED RESOURCES FOR VETERANS
President Bush nearly doubled funding for veterans, providing the highest
level of support for veterans in American history. The President also increased
the benefits available to those who have served our Nation and transformed the
veterans health care system to better serve those who have sacrificed for our
freedom.
• Increased
total funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) more than 98 percent
since 2001 and helped millions of veterans receive expedited and improved care.
Increased funding for veterans’ medical care by more than 115 percent since
2001. Committed more than $6 billion to modernize and expand VA medical
facilities, ensuring more veterans could receive quality care close to home.
Provided more than a billion dollars to VA since 2007 to support traumatic brain
injury and post-traumatic stress disorder treatment and research. Created the
Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain
Injury and expanded VA’s polytrauma system of care to 22 network sites and
clinic support teams to provide state-of-the-art treatment to injured veterans
at facilities closer to their homes. Expanded VA’s use of electronic health
records to improve the quality of medical care for veterans.
•
Instituted reforms for the care of wounded warriors, many of which were based on
the recommendations of the Dole-Shalala Commission, and dramatically expanded
resources for mental health services. Created a joint Department of
Defense/VA Recovery Coordinator Program for seriously-injured service members.
Initiated a pilot program to replace the cumbersome system of two separate
disability examinations with a single, comprehensive medical exam. Expanded
training, screening, and staff resources to help service members and veterans
suffering from mental health disorders. Signed legislation and issued
regulations amending the Family Medical Leave Act to permit family members of
injured service members to take additional time away from their jobs to care for
their loved one.
• Expanded
education benefits for service members and veterans, increased placement and
career counseling for returning veterans, and significantly reduced the
processing time for disability claims. Increased education benefit amounts
for veterans and reservists and lengthened the time period in which service
members can use those benefits. Made it easier for service members to transfer
their unused education benefits to their spouses or children. Increased
placement and career counseling services
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for returning veterans, particularly those wounded in combat. Reduced the
average length of time to process a veteran’s disability claim from a high of
230 days to under 180 days.
• Reduced
the number of homeless veterans by nearly 40 percent from 2001 to 2007.
Established VA homeless-specific programs, which constitute one of the largest
integrated networks of homeless treatment and assistance services in the
country.
SUPPORTED AMERICAN WORKERS BY INCREASING TRADE, JOB TRAINING,
AND COMPETITIVENESS
President Bush took a stand against isolationism and opened export markets
and increased opportunities for our farmers, workers, and businesses. As a
result, America remains the world’s largest exporter of goods and services.
Trade has become a driving force of our Nation’s economy, has helped create
American jobs, and now accounts for a larger percentage of our GDP than at any
time in history. Trade advances our national security by helping to expand
democracy, strengthen the rule of law, and lift people out of poverty worldwide.
President Bush also instituted policies and launched new initiatives to ensure
American workers and businesses remain competitive in the 21st century economy.
Expanded and Enforced Trade Agreements to Open New Markets for American
Products
Leveled the playing field for American workers by increasing the number
• of countries
partnered with the U.S. on free trade agreements (FTAs) from three to 14.
Three additional agreements have been approved by Congress but are not yet in
force and agreements with three countries are awaiting Congressional approval.
Increased overall goods and services exports by more than 50 percent between
2000 and 2007 to a level that accounts for more than 13 percent of our GDP,
greater than any time in history. Exports to the 11 trade partners with FTAs
that went into effect between 2001 and 2007 grew more than 70 percent faster on
average than U.S. exports to the rest of the world. Opened new markets for
American farmers and ranchers, which helped create a record level of U.S.
agricultural exports of $92.4 billion in 2007, up more than 70 percent since
2000. Ensured other countries abided by trade rules and won or settled 24 trade
disputes brought by the United States to the World Trade Organization since
2001.
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Negotiated and signed a trade agreement that helped increase U.S. exports to
Central America by nearly $8 billion from 2005 to 2008. Dramatically
increased U.S. exports to Central America following initial entry into force of
the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA-DR). CAFTA countries increased their annual goods exports to the U.S.
from $14.7 billion in 2005 to an annualized $15.6 billion in 2008, an increase
of 6.5 percent, which has supported jobs in the region.
Helped American Workers and Businesses Remain Competitive
• Created
the American Competitiveness Initiative to help Americans compete in the global
economy and increased research and development funding. Increased overall
Federal research and development investment to a record $143 billion, a 57
percent increase since 2001, and made a commitment to double critical basic
research in the physical sciences over 10 years. Authorized the Math Now and
Advanced Placement Incentive Programs and basic research programs through the
America COMPETES Act. Created the National Mathematics Advisory Panel to review
the best available scientific evidence on the teaching and learning of math.
• Invested
nearly $1 billion in new job training initiatives to prepare workers for 21st
century jobs and ensured fair pay for American workers. Launched the
Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development, which invested $326
million in job training and workforce development. Invested more than $325
million to help more than 200 community colleges train workers and launched the
High Growth Job Training Initiative, which has provided $288 million to more
than 150 partnerships between community colleges, workforce agencies, and
employers. Expanded the Trade Adjustment Assistance program to cover more
trade-impacted workers and added a tax credit to help displaced workers afford
health insurance. Strengthened overtime protection for millions of workers,
including the first-ever explicitly guaranteed rights for police officers, fire
fighters, paramedics, and other first responders. Achieved record recoveries of
more than $1.25 billion for nearly two million workers and increased the amount
of back wages collected in 2007 by nearly 70 percent compared to 2001.
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• Helped
make broadband access available in 99 percent of America’s zip codes.
Instituted policies that helped make broadband internet accessible to 99 percent
of the country’s zip codes, by making new radio spectrum available, increasing
competition and investment, and preserving the Internet tax moratorium. As a
result, the number of broadband lines in the United States has increased by
nearly 1,000 percent since 2001.
• Created a
new National Space Policy to ensure the continued free access and use of space
for peaceful purposes and to help advance America’s economic competitiveness.
Protected our national interests in space, governed the conduct of U.S. space
activities, and enhanced the domestic space technology market.
SET A BRIGHT COURSE FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE
During his time in office, President Bush worked to improve our environment,
energy security, and the quality of life for Americans. Because of the
President’s efforts to encourage cooperative conservation, innovation, and new
technologies, America’s air is cleaner, our water is purer, and our natural
resources are better protected. President Bush strengthened America’s energy
security by advancing clean energy technologies, renewable energy, and energy
efficiency to reduce our dependence on oil. Under the President’s leadership,
crime in our Nation has been reduced to historic lows, children in America are
safer, teen drug use has declined, fewer Americans are homeless, American
consumers have been better protected, and we have helped make the United States
a more equitable country.
Took Unparalleled Action to Advance Cooperative Conservation and Protect the
Environment
• Created
the world’s largest fully protected marine area and protected our oceans by
taking action to end overfishing and conserve habitats. Designated nearly
140,000 square miles of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which contains more
than 7,000 species, as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument - our
Nation’s highest form of marine environmental protection. Reduced marine debris,
protected America’s fisheries and reduced over-fishing, and conserved popular
recreational fish.
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• Improved
and protected the health of more than 27 million acres of Federal forest and
grasslands and protected, restored, and improved more than three million acres
of wetlands. Cleared dry brush, dead trees, and overstocked forests on 27
million acres of forest and range lands through the Healthy Forest Initiative.
Cleaned up three million acres of wetlands and created important wildlife
habitats, including 15 new National Wildlife Refuges, largely through farm bill
conservation programs, the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, and other
cooperative conservation efforts.
•
Instituted policies that helped reduce air pollution by 12 percent from 2001 to
2007 and adopted new policies that will produce even deeper reductions.
Established stringent air quality standards and adopted rules that will cut
hazardous industrial emissions and will cut diesel engine emissions by more than
90 percent.
• Provided
more than $6.5 billion to repair and improve our national parks, launched the
National Parks Centennial Initiative, and established the Preserve America
Initiative with First Lady Laura Bush to protect our cultural and natural
heritage. Created the National Parks Centennial Initiative with First Lady
Laura Bush to hire more park rangers, repair buildings, improve natural
landscapes, and engage more children as junior rangers. Created seven new units
of the National Park System. Awarded more than 220 Preserve America grants and
numerous recognitions totaling $17 million in more than 650 communities in all
50 States to advance community efforts to protect our cultural and natural
heritage.
Advanced America’s Energy Security and Took Steps to Develop Cleaner, More
Efficient Sources of Energy
Called for and signed legislation to reduce U.S. gasoline consumption
• by tens of billions
of gallons of fuel and significantly improve energy efficiency. Signed the
Energy Independence and Security Act, which, though less ambitious than the
President’s goal of reducing consumption by 20 percent in 10 years, mandated
that fuel producers use at least 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022 (a
nearly five-fold increase over previously required levels). Required a national
fuel economy standard of 35 miles per gallon by 2020 to increase fuel economy by
40 percent and save billions of gallons of fuel. Signed legislation that
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Instituted policies that helped quadruple ethanol production to more than six
billion gallons. Supported policies and incentives that contributed to an
increase in ethanol production from 1.6 billion gallons in 2000 to an estimated
6.5 billion gallons in 2007. Dedicated more than $1 billion to advance
cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass, wood chips, and other non-food
sources.
• Removed
the executive prohibition on offshore exploration for oil and gas.
Successfully pressured Congress to remove its ban on offshore exploration and
took steps to increase domestic oil exploration to reduce our dependence on
foreign oil.
• Provided
nearly $18 billion to research, develop, and promote alternative and more
efficient energy technologies such as biofuels, solar, wind, clean coal,
nuclear, and hydrogen. Dedicated more than $3.5 billion to research,
develop, and demonstrate clean coal technologies and fulfilled the President’s
$2 billion commitment to the Coal Research Initiative three years early.
Invested approximately $1.2 billion in hydrogen and fuel cell vehicle research
and development. Supported tax incentives that helped industry to increase wind
energy production by more than 400 percent since 2001, double the United States’
solar energy capacity between 2000 and 2007, and grow solar installations by
more than 32 percent in 2007 alone.
•
Encouraged the deployment of new nuclear reactors in the United States, which
resulted in the first license applications to construct and operate new nuclear
power plants in 30 years. Launched the Nuclear Power 2010 Program and other
significant efforts that helped encourage industry to submit 17 applications for
26 new nuclear reactors in the United States. Invested more than $300 million in
research and development of nuclear technologies in 2007 alone, and in 2003,
joined the international research project to harness the energy of fusion.
Signed legislation giving the Department of Energy the authority to provide up
to $18.5 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power facilities and up to $2
billion in loan guarantees for advanced facilities that process nuclear fuel.
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Reduced Crime, Lowered Teen Drug Use, Protected Vulnerable Children, and
Helped Make America a More Equitable Country
Launched innovative strategies that contributed to the lowest overall
• incidence of reported
crime in three decades. Reduced the rate of reported crime in 2007 by 9.6
percent compared to 2000. Created Project Safe Neighborhoods, vigorously
enforced Federal firearms laws, and filed more than 68,000 firearms cases
against more than 83,000 defendants from Fiscal Year 2001 through Fiscal Year
2007 – more than double the number of Federal prosecutions filed in the previous
seven-year period.
• Convicted
nearly 1,300 individuals of corporate fraud and corruption. Convicted more
than 200 CEOs and corporate presidents, more than 120 corporate vice presidents,
and more than 50 chief financial officers.
Reduced drug use among teens by 25 percent• . Created a national drug
control strategy, which helped reduce the number of American teens using drugs
by approximately 900,000. Helped break-up more than 5,000 drug trafficking
organizations. Increased parental awareness of youth prescription drug abuse.
• Rescued
more than 575 children from sexual exploitation, arrested and convicted
thousands of suspects, and helped recover nearly 400 missing children since 2002
by strengthening the AMBER Alert program. Launched the Innocence Lost
Initiative, a joint Federal and State effort to prevent child prostitution,
which has led to the recovery of more than 575 children and the convictions of
more than 300 defendants. Posted a nearly 28 percent increase in Federal
prosecutions of child predators in Fiscal Year 2007. Apprehended more than 2,350
suspects through the Internet Crimes Against Children program in Fiscal Year
2007. Created a national network of 59 Department of Justice-funded regional
task forces that investigate computer-facilitated child sexual exploitation.
Launched Project Safe Childhood to further protect children from exploitation
over the Internet. Developed a national network of AMBER Alert systems,
appointed the first National Coordinator in 2002, and assured the National
Coordinator’s continuity and authority by signing the PROTECT Act in 2003.
Helped increase successful recoveries of missing children sought through AMBER
Alerts approximately ninefold, with nearly 400 children recovered since 2002.
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• Protected
the right to vote for generations to come by reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act
and advanced civil rights. Signed the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and
Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006
to ensure Americans enjoy the full promise of freedom by prohibiting the use of
tests or devices to deny Americans the right to vote. Launched the Post-9/11
Discriminatory Backlash Initiative to investigate bias-motivated crimes and
unlawful discrimination against individuals in the United States after the 9/11
attacks, resulting in more than 800 criminal investigations. Worked to root out
discrimination on college campuses, and investigated and resolved more than
1,100 Title IX complaints from 2002 to 2006.
Reduced Homelessness and Aided Struggling Homeowners
• Reduced
the number of chronically homeless people by approximately 30 percent between
2005 and 2007. Awarded approximately $10 billion to support local housing
and service programs since 2001. Lowered the number of chronically homeless
Americans by approximately 50,000 people between 2005 and 2007 thanks in part to
increased funding to address homelessness. In 2005, the Administration became
the first to estimate the total homeless population based on data from virtually
all communities.
• Helped
more than two million individuals and families keep their homes by launching FHA
Secure and helping to facilitate the HOPE NOW Alliance. Launched FHA Secure,
which expanded the ability of individuals and families to refinance into
FHA-insured mortgages. Facilitated the formation of the innovative,
private-sector HOPE NOW Alliance to help individuals and families keep their
homes.
Improved Transportation and Import Safety and Protected American Consumers
•
Implemented congestion relief and safety measures that have made our highways
and airways safer and more efficient. Created new safety measures that
contributed to the largest reduction in vehicle fatalities in 15 years and the
lowest-ever rate of highway deaths. Improved aviation safety oversight, which
has led to the safest six-year period in the history of commercial aviation.
Instituted a new national rail safety plan that has contributed to a 25 percent
decline in the number of rail crashes since 2005. Launched new strategies that
include increasing flight capacity at America’s busiest airports and freeing up
airspace during peak travel times to curb transportation congestion and reduce
delays. Provided increased protection
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for consumers, including measures requiring airlines to provide greater
compensation for lost bags and imposing tougher penalties when airlines fail to
notify travelers of hidden fees.
Increased import safety for American consumers• . Instituted an Import
Safety Action Plan to better protect American consumers and took strong
enforcement action against manufacturers of tainted imports. Established
unprecedented import safety coordination with China by stationing FDA inspectors
in China and signed agreements that enhanced the safety of products traded
between our nations to protect consumers and the environment.
• Enacted
the Do Not Call List, which 145 million Americans have utilized to reduce
unwanted telemarketing calls. Instituted the Do-Not-Call Registry, which
prohibits commercial telemarketers from calling Americans who have added their
phone numbers to the Registry.
STOOD ON PRINCIPLE, REFUSED TO PUT OFF TOUGH DECISIONS, AND
SHOWED THE WAY AHEAD
President Bush made decisions based upon principles, not polls. His
character, vision, leadership, and refusal to compromise his core beliefs have
allowed him to tackle tough issues and do what is right for America.
Advanced a Culture of Life
• Outlawed
partial birth abortion, ensured that every infant born alive is protected,
established consequences for violence toward unborn children, and took steps to
protect the rights of health care providers to act according to their conscience.
Called for and signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 to outlaw
partial birth abortion and successfully defended this law before the Supreme
Court. Required Federal law to recognize any infant born alive as an individual,
including the survivors of abortion procedures, by signing the Born Alive
Infants Protection Act. Created a separate criminal offense for any person who
causes the death or injury of a child in the womb by signing the Unborn Victims
of Violence Act of 2004. Advanced a regulation to ensure health care providers
are not forced to choose between practicing medicine and following their moral
and ethical convictions.
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• Provided
government funding for stem cell research while refusing to sanction the
destruction of human life. Supported research on existing embryonic stem
cell lines within moral boundaries, which extended the frontiers of medicine
without destroying human life as demonstrated by the discovery that
reprogramming technologies can be used to make adult cells function like other
cells, including embryonic stem cells.
•
Prohibited foreign nongovernmental organizations that receive U.S. tax dollars
for family planning from performing or actively promoting abortion. Restored
the Mexico City Policy to ensure our international family planning programs are
not indirectly subsidizing abortion or the promotion of abortion.
Appointed Judges Committed to Ruling by the Letter of the Law
• Appointed
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and
more than one-third of all active Federal judges, who will not legislate from
the bench. Ensured two justices seated on our Nation’s highest court will
decide cases based on the Constitution and laws as written, not policy
preferences. Appointed more than 300 Federal judges, including 61 Circuit Court
judges, who will not impose an activist agenda on the courts.
Confronted Climate Change through Innovation and without Harming our Economy
• Set the
country on course to stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions below projected
levels by 2025 and invested more than $44 billion in climate change-related
programs. Set an initial national goal to reduce greenhouse gas intensity 18
percent by 2012, which the United States is on track to meet or exceed.
Supported new Federal and State mandates and incentives that are projected to
take at least five billion tons of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions out of the air.
Invested more than $44 billion to advance climate related science, technology,
observation, and incentives. Signed laws giving the Department of Energy the
authority to provide more than $67 billion in loans and guarantees to help
support innovative energy projects to reduce greenhouse gas or air pollutant
emissions and to retool auto plants to produce more efficient vehicles.
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• Worked to
build international consensus on practical actions to address climate change as
a global issue. Convened the leaders of the world’s major economies, both
developed and developing, to work on ways to further reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and improve energy security without harming our economies or giving
any nation a free ride. Led a global agreement that will dramatically cut
emissions of a potent greenhouse gas by more than what the Kyoto Protocol might
achieve. Launched the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
to address climate change and help develop and accelerate the deployment of
cleaner and more efficient energy technologies.
Demonstrated Leadership on Reforming Entitlement Programs, the Immigration
System, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
Proposed initiatives to fix Social Security and address the greatest
• threat to America’s
fiscal future – the uncontrolled growth of Federal entitlements. Entitlement
programs are projected to grow faster than the economy, faster than the
population, and faster than the rate of inflation, with Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid on course to consume 60 percent of the entire Federal
budget by 2030. President Bush proposed reforms to the Social Security program
and embraced policies that would have solved most of the projected Social
Security shortfall, including giving individual Americans the option to put part
of their payroll taxes in voluntary personal retirement accounts, but Congress
failed to act. Additionally, in his Fiscal Year 2009 Budget, President Bush
proposed $178 billion in five-year Medicare savings that would have slowed the
average annual rate of growth in Medicare from 7.2 percent to 5 percent. The
President also proposed regulatory actions to strengthen Medicaid program
integrity that would have saved more than $14 billion over five years and slowed
the average annual growth rate from 7.6 percent to 7.4 percent over the same
period.
• Laid out
a comprehensive plan to reform and fix our broken immigration system.
President Bush proposed a plan that placed border security first, created a
temporary worker program, held employers accountable for the workers they hired,
addressed the situation of immigrants already living in the United States, and
honored the American tradition of the melting pot. Although Congress failed to
address this difficult challenge, President Bush’s bold solution has helped
shape the future debate on fixing our broken immigration system.
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• Warned of
the risk that government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
posed to America’s financial security beginning in 2001. In 2001, President
Bush’s first budget warned that "financial trouble of a large GSE could cause
strong repercussions in financial markets." In 2003, the Administration began
calling for a new GSE regulator. Despite resistance from Congress, President
Bush continued to call for GSE reform until Congress finally acted in 2008 to
provide the additional oversight the President requested five years earlier.
Unfortunately, the reform came too late to prevent systemic consequences.
Directed Unprecedented Preparations for a Smooth Presidential Transition
Led the most comprehensive and forward-leaning effort in modern
• history to facilitate
a smooth and effective transition. In 2007, some Federal agencies began
identifying and preparing career executives to assume leadership roles and to
start developing briefing materials for the new Administration. By the summer of
2008, briefings began with the major party presidential candidates and their
transition teams and the Department of Justice and the FBI began work to provide
security clearances for transition personnel. In the fall of 2008, national
intelligence officials began providing intelligence briefings to the candidates
and immediately after the election, daily briefings for the President-elect
began. President Bush has acted vigorously on his commitment to honor a hallmark
of American democracy, the peaceful transfer of power, and has worked to ensure
that the American people are kept safe during these consequential times.
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