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Italy's Sylvia Fontana impressed a lot of people at the 1996 Worlds, not because of her placement, but because she obviously enjoyed her skating. After nailing a double axel in the short program, Fontana screamed in delight, making thousands of fans. "That year I did not train well in the summer. My father died and I really wanted to skate well for him. I was really nervous for the short, but I skated very well. Unfortunately, I put everything into the short and had nothing left for the long. I needed another two days, "Sylvia explained.
Fontana started skating at 4; only in the summer since Rome had no facilities. She began competing at 12 and has been working with coach Evelyn Kramer since 1990. In 1996, she also began working with Frank Carroll at Lake Arrowhead. "It's the most supportive place I've skated. Since I've been there I've enjoyed skating even more than before," Sylvia gushes, "I can watch the best skaters do good things and learn from them."
Since her loss in the Italian championships last season, Fontana has become really focused on her skating according to coach Kramer. She is now landing all the triples except the axel consistently and uses them all in her long, including the triple toe loop/double toe loop combination that she uses in the short. She considers the triple toe loop to be her best jump and hopes to have a triple salchow/double toe loop combination soon. Sylvia's off ice training is limited to cardiovascular conditioning and ballet. She doesn't cross train. "Enough is enough," she says.
Fontana is a very passionate skater. "I'm very emotional when I skate, " she says. Many of the more emotional skaters are dancers, but Sylvia explains that when she was young, "I could not find any guys that would skate with me, especially since I'm a counter-clockwise skater." This is particularly hard to believe since Fontana is so gorgeous that well-known skaters such as Ilia Kulik watch her practice. (Sorry guys, Sylvia has a boyfriend -- U. S. pairs skater John Zimmerman.) But it worked out for the best Sylvia feels: " By myself I can skate with the music and not have to share anything."
Off ice, Fontana is studying full time for a degree in sociology and communications , commuting to the University of Rome from California to take her tests. Her grades are so good that her professors have recommended she continue on for a doctorate in psychology, her best subject, but she is planning for a career in journalism. Television reporting is her dream job, but she also likes social work and working with people.
For relaxation, Sylvia listens to music, mostly disco or classical. "Classical music makes me feel calm," she says. Tchaikovsky is her favorite composer. Fontana selects her own music for her skating. Last year, she used Carmen for her free skate. "I've seen the ballet Carmen many times," says Fontana, who took ballet for several years. "It's very good music for skaters, great timing. I could do several programs with different parts of Carmen. It's hard to pick the best one." Fontana has seen Katarina Witt's and Debbie Thomas' Battle of the Carmens from the 1988 Olympics, but didn't imitate them.
This year, Fontana is using a medley of Italian songs for her long program including "O Solo Mio." For her technical program, Sylvia plans to continue using Earth Tribe Rhythm. It's essentially jungle music, with a lot of percussion. Coach Kramer found it at the San Diego Zoo on vacation. "I like something different," Fontana explains. "A long time ago I did a program to jungle music and liked it."
Fontana's goals for this season are to regain the Italian ladies championship that she lost to Tony Sabrina Bombardieri last season, then improve her showing at Europeans and Worlds. She has already won the Bolsano Cup, which qualified her to compete in the Vienna Cup for an Olympic berth for Italy. Her seventh place finish there earned her a spot in Nagano. The placement was a jump from 1996, when she finished 13th at the Vienna Cup, moving up from 21st with a 9th in the free skate after landing her first triple flip in competition.
But placements are not the most important thing for Fontana. "Skating is not just doing one element after another. That's not the kind of skating I like. I'm trying for a balanced program. I love to interpret the music." That's what you'd expect from a woman with a passion to skate.
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A temporary hoarding will remain around the famous Browne Doorway on Galway's Eyre Square because the city council can't afford a measly €40,000 to repair the early 17th century relic (Irish Times).
Meanwhile the judiciary and government are at each other's throats over pay cuts and other disagreements.
Just two examples of how Ireland is rapidly becoming a visible banana republic.
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only two bathrooms; Moskito nets are urgently needed!!! we where kept awake all night by those biests and couldn't Close the window, because the room smelled weird...
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Of all the italian cities I visited..florence was the prima donna.Hotel bavaria's ambience was in perfect sync with the rich,historical vibe that florence exuded. Antique furniture...beautiful replica paintings that I saw hanging at the uffizi gallery. Excellent breakfast,lovely location opposite a pretty wedding showroom. A very spacious quadruple room that I stayed in with my family. absolutely fell in love with hotel bavaria. If we had problems communicating in english at certain other B&Bs...here there was an affable gentleman who spoke fluent english & all in all..the best place I stayed at..while on my trip
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we stayed 2 nights, the buildingwas nice and givingyour the feelingyou live over there. the bathroom was inside the room, clean and enough hot water. The toilette was common for 4 rooms but always clean and always with the toilette paper and liquid soap. the price was reasonable for location and cleanless. The rbeakfast was also good.
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The reason people predict things not working, won't fly, etc. is quite simple -- we have walked this path before. Duh! Our government has wasted time, money, and effort on so many hair-brained ideas and projects the national debt could be non-existent. You see, some things just don't work out, but the difference is private money won't attempt many risky endeavors, but the government usually ignores the risk, at least the monetary risk. Other people's money, you know?
The hotel in Portland may be needed, but what wasn't said was the fact that the cost of the project is partially subsidized by taxpayer money. If this is such a needed addition (and will be profitable as stated), why are those such as the Hilton's not building it?
Politicians and leaders? None of ours may be evil, but if one takes money in campaign support (or other perks) for favorable legislation, then yes, they are corrupt. It used to be called bribes, but our society has forgotten what a bribe is, with all the 'political correctness' slathered about.
But these are just my opinions and observations, which may differ from others. That's life!
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HAARP Weather Modification Radar Signature Over Northern California. ELF, HF, DOPE, DARN Radar Systems Explained …
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NEXRAD and X-band radar systems are being used in conjunction with VLF and UHF arrays. …. airports, prisons, reservoirs, quarries, and CEMETARIES!!! all have these stations nearby! …each of these locations has something else in common.
They all have NO FCC restrictions for their areas.. so limitless amounts of "frequency" can be used out of these locations. I truely know and also "believe" that we are seeing the steering of storms using projected frequencies from the very same stations that also give us "radar" images.
Dual use facilities. ..look at the locations on the VLF and Digisonde maps below.. all these locations have the "ring phenomenon" sever weather outbreaks and EARTHQUAKES!! … enjoy this first round of links.. let me know what you think. … dutch
chinese "haarp" type facility:
RADAR im showing on screen to view the "rings":
DOPE and superDARN backscatter dopple RADAR:
an ACTUAL program to plot these signatures!!!!!! :
West texas weather modification association:
another private weather modification company:
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airforce owning the weather BY 2025 :
navy involved too
more in depth analysis…
http://english.cssar.cas.cn/op/mp/ http://umlcar.uml.edu/stationlist.html
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Cutler_Naval_Radio_Station_… http://nova.stanford.edu/~vlf/IHY_Test/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Transmitters.Trans…
the RAW DATA from the VLF ARRAYS!… :
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and there are plenty more at there website look for your self. http://www.stanford.edu/search/?q=HAARP&cx=003265255082301896483%3Asq5n7q…
Renowned Pakistani Columnist Nusrat Mirza Accuses U.S. Of Artificially Causing Japanese Earthquake: 'The U.S. has Carried Out a Second Nuclear Attack on Japan'!
- To maintain their global dominance, the Anglo-American, western, Illuminist government must annihilate all potential threats. The main threat to their global hegemony is a rising Asia and in particular China. China can go it alone, tell them to goto hell, and build their version of the New World Order. It can break the entire Illuminist monetary hegemony. To do so, it needs to drag Japan into its sphere of influence ie. break the hold of America on Japan.
- Once Japan joins China in a new economic and financial order, most Asian countries will follow. With this momentum, it is highly probable that Russia and its satellites and Latin America will participate in this Asian driven new order. The game is then over for the Anglo-American world. This IMO is the main reason for the massive attack on Japan. (Note: I do not view this as an American attack. This is Luciferian. Americans are not to blame for the Illuminist government's terrorism!)
Renowned Pakistani Columnist Nusrat Mirza Accuses U.S. Of Artificially Causing Japanese Earthquake: 'The U.S. has Carried Out a Second Nuclear Attack on Japan'
by MEMRI, The Middle East Media Research Institute
In a recent article, renowned Pakistani columnist Nusrat Mirza accused the U.S. of artificially causing the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, calling the radiation leaks resulting from damage to nuclear plants the U.S.'s "second nuclear attack" on the Japanese nation. He argued that the March earthquake was artificially caused by the U.S. X-37B spaceplane just six days after it was launched.
Nusrat Mirza is a senior journalist and columnist for the Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Jang, the mass-circulation Urdu-language newspaper of Pakistan. He has over 25 years of experience in journalism in Pakistan and has also advised the governments of Pakistan and of Sindh province.
In his column.. titled "The Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami – Natural or Artificial?" Nusrat Mirza argued that the world will have to decide that the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, the 2010 Pakistani floods, the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, and the 2011 Japanese earthquake-cum-tsunami were all artificially caused by the U.S., possibly through the use of HAARP technology at a scientific research center in Alaska. Following are some excerpts from the column:[1]
"Whenever the U.S. Spaceplane X-37B is Sent Into Space – A Natural Disaster Occurs Somewhere in the World"
"Whenever the U.S. space plane X-37B is sent into space, a natural disaster occurs somewhere in the world. Last year, on April 22, this shuttle was launched into space to spy on Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Korean waters, and if needed, to attack anywhere. Also, this spaceplane can make use of HARRP technology [out of Alaska], and natural disasters can be artificially brought about.
"After the plane's launch into space, Pakistan was hit by an unusual monsoon on July 26, 2010, which brought extraordinary destruction… During that monsoon, Pakistan suffered a loss of $43 billion; 2,000 people died, and around one-fifth of the country was submerged in floods. However, it was fortunate that the country's nuclear weapons program remained safe during that disaster, and had also been safe during the 2005 earthquake, by Allah's grace.
"Although the earthquake struck the country's mountainous region [in Pakistani Kashmir], some people say that it was an artificial one, and that HARRP technology was used to cause this earthquake. According to some people, certain powers believed that Pakistan's nuclear assets were in this mountainous region; the Khushab nuclear assets [in Pakistan's Punjab province] would have probably been the target of the flooding. This is believed because it is being said that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan also were artificial, because this tragedy occurred just six days after the U.S. X-37B spaceplane was launched into space on March 5, 2011."
"The U.S. Objectives Are to Continue Its Domination Of the World – And Not To Let Another Power or Group of Powers Challenge Its Domination"
"Three Japanese nuclear reactors have been affected due to this, and radiation has started [leaking] from these reactors. It can be seen that fingers are being pointed only at the U.S. for the Japanese disaster; this is because Japan was, in collaboration with some other countries, trying to replace the U.S. dollar with a new currency for international trading. The Japanese emperor has met three times with the Chinese president in this regard.
"As per a Nibira TV report, former Japanese finance minister Heizo Takaneka was warned to hand over the Japanese financial system to the U.S. or else his country could be attacked with an earthquake. This news could be viewed on YouTube. If this news is true, then it means that the U.S. objectives are to continue its domination of the world – and not to let another power or group of powers challenge its domination. For this purpose, it has challenged the entire world and is engaged in the loot and plunders across the globe.
"For now, its targets are only Muslim countries because they are weak and rich and [their rulers are] serving sentences of old age. It gave birth to a wave of change in the Islamic nations. Only Libya resisted the U.S.-sponsored change. In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak quit but the army took over, which is more beneficial to the U.S. Most intellectuals of the world say that this behavior by the U.S. is motivated by political objectives, not by religious zeal."
"The World Wll Have to Decide Whether Pakistan's 2005 Earthquake and 2010 Floods… and Now Japan's Tsunami… Were Natural or Artificial Disasters"
"The world will have to decide whether Pakistan's 2005 earthquake and 2010 floods, the [2004] Indonesian tsunami, and now Japan's tsunami in March 2011 were natural or artificial disasters.
"The point is if these were natural disasters, then why do the Americans say that such changes can be introduced in weather, which can bring rains or can cause earthquakes or can melt the engine of a plane from a distance of 250 kilometers with a small ray? [They also claim] that a wall of beams like the Great Wall of China can be erected around a specific country, area or region. But prominent U.S. scientists have not let the theory be widely circulated, fearing that if this viewpoint of theirs were accepted it could lead to the breakup of the Panet Earth.
"However, the U.S. government tasked the Pentagon with leading this theory to its logical conclusion. The Pentagon established an extremely powerful transmitter on a 123-acre plot of land, some 200 miles from Alaska, and fixed 72-meter-tall antennas on 180 towers, through which 3 billion watts of electromagnetic waves could be transmitted at a frequency of 2.5-10 megahertz."
"Today, 'Rulers' Are Coming to the Forefront and, Using Science, Are Causing Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Weather Alterations, Changes in Airplanes' Routes, Plane Crashes, and Floods"
"In addition to this, the American Star Wars, and to cause changes in weather, the U.S. could introduce changes from this station in Alaska in the earth's low but decided level of atmosphere wherever such seasonal changes are needed. This can bring about climatic reforms within a range of several hundred miles.
"Every invention in the U.S. needs to be patented, and when doing so the invention's functioning must be defined. The HARRP's patent number is 4,686,605. The critics of the HARRP have named it 'a burning flame gun.' According to this patent, this technology is a tool that could introduce changes in the weather anywhere in the world and can stop or change routes of missiles and can interfere in the satellite system of a party or impose its own system on that party.
"Through this technology, the intelligence signals of others could be controlled and missiles or aircraft could be destroyed, or their routes diverted; it could bring aircraft to heights or lower them again. The method set out in the patent says that this technology makes a single or many particles, places them in blocks… of the upper earth, which could introduce change in the weather. According to this patent, making weather more or less extreme or… creating artificial warmth would be possible, as would be changing the upper part of the earth, or changing the absorption pattern of sunlight for throwing extreme sunlight or increasing its warmth on a part of the world. (An article of mine on this issue was published in Roznama Jang on August 28, 2010).
"Why in 1970 did [U.S. official Zbigniew] Brzezinski say that they had moved the gravity of power to the U.S. and would not let it shift again to Eurasia? He had also said that due to the U.S. technological advancement, a society would emerge which would remain under control and would follow instructions, and that society or people on the surface of the world would live by the orders of those who would have knowledge of science.
"Today, 'rulers' are coming to the forefront and, using science, are causing earthquakes, tsunamis, weather alterations, changes in airplanes' routes, plane crashes, and floods. Therefore, it can be said that the U.S. has carried out a second nuclear attack on Japan. The Nibiru [sic] TV anchor asked the U.S. Air Force to destroy the station in Alaska that causes earthquakes and tsunamis, as 500,000 people have been killed so far due to this."
- See also:
Servando Gonzalez: Japan's Nuclear Disaster: A Natural Occurrence or Unconventional Warfare?
HAARP Magnetometer Data Shows Japan Earthquake Was Induced !
European Parliament Issues Warnings on HAARP!
Scientist Leuren Moret: Japan Earthquake, Nuke "Accident" Are Tectonic (HAARP) Nuclear Warfare! Illuminati Card Game, 'Combined Disaster' Card Shows It Was A Planned Disaster!
Was The Earthquake And Tsunami in Japan Caused By HAARP?
HAARP Tectonic Weapon Caused ChristChurch, New Zealand Earthquake?
Colin Andrews: Seen on Radar By Thousands Over Australia! HAARP Radar Signatures?!
Have Scientists Discovered How to Create Downpours in The Desert?
Andrew Johnson: Chemtrails, Weather Modification & Climate Change!
Weather Wars and the Devil's HAARP!
Project BlueBeam Grand Deception, HAARP And Anomalous Earthquakes of Past Few Years!
Climate Weapons: More Than Just a Conspiracy Theory?!
HAARP Cloud Signatures!
Jim Marrs: New World Order, 'Nazification' of America, Man Made Diseases, HAARP, Chemtrails, Alien Agenda and More…..
David Icke: Assassination of Polish Elite, HAARP and Haiti Earthquake!
Brooks Agnew: HAARP, Earthquakes in SzeChuan China and Haiti!
Cloud ?? HAARP ?? or UFO Sighting Caught On Tape Chile 2/26/2010 !
Chile Quake Eyewitness "I saw the Sky Changing Colors!" . HAARP At Work??
Holes In Heaven: HAARP and Advances in Tesla Technology ! Mind Control, Weather Modification and Warfare!
HR 2995 Weather Modification Research ….. Act of 2005! United Nations 1976 Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques !
HAARP Has Deleted Its Records From 2010-1-11.
Russian Navy: The U.S. Created The Earthquake In Haiti!
Flashback 2003: HAARP Poses Global Threat !
A Few Weather Modification Radar Signatures!
Lt. Col. Tom Bearden: Weather Modification & Energy Weapons ! The Science Behind It!
Weather Modification Radar Signatures
FlashBack: Professor Chossudovsky on Weather Warfare!
Haiti Killer Quake Caused By Scalar Weapon !
Chavez: US Weapon Test Caused Haiti Earthquake !
HAARP: The Earthquake Weapon? Weather Modification Using HAARP.
The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?
Nick Begich: Mind Control – The Rise of Invasive and Oppressive Technology!
Jesse Ventura: HAARP – Weather Modification, Military Defence and Mind Control!
Military Use of Mind Control Weapons
Nick Begich: HAARP, Weather Control and Mind Control
Mind Control: The Ultimate Brave New World by Dr. Nick Begich
Weather Warfare Weapons – Part 1
Weather Warfare Weapons – Part 2
Servando Gonzalez: Japan's Nuclear Disaster: A Natural Occurrence or Unconventional Warfare?
- Weather modification technology and tectonic weapons have been around for the past few decades. It is a known fact that America, Russia and possibly a few other countries possess them. This technology is based on scalar longitudinal waves pioneered by Nikola Tesla. The western Anglo-American Illuminist cabal is stepping up their attacks against humanity. They are the real terrorists!
Japan's Nuclear Disaster: A Natural Occurrence or Unconventional Warfare?
by Servando Gonzalez, www.theIntelHub.com
… In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, senior Council on Foreign Relations agent, Zbigniew Brzezinski forecasted that in the near future the governments of some technologically advanced countries might resort to climate warfare. This will include the artificial alteration of the climate to create droughts, intense cold or heat waves, floods, powerful storms, earthquakes and tsunamis to attack other countries. And the beauty of it, shamelessly expressed Brzezinski, is that the enemy would not know that he was under attack. According to Brzezinski,
Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised. . . . Technology of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm. [3]
When Brzezinski made his forecast, he was not theorizing. He was actually referring to an already existing technology the U.S. had secretly developed. In August 1996, the U.S. Air Force published a secret report entitled "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2055," in which the possibilities of climate warfare are studied in detail. [4] Another indication that climate modification for military purposes is a reality is that on March 3, 2005, Texas senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson introduced a bill with a highly revealing title: The Weather Modification and Research Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005.
As early as the 1960s the Soviet Union developed an efficient climate modification technology for military purposes. In a speech delivered on January 1960 to the Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Premier Nikita Khrushchev said, "Our scientists have created a new weapon so powerful that it could erase all life in this planet. It is a fantastic weapon." Tom Bearden, a scientist who have studied the subject, has published several interesting articles devoted to the use of climate manipulation used by the Soviet military in asymmetrical warfare. [5]
But the Soviets are not alone. On April 28 1997, U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen confirmed the fact when he declared that some states have create eco-terrorism weapons that "can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic weaves.[6]
This technology, known as "scalar technology," is based on the discoveries made at the beginning of the 20th century by Nikola Tesla, and kept secret until a few years ago. The mysterious HAARP facility in Alaska, based on Tesla's scalar technology, has been active for many years, and some scientists have speculate that it may have been related to some strange weather and phenomena —like the series of huge hurricanes that affected the U.S. in 2005, the year hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
Now, to fully understand the complexity of the problem America is currently facing we need to understand the fact that America has become an oligarchy under the control of oil magnates and Wall Street bankers. Moreover, the oil business is in the hands of an international cartel, that is, a huge monopoly that controls to a great extent the price of oil. And they discovered many years ago that when you have a monopolistic control of a market, the less you produce the more profit you make, because you reduce production costs and raise the price of your product.
Moreover, once you control the market of a basic commodity like oil, the main energetic source that allowed for the industrial revolution, you have to be alert not to allow other competing energy sources to prosper. This explains the conspirators' fight against nuclear energy and other energy sources they can't control. But they cannot fight openly against these potentially competing sources, like nuclear energy, and the Left has played a key role as the conspirators' patsy.
But, as William Engdahl, Lindsey Williams and other authors have documented, [7] the main problem of the big oil corporations is not finding sources of oil, but hiding or destroying them in order to keep the price of oil artificially high. Proof of it is that after the alleged "war-for-oil" in Iraq we have less oil than never before and the price of oil has skyrocketed. Let's see what happens if the conspirators push their puppet Obama into a full war with Libya, a key oil producer and provider to Western Europe.
But, if sometime it may have been correct, the Left's paradigm of war-for-oil and capitalist greed has become outdated. Since the end of WWII, the conspirators' goals have changed dramatically. Currently their two main goals are the elimination of 85 percent of the world's population and the reduction of the survivors to pre-industrial levels of consumption. Once we realize what the two main goals of the conspirators really are, it becomes evident that all the big themes overtly and covertly promoted by the conspirators since the 1960s conduce to reaching two goals: population elimination and consumption reduction.
Evidently, Japan's disaster fits perfectly into the conspirators' plan. Perhaps too perfectly.
HAARP Magnetometer Data Shows Japan Earthquake Was Induced !
- Truth is stranger than fiction. I no longer use the term: 'Act of God' for alot of earthquakes and natural disasters. Closer examination of many typhoons show that they are very likely man-made. The typhoon Nargis(2008) which struck Myanmar and Katrina which struck the Gulf coast USA are IMO man-made. Was Japan hit by a tectonic weapon on 3/11/11? Very likely!
HAARP Magnetometer data shows Japan earthquake was induced.
by PC, www.presscore.ca
The United States Air Force and Navy has provided a visual insight into what caused the 9.0 magnitude off of Japan on March 11, 2011 at 05:46:23 UTC. The image above was downloaded from the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) website. It is a time-frequency spectrogram, which shows the frequency content of signals recorded by the HAARP Induction Magnetometer. This instrument, provided by the University of Tokyo, measures temporal variations in the geomagnetic field (Earth's magnetosphere) in the ULF (ultra-low frequency) range of 0-5 Hz. Notions have been added to the image to show you what was happening the day the Japan earthquake and tsunami struck.
By looking at the accompanying HAARP spectrum chart above you can see when the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck – red line drawn vertically – and what was happening before and after the earthquake. What you can also see is a constant ULF frequency of 2.5 Hz being recorded by the magnetometer. The ULF 2.5 Hz frequency is evidence of an induced earthquake. The chart recorded this constant before, during and after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck. On March 11, 2011 the 2.5 Hz ULF frequency was being emitted and recorded from 0:00 hours to about 10:00 hours – or for 10 hours. We know for a fact that the Japan earthquake lasted only a few minutes so why was the earthquake signature frequency (2.5 Hz) being recorded for 10 hours on the morning of March 11, 2011? Because a HAARP phased array antenna system was broadcasting (transmitting) the 2.5Hz ULF frequency and it triggered the Japan earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
If you go to HAARP's official website you can see for yourself that the 2.5 Hz ULF frequency wasn't only being broadcated for 10 hours, it was constantly being broadcasted for 2 days prior to the earthquake. Broadcasting began on March 8, 2011, just before midnight as you can see on HAARP's website page – http://maestro.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi?20110308. Click on the Next Day link to see that the earthquake inducing 2.5 Hz ULF frequency was being broadcasted for the entire days of March 9, 2011 and March 10, 2011. Even though the signature frequency of an earthquake was shown throughout March 9 and March 10 there were no constant earthquakes occurring off the east coast of Japan.
What is the significance of a 2.5 Hz ULF broadcast? The natural resonance of an earthquake is 2.5 Hz. Scientists working for the United States military discovered this using the phased array antennas at the HAARP facility in Alaska. HAARP's own charts suggests that earthquakes occurred constantly for 3 days. We know for a fact that they haven't.
The HAARP magnetometer data provides proof that the Japan earthquake was not a naturally occurring quake – it was triggered. This data shows us that a HAARP military installation was broadcasting the known earthquake signature frequency in order to trigger a major earthquake. The broadcast was most likely being transmitted from a floating HAARP system like the floating Sea-Based X-Band Radar platform that can be moved anywhere in the Pacific or Atlantic ocean under the protection of a carrier strike group – like the USS Ronald Regan. Where was the USS Ronald Reagan on the morning of March 11, 2011? According to a Stars & Stripes March 9, 2011 report – Reagan carrier group steams toward South Korea to join exercise
Evidence or Conspiracy theory?
Is this evidence or just a bunch of nonsense attached to a baseless conspiracy theory and recklessly made public by a crackpot? The above image is of the HAARP Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) platform which does exist – not a conspiracy theory. The preceding link is to the United States Navy website. What is sitting on top of the deck of the SBX is a phased array antenna – a key component of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) GMD system – clearly not a conspiracy theory.
The military vessel includes power plant, a bridge, control rooms, living quarters, storage areas and the infrastructure necessary to support the massive X-band radar. The SBX radar is the most sophisticated phased array, electro-mechanically steered X-band radar in the world – according to Boeing claims. The phased array antenna consists of thousands of antennas driven by transmit/receive modules. The radar is designed and built by Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems for Boeing, the prime contractor on the project for the United States Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Boeing, Raytheon and MDA exists – also not a conspiracy theory.
HAARP does exists. The HAARP program is no secret. Their own website states that: The HAARP program is committed to developing a world class ionospheric research facility consisting of: The Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high power transmitter facility operating in the High Frequency (HF) range. The IRI will be used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere for scientific study. Even World renowned Stanford University knows about and publishes reports on the activities at the HAARP installations – Experiments with the HAARP Ionospheric Heater – http://vlf.stanford.edu/research/experiments-haarp-ionospheric-heater. According to Stanford -
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility is located in Gakona, Alaska at 62.39º N, 145.15º W, near mile 11 of the Tok Cutoff Highway. The facility houses many diagnostic instruments for studying the ionosphere, but the highlight is the HF transmitter array. This array consists of 15×12 crossed dipole antennas, which together can transmit a total of 3600kW of RF power at frequencies from 2.8 – 10 MHz (HF, high frequency range). This power is partially absorbed by the ionosphere, and though only a tiny fraction of the power it naturally receives from the sun, can still produce subtle changes that can be detected with sensitive instruments.
The VLF group focuses on using HAARP to generate ELF and VLF waves through a process called modulated heating. Such experiments have been conducted since 1999.
- See also:
European Parliament Issues Warnings on HAARP!
Scientist Leuren Moret: Japan Earthquake, Nuke "Accident" Are Tectonic (HAARP) Nuclear Warfare! Illuminati Card Game, 'Combined Disaster' Card Shows It Was A Planned Disaster!
Was The Earthquake And Tsunami in Japan Caused By HAARP?
HAARP Tectonic Weapon Caused ChristChurch, New Zealand Earthquake?
Colin Andrews: Seen on Radar By Thousands Over Australia! HAARP Radar Signatures?!
Have Scientists Discovered How to Create Downpours in The Desert?
Andrew Johnson: Chemtrails, Weather Modification & Climate Change!
Weather Wars and the Devil's HAARP!
Project BlueBeam Grand Deception, HAARP And Anomalous Earthquakes of Past Few Years!
Climate Weapons: More Than Just a Conspiracy Theory?!
HAARP Cloud Signatures!
Jim Marrs: New World Order, 'Nazification' of America, Man Made Diseases, HAARP, Chemtrails, Alien Agenda and More…..
David Icke: Assassination of Polish Elite, HAARP and Haiti Earthquake!
Brooks Agnew: HAARP, Earthquakes in SzeChuan China and Haiti!
Cloud ?? HAARP ?? or UFO Sighting Caught On Tape Chile 2/26/2010 !
Chile Quake Eyewitness "I saw the Sky Changing Colors!" . HAARP At Work??
Holes In Heaven: HAARP and Advances in Tesla Technology ! Mind Control, Weather Modification and Warfare!
HR 2995 Weather Modification Research ….. Act of 2005! United Nations 1976 Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques !
HAARP Has Deleted Its Records From 2010-1-11.
Russian Navy: The U.S. Created The Earthquake In Haiti!
Flashback 2003: HAARP Poses Global Threat !
A Few Weather Modification Radar Signatures!
Lt. Col. Tom Bearden: Weather Modification & Energy Weapons ! The Science Behind It!
Weather Modification Radar Signatures
FlashBack: Professor Chossudovsky on Weather Warfare!
Haiti Killer Quake Caused By Scalar Weapon !
Chavez: US Weapon Test Caused Haiti Earthquake !
HAARP: The Earthquake Weapon? Weather Modification Using HAARP.
The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?
Nick Begich: Mind Control – The Rise of Invasive and Oppressive Technology!
Jesse Ventura: HAARP – Weather Modification, Military Defence and Mind Control!
Military Use of Mind Control Weapons
Nick Begich: HAARP, Weather Control and Mind Control
Mind Control: The Ultimate Brave New World by Dr. Nick Begich
Weather Warfare Weapons – Part 1
Weather Warfare Weapons – Part 2
European Parliament Issues Warnings on HAARP!
- HAARP is a weather modification, tectonic/seismic weapon, mind control/influencing (via ELF) weapon and 'Star Wars' anti-missile system. Bear in mind that it is not just the Americans who have this. Russia, China and possibly a few other countries have this capability. The Russians are reportedly the pioneer/expert in this technology. HAARP technology is based on the work of Nikola Tesla, the genius who gave us AC electricity. See also:
Scientist Leuren Moret: Japan Earthquake, Nuke "Accident" Are Tectonic (HAARP) Nuclear Warfare! Illuminati Card Game, 'Combined Disaster' Card Shows It Was A Planned Disaster!
Was The Earthquake And Tsunami in Japan Caused By HAARP?
European Parliament issues warnings on HAARP
"HAARP is a project of which the public is almost completely unaware, and this needs to be remedied."
Toronto, Canada – [ZNN] The daily lives of people seem blissfully unaffected by events about which they know little or nothing. Daily news reports unfold with no mention as to why and how the powerful operate behind the scenes. We pay our mortgages, book our vacations and school our children, as a corporate and government elite engage in projects beyond our wildest imaginations.
Conditioned to accept that 'all is well' or, that we are powerless to affect change in a world dis-integrating before our eyes – we conduct our lives until one day it affects us directly – unfortunately by then it's far too late.
Ask the people of northern Japan how they feel about the last three sentences and the answers they now seek in the aftermath of unimaginable loss and yet another future generation desecrated and ravaged by nuclear radiation.
A European Parliament document may provide a few answers for the inquiring mind. This parliamentary document is not some conspiratorial rant but an official governmental perspective describing authentic concern that a terribly grave technology, which the document calls a weapon, has been unleashed over many years without any public knowledge.
The technology is called HAARP and the European Parliament has put NATO, the US Air Force and Navy on notice, demanding an explanation about their involvement. One of the most damning statements in the document reveals an American refusal to account for itself regarding HAARP research:
"[The European Parliament]… regrets the repeated refusal of the United States Administration to send anyone in person to give evidence to the public hearing or any subsequent meeting held by its competent committee into the environmental and public risks connected with the high Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) programme currently being funded in Alaska."
Caveat – For those among you who feel all is 'right and true' with the world and everything you need to know about is in newspapers, or, that those in power have our best interests at heart – you've probably read enough by now. There is almost certainly a soap opera or celebrity awards program on TV that you are missing. Or, perhaps you simply do not want to be confused by the facts… You are excused.
However, for those among you who have an inquiring mind or the patience and concern to read about such furtive things as the demise of civilization and geo-political ethics, the document below is very instructive if not despotically frightening.
The document outlines why the strange frequency of bizarre global weather and geo-tectonic disasters appear to be on the rise and why NATO, the US Air Force and US Navy have been held accountable for their knowledge and shrouded use of HAARP technology.
High Frequency Active Auroral Research (HAARP) has been deliberated upon by world governments – but none of them – including the Canadian government have commented on what it is, what it does or how it affects life on the planet.
HAARP may well be the most silent and deadly weapon of all time – primarily because it is invisible to the naked eye and thus, its existence can be denied by government and readily dismissed by media. Those in the forefront of probing and exposing this kind of government behaviour have issued warnings about HAARP for many years. Few pay any heed. The question remains – will anyone listen now?
The European Parliament document
"The European Parliament:
- having regard to the hearing on HAARP and Non-lethal Weapons held by the Foreign Affairs Subcommitee on Security and Disarmament in Brussels on 5 February 1998,"
"T. whereas, despite the existing conventions, military research is ongoing on environmental manipulation as a weapon, as demonstrated for example by the Alaska-based HAARP system,"
"Legal aspects of military activities -
26. Calls on the European Union to seek to have the new 'non-lethal' weapons technology and the development of new arms strategies also covered and regulated by international conventions;
27. Considers HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) by virtue of its far-reaching impact on the environment to be a global concern and calls for its legal, ecological and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent body before any further research and testing; regrets the repeated refusal of the United States Administration to send anyone in person to give evidence to the public hearing or any subsequent meeting held by its competent committee into the environmental and public risks connected with the high Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) programme currently being
funded in Alaska;
28. Requests the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA) Panel to agree to examine the scientific and technical evidence provided in all existing research findings on HAARP to assess the exact nature and degree of risk that HAARP poses both to the local and global environment and to public health generally;
29. Calls on the Commission, in collaboration with the governments of Sweden, Finland, Norway and the Russian Federation, to examine the environmental and public health implications of the HAARP programme for Arctic Europe and to report back to Parliament with its findings;"
"HAARP – a weapons system which disrupts the climate
On 5 February 1998 Parliament's Subcommittee on Security and Disarmament held a hearing the subject of which included HAARP. NATO and the US had been invited to send representatives, but chose not to do so. The Committee regrets the failure of the USA to send a representative to answer questions, or to use the opportunity to comment on the material submitted.(21)
HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) is run jointly by the US Air Force and Navy, in conjunction with the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Similar experiments are also being conducted in Norway, probably in the Antarctic, as well as in the former Soviet Union.(22) HAARP is a research project using a ground based apparatus, an array of antennae each powered by its own transmitter, to heat up portions of ionosphere with powerful radio beams.(23) The energy generated heats up parts of the ionosphere; this results in holes in the ionosphere and produces artificial 'lenses'.
HAARP can be used for many purposes. Enormous quantities of energy can be controlled by manipulating the electrical characteristics of the atmosphere. If used as a military weapon this can have a devastating impact on an enemy. HAARP can deliver millions of times more energy to a given area than any other conventional transmitter. The energy can also be aimed at a moving target which should constitute a potential anti-missile system.
The project would also allow better communications with submarines and manipulation of global weather patterns, but it is also possible to do the reverse, to disrupt communications. By manipulating the ionosphere one could block global communications while transmitting one's own. Another application is earth-penetrating, tomography, x-raying the earth several kilometres deep, to detect oil and gas fields, or underground military facilities. Over-the-horizon radar is another application, looking round the curvature of the earth for in-coming objects.
From the 1950s the USA conducted explosions of nuclear material in the Van Allen Belts(24) to investigate the effect of the electro-magnetic pulse generated by nuclear weapon explosions at these heights on radio communications and the operation of radar. This created new magnetic radiation belts which covered nearly the whole earth. The electrons travelled along magnetic lines of force and created an artificial Aurora Borealis above the North Pole. These military tests are liable to disrupt the Van Allen belt for a long period. The earth's magnetic field could be disrupted over large areas, which would obstruct radio communications. According to US scientists it could take hundreds of years for the Van Allen belt to return to normal. HAARP could result in changes in weather patterns. It could also influence whole ecosystems, especially in the sensitive Antarctic regions.
Another damaging consequence of HAARP is the occurrence of holes in the ionosphere caused by the powerful radio beams. The ionosphere protects us from incoming cosmic radiation. The hope is that the holes will fill again, but our experience of change in the ozone layer points in the other direction. This means substantial holes in the ionosphere that protects us.
With its far-reaching impact on the environment HAARP is a matter of global concern and we have to ask whether its advantages really outweigh the risks. The environmental impact and the ethical aspect must be closely examined before any further research and testing takes place. HAARP is a project of which the public is almost completely unaware, and this needs to be remedied.
HAARP has links with 50 years of intensive space research for military purposes, including the Star Wars project, to control the upper atmosphere and communications. This kind of research has to be regarded as a serious threat to the environment, with an incalculable impact on human life. Even now nobody knows what impact HAARP may have. We have to beat down the wall of secrecy around military research, and set up the right to openness and democratic scrutiny of military research projects, and parliamentary control.
A series of international treaties and conventions (the Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques, the Antarctic Treaty, the Treaty on principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space including the moon and other celestial bodies, and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) casts considerable doubt on HAARP on legal as well as humanitarian and political grounds. The Antarctic Treaty lays down that the Antarctic may be used exclusively for peaceful purposes.(25) This would mean that HAARP is a breach of international law. All the implications of the new weapons systems should be examined by independent international bodies. Further international agreements should be sought to protect the environment from unnecessary destruction in war."
[This document was written 13 years ago.]
Although there seems to be no official or current governmental and scientific confirmation of the effects of HAARP technologies in your local newspaper or on the 11:00 o'clock news – the people of Japan might want an update.
Sources -
Entire Text of European Document -http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A4-1999-0005+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
SMOKING GUN on MAN MADE "Induced Seismicity" Earthquakes!
- "Induced Seismicity" Workshop
Induced seismicity deals with man-made ground shaking due to direct human intervention inside the Earth such as deep mining, water reservoirs etc. Earthquakes induced by geothermal exploration activities, sometimes called deep heat mining….
Dr. Doom: If Market Keeps Falling, Fed Will Keep Printing!
What will the response of the FedRes and the BOJ to all the building turmoil in the stock market and currency market? It is 100% QE to infinity! The Yen is rocketing higher against the USD and almost all currencies. This is terrible for the Japanese economy. The BOJ will have to ease and will likely intervene in the forex market to bring USD-JPY above the 80 mark. The debt to GDP ration for Japan is already above 200%. With rebuilding costs anywhere between US$35B – US$100B, debts are going to get higher. The currency earthquakes will get larger as the world is on an unsustainable path and close to the edge of the cliff!
Dr. Doom: If Market Keeps Falling, Fed Will Keep Printing!
CNBC: Falling stock prices will be met only with more money injections from the Federal Reserve, Marc Faber, the so-called "Dr. Doom," told CNBC. Speaking as global markets fell violently lower in the wake of the Japan earthquake and fears of a nuclear meltdown, Faber said a stock correction actually is healthy in view of how far equities have come from the March 2009 lows.
He also expects weakness to persist and the Standard & Poor's 500 to drop as much as 15 percent. Further, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will likely give the green light to another round of Treasurys purchases, which have come to be known as quantitative easing, he said.
"We may drop 10 to 15 percent. Then QE 2 will come, (then) QE 4, QE 5, QE 6, QE 7—whatever you want. The money printer will continue to print, that I'm sure," said the author of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report. Later in the interview, he added, "Actually I made a mistake. I meant to say QE 18."
As for the situation with Japan specifically, he said the end result of rebuilding after the quake would be inflation and a positive for stocks, while Japanese Government Bonds, or JGBs as they are often called, would suffer. "This huge selloff is an investment opportunity in Japanese equities, but if a meltdown occurs then all bets are off," he said.
The Nikkei Japanese stock market index has plunged more than 12 percent this week, its worst two-day drop in more than 20 years. US equities have shown far less reaction but were poised to drop more than 2 percent at the open Tuesday. Faber, though, said the central bank would spring into action should the selling get out of hand.
"I think Mr. Bernanke doesn't know much about the global economy but he probably watches the S&P every day," he said. "Until very recently the Feds have had very few critiques, very few people criticized the Fed's policies under Mr. Greenspan and Mr. Bernanke," Faber added. "Over the last few months, a lot of critical comments have come up about the Fed and its money-printing habit. The S&P drops 20 percent (and) all the critics will be silent and they will all applaud new money-printing."
Third Reactor Explodes, Full Scale Nuclear Catastrophe Imminent?!
- Things look pretty bad for the Japanese people. The degree of problem they face just from the earthquake and tsunami is bad enough. Now a nuclear meltdown looms and there is no easy solution for them. Getting sea water to cool a nuclear core when radiation is high is almost an impossible task especially when the cooling system is busted! My prayers are with the Japanese people!
Third Reactor Explodes, Full Scale Nuclear Catastrophe Imminent
Kurt Nimmo, www.infowars.com
A third reactor has exploded at the number 2 reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The blast follows an explosion Monday morning at the number 3 reactor and one on Saturday in the number 1 unit.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company had tried a last ditch effort to cool and reduce pressure in the over-heated reactors in units one and three by injecting seawater earlier today and over the weekend.
On Monday, Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano officially announced the cooling system on the third reactor had failed. The water level inside the reactor fell and exposed the fuel rods at its core for more than two hours despite efforts to pump seawater into the reactor, he said.
Government officials have finally admitted to the public that the fuel rods in all three separate reactors have started to melt despite repeated efforts to cool them with sea water. Safety officials are now saying they cannot rule out a full meltdown and the inevitability of a nuclear catastrophe of a magnitude never before experienced.


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Makes about 2 cups
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10 min
total time
30 min
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- 2/3 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1/3 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Bring cream, corn syrup, sugar, cocoa, salt, and half of chocolate to a boil in a 1 to 1 1/2-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring, until chocolate is melted. Reduce heat and cook at a low boil, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes, then remove from heat. Add butter, vanilla, and remaining chocolate and stir until smooth. Cool sauce to warm before serving.
Cooks' note: Sauce can be made 1 week ahead and cooled completely, then chilled in an airtight container or jar. Reheat before using.
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Nutrition Informationper serving (16 servings) POWERED BY Edamam
- Calories149
- Carbohydrates21 g (7%)
- Fat9 g (13%)
- Protein1 g (2%)
- Saturated Fat5 g (26%)
- Sodium50 mg (2%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
- Fiber1 g (4%)
- Monounsaturated Fat3 g
- Cholesterol17 mg (6%)
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main ingredients: Chocolate, Milk/Cream, Vanilla
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Nightshade Vegetables Such As Tomatoes, Potatoes and Eggplant May Aggravate Arthritis Symptoms
Years of research has proven that consuming the nightshade vegetables can aggravate the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in many arthritis patients.
There is evidence to suggest that the nightshade vegetables aggravate the symptoms in many arthritis patients, In particular, those afflicted with psoriatic arthritis.
Nightshade vegetables are among the foods that many arthritis patients feel can trigger arthritis flares. Others feel their arthritis symptoms improve when nightshade vegetables are avoided.
The nightshade vegetables, so named because they grow in the shade of night rather than during the day. Vegetables in this group include potatoes, eggplant, peppers and tomatoes.
These plants are known as nightshade plants, and the solanine in their leaves and roots provide natural protection against insects. For most of us non-insects, solanine is neutralized in the intestine. But because solanine foods often trigger joint pain, some researchers believe that arthritis patients may lack the intestinal mechanism that undoes solanine's toxicity.
Nightshades contain psyllium alkaloids, which cause problems for some people. These include tomatoes, white potatoes, (red potatoes are fine), eggplant, paprika, green peppers and hot peppers.
Some researchers have speculated that nightshade alkaloids can contribute to excessive loss of calcium from bone and excessive depositing of calcium in soft tissue. For this reason, many researchers have recommended elimination of nightshade foods from the meal plans of all individuals with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or other joint problems like gout.
Is there a connection between the nightshades and rheumatoid arthritis?
According to the University of Washington website, "No foods have been definitively shown to cause or exacerbate arthritis in most individuals. A variety of diets and hand-me-down information exists about certain foods and arthritis, in particular the night shade plants, but none of it has been proven….
On the other hand…. The hard facts are that there is obviously a connection between the nightshade vegetables and rheumatoid arthritis
The simple facts are that after years of many visits to Dr's and spending thousands of dollars in bills, many arthritis patients have come to realize that it all comes down to the simplest changes, removing the nightshade vegetables.
Many arthritis patients have found that by eliminating foods belonging to the nightshade family (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers and chili) I they no longer have the morning stiffness that they found quite painful. Apparently it is the solanine in these foods which causes the morning stiffness.
One arthritis patient reports that once she removed tomatoes, potatoes, and green pepper and eggplant her symptoms improved overnight and then dramatically in the next few weeks. Her swollen fingers were no longer in pain and the knees improved. Within 6 months she was in complete remission.
Extensive research on the relation between inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and the consumption of the nightshade vegetables, has been conducted by Dr Norman F. Childers, Ph.D. of Rutgers University and the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida, author of the best –selling book Arthritis – A Diet to Stop It: The Nightshades, Aging and Ill Health.
Dr Childers has conducted several studies over the last 30 years into the relationship between nightshades and the most common forms of arthritis – osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
For more information on the research of Dr Childers, visit the website of the Arthritis Nightshades Research Foundation, founded by Dr Childers.
Additional studies have been conducted at Rutgers University with rats. One study, conducted in 1979, attempted to determine if the white potato can produce vitamin D3. Results showed that low levels of potato increased bone mineralization which is believed to be due to increased intestinal absorption of calcium, phosphorus and magnesium. A high intake of potato resulted in soft tissue mineralization, decreased bone mineral content and decrease in body weight gain. The overall effect indicated the potato does have vitamin D-like activity.
The nightshade vegetables include tomatoes, white potatoes, (red potatoes are fine), eggplant, paprika, green peppers and hot peppers.
If you are suffering from the symptoms of any form of arthritis than common-sense would dictate that you try eliminating the nightshade vegetables from your diet and see if there is an improvement in your condition. Of course, if you find that these vegetables do not cause you any problems, then at all costs go ahead and enjoy them. They are very good sources of vital nutrients after all.


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There is a faulty piece of thinking.
Something detrimental in another culture cannot be condemned or criticised and it's women will never appreciate what you do for them when you argue against such a detrimental practice.
I am speaking of the Niqab and the Burkha.
There is no doubt that both the burkha and niqab have an Islamic basis. This cannot be denied. Both have been commonly practised and recognised by Muslims throughout history. Islamic texts make it very clear that the hijab is compulsory for Muslim women to observe and is near universal. Consequently, Islamic scholars have agreed that both the burkha and niqab are part of Islam, but have differed as to whether they are also compulsory or optional acts of virtue.
To the Novice this may sound like gobledeygook. The Hijab is just a headscarf. The face is exposed. The Niqab covers the face except the eyes and covers the entire body and the Burkha consists of a total veil with no visible eyes.
Now there are two arguments here.
1. These are devices designed to alienate women from the wider community by turning them literally into faceless, shapeless and silent members of the community by cutting out major methods of communication.
2. Many women find them empowering.
I am of the former view. Because the problem with the latter is (and women will come and get mad at me for saying this) is explained by a simple proverb.
A bird with clipped wings thinks the bird without has freedom despite both being in the same cage.
The women who think the Niqab and Burkha are empowering are those who willingly chose it. They saw nothing good in our ideals and decided to adopt the clothes of bedouin women. These women live knowingly (and usually) under the wings of our powerful secular society and so can wear these clothes and not be or feel oppressed because they know that should they call the cops, they will help her out rather than treat her like a pariah.
To them the very fact that they can reduce their own freedom at whim is an act of supreme freedom and IMHO no different from the reason why many powerful men and women often find "loss of power" attractive in BDSM relationships. Because the ultimate power is being able to give up power at whim and pick it up again at whim. That is real power. You are so powerful that you can temporarily weaken yourself.
Real power is losing a fight to a 3 year old because you are so powerful that losing doesn't mean anything to you. To many of the women and indeed feminists who think the burkha and niqab are fine and dandy things and even wear them to see what it's like, these people do not realise that they can put away the Niqab at the end of the day.
Every time I read of someone defending it or their choices to wear it I have to remind others that it was a choice to wear it.
And there are a fair few defences against our ideas.
Muslim women who choose to wear the burqa do so out of their own free will, believing it is an act of worship and a form of liberation from the objectification of women in modern society. In fact, preventing Muslim women from practising their religion is what is truly oppressive.
I often say this. Free Will is a Lie.
Oh we are free to do what we want to do. However there are consequences. Why do the GLBT hide? Why are they so reluctant in our free society to declare themselves for what they are?
Because there is a consequence of bigotry against the GLBT that they fear. Their "Free" will is tempered by real circumstance.
A Muslim woman may truly chose to wear the Burkha or Niqab. But many do not have true choice. Many are told that in order to be a "Real" or "Good" Muslim they have to wear this. And while objectification of women in society is an evil, do you think women are less objectified in Islam?
No. You see, you don't need to objectify women in Islam because they are already treated like property. They are objectified in a different manner. After all objectification of women has had different trends over the ages.
And I don't think we should ban the Burkha or the Niqab.
We should kill the very idea of the Niqab and Burkha. To destroy the practice we must make Muslims who promote this think like those who don't. This means decoupling Islam from the Niqab and Burkha.
Remember, you cannot be a "good" Muslim without doing this. So even empowered enlightened women will be willing to wear something that at a fundamental level dehumanises and alienates the wearer.
Niqab is a very liberating and empowering experience. It allows me to realise my goals by having a career and going to school without worrying about the prying eyes of men. It forces people not to judge me based on my appearance, but on my thoughts and character.
This argument is similar to the one above. People (AKA Men since women can see under the Niqab/Burkha) judge me for my thoughts and character.
A lot of our communication is vocal. That is true.
But even more is visual. We look for visual cues. We are social monsters and our faces are incredibly expressive.
Terrifying isn't it? We are mainly Faces and Hands. Our body and legs combined is equal to our faces and our hands. The brain is our "soul" all that chemistry that controls us? Most of it controls our faces and hands.
These are vital to communication. To simply cut someone off from so much expression is to cripple communication to begin with.
Now the thing is the women inside the damn thing don't have any problem seeing our communication cues. The problem is we cannot see theirs and this makes conversation weird for us since we are heavily reliant on those.
And the funny thing is that the Burkha and Niqab are used to judge women by their appearance by Muslim society. A "good" Muslim woman wears it doesn't she? If parts of your religion require specific outfits then you are judged by the appearance of said outfits.
And if the Niqab and Burkha made men think about women by their thoughts and character then this would be the norm across Islamic culture but one notices that Islam only thinks about women's thoughts and character when said thoughts and character lies anti-thetical to Islam's ideas.
The burqa is not part of a short-lived fashion trend. It is a religious garment and act of worship which is not subject to time and therefore, does not become outdated. In fact, the burqa is gaining much popularity in modern societies, especially amongst Western convert women.
Many Sikhs do not carry their knives. They may wear the Turban and the beard but their knives stay at home. It is to make others feel more comfortable. And in our modern world the knife of self defence and defence of others has been replaced by knowledge and words. It's a knife that can only get sharper and never really dull. They think about knives instead. The knife is in their head.
To be proud of the adoption of such a backward culture rather than adopt the ideals of the Burkha just shows how inflexible Islam is. The "true" Muslim has to jump through such terrifying hoops to keep being a Muslim. And that means defending an outfit that is frankly ludicrous.
You heard me. I know my traditional religious gigantic snake man outfit is stupid as hell. Even the sherwani has been changed to more modern cuts. The sari may be traditional and cumbersome but women wear it in different ways for different work.
Some sari don't even change the material to change from "sexy" to "sensible". And no one is forcing them to wear this, it's a choice and indeed more of one than the Niqab.
Many western women wear Saris, doesn't mean the sari is not ridiculous. We can use a male example too.
There are more sensible ones these days too
But there is nothing in the Burkha or Niqab that's progressed apart from the material being nicer.
It has not evolved to make life easier for the people who wear them. In fact it's usage has ensured women's effectiveness in the workforce is compromised. And all of the above are choices.
While the burqa may appear intimidating to some people, it is not worn with the intention of being threatening or frightening. People are often intimidated by what they have no knowledge of, and the burqa is a piece of clothing which should not warrant fearful reaction. Underneath the burqa is a person simply trying to practise their religion. It is interesting to note that other forms of dress and appearance are no longer considered intimidating, as they have become accepted by the wider community. Tattoos, extremely short dresses, revealing clothes, body piercing and outlandish hairstyles are all examples of this phenomena.
Except the Tattoo was associated in western Europe with lower classes and became more popular with the adoption of OTHER tattoo aesthetes which improved and changed the ideas associated with tattoos. There were also major counter-culture movements that lead to it's normalisation since those "counter cultures" grew up and didn't see anything wrong.
Islam has had no progressive counter-culture. In fact it's had regressive ones such as the Salafists and Wahabbis.
And you have to agree that I am demonstrating a rather diverse amount of knowledge over the practice here.
Short Skirts were not considered intimidating, they were considered a moral repugnance because women's knees would drive men to insatiable lust and cause us to rape women. Turns out men are pretty much either not going to rape women no matter what or don't really care about what the women is wearing when they have rape on their minds. Rape is not rare in the Middle East, its common enough to be considered normal and therefore "not rape".
And I will say this to you. Many places do discriminate against people with obvious and visible tattoos and "stupid" outfits and hair. And I repeat, none of these things were forced on those who wore them. Punks did not go around forcing people to wear mohawks and listen to the Sex Pistols. You didn't wake up late at night to hippies massaging rogaine into your scalp. There in fact is no code among metal heads that suggest you cannot show up to the mosh pit with a buzzcut and a blazer. The dress codes identify you but do not define you.
The burkha defines you as a Good Muslim Woman in many cases (remember the choice caveat).
Wearing the burqa does not in any way suggest that women are inferior to men. Claiming that the burqa is a symbol of male domination goes against the fact that many women voluntarily wear the burqa, even though some have no male relatives, or wear it against their male relatives' wishes.
Yes but how many don't wear it voluntarily?
And it does. If there was any serious benefit to wearing a Burkha then men would be putting the damn thing on.
There is nothing in the burqa that prevents a woman from interacting with other members of society, or from participating in the community. In fact, neither the hijab nor the burqa are required when among women only.
As I said. It interferes in actual communication and the width and breadth of normal communication is denied to the non-burkha/niqab wearer.
And women and men have to communicate. Now here is where the arguments for these fall apart. Women and Men HAVE to communicate in our society. Both professionally and socially. To simply say "well you don't need to wear this ridiculously restrictive outfit when around women only" is just madness.
Wearing a burqa does not stop a woman from contributing to society or from pursuing higher education. There are many women who wear the burqa and are very highly educated, or lead very successful careers.
Yes. I agree. It doesn't stop them. Women get those things inspite of the Burkha or Niqab. And education doesn't mean you don't fall for "tricks". Why Steve Jobs was highly educated and highly intelligent and he still thought that starving himself fights cancer. The man who made your iPhone made an error as bad as making an anti-shark suit made out of bloody seal meat.
And I bet if we compare women in Islam who do and don't wear the Niqab the ones who don't will be more involved in contributing to society and pursuing higher education and are more likely to have a career.
Burqas are no more of a security risk than a motorcycle helmet, big fashion sunglasses, or a big beanie, and can be removed when identification is required for security reasons. Of course, the request for removal should be done by another woman and not in the presence of men
Yes, but people who wear Motorcycle Helmets, Balaclavas, Gigantic Sunglasses or Big Beanies (really? sure… why not) take them the fuck off. They don't require another motorcyclist, skier, footballer's wife or beanie aficionado to be present during an identification.
And let's get this clear. The Burkha or Niqab
The problem with the Niqab is that it sets specific rules that make it harder to deal with security on our end. The rule is simple, no one walks into a bank covered up like that. There should be no exceptions. We shouldn't have to make special rules for a "choice".
Unless it's not a choice. And I am afraid in our society men and women are equal. The request for specific genitals on the people you truly can interact with to the exclusion of others to me is…
Childish. I thought like this when girls were icky. We all were kind of like that growing up where our friends were BOYS/GIRLS and we did BOY/GIRL things. But to bring that attitude to such an age? It's just really childish.
Unless it's not a choice at all.
Wearing the burqa does not go against acceptable community values. Community values necessitate that people should not be judged by what they wear, nor discriminated against or mistreated, based on their choice of clothing or appearance.
Unless said outfit is forced on a rather voiceless part of the community and by it's nature is designed to discriminate.
We are forced to have this polite discussion about the Niqab because we are talking about bans. I don't think it should be banned, but I don't think we should respect the garment or the ideology behind it. As I said, to destroy the practice we must Kill The Idea of a Niqab.
I don't think any woman (and Islam actually agrees with me) should be allowed to stay veiled in court even if Islam said no. I don't think we should discriminate against the Niqab unless the Niqab is specifically a daft idea. I don't think Muslim women should be exempt from "bare below the elbows" rules of Medicine. Islam can take a hike, bacteria don't care about how devout you are or whether or not your outfit makes you a real Muslim. They will grow on it just fine. Infection control is clear on this. Likewise? It is not the outfit for industrial work.
But by being a compulsory outfit and an outfit that automatically makes you incapable of doing certain jobs it is by it's very nature discriminatory.
The Niqab and the Burkha are ridiculous ideas. A specific gender has to prove it's faith by effectively crippling social communication and paying lip service to an ethic that despite all claims has been proven to be incredibly sexist. Many women have died for the right to wear what they feel like and we are more prone to listening to people who live in our secular paradises insisting that we not condemn such an outfit for what it really is.
Oh you get people like Pat Condell who demand it be banned or refer to it as headsacks or whatever. He isn't right. I don't think we should ban an outfit such as this. On a pragmatic note? The martyrdom complex would be so high you could power emo music for a generation. But also because we shouldn't ban an outfit just because we don't like the idea behind it. I don't like the Klan but I think they should be allowed to dress like pointy ghosts.
The Niqab and Burkha do none of the things they are alleged to do. You are not more free by "voluntarily" choosing to dress like that. You do not gain agency (unless as I pointed out you had enough agency to chose to wear it and know you have enough to chose to not wear it) through it. It does not make you a better Muslim, it does not make you a better person. It does not stop sexual harassment.
In most of the world it does not make you safer. In fact it has been statistically associated with more oppression across the globe and even in western nations where a lot of the abuse is not catalogued because it's silent abuse. The women are silenced and alienated and so cannot seek help. What's worse is that seeking help is in itself "bad behaviour".
However there are rules.
Niqab cannot and should not be compulsory. It cannot be part of a school uniform let alone one that belongs to a school getting taxpayer money. It cannot be used to hide while giving evidence. You cannot wear it around a doctor who is trying to help you. You cannot wear it in a bank and you have to be willing to unveil in places where security is involved.
And yes the Niqab is a barrier to communication. I cannot imagine a patient would be pleased with me showing up in my giant snake man outfit complete with scowling mask to a patient appointment no matter how traditional and indeed how endangered such an outfit and artform is. No patient would feel comfortable discussion anything intimate with me. And how would a be-Niqabed doctor work? Only seeing female patients? Even Obs/Gynae have to talk to men (the husband). How would such a doctor deal with a male patient? How would she deal with a male patient who wished to discuss something too risque? Does this doctor only deal with "clean" material?
And there is the matter of trust. It's impossible to trust someone you can't see and don't know what they look like. And a lot of what I do is based on trust. You trust me enough to let me do things. You wouldn't let your plumber visualise your cervix (Unless you live in a world where your plumber is also a gynaecologist) but there is a good chance that should I get the right qualifications you would let me do so because of initial faith and trust that I build through interactions.
And part of that is seeing my face and realising that I am a human being.
I think the niqab and urkha will only ever be a free choice if Islam no longer is sexist. When its women have the real choice of wearing the Niqab or not. When they have the "power" of the women who willingly chose to wear the Niqab knowing that they can cast it aside at any time.
But for that we must destroy what the Niqab means. For that we need to let these women come and learn. So that we can "poison" their minds with education and such notions that the clothes they wear doesn't determine who they are and how that works both ways. How "goodness" isn't determined by what they wear but what they do. Of what "real" freedom is. Not by forcing these women to stay at home.
I am a pragmatist. I know that to fight the practice we must discuss the issue of sexism among the Muslim community and religious sexism at that. For that we must listen to different voices and not demonise those who wear the Burkha but engage the Muslims in a dialogue that leads to changes being made.
They are British too you know.
If you haven't heard already, I have agreed to be on the FTB – Light the Night Fundraiser Team along with Greta Christina, PZ Myers and Ed Brayton.
I assume I bring youth, vibrancy and a funny sounding name to the team…
But we are here for two reasons. One to think about pledges for forfeits and two to drum up money!
It's for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and this mainly applies to "Americans".
So first things first. Let's set some goals.
Our overall goal is $10,000. Ed Brayton, PZ Myers and Greta Have all been asking for ideas of what we should do.
So let's set forfeits at $2,500, $5000 and $10,000. My e-mail is down the side, you can suggest things.
If you wish to donate specifically to all of us then use the main FTB donation page. If you want to donate to me and me alone then use the user specific pages on that or go here.[/important]


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If you've been paying attention (or reading our review), you'll be aware that ultra-violent Hong Kong ding-dong Sleeping Dogs is a bit of alright. As the game's out in the UK this Friday, we thought we'd give you a little video taster. So here's the very first mission. If you like swearing, tattoos, vest tops and men that glue their necklaces on, you're in for a treat...
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10/17/12 , Posted by Alex Guerrero at 10:32 AM
Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, conductor
Philippe Matsas
The 3rd White Light Festival is an exploration of the unparalleled power of performance to illuminate the many dimensions of our interior lives. The Festival is an artistic invocation, a concert-hall sanctuary from the storm and stress of urban life. This year, we focus on the body as a vehicle for transcendence, featuring inspiring and joyful dance works from Ireland, the U.K., and India. We explore the musical benedictions of Gustav Mahler and the hauntingly spare music of Arvo Pärt. We welcome artistic expression from around the world—choirs from Georgia and Latvia, France's Les Arts Florissants, and China's Wang Li. And America's own genre-defying Mary Chapin Carpenter is certain to entrance her audience through the immediacy of a singer-songwriter's voice.
* White Light Festival > Octubre 18 - Noviembre 18 > Lincoln Center > LIGHT.


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By Ken Smith
Turnagain Times
An educational program for Girdwood high school and middle school students has been cancelled.
The Girdwood Optional Education or Go-Ed was to be sponsored by Girdwood 2020 and provide independent study and tutorial programs for local Girdwood students grades 7-12. It was also suppose to be the first step towards establishing a charter school or public high school in Girdwood.
Girdwood 2020 was in the process of hiring a part-time tutor to assist in the program, which would have allowed students to use the University of Nebraska Correspondents School curriculum, but the teacher hired opted to work for the Anchorage School District's Family Partnership Charter School, said Diana Stone Livingston of Girdwood 2020.
"Girdwood 2020 has a year's work trying to get the program going, and now we're going to let it go," Livingston said. "But right now our job is done and we'll support however the program needs support. We hope that the concept for a high school will be embraced by the Anchorage School District, but whatever happens it won't take place for another ten years."
Estimates for high school age students is around 25, Livingston said, and with about 150 students attending Girdwood's elementary and middle school in grades k-8, she said that could mean another 60 to 75 high school students who would be interested in attending a local charter school or participating in a locally run high school educational program.
The school district has spent a couple of years reviewing the option of building a new high school in Girdwood, but right now the projected number of high school students does not support such a project.
The more likely option would be to establish a local charter school; however, that process would take at least two years, said Connie Bensler, Charter School Supervisor for the Anchorage School District.
If a student chooses to attend a charter school, money is allocated by the school district to buy curriculum materials and services, she said. A typical allotment would be around $3,400 per student.
An option currently available for Girdwood high school students not interested in attending a public high school in Anchorage is to enroll in a home-school program through the Anchorage School District's Family Partnership Charter School.
"Girdwood students are certainly welcome to become part of Anchorage School District's Family Partnership home schooling program," Bensler wrote in a letter to the Turnagain Times, "but per District policy, they must sign up directly with the school."