Al G Smith

Important and disturbing information has been emerging about the new swine flu pandemic that has been garnering worldwide attention and hogging media columns, minutes and webpages of late.

It is clear that events since 9/11 have enabled the US legislature, in particular, to put in place measures that easily allow those in charge of State governance to run rough-shod over the concept and exercise of human liberty and freedom of choice. This appears to be about to become much clearer as the likelhood of questionable but mandatory flu vaccination approaches…

Some of the key health related issues are usefully articulated in this video by Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC).

It is easy to get swept up in furore that is being whipped-up about this strange ‘brew’ of viruses that has been (no doubt forever to the poor porkers detriment!) dubbed ’swine flu’. Indeed this flu strain appears to be a combination of human, avian (bird) and porcine flu viruses and you may pertinently ask - how did such a combination emerge?

In another recent article published on NaturalNews.com (see link below) it was made clear that at least one reasearcher/journalist (Jane Burgermeister) has stood up to be counted (whatever the personal cost to her transpires to be) and laid some well documented and evidenced claims that this ‘mutant’ flu was entirely conceived in the laboratory. It was then ‘carelessly’ transported about allowing it to transmit to various sources and most likely seems that it was deliberaely ‘launched’ in Mexico with malign purposes afoot… all of this seemingly done with the tacit acquiescence or direct support of those in positions of power within various governments…

Sounds too fantastical? Maybe not…

It is more than obvious that a global flu pandemic is potentially a massive-money-spinner for any pharmaceutical company that can get a vaccine onto the market quickly.

As Loe Fisher points out in he video - the US Government primed the pump with a very helpful $billion down-payment to help ‘fast-track’ new vaccines…

The simple fact is that this was massive money provided to produce risky materials to inject into the unsuspecting public… With even more billions to be made from the rapid uptake of any new vaccine that might emerge. Particularly profitable when it is now likely - indeed is part of a greater plan - (at least in US) that many folks will be forced to accept innoculation - no matter what their belief, preference, or their understanding about such vaccines and their own health.

In the video the point is well made that it is BETTER for an essentially healthy person to suffer a bout of influenza and build-up natural anti-bodies that are more protective and have a potentially much longer lasting impact on immunity - than to risk being injected with a questionable chemical cocktail…which may or may not be effective, have a shorter-term impact on immunity (if any) and may even have a covert and far more worrying and sinister purpose…

For the reported information on NaturalNews.com even suggests that the the vaccine program may be a ‘front’ for disseminating far more harmful agents into vast numbers of the human population. This may sound far-fetched - but think for a moment…

Wouldn’t it be an effective means of reducing the toll that humanity is taking on the planet if a good large number of folks were ‘wiped out’ - either by the flu itself …or more likely by subsequent infections and mortal diseases that they fall ‘unfortunately’ subject to, over the coming decade… and well after any association with a madatory vaccination shot had long passed… whilst also making huge profits in terms of future pharmaceutical sales for certain companies… and more pertinently their shareholders (who, naturally number amongst them various individuals in positions of power within the legislation influencing, national and international, medical advisory bodies and other key political positions)!

Now I’m certainly always circumspect about ‘conspiracy’ theories - but at the very least these things seems to be worth mulling-over:

1) The ‘new’ swine flu virus is man-made in the laboratory and has been purposefully disseminated

2) One of the key laboratories behind the creation and dissemination of the virus is now the same one that is coming ‘first to market’ with a new ‘wonder’ vaccine and will profit hugely fromn this engineered pandemic!

3) The vaccine will likely be adminstered to a large number of people (particularly in the US - but other countries may well follow with the contrivance of the WHO) in a mandatory fashion.

4) Any vaccine carries not only its own (known) health risks inherent in the chemical concotion that it is - BUT is also likely to be LESS effective than developing natural immunity for any averagely healthy person who actually contracts swine flu.

5) A vaccine MAY be used as ‘a cloak’ for introducing other harmful agents into a large number of the human population who will then go on to develop life-shortening disease within the coming few years (providing further profitable opportuinities AND addressing another ‘population reduction’ agenda at the same time - clever, huh?).

6) This is a good way to start ‘culling’ non-essential members of the burgeoning human population to reduce the impact of the human species on the planet - and also - consequently -free up valuable assets (e.g land, water, oil, etc) for the formulators and implementers of such a heinous plan! (AND if you are asking ‘who’ is classed as ‘non-essential?’ - Then you are evidently not one of the decision makers behind these ‘theoretical’ manouevres…and this means - YOU and YOUR FAMILY are!).

Check the more substantial details provided here:

Bioterrorism by the WHO, US and other Governments

P.S. Think on:

~ Just because something sounds too preposterous to be true - doesn’t mean that it isn’t.

~ An effective way of harming someone without being blamed for it, is to do it under the guise of helping them.

~ The way to get people readily to accept a normally unacceptable solution (like the loss of liberty and personal freedom of choice) is to cultivate an atmosphere of fear engendered by (creating) a (perceived) terrible threat for which that unacceptable solution is presented as the only option.

~ There is no known vaccine for, or immunity against - corruption! Although those in positions of power are well known to be more likely to ‘exhibit’ this disease!

For every minute you have used a mobile phone / cell phone over the past decade another person has DIED in the Congo in the ongoing, brutal war that the world has barely heard anything about…

That is around 5,500,000 deaths, so far - Five-and-a-Half MILLION DEATHS -… a number that is rising at around half a  million per year!

During a 10 minute conversation on your mobile/cell 10 more deaths will occur - and half of these are likely to be children under 5 years old.

Every month over 1100 cases of rape are reported - a fraction of the likely figure - as those who gain $144,000,000 a year from extorting the income from the mining of mineral resources in the Congo continue their inhuman, intimidating reign of terror… That amounts to around 250,000 women and children raped in recent years, as part of this horrendous exploitation of ‘blood minerals’!

And anyone who owns or uses a MOBILE PHONE / CELL PHONE - or other electronic device such as a PC or laptop - made by manufacturers who buy mineral resources such as Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten from the Congo are effectively supporting this regime of terror and genocide.

A regime of terror that compares only with the Nazi’s of World War 2 in terms of the magnitude of their genocide - and are even worse in terms of their use of rape as a weapon of war - yet we hear almost nothing about it…

YOU can  - indeed you MUST - do something NOW.

Don’t dare to make another mobile phone / cell phone call until you have done SOMETHING…

Here is how:

Visit and Sign the Pledge: http://RaiseHopeforCongo.org

“War Against Women” (12 mins 49 sec duration) as featured on “60 Minutes”:

Watch CBS Videos Online

Visit and Sign the Pledge: http://RaiseHopeforCongo.org

CNN - Inside Africa considers what WE can do:

Visit and Sign the Pledge: http://RaiseHopeforCongo.org

Here is a ‘third version’ of the popular “Did You Know” video created originally by Karl Fisch, modified by Scott McLeod, and again in 2008 (in this version) with additional contributions from Jeff Brenman. A video that in its previous incarnations had drawn many millions of views on YouTube already. So maybe it’s a little bit late to be posting it here but - if you haven’t seen it before - it is well worth a look…

It gives us all pause for thought - although in that pause it will be clear that the world will already have changed - particularly the ‘virtual world’!

There are those who believe that the World, as we know it, will End on December 21st, 2012 - as a great period foretold in the Mayan calendar of 5000 years ago comes to a close…

Some actually think this might be the time of the biblical Apocalypse.

Many other belief systems from other ancient cultures also talk of this era as some kind of ‘End Time’. But there are others who see this time as one that will mark a period of critical human, spiritual and emotional evolutionary development - one we need to be attuned to, and prepared for, in order fully to reap the potential personal and global benefits.

Amongst the many thought-provoking statistics in this video, however, is the suggestion that by 2013 a super computer that exceeds the computational power of the human brain will be built…

Could this just be a coincidental event that is forecast to occur so close to the supposed ‘end time’ for humanity?

We’ll soon see, won’t we…

I was explaining to my wife earlier on today that I had been trying to articulate an important thought that had led me to talking to myself. Now I know that the humorist might note that talking to yourself is a sign of being a bit mad…but, come on now, who amongst us does not talk to themselves at some time or other? If you are honest you are most likely to have done it at some time - although for many folks this may not necessarily have been out loud - perhaps just talking with an inner voice?

But I digress.

I recently read that we (Homosapiens) host something in the order of at least 200 different species of bacteria in, on and around our bodies. These are just the typical bacteria that live happy in or on us wthout causing any particular problem, and in some cases actually being quite positive - that is to say providing some sort of benefit.

This seems quite amazing - I think. We can also be host to a variety of other less attractive micro-organisms and also numerous parasites - some of which can potentially lead to ill health…and even death…but let’s not go too deeply into this just now!

Indeed with the Human genome apparently exhibiting 100,000 pieces of genetic information it is interesting to note that each species of bacteria have genomes that have about 2000 genetic markers. This means that a typical ‘human host’ whilst having 100,000 genetic elements of their own species also hosts some 400,000 pieces of bacteria genetic information - four times as much bacteria genetic data!

It seems reasonable to suggest that “IF Man can survive” (as Zager and Evans query in the pop-oddity “2525″) then this means that it is 200 times more likely that some form of bacteria will survive…

But bacteria are not so stupid as to put all their “eggs in one basket” - or perhaps “genes in one egg”, so to speak - because there are many millions of bacteria in all sorts of other environments. Indeed many bacteria don’t even need oxygen to survive - so even if ‘we’ (humans) manage to screw up the atmosphere big style - then many types of bacteria will not care one jot!

Way back in pre-historic times…in fact in pre-pre-historic times - close (in respect of a billion years or so) to when the globe of materials that became known as the Earth formed - oxygen was a truly rare commodity, being barely a fraction of 1% of the total atmosphere. In these many thousands of years the “dominant” life forms  (whose actual appearance is still somewhat of a mystery…although there are some fairly good indicators now identified) where anaerobic bacteria - that is non-oxygen using bacteria.

Over the period of maybe 1.5 billion years certain types of bacteria began to flourish in the roiling, liquid  masses that covered the face of te Earth in the millennia through which it was cooling. These bacterial life forms from the broad family called Cyano-bacteria actually thrived by processing sunlight into energy - a by-product of which is oxygen. The process now known as photosynthesis is well known now as the method by which plants survive and grow.

Indeed Cyano-bacteria ultimately seemed to have contributed the bulk of oxygen that now forms in excess of 20%  - more than one fifth - of our atmosphere and allows Mankind to survive. The whole story about oxygenation of the atmosphere is more complex and interesting still…but will have to wait until another post.

The point that I wanted to make in this item was to note that bacteria dominated the Earth for many millennia. The processes of development of life and life forms that occurred amongst the three main ‘Domains’ of life - bacteria, eukaryotes and archaea - has actually been shown to be one of success evolution through the exploitation of cooperation…

Sometimes we can be fooled into thinking success in life is about ‘competition’ - but indeed life has evolved successfully through cooperation and there is key lesson to be drawn from this. It is the cooperative (consciously or not) nature of life supporting other lifeforms - such as 200 bacteria species that make every individual human their home (indeed world - if not universe) that ensures the greater likelihood of their continued existence.

This ‘metaphor’ of cooperation is just one more clue, laid our for us, about how we should be living our lives in order to reach a higher level of fulfilment.

But, of course, I have strayed from the discussion about the ‘conversation’ I had with myself…

The context I wanted to convey is that Mankind  - as you will likely know - has perhaps been around in a recognizable form for maybe a quarter-of-a-million years. We are arguably the most intelligent, most gifted, most ‘potentially’ successful species ever to have evolved - and some would argue we are the ‘pinnacle of evolution’.

But our tenure in this Earthy domain has been very short in real-time. Most people well-know that the supposed evolutionary failures - the Dinosaurs - were around for maybe 150 to 180 million years! At the current rate it will be a true miracle if Man survives as a species so long (Ok - I acknowledge that dinosaurs encompassed many species and there were of course 3 separate identified pre-historic periods in which quite different species thrived - and became extinct, each in its turn…) - but at the current rate of progress it seems as a if it will be a a challenge for Homo sapiens to make it to a full ONE million years of existence!

The point is, perhaps, that as one surveys the marvellous process of evolution, it is apparent that the patterns become more complex, and that intelligence increases. As a species Man is at the apex (so far) and has the ability to know himself - to be self-aware…But what do we do with this knowledge? We spend most of our time trying to distract ourselves from having to confront it, it seems!

WE are creatures that are conscious of a dimensional parameter called time…no other animal is truly aware of this ‘measure’ of their length of existence. In fact times does not ‘matter’ to ANY species save for Man. We recognize how short time is, how little time we have, yet we also manage to waste time - every day - with deliberation and with little thought or consideration.

God, on the other hand, evidently exists (and for those agnostics and atheists amongst you, should you stumble on this and read so far, I ask you to bear with my insistence that a greater Entity exits) OUTWITH (as the Scots have it) TIME. Time is nothing to God. Time cannot be a dimensional parameter for the Unknowable, the Omnipresent and Omnipotent. For me at least God’s Plan - of which we are a part - is unfolding in its ‘fractal’ pattern just as is should - or at least as it may.

As individuals we may at some point in our lives be savagely reminded of our mortality, our bare few years on this miraculous globe. The reminder might be death of loved ones, illness, accident or simply ‘old age’ - as we call it when our God Given ‘mortal form’ begin to submit to the wear and tear we thoughtlessly put it through.

When we become aware of our ‘limited’ time, this can be for some the inspiration to ‘do something useful’ with their lives…The sad question is why does it have to take imminent demise to inspire such motivation?

In fact - we are part of a cycle of activity - it may be a relatively small cycle,  say just a few billion years - or it may be a large cycle - something akin to what we, as a species, have determined to can ‘infinity’ because it is too large for us to comprehend (yet again would seem as nothing to a Timeless God)….The endurance of the cycle in which we happen to exist will be determined by things such as our tendency towards recognizing the ‘key lessons’ that God has laid before us. If we FAIL to recognize what we must do - we will simply become an evolutionary -hiccup- or ‘dead end’ - a part of the pattern that finishes…If we begin to DO what is right - then our continuity as a species will be come a natural part of the next fold in the fractal pattern of the Divine Plan…

The point is that if we happen to fail…no matter how badly we screw it all up - whilst Mankind as it appears today may cease to exist - there will always be the small building blocks left - the anaerobic and/or aerobic bacteria, the eukaryotic cells, (and even those strange and solitary archaea, that seem to eschew symbiotic modes of development in favour of  - in one form or another  - simply being able to tolerate any conceivable extreme of environment, a tendency that may YET prove to be the saviour of the life-force on this planet)…and one way or another - no matter how badly ‘Man’ performs, and how poorly Man ’sees’ what must or should be done - there will be the foundational organisms to start the pattern of life’s evolution all over again. And in a few billion years time ‘another’ Mankind will emerge and PERHAPS they will ‘get it right’. But if not then another cycle of billions of years will be instigated,,,for as long as the Sun has power enough to warm the Earth sufficiently for the cycle to repeat itself…in the ‘hopes’ that we, or some species that may (or may not) have a passing resemblance, but will certainly have an advanced intellect, will get it right - and at that time the inheritors of the Earth (most likely perhaps they will be meek!) will transcend to the next level of existence…and so it will be…Amen.

In summary - in case it is still unclear - for me at least - the foregoing encapsulates the answer to the age-old queston: What is the meaning - or purpose- or life? - and/or Why are we here?

It is neither shocking, nor surprising…nor is it difficult to understand - yet as a species at this moment we are tending to prove that it is, indeed, difficult to ‘fulfil’…

We are part of an amazing unfolding pattern of life that beconmes an ever more sophisticated proof of the need for cooperation and  - in human terms - the importance and central role of ‘love’ in the further development and evolutionary transition of Mankind…

The amazing thing is that right now - we are already a species that can undersatnd this and could act on it  - and transform the Earth into a Paradise and the lives of all Men into experiences of happiness and joy…We have the ability to learn, know and understand what we must do…and DO it - to create Heaven on Earth…BUT we also have the potential to ignore the abundance of metaphorical teachings that God has provided a;ll around us, to ‘refute’ the obvious, to continue to remain distracted, directionless, unfulfilled…slowly sickening as individuals and dying as a species, whilst dragging down with us many other less intellectually blessed, and blameless creatures…

Yet in his timeless Wisdom, and endless Patience - God, the All Seeing, the All Knowing, the Ineffable - simply continues to wait until the ‘penny drops’ and this incarnation of Man, or the next, or the next - or the hundreth, or the billionth version of this inellectually and philosphically blessed ’species’, FINALLY recognizes and accepts, and ACTUALLY DOES what it must do - to ‘make the next step forward’ in terms of Spiritual evolution…

The most amazing thing is that we COULD do it now!…Or we can continue to be part of a non-contributing, failing, version of this species!

Whether these are the secrets of youth, or rather the secrets of remaining youthful, healthy and fit for the longest time possible, it is always interesting to see mainstream media picking up the issue.

Thanks to recent the publication of, and publicity surrounding, the book “Blue Zones” by Dan Buettner, the big daily news programs in the US have featured this report more than once in the last couple of days.

The whole issue of so-called ‘blue zones’ (a term coined by Buettner) has gained a tide of interest in recent times - these being the particular and rare spots around the world where longevity seems the norm. Such places include… (read the full article - Secrets of Youth)

OK..So I was tempted to tackle the question what causes cancer again…so here is new summary answer as I gave it - off the cuff, so excuse the scrappiness!

Here is the original question (as it appeared)
‘How do people get cancer?
i’ve heard of many people dying from cancer but i’m not sure how you get it i mean are you born with it and you find out later in your life or do you catch it from someone who has actually got it how do you get it???

Now this is an interesting question…

Of course much research into what causes cancer is on going at vast expense within huge companies and is also supported by massive charitable appeals and donations as well as big chunks of tax payers money!! BUT.. READ THE FULL ANSWER - What Causes Cancer

I’ve mentioned the issue of vaccines before and included a link to must-see video posted on the Internet earlier in this blog. Recently (and rather belatedly as it was published in summer 2008) I stumbled on an interview transcript that every person/parent ought to read before they decide to allow their child/childern to be pumped full of toxic substances on a questionable premise…

Read more about the full horror of the industry vehind vaccination

Someone asked about home remedies for dealing with stress…and at the risk of anyone who knows me reading this and observing that this may be a case of ‘do as I say, and not as I do’ I have just posted a new page (Combat Stress - listed above) that includes a quick article about stress reducing tactics that I rattled off in reply:

How to reduce stress

As can be seen from the last post and page about Nick Vujicic - the human spirit can be truly indomitable, and humans can meet adversity and challenge with grace, with humour and can be sublimely inspiring…

BUT on another part of the spectrum… here is metaphor for the folly of humanity

Two simple images that show how humanity can so easily fall from a path of what is naturally right, onto a route of perversion and excess…

This pattern has been enacted through history by both individuals and whole societies…The greatest civilizations of their day have all been felled by the same folly…and the same is happening today.

Will ‘Man’ ever learn?: Read More - Up in Arms at the Folly of Man

For those times when our motivation runs low, when we are questioning about our ‘luck’ (or lack of it) and our ‘lot’ in life; here is a pertinent video clip.

Have you ever found yourself thinking, or mouthing, the words “Why are you doing this to me God?” - Ask not why God has ‘done’ something to you - as rather “What are you doing for yourself?”

Here is someone who provides real inspiration and a motivational ‘kick in the pants’ for anyone who thinks they are having a challenging time…and perhaps becoming self pitying:

Inspirational and Motivating