About two weeks ago, I started a diet that involved eating mostly vegetables, seeds, and lean protein, along with some vitamin supplements. I’ve been feeling exhausted and overwhelmed all the time, even after sleeping well.
Well, two weeks are up now. Time to review and see if my diet is having any effect. Continue reading
A message from Ron Paul (May 29) urging you to support The Private Option Health Care Act:
Dear Friend of Liberty,
Unlike the statists in Washington, the freedom movement
understands that our health care is too important to be left to
the whims of politicians and bureaucrats. Continue reading
Ellen Brown of the wonderful WebofDebt website (check out Ellen’s book, Web of Debt) sends me a note.
Note: I admire Ellen’s writing and research and believe her to be a very sincere person, but I disagree with her prescription, which is to monetize the debt. Monetizing debt is the problem, so it can’t also be the solution.
At the same time, I think libertarians are mistaken in treating Wall Street corruption as secondary to government corruption. Intrinsically, they’re right, but when you seem to ignore one type of crime (white collar crime) in your prescriptions for society while coming down tough on other kinds (street crime), then what you get is a skewing of the balance even more against the relatively powerless and what looks like apologetics for cronyism and rigged markets. And I know that’s not what libertarianism is about.
A CIRCULAR ABOUT THE FINANCIAL REFORM BILL
Senate Will Vote This Weekend!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010Colleagues,
My dear friend, Dr. Nick Gonzalez, *the* Dr. Gonzalez of alternative cancer treatment in NYC, just emailed this about supplements and the bill Rep Henry Waxman of California introduced as a sleeper that has passed the US House of Representatives. We need to mobilize our constituencies to prevent it from passing in the U.S. Senate in DC. Please forward this on to all your networks, and thanks!
I wasn’t sure if you were aware of Congressman Henry Waxman’s latest ploy; we need to mobilize immediately, get moving on your e mail list ASAP! Keep scrolling down, you’ll see my note to friends, and below that the links about the latest danger.
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*Congressman Henry Waxman of California never gives up, he slipped a provision into the “Financial Reform Bill” that gives the FTC unheard of power to investigate and regulate supplements. *
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*Apparently nobody knew about the provision, they are so dumb down in DC. Just when we thought things had quieted down. This has already passed the House; we most mobilize in the next days to alert our Senators and express our concern. Below is the info. It doesn’t seem as onerous as the McCain pathology, but it still opens up the door to undo our health freedom and freedom of expression.*
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*Please read — this is a stealth* de facto *attempt to impose the New World Order’s Codex Alimentarius upon the American people!* ***Best wishes to all,*
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One of the best read articles in 2009 on Lew Rockwell was one by Bill Sardi on eighteen reasons you shouldn´t take the swine flu vaccine. Here´s an excerpt, but it´s worth reading the whole piece.
“4. The vaccines will be produced by no less than four different manufacturers, possibly with different additives (called adjuvants) and manufacturing methods. The two flu inoculations may be derived from a multi-dose vial and in a crisis, and in short supply, it will be diluted to provide more doses and then adjuvants must be added to trigger a stronger immune response. Adjuvants are added to vaccines to boost production of antibodies but may trigger autoimmune reactions. Some adjuvants are mercury (thimerosal), aluminum and squalene. Would you permit your children to be injected with lead? Lead is very harmful to the brain. Then why would you sign a consent form for your kids to be injected with mercury, which is even more brain-toxic than lead? Injecting mercury may fry the brains of American kids. Continue reading
Donald J. Boudreaux on why collectivized health care solutions don’t work (hat-tip to Cafe Hayek):
“Collective efforts — which, in practice, mean “imposed by government command” — typically allow each of us to free-ride off of each other’s resources. And when I get to spend your money and you get to spend mine, it’s a sure bet that that money will be spent wastefully.
Consider Medicaid and Medicare — huge socialized health-care programs. Funded with tax dollars, these programs allow the millions of Americans covered by them to consume medical services without paying the full cost of those services. The predictable result is that these services are over-consumed.
To see why, ask the following question posed by my George Mason University colleague Russell Roberts. If you go to dinner with a large group of strangers and you know that the bill will be split evenly, aren’t you more likely to order pricier dishes and drinks than you would order if you, and you alone, were responsible for picking up your full tab?
The answer is surely “yes.” Let’s say that you’d be content to order the pork chop priced at $15, but would get even greater enjoyment from ordering the rack of lamb priced at $25. If you alone were responsible for your tab, you’d order the lamb only if it is worth to you at least the extra $10 that it costs. So suppose that you value the lamb by only $8 more than you value the pork chop. In that case, you’d order the pork chop. You wouldn’t spend an extra $10 to get extra satisfaction worth only $8.
But if the bill is evenly shared among, say, 10 diners (yourself and nine others), then if you order the lamb, your share of the higher bill will be only $1. That’s $10 split evenly 10 ways. You’ll order the lamb.
You might think that this sharing arrangement is good. After all, in this example, the cost to you of getting something you valued more (the lamb rather than the pork chop) was reduced. It became sensible for you to order the lamb.
Look more deeply, though. What happened is that society (here, the 10 diners) was led to supply something that wasn’t worth its cost. The lamb was worth to you only an additional $8, but to make it available to you, society spent $10. Ten dollars were used to raise the welfare of society by only $8. (You’re a member of society, so any improvement in your welfare counts as an improvement in the welfare of society.) That’s a waste of $2…”
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