Flu Plan Scandal Ahead – An Urgent Warning!
Posted on August 23, 2010 Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, discusses the outcome of last year’s swine flu debacle, and the potentially harmful changes that are being made to this season’s flu vaccine as a result.VIDEO
FDA exploits salmonella eggs recall to pursue food sterilization agenda
FDA exploits salmonella eggs recall to pursue food sterilization agenda
Posted on August 23, 2010 by TheEndTimesAreUponUs
(NaturalNews) It’s always amusing to see how quickly consumers can be worked up into a false fear frenzy by health authorities. We saw it last year with the overhyped H1N1 swine flu scare which was fanned into a flaming fear fest by WHO advisors on the take from vaccine manufacturers. Now we’re getting a new round of fear-mongering from many of the same sources who are warning us about salmonella contaminated eggs.
According to mainstream news sources, a massive 380-million-egg recall has been announced, and these eggs are all so incredibly dangerous that you have to immediately remove them from your refrigerator and take them back to the store where you bought them so that they can be properly destroyed. This is all backed up by phrases like, “It’s not worth the risk,” and claims that if people eat the eggs, they are taking “too much of a chance.”
Pretty scary, huh?
What they’re not telling you is that more than 80 percent of the chicken meat bought at grocery stores is consistently contaminated with the exact same salmonella (http://www.naturalnews.com/021258.html). A more recent study conducted by Consumers Union found that two-thirds of grocery store chickens are contaminated every day! (http://www.naturalnews.com/028661_c…)
But you don’t hear warnings to “take your chicken back to the store!” or “it’s unsafe to eat your chicken!” Ever wonder why?
Or to phrase the question another way, why is salmonella so dangerous on your eggs, but completely safe on your chicken?
The answer is it’s not. It’s the exact same risk in both cases: Cook either one and you destroy salmonella entirely. Infected eggs are no more dangerous than infected chicken, and infected chicken is apparently so safe that it’s sold every single day at your neighborhood grocery store (without any warnings or alarms, I might add). Nobody at the FDA has even mentioned it is recent memory. Salmonella contaminated chicken is apparently a non-issue.
The real reason for the salmonella scare
Now, here’s the real reason why the issue of chicken contaminated with salmonella is almost never publicized: Because to expose the salmonella contamination of chicken would be to expose the sick, filthy and inhumane practices of the factory-farmed conventional chicken industry.
And the (non-organic) chicken industry doesn’t want anyone to start looking into its practices because its practices are just too disgusting for most people to stomach. You might lose your (chicken McNugget) lunch, and then you’d probably stop buying chicken. They can’t have that.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
All righty then....... I haven't watched the following movie yet as I wanna move my puter over to my bed. BUT, I wanted to get this out to you guys asap. I'm getting a little weak after the past 4 days....
Samaritan-The Mitch Snyder Story with Martin Sheen video
Hunger strikes in the US military
EXCERPT:
Military chaplains told to shy from Jesus
12:12 a.m., Wednesday, December 21, 2005
To pray -- or not to pray -- in Jesus' name is the question plaguing an increasing number of U.S. military chaplains, one of whom began a multiday hunger strike outside the White House yesterday.
"I am a Navy chaplain being fired because I pray in Jesus' name," said Navy Lt. Gordon Klingenschmitt, who will be holding 6 p.m. prayer vigils daily in Lafayette Park.
The hunger strike is intended to persuade President Bush to issue an executive order allowing military chaplains to pray according to their individual faith traditions. The American Center for Law and Justice has gathered 173,000 signatures on a petition seeking an executive order.
Gordon Klingenschmitt
EXCERPTs:
1) On March 30, Klingenschmitt wore his uniform at a news conference in Lafayette Square in which former Alabama chief justice Roy S. Moore and others decried President Bush's lack of action on the chaplain's complaints. Klingenschmitt maintained that his only participation in the event was to offer public prayers and that he had prior written permission to wear his uniform when conducting "a bona fide worship service or observance."
During court-martial proceedings this week at the naval base in Norfolk, a military prosecutor, Cmdr. Rex A. Guinn, said Klingenschmitt had received clear orders from his superiors not to wear his uniform at media events or political protests. The event in Lafayette Square, he contended, was not a true worship service or observance.
2) The e-mail noted: "This officer is the individual who conducted a hunger strike in front of the White House several months ago and has engaged in other actions concerning [Defense Department] and Navy Religious Ministry policies."
Klingenschmitt served as an Air Force officer for 11 years before becoming a chaplain four years ago. He said he believes the e-mail, which was sent eight days before he wore his uniform at the Lafayette Square protest, "proves this is a reprisal against me for my whistle-blower complaints to Congress and the press."
United States Navy Chaplain Corps
EXCERPT:
In September 2006, LT Gordon Klingenschmitt was reprimanded and fined $3,000 for disobeying an order not to wear his military uniform at a protest. Klingenschmitt was released from the Navy in March 2007. The chaplain disagreed with a policy that he interpreted to require him to offer non-sectarian prayers at Navy command functions (essentially public, military-wide and often mandatory). The Navy doesn't require a chaplain to give prayers at a command function if the chaplain's religious beliefs prohibit non-sectarian prayers. The Navy doesn't prohibit chaplains from preaching in sectarian manners outside official functions as well.[6]
Cindy Sheehan's hunger strike
EXCERPT:
O'DONNELL: Cindy, you have just begun a two-month hunger strike. Isn't this really just more of a publicity stunt?
SHEEHAN: No, actually it's not. It's a moral reaction to an immoral war. Thousands of people all over the world are joining us. And hunger strikes have proven to be effective tools in civil disobedience and changing policy.
Cesar Chavez also did hunger strike
EXCERPT:
1968 Chavez leads a national boycott of California table grape growers, which becomes known as "La Causa." By the end of the boycott in 1970, 17 million Americans supported it, including many political and civil rights leaders. Robert Kennedy was a particularly strong supporter.
Chavez goes on a 25-day hunger strike, which attracts enormous national attention. The fast reaffirms his movement's belief in non-violence.
Mahatma Ghandi hunger strike
EXCERPT:
Gandhi was imprisoned in 1922, 1930, 1933 and in 1942. While in prison, he went on hunger strike. His fame was such that his death in prison would make international headlines and greatly embarrass the British at a time when Britain was condemning dictators in Europe.
In 1931, Gandhi came to Britain for the Round Table conferences. Nothing was achieved except for the publicity that Gandhi received for dressing in the clothes of an Indian villager; Gandhi saw this type of dress as perfectly normal for a man who represented the Indian people. The British representatives at the conference were more soberly dressed in formal morning dress.
When in India, Gandhi took on the British where possible. He famous walk to the sea to produce salt was typical of his actions. Britain had a monopoly on salt production in India and Gandhi saw this as wrong. Hence his decision to produce salt by the sea.
He realised that the religious issues of India were too deep for any remedy to work. Hence he collaborated with Mountbatten and Wavell in the build up to independence in 1947. This association with the break-up of India was to cost him his life. There had been one assassination attempt on Gandhi on January 20th 1948 - it had failed. Just ten days later on the 30th January, he was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic who could not forgive Gandhi for his belief that Muslims had equal value to Hindus and no-one was better than anybody else.
Daniel Berrigan wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Daniel Berrigan, SJ (born May 9, 1921) is an American poet, peace activist, and Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for committing acts of vandalism including destroying government property.
Philip Berrigan
EXCERPT:
Philip Berrigan Biography
Activist / Clergyman
A World War II artillery and infantry officer, Philip Berrigan did an about-face after becoming a Catholic priest and devoted his life to opposing what he saw as warlike, imperialist U.S. policies. He came to public attention in 1967 and 1968 for acts of civil disobedience that included destroying draft files with blood and fire at Selective Service offices in Baltimore and Catonsville, Maryland. For the latter he and his brother, Daniel, also an activist priest, spent nearly two years in federal prison. Excommunicated for marrying in 1973, Phil lived the last third of his life in an intentional community, Jonah House, which he and his wife -- former nun Elizabeth McAlister -- formed in Baltimore. In 1980, Phil led a group that trespassed at a Pennsylvania electric plant and used blood and hammers to damage a partially assembled nuclear warhead. This inspired more such events at military bases and industrial sites in what has become known as the "Plowshares" movement, named for passages in the biblical books Isaiah and Micah that speak of beating "swords into plowshares."
At home with Carol Fennelly
EXCERPT:
AT HOME WITH: Carol Fennelly; Sheltering Storm
By JASON DePARLE,
Published: January 13, 1994
ASHINGTON, Jan. 12— It's hard to share a roof with 1,400 homeless people, and the habit is taking its toll on Carol Fennelly, the madcap housemother of the nation's largest homeless shelter.
Eyes at half-mast, she began a recent interview by turning off her office lights in deference to a blinding, nauseating headache. "This really isn't as much fun as it used to be," she said.
Ms. Fennelly has been springing awake with nightmares about Mitch Snyder, the late hero of the movement to help the homeless, who hanged himself three years ago after their 13-year romance soured.
She praised Mr. Snyder as a genius for confronting President Ronald Reagan with a 51-day fast, which won the money to turn an abandoned Federal building into a blocklong shelter just a short walk from the Capitol.
Hunger strike wikipedia
EXCERPTs:
1) A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. A notably successful hunger strike was that of Mitch Snyder in 1984 who, as a member of the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV), undertook a hunger strike lasting 51 days which resulted in the U.S. government donating a federal building which became a 1,400-bed Washington DC Federal City Shelter. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not solid food. A hunger strike cannot be effective if the fact that it is being undertaken is not publicized so as to be known by the people who are to be impressed, concerned or embarrassed by it. Hunger strikes have sometimes been ended through the use of force-feeding.
2) [edit] Medical view
In the first 3 days, the body is still using energy from glucose.[citation needed] After that, the liver starts processing body fat, in a process called ketosis. After 3 weeks the body enters in "starvation mode". At this point the body "mines" the muscles and vital organs for energy, and loss of bone marrow becomes life-threatening. There are examples of hunger strikers dying after 52 to 74 days of strike
Someone needs to ask Martin Sheen about Mitch Snyder......
Mitch Snyder wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Snyder grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, where at age 9 his father abandoned the family. After a stint in a correctional facility for breaking into parking meters, Snyder worked in job counseling on Madison Avenue in New York City, as well as selling appliances and construction work. In 1969 he left his wife and children and started hitchhiking west. Police found him in a stolen vehicle, and he was arrested and convicted of grand theft auto. He served two years in federal prison, 1970–1972, for violating the Dyer Act, which outlaws the interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle. Snyder ended up in Danbury Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Connecticut, where he served time with Philip and Daniel Berrigan. Following meetings with them and prolific reading, especially of the Bible, Snyder started participating in hunger strikes and work stoppages over prison rights issues.
Mitch Snyders ghost
Over 1,000 homeless Washingtonians inhabit a haunted building. Some say that the spirit of a prominent 1980s homeless activist roams the hallways of the homeless shelter at 2nd and D Streets at night. Mitch Snyder was a fiercely-devoted member of the Community for Creative Nonviolence (CCNV), the group that has operated the now-troubled shelter since its opening. Snyder’s life and death characterizes the inspiring rise and troubling fall of one of the most transformative efforts to combat homelessness in the District.
CCNV, founded as an antiwar group in the 1970s, scored a victory for D.C. homeless in 1984. The idealistic organization convinced Ronald Reagan to let homeless people occupy an abandoned federal building for the winter of 1984.
And when the winter season formally ended on April 1, CCNV and shelter residents conducted takeovers of federal offices, disrupted Congress, and fasted for 51 days. Two days before the 1984 elections, Reagan turned over the building for good.
CCNV’s battle against homelessness was multifaceted. Activists collected 35,000 signatures in order to put a proposal on all District ballots. In 1984, “Initiative 17” passed with an unprecedented 85% approval, creating a legally-binding mandate that D.C. government must provide emergency shelter to any and all of its residents.
In response, then-Mayor Marion Barry’s administration scrambled to find shelter for hundreds of men and women living on the streets, gathering them in vans and rushing them to makeshift converted shelters.
Next, CCNV brought suit against the Barry administration for its inadequate maintenance of the emergency shelters. A judge fined the government $5,000 for every violation—leaking roofs, broken windows, lack of bathrooms, hot water, clean sheets, or resident storage space. Between 1985 and 1987, the Barry regime was forced to fork over $4 million in fines. The money paid for massive increases in the services provided to the homeless.
***
At the heart of CCNV’s movement was Mitch Snyder. Born in Brooklyn, Snyder struggled to find direction as a child, and fell into petty crime. When he was in his mid-twenties, he was arrested for stealing a car. In jail, he met Philip and Daniel Berrigan, radical Catholic priests imprisoned for their civil disobedience against the Vietnam War. Snyder adopted their religious philosophy and radical dedication, joining them in fasts against the war and the mistreatment of fellow prisoners.
Snyder’s passion became clear when his family grew concerned about his fasting. In a note to his mother from prison, Snyder wrote: “I would like you to be proud that your son believes strongly enough in justice, to oppose injustice with all the strength at his disposal.” After being released, Snyder moved to D.C. and immersed himself in a community of committed activists.
“Mitch was one of the most dedicated people, the most creative, thoughtful, confrontational, manically insane human beings I have ever met. He had an uncanny ability to understand that when things were wrong, you need to stand up and say what needs to be said to correct the injustice,” said Brian Anders, a former member of CCNV who worked with Snyder at CCNV in the 1980s.
“He was willing to as far, if not further, than anyone else, so that injustice could be stopped.”
Snyder often fasted in support of his causes. For weeks, he stood up in congregation at the Holy Trinity Parish in Georgetown to protest their expensive renovations while homeless people lacked basic services. He organized public funerals for people who froze to death on the street. His acts often attracted national media attention—he was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary as well as Martin Sheen’s lead role in a 1986 movie.
Snyder and CCNV’s crown jewel was the Federal City Shelter. By wrestling the building away from Reagan, the group tackled Goliath. They were able to go further, transforming the abandoned building into an inspiring, cooperative community of homeless people and activists.
Anders portrays CCNV in the 1980s as “a multiglot of people learning from each other, living together.” CCNV prided itself on its communal meals of staff and residents, its twice-weekly spiritual meetings, and its system of internal governance that gave its homeless residents an active role.
He describes a community where people who had never left D.C. were able to meet people from all over the world. “We were able to learn from each others’ experiences, living together in a harmonious way,” he says. “We had a common enemy—the system that disenfranchised us, kept us poor, kept us impoverished.”
***
“The spirit of that died after Mitch killed himself,” Anders said.
Snyder was found dead in his room at CCNV on July 6, 1990. According to a note found by police, he hung himself out of frustration with his romance with partner Carol Fennelly.
Shortly after, the atmosphere at CCNV began to change. The list of rules grew longer. Time limits were placed on resident stays. “The spirit of the community fell apart, and core people left. CCNV and the shelter became an institution,” says Anders. The staff began to pursue their own power, and grow corrupt with it, he said. The atmosphere at CCNV became oppressive. “The shelter has deteriorated to a cruel, unhealthy environment.”
Mitch Snyder and the core CCNV activists of his time created a true communion with the homeless people they were advocating for. At CCNV today, this cooperative, compassionate approach is missing.
An AU graduate who volunteered at the shelter tells the story of one former CCNV resident she remembers meeting. “[The woman] was blind and in a wheelchair, and the staff didn’t like her because she was always asking questions of them and demanding better treatment.”
One night, CCNV had a fire drill. “When the fire alarm went off, she was left upstairs in her wheelchair, and when other residents tried to help her down, the staff chastised them and told others not to help her.” Left alone in the building as the alarms blared, and uninformed that there was no actual fire, she tried to escape on her own. She stumbled, fell down the stairs, and couldn’t get up. She simply laid there, assuming her fiery death was imminent, until a shelter staffer found her when the drill was over.
“CCNV today lacks compassion,” says Anders.
Residents say that they hear the ghost of Mitch Snyder wandering the halls at night.
Since 1990, the city has closed several shelters, booting homeless men and women into the street—despite fierce opposition from activists and advocates. Initiative 17 has been overturned. And bold efforts to help the homeless—protests, occupations, and pleas—have attracted little media attention.
Today, the District is being overrun by gentrification. The city is giving away public property (including former homeless shelters) to real estate developers, public housing projects are being demolished, poor people are being forced out by rising rents, and rich people are moving in. The homeless and their allies often feel overpowered, seeing the tide of rich white newcomers flow into the city.
Anders issues a challenge to those who doubt the ability for ordinary people to enact extraordinary change. “People always say that we need another Mitch Snyder to come and save us,” he said. “We don’t need another Mitch because all of us can be Mitch Snyder. We need to quit looking outside of ourselves for the hero.”
Mitch Snyder was an selfless, spirited, and laudable individual, but CCNV was able to combat unjust economic practices with their intrepid dedicated activists. “I think Mitch would be embarrassed if he knew people were still talking about him twenty years after his suicide, because he knew he was nothing without the community,” Anders said.
“We need everyday, regular people, not another Mitch Snyder. We all need to be Gandhi, be Malcolm X, be Mitch Snyder. If we could do that, it wouldn’t be perfect or Utopian, but it would be better than doing nothing.”
Samaritan-The Mitch Snyder Story with Martin Sheen video
Hunger strikes in the US military
EXCERPT:
Military chaplains told to shy from Jesus
12:12 a.m., Wednesday, December 21, 2005
To pray -- or not to pray -- in Jesus' name is the question plaguing an increasing number of U.S. military chaplains, one of whom began a multiday hunger strike outside the White House yesterday.
"I am a Navy chaplain being fired because I pray in Jesus' name," said Navy Lt. Gordon Klingenschmitt, who will be holding 6 p.m. prayer vigils daily in Lafayette Park.
The hunger strike is intended to persuade President Bush to issue an executive order allowing military chaplains to pray according to their individual faith traditions. The American Center for Law and Justice has gathered 173,000 signatures on a petition seeking an executive order.
Gordon Klingenschmitt
EXCERPTs:
1) On March 30, Klingenschmitt wore his uniform at a news conference in Lafayette Square in which former Alabama chief justice Roy S. Moore and others decried President Bush's lack of action on the chaplain's complaints. Klingenschmitt maintained that his only participation in the event was to offer public prayers and that he had prior written permission to wear his uniform when conducting "a bona fide worship service or observance."
During court-martial proceedings this week at the naval base in Norfolk, a military prosecutor, Cmdr. Rex A. Guinn, said Klingenschmitt had received clear orders from his superiors not to wear his uniform at media events or political protests. The event in Lafayette Square, he contended, was not a true worship service or observance.
2) The e-mail noted: "This officer is the individual who conducted a hunger strike in front of the White House several months ago and has engaged in other actions concerning [Defense Department] and Navy Religious Ministry policies."
Klingenschmitt served as an Air Force officer for 11 years before becoming a chaplain four years ago. He said he believes the e-mail, which was sent eight days before he wore his uniform at the Lafayette Square protest, "proves this is a reprisal against me for my whistle-blower complaints to Congress and the press."
United States Navy Chaplain Corps
EXCERPT:
In September 2006, LT Gordon Klingenschmitt was reprimanded and fined $3,000 for disobeying an order not to wear his military uniform at a protest. Klingenschmitt was released from the Navy in March 2007. The chaplain disagreed with a policy that he interpreted to require him to offer non-sectarian prayers at Navy command functions (essentially public, military-wide and often mandatory). The Navy doesn't require a chaplain to give prayers at a command function if the chaplain's religious beliefs prohibit non-sectarian prayers. The Navy doesn't prohibit chaplains from preaching in sectarian manners outside official functions as well.[6]
Cindy Sheehan's hunger strike
EXCERPT:
O'DONNELL: Cindy, you have just begun a two-month hunger strike. Isn't this really just more of a publicity stunt?
SHEEHAN: No, actually it's not. It's a moral reaction to an immoral war. Thousands of people all over the world are joining us. And hunger strikes have proven to be effective tools in civil disobedience and changing policy.
Cesar Chavez also did hunger strike
EXCERPT:
1968 Chavez leads a national boycott of California table grape growers, which becomes known as "La Causa." By the end of the boycott in 1970, 17 million Americans supported it, including many political and civil rights leaders. Robert Kennedy was a particularly strong supporter.
Chavez goes on a 25-day hunger strike, which attracts enormous national attention. The fast reaffirms his movement's belief in non-violence.
Mahatma Ghandi hunger strike
EXCERPT:
Gandhi was imprisoned in 1922, 1930, 1933 and in 1942. While in prison, he went on hunger strike. His fame was such that his death in prison would make international headlines and greatly embarrass the British at a time when Britain was condemning dictators in Europe.
In 1931, Gandhi came to Britain for the Round Table conferences. Nothing was achieved except for the publicity that Gandhi received for dressing in the clothes of an Indian villager; Gandhi saw this type of dress as perfectly normal for a man who represented the Indian people. The British representatives at the conference were more soberly dressed in formal morning dress.
When in India, Gandhi took on the British where possible. He famous walk to the sea to produce salt was typical of his actions. Britain had a monopoly on salt production in India and Gandhi saw this as wrong. Hence his decision to produce salt by the sea.
He realised that the religious issues of India were too deep for any remedy to work. Hence he collaborated with Mountbatten and Wavell in the build up to independence in 1947. This association with the break-up of India was to cost him his life. There had been one assassination attempt on Gandhi on January 20th 1948 - it had failed. Just ten days later on the 30th January, he was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic who could not forgive Gandhi for his belief that Muslims had equal value to Hindus and no-one was better than anybody else.
Daniel Berrigan wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Daniel Berrigan, SJ (born May 9, 1921) is an American poet, peace activist, and Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for committing acts of vandalism including destroying government property.
Philip Berrigan
EXCERPT:
Philip Berrigan Biography
Activist / Clergyman
A World War II artillery and infantry officer, Philip Berrigan did an about-face after becoming a Catholic priest and devoted his life to opposing what he saw as warlike, imperialist U.S. policies. He came to public attention in 1967 and 1968 for acts of civil disobedience that included destroying draft files with blood and fire at Selective Service offices in Baltimore and Catonsville, Maryland. For the latter he and his brother, Daniel, also an activist priest, spent nearly two years in federal prison. Excommunicated for marrying in 1973, Phil lived the last third of his life in an intentional community, Jonah House, which he and his wife -- former nun Elizabeth McAlister -- formed in Baltimore. In 1980, Phil led a group that trespassed at a Pennsylvania electric plant and used blood and hammers to damage a partially assembled nuclear warhead. This inspired more such events at military bases and industrial sites in what has become known as the "Plowshares" movement, named for passages in the biblical books Isaiah and Micah that speak of beating "swords into plowshares."
At home with Carol Fennelly
EXCERPT:
AT HOME WITH: Carol Fennelly; Sheltering Storm
By JASON DePARLE,
Published: January 13, 1994
ASHINGTON, Jan. 12— It's hard to share a roof with 1,400 homeless people, and the habit is taking its toll on Carol Fennelly, the madcap housemother of the nation's largest homeless shelter.
Eyes at half-mast, she began a recent interview by turning off her office lights in deference to a blinding, nauseating headache. "This really isn't as much fun as it used to be," she said.
Ms. Fennelly has been springing awake with nightmares about Mitch Snyder, the late hero of the movement to help the homeless, who hanged himself three years ago after their 13-year romance soured.
She praised Mr. Snyder as a genius for confronting President Ronald Reagan with a 51-day fast, which won the money to turn an abandoned Federal building into a blocklong shelter just a short walk from the Capitol.
Hunger strike wikipedia
EXCERPTs:
1) A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. A notably successful hunger strike was that of Mitch Snyder in 1984 who, as a member of the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV), undertook a hunger strike lasting 51 days which resulted in the U.S. government donating a federal building which became a 1,400-bed Washington DC Federal City Shelter. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not solid food. A hunger strike cannot be effective if the fact that it is being undertaken is not publicized so as to be known by the people who are to be impressed, concerned or embarrassed by it. Hunger strikes have sometimes been ended through the use of force-feeding.
2) [edit] Medical view
In the first 3 days, the body is still using energy from glucose.[citation needed] After that, the liver starts processing body fat, in a process called ketosis. After 3 weeks the body enters in "starvation mode". At this point the body "mines" the muscles and vital organs for energy, and loss of bone marrow becomes life-threatening. There are examples of hunger strikers dying after 52 to 74 days of strike
Someone needs to ask Martin Sheen about Mitch Snyder......
Mitch Snyder wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Snyder grew up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, where at age 9 his father abandoned the family. After a stint in a correctional facility for breaking into parking meters, Snyder worked in job counseling on Madison Avenue in New York City, as well as selling appliances and construction work. In 1969 he left his wife and children and started hitchhiking west. Police found him in a stolen vehicle, and he was arrested and convicted of grand theft auto. He served two years in federal prison, 1970–1972, for violating the Dyer Act, which outlaws the interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle. Snyder ended up in Danbury Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Connecticut, where he served time with Philip and Daniel Berrigan. Following meetings with them and prolific reading, especially of the Bible, Snyder started participating in hunger strikes and work stoppages over prison rights issues.
Mitch Snyders ghost
Over 1,000 homeless Washingtonians inhabit a haunted building. Some say that the spirit of a prominent 1980s homeless activist roams the hallways of the homeless shelter at 2nd and D Streets at night. Mitch Snyder was a fiercely-devoted member of the Community for Creative Nonviolence (CCNV), the group that has operated the now-troubled shelter since its opening. Snyder’s life and death characterizes the inspiring rise and troubling fall of one of the most transformative efforts to combat homelessness in the District.
CCNV, founded as an antiwar group in the 1970s, scored a victory for D.C. homeless in 1984. The idealistic organization convinced Ronald Reagan to let homeless people occupy an abandoned federal building for the winter of 1984.
And when the winter season formally ended on April 1, CCNV and shelter residents conducted takeovers of federal offices, disrupted Congress, and fasted for 51 days. Two days before the 1984 elections, Reagan turned over the building for good.
CCNV’s battle against homelessness was multifaceted. Activists collected 35,000 signatures in order to put a proposal on all District ballots. In 1984, “Initiative 17” passed with an unprecedented 85% approval, creating a legally-binding mandate that D.C. government must provide emergency shelter to any and all of its residents.
In response, then-Mayor Marion Barry’s administration scrambled to find shelter for hundreds of men and women living on the streets, gathering them in vans and rushing them to makeshift converted shelters.
Next, CCNV brought suit against the Barry administration for its inadequate maintenance of the emergency shelters. A judge fined the government $5,000 for every violation—leaking roofs, broken windows, lack of bathrooms, hot water, clean sheets, or resident storage space. Between 1985 and 1987, the Barry regime was forced to fork over $4 million in fines. The money paid for massive increases in the services provided to the homeless.
***
At the heart of CCNV’s movement was Mitch Snyder. Born in Brooklyn, Snyder struggled to find direction as a child, and fell into petty crime. When he was in his mid-twenties, he was arrested for stealing a car. In jail, he met Philip and Daniel Berrigan, radical Catholic priests imprisoned for their civil disobedience against the Vietnam War. Snyder adopted their religious philosophy and radical dedication, joining them in fasts against the war and the mistreatment of fellow prisoners.
Snyder’s passion became clear when his family grew concerned about his fasting. In a note to his mother from prison, Snyder wrote: “I would like you to be proud that your son believes strongly enough in justice, to oppose injustice with all the strength at his disposal.” After being released, Snyder moved to D.C. and immersed himself in a community of committed activists.
“Mitch was one of the most dedicated people, the most creative, thoughtful, confrontational, manically insane human beings I have ever met. He had an uncanny ability to understand that when things were wrong, you need to stand up and say what needs to be said to correct the injustice,” said Brian Anders, a former member of CCNV who worked with Snyder at CCNV in the 1980s.
“He was willing to as far, if not further, than anyone else, so that injustice could be stopped.”
Snyder often fasted in support of his causes. For weeks, he stood up in congregation at the Holy Trinity Parish in Georgetown to protest their expensive renovations while homeless people lacked basic services. He organized public funerals for people who froze to death on the street. His acts often attracted national media attention—he was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary as well as Martin Sheen’s lead role in a 1986 movie.
Snyder and CCNV’s crown jewel was the Federal City Shelter. By wrestling the building away from Reagan, the group tackled Goliath. They were able to go further, transforming the abandoned building into an inspiring, cooperative community of homeless people and activists.
Anders portrays CCNV in the 1980s as “a multiglot of people learning from each other, living together.” CCNV prided itself on its communal meals of staff and residents, its twice-weekly spiritual meetings, and its system of internal governance that gave its homeless residents an active role.
He describes a community where people who had never left D.C. were able to meet people from all over the world. “We were able to learn from each others’ experiences, living together in a harmonious way,” he says. “We had a common enemy—the system that disenfranchised us, kept us poor, kept us impoverished.”
***
“The spirit of that died after Mitch killed himself,” Anders said.
Snyder was found dead in his room at CCNV on July 6, 1990. According to a note found by police, he hung himself out of frustration with his romance with partner Carol Fennelly.
Shortly after, the atmosphere at CCNV began to change. The list of rules grew longer. Time limits were placed on resident stays. “The spirit of the community fell apart, and core people left. CCNV and the shelter became an institution,” says Anders. The staff began to pursue their own power, and grow corrupt with it, he said. The atmosphere at CCNV became oppressive. “The shelter has deteriorated to a cruel, unhealthy environment.”
Mitch Snyder and the core CCNV activists of his time created a true communion with the homeless people they were advocating for. At CCNV today, this cooperative, compassionate approach is missing.
An AU graduate who volunteered at the shelter tells the story of one former CCNV resident she remembers meeting. “[The woman] was blind and in a wheelchair, and the staff didn’t like her because she was always asking questions of them and demanding better treatment.”
One night, CCNV had a fire drill. “When the fire alarm went off, she was left upstairs in her wheelchair, and when other residents tried to help her down, the staff chastised them and told others not to help her.” Left alone in the building as the alarms blared, and uninformed that there was no actual fire, she tried to escape on her own. She stumbled, fell down the stairs, and couldn’t get up. She simply laid there, assuming her fiery death was imminent, until a shelter staffer found her when the drill was over.
“CCNV today lacks compassion,” says Anders.
Residents say that they hear the ghost of Mitch Snyder wandering the halls at night.
Since 1990, the city has closed several shelters, booting homeless men and women into the street—despite fierce opposition from activists and advocates. Initiative 17 has been overturned. And bold efforts to help the homeless—protests, occupations, and pleas—have attracted little media attention.
Today, the District is being overrun by gentrification. The city is giving away public property (including former homeless shelters) to real estate developers, public housing projects are being demolished, poor people are being forced out by rising rents, and rich people are moving in. The homeless and their allies often feel overpowered, seeing the tide of rich white newcomers flow into the city.
Anders issues a challenge to those who doubt the ability for ordinary people to enact extraordinary change. “People always say that we need another Mitch Snyder to come and save us,” he said. “We don’t need another Mitch because all of us can be Mitch Snyder. We need to quit looking outside of ourselves for the hero.”
Mitch Snyder was an selfless, spirited, and laudable individual, but CCNV was able to combat unjust economic practices with their intrepid dedicated activists. “I think Mitch would be embarrassed if he knew people were still talking about him twenty years after his suicide, because he knew he was nothing without the community,” Anders said.
“We need everyday, regular people, not another Mitch Snyder. We all need to be Gandhi, be Malcolm X, be Mitch Snyder. If we could do that, it wouldn’t be perfect or Utopian, but it would be better than doing nothing.”
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Alan Jackson-- Where were you? Alan Jackson youtube
Why I still love Mel Gibson youtube
Conspiracy Theory - movie - part 1 of 10 youtube
Disney's Pocahnotas and Mel Gibson
EXCERPT:
As we know from Disney’s POCAHONTAS where he was "portrayed" by Mel Gibson, few women could resist him, and he captured the heart of his Turkish mistress, a young woman of noble birth.
Good onya Nicolas Cage!!!
Is Disney under fire from Big Screen actors
Nicolas Cage's abrupt decision has left a movie without a leading man.
Deadline reports that the star of 'Kick-Ass' and seemingly countless other films has taken one project off his plate: 'Trespass,' a Louisiana-set thriller that's just two weeks away from its start date.
Cage has apparently pulled something of a disappearing act, retreating to the Bahamas after a long promotional tour for Disney's 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice.'
The film, directed by Joel Schumacher, centers around a married couple taken hostage by thieves looking for an easy pay day. Nicole Kidman is set to play the wife, with Cage originally set to play the husband before he changed his mind a few weeks ago and switched to the role of the leader of the kidnappers.
Producer Avi Lerner is currently scrambling to find an available star to replace Cage, one who can justify the film's $35 million budget. Cage was set to make a $7 million paycheck on the project.
Nicolas Cage wikipedia
EXCERPT:
To avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage.[8] Since his minor role in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, with Sean Penn, Cage has appeared in a wide range of films, both mainstream and offbeat. He tried out for the role of Dallas Winston in his uncle's film The Outsiders, based on S.E. Hinton's novel, but lost to Matt Dillon. He was also in Coppola's films Rumble Fish and Peggy Sue Got Married.
Other Cage roles included appearances in the acclaimed 1987 romantic-comedy Moonstruck, also starring Cher; The Coen Brothers cult-classic comedy Raising Arizona; David Lynch's 1990 offbeat film Wild at Heart; a lead role in Martin Scorsese's 1999 New York City paramedic drama Bringing Out the Dead; and Ridley Scott's 2003 quirky drama Matchstick Men, in which he played an agoraphobic, mysophobic, obsessive-compulsive con artist with a tic disorder.
Decade of Disney star scandals
EXCERPT:
For nearly a century, the Walt Disney Company has been world renowned for their animation, their family values and their children’s entertainment. Now, thanks to the last decade of activity, they’ve also become dominant in one more public arena: celebrity scandals.
Okay, so maybe that’s not quite the reputation that Disney was aiming for, but since the turn of the century, current and former Disney stars have been constantly in the news and not for their wholesome values. Instead it’s been one DUI, nude photo or existential meltdown after another.
Introduction
The Astor Bloodline
The Bundy Bloodline
The Collins Bloodline
The DuPont Bloodline
The Freeman Bloodline
The Kennedy Bloodline
The Li Bloodline
The Onassis Bloodline
The Reynolds bloodline
The Rockefeller Bloodline
The Rothschild Bloodline
The Russell Bloodline
The Van Duyn Bloodline
[Merovingian] (European Royal Families)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interconnected families:
The Disney Bloodline
The Krupp Bloodline
The McDonald Bloodline
Alan Jackson-- Where were you? Alan Jackson youtube
Why I still love Mel Gibson youtube
Conspiracy Theory - movie - part 1 of 10 youtube
Disney's Pocahnotas and Mel Gibson
EXCERPT:
As we know from Disney’s POCAHONTAS where he was "portrayed" by Mel Gibson, few women could resist him, and he captured the heart of his Turkish mistress, a young woman of noble birth.
Good onya Nicolas Cage!!!
Is Disney under fire from Big Screen actors
Nicolas Cage's abrupt decision has left a movie without a leading man.
Deadline reports that the star of 'Kick-Ass' and seemingly countless other films has taken one project off his plate: 'Trespass,' a Louisiana-set thriller that's just two weeks away from its start date.
Cage has apparently pulled something of a disappearing act, retreating to the Bahamas after a long promotional tour for Disney's 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice.'
The film, directed by Joel Schumacher, centers around a married couple taken hostage by thieves looking for an easy pay day. Nicole Kidman is set to play the wife, with Cage originally set to play the husband before he changed his mind a few weeks ago and switched to the role of the leader of the kidnappers.
Producer Avi Lerner is currently scrambling to find an available star to replace Cage, one who can justify the film's $35 million budget. Cage was set to make a $7 million paycheck on the project.
Nicolas Cage wikipedia
EXCERPT:
To avoid the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, he changed his name early in his career to Nicolas Cage, inspired in part by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage.[8] Since his minor role in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, with Sean Penn, Cage has appeared in a wide range of films, both mainstream and offbeat. He tried out for the role of Dallas Winston in his uncle's film The Outsiders, based on S.E. Hinton's novel, but lost to Matt Dillon. He was also in Coppola's films Rumble Fish and Peggy Sue Got Married.
Other Cage roles included appearances in the acclaimed 1987 romantic-comedy Moonstruck, also starring Cher; The Coen Brothers cult-classic comedy Raising Arizona; David Lynch's 1990 offbeat film Wild at Heart; a lead role in Martin Scorsese's 1999 New York City paramedic drama Bringing Out the Dead; and Ridley Scott's 2003 quirky drama Matchstick Men, in which he played an agoraphobic, mysophobic, obsessive-compulsive con artist with a tic disorder.
Decade of Disney star scandals
EXCERPT:
For nearly a century, the Walt Disney Company has been world renowned for their animation, their family values and their children’s entertainment. Now, thanks to the last decade of activity, they’ve also become dominant in one more public arena: celebrity scandals.
Okay, so maybe that’s not quite the reputation that Disney was aiming for, but since the turn of the century, current and former Disney stars have been constantly in the news and not for their wholesome values. Instead it’s been one DUI, nude photo or existential meltdown after another.
Introduction
The Astor Bloodline
The Bundy Bloodline
The Collins Bloodline
The DuPont Bloodline
The Freeman Bloodline
The Kennedy Bloodline
The Li Bloodline
The Onassis Bloodline
The Reynolds bloodline
The Rockefeller Bloodline
The Rothschild Bloodline
The Russell Bloodline
The Van Duyn Bloodline
[Merovingian] (European Royal Families)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Interconnected families:
The Disney Bloodline
The Krupp Bloodline
The McDonald Bloodline
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