The mammoth 800-plus meter (2625 ft) tall tower will instantly become one of the world's tallest buildings. Its 200-megawatt power generation capacity will reliably feed the grid with enough power for 150,000 US homes, and once it's built, it can be expected to more or less sit there producing clean, renewable power with virtually no maintenance until it's more than 80 years old. In the video after the jump, EnviroMission CEO Roger Davey explains the solar tower technology, the Arizona project and why he couldn't get it built at home in Australia.
How Solar Towers Work
Enviromission's solar tower is a simple idea taken to gigantic proportions. The sun beats down on a large covered greenhouse area at the bottom, warming the air underneath it. Hot air wants to rise, so there's a central point for it to rush towards and escape; the tower in the middle. And there's a bunch of turbines at the base of the tower that generate electricity from that natural updraft.
It's hard to envisage that sort of system working effectively until you tweak the temperature variables and scale the whole thing up. Put this tower in a hot desert area, where the daytime surface temperature sits at around 40 degrees Celsius (104 F), and add in the greenhouse effect and you've got a temperature under your collector somewhere around 80-90 degrees (176-194 F). Scale your collector greenhouse out to a several hundred-meter radius around the tower, and you're generating a substantial volume of hot air.
Then, raise that tower up so that it's hundreds of meters in the air - because for every hundred metres you go up from the surface, the ambient temperature drops by about 1 degree. The greater the temperature differential, the harder the tower sucks up that hot air at the bottom - and the more energy you can generate through the turbines.
The advantages of this kind of power source are clear:
Because it works on temperature differential, not absolute temperature, it works in any weather;
Because the heat of the day warms the ground up so much, it continues working at night;
Because you want large tracts of hot, dry land for best results, you can build it on more or less useless land in the desert;
It requires virtually no maintenance - apart from a bit of turbine servicing now and then, the tower "just works" once it's going, and lasts as long as its structure stays standing;
It uses no 'feed stock' - no coal, no uranium, nothing but air and sunlight;
It emits absolutely no pollution - the only emission is warm air at the top of the tower. In fact, because you're creating a greenhouse underneath, it actually turns out to be remarkably good for growing vegetation under there.
Steven Best (born December 1955) is an American animal rights activist, author, talk-show host, and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has been described as "one of the leading scholarly voices on animal rights."
Best is co-founder of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS), formerly known as the Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA), the first group dedicated to the philosophical discussion of animal liberation. His academic interests are continental philosophy, postmodernism, and environmental philosophy. He is the editor, with Anthony J. Nocella, of Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (2004), which has a foreword by Ward Churchill, and the sister-companion volume on revolutionary environmentalism, Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth (2006).
Best is best known for his post-structuralist notions of revolution, based equally in animal rights and sexual liberation.
In December 2004, Best co-founded the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, which acts as a media office for a number of animal rights groups, including the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), though he has said that he is not himself an ALF activist. He came to public attention in 2005, when the British Home Office told him it intended to use counter-terrorist measures adopted in light of the July 2005 London bombings to prevent him from addressing an animal rights rally in the UK. Best responded by alleging that Britain was becoming a police state.
Ma le approssimazioni non bastano: l'importante è quantificare i reali benefici apportati dai polmoni verdi che, oltre a immagazzinare l'anidride carbonica, agiscono come un grande tampone, in grado di assorbire parte delle polveri sottili inquinanti (Pm10) prodotte dalle attività umane. Ecco allora che a fare i calcoli arrivano i ricercatori della University of Southampton: il loro studio, pubblicato sulla rivista Landscape and Urban Planning, stima l'effetto che avrà un incremento del numero di piante sull'aria di Londra.
La strategia chiave per la qualità dell'aria consiste nel piantare soprattutto alberi sempreverdi che espongono le foglie durante tutto l'anno e raccolgono molti più inquinanti rispetto alle piante stagionali. Sfruttando il modello di calcolo Ufore (Urban Forest Effects Model), gli scienziati hanno calcolato che oggi gli alberi rimuovono ogni anno tra le 850 e le 2.100 tonnellate di Pm10 presenti su Londra. Sembra una quantità immensa, ma in realtà rappresenta solo tra lo 0,7 e l'1,4 per cento delle polveri sottili prodotte in città.
Successivamente, i ricercatori hanno ipotizzato diversi scenari di incremento del numero di alberi, che andranno a coprire il 30 per cento dell'area urbana londinese negli anni a venire (oggi occupano il 20 per cento). Analizzando l'impatto delle sempreverdi nelle aree più inquinate, gli scienziati hanno calcolato che la quantità di Pm10 sequestrata dalle foglie potrebbe crescere fino a 1.100 – 2.300 tonnellate l'anno entro il 2050. In pratica, verrebbe tolto dalla circolazione circa il 1,1 - 2,6 per cento del totale degli inquinanti.
Nonostante il lieve incremento nella percentuale di particolato rimosso, la presenza delle nuove piante potrebbe produrre maggiori effetti benefici in alcune aree chiave. “Le polveri sottili mettono a rischio la salute umana”, spiega Peter Freer-Smith, coautore dello studio e direttore scientifico della commissione nazionale Forest Research: “Possono aggravare i casi di asma, e per questo l'abbattimento del Pm10 può avere effetti importanti, soprattutto intorno alle scuole”.
Ovviamente gli alberi non possono essere l'unica soluzione all'inquinamento dell'aria. Per risolvere il problema è necessario adottare delle soluzioni a monte, che riducano la quantità di particelle pericolose immesse nell'atmosfera. Per adesso, il governo inglese ha comunque deciso di promuovere il piano di incremento delle aree verdi su scala nazionale. Si chiama Big Tree Plant: per partecipare basta piantare un albero e averne cura nel corso degli anni.
Ipoteza lui Lecatsas si Alexander ramâne oricum teoretica. Diverse studii indica faptul ca originea HIV-1 este localizata în centrul Africii: în regiunea Congo, Rwanda, Burundi.
Urma cea mai veche de HIV la om este reprezentata de un ser recoltat în 1959, la Kinshasa. Au fost recoltate mai multe probe de sânge pentru un studiu despre malarie, în 1986 au fost testate si o proba rezulta pozitiva la testul HIV.
Deci HIV era deja prezent la om în 1959 în Africa, si nu în Statele Unite, unde a fost experimentat primul vaccin Salk si nici în Uniunea Sovietica, unde a fost testat primul vaccin Sabin. Deci teoria vaccinului antipolio, cum a fost prezentata de Lecatsas, nu este adevarata…
…doar daca nu au existat si alte vaccinari, în Africa, înainte de 1959.
Capitolul al Treilea: Congo belgian
Vaccinari în coloniile belgiene
Circa 250'000 de persone, de ambele sexe si de toate vârstele, au fost vaccinate cu un vaccin experimental, viu, atenuat, denumit CHAT, administrat pe cale bucala. Când? Între februarie 1957 si aprilie 1958. Unde? În Congo Belgian si în Ruanda-Urundi, care acum se numesc Republica Democrata Congo, Rwanda si Burundi: exact în epicentrul epidemiei cu HIV-1. Prima vaccinare în masa a fiintelor umane efectuata cu un vaccin antipolio viu.
Acelasi vaccin a fost experimentat si la Kinshasa, între 1958 si 1959, pe 46'000 de persone. Kinshasa, care pe atunci se numea Leopoldville si facea parte din Congo belgian. Tocmai locul unde în 1959 a fost recoltat primul ser uman HIV-positiv din lume!
Si cine a organizat aceste campanii? Deja îl cunoasteti: Hilary Koprowski, cel care în 1960 sfatuia sa nu mai fie utilizati rinichii de maimuta la producerea vaccinului antipolio. Dar cine este Hilary Koprowski?
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence -- not in a robot or a silicon chip, but in a test tube. The researchers are the first to have made an artificial neural network out of DNA, creating a circuit of interacting molecules that can recall memories based on incomplete patterns, just as a brain can.
The brain is incredible," says Lulu Qian, a Caltech senior postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering and lead author on the paper describing this work, published in the July 21 issue of the journal Nature. "It allows us to recognize patterns of events, form memories, make decisions, and take actions. So we asked, instead of having a physically connected network of neural cells, can a soup of interacting molecules exhibit brainlike behavior?"
The answer, as the researchers show, is yes.
Consisting of four artificial neurons made from 112 distinct DNA strands, the researchers' neural network plays a mind-reading game in which it tries to identify a mystery scientist. The researchers "trained" the neural network to "know" four scientists, whose identities are each represented by a specific, unique set of answers to four yes-or-no questions, such as whether the scientist was British.
After thinking of a scientist, a human player provides an incomplete subset of answers that partially identifies the scientist. The player then conveys those clues to the network by dropping DNA strands that correspond to those answers into the test tube. Communicating via fluorescent signals, the network then identifies which scientist the player has in mind. Or, the network can "say" that it has insufficient information to pick just one of the scientists in its memory or that the clues contradict what it has remembered. The researchers played this game with the network using 27 different ways of answering the questions (out of 81 total combinations), and it responded correctly each time.
This DNA-based neural network demonstrates the ability to take an incomplete pattern and figure out what it might represent -- one of the brain's unique features. "What we are good at is recognizing things," says coauthor Jehoshua "Shuki" Bruck, the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering. "We can recognize things based on looking only at a subset of features." The DNA neural network does just that, albeit in a rudimentary way.
Biochemical systems with artificial intelligence -- or at least some basic, decision-making capabilities -- could have powerful applications in medicine, chemistry, and biological research, the researchers say. In the future, such systems could operate within cells, helping to answer fundamental biological questions or diagnose a disease. Biochemical processes that can intelligently respond to the presence of other molecules could allow engineers to produce increasingly complex chemicals or build new kinds of structures, molecule by molecule.
"Although brainlike behaviors within artificial biochemical systems have been hypothesized for decades," Qian says, "they appeared to be very difficult to realize."
The researchers based their biochemical neural network on a simple model of a neuron, called a linear threshold function. The model neuron receives input signals, multiplies each by a positive or negative weight, and only if the weighted sum of inputs surpass a certain threshold does the neuron fire, producing an output. This model is an oversimplification of real neurons, says paper coauthor Erik Winfree, professor of computer science, computation and neural systems, and bioengineering. Nevertheless, it's a good one. "It has been an extremely productive model for exploring how the collective behavior of many simple computational elements can lead to brainlike behaviors, such as associative recall and pattern completion."
To build the DNA neural network, the researchers used a process called a strand-displacement cascade. Previously, the team developed this technique to create the largest and most complex DNA circuit yet, one that computes square roots.
This method uses single and partially double-stranded DNA molecules. The latter are double helices, one strand of which sticks out like a tail. While floating around in a water solution, a single strand can run into a partially double-stranded one, and if their bases (the letters in the DNA sequence) are complementary, the single strand will grab the double strand's tail and bind, kicking off the other strand of the double helix. The single strand thus acts as an input while the displaced strand acts as an output, which can then interact with other molecules.
Because they can synthesize DNA strands with whatever base sequences they want, the researchers can program these interactions to behave like a network of model neurons. By tuning the concentrations of every DNA strand in the network, the researchers can teach it to remember the unique patterns of yes-or-no answers that belong to each of the four scientists. Unlike with some artificial neural networks that can directly learn from examples, the researchers used computer simulations to determine the molecular concentration levels needed to implant memories into the DNA neural network.
While this proof-of-principle experiment shows the promise of creating DNA-based networks that can -- in essence -- think, this neural network is limited, the researchers say. The human brain consists of 100 billion neurons, but creating a network with just 40 of these DNA-based neurons -- ten times larger than the demonstrated network -- would be a challenge, according to the researchers. Furthermore, the system is slow; the test-tube network took eight hours to identify each mystery scientist. The molecules are also used up -- unable to detach and pair up with a different strand of DNA -- after completing their task, so the game can only be played once. Perhaps in the future, a biochemical neural network could learn to improve its performance after many repeated games, or learn new memories from encountering new situations. Creating biochemical neural networks that operate inside the body -- or even just inside a cell on a Petri dish -- is also a long way away, since making this technology work in vivo poses an entirely different set of challenges.
Beyond technological challenges, engineering these systems could also provide indirect insight into the evolution of intelligence. "Before the brain evolved, single-celled organisms were also capable of processing information, making decisions, and acting in response to their environment," Qian explains. The source of such complex behaviors must have been a network of molecules floating around in the cell. "Perhaps the highly evolved brain and the limited form of intelligence seen in single cells share a similar computational model that's just programmed in different substrates."
"Our paper can be interpreted as a simple demonstration of neural-computing principles at the molecular and intracellular levels," Bruck adds. "One possible interpretation is that perhaps these principles are universal in biological information processing."
The research described in the Nature paper is supported by a National Science Foundation grant to the Molecular Programming Project and by the Human Frontiers Science Program.
Although not as efficient as their sailboat, the fourth upgrade to this 1960s hexagonal building in the Netherlands (hence its name Villa 4.0) does ensure that the building's heating, cooling, and lighting will be achieved with the lowest possible energy consumption while also re-establishing its intimacy with the surrounding green plot. More details about the numerous adaptations applied to this naturally illuminated family home after the jump.
The architects stuck to the existing materials as much as possible though certain interventions, such as upgrading the outer walls and roofs, were necessary, as was insulating the building to improve its thermal efficiency. Some windows were also replaced, and inner walls were gutted to set the gaping living room free. The bedroom floors were replaced with bamboo, and skylights filter throughout the house.
Water is heated by the sun and the home via underfloor heating, as well as a very efficient wood-fired stove that is also used for cooking. All of the incandescent lamps were replaced with LED lighting that uses 90% less energy, punching a serious hole in the home’s overall carbon footprint. And for a final unique touch, a pump was installed to extract water from a nearby brook that is then splashed onto Villa 4.0?s roof, cooling the house down before the water loops back to the brook. We haven’t said much about the garden upgrades, but suffice to say this last renovation is certain to last a very long time.
L'enciclopedia libera si è messa il bavaglio. Da ieri sera non è più possibile consultare alcuna voce italiana di Wikipedia. Perché? Per protesta contro il ddl sulle intercettazioni, in discussione in Parlamento. Quando si cerca di accedere a una qualsiasi pagina, si viene indirizzati a un lungo comunicato che spiega le ragioni del blocco.
Anche la popolare enciclopedia rientrerebbe infatti nell'obbligo di rettifica entro 48 ore di un contenuto segnalato da una parte lesa, senza alcun intervento di un giudice ed evitando commenti, previsto dal ddl (maggiori dettagli sul disegno di legge li trovate sul blog del nostro Guido Scorza). Ecco cosa scrivono a Wikipedia:
" Quindi, in base al comma 29, chiunque si sentirà offeso da un contenuto presente su un blog, su una testata giornalistica online e, molto probabilmente, anche qui su Wikipedia, potrà arrogarsi il diritto -indipendentemente dalla veridicità delle informazioni ritenute offensive - di chiedere l'introduzione di una 'rettifica ', volta a contraddire e smentire detti contenuti, anche a dispetto delle fonti presenti. [...]
" L'obbligo di pubblicare fra i nostri contenuti le smentite previste dal comma 29, senza poter addirittura entrare nel merito delle stesse e a prescindere da qualsiasi verifica, costituisce per Wikipedia una inaccettabile limitazione della propria libertà e indipendenza: tale limitazione snatura i principi alla base dell'Enciclopedia libera e ne paralizza la modalità orizzontale di accesso e contributo, ponendo di fatto fine alla sua esistenza come l'abbiamo conosciuta fino a oggi".
Intanto, in Parlamento si cercano di limitare (in parte) i danni, con un emendamento (da parte del deputato Pdl Roberto Cassinelli) che non cancella il dovere di rettificare, ma dà all'online più tempo - 10 giorni - per gestire il contenuto incriminato. Ma il problema della limitazione della libertà in Rete resta, come scrive il nostro blogger Alessandro Longo. E la protesta sul Web monta, considerando che la pagina Facebook Rivogliamo Wikipedia - No alla legge bavaglio in poche ore ha già guadagnato quasi 150mila fan.
“Tinând cont ca nenumarate mii de doze din vaccinul Salk produse în anii ’50 erau contaminate cu SV40, un virus al maimutelor, ne întrebam daca tesutul de rinichi de maimuta nu ar putea fi sursa virusului SIDA la om” .
Astfel au scris Lecatsas si Alexander, doi virusologi sud-africani, într-o revista sud-africana în 1989. Daca maimutele utilizate pentru vaccinuri erau infectate cu SIV, nu s-ar fi putut observa deoarece maimutele sunt asimptomatice, neprezentând nici un semn ce ar putea indica daca sunt infectate si doar în 1985 a fost dezvoltat un test pentru individuarea prezentei acestui tip de virus.
“Cu toate ca este simplu sa presupunem si chiar mai dificil sa demonstram ca vaccinul antipolio ar fi la originea infectiei cu HIV la om, am fi tot pe atât de naivi sa ignoram posibilitatea”.
Realizati ce insinueaza acestia? E o ipoteza înfricosatoare: se interogheaza daca lupta împotriva poliomielitei, una dintre cele mai mari cuceriri ale medicinei moderne, a sfârsit prin a provoca cea mai mare tragedie sanitara a erei contemporane.
Nu stiu câta pricepere aveti cu numerele tragediei: SIDA a cauzat pâna acum moartea a 30 de milioane de persoane. Daca sicriele ar fi alineate unul dupa altul s-ar construi o pasarela în jurul Pamântului. Mor de SIDA 3 milioane de persoane pe an, o persoana la fiecare 10 secunde. În unele tari africane s-a ajuns la diminuarea sperantei de viata de 40 de ani. Daca nu se face nimic, acolo, un copil care se naste astazi va muri probabil de SIDA, înainte de a împlini 30 de ani. Poate cea mai mare catastrofa sanitara cunoscuta de umanitate. Crezi ca e un lucru ce poate fi acceptat fara probleme? Nu, de fapt raspunsul urma imediat în aceeasi revista.
Periculoasa imprudenta si speculatie nestiintifica
“Sa insinuam ca vaccinurile atenuate antipolio ar putea contine virusul imunodeficientei maimutelor (SIV) (…) ar fi o imprudenta periculoasa si o speculatie nestiintifica. Studiile efectuate de catre noi si altii nu au reusit sa izoleze nici un SIV din tesuturile de rinichi de maimuta proveniente de la maimute seropozitive. (…) În acest context, scrisori ca cea a lui Lecatsas (…) servesc doar pentru a dezinforma, confunda si pacali, nefiind de nici un ajutor eforturilor noastre si internationale pentru atingerea obiectivului celei de a 41-a Reuniune a OMS, si anume eliminarea mondiala a poliomielitei...”
Speculatie nestiintifica. Periculoasa insinuare. Întrebare: daca este o speculatie nestiintifica, de ce au facut testele? Pentru ca în 1985, Organizatia Mondiala a Sanatatii, fara prea multa publicitate, a testat vaccinurile produse din 1970 pâna astazi pentru a controla prezenta SIV. Nu l-a gasit. Si vaccinurile înainte de 1970?
Dupa care s-a efectuat si un alt test în Japonia. Ohhttaaa!!! Eu glumesc, dar Ohta e într-adevar numele cercetatorului japonez, care luând doua maimute seropozitive a produs vaccinul urmarind procedeul modern de productie. Rezultatul era linistitor deoarece SIV se pierdea deja de la primii pasi, multumita mai ales folosirii unei anumite substante: tripsina. Deci vaccinurile antipolio moderne sunt sigure. Dar acelea produse cu tehnicile initiale de productie?
Articolul continea o avertizare: “nu vor trebui utilizate la prepararea vaccinurilor maimute infectate în mod natural cu SIV”. Cum s-ar zice, da, noi nu am gasit urme de SIV, dar ascultati-ne, este mai bine sa nu riscam.
Dupa care o periculoasa insinuare... dar articolul nu a fost tocmai scris într-o revista de muzica rock! Daca nu îsi fac aceste întrebari oamenii de stiinta, atunci cine?
Lecatsas si Alexander nu au acceptat critica scriind iarasi: “Ar fi naiv sa ignoram substantiala posibilitate statistica a unei infectii între specii, prin intermediul a milioane si milioane de doze de vaccin, pe o perioada de 40 de ani. Credem în libertatea de expresie si în schimbul de idei ca un ingredient necesar progresului stiintific. Mai mult credem ca mai devreme sau mai târziu, întrebarile enuntate vor trebui discutate si, speram, combatute.”
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I'm here today because I am very disturbed about what is presently happening in North America. And I feel that the public need to be aware of what is truly going on so they can make informed decisions when purchasing hemp oil to treat themselves.
First off I want the public to know that I have no involvement with anyone who is supplying oil, and I have never received a penny from any of them. Also at present I have no involvement with foundations or any other organizations. The only thing I am connected with is the Phoenix Tears website and nothing else.
Until recently I was connected with the Phoenix Tears Foundation headed up by Janet Sweeney that is presently forming in Colorado. Janet has some top notch people like Dr. Bob Melamede involved and I certainly think this group is truly on the up and up.
The only reason I have withdrawn from this group was because due to the situation I am currently in, I cannot even enter the US. So for me that means there is no hands on and I really felt that I could play no active role, so I withdrew. Also at this time it's more than I can do to just keep up with the emails we receive every day that come to our website.
So at the present to avoid further stress I thought it might be best to just stick with our website until things settle down a bit.
What's happening right now is simply this. Every Tom Dick and Harry out there it seems is supplying hemp oil to people seeking help. But at present there is not quality control so in reality in most cases people have no idea what they are buying.
Unfortunately for me, many suppliers are using my name and the term Phoenix Tears to sell their substandard products and guess who gets all the complaints. The oil is everything I have told the public it is, but it must be produced from high grade starting material and it must be done in the proper way.
Unfortunately, a great number of suppliers at present seem to care little about the patient's health and well-being. So they are producing low-grade oils and supply them to the public simply so they can fill their pockets. Even worse still some people and groups around them are literally scamming patients out of vast amounts of money. I don't like to bring up people's names but there is one such group headed by Char Richardson in Colorado whose activities must cease.
So I feel that it is my duty to warn the public about this group, since I have received many complaints about their business practices. I believe they call their group Phoenix Tears Plus but there also many others who are doing the same thing.
That's the reason I tell the public it's best to produce your own oil at this time, until we have some standards in place. If you produce the oil yourself, at least then you know you have the real thing and to a dying patient, the proper oil can mean the difference between life and death. The public must realize that all hemp is not created equal, the medicinal qualities from strain to strain can vary a great deal so the proper strains must be used. Also low-grade strains and clippings may produce a decent treatment for some skin conditions. But if you are trying to treat someone with a serious condition like cancer, low-grade oils just don't cut it, only the best will do.
These are trying times for us all, but soon things will settle down and the public will have their medicine. It's just a matter of time now, for there is no way for the system to put a stop to the truth from spreading. Properly produced hemp oil is the greatest medicine on this earth, and soon hemp will again take its rightful place in mainstream medicinal use.
Rick Simpson August 2010
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AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Fighting The Damage Caused By Radiation
After the horrible earthquake in Japan, that has caused all this damage to many of the nuclear reactors that are operating in that country, radiation is now spreading worldwide. With high levels of radiation being released into the atmosphere on a continuous basis, it will have a devastating effect on the lives of most living creatures. But once again if used properly high quality hemp oil can provide a solution that will be of great help to mankind in alleviating this situation. For years I have been telling the public, that every man woman and child on this earth, should be taking small doses of this oil everyday to maintain good health. With all the radiation that is now entering our atmosphere, it is basically urgent, that we now all start ingesting this oil as soon as possible to undo the damage this radiation will cause. Through my experience with the use of this oil, I have found that there is nothing more effective or more harmless that can reduce the damage caused by radiation. I have seen patients that were suffering from cancer who were badly damaged by the effects of radiation treatments, that were able to completely eliminate the damage in a short time. Some who have come to me that had radiation treatments, were burned so badly by its effects that their shin looked like red leather. After ingesting the oil treatment their skin went back to its normal healthy state and the radiation burns disappeared completely. If the oil can do this for someone that was badly damaged by such so called medical treatments, would its use not be effective to combat the effects of the radiation, now emanating from Japan.
There are thousands of reasons why the medicinal use of the cannabis plant, should never have been restricted in the first place. But now with the menace that all this escaping radiation presents, we would have to be insane to turn our backs on the use of hemp extracts to help us all deal with this situation. I truly feel sorry for the misery the people of Japan are now going through and if nothing can be done to stop the radiation from escaping, they may loose their homeland entirely. Don't be fooled by government double talk, radiation is an invisible but dangerous threat to the well being of us all and only a complete fool would try to say otherwise. The wondrous medicinal effects of properly produced oil from the cannabis hemp plant are finally being recognized once more worldwide. This is just one more reason, we must begin to start growing this plant on a grand scale and it is time that we all told our governments that we have had enough of their nonsense. Our very lives and the lives of coming generations, plus the well being of many other species are at stake and its now up to us, to determine what future mankind is to have.
Best Wishes,
Rick Simpson
My name is Rick Simpson. I have been providing people with instructions on how to make Hemp Oil medicines for about 8 years. The results have been nothing short of amazing. Throughout man's history hemp has always been known as the most medicinal plant in the world. Even with this knowledge hemp has always been used as a political and religious football.
The current restrictions against hemp were put in place and maintained, not because hemp is evil or harmful, but for big money to make more big money, while we suffer and die needlessly. Look at a proposal such as this; if we were allowed to grow hemp in our back yards and cure our own illnesses, what do you think the reaction of the pharmaceutical industry would be to such a plan? Many large pharmaceutical companies that still exist today sold hemp based medicines in the 1800's and early 1900's. They knew then what I have recently found out. Hemp oil if produced properly is a cure-all that the pharmaceutical industry can't patent.
Two years a go I contacted the Liberals, the Conservatives and the New Democratic Party about this situation. I also provided them with evidence to backup what I was saying. No one lifted a finger, in most cases I was lucky to get a reply. I contacted the R.C.M.P. along with many other organizations and Public Interest TV shows, with little or no response.
Why are all these people trying to avoid such a simple truth? If I am in some way wrong in what I have been saying then I invite the system to come and prove it. I would be happy to put on a public demonstration of what this oil can do. That would answer this question for the Canadian public once and for all. It seems unbelievable that we have a law in Canada that will not allow us to cure our own diseases with a natural herbal remedy.
While much of the evidence for the effectiveness of Hemp is reports from patients and doctors, it is important to realize that this reporting leads to restrictions of drugs and their withdrawal from the market. Such was the case with doctors reporting the birth defects from Thalidomide and heart problems with the Fen-Phen combination of drugs. Further reports led to new uses for Thalidomide as a drug to treat leprosy rather than morning sickness. Anecdotal evidence (reports and observation by patients or doctors) usually indicates to a doctor that a treatment or drug should be altered, discontinued or changed. In addition to the evidence, much research has been done and a list of a few of the researchers and their papers or publications is here. [Penicillin was approved for use with less experience and data than is available on the effectiveness of Hemp - only six patients]. The results of the cases can be readily replicated by any practitioner, medical or otherwise, anywhere, to cure malignant melanomas and more importantly, save lives. The topical application of hemp oil salves or balms helps to control or cure various skin conditions. Taken orally, the oil tends to seek out and destroy cancer cells in the body, but as with any drug, too much can cause side effects; most notable with hemp oil is drowsiness. Unlike opiates and their derivatives, hemp oil is not addictive.
For those who may find it incredible that the medical establishment would ignore or even disdain such research we remind the reader that the history of the medical establishment includes examples of mule-like stubbornness, incompetence, mediocrity, greed, arrogance, and stupidity. Consider the case of Dr. Ignas Semmelweis:
In 1847, Dr. Semmelweis, a respected Hungarian physician who was concerned about the high mortality rate of women giving birth in hospital, instituted a procedure at one hospital whereby doctors washed and disinfected their hands before delivering babies. Immediately, the mortality rate dropped from THIRTY percent to near zero. Seven other hospitals followed suit with similar results.
The European medical establishment recognized Dr. Semmelweis's achievement by blocking his applications for further research funds, vilifying and ostracizing him, and, ultimately, causing him to lose his prestigious positions at maternity hospitals. In America, the newly formed American Medical Association added insult to injury by threatening to revoke the license of any doctor caught washing his hands. Dr. Semmelweis was so distressed that women continued to die that he suffered a mental breakdown that eventually led to his death in 1865.
Don't expect a doctor working inside the system to buck the system. The risks are still too great! The advice she or he offers you is controlled by the large medical industry that makes its money from expensive cancer fighting drugs and treatments. It is an industry that doesn't look favorably on natural supplements or other cancer treatments that they cannot patent or make a large profit from. Years from now the current conventional cancer treatments used by doctors will on the whole be viewed in the same light that we view the old medical practice of blood letting to cure illnesses.
When Rick Simpson first announced he had cured cancer by using his home-grown cannabis oil, it would have been fair to expect fanfares and Nobel prizes at the very least.
Rick Simpson and his home grown cancer treatment
With Cancer expected to directly impact on 1 in 3 of our lives at some stage, it is in its self a huge proportion of the entire healthcare spend. So to suggest here was a substance which could reduce tumors for just a few pence/cents a dose, was big news. Or so you would have thought.
What actually happened beggars belief. Rick Simpson was arrested, branded a snake oil peddlar and cast off from his native Canadian homeland, forced to live in the US under the threat of re-arrest should he return to Canada.
Today however its been announced the cannabis extract marketed by UK based biotech GW Pharmaceuticals is expected to achieve universal approval in the treatment of (wait for it) cancer. Sativex was initially brought to market as a treatment for the spasticity associated with Multiple Sclerosis. But as more evidence becomes available its becoming apparent Rick Simpson was onto something with his cancer treatment.
And with sales for the treatment of cancer expected to double the Ł150 million pounds it made as a MS treatment when licensing is completed, that would be a fair assumption.
So are the cannabis laws really in place to 'save our children'? Or is there another, entirely more sinister agenda in play?
Read the entire Rick Simpson story, including step-by-step instructions on how to make your own cancer medicine at http://phoenixtears.ca/
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