Ron Paul for President 2012

Ron Paul is a very rare Congressman. He actually wants the people to be informed and have power in their own hands.

It is not often that a Presidential Candidate captures, and holds, my attention. There are those, like Obama, who make high promises of hope, peace and economic improvements. Then, after time passes, it is revealed that what they really have to offer is more war, a worse economy and very little hope.

The more I learn about Ron Paul, the more I like him. He has been consistent for over three decades in his views, especially on Foreign Policy. The United States empire has troops in different countries throughout the world. Ron Paul wants to get all of them out. It is an enormous expenditure and it does nothing but cause hostility with the countries these soldiers are stationed in.

He also wants to end the War in Iraq, and has said that the official reasons for going to war are almost always false. When the USA declared war on Iraq the reason given was that there were members of AlQuida there, and weapons of mass destruction. Ron Paul said that now we know AlQuida members were not in Iraq (they were in Saudi Arabia) and there were no weapons of mass destruction. He wants us to stop throwing away our money, sinking our economy and sending our men off to die in a war that shouldn't even be happening.

He is also the only Congressman who stood up to defend Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. He is the only one to point out how there was a much bigger fuss over Assange publishing the documents, rather than the startling content of the documents. Ron Paul said that no person working for the USA has been harmed as a result of the information that has been published via WikiLeaks, but there is a lot of embarrassment for the government who has had their gaping flaws revealed.


Below are two links of Ron Paul addressing Congress.

The link below is the first I ever saw or heard of Ron Paul. He caught my attention when he said, "what if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost ALWAYS based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests"

Ron Paul's What If? Speech

The link below is Ron Paul defending WikiLeaks and Julian Assange; he is essentially defending our First Amendment Right- Freedom Of Speech.

Ron Paul defending WikiLeaks

Ron Paul wants to legalize freedom in the United States of America. He wants people to keep their Constitutional Rights. He has shown repeatedly that he is not afraid to go against popular opinion in order to be a voice of truth and reason.

When a person starts listening to Ron Paul it becomes clear that he is the best candidate to win the 2012 Presidential Election.

John F Kennedy And The Formula For Freedom

John F Kennedy was a unique President and individual. He, unlike many heads of State, encouraged people to question the government, to get themselves informed and have their own ideas and opinions. He empowered American people to be aware and make sure that their Constitutional Rights were in no way compromised. He understood that people have to be actively involved in keeping their freedom, and encouraged an entire nation to do this.

It is very interesting to read some of the things that he said fifty years ago. It is interesting how applicable these ideas are to today's world.

On April 16, 1959, John F Kennedy said the following passage:

"The Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our Liberty. Let us not be afraid of debate or dissent- let us encourage it. For if we should ever abandon these basic American traditions in the name of fighting Communism, what would it profit to win the whole world when we have lost our soul?"

What really caught me about in this quote is that the world "Communism" could just as easily be "Terrorism." It seems that there is always some boogy-man movement that is threatening to come in and destroy our nation. There is always some reason to give up our rights for a bit of "security" from these terrible, elusive movements.

We have come, as a Nation, from having a President who wanted a truly empowered and free people to having a President who is annoyed when asked to simply present his birth certificate. We are a nation who's headline news revolves around celebrity lives and scandals rather than the slow disappearance of our fundamental Constitutional Rights.

John F Kennedy knew that freedom is not a given. Total power corrupts totally. People have to be active participants in order to maintain what is rightfully theirs. He said repeatedly what we need to do to hold onto our rights, he gave us the formula. He said there needs to be debate, meanwhile the new Patriot Act is passed with very little debate. Right now there is a new Bill presented in Congress that that will allow any person who is a threat to "national security" to be arrested without a trial. A direct violation of the 6th Amendment. Not only is it not being intensely debated, the media is not even informing the nation that this is happening.

We are a nation that is losing its soul. The essence of freedom and liberty is dissolving, being replaced with a mixture of fear and apathy. It is time, as a nation, for us to wake up and claim what is rightfully ours. To insist on no less than what our forefathers intended for us to have.

"Thomas Jefferson once said that if you expect a people to be ignorant and free you expect what never was and never will be" -John F Kennedy

Wake up America! When a sex scandal becomes bigger news than losing our Constitutional Rights

A few days ago a new Bill was discretely introduced by Congress. This Bill permits the US government to arrest and detain terrorist suspects indefinitely with no charge or trial. This Bill makes no distinction between US citizens and non US citizens.

This Bill goes against our Constitutional Rights. A direct violation of Amendment VI, which states, "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State..."

So naturally this is being greatly debated and people are talking about it across the nation, or that is what would be expected.

Instead, turn on any political television or radio station and Rep. Anthony Weiner sending pictures of his weiner on the Internet is what is being spoken about, ad nauseum.

Type into google search "anti terrorist bill June 2011" and it is difficult to find any information on the Bill. Type in "Rep. Anthony Weiner" and his full drama is right there.

This is a joke, right?

This Bill gives the US military the right to detain American Citizens in the name of "National Security." If the person is detained in error there is nothing in the Bill about correcting this error. To view a five minute interview talking about what this Bill could potentially mean to the American people, watch the link below.

Terrorist Bill Interview

This Bill needs to be a hot topic on the debate table. This is no light matter. Many people post explicit things on the internet, no it is not appropriate, but that will not effect every citizen of this country. This Bill has the potential to take away what our for-fathers intended us to have. What this country was based on, freedom.

As Benjamin Franklin said over two hundred years ago, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

As a country we need to wake up and hold on to what belongs to us. Demand the Constitutional Rights that are rightfully ours.

Why go Vegan? Animal Cruelty, Health and the Environment

Four months ago I became a vegan. I thought eating animal products was perfectly fine, I just gave them up in order to start eating a plant based whole foods diet. My motivation was simply to clear my skin and improve my energy and clarity of mind for school.

Since then, I have learned so much about the poison Americans are being fed through the food system in general. There are so many things that are not spoken about. For the purpose of writing this post I will focus on meat, eggs and dairy products alone.

My mind about the consumption of meat started to change when I learned of the cruel, brutal, torturous conditions in the meat factories (they are not farms like they advertise in all the commercials and food packages - these are NOT happy cows). The fact that shook me up was learning that in many factories they use a tazer that is supposed to kill the cow before being processed, but only 30% of the cows are actually killed. The rest have been caught on the security tapes being skinned alive and kicking desperately for their lives while having their legs chopped off.

Treatment of dairy cows, chickens, pigs and the likes is not any better. These are truly torture chambers.

For anyone who has ever loved an animal, who has ever had a pet, it's heart breaking to think the question, "why is it okay to do this to these animals and not this one that I love?"

Scientists have known for years that meat, eggs and dairy products, contrary to what is advertised everywhere, are not good for our health and actually cause many sicknesses. Some of them being obesity, cancer and heart disease. Part of this is a result of the pharmaceuticals and hormones that the animals consume, and we consume when we eat the animal products. Scientists have showed that it is not the drugs alone that are making us sick. The animal products themselves are not good for us. The meat protein harms our bodies.

To hear two prominent scientists clearly show the relationship between animal product consumption and disease, I would highly recommend watching the movie "Forks Over Knives".

To find movie times near you click the link below:

"Forks Over Knives" Showtimes

Not only are animal products detrimental to the health of our bodies, but also to the health of our planet. One-third of the worlds land mass has been bulldozed for pastures and factory farming. This has had a terrible impact on global warming. Not only are all of those tree's missing that are not absorbing CO2, the cattle are emitting toxins into the air; from the eight million of tons of CO2 they exhale into the atmosphere to the the nitrous oxide and methane gas emitted from their manure and the animals themselves.

Meat and dairy farming is destroying our planet, while it is known that organic plant based farming uses far less energy and feeds many more people. If just a portion of the grain that goes to feeding the cattle was given to people, world hunger would no longer exist.

Below is a link to Lisa Bloom, a prominent attorney and life long vegetarian, speaking about the brutal treatment of animals in the meat factories and the impact of these factories on our planet.

Lisa Bloom: How to be Vegan in a Dumbed Down World (8 mins)

My mind has been totally changed when it comes to the consumption of animal products, and it has been changed on so many levels. The cruel treatment of the animals, the diseases that come hand in hand with meat consumption, and the destroying of this planet.

When I first started on this path of being vegan I had no idea that the consumption of meat had such a wide range of negative side effects.

Though it is shocking to start learning about, it is actually good news. It is good news because these things are happening whether we know about it or not. Once we know what is going on, and the terrible impact of the meat, egg and dairy industry, we can spread the information and take steps towards change

Every time we shop, every time we sit down for a meal, we are voting for what things will be sold in the stores, we are voting for what industries will thrive. It is in our hands to make changes: to vote for a healthy organic plant based way of eating that only benefits everyone from the producers to the consumers rather than an animal based way of eating that tortures innocent beings and harms the consumer.

For those who are not moved by learning the information above, they might be interested for the same reason I originally was. Over the past four months my skin has become increasingly clear, and my energy level and clarity of mind have increased ten fold. Those two things alone would have been motivation enough for me to continue living a vegan lifestyle.

God Bless you and yours

"Forks Over Knives" -movie review

I just watched this excellently made documentary on the correlation between health and what we eat. Specifically how eating a meat based diet is bad for our health and makes us sick; while a plant based whole foods diet not only stops us from getting more sick, but can reverse illnesses.

It is impossible to put all of the valuable information from the film into one short review. There is so much to learn, I want to watch it again with a pen and paper to take notes.

At the heart of the film are two doctors who didn't even know each other when they started their research decades ago, but have met up and work closely for the same purpose; that of spreading the information that eating a plant based diet is the key to health and vitality.

One doctor, who started research from a clinical point of view, became interested in this while performing one surgery after another. Doing bypass heart surgery, removing cancerous tumors, but never being able to help anyone other than that person under the knife. Even then, he realized that many of these people became sick again. After extensive research, going against everything he had learned and believed, he started to learn that he was just treating the symptom not the cause; that the cause was in the meat, dairy and eggs these people were eating.

The other doctor came at this same topic from a different viewpoint. He studied population, diet and disease statistics around the world, and repeatedly came to the same conclusion that societies that consume a large amount of meat, dairy and egg products also have high statistics for disease (including cancer and heart disease) while populations that consume plant base foods have a more healthy and vital society.

They talk about the myths that have been perpetuated in our society, that meat is necessary for us to have enough protein, and that calcium is good for our bones. Instead they talk about the fact that both of these things are actually detrimental to our health.

It is so interesting to see the research that shows how simple of a solution there is to heal so many ailments that are plaguing the people of the world. They even touch upon how a plant based diet is not only better for health, but is better for the environment and could be the solution to solving world hunger. Something as simple as changing to a plant based whole foods diet.

Some people think that is extreme. One of the doctors said that heart bypass surgery is a very common procedure to be performed in this country. That ripping open someone's chest, cutting open their leg, taking an artery from their leg and attaching it to their heart, well, this seems a bit extreme.

The solution is so simple,

That we eat to live, rather than live to eat.

For more information on the movie, and showtimes near you, please click the link below

www.ForksOverKnives.com

I would recommend bringing a pen and paper, just in case you want to take notes.

~peace to you~

GMO's - what are we eating?

What is GMO? GMO literally translates to Genetically Modified Organism. Scientists are able to isolate specific genes, then they can insert those genes into organisms, especially food crops, to produce "desirable" traits. Some of these desirable traits are that they can make the crops resistant to pests, weeds, and add nutrients to them. All great in theory.

One of the abilities they have is to put vaccines into these seeds, and thus vaccinate consumers through their food. The article I found this information in is posted below. The author endorses this as if it is a good thing. This ability to manipulate food concerns me because if they have the ability to put pharmaceuticals in the genes of a plant, how do I know I am not consuming them?

I found this article helpful for gathering basic information, but definitely maintain my own point of view on the matter:

Genetically Modified Foods: Harmful of Helpful?

I watched a documentary "Scientists Under Attack" (a documentary on well respected scientists who lost it all when they did not endorse GMO food), in part of the documentary an independent researcher from another country tested the effects of GMO potato on rats. All the rats he tested on developed cancer. He said he would not eat these foods and would not recommend that anyone else eat these foods. Big company shut him down and stopped him from giving this as his official results.

Effects of Feeding GMO potato to rats (about 5 mins)
"remember all these studies are done before you can do any experiments with humans. Now in this thing of course the whole thing has been changed around because you are being used as the guinea pig, they are doing the experiments on you. What is even more is that you do not know whether they are doing it or not..."

Scientist Under Attack

Growing and eating truly organic food is becoming increasingly impossible. Monsanto, the company that owns GMO seed, has made it nearly impossible for organic farming to continue to exist. They have passed laws so only GMO seeds can be purchased and used; Even farmers who do manage to have organic seeds, their crops are being contaminated via pollination from neighboring GMO farms. The organic farmers are fighting back and have filed a law suit against the big company. To read on the case open the link below:

Organic Farmers v. Monsanto

This is a lot of information to pack into one post. And all of the information that is here is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the matter of GMO's.

So, what do we do with this knowledge?

One step is to avoid commonly genetically modified foods,
Some major genetically modified foods to look out for are:
-corn
-soy
-milk
-canola oil
-salmon
-meat (animals are fed GMO corn, we eat the animals, we eat GMOs)

I know that I am just beginning to learn about what is happening with GMO foods, and how it has penetrated the United States food system with little to no acknowledgement. Just beginning to learn about all of the negative effects of these foods on both our health and environment. I do know that it is time to take action to change this. As I learn more myself I will be sharing.

This is exactly why freedom of speech was made as the first amendment. To protect people's abilities to speak about and uncover the truth, and to decide for ourselves whether or not we want to participate in this large scale science experiment.

Run From the Cure

This might sound shocking, but the pharmaceutical companies do not want to find a cure for cancer. Cancer is big business, and there is a LOT of money to be made.

Over the past few years I have watched several documentaries and read several articles that all attest to this.

Below is a great documentary I watched last night titled "Run From the Cure." It is about a man in Canada who discovered that hemp oil cures cancer, and the Canadian government quickly shut him down.

Run From the Cure

So many people are making money off of sickness; for cancer specifically there is a long list from the pharmaceutical companies themselves who make the drugs, the hospitals, the doctors, each "walk for a cure" that takes place lines the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies, the people who make wigs for the balding patients, etc.

The startling thing of it all is that in many cases the drugs make the patient more sick and die quicker than they would have had they had no treatment at all.

Now, I am not saying all doctors and hospital workers don't want their patients to get better. I believe many of them have the best intentions in mind. But the pharmaceutical companies who fund their medical schools and textbooks have them brainwashed to believe only their way is correct, and everything else is witchcraft.

This discovery of hemp oil's healing abilities is not the only means to cure cancer. There have been people who have been cured through diet (one of them I have read about is macrobiotics), there are people who have used homeopathy, there are psychic healers who are able to make people well, and more.

Now, many people don't want to hear that the pharmaceutical companies don't have their best interest in mind. Quite frankly, it is a scary thing to hear at first.

But if somebody has ears to hear, this is actually good and great news. There ARE WAYS TO BE CURED! We do not have to blindly follow the dictates of a few wealthy people. We have the resources we need. It is very empowering.

When I was little girl, about 8 years old, my grandmother died of cancer. She tried everything the doctor said, would get a little better, then her cancer would come back. Towards the end it was a very sad thing to behold, how deteriorated this beautiful light filled woman had become.

I can't help but wonder, if she was still alive and was diagnosed now (now that I am a young woman and have some knowledge of these things) would she be alive and thriving ten years from now? I have a very strong suspicion that she would be.

God bless you and yours