One of many reasons the West can never forgive the Serbs https://t.co/vzlM2qK6dz

— Kit Klarenberg (@KitKlarenberg) August 18, 2023

From Global Research.  This story revolves around Patrice Lumumba, 1925-January 17, 1961, but it is really a story about U.S. foreign policy in dealing with independent states erupting all over Africa.  Later that year, the UN Second Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold, was killed in a plane crash.  It was sabotage.  It was an assassination.  

The conflict is an old one: Colonial Rule vs. Self-Government.  There is/was the British Empire.  The Congo was ruled under Belgian colonial rule.  

I have learned much about  William A.M. Burden II from Peggy and I.  I was best acquainted with his 20-year tenure… as Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Defense Analyses [IDA] and his contribution to the quality of the output of this “think tank’s serving the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff…His government service reached its apogee during his two years, 1959-61, as Ambassador to Belgium…He has been most responsive over these years also to the needs of Columbia University which he has served as a trustee…” – General and former IDA President Maxwell Taylor in foreword to Columbia University Life Trustee William A.M. Burden’s 1982 book, Peggy and I: A Life Too Busy For A Dull Moment

“Before I accepted my ambassadorship in Belgium I had been given in 1957…appointment as ‘a public trustee’ of the Institute for Defense Analyses [IDA]. It became one of the top priorities of my life.  I was elected chairman in May 1959.  One of the unfortunate side-effects of the student protest movement against the Vietnam War was that IDA itself became a target for anti-war protests, and its member universities were subjected to faculty and student pressure to cancel their ties…” – Columbia University Life Trustee William A.M. Burden in his 1982 book, Peggy and I.

“Only prudent, therefore to plan on the basis that Lumumba Government threatens our vital interests in Congo and Africa generally. A principal objective of our political and diplomatic action must therefore be to destroy Lumumba government as now constituted…” – Columbia University Life Trustee and U.S. Ambassador to Belgium William A.M. Burden in a July 19, 1960 cable to the U.S. State Department.

“The Belgians were sort of toying with the idea of seeing to it that Lumumba was assassinated. I went beyond my instructions and said, well, I didn’t think it would be a bad idea either, but I naturally never reported this to Washington—but Lumumba was assassinated. I think it was all to the good…” – Columbia University Life Trustee William A. M. Burden in a 1968 Oral History Interview with Columbia University School of Journalism’s Advanced International Reporting Program Director, John Luter.

. . . 

When Columbia and Barnard students first occupied Hamilton Hall on Columbia University’s campus on Apr. 23, 1968, one of their six demands was “that the university sever all ties with the Institute for Defense Analyses [IDA] and that [then-Columbia] President Kirk and Trustee Burden resign their positions on the Executive Committee of that institution immediately.”

Coincidentally, besides representing Columbia University—with the (now-deceased) Grayson Kirk—on the Executive Committee of the Pentagon’s IDA  weapons research think-tank in 1968, Columbia Life Trustee William A.M. Burden was also the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium who recommended fifty-seven years ago, in July 1960, that “a principal objective” of the Republican administration in Washington, D.C. of former Columbia University President Eisenhower  “must therefore be to destroy” the democratically-elected “Lumumba government as now constituted” in Belgium’s former Congo [Zaire] colony. As David Talbot recalled in his 2015 book, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government:

“Dulles, Doug Dillon (then serving as a State Department undersecretary), and William Burden, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, led the charge within the Eisenhower administration to first demonize and then dispose of [Patrice] Lumumba. All three men had financial interests in the Congo. The Dillon family’s investment bank handled the Congo’s bond issues. Dulles’s old law firm represented the American Metal Climax (later AMAX), a mining giant with holdings in the Congo…Ambassador Burden was a company director…Ambassador Burden was a Vanderbilt heir…

“Burden, who had acquired his ambassadorship by contributing heavily to the 1956 Eisenhower campaign, spent his days in Brussels attending diplomatic receptions…It was the ambassador who first raised alarms about the rising Patrice Lumumba…Burden began sending agitated cables to Dulles in Washington well before Lumumba’s election…By the…summer [of 1960], Burden was cabling Washington ‘to destroy Lumumba government’ as a threat to ‘our vital interest in Congo.’…”

“…At an NSC [National Security Council] meeting in August 1960, Eisenhower gave [CIA Director Allen] Dulles direct approval to ‘eliminate’ Lumumba. Robert Johnson, the minutes taker at the NSC meeting…said there was nothing ambiguous about Eisenhower’s lethal order. ‘I was surprised that I would ever hear a president say anything like this in my presence or the presence of a group of people’…

“…Lumumba ‘would remain a grave danger,’ Dulles told an NSC meeting on Sept. 21, 1960, ‘as long as he was not yet disposed of.’…”

A Life Trustee of Columbia University since 1956, Burden (who died in 1984) was among the “people in the Eisenhower administration” who “hunted for ways to reduce Lumumba’s influence” and, along with CIA Director Allen Dulles “and the CIA’s man in Leopoldville [Kinshasa],” Larry Devlin, “devised actions,” according to Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Professor of History Emmanuel Gerard and University of Pennsylvania Professor of History Bruce Kuklick’s 2015 book, Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba.

The same book also noted that Devlin was “a CIA agent from the late 1940s” who “began spying for the CIA in Brussels, where he had a cover position as an attaché’” in 1958 and where he “made contacts with the Congo’s politicians, who came to Belgium for various deliberations.” After his appointment as the CIA’s chief of station in the Congo in “the second part of 1959,” Devlin “went there with Burden” in March 1960, when the Columbia Life Trustee and his wife traveled through the still not-yet independent Belgian Congo. Coincidentally, besides being a Columbia trustee in 1960, Burden was also a trustee of the Farfield Foundation that was utilized by the CIA, during the Cold War Era of the 1950s and 1960s, as a conduit for covertly financing projects and journals, like the American Congress of Cultural Freedom [CCF] and Encounter magazine, which promoted U.S. power elite foreign policy objectives.

Following his March 1960 trip to the Congo with CIA Station Chief Devlin, “Burden told the Department of State that America could not permit the Congo to go left after independence,” according to Death in the Congo. And after the Congo [Zaire] was granted its formal independence on June 30, 1960, the Columbia Life Trustee–who also “maintained during his ambassadorship, a directorship in American Metal Climax, whose Rhodesian copper interests were to make it the leading corporate defender of a conservative order…in Katanga (where Belgian troops began supporting an illegally-established secessionist regime on July 11, 1960), according to Roger Housen’s 2002 paper “Why Did The US Want To Kill Prime Minister Lumumba Of The Congo?”–began pushing for the removal of the democratically-elected anti-imperialist Lumumba as Congolese Prime Minister in July 1960. As Madeline Kalb observed in her 1982 book, The Congo Cables: The Cold War in Africa:

“The U.S. Embassy in Brussels, replying to the U.S. State Department’s query on July 19…took a very strong line regarding Lumumba, recommending openly for the first time that the United States try to remove him from office. The U.S. ambassador,William Burden, said he believed the situation called for ‘urgent measures on various levels.’…Burden concluded by noting that while the U.S. Embassy in Leopoldville [Kinshasa] had the primary responsibility for dealing with the internal political situation in the Congo, the CIA in Brussels would be ‘reporting separately some specific suggestions.’”

The Death in the Congo book also noted:

“…Burden barraged Washington with memos asking greater sympathy for the [Belgian] imperialists…He understood, he told [then-U.S.] Secretary [of State Christian] Herter, why the United States would look at issues from the point of view of the Congo. Nevertheless, America should instead pressure the UN to support Belgium. At the end of July Burden briefed Dulles when returned to Washington for discussions. From Europe, Burden would continue as a mouthpiece for the more rabid anticommunism guiding Dulles’s report to the NSC [National Security Council]…”

Continue reading . . .  

Memory Loss--Not Natural to Aging?
When I taught high school and would forget something, the students mercilessly tagged me with having Alzheimer's.  Who knows?  Maybe I was having an Alzheimer's moment.  But it's not just kids who extrapolate tidbits from the news about older people or what it means to overlook or forget or why someone overlooks or forgets, it's also other adults who believe the propaganda about the mental health of others, and in particular older people.  Turns out that older people are not at any greater risk of memory loss than younger people.  But the fact that we're told that there is we believe it because, well, when we're 27 we may not interact with many 85 year olds on a daily basis to test their memory.  People's memory will surprise you.  It's always surprised me.  When I was in college I had to memorize the titles, the authors, the dates, the first lines, and the theme of over 80 poems for an end-of-the-year English final.  I aced it.  Because I studied for it.  I used flash cards and drilled myself endlessly for three days prior to the test to where I could think of nothing else or wanted to.  Then there is other information, like Los Angeles Dodger's 1969 team rosters.  I could rattle off names, numbers, positions, and some distinctive offensive or defensive strength of the player, whether he batted right or left, and whether or not he was a star or not.  Other folks have tremendous memories, memorizing entire lines of computer code or algorithms.  I am not up to that feat.  But plenty of young folks today are.  So watch out. 

The following article on memory loss is by Natural News staff writer, David Gutierrez.  The headline gives you what you need.  The contents of the article are not that great.  He explains that memory loss is not age-related condition, but the result of brain damage.  I am always a skeptic, which I guess gave rise to this blog in the first place.  I work on percentages.  Most people don't.  They hear brain damage and are consumed by fear.  Or they hear AIDS and want to throw themselves under a bus. Put that off for another time.  Work in percentages.  Scientists do.  So do good doctors.  If a person has HIV, you have to ask yourself what the percentages are of the virus advance on healthy cells. What's the ratio of healthy cells to sick ones?  80/20?  Same thing with brain damage.  What part of the brain is damaged, and how much of the brain is damaged?  What is the percentage?  Even with these statistics, these only serve doctors in the accuracy or proximation of their diagnosis.  I would take every doctor diagnosis with a grain of salt.  The whole reason that we color their diagnosis as authoritative is because we're taught to.  Applying the concept of percentages, we're more likely to increase the percentage of certainty in a doctor's diagnosis when we know nothing about organ function or how it interacts with other organs or what our medical or biochemical history is or how nutrition mediates any condition.  Medical history is riddled with horror stories of people dying from the wrong diagnosis or a diagnosis mistreated.  I knew of a woman who was admitted to the hospital because her reproductive organ was bleeding.  The admitting ER doctor thought that she may have pneumonia and ordered her a room.  He ordered her a room because she had great health insurance.  So the initial diagnosis was pneumonia and the treatment was antibiotics.  Antibiotics?  For pneumonia? Drip.  Drip.  Drip.  For 10 days.  Technician after technician wheeled their holy hardware into her room as if they were auditioning.  They would conduct a heart exam and show the woman on her back in the hospital bed what the monitor was doing.  But she didn't know what it meant.  She wasn't trained to read it, let alone interpret the data.  No follow-up.  Never heard from that cardiologist again. Then the woman was given a breathing test.  The technician commented that her breathing was pretty good.  I asked, "I thought that she has pneumonia?" "You'll have to check with her doctor" came the retort. Well, where the hell was the doctor!  So we got no valuable information.  Oh, we got information alright, but no integrated information that could either confirm or deny the initial diagnosis of pneumonia.  All we got . . . no, excuse me . . . all she got were orders for more tests.  "To really find out what is going on in her lungs, we'll need to conduct a CT scan."  So the mindless and immoral orderlies transferred her to a mobile bed and wheeled her down the cold hall into an elevator that took her down to the radiation lab in the basement.  I held her hand the whole time.  Her eyes were fixed on mine consoling her fear and suspending the reality and the inevitability of these days and hours being the remaining few she has in this life and what my role in them was. Was I enabling the whole process?  Was I guarding against the monstrous robots who'd surrendered their powers to question for a few bucks, the altruistic psychopaths?  It was clear to me that each player knew his role. They were all just following doctor's orders.  No one stopped to ask.  "She was 89" they rationalized and "She was up there in years" came the reassurances.  Family members too saw the truth of such statements and could not muster the courage or enough self-possession to tell the government-trained doctors to go to hell.  The orderlies, the woman in the bed, and I waited for a minute in the hall for the patient already in the radiation lab to exit.  The door opened, and on her bed out she rolled.  The orderlies steering the litter made of chrome, cotton, and rubber waited patiently before they rolled her inside the room. Sitting at the center of the room, like a lasered Moloch, was the CT scan with intersecting red beams thin as string and transparent as light.  The red lights intersected like the site at the end of the barrel of a rifle. The woman lying in the mobile bed, who just a minute before was making self-effacing jokes to allay the general fears and anxieties, raised herself up by gripping my arm as if with new strength and begged in earnest, "Mike! Get me out of here!"  Her soul flushed with fear, she whispered in panic "I don't want to do this!"  The technician came over to reassure her and me of the harmless nature of the electronic portal.  I told the technician that I want to put the choice over what gets done to her body in her hands as much as possible.  He pressed me, insisting that the risks were low.  Perhaps.  If that were true, then why was his station in a closed booth insulated from any radiation?  The woman begged again.  And I told the doctor we were leaving.  On the stroll back, it pleased me that the woman was relieved and a bit scared for having survived the orders belonging to some anonymous and soulless monster.  Clearly, we could have found out who ordered the CT scan.  Easy enough.  I am sure it was her doctor.  But we were not told.  We never were told anything.  Information did not flow to the family.  Learning the rationale for the order may have proved even more difficult given the fact that the doctor was busy in his own office during the day with his own patients.  Had the doctor exhausted all his other options for discovering the cause of her ill health or for seeing whether his initial diagnosis, like a best guess, was accurate?  One has to wonder how much of the diagnostic hardware is used to fund this or that procedure.  Imagine if that woman had proceeded with the CT scan.  What would it have found that her doctor could use against her to convince her of another procedure, maybe four or five or more procedures.  I had a neighbor once who was diabetic.  She had diabetic wounds on her feet.  Her doctor cut a toe off.  Snip.  Snip.  Snip.  She returned home only to find out six months later that the infection, which the surgery was supposed to curtail, re-emerged.  And what do you think his recommendation was?  That's right . . . Snip.  Snip.  Snip.  Half a foot this time.  I mean he really wanted to get that nasty infection, right?  She went home.  Few months later, foot gets infected again. Snip.  Snip.  Snip.  One foot--gone!  I will spare you the details on that woman's life, except to say that the last time that I saw her in her wheel chair both of her legs were cut to their knees.  All to go after that darn infection.  And that infection is treated like a terrorist, wherein the doctor has to operate in order to prevent greater health calamities for the woman.  Pcychopathic altruists says it best.  

Back to the woman with the pneumonia.  

Once the doctor and the hospital staff learned that she was refusing tests, there was no more reason to treat her.  She was put on a daily regime of antibiotics called Rosin.  Drip.  Drip.  Drip.  That antibiotics robbed her of the natural gut flora that kept her well, that fought infection naturally.  I'd heard later that garlic is the best natural antibiotic.  But she remained in the hospital for an additional seven days while the family remained in suspended disbelief.  No information, nothing of value or pertinence was transmitted to me or any other family member.  Her last three days in the hospital were spent in transition care where the antibiotics flowed.  Drip.  Drip.  Drip.  At one point the woman claimed aloud that she was losing her mind.  She arrived home after ten days in the hospital never having the initial diagnosis confirmed, never having been offered an alternate treatment besides the Rosin.  That is a standard antibiotic a friend explained.  Though she was sent home after ten days, the woman was given a hospital bed to lie in.  It was placed in the front room.  That night we tried to restore her, give her some saturated fats, like coconut butter.  She asked me, and I will never forget this, "Mike, what did they do to me?"

It is not natural for the human memory to decline with age; such memory loss is a sign of disease Friday, March 14, 2014 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer Tags: memory loss, age, brain damage

(NaturalNews) Although the conventional wisdom would have us believe that people's memories naturally deteriorate as they get older, age-related memory loss is not found in all cultures around the world. Indeed, new research suggests that all memory loss is a sign of brain damage, even in patients who are not suffering from clinical dementia. In a study published in 2010, researchers from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago gave 350 Catholic clergy members yearly memory tests for 13 years, then scanned their brains after death. They found that the brains of patients who died without ever experiencing memory loss showed no signs of Alzheimer's disease or strokes. Based on this data, the researchers suggested that all memory loss is a sign of brain damage, most likely early-stage dementia. "What we're saying is the brain changes that are mainly responsible for Alzheimer's and other dementias also seem to be mainly responsible for very mild early changes in memory and thinking," researcher Robert S. Wilson said.

Biden will be gone between the midterms and Christmas

Podcast Episode #110 – Bill Fawell and Taking Notes on the Revolution https://t.co/DpbuR68Aoy

— Tom Luongo (#2ndAmendmentAir) (@TFL1728) June 27, 2022

6:50. Biden will be gone between the midterm elections and Christmas.  They absolutely have to get rid of him because once Kamala takes over she has to have a VP.  And she gas to get that VP confirmed by the House and the Senate before the Republicans take over in January.  So that's not a really big window.  

7:20. Because they're not particularly impressed with Harris, Biden and her can get caught up in the same scandal.  She has to resign first, then Biden appoints whom he wants to be president, and they never go through the Congress, the Senate on this one.  She has to resign first, then Biden has to resign, or is impeached, and then, who ever they want, which in my mind is Janet Yellen, could then ascend without ever having gone through a Senate confirmation.  The sane thing they did with Spiro Agnew and Nelson Rockefeller [1974] right?

7:55. Stage III requires someone who can be a virtuous killer.  Kamala fits that model way better than Janet Yellen.  Janet Yellen is just like somebody's grandmother.  She's not going to order the deaths of anybody.  Now, Kamala Harris would.  You've git to look at it as Barrack Obama's third term, and Kamala Harris is just there as a proxy for Barrack.  So she's got to stay there.  If they don't have a Vice Presidential candidate in place before the Republicans take over the House or the Senate, or both, you know that Kamala is going to screw up, and her odds of getting impeached are what, 80 or 90%?  Even more so if she doesn't get a vice president.  

9:00. The political turmoil comes down to how big a majority the Republicans come up with and the color and flavor of that majority in the House.  If it's a whole bunch of mouth-breathing, MAGA-tard revolutionaries, putting a leash on the GOP establishment types like Mitch McConnell and whatnot, if it's a hundred seats and it's 5 seats in the Senate, the political situation coming into 2024, everybody and their brother will vote for impeachment if that's what the politically popular move is.  That's been my calculus. But if it's only 40 seats, the Democrats may actually be able to hold some legitimacy together.  

9:40. The question is will we be able to get through an election.  I even question whether they'll be able to engineer an election in 2024.  If they do, what are the odds of everyone accepting it?  Ine of the triggers in Stage III is when things go to hell.  Usually, the trigger for that are the food riots. That's when the City goes out to the suburbs chasing down crimes of convenience.  When those crimes start becoming crimes of necessity . . . .  The cities are the place where shortages hit first.  When they start going out into the hinterland, they start killing people.  When you start killing people, then people want to kill back.  When those animal spirits are let out of the har, you don't put them back in.  We've seen that in Iraq.  We've seen that in Syria.  We've seen it in Ukraine.  That's how it works.  When you get into that, someone is going to pull the trigger, and Kamala is very much that model person that would be the virtuous killer who says, "Well, I'm sorry I had to kill these people but it had to be done for the greater good."  

11:20. Personally, I see Janet Yellen in that same boat and I think that she's a lot less politically divisive.  I think central bankers, or former central bankers, who are in what I call the pay of Davos, are some of the most ruthless people on the planet and they're very good at hiding their ruthlessness, and I think Janet Yellen is one of the most ruthless people, having reviewed her career with the Fed and how she personally bamboozled Greenspan and Bernanke for years . . . .  if anybody underestimates the ruthlessness of central bankers, go look at what Mario Draghi is doing right now in Italy.  

12:10.  I agree.  I'm not quite sure it'll be Janet Yellen, but time will tell.  A revolution is different if your country is surrounded by water.  Very few people died in the English Revolution (is the 20th c. term Marxists assigned to the civil wars in England between 1642-1651; it is not a reference to the Glorious Revolution of 1688), like 4%.  But if you were in Ireland, 60% of the people died during the English Revolution.  At the same time, what they call the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648, a war within the Holy Roman Empire, which is really a continuation of an 80-year war across Europe, 40-60% of the people died in the 30-year span from 1618 to 1648.  I looked up Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America kind of in that same scheme.  And the situation was very much as it was worldwide as it was in the 1600s.  That's what I think you're going to see a lot of deaths coming out of this revolution.  But the United States, we're surrounded by water, so we have more time, it's not as intense.  Well, we do have people coming across in the border war in the South.  

13:45  Now we're inviting them as opposed to invading them.  We're invading the world and inviting the world at the same time.  This is really interesting.  The precursor to the Revolution was actually the Ron Paul Revolution of 2008 and 2012 which actually set the stage for populists on the Left and the Right, Bernie and Trump to take center stage in 2016.  What would you use as the historical precedence for the model that you've overlaid on the United States?  When you talk about Strauss and Howe about the 4th Turning, they have their historical precedents for the previous "turning," as just an example.  So what do we have going on here?  You just brought up the Thirty Years' War as a precedent to the British Revolution.  

14:48  After Phase IV, I think it is, I go through every western revolution from 1600 up through Hitler, and show how within this 4 stage pattern.  Yeah, one of the interesting things that happen early in a revolution, in Stage I, is the big sex scandals.  You had it with Respighi?] . . . in the Russian Revolution.  And you had it with Rasputin.  In our American Revolution, you had it with the sex scandal was in Europe, and that was the Hellfire Club.  in France, you the Marquis de Sade.  In Hitler's Germany, you had Hitler himself with his cousin, who probably died of suicide pregnant with his child.  In American Civil War, you had the grandson, er son, of Francis Scott Key who got his brains blown out by Sickels in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House.  Daniel Webster was found to have two to three out-of-wedlock children.  Senator Harrison from South Carolina was caught up in all kinds of dalliances.  A lot of things . . . the thing about revolutions, because they're bankruptcies, you only have two choices: which is liquidation or reorganization.  Liquidation is killing people; reorganization is reorganizing your government.  And that's the peaceful way, and that's what I've been talking about this for the last dozen years.  the only way we can do this peacefully is that we have to reorganize.  Relatively peacefully.  Yeah, in Chapters 5 and 6, I lay out how that reorganization occurs and what has to be done.  I was actually surprised when I was at some gun shows, Convention of States was just starting out, and they were talking about the same thing.  If you look at their Preamble, it's term limits into centralizing the federal government.  They didn't go into the specifics.  I do.  Because they really don't understand the situation [that well].  

17:28  It's a theme that I've been on for years.  When I built my house back in 2003, I needed a defensible position, friends with post-revolutionary skills, and the whole 9 yards.  And I thought, 2008, Lehman Brothers, the balloon was going up then.  Now what really happened then was the beginning of bankruptcy.  The global monetary system broke in 2008.  They patched it together for 13, 14 years since then.  We've had coordinated central bank policy, now that's nearing its end with the Fed declaring independence and Russia declaring independence from the global financial system. That's what's clearly happening now, and traditional commercial banking interests here in the United States are saying, "No, that's enough.  You've gone too far."  And the Russians are saying "We need a commodity-backed standard and get rid of the colonial impulses of Europe, and so my question to you is, and this is where it's interesting, and I think that you and I see all of this similarly and glad to see you go into details about all of this, now I am interested in this and need to get a copy of your book and learn history that I didn't know much about.  My theory of Davos is that we're being pushed into a civil war, now, during Stage III by a group of people that sees the opportunity to grab their colonies and power back and they;re making the big move for the boob on prom night, and it's an agenda that they always wanted to implement by 2030, or say, 2050, but they had to pull it forward by 10 years because of the revolutionary spirit within the United States and other places, Brexit, Hungary, Italy, that the populism against their rule, transnational, oligarchic rule is rising too rapidly for which they have to put the kibosh on.  And though we are surrounded by water and have a little more time, we have globalist, internationalist powers actively subverting and destroying from within and have been for years as far as I'm concerned. 

19:55. It's the English system versus the American system.  It's the American Constitution versus the French Constitution.  I trace it back to the Venetians in 1204.  They took over Constantinople.  They took over England.  They all moved with their money into England in the 1500s, and they established themselves.  And you see the same names.  You see names from the old Crusader days still showing up in positions of power and government today.  There's a lot of continuity there.  Money has continuity.  And obviously the same families, and I know it sounds conspiratorial, but I'm supposed to be one of America's biggest conspiracy heros according to Media Matters

FAUCI:JIM JONES::EUA VACCINES:KOOL-AID

CLUB OF ROME… Depopulation “I hope it can occur in a civil way”… pic.twitter.com/rBgVXgAQ03

— Pelham (@Resist_05) May 10, 2022

Who is the ghoul, you ask?  Professor Dennis Meadows. Note the universities where he's taught.  He's not just one of these woke professors, no, he's one of Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum's lieutenants.

Wow. These World Economic Forum fetid f'cks, aka, eugenicists, depopulation a'holes are not happy until you comply with their wishes by offing yourself . . . for the greater good, of course.  It's a remarkable and monstrous exploitation of religious eschatology or end times, where they seduce you into adopting the identity of your God, the aloof but personal holy spirit, the forgiving and compassionate Lord, the suffering and sacrificial lamb who died on the cross until you are transposed and become one with God, a holy being worthy of God's love to qualify for a chosen seat at His right hand.  That is what the elites want from you, that's what their propaganda campaign across 2020 and 2021 called up in you.  It's what Jim Jones did to his people, the People's Temple, a religious movement of the 1970s, who called his people to a mass suicide pact in Guyana.  The parallels are unmistakable.  Except this time, it's not led by Jim Jones, it's led by Anthony Fauci.  And it's not the People's Temple, but a secular temple called the American body politic.  It's Anthony Fauci who has called people to drink the Kool-Aid, and when there's a rustling of resistance to it, Fauci threatens more lockdowns, doubles down with the Kool-Aid injections, calling them boosters.  It's the same thing.  Same dynamic.  Similar hierarchy.  First, Jim Jones got his members to agree that they shared the same enemy: a hostile, racist society.  For Fauci, the enemy were asymptomatic carriers of a "deadly" disease.  This construct set up the fear of an unknowable but ubiquitous threat that killed the American mind more than it did any people.  Then Jones presented the solution: paradise outside of the United States, in the lush jungles of exotic Guyana. Fauci, too, presented his solution: an untested, emergency authorized vaccine that promised unheard of protection, protection so good that he had to force it on you by proxy through your employer.  For those who took the jab, it was 1978 all over again.  Just as Jim Jones exploited his People's Temple with an exclusive paradise in the jungles of South America, Fauci offered his people a rare chance at exclusive protections that if you didn't understand the science of the mRNA, you at least understood the ethics, and mindfulness, of Catholic social teaching with slogans like, "We're all in this together" and "Wear a mask to protect others, and ask your neighbor to wear one to protect you," and "Your mask protects me, and my mask protects you."  And to serve the greater good, the virtuous became Fauci's footmen.  

Benefits of Butter . . . Redux

Kerrygold grassfed butter is all the rave in the paleo circles.  For good reason, and I am glad.  But for me, salted raw butter from Organic Pastures is by far the more creamier and tastier product.  Kerrigold grassfed butter almost tastes greasy when compared to raw butter.  The health benefits can be had from both, but if that is the case then why not opt for the tastier product--that being Organic Pastures raw butter? Read about the benefits of butter from Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD:

Why Butter Is Better

by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD

When the fabricated food folks and apologists for the corporate farm realized that they couldn't block America's growing interest in diet and nutrition, a movement that would ultimately put an end to America's biggest and most monopolistic industries, they infiltrated the movement and put a few sinister twists on information going out to the public. Item number one in the disinformation campaign was the assertion that naturally saturated fats from animal sources are the root cause of the current heart disease and cancer plague. Butter bore the brunt of the attack, and was accused of terrible crimes. The Diet Dictocrats told us that it was better to switch to polyunsaturated margarine and most Americans did. Butter all but disappeared from our tables, shunned as a miscreant.

This would come as a surprise to many people around the globe who have valued butter for its life-sustaining properties for millennia. When Dr. Weston Price studied native diets in the 1930's he found that butter was a staple in the diets of many supremely healthy peoples. Isolated Swiss villagers placed a bowl of butter on their church altars, set a wick in it, and let it burn throughout the year as a sign of divinity in the butter. Arab groups also put a high value on butter, especially deep yellow-orange butter from livestock feeding on green grass in the spring and fall. American folk wisdom recognized that children raised on butter were robust and sturdy; but that children given skim milk during their growing years were pale and thin, with "pinched" faces.

Does butter cause disease? On the contrary, butter protects us against many diseases.

Butter & Heart Disease

Heart disease was rare in America at the turn of the century. Between 1920 and 1960, the incidence of heart disease rose precipitously to become America's number one killer. During the same period butter consumption plummeted from eighteen pounds per person per year to four. It doesn't take a Ph.D. in statistics to conclude that butter is not a cause. Actually butter contains many nutrients that protect us from heart disease. First among these is vitamin A which is needed for the health of the thyroid and adrenal glands, both of which play a role in maintaining the proper functioning of the heart and cardiovascular system. Abnormalities of the heart and larger blood vessels occur in babies born to vitamin A deficient mothers. Butter is America's best and most easily absorbed source of vitamin A.

Butter contains lecithin, a substance that assists in the proper assimilation and metabolism of cholesterol and other fat constituents.

Butter also contains a number of anti-oxidants that protect against the kind of free radical damage that weakens the arteries. Vitamin A and vitamin E found in butter both play a strong anti-oxidant role. Butter is a very rich source of selenium, a vital anti-oxidant--containing more per gram than herring or wheat germ.

Butter is also a good dietary source cholesterol. What?? Cholesterol an anti-oxidant?? Yes indeed, cholesterol is a potent anti-oxidant that is flooded into the blood when we take in too many harmful free-radicals--usually from damaged and rancid fats in margarine and highly processed vegetable oils. A Medical Research Council survey showed that men eating butter ran half the risk of developing heart disease as those using margarine.

Butter & Cancer

In the 1940's research indicated that increased fat intake caused cancer. The abandonment of butter accelerated; margarine--formerly a poor man's food-- was accepted by the well-to-do. But there was a small problem with the way this research was presented to the public. The popular press neglected to stress that fact that the "saturated" fats used in these experiments were not naturally saturated fats but partially hydrogenated or hardened fats--the kind found mostly in margarine but not in butter. Researchers stated--they may have even believed it--that there was no difference between naturally saturated fats in butter and artificially hardened fats in margarine and shortening. So butter was tarred with the black brush of the fabricated fats, and in such a way that the villains got passed off as heroes.

Actually many of the saturated fats in butter have strong anti-cancer properties. Butter is rich in short and medium chain fatty acid chains that have strong anti-tumor effects. Butter also contains conjugated linoleic acid which gives excellent protection against cancer.  Vitamin A and the anti-oxidants in butter--vitamin E, selenium and cholesterol--protect against cancer as well as heart disease.

Butter & the Immune System

Vitamin A found in butter is essential to a healthy immune system; short and medium chain fatty acids also have immune system strengthening properties. But hydrogenated fats and an excess of long chain fatty acids found in polyunsaturated oils and many butter substitutes both have a deleterious effect on the immune system.

Butter & Arthritis

The Wulzen or "anti-stiffness" factor is a nutrient unique to butter. Dutch researcher Wulzen found that it protects against calcification of the joints--degenerative arthritis--as well as hardening of the arteries, cataracts and calcification of the pineal gland.9 Unfortunately this vital substance is destroyed during pasteurization. Calves fed pasteurized milk or skim milk develop joint stiffness and do not thrive. Their symptoms are reversed when raw butterfat is added to the diet.

Butter & Osteoporosis

Vitamins A and D in butter are essential to the proper absorption of calcium and hence necessary for strong bones and teeth. The plague of osteoporosis in milk-drinking western nations may be due to the fact that most people choose skim milk over whole, thinking it is good for them. Butter also has anti-cariogenic effects, that is, it protects against tooth decay.

Butter & the Thyroid Gland

Butter is a good source of iodine, in highly absorbable form. Butter consumption prevents goiter in mountainous areas where seafood is not available. In addition, vitamin A in butter is essential for proper functioning of the thyroid gland.

Butter & Gastrointestinal Health

Butterfat contains glycospingolipids, a special category of fatty acids that protect against gastro-intestinal infection, especially in the very young and the elderly. For this reason, children who drink skim milk have diarrhea at rates three to five times greater than children who drink whole milk.12 Cholesterol in butterfat promotes health of the intestinal wall and protects against cancer of the colon.13 Short and medium chain fatty acids protect against pathogens and have strong anti-fungal effects.14 Butter thus has an important role to play in the treatment of candida overgrowth.

Butter & Weight Gain

The notion that butter causes weight gain is a sad misconception. The short and medium chain fatty acids in butter are not stored in the adipose tissue, but are used for quick energy. Fat tissue in humans is composed mainly of longer chain fatty acids.15 These come from olive oil and polyunsaturated oils as well as from refined carbohydrates. Because butter is rich in nutrients, it confers a feeling of satisfaction when consumed. Can it be that consumption of margarine and other butter substitutes results in cravings and bingeing because these highly fabricated products don't give the body what it needs?.

Butter for Growth & Development

Many factors in butter ensure optimal growth of children. Chief among them is vitamin A. Individuals who have been deprived of sufficient vitamin A during gestation tend to have narrow faces and skeletal structure, small palates and crowded teeth.16 Extreme vitamin A deprivation results in blindness, skeletal problems and other birth defects.17 Individuals receiving optimal vitamin A from the time of conception have broad handsome faces, strong straight teeth, and excellent bone structure. Vitamin A also plays an important role in the development of the sex characteristics. Calves fed butter substitutes sicken and die before reaching maturity.

The X factor, discovered by Dr. Weston Price (and now believed to be vitamin K2), is also essential for optimum growth. It is only present in butterfat from cows on green pasture.19 Cholesterol found in butterfat plays an important role in the development of the brain and nervous system.20 Mother's milk is high in cholesterol and contains over 50 percent of its calories as butterfat. Low fat diets have been linked to failure to thrive in children21--yet low-fat diets are often recommended for youngsters! Children need the many factors in butter and other animal fats for optimal development.

Beyond Margarine

It's no longer a secret that the margarine Americans have been spreading on their toast, and the hydrogenated fats they eat in commercial baked goods like cookies and crackers, is the chief culprit in our current plague of cancer and heart disease.22 But mainline nutrition writers continue to denigrate butter--recommending new fangled tub spreads instead. These may not contain hydrogenated fats but they are composed of highly processed rancid vegetable oils, soy protein isolate and a host of additives. A glitzy cookbook called Butter Busters promotes butter buds, made from maltodextrin, a carbohydrate derived from corn, along with dozens of other highly processed so-called low-fat commercial products.

Who benefits from the propaganda blitz against butter? The list is a long one and includes orthodox medicine, hospitals, the drug companies and food processors. But the chief beneficiary is the large corporate farm and the cartels that buy their products--chiefly cotton, corn and soy--America's three main crops, which are usually grown as monocultures on large farms, requiring extensive use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides. All three--soy, cotton and corn--can be used to make both margarine and the new designer spreads. In order to make these products acceptable to the up-scale consumer, food processors and agribusiness see to it that they are promoted as health foods. We are fools to believe them.

Butter & the Family Farm

A nation that consumes butterfat, on the other hand, is a nation that sustains the family farm. If Americans were willing to pay a good price for high quality butter and cream, from cows raised on natural pasturage--every owner of a small- or medium-sized farm could derive financial benefits from owning a few Jersey or Guernsey cows. In order to give them green pasture, he would naturally need to rotate crops, leaving different sections of his farm for his cows to graze and at the same time giving the earth the benefit of a period of fallow--not to mention the benefit of high quality manure. Fields tended in this way produce very high quality vegetables and grains in subsequent seasons, without the addition of nitrogen fertilizers and with minimal use of pesticides. Chickens running around his barnyard, and feeding off bugs that gather under cowpaddies, would produce eggs with superb nutritional qualities--absolutely bursting with vitamin A and highly beneficial fatty acids.

If you wish to reestablish America as a nation of prosperous farmers in the best Jeffersonian tradition, buy organic butter, cream, whole milk, whole yoghurt, and barn-free eggs. These bring good and fair profits to the yeoman producer without concentrating power in the hands of conglomerates.

Ethnic groups that do not use butter obtain the same nutrients from things like insects, organ meats, fish eggs and the fat of marine animals, food items most of us find repulsive. For Americans--who do not eat bugs or blubber--butter is not just better, it is essential.

Notes

Price, Weston, DDS Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, 1945, Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, Inc., La Mesa, California.

Representative of American folk traditions about butterfat is this passage from "Neighbor Rosicky", by American author Willa Cather: [The Rosickys] had been at one accord not to hurry through life, not to be always skimping and saving. They saw their neighbours buy more land and feed more stock than they did, without discontent. Once when the creamery agent came to the Rosickys to persuade them to sell him their cream, he told them how much the Fasslers, their nearest neighbours, had made on their cream last year. "Yes," said Mary, "and look at them Fassler children! Pale, pinched little things, they look like skimmed milk. I'd rather put some colour into my children's faces than put money into the bank."

Cranton, EM, MD and JP Frackelton, MD, Journal of Holistic Medicine, Spring/Summer 1984.

Nutrition Week Mar 22, 1991 21:12:2-3.

Enig, Mary G, PhD, Nutrition Quarterly, 1993 Vol 17, No 4.

Cohen, L A et al, J Natl Cancer Inst 1986 77:43.

Belury, MA Nutrition Reviews, April 1995 53:(4) 83-89.

Cohen, op cit.

American Journal of Physical Medicine, 1941, 133; Physiological Zoology, 1935 8:457.

Kabara, J J, The Pharmacological Effects of Lipids, J J Kabara, ed, The American Oil Chemists Society, Champaign, IL 1978 pp 1-14.

Jennings, IW Vitamins in Endocrine Metabolism, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield, Ill, pp 41-57.

Koopman, JS, et al American Journal of Public Health 1984 74(12):1371-1373.

Addis, Paul, Food and Nutrition News, March/April 1990 62:2:7-10.

Prasad, KN, Life Science, 1980, 27:1351-8; Gershon, Herman and Larry Shanks, Symposium on the Pharmacological Effect of Lipids, Jon J Kabara Ed, American Oil Chemists Society, Champaign, Illinois 1978 51-62.

Levels of linoleic acid in adipose tissues reflect the amount of linoleic acid in the diet. Valero, et al Annals of Nutritional Metabolism, Nov/Dec 1990.

34:6:323-327; Felton, CV et al, Lancet 1994 344:1195-96

Price, op cit.

Jennings, op cit.

DeCava, Judith Journal of the National Academy of Research Biochemists, September 1988 1053-1059.

Price, op cit.

Alfin-Slater, R B and L Aftergood, "Lipids", Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, Chapter 5, 6th ed, R S Goodhart and M E Shils, eds, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia 1980, p 131.

Smith, MM, MNS RD and F Lifshitz, MD Pediatrics, Mar 1994 93:3:438-443

Enig, op cit.

"Diet Roulette", The New York Times, May 20, 1994.

About the Authors

Sally Fallon is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. She joined forces with Enig again to write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the subject of diet and health. The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. Her four healthy children were raised on whole foods including butter, cream, eggs and meat.

Mary G. Enig, PhD is an expert of international renown in the field of lipid biochemistry. She has headed a number of studies on the content and effects of trans fatty acids in America and Israel, and has successfully challenged government assertions that dietary animal fat causes cancer and heart disease. Recent scientific and media attention on the possible adverse health effects of trans fatty acids has brought increased attention to her work. She is a licensed nutritionist, certified by the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists, a qualified expert witness, nutrition consultant to individuals, industry and state and federal governments, contributing editor to a number of scientific publications, Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and President of the Maryland Nutritionists Association. She is the author of over 60 technical papers and presentations, as well as a popular lecturer. Dr. Enig is currently working on the exploratory development of an adjunct therapy for AIDS using complete medium chain saturated fatty acids from whole foods. She is Vice-President of the Weston A Price Foundation and Scientific Editor of Wise Traditions as well as the author of Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils, and Cholesterol, Bethesda Press, May 2000. She is the mother of three healthy children brought up on whole foods including butter, cream, eggs and meat.

"ZINC IN OLD MICE FACILITATED A COMPLETE RECOVERY OF THYMUS GLAND FUNCTION AND REGROWTH OF THE ORGAN WITH GREATER IMMUNE EFFICIENCY

". . . zinc [in old mice] facilitated a complete recovery of thymus gland function and regrowth of the organ with greater immune efficiency."

Spinach has a high zinc content.

Maybe there isn't a master mineral.  Maybe all essential minerals are masters of health.  I recently wrote about the magic of magnesium.  But why are minerals in general so important?  Is it just general, good maintenance?  Maybe.  Or is it that minerals are essential in digestion, like breaking down proteins?  Maybe it's not the class of nutrients that's so important as how well any single nutrient interacts with our biology to produce desired outcomes.  

For example, I recently read Bill Sardi's "Reassessment of Vitamin C Therapy and Cancer," published at his site and picked up by Lew Rockwell.  What astonished me wasn't actually the benefits of Vitamin C or the benefits of Vitamin C therapy on cancer.  What struck me was the study by Abram Hoffer.  

Enter a forgotten investigator in the war against cancer — Abram Hoffer MD, a nutrition-minded psychiatrist based in Canada who was known for his use of high-dose niacin therapy to treat schizophrenia.  Vitamin C therapy for cancer could easily be dismissed except for Dr. Hoffer’s strikingly successful use of oral vitamin C (12,000 mgs/day) to achieve prolonged survival times.

So Hoffer produced astounding results in his cancer therapy, but no third party ever tested or examined his results to find out why he was successful.  And to show you just how successful he was, check out this chart:

Here is Dr. Hoffer’s 5-year survival data:

Oral Antioxidant Therapy & End-Stage Cancer

Abram Hoffer MD, Journal Orthomolecular Medicine, Volume 15, 2000

No. of patients treated/vitamin C: 441

No. of patients in control group (chemo, radiation): 54

SURVIVAL CONVENTIONAL CANCER TREATMENT [i.e., chemo-therapy]
Year 1: 28%

Year 2: 15%

Year 3: 15%

Year 4: 13%

Year 5: 11%

VITAMIN C TREATMENT*

Year 1: 73%

Year 2: 56%

Year 3: 48%

Year 4: 44%

Year 5: 39%*

Consisted of 12,000 mg oral vitamin C as ascorbic acid, mega-dose niacinamide, beta carotene, zinc.

What is equally astounding is that no one checked his work.

Steven Hickey and Hilary Roberts, researchers from Manchester, England, also report on Abram Hoffer’s exceptional results with oral vitamin C in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. [Journal Orthomolecular Medicine 2013]  Reasons for the astounding effect of oral vitamin C were not explored, however.

Sardi found that in addition to the oral Vitamin C, that Hoffer also administered Zinc.  But which kind.  There are different kinds of zinc, 7 different zinc supplements in all [actually, there are more]:

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1.  Chelated Zinc.

2.  Zinc Orotate (some claim that this is the best form)

3.  Zinc Picolinate.

4.  Zinc Gluconate.

5.  Zinc Acetate.

6.  Zinc Oxide.

7.  Zinc Sulfate.

So at least from Sardi's article it's not clear which zinc was used.  And though the benefits of zinc are reported almost everywhere, take a look at very specific, very important organ that responds nicely to zinc.  That organ?  Your Thymus gland.

Dr. Hoffer treated his patients with an array of other nutrients including zinc.  Zinc is the key nutrient that primes T-cells in the thymus gland that shrinks with advancing age.

Shrinkage of the thymus gland, located below the chest plate (sternum) is progressive with advancing age.  The thymus gland is responsible for activating T-cells that are essential for immune system maintenance.   The thymus gland shrinks at a rate of about 3% per year till middle age and then 1% per year thereafter.  [Frontiers Immunology 2013]  There are no present therapies offered by physicians to regenerate the thymus gland even though they are widely documented and available.

This information should spike everyone's radar.  More on the thymus gland and zinc. 

Remarkably, zinc supplied to old mice facilitated a complete recovery of thymus gland function and regrowth of the organ with greater immune efficiency.  Researchers conclude that age-related thymus gland shrinkage and immune system dysfunction are not intrinsic and irreversible and largely depend upon zinc adequacy.  [International Journal Immunopharmacology 1995]

Imagine folks who've suffered childhood diseases and have had to endure chronic conditions their whole life.  If only they'd known about the combination of zinc and Vitamin C. So there's that.  Then there's this. 

A recent study is instructive.  Vitamin C, aspirin, and zinc were administered to laboratory rats given a chemical to induce colon cancer.  Aspirin and vitamin C maintained normal colon cells in 87.5% of the animals whereas zinc showed a 100% reduction in tumor incidence. [Asian Pacific Journal Cancer Prevention 2013]

All this to prove that Vitamin C as a cancer therapy works but works mainly because of the pair.  When used alone Vitamin C didn't always perform.  It still did better than chemo, or conventional therapies, but it performed off the charts in the presence of zinc.  One more note on cancer therapy.  Check this out.

When vitamin K3 is combined with vitamin C therapy, cancer cells die by autoschizis – that is they are split and utterly destroyed. [Ultrastructural Pathology 2010]

The synergistic use of vitamin E as alpha tocopherol succinate and synthetically made vitamin K3 plus ascorbic acid is also proposed as a further enhancement of vitamin C cancer therapy. [PLoS One 2012]

Not surprisingly, the addition of quercetin to vitamin C + vitamin K was more effective in killing cancer cells than the two vitamins alone in a lab dish study. [Alternative Medicine Reviews 2010; British Journal Cancer 2010]

This is hopeful stuff.  It was upon this recommendation that I tried Zinc Orotate. 

Zinc orotate is a chelated form of zinc that is more readily absorbed by the body than any other zinc supplement available. Manufacturers of it will usually boast about having this type, because they have good reason to. Zinc orotate passes through the membranes of cells easily, and it pulls the highest amounts of accompanying minerals into the cells, which leads to higher tissue concentrations of zinc and other beneficial nutrients

But I felt nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  Was that nothing feeling the result of that powerful absorption?  Who knows? Then I read this article by Sardi on zinc acetate.  I could not believe what an energetic rush I got.  And it centered around the heart and the spine.  I thought "Wow! This stuff is potent."  Turns out that the zinc acetate was waking up my thymus gland.  

Given what I read on the internet, Sardi outstrips most in his details and exhaustive research, that exhaustive work to compare stories, and find out what was missed and why.  Talk about dedication.  

The other form of zinc I have taken is Chelated Zinc.  See, the nice thing about Sardi is that he explains which organ responds so well to a specific nutrient.  In the case of zinc it is the thymus gland.  Then he does background study on it and finds out that with age people's thymus gland shrinks.  And when that shrinks, you're going to have lowered immunity. All the other articles on the web tell you that zinc is good for immunity, which sounds good but is no where near the specificity of Bill Sardi.  Amazing, really. 

There are essential minerals for health, then there are trace minerals.  Both equally important, one more than the next? FitDay sums it up:  

Five percent of your diet typically includes macro minerals and trace minerals. Macro minerals are minerals that you need in quantities greater than 100mg/day and make up about 1 percent of your total body weight. These include sodium, chloride, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and calcium. Trace minerals are elements that are needed is smaller amounts, 1-100mg/day by adults and are less than .01 percent of totalbody weight. These include Copper, Chromium, Fluoride, Iodine, Iron, Molybdenum, Manganese, Selenium, and Zinc. Trace Minerals are inorganic matter that cannot be destroyed by cooking or heat and are essential to the body for a variety of processes.

Macro Minerals

1.  Sodium.

2.  Chloride.

3.  Potassium.

4.  Phosphorus.  [despite this being a macro mineral, people's teeth are a mess today.  What's causing that?  Lifestyle?]

5.  Magnesium.

6.  Calcium: good for teeth and bones.  You know where to get it--milk and meat products.

Trace Minerals

1.  Copper.

2.  Chromium.

3.  Fluoride. 

4.  Iodine.

5.  Iron.

6.  Molydenum.

7.  Manganese.

8.  Selenium. 

9.  Zinc.

10.  Cobalt.

Together, I count 16 minerals in all.  But the lists that I have found range from 11 to 17 to 19 as in the list I compiled below, so there seems to be some debate as to which minerals are trace or macro or necessary for health.  And here I thought I was going to add or organize information into bite-sized, manageable tidbits.

1.   Lithium orotate.

2.   Reacted calcium

3.   Calcium-Magnesium

4.   Chromium

5.   Iron

6.   Magnesium

7.   Magnesium-Potasium

8.   Selenium.

9.   Phosphoros.

10.  Zinc.

11.  Stromium.

12.  Sodium

13.  Copper

14.  Manganese

15.  Molybdenum

16.  Iodine.

17.  Sulfur

18.  Fluoride. 

19.  Cobalt

Also, almost all the articles I read at sites like NCBI, KnowledgeofHealth, Natural News, and others point out deficiencies.  Why are Americans deficient in these nutrients?  Isn't this knowledge built in the local culture, local wisdom of its people?  You would think.  But one reason that Americans are deficient is precised because of what we consume, like alcohol, or people turning Vegan to for lifestyle or eating too many nuts or vegetables.  There are nutrients in daily foods called anti-nutrients that actually block minerals from getting absorbed into our system.  Is it entropy?  

My guess is that if you eat beef, cheese, milk, yogurt, eggs, and green leafy vegetables that you're getting the best multivitamin known to man.  Some folks recommend nuts for Vitamin E, but nuts contain an anti-nutrient called phytic acid, which blocks the absorption of calcium, zinc, magnesium, and others.  If a population is experience a deficiency in these minerals, it doesn't seem like a good idea to eat foods that block their absorption.  And why are nuts so prevalent in our stores and diets?  Is it because of the Mediterranean Diet craze?  Who knows?  But definitely pasteurized nuts have grown in popularity since I was a kid.  And the only packaged nuts we ate were sunflower seeds, peanuts, and corn nuts.  Stores used to have a bin of assorted nuts in shells.  Yeah.  At Christmas time my dad would buy bags of walnuts that we'd shell on the dining room table and pick from.  It was never the kind of thing where we open a bag and start eating them like, well, peanuts.

The latest mineral on my Top 5 List is zinc.  Wow!  This stuff is restorative.  I mean if you're in to taking supplements and all, I would definitely make zinc a priority.  You can find zinc in foods, of course, with oysters having the highest level of zinc than any other food.  So you want lots of zinc through food, eat your oysters. But if you're shell fish averse, you'll want to supplement.  

So I go to the internet not so much to prove as much as I do to corroborate my claims and findings.  We all know that zinc is good for us, but how good?  Where is it best served and what organs are best served by adequate zinc or zinc supplementation?  

John Phillip reports at Natural News that . . . 

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborated to study the effects of zinc on brain function. Scientists experimenting with mice used a chemical that binds with zinc to eliminate it from the brain of the test animals. They found that in the absence of the mineral, communications between neurons was significantly diminished and that zinc is vital for controlling the efficiency between nerve cells in the hippocampus.

For more than a half century, scientists have understood that high concentrations of zinc are deposited within nerve cells; called vesicles, they package the transmitters which enable the nerve cells to communicate. The highest concentrations of brain zinc are found among the neurons of the hippocampus that control the high functions of learning and memory.

Clearly, if you're looking for brain support, zinc is the way to go. But we're always hearing about fish oils or gingko biloba and others as brain food.  And they are.  But these lowly minerals tend to take a back seat in the miraculous department until you're deficient in them.  And how does one become deficient in zinc, magnesium, and calcium?  Phytic acid is one way, one of a series of anti-nutrients available to us in our stores that end up in our diet. Nuts are a big one. The phytic acid in nuts blocks the absorption of minerals in our system.  Does the phytic acid deplete the minerals? I don't know, but I would say that blocking is no picnic either. We want magnesium in our bodies.  We need calcium for bones and teeth.  One of the things that phytic acid does is block or deplete phosphorous, which is the essential mineral for our teeth.  You want to keep those bones in your head for a lifetime?  Then consume foods high in phosphorous.

Then the question of which kind of zinc.  And there are several. The first zinc supplement that I took was Zinc Orotate on the recommendation of an online article.  In fact, I went through 2 bottles of them, thinking that this was the best of the zinc forms. I really did not feel anything.  Even overdosing on Zinc Orotate, nothing.  The next zinc I tried was Zinc Acetate on the implied recommendation of Bill Sardi.  

But for best absorption, Sardi recommends Zinc Gluconate and Zinc Methionine:  

SUPERIORLY ABSORBED FORMS OF SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRIENTS: VITAMINS, MINERALS, & TRACE MINERALS

1.  Zinc gluconate: Zinc methionine.

2.  Inorganic selenium as selenite, selenite: Organically bound selenium in a natural full array of protein-bound forms (Seleno Excell®).

3.  Iron as ferrous sulfate: Iron as carbonyl iron (Ferronyl).

4.  Magnesium oxide: Magnesium chloride, carbonate, malate, glycinate, gluconate, threonate, others. 

Further, Sardi lists some conditions that zinc improves

       Zinc deficiency is associated with a low sperm count. 

Zinc deficiency increases the prevalence of dental caries. 

Zinc deficiency in the skin is associated with psoriasis and acne.  Patients with these skin conditions are likely to have normal blood serum levels of zinc.

Zinc supplementation is associated with 14% reduction in preterm birth.  

Zinc is only recently appreciated as an essential nutrient to prevent age-related bone loss, a.k.a, osteoporosis.

A skin rash condition (acrodermatitis enteropathica) which emanates from an inherited disorder of zinc absorption is resolved by zinc supplementation.Zinc carnosine is a remedy for H. pylori infection and gastritis.

Crohn’s disease results in poor zinc absorption.  Researchers successfully used 110 milligrams of zinc sulfate (providing 75 mg of elemental zinc) to quell recurrence of symptoms of Crohn’s disease (10 of 12 patients experienced resolution of their “leaky gut” problem).  

Resolution of a leaky gut!  That is news, incredible news.