All Discussions Tagged 'Care' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-28T10:21:17Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Care&feed=yes&xn_auth=noVernon Coleman: ‘The Death of Health Care in Britain’tag:12160.info,2022-06-11:2649739:Topic:22072222022-06-11T14:56:27.126ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p><strong>An old man in hospital had received no nursing care for a week. He wasn’t fed for three days. He asked a nurse if he could be bathed. She brought him a damp paper towel and told him to do it himself.</strong></p>
<p>A 92-year-old former ward sister was told that she had terminal liver failure. The doctor had apparently conducted an examination via a video link. A face to face visit was refused. Taken by a relative to the local A&E department, the woman was diagnosed with a simple…</p>
<p><strong>An old man in hospital had received no nursing care for a week. He wasn’t fed for three days. He asked a nurse if he could be bathed. She brought him a damp paper towel and told him to do it himself.</strong></p>
<p>A 92-year-old former ward sister was told that she had terminal liver failure. The doctor had apparently conducted an examination via a video link. A face to face visit was refused. Taken by a relative to the local A&E department, the woman was diagnosed with a simple infection – treated with antibiotics. Three days later she made a full recovery. (There had been a 12 hour wait on a ward trolley.)</p>
<p>A patient was admitted to hospital as an emergency had to wait 49 hours before a bed could be found for him.</p>
<p>A patient with a broken arm, in great pain, was told by an ambulance service that her condition wasn’t life-threatening and that the wait would be eight hours.</p>
<p>An 89-year-old woman waited six hours for an ambulance and died.</p>
<p>It is now recognised that failing ambulance services are responsible for many deaths. In Northern Ireland ambulance delays were a contributory factor in 14 deaths. Ambulances spend 25% to 30% of their time waiting outside emergency departments.</p>
<p>An NHS boss who had a stroke was taken to hospital by her husband and recovered. She said it might have been different if she’d called 999.</p>
<p>Waiting times for ambulances have never been as long. The ambulance service is so bad that patients are told to call a taxi – it’ll be quicker.</p>
<p>Such stories now abound.</p>
<p>Hospitals are so badly run that millions of people would rather stay at home – even if that means dying alone and without medical care. Hospital staff have taken away dignity and hope – even these are among the most valuable things a doctor or nurse can offer. They have replaced hope and dignity with despair and disillusionment.</p>
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item">Seriously ill patients who visit Accident and Emergency units in hospitals must routinely wait ten hours for treatment. It is reported that 90% of patients who visit A&E go there because they cannot contact their GP. That’s not surprising. The average GP now works a three-day week or less. Most made a fortune giving Covid jabs and are trying to keep their tax bills down. Even those who work a full week manage less hours than a librarian – and never see emergencies. Many GPs stay at home and still refuse to see patients face to face. The evidence proves this is dangerous, but it is, say doctors, the future. GPs claim they are overworked, but the evidence proves the contrary.<p></p>
<p>Physiotherapy departments which shut in March 2020 are still shut. Physiotherapists work from home though no one explains how they manage this.</p>
<p>While patients are ignored, the NHS spends a fortune on hiring ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ administrators – though no one knows what these people are supposed to do or why they are considered necessary. Hospitals pay huge salaries to employees with jobs as bizarre as ‘Hard FM Commissioning Manager’ and ‘Portfolio Lead for People-Led Care’ – though no one seems to know what these titles mean. There’s a shortage of nurses and beds but ‘Equality chiefs’ are paid £90,387 a year and there are ‘diversity managers’ galore.</p>
<p>People who collapse at home or in the street are routinely tested for Covid – even though the test that is used has been proved to be entirely useless. If they test positive they are put on a Covid ward and forgotten. They receive no other tests and no treatment. This isn’t medicine – it is cultism.</p>
<p>Patients who complain are simply drugged and sent to sleep. There appears to be war on the elderly – with hospitals slapping Do Not Resuscitate notices on just about everyone over 60 (and a good many younger than that).</p>
<p>Everyone who falls ill is regarded by the NHS as a burden – a second class citizen. Everyone ill over 60 is a 3rd class citizen – not worth bothering with.</p>
<p>MPs have warned that there is no evidence that Britain’s appalling cancer care will catch up with other countries. Another 2.7 million have joined the cancer backlog waiting diagnosis and care. The number is increasing by 1,000 a day.</p>
<p>The driving forces of modern medicine are stupidity, greed, incompetence and ignorance. Doctors and nurses seem too busy or too uppity to do what they’re paid to do.</p>
<p>Doctors and hospitals who have been told to abandon crazy Covid rules (masks, hand sanitiser and social distancing) are, like children holding onto comfort blankets, insisting on clinging to these insanities. It’s been proven that masks, sanitiser and social distancing did far more harm than good. But no one in health care understands science anymore.</p>
<p>Last year absurd new working rules meant that 2,000 dentists quit the NHS. Over four million patients now have no access to NHS dental care. Those who can find an NHS dentist are waiting three years for an appointment.</p>
<p>Hospitals have been told that it is illegal to prevent relatives or friends accompanying or visiting patients. But hospital staff break the law without caring.</p>
<p>Waiting lists are now so long that most patients will die before they are treated. Private health care services cannot cope with the sudden rise in demand. A third of 18-34 year olds are considering funding their own private care and 85% of patients on NHS waiting lists have paid for or are considering private treatment. Consultants are making a fortune.</p>
<p>The NHS has more money than it needs. But most of the money is wasted on administrators. There are more of those than there are beds or nurses!</p>
<p>If the NHS were closed down and the money shared out, every one in Britain would be able to afford excellent private medical care.</p>
<p>The NHS is dead. Let’s bury it.</p>
<p>Please share this article with everyone you know who can read.</p>
<p>We have the power to change things.</p>
<p>No one else will do it for us.</p>
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<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-supplementary-copy field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>This article was originally published at<span> </span><a href="https://vernoncoleman.org/articles/death-health-care-britain">Vernon Coleman’s website</a>.</em></p>
<p>Vernon Coleman’s book<span> </span><a class="body-link" title="Why and How Doctors Kill More People Than Cancer" href="https://vernoncoleman.org/books/why-and-how-doctors-kill-more-people-cancer">Why and How Doctors Kill more People than Cancer</a> is available as a paperback and an eBook.</p>
</div> Elizabeth Warren Calls Child Care A ‘Fundamental Human Right’ - A Plan For Those Who Aren't Abortedtag:12160.info,2019-02-21:2649739:Topic:18895232019-02-21T17:37:03.905ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p>Attention everyone: There’s a new “fundamental human right” that exists, according to Elizabeth Warren.</p>
<p>Child care. We have a “fundamental human right” to child care. I repeat, you have the RIGHT to a babysitter, FREE OF CHARGE FOR YOU.</p>
<p>She has an actual plan to roll this concept out.</p>
<p>“We must do better for our kids — and our parents. In the wealthiest country on the planet, access to affordable and high-quality child care and early education should be a right, not a…</p>
<p>Attention everyone: There’s a new “fundamental human right” that exists, according to Elizabeth Warren.</p>
<p>Child care. We have a “fundamental human right” to child care. I repeat, you have the RIGHT to a babysitter, FREE OF CHARGE FOR YOU.</p>
<p>She has an actual plan to roll this concept out.</p>
<p>“We must do better for our kids — and our parents. In the wealthiest country on the planet, access to affordable and high-quality child care and early education should be a right, not a privilege reserved for the rich,” she writes.</p>
<p>“That’s why I’m proposing a bold new Universal Child Care and Early Learning plan. My plan will guarantee high-quality child care and early education for every child in America from birth to school age,” she continued. “It will be free for millions of American families, and affordable for everyone. This is the kind of big, structural change we need to produce an economy that works for everyone.”</p>
<p>According to her plan:</p>
<p>Federal government will partner with local providers — states, cities, school districts, nonprofits, tribes, faith-based organizations — to create a network of child care options that would be available to every family.<br/> These options would include locally-licensed child care centers, preschool centers, and in-home child care options.<br/> Local communities would be in charge, but providers would be held to high national standards to make sure that no matter where you live, your child will have access to quality care and early learning.<br/> Child care and preschool workers will be doing the educational work that teachers do, so they will be paid like comparable public school teachers.<br/> Neat. So how are we going to pay for it?</p>
<p>And here’s the best part. The federal government will pick up a huge chunk of the cost of operating these new high-quality options. That allows local providers to provide access for free to any family that makes less than 200% of the federal poverty line. That means free coverage for millions of children.</p>
<p>No. That means taxpayers are picking up the tab YET AGAIN. This plan might as well be called, “How To Screw Over The American Taxpayer, Volume 932.”</p>
<p>You don’t have the “right” to have other people take care of your kids. I can’t believe that even needs to be said out loud.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.chicksonright.com/blog/2019/02/20/elizabeth-warren-calls-child-care-a-fundamental-human-right/">www.chicksonright.com/blog/2019/02/20/elizabeth-warren-calls-child-care-a-fundamental-human-right/</a></p> Arizona Foster Care System Revealed as Pedophile Ring: Former Foster Child Tortured for Years Sues for $15 Milliontag:12160.info,2019-01-15:2649739:Topic:18700872019-01-15T22:52:43.683ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
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<p><img alt="David-Frodsham-Arizona-Foster-Parent-Mugshot" src="https://medicalkidnap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/02/David-Frodsham-Arizona-Foster-Parent-Mugshot.jpg"></img> David Frodsham, an Arizona foster parent for over 12 years, was arrested and convicted for operating a pornographic pedophile ring based out of his state-approved foster home.</p>
<p>WARNING! Graphic content – not suitable for younger readers!<br></br> by Brian Shilhavy<br></br> Editor, Health Impact News</p>
<p>The state of Arizona, which has the infamous reputation of removing the highest percentage of children in the U.S. from their homes and families through Child Protective…</p>
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<p><img src="https://medicalkidnap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/02/David-Frodsham-Arizona-Foster-Parent-Mugshot.jpg" alt="David-Frodsham-Arizona-Foster-Parent-Mugshot"/>David Frodsham, an Arizona foster parent for over 12 years, was arrested and convicted for operating a pornographic pedophile ring based out of his state-approved foster home.</p>
<p>WARNING! Graphic content – not suitable for younger readers!<br/> by Brian Shilhavy<br/> Editor, Health Impact News</p>
<p>The state of Arizona, which has the infamous reputation of removing the highest percentage of children in the U.S. from their homes and families through Child Protective Services, has now also been exposed as having a very corrupt foster care network that includes pedophile rings where young children are imprisoned in state-approved foster homes and trafficked to pedophiles.</p>
<p>In a developing story based out of the military town of Sierra Vista, Arizona, the home of Fort Huachuca, David Frodsham, a former commander with the Department of Defense in Afghanistan who was discharged from duty due to “sexual harassment” behavior and an assessment by the military that he had an unalterable personality disorder, has been arrested and convicted of operating a pornographic pedophile ring based out of his state-approved foster home.</p>
<p><img src="https://medicalkidnap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/01/Justice-for-Devani.jpg" alt="Justice for Devani"/></p>
<p>Health Impact News first reported on the charges brought against David Frodsham and his wife who were state-approved foster parents last year (2017) with the story of the young child Devani, who was seized from her family just days before her second birthday and placed into the Frodshams’ state-approved foster home where she was allegedly raped repeatedly and trafficked as part of an organized pornographic pedophile ring. After David Frodsham was arrested due to a federal investigation, Devani was placed into another state-approved foster home where 80% of her body was burned by scalding water, forcing the amputation of her toes. See:</p>
<p>Arizona Places 2 Year Old Child in Foster Pornographic Pedophile Ring – Foster Mom Burns 80% of Her Body<br/> Local news in Arizona covered this story, but Health Impact News reached out to the biological mother of Devani and told her side of the story, revealing that Devani never should have been taken out of her home in the first place, where she was loved by her mother, who repeatedly tried to report the abuse she was seeing in her daughter, with no results. See:</p>
<p>Arizona Child Removed from Loving Family and Placed into Foster Care Where She was Repeatedly Raped – then 80% of Body Burned<br/> Now, another foster child who was adopted by the Frodshams and put into their pornographic pedophile ring has turned 18 and come forward to reveal details of years of horrible torture and sexual trafficking while suing the state of Arizona for damages of $15 million.</p>
<p>Arizona Sued for Approving Foster Home Operating a Pornographic Pedophile Ring<br/> Referred to as “John Doe” to protect his identity, the former foster child imprisoned and tortued in the Frodshams’ foster home has filed a “Notice of Claim” for damages of $15 million and served it to the following parties:</p>
<p>Mark Brnovich – Attorney General – State of Arizona<br/> Gregory McKay – Director Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS)<br/> Michael Trailor – Director Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES)<br/> Deb Nishikida – Director, Sierra Vista Office Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES)<br/> Noemi Ochoa – Licensing Worker Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES)<br/> James Robinson – Manager Arizona Department of Economic Security<br/> among others<br/> The lawsuit specifies the basis for the claim against the state of Arizona:</p>
<p>John Doe is a victim of the State of Arizona’s failed child protection practices and policies.</p>
<p>John Doe, who is now 18 years old, suffered over 12 years of shocking physical and sexual abuse because of the State’s refusal to protect him.</p>
<p>John Doe was born in September of 1999 and before his fourth birthday was placed in foster care. The Frodshams were approved by the State to have John Doe in their home in 2004 and John Doe was subsequently adopted by David and Barbara Frodsham in 2012.</p>
<p>The Frodshams were licensed foster parents with the State of Arizona from 2002 to January 2015. The Frodsham license was not suspended until David Frodsham was arrested at the DES office for felony drunk driving with toddlers in the vehicle.</p>
<p>The State and its employees ignored actual notice of the abuse of John Doe and numerous warning signs that the Frodsham home was dangerous.</p>
<p>The State did not remove John Doe until ICE, a federal agency within the Department of Homeland Security, arrested David Frodsham for operating a pornographic pedophile ring based in the home. ICE identified John Doe as a victim of Frodsham’s pedophilia.</p>
<p>John Doe suffered sexual, physical and emotional abuse for over 12 years in this home, despite numerous red flags of abuse and neglect. This abuse was no secret to CPS/DCS and well documented yet no investigations were undertaken. (Emphasis added.)</p>
<p>Some of the abuses suffered by this young boy as claimed in the lawsuit are shocking, as the U.S. public today is largely unaware of such abuses in the foster care system, and that these activities are actually funded by American taxpayers:</p>
<p>David Frodsham utilized the State of Arizona and the foster care system to funnel innocent, vulnerable children into his home, so he could run a pedophile ring.</p>
<p>John Doe was sexually and physically abused by David Frodsham countless times both inside and outside the home while Frodsham’s wife, Barbara witnessed this abuse, and physically abused John Doe herself.</p>
<p>Mr. Frodsham also acted as John Doe’s pimp, prostituting John Doe to other men, for their sexual enjoyment, and for money for himself.</p>
<p>Frodsham often participated in these sexual meetups. Frodsham helped enable a network of pedophiles in the Sierra Vista area and these men participated in further sexual abuse against John Doe.</p>
<p>State of Arizona Responsible for Torture, Sexual Abuse and Trafficking by Licensing Pedophiles to Become Foster and Adoptive Parents<br/> According to the lawsuit, David Frodsham never should have been approved as a foster parent, as his deviant sexual behavior was well documented, and caused him to be released from duty in Afghanistan, where he served as a deputy commander with the Department of Defense.</p>
<p>From the lawsuit:</p>
<p>There was additional information about David Frodsham that indicated he was an unsuitable foster parent, much less an adoptive parent.</p>
<p>David Frodsham was assigned as a deputy commander with the Department of Defense in Afghanistan. He only served for a brief period, as he was kicked out and released from duty, and told he could not return because of his “sexual harassment” behavior and an assessment by the military that he had an unalterable personality disorder.</p>
<p>For a deputy commander to be removed from duty in Afghanistan and told never to return for service is glaring evidence that David had negative personality qualities which could easily make him an unfit parent.</p>
<p>The military investigated his behavior and upheld the inappropriate sexual behavior findings. The investigator stated,</p>
<p>“I recommend the unit keep Mr. Frodsham resigned out of BSG permanently. Bringing him back to the unit will only cause further tensions. The ability of Mr. Frodsham to be rehabilitated is completely up to him. I believe this inappropriate conduct has been part of Mr. Frodsham’s personality for some time.”</p>
<p>“The Army has articulated its zero-tolerance policy. I am convinced that Mr. Frodsham is aware of what constitutes sexual harassment, because he previously held a position in Equal Opportunity, as he stated in his interview. Still he chose to violate said policy.”</p>
<p>“I recommend making this misconduct an official matter of record and take disciplinary action under Chapter 75 of Title 5/AFI 36-704 Discipline and Adverse Actions. I recommend the command administratively punish Mr. Frodsham with reprimand and refer member to home unit.”</p>
<p>A review of these records by a psychologist who does assessments of sex offenders in the military believes that the coded language of the discharge indicates the underlying reason for his removal was sexual abuse of boys in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>As we have reported so often here at Health Impact News, parents today can lose their children to the state for a variety of reasons under the blanket term of “neglect” and not abuse, such as disagreeing with doctors, refusing vaccines, not feeding their children according to USDA dietary guidelines, having a dirty house, allowing children to go outside without shoes, etc.</p>
<p>But foster parents who are bringing in federal funds to the state get away with REAL abuse, and this poor foster child highlights this same injustice in the system in the lawsuit:</p>
<p>If the Frodshams were the biological parents of John Doe, he would have been removed based on these complaints and allegations, and placed in a group home. Instead, the State left John Doe in the foster/adoptive home, and the Frodshams received a monthly stipend from the State to abuse him.</p>
<p>Is the Federal Investigation into the Frodsham Arizona Pornographic Pedophile Ring Part of a Federal Investigation of Pedophiles in the Military?<br/> Fort_Huachuca<br/> Fort Huachuca Army base in Arizona.</p>
<p>A recent New York Times article reported about the problem of pedophiles and the American military in Afghanistan:</p>
<p>Afghan Pedophiles Get Free Pass From U.S. Military, Report Says<br/> The Times article references a just-released report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, which was commissioned under the Obama administration, and was considered so explosive that it was originally marked “Secret/No Foreign,” with the recommendation that it remain classified until June 9, 2042.</p>
<p>A heavily redacted version was released to the public in January (2018).</p>
<p>Someone is apparently putting pressure on the military to expose the widespread practice of bacha bazi, or “boy play,” in which some Afghan commanders keep underage boys as sex slaves.</p>
<p>From the New York Times article:</p>
<p>Sigar said it had opened an investigation into bacha bazi at the request of Congress and in response to a 2015 New York Times article that described the practice as “rampant.” The article said that American soldiers who complained had their careers ruined by their superiors, who had encouraged them to ignore the practice.</p>
<p>A former Special Forces officer, Capt. Dan Quinn, who beat up an Afghan commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave, said at the time that he had been relieved of his command as a result. “We were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did,” said Captain Quinn, who has left the military.</p>
<p>Sgt. First Class Charles Martland, a highly decorated Green Beret, was forced out of the military after beating up an Afghan local police commander in Kunduz who was a child rapist. Sergeant Martland became incensed after the Afghan commander abducted the boy, raped him, then beat up the boy’s mother when she tried to rescue him. Congressional inquiries apparently led to Sergeant Martland’s reinstatement.</p>
<p>Read the full article at the New York Times.</p>
<p>Arizona DCS Knew About Abuses and Torture but Did Nothing<br/> Even apart from Frodsham’s military past in Afghanistan, the state of Arizona apparently had plenty of evidence that Frodsham was not suitable as a foster parent but continued to license him and his wife anyway, allowing them to foster and adopt children who were tortured and trafficked.</p>
<p>The lawsuit documents many of the abuses and provides evidence that Arizona DCS knew about some of these atrocities:</p>
<p>Barbara Frodsham neglected John Doe terribly, and physically and emotionally abused him as well. Barbara knew the sexual abuse was occurring, at times walking in the room as it was happening, yet took no steps to stop it. Mrs. Frodsham routinely beat John Doe and blamed him for the abuse heaped on him.</p>
<p>Barbara did not buy John Doe clothes or feed him, and screamed at him every time he tried to complain or protect himself, often beating him viciously. It was obvious to all, including the State DCS employees that Barbara Frodsham hated John Doe.</p>
<p>The Frodshams forced John Doe to live outside much of the time. While they went to work they locked John Doe out of their home and left him with a bike to travel to a convenience store to use the restroom.</p>
<p>This neglect and abuse was documented by the State and its employees. The foster and other children, including John Doe, were forced to eat hot sauce as punishment, handcuffed to the bed all night, locked outside the home, and locked in closets.</p>
<p>John Doe and the other boys were beaten with fists, brooms, belts and other objects to the extent that medical care was frequently required.</p>
<p>CPS/DCS did not investigate this physical abuse. CPS/DCS just turned a blind eye, and the abuse continued unabated.</p>
<p>The State had access to over thirty-eight police reports from the Frodsham household, from 2002 to early 2016, (all prior to the arrest of David Frodsham for sex abuse). The State should have reviewed these as part of their licensing process of the foster/adoptive parent program.</p>
<p>John Doe complained to CPS/DPS over sixteen times and nothing was done. Even more shocking, there were at least 10 abuse and neglect complaints documented by CPS/DCS between 2002 to 2015.</p>
<p>Arizona Child Sex Trafficking: How Can this be Allowed to Continue to Happen in the U.S.?<br/> MedicalKidnap.com is a website started by Health Impact News in 2014, due to the sheer volume of parents who were contacting us explaining how their children were medically kidnapped, often for simply disagreeing with a doctor, or wanting to seek a second opinion.</p>
<p>Most of the early stories we covered were all coming out of Arizona, and it was clear to us early on that something was not right in Arizona. Former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer recognized that the problems within CPS were too large to ignore, and early in 2014 she abolished the entire department and replaced it with a new Division of Child Safety and Family Services.</p>
<p>But one would be hard pressed to find anyone today who believes that the new division is any better than the old department of CPS.</p>
<p>As editor of Health Impact News, I began assigning investigative reporters to find out why so many children nationwide were being ripped away from their families. We uncovered many reasons why this is happening today, from enrolling children into drug trials that could not happen under the custody of their parents (see: Medical Kidnapping in the U.S. – Kidnapping Children for Drug Trials), to the rise of a new pediatric sub-specialty of “Child Abuse Specialist” that created a new profession where finding abuse was required to justify one’s job (see: Are New Pediatric “Child Abuse Specialists” Causing an Increase in Medical Kidnappings?)</p>
<p>We exposed the problems in the modern foster care system where states need to meet quotas of children put into foster care to receive federal funding. See:</p>
<p>Child Kidnapping and Trafficking: A Lucrative U.S. Business Funded by Taxpayers<br/> The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking<br/> However, one of the worst reasons we were hearing about as to why so many children were being taken away from loving families and put into foster care was because the U.S. pedophile child sex trafficking business is so lucrative, that it allegedly makes more money than the illegal drug trade, and illegal arms trade, combined.</p>
<p>But we quickly learned that this topic was off limits to the media, as no one was willing to come forward and expose it, due to fear of reprisal, as the whole child sex trafficking allegedly extends to the very wealthy and powerful forces in the U.S. politics.</p>
<p>Hence, most of these henious crimes being committed against children are largely done in secret, without public knowledge.</p>
<p>This case in Arizona is one of the first ones where federal investigators have actually stepped in and done something about child sex trafficking through the U.S. foster care system.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Some have told me privately that President Trump’s executive order implemented on December 21, 2017 was put in place to go after these pedophile networks that extend around the world.</p>
<p>Is this true? We certainly hope so!</p>
<p>But only time will tell if this horrendous network will finally be exposed, or if this incident in Arizona is simply a token scapegoat to try and address the problem while the main network continues on with “business as usual.”</p>
<p>Everything documented in this case is a direct violation of basic human rights, especially as was spelled out in the Nuremberg trials after World War II and the atrocities committed in then Nazi Germany.</p>
<p>How can this be happening today in the United States? How can we be talking about “making America great again” when this kind of child sex trafficking is happening right here in our own borders?</p>
<p>Please do not think that what is happening in Arizona is an exception or isolated problem. This huge evil injustice being committed against American children exists in probably every state in the U.S.</p>
<p>America has lost its way. This is no longer the land of “liberty and justice for all.” Spiritually and morally we have lost our way.</p>
<p><a href="http://medicalkidnap.com/2018/02/06/arizona-foster-care-system-revealed-as-pedophile-ring-former-foster-child-tortured-for-years-sues-for-15-million/">http://medicalkidnap.com/2018/02/06/arizona-foster-care-system-revealed-as-pedophile-ring-former-foster-child-tortured-for-years-sues-for-15-million/</a></p> 12160: Obamacare & the VA Hospital Scandal: An inconvenient truthtag:12160.info,2014-05-30:2649739:Topic:14725802014-05-30T00:42:21.677ZDon Mashakhttps://12160.info/profile/DonMashak
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<p style="text-align: left;">For the past few days this writer has watched news of the <a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/scandal">scandal</a> surrounding mismanagement of the <a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/va-hospital">VA Hospital</a> System percolate.</p>
<p><br></br> For those still unaware, 40 Veterans are alleged to have died as a result of unacceptably long…</p>
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<p><br/> For those still unaware, 40 Veterans are alleged to have died as a result of unacceptably long delays in seeing a doctor and/or receiving Medical Treatment. Only upon the discovery of documentation verifying attempts to cover up, and/or understate the length of the delays, has the Obama Administration decided that ignoring or denying the scandal would no longer work.<br/> <br/> Yesterday, President Obama finally had a press conference at which he addressed the scandal and said that such mismanagement would not be tolerated.<br/> <br/> That having been said, lets back the truck up.<br/> <br/> Before Obamacare, aka the <a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/affordable-care-act">Affordable Care Act</a> (<a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/aca">ACA</a>), ever was passed many persons pointed to mismanagement of the VA Hospitals as evidence the Federal Government was incapable of properly managing healthcare for the entire nation. In response, many Democrats denied the allegations of bad management at the VA Hospitals, and some even pointed to the excellent management of the VA Hospitals as evidence that Government could manage all of the nation's healthcare.<br/> <br/> Essentially the proponents of Obamacare shouted down the factual evidence that the Government was failing in its management of healthcare for Military Veterans;Veterans who should receive the best care possible. This factual evidence showed that the Government could not even properly manage the health of a very small fraction of the nations entire population.<br/> <br/> But those us of familiar with the VA Hospitals' long history of mismanagement and cover up, knew better.<br/> <br/> This writer repeatedly tweeted and emailed a link to a film clip of a 1992 movie called Article 99. This movie was directly on point to the issue of mismanagement that comes with government involvement with healthcare. In this instance, in the very VA Hospitals now embroiled in the current scandal.<br/> This is the Tweet this writer currently periodically sends out on Twitter @DMashak.</p>
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<p>Though the wording has change slightly since before Obamacare was passed, the video and the link remain the same as the one this writer posted many times before the passage of Obamacare. Obamacare was signed by President Barrack Obama on June 25, 2010. (This date will become important when the timeline of the VA Hospital scandal(s) is disclosed)<br/> <br/> In the interview contained in the article in the following Tweet @DMashak, it is reported that this scandal went on for a "long time". The printed portion of the article shows the currently documentable timeline begins in early 2012.</p>
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<p>But the end of the Article 99 movie indicates that the problems the movie exposed within the VA Hospital were never really resolved. People got fired and the status quo management just continued under new management. So has the VA Hospital scandal really went on for 22 years?<br/> Evidence that our Government has continuously mismanaged...<br/> <br/> To Continue reading for free, please click here <a href="http://goo.gl/rR95BD">http://goo.gl/rR95BD</a><br/> <br/> Those were my thoughts.<br/> <br/> In Closing:<br/> <br/> Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.<br/> <br/> If what is written here rings true to you, perhaps you should contact your local elected officials and let them know. If you are afraid of repercussions, snail mail it anonymously and ask them to respond in the local paper or their own monthly/quarterly internet newsletter. Even if this article refers to something outside you geographic area, it still likely applies to your location. Remember all those taxpayer training junkets we taxpayers send the bureaucrats on? They all learn the same “livestock management” techniques to use on WE THE PEOPLE.<br/> <br/> And that leaves WE THE PEOPLE with this conundrum: While our #Government works full time with compensation and funded with our money for the cause of #Tyranny; WE THE PEOPLE are forced to work part time without compensation for the cause of #liberty with what is left over of our time, money and energy.<br/> <br/> Finally, this article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine <a href="http://ushistory.org/paine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ushistory.org/paine</a>. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” <a href="http://amzn.to/kbRuar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/kbRuar</a><br/> <br/> Keep Fighting the Good Fight!<br/> <br/> In Liberty,<br/> <br/> Don Mashak<br/> The Cynical Patriot<br/> <a href="http://twitter.com/dmashak" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/dmashak</a><br/> <a href="http://facebook/Don.Mashak" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://Facebook/Don.Mashak</a><br/> Don Mashak Google Plus <a href="http://goo.gl/1AUrE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/1AUrE</a><br/> <br/> WE THE PEOPLE TAR #WETHEPEOPLETAR<br/> <a href="http://wethepeopletar.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://WETHEPEOPLETAR.blogspot.com</a><br/> <a href="http://facebook.com/WETHEPEOPLETAR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/WETHEPEOPLETAR</a><br/> <a href="http://twitter.com/WETHEPEOPLETAR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/WETHEPEOPLETAR</a><br/> <br/> End the Fed(eral Reserve Bank System) #ETF<br/> National <a href="http://bit.ly/ta3Rju" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ta3Rju</a> Minneapolis <a href="http://bit.ly/tjZJKF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/tjZJKF</a><br/> <br/> Bring Home the Politicians #BHTP<br/> <a href="http://bringhomethepoliticians.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://BringHomethePoliticians.com</a><br/> <br/> Lawless America #LawlessAmerica<br/> <a href="http://lawlessamerica.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://LawlessAmerica.com</a><br/> <br/> Term Limits #TermLimit<br/> <a href="http://termlimits.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://TermLimits.org</a><br/> <br/> Justice in Minnesota #JIM<br/> <a href="http://justiceinmn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://JusticeinMN.com</a><br/> <br/> Critical Thinking Notice - This author advises you as no politician would dare. Exercise Critical Thinking (<a href="http://bit.ly/ubI6ve" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ubI6ve</a>) in determining the truthfulness of anything you read or hear. Do not passively accept nor believe anything anyone tells you, including this author... unless and until you verify it yourself with sources you trust and could actively defend your perspective to anyone who might debate you to the contrary of your perspective</p> Twitter has REALLY messed with Me now!tag:12160.info,2013-06-17:2649739:Topic:12289792013-06-17T16:57:42.212ZAmaterasu Solarhttps://12160.info/profile/AmaterasuSolar
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<p>So... Would appreciate any who tweets @Twitter that I should be reinstated.</p> The Obamacare Revolt: Physicians Fight Back Against the Bureaucratization of Health Caretag:12160.info,2013-04-04:2649739:Topic:11683992013-04-04T00:26:54.439ZTirenehttps://12160.info/profile/Tirene
<div class="p402_premium"><div class="entry postcontent"><p>Dr. Ryan Neuhofel, 31, offers a rare glimpse at what it would be like to go to the doctor without massive government interference in health care. Dr. Neuhofel, based in the college town of Lawrence, Kansas, charges for his services according to an <a href="https://neucare.net/NeuCare/Info_Pricing.html">online price list</a> that's as straightforward as a restaurant menu. A drained abscess runs $30, a pap smear, $40, a 30-minute house…</p>
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<p>"Direct primary care," which is the industry term for Neuhofel's business model, does away with the bureaucratic hassle of insurance, which translates into much lower prices. "What people don't realize is that most doctors employ an army of people for coding, billing, and gathering payment," says Neuhofel. "That means you have to charge $200 to remove an ingrown toenail." Neuhofel charges $50.</p>
<p>He consults with his patients over email and Skype in exchange for a monthly membership fee of $20-30. "I realized people would come in for visits with the simplest questions and I'd wonder, why can't they just email me?" says Neuhofel. Traditional doctors have no way to get paid when they consult with patients over the phone or by email because insurance companies only pay for office visits.</p>
<p>Why did he choose this course? Neuhofel’s answer: “I didn’t want to waste my career being frustrated.”</p>
<p>This model is growing in popularity. Leading practitioners of direct primary care include Seattle, Washington-based <a href="http://qliance.com/">Qliance</a>, which has <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/bezos-dell-and-carey-invest-in-qliance/">raised venture capital funding</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos">Jeff Bezos</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dell">Michael Dell</a>, and comedian (and Reason Foundation Trustee) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Carey">Drew Carey</a>; <a href="http://www.medlion.com/">MedLion</a>, which is about to expand its business to five states; and <a href="http://www.amgmedicalgroup.com/">AMG Medical Group</a>, which operates several offices in New York City. Popular <a href="http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/tag/rob-lamberts/">health care blogger Dr. Rob Lamberts</a> has written <a href="http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2013/03/06/trickle-up-economics/">at length</a> about his decision to dump his traditional practice in favor of this model.</p>
<p>"Since I started my practice, I seem to hear about another doctor or clinic doing direct primary care every other week." says Neuhofel.</p>
<p>Direct primary care is part of a larger trend of physician-entrepreneurs all across the country fighting to bring transparent prices and market forces back to health care. This is happening just as the federal government is poised to interfere with the health care market in many new and profoundly destructive ways.</p>
<p>Obamacare, which takes full effect in 2014, will drive up costs and erode quality—and Americans will increasingly seek out alternatives. That could bring hordes of new business to practitioners like Neuhofel, potentially offering a countervailing force to Obamacare. (One example, the Surgery Center of Oklahoma's Dr. Keith Smith, <a href="http://reason.com/reasontv/2012/11/15/the-obamacare-revolt-oklahoma-doctors-fi">profiled for Reason TV</a> in September, is doing big business offering cash pricing for outpatient surgery at prices about 80 percent less than at traditional hospitals.)</p>
<p>Health "insurance" is more than just insurance; it's also "a payment plan for routine expenses," as University of Chicago business school economist <a href="http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/">John Cochrane</a> puts it in a superb <a href="http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/papers/after_aca.pdf">recent paper</a>. The late free-market economist Milton Friedman <a href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/7298">pointed out</a> that we insure our houses against fire and our cars against major damage, but we don't also insure ourselves against cutting the lawn and buying gas. That's the main reason innovation almost never makes health care cheaper. Most patients never see the bill for an ingrown toenail removal or a glucose tolerance test, so doctors have little incentive to seek ways to offer their services for less. For simple consultations, why bother with Skype when insurance will pay full price for an office visit.</p>
<p>Insurance plans that cover everything, a situation that came about largely because of a quirk in our tax code, have also led to the "bureaucratization of medical care," Friedman wrote <a href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/7298">in a 2001 essay</a>, in which "the caregiver has become, in effect, an employee of the insurance company or...the government."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insightprimary.com/">Dr. Lisa Davidson</a> had 8 years of frustration while running a successful traditional practice in Denver, Colorado. She had 6,000 patients when she decided to stop taking insurance and adopt the same business model as Neuhofel. Her patient list has dropped to about 2,000. She used to spend about 15 minutes with each patient and now it's more like 45 minutes. "We're on track to make more money and take better care of our patients," says Davidson. "It's a win-win all around."<span class="addcaption pic right" style="width: 400px;"><img alt="Dr. Lisa Davidson (pictured to the far right) and her staff" src="http://media.reason.com/mc/jepstein/2013_03/davidson440.jpg?h=227&w=400" title="Dr. Lisa Davidson (pictured to the far right) and her staff" height="227" width="400"/></span></p>
<p>Before adopting direct primary care, Davidson was unhappy working at the practice she had built because the insurance system imposed a way of doing business that resembled an assembly line. "It's true that in 2014, many more people will have insurance, so there will be a profound need for primary care doctors," says Davidson. "You might say I've done a disservice by dramatically cutting the size of my practice. However, if we make it desirable again to be a primary care physician more people will want to do it."</p>
<p>Under Obamacare, more and more doctors are becoming employees of large hospitals, where there will be more control over how they practice medicine. <a href="http://www.hoover.org/fellows/10107">Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Dr. Scott Atlas</a> fears this will cause a brain drain in medicine. "Really smart people want autonomy, and when you take that away it's naive to think you're going to get really bright people becoming doctors," says Atlas. "The best doctors could excel at any profession, so why go into medicine if they won't have the opportunity to be their best?"</p>
<p>When she was operating a traditional practice, Davidson witnessed firsthand how our "payment plans for routine expenses" drive up prices and block innovation. She recalls that one insurance company paid $118 for a routine PSA test. Now that her patients pay the bill directly the cost is $18. Insurance used to pay $128 for a bag of IV fluid. Now Davidson doesn't bother passing on the cost of IV bags because they run $1.50 each.</p>
<p>Dr. Eric Bricker is the medical director at <a href="http://www.compassphs.com/">Compass</a>, a Dallas-based company that helps individuals with high-deductible insurance plans. In a previous job, Bricker was a finance consultant for hospitals, giving him firsthand knowledge of how health insurance drives up prices. "When insurance companies and hospitals negotiate," says Bricker, "it's an exercise in horse trading." For example, an insurance company might let a hospital get away with charging $2,000 for an MRI, says Bricker. In exchange, the hospital agrees to charge the bargain price of $2,000 to deliver a baby. "You do that mixing and matching," says Bricker, "and at the end of the day it works out about even."</p>
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<p>According to Bricker, this horse-trading method provides an opportunity for hospitals to earn windfall profits: If the hospital gets $2,000 for MRIs, it will start encouraging patients to get more MRIs.</p>
<p>Given how prices are set, it's no mystery why in health care high costs often correlate with <em>low</em> quality. Bricker cites one facility in Dallas, where a 3-tesla MRI (the more teslas, the higher the resolution) can be had for $860, while a nearby facility offers a 1.5-tesla MRI for $2,500. The latter facility stays in business only because many of its customers don't know the difference. They pay the same $20 co-pay wherever they go for an MRI.</p>
<p>So Bricker co-founded <a href="http://www.compassphs.com/">Compass</a>, which works with about 1,200 firms to guide their employees to those doctors and testing facilities that offer both high quality and low prices. These employees have an incentive to seek out value because they're responsible for paying a large portion of their own routine medical costs before their insurance coverage kicks in.</p>
<p>High-threshold plans are exploding in popularity, which is a promising trend. According to <a href="http://ehbs.kff.org/pdf/2012/8345.pdf">a 2012 report</a> by the <a href="http://www.kff.org/">Kaiser Family Foundation</a>, about 31 percent of firms now offer health plans in which patients pay most routine costs out of pocket, like a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_savings_account">Health Savings Account (HSA)</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Reimbursement_Arrangement">Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA)</a>, and 19 percent of covered workers have one of these plans. High-deductible plans go a long way towards unbundling our "payment plans for routine expenses" from the catastrophic coverage that should be the sole function of health insurance.<span class="addcaption pic right" style="width: 350px;"><img alt="Growing Popularity of Consumer-Driven Health Care Plans (Source: Employer Health Benefits 2012 Annual Survey, Kaiser Family Foundation)" src="http://media.reason.com/mc/jepstein/2013_03/2012EBS420.jpg?h=263&w=350" title="Growing Popularity of Consumer-Driven Health Care Plans (Source: Employer Health Benefits 2012 Annual Survey, Kaiser Family Foundation)" height="263" width="350"/></span></p>
<p>"These plans offer hope," says Scott Atlas, "because they drive patients to care about what things cost. High deductible policies also eliminate much of the administrative cost of insurance because there's no need to file claims for routine charges."</p>
<p>Obamacare imposes new mandates on high-deductible plans, but it doesn't outlaw them. "The most devastating thing Obamacare could have done is to say it's illegal to have a deductible of more than $200," says Bricker. "So within the existing confines we can still have a successful business and help people."</p>
<p>Americans with high-deductible policies still have the misfortune of shopping for services in a health care market dominated by traditional health insurance. Since insurance companies and the government still pay the vast majority of medical bills, it's nearly impossible to find doctors who offer competitive and transparent prices.</p>
<p>A Houston-based start up called <a href="https://www.snaphealth.com/">Snap Health</a> is trying to remedy that by signing up doctors to list their prices on its website. Currently, there are 290 tests and about 100 doctors to choose from. You can buy an EKG (about $35), have a kidney stone analyzed ($250), or get a heart check up (about $400). Patients choose the procedure they want, pay online with a credit card, and then show up for their appointments. Snap Health's CEO and Co-founder Dr. David Wong says the biggest obstacle to building up a menu of offerings is that doctors accustomed to getting paid by insurance companies have no idea how to price their services for direct-paying clients.</p>
<p><span class="addcaption pic left" style="width: 381px;"><img alt="Snap Health co-founders Dr. Christopher Langan and Dr. David Wong (Photo Credit: Brad Ottosen)" src="http://media.reason.com/mc/jepstein/2013_03/snap400.jpg?h=256&w=381" title="Snap Health co-founders Dr. Christopher Langan and Dr. David Wong" height="256" width="381"/><span class="caption">Credit: Brad Ottosen</span></span>Wong says he launched his business partly on the belief that Obamacare will drive up health care costs, causing more and more companies and individuals to drop out and start paying their own health care bills. Neuhofel agrees that Obamacare could be good for business. "I expect some real unintended consequences after Obamacare is implemented. There could be more uninsured people."</p>
<p>Lisa Davidson plans to enter the state-based exchanges that Obamacare will put in place. She cites <a href="http://www.dpcare.org/health_reform">a provision</a> in the Affordable Care Act that explicitly allows direct primary care practitioners to marry their services with a catastrophic plan and enter the exchanges, although the details of what will be permitted under the law haven't been hammered out yet.</p>
<p>Eric Bricker also sees opportunity to work within the Affordable Care Act. "Compass is trying to make lemonade out of lemons," he says. "I think you can incrementally make improvements within Obamacare, and the situation will change over time."</p>
<p>The efforts of these doctors and others will undoubtedly help constrain exploding health care costs and improve care. But it's hard to fathom how within the legal constraints of Obamacare we'll see the sort of innovations that could solve the very problems that, ironically, were used to justify Obamacare's passage. As economist John Cochrane <a href="http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/papers/after_aca.pdf">puts it</a>, without government meddling, health insurance would be "individual, portable, life‐long, guaranteed‐renewable, transferrable, [and] competitive." And going to the doctor would be as simple and straightforward as eating out. What needs to be done to get there is painfully obvious</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/13/the-obamacare-revolt-physician-fight-bac/1">http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/13/the-obamacare-revolt-physician-fight-bac/1</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/government-health-care-kills-more-brits-than-guns-kill-americans/" target="_blank">http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/government-health-care-kills-more-brits-than-guns-kill-americans/</a></p>
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<p>I was alerted to this video by a reader and was troubled and sickened by what the poor people in the California Desert are being forced to deal with. From being threatened with jail time if they don’t hook back into the grid to being thrown in jail because the county didn’t like the look of their homes, the people in the deserts of Los Angeles County are being terrorized by their government.<br/><iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yw3RiMdS7sE?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<p>From: <a href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/04/29/dna-destroying-chip-being-embedded-into-mobile-phones/">http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/04/29/dna-destroying-chip-being-embedded-into-mobile-phones/</a></p>
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<p>According to Dr. Boian Alexandrov at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, terahertz (THz) waves destroy human DNA. The waves literally unzip the helix strand. Now a team of technologists at UT Dallas are planning to take…</p>
<p>From: <a href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/04/29/dna-destroying-chip-being-embedded-into-mobile-phones/">http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/04/29/dna-destroying-chip-being-embedded-into-mobile-phones/</a></p>
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<p>According to Dr. Boian Alexandrov at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, terahertz (THz) waves destroy human DNA. The waves literally unzip the helix strand. Now a team of technologists at UT Dallas are planning to take chips broadcasting THz waves and embed them into mobile phones for use as an imaging system for consumers, <a title="law enforcement" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/law-enforcement/">law enforcement</a> and medical personnel… a potentially deadly technology that could eventually kill or sicken millions of people.</p>
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<p><span>The controversial THz scanner technology used by the TSA at many of the nation’s airports is being adapted for cell phone use. Studies of terahertz radiation have caused experts to raise alarms over the significant health risks to humans.</span></p>
<p><span>Recently major media touted a new chip that permits the adaption of a THz generating device to be embedded into cellular phones.</span></p>
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<p><span>Read more at the link</span></p> ANONYMOUS MESSAGE: WE ARE NOT ALONE 28/04/2012tag:12160.info,2012-04-29:2649739:Topic:8439442012-04-29T15:56:00.366ZAmaterasu Solarhttps://12160.info/profile/AmaterasuSolar
<p>Found this one quite...intriguing.<iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vm2iEFfQVM0?wmode=opaque" width="560"></iframe>
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<p>Ok. Tried to embed in the HTML editor. STILL nothing showing up! Here's the link:</p>
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<p>____________________________<br></br> And now for My petition, which I…</p>
<p>Found this one quite...intriguing.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vm2iEFfQVM0?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<p>Ok. Tried to embed in the HTML editor. STILL nothing showing up! Here's the link:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vm2iEFfQVM0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vm2iEFfQVM0</a></p>
<p>____________________________<br/> And now for My petition, which I spread widely:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/us-military-release-the-technology-of-electrogravitics">http://www.change.org/petitions/us-military-release-the-technology-of-electrogravitics</a><br/> .</p>