ing police state brutality taking place across America, government-run animal control "mafias" (i.e. your local animal control department) are now murdering family pets if those families don't pay the ransom demands. In essence, animal control departments are now running kidnap and ransom operations, holding family pets ransom for fines and fees that, if not paid, result in those family pets being murdered. Don't believe me? To my great surprise, this story comes from none other than CNN Money, which published this detailed report that outlines the animal murder operations taking place across America. "In a number of cities across the country, animal control agencies are aggressively going after pet owners with big fines for small violations. Some hold people's pets until they settle their bills, even if it means they end up killed," report CNN Money authors Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken. "Others leave the dogs alone but issue arrest warrants for owners who can't pay up." This is REAL journalism, folks. And it's happening at CNN!
Government-run family pet kidnap-and-murder operation
CNN Money goes on to report: When owners of seized or lost dogs can't afford to get their pets back, they relinquish their rights to the animal, which can result in a pet being euthanized. Meanwhile, a CNN Money analysis of active warrants from a sampling of 15 cities and counties across the country found thousands of outstanding warrants for small pet-related offenses. Outraged pet owners and animal rights attorneys say these harsh tactics are all about generating money and unfairly impact low-income Americans. This dog, named Chunk, was murdered by the government in 2013. (Photo credit CNN Money)
Family dog kidnapped from a woman's yard and held for ransom, then murdered by government thugs
As CNN Money reports, a California resident named Elizabeth Vasquez says two dogs were kidnapped from her back yard by animal control "officers." They fined her $500, and when she could only come up with half the cash, they murdered one of the two dogs. "[A]nimal control killed Silver before she could scrape together enough cash to get the dog out, says Vasquez, who speaks only Spanish," reports CNN. It also turns out that the animal control mafia targets low-income neighborhoods where people often simply can't afford the steep fines. This woman had to pay $250 a week to hold her dog in a private facility while she awaits a jury trial after government thugs kidnapped it: (photo credit CNN Money)
Sterilize, microchip and vaccinate your dogs or we will murder them
What most Americans don't fully realize is that the animal control mafia not only has the authority to kidnap your dogs and hold them for ransom; they can also demand that you sterilize, microchip and vaccinate your dogs -- or they will kill them! "One pet owner was hit with this hefty fine [of $1,219] for failing to sterilize, vaccinate, microchip and license three dogs," reports CNN Money. Unbelievably, the animal control mafia has even been caught going door to door, issuing huge fines and citations without ever seeing the dogs in question! As CNN also reports: Last year, Riverside County inspectors incited controversy for going door-to-door and giving out citations of up to $400 per dog in Indio's low-income and mainly Hispanic neighborhoods. In some cases, they cited people for failing to have their pets licensed, sterilized, vaccinated and microchipped without even seeing the animals. ..."They are threatening people. They are intimidating people," said Kim Maguire-Hardee, a local activist who runs a low-cost spay and neuter clinic.
Pay us $1,200 or we'll murder your cat that we just kidnapped from your private property
In this outstanding example of real investigative journalism, CNN Money provides even more examples of government-run pet kidnapping, ransom and murder operations: Colorado resident Caitlin McAdam's dogs, Jake and Lucy, were seized from her home two months ago after they were accused of killing a neighbor's cat. Even though no evidence was provided that linked her dogs to the incident, McAdam was told that they could be killed if she didn't pay $1,200 in upfront impound fees within 10 days. In other words, the animal control mafia can literally kidnap your pets from your own private property, then hold them ransom while threatening to murder them if you don't pay up. In another case described by CNN Money, an 82-year-old woman was thrown in jail for two days after her dogs had gotten loose and disturbed some neighbors. She was threatened by the animal control mafia with a $7,000 fine and a year in jail. "A pro bono attorney helped her negotiate the $7,000 bill to around $500, which she paid with the help of her church and lawyer," reports CNN Money.
The psychopathic government now sees the public as the enemy to be exploited for profit
What we're seeing here is yet another example of a rogue, psychopathic government targeting the public with mafia-style tactics.
This kidnap-ransom-murder operation happening with family pets is also reflected in the civil asset forfeiture operations where cops pull over innocent families and steal their cash, claiming, "If you are carrying cash, it must have been acquired through drug-related activity." The government in America today -- both at the local and federal level -- has become a shakedown mafia run by psychopaths, and because the government alone has the authority to kill your pets or imprison you, the public is totally at the mercy of this authoritarian (yet totally insane) system. We're also seeing runaway medical brutality reflected in many state-level vaccine mandate laws that will force pregnant women, children and even senior citizens to be vaccinated against their will, essentially at gunpoint.
Vaccines are still formulated today with toxic substances such as mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, MSG and antibiotics -- all openly admitted by the CDC. So what it's all come down to now is that every level of government operates as a criminal mafia to achieve its desired aims: controlling your pets, controlling your children, injecting you with medical interventions that profit Big Pharma, or just brazenly stealing your cash during a "routine" Highway Patrol stop. This is America six years into the Obama administration and 14 years after Bush oversaw the passage of the Patriot Act police state infrastructure.
People demand liberty and freedom
No wonder more and more people are getting turned on to activists like Adam Kokesh, author of the book "FREEDOM!" Download the book PDF or MP3 audio files here. No wonder Rand Paul is about to take the 2016 Presidential campaign by storm by promoting the fundamental principles of freedom, liberty, private property and freedom from government invasions of our homes, bodies and businesses. No wonder websites like www.TheDailySheeple.com www.SteveQuayle.com www.TheLibertyMill.com and www.SGTreport.com are exploding in popularity.
People are tired of living in a brutal police state where their children and family pets are simply not safe from government criminals! Meanwhile, totally clueless and brainwashed masses continue to see any factual report on government brutality as being "anti-government." Is it still anti-government to not want that government to kidnap and murder your family pet? At what point will the sleepy-headed masses wake up and smell the tyranny? Or will they quietly and pathetically submit to the government murder of their own pets because it's the "obedient" thing to do? Sources for this article include: http://money.cnn.com/interactive/pf/pet-fine...s
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ic has been told there is no evidence that wireless technology is harmful. Claims of 5G harms have been dismissed as “conspiracy theory.”
A landmark case against the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) contests these statements and asserts that the harms are proven and that an epidemic of sickness exists.
Recently, the leading environmental and health advocacy organizations that filed the case submitted 11,000 pages of evidence in support of their claims. (Links to the evidence are provided below).
The case is being heard by the U.S. Courts of Appeals of the DC Circuit. Oral arguments are scheduled for Jan. 25 at 9:30 a.m. EST. The public can listen to it on YouTube.
In December 2019, the FCC closed an inquiry it initiated in 2013 in which the commission asked the public to submit comments to the inquiry’s docket as to whether or not the FCC should review its 1996 health guidelines for Radio Frequency (RF) radiation emitted by wireless devices and infrastructure.
About 2,000 comments — an exceptionally large number — were filed with the FCC. These comments were filed by scientists and science organizations, such as the BioInitiative and EMF Scientist, by doctors and medical organizations, by cities, such as Boston and Philadelphia, and by hundreds of individuals including parents of children who were injured by this technology. The comments referenced thousands of studies showing clear and profound evidence of harm.
Nevertheless, the FCC order, published on Dec. 4, 2019, concluded there is no evidence that wireless technology causes harm, and no need to review the guidelines. The FCC decision didn’t provide an analysis of the science, disregarded the evidence of sickness and didn’t defend its decision with evidence.
Consequently, two lawsuits were filed against the FCC. One by the Environmental Health Trust (EHT) and Consumers for Safe Cell Phones, and one by the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and additional petitioners including Prof. David Carpenter who is the co-editor of the BioInitiative Report, the most comprehensive review of the science by 29 leading scientists and public health experts.
CHD’s case was also joined by physicians who see the sickness in their clinics and by parents of children who have become sick with radiation sickness. One petitioner is a mother whose son diedfrom a glioblastoma, the same brain tumor that killed Beau Biden, President Joe Biden’s son.
The petitioners of both the EHT and CHD cases filed joint briefs. They argued that, considering the overwhelming evidence that was submitted to the FCC’s docket, and since the FCC’s order lacked evidence of reasoned decision-making, the FCC violated the Administrative Procedures Act and that the commission’s decision is capricious, arbitrary, abuse of discretion and not evidence-based.
The petitioners also argued that the FCC violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) because the Agency failed to consider the environmental impacts of its decision, and didn’t comply with the 1996 Telecommunications Act (TCA) because it failed to consider the impact of its decision on public health and safety.
The Opening Brief was filed by petitioners on July 29, 2020. The FCC filed its brief on Sept. 22, 2020; and the petitioners filed their Reply Brief on Oct. 21, 2020.
The court has ordered that in the oral arguments scheduled for Jan. 25, only one attorney will present the case for all the petitioners. It allocated 10 minutes for oral arguments for the petitioners as well as for the FCC.
EHT and CHD have agreed to have CHD’s attorney, Scott McCullough, former Assistant Texas Attorney General and a seasoned telecom and administrative law attorney, present the petitioners’ joint argument.
The three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that presides over the case includes the Honorable Karen Henderson, Patricia Millett and Robert Wilkins.
EHT is represented by attorney Edward B. Myers, who intervened in the successful case against the FCC with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and several Native American tribes when the court upheld the relevance of NEPA in FCC proceedings.
The NRDC filed an amicus brief in the case. An amicus brief was also filed by the Building Biology Institute, and by an executive from the telecom industry, Joe Sandri. Sandri’s brief included a statement of Dr. Linda Birenbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental and Health Services (NIEHS) from 2009-2019, stating that the evidence of carcinogenic effects of wireless technology has been established.
The evidence referenced in the case shows profound harmful effects and widespread sickness from wireless technology. The evidence (called the “Joint Appendix”) was recently filed and includes 11,000 pages of scientific and human evidence, yet, it is only the tip of the iceberg.
In this type of case only evidence that was submitted to the FCC’s docket can be used. There s much evidence that wasn’t submitted.
The Joint Appendix contains 440 documents. The table of contents alone is 54 pages. Because of the sheer volume of evidence, it had to be divided into 27 volumes. The court requires seven sets of the Joint Appendix, and therefore, 189 binders each containing approximately 500 pages were shipped to the court. The printing and shipping costs for the Joint Appendix amounted to more than $15,000.
The Joint Appendix includes references to thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies showing DNA damage, reproductive harm, neurological effects such as ADHD, and radiation sickness, which seems to be the most widespread manifestation of wireless harms.
The evidence shows effects on the brain, including impaired blood flow and damage to the blood-brain barrier, cognitive and memory problems and effects on sleep, melatonin production and mitochondrial damage. Causal mechanism of harm was also established. Oxidative Stress, a mechanism of harm that can lead to cancer, non-cancer conditions and DNA damage, was found in 203 out of 225 studies.
Unlike industry statements, both the majority of the studies and the weight of the evidence leave no doubt that the harms are proven.
The Joint Appendix also includes reports of leading expert scientists such as the BioInitiative Report; opinions of medical associations such as the California Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics; appeals of leading expert scientists; U.S. government agencies’ reports (U.S. Access Board, NIBS, the Department of Interior, U.S. Navy, the Military, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; government studies including the recent National Toxicology Program (NTP), a $30 million study that found clear evidence of cancer and DNA damage; as well as acknowledgement of harm by U.S. government agencies and scientists contradicting the FCC position.
In December 2020, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NAS) issued a report determining that the most likely cause of the symptoms suffered by the U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China is Radio-Frequency (wireless) weapons. The NAS was appointed by the Department of State. The report references much of the same evidence filed in the case against the FCC.
The NAS invited Prof. Beatrice Golomb, M.D., Ph.D., to present to the committee. Golomb’s 2018 paper was the first to show that pulsed RF is the most likely explanation for the diplomats’ symptoms. She pointed out the diplomats likely suffer from the same condition experienced by growing segments of the population from wireless technology known as radiation sickness/ microwave sickness/ electrosensitivity. Golomb’s paper was referenced in the case.
Hundreds of testimonials of people who have become sick like the diplomats and statements of doctors were filed to the FCC’s docket. The petitioners argued that the FCC guidelines that deny sickness are being used to deny accommodation for the injured, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Nevertheless, the FCC denied the evidence, the sickness and did not address the accommodation issue. For those who have been injured this case has profound consequences.
“Environmental Health Trust has worked for over a decade to protect the public from radiofrequency radiation, testified to Congress and published critical research on why children are more vulnerable,” said Devra Davis Ph.D., MPH, president and founder of Environmental Health Trust. “The FCC has ignored our extensive submissions to the FCC over the years which clearly document harm. As the legacies of lead, asbestos, and tobacco teach us, this issue deserves the immediate attention of our federal government in order to protect our children’s healthy future.”
“This is a landmark case and it is of the utmost importance to the Children’s Health Defense which works relentlessly to eliminate the epidemic of sickness in children,” said the organization’s chairman, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “The American public has been poorly served by the FCC. The FCC’s guidelines are decades-old and are based on scientific assumptions that were proven false. Its failure and disregard of public health is evident in the growing and widespread conditions involving brain damage, learning disabilities, and a host of complex neurological syndromes.”
Kennedy added: “The overwhelming experimental and human evidence which the FCC has ignored leaves no doubt that wireless technology is a major contributory factor to this epidemic. The FCC has shown that its chief interest is protecting the telecom industry and maximizing its profits, and its position as put forward in its brief is simply indefensible.”
The oral arguments are the final stage of this case. After the hearing, all that will be left is to wait for the court’s decision, said Dafna Tachover, director of CHD’s Stop 5G and Wireless Harms Project, who has initiated and led the case for CHD. “We have invested significant resources in this case and all of us worked very hard for the past 13 months. We believe that we have a strong case. Now it is up to the court. As William Wilberforce, who fought slavery said, ‘You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you didn’t know.’”
How to access the oral arguments online
The oral arguments are Jan. 25 9:30 a.m. EST, however according to the schedule, 2 other cases are scheduled for the same time and they will be heard ahead of our case. Hence, most likely, our oral arguments will not start before 10:20 a.m. EST.
You can listen to the hearing here.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/landmark-5g-case-against-fcc-hearing-set-jan-25/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a84470c7-e480-4074-bb6a-1945be…
on our biosphere.
We have to understand that the higher the G rating, as in 1G, 2G, 3G, etc., the more toxic this technology is. We are now entering uncharted territory known as 5G. Microwave and EMF exposure at the 4G level have already decreased America’s overall health.
Under the current 5G plan every square inch of America will be bathed and covered in penetrating and irradiating microwaves like never before. It will be impossible to escape this. Impossible.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
My former business, Empire Cellular, still exists today and is known as Golden Empire Cellular. It resides on Idaho-Marilyn Road in Grass Valley, along with Son's Development and Sierra Solar; all green businesses. And while one associates wireless technology with the green movement, it is not.
If you’re an environmentalist, don’t fool yourself: This technology is the antithesis of “green.” Any “environmentalist” or environmental organization that says differently should not be trusted.
The damage to bees alone is monumental. Studies have already proven the impact on bee colonies with much older and less toxic technology. I can only imagine what the 5G network and its additional 2 millions “small cells” installed throughout our nation is going to do to our food industry if the bees disappear.
Lynne Wycherley writes in The Ecologist’s Wireless Pollution ‘Out of Control” as a Corporate Race for 5G Gears Up, “Life's exquisite electro-physiology is still being discovered. Researchers at Bristol University reported in May that bees' hairs are highly sensitive to flowers' delicate EMFs. In controlled trials in Switzerland, bees reacted to mobile-phone signals with high-pitched 'piping': a cue to desert a hive.
Other studies show that mitochondria, the tiny power houses in our cells, are at risk from our new EMFs. And that even DNA, in its delicate antenna-like structure, may be frequency-sensitive. The long-term, ecological implications of our new, anthropogenic radiation are not known. But peer-reviewed studies revealing harm to birds, tadpoles, trees, other plants, insects, rodents and livestock, offer clues.
IT’S BEEN IN THE MAKING FOR A LONG TIME
This is a technology that has been in the making for nearly 60 years. And while there is a platitude of studies, including government-funded studies that prove the increased risk of cancer and brain tumors, there are equally as many industry-funded research that expels contradictory information and these are dangerous myths that continue to be propagated in the corporate-owned media.
Even more alarming is the 1996 Telecommunications Act that bans any local government from making a decision based upon negative health impacts from the wireless industry. In other words, this is a 20 year-old gag-order that was placed upon the American people before they had any clue what an expanded and amped up wireless network could look like.
Meanwhile, leaders from around the world take the harmful effects much more seriously such as “Switzerland, Italy, France, Austria, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Israel, Russia and China have set RF exposure limits 100 to 10,000 times less than the USA. They recognize that there can be non-thermal biological effects from wireless radiation.” Ultimately, these nations are assuming The Precautionary Principle that states “if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public, or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus (that the action or policy is not harmful), the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking that action.”
For well over 50 years scientists and industry insiders have known that these microwave pulse modulated radiofrequency radiation day-in-and-day-out is very toxic; particularly to pregnant women and children, and yet our leaders allow the telecom industry to continue its expansion, completely unbridled; eviscerating the very protections that prevented the industry from steamrolling us in the first place.
We can expect, in the future, that our health will continue to only become more and more compromised, manifesting in a myriad of different ways; EMS sensitivity is cumulative. It builds up in our bodies over time causing individuals to have great difficulty in warding off the simplest of flues while showing ill health in countless forms.
There is enough evidence and enough studies that should cause the general public and our American leaders to take great pause before deploying this technology in every neighborhood across America.
This has literally become an unbridled unregulated industry that once fully implemented, will turn into a wireless planetary cage. It is with this technology that its proponents intend to monitor and control everything while compromising our health and the biosphere around us. I'm sorry if this sounds Orwellian, but that’s because it is.
WHAT TO DO
How is the public able to protect itself it these bills are passed silently and without public debate and feedback? Exactly who is supposed to protect us if the alphabet agencies that are designed to protect us don't? Who is setting the safety levels? Who ultimately is guaranteeing the protection of the Public Trust?
Are elected officials expected to do nothing while the proposed SB 649 and the criminal 1996 Telecommunications Act, an extensions of the WTO, attempt to strong-arm local government in its decision making?
Since when do local authorities and their constituents have no say over the quality of their life, their environment, their health, and what is allowed into their cities and public right of way, even our homes?
Haven’t we learned already? Have we forgotten the boldface lies that we heard from officials regarding asbestos, cigarettes, and lead, to name a few?
These are the answers I have been seeking out. I have been astounded and alarmed by what I continue to uncover and feel it absolutely imperative that I share this with the public, my community, and the world.
This is not going to be easy. I love this technology as much as the next guy, but is it worth our health? Our lives?
This is why I have made this into a 3 Part series that will explore the impacts, its history, studies and possible alternatives of this technology from some of the greatest minds around the world. Stay tuned and feel free to sign up here and received my blogs as I post them because I’m not going down this wormhole alone.
SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES & SOURCES
International Electromagnetic Field Scientist Appeal: https://emfscientist.org
Human Skin as Arrays of Helical Antennas in the Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Range: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51394628_Human_Skin_as_Arrays_of_Helical_Antennas_in_the_Millimeter_and_Submillimeter_Wave_Range
Research Study Summaries at Hebrew University Department of Applied Physics
http://aph.huji.ac.il/people/feldman/research.htm#Human%20Skin%20as%20Arrays%20of%20Helical%20Antennas%20in%20the%20Millimeter%20and%20Submillimeter%20Wave%20Range
PDF of Abstract for January 24, 2017 IIAS Presentation:
http://ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/Yuri-Feldman-and-Paul-Ben-Ishai-Abstract.pdf
Letter from Dr. Yael Stein to Federal Communications Commission on Spectrum Frontiers:
http://ehtrust.org/letter-fcc-dr-yael-stein-md-opposition-5g-spectrum-frontiers/
Review article: International policy and advisory response regarding children’s exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) http://nebula.wsimg.com/fbed8bb8a26c6f14262cff2e8fd4dcb7?AccessKeyId=045114F8E0676B9465FB&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
US Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program FAQS:
http://jnlwp.defense.gov/About/Frequently-Asked-Questions/Active-Denial-System-FAQs/
A Narrative Summary and Independent Assessment of the Active Denial System The Human Effects Advisory Panel:
http://jnlwp.defense.gov/Portals/50/Documents/Future_Non-Lethal_Weapons/HEAP.pdf
Everything You Need to Know About 5G:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/telecom/wireless/everything-you-need-to-know-about-5g
Potential Risks to Human Health from Future Sub-MM Communication Systems: Paul Ben-Ishai, PhD Video Lecture Presentation
https://youtu.be/VuVtGldYXK4?list=PLT6DbkXhTGoArWUNJc0tUcKW9Ue_sbCk1
California League of Cities Action Item 5G: https://www.cacities.org/Policy-Advocacy/Action-Center/SB-649-(Hueso)-Wireless-and-Small-Cell-Telecommuni.aspx
Wireless pollution 'out of control' as corporate race for 5G gears up: http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2988266/wireless_pollution_out_of_control_as_corporate_race_for_5g_gears_up.html
Parents for Safe Technology: World Wide Precautionary: Action http://www.parentsforsafetechnology.org/worldwide-countries-taking-action.html
Wildlife RF Effects:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B14R6QNkmaXucU5LUk5GRVBzMkU/view
The FCC approves 5G millimeter wave spectrum frontiers:
https://ehtrust.org/policy/fcc-approves-5g-millimeter-wave-spectrum-frontiers/
Most Dangerous Thing We Face Is Being Rolled Out Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfM5k0EcJCo
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ow first century Romans using it for liver health. The active ingredient that helps our kidneys and liver is called silymarin.
What Does Milk Thistle Do For The Kidneys?
Silymarin can help our kidney tissue recuperate faster when it’s been exposed to damaging chemicals.
Milk thistle also has flavonoids, is full of antioxidants, and can help you produce more of your own antioxidants. Milk thistle helps to increase the expression of genes involved in generating three of your own powerful antioxidants in the kidneys:
Glutathione
Superoxide Dismutase
Catalase (5)
Milk thistle also helps to reduce inflammation in our kidneys and may even help to protect you from kidney cancer. The active ingredient in milk thistle has been shown to down-regulate cancer-causing genes so cancer cells don’t multiply effectively. (6)
What Does Milk Thistle Do For the Liver?
Milk thistle is one of the best herbs for our liver detox because it has such a powerful influence on liver function. It helps to:
Reduce inflammation
Stabilize membranes in the liver
Increase glutathione production
Boost Superoxide Dismutase
And decrease liver tumor cell division
It also will help to protect your liver from the damage created as it detoxifies toxic substances. Milk thistle even increases the survival time of people with alcohol-related liver cirrhosis! (7)
Milk thistle has very similar effects on our two detox organs. It’s our top pick for natural kidney and liver detox.
2. Marshmallow Root
Marshmallow comes from a Greek word meaning “to heal.” It creates mucilage when you ingest it and has traditionally been used to treat sore throats. It is anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antifungal. (8) Fortunately, this herb does great things for our kidneys and liver as well.
What Does Marshmallow Root Do For The Kidneys?
One potential concern that people have is developing kidney stones. How do you flush your kidneys to help prevent them? By taking herbs that have a diuretic effect. Diuretics can increase the amount of urine you produce and flush out debris from the kidneys with it. Marshmallow root can act as a diuretic to help you do a natural kidney cleanse. (9)
What Does Marshmallow Root Do For The Liver?
Marshmallow root has polysaccharides that help in our wound healing because of its high antioxidant capacity. (10) Our liver bile ducts can become damaged over time. Marshmallow root acts to soothe this damage. In fact, it stimulates the production of our epithelial cells. (11) These are the cells that line the inside of our organs and ducts. Having a strong, healthy bile duct can better help your liver detox.
One additional benefit from marshmallow is its ability to bind to heavy metals. (12) Binding heavy metals and ushering them out of our body before they can create damage is another reason we love this root for liver and kidney detox.
3. Parsley
This green herb is much more than a garnish on your plate at a restaurant! It is full of flavonoids, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Parsley has some powerful kidney and liver detox properties we can take advantage of.
What Does Parsley Do For The Kidneys?
Parsley is another fantastic herb to help us prevent kidney stones because it is a diuretic. When studied against other substances, parsley reduced kidney stones the most. Not only did the size and number of stones significantly go down, but the kidney tissue was also healthier. (13) Parsley is a powerful natural kidney cleanse herb.
What Does Parsley Do For The Liver?
Parsley is considered a “bitter” herb. Bitter herbs can help stimulate your release of bile, helping the liver detox. Parsley also helps to produce glutathione which helps protect your liver from damage. (14)
Parsley can also help to lower your blood glucose levels, which can inflame the liver if they are too high. It can help protect your liver by lowering inflammatory liver enzymes. (15)
Similarly to marshmallow, parsley can help to bind onto and remove heavy metals from our body. (16)
Parsley’s diuretic and protective roles make it an especially good kidney detox herb that also has benefits for our liver!
4. Gynostemma
This herb has been used for thousands of years. It’s been nicknamed “poor man’s ginseng” since one of its chemical constituents is the same as Korean ginseng. It’s good for the immune system and supports energy levels. It also supports our liver and kidney detox process.
What Does Gynostemma Do For The Kidneys?
When our organs are injured from exposure to toxins, a process called fibrosis can occur. This is when our cells create scar tissue instead of healthy tissue. Scar tissue doesn’t function like healthy tissue and inhibits our kidney's ability to detox optimally. High levels of fibrosis can lead to the loss of kidney function altogether. Gynostemma can influence the genes in our kidneys to help produce healthy, well-functioning tissue and reduce fibrosis. (17)
What Does Gynostemma Do For The Liver?
Gynostemma has the same fibrosis reducing effects in the liver as it does on the kidney. Scar tissue ends up being thick and unyielding, preventing your liver from performing properly. One study showed that liver tissues can thin out and severe liver fibrosis can be reduced by 33% in as little as 8 weeks! (18) Healthy tissue will help your liver detox at its best capacity.
It also influences your genes involved in liver cancer cell growth and has been shown to inhibit them from multiplying, which would help protect you from liver cancer. (19)
Gynostemma is a powerful anti-inflammatory for our intestines as well. (20) The intestines are the next step in your liver detox. The liver dumps its toxins into this part of your drainage system to be taken out of the body. Gynostemma does triple duty by helping our kidneys, liver, and intestines. This makes it one of our favorites to enhance your natural detox.
5. Beetroot
Beetroot is so much more than the vegetable you didn’t like as a kid. They’ve been eaten for thousands of years because of their health benefits. Beets were found in Egyptian pyramids dating back to the Third Dynasty. Even without knowing it, they were helping their liver and kidneys detox by consuming beets.
What Does Beetroot Do For The Kidneys?
Beetroot can enhance your production of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide dilates blood vessels which increases blood flow. This additional blood flow can help your kidneys work better than when your blood flow is restricted. (21)
The bright red pigment of beetroot is called betanin. It helps reduce inflammation and oxidative stress. It can also help protect your kidneys from damage. (22)
Beetroot can also help protect your kidneys from being injured from antibiotics, which can sometimes cause kidney failure. It helps to increase catalase, your own natural in-house antioxidant which is crucial for effective kidney detox. Beetroot helps you to downregulate proinflammatory substances in the kidneys as well. (23)
What Does Beetroot Do For The Liver?
Your liver is the organ that protects you from foreign substances often referred to as xenobiotics. Xenobiotics include items you are probably exposed to daily like pesticides, pollution, and food additives.
They are carcinogenic (cancer-causing) so your liver wants to deal with them immediately. However, they can still damage the liver as it neutralizes them. Beetroot helps to increase your own natural antioxidants to protect the liver from damage. (24) Injury to your body's DNA can also be reduced.
The process of getting rid of these foreign substances is called phase II metabolism. The red pigment betanin helps quench the free radicals that are a byproduct of this detox pathway and make it more efficient for us. (25)
Beetroot is another herb that influences our genes. It can help downregulate the genes involved with liver cancer. (26)
Beetroot’s protective pigment and gene influencing properties make it high on our list of natural liver and kidney detox herbs.
6. Ginger
Ginger is the most widely used spice in the world. We often use this pungent herb for nausea, but it’s helping your liver and kidneys detox as well.
What Does Ginger Do For The Kidneys?
Ginger can have a powerful effect on your kidney detox capabilities!
It’s been shown to:
Increase the body’s natural antioxidants in the kidneys
Lower inflammation
Help remove toxins from the kidneys
Reduce fibrosis
Help create healthier kidney tissue (27)
This simple root herb is a powerhouse for kidney detox.
What Does Ginger Do For The Liver?
Ginger does not disappoint when it comes to our liver detox either.
Researchers aren’t sure how ginger does it, but it can influence our genes involved with producing fat in the liver. It helps to prevent lipid storage which can help protect us from fatty liver disease. (28) Having fat accumulate in the liver prevents it from doing its 500 tasks properly. It leads to fibrosis and decreases the blood flow to the liver, which greatly reduces detox.
Ginger reduces inflammation, and once again, helps us produce our own antioxidants.
Another benefit that goes for both our liver and kidneys, is protection from heavy metals. Cadmium can change gene expression and upregulate cancer genes. Ginger reverses this and helps protect you from heavy metals. (29)
Ginger is a simple, but powerful addition to your kidney and liver detox protocol.
Nature Enhancing Nature
We’ve gone over 6 herbs that improve kidney and liver function:
Milk Thistle
Marshmallow Root
Parsley
Gynostemma
Beetroot
Ginger
They all have similar effects. They are anti-inflammatory and change the gene expression in the kidneys and liver for the better.
But are the herbs doing the healing for you?
No, it’s you!
You have incredible detox and protective measures in place within every organ system.
There is a caveat though.
These fantastic systems can become overwhelmed when you are exposed to too many toxins. They are hindered in performing their essential jobs. They also decrease with efficiency as we age.
Which herbs do you think would help you with kidney and liver detox the most?
Consider a blend that contains a few of these herbs to maximize your protection and detox potential.
Helping to restore your optimum kidney and liver detox pathways can help protect you from a host of health challenges and will also help you live your best, healthiest life now.…
By John Solomon, opinion contributor
Sometimes public silence can be deafening or, for that matter, misleading.
For nearly two years now, the intelligence communit
ounter derivatives, are exploiting their growing clout in that
market to secure cheap funding in addition to billions in
revenue from the business.
Both New York-based banks are demanding unequal arrangements with hedge-fund firms, forcing them to post more
cash collateral to offset risks on trades while putting up less
on their own wagers. At the end of December this imbalance
furnished Goldman Sachs with $110 billion, according to a
filing. That’s money it can reinvest in higher-yielding assets.
“If you’re seen as a major player and you have a product that people can’t get elsewhere, you have the negotiating
power,” said Richard Lindsey, a former director of market
regulation at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission who
ran the prime brokerage unit at Bear Stearns Cos. from 1999 to
2006. “Goldman and a handful of other banks are the places
where people can get over-the-counter products today.”
The collapse of American International Group Inc. in 2008 was hastened by the insurer’s inability to meet $20 billion in
collateral demands after its credit-default swaps lost value and
its credit rating was lowered, Treasury Secretary Timothy F.
Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at
the time of the bailout, testified on Jan. 27. Goldman Sachs was
among AIG’s biggest counterparties.
AIG Protection
Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer David Viniar has said that his firm’s stringent collateral agreements would have
helped protect the firm against a default by AIG. Instead, a
$182.3 billion taxpayer bailout of AIG ensured that Goldman
Sachs and others were repaid in full.
Over the last three years, Goldman Sachs has extracted more collateral from counterparties in the $605 trillion over-the-
counter derivatives markets, according to filings with the SEC.
The firm led by Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein collected cash collateral that represented 57 percent of
outstanding over-the-counter derivatives assets as of December
2009, while it posted just 16 percent on liabilities, the firm
said in a filing this month. That gap has widened from rates of
45 percent versus 18 percent in 2008 and 32 percent versus 19
percent in 2007, company filings show.
“That’s classic collateral arbitrage,” said Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York who
previously worked as treasurer at Morgan Stanley and chief
financial officer at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. “You always
want to enter into something where you’re getting more
collateral in than what you’re putting out.”
Using the Cash
The banks get to use the cash collateral, said Robert Claassen, a Palo Alto, California-based partner in the corporate
and capital markets practice at law firm Paul, Hastings,
Janofsky & Walker LLP.
“They do have to pay interest on it, usually at the fed funds rate, but that’s a low rate,” Claassen said.
Goldman Sachs’s $110 billion net collateral balance in December was almost three times the amount it had attracted from
depositors at its regulated bank subsidiaries. The collateral
could earn the bank an annual return of $439 million, assuming
it’s financed at the current fed funds effective rate of 0.15
percent and that half is reinvested at the same rate and half in
two-year Treasury notes yielding 0.948 percent.
“We manage our collateral arrangements as part of our overall risk-management discipline and not as a driver of
profits,” said Michael DuVally, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs.
He said that Bloomberg’s estimates of the firm’s potential
returns on collateral were “flawed” and declined to provide
further explanation.
JPMorgan, Citigroup
JPMorgan received cash collateral equal to 57 percent of the fair value of its derivatives receivables after accounting
for offsetting positions, according to data contained in the
firm’s most recent annual filing. It posted collateral equal to
45 percent of the comparable payables, leaving it with a $37
billion net cash collateral balance, the filing shows.
In 2008 the cash collateral received by JPMorgan made up 47 percent of derivative assets, while the amount posted was 37
percent of liabilities. The percentages were 47 percent and 26
percent in 2007, according to data in company filings.
“JPMorgan now requires more collateral from its counterparties” on derivatives, David Trone, an analyst at
Macquarie Group Ltd., wrote in a note to investors following a
meeting with Jes Staley, chief executive officer of JPMorgan’s
investment bank.
Citigroup Collateral
By contrast, New York-based Citigroup Inc., a bank that’s 27 percent owned by the U.S. government, paid out $11 billion
more in collateral on over-the-counter derivatives than it
collected at the end of 2009, a company filing shows.
Brian Marchiony, a spokesman for JPMorgan, and Alexander Samuelson, a spokesman for Citigroup, both declined to comment.
The five biggest U.S. commercial banks in the derivatives market -- JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp.,
Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co. -- account for 97 percent of the
notional value of derivatives held in the banking industry,
according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
In credit-default swaps, the world’s five biggest dealers are JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Frankfurt-based
Deutsche Bank AG and London-based Barclays Plc, according to a
report by Deutsche Bank Research that cited the European Central
Bank and filings with the SEC.
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan had combined revenue of $29.1 billion from trading derivatives and cash securities in the
first nine months of 2009, according to Federal Reserve reports.
The U.S. Congress is considering bills that would require more derivatives deals be processed through clearinghouses,
privately owned third parties that guarantee transactions and
keep track of collateral and margin. A clearinghouse that
includes both banks and hedge funds would erode the banks’
collateral balances, said Kevin McPartland, a senior analyst at
research firm Tabb Group in New York.
When contracts are negotiated between two parties, collateral arrangements are determined by the relative credit
ratings of the two companies and other factors in the
relationship, such as how much trading a fund does with a bank,
McPartland said. When trades are cleared, the requirements have
“nothing to do with credit so much as the mark-to-market value
of your current net position.”
“Once you’re able to use a clearinghouse, presumably everyone’s on a level playing field,” he said.
Dimon, Blankfein
Still, banks may maintain their advantage in parts of the market that aren’t standardized or liquid enough for clearing,
McPartland said. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs’s
Blankfein both told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in
January that they support central clearing for all standardized
over-the-counter derivatives.
“The percentage of products that are suitable for central clearing is relatively small in comparison to the entire OTC
derivatives market,” McPartland said.
A report this month by the New York-based International Swaps & Derivatives Association found that 84 percent of
collateral agreements are bilateral, meaning collateral is
exchanged in two directions.
Banks have an advantage in dealing with asset managers because they can require collateral when initiating a trade,
sometimes amounting to as much as 20 percent of the notional
value, said Craig Stein, a partner at law firm Schulte Roth &
Zabel LLP in New York who represents hedge-fund clients.
JPMorgan Collateral
JPMorgan’s filing shows that these initiation amounts provided the firm with about $11 billion of its $37.4 billion
net collateral balance at the end of December, down from about
$22 billion a year earlier and $17 billion at the end of 2007.
Goldman Sachs doesn’t break out that category.
A bank’s net collateral balance doesn’t get included in its capital calculations and has to be held in liquid products
because it can change quickly, according to an executive at one
of the biggest U.S. banks who declined to be identified because
he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.
Counterparties demanding collateral helped speed the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, according to a
New York Fed report published in January. Those that had posted
collateral with Lehman were often in the same position as
unsecured creditors when they tried to recover funds from the
bankrupt firm, the report said.
“When the collateral is posted to a derivatives dealer like Goldman or any of the others, those funds are not
segregated, which means that the dealer bank gets to use them to
finance itself,” said Darrell Duffie, a professor of finance at
Stanford University in Palo Alto. “That’s all fine until a
crisis comes along and counterparties pull back and the money
that dealer banks thought they had disappears.”
‘Greater Push Back’
While some hedge-fund firms have pushed for banks to put up more cash after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs
and other survivors of the credit crisis have benefited from the
drop in competition.
“When the crisis started developing, I definitely thought it was going to be an opportunity for our fund clients to make
some headway in negotiating, and actually the exact opposite has
happened,” said Schulte Roth’s Stein. “Post-financial crisis,
I’ve definitely seen a greater push back on their side.”
Hedge-fund firms that don’t have the negotiating power to strike two-way collateral agreements with banks have more to
gain from a clearinghouse than those that do, said Stein.
Regulators should encourage banks to post more collateral to their counterparties to lower the impact of a single bank’s
failure, according to the January New York Fed report. Pressure
from regulators and a move to greater use of clearinghouses may
mean the banks’ advantage has peaked.
“Before the financial crisis, collateral was very unevenly demanded and somewhat insufficiently demanded,” Stanford’s
Duffie said. A clearinghouse “should reduce the asymmetry and
raise the total amount of collateral.”…
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