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Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Regis Giles Girls Just Wanna Have Guns!
WTC demolition participant murdered?
WTC demolition participant murdered?
Nov172014
Michael Calabrese was found floating upright. “Accidental
drowning” ?!
Was Michael Calabrese murdered to prevent him from talking about
his participation in the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center Towers
andBuilding 7?
That is the explosive charge leveled by an anonymous source
calling himself “Dave Adam.” According to former NSA officer turned
whistleblowing journalist Wayne Madsen, “Adam” fears for his life in the wake
of Calabrese’s apparent murder.
In an exclusive interview with Truth Jihad Radio, Wayne Madsen
explained that pseudonymous source Dave Adam came forward during the past
two weeks, apparently first contacting Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
and then Madsen. According to Madsen, Adam “claimed he was involved in
placing vending machines containing detonation and relay switches inside the
North and South Towers of the World Trade Center” and that Calabrese, a former
Navy Seal, was part of the operation.
Calabrese was found dead on May 24 2012, floating in a harbor in
Camden, North Carolina. The odd thing was that his body was floating
vertically, not horizontally, indicating it had been weighed down. Though
Camden County Sheriff Tony Perry called the death “suspicious,” it was
officially ruled an accident.
Madsen spoke of his “experience investigating these types of
deaths – many of which were in the Chesapeake Bay – such as John Paisley, a
former Clandestine Services Officer for the CIA, who was found floating in a
similar manner, was weighed down with anchor chain next to his boat in
Chesapeake Bay a week before he was supposed to testify to the House Select
Committee on Assassinations. Same with William Colby, the former CIA Director.
And then there was a guy named Phil Merrill, who was a well-known publisher in
the DC area. There’s a journalism school named after Phil Merrill at the
University of Maryland at College Park. Merrill was also a member of the
Export-Import Bank, which has been in and out of news on corruption over the
years. And Merrill may have had some information on how all this massive amount
of cash was sent to Iraq (and billions disappeared)…he was found suspiciously
floating next to his yacht in the Chesapeake as well, wrapped up in anchor
chain. They said he committed suicide…Wrapped himself up in anchor chain and
then shot himself…My experience with water deaths like this is that water is a
favorite way to get rid of people, because the toxicology is immediately thrown
off. Because the longer the body is in the water, anything like poison or any
sort of injection basically disappears.”
According to Madsen, Calabrese’s background was consistent with
the foul-play scenario. “He had been in the news a year before during Hurricane
Irene. He lived on his boat with his girlfriend in Portsmouth, which is right
next to Norfolk, where a lot of retired military people are. And so that made
sense if Calabrese was a former Navy Seal (as alleged by Dave
Adam)…Hurricane Irene was coming up the coast, and he put out to sea rather
than suffer damage with his boat in port. Like many Navy ships do: They sortee
ships to ride out the storms in the open sea. And he decided to try to outrun
this hurricane. But he was not successful. The yacht, with him and his
girlfriend on it, was beached in Oceanview, which is off the Willoughby Spit in
Chesapeake, very close to the Willow Creek Naval Amphibious Base, where I
believe four Navy Seal teams, including Seal Team 2, are headquartered. Oddly
enough, after that happened, somebody torched his boat after it was on the
beach and he was under orders to remove it…he said he received all kinds of
threats, which he passed to the Norfolk Police, that his boat was going to be
burned. And threats against himself. So why would this guy, who was featured on
the local news after being rescued from his sinking boat in a storm, why would
anyone start threatening him and his property? My feeling is that he was
probably living on boats to stay off the grid.”
“None of this is verified, but…if it’s true that Calabrese was his
(Adam’s) supervisor (in prepping the WTC demolitions) we now have a suspicious
dead body in 2012. That would tend to support (Adam’s) allegations. Adam came forward
just in the last few weeks…In the interim I met some former Navy special
warfare operations people who worked in NAS Pensacola. The Florida Panhandle
has a lot of special forces people, current and retired…I was invited to speak
speak face-to-face to some of these Navy special warfare people. And they
indicated to me that they knew who Calabrese was, they verified the fact that
he had been in the Navy…and he was known to these Navy special warfare people.
That’s a very small community by the way.”
At the time of his death Calabrese was writing an autobiographical
book entitled Angels
at Work. Like JFK’s girlfriend Mary Meyer, who was killed while
writing a book detailing how CIA people she knew (including ex-husband Cord)
had killed JFK, and Philip Marshall, a former CIA drug pilot who was murdered
along with his two children while writing a book about what really happened on
9/11, Calabrese may have been killed to prevent him from publicizing his
involvement in a “national security case.”
Dave Adam claims that he worked for Calabrese as part of a
CIA-linked special operations team that flew in from Montana’s Malstrom Air
Force Base, operated out of Military Sealift Command Atlantic in Bayonne,
New Jersey, and placed detonation relay switches in vending machines in the
World Trade Center Towers.
Madsen says he “checked to see who had the contract for the
vending machines in those two buildings. It was a company called Aramark
Services. They were just in the news recently. They got a contract with the Chicago
public school system. And it looks like there were payoffs made to provide
school lunches…courtesy of Rahm Emmanuel…the other thing is, they also provide
catering services to passenger planes. That may open up an entirely new door in
this whole investigation. I’m not saying they knew anything about these
(rigged-to-trigger-demolition) vending machines. And I would assume that if the
vending machines were in a public area, they had to be somewhat functional,
unless they were just moved in as
vending machines and put in a closed area not seen by the public.”
The same source, Dave Adam, says the WTC demolition team’s
activities were disguised through the help of a team of “performance artists”
brought into the Towers for that purpose. The two performance teams, E-Team and
Gelitin, were given 24-7 access to the entire World Trade Center for the entire
four years leading up to the attack. According to journalist Jonathan Elinoff,
who broke the story in 2009 on Truth Jihad Radio, these “art students” were detained
as part of the Israeli spy ring that conducted the biggest-ever espionage
operation against the US during the run-up to 9/11. These “art students” had
three or four tons of boxes in the World Trade Center, along with blueprints of
the buildings and maps of security check points. “They had passes to bring in
whatever kinds of construction material they wanted,” Madsen says. “Since the
World Trade Center had been bombed in 1993, this did raise eyebrows.”
According to Madsen, Dave Adam says that E-Team and
Gelitin were “diversionary people known to him and his team” whose role
was “to divert attention to what they (the CIA-linked special ops team prepping
the demolitions) were doing in the buildings.”
Madsen pointed out that some of the E-Team and Gelatin “art
students” – like the hundreds of Israeli spies disguised as art students
swarming all over the US during the run-up to 9/11 – used fake credentials from
nonexistent art schools. Madsen noted that Jeb Bush, who was governor of
Florida in 2001 and personally participated in the cover-up of the Israeli
spies, Arab patsies and fake flight schools, is expected to announce his
candidacy for president soon – which should bring renewed attention to his
nefarious activities in 2001.
Madsen agrees with my suggestion that Dave Adam (assuming he is a
genuine whistleblower) should drop the pseudonym and go public by giving
trusted people multiple copies of video showing him telling everything he
knows. “We know what the NSA is able to do, thanks to the Ed Snowden
revelations. Just because you use a pseudonym doesn’t mean they can’t track you
back to the computer it was sent from. The other thing is, he claims he
now suffers from PTSD and a host of other things. So he’s got some major
problems. But he’s not the first person who’s come forward after these 13 years
with information. I’ve talked with others who have sat on information for
years, but either because they were suffering from PTSD themselves, or they
were afraid to talk, waited for a long, long time to say anything. So that’s
not unusual.”
So Dave Adam, if you’re reading Veterans
Today right now, please get your story out in a complete,
definitive, non-anonymous manner and stay safe! I guarantee that if you blow
the 9/11 case wide open, Alan Roland will be happy to help you with his highly
effective therapy for overcoming PTSD.
And by lancing the suppurating boil of 9/11 with the sharp needle
of truth, you’d also be helping your country overcome the possibly terminal
case of PTSD it’s been undergoing during the past 13 years.
The Real Reason Wheat is Toxic
The Real Reason Wheat is Toxic
We really need to let the
world know this We are being poisoned by Round-up
I would like to see if
there is a shoppers test kit to test for this crapola at the grocery. We need
for someone to invent one ....The test would ultimately straighten up the
farmers poisoning us for profit.... This Mont-insane-Ocompany needs to go
bye bye....
The
Real Reason Wheat is Toxic
(it’s not the gluten)
The stories became far too frequent to ignore.
Emails from folks with allergic or digestive issues to wheat in the United States experienced no symptoms whatsoever when they tried eating pasta on vacation in Italy.
Confused parents wondering why wheat consumption sometimes triggered autoimmune reactions in their children but not at other times.
In my own home, I’ve long pondered why my husband can eat the wheat I prepare at home, but he experiences negative digestive effects eating even a single roll in a restaurant.
There is clearly something going on with wheat that is not well known by the general public. It goes far and beyond organic versus nonorganic, gluten or hybridization because even conventional wheat triggers no symptoms for some who eat wheat in other parts of the world.
What indeed is going on with wheat?
For quite some time, I secretly harbored the notion that wheat in the United States must, in fact, be genetically modified. GMO wheat secretly invading the North American food supply seemed the only thing that made sense and could account for the varied experiences I was hearing about.
I reasoned that it couldn’t be the gluten or wheat hybridization. Gluten and wheat hybrids have been consumed for thousands of years. It just didn’t make sense that this could be the reason for so many people suddenly having problems with wheat and gluten in general in the past 5-10 years.
Finally, the answer came over dinner a couple of months ago with a friend who was well versed in the wheat production process. I started researching the issue for myself, and was, quite frankly, horrified at what I discovered.
The good news is that the reason wheat has become so toxic in the United States is not because it is secretly GMO as I had feared (thank goodness!).
The bad news is that the problem lies with the manner in which wheat is grown and harvested by conventional wheat farmers.
You’re going to want to sit down for this one. I’ve had some folks burst into tears in horror when I passed along this information before.
Common wheat harvest protocol in the United States is to drench
the wheat fields with Roundup several days before the combine harvesters work
through the fields as the practice allows for an earlier, easier and bigger
harvest
Pre-harvest application of the
herbicide Roundup or other herbicides containing the deadly active ingredient
glyphosate to wheat and barley as a desiccant was suggested as early as
1980. It has since become routine over the past 15 years and is used as a
drying agent 7-10 days before harvest within the conventional farming
community.
According to Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT who has studied the issue in depth and who I recently saw present on the subject at a nutritional Conference in Indianapolis, desiccating non-organic wheat crops with glyphosate just before harvest came into vogue late in the 1990′s with the result that most of the non-organic wheat in the United States is now contaminated with it. Seneff explains that when you expose wheat to a toxic chemical like glyphosate, it actually releases more seeds resulting in a slightly greater yield: “It ‘goes to seed’ as it dies. At its last gasp, it releases the seed” says Dr. Seneff.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, as of 2012, 99% of durum wheat, 97% of spring wheat, and 61% of winter wheat has been treated with herbicides. This is an increase from 88% for durum wheat, 91% for spring wheat and 47% for winter wheat since 1998.
Here’s what wheat farmer Keith Lewis has to say about the practice:
According to Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT who has studied the issue in depth and who I recently saw present on the subject at a nutritional Conference in Indianapolis, desiccating non-organic wheat crops with glyphosate just before harvest came into vogue late in the 1990′s with the result that most of the non-organic wheat in the United States is now contaminated with it. Seneff explains that when you expose wheat to a toxic chemical like glyphosate, it actually releases more seeds resulting in a slightly greater yield: “It ‘goes to seed’ as it dies. At its last gasp, it releases the seed” says Dr. Seneff.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, as of 2012, 99% of durum wheat, 97% of spring wheat, and 61% of winter wheat has been treated with herbicides. This is an increase from 88% for durum wheat, 91% for spring wheat and 47% for winter wheat since 1998.
Here’s what wheat farmer Keith Lewis has to say about the practice:
I have been a wheat farmer for 50
yrs and one wheat production practice that is very common is applying the herbicide
Roundup (glyposate) just prior to harvest. Roundup is licensed for preharvest
weed control. Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup claims that application to
plants at over 30% kernel moisture result in roundup uptake by the plant into
the kernels. Farmers like this practice because Roundup kills the wheat plant
allowing an earlier harvest.
A wheat field often ripens unevenly, thus applying Roundup preharvest evens up the greener parts of the field with the more mature. The result is on the less mature areas Roundup is translocated into the kernels and eventually harvested as such.
This practice is not licensed. Farmers mistakenly call it “dessication.” Consumers eating products made from wheat flour are undoubtedly consuming minute amounts of Roundup. An interesting aside, malt barley which is made into beer is not acceptable in the marketplace if it has been sprayed with preharvest Roundup. Lentils and peas are not accepted in the market place if it was sprayed with preharvest roundup….. but wheat is ok.. This farming practice greatly concerns me and it should further concern consumers of wheat products.
A wheat field often ripens unevenly, thus applying Roundup preharvest evens up the greener parts of the field with the more mature. The result is on the less mature areas Roundup is translocated into the kernels and eventually harvested as such.
This practice is not licensed. Farmers mistakenly call it “dessication.” Consumers eating products made from wheat flour are undoubtedly consuming minute amounts of Roundup. An interesting aside, malt barley which is made into beer is not acceptable in the marketplace if it has been sprayed with preharvest Roundup. Lentils and peas are not accepted in the market place if it was sprayed with preharvest roundup….. but wheat is ok.. This farming practice greatly concerns me and it should further concern consumers of wheat products.
Here’s what wheat farmer Seth
Woodland of Woodland and Wheat in Idaho had to say
about the practice of using herbicides for wheat dry down:
That practice is bad . I have
fellow farmers around me that do it and it is sad. Lucky for you not all
of us farm that way. Being the farmer and also the president of a business, we
are proud to say that we do not use round up on our wheat ever!
This practice is not just
widespread in the United States either. The Food Standards Agency in the United
Kingdom reports that use of Roundup as a wheat desiccant results in glyphosate
residues regularly showing
up in bread samples. Other European countries are waking up to to the danger,
however. In the Netherlands, use of Roundup is completely banned with France
likely soon to follow.
Using Roundup on wheat crops throughout the entire growing season and even as a desiccant just prior to harvest may save the farmer money and increase profits, but it is devastating to the health of the consumer who ultimately consumes the glyphosate residue laden wheat kernels.
The chart below is from a December 2013 study published in the Journal Interdisciplinary Toxicology examining glyphosate pathways to modern diseases such as celiac and gluten intolerance.
While the herbicide industry maintains that glyphosate is minimally toxic to humans, research published in the Journal Entropy strongly argues otherwise by shedding light on exactly how glyphosate disrupts mammalian physiology.
Authored by Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff of MIT, the paper investigates glyphosate’s inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, an overlooked component of lethal toxicity to mammals.
The currently accepted view is that ghyphosate is not harmful to humans or any mammals. This flawed view is so pervasive in the conventional farming community that Roundup salesmen have been known to foolishly drink it during presentations!
However, just because Roundup doesn’t kill you immediately doesn’t make it nontoxic. In fact, the active ingredient in Roundup lethally disrupts the all important shikimate pathway found in beneficial gut microbes which is responsible for synthesis of critical amino acids.
Friendly gut bacteria, also called probiotics, play a critical role in human health. Gut bacteria aid digestion, prevent permeability of the gastointestinal tract (which discourages the development of autoimmune disease), synthesize vitamins and provide the foundation for robust immunity. In essence:
Using Roundup on wheat crops throughout the entire growing season and even as a desiccant just prior to harvest may save the farmer money and increase profits, but it is devastating to the health of the consumer who ultimately consumes the glyphosate residue laden wheat kernels.
The chart below is from a December 2013 study published in the Journal Interdisciplinary Toxicology examining glyphosate pathways to modern diseases such as celiac and gluten intolerance.
While the herbicide industry maintains that glyphosate is minimally toxic to humans, research published in the Journal Entropy strongly argues otherwise by shedding light on exactly how glyphosate disrupts mammalian physiology.
Authored by Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff of MIT, the paper investigates glyphosate’s inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes, an overlooked component of lethal toxicity to mammals.
The currently accepted view is that ghyphosate is not harmful to humans or any mammals. This flawed view is so pervasive in the conventional farming community that Roundup salesmen have been known to foolishly drink it during presentations!
However, just because Roundup doesn’t kill you immediately doesn’t make it nontoxic. In fact, the active ingredient in Roundup lethally disrupts the all important shikimate pathway found in beneficial gut microbes which is responsible for synthesis of critical amino acids.
Friendly gut bacteria, also called probiotics, play a critical role in human health. Gut bacteria aid digestion, prevent permeability of the gastointestinal tract (which discourages the development of autoimmune disease), synthesize vitamins and provide the foundation for robust immunity. In essence:
Roundup
significantly disrupts the functioning of beneficial bacteria in the gut and
contributes to permeability of the intestinal wall and consequent expression of
autoimmune disease symptoms
In synergy with disruption
of the biosynthesis of important amino acids via the shikimate pathway,
glyphosate inhibits the cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes produced by the gut
microbiome. CYP enzymes are critical to human biology because they
detoxify the multitude of foreign chemical compounds, xenobiotics, that we are
exposed to in our modern environment today.
As a result, humans exposed to glyphosate through use of Roundup in their community or through ingestion of its residues on industrialized food products become even more vulnerable to the damaging effects of other chemicals and environmental toxins they encounter!
What’s worse is that the negative impact of glyphosate exposure is slow and insidious over months and years as inflammation gradually gains a foothold in the cellular systems of the body.
The consequences of this systemic inflammation are most of the diseases and conditions associated with the Western lifestyle:
As a result, humans exposed to glyphosate through use of Roundup in their community or through ingestion of its residues on industrialized food products become even more vulnerable to the damaging effects of other chemicals and environmental toxins they encounter!
What’s worse is that the negative impact of glyphosate exposure is slow and insidious over months and years as inflammation gradually gains a foothold in the cellular systems of the body.
The consequences of this systemic inflammation are most of the diseases and conditions associated with the Western lifestyle:
· Gastrointestinal disorders
· Obesity
· Diabetes
· Heart Disease
· Depression
· Autism
· Infertility
· Cancer
· Multiple Sclerosis
· Alzheimer’s disease
· And the list goes on and on and on …
In a nutshell, Dr. Seneff’s study of Roundup’s ghastly glyphosate
which the wheat crop in the United States is doused with uncovers the manner in
which this lethal toxin harms the human body by decimating beneficial gut
microbes with the tragic end result of disease, degeneration, and widespread
suffering
Got the picture yet?
Even if you think you have no trouble digesting wheat, it is still very wise to avoid conventional wheat as much as possible in your diet!
Even if you think you have no trouble digesting wheat, it is still very wise to avoid conventional wheat as much as possible in your diet!
You Must Avoid Toxic Wheat
No Matter What
The bottom line is that avoidance
of conventional wheat in the United States is absolutely imperative even if you
don’t currently have a gluten allergy or wheat sensitivity. The increase
in the amount of glyphosate applied to wheat closely correlates with the rise
of celiac disease and gluten intolerance. Dr. Seneff points out that the
increases in these diseases are not just genetic in nature, but also have an
environmental cause as not all patient symptoms are alleviated by eliminating
gluten from the diet.
The effects of deadly glyphosate on your biology are so insidious that lack of symptoms today means literally nothing.
If you don’t have problems with wheat now, you will in the future if you keep eating conventionally produced, toxic wheat!
The effects of deadly glyphosate on your biology are so insidious that lack of symptoms today means literally nothing.
If you don’t have problems with wheat now, you will in the future if you keep eating conventionally produced, toxic wheat!
How to Eat Wheat Safely
Obviously, if you’ve already
developed a sensitivity or allergy to wheat, you must avoid it. Period.
But, if you aren’t celiac or gluten sensitive and would like to consume this ancestral food safely, you can do what we do in our home. We only source organic, preferably low gluten, unhybridized Einkorn wheat for breadmaking, pancakes, cookies etc. But, when we eat out or are purchasing food from the store, conventional wheat products are rejected without exception. This despite the fact that we have no gluten allergies whatsoever in our home – yet.
I am firmly convinced that if we did nothing, our entire family at some point would develop sensitivity to wheat or autoimmune disease in some form due to the toxic manner in which it is processed and the glyphosate residues that are contained in conventional wheat products.
But, if you aren’t celiac or gluten sensitive and would like to consume this ancestral food safely, you can do what we do in our home. We only source organic, preferably low gluten, unhybridized Einkorn wheat for breadmaking, pancakes, cookies etc. But, when we eat out or are purchasing food from the store, conventional wheat products are rejected without exception. This despite the fact that we have no gluten allergies whatsoever in our home – yet.
I am firmly convinced that if we did nothing, our entire family at some point would develop sensitivity to wheat or autoimmune disease in some form due to the toxic manner in which it is processed and the glyphosate residues that are contained in conventional wheat products.
What Are You Going to Do
About Toxic Wheat?
How did you react to the news
that US wheat farmers are using Roundup, not just to kill weeds, but to dry out
the wheat plants to allow for an earlier, easier and bigger harvest and that
such a practice causes absorption of toxic glyphosate, the active ingredient in
Roundup and other herbicides, right into the wheat kernels themselves?
Did you feel outraged and violated like I did? How will you implement a conventional wheat-avoidance strategy going forward even if you haven’t yet developed a problem with gluten or wheat sensitivity?
What about other crops where Roundup is used as a pre-harvest dessicant such as barley, sugar cane, rice, seeds, dried beans and peas, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, and sugar beets? Will you only be buying these crops in organic form from now on to avoid this modern, man-made scourge?
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Sources and More Information
Roundup: Quick Death for Weeds, Slow and Painful Death for You
Glyphosate now commonly found in human urine
Study: Glyphosate, Celiac and Gluten Intolerance
The Glyphosate, Celiac Disease Connection
Hybrid Wheat is Not the Same as GMO Wheat
The Dutch Ban Roundup, France and Brazil to Follow
Is it the Gluten or is it the Glyphosate?
Can Celiacs Eat Sourdough Bread?
Pre-harvest Application of Glyphosate to Wheat
Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases
Yield and quality of wheat seeds as a function of desiccation stages and herbicides
Wheat farmer weighs in on the use of Roundup as a wheat desiccant
Did you feel outraged and violated like I did? How will you implement a conventional wheat-avoidance strategy going forward even if you haven’t yet developed a problem with gluten or wheat sensitivity?
What about other crops where Roundup is used as a pre-harvest dessicant such as barley, sugar cane, rice, seeds, dried beans and peas, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, and sugar beets? Will you only be buying these crops in organic form from now on to avoid this modern, man-made scourge?
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Sources and More Information
Roundup: Quick Death for Weeds, Slow and Painful Death for You
Glyphosate now commonly found in human urine
Study: Glyphosate, Celiac and Gluten Intolerance
The Glyphosate, Celiac Disease Connection
Hybrid Wheat is Not the Same as GMO Wheat
The Dutch Ban Roundup, France and Brazil to Follow
Is it the Gluten or is it the Glyphosate?
Can Celiacs Eat Sourdough Bread?
Pre-harvest Application of Glyphosate to Wheat
Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases
Yield and quality of wheat seeds as a function of desiccation stages and herbicides
Wheat farmer weighs in on the use of Roundup as a wheat desiccant
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Sign the Boycott PetSmart Pledge Now
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