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Messing with your head: Does the man behind Neuro-Linguistic Programming want to change your life – or control your mind?
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You got a problem? Go see Richard Bandler. As the founder of the controversial, multi-billion-dollar therapy NLP, he can get inside your head, and quick. But how did a former cocaine user and murder suspect become a guru to over 30,000 people in the UK? Kate Burt signs up for a session

How, exactly, does one go about interviewing a man who has dedicated his life's work to the art of mind control? Are difficult questions going to be swept under a carpet of charm? Can his answers be trusted? Will this piece, mysteriously, write itself as a glowing appraisal?All of which are valid considerations in advance of meeting Richard Bandler. Bandler is the American co-creator of the modern self-help phenomenon Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a discipline developed to quick-fix life's problems by "reprogramming" one's brain. In crude terms, NLP explores the relationships between how we think (neuro), how we communicate (linguistic) and our patterns of behaviour and emotions (programmes). The idea is that, by studying these relationships, people can adopt more successful ways of thinking, communicating, feeling and behaving.

Even if you think you don't know much about NLP, the chances are you'll have witnessed it at work in instant phobia cures, shouty-titled management-skills books, "life coaching" and those unsettling conversations with sales people who seem to be mirroring your every move (because they quite possibly are – it's a classic NLP trick). Bandler has mentored Britain's favourite change-your-life hypnotist, Paul McKenna, and his work has influenced illusionist and master mindbender Derren Brown. Bandler himself still teaches NLP regularly, and claims to be able to "erase" traumatic memories, improve your relationships and even ' "cure" schizophrenia and paralysis (he taught himself to walk again using NLP after a stroke put him in a wheelchair).

Since Bandler invented NLP in the 1970s, it has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry, influencing the way many people now understand psychology and psychotherapy (cognitive behavioural therapy, the increasingly popular "fast-track" style of psychotherapy, shares certain principles with NLP). But what inspired NLP's founding father to create an alternative to traditional psychotherapy, and does he practise what he preaches? What, too, of NLP's patients – or "students as Bandler prefers to call them – are they in safe hands?

Some people don't think so: critics have accused Bandler of everything from running a cult, failing to provide scientific evidence for his claims and brainwashing his clients. He's admitted drug abuse and even stood trial for murder. But in NLP circles Bandler is hailed as a sort of Messiah; indeed, while researching this piece, I lost count of the number of times I was told by its proponents that "NLP changed my life". Which is surprising, perhaps, given our national, deep-rooted suspicion of anyone too happy or self-assured, and antipathy towards motivational speakers, self-help gurus and the sorts of people who run "positivity workshops". And NLP practitioners – whose vocabulary is littered with phrases such as "installing strategies", "behavioural technologies", "cybernetics", "deletion", "content reframing" and "hypnosis" – seem scarier than most. Yet NLP is big business in the UK. The movement's not-for-profit representative body here claims that there are "at least 30,000 qualified NLP practitioners in the UK".

"It amazes me some of the stories I hear about myself," says Bandler, 59, a smartly dressed stocky man with piercing blue eyes and longish grey hair, a little thin on top, wearing a bulky gold and gemstone ring. I meet him in a bland, corporate-style hotel in Orlando, Florida, where he is speaking at a nine-day course – one of many he runs each year – to teach others the "tools" of NLP. "One student told me someone had said, 'Don't go to Richard, all he wants to do is control everyone.'" Another critic, he says, claimed Bandler beat up his students. He sniffs briskly: "But all I have ever tried to do is make people happier."

Bandler's ideas were revolutionary. In the wake of the Summer of Love, as a university student in Santa Cruz, California, he joined forces with a young linguistics professor called John Grinder. Pooling their passions – neuroscience, Noam Chomsky, hypnosis and early information technology – they created the NLP blueprint and began gathering case studies. The over-arching motivation was scorn for traditional schools of psychotherapy – a burgeoning American industry at the time. "How is forcing a person to relive a bad experience going to help them get over it? It's just cruel," says Bandler.

Each day of the course, Bandler leads the morning session with a demonstration and a talk (Grinder is long since out of the picture; the pair acrimoniously parted ways following a bitter copyright lawsuit in 1997 – proof that even NLP experts don't have solutions for everything). At 10am on the dot, the hotel conference-room doors open to a loud blast of emphatically upbeat synth music: our call to action. As students amble towards their seats, some do jiggly little dance steps, others clap to the beat; there are sporadic whoops of enthusiasm. Of the 100-odd here for the course, people have travelled from as far afield as England, Japan, Australia, Turkey and Baghdad. Others have volunteered to be course assistants, paying their own flights and accommodation, just to be close to Bandler. (Which is not all that surprising when one considers that "students" can pay up to £10,000 for one of his intimate, three-day courses.) I'm intrigued to see him in action.

"How many of you are not artistic?" he asks from the stage, Hands are raised. "Is that because you weren't born with the 'art gene'?" It's a leading question. A table on the stage is kitted out with brushes, paints and paper and four non- artistic volunteers are plucked to sit at it, then put into a trance. "Every time you hear yourself saying 'I'm not the kind of person who...'," he murmurs to the budding artists, "I want you to laugh because it's just like masturbating one stroke at a time, it'll never get you there..." This is typical of the way Bandler talks. Crude quips, detailed anecdotes and seemingly random digressions spill out relentlessly, punctuated by sound effects, imitations and expletives. There's the one about how he punched a man ("Thwack!" who hit his own daughter because she was speaking to invisible angels (the girl was cured, naturally, by Bandler); the smut (the following day on stage he'll motivate a young man to clear out his garage by thinking about breasts) and the tales to discredit psychotherapists (cue the account of the time he smuggled rubber snakes into a schizophrenic's shower at a mental hospital to prove that he didn't require drugs for sanity, but simply the opportunity to differentiate between hallucinated and actual serpents).

"You all know my cure for schizophrenia is to alter reality not hallucinations," he says to his audience. "A lot of patients with mental issues simply don't have proper strategies." He's a little scary, but his thinking is persuasive. And it seems to be working on stage,too – the budding artists are – surprise surprise – confidently expressing themselves via the medium of acrylic paint. There had been similar turnarounds at the end of yesterday's session: the woman from Baghdad who thanked Bandler for "giving [her] life back" after he'd erased a horrific image from her mind; the delegate who had been petrified of heights but, by day three, was embracing several of Orlando's most dramatic rollercoasters. It's like watching a cross between Bernard Manning and Jesus.

Bandler doesn't work alone on these seminars. Also travelling with him are husband and wife John and Kathleen LaValle, who run his NLP training business and met Bandler around 20 years ago when they took one of his courses. John, a corporate coach, who specialises in NLP for business, is an imposing New Jersey native with the thick Sopranos accent to match, a ponytail and a fondness for Hawaiian shirts and Gothic bling. He fell for NLP while searching for a "better way to train" explains his lovely wife Kathleen (blonde with a streak of purple – NLP is also all about recognising the individual). She joined John after noticing that "communication at home really improved" since he encountered Bandler. Her sweet nature seems strangely at odds with the fact that one of her specialist areas is "sales and influence" – the area of NLP that involves techniques such as "mirroring" and "pacing" (matching the way someone else communicates, essentially, to get what you want from them).

"Richard may not be famous to the average person – but if you know NLP, he's a celebrity," confides Kathleen over a glass of Merlot later that evening. "He's the Tom Cruise of the industry." Given his Messiah-like reputation, he must get some interesting fans, I suggest... "Uh-huh. There are some pretty whacked-out types who'll go up to his [hotel]

room at three or four in the morning," she says, "or claim to be an old friend and try to get his number. We have to be careful." Some people also want to hassle him, she adds, particularly on religious grounds. "They think that fate is something you can't control. They get angry."

In life, Bandler has certainly wanted to control his own fate, it seems. "My mother is a wonderful person," he says of his childhood, "but she married a few bad drunks." He grew up in a tough part of New Jersey and says that, as a child, he had "every bone in his body broken by adults". His musician father "just took off one day" and they've never had a relationship. He sounds like a psychotherapist's dream. Is it his bad childhood that gave him the drive to help other people to get over difficulties? "Excuse me," he says, leaning forward, indignant. "The fact I was beaten up by adults as a child means I've never laid a hand on my kids. This nonsense about if your parents are alcoholics you're going to be an alcoholic – that's a bad post-hypnotic suggestion to live by."

But he does talk a lot about violence, I suggest. "I can be violent," he says bluntly. "If someone attacks me I will hurt them – and any person who's a pussy is frightened by that. I've popped a few shrinks, but I've never hit one hard enough to knock him down. [And] I've slapped a client across the face – just to wake him up, but I never hit 'em hard enough to leave a mark. In the supermarket I whacked some guy with a can of peas – but he was beating the crap out of a six-year-old kid." One can't imagine it helped his case when, in 1988, Bandler was charged with the murder of a woman – Corine Christensen, a prostitute and NLP student – shot dead in the face with Bandler's gun, while only he and a friend, allegedly his cocaine dealer, were present. The publicity surrounding the case painted him as a nasty piece of work.

"What pisses me off," he says, is that none of this has anything to do with any of the good work I've done." Bandler says he was set up for the murder (and, accordingly, the court acquitted him – "in 20 minutes!" he points out). "And yes, I took coke for a while. But I also went on a binge of Hershey bars for a while too, and I was addicted to peanuts for a year, probably far more than I was to cocaine." He doesn't shy away from discussing the case, and yet he has a way of being "upfront" about things that is quite disconcerting.

One thing (among many, it seems) that winds Bandler up is when people criticise him for not being perfect. "Well, I've got news for you," he says, "if I wasn't this imperfect I wouldn't have had room for improvement." He used to get irritated when people pulled him up for smoking – a habit NLP is popular for ridding people of. "I knew how to stop, I just didn't want to!" he says. "I'm not trying to get people to be enlightened. I'm not a guru. I'm not even terribly sociable, to tell you the truth." This is also part of the reason he says that he shies away from television: "I want to be able to walk down the street." Then he smiles: "Paul [McKenna] loves all that, though. The autographs, his phone constantly ringing. He's just moved to the Hollywood Hills and it suits him."

The two met after McKenna came along to a seminar and was so impressed that he immediately booked out his diary for three weeks to complete the whole course. "He was a good student – and it's really changed his career," says Bandler. "He used just to be a stage hypnotist – now he's a real agent for change." Bandler tells a story of the time they went for dinner in London and McKenna was glued to his mobile. "In the end I went to the bathroom and called him – it was the only way I could get his attention."

It's hard to steer Bandler off rambling anecdotes that don't a) belittle psychotherapists, and b) illustrate the successes of his work – but when you do, he talks affectionately about his family and how he feels his greatest achievement – far greater than inventing NLP – was his long marriage (to his late wife, Polly, who died after a long illness eight years ago) and raising two well-balanced children who don't need to use NLP. He beams when he describes how lucky he is to have recently been remarried, to Glenda, a good-looking doctor who has "whipped [him] into shape".

But just when you think you're getting to know Bandler, he's off on a tangent: safety on the streets of New York, John Lennon's murder, the time he "installed" vegetable phobias into a room full of vegans because they hadn't let him eat meat all day... Talking to Bandler one to one is much like listening to him on stage. "I've no secrets, nothing to hide," he cheerfully points out (I'm no NLP expert, but surely that's a phrase that should ring linguistic alarm bells).

And yet, open as he appears to be, there's a sense that the stuff you hear is somehow a well-managed distraction from the stuff you don't. Which, of course, given his vocation, is precisely what one would expect.

Back in the UK, I track down a few Brits who've been Bandlered", hoping for some dirt. No luck: they are universally evangelical. "He put me in a trance," recalls one woman. "I don't remember what happened, I just remember Richard saying: 'The floodgates of happiness are now open.' Then he touched my face and from that moment all of the rubbish of my life suddenly went," she says. "It was weird."
It's a common reaction. In Orlando, over a conference break for lunch, there was a moment when a concerned-looking student, also a highly successful business coach, came over having seen me scribble down some of Bandler's rhetoric. "I'm not a groupie," she began, "but I just wanted to say that when I first heard Richard speak – all that sexual innuendo and stuff, I was offended and appalled. But it's deliberate, you know. It's all to create a heightened state – a state in which you're more aware. All the while he's talking, he's changing brain chemistry and implanting ideas. Since I've done you a favour," she continued carefully, "perhaps you might be kind enough to send me a copy of your piece."

It was probably a perfectly innocent request, but it was impossible not to wonder whether I was being NLP-ed
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Illuminati Game Revealed (IGR) unmasks and reveals the factual and real-life plans and future goals of the Illuminati Freemason World Elite that are hidden in the trading card game, "Illuminati: New World Order" Card Game by Steve Jackson Games, Masonry, and the world around us, and how these plans compare with The Holy Books

Illuminati is a standalone card game made by Steve Jackson Games (SJG), inspired by the 1975 book, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. The game has ominous secret societies competing with each other to control the world through sinister means, including legal, illegal, and even mystical. It was designed as a "tongue-in-cheek rather than serious" take on conspiracy theories. It contains groups named similarly to real world organizations, such as the Society for Creative Anachronism and the Semiconscious Liberation Army. It can be played by two to eight players. Depending on the number of players, a game can take between one and six hours.

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South African media reports Zindzi Mandela's appointment as a done deal, but the embassy remains coy

Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, is set to become South Africa’s new ambassador to Denmark.
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South African media announced early in October that Zindzi Mandela was one of several ANC members given ambassadorial roles after not being included in the party's home parliamentary list.

No comment from government or embassy
When the story broke, Clayson Monyel, a government spokesperson in South Africa, said he could not comment on any ambassadorial postings until the diplomats had presented their credentials to their host countries.

Even though several websites, including Who’s Who in South Africa, already list Zindzi Mandela as the Danish ambassador, the embassy website still lists Samkelisiwe Isabel Mhlanga as the ambassador, and it declined to comment on whether or not Zindzi Mandela would soon take over the post.
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SEEDS OF DEATH


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Unveiling the Lies of Gmo's. Excellent work that lays it out very cleanly, we are on the edge of forever as our technology has surpassed our ability to control. When you understand what this film is talking about, you really have no excuse. When the basic staples of Life are under attack, Air, Land, Sea,then the incentive to act becomes a Life and death situation.In case you haven't noticed, we have past that point.
Wake up! is not a strong enough anymore, people are hypnotized.

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What To Do Should You Become Pregnant
Once you become pregnant, stay on the progesterone and contact your healthcare provider. Read below for pregnancy instructions.

Loading Dose
A loading does is useful for women who have had many months or years of anovulatory (no ovulation) cycles, which can create extreme progesterone deficiency. Each cycle that passes without ovulation can increase estrogen dominance as progesterone stores are depleted. Very thin women who have little body fat can become estrogen dominant very easily as there is no fat to store extra progesterone. In either of these situations Dr. John Lee recommends a higher dose of progesterone the first one to two months of progesterone cream use. This helps to replenish the progesterone stored in the fat of the body. After 2-3 months the dose can be lowered to the usual ‘regular’ dosage.

Note: Some progesterone creams come in a squeeze tube, like Emerita Pro-Gest, which uses teaspoons as a measurement for dose. 1/4 teaspoon of Emerita Pro-Gest equals 20mg of progesterone cream. Others, like our Fertilica Natural Progesterone come with a pump. Each pump measures out exactly 20mg of progesterone cream
Loading dose: 40mg twice a day, one 40mg application in the morning and one 40mg application at night, for a total of 80mg of natural progesterone a day. Apply for two weeks before your period (about day 14 in the cycle), up until menstruation begins.

Regular dose: 20mg twice a day, one 20mg application in the morning and one 20mg application at night, for a total of 40mg of natural progesterone a day. Apply for two weeks before your period (about day 14 in the cycle), up until menstruation begins.

Inducing ovulation using progesterone
Dr. Lee had a number of patients in his practice that had been unable to conceive because they were not ovulating. For two to four months he had them use natural progesterone from days 5 to 26 in the cycle (stopping on day 26 to bring on menstruation).

Using the progesterone prior to ovulation effectively suppressed ovulation. After a few months of this, he had them stop progesterone use. If you still have follicles left, they seem to respond to a few months of suppression with enthusiasm — the successful maturation and release of an egg.

His patients, some of whom had been trying to conceive for years, had very good results conceiving with this method. To learn more about this type of application, please read Dr. Lee’s book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause.

Preventing Miscarriage & Progesterone
Low progesterone during pregnancy can be one cause of recurrent miscarriages. Progesterone is responsible for creating a healthy environment in the womb by maintaining the uterine lining. It also reduces the chances of blood clots and the immune system responding to the fetus as if it was a foreign substance. Progesterone is one of the main pregnancy hormones.

If you feel this might be your situation, talk with your doctor or healthcare practitioner and get your hormone levels tested before using progesterone as well as intermittently to make sure your levels are high enough. Working with a healthcare practitioner is helpful as they can help to monitor your hormonal levels.

Make sure to have at least two bottles on hand, because running out could cause a big drop in progesterone which may cause the menstrual cycle to begin. Contact your doctor or midwife once you become pregnant so they can monitor your progesterone levels during pregnancy.


Progesterone & PCOS
Progesterone cream can help to oppose the estrogen dominance that occurs with PCOS. By using progesterone cream you are able to mimic a natural cycle and help the body to establish its own cycle, including ovulating, again. Dr. John Lee believed that with progesterone cream, changes to the PCOS specific diet and exercise, PCOS could become obsolete.How to use progesterone for PCOS
There are two ways to use progesterone cream for PCOS. The first is the Suppression Cycle. To suppress the cycle one would use progesterone cream on cycle days 7-26. If you do not have a menstrual cycle you would choose a date on your calendar and mark it as day 7. Suppressing the cycle allows the body to rest by stopping the cycle of eggs not being released and estrogen/androgen dominance. Dr. John Lee suggests to use 60-100mg of progesterone cream a day during the suppression cycle and to repeat this for 3-4 months for best results.

Establish a cycle with progesterone cream
To help your body create a cycle including menstruation and ovulation, use progesterone cream on day 12 of cycle and continue until day 26. By stopping on day 26 your progesterone levels will drop, helping to start your menstrual cycle. If your cycle does not start, just treat your cycle like you are having one and start again on day 12. It is best to use a calendar so you can keep track of everything. After 3 or so months it is suggested to take a break for 1 month so you can see if your cycle has jump started itself.

Progesterone & Endometriosis
If you have endometriosis, Dr. John Lee recommends using progesterone from days 8 to 26 of your cycle, to reduce the effects of estrogen on the body (estrogen stimulates endometrial growth). Take a short week off to refresh your receptor sites. He has had success with this controlling symptoms within six months. Once the outbreaks of endometriosis are tolerable reduce the usage to days 12 till menstrual cycle.

Progesterone Use During Pregnancy
Progesterone Use During Pregnancy
Natural progesterone is safe to use during pregnancy with the consent of your doctor or midwife and may likely prevent many first trimester miscarriages that are due to low progesterone but should be used with caution when nursing as it may stop lactation.

In the first trimester of pregnancy progesterone production is the sole responsibility of the ovaries, but they often fail to produce sufficient levels to maintain the pregnancy. By the second trimester, the placenta itself is responsible for producing progesterone, and it hikes the level of this hormone to 486% higher than the non-pregnant norm.

If you are taking progesterone and get pregnant, you must continue taking progesterone until at least the 16th week. I personally would not stop if I had seriously low levels to begin with. But it is best to work with your health care practitioner if this is the case. They will continuously monitor your levels to make sure they are healthy for pregnancy. Click here to learn more about proper use of natural progesterone cream use in pregnancy…

Summary

Healthy progesterone levels are important during conception

and pregnancy. You can find out if your levels are where they should be by getting tested. If you do find your levels are low there are many natural ways to promote healthy progesterone levels such as:

1. Reducing Xenohormones
2. Using Vitex
3. Applying progesterone cream

If you become pregnant, continue to use the cream and consult with your doctor or midwife right away.
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Hormone Testing

Hormones testing can be diagnosed by a doctor, naturopath or by tests. There are a couple of test options. Tests range from charting your menstrual and basal body temperature, finding out the length of your luteal phase, or taking saliva or blood tests to find out your progesterone levels. The questionnaire above help to point out signs of progesterone deficiency while these tests help to confirm it.

BBT Charting
Basil Body Temperature charting can help to determine the availability of progesterone in the luteal phase. You can learn more about BBT Charting here. There will be a slight rise in temperature after ovulation has occurred and progesterone has increased.

Length of luteal phase
If the date of ovulation is fewer than 11 days before your period, this could suggest luteal phase defects. You can detect ovulation using BBT charting, ovulation detector strip tests.

Saliva Hormonal Testing
Dr. John Lee was very adamant that testing for hormones and progesterone should be done through saliva testing, not blood testing (almost all doctors will test the blood).
Blood Hormonal Testing
While Dr. Lee was adamant about getting progesterone testing through saliva, it may be more helpful to work with your doctor to get your progesterone tested so they can explain the test results to you, even if it is a blood test. You most likely will also have other hormones tested at the same time which can give you insights to your entire hormonal profile.

When to Get Your Progesterone Levels Tested
The most appropriate time to measure serum progesterone is mid luteal phase (either 7 days after ovulation, or 7 days prior to expected menses). This is when you’re most likely to catch the peak progesterone level. This day will vary according to a woman’s cycle length however (for example, for a 28 day cycle, a day 21 progesterone is appropriate; but for a 35 day cycle, progesterone would ideally be measured around day 28).
How to Support Progesterone Levels

1. Reduce your exposure to xenohormones

We have become an estrogen dominate society from all of the excess estrogen in our foods and environment.
Reduce your exposure by avoiding these xenohormone producers:
•Solvents and adhesives
•Meat from conventionally raised livestock (non-organic)
•Car exhaust
•Almost all plastics
•Petrochemically derived pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides
•Emulsifiers found in soaps and cosmetics
•PCD’s from industrial waste
2. Vitex for hormonal balance
Vitex angus castus. Photo by Sten Porse.
Vitex Extract (Chaste Tree Berry) is one of the most powerful herbs for women’s fertility and menstrual health. There are numerous studies and testimonials of Vitex and it’s effects on the body. One of the reasons Vitex is so effective and popular is because of its ability to balance hormones while not containing hormones itself. Vitex supports hormonal balance in the body by having an effect on the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axins (hormonal feedback loop), correcting the problem at the source.

Directions for use
Capsules: 1,000mg a day is the suggested amount to use. Take vitex all month long.
Tincture: 90 drops in water or juice, first thing in the morning. All month long.
However, unlike powerful hormone drugs, vitex works slowly to normalize the body. Maximum benefits are often achieved after 6-12 cycles with vitex
3. Use Natural Progesterone Cream
Natural progesterone cream can help to supplement your body’s own progesterone levels and lead you back to a state of natural balance.
Natural progesterone cream comes from plant fats and oils called diosgenin which is extracted either from Mexican Wild Yams or soybeans. In the laboratory diosgenin is chemically synthesized into a molecular structure that is identical to real human progesterone.

The United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) denotes a recognized standard of purity and strength. It is sometimes referred to as “human-identical” or “bio-identical” progesterone, which differentiates it from synthetic progestins or progestogens.

How to Use Progesterone Cream
Transdermal application (through the skin) has been found to be one of the most effective ways to use natural progesterone. It is absorbed through the skin into the underlying fat which helps to slowly allow progesterone into the blood. This way of application helps the progesterone to be “time released” into the blood stream. To closely mimic the body’s progesterone cycle, it is best to use progesterone cream twice a day.

How to Use Progesterone Cream for Fertility
Natural progesterone cream is easily and quickly absorbed into the body through the skin (within seconds). So you can apply it essentially anywhere as long as you rotate locations of application.

The best areas for application are places that have capillary blood flow such as:
•Face•Neck
•Upper Chest
•Breasts
•Inner arms
•Palms of hands and feet
When it comes to dosage, more is not better. Too much progesterone may cause hormonal imbalances, just like too little progesterone can. General suggested dosage is 40mg daily, divided into one 20mg application in the am and one 20mg application in the pm, during the two weeks before your period

Dr. John R Lee talks about progesterone


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Hormonal Balance is an important factor when it comes to healthy fertility and getting pregnant. During the course of a menstrual cycle various hormones are working together in a complex symphony to trigger the various components of ovulation and menstruation.

Progesterone is one of these key hormones. After ovulation progesterone production is triggered by Luteinizing Hormone (LH) which stimulates the corpus luteum (the remnant egg sac) in the ovary to produce progesterone. One of the main actions of progesterone with fertility is to help support a developing embryo.

If pregnancy occurs, the production of progesterone from the corpus luteum continues for about 7 weeks (it is then produced by the placenta for the duration of the pregnancy). If pregnancy did not occur, the period begins 14 days after ovulation. When fertilization does not occur the corpus luteum disintegrates, which causes the level of progesterone to fall and the endometrial tissue to disintegrate and shed as menstruation.
What Does Progesterone Do?
•Progesterone maintains the lining of the uterus which makes it possible for a fertilized egg to attach and survive
•Makes cervical mucous accessible by sperm
•Allows the embryo to survive
•Prevents immune rejection of the developing baby
•Allows for full development of the fetus through pregnancy
•Helps the body use fat for energy during pregnancy
•Prevents secondary sexual development
•Increases libido around ovulation
•Activates osteoblasts to increase new bone formation
•Protects against endometrial, breast, ovarian and prostate cancer
•Normalizes blood clotting


Are You Progesterone Deficient or Estrogen Dominate?

Too much estrogen in the body

One of the main reasons women are progesterone deficient is because they have too much estrogen in the body. Estrogen dominance can happen for many reasons:
•Commercially raised meats and dairy contain large amounts of estrogens, and consuming them can cause hormonal imbalance.
•Pollution and stress mimic estrogen at the estrogen receptor sites.
•Eating a large amount of processed soy products can also mimic estrogen.
•PCOS and endometriosis can also have an estrogen dominate action.

Symptoms of estrogen dominance:

Allergy symptoms like asthma and hives

Breast cancer

Breast tenderness

Decreased sex drive

Depression with agitation and/or anxiety

Dry eyes

Early onset of menstruation

Fat gain, usually around the middles

Fatigue

Sluggish metabolism

Foggy thinking

Hair loss

Headaches

Increased blood clotting

Fertility issues

Irregular periods

Insomnia

PMS

Polycystic ovaries
Not enough progesterone in the body

There are many signs that may show up in the body if you do not have enough progesterone in your system during the correct times of your cycle.

Symptoms of progesterone deficiency:


Recurrent early miscarriage

No period

Not ovulating

Endometriosis

PCOS

PMS

Cramps during menses

Blood clotting

Swollen breasts

Fibrocystic breasts

Loss of libido

Obesity

Depression

Water retention

Low thyroid

Facial hair

Hot flashes

Night sweats

Vaginal dryness

Foggy thinking

Memory lapse

Incontinence

Tearful

Depressed

Sleep disturbances

Heart palpitations

Bone loss

Monsanto, GMOs, And Nigeria’s Bleak Future

By Saatah Nubari

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I never knew anything about GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) or Monsanto (A Multi-National chemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation) before now, until I mistakenly and thankfully came across an article by Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour. This article might be a very lengthy and boring read, but if you are interested in Nigeria as I am, and if you don’t want to wake up in 2022 hearing news akin to our ceding of Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, then make sure you read it all the way to the end.
First of all, I would love to thank Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour for putting down that piece that has drawn my attention, to what seems to be a grave mistake which might turn deadly if we (Our Minister for Agriculture and the FG) continue on this track.
GMOs are Genetically Modified Organisms and Monsanto is a major player in GMO manufacturing. They claim to produce seeds that are drought resistant, weed resistant, pest resistant and also high yielding. These claims most often than not have been proved to be false, and being a company whose sole aim is to make profit by any means necessary, we’re often deceived to believe that Genetically Engineered seeds are the way to go in our quest for increased food production, job creation and poverty reduction.
Our country Nigeria just became a member of the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition Initiative, an organisation created by the US and the G8, probably for their benefit and not ours. As usual, it promises to create jobs, reduce poverty and increase food productions. The sole aim of this alliance is to coerce African countries to change policies that will hinder the operation of companies like Monsanto in exchange for aid money.
The thing I want you to know about allowing GMO, Monsanto and other of such big organisations into Nigeria is that, the loss far outweighs the gain. These multinational companies will seek government to change land and seed laws to favour them (already in progress or might have finished the process). This gives them control of our lands and what we choose to plant. Farmers will be forced to buy their seeds instead of being allowed to use the natural seeds. The eye catching thing about these Monsanto seeds is that they have been genetically altered to be sterile, that is they can’t be replanted.
So just imagine that a farmer buys genetically modified seeds from Monsanto, plants them, harvests, and can’t plant part of his harvest. If these harvests are sterile enough not to be planted, how then is it that they are good enough for our consumption? That’s a question you should ponder on. This cycle of dependence continues, and with Monsanto controlling the price of seeds, our farmers have no other choice than to continue in this modern form of slavery, since they can no longer plant natural seeds.
The seeds been sterile are an understatement of some sort, because apart from that, they alter the composition of the soil, so in the end, farmers must continue to buy seeds from these companies in other to plant, because the soil can no longer accommodate natural seeds. With poor yield and more of their income being spent on pesticides which coincidentally are also been manufactured and sold by these companies, the farmers get into big debts that they can’t pay off, while these strong pesticides and herbicides find a way to the soil, rendering it useless and polluting our groundwater in the process. These are the same farmers they claim to be so eager to help. About 250,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide since Monsanto and their genetically engineered crops were allowed into the Indian Agricultural industry. Although the company has debunked these claims, and also added that their company or product has nothing to do with the increased farmer suicides, so many reports claim otherwise.
As Kwame Nkrumah said in his book Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism; “the result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment, under neo-colonialism, increases, rather than decreases, the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.” This seems to be the best way to describe the policies of the major world powers when it comes to Africa.
By allowing Monsanto and her likes to force their seeds on us Nigerians, we would have sold out our most important right yet, which is our right to life. We would have been fooled by the G8 whose member nations have placed bans on genetically engineered seeds. By giving Monsanto and her likes control of what we plant, we’ve have also given them control over what we eat and our lives will forever be at risk in their capitalistic hands. It is ok to be underdeveloped, but right now, the FG and our Hon Minister for Agriculture is making us look stupid in the eyes of the world.
I’ve tried every means to get people interested in what we stand to lose if we don’t fight this Monsanto and their genetically engineered seeds now, and only two people have shown interest in how dire and urgent the situation is. Thanks to Mark Amaza who encouraged me to write this piece to bring awareness to this fight and last but not the least, King Duoye Alfred who apart from making contacts to help with this fight exclaimed “Monsanto again…I’ll read but seeing Monsanto is enough for me” when I sent him the link to Gbadebo Rhodes-viours’s article.

http://www.theoslotimes.com/gmo-controversy-finally-hits-nigeria/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUd9rRSLY4A

Monsanto to introduce 40 hybrid seed varities

Monsanto, the world’s leading biotechnology company, has unveiled plans to introduce at least 40 va­rieties of hybrid seeds into the country as part of its commit­ment to the successful imple­mentation of the ongoing Agri­cultural Transformation Agenda ,ATA of the Federal Government. The company, which is reputed for its hybrid seeds investment drive in the global agricultural develop­ment market, said the introduc­tion of the crops would help in identifying the best of varieties that would grow in the nation’s environment with a view to en­abling it take the right investment decisions in its effort to partner with the Federal and state govern­ment’s initiatives to improve crop yields of farmers nationwide. Briefing the media on the compa­ny’s investment and other intervention plans in Nigeria in Abuja, Monsanto’s Vice President, Inter­national Row Crops and Global Vegetable Business, Mr. Michael Frank, said the focus of the com­pany would be to develop the right seeds and biotechnology that would enhance the productive capacities of local small holder farmers and by implications im­prove their profitability and socio-economic well being on a sustain­able basis.

Frank, who disclosed that the decision to invest in Nigeria was based on the findings of about two years of assessment visits by representatives of the com­pany, said the company would give focus to hybrid maize, cot­ton and soya beans seeds supply in the country after more tests would have been conducted. He said: “We will focus on maize. We want to support farmers to grow maize, cotton and soya beans. We have found with corn, maize hybrids around the world that there are certain climates you can take maize from one country to another country and you can grow them very successfully.

“So, what we are talking here is that we are bringing a number of varieties, over 40, to Nigeria to test in the environment here and we have tested them in vari­ous environments throughout Nigeria and found that a number of them will be hybrids that will be successful to be grown here.

“But we are going to do more tests to make sure we introduce new hybrid maize that will be adaptable to the local conditions. So, in this database cotton will also be one of the crops that will be top on our list. We believe with our cotton technology we can re­ally help cotton farmers in Nige­ria to increase their yield”, Frank added .

While disclosing that Monsan­to has been in Africa for over 40 years without establishing a pres­ence in Nigeria, he pointed out that the efforts of Natalia Voruz, the company’s Commercial Lead West Africa, led to the company’s coming into the country to “make investments, develop partner­ships, help farmers in Nigeria to increase their yields, especially maize and cotton farmers”.

Monsanto, which is a large seed company worth $15bn is 100 per cent focused on agriculture. Most people around the world know Monsanto as a seed company or a biotech company and its core business is in seed biotech. It fo­cuses on four core crops – maize, soya beans, and cotton and oil seed called canola.

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/monsanto-to-introduce-40-hybrid-seed-varities/

‘GMO/hybrid seeds: Inviting cancer to our land, passing a death sentence on Nigerians’
By GBADEBO RHODES-VIVOUR
OVER the past few weeks, the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has used different titles and labels to describe what he is trying to introduce into the country.
“Nigeria has biotechnologically improved crops and not genetically modified crops. There should not be fear about GMOs or Biotech crops at all because technology is technology, how you manage that technology to lower the risk to the consumer is important.”
To understand the gravity of this issue, I would explain the different methods by which bio-technology improves food so we would not be confused by the different labels the minister decides to use.
There are two methods used by scientists to modify genes. One is marker-assisted: A specific gene is spliced and bred with the same organism such as a tomato. The other method is trans-genesis, during which genes from another organism such as bacteria are mixed with the genes of corn.
Then the minister went on to say: “Appropriate regulatory agencies would be put in place to check the benefits and risks associated with such foods.”
Any well-meaning individual or organisation will set up these agencies years before adopting this technology, especially with the global outcry against it.
Countries all over the world are banning and reacting negatively to bio-tech companies like Monsanto.
Can Nigeria with its lack of high-level scientific infrastructure truly regulate this technology efficiently?
For example, bio-tech-improved tomatoes are engineered so they do not rot quickly.
Advantages include a higher income for the farmer. What is not considered is that the perishability of that tomato is linked to the human body’s ability to digest it. When the human body cannot get rid of it, it becomes toxic to the body and this is how cancers and other diseases come about.
That in itself makes this hybrid unsustainable. Genetic variety is important, which is why nature frowns on inbreeding. Our health suffers when our only consideration is profit. Illnesses, such as organ failure, sterility and cancer have all been linked to GMOs.
The minister says: “The National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike, Abia State, conducts research into genetic improvement of economically important root and tuber crops.”
But is that the whole picture?
Are they splicing genes in Abia State? Are they playing God? Do the products from these institutions enslave farmers in a vicious cycle of seed purchasing? No, they do not.
Our institutions, through intercropping over several years, produce a variety of seeds that can regenerate themselves. What the Agriculture Minister is proposing undergoes evasive genetic manipulation on a bio-molecular level.
Now that we have some idea what we are talking about, we as a people need to ask some very important questions.
Who is providing these seeds? The answer is seen in an article under the title: “Government okays introduction of 40 hybrid seeds in Nigeria” as well as another article titled: “Monsanto to introduce 40 new seed varieties.”
In the article, Monsanto’s vice president, Micheal Frank said: “The company’s focus was to develop the right seeds and biotechnology that would enhance the productive capacities of local, small holder farmers, thereby improving their profitability and socio economic well being on a sustainable basis.”
People use this word ‘sustainable’ very sparingly. In ecology, sustainability is how biological systems endure and remain diverse and productive. Sustainability in relation to governance and decision-making involves leadership making decisions that encourage the betterment and independence of a people’s present situation with consideration to ensure the security and sovereignty of the people’s future.
Monsanto and other foreign bio-tech firms are simply antithetical to this.
Are the 250,000 bt cotton farmer suicides in India sustainable?
Official figures from the Indian Ministry of Agriculture confirm more than 1,000 farmers kill themselves in India each month. This epidemic branded the ‘GM Genocide’ by campaigners was highlighted by His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales who said: “The issue of GM had become a ‘global moral question’ – and the time had come to end its unstoppable march.”
The Monsanto GM pest-proof ‘breeds’ of cotton were devastated by bollworms, a voracious parasite.
Furthermore, farmers were not told that the Monsanto seeds would require double the amount of water.
Between the failure of the crops, Monsanto’s royalty extraction, the high costs of seeds and chemicals, Monsanto created a debt/death trap.
According to the Government of India, nearly 75 percent rural debt was due to the purchase inputs.
As Monsanto’s profits grow, farmers’ debt grows. It is in this systemic sense that Monsanto’s seeds have been labeled the ‘seeds of suicide’. The price difference is staggering: £10 for 100 grams of GM seed, compared with less than £10 for 1,000 times more traditional seeds.
Due to the large amount of debts incurred by buying seed, most of the farmers commit suicide by swallowing insecticide, which is also sold by Monsanto, a product they were promised they would not need when they were coerced into growing expensive GM crops.
Their wives take over farms from their dead husbands – only to kill themselves as well.
After the damning report of India’s parliamentary committee on Bt crops in August 2012, the panel of technical experts appointed by the Supreme Court recommended a 10-year moratorium on field trials of all GM food and termination of all ongoing trials of transgenic crops. Are we going to wait till this happens? Is that sustainable?
The proposed framework, aside from forcing new seed laws on farmers without properly educating them or having a national discourse on this issue list these requirements for Nigeria to meet.
• Removal of restrictions on areas of investment and maximum equity ownership by foreign investors.
• Free repatriation of capital and returns.
If we ignore the slavery that this system creates in which a renewable resource, seeds, become a non-renewable, patented commodity with these companies insisting on allowing full capital flight, is that sustainable?
Do these conditions echo what the Monsanto Vice President said earlier?
The devil is in the details. This is the vicious cycle our minister is intent to locking us into.
In Brazil, five million farmers took Monsanto to court demanding the return of about 6.2 billion Euros taken as royalties from them. The farmers claim this bio-tech company unfairly extracted these royalties from poor farmers because they were using seeds produced from crops grown from Monsanto’s genetically engineered seeds.
In April this year, a judge ruled in favour of the farmers and ordered Monsanto to return royalties paid since 2004 or a minimum of $2 billion.
All over the world, Monsanto has a track record that makes one question why the minister will open an already vulnerable nation to such a predatory company.
In Ireland: All GM crops were banned for cultivation in 2009, and there is a voluntary labeling system for foods containing GM foods to be identified as such.
In Austria, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria and Luxembourg: There are bans on the cultivation and sale of GMOs.
In New Zealand, no GM foods are grown in the country.
In Germany, there is a ban on the cultivation or sale of GMO maize.
In Japan, the people are staunchly opposed to genetically modified crops and no GM seeds are planted in the country. There was a major cause for concern when there was a GMO contamination of canola around Japanese ports and roads leading to food oil companies. This contamination was due to the importation of GM canola from Canada.
Last September, Russia suspended the import and sale of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn after a French study suggested it may be linked to cancer. The Prime Minister ordered regulatory agencies to consider a possible ban on all GMO imports into Russia.
France’s agriculture ministry banned the sale, use and cultivation of Monsanto’s MON 810 genetically modified maize, the only variety currently authorized in the European Union.
In America, Monsanto has fought against people’s right to know if the food they eat contains GMO (food labeling). Do people not have a right to know? As of 2007, Monsanto had filed 112 lawsuits against U.S. farmers for alleged technology contract violations or GMO patents, involving 372 farmers and 49 small agricultural businesses in 27 different states.
“Farmers have been sued after their field was contaminated by pollen or seed from someone else’s genetically engineered crop or when genetically engineered seed from a previous year’s crop has sprouted, or ‘volunteered,’ in fields planted with non-genetically engineered varieties the following year,” said Andrew Kimbrell and Joseph Mendelson of the Centre for Food Safety
The question then must be asked: Why should a company that is scared to label its products and seeks to have a stranglehold on world food supply be allowed into Nigeria?
Why, despite the global uproar with advanced countries placing a ban on this company’s activities and bans in so many countries, the link to diseases like cancer, which Monsanto says is just speculation, does someone insist on forcing it down our throats without a proper public discourse?
With the uproar and active steps taken by most countries in the European Union as well as Russia, we have to question whose interest is being represented. It certainly does not seem to be that of Nigerians.
We cannot say ‘If it is okay in America, it is okay for us.’ America is controlled by lobbyists, he who lobbies the most wins. That is why despite all the children killing themselves in schools and cinemas, America will not embrace gun control, but would rather suggest more people have access to guns to protect themselves, even from 10 year-olds.
Our great country Nigeria is not poor. We have been failed by our leaders who consistently make unsustainable decisions, such as being a huge oil producer and yet importing so much petroleum products when we have refineries. The introduction of GM seeds is analogous to that. Our small-scale farmers feed this nation despite talk about our large imports of rice. We import because we do not process what we produce, similar to what we do with our crude.
Why can’t the Ministry of Agriculture actually focus on what we need, betterment of our existing farming systems through mechanization. We lose up to half of what we produce between the farm and Nigerians’ plates. This is due to inefficient harvesting. Mechanization would allow farmers harvest faster.
Farmers all over the country are complaining that they have not been granted access to the much-talked-about ‘agriculture loans’. Instead, the farmers have been beset by unrealistic expectations and requirements set by the partner banks. Meanwhile planting season after planting season is missed.
Logistic systems that allow farmers bring their produce to market faster while maintaining its freshness via cold rooms should be explored. This would reduce the predatory way middlemen deal with farmers and actually allow them benefit properly from the value chain.
The global average of extension service (advisory and assistance given to farmers) is 1-25. In Nigeria it is 1-1000. Our farmers have not been given a fighting chance and they have fed us for so long. Why not sustainably solve all these problems first before prescribing seeds of slavery to Nigeria’s agriculture sector.
In 2012 the minister met with the governor of Kwara State and promised to introduce ‘flood resistant’ rice seeds to farmers. Rather than the Federal Government actually addressing the actual cause of this man-made flooding, which was caused when a dam failed, they are offering seeds that will further destroy the environment.
This type of un-sustainable quick-fix methods of solving problems today only for us to cry tomorrow has to stop.
In Haiti, after the earthquake ravaged the country, Monsanto donated its seed to them as a “relief effort”. Based on its experience in the past, Haiti burnt all the seeds donated to them.
“We have the potential to make our lands produce enough to feed the whole population and even to export certain products. The policy we need for this to happen is food sovereignty, where the county has a right to define its own agricultural policies, to grow first for the family and then for local market, to grow healthy food in a way which respects the environment and Mother Earth.” – Jean-Baptiste (the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay).
Our people do not have access to good healthcare. Our schools lack the training or infrastructure to even begin to understand on a bio-molecular level what these corporations are giving us to eat.
Socio-economically it enslaves farmers and we lose our food sovereignty to foreign corporations. The death of millions of nature’s own pollinators, bees and butterflies across America is linked to the large scale planting of GM crops as well.
The Nigerian people are looking up to distinguished senators and honourable representatives to save them.
The senators that passed the anti-gay bill in a bid to preserve our way of life, the same senators that insisted on retaining the marriage age, now more than ever, we need them to conserve our way of life.
“Then God said, ‘Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.” (Genesis Chapter 1: 11-12).
God himself said it was good.
These people playing God in the laboratory seek to force us to eat what they produce, and then claim ownership rights over it. They do so regardless of the effects on our soil, our bodies or the lives of our farmers. In the words of the Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev: “If the Americans like to eat GMO products, let them eat it then. We don’t need to do that; we have enough space and opportunities to produce organic food.”
The Nigerian people call on all our religious leaders and fathers in the Lord, Yes we need to pray, but we also need to act. When Jesus saw the money-changers in the church, he did not kneel to pray. He reacted at the abomination he saw. An abomination has presented itself to us, let us act and lets act now!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUd9rRSLY4A

http://www.theoslotimes.com/gmo-controversy-finally-hits-nigeria/

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This PINK Month, we've lost to many from Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Young women, with young families. Two of these woman have hit me especially hard. Both women, have young daughters.

The first friend that passed this month from Triple Negative Breast Cancer is Meg Sager. Meg was 33 years young at diagnosis of Triple Negative Breast Cancer and 4 months pregnant. Meg went through a radical Mastectomy, 6 rounds of chemo. Meg had baby Cora on Mar. 1, 2014 in between rounds of chemo. After chemo, she did 25 days of radiation until Jun. 30, 2014. After a negative bone scan, two negative liver biopsies, and a negative PET scan it looked like the cancer was beat in May, and radiation was just to make sure. September 5th 2014 Meg got the call from the Doctors office that her cancer had indeed returned. Her oncologist said that people in her circumstance usually have between two and three years to live. Her oncologist prescribed an oral chemo to try to slow the progression of the breast cancer in the liver. But Meg would not get the 2-3 years as hoped for by the doctors.
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Meg passed away on Oct. 6, 2014. After her re-diagnosis things deteriorated very quickly. Meg's husband Sam explains. "We had three trips to the ER in 4 weeks. One for severe abdominal pain. One for a slight fever and infection which turned into a five day hospital stay. And the last one in the early morning on Oct. 6th. I had to call 911 because she was having trouble breathing. She was rushed to the hospital. As soon as my parents arrived at our house to take care of the girls, I rushed to the hospital myself. Meg was unconscious and on a ventilator when I arrived. She never woke up. Her body slowly began to shut down, and she died later that afternoon. It was an infection that she could not handle in her immunocompromised state." Meg left behind a best friend and husband along with their precious daughters Ellie 4 years old and Cora, 7 months old, along with countless others who loved Meg.

I asked Sam how Ellie was doing, how she is coping. In part so that everyone reading could have a 'window' into the heartache that the young ones that loose their Momma's feel, also selfishly because I wonder because I have young ones Meg's children's age. This is what Sam wrote...
"Ellie is doing the best she can. The hardest thing I've ever done is come home from the hospital sit down with our daughter and explain to her that Mommy can't come home because she died. It was things like this that Meg and would work together to figure out. The first week after Meg passed Ellie would ask in a very sad voice, "When's Mommy coming home?"

It breaks my heart to even think about it. Then I would tell her what happened again. Mommy was really sick. So sick that she had to go to the hospital. And the doctors worked really hard to try to make Mommy better and healthy again, but kept getting sicker. Mommy tried really hard but her body couldn't take it anymore and she died. Mommy loved us so much, and we love Mommy so much that Mommy is in our hearts now. And whenever we get sad or when we miss Mommy all we have to is close our eyes really tight and remember all of the good things we love about Mommy. Then we take turns telling each other something we loved about Mommy or something we loved doing with her.

After that first week Ellie stopped asking when Meg was going to come home. Now she says, "I miss Mommy." Then we go through all the things we remember. Ellie asks me regularly, especially when we snuggle at bedtime, to tell her the whole story. And I do just that. She is starting to get it, and I know she misses Meg so much."
Meg touched the lives of so many people. She brought out the best in people, especially me. She had an unwavering desire to help other people in all things she did. And she loved her family and friends unconditionally.

If you would like to read about the precious Sager family and Meg's journey, they beautifully documented it here.
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My second friend, just passed Oct 26th 2014. Christina Newman was 40 years young. She leaves behind a beautiful baby girl and her adult daughter along with a heart broken husband, Ernesto. Her passing has happened to quickly for me to get speak with Ernesto in detail, as beautiful Christina Newman still has not been laid to rest. She fought with such courage, grace and strength to the very end. She fought Triple Negative Breast Cancer with every ounce of courage she could, never giving up, being a constant encouragement to her fellow breast cancer 'sisters.' Her death as well as Meg's ripped my heart out, I know how much they loved their families and life. You too can see Christina's courageous journey here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJ20zr5EBY
I too, like both of my 'sisters' above, am battling Triple Negative Breast Cancer Stage IV. I am a 37 year old mom and wife, married to my best friend and the love of my life. I have 5 beautiful children. My baby's ages are 18, 11, 8, 5 and 2 years old. I have been battling this disease since July 2013. In March of 2014, I was told by my doctor that I may have a year to live, but because of the aggressive measure of my disease they didn't know truly if I'd live that long. I do not want to die! I have to live, my babies need me, my husband needs me. I am fighting this disease with everything I can. When I told my children, that the cancer had returned in less than 3 months of being declared 'Cancer Free' through tears one of my babies asked me, "Mom are you going to die?" With a lump in my throat, tears in my heart and strength in my voice, "I cannot answer this, but I will fight with every breathe that I take to stay with you here." I will keep this promise!

I know 'statically' what I am up against. This is the most UNDERFUNDED breast cancer disease. Triple Negative Breast Cancer affects young woman, has the highest reoccurrence rate along with the highest morality rate with no targeted therapies. So along with 'western medicine' under the care of one of the most brilliant doctors in the field of cancer, Dr. Robert Nagourney of Rational Therapeutics in Long Beach who does specialized tumor testing, I am doing every natural immune-building therapy I can and can afford. Through fundraising efforts my journey has taken our family to Austria for intense non-FDA treatments. Next we are gearing up for treatments in Mexico. Along with an army of supporters and love, we are fighting this disease with everything we can for the privilege that so many lose daily... hearing my babies say 'Momma.' I am fighting so hard for all my sisters that I loose weekly, to find another way of killing Triple Negative Breast Cancer. I don't want to die, I have to live!
You can also follow my journey and join our army on Facebook or our website.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-amento/i-do-not-want-to-die_b_6082974.html

GlaxoSmithKline begins testing experimental Ebola vaccines on West Africans


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/047462_GlaxoSmithKline_Ebola_vaccines_West_Africans.html#ixzz3Hpe5g6KC


NaturalNews) Now that the general public has been conditioned to accept that Ebola can only be stopped through immediate intervention with magic drugs and vaccines from the West, British vaccine giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is readying to begin tests on an experimental Ebola vaccine, which reports indicate will be given to unsuspecting healthcare workers in Mali.

Though there have been no reported Ebola cases in Mali, GSK is fast-tracking its vaccine, known as cAd3-ZEBOV, with the blessing of the World Health Organization (WHO), for rapid approval in early 2015. Normally, the preliminary testing process alone would take up to a year, but ongoing Ebola propaganda has facilitated a "lightning speed" approval process that appears to have been the goal of the Ebola "crisis" all along.

According to FierceVaccines, a total of 40 healthcare workers in Mali will receive the experimental Ebola vaccine, which GSK developed in conjunction with the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Mali's Center for Vaccine Development and Ministry of Health are both onboard as well.

The vaccine "uses a chimpanzee cold virus vector containing two ebolavirus gene segments that switch on a protein to activate an immune response in the body," explains FierceVaccines. "A parallel trial in Gambia is expected to begin soon."


Canadian vaccine company also prepping experimental Ebola jab for use on Americans
This vaccine party is being joined by Canada's NewLink Genetics, which has reportedly entered Phase I trials for its own Ebola jab, known as rVSV-ZEBOV. Similar to cAd3-ZEBOV, rVSV-ZEBOV contains a weakened vesicular stomatitis virus as its vector, which is intended to trigger an immune response against Ebola.

In a statement, NewLink announced that 20 vials of the vaccine will be administered to human guinea pigs in the U.S. Earlier this month, the company also indicated that participants in Germany, Switzerland and an unnamed African country that has not yet seen any cases of Ebola would also be receiving the experimental vaccine.

Data from the Phase I trial in Maryland will be made available in December 2014, claims the company.

"Both vaccines are flying through the regulatory process at lightning speed," says FierceVaccines. "Typically, it would take 6 to 11 months to move an experimental vaccine from preclinical testing into clinical trials. But the jabs are being fast-tracked by the World Health Organization in an effort to halt the spread of the disease as fast as possible."


Vaccine companies have no idea if humans will be harmed by experimental Ebola vaccines
Part of NewLink's statement admits that those to whom the vaccines will be given could be harmed by them. The purpose of the trials, after all, is to "assess [their] safety, determine the appropriate dosage and identify any side effects."

Some believe that the vaccines themselves will be what propels the Ebola outbreak to new threatening levels, potentially transforming a regionalized epidemic into a full-scale global pandemic. Both of the vaccines in question contain live viruses, after all, which are known to shed for days or even weeks, infecting others who come into direct contact with the injected.

It could take years before the full scope of the damage caused by these experimental vaccines is known. Drug giant Pfizer only recently made its first compensatory payments to families of Nigerian children who were injured by an experimental drug it tested there back in 1996. According to BBC News, 11 children died from the anti-meningitis drug Trovan, and dozens of others were left permanently disabled.


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/047462_GlaxoSmithKline_Ebola_vaccines_West_Africans.html#ixzz3HpdtYROn

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Part 1 - Oxycotin was touted as a miracle, pain relief with few side effects and less addictive than morphine. Soon it was the most prescribed drug in Canada, with tragic results. We track Oxycotin's fall from grace, ending in 100 families filing a lawsuit. Jennifer Tryon reports.

Part 2 - When Oxycontin hit the market it was a big money maker - a drug to relieve pain all day long, an alternative to addictive narcotic pain pills. Prescriptions soared, but it wasn't long before stories of addiction, abuse and side effects surfaced. Jennifer Tryon reports.

Part 3 - In the US, the company that owned Oxycontin made a shocking admission - it lied, misleading doctors and the public, all in the name of pill popping profit. That left claims from thousands of Americans and Canadians, hooked like drug addicts. Jennifer Tryon reports.

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Hassan, pictured outside the Bayernkaserne with two of his children, arrived in Munich from Syria. Photo: Mariane Schroeder
Around 300 refugees are arriving in Munich each day, but accommodation centres are full. With authorities struggling for answers, The Local meets those at the sharp end of the crisis.

Rana and Hassan are among the lucky ones. They managed to escape the fiercely contested city of Aleppo in Syria with their family intact.
After a month on the road they reached Munich on Wednesday night. They were picked up by the police and brought to the Bayernkaserne, a refugee camp on the fringe of an industrial estate on the northern edge of the city.

Since then they've been camping out in front of the overcrowded facility.

"No room for us," Rana told The Local in a tired voice. She clutches her four-year old in her arms. Her other three children cling to her looking dazed.

Before long they are joined by Ahmed, an extremely thin man holding a small boy with a runny nose and watering eyes. "The camp is closed and they sent us away," he says in heavily accented but understandable English.

"We have nowhere else to go and the children haven't eaten in 24 hours."



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The guards at the gates let no one enter unless they have their registration papers, but the families outside are unable to register because the facility is closed.

Munich mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) announced the closure last Monday because of chronic overfilling.

Several suggestions to alleviate the crisis have been put forward, from using the temporary beer halls erected for the Oktoberfest, to building tent cities to house up to 1,000 people.

'Do something!'

While politicians debate the problem, families like Rana and Hassan are in acute need of shelter.

By 5pm some thirty people had gathered outside the Kaserne gates. Locals sometimes pass by and bring sacks of clothing or food.

'System down'

Bavaria’s state premier Horst Seehofer admitted last week that authorities have underestimated the dramatic increase in refugee numbers.

"In the last three or four days the asylum policy that we have wished for has not been flawlessly implemented," Seehofer told the Bavarian Parliament.

The chaos came to a head last Thursday when some 100 asylum seekers started a spontaneous protest outside the refugee camp.

They are angry about the overcrowding, poor food and long queues for registration.

"The situation is chaotic," conceded Florian Schlämmer, spokesman for the Region of Upper Bavaria. All of the facilities are overfilled and we weren't prepared for the number of refugees that were suddenly flooding our facilities."
The number of refugees arriving in Munich is now 300 a day. The Bayernkaserne, a former military facility dating back to World War II, is the first stop on the long and rather arduous way to political asylum.

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It was meant as a temporary camp to house refuges during a process

that begins with registration and proceeds through a complete health examination and interview in the asylum seeker's native language.

That process can take up to six weeks.

"The system just broke down," Schlämmer admits. "We weren't prepared for the numbers. Suddenly we had groups of up to 50 arriving together at the Bayernkaserne."

The situation climaxed when the facility designed to house 1,200 filled up to 2,400 refugees.

The city, region and state governments now meet daily in crises committees to solve the problem.

"In Munich two of the main refugee routes cross: the one from the Balkans and the one from Italy," Schlämmer says. "There are no more inner European borders and they rarely get picked up until they arrive here."

As of Thursday a new system is in place. Shuttle buses now stop in front of the Bayernkaserne 24 hours a day to pick up any refuges sleeping rough or arriving in the middle of the night.

They are taken to a new facility at Lotte-Branz-Strasse, a former office complex where everyone is registered and has access to emergency medical care.




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Afterwards, they are taken to smaller refugee camps all around the state.

"We are constantly searching for unused schools, factories and warehouses where we can house these people until the registration process is complete," Schlämmer said.

For families like Rana and Hassan this is the first step to a new life. Like most of the refugees from Syria, they are finding it too slow and too painful but they have nowhere else to go.

By Mariana Schroeder
http://www.thelocal.de/20141020/hope-and-chaos-reigns-at-munichs-refugee-centres

Members of a German motorcycle gang have travelled to Syria to join Kurds fighting against Islamic extremists (Isis), raising the prospect of Germans fighting Germans in Syria and Iraq.

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Leaders of the Cologne-based Median Empire Motorcycle Club, which has strong Kurdish links, posted photos on Facebook of a handful of their members in Turkey and Syria, some posing with weapons.

One post on October 5th showed a picture of two men wearing the German gang’s jackets while climbing a hill with guns slung over their shoulders.

It said: “Our boys were in Kobane [Syria] today and told me today they were shot at but nothing happened. They are okay.”


Four days earlier, the Facebook user wrote: “While others blabber and blabber, our boys are at the front fighting Isis.” Alongside the caption he posted a picture showing a member of the club with Kurdish peshmerga fighters.

The group has also posted pictures praising fighters from Dutch biker gang “No Surrender” whose leader said on Tuesday it had three members fighting for the Kurds against Isis in Iraq.

The Cologne gang said it was also helping out with humanitarian aid.

One of the their Facebook group’s administrators uploaded a photo of a man whom he said was his “brother” and a Median Empire member with Yazidi Kurds, who have been persecuted by Isis, in what appeared to be a refugee camp.
Median Empire MC has previously fundraised in Germany for Kurds in the Middle East, but these are the first known fighters to have travelled from Germany to fight against Isis.

Around 400 jihadists are believed to have travelled from Germany to the Middle East to fight for Isis.

It raises the prospects of Germans fighting one another in Syria and Iraq and could inflame tensions on German streets where there have been clashes between Kurds and Islamists.

Security services have been trying to stop radicalized Muslims from travelling to the Middle East and Germany has outlawed Isis. But the stance of intelligence services on Germans fighting for the Kurds, who Germany is supporting with training and military equipment, is less clear.

A spokeswoman for Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the BfV, told The Local it had no official numbers on how many Germans had travelled to the Middle East to fight for the Kurds
“This is a really new development, but we are monitoring it to see how things develop,” she said.

She said it was not illegal for Germans to travel to Syria, but it would be illegal for them to join outlawed Kurdish group the PKK, the Kurdish Workers’ Party, which is banned as a terrorist organization in Germany.

“We would have to prove what they are doing there,” the spokeswoman added.

The gang takes its name from the Median Empire which stretched across the Middle East in the 8th century BC. On their website they praise the empire’s warriors.

“The only difference today is that we are sitting on motorcycles instead of the backs of horses," it said.

Median Empire MC formed in Cologne in 2011, breaking away from another biker group called Mongols MC. The formation caused tension with the Hells Angels in the western German city.
It now has chapters in Karlsruhe, Cologne, Duisburg and Nuremberg as well as in Sweden and Russia
http://www.thelocal.de/20141017/german-motorcycle-gang-joins-kurds-against-isis

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As the Nigerian presidential election gets closer, Adeola takes an in-depth look at the three main candidates: Atiku Abubakar, Muhammadu Buhari, and President Goodluck Jonathan.

In Zimbabwe, the first lady, Grace Mugabe, is ready to spill blood over land disputes, and she wants to oust the Vice-President.

This week, Adeola features Eunice Namirembe, a medical doctor in Uganda who runs a 24-hour Medical Concierge Group connecting people with quality healthcare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vst8xDDwvU



The Dublin Regulation On Asylum


Asylum seekers face abuse at the gates of Europe

The numbers of migrants trying to cross into the EU from Ukraine appear to be falling, no doubt because EU assistance has reinforced Ukrainian border patrols. But an alarming report by Human Rights Watch suggests that ill-treatment of migrants on the Ukrainian side may also be part of the deterrent.

By Gulliver CRAGG

As Italy panics over an influx of migrants to its shores from North Africa, concern is also growing over the plight of those who try to enter the European Union by a different route: from the East, via Ukraine.

The former Soviet state borders EU members Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. Last year, more than 1,000 migrants were detained on those borders. Another 700 were returned to Ukraine from the EU, under a year-old agreement between Kiev and Brussels.

The numbers trying to cross appear to be falling, partly because EU assistance has reinforced Ukrainian border patrols. But an alarming report by Human Rights Watch suggests that ill-treatment of migrants on the Ukrainian side may also be part of the deterrent. Of 50 migrants interviewed for the report, says HRW's Simone Troller, "half said they had been beaten, and eight reported electric-shock torture."

The Ukrainian border service say eight officers suspected of ill-treatment have been fired or transferred, but they have yet to face further disciplinary action.

France 24 met a group of Somali migrants in Uzhgorod, nestled between the Hungarian and Slovakian borders in the far south-western corner of Ukraine. Somalis and Afghans form the largest national groups trying to reach the EU via Ukraine. Of those in Uzhgorod, some reported ill-treatment, others did not.

But all of them seemed to agree that Ukraine had nothing to offer them. "They have no chance of working, they have no chance of gaining refugee status, they have no rights and they are constantly hassled by the police, the border guard, the secret services", says Natacha Kabatsi of the Medical Aid Committee, a local NGO.

Hassan, a 20-year-old Somali who lives in a small flat with five others, said that although he lived in fear of racist beatings, he understood why many Ukrainians feel their country should not have to bear the burden of helping refugees: "When I checked their history and their economy, I realised... they are suffering too".

Migrants who are caught or sent back to Ukraine are first held for a week or so in temporary detention centres run by the border guard. The worst stories of ill-treatment come from these places. They are usually then either housed indefinitely in "temporary" accommodation centres, or released. In the latter case they have to obtain permits to remain in the country, of a duration of one to three weeks, and can often only do so with the help of a lawyer.

The accommodation centres have received funding from the EU, but due to changes to the Ukrainian system they have not received any state funds since the end of 2010. They are overcrowded and nutrition is poor. The most glaring lack, however, is that of any prospect for improvement in the migrants' lot in the long term: "the system", Kabatsi sums up simply, "does not work".

Hassan agrees. "Here, our only opportunity is to stay and hear bad words, or worse. My only plan... is to try again to cross". Fortress Europe's assistance to Ukraine is clearly helping to make that harder to do. But the alternatives are much less clear...




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Advice to Africans by a German Africa brother


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1UKRKh_Ito
He has spent year sojourning until he find himself in cold Germany. He's citizen now but he have this advice for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0vtLspGbmg

The Migrant Trap: For thousands of migrants, Tripoli is seen as the gateway to Europe. But for many of them, the Libyan capital is turning into a dead end.

For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=66802&a...

For African migrants Libya used to be a Mecca: a place to find work or get access to Europe. But now the workers who come here are trapped in the political, economic and social chaos engulfing the country.

"It will get worse because of the indifference and carelessness of the Libyan authorities, but also the lack of coordination with Europe", militia leader and immigration officer Abdul Raza tells us. He describes how no efforts are made on the Libyan side to stop the 15,000 migrants a year who attempt the crossing to Europe, which in 2013 resulted in 3,000 deaths. Tripoli has always been a centre for migrants and talk of reconstruction has brought a new wave. But these rumours are in stark contrast to the complete mayhem engulfing the country. "We have big problems. This morning we haven't eaten. Sometimes they hit us. When we are noisy they beat us", a young migrant being kept in Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison tells us. He has been brought here along with hundreds of others and will be kept here for an indefinite amount of time waiting to be deported. "It is for them the most important thing to go to Europe, Lampedusa. They would rather die than stay here in Libya", says a Roman Catholic Nun attempting to offer aid to the increasingly desperate immigrants swelling Libya's cities.

Greece has always been a gateway for immigrants searching for what they assumed would be a better life in Europe. But many of those who've crossed illegally into Greece have found that they have traded one bad situation for another. Refugees from war-torn countries like Syria and Afghanistan are finding themselves stuck in a country that is not only battling an economic crisis but is witnessing a rise in anti-immigrant violence, exemplified by the a nationalist political party known as the Golden Dawn.

VICE News' Alex Miller travelled from Athens to the western port of Patras to find out what it is like to be trapped in a country you never wanted to be in in the first place.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ASpKCnx4D4

Registration


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzpn2pYEXyE&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz

Reception Unit Enquiry Meeting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waAAHEi8cTM&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz&index=2

Asylum Enquiry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUt50kKAHps&index=3&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz

Group information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEGEzArtjtI&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz&index=4

Decision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfSgEGYxESA&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz&index=5

Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMJuLdeEQVE&index=6&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz

Health


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nfy9slPigw&index=7&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz

Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qd4UZchooE&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz&index=8

Day nurseries/Schools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_eRU6NK6Ho&index=9&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz

Housing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA-iQoU1zBc&index=10&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz

Return Journey (Asylum Denied)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wu3D0N7iZ4&index=11&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz

Family reunion (Asylum Granted)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQnjez87F2c&list=PLKyURAcSFgKRa6KdxGL74gQWih52-AYcz&index=12

Plenty of the (Shiite Iranian- asylum seekers), pretend to be Christian, gay and lesbian, in order to obtain asylum in Europe, United States of America, Canada and Australia.

Any Muslim making that claim is a dead Muslim. In Europe or Iran: the Islamic Idealists will get a hold of them and kill them. I don't think a Muslim would make that claim for fear of his life regardless of where he is going or coming from.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBAI6ZYowCA

Most Iranian homosexuals claiming 'asylum' more than likely aren't homosexual. There is a difference between persecution and committing a crime, if homosexuality is a crime in their home country (Iran) then they are just giving refuge to criminals. But the Migration Board doesn't believe these people are Christians, gay and lesbian.

An immigration official told an Iranian in Sweden that when you are deported to Iran, all you need to do to keep from being arrested, is tell everyone you are a Muslim, not a Christian, and you will be okay.

Iranian asylum seekers asked "inappropriate" questions:

Some have been asked to prove that they are gay

They were being asked to give intimate information about their private lives

One Iranian asylum seeker was asked explicit questions about his sexual practices

Some faced explicit questions and others were asked to hand over video evidence to prove their sexuality.

Let's join together to support the Isijola family as they journey through this tumultuous ordeal and unexpected medical expenses.

Save our Son Ife

4 years ago a routine haircut triggered what happened to be a nightmare and a tragic discovery that no parent wants to hear. A diagnosis that their child has not just a cancer, but the most aggressive form of brain cancer that is extremely difficult to treat.

My nephew Ife has a Stage III Glioblastoma Multiforme tumor. This form of cancer is very aggressive and difficult to treat successfully. After what was thought to be a successful removal of the tumor in Dec 2012, and a period of intense chemotherapy and radiation, the tumor has resurfaced and is now even more aggressive.

Last month, his oncologist had a multidisciplinary meeting with his parents and concluded that there is nothing else they can do and Ife's family should prepare him for Hospice care. As a parent myself, I find it hard to take such sad news. Ife is just 13 years old and he is such a brilliant, fun loving and cheerful boy who has so much life to give. The notion that we should resign out faith to Hospice care is unacceptable. Our family faith remains strong and steadfast in The Lord and we believe that With God all things are possible.

Last week after further deliberation and on the advice from John Hopkins Children Cancer Center, we were previewed to a new and revolutionary treatment modality that offers a glimpse of hope and a possibility of combating the tumor. The therapy is a combination of chemotherapy and a clinical trial therapy that promises to target this type of tumor.

Unfortunately, this is a very expensive treatment option and his health insurance does not cover the type of longterm home care and treatment that he needs. His mom currently does not work as she has dedicated her time taking care of her child. Ife's dad is now the sole provider in the family, but at this time lacks all the needed funds to cover his treatment and medicine.
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At this point, time is running out for Ife and we would appreciate all the financial assistance we can get. I guarantee that 100% of all funds donated will be used strictly for Ife's care and medicine. We remain grateful for your assistance and prayers. We will continue to update everyone all on his progress, but in the meantime, please feel free to share this message with anyone you know who can be of assistance and contact us if you have any questions, concerns, or words of encouragement. Thank you and God bless.

http://www.punchng.com/news/agony-of-13-year-old-nigerian-fighting-brain-cancer-in-us-hospitals/

for fund raising please visit
https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/0py5/ife-s-brain-cancer-fundraiser

STOCKHOLM – A 27-year-old Bosnian Muslim immigrant has been named the new Swedish minister of education, setting a role model for young, active Muslims.

The minister, Aida Hadzialic, was named earlier in October in Stefan Löfven new cabinet as the new Upper Secondary School and Adult Education Initiative in Sweden, IBNlive reported on Wednesday, October 8.

A law graduate from the University of Lund, Hadzialic became the deputy mayor of the Swedish city Halmstad at the age of 23.

Born in 1987 in Foča, Bosnia, the 27-year-old Swedish politician is now the youngest person ever to serve as a minister in Sweden.

Hadzialic was five years old when her family fled from war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Bosnia fell into civil war in 1992, and that left 200,000 people dead with millions displaced as Serb forces launched ethnic cleansing campaign against Bosnian Muslims.
https://www.onislam.net/english/oimedia/onislamen/images/mainimages/09-10-14_Sweden-Appoints-First-Muslim-Minister.jpg
During the 43-month war, nearly two million people fled their homes, half a million of them are still listed as refugees.

In the final months of the three-year war, Serb forces, led by General Ratko Mladic, overran Srebrenica, killing some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

Sweden has opened its doors to immigrants for decades.

In 2012, some 43,900 asylum seekers arrived, a nearly 50 percent jump from 2011 and the second highest on record. Nearly half were from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia and will get at least temporary residency. There was a total of 103,000 new immigrants.

Some 15 percent of Sweden's population is foreign born, the highest in the Nordic region.

Muslims make up between 450,000 and 500,000 of Sweden’s nine million people, according to the US State Department report in 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS5T_3OUoZo




Thousands of U.S. children die every year but very little is being done about it. You can be a voice for these kids by watching this short video and signing the petition at the end.
(Originally released Dec. 2013 at www.thetruth365.org and Vimeo.)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljTL1iuMmY



The Truth 365 is a grassroots documentary and social media campaign designed to help children in need. By watching and sharing this film you will be doing your part to spread the word and help make a difference. Website: www.thetruth365.org Media inquires: info@thetruth365.org

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Romance Scams abound, in this video by Dr. Phil you can learn from people who have been scammed in a Nigerian Romance Scam. PLEASE TELL OTHERS. This should be viewable on all machines

Firstly, on behalf of millions of Nigerians across the globe, we thank Channel 4 Dispatches Program for exposing the truth about the hidden war that is been waged in Nigeria against Nigerians by Boko Haram in connivance with Nigerian State Agents.

We can assure you that we ordinary concerned Nigerians and friends of Nigeria will ensure that millions of innocent Nigerians demand justice.
Once again, we thank you for this brilliant service to humanity with a high probability of saving lives in the future.
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Dear Nigerians,


Information reaching us since yesterday confirms our suspicion that Nigerian Government has used mutiny to BARRED OTHERS INCLUDING Nigerians across the world except UK to have access to this Video which confirms without any shred of doubt that Nigerian Armed Forces are committing act of genocide against Nigerians, especially thousands of innocent Northerner’s.


We believe it is your fundamental right as good citizens, amiable and loving Nigerians to know the truth about the 21st century hidden genocide that is been committed by President Jonathan’s regime, as this will set all of us free from future preventable retaliations, replications, or any other foreseeable disasters that we may confront if we failed to stop this barbaric behavior, apparently instigated, initiated, managed and conducted by those we trusted with our lives-The Nigerian Military Forces under President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcc5fnx08R0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOf8_ecDk3c