UN Banning Natural Therapies, Promoting Nuclear Industry - Time to Ban the UN?

Cartoon by Emma Holister www.art-margin.com

There is little I can say regarding this latest man-made catastrophe at Fukushima Japan. I am desperate and powerless to help my Japanese friends and am increasingly concerned for my American friends as fall-out from the nuclear meltdown will not remain confined to Japan alone. It has been drifting across the sea to the American continent and the prospects are grim for everyone, for the planet.

As ever I am disgusted with the greed and shameless dishonesty of the political bodies that have been imposing nuclear energy upon us for decades and who continue to hail it as the 'best and only energy choice for the future'. A future they are swiftly deleting. The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is, of course, a disgrace.

Supermarket Psychosis

By Emma Holister

This series of images is close to my heart because of its visually emotional revolt against the madness of consumerism.



Its place on the Net has always been on my art website www.art-margin.com but I feel that it belongs as much these days on my natural health blog as I focus increasingly on permaculture and removing from my life the remaining vestiges of dependence on supermarkets.

In fact I have developed the perverse pleasure of going on unshopping-sprees, where I walk through the radioactively luminous corridors of products and count all the things that I used to think essential and that I have now gleefully banished from my life.

Growing my own organic foods has been a bit scary, being of the non-green-fingered sector of the population, but much of this anxiety has been assuaged by learning about wild perennial (grows back from roots each year) foods and forest gardening; albeit in the small enclosure of my courtyard. All I can say is thank goodness for wild roquette (creeping yellow cress), plantains and jerusalem artichokes (sunroots), that seem to be indestructible and require virtually no gardening skills whatsoever. However, being the brave gardening Amazon I am, I have continued to battle it out with the slugs and snails forever lusting after my precious sunflowers, the seeds of which I use throughout the year to grow microgreen salads in my kitchen window. And I have valiantly embarked upon new projects each year, be it Welsh onions (like giant chives), courgettes and runner beans. All very useful for their generous yield per plant and simplicity for growing and harvesting seeds, not to mention the fact that they are marvellous anti-candida foods. So the food autonomy side of things is going quite well really.

Although I have to admit that striking sanitary towels from my shopping list was a challenge. But even those have now been replaced by nifty washable ones that I sew by hand, the pattern for which I will soon be putting up in the Permaculture Design section along with patterns for simple home-made clothes from sheets, blankets and curtains. I may sound like the contents of a laundry basket but you'd be surprised how normal I look despite this recent eccentricity in my wardrobe's contents. It has certainly helped to learn how to crochet, nothing like a bit of home-made lace to make those sheets look extra fancy! And I am particularly looking forward to the day I never buy underwear again . . . because yes, knickers and bras, you can make them yourself, even frilly ones!

Anyway, back to Supermarket Psychosis, the first sketches of this series were done many eons ago in 1991. I finally did the drawings with the first round of colour prints in 2004. I have since redone the colour prints and the three main images are soon to become paintings as well.

Artwork by Emma Holister www.art-margin.com

Martin J Walker 'Science is the New Politics'

Martin J Walker's latest essay Science is the New Politics reads like an encyclopedia of juicy (if rather unappetising) facts on the relationship between government organisations and pharmaceutical/chemical companies.

It also reads like a horror story from the diaries of Dr Frankenstein.

It is an essential body of research for anyone wishing to back up their opinions on political corruption and corporate science with minutely detailed references.

When I wrote my last piece: Controlled Opposition, Twenty Questions You Never Dared to Ask, I deliberately refrained from naming names and pointing fingers because such volatile accusations of corruption require the most rigorous investigation and evidence of the sort to be found in hair-raising abundance in this latest essay of Martin Walker's.

Basically, for those wishing to understand who is who and who does what with what dirty money and how, this is a must read.

The following three paragraphs are a small sample of this hefty opus, that can be found in full on his website www.slingshotpublications.com


(p.50 Science is the New Politics)

In the nineteen nineties, science education and policy came under the wing of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and from that time, corporate science and its organisations breached the boundaries of government and took control themselves of educating both MPs and the public about science. In 1998 with the New Labour's emplacement of the billionaire shopping magnet Lord Salisbury in the DTI, industry took over science policy. In Britain, greedy corporations met irresponsible government and together both parties began a campaign to deny all adverse reactions or other failings to the techniques or products of corporate science.

With government and corporations organised against the laity, the legal system is often the people's first defence. The United States of America is a large diverse country with a legal system that appears to be able to be used on behalf of the people. On the other hand, Britain is two small islands with a tightly unified and controlling class, and a legal system populated with men and women who can no longer find the word principle in their dictionaries. In the US lawyers have fought for claimants against corporations,88 while in Britain lawyers and other powerful sectors have simply chosen to agree with the opposition that corporate science has never harmed anyone while doing under the table deals with government. In Britain health consumers have been deprived not only of their right to chose health therapies and produce, but also their right to defend themselves against harm from corporate science and its products.

The pharmaceutical industry specifically, and the allopathic health industry generally, are worth billions, and along with the bio-agricultural industry they represent the apex of corporate science and the carry round with them a new ideology. It is then hardly surprising, that amongst the industrial and post-industrial lobbies, the 'quackbusting' movement, funded by the pharmaceutical industry, became one of the first to come out publicly in conflict with what the industry considered competitive alternative health therapies and products. This lobby was building on firm foundations, with lobbies and PR fronts having been well established in industries like the asbestos and chemical industries in the 1950s and 1960s.

Controlled Opposition : Twenty Questions You Never Dared to Ask

By Emma Holister



1) What is a controlled opposition group ?

A controlled opposition group is one that claims to be fighting the multinational drug and chemical cartels but that is in fact controlled by the very industries it alleges to be fighting, usually via funding or shared board members from those same industries.

Although the links can be obvious in many cases, in others they may be more deeply embedded, taking the more subtle form of 'common interests', be they ideological, political or legislative. Grassroots campaigns that could potentially achieve a profound and positive effect against the industrial giants are therefore diverted or derailed into actions that will either fail or be subsumed into the established channels in compliance with industry needs.

In most cases such groups maintain that their actions are not hindered by the funding or compliance with their mortal foes. The relative merits of this line of reasoning can be discussed ad nauseam, usually over cocktails in the executive lounge of some five star hotel during the board of directors annual meeting.

2) Is there such a thing as a controlled opposition individual ?

Yes.

3) How do I recognise a controlled opposition group ?

Most of the time you can spot them by visiting their website’s partners and funders page. If a group claiming to represent the interests of the natural health movement is sponsored by the pharmaceutical or pesticide industry this may give you a clue as to whether or not you can trust them.

Often doing research on the board members’ CVs can provide useful pointers. If they worked for major pharmaceutical companies or were formerly directors of military intelligence, that is also a strong clue.

Unfortunately not all companies are known to the general public and so it can be a challenge to figure out which are the ones with strong ties to the drug cartels. Becoming familiar with the industry at large is useful, finding out which giant company owns this or that company, asking around, doing research on companies’ histories and campaigns.

4) Are there other names for controlled opposition ?

Sometimes they are called controlled interest groups, Trojan horses, Astroturf, front groups, or simply traitorous scum-bags or scabs.

5) Is denouncing controlled opposition counter-productive and divisive ?

Divisive yes, counter-productive no.

6) If I denounce a controlled opposition group will they retaliate by accusing me of being controlled opposition myself ?

Yes. This usually goes along the lines of ‘You’re a controlled opposition group !’ . . . ‘No I’m not, you are !’ . . . ‘No, you are’, etc.

7) How can I best oppose controlled opposition efforts ?

Denouncing them and warning people about their subversively destructive methods is the only thing to do. Often directing people to internet pages setting a good example of how to denounce fake or corrupt activist groups that are derailing true grassroots activism is a good way to start.

8) Can good, honest activists be working for the cause of controlled opposition without even knowing it ?

Yes, and this is often the case. Therefore, when someone manages to pull off a truly devastating piece of sabotage on an anti-drug-cartel activist movement, more often than not this individual may not be in the pay of the drug industry at all. However, the likelihood that they have been brushing shoulders for many years with individuals whose financial ties are less irreproachable than their own is inevitable in a movement that is saturated with industry concerns, whether directly or indirectly.

The Health Freedom Movement is kept moving as much by doctors, scientists and company directors as it is by ex-patients. To what extent any individual can get through nearly a decade of conventional medical or industrial training and not absorb at least part of the industry’s ethical blindness is always going to be a grey area.

However, the innocent, well-meaning individuals are not necessarily the most common or useful instruments of controlled opposition. It is usually those individuals with egos on the rather large side, eager for finding ways to get a little more glory (or money), who are the most likely candidates to be gently guided into doing the dirty work of industry concerns. Even if it is simply a case of those individuals wishing to gain more public acceptance by espousing views that are more palatable to the establishment at large.

From this we can therefore conclude that controlled opposition is not only a form of industrial sabotage of a grassroots movement, but literally a force of nature.

9) Can I have a controlled opposition thought ?

Yes. These are quite common and most frequently take the form of thoughts such as ‘Fighting amongst ourselves is exactly what They want, we all have to get along, work together and be friends if we’re going to beat the enemy’. This type of woolly thinking can be remedied by reading the history of the Nazis and their symbiotic relationship with the French Vichy government, as well as taking a shower and scrubbing vigorously all over with 100% organic soap.

10) What can I do if my friends support a controlled opposition group ?

Educate them by showing them the work of activists denouncing controlled opposition groups and general saboteurs. If that doesn’t work just call them a traitorous scumbag, that usually sorts most issues out quite effectively.

11) Do controlled opposition groups always appear to fight the enemy ?

No. In fact the most accomplished controlled opposition efforts result in brandishing brazen support of the enemy's views and labelling it alternative. This can best be illustrated by the Complementary Alternative Medicine Industry : CAM (not to be confused with the original Alternative Medicine movement). CAM is the establishment’s answer to dealing with grassroots activism. Whilst appearing on the surface to be representing Alternative Medicine, they are a watered-down version preaching subservience to conventional allopathic practices first and foremost, and only using natural therapies as a nice way to make you feel good while you're doing your chemo or taking antiretrovirals. In fact, most of the time prominent members of the CAM industry like to put the public straight on Alternative Medicine and make it perfectly clear that it probably has no therapeutic benefits whatsoever.

12) How common is it to fall into a controlled opposition trap ?

Falling into a controlled opposition trap is as easy as walking into doggy-doo. Don’t despair, no activist can say with any degree of honesty that they have never crossed the path of controlled opposition or supported one of their campaigns. The advice in number 9 is equally applicable to this situation. Basically, they are everywhere and we are all contaminated . . .



13) If I want to denounce a controlled opposition effort but don’t want to use the words controlled opposition, is that OK ?

Yes, this is fine, and is generally the preferred method of grown-ups.

14) Will fighting controlled opposition cause conflict and confusion amongst my friends and family ?

Yes.

15) If I denounce a group for being controlled opposition, will they threaten me with a lawsuit ?

Quite likely. That and calling you the spawn of the devil. However, rather than being downcast, you should take it as a compliment.

16) I have been told that fighting controlled opposition is giving them what they want because they wish to divide and conquer. Is this true ?

‘United we stand, divided we fall’ is a controlled opposition slogan. Simply replace it with ‘Divided we stand, united we fall’ and you’ll have gone a long way to resolving the problem.

17) If I wear a deodorant that says ‘100 percent natural’, but on reading the ingredients I discover this to be a total lie, does this make it a controlled opposition deodorant ?

Yes. Fortunately however, ceasing to use it and denouncing the company that manufactures it is the type of daily civil disobedience that can be practised freely without fear of losing one’s friends.

18) Are controlled opposition individuals under electronic mind control ?

Not necessarily, although there is always a chance. One way of jamming mind control chips is to apply a magnet to the forehead of the person you suspect. This will block the electronic signal of the microchip implanted in their brain. If you cannot find a magnet in your local hardware store, children’s magnetised plastic alphabet letters for sticking on fridges are quite as effective.


Coming soon . . . questions 19 and 20

Crochet Your Way to Free Food!

By Emma Holister

Knowing how to make fractal technology like this....



Will enable you to make high tech agricultural technology such as this....
(skills: basic crochet / investment: 10 euros / employment requirements: 3 hours / strategic placement: window)





Which will enable you to branch out into financially profitable ventures such as this....
(financial investment: 0 euros)



Leading to revolutionary culinary experiences such as this....



Be Mad about Crochet . . . !!!

Here are the latest creations in my mission to never go into a clothes shop again.

I did it all without any patterns or any ability to read patterns for that matter . . . it's all very simple to do once you know the basic body and sleeve shapes/measurements of a standard jumper that fits you. This can be copied from a favorite jumper you already have.

I will publish the instructions for making the simplest of clothes in my permaculture section at some point, including how to hand sew a pair of tropical baggy (casual chinese) trousers for free - and from bed sheets! I wore mine all summer for keeping cool, and as pyjamas in winter. One sheet provided me with three pairs!

Anyway, back to crochet . . .

Here is a warm winter cotton jumper in seed stitch . . .



Below is a sample of seed stitch which is no more than the two beginner stitches - 'double' + 'treble' crochet (UK) - alternated. These beginner stitches can be learned on youtube short videos in half an hour. By alternating them you get this kind of psychedelic effect.

I prefer to use the French terms because they are more visual, less mathematical and far less confusing than the hundred year battle going on between the English and American ladies with their contradictory numerical terms! In French it's simply 'tight' stitch + 'braid' stitch alternated, with shell lace edging (itself just a sequence of braid, tight and chain stitch) .

The reason a lot of people don't understand patterns and therefore never learn the invaluable art of crochet is because they are visual learners needing images, rather than linear numerical learners. We can blame the British and Americans for holding up the crochet revolution as a result.

The best way of all to learn is via the diagramatic Japanese stitch chart system (examples below) which gives each of the basic crochet stitches a symbol - for example tight stitch (UK double crochet, US single crochet) is a plus sign.



Below is the stitch chart for the shell lace edging.

Symbols:
chain stitch = ovals
tight stitch (UK double crochet, US single crochet) = crosses
braid (UK treble crochet, US double crochet) = crossed Ts



Hexagon stitch chart using the same beginner stitches and their symbols (including 'slip' stitch, a dot - ignore the triangles, that's for colour change) . . .



Here (again) is my crocheted salad hanger I made from that chart in two hours, with string, so as to have free, organic and nutritious microgreen salads hanging aestheticly in my kitchen all year round:



And for staying warm . . . Blue cotton jumper, Shell + V stitches alternated . . .



Here is a sample of this robust lace which is Shell + V stitch alternated.
Shells and Vs are also composed of simple combinations of the beginner 'tight', 'braid' and 'chain' stitches (UK: 'double cr', 'treble cr' and 'chain')



Lacey indoor gloves for busy ladies who can't afford a lot of heating in the winter . . . one pair can be made in two hours with a two euro ball of wool or cotton . . .



Grey version . . .



Manly ninja gloves for reading and typing in chilly rooms . . .



Finally, a girly fan lace jumper for Spring!



And at last, the traditional granny doily, but this time the fancy lace version, joined together, mysteriously, as only grannies know how to do . . .



And now, for those of you who have read this far, that is, those who have a genuine curiosity about the wonders of crochet, here is the Queen of Roumania, one hundred years ago, on the subject of the ladies' arts of tatting, crochet and knitting, there is much in this subject we have overlooked . . .

By H.M. The Queen of Roumainia



‘Woman’s work’ has become nowadays a word with such a very different meaning than in former days, that one is nearly obliged to explain what one means. When I say woman’s work, I don’t mean man’s work done by women; I don’t mean either the Amazons or the Beehives, as both are unsexed. I mean the work of women who can afford to stay at home, to have ten or twelve children, and be happy in bringing them up to be good, and clever, and useful. For the woman at home this book is written.

The Amazon-woman, the bee-woman, the man-woman need not even open it. But the solitary woman, who has time for reading and thinking – and there are many – may find pleasure in imitating some of our inventions and in adding some inventions in her turn.

To the solitary woman this book does go with the wish to become a companion. Here is pretty work to do during reading – much prettier than knitting. Nowadays work has become a great luxury, as everything useful and necessary is done by machines. Then let the luxury be as beautiful as we can make it. We offer here a kind of lace that long years of constant work have brought us to. It is such quick work – pretty to look at, and ceturies won’t destroy it. It is quick work for clver fingers, just as the lacemaker’s fingers seem to fly, but it takes a great deal of quick working to arrive at making a large piece of lace stuff. But once one is clever enough to read and to work at the same time, it is pleasant indeed.

I have known and loved a solitary woman, Miss Fanny Lavater, who used to embroider, as one did in the last century, in petit-point – scenes that look like water-colour painting. And whilst she did that fairy-work she always had a book open before her that she learnt by heart. It was delicious when she spoke about authors : how she could say by heart what they had written.

Nowadays nobody has time to do that, and learning by heart is disdained. My great-aunt, the Princess Louise of Wied, who never married, and who was the great friend of the Queen Adelaide of England, used to learn by heart every day, in order to keep her memory fresh. She wrote poems in English at the age of eighty-six – one very sweet one, ‘My little room’. I don’t know if the Amazon and bee-ladies would write a poem about their solitary little room nowadays; the silence of it would become oppressive, as they would not hear the voices of their dear ones talking to them, as my aunt used to do. She sometimes talked to them quite loud.

I have often pitied men – in the first place because they can’t know motherhood, in the second, because they are bereft of our greatest comfort – needlework. Our needlework is so much better than their smoking; it is so unobtrusive. Our quiet needle or shuttle, or whateer the instrument may be with which we can produce our modest kind of art, is a true friend, a safe companion, very busy and very discreet. The needle and the shuttle have never betrayed us; the spinning-wheel and the weaving-loom are a little louder, but oh! what a peasant noise! Even knitting and crochet are a comfort, as it occupies the hands when we feel restless.

What a help when in coversation we not wish to contradict; we seem to grow silent over some intricate bit of work, and none can guess the little volcano that is covered with the lava of our work.

Some men don’t like when the ladies work. It is a mistake. Atavistically we can scarcely help ourselves, as our great-great-grandmothers did nothing else. We get into a kind of fever with doing nothing. A very wise country clergyman allowed the women to knit during his sermons; never had a preacher more attentive listeners: not one of them dropped asleep, as overworked women are apt to do when they for once sit down. They grow drowsy and can’t keep their eyes open. Allow them to knit or to tat and they will be able to tell you almost every word they have heard.

How much care and sorrow, how much deep anxiety, what profound sorrow and sadness is put into silent woman’s work. One ought always to look at it with awe and reverence, not only on account of the patience it teaches, but much more for the silently borne pain it has to hide. Many a woman can say: ‘What a blessing that my work cannot speak! It would be very startling if it were to lift its voice and begin to reveal the thoughts under whose wing it was hatched.’

Luxury – perhaps! But so much more comfort than luxury, so much more rest than the harassing fatigue of bread-winning!

Tatting has the charm of lacemaking and weaving combined. It is the same shuttle as in the weaving-loom, only that the loom is our fingers and the shuttle obeys our thoughts and the invention of the moment. The joy when a new stitch is found is very great. I don’t know if Madame Curie felt much happier when she found the Radium! Of course our work is small and modest and will never shake the world. A woman may shake the world once in many centuries, but she can find things in the quiet of her little room that give her complete and intense satisfaction.

Don’t despise our needle and our shuttle, don’t think that our thoughts need be small for all that! The mothers of very great men could only knit or spin. The weaving of Penelope has become symbolical.

I am atavistically mediaeval in my tastes. I love the ‘chatelaine dans son donjon’ looking out over the lands and working with a lot of laughing and singing maidens weaving and embroidering around her. The minstrel must not be wanting, and the solitude need not be oppressive.

Woman is mostly solitary, even in her household, even doing man’s work. Only when she is made into the part of a machine does she stop being a woman.

Is there a prettier picture than a Roumanian peasant girl with her red or orange skirt, a yellow kerchief over her black locks, with dark-fringed large luminous eyes, the green pitcher on her head, walking through the fields and spinning, or the Roumanian woman, draped in the splendid folds of her white or yellow veil, sitting and weaving before her loom?

A woman’s hand is never so graceful as when working some lovely piece of art.

Open our book, dear solitary, lonely, worried or content woman, who is not condemned to earn a hard bread with hard work, and think of the peaceful hours it may bring you, and you will feel that we loved you well in publishing the result of our own loneliness.

Carmen Sylva.

Coming soon: how to make your own thread by using thigh-rolled nettle stalks . . . with or without pain . . .

Candida Is "AIDS" And You Can Die Of It - Or Not - It's Up To You

By Emma Holister

Below is an email I wrote to a friend in which I express my personal views on Candida and modern degenerative diseases.

As for candida . . . candidiasis is generally the underlying cause of most modern chronic and degenerative diseases, and it is only medical industrial propaganda that has trivialised it as a superficial 'infection' and which has prevented most people from looking at it as a root-cause disease rather than as a minor symptom of some other condition, if any at all.

The reason is quite clear; candidiasis is a chronic iatrogenic disease caused by industrial (pharmaceutical and environmental) poisoning, where all of the organs have been knocked out of kilter and the only way to remedy it is via life long, on going work to re-establish some type of balance.

The drug industry are therefore liable and open to lawsuits if ever the alternative and dissident view were to take precedence over the mainstream medical definition of this disease as a (minor) condition of 'something else'.

So, basically, the search for another underlying cause of one's continuing symptoms may be quixotic . . . although, with each individual the candidiasis itself may possibly be relieved by removing some 'underlying cause' of the candida's virulence; for example, many say vitamin B deficiency is one cause of its chronic and continuing spread, others say it's an enzyme problem . . . As for me, I don't know, I'm still searching.

Anyway, as a root-cause disease it can give rise to diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, 'AIDS', Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia. . . you name it, candidiasis can cause it.

The symptoms are massively diverse but usually have an underlying connection to endocrine (hormonal) and blood-sugar imbalance which, in turn, if allowed to continue without remedy, produce by-product toxins in the body that create disease but also addictions and difficult to break habits/vicious circles. In my opinion, this is owing to the ethanol and opiate effect. ["Acetaldehyde - A Common and Potent Neurotoxin" John Cleary]

As you know, so far, the only really helpful remedies I have found are the abstention from blood-sugar and yeast-load aggravators (sugar, alcohol, yeast, dairy, starch, etc.) and to focus on green, chlorophyll-rich foods.

I'm totally convinced that our spiritual practice has a HUGE effect on our immune system but also on our ability to discern what may be causing our particular weaknesses to take hold, whether physical or emotional.

What I and so many people in the natural health and health freedom movement are struggling with is the way in which modern medical science has hobbled people's consciousness when it comes to the perception of disease.

It takes a long time to overcome brainwashing and I'm no exception, having cured myself of a hideous skin disease that was eating away my flesh for the last seventeen years, simply because I realised that despite all my years of fighting that same brainwashing, I had still swallowed hook, line and sinker fundamentally distorted theories on disease. It was within two weeks of rejecting that last vestige of deadly-infectious-disease germ-theory that my skin disease disappeared.

So much of our illness is our body's response to our mind's fundamental belief in the dogma of modern medical science, which is nothing more than witchcraft. If you tell a person they are going to die within the next year, backing that death sentence up with the entire scientific medical elite's immense authority, then that person, in many cases, terrified, convinced, will shrivel away and die in a state of emotional and physical helplessness.

The stress of the deadly-disease diagnosis (and fear of that diagnosis) - the 'you are going to die because of this incurable disease' stigma - is such a deeply traumatising experience that the body literally oozes with adrenalin, cortisone; the worst types of stress-related substances are secreted from the glands as a result of living in mortal fear and submission to an inescapable death sentence.

So fear, powerlessness and ignorance themselves become the cause and propagation of the disease. A person simply cannot be healthy if they believe they are dying of a deadly disease.

Basically, in believing in the deadly virus, the deadly cancer, the deadly 'whatever' in whose grip we are helpless victims, the medical industry not only deals us the first fatal blow to our immune systems but then delivers the final deadly blow with its poisonous and mutilating treatments.

I try to explain to people who see candidiasis as a non-fatal disease that they've got it all wrong.

By trying to get people to see that candida is the cause of most modern degenerative diseases, I am trying to make them realise that there is no 'other more serious cause' behind their symptoms.

They needn't worry about their symptoms being caused by the 'more serious' AIDS because they already have AIDS.

They needn't worry about their illness being caused by the 'more serious' cancer, because they already have cancer.

They already have diabetes, they already have Alzheimer's.

The worst has already happened, the cataclysm and deadly chronic disease is already well installed in their damaged body - the deadly disease is already under way.

But yet they are still alive, their immune system still hanging in there. And what is more surprising is that even with this deadly disease that is crippling them bit by bit, they can, and do, turn in the opposite direction and take a path to health that can literally abolish all symptoms and signs of disease. So finally, the deadly disease is not deadly at all, it never was.

The person who laid the foundation for this incredibly important scientific theory on disease was Bechamp, the man who Pasteur usurped, plagiarised, and whose work he destroyed.

It was a religious issue, not medical. It was all about politics and industrial power over the people, not science.

And we are still dying in droves, ever since history took that fatal turn.

I really do believe that the only way to liberate our bodies from illness is to first liberate our minds from the shackles and lies of the last several hundred years of medical supremacy over the masses. This history goes back to the Middle Ages.

Informative books on the historical and social construction of the medical myth in our psyches are: Ivan Illich's 'Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis'
and 'Confessions of a Medical Heretic' by Robert Mendelsohn

OK, Ivan Illich died of a horrid tumour but then again, he was a very amiable, sociable man who loved to drink wine and eat biscuits with his visitors on a regular basis . . . Modern degenerative diseases increase in proportion to an increase of bodily pollution. It's nothing to do with the germ or genetics or anything mysterious or foreign at all. It's all to do with the terrain.
[Biological Terrain Vs The Germ Theory]

Victorian Sexual Prejudice and Modern Medical Science

Words and Artwork by Emma Holister

Pope Vincent the Stupid is a cartoon character I developed on another art site I have. Although his name derives from the Latin for 'to prevail' or 'to conquer', Vincent is quite the buffoon.



He embodies the victory of Victorian values, Protestant and Catholic united for once on the all-important issue of sexual morality. And ultimately a smooth shift from Roman Catholic values and sexual hang-ups to modern, medical 'Pastoral' science. From the imperialist racism of Victorian prudes, we have progressed to the imperialist racism of the AID$ industry and the germ theory of Pasteur, the 'saint' of modern medical rationale (and lies).

In fact, any historian will tell you that the Victorian obsession with so-called sex-rampant Africans was no more than the projection of Imperial Britain's sexual obsessions and hang-ups onto a convenient 'other'. One they could label inferior, animalistic, more prone to sexual deviance and generally evil behaviour. A significant 'other', most distinguishable from the image of white Pastoral purity represented by the Church. A justification for colonialism indeed; saving souls is a gruelling but necessary mission. And that mission has continued from Bush and Gates to Obama, the white front of pharmaceutical holiness and charity, saving the black man from his social and moral corruption, his deadly sex-problem disease.

Pope Vincent the Stupid is therefore a poorly disguised sexual deviant with a saintly horror of frightening sex germs and a sad inability to look at himself in the mirror.