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What does Whole Foods have in common with Safeway and Walmart groceries?

It sells excitotoxins such as glutamate (MSG, monosodium glutamate) that is hidden using many different ‘trick’ words under ‘ingredients’. “Excitotoxicity is the pathological process by which nerve cells are damaged or killed by excessive stimulation by neurotransmitters such as glutamate…by glutamatergic storm”. (Wikipedia)

Everyone has heard about headaches as a result of ingesting MSG, but it turns out MSG is far more dangerous than just the occasional headache. Glutamate has a central role in obesity, heart disease, cancer, autism, neurodegenerative diseases, infertility, diabetes, depression and other mood & learning disorders—all of which have reached epidemic proportions. This is because the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain is glutamate (in very tiny, precisely controlled amounts!) and pouring large quantities of MSG into the body causes havoc by overwhelming and exciting the nerve cells to death. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lets food companies hide MSG under all sorts of disguised words so most of us are eating this stuff at every meal without being aware of it.

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The Quack who wrote, “The Quack Behind the MSG Scare”

Every age has its minions who try and protect the status quo. And the 21st Century has a lot of status quo that is begging (and paying!) for these minions to arise and act as propagandists and apologists. The article titled “The Quack Behind the MSG Scare is Still Stoking Fear for Profit”, by Ian Birnbaum, is misinformed. The actual quack is the author himself, but of course he doesn’t understand that. The article was published on the theoutline.com which disseminates propaganda beneficial to the food, drug and chemical companies. Continue reading

Wrong answer, try again.

How changing the way tests are given will lead to less stress, more learning and better schools. “Most children speak and understand their mother tongue before the age of four without lessons, homework or much in the way of feedback. How do they accomplish this remarkable feat”? (from the movie, Still Alice) Scientists are still […] Continue reading

Comedy, Cocaine and Cable TV

by Robbie Jones Saturday Night Live  producer Marci Klein SNL Sara Seth glanced up at the marquee on west 68th from the inside of the Hilton Hotel. 10 minutes to show time! Famous comedian famous comedian am I said she to the empty  bar. She watched as the stepladder was placed in front of the […] Continue reading

A Barefoot Rhapsody

A BAREFOOT RHAPSODY by Jon The Barefoot Pilgrim Dedicated to all female barefooters who can identify with it. It’s a hot summer afternoon in Oxford, the temperature has reached 91 degrees which makes it the hottest day of the year so far. You emerge in the distance from the far side of Radcliffe Square cutting […] Continue reading

Off the Grid in the Natural State

“To properly understand political power and trace its origins, we must consider the state that all people are in naturally. That is a state of perfect freedom of acting and disposing of their own possessions and persons as they think fit within the bounds of the law of nature. People in this state do not have to […] Continue reading

Napalm: Not Your Ordinary Jelly

by Harrell Graham The 60’s burned certain images into our consciousness. One of them is what napalm does to human skin. Napalm: I bet the current generation doesn’t even know what this stuff is: gasoline mixed with petroleum jelly so that when it is dropped on you, burning, it sticks, all gooey-like—burning, with no way […] Continue reading

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Harrell Graham The sheer magnitude of the isolation of suburbia and the nuclear family—rows upon rows of cookie-cutter homes housing families uprooted from the extended families and close knit communities of not so long ago. Not so long ago you could walk outside your home and see your […] Continue reading

War on Terror is Very Big Business

So what is it about the ‘war on terror’—a phrase just as idiotic as the ‘war on drugs’—what is it about our newfound war that has a funny smell to it? It is this: history proves that when great powers employ the murderous, illegal tactics of the terrorists that those great powers eventually lose legitimacy […] Continue reading