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This is a cool video on how to turn your parked car into a solar panel. Very good information.

In case you have not seen this report in your email yet, let me share what I know with you about this information.

I’ve heard several news reports that have safety concerns about the Swine-flu vaccine. The report below describes these concerns.

Because of questions about vaccinations and children resulting in autism (unsubstaniated they claim but with a lot of proof that it’s true) - one in every 150 children have autism – I think we should not be too quick in getting our own children vaccinated. We should, at the very least, consider the points made in this report first.

My philosophy is that “haste often makes waste”. In this case, I wonder if hast has caused vaccine manufacturers to over-look some of their concerns because they fear a pandemic. (Be sure to watch the video I’ve posted below for you about this flu. Then you decide on vaccinating your family or not.

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This report comes straight from my email as is except I added the bolded parts.

By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer Maria Cheng, Ap Medical Writer – 6 mins ago.

LONDON – In a drive to inoculate people against swine flu before winter, many European governments say they will fast-track the testing of a new flu vaccine, arousing concern among some experts about safety issues and proper vaccine doses.

The European Medicines Agency, the EU’s top drug regulatory body, is accelerating the approval process for swine flu vaccine, and countries such as Britain, Greece, France and Sweden say they’ll start using the vaccine after it’s greenlighted — possibly within weeks.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization’s flu chief, warned about the potential dangers of untested vaccines, although he stopped short of criticizing Europe’s approach outright.

“One of the things which cannot be compromised is the safety of vaccines,” he said Friday. “There are certain areas where you can make economies, perhaps, but certain areas where you simply do not try to make any economies.”

Flu vaccines have been used for 40 years, and many experts say extensive testing is unnecessary, since the swine flu vaccine will simply contain a new ingredient: the swine flu virus.

But European officials won’t know if the new vaccine causes any rare side effects until millions of people get the shots. Still, they say the benefit of saving lives is worth the gamble.

“Everybody is doing the best they can in a situation which is far from ideal,” said Martin Harvey-Allchurch, a spokesman for the European Medicines Agency. “With the winter flu season approaching, we need to make sure the vaccine is available.”

In Europe, flu vaccines are usually tested on hundreds of people for several weeks or months, to ensure the immune system produces enough antibodies to fight the infection.

But to ensure swine flu vaccine is available as soon as possible, the European Medicines Agency is allowing companies to skip testing in large numbers of people before the vaccine is approved.

The main issue is probably that without thorough testing it’s difficult to gauge the effective dosage — meaning Europeans might get too weak a vaccine. It’s unlikely the vaccine would endanger anyone, but until it is used in large numbers of people, no one will know for sure.

Europeans appear ready to use the vaccine widely before conducting any big studies to prove it is safe and effective. Neither the vaccine makers nor the European Medicines Agency would specify what basic safety tests are being done.

The U.S. is taking a more cautious approach: the government called Wednesday for several thousand volunteers to be injected with the swine flu vaccine in tests beginning in August to assess the vaccine’s safety. American officials said results should be ready by the time the U.S. plans to roll out a vaccination campaign in October.

Results from the U.S. tests will be of limited use to Europe, since countries like Britain plan to start vaccinating as early as August — before any American trial data is available. The vaccines used in the U.S. will also be different from those in Europe.

Some experts favor urgent action.

“The consequences of not having a vaccine if this virus gets worse are very high,” said Leonard Marcus, a public health expert at Harvard University. “If (regulatory authorities) took all the time that was necessary to make sure there are no side effects, ironically, in the effort to save a few lives, many lives could be lost.”

But critics say dangers lurk in any strategy to vaccinate without robust testing.

Scant information exists on flu vaccines with adjuvants, a component used to stretch the active ingredient that is commonly found in European flu vaccines. There are no licensed flu vaccines with the ingredient in the U.S.

There is also limited or no data on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines with adjuvants in children under 3 and pregnant women — two of the most vulnerable groups in a pandemic — a global outbreak.

Mass swine flu vaccination campaigns will also take place in the shadow of the 1976 swine flu disaster, when hundreds of people in the U.S. developed Guillain-Barre syndrome, a paralyzing disorder, after being vaccinated.

Experts don’t know why that happened, but say modern vaccine production techniques have improved since 1976. To avoid a similar episode, some say comprehensive testing before the vaccine is rolled out is essential.

“I can’t see any possible excuse to not test it for safety before it’s given to anyone,” said George Annas, a bioethics expert at Boston University.

If the vaccine turns out to have dangerous side effects, it could generate a public backlash, particularly in a country like Britain, where many people remain suspicious of vaccines because of unsubstantiated allegations linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism. That could lead to millions of people refusing vaccination.

When the bird flu crisis hit several years ago, the European Medicines Agency designed a special protocol to approve a vaccine for use in a pandemic as soon as possible.

The agency let companies submit data for a “mock-up” vaccine, using H5N1 bird flu. The idea was to do most of the testing before the global epidemic hit so when it did, drugmakers could insert the pandemic virus into the vaccine at the last minute.

When the first swine flu vaccine doses are ready, the European Medicines Agency will approve them largely based on data from the bird flu vaccine, since both will have the same basic ingredients.

If the agency thinks the bird flu data predicts how the swine flu virus will work, they will approve it, said spokesman Harvey-Allchurch.

The agency will then require regular reporting of the vaccine’s effects as it is being administered — monitoring that is normally done beforehand.

WHO’s Fukuda said everyone involved in making the vaccine, from manufacturers to regulatory agencies, is looking at what steps can be taken to streamline the process.

“But there is no one who disagrees that one of the absolutes is that there can’t be any question whether the vaccine is safe or not,” he said.

WHO reported that the swine flu viruses aren’t producing enough of a key vaccine ingredient, which may limit how much vaccine is available. Its laboratory network is now working to produce a new set of viruses that it hopes will work better.

Drugmakers including Baxter International, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Novartis and Sanofi-Pasteur, however, insist they will be able to start shipping the first batches of vaccine soon.

British health officials have repeatedly said they will start vaccinating in August, as soon as the vaccine is approved. Other European countries, including Greece, France, Sweden, say they will use the vaccine after it gets the green light from the European agency, but none other than Britain expect to start the shots next month.

The scare is not over about this disease and we still need to know more about it. Some people chalk this up to over played by the media. Others have become paranoid about it. The best thing to do in this situation is to know the facts and know how to protect yourself. I admit that a thought crossed my mind about this disease as I recently sat in an airplane and breathed the recirculated air in the cabin.

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Watching this video helps us understand why we need a supplement to provide the body this vital nutrient. Normally, I am not in the habit of advising a specific supplement on this website, so I will simply give you the information you need and then let you decide what you want to do with it.

Doctor Mercola say this about the supplement CoQ10. It is very informative.

Doctor Mercola also has this to say about the need for CoQ10.

You probably know that I normally don’t promote many supplements. I believe supplements should complement your healthy diet and never serve as a replacement.

There’s simply no substitute for eating healthy unprocessed whole foods.

However, there are a few supplements I consider highly beneficial for nearly all adults. One of these is Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10).

I believe one of the key elements in the aging process is free radical production. These free radicals are oxygen atoms deficient in electrons that become highly reactive. This in turn causes potential damage to your tissues and DNA.

Now, if you’re less than 25 years old, this is not an issue — your body is capable of converting Co Q10 from the oxidized to the reduced form. However, if you’re older, your body becomes more and more challenged to convert the oxidized Co Q10 to ubiquinol.

Another very important reason for using a Co Q10 supplement is to help boost your body’s cellular energy production.

So even if you do your best to eat wholesome unprocessed foods, your body’s capability to produce Co Q10 and convert it to ubiquinol declines over time.*

Critical Co Q 10 levels decline as you age. So I believe this is a must-have supplement!

Although Dr. Mercola advertises products on his site at Mercola.com, I would like you to check out his web page to learn more about this nuturient and about health issues in general. You might want to subscribe to his newsletter also, as I do, to be kept informed about important health issues that you need to know.

You may use this link as well to check out the Q10 supplement that I use.  Of course, since I’ve been using it for years, I am partial to this product over the others. You can find cheaper products in stores like WalMart and GNC, so make your own choice on what you want to use. The important thing is to recognize however, is your need to supplement or not to. If you need to supplement, then purchase the supplement and get started on taking it.

Sometimes, we make the decision to do something but then we get involved in life and forget about it.  I hope you put this supplement on the top of your priority list and not procratinate so that you end up forgetting about it.

Thank you for your patronage.  I appreciate you stopping by to read my reports.  I just hope you find them useful in making decisions about your health.

I am betting you didn’t know a thing about this.  I strongly suggest you read this report and do some heavy-duty thinking after to read it. Then I hope you write me a note to me and tell me what you think about it.  Be honest,  if you think I am full of baloney then tell me so.

http://ourdaysreports.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/get-ready-for-a-shocker/

After you have watched the videos, you will understand a lot more about why we have so much spending going on in Washington right now that creates more debt!

You will see why Congress is so anxious to spend and spend and spend and spend!  Who are the elite?  They are! and so are the bankers! Those  in Washington are the ones who control our economy…Congress, law makers, President, and so on and so on.

So what do we do now?  Where do we go from here?  First of all, the current system HAS TO CHANGE so we need to insist on it!

We have to elect a President and people for Congress that understand these principles as discussed in the videos.

Now you can say what you want about Democrats and Republicans, who you think is best and who is not, but the bottom line here is that ALL OF GOVERNMENT SINCE WOODROW WILSON has contributed to the problem (except for Adams I think, who tried to establish our own money so we would not be in debt to England’s banks).

The person we need to elect for president may very well be Mitt Romney.  He understands the system and how to fix it. He has experience in fixing such problems with entities of every kind…why not government?

Now my question is this: “Can weafford to wait another 6 months, a year, or a full term with the current president and existing Congress?  Can we allow any more Democrats spending “make believe” money like they are now?  Perhaps the reason they spend this way is to create more debt in order to smooth out the economy?  If that’s true, did you take note in the video of what will happen to our spending power then?  And then we add to the mix, higher and higher taxes. Yes, that willreally fix it won’t it?

I would love to hear from you about your thoughts on this and what you think we should do.  People cannot afford to stay asleep once they’ve seen these videos and they can no longer say they don’t know better. Once we know better we have to do better. That means we HAVE TO get involved because we have a stake in this, forced on us by the government. We have to take action.  If not, we add to the problem and the elitists continue to grow fatter and greedier as we grow poorer and poorer and our families grow more and more dependent on the system.

I can’t morally stay quiet about this any more. I have to speak up, and so do you now.

I came across this link today and enjoyed the message.  I thought that, perhaps, you might enjoy it too. I think it makes the point clearly that our priorities are out of wack if we don’t have our spiritual side in a healthy condition.

I think this link makes it clear what a healthy condition includes.

Click on this link http://www.nixthenews.com/WisdomSpeaksOut.htm

REPORT FROM NEWSMAX.COM

Poll: 86 Percent of U.S. Wants Abortion Restrictions

Friday, July 10, 2009 1:45 PM

The American people continue to move to the pro-life perspective on abortion according to the latest Moral Compass survey by the Knights of Columbus and Marist Poll.

The poll mirrored findings of other recent surveys, showing that more Americans identify as pro-life than as pro-choice, and that the vast majority of Americans favor restricting abortion.

Among the key findings:

86% of Americans would significantly restrict abortion.
60% of Americans would limit abortion to cases of rape, incest or to save the life of a mother – or would not allow it at all.
53% of Americans believe abortion does more harm than good to a woman in the long term.
79% of Americans support conscience exemptions on abortion for health care workers. This includes 64% of those who identify as strongly pro-choice.
69% of Americans think that it is appropriate for religious leaders to speak out on abortion.
59% say religious leaders have a key role to play in the abortion debate.
80% of Americans believe that laws can protect both the health of the woman and the life of the unborn. This includes 68% of those who identified as strongly pro-choice.
Additionally, the data showed that since October nearly every demographic sub-group had moved toward the pro-life position except for non-practicing Catholics and men under 45 years of age.

Independents and liberals showed the greatest shift to the pro-life position since October, while Democrats were slightly less likely to be pro-life now than they were in October.

So, does this mean that the American people are finally placing more value on human life? It appears to be that they are seeing the problem with abortion and the toll it has on women who have them.

It seems that most Americans are unhappy with the unrestricted access to abortion availlable today (that is the legacy of Roe vs. Wade).  Does this also mean that our elected leaders should take note of the facts reported in this poll? Should they agree that abortion needs to be carefully considered before it is used for birth control or career advantages?  Abortion verses adoption is hardly a consideration anymore.  The proof is found in the small amount of babies available for adoption inside of America today.

NewsMax continues, “The American people have reached a basic consensus, and that consensus is at odds with the unrestricted access to abortion that is the legacy of Roe.”

The survey of 1,223 Americans was conducted May 28 – 31 and has a margin of error of +/-3%.

© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Do we offer up our unborn children as a sacrafice to the god of lust and pleasure, to the god of career opportunities, and to the god of vanity and selfishness?  It is something to consider in this day and age, don’t you think?  Are we not like the people in bible times who sacraficed their young as appeasement to the gods?

IN CASE YOU ARE INTERESTED IN MORE OF THE TRUTH ABOUT ABORTION AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD, PLEASE USE THIS LINK TO TREASUREBOXREPORTS.

After you watch these videos, I would be very interested in your thoughts. Do you think their concern is a radical point of view? Do you think the conditions described are not possible? Do you think the people in the videos are over-reacting? Do you have any concerns? Have you had a change in thining now, because of what you’ve seen on these video?

Well, the “proof is in the pudding” is what I have to say on this subject. When you look at the economy and see what is going on in Washington, how can we not see the future right now?  Government is trying to own everything. . . I mean control everything, even our ability to grow food.  Don’t believe me?  Well see for yourself when you see these videos! Also, go to Peoplesweekly.wordpress.com for more information, and also go to the following link!  http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1566685/food_safety_modernization_act_hr_875_pg2.html?cat=9

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Many of our youth are good kids and have done a lot to show us they are ready to be our next generation of leaders. They show us that they are ready to be responsible citizens and parents. They show us that they have moral integrity and firm standards. These young people make us feel proud to have been part of their lives and excited about what they will contribute to our future.

Then there are youth we would rather not mention. Unfortunately, we tend to put all the kids of today in the same category as those who disrupt society. We blame them for their peer’s unruliness, their disrespect of parents, their disrespect of country and government, and their disrespect of authority in general.

In other words, we may blame kids of today for the movies they watch and the music they play, which is all about sex and violence or disrespect for parents and the law. We may blame them for their laziness and irresponsible attitude. We may go so far as to say that they have no goals, no responsible bone in their bodies, and they seem to have no reason to be otherwise.

The list could go on and on but the point is made that we often blame our youth for being a disastrous generation these days, right? But tell me, how did they get that way? Did we as their parents have anything to do with this? Did we as peers have anything to do with how our friends felt they needed to be when they were around us? Did we as role models have anything to do with how they interpret adulthood? I suspect the answer is yes to almost every one of these questions… I am sure that we each had a lot to do with the situation with our kids today.

I realize that you may say you did everything you could to be a good parent, and I suspect you might be right and that you were a good parent, but the influences around children now is so strong that it’s just too great for many of our kids to resist! On the other hand, I also suspect that there was something more we could have done that we did not do but should have – either because we didn’t know better or because both parents had to work outside the home and so we were not there to oversee our kids activities.

Believe me when I say that I am the last one to point fingers at parents who could have done better. I was a working mom as some of you are, and so I wasn’t home when my children came home from school. This means I wasn’t there to hear the phone conversations I should have heard or to see the visitors I should have seen come to our house but I wasn’t home.

If we are not home when our children come home from school, who will stop them from getting into trouble? Who will be there to give the support children need as teenagers growing up in a crazy world? I know it is difficult for parents today, and I really do understand the predicaments this situation creates for parents. I am not putting down parents who have to work, I am merely stating the obvious. Someone needs to ask the hard questions: such as “What can you do to help your children in the situations just described?”

Although our own children may have turned out to be pretty good teens, I am sure many of you know that there is usually one who chooses a different path than the others. We can try until we’re blue in the face . . .<<MORE>>

Teens face issues today that have never been asked of them before. We live in challenging times and since our future depends of the youth today, more is at stake than ever before. Parents are more involved in staying alive financially so both parents must work, which leaves our teens exposed to face the world alone.

Teens need someone to listen to them, someone to tell them they are special, and someone to tell them they have the power in their hands to change our future. They need to understand that power and commit to being the type of person our future needs – such as we see demonstrated in this video.

If you are a teen and feel overwhelmed by all this, if you need to talk, I am there for you. I’ve taught 14 to 18 year olds in church for over six years and so I relate well to teens. My heart goes out to them and I listen to them without judgment. Call me at 903-891-0286.