Still Have Your Microwave Oven ?

We've known for over fifteen years that microwave cooking isn't all that safe, yet people are still using that method.  My sixty years of experience in the Electronic Community revealed to me the dangers of Electromotive Force ( EMF ) and Radio (Electromagnetic Wave) Frequencies (RF )  Also known as Electromagnetic Field .
I do not own a microwave oven, nor do I talk over two minutes per week on a cellular phone.  There is no escaping the electric radiation forces that we are exposed to unless you want to live in a Faraday Cage, but you can limit them.
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The Hidden Dangers of Microwave Cooking
by Anthony Wayne and Lawrence Newell

Is it possible that millions of people are ignorantly sacrificing their health in exchange for the convenience of microwave ovens? Why did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? Who invented microwave ovens, and why? The answers to these questions may shock you into throwing your microwave oven in the trash.

Over 90% of American homes have microwave ovens used for meal preparation. Because microwave ovens are so convenient and energy efficient, as compared to conventional ovens, very few homes or restaurants are without them. In general, people believe that whatever a microwave oven does to foods cooked in it doesn't have any negative effect on either the food or them.

Of course, if microwave ovens were really harmful, our government would never allow them on the market, would they? Would they? Regardless of what has been "officially" released concerning microwave ovens, we have personally stopped using ours based on the research facts outlined in this article.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=104;t=000239;p=0
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Why cooking with a microwave destroys cancer-fighting nutrients in food and promotes nutritional deficiencies
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/039404_microwave_ovens_vitamins_nutrients.html#ixzz2NuswkdFZ
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Message Thread discussing this. Decide for yourselves.
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=5443

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave

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Electromagnetic Fields
Created by cell phones, power lines, computers and microwaves, as well as other electronic and magnetic devices, EMFs wreck havoc on the body. These fields induce brain fog, forgetfulness, anxiety, depression and chronic fatigue in those who are sensitive. The following three common appliances emit strong electromagnetic radiation and cause a variety of health disorders:
http://www.naturalnews.com/023078_EMF_EMFs_power.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/038671_electromagnetic_radiation_protection_EMFs.html

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Like one of the people in the forum stated, "My brain hurts." I'm going to leave it at that. There are some inconsistancies and inaccuracies in the original story. Some of it sounds like mumbo-jumbo to the untrained, but some of it makes sense. Still more research to do. I'll be back.
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And from Adult Land > This Forum
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25 disturbing facts about psych drugs, soldiers and suicides

(NaturalNews) We are living in an age of upside-downs, where  right is wrong, fiction is truth and war is peace. Those who fight the  wars are subjected to their own house of mirrors via pharmaceutical "treatments." Instead of providing U.S. soldiers and veterans with actual health care, the government throws pills at them and calls it  "therapyStimulants, antidepressants, anti-psychotics, sedatives and pain meds are the new "fuel" for America's front-line forces. While  the idea of sending medicated soldiers into battle was unthinkable  just three decades ago, today it's the status quo. And the cost in  human lives has never been more tragic. Here are 25 disturbing facts about psych drugs, soldiers and suicides. They are disturbing because everybody seems to be pretending there  is no link between psychiatric drugs and soldier suicides. So soldiers  and veterans keep dying while the Pentagon (and the VA) keep  pretending they don't know why. (Sources are listed at the bottom of  this article.) 1) 33% of the U.S. Army is on prescription medications, and nearly  a quarter of those are on psychotropic drugs 2) In 2010, the Pentagon spent $280 million on psychiatric drugs.  That number has since risen. 3) There are now over 8,000 suicides each year by U.S. soldiers and  veterans; that's over 22 a day 4) 33% of those suicides are attributed to medication side effects 5) That means medications are killing more U.S. soldiers and veterans than Al-Qaeda 6) 500% more soldiers abuse prescription drugs than illegal street  drugs 7) Under the Obama administration, the number of veterans waiting  for VA care has risen from 11,000 in 2009 to 245,000 today 8) More active duty soldiers die from suicide than from combat: 349  dead last year 9) The number of prescriptions for Ritalin and Adderall written for  active-duty soldiers has increased 1,000% in the last five years 10) For every active-duty service member who dies in battle, 25  veterans die by suicide 11) Only 1 percent of Americans have served in the Middle East, but  veterans of combat there make up 20% of all suicides in the United  States 12) The suicide rate of active-duty soldiers in the Civil War was only 9 - 15 per 100,000 soldiers. The suicide rate of active-duty U.S.  soldiers in the Middle East is 23 per 100,000. And casualty rates were far higher in the Civil War, meaning the Civil War was more psychologically traumatic. 13) In the Korean War, the suicide rate among active-duty military  soldiers was only 11 per 100,000 14) To date, the Pentagon has spent more than a billion dollars on  psychiatric drugs, making it one of the largest customers of Big  Pharma 15) In 2010, over 213,000 active-duty military personnel were taking  medications considered "high risk" by the Pentagon 16) In the years since the Iraq War began, twice as many soldiers of  the Texas Army National Guard have died of suicide than in combat 17) Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls military suicides an "epidemic" 18) Of all the branches of the military, the Army has the highest  number of suicides each year, almost 400% more than the Marines 19) Most active-duty soldiers who take psychiatric medications  consume a combination of three to five prescriptions 20) The use of prescription medications by active-duty soldiers is  largely unregulated. Soldiers are given a bottle of meds and sent  into combat. If they run out of meds, they are given a refill, no  questions asked. 21) The mainstream media says the answer to lowing suicides of  veterans is to take away their guns so that they cannot shoot   themselves. This is the logical equivalent to trying to fix your car's   engine by removing the "check engine" light. 22) The Pentagon is initiating new research (in 2013) to try to figure  out why psychiatric medications cause soldiers to commit suicide.  The research involves tracking brain activity by attaching electrodes  to the skull. 23) One-third of military suicides are committed by soldiers who  have never seen combat 24) In the last year, the military wrote over 54,000 prescriptions for  Seroquel to soldiers, and all those prescriptions were "off label,"  meaning the intended use has never been approved by the FDA as  safe or effective. 25) Dr. Bart Billings, a retired Army Colonel and former military  psychologist, refers to psychiatric drugs as a "chemical lobotomy"  for soldiers. Sources for this article (in order of appearance) http://www.naturalnews.com/Infographic-Epidemic-Psychiatric-Drugging-... http://www.toxicpsychiatry.com/storage/Military%20why%20are%20we%20dr... http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/11/ap-military-suicides-out-of-con... http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/in-this-issue-the-militarys-billi... http://www.armytimes.com/news/2013/03/ap-report-says-suicide-danger-t... http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/02/17148761-why-modern-soldie... http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57563857/u.s-military-suicides-ex... http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2004/01/29/Army-wo... http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/s... http://www.prweb.com/releases/psychiatricdrugssuicide/10/prweb1000132... http://hamptonroads.com/2010/06/doctor-veterans-get-hooked-not-healed-va-hospital http://hamptonroads.com/2010/12/family-angered-marines-overdose-death-naval-hospital

Nobody Is Above the Law.

"If you're caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you're going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night...I think that's fundamentally wrong."  ~ Senator Elizabeth Warren - U.S. Senator from Massachusettes
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/elizabeth-warren-comes-out-swinging-banks-regulators.php
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HSBC to pay $1.9 billion U.S. fine in money-laundering case
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/11/us-hsbc-probe-idUSBRE8BA05M20121211
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"I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy. And I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large." ~ Attorney General Eric Holder.
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Not one of the Wall Street crooks who drove our economy off a cliff has gone to jail. And now we know why.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/jail_bankers/index_split_name.html?r_by=56093-1329289-LmbDLex&rc=mailto-n1
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All Of The Sudden, Bashing Wall Street Is Becoming A Hot Bipartisan Pastime In Washington

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-holder-wall-street-too-big-to-jail-2013-3#ixzz2NjLn28qF
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How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it
 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214#ixzz2NjMTA0gK

Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214
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And the unions are waiting in line, too.  It's payback time.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/31/barack-obama-i-owe-those-unions/

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The Cost of the Royal Family

With most Americans struggling in this weak economy, many without employment, this is immoral.

The Cost of the Royal Family

What can you buy for $1.4 BILLION a year?

You can buy the most luxurious and costly royal presidency in history. Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks. In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family.

Author Robert Keith Gray writes in "Presidential Perks Gone Royal" that Obama isn't the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.

Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 BILLION spent on the Obama family last year is the "total cost of the presidency" factoring the cost of the "biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever," a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One "running with the frequency of a scheduled airline."

Perspective: $1.4 BILLION is equal to spending seven times Mitt Romney's entire net-worth every year. If Romney had to pay for Barack and Michelle's lifestyle this year, he would have been bankrupted by the third week in February.

Now, can we please get back to talking about the evil, freeloading rich, "who didn't build that?"

 

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President's family costs US 20 times what royal family costs UK

9/30/2012

U.K. newspapers are having a little chuckle about a new book reporting that Obama's family cost U.S. taxpayers $1.4 billion last year alone, whereas the royal family cost the U.K. a measly $57.8 million – more than 20 times less than the First Family. Obama's expenditures include the salaries of his staff and Secret Service, as well as the maintenance of Air Force One, which he's required to take (and has been using increasingly in this election year). The comparison is being emphasized to advertise "non-partisan" author Robert Gray's book "Presidential Perks Gone Royal." Still, before you get too hot under the collar, if you estimate the current number of taxpayers in the U.S. at around 216 million, that's roughly $6.48 per taxpayer.

 

http://now.msn.com/president-obamas-family-costs-the-us-20-times-what-royal-family-costs-the-uk

 

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/26/taxpayers-spent-1-4-billion-on-obama-family-last-year-perks-questioned-in-new-book/

 

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Big-spending Obamas cost 23 times more than British royal family

 

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/03/12/big-spending-obamas-cost-23-times-more-than-british-royal-family-55129

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Media scrubs Malia Obama vacation story.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/03/media-scrubs-malia-obamamexico-story-117970.html

 

The AFP, the Huffington Post and other websites have scrubbed a report about first daughter Malia Obama's school trip.

 

Snopes

 

Had to look it up on a Spanish website > http://www.elmundo.es/america/2012/03/20/mexico/1332271085.html

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"Neither President Obama nor first lady Michelle appear to give a damn about perception. They won the White House and, by God, they’re going to enjoy their time there, no matter the cost. And who cares what you think, anyway?"

CURL: The Obamas live the 1 percent life

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/31/curl-the-obamas-live-the-1-percent-life/

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Sad State of Affairs

I'll have to title this post later, as I just don't know how to put a name on it.

This goes way back so far, that I don't know where to begin. If time and resources permit, I'll try to pick a starting point without telling the whole history of Portsmouth and how it became what it is today.
This is just the latest in the saga from the article in the Virginian-Pilot Newspaper (Pilot-on-Line) on the recent City Council meeting.
Tempers Flare Portsmouth As Council Delays Hirings

"Portsmouth's City Council should hire the most qualified candidate to be our permanent City Manager, not let the decision be influenced by special interest groups. I fully support a transparent and equitable application process and look forward to ensuring no outside organizations attempt to illegally influence City Council."  ~ Danny Meeks

"For too long, special interest groups have sought to control Portsmouth through its City Council. I am determined to stop these lobbying efforts so Portsmouth's City Council can make unbiased decisions that benefit all our citizens." Honorable Danny Meeks, City Councilman, Portsmouth, Virginia

 ( Danny Meeks is a member of the Portsmouth City Council, receiving over 23% of the total vote count in the 2012 election cycle.)

It's no secret what has been going on in Portsmouth for years. Ask anybody in the city, the region or the State, for that matter. It has lived up to its reputation. There are a few good citizens who have tried to preserve the quaint uniqueness of my Hometown, and have put everything they have into public service, but it's been a hard row to plow.

I'll be updating this post until they carry me away. Anything you can add will be appreciated. No personal attacks, please. We'll know who you are referring to by the content of your post.

Links to Older News Articles >
http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2013/02/portsmouth-manager-attorney-jobs-suddenly-uncertain
Portsmouth manager, attorney jobs suddenly uncertain (?)

http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2013/02/sirens-norfolk-portsmouth-part-shipyard-drill#comments
This has nothing to do with the general situation except that it just shows how inept our "Powers Who Think They Are" operate. It would have been nice to alert the public in advance. "There is no actual emergency," spokesman Jeffrey Cunningham said. "It's just routine training that we are conducting."

This was not a regular "Drill" as they said. It's the sign of bigger things in the mix. Who are the stoopid ones here? Us for believing it, or them for thinking that we do? Wake up, America.

 http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2013/02/shuttered-ccdi-will-cost-portsmouth-more
A shuttered nonprofit that has cost the city $569,000 since November 2011 will end up costing it even more.

http://hamptonroads.com/2013/02/portsmouth-weighs-tighter-leash-school-funding
Portsmouth weighs tighter leash on school funding. See below.

http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2013/01/source-grand-jury-investigating-portsmouth-surplus
Is ANYBODY paying attention ?  $52 million ? Pocket change.

Is it any wonder ?
http://www.portsmouthcitywatch.org/videos/
Portsmouth City Council Meeting Deleted Scenes
By direction of the Portsmouth City Council, effective January 8, 2013, the Non-Agenda Speakers portion of regular meetings is no longer televised on PCTV nor available for viewing at the city website and on the YouTube “Portsmouth VA” channel. As a public service, PortsmouthCityWatch.org is recording this important portion of our community conversation and intends to continue doing so until council rescinds its censorship policy. To date only Council Members William Moody and Elizabeth Psimas have expressed support in public for resuming the televising/webcasting of council proceedings in their entirety.

The Keystone XL Pipeline

Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline ?

http://keystone-xl.com/

http://www.nycga.net/events/forward-on-climate-rally-in-d-c/

A project of 350.org, The Sierra Club and the Hip-Hop Caucus.

http://www.nrdc.org/energy/keystone-pipeline/?gclid=CMqoweiJvrUCFel7QgodfSQAMA

The Shooter

Recent articles of the Bin Laden shooter and follow-ups.

"The Shooter will discover soon enough that when he leaves after sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis, tendonitis, eye damage, and blown disks, here is what he gets from his employer and a grateful nation:
"Nothing. No pension, no health care, and no protection for himself or his family."
~ Phil Bronstein, the former editor of The San Francisco Chronicle and now the executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting, is previewing a profile of the man he says is the Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden.


http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc-hardball_with_chris_matthews#50775369

http://news.yahoo.com/actually-man-shot-bin-laden-free-health-care-135000508.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/02/11/171708839/esquire-magazine-bin-laden-shooter-on-his-own-no-pension-no-healthcare

http://www.stripes.com/blogs/the-ruptured-duck/the-ruptured-duck-1.160117/esquire-article-wrongly-claims-seal-who-killed-bin-laden-is-denied-healthcare-1.207506

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2013/02/gannett-esquire-story-uncertain-future-navy-sealteam-six-member-osama-bin-laden-shooter-021113/