GRITtv with Laura Flanders

It is awesome that you have targeted cancer and the many forms of it, especially the pediatric side, for coverage. The pieces on lymphoma cancer and pediatric cancers were very well done and more then informative. I do wonder if you had thought about doing something on proton therapy. It is now considered an alternative to IMRT and not a lot of people are aware of it. Just an idea.

From all of the millions or billions of words spoken daily over radio, TV and among the news. Not one mention has ever been made of the reeal violent culprits who really make your life miserable and control your life, not in the shadows but silenced in the America main stream media. Millions of our young boys have died over the two hundred years of this land. United States was a Democratic for only a few years out of the 233 years of its existence. Every war has been fought to appease this close knit family and they have been guilty of every war since 1776. The war of 1812 was fought to ruin America. America had refused to renew the twenty year charter and that made the bankers mad and they tried to assasinate Andrew Jackson... They were successful in assasinating Abraham Lincoln And the story goes on and on to the present day. Go to You Tube and type in The Rothschilds and find all the information about this family. Also listen to the present Evelyn de Rothschild as he rules the British Empire or what is left to it. Learn how it is the plans of this family to dominate the world. They have been intermarrying for two hundred years to maintain a pure bloodline. They are nuts but very vicious and life for common people mean nothing to them. They are so powerful and dominate every cell of our bodies in America and in fact the world. You think Hitler (For those who remember World War Two) and the Nazi,s were evil, well George Bush's Grandfather helped to bring Hitler to power and even supported Hitler while our young boys were being mslaughtered and all for profit. This same family financed Hitler and England and The USA, yet they are able to remain a shadow family worth more than $500,000, 000,000,000. Today they make over $150,000,000,000 a year just because through sheer trickery they had the US Government agree to let these bandits operate our banking system and create all of these wars.The War of 1812, WWI, WWII, Korea, VietNam. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya. and all for big profit and financial power and with this power they have bought our government out body and soul. Read this history at: http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith-Rothschild.htm To bring peace to the world would require all Americans to standup and be counted for our numbers are too large and they cannot withstand this kind of power, That is the reqason for their furure plans to reduce our numbers to a world wide population of 500,000,000. There are 800 military bases througout this world paid for by the American peoples and owned by the family. We are total puppets to this family. When was the last time the America people were counted as part of the Democratic Republic of USA? These bases are not to protect Americans, rather to control the world and ultimmately the AMerican people through slavery and our Constitution will be absolutely worthless and when the American peoploe wake up to the facts of life, just maybe these parasies will be brought down and placed in real concentration camps. Instead of Bradley Manning.

Laura, It is a pleasure to hear you speak tonight of what we should be doing to get our country turned around and "on the road again." I propose a body of women banned together to fight for what our country and its young and old need. It seems there are things which should be happening, which our President and Congressmen know about but they are not acting on it. Only women behind the men can make things happen! Otherwise, the men just stew and stew and stew and time goes by and nothing happens. With your as our "grit" as our leader, surely us girls could start a web campaign that is coordinated, in-tune, and on top of things and which pushes the men into doing what they know needs doing, but which, if we don't act. is not going to get done. I will join you. I can write, I am educated, and eager to be a part of such a movement. Nancy Burns email: nburns2009@gmail.com

STOP COMPROMISING, DON'T TAKE IT AGAIN! The Democrats continue to violate their voting base because we TAKE it! How many times have we been told We have to take it, WE have to Compromise because the alternative is worse. And We have to reelect them so they can do it to us again because the alternative is worse!

HOW is the alternative worse? $700 Billion dollars in Welfare to Bankers and Billionaires and now a Tax giveaway extension and an Inheritence tax gift on top of all the special writeoffs and exemptions the billionaires bribed congress into inserting in the Tax Code. Extending the Patriot Act! Increase Illegal warrantless wire tapping, Too Big to Fail, Continued and extended indefinately the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (yes were still at war in Iraq, don't buy the B.S.), Kept Guantanimo Bay open, etc. etc. etc. all from our protectors the Democrats! With a majority in both houses and the White House we have to Compromise?

The Republicans did not compromise the entire 8 years of the Bush Administration while the Democrats rolled over and and helped send us into 2 unethical, illegal wars based on lies. We had to compromise and TAKE it because the alternative is worse, B.S. That is why we had the big losses in November, My whole life actually (49 years as a devout but disgusted Democrat.) The Republicans are unified in their agenda, they stay on message, and they fight for what they believe in! I think their plunderers and murderers but I have to respect them for being willing to fight the good fight and their cohesion and sticking to their principles.

The Democrats are our own worst enemy. No unified agenda, contradicting messages, and no spines whatsoever, never fight the good fight, roll over and TAKE it again because "This is the best we could get and we have to compromise" B.S. The only way to stop the Democratic politicians from continuing to sell us out now and into eternity is to stand up and say NO, we will not settle and we will NOT vote Obama and the rest of the backstabbing billionaires puppets back into office because the alternative is worse and we have to compromise because it's the best we could do and the alternative is worse. Remember "Read my lips, no new taxes"\

Even the Republicans had the backbone to fire one of their own when he betrayed them and Party candidates listened and toed the party line and the result was the Republican Revolution in Congress in 1994. God forbid we should have a progressive revolution in 2016 and actually have an affective, competent and energized progressive (the Word is Liberal Damn it, we didn't even have the spines to stand up against the Republicans when they made liberal a bad word) Congress and Whitehouse. Still, I see apologies for our traitor and coersion into voting him into office again, ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?! CONGRESS IS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR, GET OFF YOUR COMPLACENT ASSES AND SAY "I AM MAD AS HELL, AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!" AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (any one but Obama, stop the three B's, Barack, Bankers, Billionaires.)

By the way, our economy was brought to its knees by the Best Republican President since Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton. He and Robert Rubin repealed the Glass-Steagall Act that Regulated our banking system and kept a return to the great depression from happening for 70 years. 8 years after repeal our ecomonomy collapsed again for many of the same reasons.

Add in the staggering costs of the 3 wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, Drugs (prohibition has never worked and never will and its a medical issue, not a criminal one)) and you can see why the only ones having outrageous economic growth right now is once again Wall Street (Goldman Sachs, 2nd year of record profits and record bonuses, all on the tax payers dime, "and you want unemployment and social security you wretched parasites.

You're not one of us.") New York (TheStreet) -- Banks will voluntarily reinstitute Glass-Steagall practices in response to market and capital pressures, says Kenneth Moelis, CEO of New York-based investment bank Moelis & Company. "I don't think they will reinstitute Glass-Steagall formally, but [the] transitions in the regulatory environment, Basel III and debate over banker bonuses in Europe [will lead to] protracted pressure that will lead to voluntary Glass-Steagall separation," Moelis said at The Deal Economy conference at The New York Stock Exchange on Friday. Much of the Glass-Steagall Act was removed in 1999, including the separation that previously existed between Wall Street investment banks, insurance companies and depository banks. Legislative changes also allowed firms to merge and trade mortgage-backed securities.

I am shocked that I constantly see so many interviews done on the BP disaster, corruption in La. and New Orleans but have yet to catch one interview was Nicolas Duplessis of Creole Folks. This native of lower Louisiana State even inspired the story line for John Goodman's character in HBO's Treme, constantly watches and records corruption, and when the BP oil mess first happened, the State and Federal Gov. was missing so he was the default leader and many of the monthly loss of income programs was set up by BP through his efforts. Until you people seek this man out, then your simply missing 50% of the story, which others are trying to tell but it's not hitting home with those of us, who have begun to look at this network to get the truth about issues, which we are living.

Free speech TV is great place to speak out about your views and opinions. This is a great blog where everyone can freely write their speech. This kind of space gives people to know more about the happening going all around and the opinions about it. I just found this free speech tv with various comments and got to know a lot of things. Great site for the people. 

Wow, this is nuts. People here leaving comments need help, really. Please seek help for yourselves!

Subject: Request for an Investigation - Harassment and Torture from Direct Energy Weapons Did you know that we are going through the largest Holocaust ever? You and your family may be involved and don't even know it because the weaponry is invisible. Have you lost a family member from Cancer or overnight Alzheimers, heart attack or Parkinson's? Please Read on. I am writing to you about a life-threatening situation that has ruined my life, my families' life and is slowly killing us. (My family includes the Sanderson’s, Zureks, Gardners and the Grauls.) I am a victim of electronic harassment / torture. Direct energy weapons including electromagnetic frequencies and microwave radiation, radiation and lasers which target my brain and body for 7 years. Ionizing radiation is used as well, which is lethal, because I have had a lot of hair loss. I have it documented on a geiger counter. I had a brain MRI, which showed a lot of white matter on my front lobe, which I can present to you. I have had to go to the hospital several times for different reasons including severe chest pain and heart problems. Sometimes even driving a car has become difficult to do because they target me heavily. From 2000-2002 I was able to work professionally for Microsoft in Redmond. Now it is difficult to hold a job due to extreme pain over body, sleep deprivation, microwave auditory effect, disorientation, headaches, tinnititis, blurry vision and more. There are hundreds or possibly thousands in the US alone. Here is the H.R. 2977 Bill that Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, attempted to ban spaced based weapons. The US citizens have already formed a group and have conference calls weekly. Thank you for your support and we hope that you will assist us as quickly as you can with an investigation into the DOD since this is such a serious situation. If you need me to provide you with further information, please contact me. Thank you so much for taking the time to address our issues. Sincerely, Melissa Sanderson 38 years old Florida USA

Hi Laura,
Just discovered you have a TV series on Free Speech TV...which, of course, doesn't surprise me.
Actually, I've been placing video links on Free Speech TV Community web from my "ScabsNabs" YouTube channel for several months now...(two most recent videos "The Man from P.I.S.S." and an extract from my theatre-play about the Disabled Holocaust "The First To Go") and am beginning to think it was time I tried to get some of my films programmed on FSTV or seek a commission.

Anyway, just writing to say "Hi", and like all of your mother's friends, I still miss her.

THE MOST IMPORTANT
BIOMEDICAL DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY!
by
RUSSELL DOBKINS
February 3, 2009

There are a number of previously incurable diseases, such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, atherosclerosis/hypertension, arthritis, thyroiditis, fibro-myalgia, and lupus, which share a common etiology, that is they are all known to be caused by the body's immune system attacking the cells of the body. The question medical science has been trying to find the answer to is why, in these diseases, does the immune system attack these various cells, in the body. Recent discoveries in molecular biology and genetics have found an important clue! The breakthrough comes from the work of Dr. Ajit Varki, at the University of California San Diego, Medical School.

Dr. Varki (from his website at UCSD Medical School) is:
Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Co-Director, Glycobiology Research and Training Center
Co-Director, UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny
Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Training
“Our research interests are currently focused on a family of sugar molecules called the Sialic Acids, and their roles in biology, evolution and disease.  The surfaces of all cells in all organisms are decorated with a dense and complex array of sugar chains.  These "glycans" are known to mediate or modulate many biological processes including sub-cellular and cellular trafficking, intercellular adhesion, signaling, and microbial attachment.  Much data also indicates their involvement in embryonic development, normal tissue organization, tumor metastasis, and in the interactions of cells with extra-cellular molecules.  In recent years, improved technologies have permitted exploration of this new frontier of "Molecular Glycobiology."  The Varki lab (directed by Ajit and Nissi Varki) uses these new approaches, along with the traditional tools of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics and genomics to investigate selected areas of Glycobiology.  The present focus is on the sialic acids, which are found at the outermost position on the glycan chains of all vertebrate cell surfaces and glycoproteins.  Currently active projects are relevant to the roles of sialic acids in Viral and Bacterial Infectivity, the Regulation of the Immune Response, the Initiation and Progression of Tumors and Unique Aspects of Human Evolution.  We are particularly intrigued to find multiple differences in sialic acid biology between humans and our closest evolutionary cousins, the great apes.  These differences are a signature of the multiple cellular and molecular events that occurred during the last few million years of human evolution, and are relevant to understanding several aspects of the current human condition, both in health and disease.”

In December 2008, I was fortunate to hear Dr. Varki's lecture “Primate Evolution and Human Disease”, on UCTV, in which he spoke about his research and these new discovery's. I found it so interesting and important that I searched for and read all his most recent publications. In this paper I will describe to you what I see, is so important about this new research. I will also explain to you a few of the interesting and essential, new understandings in the field of biology.
Dr. Varki has been studying the genetic evolution of Man. This new field is called “Anthropogeny”. This has been made possible by the sequencing of the Human genome, completed in 2001. The genome of our nearest mammalian relative, the Chimpanzee was completed in 2005. The next big step in the genome project is to determine which genetic sequences make what gene products. Dr. Varki found some very important differences in the Human and the Chimpanzee genes. Genes make enzymes, which catalyze most biological reactions, and are involved in forming many cellular structures and products. One such structure, found on the surface of all vertebrate cells are sugar molecules called sialic acids. Dr. Varki found there are two major kinds of sialic acids, an A type, and a B type, found on the surfaces of all mammalian cells. All the mammals except humans have both A and B types. Humans have only the A type. These sialic acids are produced by enzymes, which are produced from specific gene sequences. Since all the mammals except Humans produce both A and B types, and Humans only produce the A type, there must have been something which caused this difference. So, how could this difference come about? Dr. Varki, being an expert on Glycobiology, knew that pathogenic organisms, such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites, bind to these sialic acids on the cell surfaces. Further, most animal pathogens bind to the B type sialic acids. This understanding explains why Humans don't get most animal diseases. Humans don't have the B type binding site! So, Dr. Varki, and others working on this realized that something must have happened to cause Humans to loose the genes that make the B type sialic acids. What he believes happened is that about two million years ago a malaria epidemic, of the kind that now infects our primate cousins, the Great Apes, infected and killed all of our Hominid ancestors, except for a few who had a mutation in their genes. As the Primate malaria pathogen binds only to the B type site, not having such a B type binding site, allowed our A type only ancestors to survive this deadly epidemic. Now, we are the descendants of those A type Hominids. Since then, the protozoan malaria parasite has mutated, probably in the last two thousand years, to be able to bind to the A type sites.
Dr. Varki next began looking for antibodies to the B type sialic acids in Humans, and he found them. Now, Human's don't make B type sialic acids, so why do we have antibodies to them? He correctly reasoned that B type sialic acids must be getting into our bodies through eating food which contains the B types sialic acids. Mammal meat and milk contain 1-2% B type sialic acids. To prove that this was indeed happening, he did an experiment on himself. He ingested a high dose of B type “Ape” sialic acids, and then looked for them in various parts of his body, to see if they were incorporated into it. They were! He found them incorporated into the cellular structure of his hair, finger nails, skin and other tissues. He has found these “foreign” molecules incorporated into the cellular structures of the blood vessels, the nervous system, the brain, organs, skin, digestive system, and even the placenta and fetus!
Our immune systems recognize our “self” molecules by the sugar and protein molecules, on the cell surfaces. Any cell, or pieces of cells that have the wrong glyco molecules set off the immune system. They don't taste right, or smell right, or fit right, at the molecular level, so our immune system goes after them as “invaders”. The immune system recognizes the type B sialic acids as “not self”, and mounts an attack on them, where ever they are, in whatever cells they may be incorporated into. Now, antibodies don't usually destroy invaders, but attach to the invaders and call in the white blood cells and macrophages. These macrophages and white blood cells use digestive enzymes to destroy the “foreign” molecules. However, the cells where this “war” happens, are damaged, resulting in cell destruction and inflammation. The body then has to clear out the debris, and rebuild the tissues. Dr. Varki has also found large numbers of B type sialic acids in many kinds of cancerous tumors. He is a “Board Certified Oncologist”, as well. He has found a clear connection between cancer and these B type sialic acids. Epidemiological studies have for a long time shown strong statistical correlations between cancer and eating red meat! Groups of people who are vegetarian, such as “Seventh Day Adventists”, are known to have a much lower incidence of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, strokes, and other diseases, than meat eating populations, and on average live 3 to 10 years longer.

So, lets look at a few of the diseases known to be caused by the immune system attacking the various cells, tissues, and organs of the body:

Diabetes: Type I Diabetes, known as Juvenile Diabetes, is known to be caused by an immune system destruction of the insulin producing Beta cells of the Pancreas. Is the immune system attacking the B type sialic acids incorporated into the Beta cells of the pancreas, thereby destroying the Beta cells and their ability to produce insulin? Could an histological examination of such cells, along with B type sialic acid and antibody analysis, answer this question?

Atherosclerosis: It is now known that the initiating process of Atherosclerosis is caused by an immune system attack on the cells lining the arteries. Is cellular destruction and inflammation followed by cholesterol and calcification to “repair the damage and seal up the leak” resulting in hardening and constricting the arteries? Is this happening because the white blood cells are recognizing antibodies bound to B type sialic acids that were incorporated into the epithelial cells lining the arteries?

Autoimmune Thyroiditis: All the endocrine glands are bathed in the bloodstream. The thyroid gland gets Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) from the Pituitary gland, through the bloodstream. It then secretes thyroid hormone directly back into the bloodstream. Could B type sialic acids in the bloodstream be taken up in the glandular cells or enzymes, as nutrients, attracting immune system attack, resulting in damage to the glandular tissues? Current medical understanding (as expressed in the most current medical books) is that most thyroid disease is caused by autoimmune attack of the thyroid gland (Hashimoto's Thyroiditis)!

Arthritis: Arthritis is known to be caused by autoimmune attack of the tissues of the joints. Why?

Multiple Sclerosis: Multiple Sclerosis is known to be caused by an immune system attack on the myelin sheath of the nerves. Dr. Varki has found large numbers of B type sialic acids in nervous system tissue, including the brain! Could this have something to do with Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson's Disease? It has been found that remission and recovery from MS can be achieved by removing meat and milk products from the diet. (See the book; “The MS Recovery Diet” by Sawyer)

Cancer: There is a clear correlation between cancer and eating milk and meat. Dr. Varki has found high concentrations of type B sialic acids and antibodies in various tumor types. The biology is still being studied to find out what is happening, at the molecular level. Studies have shown that inflammation increases carcinogenesis. Whether the immune system attack on tissues with high concentrations of B type sialic acids and the resulting inflammation is promoting cancer, or if cellular, genetic damage and mutation is caused by the immune attack, or both, or whether the B type sialic acids promote carcinogenesis in some other way, is still under study.

Conclusion:
Now that this most important piece of the “Human Biology” puzzle is falling into place, great progress can be made in understanding and curing some of the worst diseases afflicting mankind. Dr. Varki found that the more ancestral classes of creatures, the fish and birds, don't have the B type sialic acids. Nor do plant foods. Changing one's diet can have immediate and long term beneficial effects on one's health!
This new understanding will bring many important changes to the general practices of people when they shop for food. The demand for meat and dairy products will diminish, perhaps rapidly. Worldwide, this could have a beneficial effect on many of the planetary ecosystems, as the livestock industry causes such widespread ecological damage. It could also improve the health and lower the food costs for many of the people living on this Planet, as presently so much of the world's farmland is devoted to producing livestock feed and expensive meat and milk. I predict that as people change their diets, their health will improve, health care costs will diminish, and personal and societal productivity will improve, resulting an an improvement in the quality of life for most of the people on this Planet.