Charlie, The Goatman of Ojai by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

TheSafety Stop that Launched Constitutional Restoration.

Charlie Sprinkle, The Goatman of Ojai.

It happened on the lovely road that connects Ventura, California to Ojai, that famous, slightly inland village where such famous world figures as Krisnamurti and Annie Besant held forth in the early 20^th Century, changing the direction of spirituality for the Western world. Originally called Nordoff, for Charles Nordoff, the author of “California: A Book for Travellers and Settlers,” published in 1872, the bucolic settlement's name was changed to Ojai in the early 20^th century. 

Theosophy and other inquiries into Eastern philosophy still persist there along with health spas and golf courses. Serious movements happened there; the residents expected it. 

In the early 1970s the Movement to Restore the Constitution was born anew there. Before that morning in early June the focus of those involved had been the IRS; on that morning its directions changed and multiplied. After that day what happened to the Constitution is better understood and so better challenged. 

That magic spark was struck in front of Dahl's Market, which still sits on what is variously known as Ventura Street and Highway 33, on the road to Ventura. The moment came early on that June morning and it was started by a feisty man named Charlie Sprinkle. Charlie had moved to Ojai from Virginia, having spent time in the U. S. Air Force. Sprinkle liked to fly. On that morning he was driving his newly refurbished Volkswagon Van, with a 40 Horse power engine, gliding along the road, minding his own business. He had had the van lovingly repainted a shiny white. Charlie was going into business selling Amway, then a new enterprise that Charlie felt held great promise. Just that morning he had picked up his vehicle at the mechanic's, carefully going over the van before accepting delivery. Charlie was, himself, a mechanic.

The van's paint job was intended to keep the Amway product line as cool as possible. His Amway signs were affixed to the shiny doors. The windows were tinted to further the protection of Charlie's stock, carefully arranged in the back. Tooling down the road Charlie approached the front of Dahl's Market, heading towards Ventura. There ahead of him was a traffic stop, manned by six California Highway Patrol Officers, stopping all traffic going towards Ventura. Charlie came to a halt, watching the line of cars in front of him. It looked like slow going up there. 

45 minutes passed. One of the officers told Charlie this was a safety check, a service provided by the State of California to ensure that drivers were not endangered by malfunctioning vehicles. Ungrateful, Charlie pointed out that the safety check was costing him money; he was told to be quiet. Charlie is not the kind of guy who is naturally quiet. Nearly as soon as he moved to Ojai he had joined a group protesting the IRS and was then planning to make his point in the Ojai 4^th of July Parade which would take place in just less than a month.  MORE

GreedWar - Debt Collector berates disabled veteran.

‘You should’ve served US better and died!’ Debt collector berates disabled veteran

Published: 14 October, 2012, 03:46

(AFP Photo / Michael Nagle)

A debt collector, angered that a disabled US Army veteran was living off of disability payments, told him he “should have died” in war instead of "taking advantage of" other Americans.
­Minnesota-based debt collection agency Gurstel Chargo is now facing a lawsuit for verbally abusing the Army vet over a $6,000 defaulted student loan, Courthouse News reports.
“If you would have served our country better you would not be a disabled veteran living off Social Security while the rest of us honest Americans work our asses off,” one of the agency’s debt collectors allegedly told the vet. “Too bad, you should have died.”
Michael Collier was declared 100 per cent disabled after suffering permanent spine and head injuries while in the Army. As a result, both Collier and his wife receive disability payments from the federal Social Security Administration, which are exempt from seizure by debt collectors.
But in an attempt to collect on the defaulted student loan, the collector seized the money from Collier's wife’s savings account. The credit union then proceeded to freeze her account.
The Colliers filed an objection and requested a court hearing, at which the couple was told their frozen funds were exempt from such garnishment.
But the debt collection agency’s lawyer continued to harass the couple. Telling Collier “he would need to get a lawyer in order to get his money back,” an unidentified paralegal cursed at and threatened him over the phone.
“F--k you!” the paralegal allegedly said, “Pay us your money! You can’t afford an attorney. You owe us. I hope your wife divorces you.”
The couple is now seeking compensation for actual damages, statutory damages, and punitive damages for violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), privacy invasion, malicious infliction of emotional distress and conversion.
The FDCPA considers it abusive for a debt collector to make empty threats, misrepresent the legal status of a debt, or use obscene of profane language.
According to the Daily Beast, debt collectors sometimes use abusive techniques to pry money from the indebted because of the commission rates they receive. On average, debt collectors make 20 cents for every dollar recouped. At this rate, the Colliers’ debt would be worth $1,200 to Chargo.
Verbal harassment is a commonly-used technique to instigate debtors into making payments. In 2010, the Federal Trade Commission received 50,000 complaints about severe harassment from debt collectors, 18,000 of which included the use of obscene language.
And some say that number is low.
“That’s just the tip of the iceberg, as far as I’m concerned,” attorney Sergei Lemberg told the Daily Beast.
While Chargo's berating took it too far for the Colliers, there are of thousands of cases of abuse that never make it to court.

ENVIRONMENT - Global Cooling - Not Good News

Global Cooling – Not Good News

Posted by Mark Sircus - Director on 17 October 2012 | Filed under World Affairs

Summer is coming soon to the southern end of our planet and it’s getting cool! At the exact point furthest east in all the Americas here in Brazil, the place where the sun peeks its head up first, the wind is blowing hard every few days sending cool air into the subtropics. Great news because our air conditioning bill has plunged but not so good news if current trends continue!

In Australia it has been unseasonably cold as well. In July it was reported that nearly 14 percent of New South Wales wheat production was impacted by frost. Cold weather across Australia’s two largest wheat-growing states has slowed crop growth, officials said, threatening yields in the world’s fourth-largest exporter. Canberra Australia has experienced its coldest October in 40 years and kangaroos are jumping through snow in late spring.

Steven Hayward writes, “Did you know that climate change kills? At least that’s the claim out in a new study yesterday, as reported in The Daily Beast, which, last I checked, relies heavily upon a hydrocarbon-intensive energy system to exist. Anyway, according to the latest CO2-breathless story, climate change kills 400,000 people a year, and costs the global economy $1.2 trillion. Jeepers: Maybe the climate—or Mother Nature herself—should come with a warning label like cigarette packs.”

Today’s headlines: Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove it. Figures reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.

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SURVIVAL - 26 Things to do NOW

 26 things to get done before the global debt collapse

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) The time between today and the day the global debt collapse reaches our shores is finite. The U.S. national debt clock shows a nation spiraling into financial oblivion. When Ron Paul says "Americans should be panicking" over the Fed's new QE unlimited policy of infinite money creation, he was actually holding back. In reality, Americans should have been protesting in the streets... everywhere!

But instead, they're going to deny reality, vote in the upcoming election, and pretend that whoever occupies the Oval Office has both the intention and the power to make any real difference. That belief is delusional, as is the belief that the national debt somehow doesn't really matter.

The delusions are, of course, leading us all directly into a head-on collision with history, where the global debt collapse unfolds at a quickening pace and becomes "real" for hundreds of millions of people in North America who have so far escaped the reality of the financial collapse happening across Europe. Before that day comes, here are 26 things you might want to get done.

26 things to get done before the global debt collapse Click for the list!  MORE

GreedMoney - Why the New FED Stimulus Won't Jumpstrt the Economy

 Why the New Fed Stimulus Won't Jumpstart the Economy - and What Would
Friday, 21 September 2012 00:00 By Ellen Brown, Truthout | News Analysis

(Photo: Jeremy Brooks / Flickr)The economy could use a good dose of "aggregate demand" - new spending money in the pockets of consumers - but QE3 won’t do it. Neither will it trigger the dreaded hyperinflation. In fact, it won’t do much at all. There are better alternatives.
 The Fed's announcement on September 13 that it was embarking on a third round of quantitative easing (QE) has brought the "sound money" crew out in force, pumping out articles with frightening titles like "QE3 Will Unleash 'Economic Horror' On The Human Race."
The Fed calls QE an asset swap, swapping Fed-created dollars for other assets on the banks' balance sheets. But critics call it "reckless money printing" and say it will inevitably produce hyperinflation. Too much money will be chasing too few goods, forcing prices up and the value of the dollar down.
All this hyperventilating could have been avoided by taking a closer look at how QE works.
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The money created by the Fed will go straight into bank reserve accounts, and banks can't lend their reserves. The money just sits there, drawing a bit of interest.
The Fed's plan is to buy mortgage-backed securities (MBS) from the banks, but according to the Washington Post, this is not expected to be of much help to homeowners either.
Why QE3 Won't Expand the Circulating Money Supply
In its third round of QE, the Fed says it will buy $40 billion in MBS every month for an indefinite period. To do this, it will essentially create money from nothing, paying for its purchases by crediting the reserve accounts of the banks from which it buys them. The banks will get the dollars and the Fed will get the MBS.
But the banks' balance sheets will remain the same, and the circulating money supply will remain the same.
When the Fed engages in QE, it takes away something on the asset side of the bank's balance sheet (government securities or mortgage-backed securities) and replaces it with electronically-generated dollars. These dollars are held in the banks' reserve accounts at the Fed. They are "excess reserves," which cannot be spent or lent into the economy by the banks. They can only be lent to other banks that need reserves, or used to obtain other assets (new loans, bonds, etc.).
As Australian economist Steve Keen explains:

... reserves are there for settlement of accounts between banks, and for the government's interface with the private banking sector, but not for lending from. Banks themselves may ... swap those assets for other forms of assets that are income-yielding, but they are not able to lend from them.

This was also explained by Scott Fullwiler, an associate professor of economics at Wartburg College, when he argued a year ago for something he called "QE3, Treasury style." This would be another form of QE: the minting of coins by the US Treasury in denominations of $1 trillion "or whatever amount is desired."
He explained why the increase in reserve balances in QE is not inflationary:

Banks can't 'do' anything with all the extra reserve balances. Loans create deposits -reserve balances don't finance lending or add any 'fuel' to the economy. Banks don't lend reserve balances except in the federal funds market, and in that case the Fed always provides sufficient quantities to keep the federal funds rate at its ... interest rate target. Widespread belief that reserve balances add 'fuel' to bank lending is flawed, as I explained here over two years ago.

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HEALTH - Toxicity of Indoor Mold

From:  Steve Tvedten  Reason Discovered for the Toxicity of Indoor Mould

 

ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2012) — A team of researchers at the University of Helsinki has discovered how indoor mould makes people sick.The only remedy is to heal the living environment.

 

For more than a decade, it has been known that the fungus Trichoderma longibrachiatum is the most common finding wherever people are suffering from health hazards related to damp building damage. However, it has not been known how this mould -- which is typical of most buildings with indoor air problems -- harms people's health. Published in September, a study by a team of researchers at the Department of Food and Environmental Sciences of the University of Helsinki explains how microbial metabolites in the living environment cause health problems

 

With their colleagues, Raimo Mikkola, Maria Andersson and Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen have studied indoor mould for a long time. They discovered that the toxic substance produced by the mould fungus Trichoderma longibrachiatum consists of small peptides that contain alpha-aminoisobutyric acid and other amino acids not found in proteins. The discovery and purification of the toxin to determine its molecular structure was made possible by a sperm test developed earlier by the same team. This test served as a detector in tracing the toxin molecules produced by the fungus.

 

The toxic foreign peptides produced by the Trichoderma longibrachiatum fungus were named trilongins. Their toxicity is based on their ability to be absorbed in tissues and cells in the body and produce nanochannels that permeate potassium and sodium. A channel formed by trilongins can obstruct vital channels that carry potassium and sodium and control communication systems that regulate heart cells, respiratory cells and nerve cells, for example.

Health hazards related to foreign peptides cannot be prevented with antimicrobial drugs. Trilongins are also highly resistant to heat and antimicrobial chemicals. Diseases caused by the mould fungus can only be prevented by healing the living environment. The team discovered more than ten chemically resistant foreign peptides and determined their molecular structures. Mass produced by the fungus Trichoderma longibrachiatum was measured to contain as much as 10 percent trilongins. Of the nanochannels produced by trilongins, 2:1 combinations of long and short trilongins were the most harmful for the cells of humans and other warm-blooded animals. These channels remained active for a longer time than channels consisting of one type of trilongin.
The study was carried out by the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Integrative Photosynthesis and Bioactive Compound Research at Systems Biology Level with support from the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Work Environment Fund.
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HEALTH - Dioxin study documents multigenerational disorders

Lisa Garber
NaturalSociety
September 29, 2012
A new study by Washington State University researchers found that TCDD dioxin, when exposed to one generation of pregnant rats, had a multi-generational effect resulting in a multitude of diseases. These include diseases of the kidney and ovaries as well as fertility and growth difficulties.
Dioxin is an industrial pollutant linked to cancer and reproductive disorders. For this study, the researchers used a particular dioxin called TCDD—a major component of the herbicide Agent Orange made infamous by the Vietnam War as well as recent events in agribusiness.

“Not only does the individual exposed get the disease,” says senior author Michael Skinner, “but it’s transmitted to great-grandchildren with no exposure.”

Higher Rates of Disease Across Generations

In a 2011 study, researchers determined that pregnant mice had offspring (three generations) that experienced fertility problems. The 2012 Washington State study reinforces those findings and marks the diseases that resulted through generations.

• First generation offspring experienced higher rates of prostate disease and two types of ovarian diseases compared to control groups.

• Third generation rats experienced eight times greater rates of abnormalities in puberty.

• Forty-seven percent of third generation females experienced early puberty, compared to 6 percent in the control group.

• Third generation male and female rats had increased rates of kidney and ovarian disease, respectively.

• The great-grandkids had sperm with modified gene expression in 50 regions of DNA.

While the scientists limited the pregnant rats to small amounts of dioxin exposure, these levels are still high compared to most people’s exposure from the environment. According to University of Virginia biochemist Jennifer Wolstenholme (who was not involved in the study), humans and rats eliminate dioxin from their bodies differently. Therefore, “we cannot know from these studies if people are similarly at increased risk for these same diseases.”

Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/poison-dioxin-cause-disease-three-generations/#ixzz29Ut45Un1