A Thanksgiving Message
by Dr Joseph Mercola
mercola.com (November 27 2009)
Let's remember that it all started with a gaggle of moralizing and marginalized religious dissidents who feasted on fowl, and a native relish of sour red berries.
On Thursday, Americans will stop and share a meal like these long-ago Pilgrims. Thanksgiving is the holiday of hope, as well as drumsticks and football. It is also the emblem of American identity - of who we are as a people and our distinctive role in history.
Two New York Times' articles {1, 2} provide a powerful commentary about health care "reform", and the true power behind the US health care system in general. They document the level of influence, corruption, and conflict of interest that affects your health.
There should be no doubt about the power the drug industry wields in shaping the US health care system.
Big pharma has been the driving force behind conventional medicine, and the beneficiaries of exploding health care costs for well over a century, and there are no signs that the current health care reform will change any of this.
Yes You, One Person, CAN Make a Difference
During this Thanksgiving season, I want to express my thanks to you for your partnership in the movement of awakening our culture to the truth about natural health and how the drug companies currently control the conventional medical system. And the best way I know to do that is to share with you how your partnership is making a difference.
This past year our partnership together has been able to FINALLY make a significant dent in the culture. We provided powerful explanations from some of the top experts in the world on these issues, and you were able to spread and share that message with MILLIONS.
You were so effective that the MAJORITY of the US population have refused the H1N1 vaccine despite the massive government propaganda and deception.
Doctors Typically Destroy Health Because It's about Wealth, Not Health
Drug companies are not here to bring health to the population but to scam them on one level for vast amounts of money, by treating the symptoms and not addressing the cause.
Sir William Ossler, MD (1849-1919), one of the leading physicians at the turn of the twentieth century, and considered by many to be the founder of modern medicine, said that one of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
You are Making a Difference
Most everyone reading this does not understand that when I started this newsletter I was not a natural medicine expert. I was a simple family physician seeing patients in my office, who just decided I wanted to tell the truth about health to more people.
When I first started Mercola.com in 1997, to educate people about natural medicine, I had less than 100 subscribers and 300 page views per month. Twelve years later we have 1.5 million subscribers from nearly every country in the world, and we have over twenty million page views per month.
Do we have a ways to go?
Absolutely, but together we are making a difference.
You need to remember the obvious. We OUTNUMBER the evil doers by thousands to one. However, they are very well organized and have loads more money, power, and influence than we do.
You need to know that their Achilles Heel is our ability to communicate with each other and learn the truth about their lies and scams.
So persistently reading our newsletter and others that share the truth, and spreading the message with those you love and care about, will ultimately unite us enough that we can defeat them.
Mercola.com Charity Project
Many of you probably don't realize that one-third of our staff of over 100 is based in Manila, Philippines. They are an absolutely amazing group of people, and are directly responsible for allowing us to have such a huge impact on the web.
Recently, the team decided to support the Kythe Foundation {3}. It is an organization dedicated to treating cancer in children.
Our team built the website for them, and are helping provide the infrastructure to support their efforts.
I thought you would enjoy a video of how some of the efforts have been working to date and have included it below.
My primary passion is optimal health, so I have not specifically focused on cancer treatment. However, I know many of my readers know of experts in this area. If you know of anyone that is passionate about treating cancer in children, please have them contact BrianB@mercola.com so we can incorporate them into our team.
Remember, this is the Philippines, so most of the crazy prohibitions that exist in the US are absent and we can go all out to provide therapies that REALLY work. With your help, we can begin to replicate the work of how health care was effectively administered before the government got involved.
We can form the equivalent of charity hospitals, and leverage the Internet to provide life saving treatment to innocent kids who are suffering with tragic cancer. At this time, my only request is that you help us provide natural health experts who can help train the volunteer physicians in the Philippines with treatments that can help save these kids' lives.
Food for Thought
The nice thing about truth is that it never goes out of style. Here are several quotes that are as timely today, as when they were first uttered.
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
--Thomas Jefferson
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
--George Bernard Shaw
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
--P J O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
-- P J O'Rourke
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
-- Pericles (430 BC)
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
Links:
{1} http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/us/politics/15health.html?th&emc=th
{2} http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/opinion/17tue3.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
{3} http://kythe.org/
_____
Dr Mercola about himself:
Have always been interested in health and started exercising in 1968, Went to med school to further my knowledge base and started professional life as a family doctor in 1985 . However was completely brainwashed by the system and actually was a paid lecturer by the drug companies in the 1980s.
Eventually I saw the light in the early 1990s and refined my understanding of health truths. I also have a passion for computers and combined my interest in technology and health by creating this website in the late 1990s and it is now the most visited natural health site on the Internet.
The site takes up virtually all of my time and I had to stop seeing patients in 2005 so I can pursue my passion of educating the public about health truths so hundreds of thousands of people don't have to die prematurely every year because of multinational corporations that put profits ahead of serving their customers.
I remain convinced that through coordinated efforts it will be possible to help educate and inform people so they can choose healthier options and radically reduce the amount of unnecessary premature deaths and needless pain and suffering.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/26/Happy-Thanksgiving.aspx
Bill Totten http://www.ashisuto.co.jp/english/index.html
mercola.com (November 27 2009)
Let's remember that it all started with a gaggle of moralizing and marginalized religious dissidents who feasted on fowl, and a native relish of sour red berries.
On Thursday, Americans will stop and share a meal like these long-ago Pilgrims. Thanksgiving is the holiday of hope, as well as drumsticks and football. It is also the emblem of American identity - of who we are as a people and our distinctive role in history.
Two New York Times' articles {1, 2} provide a powerful commentary about health care "reform", and the true power behind the US health care system in general. They document the level of influence, corruption, and conflict of interest that affects your health.
There should be no doubt about the power the drug industry wields in shaping the US health care system.
Big pharma has been the driving force behind conventional medicine, and the beneficiaries of exploding health care costs for well over a century, and there are no signs that the current health care reform will change any of this.
Yes You, One Person, CAN Make a Difference
During this Thanksgiving season, I want to express my thanks to you for your partnership in the movement of awakening our culture to the truth about natural health and how the drug companies currently control the conventional medical system. And the best way I know to do that is to share with you how your partnership is making a difference.
This past year our partnership together has been able to FINALLY make a significant dent in the culture. We provided powerful explanations from some of the top experts in the world on these issues, and you were able to spread and share that message with MILLIONS.
You were so effective that the MAJORITY of the US population have refused the H1N1 vaccine despite the massive government propaganda and deception.
Doctors Typically Destroy Health Because It's about Wealth, Not Health
Drug companies are not here to bring health to the population but to scam them on one level for vast amounts of money, by treating the symptoms and not addressing the cause.
Sir William Ossler, MD (1849-1919), one of the leading physicians at the turn of the twentieth century, and considered by many to be the founder of modern medicine, said that one of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
You are Making a Difference
Most everyone reading this does not understand that when I started this newsletter I was not a natural medicine expert. I was a simple family physician seeing patients in my office, who just decided I wanted to tell the truth about health to more people.
When I first started Mercola.com in 1997, to educate people about natural medicine, I had less than 100 subscribers and 300 page views per month. Twelve years later we have 1.5 million subscribers from nearly every country in the world, and we have over twenty million page views per month.
Do we have a ways to go?
Absolutely, but together we are making a difference.
You need to remember the obvious. We OUTNUMBER the evil doers by thousands to one. However, they are very well organized and have loads more money, power, and influence than we do.
You need to know that their Achilles Heel is our ability to communicate with each other and learn the truth about their lies and scams.
So persistently reading our newsletter and others that share the truth, and spreading the message with those you love and care about, will ultimately unite us enough that we can defeat them.
Mercola.com Charity Project
Many of you probably don't realize that one-third of our staff of over 100 is based in Manila, Philippines. They are an absolutely amazing group of people, and are directly responsible for allowing us to have such a huge impact on the web.
Recently, the team decided to support the Kythe Foundation {3}. It is an organization dedicated to treating cancer in children.
Our team built the website for them, and are helping provide the infrastructure to support their efforts.
I thought you would enjoy a video of how some of the efforts have been working to date and have included it below.
My primary passion is optimal health, so I have not specifically focused on cancer treatment. However, I know many of my readers know of experts in this area. If you know of anyone that is passionate about treating cancer in children, please have them contact BrianB@mercola.com so we can incorporate them into our team.
Remember, this is the Philippines, so most of the crazy prohibitions that exist in the US are absent and we can go all out to provide therapies that REALLY work. With your help, we can begin to replicate the work of how health care was effectively administered before the government got involved.
We can form the equivalent of charity hospitals, and leverage the Internet to provide life saving treatment to innocent kids who are suffering with tragic cancer. At this time, my only request is that you help us provide natural health experts who can help train the volunteer physicians in the Philippines with treatments that can help save these kids' lives.
Food for Thought
The nice thing about truth is that it never goes out of style. Here are several quotes that are as timely today, as when they were first uttered.
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
--Thomas Jefferson
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
--George Bernard Shaw
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
--P J O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
-- P J O'Rourke
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
-- Pericles (430 BC)
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
Links:
{1} http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/us/politics/15health.html?th&emc=th
{2} http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/opinion/17tue3.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
{3} http://kythe.org/
_____
Dr Mercola about himself:
Have always been interested in health and started exercising in 1968, Went to med school to further my knowledge base and started professional life as a family doctor in 1985 . However was completely brainwashed by the system and actually was a paid lecturer by the drug companies in the 1980s.
Eventually I saw the light in the early 1990s and refined my understanding of health truths. I also have a passion for computers and combined my interest in technology and health by creating this website in the late 1990s and it is now the most visited natural health site on the Internet.
The site takes up virtually all of my time and I had to stop seeing patients in 2005 so I can pursue my passion of educating the public about health truths so hundreds of thousands of people don't have to die prematurely every year because of multinational corporations that put profits ahead of serving their customers.
I remain convinced that through coordinated efforts it will be possible to help educate and inform people so they can choose healthier options and radically reduce the amount of unnecessary premature deaths and needless pain and suffering.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/26/Happy-Thanksgiving.aspx
Bill Totten http://www.ashisuto.co.jp/english/index.html
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