Another year, another Telstra privacy slip

Telstra, which hasn’t yet gotten over the privacy breach that required 60,000 password resets in December, has suffered another embarrassment involving customer data.

This time, according to Musicfeeds.com.au, the breach involves customer data being posted to a cloud-based spreadsheet service. The site says the data was apparently put on the Editgrid.com site by a consultant in training (apparently and stupidly using live data).

Telstra has said the data was deleted within an hour of the telco becoming aware of the breach, and access to Editgrid.com has been disabled for all staff.

The Sydney Morning Herald today says customers are complaining that they have yet to hear from the Telco, which is already being investigated by the Federal Privacy Commissioner over the earlier breach.

The new data breach includes customers’ contact details and dates of birth, but according to Telstra, no credit information or passwords.

Editgrid appears to be a feast of private information. While the Telstra spreadsheet has been removed, Google has crawled a large number of spreadsheets containing full names, telephone numbers, physical addresses, e-mail details and business information for a host of individuals who probably aren’t aware that their information is published on the site. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/01/telstra_data_on_stupid_insecure_cloud_spreadsheet/

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Web Site Load Speed Checker

Apparently a 6-9 second load time will lose a third of your visitors. http://www.seomastering.com/site-speed-checker.php

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Do You Take A Statin?

If you are on statins see you health care provider immediately and ask what dietary changes you can make to attain the desired objective without drugs. FORCE your health care provider to think past drugs for a solution. The positive changes we seek will only come about due to demand. http://www.jonbarron.org/enzymes/bl090716/natural-health-news-proteolytic-formula-statins

Home remedies relieve tooth and gum pain

And some address causes as well as the symptoms. http://www.naturalnews.com/034516_tooth_pain_gums_remedies.html

Boosts Disruptive Hormone by 1000% in 5 Days - Avoid This Eating Mistake

BPA is found not just in plastic bottles. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/22/bpa-exposure-health-problem.aspx

I Want You Alive AND Healthy!

Genetic Modification does NOT aid that objective! Please check out the data re GMOs at the Institute for Responsible Technology http://responsibletechnology.org/

Optimal Health and Longevity Plan

This lists some great things to do to help attain optimal health and longevity... http://www.foodmatters.tv/_webapp/Optimal_Health_Plan

Merck vaccine scientist Dr. Maurice Hilleman admits vaccines contain cancer-causing viruses

Dr. Maurice Hilleman’s secret vaccine recording emerged in 2011, causing shockwaves of disbelief to spread across the internet as people heard this Merck scientist laughing it up with other scientists as they joked about all the people who would die from cancer tumors after taking vaccine shots. You can hear the recording yourself on NaturalNews.TV. Click this link for details:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html

New technique removes even trace amounts of heavy metals from water

Once released into the environment from industrial sources, trace amounts of heavy metals can remain present in waterways for decades, or even centuries, in concentrations that are still high enough to pose a health risk. While processes do exist for removing larger amounts of heavy metals from water, these do not work on smaller quantities. Now, however, scientists from Rhode Island’s Brown University have combined two existing methods, to create a new one that removes even trace amounts of heavy metal from water.
http://www.gizmag.com/cep-removes-heavy-metals-from-water/20956/

Intelligent absorbent removes radioactive material from water

Researchers at Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have now developed what they say is a world-first intelligent absorbent that is capable of removing radioactive material from large amounts of contaminated water, resulting in clean water and concentrated waste that can be stored more efficiently. One gram can purify at least one ton of contaminated water! http://www.gizmag.com/radioactive-clean-up-absorbent-qut/20353/

Banana peels can be used to purify water

Research published in the journal of the American Chemical Society claims that mashed up peel can remove heavy metals from river water. http://www.gizmag.com/banana-peel-finds-use-as-water-purifier/18126/

TEDxIowaCity - Dr. Terry Wahls - Minding Your Mitochondria - One Doctor’s Recovery from MS

Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of her wheelchair. Shrinking brains are common to Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and MS. Fish oil, creatine and CoQ10 are beneficial in protecting the brain. More great data at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc

Foods that help remove radiation (and other toxins) from the body

I am listening to a lecture series given in 1957 by a researcher who identified a progressive decline in awareness of the general population coincident with the sustained release of radiation into the atmosphere by atomic bomb tests. No relevance at all in this day and age after Chernobyl and Fukishima. (Said with tongue in cheek.)

Not being one to enjoy being made dumber and sicker by fluoridated water, increased toxic burden from heavy metals, inadequate nutrition or a radiation laden atmosphere I am looking to increase the number of foods I eat that have the effect of removing radiation and toxins from the body.

Here is a list of some I have found:
Modifilan *
Chlorella *
Vitamin E *
Vitamin C *
Calcium
B group vitamins
Lecithin *
Cod liver oil
Vitamin F - Unsat fatty acids
Fruit pectin *
Sunflower seeds *
Kelp *
Iodine *
Liver
Rosemary *
Apples *
Citrus fruit
Berries *
Zeolite Clay

Those with an asterisk are ingredients I have added to my top food bar. http://www.http://www.healthelicious.com.au/Peak-Performance-Bar.html

Whey Protein Concentrate

Some great data on what benefits this has to your body... http://www.dogcancer.net.au/cancer-whey-protein.php

The One Secret Diet Success

Guaranteed or Double Your Money Back http://onesecretdiet.wordpress.com/

Is Wheat the Cause of Your Health Issues?

Who had the audacity to write such an against-the-grain book exposing “healthy whole grains” for the incredibly destructive genetic monsters they’ve become?

That’s me, Dr. William Davis, cardiologist and seeker-of-truth in health. Over 80% of the people I meet today are pre-diabetic or diabetic. In an effort to reduce blood sugar, I asked patients to remove all wheat products from their diet based on the simple fact that, with few exceptions, foods made of wheat flour raise blood sugar higher than nearly all other foods. Yes, that’s true for even whole grains. More than table sugar, more than a Snickers bar. Organic, multigrain, sprouted–it makes no difference.

People returned several months later and did indeed show lower blood sugar, often sufficient for pre-diabetics to be non-prediabetics. But it was the other results they described that took me by surprise: weight loss of 25 to 30 lbs over several months, marked improvement or total relief from arthritis, improvement in asthma sufficient to chuck 2 or 3 inhalers, complete relief from acid reflux and irritable bowel syndrome symptoms, disappearance of leg swelling and numbness. Most reported increased mental clarity, deeper sleep, and more stable moods and emotions. I witnessed even more incredible experiences like the 26-year old man incapacitated by full-body joint pains who started to jog again, pain-free. And the 38-year old schoolteacher who, just weeks before her surgeon scheduled colon removal and ileostomy bag, experienced cure—cure—from ulcerative colitis and intestinal hemorrhage–and stopped all medications. That’s when I knew that I had to broadcast this message. Wheat Belly was the result.

I’m not promoting drugs, fancy medical procedures, or costly equipment. I’m not promoting a process that makes a pharmaceutical company rich or helps a hospital gain more revenue-producing procedures. I’m talking about a simple change in diet that yields incredible and unexpected health benefits in so many more ways than you’d think. And it’s not just about celiac disease, the destructive intestinal disease from wheat gluten that affects 1% of the population. It’s about all the other destructive health effects of wheat consumption, from arthritis to acid reflux to schizophrenia, caused or made worse by this food we are advised to eat more of. It’s about being set free from the peculiar appetite-stimulating effects of the opiate-like compounds unique to wheat. It’s also about losing weight–10, 20, or 30 pounds is often just the start–all from this thing I call wheat belly. The key to understanding wheat’s undesirable effects is to recognize that the total effect on human health is greater than the sum of its parts.

‘EM fields initiate the stress response by interacting with electrons moving within DNA’

Electromagnetic (EM) fields have been used therapeutically for accelerated healing and pain control, but they have also been associated with adverse health effects. To understand these biological effects, we have been studying the interaction of low frequency EM fields with cells at both the cellular and molecular levels.

Our studies with cells have shown that 60Hz EM fields induce stress genes and stress response proteins in cells. The stress response is a protective mechanism induced by many potentially harmful environmental stimuli and characterized by the synthesis of specific proteins that assist the renaturation and transport of other proteins. Our studies suggest that EM fields initiate the stress response by interacting with electrons moving within DNA. We have identified a 900 base pair segment associated with the response to EM fields, that when removed eliminates the response, and when transfected into a reporter construct, causes the construct to become EM field responsive.

We have also investigated the mechanism of EM field interactions at the molecular level through effects on three reactions, electron transfer in cytochrome oxidase, ATP hydrolysis by the Na,K-ATPase, and the Belousov-Zhabotinski (BZ) reaction (the catalyzed oxidation of malonic acid). The BZ reaction is studied with ordinary reagents, so there is no problem of impurities as with biological preparations. All three reactions show:

• EM accelerates the reaction rate, i.e., electron transfer rate
• EM competes with the chemical force, so its effect varies inversely with the reaction rate
• Thresholds for interaction are low, comparable to levels found by epidemiology
• Effects vary with frequency, and there are different optima for the reactions studied: ATPase (60Hz), cytochrome oxidase (800Hz), BZ (250Hz)

These properties are consistent with the idea that EM fields affect many biological systems by interacting with electrons moving during redox reactions and also within DNA.
http://cryptogon.com/?p=26704

Will the Pill Give You and Your Partner Cancer?

How women may be contributing to men’s rising cancer rates. biomedical literature bears testimony to over 25 adverse effects associated with the use of oral contraceptives. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/02/use-of-pill-raise-prostate-cancer-risk.aspx

Inside look at face transplantation

Researchers describe details of patient preparation, novel design and execution of the operation as well as unique immunosuppression protocol allowing for lowest long-term maintenance drug regimen. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111229091843.htm

Weight Loss Tip 8 - Think Quality of Calories, Not Number

Let’s face it, counting calories or grams of this and that is impractical. It is not very useful when trying to lose weight because not all calories are created equal. A 300-calorie candy bar is not equivalent to a 300-calorie turkey wrap. Your body responds differently to these foods. The sugary candy bar is likely to feed your fat cells, whereas the high-protein wrap will feed muscle, fostering a chain of events that result in a higher metabolism, preserved lean muscle mass, and blood sugar balance. http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2011/12/30/kathy-smith-laws-lean-living.aspx

The Scandal of Reincarnated Rats

John Braithwaite is back. The famed Australian corporate criminologist is teaming up with a former European pharmaceutical executive – Graham Dukes – and together they are completing a new book on corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry. http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/03/corporate-crime-in-the-pharmaceutical-industry/

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I Think Someone Is Going About This The Wrong Way

Dear God,

My prayer for 2011 is for a fat bank account & a thin body.

Please don’t mix these up like you did last year.

AMEN!!!

Blonde Help

A blonde teenager, wanting to earn some extra money for the summer, decided to hire herself out as a “handy-woman” and started canvassing a nearby well-to-do neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house, and asked the owner if he had any odd jobs for her to do.

“Well, I guess I could use somebody to paint my porch.” he said, “How much will you charge me?”

Delighted, the girl quickly responded, “How about $50?”

The man agreed and told her that the paint brushes and everything she would need was in the garage. The man’s wife, hearing the conversation said to her husband, “Does she realize that our porch goes ALL the way around the house?”

He responded, “That’s a bit cynical, isn’t it?”

The wife replied, “You’re right. I guess I’m starting to believe all those dumb blonde jokes we’ve been getting by email lately.”

Later that day, the blonde teenager came to the door to collect her money.

“You’re finished already?” the startled husband asked.

“Yes, she replied, and I even had paint left over, so I gave it two coats.”

Impressed, the man reached into his pocket for the $50.00 and handed it to her along with a $10.00 tip.

“And by the way,” the blonde teenager added, “it’s not a Porch, it’s a Lexus.”

So You’re Thinking of Having Kids?

Lesson 1

1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the paper.
5. Read it for the last time.

Lesson 2

Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already are parents and berate them about their...

1. Methods of discipline.
2. Lack of patience.
3. Appallingly low tolerance levels.
4. Allowing their children to run wild.
5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child’s breastfeeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behavior.

Enjoy it because it will be the last time in your life you will have all the answers.

Lesson 3

A really good way to discover how the nights might feel...

1. Get home from work and immediately begin walking around the living room from 5PM to 10PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly. (Eat cold food with one hand for dinner)
2. At 10PM, put the bag gently down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1AM.
4. Set the alarm for 3AM.
5. As you can’t get back to sleep, get up at 2AM and make a drink and watch an infomercial.
6. Go to bed at 2:45AM.
7. Get up at 3AM when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs quietly in the dark until 4AM.
9. Get up. Make breakfast. Get ready for work and go to work (work hard and be productive)

Repeat steps 1-9 each night. Keep this up for 3-5 years. Look cheerful and together.

Lesson 4

Can you stand the mess children make? To find out...

1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains.
2. Hide a piece of raw chicken behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flower bed.
4. Then rub them on the clean walls.
5. Take your favorite book, photo album, etc. Wreck it.
6. Spill milk on your new pillows. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look?

Lesson 5

Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems.

1. Buy an octopus and a small bag made out of loose mesh.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the bag so that none of the arms hang out.

Time allowed for this - all morning.

Lesson 6

Forget the BMW and buy a mini-van. And don’t think that you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don’t look like that.

1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.
2. Get a dime. Stick it in the CD player.
3. Take a family size package of chocolate cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Sprinkle cheerios all over the floor, then smash them with your foot.
4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.

Lesson 7

Go to the local grocery store. Take with you the closest thing you can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is an excellent choice). If you intend to have more than one child, then definitely take more than one goat. Buy your week’s groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.

Lesson 8

1. Hollow out a melon.
2. Make a small hole in the side.
3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side.
4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone.
6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the air.

You are now ready to feed a nine-month-old baby.

Lesson 9

Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street , Barney, Disney, the Teletubbies, and Pokemon. Watch nothing else on TV but PBS, the Disney channel or Noggin for at least five years. (I know, you’re thinking What’s ’Noggin’?) Exactly the point.

Lesson 10

Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying ’mommy’ repeatedly. (Important: no more than a four second delay between each ’mommy’; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required). Play this tape in your car everywhere you go for the next four years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

Lesson 11

Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your skirt hem, shirt- sleeve, or elbow while playing the ’mommy’ tape made from Lesson 10 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.

This is all very tongue in cheek; anyone who is parent will say ’it’s all worth it!’ Share it with your friends, both those who do and don’t have kids. I guarantee they’ll get a chuckle out of it. Remember, a sense of humor is one of the most important things you’ll need when you become a parent!?

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Stop SOPA Or Its Later Versions

If passed, the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, will ban the very architecture of the Internet and turn the Internet into basically another form of television.

The Internet is interactive. It is infinitely searchable with links that connect the free flow of information and ideas to a system that can be navigated. Without that ’interactivity’ the internet is literally just another boob tube.

It’s all a set-up. The entertainment industry rigged this from the beginning to destroy the Internet as we know it.

This video explains both how they did it and how to stop them... http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/6341.html

Why Work Doesn’t Happen At Work

Some great points on work sans interruptions... http://www.wimp.com/workhappen/

Guang by Quek Shio Chuan

A short film dedicated to those with autism... http://www.wimp.com/guangquek/

A Cute Story

How much imagination does this little girl have? http://www.wimp.com/cutestory/

A quote from Desmond Tutu

“Despite all the ghastliness that is around, human beings are made for goodness. The ones who ought to be held in high regard are not the ones who are militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They are the ones who have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.”

Global Snub of US Dollar Goes Unnoticed

There is a bi-lateral agreement that has been struck between China and Japan whereby the two countries will promote the trading of the yen and yuan without using U.S. dollars. http://www.moneynews.com/Advani/US-Dollar-yen-yuan/2011/12/28/id/422319

The History of MIT’s Blatant Suppression of Cold Fusion

I am very interested in the events that took place immediately after the birth of Cold Fusion in 1989, when Pons and Fleischmann announced the existence of their technology to the world. Although cold fusion systems at the time were not ready for the market place, they proved the effect was real — a fact the establishment could not allow the public to accept.

Immediately after the announcement was made, the “mainstream” scientific community went on the attack. The late Eugene Mallove was in the middle of it, being employed at MIT in the news office — before resigning in protest of the institution’s misconduct. In a featured article for Infinite Energy Magazine, Mallove detailed exactly what took place that led to his resignation, and the depth of hatred that many professors at MIT had for Pons and Fleischmann’s work. The article titled, “MIT and Cold Fusion: A Special Report” also looks at how the replication performed by the institution’s Plasma Fusion Center actually did produce positive results, how data from the experiment was altered by unknown individuals at least twice, and how the hot fusion scientists in charge of such tests were far too biased to conduct proper research.

He signed it. We’ll fight it.

President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law. It contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. The dangerous new law can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield. He signed it. Now, we have to fight it wherever we can and for as long as it takes. https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?s_subsrc=120103_NDAA_mar&pagename=120103_NDAAGOLAsk&JServSessionIdr004=b00dvac3i5.app224a

NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecraft now together in lunar orbit

Nasa’s twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory) spacecraft are now in orbit around the Moon. Having achieved lunar orbit at 2 pm PST on New Year’s Eve, GRAIL-A was joined by GRAIL-B at 2:43 pm PST on New Year’s Day. The twin spacecraft are now in a near-polar, elliptical orbit with an orbital period of approximately 11.5 hours. In readiness for the science phase of the mission which is due to start in March 2012, both spacecraft will undergo a series of burns to place them in a near-polar, near-circular orbit with an altitude of about 34 miles (55 km) and orbital period of just under two hours. http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-grail-spacecraft-lunar-orbit/20984/

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Until next time,
dream big dreams,
read widely,
think well of your fellow man,
eat food that’s good for you
and do the important things
that make a difference -
they are rarely the urgent ones!

How To Live The Healthiest Life


Tom Grimshaw creates software, healthy snacks and
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