IonField Toothbrush
Dear Catalyst House Friends,
Let me introduce the IonField Toothbrush:
As we head into the straightaway towards the Christmas holidays, many of you will be wondering what to give as gifts to family, friends, business associates, and others whom you want to remember in this time of acknowledgement and appreciation. We have a suggestion.
The only qualifiers for the recipients of this gift is that they are still curious about new ideas, and that they still have teeth. If they pass that screening test, it is likely that they will be delighted to receive an IonField Toothbrush on any occasion.
This brush works for all ages, genders, nationalities, and professions (even dentists). And since this is probably one item that most people have never heard of and therefore never considered, we observe that no one seems disappointed when they open the package. They don’t have to think, “Oh no, not another one of these” or “But this isn’t my color” or “I don’t have time to read this” or any of the thousands of other issues which we all have but seldom express. They will just look puzzled.
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Then you let them read the enclosed Instruction Sheet (see below), and their faces will change. And the next time you see them, they will say, “Wow, that brush really works! THANKS!”
Here are some unedited testimonials from happy recipients:
“My own experience is that after the first brushing my teeth felt so wonderfully smooth and fresh, just like that hygienist-cleaned feeling. Two weeks later at a regular checkup, my dentist thought they were so pristine that I didn’t need any cleaning from him at all. And I normally have quite a bit of plaque.
After trying one himself for a month he ordered two more for his family. He is a particularly well-researched non-amalgam-based dentist. His understanding of the process was that the ionic charge around the toothbrush head changed the ionic charge on the tooth surface so that bacteria found it harder to stick.
D. R., New Zealand
“Holy cow, I am amazed after using the IonField toothbrush for the first time (with no toothpaste). My teeth felt cleaner than after a professional cleaning by the dentist, and I only brushed for about a minute. No more chemically-laden toothpaste or mouthwash for me!
P.S. It’s day three using the IonField Toothbrush once each day. Tea and tobacco staining have already decreased noticeably. The effect is equally apparent on my porcelain crowns as well as my own teeth. Incredible!”
Lee, British Columbia (Read more…)
Bernard von NotHaus awaits his sentencing for ‘domestic terrorism’
Bernard von NotHaus
“The thing that fires me up the most,” von NotHaus will say, “is this is what happens: When money goes bad, people go crazy. Do you know why? Because they can’t exist without value. Value is intrinsic in man.”
His name is Bernard von NotHaus, and he is a professed “monetary architect” and a maker of custom coins found guilty last spring of counterfeiting charges for minting and distributing a form of private money called the Liberty Dollar.
Mr. von NotHaus managed over the last decade to get more than 60 million real dollars’ worth of his precious metal-backed currency into circulation across the country — so much, and with such deep penetration, that the prosecutor overseeing his case accused him of “domestic terrorism” for using them to undermine the government.
Of course, if you ask him what caused him to be living here in exile, waiting with the rabbits for his sentence to be rendered, he will give a different account of what occurred.
From New York Times: Prison May Be the Next Stop on a Gold Currency Journey
“This is the United States government,” he said in an interview last week. “It’s got all the guns, all the surveillance, all the tanks, it has nuclear weapons, and it’s worried about some ex-surfer guy making his own money? Give me a break!”
The story of Mr. von NotHaus, from his beginnings as a hippie, can sound at times as if Ken Kesey had been paid in marijuana to write a script on spec for Representative Ron Paul. At 68, Mr. von NotHaus faces more than 20 years in prison for his crimes, and this decisive chapter of his tale has come, coincidentally, at a moment when his obsessions of 40 years — monetary policy, dollar depreciation and the Federal Reserve Bank — have finally found their place in the national discourse.
The Importance of Bitcoin, a Perspective
Neal Stephenson’s cypher-punk sci-fi novel The Diamond Age takes place in a future where encrypted currencies and e-commerce have moved most economic transactions into “darknets” beyond government’s capability of monitoring and regulation, causing tax bases around the world to implode and bringing on the collapse of most nation-states.
This recent video below from OnlineMBA explaining Bitcoin, while well made, appears to be grounded in such fears as the darknets raised in the Stephenson novel.
Encrypted currencies and darknet economies have been promoted by such thinkers as David de Ugarte and John Robb as a real-world model for resilient communities in the impending age of empire collapse.
Jason Calacanis and his colleagues at LAUNCH describe Bitcoin as “The Most Dangerous Project We’ve Ever Seen” (May 15, 2011). Not only is it “the most dangerous open-source project ever created,” but “possibly the most dangerous technological project since the Internet itself.” It “could topple governments, destabilize economies and create uncontrollable global bazaars for contraband.”
Seed Wars = Knowledge Wars = GMOs
Do not be fooled by all of the slick ads and expert shills propaganda – remember to vote YES on CA PROP 37 this Tuesday 11/6! As Michael Spector writes in yesterday’s New Yorker:
On Tuesday the residents of California will vote on whether to become the first state in the nation to require labels to appear on foods that contain genetically engineered products. The proposition would also make it illegal to label any engineered or processed foods as “natural.” (For a moment, let’s put aside the fact that no meaningful definition of “natural” food exists.) The result, particularly if Proposition 37 passes, will set a precedent likely to shape the debate in other states—and in Washington, D.C.
Consumers deserve the right to know what’s in their food—and obviously most people want that choice. It’s hard to see how more knowledge about the products we eat every day can hurt us. But facts, particularly facts about science, are not what this proposition is about. The rancorous tone of the debate and the money wasted on propaganda—most of it spent by big agricultural companies in an effort to defeat the proposition—have been remarkable.
Genetically engineered seeds and crops (GMOs) = seed wars = knowledge wars.
The only reason crops have been genetically engineered is to take patents on seeds , and collect royalties.If during colonialism the concept of Terra Nullius, empty land, allowed the take over of land and territories by the colonizer, a new concept of Bio Nullius, or “empty life,” is being used to claim “intellectual property rights” on seeds , biodiversity and lifeforms.
“But life is not empty. Seeds are not an invention. They embody millions of years of biological evolution , and thousands of years of cultural evolution and farmers breeding. When corporations claim patents, they basically “pirate” traits that nature and farmers have evolved. They pirate and patent the aroma of basmati, the low gluten qualities of our native wheat, the salt tolerant, drought tolerant, flood tolerant traits of climate resilience our farmers have bred. This is, not innovation and invention, it is Biopiracy. The only traits that the corporations have introduced into plants through genetic engineering are the toxic traits of Bt toxin and herbicide resistance. Besides being toxic, these traits have not reduced chemical use as has been repeatedly claimed. Our studies in Vidharba show a 13 fold increase in pesticide use since Bt cotton was introduced.” – Dr. Vandana Shiva
