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3 points of truth to keep in mind while traveling this road called life:

• Learn and Know the Rules.
• Keep it Simple.
• Follow your Heart.

Wishing you all Good Hunting!

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Bill Gates, college drop-out, lecturing to potential grads.

Pounding around and looking at metaphysical stuff (like I am inclined to do), I found yet another person being pilloried in absentia by some hyper-critical goofballs (affectionately called) who really haven’t thought their own thoughts through.

Colleges and Universities are, like their government sponsors, just pulling a big scam on all their students, their faculty, their alumni, and the people at large.

People who say that this or that online or brick-and-mortar college isn’t “accredited” and so is a “diploma mill” haven’t studied what passes for higher education these days.

Now, at the outset, let me again state that I run scams, am a scammer, and nothing I say can really be proved or denied effectively. Like believing that angels help you run your life. Can’t be either proved or disproved. What counts is the results you get from that belief. (And the difference between me and those who would call me a scammer is that I freely admit that I am – they can’t, even though they are just as much as I am.)

I deal in metaphysics, which is the sheerest gossamer of fabric to make a living at.

Practically, I also raise cattle – and you can see obviously what side of the fence a calf is on, just by looking.

But in the smoky halls of what is promoted as “higher” education, you are cautioned several times to disregard the man behind the curtain – who, when cornered and exposed, finally admits his “humbuggery”.

Let’s look at some stats and facts:

I. “Everyone knows” that the Ivy League organizations are the ones to graduate from, right?

• • Ask Bill Gates why he dropped out of Harvard.
  • Ask Michael Dell or Larry Ellison why they dropped out.
  • Or Warren Buffet how his degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln helped him become third-richest man in the world.
  • Or go figure why Sam Walton made all his billions with a BS degree from University of Missouri?

II. And who is “accrediting” these school?  A private set of organizations who derive their income from these same organizations. It’s simply a good old boy’s network, much like the BBB. Go along to get along. If you don’t pay your dues, you’re shunned.

I stayed the hell away from higher learning for much of my life after going through hell in high school and finding that it was just preparing us for four or more years of the same. That I’d be in debt up to my eyeballs when I finished and would know no more about how life really worked than I did already.

So I left and made my way across country several times, learning through hard knocks and hard-scrabble work.

I wound up in a big scam called Scientology, who issued me several dozen certificates which are worthless outside of their own sales funnel. But I learned more about life and how people actually worked by studying all sorts of cultures and mindsets, which I wouldn’t have had any other way.

Then I got out of it and went to college under the idea I needed some initials behind my name to “make money” in this world. I ended up getting 7 degrees in 7 years, studying every type and kind of educational process that 6 different training facilities had.

And wound up doing some of the toughest study on my own – analyzing analysis itself – and used that research to earn a PhD in Comparative Religions from one one of these “unaccredited universities” in Sedona.

A few years later, I was being dissed behind my back by some associates of mine I’d earlier worked with on the West Coast. While none of these had even bothered to try to get degrees of any type or kind, they were not-so-politely deriding my “diploma mill” very publicly in a forum for everyone to see.

My response was to tell them that it’s not what you got, it’s what you do with it. And they shut up.

That is the secret behind Gates, Dell, Ellison, Buffet, and Walton and their successes. They made money and their success in spite of their education or lack of it.

And so very many people do literally nothing with their degrees. I’ve worked right next to people with BA’s in factories and warehouses. Making just enough to get by – certainly not millionaires. And next to recently graduated “Bachelor of Fine Arts” who had never been trained on how to write a business plan or marketing plan to make a living from their artwork.

I mean, look at it like this: There you are all recently risen and outside the Pearly Gates, and where St. Peter is looking you up in his book – and he’s going to be impressed with all those degrees by your name?  No – he wants to know what good you did for others.

Does the Golden Rule depend on having several Masters under your belt – no, it depend on how you invest your heart in others’ welfare.

I found all that education interesting. Because it was an experience in how people taught people, how we learn, and led me to get some data on how this universe actually fits together – but not from how they say it does.

But what’s the worth of all that paper? Exactly what I make of it.

Same for you. Join my free University for Scammers – and have all the success you want in life. Just as long as you first help everyone around you to get their own success. That’s the secret colleges and universities don’t and won’t teach you. It’s all smoke, mirrors, and old men behind curtains pulling levers and cords…

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If you thought pork from Washington was bad and out of control — how about those journalists spreading the H1N1 hysteria?!?

But at a farm show today,  I ran across some very fascinating data – which turns the fictions churned out by our “main-scream” media.

Where I started out today was from visiting with a local farmer who had bottled elderberry juice available for sale – that he had raised and gotten processed. The info sheet he had told about this flu property of elderberries, so I thought to look it up tonight.

And so much for mandatory shots with mystery compounds that drive the conspiracists nuts.

Research centered on Sambucu nigra, the black European elder shows that while elderberry doesn’t prevent one catching the flu, it is able to give almost incredibly fast relief.

His approach is to create a tincture (alchohol based) from the dried berries.

6. How to make elderberry tincture(or any herbal tincture)? Use any REALLY clean, preferably sterilized, glass jar – size does not really matter, but quart canning jars seem to be preferred for ease of storing, sterilizing, and filling. In ANY size glass jar, fill the jar 1/3 full of dried black (S. nigra) elderberries, this does NOT have to be exact, eyeball measurement is just fine. One pound of dried elderberries will eyeball fill 3 quarts with a bit left over or you can just evenly divide a pound of the dried berries between 3 quart jars. More really does NOT make the tincture stronger. Now fill the jar almost to the top with vodka, not less than 80 proof. DO NOT USE any other alcohol you happen to have in your stash no matter the proof, brand or type. VODKA = TINCTURE; Other alcohol = non-medicinal alcohol. Now, cap the jar securely, give a shake or two, and store in a cool, dark area for 7-10 days. That is the universally accepted time period to produce tincture. Longer does not make stronger; phases of the moon MAY have some effect but there is no documentation on that so far. After the 7-10 days you can strain off the liquid and toss the berry residue. DO NOT think to reuse that residue, the resulting liquid will not work as you expect. Your tincture is now ready to use should there be influenza in your area. You do not have to strain off the liquid, but the tincture is not going to get any more medicinal just sitting there soaking the berries. The alcohol molecules fill up to capacity within the 7-10 days and can absorb no more no matter how long it soaks.

7. How do you use elderberry tincture? Since elderberries medicinal properties work directly on Influenza A or B virus present in the body it is NOT a preventative, so taking it in hopes of avoiding infection will not work. When an adult exhibits symptoms of influenza infection i.e. sudden onset of high fever, dry persistent cough, weakness, commercially prepared elderberry preparations suggest taking internally 2 teaspoons of preparation every 4 hours i.e. Sambucol. To use homemade elderberry tincture consensus of opinion seems to be that taking 2 Tablespoons every 6 hours or so for 8-10 days will do the trick. There will be a reduction in symptoms within 2-3 days of taking elderberry tincture as per recommended above, but the virsus will still be present so take for the full 8-10 days just like taking an antibiotic for a prescribed treatment course. Some are hesitant to take after infection due to elderberrys’ VERY slight immune boosting properties.

And this author suggests you make a syrup for children and those who’d rather not use alchohol.

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WebMD had other favorable reports, stating in unqualified terms that relief from flu symptoms started within 72 hours.

In folk medicine, flowers from the black elder bush have been used to ease flu symptoms, colds, and sinus problems. In recent years, researchers have begun formal studies of Sambucol — a formulation of elderberry extract — to better understand this herbal remedy.

A small study published five years ago showed that 93% of flu patients given Sambucol were completely symptom-free within two days; those taking a placebo recovered in about six days. However, the study took place during an outbreak of influenza B — so it was unclear whether Sambucol worked with type A virus.

This current study shows that, indeed, it works for type A flu, reports lead researcher Erling Thom, with the University of Oslo in Norway.

Thom’s findings were presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Antiviral Research in 2002. The study has been accepted for publication in the Journal of International Medical Research.

The study involved 60 patients who had been suffering with flu symptoms for 48 hours or less; 90% were infected with the A strain of the virus, 10% were infected with type B. Half the group took 15 milliliters of Sambucol or and the other group took a placebo four times a day for five days.

Patients in the Sambucol group had “pronounced improvements” in flu symptoms after three days: Nearly 90% of patients had complete cure within two to three days. Also, the Sambucol group had no drowsiness, the downside of many flu treatments.

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Another report – just as recent as Nov 5 – says a clinical study confirms its efficacy against H1N1 virus

In a randomised, placebo controlled, double-blind in-vitro study the black elderberry extract was found to be 70 per cent effective in preventing the H1N1 virus from infecting healthy cells and reduced intracellular replication by the same amount. The extract, commercially available in the UK under the name Sambucol, was shown to have a significant effect on cells after just five minutes incubation time. Details of the study are available at www.blackelderberry.info.

This new research suggests that black elderberry extract could provide a two-fold solution to both the prevention and treatment of the H1N1 swine flu virus. The study also substantiates earlier trial findings which showed that the black elderberry extract was effective in reducing the duration of influenza symptoms by four days. In comparison, Tamiflu only reduces the duration of symptoms by one day. Previously, an in-vitro study also found black elderberry extract to be 99 per cent effective against the H5N1 strain of Avian Flu.

Following these results, scientists are investigating the possibility of applying for permission to engage in in-vivo studies on swine flu sufferers – something which is currently prohibited under European law.

Black elderberries are thought to contain a compound which coats viruses and prevents them from penetrating and infecting healthy cells. As a result viruses are unable to replicate. Any virus infected cells are then killed and ingested by the body’s white blood cells to remove the virus from the body.

Of course, that’s from a Press Release promoting the drug.

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And the natural cures are more effective than the unnatural ailments.

But hasn’t that been the Way all along?

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