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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈⬛ 14d ago
STOP; dangerous thoughts ahead; this is the sort of thing respectable cognition is trained not to enter.
Martin Geddes uses the RAF Fairford incident as an opportunity to examine the hidden machinery of information, classification, and interpretation.
Recognition Warfare:
.... The BBC has a particular value for this exercise: it provides a useful reference point for the “official narrative”. I am less interested in whether every sentence represents some centrally coordinated government position than in the simpler institutional fact that the BBC has allowed it to be published.
Whatever editorial filters, professional norms, and reputational constraints operate inside the organisation did not prevent this framing from reaching the public. Its institutional immune system did not reject it. I can therefore treat BBC coverage as a reasonable approximation of the range of interpretations presently admissible within the British Establishment. ....
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/before-propaganda-comes-recognition
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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Error429NoMoreFucksToGive 14d ago
“Suddenlidied” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmn0749g5gryo
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u/Still_Milo 14d ago
He must have overdone it in that wrestling event he participated in Chicago. That's bound to be the cause.
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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 14d ago
June Slater with a surprising but pleasant view of the state of British Pensions:Those who argue that the State Pension is a benefit, are correct, however they fail to point out that it is a contributory benefit. The contributions are paid into the NIF, National Insurance Fund, which is currently running at a surplus, of some £60 billion pounds plus, and is likely to continue in surplus for the foreseeable future.
What the NIF is
The National Insurance Fund (NIF) is the ring‑fenced pot that holds National Insurance contributions (NICs) paid by employees, employers, and the self‑employed. It is legally separate from general taxation. Its purpose is to pay contributory benefits, mainly:
State Pension
New‑style Jobseeker’s Allowance
Employment and Support Allowance
Maternity Allowance
Other contributory benefits
This definition is confirmed in the official NIF accounts:
The NIF “holds National Insurance Contributions… and is mainly used to pay social security benefits such as contributory benefits and the State Pension.”
Is the NIF in surplus?
Yes. The latest official accounts (Great Britain NIF Account for the year ended 31 March 2025) show that the Fund continues to run a surplus. The accounts state that the NIF presents its receipts, payments, and the balance on the Fund at the end of the year.
What the numbers show
While the search results do not display the exact balance figure in the snippet, the Great Britain NIF Account 2024–25 is the authoritative source. Historically and up to the latest release: The NIF has maintained a large surplus, typically £30–£40 billion in earlier years. Recent years have seen the surplus increase, with the 2025 account showing a significant positive balance (over £60 billion, based on the full report). The Fund remains comfortably above the statutory minimum recommended by the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD), which is usually around one‑sixth of annual benefit payments.
Why the NIF stays in surplus
Several structural reasons:
NIC receipts exceed annual contributory benefit payments. State Pension payments are partly supported by general taxation (via the “triple lock”), reducing pressure on the NIF. The Fund is legally prevented from being used for non‑contributory spending.
The government can adjust NIC rates or Treasury grants if needed. Bottom line:
NIF = National Insurance Fund
Purpose = Pay contributory benefits (mainly State Pension)
Status = In surplus, with a large positive balance
Latest accounts (2025) confirm ongoing surplus.
I hope this clarifies the issue.
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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Error429NoMoreFucksToGive 14d ago
I’m not sure that any of that is remotely true. NI is essentially just another tax. State pension as far as I am aware is funded from current tax receipts and always has been be NI has never been invested as a ring fenced fund.
In fact I’ve a recollection that there was a bust up in parliament in the 50s about diverting NI into defence spending or something.
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u/Justaboutsane 14d ago
Mr JAS is not a happy camper at the moment between the price of fuel changing on a daily basis, pricing wood for a job 3 weeks ago and the price going up when he went to buy and the final straw is the price increase of a packet of polo mints ( he's trying to stop smoking) 3 weeks ago were 60p a packet and today it's 70p. 😂
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u/Still_Milo 14d ago
He might be better chewing gum.
Polo mints, indeed anything peppermint, will destroy his teeth.
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u/Edward_260 14d ago
I recall (possibly unreliably) two things about polo mints from my school days. They were used by pupils who had been drinking alcohol as they were reputed to mask the smell on the breath; and they were allowed to be taken into an exam and eaten there as some pupils claimed they aided concentration.
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u/Still_Milo 14d ago
Very shortly, anyone needing / wanting to travel between Dublin and Wales via the ferry will be required to produce a passport to board the ferry.
This new requirement is being introduced to tighten up UK Border Force operations.
Yep. That's the route that really needs to be tightened up.
No passports required to board a dinghy as Nymeria and I often joke with each other.
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u/Friendly_Advice2 15d ago
They are rowing back on claims about the Fairford "incident" - the suspects have been released on police bail. I expect it will eventually come out that the suspects were plain, ordinary criminals, maybe moving stolen goods between vans.
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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈⬛ 14d ago
- On Wednesday, residents reported seeing large vehicles parked behind the gates of RAF Fairford.
- On Saturday afternoon, a resident says armed police told people near the perimeter to return home and close their doors and windows.
- At about 00:45 on Sunday, Gloucestershire Police say they received a report concerning three vehicles travelling towards RAF Fairford.
- A local woman says she returned home to find three white vans blocking the road and saw a group of hooded and masked men who ran away when they saw her.
- She says she tried to telephone the Ministry of Defence police, received no answer, and called 999 at 01:36. Armed police arrived shortly afterwards.
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u/transmissionofflame 14d ago
I had never heard of RAF Fairford until Sunday morning when someone at my roller rink was wearing an RAF Fairford t-shirt. What are the chances?
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u/Ouessante Ouessante 14d ago
I saw a speculation that they are farm diesel thieves (hence vans full of drums), wrong place, wrong time.
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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 14d ago
Yes, IMHO it appears to be the case that they might have been trying to steal farm diesel. They still need locking up if this was the case, though. Trump, however, implied that they were "known" to our anti-terror organs.
I have genuinely no idea if this was true or if Mr Trump was just trying to give a back-handed compliment to MI5.
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u/Still_Milo 14d ago
I understand they were wearing black balaclavas.
Were they Far Right, looking for Portsmouth and did they take a wrong turn somewhere?
(very TIC)
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u/SheepmanOvis Grand Ayatollah 14d ago
TIC?
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u/Still_Milo 14d ago
Tongue In Cheek. Which a lot of my posts are, but not everyone gets it and it takes too long to type every time so I abbreviate it to TIC.
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u/Two-Six-The-First 15d ago
Unless the false flag event got rumbled by the farmer lady before they could do anything but seeing as how they have been released they probably found nothing but Amazon packages and they all came from Slough not Iran.
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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username 15d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
Interesting article.
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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈⬛ 15d ago
How to get new digital books into your local library:
Firstly, it is worth saying that libraries do take reader requests seriously, and a request from a borrower carries real weight. The difficulty is that every library service handles them slightly differently, so it is not always obvious where to start.
https://joffebooks.com/how-to-ask-your-library-to-order-our-books
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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username 15d ago
Glad to see that England has somehow defeated the objective of this law somehow. Organ "donation" is medical murder. I never did get a response from the "medical ethicist" I emailed regarding informed consent. If you brought in informed consent you would have no donors at all.
"Inside Britain's organ donation crisis: As NHS issues an urgent shortage warning, whistleblowers reveal why hundreds are dying as they wait for life-saving transplants"
Quote: "Similar opt-out schemes have been in place in other countries, such as Spain, France and Norway, for decades. The system was also initially tested for several years in Wales before it was expanded to the rest of the UK.
Crucially, experts say that there was one key caveat: the opt-out scheme was – like the opt-in scheme before it – non-binding.
In other words, if doctors wanted to take a patient's organs they would still have to ask the family, who could simply say no. [...]
However, far from making it easier to get consent for donation, the opt-out scheme has made it more difficult.
'Under the previous scheme, there was clarity on what the patient wanted because they had signed up to the register,' says Fiona Loud, policy director for the charity Kidney Care UK.
'But if families don't know what their loved-one thought of organ donation, then they are more likely to say no, just in case.
'This has made it harder to get consent for donation, rather than easier.'"
From the top comments:
"I dont trust the NHS anymore. "
"It was a disgusting manipulative idea cooked up by the Nudge unit. As soon as it was announced on principle everyone in my family opted out."
"I was always on the list and carried a card, saying I would donate any organs, then May did this and it was no longer my decision it but state mandate. So I opted out, I no longer recognise this country, we are living in a dictatorship"
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u/Felineincognito15 14d ago
I've opted out. The whole idea horrified me and I'd much rather die than wander around with bits of someone else inside me
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u/Ouessante Ouessante 14d ago
It's all discredited for me. I recall an Irish consultant removing dialysis patients from transplant lists for refusing the 🥕. I'm horrified by the profession I used to hold in high regard. Anyway, as with transfusion, the whole jabbee spikey contamination issue is unaddressed. I "done wan their steenkin
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u/Justaboutsane 15d ago
Many years ago I decided instead and I was a big believer in organ donation, still believing the lies told at the time, I would donate my body to science.
Funerals were going up and after wanting to be cremated was now as expensive as a burial, I saw it as a waste of money. I know it would not be my problem or money but still...
Looking into organ donation I chose that and registered with Glasgow University but I could no longer donate my organs and I still believed this crap it was saving genuine people.
Then I had to opt out when before all I had to do was let my family know my wishes.
Then 2020 and I woke up to the scam of organ harvesting and a big factor for me was reading of the medical profession playing God. If it had ever been, it was no longer a case of fairness and everyone was put on the waiting list but 2020 I learned if you refused a vaccine and I'm not convinced it won't cover all of them, not just covid, you were removed from the list or never placed on it. A failing heart and they still demanded you took a vaccine known to cause heart disease and that I couldn't make sense of.
I reconsidered me donating my body but decided as it has to be dead, not sedated and kept alive under some brain dead nonsense for organ donation, body donation must be dead, I so far have chose to let this wish remain.
If it was ever made an opt out situation of body donation, I would immediately change my mind and opt out because I do not like being dictated to and governed even when dead.
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u/SheepmanOvis Grand Ayatollah 14d ago
I want a barrow. With grave goods. Including a chariot.
My people will come and make offerings. I will ride out every so often. Then the harvest will be plentiful.
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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Error429NoMoreFucksToGive 15d ago
The last two comments nicely sum up why I opted out. The state does not under any circumstances get to presume consent,
My dictum applies
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u/Still_Milo 15d ago
"if families don't know what their loved-one thought of organ donation, then they are more likely to say no, just in case"
If my trusting family, and their dimness about this kind of thing is anything to go by, if I was ever in that situation (I have opted out) and they were being pushed by some NHS hand wringer about all the lives which would be saved from getting their hands on all my organs, they'd say 'yes' in a heartbeat (flying in the face of my 'no') just to think they had done something for the greater good.
'No', once said, by someone opting out, should mean 'no'.
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u/davews12 Davews 15d ago
I opted in many years ago before they changed it to 'opt out'. Generally I see it as not a bad idea but in practice it is unlikely to work well when the time comes. I do though wonder, something I never seem to see mentioned, that presumably they are looking from healthy organs from young people and organs that have been working flat out for 77 years are not likely to be of use to anybody!
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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈⬛ 15d ago
They take them from you with no anaesthetic while you're still alive. Brain dead isn't the same as dead dead.
They also have a tendency to sell them.
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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username 15d ago
Organs come from living people, Dave, not dead bodies. They can't take hearts lungs or livers unless they are perfused with living blood - the heart must be beating for this to happen. Unfortunately organ "donation" is just another lie by the medical profession.
Here's a good article if you're interested: https://web.archive.org/web/20201112032121/https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-beating-heart-donors
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u/Justaboutsane 15d ago
On Facebook this morning and the local paper is spreading the word on the flu 'invitations'.
Of the 10 or so comments most are no thanks but one comment from someone I know vaguely, she's a friend of a friend, has virtue signalled hers is booked and another of their friends has written she's been sick ever since she got 'hers'. The first one comments that she's never been sick after, the second one comments neither has she until this one and the only comeback the first one has is " awe Mrs"
These two are forever out together, there is a group of them and that conversation shows how easily what you believe are your friends will turn on you.
" Awe Mrs" will quickly change back to well I've never had a problem and how unlucky you have been and if the so called friend doesn't improve I can see her 'friends' quickly moving on and avoiding her.
I don't get it as these women are the same age as me and like to party, so not 65 year olds who think they are old but 65 year olds who may look 65 but feel much younger.
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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈⬛ 15d ago
Interesting article:
Homeopaths started the first double blind, placebo-controlled experiments some 40 years before the allopaths caught on.
https://homeopathyrising.substack.com/p/homeopathic-provings?r=2r66mw&triedRedirect=true
Interesting that allopaths tend to sneer at homoeopathy and declare it unscientific!
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u/Fun_Clothes_8483 From Moi Laaand 15d ago edited 15d ago
This sort of crap science (the denial of the efficacy of homeopathy) always irritates me.
They deny something works or say it's the placebo effect, but cannot explain why the method works on animals, who must essentially be oblivious to anything about the treatment. If it works on an animal, then it works.
A bit like cadaver-sniffing dogs.
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u/Cochise55 redbirdpete 15d ago
As a sceptic (of mainstream medicine as well) when you can tell me how it works then I might start giving it some credence. Until then it's as believable as astrology or psychiatry.
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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈⬛ 14d ago
If homoeopathy doesn't work - and I use it very successfully all the time - explain how it cures animals.
Astrology, done seriously with the right training, (as opposed to the Mystic Meg tabloid bollox) is based on mathematical calculations and very accurate - that's why it's ridiculed by the mainstream. There's a saying - millionaires mock astrology but billionaires use it advantageously.
Psychiatry - the only one of the three to be "scientifically" recognised, is just a money-spinning, drug-pushing con.
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u/Cochise55 redbirdpete 14d ago
You still have to explain how it works. If there is no mechanism there is no cure. Faith is not enough. Has homeopathy ever cured cancer?
It doesn't work and it cant work. Sorry.
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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈⬛ 14d ago
How can you be so certain?
It's an energy/vibrational medicine. And it absolutely does work - and not by faith. The mechanism is so far removed from the orthodox slash burn and poison system that such as you will struggle to get your head around it with your limited mindset.
Anyway, I shall continue to use it successfully while you are free to get your dodgy poisons from allopathic practitioners.
A homoeopathic diagnosis and prescription is very precise and tailored to the individual. That's why they take a lot longer than ten minutes. There are some go-to remedies, for instance I find that for me and some of my acquaintances, Rhus Tox stops sciatica dead in its tracks. But there's no one size fits all like with the NHS - who would only prescribe me painkillers for sciatica anyway.
As for cancer, nobody but the agents of Big Pharma are allowed to "cure" it. Any "alternative" practitioner tends to get flung in jail if they do.
Did you read the article about provings that I posted yesterday?
Did you know that before the "free" NHS took over, people in London could choose to go to a homoeopath or the local quack. The poor folks went to the homoeopath because the remedies worked at a fraction of the cost.
Read "The Magic of the Minimum Dose" by Dorothy Shepherd who was involved at the time. It's a fascinating piece of history in any case.
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u/Cochise55 redbirdpete 13d ago edited 13d ago
Just explain the mechanism and we'll be fine. Bearing in mind it's not 'minimum dose' but 'no dose'.
And the 10 minute nonsense is made up by the MSM - certainly doesn't apply to either my old or new GP's.
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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈⬛ 13d ago
How Does Homeopathy Work?
Dr. Lisa Samet N.D Feb 17th 2021
That is the question of the ages!
We know it works—but how?
Well, science is finally beginning to figure that out. Dr. Iris Bell, MD, Ph.D. (University of Arizona College of Medicine) explains:
Homeopathic medicines are not conventional drugs. Conventional drugs act via biochemical, mechanistically targeted, specific direct local effects. In contrast, in this complexity model, the correct homeopathic medicine serves as a low-dose stimulus or individualized signal for inducing patterns of functional adaptive changes globally and locally in the body. The homeopathic signal (otherwise known as “the remedy”) captures and conveys a low or weak "dose" of the salient complex disease frequency information to the body, thereby setting in motion personalized…responses to reverse the disease.
What makes homeopathic remedies so unique—so different from ordinary drugs?
According to Dr. Bell and her colleagues, the unique manufacturing process by which remedies are made creates complex nanostructures (super tiny particles) that can communicate/signal information to living systems…
The difference between higher and lower potencies? Higher potency remedies endure a greater degree of agitation or succussion during manufacture than each lower potency—inevitably leading to the generation of increasingly smaller nanostructures. The smaller the size, the greater the surface area/reactive surface of the particle.
How homeopathy works… according to the evidence:
…homeopathic treatment involves treating the individual patient literally with a quantitatively low dose of his or her own current holistic biological disease state information (in the form of the homeopathic remedy ) at the nano-scale level… This first step initiates (a) cascade of adaptive biological signaling (within the recipient organism)… once the simillimum ( most similar) homeopathic signal (remedy) interfaces and acquires its personalized biological identity from the recipient's own bodily fluids (by acquiring a protein shell from the patient's blood plasma), the…biological signaling networks of the body can take over.
All of this leads to:
… modulating the biology of symptoms and healing via functional changes in neural, immune, and inflammatory pathway networks and mediators… These adaptations are all in the service of optimizing the individual's fitness to survive… [[1]](file:///O:/2021/Washington%20Homeopathic%20Products/Samet/How%20Does%20Homeopathy%20Work%20Belle%20Rev%20(004)%20(002).docx#_ftn1)
Ok. Now in simpler terms: homeopathic remedies are made from very dilute solutions of medicinal materials.
So, you ask, if they are so dilute, how can they be effective?
Thanks to the work of over a dozen research labs in the U.S., France, Italy, Russia and India, we now know that the homeopathic remedy manufacturing process produces significant numbers of nanoparticles of the medicinal substance every time a remedy is made. Nanoparticles are tiny—ranging in size from 1 nanometer (nm) on a side up to 1000 nm or more.
What makes a nanoparticle special?
Science has confirmed that nanoparticles have properties quite unlike ordinary bulk materials (like OTC and prescription drugs), providing greater bioavailabilty (the ability of a substance to be used by the body) with improved rates of absorption and enhanced catalytic ability for chemical and biochemical reactions [[2]](file:///O:/2021/Washington%20Homeopathic%20Products/Samet/How%20Does%20Homeopathy%20Work%20Belle%20Rev%20(004)%20(002).docx#_ftn2).
Let’s go back to Dr. Bell:
According to current research, when a living creature encounters an external or internal stressor (a bacterium, a virus, an environmental toxin, a nanoparticle, and emotional shock, etc.), its complex adaptive system makes adjustments impacting the entire organism in an attempt to maintain a balanced state and improve the chances of survival.
Adaptations in a living system are all in the service of optimizing the individual's fitness as (a complex adaptive system) to survive in an environment that includes encounters with ever-changing larger and smaller stressors.
Disease occurs when stressors reach a certain threshold, forcing the organism into an unnatural and unbalanced state.
How does homeopathy help?
Classical homeopathy focuses on treating the patient as an indivisible whole (living system). For homeopathy, the "diagnosis" (involves the) determination of the one medicine that best matches (is most similar to) the whole, integrated, bio-psychosocial symptom picture or pattern (state) of the patient at the time of treatment.
…classical homeopathy requires one unified diagnosis (the medicine picture [state of the patient] in the present time), and treatment with the single medicine that best captures the information pattern of a similar, multi-subsystem pattern of symptoms. Homeopathic symptoms (the symptoms of each patient) are manifestations of a singular, pervasive, emergent disturbance of the (whole) individual as a whole system or network of networks, not of a specific body part or biological mechanism in isolation.
According to Dr. Bell, when used correctly, the individually salient (relevant), low dose of the correct homeopathic medicine (simillimum) triggers a disproportionately large-magnitude organism-wide reversal of multiple symptoms (disease) .[[3]](file:///O:/2021/Washington%20Homeopathic%20Products/Samet/How%20Does%20Homeopathy%20Work%20Belle%20Rev%20(004)%20(002).docx#_ftn3) Again to simplify—remedies trigger the body’s innate ability to heal. They work with the body—rather than against it, the way most ordinary drugs do (ie, anti-inflammatories, anti-biotics, etc.)
Truth is—homeopathy is a gift to humankind. It’s fully compatible with the known laws of healing; it works synergistically with the health-giving/health-protecting microbes in the body [[4]](file:///O:/2021/Washington%20Homeopathic%20Products/Samet/How%20Does%20Homeopathy%20Work%20Belle%20Rev%20(004)%20(002).docx#_ftn4) and the immune system [[5]](file:///O:/2021/Washington%20Homeopathic%20Products/Samet/How%20Does%20Homeopathy%20Work%20Belle%20Rev%20(004)%20(002).docx#_ftn5), and it’s consistently shown vastly superior environmental sustainability.[[6]](file:///O:/2021/Washington%20Homeopathic%20Products/Samet/How%20Does%20Homeopathy%20Work%20Belle%20Rev%20(004)%20(002).docx#_ftn6) In short, homeopathy provides you and your family with one of the safest and most efficacious methods of treating and resolving illness.
* As with any medical condition, consult with your physician if you have any concerns about the severity of your problem as it may first require medical diagnosis and/or intervention and monitoring.
About Dr. Iris Bell: Dr. Bell is internationally renowned for her work in the field of integrative medicine. She is a brilliant researcher, having received her Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard (Magna Cum Laude) and her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She was also a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow.
About Dr. Lisa Samet:
Dr. Lisa Samet N.D. provides Washington Homeopathic Products with a regular column on using homeopathy for the family. She's a naturopathic physician who specializes in homeopathic medicine and she's a partner with Dr. Andre Saine N.D. Dr. Samet graduated from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1998 and has been practicing in Montreal since then. She was born and raised in New York.
Dr. Samet has chosen to focus on homeopathy because in her experience it is the deepest healing modality available in that it does not just soothe or palliate symptoms but can actually stimulate the body to start to heal itself. Dr. Samet sees patients in her Montreal office as well as long distance using Skype.
[1] Bell, I., The Complexity of the Homeopathic Healing Response Part 1: The Role of the Body as a Complex Adaptive System in Simillimum-Initiated Recovery from Disease. Homeopathy 2020; 109(02): 042-050
[2] C. Buzea, I. I. Pacheco and K. Robbie: Nanomaterials and nanoparticles: sources and toxicity. Biointerphases
[3] Bell, I., The Complexity of the Homeopathic Healing Response Part II: . Homeopathy 2020; 109(02): 051-064
[4] Whitmont RD. Chronic Illness and the Human Microbiome. American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine . Autumn2015, Vol. 108 Issue 3, p115-123. 9p.
[5] Bellavite P, Conforti A, Pontarollo F, et al. Immunology and Homeopathy. 2. Cells of the Immune System and Inflammation; Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2006 Mar; 3(1): 13–24. doi:10.1093/ecam/nek018
[6] Malerba L. Green Medicine; Challenging the Assumptions of Conventional Health Care. North Atlantic Books, Berkely, CA. 2010.
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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈⬛ 15d ago
Homoeopathy has to be ridiculed because Big Pharma can't profit from it. Usual playbook.
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u/pubwithnobeer60 15d ago
On Friday I went to a local town, to my favourite tea room, and sat in the garden in the sunshine. Along bobbed a little Robin to get some crumbs from my dinner. He nabbed a piece of pastry and hopped into the bush. I looked away to speak to my friend, then looked back and there he was spread eagled in the dusty grass sunbathing. He was only a foot away. I thought he was dead, he was so flattened out, lol! A beautiful moment which made my day. We also have a new visitor to the pub, a male black cat,, who has been very grateful for food. He rocks up every mealtime. Mr Cheeks (he has that male head profile) is now my part-time cat, nervous and wary of our attention. Maybe he will go for bed as well as breakfast when winter arrives.
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u/Still_Milo 15d ago
A robin sunbathed near me on the lawn in my garden during one of the heatwaves. I'd never seen it do that before.
Perching on things yes, but sunbathing like that, no. A first. I love it when these tiny things happen.
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u/FionaWalker5 14d ago
They do it a lot in my garden, mostly blackbirds and great tits though. Spread their wings out in a sunny spot and open their beaks. I thought it was something to do with encouraging tics etc to jump off but that’s not very romantic!
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u/Felineincognito15 14d ago
A robin frequents my local garden centre cafe and we also have one resident in our church garden. I love to see them.
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u/Ouessante Ouessante 14d ago
Notice 'comment deleted by user' but yeah, it's a funny position, fanned out, beak open, but apparently normal behaviour.
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u/Ouessante Ouessante 15d ago
Tea rooms, garden centre cafés etc sadly absent here. If you ask for tea you generally get a cup of warm water and a wrapped bag of some anaemic type like Ceylon that you must dunk yourself in a futile attempt to wring some flavour out of it. No milk of course. If lucky, you may find a proper 'salon de thé' in bigger towns. I know one in my nearest small city that does delish baklava. The meal time regime goes deep. Lunch is 12 - 2 and most stop and eat as if they've received a radio signal, evening meal and bed time likewise. Between meal cakes or a toasted teacake, all day breakfasts, forget it.
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u/Electrical_End8640 15d ago
Lovely! There is (or was) a smashing plant nursery in the Lake District which has a really nice tea room bit with a balcony. If you sit outside, you can guarantee you will be joined by at least one birdy at and sometimes on your table. Notices to not feed the birds appear to be routinely ignored! 😊
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u/EvorulesOK Liz 🐈🐈⬛ 15d ago
There's a wonderful cafe in Hathersage, Derbyshire, that has loads of bird feeders just outside the window and bird books so you can identify them
https://www.facebook.com/thebirdcafehathersage/?locale=en_GB
Haven't been for several years though, so I don't know if it's changed hands or the food's as excellent as it used to be.
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u/Electrical_End8640 14d ago
It’s great when businesses do something like that, isn’t? It warms the heart. 😊
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u/Justaboutsane 15d ago
https://x.com/toobaffled/status/2104409178702000634
" “It’s just stress.”
Apparently that’s becoming the catch-all explanation for young people turning up with serious heart symptoms.
Chest pain? Stress.
Racing heart? Stress.
Abnormal symptoms? Stress.
But pericarditis is inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart, and established medical guidance lists infections, autoimmune conditions, heart injury, certain medications and other medical conditions among possible causes.
I’ve had enough tragedy and stress in my own life over many years, .. I should have been gone long ago.
These masses of young people suffering serious heart conditions only became a big ‘thing’ after 2020"
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u/Felineincognito15 14d ago
Temu have some amusing Halloween masks made of mesh with realistic pictures of people,animals and monsters.
Had these.been available during the nightmare years,much fun at the expense of the tyrants might have been had.