CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
Hi folks, Thank you for sharing your opinions, as I requested. I hope that those that are threatening to leave will hang around long enough to see the end of this discussion and take part in forming its results. A number of quite interesting points are being made, and others are being demonstrated, although not by anyone's specific remarks... One of the latter points this discussion shows, confirming over a decade of experience for me, is that our group has been and always will be divided between those who want more free-flowing discussion and others who want us to remain closer to the topic -- and neither group will ever be completely satisfied with any compromise that I ever strike between the two extremes! (Yes, there are folks who are pretty well satisfied in the middle ground, too! grin) So, on this first point, please let me offer a few remarks that I hope will help everyone understand better what it takes to keep this forum even half-way successful in its mission... ***POINTS TO PONDER Remember, first of all, that I don't see messages before they go out! I do all my moderating after the fact. I depend on EACH OF YOU to regulate your own behavior, consistent with the list rules and the culture I try to instill in the membership by public guidance and private coaching. Your self-control is the price I demand of you for the privelege of staying in the group. Next, one of the very first things I learned when I took over ownership of the list is that I would NEVER be allowed to stop ALL off-topic posting if our group were going to continue to accomplish what we should and could with our efforts. Here's why: Inevitably, easily half the questions people will ask have a non-CS related component: Will CS cure...? My friend has ... will CS help? Does anybody know anything to do for ...? Whether CS is useful in each case or not, a lot of the time there are non-CS-related answers that these people need and deserve to hear. I've never prohibited non-CS- related information that might be able to HELP somebody. Other questions people ask have no relationship to CS to begin with, yet are obviously important or urgent for them, and frequently interesting to many of the rest of us. The guideline for these worthwhile off-topic discussions? Make them fairly brief, a day or two, giving out basic information and pointers to other resources so folks can continue their research elsewhere. For me to re-evaluate this fundamenal aspect of the list would require some pretty convincing arguments. Many members have just finished saying how much valuable stuff they've learned from the group on topics besides CS. I would not want those questions to go unanswered. Another point to consider is the members' responsibility to mold the discussion to their own needs. All new members are urged (in the instructions they receive upon joining) to ASK QUESTIONS in order to get the conversation moving in a direction that will help them. When they do this they normally get answers. If they don't, the conversation moves on without them. This is not an organized lecture series, where you can sit back passively and have all your questions answered, but rather more like a cocktail party, with folks milling around and talking amongst themselves. Anyone who wants to pick up the microphone and ask a question about the main topic is welcome to do so, and they'll get plenty of help as long as they need it. If I demanded that everybody sit quietly until somebody asks a proper question, it would be a very different place, and I think we'd lose a whole lot more people than we probably do when things get too noisy for too long. Who's to say what's the right balance? Ummm... Well, me, I'm afraid. Which is why I'm asking questions. *** DEFINING THE PROBLEM Now, as I consider specific actions or possible changes in policy in response to the present complaints, I think we might all benefit from some analysis to see just how things really look. I've surveyed list traffic for the first 23 days of August. Here are some statistics: *** Posts per day: average 24.26 mean22.04 min 8 max 50 stdev 10.68 There've been 5 days over 30 messages and 8 days under 20. *** Counting threads and posts: Threads ranged from single unanswered posts to multi-day 40-post behemoths. For this analysis I looked at Subject: lines and samplings of posts, but did not account for subject drift within threads or count threads with Unidentified Topic or Silver Digest titles. On topic threads have a significant CS component. Threads for Other Questions offer information not related to CS but relevant to health- related questions raised by members. Off topic counts everything from Kurt's polemics to computer questions to humor and chit-chat. On topic: 44 threads; 194 posts Other questions: 32 threads; 198 posts Off-Topic: 30 threads; 136 posts Frankly, I'm not willing to analyse and rate each
CSEPA to Ban CS and CS generators as Pesticides.
Dear Silver List, Here are some links to websites on this issue. The CTA and FOE (Center for Technology Assessment and Friends of the Earth) are making a big issue over Nano Technology.) However, in the case of the CTA the Nano Technology is only Silver, and the hit list contains a number of bottle Colloidal Silvers including Sovereign Silver and Meso Silver among Silver Socks and Cosmetics, etc. I do not think that your generators would be confiscated, nor will there be door to door searches. However, if you have any plans of purchasing additional Colloidal Silver Generators after the EPA ruling you may be disappointed. The Colloidal Silver Generator may go the way of the Rife Machine. It is illegal to purchase a Rife Machine in California. For those who inquired about not finding information on the EPA website, the federal government generally does not list lawsuits against them. There are a number of pages at the EPA about Nano Silver and pesticides: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/intheworks/nanotechnology.htm Any product containing silver – in any form – that makes claims to control pests (kills bacteria or fungi, my addition) must first be evaluated and registered by EPA to ensure it meets the FIFRA human health and environmental safety standards before it can be distributed or sold. http://epa.gov/oppt/nano/ EPA is actively participating in the Working Party and contributes to all of the projects. Of particular relevance to the in-depth portion of the Agency's Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program (NMSP) is the project on Safety Testing of a Representative Set of Manufactured Nanomaterials. The WPMN has identified a representative list of manufactured nanoscale materials for environmental health and safety testing, including: silver nanoparticles The WPMN has also published a list of testing endpoints in the following areas: nanomaterial information/identification physical-chemical properties material characterization environmental fate environmental toxicology mammalian toxicology material safety You will find in the links below that the CTA website www.nanoaction.org states that the petition (suit) against the EPA started in May 2008. The CTA action states Nano technology but their focus is nano silver which includes Colloidal Silver. The EPA has until March 2009 to make its ruling. Quick background The EPA using the The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (or FIFRA) of 1947, ruled that Silver particles are a pesticide using the the definition of antimicrobials contain with that act. They have also ruled that Colloidal Silver Generators which produce Silver Ions and is listed for sale as producing a substance capable of killing microbes is also a pesticide in essence, nano silver pesticide devices. The EPA ruled over they had jurisdiction to regulate Sammsung Washing Machine that incorporated a small Generator to add Silver Ions to kill bacteria in the wash water. More recently they had issues with a computer company and its claims of nano silver (I can't recall if it was silver on the keyboard.) Not to be outdone, the Friends of the Earth (FOE) is circulating petitions to the FDA for the removal nanotechnology in cosmetics, as well. The size range for nanotechnology is definitely in the Colloidal Range. http://nanotech.lawbc.com/2008/05/articles/legalregulatory-issues/ictaled-coalition-petitions-for-fifra-regulation-of-nanoscale-silver-products/ ICTA-Led Coalition Petitions for FIFRA Regulation of Nanoscale Silver Products Posted on May 7, 2008 by Lynn L. Bergeson On May 1, 2008, the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA), together with 13 other consumer, health, and environmental groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding that EPA regulate as pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and that it take additional actions under FIFRA and other environmental statutes concerning, consumer products containing nanoscale silver. ICTA also released an inventory (http://icta.org/nanoaction/doc/CTA%20Petition%20Appendix%20A_nano-silver_product_inventory.pdf) of the nano silver-containing consumer products referenced in the petition. The petition contends that nano silver is “the most commonly used nanomaterial in consumer products and the fastest growing sector of nanomaterial commercialization,” and that most companies “market their nano-silver products [by] putting emphasis on the nano-silver ingredient, touting its antimicrobial and antibacterial qualities . . . .” The petition states that “research has mounted to indicate that nano-silver materials pose serious risks to human health and the environment.” In support of the petition, the ICTA-led coalition pointed to, inter alia, EPA Region 9’s recent FIFRA enforcement settlement with a California company, IOGEAR, that had been making antimicrobial
Re: CSFlu and CS
Hi Carole, I do not have any vaccinations at all and never had, and have never had 'flu either and I am 65. I have had colds and take CS for them as soon as I even sniff. I may feel poorly for a couple of days but then it is gone and all that is left is the cough, which doesn't seem to be cured by CS in all cases. Sometimes it is, but definitely sore throats are almost *immediately* cured by CS. My family takes CS for 'flu and in all cases, it makes the symptoms much more bearable, and cuts the duration of the 'poorly' time down by more than half. This alone tells me that it is well worth taking. dee Carole Coffman wrote: Wayne ~ That's Carole (with an e) and I manage my posts very well thank you. I have asked questions before and got answers, but that is not my complaint. Off topic is my complaint. So, in order to stay on topic I will ask this in response to Mary's post about flu shots. I never get them any more myself. Have not had one now in over 10 years and I haven't had the flu since then either. Seems before when I got the shot I always got the flu. (Humm, see a pattern here?) The thing that concerns me is my elderly mother. She is 85 and gets the shot every year because that is what her doctor recommends to her. My question is this; If she were to take CS on a daily basis, say 1 oz per day, could she fight off the flu if she came into contact with it? And if not, say she got the flu anyway, could she fight it off easier taking say 8 oz of CS per day while feeling the symptoms? -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSEPA to Ban CS and CS generators as Pesticides.
Morning Steve, Along these same lines, . almost. At 11:39 PM 8/23/2008, you wrote: I received a newsletter that states that Colloidal Silver and CS Generators could be banned by March 2009 by the Environmental Protection Agency. When the FEDS sued a friend of mine, ( a few years ago, but not many ) and his product, they used a Law dating back to the 1700.s Relative to Maritime LAW The FDA knocked on his door. He told the FDA Rep, . Come go to the post office with me to pick up my orders. The FDA rep went. My friend said the guy was nice and friendly. And Guess what ? My friend won the Case in court. Lawyers to work against the FEDS, .. are not cheap. Not at all. My fried put an ad in many papers to summons the FDA to prove a point. And it worked in grand style. The last time I heard from him, he was hiding out at a remote ranch. He was fearful that he was on the HIT LIST and they would kill him. Wayne == -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CShear hear! seconded...
very sensibly put MA! And thank you for your felicitations about my computer and my mental health! You are absolutely right of course, I would be going mad now if I didn't have my laptop while big brother is in 'hospital'! After all, I would not have discovered CS if I hadn't been able to use my computer, and I wouldn't have been able to communicate with all you wonderful folks on the list would I? So maybe it wasn't so off topic after all grin dee marmar...@bellsouth.net wrote: I wasn't offended at all by your posts about your computer problems, Dee. I simply skimmed through them and then hit the delete button as they weren't pertinent for me. I also wasn't offended by Kurt's posts either (although I think they're mostly paranoid -- sorry Kurt). I think it's normal for any group of people to drift into conversations other than on-topic, if said topic happens to be stagnant at the moment. Be pretty hard to legislate against human nature. Also, that's what God made the *delete* button for (uh-oh -- does that make this a religious post? LOL) As long as the off-topic posts are related to health issues (well, even the computer post was related to health -- your mental health Dee, right?) -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CShear hear! seconded...
Morning Dee, At 02:10 AM 8/24/2008, you wrote: very sensibly put MA! And thank you for your felicitations about my computer and my mental health! You are absolutely right of course, I would be going mad now if I didn't have my laptop while big brother is in 'hospital'! You are getting wiser by the day. grin I have 3 computers, all within reach, .. they all work perfect and access the internet. You need at least 2, or 3 is better. One is a super laptop, I use very little. but it is ready for duty, like a good soldier. I have 3 or 4 older ones, they all work too. Never give up. You will be a techie one day. Then if will be your turn to teach us a few things. Wayne -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
CSSo they want to colloidal make silver illegal?
Where can I get wire for my generator that I don't know how to make on my own yet , lol? Did you see the meta cafe video about the guy using silver wire, a phone jack and lemon juice? BTW, I GOT an Algea Stick for my pool and I haven't had a problem with algea at all!Thanks for the suggestion. I have used less chlorine, but still have problems with swimmer's ear in my one son. Sincerely, Barb M. faint_grain.jpg
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
I go along with all that you say Mike, and appreciate your tolerance to OT subjects. I for one am only on *this* list (and silverpets) and because it *is* an alternative health list (when did *your* doctor prescribe CS?) it is the only place I feel there may be someone with enough knowledge or experience to help with other alternative health matters. I am therefore grateful that these questions are allowed. I also like to hear from people like Kurt because who knows what is going on out there, and I for one like to be kept informed about what could be happening. He does not go on about what he posts, but others do, so whose fault is it that the thread gets carried on? I suppose the answer is as always, moderation (no pun intended) in all things. dee M. G. Devour wrote: Hi folks, Thank you for sharing your opinions, as I requested. I hope that those that are threatening to leave will hang around long enough to see the end of this discussion and take part in forming its results. A number of quite interesting points are being made, and others are being demonstrated, although not by anyone's specific remarks... One of the latter points this discussion shows, confirming over a decade of experience for me, is that our group has been and always will be divided between those who want more free-flowing discussion and others who want us to remain closer to the topic -- and neither group will ever be completely satisfied with any compromise that I ever strike between the two extremes! (Yes, there are folks who are pretty well satisfied in the middle ground, too! grin) So, on this first point, please let me offer a few remarks that I hope will help everyone understand better what it takes to keep this forum even half-way successful in its mission... ***POINTS TO PONDER Remember, first of all, that I don't see messages before they go out! I do all my moderating after the fact. I depend on EACH OF YOU to regulate your own behavior, consistent with the list rules and the culture I try to instill in the membership by public guidance and private coaching. Your self-control is the price I demand of you for the privelege of staying in the group. Next, one of the very first things I learned when I took over ownership of the list is that I would NEVER be allowed to stop ALL off-topic posting if our group were going to continue to accomplish what we should and could with our efforts. Here's why: Inevitably, easily half the questions people will ask have a non-CS related component: Will CS cure...? My friend has ... will CS help? Does anybody know anything to do for ...? Whether CS is useful in each case or not, a lot of the time there are non-CS-related answers that these people need and deserve to hear. I've never prohibited non-CS- related information that might be able to HELP somebody. Other questions people ask have no relationship to CS to begin with, yet are obviously important or urgent for them, and frequently interesting to many of the rest of us. The guideline for these worthwhile off-topic discussions? Make them fairly brief, a day or two, giving out basic information and pointers to other resources so folks can continue their research elsewhere. For me to re-evaluate this fundamenal aspect of the list would require some pretty convincing arguments. Many members have just finished saying how much valuable stuff they've learned from the group on topics besides CS. I would not want those questions to go unanswered. Another point to consider is the members' responsibility to mold the discussion to their own needs. All new members are urged (in the instructions they receive upon joining) to ASK QUESTIONS in order to get the conversation moving in a direction that will help them. When they do this they normally get answers. If they don't, the conversation moves on without them. This is not an organized lecture series, where you can sit back passively and have all your questions answered, but rather more like a cocktail party, with folks milling around and talking amongst themselves. Anyone who wants to pick up the microphone and ask a question about the main topic is welcome to do so, and they'll get plenty of help as long as they need it. If I demanded that everybody sit quietly until somebody asks a proper question, it would be a very different place, and I think we'd lose a whole lot more people than we probably do when things get too noisy for too long. Who's to say what's the right balance? Ummm... Well, me, I'm afraid. Which is why I'm asking questions. *** DEFINING THE PROBLEM Now, as I consider specific actions or possible changes in policy in response to the present complaints, I think we might all benefit from some analysis to see just how things really look. I've surveyed list traffic for the first 23 days of August. Here are some statistics: ***
Re: CShear hear! seconded...
I do love an optimist Wayne! dee Wayne Fugitt wrote: Never give up. You will be a techie one day. Then if will be your turn to teach us a few things. Wayne -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSEPA to Ban CS and CS generators as Pesticides.
- Original Message - From: Steven Foss foss_ste...@yahoo.com To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 2:32 AM Subject: CSEPA to Ban CS and CS generators as Pesticides. Dear Silver List, Here are some links to websites on this issue. The CTA and FOE (Center for Technology Assessment and Friends of the Earth) are making a big issue over Nano Technology.) However, in the case of the CTA the Nano Technology is only Silver, and the hit list contains a number of bottle Colloidal Silvers including Sovereign Silver and Meso Silver among Silver Socks and Cosmetics, etc. I do not think that your generators would be confiscated, nor will there be door to door searches. However, if you have any plans of purchasing additional Colloidal Silver Generators after the EPA ruling you may be disappointed. The Colloidal Silver Generator may go the way of the Rife Machine. It is illegal to purchase a Rife Machine in California. Dear Mr. Foss: You are hyping this to the skies and you are way WAY out of line. First of all, this is far from being a done deal. (One of the Ph.D ' health scientists' writes in one of these articles that nano silver that is washed down the drain may get into the environment (as if people are not the environment) and kill fish and other animals. Huh? Evidently this Ph.D knows nothing about CS. I emailed that group and told them that a Ph.D after one's name does not stand for education (anymore). We should all start emailing these groups and telling them that they are poorly informed and to look elsewhere to entertain themselves. Secondly, Whoever heard of door to door searches in this country looking for a product that is no longer on the market? This is ridiculous and FABRICATED fear mongering. You get a big fat Zero Flunk! Faith G. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
Sir, It was not my intent to start a firestorm. For that I apologize. Perhaps my blood sugar was a little low and I got cranky and responded too quickly to Kurt's email. Normally I would wait a day before hitting the send button and likely or not I wouldn't have sent it or I would have heavily edited it. I think perhaps I did not put across exactly why I think that post should not be on this list. There are certain conspiracy theories out there that have a small basis in fact but then take the facts and extrapolate out until they make good science fiction plots but are no longer factual. Kurt invariably likes to copy and paste from websites devoted to these conspiracy theories and post them to the list. I do not mind the off topic health type questions. But Kurt does not post questions, he proselytizes like a politician or priest about subjects that cause division where ever they are discussed. If, in the course of answering health related questions, those topics Kurt loves happen to come up and in his own words he discussed them in relation to the question then I would not object. Indeed, I would likely respond with a counterpoint post. But it is his method to drop a copy/paste email bomb out of the blue not in response to any current threads. This type of post is not conducive to the conversation. One cannot create a counter post as you would not be talking to the poster but to the person who wrote the website Kurt is copying and pasting from and that person will never see the counter post. If you have saved all the posts do a sort on kmilkowski. He started posting 9-14-07. He consistently posts off topic about his 3 favorite pet conspiracy theories chemtrails, vaccinations, and poisoned food supplies, which have nothing to do with our current conversations. He usually starts these as new threads and pulls the list way out there into science fiction land. I think your existing policies are good and don't need changing. My beef is with Kurts obsession with conspiracy theories about chemtrails, vaccinations, and poisoned food supplies and his need to share that obsession with us over and over and his method of sharing which excludes argument. David At 12:03 AM 8/24/2008, you wrote: So, I'm open to specific suggestions or ideas. In light of the points I've made above, please tell me: How much traffic is too much? Off topic versus on-topic? Do you feel my basic policies need to be changed or updated? Should I do a better job of enforcing them? How, specifically? Should we stop answering non-CS-related health questions entirely? Should we ban *all* politics-related posts, no matter their importance? Or is the existing policy (brief, occasional, little or no discussion) good enough if it's enforced? Should I more vigorously police the style of certain messages so as not to scare new people off or annoy the regulars? Any other points you think I've not covered yet? Thank you for your patience, ladies and gentlemen. It's not a bad thing to air grievances and sound each other out every once in a while, though I *will* get riled if folks make a habit of spouting off their objections on the list instead of privately! scowls at David! -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
Dear David: Very well put. I do have to agree. Faith G. - Original Message - From: David Bearrow chip...@verizon.net To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:57 AM Subject: Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics... Sir, It was not my intent to start a firestorm. For that I apologize. Perhaps my blood sugar was a little low and I got cranky and responded too quickly to Kurt's email. Normally I would wait a day before hitting the send button and likely or not I wouldn't have sent it or I would have heavily edited it. I think perhaps I did not put across exactly why I think that post should not be on this list. There are certain conspiracy theories out there that have a small basis in fact but then take the facts and extrapolate out until they make good science fiction plots but are no longer factual. Kurt invariably likes to copy and paste from websites devoted to these conspiracy theories and post them to the list. I do not mind the off topic health type questions. But Kurt does not post questions, he proselytizes like a politician or priest about subjects that cause division where ever they are discussed. If, in the course of answering health related questions, those topics Kurt loves happen to come up and in his own words he discussed them in relation to the question then I would not object. Indeed, I would likely respond with a counterpoint post. But it is his method to drop a copy/paste email bomb out of the blue not in response to any current threads. This type of post is not conducive to the conversation. One cannot create a counter post as you would not be talking to the poster but to the person who wrote the website Kurt is copying and pasting from and that person will never see the counter post. If you have saved all the posts do a sort on kmilkowski. He started posting 9-14-07. He consistently posts off topic about his 3 favorite pet conspiracy theories chemtrails, vaccinations, and poisoned food supplies, which have nothing to do with our current conversations. He usually starts these as new threads and pulls the list way out there into science fiction land. I think your existing policies are good and don't need changing. My beef is with Kurts obsession with conspiracy theories about chemtrails, vaccinations, and poisoned food supplies and his need to share that obsession with us over and over and his method of sharing which excludes argument. David At 12:03 AM 8/24/2008, you wrote: So, I'm open to specific suggestions or ideas. In light of the points I've made above, please tell me: How much traffic is too much? Off topic versus on-topic? Do you feel my basic policies need to be changed or updated? Should I do a better job of enforcing them? How, specifically? Should we stop answering non-CS-related health questions entirely? Should we ban *all* politics-related posts, no matter their importance? Or is the existing policy (brief, occasional, little or no discussion) good enough if it's enforced? Should I more vigorously police the style of certain messages so as not to scare new people off or annoy the regulars? Any other points you think I've not covered yet? Thank you for your patience, ladies and gentlemen. It's not a bad thing to air grievances and sound each other out every once in a while, though I *will* get riled if folks make a habit of spouting off their objections on the list instead of privately! scowls at David! -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
He does not go on about what he posts, but others do, so whose fault is it that the thread gets carried on? I suppose the answer is as always, moderation (no pun intended) in all things. dee I agree with Dee on this. I am very surprised at the way this thread was handled by the members of this list. I noticed that the person was attacked and nothing was really spoken about the message itself. I happened to be very interested in this as my husband came home and told me he heard somthing about it on the radio, my son came across a small blurb about it in the local newspaper and I found another article from another source in my inbox. Honestly, for the intellagence that is on this list, I was really hoping for some useful information since I happen to like feeding my family food that won't possibly eventually kill us. Especially since this popped up so quick with no heads up on this action. I think what disturbs me the most is that people here can make generators but not know how it use a delete key even when you say you know you can't stand a certain persons posts. I mean, nobody is *making* anyone read those posts. Commenting on the article itself, I don't like Mike Adams and the way he writes BUT there is usually some truth to what he writes about and it's up to me to figure out what is garage and to disregard it. At the moment, his article continued to back up other sources that showed up all in one day. I do hope that this list stays pretty much on the same course it has (thank you Mike) without all the bickering. Debbie -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
Okay, I will put in my little piece too. I've been with the group for a few years now, and was recommended to join after I bought my CS generator. It has not been a disappointment. Mike is a great moderator. It's nice to feel that pretty much any subject can be raised, that there isn't someone in charge who has a strong opinion that weeds out any comments that don't fall in line with his own ideas. He will act behind the scenes if necessary, though. And people really helped me get the confidence with my CS making. We have lost some great members along the way, people in practice or with experience, who had very useful input. And new members have come along. My impression - and I haven't been keeping any vigorous survey - is that while people may join and inject a new feel foreign to the existing group for a while, they do in time get a feel for the group and kind of fit in. I can't keep up with every post all the time, so go largely by the subject lines. So if you don't look after your subject lines appropriately, you may not get read. But at least you got your comment off your chest, and you are not taking up valuable archives space, because there aren't any archives. And if anyone was consistently cross they would tend not to get read. Some groups are tightly moderated and done well and are useful, with watchful eyes kindly reminding transgressors of the rules, the manners, the subject lines, whatever. Some are not so much moderated as censored, so your comment may not even appear. This group must be just about the most comfortable there is. Out there in forum land there are some nasty characters who have to speak contemptuously of others' opinions in one way or another like some sort of internet bullies. We seem to be a pretty friendly bunch, pretty well mannered at least. The character and comments vary over time, as people come and go, and people who came to learn about CS and succeeded stay to chat about other things too. I think this is the group where I have had the biggest input on the widest range of subjects, and I've appreciated it. It has led me up many different paths, and some of you have consistently turned in posts so valuable you have your own box where your posts get preserved. Others of you have your posts forwarded to my private little share-circle of health buddies around the world, which is the equivalent of having a gold star stuck on your essay; these posts are also preserved. And as various ones remind us - the delete button works for when the sheer weight of input gets too much. Every now and then I think to myself that I really need to thin out my groups. But I know I will stick to my CS group. Daddybob has a policy whereby even if he is not active on a group, he remains a member and looks in every now and then. That's kind of what I do now - when a group gets less interesting, or if I feel the weight of posts too great, I set my preferences to no mail so that I can look in on the archives from time to time, or start to receive the mail again, and can still access any files they may have. Some groups I don't go no mail on are the Rife forum, microelectricity, Frex, Crock Lakhovsky and now DMSO (again). And the silver list of course. Thanks Mike. Speaking for myself. Rowena
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
Dear Debbie: You are discussing everything but Colloidal Silver. Do you use it? Do you buy it or make it yourself? Faith G. - Original Message - From: darn_it...@verizon.net To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:26 AM Subject: Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics... He does not go on about what he posts, but others do, so whose fault is it that the thread gets carried on? I suppose the answer is as always, moderation (no pun intended) in all things. dee I agree with Dee on this. I am very surprised at the way this thread was handled by the members of this list. I noticed that the person was attacked and nothing was really spoken about the message itself. I happened to be very interested in this as my husband came home and told me he heard somthing about it on the radio, my son came across a small blurb about it in the local newspaper and I found another article from another source in my inbox. Honestly, for the intellagence that is on this list, I was really hoping for some useful information since I happen to like feeding my family food that won't possibly eventually kill us. Especially since this popped up so quick with no heads up on this action. I think what disturbs me the most is that people here can make generators but not know how it use a delete key even when you say you know you can't stand a certain persons posts. I mean, nobody is *making* anyone read those posts. Commenting on the article itself, I don't like Mike Adams and the way he writes BUT there is usually some truth to what he writes about and it's up to me to figure out what is garage and to disregard it. At the moment, his article continued to back up other sources that showed up all in one day. I do hope that this list stays pretty much on the same course it has (thank you Mike) without all the bickering. Debbie -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
From this list I have learned to buy it, use it and make it myself. Am I to be attacked now? BTW, I have also been here for years. Debbie - Original Message - From: Faith Gagne jitte...@gis.net To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:32 AM Subject: Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics... Dear Debbie: You are discussing everything but Colloidal Silver. Do you use it? Do you buy it or make it yourself? Faith G. - Original Message - From: darn_it...@verizon.net To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:26 AM Subject: Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics... He does not go on about what he posts, but others do, so whose fault is it that the thread gets carried on? I suppose the answer is as always, moderation (no pun intended) in all things. dee I agree with Dee on this. I am very surprised at the way this thread was handled by the members of this list. I noticed that the person was attacked and nothing was really spoken about the message itself. I happened to be very interested in this as my husband came home and told me he heard somthing about it on the radio, my son came across a small blurb about it in the local newspaper and I found another article from another source in my inbox. Honestly, for the intellagence that is on this list, I was really hoping for some useful information since I happen to like feeding my family food that won't possibly eventually kill us. Especially since this popped up so quick with no heads up on this action. I think what disturbs me the most is that people here can make generators but not know how it use a delete key even when you say you know you can't stand a certain persons posts. I mean, nobody is *making* anyone read those posts. Commenting on the article itself, I don't like Mike Adams and the way he writes BUT there is usually some truth to what he writes about and it's up to me to figure out what is garage and to disregard it. At the moment, his article continued to back up other sources that showed up all in one day. I do hope that this list stays pretty much on the same course it has (thank you Mike) without all the bickering. Debbie -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
well.. I don't have time to edit this list of all the off topic stuff.. because people refuse to actually use the subject line properly you can't just wholesale delete.. I'm have many other responsibilities in my life.. I came here to learn about CS, not every other alternative health idea that comes to somebodies head.. so, I'm gone.. again... thanks to the folks who have actually taught me about CS... Helen --- Helen Martin Nanaimo, BC Vancouver Island, Canada http://mypage.uniserve.com/~hrmartin/ -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
Hi gang, I've been on this list forever, except for the long period of time when Comcast blocked it (stifling rant on that topic). I love this list! I think we have the best moderator on the 'net-kudos to you, Mike! I love getting all the varied bits of info that you nice people throw out for all the rest of us. And, yes, I do get a little crazed now and then when the off topic gets overwhelming. When my keyboard needs to be replaced, it will be because of the death of the delete key first. I have been on other lists where the moderation got so tight that the list eventually just died out. I hate to see that happen! Mike seems to step in when the heat gets quite high, and he manages to be so tactful that almost anyone can hang in there peacefully. If this were a referendum, I'd vote to keep the list as is-just reminding others about that wonderful little key called delete! Just my 1+1/2 cents worth, Sharon -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
Well, I've been mulling this over -- and for me, I guess I've come to the conclusion that I pretty much like the list the way that it is. I agree that it's easy for a list to become stagnant if there's too much restriction of topic matter, and I think that the current rules and regs pretty well keep things under control. But I do understand David's position, and actually agree with his points regarding Kurt's posts -- but it's an easy matter to solve. David, if I understand you correctly, it's only Kurt's posts that bug you, yes? Sowhen youopen your inbox, you can check forand delete all of Kurt's incoming email. That way you don't have to read it. Or better yet, you can set your email program to block all of Kurt's mail so that it doesn't get into your inbox to begin with. Problem solved. I think that's more reasonable than asking Mike to spend ever more time trying to meet all of our individual needs. I do think that we all can do a better job of changing the subject line when we respond to posts and the subject matter is morphing. That way folks can more easily delete posts in their inbox in which they have no interest. I guess where this is leading me is that as list members we need to acceptthe responsibility for our own use of and participation in the list, rather than asking Mike to do it for us. MA -- Original message from David Bearrow chip...@verizon.net: -- Sir, It was not my intent to start a firestorm. For that I apologize. Perhaps my blood sugar was a little low and I got cranky and responded too quickly to Kurt's email. Normally I would wait a day before hitting the send button and likely or not I wouldn't have sent it or I would have heavily edited it. I think perhaps I did not put across exactly why I think that post should not be on this list. There are certain conspiracy theories out there that have a small basis in fact but then take the facts and extrapolate out until they make good science fiction plots but are no longer factual. Kurt invariably likes to copy and paste from websites devoted to these conspiracy theories and post them to the list. I do not mind the off topic health type questions. But Kurt does not post questions, he proselytizes like a politician or priest about subjects that cause division where ever they are discussed. If, in the course of answering health related questions, those topics Kurt loves happen to come up and in his own words he discussed them in relation to the question then I would not object. Indeed, I would likely respond with a counterpoint post. But it is his method to drop a copy/paste email bomb out of the blue not in response to any current threads. This type of post is not conducive to the conversation. One cannot create a counter post as you would not be talking to the poster but to the person who wrote the website Kurt is copying and pasting from and that person will never see the counter post. If you have saved all the posts do a sort on kmilkowski. He started posting 9-14-07. He consistently posts off topic about his 3 favorite pet conspiracy theories chemtrails, vaccinations, and poisoned food supplies, which have nothing to do with our current conversations. He usually starts these as new threads and pulls the list way out there into science fiction land. I think your existing policies are good and don't need changing. My beef is with Kurts obsession with conspiracy theories about chemtrails, vaccinations, and poisoned food supplies and his need to share that obsession with us over and over and his method of sharing which excludes argument.
Re: CSEPA to Ban CS and CS generators as Pesticides.
Dear Faith Gagne, Your post accused me of hyping this to the skies and you are way WAY out of line. You wrote, Secondly, Whoever heard of door to door searches in this country looking for a product that is no longer on the market? If you re-read my original post you will see that I wrote, I do not think that your generators would be confiscated, nor will there be door to door searches. In what part of this sentence did I commit the crime of either fabrication or fear mongering? I believe you misread my sentence in haste. You also wrote, First of all, this is far from being a done deal. I stated this in my email to the list that the ruling will not occur until March 2009. However, let's look at the facts: 1. Multiple organizations are petitioning the EPA with resources into the millions of dollars. These organizations have lawyers, public relations teams, newsletters, internet websites, access to the media. 2. Speaking of the media, remember Paul Karason of the Today Show, People Magazine, and Oprah fame. Let's not forget the ABC news report that started this back in December which was shown multiple times on ABC, CNN, Fox Cable news. Have you seen a rebuttal or anyone connected to Colloidal Silver being given anytime, let alone equal time, on any of the above shows or stations? 3. The average person in the US is not enlightened to the benefits of Colloidal Silver, even less so after the Mr. Karason's more than 15 minutes of fame. If 10 million is truly representative number of CS users in the US from all sources, (some say the number is underestimated, others say its inflated) then 294,959,019 people in the US are not taking Colloidal Silver. The majority of these individuals watch TV. What conclusions do you think they will draw? 4. The Manufacturers of CS bottles and Generators do not have the resources, financial backing, or or even an organization to fight this petition to EPA. In fact most of these companies are barely on speaking terms with one another. 5. The Natural Products Association (Health Food manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers organization) isn't going to be too concerned as Colloidal Silver isn't a big seller, CS already has a final ruling by the FDA which restricts the information to CS as mineral supplement (nothing more) and all Vitamin and Supplement sales is not endangered. 6. How many small companies can afford an EPA environmental impact report? (Let alone paying for the science to prove that Silver does not kill or impact beneficial bacterial, piscine, or mammalian life. Have you ever seen an EPA environmental impact report? The small ones are the size of multiple phone books for New York City or Los Angeles. And these only concern building a road.) One would require the deep pockets of a big drug company or multinational corporation for these expenses. The EPA is taking this seriously. The EPA on their website is currently soliciting manufacturers to register pesticides and pesticide devices with links for assistance and to an Ombudsman. Although Colloidal Silver is the target, Nanotechnology Dangers will be the Headlines. People either resist or fear new technology. Sometimes rightfully so. Irradiation of food, rBST in milk, microwaves from cellphones, Nuclear Energy, etc, sometimes unwarrantably, If man was meant to fly , he would have wings. The human body cannot withstand speeds over 25 miles per hour. If you sail to far you will fall of the edge of the earth. (Or well two out of three isn't bad). You wrote, Evidently this Ph.D knows nothing about CS. This is quite true, however, this Ph.D would be considered a credible witness on the basis of his schooling and advanced degree. Truth and Logic do not necessarily triumph in a Courtroom situation (reasonable doubt) or in a government regulatory hearing. How many Ph.D's will be singing the praises of Colloidal Silver? There is at least one study which infers that Nano Silver is harmful to brain cells. The is one published paper that multiple Doctors conclude a man in his 70's developed status epilecticus and died 5 months later from using Colloidal Silver among other supplements for 4 months. (I can find fault with the study, but I am not 4 doctors, ergo an incompetent witness.) Also do you think a Government Bureaucracy which recently extended its realm into Nano Silver Regulation is likely to reverse itself and abandon its new acquisition? Hardly likely. The ATF fought the FDA over tobacco control for decades. Do you think the EPA will not enforce its regulation of Silver as a pesticide? Also thanks to our friends at FOE (friends of the earth) are also petitioning the FDA to as to Nanotechnology. In this case, there is some validity in Nano Sunscreens, but OT I have seen reports on the relationship of increased Melanoma incidences from regular Sunscreen use. Both Petitions want NanoTech to be halted until proven safe (harder to do
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
Well said Debbie, The bickering, bickering and more bickering is a waste of energy, time and thought; profiting no one. Peter - Original Message - From: darn_it...@verizon.net To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:26 AM Subject: Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics... He does not go on about what he posts, but others do, so whose fault is it that the thread gets carried on? I suppose the answer is as always, moderation (no pun intended) in all things. dee I agree with Dee on this. I am very surprised at the way this thread was handled by the members of this list. I noticed that the person was attacked and nothing was really spoken about the message itself. I happened to be very interested in this as my husband came home and told me he heard somthing about it on the radio, my son came across a small blurb about it in the local newspaper and I found another article from another source in my inbox. Honestly, for the intellagence that is on this list, I was really hoping for some useful information since I happen to like feeding my family food that won't possibly eventually kill us. Especially since this popped up so quick with no heads up on this action. I think what disturbs me the most is that people here can make generators but not know how it use a delete key even when you say you know you can't stand a certain persons posts. I mean, nobody is *making* anyone read those posts. Commenting on the article itself, I don't like Mike Adams and the way he writes BUT there is usually some truth to what he writes about and it's up to me to figure out what is garage and to disregard it. At the moment, his article continued to back up other sources that showed up all in one day. I do hope that this list stays pretty much on the same course it has (thank you Mike) without all the bickering. Debbie -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
CSWhat to Delete and What to NOT delete
Evening Starshar, At 11:02 AM 8/24/2008, you wrote: And, yes, I do get a little crazed now and then when the off topic gets overwhelming. When my keyboard needs to be replaced, it will be because of the death of the delete key first. My delete key should last 100 years. I do not delete anything, Except, The one line messages and the Half line messages That quote 59 lines and 20 to 30,000 bytes that have been often quoted, 2, 3, or 5 times. ( there is no excuse under the sun for that ) I do not want that CRAP in my archives. Changing the subject and trimming the posts, .. would make the list better and help those people whose IN Box is Stuffed. Back to the daily chores.. Staying Dry is number one. grin Wayne == -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSEPA to Ban CS and CS generators as Pesticides.
Hi Faith. I thought Steve did a great job of the post. He was very carefull in the way that he wrote it as to not inject his own ideas but to stay on the facts and he also backed them up with links. He probably spent a great deal of his time on that post. Other people had asked questions on that subject and also for links. As mentioned before all of us have a delete key, just because some one doesnt agree with a post doesnt give them the right to attack. It does however give them the right to delete the post. My therory is take what you want and delete the rest Sam L On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Faith Gagne jitte...@gis.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Steven Foss foss_ste...@yahoo.com To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 2:32 AM Subject: CSEPA to Ban CS and CS generators as Pesticides. Dear Silver List, Here are some links to websites on this issue. The CTA and FOE (Center for Technology Assessment and Friends of the Earth) are making a big issue over Nano Technology.) However, in the case of the CTA the Nano Technology is only Silver, and the hit list contains a number of bottle Colloidal Silvers including Sovereign Silver and Meso Silver among Silver Socks and Cosmetics, etc. I do not think that your generators would be confiscated, nor will there be door to door searches. However, if you have any plans of purchasing additional Colloidal Silver Generators after the EPA ruling you may be disappointed. The Colloidal Silver Generator may go the way of the Rife Machine. It is illegal to purchase a Rife Machine in California. Dear Mr. Foss: You are hyping this to the skies and you are way WAY out of line. First of all, this is far from being a done deal. (One of the Ph.D ' health scientists' writes in one of these articles that nano silver that is washed down the drain may get into the environment (as if people are not the environment) and kill fish and other animals. Huh? Evidently this Ph.D knows nothing about CS. I emailed that group and told them that a Ph.D after one's name does not stand for education (anymore). We should all start emailing these groups and telling them that they are poorly informed and to look elsewhere to entertain themselves. Secondly, Whoever heard of door to door searches in this country looking for a product that is no longer on the market? This is ridiculous and FABRICATED fear mongering. You get a big fat Zero Flunk! Faith G. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com -- A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have. Google Ron Paul
CSUse OF Silver
With the use of Silver being of the increase in the hospitals for use in so many areas and it also has been used with burn patients over the years in the burn centers. I feel that the use of silver will never be banned. The medical field has found that it has been very useful. My question to others after knowing this info is why would the hospitals with their use and also the help healing critical burn patients let silver be banned from use? Working in the emergency medical field for a good may years and also knowledge with my son-in-law in medical supplies with a very large hospital I do have this knowledge that the increase is on the rise with the use of CS and my feelings that the hospitals will fully support the use of silver even in the medical facilities. I just had to add this to let others know that for me I feel that a ban on silver really is out of the question. Door to door I just really had a good laugh from that and know this will never ever happen. I really question about our government trying to reduce the population. Just think about this for a minute. We the working people are supporting the rich which includes anyone working in the government. If population is reduced more than normal deaths due to Dr. messing up and meds giving and causing more problems than the reason they had been taking the Rx for in the first place why would they want less working people??? Just think about this for a while and I'm sure you will understand what I'm talking about. The only thing that is involved is the be MMoney!! Supply and demand and anyone treating theirselves naturally always reduces the demand on the meds being sold. Sorry everyone I'm a very simple thinking person and this I know is the bottom line of this world we now live in, but to reduce the population means less money coming in for the rich! Bottom-line and this they don't want to do now or in the future. The more people working the more money the government gets and with the sick go with the convention way of healing through RX and the Drs. they keep getting richer also. Just mo opinion but so simple to understand. hagd and a great week everyone!!Donna, Pa.
CSYou've got to love the Federal Government!
On a lighter note and to keep this thread on topic (well it's about water anyway!) I thought I would post this joke... A Department of Water Resources representative stops at a Texas ranch and talks with an old rancher. He tells the rancher, I need to inspect your ranch for your water allocation. The old rancher says, 'Okay, but don't go in that field over there. The Water representative says, 'Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me. See this card? This card means I am allowed to go WHEREVER I WISH on any agricultural land. No questions asked or answered. Have I made myself clear? Do you understand?' The old rancher nods politely and goes about his chores. Later, the old rancher hears loud screams and spies the Water Rep running for his life and close behind is the rancher's bull. The bull is gaining with every step. The Rep is clearly terrified, So the old rancher immediately throws down his tools, runs to the fence and yells at the top of his lungs.Your card! Show him Your card!!
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
Hey Mike! Cut the silverlist traffic by a third by starting another sub-list. Call it the Bitch-Box... For ALL complaints. Chuck Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory position. On 8/24/2008 12:58:12 AM, M. G. Devour (mdev...@eskimo.com) wrote: Hi folks, Thank you for sharing your opinions, as I requested. I hope that those that are threatening to leave will hang around long enough to see the end of this discussion and take part in forming its results. A number of quite interesting points are being made, and others are being demonstrated, although not by anyone's specific remarks... One of the latter points this discussion shows, confirming over a decade of experience for me, is that our group has been and always will be divided between those who want more free-flowing discussion and others who want us to remain closer to the topic -- and neither group will ever be completely satisfied with any compromise that I ever strike between the two extremes! (Yes, there are folks who are pretty well satisfied in the middle ground, too! grin) So, on this first point, please let me offer a few remarks that I hope will help everyone understand better what it takes to keep this forum even half-way successful in its mission... ***POINTS TO PONDER Remember, first of all, that I don't see messages before they go out! I do all my moderating after the fact. I No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.7/1629 - Release Date: 8/23/2008 1:16 PM -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
CSAnother list ? Not really !
Good Evening Chuck, At 02:51 PM 8/24/2008, you wrote: Hey Mike! Cut the silverlist traffic by a third by starting another sub-list. Call it the Bitch-Box... For ALL complaints. You could do it. And you might be better at running it than Mike. grin You could call it, The Chopping Block. I don't think I would be needed. You might think so. . Maybe so. Wayne == -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
CSRe Silver and the EPA
Dear Donna Gros, You wrote, With the use of Silver being on the increase in the hospitals for use in so many areas and it also has been used with burn patients over the years in the burn centers. Silver's use in medicine is not in question, Silver Nitrate, Silver Chloride, and Silver Sulfadiazine (Silver Compounds) are approved drugs which have been in use for multiple decades, some silver compounds have been in use for nearly a century. Indeed Silver still has a place in medicine at least in the US. These drugs are regulated by the FDA. Where you aware that the European Economic Community banned the use of Silver by mouth for medicine prior to 2000? Or that during the year 2000 an EEC committee discussed the ban of Silver as a food coloring agent in medicine (pill colorants), even though the quantity of Silver contained was so minuscule and the cumulative effect to be unlikely to cause harm, just harmonize the by mouth medicine rule? Contact me personally if you want a PDF copy of the Report. The EEC ruling isn't very strictly enforced or has EEC's rulings have inadequate resources to police its decisions. For example over the counter medicine (OTC), a good friend of mine purchases OTC preparations of Colloidal Silver, Copper, and Zinc in France as well as Argentum metalicum, a homeopathic remedy made from Silver. I feel that the use of silver will never be banned. Silver as used in electronics, jewelry, eating utensils will never be banned. These uses are not under question as these are not a Nano Technology issue. Nano Silver Particles in Clothes, in Bandages, in carbon water filters, and Colloidal Silver (including generators that produce Colloidal Silver)is under scrutiny. My question to others after knowing this info is why would the hospitals with their use and also the help healing critical burn patients let silver be banned from use? I never said that Silver compounds or FDA approved Silver drugs would be banned, nor has the EPA. I was referring to silver in colloidal silver preparations (and some other uses) as being banned if not registered and approved as pesticides. I presume that not all the subscribers to the Silver List have their own colloidal silver generators. On the other hand Hospitals have little say as to what is used or not used other than choosing from FDA approved Drugs, Medical Devices, etc. Use a non approved device and the administrators would have liability issue, face losing their insurance, or both. Working in the emergency medical field for a good may years and also knowledge with my son-in-law in medical supplies with a very large hospital I do have this knowledge that the increase is on the rise with the use of CS and my feelings that the hospitals will fully support the use of silver even in the medical facilities. Silver use in medical facilities is on the increase and elsewhere in industry, but Colloidal Silver per se is not among the Silver used or approved for use in Medical Facilities. Silver impregnated dressings which are used for instance are among the items listed by the CTA for regulation as pesticides. There is a stabilized Colloidal Silver that has EPA approval for use on Cruise Ships for killing a variety of pathogens including Avian Flu virus, Human Corona Virus (SARS), MRSA (Antibiotic resistant Staph)on hard surfaces. The Dept of Defense also has authorized the use of a Patented stabilized Colloidal silver (with Naptha and Formaldehyde, or Moth Balls and Embalming Fluid, both Carcinogens) for application against Biological Agents. Both fall under the pesticide descriptions. The 200 odd items that are list by the CTA regulations do include Colloidal Silver. Door to door, I just really had a good laugh from that and know this will never ever happen. I had to laugh, too, because my post said the exact opposite. If one takes time to read it, you will find that I stated, I do not think that your generators would be confiscated, nor will there be door to door searches. (I am reminded of the game of telephone we played in grammar school.) The EPA doesn't have the personnel, nor are they an arm of the Justice Dept. or any Law enforcement agency. The EPA does have a fine for knowingly selling an unapproved pesticide (or pesticide related device). $5,000 per incident. Tell me who would attempt to sell generators or CS under such a threat. I do not think that Silver in all its uses will be banned. I definitely believe that Bottle Colloidal Silver retail sales and Colloidal Silver Generator sales could be regulated out of existence in the US. We will find out in less than eight months. Best Regards, Steve Foss -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to:
Re: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables
Sadly, this is 100% true. It has been a policy of the neocons for many years to sicken the population and prevent us from taking charge of our health. The sicker we become, the more pharmaceuticals we will consume. This is a conspiracy of Big Pharma and our government. It is no longer a secret, they are openly defying our Constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is fascism, pure an simple... the marriage of multi-national corporations with government. They want us to be slaves to their dangerous and ineffectual products, and they don't care if we die in the process. Bob - Original Message - From: James McCourt, Ph.D. To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:34 PM Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Massive agricultural corporations with long shipping routes from uninspected international countries with lower hygiene standards must destroy food enzymes and foreign contaminants so the product won't rot along with their profits. Or you could just buy local food and vote for politicians that would enforce our antitrust laws. - Original Message - From: Peter Converse To: jessie70 ; silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:51 AM Subject: Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Hi All, Kurt may be off topic but who can say that he is reporting inaccurately? We need to wake up and speak up for ourselves and our children! Blessings, Peter - Original Message - From: jessie70 To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:24 PM Subject: RE: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables TRUE -Original Message- From: Day Sutton [mailto:day.sut...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:08 PM To: jwilliams...@cfl.rr.com; agman...@aol.com; Bob Olivier; Cameron Sutton; dduf...@aol.com; Elizabeth Grymes; Hannah Coker; Jean Coker; Jim Collins; Lisa Ellis; Silver Post Subject: Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables I'm not having any trouble believing this. Most of it is already happening. Do some research.. Conspiracy theory ot not, I think we need a wake up call now and then.. Think about this: If the FDA has its way: Â. All your food will be irradiated, pasteurized or killed Â. All your children will be vaccinated Â. All your medicine will be based on pharmaceuticals Â. All your free speech about health will be suppressed Â. All informative labeling on food and supplements will be outlawed Â. Growing and selling non-irradiated garden vegetables will become a crime! (snip) If you don't believe the FDA wants the public to be sick then just look at the Oncologists, or anything to do with cancer treatment. Already you can't sell any product other than a pharmaceutical that claims to treat or prevent any disease. This is by design. I believe the FDA wants the American public to be sickened and diseased. Why else would they ban Free Speech about healing foods like cherries, broccoli and garlic? Why would they outlaw the selling of herbs and nutritional supplements that claim to treat and prevent disease? The FDA wants you to be sick, enslaved and medicated, and irradiating the food supply is the quickest way to accomplish that. -- Day Sutton day.sut...@gmail.com
Re: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables
Careful there Bob, you don't want to be labeled as paranoid do you??? it's too late for me!!! LOL Kurt bbanever bbane...@earthlink.net wrote: Sadly, this is 100% true. It has been a policy of the neocons for many years to sicken the population and prevent us from taking charge of our health. The sicker we become, the more pharmaceuticals we will consume. This is a conspiracy of Big Pharma and our government. It is no longer a secret, they are openly defying our Constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is fascism, pure an simple... the marriage of multi-national corporations with government. They want us to be slaves to their dangerous and ineffectual products, and they don't care if we die in the process. Bob - Original Message - From: James McCourt, Ph.D. To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:34 PM Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Massive agricultural corporations with long shipping routes from uninspected international countries with lower hygiene standards must destroy food enzymes and foreign contaminants so the product won't rot along with their profits. Or you could just buy local food and vote for politicians that would enforce our antitrust laws. - Original Message - From: Peter Converse To: jessie70 ; silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:51 AM Subject: Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Hi All, Kurt may be off topic but who can say that he is reporting inaccurately? We need to wake up and speak up for ourselves and our children! Blessings, Peter - Original Message - From: jessie70 To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:24 PM Subject: RE: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables TRUE -Original Message- From: Day Sutton [mailto:day.sut...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:08 PM To: jwilliams...@cfl.rr.com; agman...@aol.com; Bob Olivier; Cameron Sutton; dduf...@aol.com; Elizabeth Grymes; Hannah Coker; Jean Coker; Jim Collins; Lisa Ellis; Silver Post Subject: Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables I'm not having any trouble believing this. Most of it is already happening. Do some research.. Conspiracy theory ot not, I think we need a wake up call now and then.. Think about this: If the FDA has its way: Â. All your food will be irradiated, pasteurized or killed Â. All your children will be vaccinated Â. All your medicine will be based on pharmaceuticals Â. All your free speech about health will be suppressed Â. All informative labeling on food and supplements will be outlawed Â. Growing and selling non-irradiated garden vegetables will become a crime! (snip) If you don't believe the FDA wants the public to be sick then just look at the Oncologists, or anything to do with cancer treatment. Already you can't sell any product other than a pharmaceutical that claims to treat or prevent any disease. This is by design. I believe the FDA wants the American public to be sickened and diseased. Why else would they ban Free Speech about healing foods like cherries, broccoli and garlic? Why would they outlaw the selling of herbs and nutritional supplements that claim to treat and prevent disease? The FDA wants you to be sick, enslaved and medicated, and irradiating the food supply is the quickest way to accomplish that. -- Day Sutton day.sut...@gmail.com -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSswimmer's ear
swimmer's ear is a fungal infection On Aug 24, 2008, at 7:33 AM, B Magnatta wrote: Where can I get wire for my generator that I don't know how to make on my own yet , lol? Did you see the meta cafe video about the guy using silver wire, a phone jack and lemon juice? BTW, I GOT an Algea Stick for my pool and I haven't had a problem with algea at all!Thanks for the suggestion. I have used less chlorine, but still have problems with swimmer's ear in my one son. Sincerely, Barb M. inline: faint_grain.jpg
CSCAREFUL!!! More on Nuked Food
Follow up with medical studies on the use of irradiated food. Please DELETE, if you find this offensive. Not written by Mike Adams, since there are those that seem to have a problem with him. This may help some people discern whether or not this is paranoid infromation. This is being put up to follow up with more evidence, the intention is not to start onother food fight. Nuked Food - The Dangers of Irradiated Food Nuked food is the common term for irradiated food - food which is exposed to high level radiation for the purpose of sterilizing it. This high level radiation penetrates the food which, as anyone who has paid attention in chemistry knows, raises the energy level of the atoms and molecules which the food is composed of. This results in myriad free radicals - atoms which have lost an outer electron due to having absorbed a shot of higher energy. And instead of being chemically neutral, such an atom has now become strongly attractive. This will break and re-arrange many chemicals bonds in the atoms, molecules and chemical compounds of the cells of the food under radiation. So much so that the cellular processes of any micro-organisms in the food are disrupted, and the micro-organisms in the food are killed. The cells of micro-organisms live and die by exactly the same chemical laws and processes that our cells live by. And if our cells were subjected to the same radiation, they would die just as surely. The idea is that the radiation dissipates, and things return to normal. But we have come to know and understand that free radicals form stable compounds that are different from the original chemical compounds, and that the free radicals and the altered compounds are harmful to us in many, many ways - among them a trigger for heart diseases and cancer. The greatest danger, in my view, is the havoc such free radicals can wreak in the delicate chemistry of reproduction, when our cells, or an ova, divide and replicate - a cell or an an ovum is about the same size as a micro-organism - and in the growth and development of the embryo, when it is acutely vulnerable to any abnormalities. Personally, I cannot understand how people can be so irresponsible to allow and apply what is such a powerful free radical creation tool that it kills all micro-organisms in the food - micro-organisms which live and die by exactly the same chemistry as we do. To me this is incomprehensible. Here then is a calm and cogent article by an accomplished and respected Cancer research scientist, plus a few abstracts (no abstracts were available for many more papers) of animal trials done with irradiated food, as listed in the Public Archives of the National Library of Medicine. Original Article: George L. Tritsch, PhD Cancer Research Scientist, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, New York State Department of Health. I am speaking as a private citizen, and my opinions are my own, based on thirty-three years of experience since my doctorate at Cornell Medical College, Rockefeller University and, since 1959, as a cancer research scientist and biochemist at Roswell. I am opposed to consuming irradiated food because of the abundant and convincing evidence in the refereed scientific literature that the condensation products of the free radicals formed during irradiation produce statistically significant increases in carcinogenesis, mutagenesis and cardiovascular disease in animals and man. I will not address the reported destruction of vitamins and other nutrients (what? - more nutrient deficiencies?; my comment) by irradiation because suitable supplementation of the diet can prevent the development of such potential deficiencies. However, I cannot protect myself from the carcinogenic and other harmful insults to the body placed into the food supples and I can see no tangible benefit to be traded for the possible increased incidence of malignant disease one to three decades in the future. Irradiation works by splitting chemical bonds in molecules with high energy beams to form ions and free radicals. When sufficient critical bonds are split in organisms contaminating a food, the organism is killed. Comparable bonds are split in the food. Ions are stable; free radicals contain an unpaired electron and are inherently unstable and therefore reactive. How long free radicals remain in food treated with a given dose of radiation or the reaction products formed in a given food cannot be calculated but must be tested experimentally for each food. Different doses of radiation will produce different amounts and kinds of products. The kinds of bonds split in a given molecule are governed by statistical considerations. Thus, while most molecules of a given fatty acid, for example, may be split in a certain manner, other molecules of the same fatty acid will be split differently. A free radical
RE: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables
I enjoy reading Kurt's posts and find them enjoyable. If the posts are on the OT list, then there really shouldn't be a problem. Also, it's not just the neocons doing it to us, but the same old old cons as well (just my 2 cents worth!! lol) Deb -Original Message- From: bbanever [mailto:bbane...@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:53 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Sadly, this is 100% true. It has been a policy of the neocons for many years to sicken the population and prevent us from taking charge of our health. The sicker we become, the more pharmaceuticals we will consume. This is a conspiracy of Big Pharma and our government. It is no longer a secret, they are openly defying our Constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is fascism, pure an simple... the marriage of multi-national corporations with government. They want us to be slaves to their dangerous and ineffectual products, and they don't care if we die in the process. Bob - Original Message - From: James mailto:dr...@earthlink.net McCourt, Ph.D. To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:34 PM Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Massive agricultural corporations with long shipping routes from uninspected international countries with lower hygiene standards must destroy food enzymes and foreign contaminants so the product won't rot along with their profits. Or you could just buy local food and vote for politicians that would enforce our antitrust laws. - Original Message - From: Peter Converse mailto:p...@vif.com To: jessie70 mailto:jessi...@optonline.net ; silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:51 AM Subject: Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Hi All, Kurt may be off topic but who can say that he is reporting inaccurately? We need to wake up and speak up for ourselves and our children! Blessings, Peter - Original Message - From: jessie70 mailto:jessi...@optonline.net To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:24 PM Subject: RE: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables TRUE -Original Message- From: Day Sutton [mailto:day.sut...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:08 PM To: jwilliams...@cfl.rr.com; agman...@aol.com; Bob Olivier; Cameron Sutton; dduf...@aol.com; Elizabeth Grymes; Hannah Coker; Jean Coker; Jim Collins; Lisa Ellis; Silver Post Subject: Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables I'm not having any trouble believing this. Most of it is already happening. Do some research.. Conspiracy theory ot not, I think we need a wake up call now and then.. Think about this: If the FDA has its way: Â. All your food will be irradiated, pasteurized or killed Â. All your children will be vaccinated Â. All your medicine will be based on pharmaceuticals Â. All your free speech about health will be suppressed Â. All informative labeling on food and supplements will be outlawed Â. Growing and selling non-irradiated garden vegetables will become a crime! (snip) If you don't believe the FDA wants the public to be sick then just look at the Oncologists, or anything to do with cancer treatment. Already you can't sell any product other than a pharmaceutical that claims to treat or prevent any disease. This is by design. I believe the FDA wants the American public to be sickened and diseased. Why else would they ban Free Speech about healing foods like cherries, broccoli and garlic? Why would they outlaw the selling of herbs and nutritional supplements that claim to treat and prevent disease? The FDA wants you to be sick, enslaved and medicated, and irradiating the food supply is the quickest way to accomplish that. -- Day Sutton day.sut...@gmail.com
RE: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables
Thanks Deb! :) Carl Deb Charter carl...@charter.net wrote: I enjoy reading Kurt's posts and find them enjoyable. If the posts are on the OT list, then there really shouldn't be a problem. Also, it's not just the neocons doing it to us, but the same old old cons as well (just my 2 cents worth!! lol) Deb -Original Message- From: bbanever [mailto:bbane...@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:53 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Sadly, this is 100% true. It has been a policy of the neocons for many years to sicken the population and prevent us from taking charge of our health. The sicker we become, the more pharmaceuticals we will consume. This is a conspiracy of Big Pharma and our government. It is no longer a secret, they are openly defying our Constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is fascism, pure an simple... the marriage of multi-national corporations with government. They want us to be slaves to their dangerous and ineffectual products, and they don't care if we die in the process. Bob - Original Message - From: James mailto:dr...@earthlink.net McCourt, Ph.D. To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:34 PM Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Massive agricultural corporations with long shipping routes from uninspected international countries with lower hygiene standards must destroy food enzymes and foreign contaminants so the product won't rot along with their profits. Or you could just buy local food and vote for politicians that would enforce our antitrust laws. - Original Message - From: Peter Converse mailto:p...@vif.com To: jessie70 mailto:jessi...@optonline.net ; silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:51 AM Subject: Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Hi All, Kurt may be off topic but who can say that he is reporting inaccurately? We need to wake up and speak up for ourselves and our children! Blessings, Peter - Original Message - From: jessie70 mailto:jessi...@optonline.net To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:24 PM Subject: RE: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables TRUE -Original Message- From: Day Sutton [mailto:day.sut...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:08 PM To: jwilliams...@cfl.rr.com; agman...@aol.com; Bob Olivier; Cameron Sutton; dduf...@aol.com; Elizabeth Grymes; Hannah Coker; Jean Coker; Jim Collins; Lisa Ellis; Silver Post Subject: Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables I'm not having any trouble believing this. Most of it is already happening. Do some research.. Conspiracy theory ot not, I think we need a wake up call now and then.. Think about this: If the FDA has its way: Â. All your food will be irradiated, pasteurized or killed Â. All your children will be vaccinated Â. All your medicine will be based on pharmaceuticals Â. All your free speech about health will be suppressed Â. All informative labeling on food and supplements will be outlawed Â. Growing and selling non-irradiated garden vegetables will become a crime! (snip) If you don't believe the FDA wants the public to be sick then just look at the Oncologists, or anything to do with cancer treatment. Already you can't sell any product other than a pharmaceutical that claims to treat or prevent any disease. This is by design. I believe the FDA wants the American public to be sickened and diseased. Why else would they ban Free Speech about healing foods like cherries, broccoli and garlic? Why would they outlaw the selling of herbs and nutritional supplements that claim to treat and prevent disease? The FDA wants you to be sick, enslaved and medicated, and irradiating the food supply is the quickest way to accomplish that. -- Day Sutton day.sut...@gmail.com -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CS[List Owner] Some comments and statistics...
Thanks Dee!! :) dee d...@deetroy.org wrote: I go along with all that you say Mike, and appreciate your tolerance to OT subjects. I for one am only on *this* list (and silverpets) and because it *is* an alternative health list (when did *your* doctor prescribe CS?) it is the only place I feel there may be someone with enough knowledge or experience to help with other alternative health matters. I am therefore grateful that these questions are allowed. I also like to hear from people like Kurt because who knows what is going on out there, and I for one like to be kept informed about what could be happening. He does not go on about what he posts, but others do, so whose fault is it that the thread gets carried on? I suppose the answer is as always, moderation (no pun intended) in all things. dee M. G. Devour wrote: Hi folks, Thank you for sharing your opinions, as I requested. I hope that those that are threatening to leave will hang around long enough to see the end of this discussion and take part in forming its results. A number of quite interesting points are being made, and others are being demonstrated, although not by anyone's specific remarks... One of the latter points this discussion shows, confirming over a decade of experience for me, is that our group has been and always will be divided between those who want more free-flowing discussion and others who want us to remain closer to the topic -- and neither group will ever be completely satisfied with any compromise that I ever strike between the two extremes! (Yes, there are folks who are pretty well satisfied in the middle ground, too! grin) So, on this first point, please let me offer a few remarks that I hope will help everyone understand better what it takes to keep this forum even half-way successful in its mission... ***POINTS TO PONDER Remember, first of all, that I don't see messages before they go out! I do all my moderating after the fact. I depend on EACH OF YOU to regulate your own behavior, consistent with the list rules and the culture I try to instill in the membership by public guidance and private coaching. Your self-control is the price I demand of you for the privelege of staying in the group. Next, one of the very first things I learned when I took over ownership of the list is that I would NEVER be allowed to stop ALL off-topic posting if our group were going to continue to accomplish what we should and could with our efforts. Here's why: Inevitably, easily half the questions people will ask have a non-CS related component: Will CS cure...? My friend has ... will CS help? Does anybody know anything to do for ...? Whether CS is useful in each case or not, a lot of the time there are non-CS-related answers that these people need and deserve to hear. I've never prohibited non-CS- related information that might be able to HELP somebody. Other questions people ask have no relationship to CS to begin with, yet are obviously important or urgent for them, and frequently interesting to many of the rest of us. The guideline for these worthwhile off-topic discussions? Make them fairly brief, a day or two, giving out basic information and pointers to other resources so folks can continue their research elsewhere. For me to re-evaluate this fundamenal aspect of the list would require some pretty convincing arguments. Many members have just finished saying how much valuable stuff they've learned from the group on topics besides CS. I would not want those questions to go unanswered. Another point to consider is the members' responsibility to mold the discussion to their own needs. All new members are urged (in the instructions they receive upon joining) to ASK QUESTIONS in order to get the conversation moving in a direction that will help them. When they do this they normally get answers. If they don't, the conversation moves on without them. This is not an organized lecture series, where you can sit back passively and have all your questions answered, but rather more like a cocktail party, with folks milling around and talking amongst themselves. Anyone who wants to pick up the microphone and ask a question about the main topic is welcome to do so, and they'll get plenty of help as long as they need it. If I demanded that everybody sit quietly until somebody asks a proper question, it would be a very different place, and I think we'd lose a whole lot more people than we probably do when things get too noisy for too long. Who's to say what's the right balance? Ummm... Well, me, I'm afraid. Which is why I'm asking questions. *** DEFINING THE PROBLEM Now, as
Re: CSCAREFUL!!! More on Nuked Food
Kurt, No one in their right mind would want to eat irradiated food- if they know it. However, there is a huge difference in the presentation of this article and the other articles you have been posting. On Aug 24, 2008, at 8:05 PM, kmilkow...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Follow up with medical studies on the use of irradiated food. Please DELETE, if you find this offensive. Not written by Mike Adams, since there are those that seem to have a problem with him. This may help some people discern whether or not this is paranoid infromation. This is being put up to follow up with more evidence, the intention is not to start onother food fight. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
Re: CSCAREFUL!!! More on Nuked Food
If I ever meet anybody in thier right mind I'll be shocked! Everybody here knows I'm not. :) Thanks though! [this is meant as a joke, all but the part reffering to myself] Clayton Family clay...@skypoint.com wrote: Kurt, No one in their right mind would want to eat irradiated food- if they know it. However, there is a huge difference in the presentation of this article and the other articles you have been posting. On Aug 24, 2008, at 8:05 PM, kmilkow...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Follow up with medical studies on the use of irradiated food. Please DELETE, if you find this offensive. Not written by Mike Adams, since there are those that seem to have a problem with him. This may help some people discern whether or not this is paranoid infromation. This is being put up to follow up with more evidence, the intention is not to start onother food fight. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
RE: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables
I find them repetitious. -Original Message- From: Carl Deb Charter [mailto:carl...@charter.net] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:18 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables I enjoy reading Kurt's posts and find them enjoyable. If the posts are on the OT list, then there really shouldn't be a problem. Also, it's not just the neocons doing it to us, but the same old old cons as well (just my 2 cents worth!! lol) Deb -Original Message- From: bbanever [mailto:bbane...@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:53 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Sadly, this is 100% true. It has been a policy of the neocons for many years to sicken the population and prevent us from taking charge of our health. The sicker we become, the more pharmaceuticals we will consume. This is a conspiracy of Big Pharma and our government. It is no longer a secret, they are openly defying our Constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is fascism, pure an simple... the marriage of multi-national corporations with government. They want us to be slaves to their dangerous and ineffectual products, and they don't care if we die in the process. Bob - Original Message - From: James mailto:dr...@earthlink.net McCourt, Ph.D. To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:34 PM Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Massive agricultural corporations with long shipping routes from uninspected international countries with lower hygiene standards must destroy food enzymes and foreign contaminants so the product won't rot along with their profits. Or you could just buy local food and vote for politicians that would enforce our antitrust laws. - Original Message - From: Peter Converse mailto:p...@vif.com To: jessie70 mailto:jessi...@optonline.net ; silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:51 AM Subject: Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables Hi All, Kurt may be off topic but who can say that he is reporting inaccurately? We need to wake up and speak up for ourselves and our children! Blessings, Peter - Original Message - From: jessie70 mailto:jessi...@optonline.net To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:24 PM Subject: RE: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables TRUE -Original Message- From: Day Sutton [mailto:day.sut...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:08 PM To: jwilliams...@cfl.rr.com; agman...@aol.com; Bob Olivier; Cameron Sutton; dduf...@aol.com; Elizabeth Grymes; Hannah Coker; Jean Coker; Jim Collins; Lisa Ellis; Silver Post Subject: Re: CSFDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables I'm not having any trouble believing this. Most of it is already happening. Do some research.. Conspiracy theory ot not, I think we need a wake up call now and then.. Think about this: If the FDA has its way: Â. All your food will be irradiated, pasteurized or killed Â. All your children will be vaccinated Â. All your medicine will be based on pharmaceuticals Â. All your free speech about health will be suppressed Â. All informative labeling on food and supplements will be outlawed Â. Growing and selling non-irradiated garden vegetables will become a crime! (snip) If you don't believe the FDA wants the public to be sick then just look at the Oncologists, or anything to do with cancer treatment. Already you can't sell any product other than a pharmaceutical that claims to treat or prevent any disease. This is by design. I believe the FDA wants the American public to be sickened and diseased. Why else would they ban Free Speech about healing foods like cherries, broccoli and garlic? Why would they outlaw the selling of herbs and nutritional supplements that claim to treat and prevent disease? The FDA wants you to be sick, enslaved and medicated, and irradiating the food supply is the quickest way to accomplish that. -- Day Sutton day.sut...@gmail.com
Re: CSCAREFUL!!! More on Nuked Food
Kurt! You have a sense of humor!! Who knew lol MA P.S. Love your new subject lines! :-D -- Original message from kmilkow...@cfl.rr.com: -- Follow up with medical studies on the use of irradiated food. Please DELETE, if you find this offensive. Not written by Mike Adams, since there are those that seem to have a problem with him. This may help some people discern whether or not this is "paranoid" infromation. This is being put up to follow up with more evidence, the intention is not to start onother food fight.
Re: CSCAREFUL!!! More on Nuked Food
Thanks! That all depends on who you talk to. marmar...@bellsouth.net wrote: Kurt! You have a sense of humor!! Who knew lol MA P.S. Love your new subject lines! :-D -- Original message from kmilkow...@cfl.rr.com: -- Follow up with medical studies on the use of irradiated food. Please DELETE, if you find this offensive. Not written by Mike Adams, since there are those that seem to have a problem with him. This may help some people discern whether or not this is paranoid infromation. This is being put up to follow up with more evidence, the intention is not to start onother food fight. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
CSFood Irradiation OT
Dear Silver List, I have posted some comments on food irradiation at silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com for those who are interested. Regards, Steve Foss -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
CSOld news, Still Important, when It is different
Morning Deb, At 08:18 PM 8/24/2008, you wrote: I enjoy reading Kurt's posts and find them enjoyable. If the posts are on the OT list, then there really shouldn't be a problem. I do not think you know of which you speak. Many of them belong here. Food and health related items, and deadly legislation, Seems to me, .. to relate to health and longevity. Also, it's not just the neocons doing it to us, but the same old old cons as well (just my 2 cents worth!! lol) Not exactly the same old stuff. Some of it has new twists, and new research. And if you think,The Minority shall Rule, you are in the wrong country. Sometimes posting old stuff is important for the younger people, Too bad I am not one of them. Wayne == -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com