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This week’s edition looks at the Libra New Moon square Pluto, and describes in a new way how the 2012 aspect works — and why it’s influencing us now. We’ve covered this aspect in daily editions the past few days, so I’ve given most of this week’s program to an interview with Leslie Carol Botha, the outreach person for SaneVax.org. This is the organization that has been exposing the many problems with Gardasil.
It’s a perfect match for the subject matter of planets square Pluto because it broaches on a conversation that would normally be shrouded in taboo and mystery (attributes of Pluto).
This program will be of special interest to teenagers and their parents. Please give it a listen. The problems with Gardasil (and related HPV vaccines) are so serious they cannot be ignored. The conversation describes how sensitive young women are when they are beginning their menstrual cycles, and how this is the worst possible time to inflict the hormone damage that is one result of this series of injections.
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Hi Eric and Leslie,
Thanks for the great podcast! Fascinating and both scary. I have had the Gardsil vaccine. When I was 24 (4 years ago) it was being pushed by all my doctors, gynecologists and all my friend’s doctors and gyns. Every woman that I was friends with or was an acquaintance got the vaccines within the span of a year. The word going around was it prevented 70% of the HPV strains which causes cervical cancer. Thank you for all the reporting you’ve done on Gardsil! Makes me scared for what damage this has done to me and all my friends.
I wanted to comment on something that Leslie mentioned in passing about birth control being subscribed for acne. That was definitely my high school generation. But, I’m going to propose that it wasn’t just the dermatologists pushing birth control for acne, that it was also an excuse young women found to get their parents to sign off on them taking birth control, when in fact it was because they wanted it to prevent pregnancy but could not bring that up to their parents. It was being prescribed for acne, but girls in high school were asking for it NOT for acne. They were using acne as an excuse because it was an excuse their parents would sign up for. The girls in my high school wanted it to prevent pregnancy in case they became sexually active. Almost no one asked for it strictly for acne. The acne line was a way to get birth control without telling your parents you wanted it because you are or might become sexually active. Even as late as the beginning of college, women talked and young women would tell other young women in high school that if your parents asked why you were getting birth control to tell them it was for acne not because you were sexually active.
And that speaks to an inability to young women in the late 90 and early 2000s to be open with their parents or those in authority that they are sexually active.
Thanks for the link Eric.
Here is that quote — by Carol van Strum. Carol is currently a Planet Waves editor who works on Jude’s column as well as many of my projects. She’s also our in-house genius legal strategist, on those rare occasions when someone is mean to us. Carols’ brain has fangs, and she makes great corn meal.
http://dioxindorms.com/content/mission_statement.html
Hi Eric,
This was such a moving podcast! I would love it if you would print the quote you read at the end of the podcast. I am passing this information on to my daughters, I have already been on the phone with one of them this morning. I intend to forward this information to everyone I know and speak of it everywhere. Thank you so much for being light in such a murky world.
Caroline
This was great! Leslie was tremendous. I had no idea this was going on with Gardasil.
Also you guys touched on hormone disruptors. This is such a big issue, and it doesn’t get much play in the media.
Did you know that the receipt you get from the ATM, or from the local store, is covered in BPA? That’s the bad stuff that’s in plastic bottles that is now being banned in many places, because it’s a hormone disruptor and it’s linked to cancer.
You will get 12 times the exposure to BPA (bisphenol-A) from a paper receipt that came out of an electronic cash register than you will get from drinking water out of a plastic bottle contaminated with BPA.
It’s the thermal paper. It’s coated with a chemical that contains BPA.
I try not to take any paper receipts anymore. When I take cash out of the ATM, I write down the transaction on a little piece of paper I carry in my wallet, then later transfer it to my checkbook.
Sometimes it’s hard to NOT get a paper receipt, though, on certain transactions — if you’re paying cash and it’s a sizeable amount, and the receipt is the only record you’re going to have.
But how many people know this? I sometimes tell friendly cashiers about it, and suggest they google it, and add that they should be wearing rubber gloves to protect themselves, because they’re getting massive exposures to BPA.
But we are swimming in a sea of hormone disruptors, and I really think it must be linked to the obesity epidemic. Because metabolism is controlled by your thyroid, which is part of your hormonal system. I mean some of the obesity in this country is caused by insane eating habits, sure, but some of it I feel sure must be caused by all these chemicals.
I have a 45-year-old friend who suddenly came down with thyroid disease. It’s fairly severe and she’s got to take meds for the rest of her life. They told her it was likely due to environmental exposures.
I buy my own soap to use at work. I won’t use the soap in the office kitchenette or in the office bathroom, because it almost certainly contains triclosan, which is another carcinogenic hormone disruptor. (and is technically clasified as a pesticide — ew!)
I buy personal toiletries and makeup that have as few chemicals in them as possible. I buy make up from a website called Saffron Rouge, which carries stuff that has no pthalates or parabens, and you can see the entire ingredient list. (Also a website called Mad Minerals.)
But all this takes a lot of effort and most people are not willing to do it. Women especially are suffering from exposure to this hormone disruptors — and often women pay large sums of money to buy stuff they think is chic, but is actually toxic!
It’s insane that we won’t regulate business to stop them from giving us cancer, but they have kept us down and now they do what they want to us.
Keep up the good work Eric. And folks near NYC, pls come down to Zucotti Park on Saturday and show some support to the wonderful protesters who are trying to fight back against corporatism. They are asking for a show of support from 3 pm to 8 pm, just go down and hang out, talk to folks and give them a smile and a friendly word.
peace, GG
I’ve been scanning society for many years looking for someone who has some informed views about HPV, and I feel a lot better about this paranoid subject after having talked to her. We must get the word out to young women and their parents that HPV vaccinations are no no no no no no no not healthy not good for living things.
really looking forward to listening to this conversation! thank you for having it.