Health

NOVANEWS Dear All, David Cameron is trying to ride it out. He knows his plans for the NHS are a disaster. [1] But after more than a year of phoney listening exercises, aggressive spin and backroom deals, he thinks abandoning the plan now would simply be too embarrassing. But there’s one thing that politicians care about more than saving face: saving their jobs. At the moment, Cameron is gambling that it’s best to force through the changes - then hope that it doesn’t cost him too many votes later on. We can shift this calculation by proving to Cameron that the NHS is already an election issue, and a losing one for his party if they refuse to listen. Elections for the Mayor of London are fast approaching. Cameron desperately wants the Conservatives to win. Together, we can buy billboards all...

A heart grounded Warrior   by Allen L Roland   The Japanese symbol of love is a replica of the heart’s dominance ~ for the mind is always looking for answers that the heart already knows. Armed with this innate compass, synchronistic heart felt events and relationships offer clues that our lives are divinely guided ~ whether or not you can fully accept it. Only the ego stands in the way of this great inner wisdom and awareness of not only a universal loving plan but our individual participation in it as a heart grounded warrior. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that my life is divinely guided by my heart and when I fully surrender to love I enter a  Unified Field  of soul consciousness where there are no accidents and where heart felt synchronistic events and relationship...

NOVANEWS     Dear, All Is our NHS still in danger? Andrew Lansley's NHS plans are due to become law within three months. So we need to vote now to decide what we should do together to keep our NHS safe. Our campaign has made real progress. We have just heard that, under pressure from us, the House of Lords has watered down Lansley's plan to scrap his responsibility to provide a National Health Service. [1] That's a huge success and shows that our campaign can work. But there's still plenty to worry about. Leading medical organisations like the Royal College of GPs and the Royal College of Nurses are now calling outright for Lansley's plans to be dropped. They warn that - even with the changes we've campaigned so hard for - the plans are "a mess" and the future of the NHS is stil...

Dear All, In 1984, an industrial plant in Bhopal, Central India, leaked 27 tons of deadly gas. Thousands in the local area were killed and over half a million were exposed, making it one of the world’s worst industrial catastrophes. On the eve of the 27th anniversary, the situation remains a humanitarian and environmental tragedy affecting thousands, but the company now in charge of the site has been accused of neglecting their duties to clean up the area, continuing to place thousands of lives at risk. That company is Dow Chemical -- a major partner of the London 2012 Olympics. Lorraine Close is a nurse from London who lived and worked with those affected by the disaster in the Bhopal community. After hearing that Dow Chemical were sponsors of the London 2012 Olympics she was so appalled ...

NOVANEWS  How do you discredit a movement?  You feed noise in.    by Jack JC We see this at work every day and seldom recognize how this affects our world view Pavlov demonstrated that dogs taught to associate food with a ringing bell would start to salivate.  What is lesser known is that his work also included children who displayed the same reaction to stimuli, or “conditioned reflex”.  What we have known since the late 1800′s is that people can be conditioned by external stimuli to react in a desired manner, and in fact Trowbridge Ford recently published an article regarding this relating to government assassins.  As a caveat, to gain the desired ‘conditioned reflex’ requires repeated applications of the signal, effectively ‘brainwashing’ the subject. In a seemingly unrelated topic, hu...

NOVANEWS  Secret Geoengineering Operation Warms the Planet and Exposes Global Warming as Fraud on Humanity by Harold Saive Rosalind Peterson This post is based mostly on a October 23, 2011 Presentation by Rosalind Peterson and Allan Buckmann at the Radio Liberty Seminar in Aptos, California. To download the PowerPoint presentation and supporting documents  Click Here Newly revealed US and UK Agenda on a “Global Geoengineering Governance” “A Weather Modification program in progress for decades and before global warming was a recognized issue – is not a “TEST” – It’s a Policy”.  – H. Saive In 2009, the United States House of Representatives Science & Technology Committee quietly agreed to work with the UK Parliament on Geoengineering programs. The U.S. House Science and Technology Com...

NOVANEWS  By VA Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention   Quitting smoking is the single most important thing you can do to improve your health and protect the health of your family members. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Using tobacco causes many diseases and affects your overall health. Quitting smoking or other forms of tobacco has benefits in the short- and long-term for you and your loved ones. All forms of tobacco are harmful.  This includes cigars, pipes, snuff, snus, chewing tobacco and electronic or smokeless cigarettes. Tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke kill approximately 443,000 people in the United States each year. It is the largest cause of preventable illness and death in the United States. Tobacco use has been shown to be the cau...

by Ken Smith I recently was invited by a good friend who lives in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts to participate in a panel discussion about PTSD and TBI .  This discussion was to be held after a “reading” of a new play called “Make sure it’s me” written by playwright “Kate Wenner” of Southfield Ma.   The play tells the story of TBI from a few different perspectives but leaves those who have seen it with a better understanding of the complexities of TBI, the way it effects families and especially wives.  I wasn’t there to critique the play, which I thought was very good by the way, but to participate on a panel discussion about PTSD, TBI and where as a nation we have fallen down in the after care and subsequent treatment of the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who have su...

NOVANEWS ‘I think breaking up the NHS is exactly what you do need to do to make it a more responsive service.’ That was what Nick Clegg said in 2005, refusing to rule out an insurance-based model for health services (cited nhsmanager.net). Yet there were those who imagined that he and his colleagues would get a good kicking at the LibDem annual conference in mid-September for failing to stop the Coalition’s Health and Social Services Bill. They were wrong. Privatising the NHS is ruling class policy. The LibDems are a ruling class party, so those in charge of LibDem conference arrangements made sure the issue was not debated. The Labour Party could of course stop the Bill in its tracks. All that Ed Miliband would have to say is that it would renationalise any privatised hospitals or service...

Dear All Which way will they vote? This Wednesday the House of Lords makes a choice. They could wave through the government’s dangerous NHS plans. Or they could insist on proper scrutiny and big changes to protect our health service. The press say it's on a knife edge. It could come down to one or two votes. [1] Together we can help tip the balance. If we can prove that the public wants Lansley’s plans put under the microscope, we can convince wavering Lords and Baronesses to stand up to the government and vote the right way. Thousands of us have written personally to Lords and Baronesses. We know our message is starting to get through. Now let’s show wavering Lords just how many of us want them to vote to protect our NHS - by building a huge, people powered petition. The vote is on Wednes...