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Monday, December 23, 2019

Photography and Art - Photos Transformed into Oil Paintings & More

While testing various editing (aka post-processing) programs, I found several that offer ways to make photos look like oil paintings or similar artworks.  I wondered if there were programs made specifically for this and found two that worked really well.  One is extremely fast and gives very good, although slightly limited results compared to the other one which is very slow but mimics famous painters/artists of the past.  The fast one allows for batch processing (doing many images at once) after which you can give individual tweaks to a photo.  I was able to convert hundreds in a very short time.  In this one, you can vary the brush size, stroke size, stroke curvature, and several other variables.  You can also make line art which you'll see in the lower images.

The other program only allows you to do one photo at a time - each one can take from about 3 minutes up to 20 minutes or more.  Each one in this program has presets (around 170 of them) which look like a particular famous painter or artist (such as Van Gogh, Monet, LeRoy Neiman, Cezanne, etc.) although you can change settings to make the work have your own style or a mixed style of your own and the well-known artist.  The output size is also much larger.

It should be noted that after I photograph an image, the first thing I do is post-process in Lightroom to adjust lighting, contrast, and color as I shoot in RAW format.  Next, I either go to Photoshop if needed, or Portrait Pro to make sure everything is perfect.  Then I would go to one of these programs for the painterly look.  For example, the photos after Cathy Moriarty were shot in bright sun at around 2 p.m. as it was unplanned.

Because I can't post full-size images here (they would be, perhaps, 30x40 or 40x50) what I can do is post the full image in reduced size along with a tiny cropped part of the image to give you an idea of what the full size would look like.  Some of the styles work better for landscapes and sunsets, others for portraits, some for either.  Below are some examples of images from the programs.


Cathy Moriarty, Actress











 All of the above photos are from the slower program that mimics the master artists with minimal input.  All the photos below are from the fast program that uses sliders to vary the brush strokes.
























Randy Newman filming "I Love LA" video at Venice Beach










Monday, December 9, 2019

Questions to Ask Your Doctor, School, and Friends (and some facts)

I'm sure there are more questions, but this is a good start (feel free to substitute other places for "school" or other people like doctor, nurse, friend, family member, or school if they try to bully you into vaccinating.  Ask them these questions or tell them about some of the other items, as appropriate (if you can think of others, please let me know).  If you like this and find it useful, please feel free to copy any or all of it, share it with friends and family, etc.

"So you are giving multiple vaccines for about 14 different diseases and if someone refuses, they can't attend school (or whatever).  Guess what - there are about 175+ other diseases for which there is no vaccine, some of which are worse than the so-called vaccine-preventable diseases, so how can they let anyone attend school when they can spread those diseases?  Knowing this, how can any parent allow any immune-compromised child to go to school?

How can anyone receiving a live virus vaccine be allowed to attend school within 30-45 days of receiving it as they can shed the disease during that time?

Is the 10% of the population who are non-responders to vaccination allowed to attend schools, daycares. etc., and if so, why?

Is the significant percent of the population whose antibody levels have waned allowed to attend school, daycare, etc. - why?

Is any titre testing being conducted to determine who has adequate antibody levels and therefore safe to attend school, daycare, etc.?

If vaccines are effective why would anyone care if you or your child was by choice unvaccinated if others had chosen to vaccinate - aren't they protected?

If everyone in your office was vaccinated, why would you care if any of your patients/employees weren't vaccinated?

Why has over $4.2 Billion been paid out for vaccine injuries by VICP if they are safe?

Why has the U.S. Supreme Court called vaccines unavoidably unsafe?  Is the U.S. Supreme Court not trustworthy?

Ask your doctor:  What are all of the ingredients in the vaccine and in what quantities?  What are the possible side-effects and what are the signs of a side-effect?     What contaminants have been found in vaccines?

Are you familiar with VAERS and have you reported vaccine adverse reactions to them?

Are you familiar with VICP (National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program) and have you told parents and those receiving vaccines about it?

Why have there been almost no comparison studies in the U.S. between vaccinated and unvaccinated people (there were a couple in Europe showing vaccinated children less healthy than unvaccinated)?

Did you know that Dr. Stanley Plotkin, the leading expert on vaccines and the one who wrote the vaccine textbook for doctors, said under oath that he didn't know if vaccines cause autism?  Link to Stanley Plotkin testimony - Go to Part 6, to about the 28 minute mark on that video.  And that Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, an expert witness for vaccines, in a sworn affidavit said that vaccines can cause autism in a certain subset of children?  Sworn Affidavit of Dr. Zimmerman.

Why do drug companies not use an inert placebo to test vaccines for safety?  After all, all drugs are tested that way.  The only reason that makes sense is that they know studies with inert placebos would show they are not safe.

Why do vaccine companies have no liability?  They cannot be sued for vaccine damage.

Why has autism gone from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 40 at the same time vaccines increased from around 6 to 69?  And at the same time why have chronic illnesses increased from about 1 in 6 to 1 in 2 children today? (This is from around 1980 to present time.)

Now for some  LOGIC. COMMON SENSE, and STATISTICS:

Those who want mandatory vaccines say that if people stop vaccinating, all those diseases will come back worse than ever.  By age 28, all the childhood vaccines have worn off, and less than half of adults are vaccinated, so where are all the epidemics (pandemics?) and why aren't all the adults dropping dead like flies from all those diseases?

If vaccines are effective, why are most outbreaks happening in vaccinated populations (especially China where 99.5% of the population is vaccinated, and they are having outbreaks, or college campuses where close to 100% are vaccinated)?

Vaccinated individuals may show no symptoms of the disease, but can still spread it without you knowing it, so vaccinated people would be more dangerous than unvaccinated.

If vaccines are safe, why have there been over 600,000 deaths (perhaps more) in VAERS, E.R. visits - over 20 million, Hospitalized - over 6,000,000, Life-Threatening - over 1,100,000, and Disabled - over 820,000.  These numbers are totals for the years 2000 - 2015!  Here's a breakdown of those numbers that I found on VAERS with an explanation of the numbers.

(Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler observed in 1993 that less than 1 percent of doctors report adverse events..... [See DA Kessler, 'Introducing MEDWatch,' [JAMA, June 2, 1993: 2765-2768]")

Here's a chart from the CDC for 2014 Pertussis cases:  This chart remains pretty much the same every year. - notice in the lower right chart that over 5x as many cases reported in those who got the 3+ recommended vaccines compared to those who did not get the vaccine.

The above does not take into account the possible long-term side effects which are unknown as there are no studies available for this.  Did you know that to save one person from getting meningitis, the meningococcal vaccine will have killed three people and injured much more?  More people die and are injured by vaccines than from the diseases they are supposed to prevent (according to statistics from VAERS and CDC). If you look at graphs of diseases from the 1800s to the present, and what year the vaccines were introduced, you'll see that most deaths from diseases were almost gone when the vaccines arrived (deaths were at or near zero).  Check the graph for scarlet fever - there was no vaccine for that, so you can't give vaccines credit for that.  Why aren't people still getting it?  Why do many, if not most, doctors not vaccinate?

For those who say the adjuvants in vaccines are too little to do harm:  In 2016, the EPA published a voluntary health advisory for PFOA and PFOS, warning that exposure to the chemicals at levels above 70 parts per trillion, total, could be dangerous. One part per TRILLION is roughly the equivalent of a single grain of sand in an Olympic-sized swimming pool.  The updated HHS assessment was poised to find that exposure to the chemicals at less than one-sixth of that level could be dangerous for sensitive populations like infants and breastfeeding mothers.  So when you hear the argument that some of the adjuvants in vaccines are too little to do harm, and are usually in parts per BILLION, think again.  Or this: One-quarter of an ounce of urushiol (the oil from poison oak, ivy, sumac) is all that is needed to cause a rash in every person on earth.  Or 1 billionth of a gram per person.

Through clean water, sanitation, hygiene practices, quarantine, nutrition, plumbing, education, vector control, health departments, antibiotics, etc. we have eradicated diseases that used to kill millions. Vaccines had NOTHING to do with it. Just do a little research rather than spew drug company and media rhetoric. MMRW reports, census reports, etc. show that cholera, typhoid, Scarlett fever, plague, Spanish flu, etc., just to name a few, all declined at the same time as the others- magically with no vaccine intervention.

A word about Google (and other search engines) AKA "Google University."  Google directs you to scientists, doctors, whistleblowers, immunologists, virologists, researchers, etc., who are from Harvard, MIT, and on and on. Since most doctors don't even know what's in vaccines, let alone all the side effects possible, haven't gone to VAERS, etc., and probably have had very little if any education about vaccines, other than how to try to force them on people, those of us who do the research do know more about vaccines than most doctors. From what I've heard, most doctors don't even bother to read the insert that comes with the vaccine and don't bother to share that insert with their patients.   They don't know the ingredients or the possible side effects.  You need to find those inserts online and read them before ever getting a vaccine.  How many doctors will tell you what to do in case of an adverse reaction to a vaccine?  Like what medical help to seek,  how to file a report with VAERS and go to VICP within the allotted time period.

The thalidomide disaster is one of the darkest episodes in pharmaceutical research history. The drug was marketed as a mild sleeping pill safe even for pregnant women. However, it caused thousands of babies worldwide to be born with malformed limbs. The damage was revealed in 1962.  Rofecoxib (Vioxx) was introduced by Merck in 1999 as an effective, safer alternative to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for the treatment of pain associated with osteoarthritis. It was subsequently found to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and withdrawn from the worldwide market. Merck now faces legal claims from nearly 30,000 people who had cardiovascular events while taking the drug.  And now NSAIDs are in the news daily and kill 47,000 a year.  There have been many others - in fact, properly prescribed prescription medications kill 106,000 every year.  Doctors used to say cigarettes were good for you and did not cause cancer.  Hundreds of thousands died as a result (my father was one of those).  Drugs undergo years of testing against inert placebos.  Vaccines have never been tested against an inert placebo, are not tested over a period of years, only days, by the same drug companies that produced Vioxx and NSAIDs, and all of a sudden everyone forgets the past and trusts them.  They call those of us who are actually informed anti-vaxx, pseudoscientists, conspiracy theorists, etc.   People are not anti-vaxx, they just don't want to be injected with known toxins and poisons.  But now it's getting worse - now they are denying people their freedom through mandatory vaccination.  Who remembers what this country was founded on?  To those of you who think Trump is bad, he doesn't come close to how bad mandatory vaccines (i.e. - forced medicine) are.  Toxins and poisons forcibly injected into healthy people against their will - that sounds like Nazi Germany.  And it's all happening because people believe some of the the biggest liars in the world - the drug companies and the media.

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

How Dare They!

The following is from an NBC news article on July2, 2019 (in California):  "The state acted on the Sutton and Allen cases following complaints to the medical board from Dr. Wendy Cerny, assistant chief of pediatrics at a Kaiser Permanente clinic in Roseville, court documents show. (Kaiser Health News, which produces California Healthline, is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanante.) Cerny contacted the board about Sutton in February 2017 and followed up with an email about Allen 15 months later, according to the documents.

Cerny became concerned after seeing permanent medical exemptions for Kaiser Permanente pediatric patients written by Sutton and Allen that cited reasons including “a personal history of genetic defect,” food and environmental allergies, “neurological vulnerability” and a family history of mental health disorders, according to the legal documents.

The doctors under investigation are not Kaiser Permanente doctors, but parents went to them for vaccination exemptions. In one case, Sutton issued a “lifelong medical exemption from all vaccines” to a boy before his family joined Kaiser Permanente, according to Cerny’s complaint. When one of Cerny’s colleagues refused to write similar exemptions for the boy’s two younger siblings, the mother said she would go back to Sutton to get them, the complaint says."

How dare a doctor, to protect the health of his/her patients, excuse them from vaccines that can and do harm children and kill them, especially at the loss of revenue to drug companies.  How dare he take into account their medical history.  How dare he listen to the parents of the children.  In other words, how dare doctors do the job they were trained for if it protects their patients and cuts into drug company profits.

Forget the arguments for and against vaccines for a moment - if the vaccine may kill or injure the child it is supposed to protect (which is questionable), why would you get it?  Let's say it's the MMR vaccine.  If you get measles, it lasts around a week or so and then you're immune for life.  If you get the MMR, you could die or be permanently injured.  If it works, you have only temporary immunity.  In the case of the Disneyland measles outbreak, 38% of the cases were vaccine strain measles, meaning the vaccine caused the measles in those cases.

Those two doctors mentioned should probably be given the Medal of Freedom.  Which brings me to the final point:  How dare they (the government, etc.) be allowed to take away our freedom (forced vaccination or any medical procedure IS NOT FREEDOM).  How dare they force medical interventions on anyone!

Food for thought - when the vaccine makers do their so-called safety testing by using either other vaccines or some of the same adjuvants contained in the vaccine being tested, as placebos, that is tantamount to an admission by them that their vaccine is not safe.  Otherwise, they would use a true placebo - an inert substance, usually a saline solution for liquids.

When you do your own research, you must do it from those without conflicts of interest - those who do not profit from what you are studying.  In this case, that would eliminate the media, drug companies, the CDC, the government, many universities, etc.

Friday, June 28, 2019

Free Movie Through July 1, 2019

Great information in a free movie.  Just click on FREE MOVIE to watch.  Oh - there is a password needed to see it, and that is:  great 2019 (with the space between great and 2019).  If you haven't seen it, hope you enjoy.



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Monday, March 25, 2019

Best Vaccine Resource Pages

NOTE:  All my future blog posts relating to health and vaccines will be at True Health Freedom.

With the possibility of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., censoring vaccine content  (either deleting them entirely or having them not show up on searches), I'm making a list of links that go directly to the home pages of various pro-truth, pro-freedom, pro-choice, anti-mandatory, vaccine sites.  I'm sure it's not a complete list, so if you have any to add, please let me know.  At the end of this list will be a link to all the sites I've gone to to research vaccines.  Because most are from 3 years ago, they may not all work.  However, the link may still take you to the site, just not the article, in which case you may get a "page not found" notice.  If you delete everything after the ".com" in the address bar, you'll at least get to the site to explore it.

Some other thoughts:  What would probably be better than this page would be if all the sites listed here (plus the ones I've no doubt left out) got together to form one site where all their articles could be shared (while still maintaining their own sites).  So that whatever content they added to their site would also be posted on their shared site.  I think this would make things easier, although perhaps too complex?  There is a site now that could be used, and at least one of the vaccine sites is using it, called MeWe.com.  They say absolutely no censorship.  It's a social site like Facebook.

Here's the list I have so far:
The Highwire with Del Bigtree (Sign up here for TheHighwire.com coming soon) - Excellent
Children's Health Defense - with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - Excellent
Vaccine Impact - Excellent
National Vaccine Information Center - Excellent
Stop Mandatory Vaccination - Excellent
Physicians for Informed Consent - Excellent
Revolution for Choice - could only find a Facebook page - Excellent
The Truth About Vaccines (also Facebook The Truth About Vaccines Docuseries) - Excellent
GreenMedinfo - Vaccines, Health, Herbs, & much more - Excellent
Health Impact News - Excellent
Child Health Safety - Excellent
Vaccine Papers - Links to a lot of excellent information
VaxTruth - another great resource - Excellent
Age of Autism - Excellent
Global Freedom Movement (GFM) Excellent
Thinking Moms Revolution
Jon Rappoport - Journalist who write about vaccines and lots of other things
The Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute (CMSRI) - Excellent
Health Nut News (HNN) - About vaccines and Health in general
The Mom Street Journal - Excellent
Vaccine Safety Commission - Excellent resource
Vaccine Liberation - Excellent
Alliance for Human Research Protection - Excellent
Sharyl Attkisson - Medical Vaccine Links
Dr. Mercola - Writes about general health and also vaccines

I use Web of Trust to protect my searches from malicious or unsafe sites.  I shouldn't have been surprised that several of the above sites were listed as "Unsafe," when, in fact, they are not only safe but truthful and informative.  No doubt the pro-vaxx people don't want you going to sites like these.

In addition to the above, there are many doctors, scientists, immunologists, etc., that I did not list because the list would become too long, plus by going to the links above, you will discover many of them.

My vaccine links through the end of 2016 - Hundreds of links.  I have since added hundreds more which at some point I'll be compiling into another blog post.


ADDENDUM - I have read that 60% of people are against MANDATORY vaccines.  This is only my suggestion, but since it's almost impossible to convince some of the dangers of vaccines, I think it might be easier to talk about the loss of their freedom.  And to tell them that once vaccines become mandatory for children, they will be next.  Followed by mandatory psych drugs for who knows how many people.  I think it is imperative to ask all your friends and relatives to contact their state and federal representatives in Congress and start demanding no mandatory vaccines.

The following is from "Stop Mandatory Vaccinations" which is listed above:

This is what is happening in California:
***ACTION ALERT!!!*** Sen Pan Announces New Bill To Effectively End Medical Exemptions in California. TAKE ACTION!

#CALIFORNIA update regarding #SB276 - http://bit.ly/CA-SB276

California, the time is now! Senator Pan has introduced the bill we have all been expecting. SB276, a bill to restrict medical exemptions in California, has gone live and Assemblything Lorena G is the first coauthor.

What the bill does:

1. All medical exemptions must be approved by the State Public Health Officer (or approved designee).

2. All medical exemptions must be based on CDC contraindications only. These are VERY narrow - basically anaphylaxis.

3. All medical exemption requests must be submitted on a standardized form created by the California Dept of Public Health (CDPH).

4. All medical exemption requests will be tracked in a database managed by the CDPH. This will include personal and sensitive medical information about your children.

5. Any medical exemption written PRIOR to SB276 will also need to be approved by the CDPH and included in their database, by July 1, 2020. If the grandfathered medical exemption is deemed "fraudulent," it will be invalidated.

We are going to be under the gun on this one due to legislative deadlines, it has the potential to move fast. We must take action en masse. We must show up en masse. Pan has declared war on our families. He has declared war on doctors. He has declared war on the legislators who, in good faith, passed SB277 knowing that medical exemptions would be broad and include family history and be written with YOUR doctor's discretion. Not Pan's discretion. Not the CDC's discretion.

Do these things today:
1. Call the Senate Rules Committee (916) 651-4120 and politely ask that SB276 is double referred to the Senate Health Committee and the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.

2. Call the following Senators (we will be calling several a day so that we can hit them all fairly quickly). Urge them to NOT coauthor SB276 and to vote NO when/if comes before them for a vote.

Senator Toni Atkins (916) 651-4039 Senator Scott Wilk (916) 651-4021 Senator Pat Bates (916) 651-4036 Senator Bill Monning (916) 651-4017 Senator Richard Roth (916) 651-4031 Senator Maria Durazo (916) 651-4024 Senator Connie Leyva (916) 651-4020 Sen Shannon Grove (916) 651-4016

Sample Script: "Hi, I'm calling to urge Senator __________ to NOT coauthor SB276, a bill to severely restrict medical exemptions. Furthermore, I would ask that the Senator vote NO should SB276 come before him/her for a vote. SB277 was passed because of a broad medical exemption that was left to a doctor's discretion. There is no crisis demanding such an authoritarian law in California. Thank you for your time."

3. You have two legislators - a Senator and an Assemblyperson. Call them both. Ask for a meeting with the legislator (not a staffer) in the next few weeks in their district office to discuss SB276. Ask if they have any town halls or coffee talks on the calendar in the near future. Let us know what you find out!

4. Start talking to people: friends, family, doctors, nurses. Let them know what Pan is up to with this bill. Invite them to join Parents United 4 Kids.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

The Greater Good, Censorship, Medical Ethics, and More

A safety study of vaccines has never been done.  To do a safety study a group of vaccinated children would have to be compared to a true inert placebo group.  Instead of an inert placebo, they use a toxic mix of adjuvants (poisons) or another vaccine.  Then when they get the same results in both groups (they know they will), they say, "see, it wasn't the vaccine, vaccines are safe."  Actually, by doing these fraudulent studies they are basically admitting vaccines are NOT SAFE.  Otherwise, they'd be tripping over themselves to do true safety studies.  This should be obvious to the meanest intelligence.  They say vaccines need to be made mandatory for the greater good and that they can't do those safety studies because it would be unethical to deprive the placebo group of these vaccines.  That's their reasoning.  I couldn't make this stuff up.  Vaccines, as they are now, kill and permanently injure people, so how can it be ethical to knowingly vaccinate them with something that can kill and injure them?  Wouldn't it be for the greater good to do safety studies to improve vaccines, even if it meant depriving some people of something that might protect them?  Or perhaps kill and injure them?  And guess what - there are around a million children who don't want vaccines.  Any of them could be used as placeboes so they don't even have to think about any ethical implications because there wouldn't be any.  Yet they continue with this argument.

There has been censorship in the media for quite a while.  When was the last time in the media when you heard of someone dying or suffering as a result of a vaccine?  Probably never.  But on the evening news tonight, they reported a person who died from the flu along with having a strep infection.  So they said to get your flu shot.  Now the censorship is starting online.  Just yesterday, Pinterest started blocking all searches for vaccines due to what they call "misinformation" being posted.  Anything that paints vaccines in a negative way that is based on facts is called misinformation.  On the other hand, anything pro-vaccination, even when based on lies and fraud is fine.  Probably the biggest lie is that vaccines are safe.  Imagine if your cars were treated like vaccines - no liability, no safety testing, and you had to buy whichever one they mandated.  They just tell you they are safe, and no accidents are ever reported.  Who would put up with this?  Imagine if all products were like this.

What about autism and the latest on the vaccine-autism link?  Pediatric neurologist Dr. Andrew Zimmerman originally served as the expert medical witness for the government, which defends vaccines in federal vaccine court.  He had testified that vaccines do not cause autism in specific patients.  Dr. Zimmerman now has signed a bombshell sworn affidavit. He said that, during a group of 5,000 vaccine-autism cases being heard in court on June 15, 2007, he took aside the Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers he worked for defending vaccines and told them he’d discovered “exceptions in which vaccinations could cause autism.”  Here's the article:  How a pro-vaccine doctor reopened debate about link to autism.  Again, I can't make this stuff up.  Next, Dr. Stanley Plotkin, M.D., the worlds leading authority of vaccines, being interviewed under oath by the IOM (Institute of Medicine) (go to minute 46:40 - 53:00 of this Highwire link - or you can watch the whole episode, which is worth the watch):  Highwire, Dr. Stanley Plotkin, under oath.  Stanley Plotkin admitted he doesn't know if vaccines cause autism, so he just decides to assume they don't.  He said that, not me.  What happened to the precautionary principle, which has four central components: taking preventive action in the face of uncertainty; shifting the burden of proof to the proponents of an activity; exploring a wide range of alternatives to possibly harmful actions; and increasing public participation in decision making.

All of the above are facts.  And all of the above is what they want to censor, calling it misinformation, even when straight out of the mouths of the leading experts.  Knowing the above, do you want mandatory vaccines?  It's all based on lies - vaccines are not safe, there have never been any safety studies comparing vaccinated against a true placebo, most people don't know about VAERS or VICP, vaccines contain numerous toxins and neurotoxins that they tell you are safe, again with no testing, and on and on.  The vaccine program is an experiment and it sounds just like something that might have come out of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.  But it's here, in the U.S., now - in 2019.  Censorship, human rights violations, human experimentation without informed consent.  NEVER AGAIN, at least not until the next time.  I hope people wake-up soon or it will be EVER AGAIN.