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 It's a fact: Airport security, as operated in the United States, does not make air travel safe. It does, however, keep the people in a state of constant fear. It's fascinating just how far the United States has devolved into a police state without the population bothering to question authority. The sheeple have given up their rights and freedoms, trading them in for the illusion of security, and as this latest incident with the 45-year-old mother at the Phoenix Airport now clearly demonstrates, arguing with airport police can ultimately get you killed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In the future, I hope to find and review other air filter products that may be cheaper and still effective, but in the mean time, this high-end IQAir unit earns my recommendation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They make you breathe the same air over and over again, and the air is full of infectious disease thanks to all the immunosuppressed passengers who keep coughing up viruses and bacteria during the flight. If you're tired of getting sick when you travel, do what I do: Slam some Power Immune before you even get to the airport! I take this product preemptively, even before getting on the plane, just to have another level of defense against the onslaught of airborne diseases that are present on every airplane. |
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| The LCD display tells you the cubic feet per minute (CFM) of air being drawn through the machine, and an LED light reminds you when to change the filter.
You can even set the unit to run on certain speeds at certain times of the day, so that, for example, it's running on a higher setting at night, but slows down during the day to reduce noise. (The fan in this IQAir unit is so strong that when you have it on the highest setting, it's really loud. Too loud to talk on the telephone nearby, actually. |
| Once purified, the air is released out of the top of the machine bringing clean air back into the room. Some HealthPro models don't have all four internal filters, so check the model details carefully in deciding which one might be right for you.
Six fan speeds are featured on every model in the series, which allows the user to choose the ideal performance level desired. Also included with each system is a remote control, a Programmable Control Panel and an Intelligent Filter Life Monitor. |
| This is no mini air purifier
Although the design looks nice and modern enough, it is still a big piece of sour eye candy that looms over a room like an out of place coffee table. The HealthPro series might be a little large for some rooms -- all the models are about the size of a mini-fridge. Even the HealthPro Compact unit takes up a good deal of space.
Designed for residential use, the HealthPro series of room air purifiers have a modular tower design and are available in several models including the HealthPro, the HealthPro Compact and the HealthPro Plus. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They make you breathe the same air over and over again, and the air is full of infectious disease thanks to all the immunosuppressed passengers who keep coughing up viruses and bacteria during the flight. If you're tired of getting sick when you travel, do what I do: Slam some Power Immune before you even get to the airport! I take this product preemptively, even before getting on the plane, just to have another level of defense against the onslaught of airborne diseases that are present on every airplane. |
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| This action led to the creation of fan powered room air cleaners, which were not only more effective than what was on the market, but were affordable too. This technology was finally made available in the United States in 2000.
Formed in 1963, the company that would later become IQAir was born as the brainchild of two brothers in Germany, Manfred and Klaus Hammes. What was first introduced to the German consumer was a simple residential filter system. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The FAA has even been caught covering up sexual misconduct allegations of U.S. air marshals having sex with underage children overseas, oblivious to the inherent security risks created by such behavior (not to mention the ethical considerations). As reported in Insight on the News, March 25, 2002:
Steve Elson, a former Navy SEAL and former member of the FAA's elite and secret "Red Team" that conducted mock raids to test security at U.S. airports, tells INSIGHT that over the years he has been made aware of sexual exploitation of children by traveling U.S. aviation-security personnel. |
Paula Begoun
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 VOCs are released into the air from automobile exhaust and consumer products. While automobiles may seem to be a far greater source than a little can of hairspray, in California alone, the annual emissions of 176 million pounds of VOCs from 30 million Californians using consumer products are the same as if 20 million cars were added, each driving an additional 10,000 miles that year" (Source: air Quality Resources, www.aqs.com/iaq/vol_org_compounds.asp). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's neither cheese nor food, and if it didn't have the word "food" on the can, Wal-Mart stock boys wouldn't know whether to put it in the grocery or the automotive section.
The air travel water ban
The TSA has banned all water from airplanes, but if they really enforced the regulation, they shouldn't be letting people on the planes at all. Why? Because the human body is 75% water.
What are they gonna do next, dehydrate all the passengers before they board? The airlines would love the policy, as it would lighten the passenger load and save them millions in fuel costs. |
Paula Begoun
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| But please try anyway, just to put a bit of fresh air into an otherwise very hazy and sometimes polluted business.
Industry Statistics
Collectively, United States consumers spend over $7 billion a year on our hair, whether it is on shampoos (about $1.5 billion) or conditioners (about $900 million). We also spend a lot of money getting our hair cut, styled, permed, or dyed at the salon—in 2002 we spent over $55 billion at salons for services and products combined (Sources: www.klinegroup.com; The Green Book Directory, 2003). |
| It can indeed do this (with or without heat, though heat "seals" this product faster than air drying does) and makes this an option for creating an ultra-shiny finish on all hair types, though someone with fine or thin hair should use just a few drops of it to avoid a greasy appearance. All in all, this is a nice twist on standard silicone serums.
JOHN FRIEDA FRIZZ EASE RELAX
© Frizz Ease Relax Total Clarity, Moisturizing Shampoo ($6.99 for 8. |
| That romantic comparison would make sense if the fragrance were subtle, but all of the products are so fragranced you won't think someone has blown in your ear, you'll think they sounded an air horn right next to it! The scents may draw you in to visit fresh, but your scalp may not like it if you choose to stay. For more information on fresh, call (800) FRESH-20 or visit www.fresh.com.
What's Good About This Line: Despite the fragrance and fragrant plant extracts, many fresh hair-care products work well for their intended hair type, particularly the conditioners. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Combine water with marshmallows and an air tube and you have a deadly water-powered marshmallow gun that can be used to intimidate passengers and crew. That's why bottles of water are routinely confiscated by airport security personnel. They've got the whole population scared into such a terror frenzy that they've convinced people H2O is a weapon!
The fear mongering by the TSA has become so insane that just yesterday, they announced that remote-controlled toys would now earn extra scrutiny at security checkpoints. Why? |
Paula Begoun
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| Natural Body Highliter Mousse, Chestnut Brown ($8 for 8 ounces) isn't a mousse because it doesn't foam and it's not dispersed by propellants (or air, as is the case with many mousses today). Rather, this is a styling gel that provides a light hold that's slightly sticky but can be brushed through. It contains caramel coloring to minimally enhance brunette shades of hair.
© Natural Body Highliter Mousse, Golden Camomile ($8 for 8 ounces) is similar to the Natural Body Highliter Mousse, Chestnut Brown above, except this contains turmeric for color instead of caramel. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 According to the EPA, the air in our homes is two to five times more polluted than the air outside of our homes.
Mike: Wow.
Hollender: Our homes are so largely polluted that the California air Resources Board evaluated the second greatest source of air pollution after automobiles in the state of California, and it was household cleaning and personal care products, including paints and stains. One product, Tilex, emits eight tons of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the air in our homes every day in the state of California.
Mike: That's an amazing statistic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Fruits and vegetables absorb molecules in the air, and solvent chemicals can go right through plastic containers. When you buy something at a store, you're buying a little bit of everything in the store! It's another reason to stop shopping at retailers that sell pesticides, toxic soaps, laundry products, solvents and cleaners. Get your food from a FOOD store, and make sure it's real food (not that processed garbage).
By the way, you can read the original NRDC press release at: http://www.nrdc.org/media/2007/070919. |
| Support Community-Supported Agriculture organizations (CSAs) and grow what you can yourself, in your own back yard, where the food goes from your garden to your plate, without being subjected to toxic chemicals in the air. And get some detox products to get rid of these chemicals. Some great sources include Heavy Metal Detox from www.DetoxMetals.com and Metal Magic from www.BaselineNutritionals.com (another interesting product is Natural Cellular Defense which I recommend through a friend Jason Groode at http://www.mywaiora. |
| What other chemicals lurk in these same air freshener products? And can you imagine all the toxic chemicals found in high-fragrance shampoos, nail polish, makeup remover and dryer sheets? When the truth comes out about those products someday, consumers are going to shocked to discover just how toxic their homes (and bodies) have become thanks to the relentless use of synthetic chemicals by commercial product manufacturers.
This stuff gets absorbed into the food at the grocery store! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That is really where we got started, because it is largely through those household cleaning products that people pollute the air in their homes. According to the EPA, the air in our homes is two to five times more polluted than the air outside of our homes.
Mike: Wow.
Hollender: Our homes are so largely polluted that the California air Resources Board evaluated the second greatest source of air pollution after automobiles in the state of California, and it was household cleaning and personal care products, including paints and stains. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you're willing to spend the money and care enough about the air you breathe, however, this system seems well worth the price of admission.
Of course, you have to be able to afford the unit in the first place. It is more like an investment in your future than an everyday appliance you can take for granted. But what if you don't believe that the HealthPro series is worth its price tag? |
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| Only two products tested by the NRDC -- Febreze air Effects and Renuzit Subtle Effects -- contained virtually no detectable levels of phthalates, yet the twelve other products tested positive for the chemical even though some were labeled "unscented" and none of them listed phthalates as an ingredient. Some products were even labeled "All natural!" (Which just goes to demonstrate, yet again, that the "All natural" claim is meaningless. |
| Oh, and here's another huge "Wow" realization that, I guarantee you, nobody else is talking about these days: Many of these toxic fragrance chemicals escape from their product bottles, circulate in the air at grocery stores, and get absorbed by other food products sold in the same store.
I'm not kidding: That's why the peaches I once bought at Costco smell like Tide laundry detergent. It's because the peaches have soaked up some chemicals from the Tide! |
Paula Begoun
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| Hairsprays containing ethyl alcohol (ethanol, listed as SD alcohol followed by a number), hydrocarbons, isobutane, and butane all release vapors into the air that generate ozone in the lower atmosphere. While other human-made pollutants deplete the ozone in the upper atmosphere, emitting VOCs into the lower atmosphere produces an additional ozone layer that traps heat and ultraviolet radiation nearer to the earth's surface, adding to the levels of smog in cities caused by automobiles and other industrial pollution. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| All this brings to mind an important question: Why hasn't some government agency taken steps to test these toxic chemicals in air freshener products before?
Toxic products for the home are found everywhere
The sad truth is that you can walk down the aisle of just about any popular retailer (Walgreens, Wal-Mart, etc.) and find literally hundreds of different products that contain dangerous chemicals, many of which are well known to promote cancer. |
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 It's true: In a recorded interview that aired on National Public Radio a few weeks ago, NASA head Michael Griffin actually said, on the air, that it was arrogant and unfair to believe that global warming was a problem that needed solving. This left all the other NASA scientists gasping for air and e-mail blasting their resumes out to private-sector institutions that still remember what "scientific thinking" really means.
NASA is also the organization that launched the twin robot rovers to Mars, also at a cost of several hundred million dollars. |
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.
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 There's no air conditioning in stairwells. I was wearing three-piece suits and lugging a heavy briefcase. I'd be sweating bullets by the time I got to the top. Forty flights of stairs, twenty a flight, that's eight hundred stairs a trip. Three thousand, two hundred stairs a day! It was like Olympic training."
"God..."
"When I finally got upstairs, I had to hide for fifteen or twenty minutes because I was drenched with sweat and didn't want anybody to see me. I'd go to the bathroom and use masses of paper towels to wipe off my face, hair, and neck.
"I was wearing flat-footed business shoes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They could just wrap up large pockets of air and change the names of the menu items to things like "Air McMuffin" and "Big air." These names would be a hit with the customers, too, because after eating at McDonald's, people already experience "Big air."
Freaky weather all over the world
What's with all the freaky flooding and strange weather hitting cities around the world? China, the U.K., Southeast Asia and now New York have all been devastated by floods recently, and several other U.S. |
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