I'm on five cucumber and kale smoothies a day: Dallas legend Larry Hagman tells how he is fighting cancer - by turning into a 'vegan nut'

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2083738/Dallas-legend-Larry-Hagman-tells-fighting-cancer--turning-vegan-nut.html
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By Caroline Graham


UPDATED: 12:14 GMT, 9 January 2012


I'm on five cucumber and kale smoothies a day: Dallas legend Larry Hagman tells how he is fighting cancer - by turning into a 'vegan nut'

‘The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan. Now I live on fresh vegetable drinks which taste like c**p but which I firmly believe have helped me get through this thing.’
‘Meat is out. When you learn about these things, you find out how meat is pumped full of steroids and human growth hormones.’
He says he spices up his shakes with ginger, coconut milk and vitamin supplements, including iron and glucosamine for his joints.
‘I exercise every morning. I do light weights – 5lb and 10lb arm exercises – and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It’s all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.’
Hagman famously received a liver transplant in 1985 after years of alcohol abuse. He was diagnosed with cirrhosis but doctors then found a cancerous tumour in his liver, which was removed prior to his transplant.
‘I’ve always focused on the positive in life,’ he explains. ‘I get up each morning and go, “Great! Another day.” I would love to celebrate ten years of the new Dallas . I’d be 90. Why would I ever retire? I love what I do and I love my life. Everyone should be so lucky.’

Today´s email from Obama ´Get flown in for a meal with me´ Thanks, Barack

My response is below.

Get flown in for a meal with me

Paul --

I'm about to sit down for lunch with a few grassroots
supporters who are being flown in from Arizona, Maryland,
Michigan, and Ohio.

It'll just be me and these four supporters, with enough
time to relax and have a real conversation.

I can't wait.

I'm not going to get to do too many more of these before
November. That's just a fact.

So if you'd like to be there for one of the last ones,
please chip in $3 or whatever you can -- and you'll be
automatically entered for that chance:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Meet-Me-for-Dinner

Next time, I could be on my way to meet you.

Thanks,

Barack


Mr. Obomba, Drone killer, mass murderer,
Bankster´s man whatever,

The short answer is what my team leader in Vietnam used
to say. "I might, but I kinda F*ckin doubt it." That´s
my short answer except I´d leave out the "I might" part:-

It´s like this Mr. Obama, ´respect for the rule of law´ as
candidate Obama said was just Bullsh*t for mass consumption,
and to fool the masses of people who desires real change.

You fooled them as the Bankers wanted. You have as a
Black man with African roots been used to wage war on the
African continent. You have lent yourself to this endeavor.

Respect for the Rule of Law Ya sure, that´s what
drone executions are aren´t they?

No, you have taken over George Bush´s role; you now you
are the decider. You decide who should be killed on a
daily basis.
No charges to prove,
No arrest,
No due process,
No defense attorney,
No trial by a jury of their peers to prove the charges.

You are preparing to wage nuclear war.

The greatest humanitarian crisis wasn´t Libya, nor
is it Syria, or Iran...I think the situation on Gaza,
and Fukushima which has been deliberatley ignored as a
race of people´s survival is at stake,

The stripping of American´s civil rights and personal
liberties,

and the 18 veterans of these wars since 2001...we don´t
have to include the suicides of Vietnam veterans...
all of these things and more are your legacy, and I wouldn´t
sit in the same room with you unless as an advisor to your
trial for
mass murder,
war crimes,
crimes against the peace,
crimes against humanity
Command Responsibility
and Genocide...Gaza the Palestinian people

But, yoy know what? I´d rather assist the Prosecution!
So you get the picture...I´d rather fast on that night
than to bullsh*t myself and lower myself as a human being.

I went to Vietnam to kill and be a war hero.

But, since returning I stand with the oppressed,
and against what my government is doing

As Martin Luther King Jr., said

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today:
my own Government...I cannot be silent." –
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

No chance!!

The Treaty vote. letter sent to Irish Examiner Tue 29 May 2012

The Treaty vote.

As I am living out of Ireland at present I
would vote a resounding "NO" if there.

To the citizens of Ireland ask yourself this:
Who wants you to vote "Yes:"The banksters
(Gangsters in suits),Bondholders to say...
the AIB (Assisting Ireland into Bankruptcy),
and any who stand to profit whilst the people
of Ireland go destitute.

Let them go. Send them abroad on a ship,
and say "Out of here, until you can pay us
back what you have robbed us of!"

Ireland has all that it need to carry on. It
is a rich country agriculturally, it has water
in abundance and shelter can be made. Those
three things are most of what is needed.

In Vietnam we pulled leeches (parasites) off
of our body. The Irish people must say "No" to
these parasites who would have us mortgage our,
and our children´s and grandchildren´s future.
It is criminal!
Paul Meuse
Address withheld

Memorial Day 2012: a few thoughts

I never liked Memorial Day in the United States.
After I got out of the Marine Corps I went to one
Memorial Day parade and carried a flag. After that
I joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War in 1973.

Memorial Day just seemed like a day where everyone
had barbecues, and drank beer; plenty of beer. It´s
hard to reflect or remember the meaning of such a
day when you can´t wait for the parade to get over
so you can hit the beers on ice.

It´s like July 4th which was Independence Day for
mostly rich white peoples. It didn´t extend to salves,
or Native Americans. They had little to celebrate on
July 4th, and it still holds true for Native peoples
in America.

I knew of people, friends and others...veterans who
died on Memorial Day. I was a bartender and ´shut off´
three of them because they were intoxicated and they
had to drive.

They just went over to where the kegs of beer were and
had more. Two of them died within an hour when Freddy,
a grunt Marine as hard as I´ve seen them drove into an
Oak tree. The other man, in his 20s was paralyized for
life.


I never felt that there was anything to celebrate...I
was alive, and I had the memories and still do. The first
was what I saw in Vietnam on my first day Christmas Day
1968, and I shall never forget it, or them or her: child
victims of our war.

Monday, December 20, 2010
'The Girl I Met On Christmas Day 1968-DaNang’ Revisited´
The child victims of war. It´s something that they don´t
tell you that you will see.

Another thing that they never mention in boot camp and
training is that you might have to put a knife to the
throat of a fellow Marine(s); it happened more than once
because they were in panic while we were under a sapper
attack.

Two of those men we sent back to their hole, and had to
listen to them scream as they were being knifed and then
exploded to bits. In the morning I had to wipe up their
remains. That story is in this blog:

´What War Is and Does to People:
'The Girl I met on Christmas Day’ Dan Nang 1968´
originally posted Sat. 26 Dec. 2009

For me their is nothing to celebrate on Memorial Day.
I survived; others died. Just the memories.

I remember the first dead Marine that I carried with the
help of three other Marines. Dead weight is heavy. He
wasn´t bleeding or anything noticeable. Someone in front
of him had stepped on a landmine. The corpsman explained
to me that just a tiny piece of metal-shrapnel- going
through the head, eyes, or a vital organ will do it. Dead.

On my first medevac our copter set down at a fire base
outside of the A Shau valley (the ´Valley of Death´ to
Marines) to make a pick up, or for some other reason...
and there in a mist with low grey clouds I saw body bags
of Marines stacked up three or four rows high...like
cordwood awaiting their final journey home for burial
so that someday on another Memorial Day someone could
plant a small American flag on their grave so that they
would not be forgotten.

Their must have been over 240...and I felt dead inside
and wept.

They are never forgotten by their parents, spouses,
girlfriends, boyfriends, sons, daughters, brothers,
sisters and friends.

I remember those I knew like Hall who´s hand was ripped
open as he was trying to teach me how to safely handle
a grenade fuse and he picked up the wrong side. Hall,
Jimmy?, I´ve never forgotten that night, and all the
other times before that when you made people laugh.
That is what was really great about you...when you were
on your way over...anytime we would already be starting
to smile because you would make us. And, we´d be laughing
after you left.

I have never forgotten that night.

I don´t need speeches. I remember some of the men I saw
on the ICU ward at Chelsea Naval Hospital. I had a rehab
job to talk to those coming out of surgery. The first
Marine was a quadrapalegic...all four limbs had been taken
off. And, I could not drink enough to wipe out what I saw...
and I would have to go back and meet more the next day.

Memorial Day is a huge propaganda day for the politicians
and military. You know how it goes...we must not forget
them and honour them by continuing the present war(s).

There are over 58,195 or so names on the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial The Wall in Washington. But over 100,000 veterans
of that war have taken their own life since returning home.
The politicians won´t be mentioning things like that.

To all the politicians, military brass and those who
profit off war I have something to say to you. You
deserve to be hanging from a scaffold like the Nazis
did at Nuremburg! And, Go F*ck yourself. I hope the
day comes when Memorial Day is celebrated by the
masses of people chasing you down.

Paul Meuse

Major General Dana Pittard: soldiers who commit suicide are not "selfish" they are traumatized.

A story has hit the media a week before Memorial Day
in the United States.

General’s Blog Post Reignites Army Suicide Debate ( http://www.theunseenwound.org/tag/major-general-dana-pittard/
short link http://bit.ly/KfkPAT )

Maj. Gen. Dana Pittard is the commander of Fort Bliss, TX
one of the largest Army bases. In January he was coming out
of church for a service for a soldier who committed suicide
after returning from the war zone.

The General entered these comments on his personal blog
On January 18, 2012 "I have now come to the conclusion
that suicide is an absolutely selfish act. Soldiers who
commit suicide leave their families, their buddies and
their units to literally clean up their mess. There is
nothing noble about suicide. I care about each and every
one of our Soldiers, family members and civilians at Fort
Bliss . I know there are a lot of people hurting out there,
especially with the future Army personnel cuts on the horizon.
If you are hurting mentally or emotionally, then seek and get
help; but don’t resort to taking your own life. I am
personally fed up with Soldiers who are choosing to take
their own lives so that others can clean up their mess..."

The General´s comments became public on May 23rd 2012, the
following day he retracted his comments. He did not
apologize; he just retracted what he said. This is what
he said:



Thoughts while working out in the gym

http://bit.ly/JsxqOa

Maj. Gen. Dana J. H. Pittard,
1st AD and Fort Bliss Commanding General:

On Suicide – A Retraction

"In my commentary published January 19, 2012, I stated
suicide was a selfish act. Thanks to many of you and your
feedback, I have learned that this was a hurtful statement.
I also realize that my statement was not in line with the
Army’s guidance regarding sensitivity to suicide. With my
deepest sincerity and respect towards those whom I have
offended, I retract that statement."

First, the General noted that there are many reasons why
people commit suicide, but he did not mention why soldiers
under his command might take their own life.

The rate of military suicides began to soar in 2003 and
2004; the Iraq War and those who had been rotating back
and forth to Afghanistan on multiple tours.

How bad is it? In 2010 the Veterans Administration (VA)
stated that 6,000 veterans commit suicide each year...
well since the spike from the multiple wars. (VA Strives
to Prevent Veteran Suicides
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=58879

http://1.usa.gov/byZW7s

On average 18 veterans commit suicide each day; that´s
one veteran every 80 minutes takes his own life.
1 every 80 minutes!

According to the above article "during fiscal 2009, 707
members of the general veteran population died at their
own hands, and another 10,665 made unsuccessful suicide
attempts." Of course the VA says that just "one death is
too many." That is standard speak for them.

The National Journal reported "that the Army’s suicide rate
has been" going up and up for years, "and last year a record
164 active-duty, National Guard, and Reserve soldiers took
their own lives, compared with 159 in 2010. In 2008, the
Army’s suicide rate exceeded that of the civilian world for
the first time."

General Pittard war kills people. War kills people long
after they have returned from the battlefield. But, you
see if you or the Army were to recognize this fact then
there would be only one conclusion left; Stop the Wars!!

Suicide by returning soldiers and veterans is known as
the ´invisible wound.´ (A Memorial Day thought: Maybe
Pittard really does speak for us on suicides
http://bit.ly/KgiUeY) It maybe so to the Generals,
like General Pittard and the Pentagon. But is is the
scars inside...what a soldier has experienced, seen or
done that they cannont live with, and torments their
soul that leads them to that step.

And, had they enough help before...

But, the parents know the reason. Mother´s have said
that their child died in Iraq, or that the war killed
them. They know.

In the 1930s Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC Retired
(a Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient) said
"WAR is a racket. It always has been"
In his pamphlet ´War is a Racket´ written
after his military service he spoke of the costs of war:

"This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed
gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts
and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its
attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations
and generations. For a great many years, as a soldier,
I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired
to civil life did I fully realize it."

And of his own military service General Butler had this to
say:

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American
oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent
place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics
for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is
long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking
house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the
Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In
China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way
unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room
would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that
I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could
do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated
on three continents. . . .

And during that period, I spent most of my time being a
high-class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street,
and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a
gangster for capitalism."

General Pittard, those who commit suicide from the horror
and trauma of war, and who feel they cannot live with
themselves...they are not ´selfish.´ But everyday that
you put that uniform on you are the height of selfishness
because you serve the interests of a small clique of
bankers, and those who profit from war.

In short, you are what Major General Smedley D. Butler
called himself a "high-class muscle-man for Big Business,
for Wall Street, and for the Bankers. In short, I was
a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."


And, you put your career interests...of getting
ahead over the interests of humanity, and you wage
war on them and now Africa. Shame on you:


There are a lone line of great African and African
Americans from Nat Turner, who led a slave revolt
against the oppression African slaves lived under;

Sojourner Truth, "Ain´t I a Woman?";

Harriet Tubman, Leader of the Underground Railroad;

Frederick Douglass, Escaped slave (a Freeman) activist,
journalist, Abolitionist and Ambassador;

W.E B DuBois, Author, Intellectual, Educator fighter
against Oppression;

Marcus Garvey, Leader and Philosopher, fighter against
oppression by the white ruling class system of Apartheid
in America;

Paul Robeson, Athlete, Entertainer, Activist;

Ida B. Wells;

Fannie Lou Hamer, the ´Spirit of the Civil Rights
Movement,´

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Jr.,

Malcolm X

Muhammed Ali


What all these people had in common was that they fought
against the oppression of the system that you uphold.

Paul Meuse
veteran of the Vietnam War

A Time for Action

Some of my favourite movies were the first three Star War movies.
I felt that there was a spiritual message in them...seeing a more
highly developed society...and yet civilization was facing similar
dangers we face today. The threat of an evil force.

Reagan called the Soviet Union the ´Evil Empire.´ It was just pure
PR. By the way WTF was he and Ollie North doing giving Iran...
allegedly an enemy-stinger missiles? Oh, I forgot; it was cash for
weapons and of course the cash came from drug sales too.

But, today, surely the ´Evil Empire´ is the United States and
it operates through NATO (the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization).
The European countries are trying to grab back their colonies, and the
USA leaders...the Bank(Gang)sters who are crushing people in debt
are attempting to grab the wealth of Africa.

But, as for Star Wars it is like the USA. It (The Empire) in both cases
assert and their dominance relies totally upon their technological
superiority. And, history shows that that is temporary. But, the
´Rule of Law´ that OBOMBA talked about when he was candidate
Obama were just words.

He as all those before him except JFK (whose wealth was independent
and was killed) did the bidding of the Bankers and industrialsts who own
America.

America is a freightening monster, and reminds me of the words of Sen.
Wayne Morse (Rep. OR) at the height of the Vietnam War...´today my
country stands before the world drunk with power.´

The ´Rule of Law´ that candidate Obama talked (bullshitted) about has been
replaced with Drone missiles. Or, as Professor Bill Quigley aptly labels them-
´unmanned drone guided missiles.´ That´s what they are, and that is the justice
that the United States is administering.

There is no criminal charge, or book of evidence, arrest, a hearing before a judge.
There is no criminal process. OBOMBA like Bush is the Decider. If he decides
that you´re a terrorist, then all of the Constitutionally guarantees to a fair trial, to
see the evidence (national security), be granted a criminal trial with the
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE has been tossed out the window.

Just like the Empire in Star Wars the only thing needed is that you are deemed
a terrorist by people who go around the globe blowing the shit out of villages,
cities and town, killing people indiscriminately, or with chemicals Fallujah and
Gaza. There is no justice.

They are war criminals. President Obomba I have a few words for you
Go F*ck Yourself. The CIA, NSA, and especially the military chiefs of the
United States I have a few words for you Go F*ck Yourself. You are no
less than the Naxis whom you secretly ferreted out of Nazi Germany at the
end of World War II...many through the Vatican!

In such a world we have a duty, an obligation that is sacred and that is to overthrow
you and the war profiteers and banksters who profit off of the death of Afghans,
Iraqis, Pakistanis, Palestinians, Libyans, ALL Africans..ALL People everywhere.

For me that is the highest calling as a war veteran who has seen the truth of war.
To all, our leaders are no different than the Nazis who with the Gestapo administered
justice by cold-blooded murder. That´s what drones do.

And, my hope is that when the US will be on the receiving end of some...some
people will wake up. ´As Ye Sow: Ye Reap´ the prophet Jesus/Isa said. It is
a law of the universe. Our leaders are not just terrorizing people abroad, but also
at home, and driving them into poverty. They hand over billions of dollars to the
banks and in a trick of words they call that bailing out the country. F the banksters.

We have only one choice in such times and that is revolution. It is not a dirty
word it´s how nations are founded when the old order is utterly corrupt. These
ones are no better than the Nazis who hung from the scaffold at Nuremberg!!

Revolution is the only answer. Resist, Resist and Resist

REM: "Everybody Hurts" lyrics 1992

There are some days when I feel that
my heart is very, very heavy and worse,
and I can listen this songs because
it touches the pain that is within.

It doesn´t make me feel better...
I feel wet eyes...and can cry later
when alone...something I didn´t do
until I was in Vietnam and after.

I´m divorced, and was a wonderful and
loving father. I have very little contact
with my children. My daughter hasn´t spoken
to me in over three years.

I feel like someone who has no family,
and in a way it´s true when it´s like
this. I had more of a family in Vietnam
the first time. We cared for each other...
and every loss hurt deeply...even those
we didn´t know.

And, recently, I had one all to human
experience with a wonderful woman that
had there was misunderstanding over...
another relationship where someone
won´t talk.

I can only do what someone told me to
do in Vietnam on my first operation as
I struggled up the base of a mountain,
and one of the veterans in my platoon
came over to me and said..."don´t look
up. Just keep putting one foot in front
of the other.

Sometimes that gets hard...but it´s all
I know. I know I could go through life,
and may have to, without ever seeing my
children, or having a relationship with
them because I have survived so much
already, especially in Vietnam.

It´s not their fault...it´s what bitter
women say after separation and divorce.

As for my Brasilian amiga there is a choice
between two people to talk or try to hurt
the other, and in reality each.

I wish all well.

"Everybody Hurts"

When your day is long
And the night, the night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough
Of this life, well hang on

Don't let yourself go
'Cause everybody cries
And everybody hurts sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone (Hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go (Hold on)
If you think you've had too much
Of this life, well hang on

Everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts
Don't throw your hand, oh no
Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone
No, no, no, you are not alone

If you're on your own in this life
The days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on

Well, everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody cries
Everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes

So hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts