(Subjects: Religion/Worship, Lightworkers, Food, Health, Prescription Drugs, Homeopathy, Innate (Body intelligence), New Age movement, Global Unity, ... etc.) - (Text version)

“…… Should I use Doctors and Drugs to Heal Me or Spiritual Methods?

"Dear Kryon, I have heard that you should stay natural and not use the science on the planet for healing. It does not honor God to go to a doctor. After all, don't you say that we can heal with our minds? So why should we ever go to a doctor if we can do it ourselves? Not only that, my doctor isn't enlightened, so he has no idea about my innate or my spiritual body needs. What should I do?"

First, Human Being, why do you wish to put so many things in boxes? You continue to want a yes and no answer for complex situations due to your 3D, linear outlook on almost everything. Learn to think out of the 3D box! Look at the heading of this section [above]. It asks which one should you do. It already assumes you can't do both because they seem dichotomous.

Let's use some spiritual logic: Here is a hypothetical answer, "Don't go to a doctor, for you can heal everything with your mind." So now I will ask: How many of you can do that in this room right now? How many readers can do that with efficiency right now? All of you are old souls, but are you really ready to do that? Do you know how? Do you have really good results with it? Can you rid disease and chemical imbalance with your mind right now?

I'm going to give you a truth, whether you choose to see it or not. You're not ready for that! You are not yet prepared to take on the task of full healing using your spiritual tools. Lemurians could do that, because Pleiadians taught them how! It's one of the promises of God, that there'll come a day when your DNA works that efficiently and you will be able to walk away from drug chemistry and the medical industry forever, for you'll have the creator's energy working at 100 percent, something you saw within the great masters who walked the earth.

This will be possible within the ascended earth that you are looking forward to, dear one. Have you seen the news lately? Look out the window. Is that where you are now? We are telling you that the energy is going in that direction, but you are not there yet.

Let those who feel that they can heal themselves begin the process of learning how. Many will be appreciative of the fact that you have some of the gifts for this now. Let the process begin, but don't think for a moment that you have arrived at a place where every health issue can be healed with your own power. You are students of a grand process that eventually will be yours if you wish to begin the quantum process of talking to your cells. Some will be good at this, and some will just be planting the seeds of it.

Now, I would like to tell you how Spirit works and the potentials of what's going to happen in the next few years. We're going to give the doctors of the planet new inventions and new science. These will be major discoveries about the Human body and of the quantum attributes therein.

Look at what has already happened, for some of this science has already been given to you and you are actually using it. Imagine a science that would allow the heart to be transplanted because the one you have is failing. Of course! It's an operation done many times a month on this planet. That information came from the creator, did you realize that? It didn't drop off the shelf of some dark energy library to be used in evil ways.

So, if you need a new heart, Lightworker, should you go to the doctor or create one with your mind? Until you feel comfortable that you can replace your heart with a new one by yourself, then you might consider using the God-given information that is in the hands of the surgeon. For it will save your life, and create a situation where you stay and continue to send your light to the earth! Do you see what we're saying?

You can also alter that which is medicine [drugs] and begin a process that is spectacular in its design, but not very 3D. I challenge you to begin to use what I would call the homeopathic principle with major drugs. If some of you are taking major drugs in order to alter your chemistry so that you can live better and longer, you might feel you have no choice. "Well, this is keeping me alive," you might say. "I don't yet have the ability to do this with my consciousness, so I take the drugs."

In this new energy, there is something else that you can try if you are in this category. Do the following with safety, intelligence, common sense and logic. Here is the challenge: The principle of homeopathy is that an almost invisible tincture of a substance is ingested and is seen by your innate. Innate "sees" what you are trying to do and then adjusts the body's chemistry in response. Therefore, you might say that you are sending the body a "signal for balance." The actual tincture is not large enough to affect anything chemically - yet it works!

The body [innate] sees what you're trying to do and then cooperates. In a sense, you might say the body is healing itself because you were able to give it instructions through the homeopathic substance of what to do. So, why not do it with a major drug? Start reducing the dosage and start talking to your cells, and see what happens. If you're not successful, then stop the reduction. However, to your own amazement, you may often be successful over time.

You might be able to take the dosage that you're used to and cut it to at least a quarter of what it was. It is the homeopathy principle and it allows you to keep the purpose of the drug, but reduce it to a fraction of a common 3D dosage. You're still taking it internally, but now it's also signaling in addition to working chemically. The signal is sent, the body cooperates, and you reduce the chance of side effects.

You can't put things in boxes of yes or no when it comes to the grand system of Spirit. You can instead use spiritual logic and see the things that God has given you on the planet within the inventions and processes. Have an operation, save your life, and stand and say, "Thank you, God, for this and for my being born where these things are possible." It's a complicated subject, is it not? Each of you is so different! You'll know what to do, dear one. Never stress over that decision, because your innate will tell you what is appropriate for you if you're willing to listen. ….”

Monsanto / GMO - Global Health


(Subjects: Big pharma [the drug companies of America] are going to have to change very soon or collapse. When you have an industry that keeps people sick for money, it cannot survive in the new consciousness., Global Unity, ... etc.) - (Text version)
"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Lose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Pedal wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)
"THE BRIDGE OF SWORDS" – Sep 29, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: ... I'm in Canada and I know it, but I will tell those listening and reading in the American audience the following: Get ready! Because there are some institutions that are yet to fall, ones that don't have integrity and that could never be helped with a bail out. Again, we tell you the biggest one is big pharma, and we told you that before. It's inevitable. If not now, then in a decade. It's inevitable and they will fight to stay alive and they will not be crossing the bridge. For on the other side of the bridge is a new way, not just for medicine but for care. ....) - (Text Version)

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

US experts to help treat burn patients from Taiwan dust explosion

Want China Times, CNA 2015-07-18

Medical staff members treat a burn victim from the water park disaster at Far
 Eastern Memorial Hospital in New Taipei, July 10. (Photo courtesy of Far
 Eastern Memorial Hospital)

A group of plastic and reconstructive surgeons and therapists from Johns Hopkins Medicine will arrive in Taipei this weekend to help treat patients who suffered severe burns last month in a water park disaster, a Ministry of Health and Welfare official said Friday.

Most of the six members of the Johns Hopkins team will travel to Taipei from Los Angeles on the presidential plane with President Ma Ying-jeou, who is en route home from a state visit to Central America and the Caribbean.

The president announced the US medical team's week-long visit to Taiwan at a dinner party hosted by overseas Chinese communities on Thursday in Los Angeles, where Ma was transiting.

The American medical experts will visit hospitals in central and southern Taiwan to mainly offer advice on treating burn patients, according to the president.

Because many of the patients still require surgical procedures, the American surgeons may also operate on patients under the supervision of local physicians, the president added.

Ma said that the US physicians will not violate Taiwanese law by performing the operations because they are in Taiwan to provide emergency assistance rather than to practice medicine as a profession in the country.

Under Taiwanese law, foreign doctors are normally required to have a Taiwanese medical license to practice medicine here.

Hsu Ming-hui, director of the Health Ministry's Office of International Cooperation, said the six-member group will include Stephen Maxwell Milner, director of the Johns Hopkins Burn Center, and Christina L. Catlett, an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

It will also include Kevin Gerold, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine; Denver Lough, plastic and reconstructive surgery resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital; Linda Ware, clinical social work/therapist and therapist Theresa A. Lynch.

The victims they will treat were among the nearly 500 people who were injured when colored powder ignited at a concert at Formosa Fun Coast water park in New Taipei on June 27.

As of Thursday, 382 of the burn victims remained hospitalized, and 250 were in intensive care units, with 185 of them in critical condition, according to the ministry.


A patient with severed burns at a hospital in New Taipei, July 3.
(Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Health and Welfare)


Monday, July 6, 2015

Cadaver skin from Holland to arrive in Taiwan

Want China Times, CNA and Staff Reporter 2015-07-05

A skin storage room at the Tri-Service General Hospital in Taipei, July 3. (File photo/CNA)

A shipment of cadaver skin donated by the Euro Tissue Bank in Amsterdam was expected to arrive in Taiwan late Friday to help Taiwan treat people who suffered severe burns in the fire at a New Taipei water park on June 27.

Ger Kropman, manager of the skin bank, decided to make the donation and contacted Taiwan's representative office in the Netherlands after learning of the tragedy on CNN, according to De Telegraaf, the country's biggest daily morning newspaper.

Because the burns patients are at growing risk of developing infections in the coming days, the shipment must get to Taiwan as soon as possible to help save their lives, Kropman was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

Tom Chou, Taiwan's representative to the Netherlands, paid a visit to the skin bank Thursday to thank the facility for its kind donation on behalf of Taiwan's government.

Of the 495 people injured when colored cornstarch powder ignited into a fireball at a Color Play Asia party held at the Formosa Fun Coast water park in New Taipei, two have died and 211 are in critical condition, according to figures released by Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare on Friday.

The number of people reported in critical condition was 27 higher than reported Thursday evening.

A total of 449 victims remain hospitalized, of whom 255 are being treated in intensive care units, the ministry said.


A patient with severed burns at a hospital in New Taipei, July 3.
(Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Health and Welfare)

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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Five-day workweek to kick off next year under amended labor law

Want China Times, CNA 2015-05-17

Service personnel work at a restaurant in Taipei, April 21. (File photo/
Fang Chun-che)

Lin Por-fong. (Photo/ Hung His-lung)
An amendment to the Labor Standards Act in Taiwan cleared the Legislative Yuan Friday, paving the way for a five-day workweek and for working hours per week to be reduced to 40 hours.

The amendments will be put into force Jan. 1, 2016.

Under the current labor law, normal working hours per day cannot exceed eight hours and working hours per two weeks cannot exceed 84 hours. If employers are found to be in violation of the law, they will be subject to fines of between NT$20,000 (US$657) and NT$300,000 (US$9,860).

Also, employers cannot cut their workers' wages under the pretense of "adjusting" normal working hours, the revised law stipulates.

Under the current law, employers must prepare attendance books for workers and keep them for one year. The amended law states that the attendance records should be kept for five years and that employers will face fines of between NT$90,000 (US$2,985) and NT$450,000 (US$14,790) if found to be in violation.

The revised law also stipulates that the attendance records should note the hours and minutes worked. When a worker asks for a copy of his or her attendance record, employers cannot refuse them.

The amended law also allows workers to adjust their working hours according to their circumstances, meaning that employers will have to, based on the needs of workers who have to take care of their families, allow them flexibility to adjust their start and finishing times within a range of one hour without changing the normal working hours per day.

The Ministry of Labor hailed the amended law as a "new milestone" in 14 years, referring to the last amendment in 2001, when working hours were reduced to 84 hours per two weeks, saying that it puts Taiwan on a par with developed countries.

It will also help workers to maintain a balance between their work and home life, and help boost economic and social development, according to the ministry.

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Taiwan fast food chains to take big hit if bird flu worsens in US: COA

Want China Times, CNA 2015-05-16

A fast food store in Taipei. (Photo/Yao Chih-ping)

Taiwanese fast food chains will take the biggest hit of all Taiwanese industries if an outbreak of bird flu in the United States worsens, as it could require a comprehensive ban on chicken imports from that country, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said Friday.

The number of US states from which poultry products have been barred from entering Taiwan have gone up to 15 from nine due to the spread of bird flu there, said Chang Su-san, head of the council's Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine.

The ban might expand to cover all states if the outbreak continues to spread, which will hit fast food restaurants the hardest, as they rely on imports for over half of the chicken they serve, said Wang Chung-shu, deputy head of the council's Department of Animal Industry.

Free range chicken accounts for the majority of the chicken produced in Taiwan, but fast food chains, caterers and food manufacturers prefer cheaper frozen imported chickens or locally produced battery chickens over locally produced free range birds.

Taiwan imports some 140,000 tonnes of chicken from abroad every year, mostly from the US, Wang said.

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Monday, May 11, 2015

Toxic tea: 45 drinks found with excessive pesticide residue

Want ChinaTimes, CNA 2015-05-10

A Tainan city health official seals tea leaves with excessive levels of pesticide
residue at the Sheng Fang Tea Industry factory in Tainan, May 9. (Photo/
Tainan City Government)

Forty-five out of 560 tea drinks tested by Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been found with excessive levels of pesticide residue, the FDA said Saturday.

All the problematic drinks must be pulled off shelves, the FDA said.

The FDA began to sample tea drinks for tests after several tea drink chains were discovered recently to be selling pesticide-tainted tea drinks, triggering public concerns.

So far, the FDA has sampled 831 tea drinks, and tests have been completed on 560 of the samples.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

More Stornoway tea found to contain pesticide

Want China Times, CNA 2015-04-22

A Stornaway outlet in Taipei, April 18. (Photo/Chao Shuang-chieh)

More tea purchased by the Tainan-based tea store chain caught last week selling herbal tea containing pesticide residue has been found to be tainted, local health authorities said Tuesday.

The Tainan Department of Health said the Earl Grey, Ceylon and Darjeeling teas used by English Stornaway International, which runs 96 tea beverage chain stores around Taiwan, were all found to contain traces of pesticide.

The discovery was based on the results of laboratory tests on tea samples the company submitted voluntarily for examination, the department said, adding that it was informed of the matter by Stornaway via a faxed message.

In the message, the chain store operator also said that all the tea products were bought from Taipei-based herb importer Chou Jae Trading in late March.

English Stornaway said it has already taken the problematic teas — 330 kg of Earl Grey, 150 kg of Ceylon and 240 kg of Darjeeling — off its shelves.

Meanwhile, the Tainan District Prosecutors Office said it has begun an investigation into suspected violations of food safety regulations involving English Stornaway.

Earl Grey, Ceylon and Darjeeling are the major beverages sold at the chain stores, which have been ordered to close pending the investigation.

After receiving the report from Tainan, the Taipei City Department of Health said it raided the Taipei office of Chou Jae along with prosecutors and investigators, seizing a total of 600 kg of the three kinds of tea.

According to available data, the problem teas were all produced in Sri Lanka, Taipei health official Wang Ming-li said.

English Stornaway sparked tea safety concerns around the country after a rose tea drink sold at one of its chain stores was found to contain traces of DDT, an insecticide long-banned because of the damage it causes to the environment.

The Food and Drug Administration found last Wednesday that the chain's rose tea was bought from Chou Jae, which in turn sourced the tea from Kaohsiung-based Yuen Yeeh Enterprise.

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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Taiwan insists on labeling rules for Japan's food imports

Want China Times, CNA 2015-04-18

A selection of Japanese products sold at a store in Taoyuan which may pose
radiation risks, March 28. (Photo courtesy of Department of Public Health, Taoyuan)

Taiwan will enforce as scheduled a new directive that requires imported food from Japan to be labeled with its place of origin and proof that it is radiation free, vice health minister Shiu Ming-neng said Friday.

The directive has been issued and it's not possible to rescind it, Hsu told reporters after meeting with three visiting Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry officials.

The Japanese officials asked during the meeting for Taiwan to remove the requirement and offered more data related to radiation risks, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

But Hsu said the new directive will be enforced starting on May 15 as scheduled. He added that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is compiling scientific research and risk assessments on radiation safety.

Asked if the measure will affect trade, Hsu said the issue will be handled by the ministries of foreign and economic affairs.

The directive was made after Japanese food products from areas affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 were found last month sold in local supermarkets despite a ban.

The FDA imposed a ban on food products from the Japanese prefectures of Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma and Chiba after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melted down in March 2011 and contaminated parts of those regions with radioactive substances.

Taiwan's authorities found that the food imports from those areas made their way into Taiwan after information on the packaging indicating their place of origin were covered up by Chinese-language stickers showing a different place of origin.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Taipei hospital under fire for operating room video

Want China Times, Liao Pei-yu and Staff Reporter 2015-04-14

A screenshot from the controversial video. (Photo/Liao Pei-yu)

The Tri-Service General Hospital in Taipei came under fire at the beginning of April after some of its staff published a video featuring surgery sessions for their fun and mutual encouragement, reports our Chinese-language sister paper China Times.

The video featured several members of the hospital's medical staff, as well as footage and photos of patients lying on the operating table. The staff were shown sewing patients, holding bloody parts of patients's bodies with one hand and giving a thumbs up with the other.

A spokesperson for Taiwan Healthcare Reform Foundation (THRF), an independent non-governmental organization that advocates on behalf of patient's rights in Taiwan, said the staff should not make fun of patients and should respect their right to privacy.

At the outset of the controversy, hospital authorities appeared reluctant to face the media and defended itself their staff, saying they were only having fun and encouraging each other.

The Tri-Service General Hospital also said that the video was intended as a retrospective of the contributions of the medical staff as well as proof of their hard work and did not intentionally violate patients' privacy. It also said local media outlets were overreacting.

The hospital said it will cooperate with the investigation conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare but declined to say when they will make a decision on which staff will be sanctioned, if any.

A spokesperson for the hospital said video footage and photos of patients comprise part of their medical records that have to be kept secret and can only be used for academic research purposes. It is common to see video footage of medical personnel making fun of themselves online, China Times said, but they mostly made fun of themselves and not patients.

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Taiwan develops new test to detect Alzheimer's disease

Want China Times, CNA 2015-04-04

NTNU associate professor Chieh Jen-jie, a member of the research
team, April 2 (Photo/CNA)

Taiwanese scientists have developed a new blood test that can detect Alzheimer's disease early, according to National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) and National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH).

The test, based on immunomagnetic reduction, can detect the early signs of Alzheimer's and even mild cognitive impairment, with an 85% accuracy. The test, which can be completed in five hours, is faster and safer than spinal fluid tests, according to the scientists.

The results were achieved by a research team led by Horng Herng-er, a professor at the Institute of Electro-optical Science and Technology at NTNU, in collaboration with another team led by NTUH neurologist Chiu Ming-chang.

Chiu said early diagnosis of Alzheimer's is very important for its treatment.

Compared with spinal fluid tests, which are invasive, blood tests are more likely to be accepted by patients and are also more convenient, he said.

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Question: Dearest Kryon: I've read the question and answer on people with diseases of the mind - for example, Alzheimers and dementia. But I have more questions. You say that people have chosen this path and that the lessons are for us. As I work with these people, I'm wondering if there is any stage where there could be a reversal of the condition, and if so, with what methods? The people in the hostel are so drugged up, and there's a mind-set with the authorities that no "alternate" therapies work - although they're using colored lights. (Sadly, the diversional therapist told me she doesn't know what color therapy is.)

From a spiritual point of view, what is the best way to work with these people - talk to them as though they were normal, or go along with their imaginings? I've been told that they need to be kept quiet, especially toward evening. However, I've found that with one woman who mostly paces saying very little, the more childlike I am (dancing and singing makes her happy), the more she talks. I could go on and on - could you please enlighten me further?

Answer: I will answer the second part first. Love those who are in this condition. Find out what makes them smile... and then make them smile. The best you can do in a facilitation of this condition is to somehow create joy. Even in their confusion they can laugh at situations and be creative. They'll also remember you better as the one who creates this emotion. Each is very different, but in general, try to find their "happy" button and push it as often as you can. They will remember that.

Right now you're perched upon some important discoveries that will be able to reverse these conditions to a large degree. But just as the paraplegic who regains their nerve connections must than relearn how to walk, suffering much pain, there will be this attribute with a regeneration of the mind. Even if new cells are created, they won't necessarily have the old memories, but they can be trained to be healthy and be ready for new memories.

So someday these will have the ability to halt the progress of the degeneration of cells that are being taken, and instead grow new pathways around them. Some will be able to "reconnect" to certain kinds of memories (like recognition) but will have to relearn what the association of recognition actually means. So history and events might have to be studied and relearned... sometimes even things like reading, also. The pain will be that the individual will regain mental health and will realize exactly what has happened.

Your stem-cell research is very important, and you're reaching a point where you'll be able to use birth cells that aren't embryonic, but every bit as potent for research... thereby sidestepping all moral issues. Look for this in the next few years. 

Monday, March 16, 2015

Conjoined twins from Philippines successfully separated in Taiwan

Want China Times, CNA and Staff Reporter 2015-03-15

Doctors work to separate the twins at the Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital
in Hualien, March 13. (Photo courtesy of the Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital)

Doctors in Taiwan's eastern county of Hualien on Friday successfully separated a pair of conjoined twin sisters from the Philippines who shared a liver.

Ludy De Gusman, mother of the 15-month-old twins, burst into tears of relief and gratitude when the operation finished after almost eight hours at the Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital's branch in the county.

Gusman said she was very grateful to the medical team for helping to give the sisters normal lives.

Prior to the surgery, Gusman said, she had shut herself and her daughters off from the outside world and remained confined to their home for a year so that the people in her village would not laugh at them.

Lee Ming-che, head of the hospital's department of surgery, commented on the length of the operation, saying that he and his team took extra care to reduce the amount of blood loss, as previous experience has shown them that surgery involving the liver causes the most severe blood loss.

The twins–Jennelyn Mendoza De Guzman and Jerrelyn Mendoza De Guzman–were taken to Taiwan for the surgery after Kao Jui-ho, head of the Hualien hospital, met them during a free clinic in the Philippines' Bautista municipality last November.

Volunteers of the Hualien-based Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu-Chi Foundation in the Philippines helped to raise funds for the operation and the twins arrived in Taiwan Jan. 9 for preliminary care, which included tissue expansion for skin grafts and liver reconstruction.

Chen Pei-jung, the deputy head of the hospital, who organized the team that carried out the surgery, said the procedure was easier than previous operations on conjoined twins as the liver was the only organ shared by the sisters.

The operation is the third the Hualien hospital has conducted on conjoined twins.

The first took place in 2003 and the second in 2010.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Filipino worker in coma to be sent home with Taiwanese aid

Want China Times, CNA and Staff Reporter 2015-03-11

Reynaldo's mother receives the donation in Chiayi, March 10.
(Photo/Chiayi County Social Affairs Bureau)

Filipino worker Rosauro Jamee Reynaldo Lutaw who fell into a coma as a result of heart disease will be flown home March 15, thanks to donations from local Taiwanese people and the government.

Reynaldo, 25, had been working in a factory in Minhsiung in Chiayi county since his arrival in Taiwan in September 2012. He collapsed suddenly on Nov. 30, having shown no previous symptoms of illness.

A thorough examination found that he has congenital heart defects of which he himself was unaware. Although doctors managed to save his life with emergency surgery, Reynaldo fell into a deep coma and was transferred to a nursing home for medical care after 25 days at the hospital.

His mother, who came to Taiwan last December, has been taking care of him at the nursing home.

Since his condition was caused by heart defects rather than an occupational hazard, Reynaldo's medical costs are not covered by his insurance policy. Owing to the local language barrier, his mother wanted to take him back to his home in the Philippines for further treatment.

However, Reynaldo has had difficulty in meeting his medical costs in Taiwan, not to mention the cost of his flight home.

After learning of his plight, the Chiayi County Social Affairs Bureau asked the Ministry of Labor Affairs for urgent aid of NT$100,000 (US$2,900), and managed to raise another NT$180,000 (US$5,700) from local charities, including the Chiayi Do Good group.

Witnessed by officials from the Social Affairs Bureau, the funds were given by representatives of the donors to Reynaldo's mother Tuesday to help them return home.

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Even praying doesn't save one pig's bacon

Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2015-02-28

The pig is seen bowing in front of the Buddhist temple in Wenzhou,
Feb. 22. (Internet photo)

A run-away pig in Wenzhou reportedly bowed in front of a local Buddhist temple. The "act of piety," however, did not save it from its fate, as it was killed later the same day, reports our Chinese language sister paper Want Daily.

A video showing the pig bowing in front of the temple has gone viral online and received more than ten million hits.

The pig, which reportedly ran away from its owner's pigpen on Feb. 22, was seen in front of a Buddhist temple with both its front legs on the floor and its head bowed.

It was the day that the temple held the religious assembly called 3,000 Buddhas Repentance. Several visitors to the temple were so shocked by the scene, which they believed to be a miracle, asked the monks of the temple to recite Buddhist chants for the creature. The monk later proclaimed it a Buddhist disciple.

The owner of the animal, surnamed Huang, was not informed of any of this. He found the pig, took it home and slaughtered it later the same day.

After learning about the bowing act from the video posted online, Huang said he regreted killing it.

While many believe that the pig had some spiritual inspiration that drove it to pay respect to the deity in the temple, experts think something else was at play here.

A local policeman said the pig might have suffered from a syndrome associated with vitamin E insufficiency that made its limbs weak, making it difficult to stand straight. Wang Boqiang, a local veterinarian official said the pig's bowing was largely coincidental. Such behavior is common among the livestock.

A local villager who keeps pigs said he often sees his own do similar pose.

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"Soul Communication" - Feb 22-23, 2014 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Text version Part I)

“… Animals. You love them, don't you? What do you know about animals, especially the ones you care for and love, the ones you call pets? They have personalities, don't they? They can talk to you! When they communicate, what does that sound like, dear one? What do their voices sound like? "Well, Kryon, you already know they don't have an actual voice." Oh really? Then how do they "talk" to you? Now it gets good, doesn't it? They communicate through concepts. Their conceptual thought groups are available for you to pick up. So guess where you pick up these thoughts? It's through your pineal, which is the interpreter of multidimensional things in your body. It's not your brain, which is picking up their animal broadcasts, dear ones.

Now, some of you are good at this kind of communication. There are ones who are listening to this right now called animal whisperers, and they know exactly what I'm talking about. Why do they call it whispering? I give you my interpretation. It's because the communications are not linear, and they whisper to you through the pineal and not through brain synapse. It comes in thought groups, very softly and all at once, like the smudge. When you pick it up, you know what the dog or cat or horse or hamster or rabbit is trying to communicate. You know the requests they have, perhaps the distress they have, perhaps the celebration or the love they have.

Now, this kind of communication with animals is easy for you, because you all have felt this. I believe you know what I'm speaking about. So apply this lesson, for what I'm teaching today is no different and uses the same process you're going to use in real life and in meditation when you listen to God.

"Kryon, is it true that communicating with animals is soul communication?" Yes, it is theirs to yours, and if you're good at the interpretation of their thoughts, then why doubt yourself about the next step? Practice doing this communication with your own Higher-Self. Your Higher-Self is that part of yourself that vibrates higher than your cellular dimensionality, and it's part of your "soul group". This "soul group" is part of the nine attributes of the Human Being and is the core of you. It is the part that gives you information from the other side of the veil from that which you call God. …”


Kryon Q&A

Question: Dear Kryon: I live in Spain. I am sorry if I will ask you a question you might have already answered, but the translations of your books are very slow and I might not have gathered all information you have already given. I am quite concerned about abandoned animals. It seems that many people buy animals for their children and as soon as they grow, they set them out somewhere. Recently I had the occasion to see a small kitten in the middle of the street. I did not immediately react, since I could have stopped and taken it, without getting out of the car. So, I went on and at the first occasion I could turn, I went back to see if I could take the kitten, but it was to late, somebody had already killed it. This happened some month ago, but I still feel very sorry for that kitten. I just would like to know, what kind of entity are these animals and how does this fit in our world. Are these entities which choose this kind of life, like we do choose our kind of Human life? I see so many abandoned animals and every time I see one, my heart aches... I would like to know more about them.

Answer: Dear one, indeed the answer has been given, but let us give it again so you all understand. Animals are here on earth for three (3) reasons.

(1) The balance of biological life. . . the circle of energy that is needed for you to exist in what you call "nature."

(2) To be harvested. Yes, it's true. Many exist for your sustenance, and this is appropriate. It is a harmony between Human and animal, and always has. Remember the buffalo that willingly came into the indigenous tribes to be sacrificed when called? These are stories that you should examine again. The inappropriateness of today's culture is how these precious creatures are treated. Did you know that if there was an honoring ceremony at their death, they would nourish you better? Did you know that there is ceremony that could benefit all of humanity in this way. Perhaps it's time you saw it.

(3) To be loved and to love. For many cultures, animals serve as surrogate children, loved and taken care of. It gives Humans a chance to show compassion when they need it, and to have unconditional love when they need it. This is extremely important to many, and provides balance and centering for many.

Do animals know all this? At a basic level, they do. Not in the way you "know," but in a cellular awareness they understand that they are here in service to planet earth. If you honor them in all three instances, then balance will be the result. Your feelings about their treatment is important. Temper your reactions with the spiritual logic of their appropriateness and their service to humanity. Honor them in all three cases.

Monday, February 23, 2015

More Taiwanese high schoolers get cosmetic surgey to boost college chances

Want China Times, Chen Hsuan-yu, Hong Hsin-tzu and Staff Reporter 2015-02-22

Students sit in a classroom to practice for college interviews on Feb. 15,
2015, in Taipei. (Photo courtesy of Soochow University)

An increasingly large number of Taiwanese senior high school students are visiting cosmetic surgery clinics to improve their appearance so that they might have a better chance to be admitted in colleges via their interviews, reports our Chinese-language sister newspaper China Times.

The most common problems these young students show up wanting to get rid of are pimples and wrinkles, said one doctor who works at a cosmetic surgery clinic when interviewed by China Times.

Lu Ching-yi, a dermatologist at I Skin Laser & Skin Care Center, said that most female high school students would come to her clinic with their mothers. She once gave treatment to a 17 years old female to cure the scars caused by pimples when she was younger. The scars, according to Lu, could not be hidden by creams or powders.

Chao Chao-ming, another dermatologist, said that some of the young students visited his clinic to find a solution for the wrinkles caused by their frowning, since they give them an angry look, creating an obstacle for their interpersonal relationships. Most of these students would receive botulinus injections to get rid of the wrinkles.

Besides facial issues, students visit cosmetic surgery clinics to find solutions for baldness problems. Most doctors advise them to apply a hair-growing cream, instead of receiving hair transplants. In case patients do not have time to wait for their hair grows back, doctors suggest they wear a wig.


Professors said that there is no need for students to visit such clinics to fix their appearance because the most important thing is to be polite, and show how capable they are. One National Taiwan University professor said that students need even wear makeup.

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Taiwan's largest class action ever to be filed against oil firms

Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2014-11-29

Consumers line up for refunds before a traditional pastry shop affected by the
oil scandal. (Photo/China Times)

Taiwan's largest-ever class action suit is being filed in response to several oil scandals which for the past 2 years have affected businesses, schools and consumers islandwide. Consumer groups throughout the country have allied themselves, holding a joint press conference on Thursday calling for Taiwanese everywhere to join in the filing, reports our Chinese-language sister paper China Times.

The Executive Yuan has commissioned a Consumers' Foundation and Taiwan Consumer Protection Association to file the lawsuit against Chang Guan, Ting Hsin International Group, Cheng-I Food, Beei Hae Oil and Fats as well as their mid- and downstream partners in an attempt to show businesses that unethical practices will not be tolerated and in fact punished harshly.

Recent oil scandals in the country have affected more than 500 companies and 1,000 products.

Schools were also heavily affected by the products foisted upon them. Ten senior high schools and 25 elementary schools in Taiwan used Cheng-I Food products; six senior high schools and 48 elementary and junior high schools used Ting Hsing's oils in their food; and Beei Hae Oil and Fats oils were found to be used in one school, according to the Consumer Protection Committee. These numbers are likely to skyrocket if calculations include schools that used these oils in the past.

Ting Hsin and Cheng-I Foods were found using oils meant for non-human consumption to produce cooking oil while Beei Hae Oil and Fats was busted for mixing non-edible oils and animal feeds oils to produce fake pork oils.

Consumers should unite to give a stern warning to shady and unethical businesses, said to Yu Kai-hsiung, vice chairman of the Consumers' Foundation.

Consumers who had received refunds for products containing the tainted oils but have not signed a waiver settling with their producers are eligible to join the action, which is set to be filed in March next year. One individual can demand anywhere from NT$500 to NT$30,000 (US$16-US$968) in compensation under current regulations.

The Consumers' Foundation will handle applications from members of general public. The Taiwan Consumer Protection Association will help file on behalf of elementary and junior high schools affected and Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs will accept businesses' applications.

A class action against a single company requires at least 20 consumers' applications to be accepted by courts.

The foundation is to begin accepting applications between Dec. 1 of this year and Jan. 5, 2015. Applicants should provide four documents such as receipts and others, available for download on the foundation's website, by mail or submit them in person.

Taiwan's Consumer Protection Association has begun accepting applications from schools beginning Thursday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare will collect the names and manufacturing dates of the oils in 15 days and give the information to the Ministry of Education, which will provide it to schools across the countries to check if they used the oils in the past. The schools will obtain student or their legal guardians' signatures to file the class action via the association.

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Prosecutors seize assets of Ting Hsin's former chairman

Want China Times, CNA 2014-10-16

Luxury apartments in Taipei, Oct. 15. (File photo/CNA)

Prosecutors on Wednesday seized three luxury apartment units as well as other assets owned by Wei Ying-chung, who recently resigned as chairman of Ting Hsin International Group, the conglomerate at the center of Taiwan's latest food scare.

Wei's assets–stocks, bank accounts, apartments in the upscale 'Palace' complex in Taipei and other real estate–were seized to prevent him from getting rid of them, prosecutors said.

Wei is under investigation in Taipei, Changhua, Chiayi, Tainan and Kaohsiung amid a snowballing food safety scandal involving the Ting Hsin group, which is owned by Wei and his family.

Investigators were worried that the family would move their assets to China to avoid having them frozen in Taiwan, pending an investigation into irregularities at edible oil plants operated by Ting Hsin subsidiaries.

A top executive of Ting Hsin Oil & Fat and another two from Cheng I Food, two of the subsidiary companies, were detained by prosecutors Tuesday in connection with the recent food safety scandal.

The two companies are accused of using lard meant for use in animal feed in their edible oil products.

The incident–the third cooking oil-related scandal to hit the conglomerate within a year–has sparked widespread outrage among consumers in Taiwan, leading to a public boycott of the group's products and brands.

Wei Ying-chung in a police car on the way to a detention
center, Changhua, Oct. 17. (Photo/CNA)


Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Cooking oil scandals put NT$7bn dent in Taiwan's economy

Want China Times, CNA 2014-10-14

Ting Hsin food and products have been removed from shelves at a
Carrefour in Yilan, Oct. 13. (File photo/Li Chung-yi)

Since October of last year, a spate of edible oil scandals involving the Ting Hsin International Group is estimated to cause losses of over NT$7 billion (US$230 million) to the economy, officials at Taiwan's statistics office said.

The scandals involving the use of substandard or tainted oils to produce cooking oil and processed food products have triggered consumer boycotts of all products sold by the Ting Hsin group, one of Taiwan's food giants.

The Ting Hsin food safety storm will have a negative impact on the economy, officials said, noting that because the latest Ting Hsin scandal was still evolving, there's not enough data for the agency to predict how big the impact will be. However, if the Ting Hsin group withdraws from Taiwan's food market entirely, the impact will definitely be reflected on the actual gross domestic product of the country.

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Minister willing to take responsibility for scandal: Taiwan's premier

Want China Times, CNA 2014-09-14

Health and Welfare minister Chiu Wen-ta during a press conference, Sept. 5.
(File photo/CNA)

Taiwan's premier Jiang Yi-huah said Saturday that Health and Welfare minister Chiu Wen-ta has expressed his willingness to take responsibility for a snowballing food safety scandal but that now was not the time to discuss personnel changes.

Jiang said during a visit to Pingtung county that Chiu told him he wanted to apologize to the public and was willing to take any responsibility he had to assume for the scandal, which involves cooking oil made from questionable ingredients getting into the food chain.

With food safety concerns yet to subside, Jiang said it was not the right time to talk about adjustments to personnel involved in food safety.

Jiang said the most important task at present was to pull products containing substandard oils made by oil supplier Chang Guann from store shelves.

Carrying out reforms on related systems and assessing who should be held responsible for the incident will be left to the next phase of the process, he said.

Chang Guann, the company at the heart of the oil scandal, was found to be producing lard-based cooking oils made with putrid kitchen waste and industrial waste by-products or lard for use in animal feed imported from Hong Kong.

Chang Guann chairman Yeh Wen-hsiang was detained by prosecutors early Saturday, while government agencies continue to track the companies that used the company's oils and the products made with them.

More than 1,000 food manufacturers and restaurants are said to have used the questionable oils from Chang Guann in their products.

Health minister Chiu, meanwhile, was quoted by his aide as saying on Saturday that he had no time to think about resigning for the time being because he was busy handling the aftermath of the substandard oil mess.

But Chiu said he would not shirk any responsibility that fell his way, his aide added.

Also Saturday, Executive Yuan spokesman Sun Lih-chyun said Chiu expressed his willingness to take responsibility for the food scare during the regular weekly cabinet meeting last week, but noted that the issue was not discussed during the meeting.