Tasmanian devils threatened by contagious cancer

January 25, 2009 By ROD McGUIRK , Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Tasmania is trying to save the devil. The Tasmanian devil, a ferocious, snarling fox-sized marsupial, is in danger of going extinct because of a contagious facial cancer. In the meantime, its biggest rival - the European fox - is thriving, and may become so dominant that the devil never comes back.



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KBK
Jan 25, 2009

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Contagious cancer?

This means a carrier of some sort. Viral or micro-worm.

This has been considered as the source of many of the cancers in man, and thought to be the reason for the workability of some of the proposed and WORKING..I repeat WORKING cancer cures that have shown up over the past years.

MMS, near 100% cure rate for specific types of cancer.

Black Walnut husks (fresh) being another.

another is the idea of utilization of other people's immune cells to attack that which your body does not realize or recognize. This has been shown to have a near 100% cure rate.

OF course, the Global Big Pharma multi-trillon $ business establishment wouldn't want anything like that to happen...

Remember, DR. Royal Raymond Rife DID cure ALL cancers and ALL biological contagions in the human sphere, back in the 1940's, using resonance of the DNA in the given cells...for a repeatable ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CURE RATE.

He was destroyed, burned down , discredited vilified and run out of the country and died a despondent alcoholic in Mexico.

Too bad the records show that the AMA, and every single medical oragnization at the tiem checked his work repeatedly and all ENDORSED him and EXALTED in what his cures brought to the table. The man had an IQ over 200. He even designed a optically based monochromatic microscope system with over 8000 parts, that HE machined and made himself that was capable of looking at LIVE Viri!! Holy Fuck!. He made two. One was destroyed in one of the arson attacks, the other still exists.

Then the medical industry, which was just beginning to get huge at that time, they tore into him and destroyed his works, in totality. They erased his name from history.

Now...Am I lying?

Think about the medical industry. Think about how it works. Think about any big industry and how they act when their money is threatened.

Now, Am I Lying?

Look it up.

PROVE me wrong. Please try.
Ashibayai
Jan 26, 2009

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I'm just wondering why we're trying to save tasmanian devils from foxes and natural afflictions. I can kind of understand if they're dieing because of human interference, but it sounds like good old natural selection at work here.
Honor
Jan 26, 2009

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why are there so many conspiracy theorist on physorg?
Daft
Jan 27, 2009

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Unfortunately chemicals could have played a part hear. The Hydro industry in Tasmania left a trail of dioxins, PCBs due to the fire retardants in transformers etc. Forestry using 1080 baits on plantation forests so they dont get eaten. As for the fox, there have been lots of sightings, one corpse and lots of scats found.
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