-: Et tu Cinnamon ? Cui Bono ?:-
By
Ivor Hughes
Judge Lord R.U.A. Bad Egg KC VD and Scar. Relaxed back into his favourite rhinoceros hide chair. He had just returned to the library from the club restaurant, which never failed to please. Amongst the Kitchen Staff were 2 defrocked Royal Chefs and General De Gaulle,s food taster letting half a dozen links out of the heavy gold chain that looped across his pot belly. He quickly unflipped the bottom 3 of his waistcoat buttons, and gave a long, low decibel burp. Roger the Dodger had dined well
The telephone next to his chair rang. 'Bad Egg here' he said. A disembodied voice said 'The Home Secretary is here M'Lud. Adopting that tone that the upper crust use when addressing the peasantry. Bad Egg said "Righty ho Fotheringay escort the blighter through. Also collect a bottle of brandy from my private cellar, plus soda water and 2 brandy snifters on your way here. Without waiting for a reply he put the phone down.
Within the minute, Fotheringay in his black and white penguin suit, and bearing a silver salver and Brandy, like the bow sprit of a ship of the line, sailed majestically across the library, and bobbing in his wake like a leaky dinghy, came the Home Secretary carrying his colostomy bag.
After the usual ritual greetings Bad egg leaned back into the haze of blue grey Havana smoke, brandy in hand, and said "So what news Home Secretary"? Turncoat looked nervously and furtively around him, and said from the corner of his mouth "The Pigeon Master is feeding the pigeons" "Cinnamon" he added with a chunderous* smile.
"Well, jerk me about with Electro Convulsive Therapy" Bad Egg exclaimed. " The big one ! Turncoat! its the big one, the one we have all been waiting for. Images of balmy tropic isles and descending grass skirts passed quickly before his eyes. However duty surfaced quickly. Bad Egg withdrew his chased silver pill box from a waistcoat pocket, opened it. and selected a couple of amphetamine tablets, popped them, and rinsed them down with brandy.
"Harrumph !" said Bad Egg, "Turncoat you will arrange for the Commissioner of Police and his hand picked Magistrate to be at Blackfriars bridge 30 minutes before dawn on the day of the trial. Somehow I dont think that the public are going to swallow this one so easy." "Yes" said Turncoat "it is getting rather obvious, but with sufficient show of force we should carry the day". Turncoat gave one of his chunderous* smiles. 'Just leave it to me' said Bad Egg. Oh and Turncoat, fax me the current duty roster of PhD,s I shall need 15. Twelve for the jury and 3 as expert witness.
Tendrils of river smelling cold mist, circled the the bridge lights as Turncoat, Police Commissioner and Magistrate stepped forward to meet Bad Egg and General Nuke Rubyridge Jnr. 1st Division US Armoured Homeland Defence Force. As Nuke leaned forward to shake the Commissioners clammy hand. the bridge lights caught the Waco Star that glittered at his neck. When asked if the Division had Nuclear capability, Nuke refused to confirm or deny, but he did say " Well all those little Englanders that dare to dissent will be quickly dealt with. Survivors will be classified as Taleban and shipped to Cuba to be softened up before they undergo the show trials.
'Ok' Bad Egg said, 'get on
with it ! The Commissioner stepped forward and said to the Magistrate " The
Police have lost control of the streets and law and order has disintergrated.
"Blithering idiot", muttered Bad Egg. "Righty-ho", said the Magistrate,
"sign here", and handed the Commissioner a legal looking document. As the
Commissioner signed, he noticed with a shudder, that Nuke Rubyridge Jnr. had
already signed, in blood !
As Cinnamon was led below to the dungeons beneath the Old Bailey he cried
out 'Cui Bono' but it was drowned out by the applause from all the little
cui bono,s that packed the well of the court.
Meanwhile a stray gas shell from the command tank of the Homeland Division,
had taken out the Saint Judes Orphanage for girls. 300 hundred children and
15 nuns died. When asked, what type of gas the shell contained, General
Rubyridge professed ignorance, and simply said 'We borrowed it from the
Russians'
*Chunder is an Oceanic colloquialism
meaning, to violently vomit. Chunderous means something that provokes
chunder.
Cinnamon in medieval Europe was a rare and costly spice. It remained so
until the English and the Portugese ships challenged the Arabic hegemony of
the sea lanes to the spice ports. Today Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Ginger are the
top selling culinary spices in the western world.
Cinnamon volatile oil was official in every Pharmacopeia of note.
Medicinally it is classified as carminative and antiseptic.
Cinnamon water and a 1:10 tincture were also official.
The following article was taken from
Biomed.net http://news.bmn.com/magazine.
With regard to this article, O'Brien appears to have drawn some very odd
conclusions from his facts. The conclusions are then further slanted to
suggest that there is some risk from the consumption of cinnamon. And
shock horror, those Asiatics are actually putting cinnamon sticks in their
hot beverages. Never mind that there are many thousands of years of its
evidential, benign use. Never mind the hubris that dismisses the experience
of countless generations of peoples.
It seems almost superfluous to ask 'Cui Bono' when it is so disgracefully
obvious. The World Health Organisation, who are driven and infiltrated by
the Pharmaceutical companies advance another step in their bid for control
of the peoples heritage. Cupidity and Stupidty rulzz OK !
How safe is cinnamon
spice?
15 November 2002 16:30 EST
by Julie Clayton
The popular spice cinnamon
contains cinnamaldehyde, a compound that may be toxic to human cells, says a
leading pharmacologist. He is calling for a thorough risk assessment of the
spice, particularly in view of its widespread use in both foods and
cosmetics.
Without wishing to be alarmist, says Peter O'Brien, he has evidence that
cinnamaldehyde blocks mitochondrial respiration and causes lysis of cultured
liver cells. Building on others' results that cinnamaldehyde causes fetal
abnormalities in rats, O'Brien is using the new data to "build a stronger
case."
O'Brien, a researcher at the University of Toronto, is due to publish his
results in the December issue of Chemico-Biological Interactions.
Before alarming the public, O'Brien says, researchers should first find out
how much cinnamaldehyde people get in daily usage, and whether those amounts
are likely to affect the developing fetus.
Manufacturers are now permitted to add pure cinnamaldehyde not only to food
and drinks, but also to cosmetics for its aroma-enhancing property. But,
O'Brien notes, they are not obliged to include it in the list of
ingredients.
"It's found in so many products that it would take about 5 minutes to list
them all," said O'Brien. Among the products: Bath oil, bath salts,
lipsticks, soaps, toothpaste, mouthwash, hair cosmetics, candy, soft drinks
and pastries.
In addition, cinnamaldehyde is used as a preservative for herbal remedies,
and people of Middle Eastern origin use cinnamon sticks - whole pieces of
bark from cinnamon trees in Sri Lanka - to flavor their tea.
In Canada, the "safe" daily intake for cinnamaldehyde is 1.25 milligrams per
kilogram of body weight, O'Brien says. "At that concentration I wouldn't
worry, but I think people are taking in more than that," he said.
In the UK, the safe dose is even lower - 0.7mg per kilogram - according to
the UK Food Standards Agency. Cinnamaldehyde is now one of many flavoring
agents under review by the European Union's Scientific Committee on Food,
which is responsible for advising the new European Food Safety Authority.
Because the spice is widely used, finding out who is exceeding safe limits,
and by how much, would not be easy, O'Brien says. To assess the risk posed
by any particular dose would also require considerable testing, including
animal studies, he adds.
In vitro studies, such as those O'Brien is due to report, are merely the
starting point for risk assessment, says Andrew Smith, senior scientist at
the Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit at Leicester University. Only
animal data would enable extrapolation to humans, Smith says.
Epidemiological studies would be "the best work possible," but for most
mutagens these are non-existent and "very difficult" to do, Smith added.
"It's not like a drug where you've gone out and tested it on healthy
people."
According to O'Brien, there are no human epidemiological data for
cinnamaldehyde. It is well known, however, as an allergen and skin irritant
in perfumes and hair cosmetics, and is now one a prime candidate for contact
dermatitis.
O'Brien conducted the study on behalf of Health Canada, as part of a broader
attempt to set new priorities for public health. He was originally called to
investigate exposure to aldehyde compounds in general, following concerns
about the inhalation of aldehydes derived from ethanol and methanol vapors
at gas stations.
"I was a bit surprised to find some fairly toxic aldehydes in our diet," he
said. "We had always assumed that they got metabolized rapidly but some of
them inactivate the system that is trying to detoxify them."
Ironically, the toxic effects of cinnamaldehyde appear to be due to its
ability to bind directly to aldehyde dehydrogenase, the enzyme needed for
its destruction.
'Blithering Idiot' muttered Bad
Egg.
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Ivor Hughes
Auckland, New Zealand
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