Friday, July 29, 2011

What's really in the food? The A to Z of the food industry's most evil ingredients

Mike Adams
Natural News -

Ever wonder what's really in the food sold at grocery stores around the world? People keep asking me, "What ingredients should I avoid?" So I put together a short list that covers all the most toxic and disease-promoting ingredients in the food supply. These are the substances causing cancer, diabetes, heart disease and leading to tens of billions of dollars in unnecessary health care costs across America (and around the world).

If you want to stay healthy and out of the hospital, read ingredients labels and make sure you avoid all these ingredients:

Acrylamides - Toxic, cancer-causing chemicals formed in foods when carbohydrates are exposed to high heat (baking, frying, grilling). They're present in everything from bread crusts to snack chips, and because they aren't intentional ingredients, acrylamides do NOT have to be listed on labels.

Aspartame - Chemical sweetener that causes neurological disorders, seizures, blurred vision and migraine headaches. (http://www.naturalnews.com/030918_a...)

Autolyzed Proteins - Highly processed form of protein containing free glutamate and used to mimic the taste-enhancer chemical MSG.

BPA (Bisphenol-A) - A hormone mimicking chemical found in nearly all food packaging plastics. Active in just parts per billion, BPA promotes cancer, infertility and hormone disorders. It also "feminizes" males, promoting male breast growth and hormone disruption (http://www.naturalnews.com/032860_B...).

Casein - Milk proteins. Hilariously, this is widely used in "soy cheese" products that claim to be alternatives to cow's milk. Nearly all of them are made with cow's milk proteins.

Corn Syrup - Just another name for High Fructose Corn Syrup (see below). Frequently used in infant formula products (http://www.naturalnews.com/029863_S...).

Food Colors - FD&C Red #40, for example, is linked to behavioral disorders in children. Nearly all artificial food colors are derived from petroleum, and many are contaminated with aluminum.

Genetically Modified Ingredients - Not currently listed on the label because the GMO industry (Monsanto and DuPont) absolutely does not want people to know which foods contain GMOs. Nearly all conventionally grown corn, soy and cotton are GMOs. They're linked to severe infertility problems and may even cause the bacteria in your body to produce and release a pesticide in your own gut. If you're not eating organic corn, you're definitely eating GMO corn. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026426_G...) Learn more at www.ResponsibleTechnology.org or watch my GMO music video (hilarious) at www.NaturalNews.com/NoGMO

High Fructose Corn Syrup - A highly processed liquid sugar extracted with the chemical solvent glutaraldehyde and frequently contaminated with mercury (http://www.naturalnews.com/032948_h...). It's also linked to diabetes, obesity and mood disorders. Used in thousands of grocery items, including things you wouldn't suspect like pizza sauce and salad dressings.

Homogenized Milk - The fats in the milk are artificially modified to change them into smaller molecules that stay in suspension in the milk liquid (so the milk fat doesn't separate) (http://www.naturalnews.com/022967_m...). While it makes milk look better on the shelf, it's also blamed for promoting heart disease and may contribute to milk allergies. Raw milk is healthier, which is why the government had outlawed it (http://www.naturalnews.com/029322_r...).

Hydrochloride - When you see anything hydrochloride, such as Pyridoxine Hydrochloride or Thiamin Hydrochloride, those are chemical forms of B vitamins that companies add to their products to be able to claim higher RDA values of vitamins. But these are synthetic, chemical forms of vitamins, not real vitamins from foods or plants. Nutritionally, they are near-useless and may actually be bad for you. Also watch out for niacinamide and cyanocobalamin (synthetic vitamin B-12). (http://www.naturalnews.com/032766_c...)

Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein - A highly processed form of (usually) soy protein that's processed to bring out the free glutamate (MSG). Use as a taste enhancer.

Partially Hydrogenated Oils - Oils that are modified using a chemical catalyst to make them stable at room temperature. This creates trans fatty acids and greatly increases the risk of blocked arteries (http://www.naturalnews.com/027445_f...). It also promotes what I call "sludge blood," which is thick, viscous blood that's hard to pump. This is usually diagnosed by doctors as "high blood pressure" and (stupidly) treated with blood-thinning medications that are technically the same chemicals as rat poison (warfarin) (http://www.naturalnews.com/023149_d...).

Phosphoric Acid - The acid used in sodas to dissolve the carbon dioxide and add to the overall fizzy-ness of the soda. Phosphoric acid will eat steel nails. It's also used by stone masons to etch rocks. The military uses it to clean the rust off battleships. In absolutely destroys tooth enamel (http://www.naturalnews.com/021774.html). Search Google Images for "Mountain Dew Mouth" to see photos of teeth rotted out by phosphoric acid: http://www.google.com/search?q=moun...

Propylene Glycol - A liquid used in the automotive industry to winterize RVs. It's also used to make the fake blueberries you see in blueberry muffins, bagels and breads. (Combined with artificial colors and corn syrup.) See shocking "Fake Blueberries" video at: http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=7...

Sodium (Salt) - The processed white salt lacking in trace minerals. In the holistic nutrition industry, we call it "death salt" because it promotes disease and death. Real salt, on the other hand, such as "dirty" sea salt or pink Himalayan salt, is loaded with the trace minerals that prevent disease, such as selenium (cancer), chromium (diabetes) and zinc (infectious disease). Much like with bread and sugar, white salt is terrible for your health. And don't be fooled by claims of "sea salt" in grocery stores. All salt came from the sea if you go far back enough in geologic time, so they can slap the "sea salt" claim on ANY salt!

Sodium Nitrite - A cancer-causing red coloring chemical added to bacon, hot dogs, sausage, beef jerky, ham, lunch meats, pepperoni and nearly all processed meats. Strongly linked to brain tumors, pancreatic cancers and colon cancers (http://www.naturalnews.com/007024.html). The USDA once tried to ban it from the food supply but was out-maneuvered by the meat industry, which now dominates USDA regulations. Sodium nitrite is a complete poison used to make meats look fresh. Countless children die of cancer each year from sodium nitrite-induced cancers.

Soy Protein - The No. 1 protein source used in "protein bars," including many bars widely consumed by bodybuilders. Soy protein is the "junk protein" of the food industry. It's made from genetically modified soybeans (often grown in China) and then subjected to hexane, a chemical solvent (http://www.naturalnews.com/026303_s...) that can literally explode.

Sucralose - An artificial chemical sweetener sold as Splenda. The sucralose molecule contains a chlorine atom (http://www.naturalnews.com/027491_a...). Researchers have repeatedly found that artificial sweeteners make people fat by actually promoting weight gain (http://www.naturalnews.com/024543_h...).

Sugar - The bleached, nutritionally-deficient byproduct of cane processing. During sugar cane processing, nearly all the minerals and vitamins end up in the blackstrap molasses that's usually fed to farm animals. (Blackstrap molasses is actually the "good" part of sugar cane juice.) Molasses is often fed to farm animals because every rancher knows that farm animals need good nutrition to stay alive. Amazingly, conventional doctors don't yet realize this about humans, and they continue to claim that eating sugar is perfectly fine for you. Sugar promotes diabetes, obesity, mood disorders and nutritional deficiencies.

Textured Vegetable Protein - Usually made of soy protein which is extracted from genetically modified soybeans and then processed using hexane, an explosive chemical solvent (see Soy Protein, above). Widely used in vegetarian foods such as "veggie burgers" (most of which also contain MSG or Yeast Extract, by the way).

Yeast Extract - Hidden form of MSG that contains free glutamate and is used in many "natural" food products to claim "No MSG!" Yeast extract contains up to 14% free glutamate. You'll find it in thousands of grocery store products, from soups to snack chips. I even once spotted it used on fresh meat!

Vacant Homes Will Drown Housing Recovery

They have this back asswards definition of "recovery". It will never be a recovery in their eyes until prices return to and exceed the highs of the previous bubble, which was completely fake, fueled by the Fed's monopoly money. Housing will recover when the price reflects demand. Right now there are somewhere around 19 million unoccupied homes in America. That means there's a mega-surplus in supply, and nowhere near enough demand. Prices have to come down.

Keynesians think price deflation is some kind of horrible evil, and they make the average American believe it too, but why buy a house if you know prices still have a long way to the bottom? And isn't that good for the buyer? Not good for the seller, but chances are their choice to buy that home was malinvestment anyway. They had no idea of how bubbles are formed, and were duped by idiot establishment economists into thinking housing prices could never, ever, ever go down. So they leaped before they looked. Mark my words, like FDR forcing farmers to kill every other pig and plow under every other row, in order to create artificial scarcity and drive up food prices in a depression when people were starving, the government and the banks will somehow keep these houses off the market - either by simply refusing to sell them, or by demolishing them altogether. That's how sick these people are. And sure enough, Bank of America is doing just that.

    CNBC -

    A real estate source I knew recently told me about a guy he knows in Atlanta who has been hired by several different banks to winterize their REO's (real estate owned, i.e. the bank-owned foreclosures).

    The homes are abandoned and empty, and clearly the banks think they're going to stay that way for a while.

    The winterizer didn't want to do an interview, for fear he would lose his clients, the banks, who might not want us all to know about this.

Read all of it.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Let's stop assuming the police are on our side

And let the gnashing of teeth begin.

    From mass arrests to surveillance, confidence in the Metropolitan police is at an all-time low

    London Guardian -

    Can confidence in the Metropolitan police sink any lower? Even before the past few weeks revealed the possibility of their complicity in the News of the World hacking scandal, and the past few months their brutal attitude towards the policing of students and other protesters, there were many who already had reason to mistrust those who claim to be "working together for a safer London".

    Take Ann Roberts, a special needs assistant, who was recently given the go-ahead in the high court to challenge the allegedly racist way in which stop-and–search powers are used: her lawyers claim statistics indicate that a black person is more than nine times more likely to be searched than a white person.

    Or take the family of Smiley Culture, still waiting for answers after the reggae singer died in a police raid on his home in March this year. They are campaigning on behalf of all those who've died in police custody. Inquest, a charity which deals with contentious death, particularly in police custody, reports that more than 400 people from black and ethnic minority communities have died in prison, police custody and secure training centres in England and Wales since 1990.

Read it all.

Air Force Cites New Testament, Ex-Nazi, to Train Officers on Ethics of Launching Nuclear Weapons

God loves when you bomb brown pseudo-humans into the stone age.

    Jason Leopold
    Truthout -

    The United States Air Force has been training young missile officers about the morals and ethics of launching nuclear weapons by citing passages from the New Testament and commentary from a former member of the Nazi Party, according to newly released documents.

    The mandatory Nuclear Ethics and Nuclear Warfare session, which includes a discussion on St. Augustine's "Christian Just War Theory," is led by Air Force chaplains and takes place during a missile officer's first week in training at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Please read all of it.

Ranks of hungry children swell, worrying doctors

This in no way should encourage you to store food, and buy seeds (and a shotgun or rifle). You know, so you could actually feed yourself as the economy continues to crumble - I mean recover. Remain hopelessly dependent on the grid, and trust that government will take care of you. Stories like these, you should ignore. Or, even better, blame the parents for being lazy, worthless parasites. There there...everything is okay. Go watch TV.

    Boston Globe -

    Doctors at a major Boston hospital report they are seeing more hungry and dangerously thin young children in the emergency room than at any time in more than a decade of surveying families.

    Many families are unable to afford enough healthy food to feed their children, say the Boston Medical Center doctors. The resulting chronic hunger threatens to leave scores of infants and toddlers with lasting learning and developmental problems.

    Before the economy soured in 2007, 12 percent of youngsters age 3 and under whose families were randomly surveyed in the hospital’s emergency department were significantly underweight. In 2010, that percentage jumped to 18 percent, and the tide does not appear to be abating, said Dr. Megan Sandel, an associate professor of pediatrics and public health at BMC.

    Food is costing more, and dollars don’t stretch as far,’’ Sandel said. “It’s hard to maintain a diet that is healthy.’’

Read all of it.

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism

As we focus on the fake economic crisis, real environmental destruction continues, carried out by the same people we demand save us from global warming. Meanwhile, hardly a day goes by that some sort of corruption is exposed among the "scientists" among this cult.

    Yahoo News -

    NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.

    Related: Arctic Scientist Under Investigation

    Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

    "The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show," Spencer said in a July 26 University of Alabama press release. "There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans."

Read it all.

'The Global Recovery Is Over': Siemens CEO

Hey, thanks for the info, Captain Obvious.

    CNBC -

    Siemens, the German engineering and power giant, on Thursday posted third-quarter earnings that missed analyst forecasts blaming a slowdown in the global economy for the drop in profits.

    Adam Gault | Getty Images

    “What we see is the early tail wind of the global recovery is over. We have Europe within the debt crisis and budget discussion in the U.S. and volatile commodity prices and political situations around the world. Although we continue to see a growth story in emerging markets,” Siemens chief executive Peter Löscher told CNBC.

    “Siemens continues to operate in robust end markets, but we also see a deceleration of the growth market around the world and see also see a lot of volatility. But we are well placed in the markets we serve,” Löscher added.

Read it all.

Threat Of Right-Wing Extremism In U.S. Debated By Feds, Analysts

We need a bigger police state, to protect the police state. Because if you oppose the grotesque Stalinist police state taking shape in this country, no matter what your political ideology, you are a right-wing extremist and they are coming for you. Wouldn't you rather just put on Lee Greenwood and act like a real right-wing extremist, celebrating the Patriot Act and the DHS and the TSA for keeping us safe from turr'ists all over the world? Me either.

    HuffPo -

    NEW YORK -- The bombing and shooting spree in Norway on Friday has raised questions about whether federal law enforcement agencies in the United States are devoting enough resources and attention to the threat posed by right-wing extremists here. On the alert for such threats posed by white supremacists and members of a sovereign citizen movement that rejects government authority and militias, law enforcement officials around the country have reportedly asked for budget increases to handle the task.

    Department of Homeland Security officials insist that the level of activity by such groups has remained consistent over the past few years and that the agency is focused on the menace posed by such groups.

    "As it stands today, we have been much more focused than at any time in the last 10 years on threat posed by homegrown terrorism," a senior DHS counterterrorism official told The Huffington Post.

    Yet analysts who track extremist activity claim that the threat posed by right-wing extremists in the United States is on the rise and that federal law enforcement agencies may not be giving them enough resources or attention.

Read it all.

Theft is on the rise in a worsening economy

There are many reasons why this Depression will be worse than the first. The criminal factor is one. Because back in the 30's and 40's, a much larger percentage of Americans were self-sufficient. Back then, you weren't considered a quack if you had a pantry full of emergency food and water, and a garden growing in your back yard. You hoped for the best but prepared for the worst, just in case. This was common sense. Today, we are invincible. At least in our own ridiculous minds. And it seems like no matter how bad things get, few people can be bothered to perk their ears up and look around at what's happening.

As the situation deteriorates, and more and more people who cannot take care of themselves without the State get torn from the grid, they will be forced to turn to violence. Especially as the currency is destroyed and precious metals such as copper becomes more and more valuable. As the economy continues to crumble, we will start tearing each other apart. I won't be around for that.

    Natural News -

    It is not strange to hear about cars, jewelry or money being stolen. These days, desperate thieves are choosing bizarre targets: copper wires, air conditioning units, storm drain covers, grapes, ambulances, pain killers and even bees. This petty thievery of agricultural goods and odd supplies is the new norm in a rapidly worsening economy where unemployment is rampant.

    The downturn in the economy and record unemployment numbers have created a heightened sense of desperation, which subsequently is leading to a rapid increase in crime levels all over the country.

Read it all.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Drought Withering Away Any Chance of Recovery

From late-season frosts, scorching heat, and record flooding wiping out crops, to the worst drought in recent memory, added to the ongoing destruction of our currency pushing the price of food up, up, up, our food security is fragile at best, and deteriorating by the day. There are those who are prepared, and there are those who will suffer. Choose.

    SHTF Plan -

    It is no secret that we are in one of the worst droughts of our lifetime. Could these weather conditions be the beginning of something much worse? Or even create a perfect storm that will lead to the beginning of the end of America’s vitality?

    To begin, farmers in Oklahoma and in Texas are already bracing themselves for what may be their largest TEOTWAWKI event ever experienced. These two states are the largest producers of hay and cattle in the United States. However, due to persistent drought conditions plaguing this part of the country, the outcome has the two states seeing the smallest hay crop in over a century, thus creating a shortage of feed for livestock. ”Farms may harvest only one crop from alfalfa and Bermuda grass this year, compared with three normally”, said Larry Redmon, a state forage specialist at Texas A&M University. (Source)

Read all of it.

No link between 9/11 exposure and cancer: U.S.

Well I guess that settles it. The government says it doesn't cause cancer, even though asbestos, known to be in the dust, is a proven carcinogen, and one of the more potent ones at that, and even though the White House ordered the EPA to lie about the air quality around Ground Zero in the days after 9-11 so that Wall Street could begin trading again. More people will die from this crime than the actual attack itself, and the government just swept it under the rug, nice and tidy. But since we all know conspiracies don't exist, just pretend you didn't read all that. Go watch TV.

    The Raw Story -

    A US government review of scientific studies has shown no proof that exposure to the dust and rubble from the World Trade Center after the attacks of September 11, 2001 caused cancer.

    The review of peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature sparked anger among some firefighters, police and other first responders who said they have seen too many colleagues suffer from cancer to believe that there was no link.

    "Insufficient evidence exists at this time to propose a rule to add cancer, or a certain type of cancer, to the list of WTC-related health conditions," said the review released Tuesday by John Howard, a doctor who heads the US government's World Trade Center Health Program.

Read it all.

States Count Cash While Hoping for U.S. Debt Agreement

Unfortunately there is no easy, painless solution to this problem. The least painful, quickest recovery would be for America to default now. A lot of people - tax feeders, mostly - would lose their jobs. They'll lose their jobs anyway, now or at a later date. The debt isn't even ours anyway. Default, default, default.

    Bloomberg -

    Arizona is prepared to draw on its $1 billion in cash to cope with a possible federal government shutdown. South Carolina has plans to idle all but its most essential employees. Michigan may have to cut aid to the poor.

    With Washington in a political deadlock that may stop the federal government from borrowing money as soon as next week, states are preparing for the fallout should the Treasury Department run out of cash. Used to the brinkmanship in their own legislatures, state officials say they expect Congress to reach a deal to head off a shutdown, or that any disruption would last only a few days.

Read it all.

House Democratic leader urges Obama to raise debt ceiling without Congressional approval

Why not just dispense with the formalities and declare the office of president a dictatorship?

Related: Obama: "Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting."

    Politico -

    Rep. James Clyburn and a group of House Democrats are urging President Barack Obama to invoke the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling if Congress can’t come up with a satisfactory plan before the Tuesday deadline.

    Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat, said Wednesday that if the president is delivered a bill to raise the debt ceiling for only a short period of time, he should instead veto it and turn to the phrase in the Constitution that says the validity of the U.S. government’s debt “shall not be questioned.”

Read it all.

Long-term, universal flu shot on horizon

Being based on quack science, you should not expect this vaccine to perform any better than any of their other ones. Unless of course you look at it from their perspective, and consider vaccines a biological weapon which fries our brains and destroys our immune systems. Then it will perform swimmingly. And if you have a seizure, catch the flu, die, or are afflicted with some other illness you've never suffered from immediately after getting it, just remember: it's not the vaccine that did it to you.

Full text at link above.

Consolidation of seed companies leading to corporate domination of world food supply

The world is just screaming at you, "GROW YOUR OWN FOOD!" Between the ecological and nutritional destruction of factory farmed, genetically modified, pesticide plastered food, to the monetary devaluation causing this increasingly worthless and toxic food to cost more and more, to the cornering of the seed market by the maniacs who genetically modify seeds so they can be blasted with pesticides without dying, you are literally suicidal if you're not stocking up on organic seeds and growing your own food. Unfortunately, most Americans are either too ignorant to notice or too lazy to care (I've actually met such people). "Grow my own food? Why do that when I have other people I've never met and have no idea of their ethics to grow it for me?"

    Natural News -

    Throughout the history of agriculture across the globe, farming has always been a diversified sector of the economy. Small, self-sustaining, family farms were the order of the day in most cultures. Even as small farms grew larger and more specialized over time, many of them still saved seeds or purchased them from other farmers, which kept control of farming in the hands of the people.

    But today everything has changed, as large chemical and agribusiness firms have acquired or merged with seed companies and other agricultural input companies. They have successfully gained a foothold on genetically-modified (GM) crops with transgenic traits.

    These primary factors and several others have facilitated a crescendo towards the global domination of agriculture by corporations, and thus the world's food supply.

Read all of it.

NSA Lawyer Questioned Over Cellphone Location Tracking of Americans

“There are certain circumstances where [the authority to track Americans using cell phone data) may exist,” Matthew Olsen, lawyer for the NSA said. Where this authority is derived from is not mentioned, but they'll write a memo about it when they get their bullshit story together. And, as always, if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Truth, Justice, Movements

A great deal of teeth gnashing ensued the supposed turncoating of Charlie Veitch, from 9-11 truther to alleged globalist/NWO shill. It was a sad sight to see: people supposedly free of mind losing their minds over the meaningless incantations of one clown with a bullhorn and a video camera. For me at least it was evidence of how easy our minds are controlled, because no matter how enlightened many take themselves to be, if they can be kept inside the cage of groupthink, they are still very much plugged in.

Any movement, no matter how profound, no matter what issue it wraps itself around, is a distraction, and cannot be kept free from at least some outside influence, outside control. Here we saw how easily a movement could be thrown into chaos, that one supposed leader – one man – changed his mind, for whatever reason, and rather than shrug it off, as if the truth could be affected by such an insignificant turn of events, the whole movement acts like the sky is falling. He probably received death threats, which must have been quite disheartening for him, because it was likely threats from the other side that led him to reverse course in the first place. We'll never know, and it couldn't be any less significant.

Was Charlie the only one telling the truth, and is he now the only one slanging lies? Was he some kind of oasis of truth that is now gone, leaving everyone helpless? No. So what has changed? Certainly not the truth. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth, said Gandhi.

Yes, it's good to understand that government is a gang of criminals and thieves, writ large. Great. Get over it. The deception of deceptions is this whole idea that those with power have something that they took from you that you must fight to take back. This is a form of control. They never had any power that you didn't give them, and that includes the power to commit false flag terrorism against their "own people" (they're not Americans, they're globalists, but I digress). That includes the power to commit these crimes with impunity, to be immune from punishment if for no other reason than plausible deniability, much less having control of the media and all three branches of government.

More teeth gnashing ensues when I imply that we are to blame, but self-examination is not presently one of the better qualities of the mob. What power do they have without us? Who gave them this power? Of course, we didn't create the Federal Reserve in 1913 – most of us weren't alive then. We weren't alive or at least old enough to bear responsibility as this fascist institution wrapped its tentacles around every essential aspect of American society and culture. But, here and now, having grown up, we still use their currency, which is debt-based and worthless. We still borrow money to pay for everything we “own”. We still vote in their crooked and rigged elections. We still join their military, or if we don't, a great many of us worship the institution as if it were of God; we prostrate ourselves before its hired killers. Many of us still go to work for their military industrial complex. And we still pay taxes.

Movements and groupthink are nothing but avenues for us to relinquish responsibility for our own actions, or inactions. We stand outside their buildings waxing hysterical about truth and justice, and they laugh at us as their hired thugs, AKA the militarized police, tear gas us and assault us with batons, attack dogs and sound cannons. Face it, folks: the game is rigged. They've very carefully and meticulously created this matrix over generations with nothing but their own aggrandizement and perpetuation in mind. They haven't come this far to let a mob of people clamoring for justice stop them.

    I shouted out, "Who killed the Kennedy's?" when after all, it was you and me. - The Rolling Stones

It is difficult to wrap your head around, because it is part of your programming. They killed 3,000 people...someone has to pay! The Matrix we live under does not have at its source some external influence. The global power elite are not aliens (well, maybe they are...), they're not gods or supervillains. They are a manifestation of the diseased egoic mindset of the collective. They are you. They are me. If you want justice for 9-11 you just as well might wrap the noose around your own neck.

The only justice to be had in this world is to accept responsibility for your actions, or inactions, and do what must be done to change. Be the change you wish to see in the world. Take responsibility. It is ridiculously simple yet staggeringly difficult. We hate them, and yet we think we need them. For as long as the current egoic malaise exists in the collective psyche, you can hang all the Dick Cheney's and Larry Silverstein's, et al, you like, and more will simply take their place. This state of the world will change when you change. If you feel like change cannot take place until other people change, then change will never take place. If you feel like leaders like Charlie Veitch, people who are vulnerable and fallible and human, are needed to wake people up, then change will never take place. Change only takes place when you step into your own power, and jealously guard that power and let no one have it. You are part of the collective, and your own personal awakening evolves the collective towards consciousness and freedom. That is all you can do, and it is enough.

What you resist, persists; if you're fighting the system, you're still a slave to it. It will never end, no matter how hard you fight it, until you "take back" that power by simply ceasing to give it to them. That is the closest thing to "justice" that you'll ever get, and personally, for me, true freedom, true sovereignty, *is* justice.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Food Toxins and How They're Killing Us

Note: This is an abbreviated version of a previous article I wrote on food and water toxins that make us fat, stupid, sick and weak. In its abbreviated form, it focuses more on the who, what and where and less on the why, which may seem overwhelming to a lot of people. More important that they understand what is killing us and making us sick than why it's in our food. If you want the answer to that question, see here for the full article.

The amount of toxins we likely ingest on a daily basis is staggering. Their harmful effects are known to the establishment, yet not only are we not adequately warned about them, we are told they are safe. There are actually laws that allow food producers to add chemicals to our food - upwards of 17,000 of them - without telling us, because these additives are toxic and, were we to know they were in our food, it would affect the corporation's bottom line. Since they are not required to tell us what these additives are, I can only speak to what is known for fact. Without even scratching the surface, these are the worst, and their effects on the human mind and body.

Fluoride

Fluoride is by far the most pervasive toxin we are exposed to on a daily basis. A 2001 report from Scientific American stated that it is literally impossible to avoid overexposure to fluoride. Two-thirds of American municipalities dump it in their water, and thus, even if you do not drink tap water, or your water is not fluoridated, you can expect to find fluoride in your soda, beer, juice, sports drinks, vitamins, cold and flu medications, and pretty much any food product that is made with or contains water. This is to say nothing of our toothpastes and mouthwash.
    "In the 1930's, Hitler and the German Nazis envisioned a world to be dominated and controlled by the Nazi philosophy of pan-Germanism. The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass control, which was submitted to, and adopted by, the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population in whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would induce sterility in women and so on. In this scheme of mass control sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place.

    Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual’s power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him. [A convenient light lobotomy]

    The real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit children’s teeth. If this were the real reason there are many ways in which it could be done that are much easier, cheaper, and far more effective. The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty. - Charles Perkins

Fluoridated water was first used in Hitler's death camps, because it lowers IQ and makes you docile and placid; relaxed. For this reason sodium fluoride is also found in Prozac. Given that the global power elite, many of whom are "Americans" (Rockefeller, Gates, Bush, Cold Spring Harbor, etc.), is married to the eugenics movement, and considering their cooperation and support of Hitler, it cannot be said that this was unknown to them when they decided to start fluoridating the water in America, or that their intent was not the same as Hitler's.

Sodium fluoride is a toxic industrial waste product from phosphate fertilizer, aluminum, and nuclear weapons manufacturing, among others. It is so toxic that it is illegal to dump in rivers or streams. Read this as many times as you deem necessary, before it registers in your brain; break through the programming and see it for what it is: THEY ARE DUMPING TOXIC WASTE INTO OUR WATER. Sodium fluoride is often the active toxin in rat poison and insecticides. And you're drinking it. More on your doctor and dentist later.

High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)

Fat has 250 times more calories than sugar, yet even with this nutritional disadvantage, high fructose corn syrup is the number one source of calories in the United States. Fructose is much more readily metabolized to fat in the liver than glucose, and in the process can lead to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD in turn leads to hepatic insulin resistance and type II diabetes. It increases your triglyceride and bad cholesterol (LDL) levels, whereas glucose does not. It harms the way primary organs like the liver and pancreas function, leading to bone loss, anemia and heart problems, just to name a few. And it has recently been discovered that HFCS is contaminated with mercury, which is as you know a violent neurotoxin.

The HFCS industry cites studies that claim it's no different than sugar, but all of these studies were funded by groups with a financial stake in HFCS - such as Pepsi. Like fluoride, HFCS is extremely prevalent in foods and beverages. It's found in soda, juice, breads, yogurt, frozen foods, salad dressings, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, and many other products. In fact by the time you're finished reading this, you may come to the same conclusion that I have: don't eat anything processed. But if you're not at that point yet, keep reading.

Monosodium glutamate (MSG)

MSG, or Monosodium Glutamate is an excitotoxin - a substance that over-excites brain cells to the point of damage and death. It is worse than alcohol, worse than nicotine, and worse than most illegal drugs.

MSG is toxic particularly in children whose blood-brain barrier have not yet fully developed; they are four times as sensitive to MSG as adults. This is disturbing considering MSG is found in most baby formulas. More on this in a moment.

In rats, MSG caused them to crave sugars and simple carbohydrates over protein-rich foods. This is because the pancreas is stimulated to produce insulin, which explains MSG's association with obesity and type 2 diabetes, regardless of caloric intake or activity. It causes retinal damage, insomnia, heart disease, and high blood pressure. It can cause arrhythmia and cardio artery spasm, leading to sudden cardiac arrest. In cancer, MSG dramatically promotes growth and metastasis. It causes cancer cells to become mobile, spreading more quickly from one part of the body to another. In the elderly, whose blood-brain barrier is weakened, the cumulative effects of MSG act as a "slow neurotoxin," not resulting in observable damage such as dementia immediately but only after long periods of exposure. There is practically no system of the body that is not damaged by MSG.

MSG is found in nearly any processed food, even those that don't specifically list MSG as an ingredient and claim to be natural. Some foods such as seaweed or tomatoes have complex amino acid groupings, which are bound (as opposed to free). When these groupings are autolyzed or hydrolyzed, the amino acids - glutamates - are released in an unnatural way, enhancing the flavor the same way MSG does, with the same toxic effects. Like the 17,000 chemicals food manufacturers can add without telling you to protect their bottom line, these are some of the dirty little tricks they play to keep you from knowing you're eating unnatural MSG. There are literally dozens of food additives that contain MSG, such as broth, casein, anything hydrolyzed or autolyzed, and many others. Soybean extracts are loaded with glutamate, in many cases higher than pure MSG; people who consume large amounts of soy products have high incidences of dementia and brain atrophy. All soy products should be avoided as if they were poison - they are.

Particularly in baby formula, unsuspecting parents will choose a brand believing there to be no MSG, as it is not listed on the label, not realizing that caseinate or hydrolyzed protein broth are really MSG; physiologically these children could be abnormal for the rest of their lives.

Aspartame

Of all the poisons the eugenicists have foisted onto the American people, only sodium fluoride tops aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal) in terms of pure evil. And I say this only because of sodium fluoride's Nazi history and the fact that it's a toxic industrial waste product that is too toxic to be dumped in rivers and streams, yet we have been fooled into accepting it's healthy to dump it in our drinking water. The story of how aspartame became a staple of the American diet is a long and disturbing one.

Aspartame, also an excitotoxin and an rDNA derivative, is made from two amino acids - L-phenylalanine, L-aspartic acid - and methanol. The amino acid content in aspartame allows for mouthpieces for this poison to call it "healthy" or "natural", ignoring the methanol found in it and what it does to the body when ingested.

But once upon a time, for eight years, aspartame was banned by the FDA. This would seem natural, having at the time only recently been found on a Pentagon list of biochemical warfare agents submitted to Congress. Take a moment to ingest that: aspartame is a biochemical warfare agent.

Aspartame saw a new day in the FDA court in the early 70's, but G.D. Searle, the company that produces it, faced serious ethical questions in its methodology and data used to prove its safety. The 1974 FDA task force set up to examine aspartame and G.D. Searle reported "serious deficiencies in Searle's operations and practices, which undermine the basis for reliance on Searle's integrity in conducting high quality animal research to accurately determine the toxic potential of its products." They concluded with the recommendation that G.D. Searle should face a Grand Jury "to identify more particularly the nature of the violations, and to identify all those responsible.

The final 1976 report noted serious and criminal misrepresentation and suppression of data in G.D. Searle's research. Desperate to suppress this information, G.D. Searle appointed Nixon and Ford administration operative Donald Rumsfeld its chairman. The FDA requested that U.S. Attorney Samuel Skinner investigate Searle's aspartame testing procedures. Skinner was the federal prosecutor responsible for convincing the Grand Jury to investigate Searle's criminal and fraudulent research. Skinner met with Searle attorneys at the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin. Suddenly, newly elected President Carter announced that Skinner would not remain in office, and Skinner thereafter announced that he would be hired by Sidley & Austin. The case was taken over by US Attorney William Conlon, who blatantly dragged his feet in prosecuting Searle. Failing in his duties, Conlon also joined Searle's law firm. The fix was in.

In 1981, Rumsfeld's boy at the FDA, Commissioner Arthur Hayes, approved the initial use of aspartame in dry foods and as a tabletop sweetener. Disregarded as anecdotal were the public's concerns, as well as 3 FDA scientists, regarding brain tumors, which every scientific study not funded by Searle showed were prevalent in long term aspartame exposure. Naturally, after resigning from the FDA Hayes under a cloud of conflicts of interest, was hired as senior medical consultant for the public relations firm retained by Searle.

After aspartame was approved for soft drinks in 1983, complaints of side effects poured in - headaches, dizziness, vomiting, nausea, blurred vision, seizures, convulsions, and more. Long-term aspartame ingestion can disturb the metabolism of amino acids, protein structure and metabolism, the integrity of nucleic acids, neuron function, and endocrine balances. The breakdown of aspartame causes nerves to fire excessively, which can indirectly lead to a high rate of neuron depolarization.

The harmful effects of aspartame are practically endless. When you ingest aspartame, it breaks down into its two constituent amino acids, and methanol.

    Aspartame is 40% aspartic acid. When aspartic acid is consumed, it significantly raises the level of aspartate in your blood, which over-excites neurotransmitters in the brain, destroying neurons. Again, this is what is referred to by Dr Blaylock as excitotoxicity.

    Aspartame is 50% phenylalanine. Excessive levels of this amino acid can decease serotonin levels in the brain, leading to depression. Again, the aspartame lobby would have you believe that the presence of amino acids in aspartame makes it natural and healthy, however, as we've seen, monosodium glutamate is also an amino acid; this has nothing to do with it being natural or healthy. It is neither.

    The remaining 10% of aspartame is methanol, or wood alcohol. Not only is methanol poisonous by itself, when ingested it further breaks down into formaldehyde, a deadly neurotoxic carcinogen. Formaldehyde is embalming fluid. Methanol poisoning can cause visual impairment, including blindness; headaches, ear buzzing, and dizziness; nausea and gastrointestinal disturbances; weakness, numbness and shooting pains in the extremities; behavioral disturbances and memory lapses. Formaldehyde further breaks down into formic acid, which is also toxic and commonly used as an activator to strip epoxy and urethane coatings. Delicious!

Aspartame causes, mimics, or worsens the conditions of the following diseases:

  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Alzheimer's
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Arthritis
  • Multiple chemical sensitivity
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome
  • Attention deficit disorder
  • Panic disorder
  • Depression and other psychological disorders
  • Lupus
  • Diabetes and diabetic complications
  • Birth defects
  • Lymphoma
  • Lyme's Disease
  • Hypothyroidism

Aspartame, like MSG, is linked to obesity and diabetes, because it creates a craving for simple carbohydrates.

Dr Russell Blaylock, a leader in aspartame and MSG research who coined the term "excitotoxin", cites an Italian study in which animals were fed aspartame throughout their entire lives, and were studied until they died natural deaths. They found a dramatic increase in related cancers of lymphoma and leukemia, as well as several histological lymphomas of the brain. He continues:

    When you look it up in the neurosurgical literature, there is a rather significant rise in the incidents of what used to be a rare tumor. We're seeing a lot more of the primary lymphoma of the brain, which is a little different than lymphomas you see elsewhere. When you look back at the original studies done by the G.D. Searle company, they found lymphomas as well as primary brain tumors and tumors of multiple organs. All of this correlation shows that we've got a powerful carcinogenic substance here. It is either acting as a co-carcinogen or a primary carcinogen. Most likely, it's the formaldehyde breakdown product.

    What the Italian study found is that if you take these same animals and expose them to formaldehyde in the same doses, they developed the same leukemias and lymphomas. If you look back at the Troker Study conducted in Spain a couple of years ago, what they found was when they radiolabeled the aspartame, they could actually see formaldehyde binding to the DNA, and it produced both single and double strand DNA breakage.

    We know that when formaldehyde binds to DNA, it's very difficult to remove it. It will stay there for long periods of time. What that means is if you just drink a single diet cola today, or sweeten something with NutraSweet, you're accumulating damage every day. Eventually, you're going to produce this necessary pattern of DNA damage to initiate the cancer, and once you develop the cancer, the aspartic acid component of aspartame will make the cancer grow very rapidly. You've got a double effect; it's causing the cancer, and it's making the cancer move very rapidly.

These were swept under the rug by the government, which blatantly and overtly lied and vouched for its safety. The FDA, true to its corporate shill form, declared that "no evidence has been found to establish that aspartame's methanol by-product reaches toxic levels." This of course is a lie, since, according to a Medical World News report in 1978, the methanol content of aspartame is 1,000 times greater than most foods under FDA control. Today aspartame is found in over 4,000 products worldwide and is consumed by over 200 million people in the United States alone.

Corporatism (Fascism) in Our Health Ministries

Benito Mussolini once said, "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Specifically, it is the control of the State by the corporation (whereas socialism is the reverse: the control of the corporation by the State). And this is what we see today in our government - for the purposes of this essay, the pharmaceutical, chemical, and agricultural mega-corporations (some corporations transcend all three) have usurped control of our health ministries, so that they are entrusted with watching over themselves. Obviously they will be looking out for their own bottom line, not the health and safety of the American people.

Some would say its hyper-cynical to say that corporations only look out for their own profits at the expense of the consumer. In a free market we would not have to worry about this, because independent studies on the safety of these products would show them to be harmful, and no one would buy them, forcing these corporations to either produce healthier products or go out of business. But when the FDA is staffed by lobbyists for, say, Monsanto, Monsanto doesn't have to worry about the safety of its genetically modified foods or its Roundup product these foods are designed to be sprayed with because the lobbyists for Monsanto working within the FDA will give themselves the FDA seal of approval. Who watches the watchmen? The watchmen.

Examine who funds such medical journals as the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition or College Nutrition, or major studies on food safety. Corporations like Bayer and Monsanto. Con Agra. Kraft. All major corporations responsible for infesting our foods with the toxins making us fat, sick, stupid and weak. You also see pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline; I can imagine nothing that would please a pharmaceutical corporation more than widespread chronic illness. In fact, the pharmaceutical industry benefits greatly from the harmful additives in our food, and plays a major roll in facilitating their approval, use, and protection.

The US government and Monsanto has had a revolving door between its employees for decades. President Obama recently appointed former Monsanto lobbyist Michael Taylor as a senior adviser to the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner on food safety. Ann Veneman was on the Board of Directors of Monsanto's Calgene Corporation before becoming Secretary of Agriculture under George W Bush. Bush also appointed Monsanto executive Linda Fisher as deputy director of the EPA; Fisher worked for the EPA before becoming an executive at Monsanto. Revolving door. Former acting commissioner of the FDA under Clinton Michael Friedman became senior vice president for clinical affairs at G.D. Searle. William D. Ruckelshaus was the first commissioner of the EPA under Nixon, and spent 12 years on Monsanto's board of directors. Mickey Kantor served on Monsanto's board of directors before being tapped as Bill Clinton's Commerce Secretary. Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, is a former Monsanto lawyer presiding over a case that would completely deregulate Monsanto's GM seeds and allow them to contaminate the entire country. How will he rule? We'll see. Thomas certainly does not see what is clearly a conflict of interest. And, as discussed earlier, there is Rumsfeld, Conlon, and Skinner's scandalous connections to GD Searle and aspartame.

A Stacked Deck

Presented in this report is a two-fold threat to all of our health and well-being. First of course is the toxic and harmful products most Americans feed themselves and their children on a daily basis. This, along with vaccines, has a cumulative dumbing down effect; not only an erosion of the mind, but an erosion of the body. We are, collectively and in a compounding manner, becoming ever more stupid, fat, lazy and weak. Not only is this profitable to those who benefit from this - the food manufacturers who make more money as Americans become addicted to and eat more of their food, as well as the pharma giants who benefit from an engineered crisis of chronic illness - it is beneficial to those in power who wish to expand the size and scope of their power completely, totally, and utterly.

Second is the cover of protection these products receive from health and safety regulatory arms of government most Americans falsely believe are looking out for them. This makes it ever more difficult for even people like myself and those who are aware of the poison that passes for food, because not only does it severely restrict the choices we have in what we can eat, since harmful products are found in nearly all foods, including fresh produce, which could be genetically modified for all we know (the FDA says we do not have the right to know), but we cannot trust what is "certified" as organic, since the same regulatory arms of government responsible for such labeling are controlled by the same people who have driven many of us to eat organic in the first place.

What can be done? Unfortunately our choices are limited. As long as the masses believe and trust the State to be their lord and savior, it will be difficult to tear away the tentacles these corporations have around our government and our entire lives. We can educate people to these truths, but, speaking from experience, we can expect one of two reactions: either they will not want to know how harmful their food is, because they enjoy it too much. Most people have an intuition that what they're eating is killing them, or shortening their life (is there a difference?), but as long as they can pretend they don't really know what food is doing what to their body, they can be blissful in their ignorance. Or, they will dismiss your warnings as quackery, conspiracy theory kookiness, or the like. Part of the indoctrination we receive from birth is that, as Madeline Albright so aptly put it, "We are America; we are the indispensable nation." America doesn't poison or murder its own citizens; that's what other countries do. Our leaders may be liars or crooks, but there's a line they simply would never cross. Because they're Americans. The air here is different; or maybe there's something different about the soil or the water. Or, of course, we are simply sanctioned by the Creator. Rest easy. Your government is keeping you safe. This is the ultimate threat of a fascist government and economy: again, the watchmen are the ones watching the watchmen. There is no oversight; it's a corporate free-for-all.

So we must vote with our wallets and pocketbooks; we must, whenever possible, spend the extra money to buy real food. And, if possible, we must put forth the extra effort to grow our own food, from our own seeds, in our own soil, harvested by our own hands. That is the only way you'll ever know for sure your food is safe. That's the only way to keep yourself strong and healthy, to keep your mind sharp and clear. It is simultaneously one of your strongest weapons and best line of defense against the elite and their eugenics cult.

Stay healthy. Stay awake. Stay free.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Noise

Probably the most frightening words the fledgling truth seeker can ever encounter on his or her journey to consciousness is controlled opposition. Just when you think you’re on your way to uncovering the secrets of reality, the world, and the universe, sooner or later, if you surf the ether long enough, and especially if you, in your narcissism, invite enough people on your Facebook page, you’re going to run into people who will, if you let them, lead you to believe that nothing is real, not even the truth. This person or that is really an Israeli agent; this group or that is really a New World Order front. There’s not a person or group out there, from Alex Jones to David Icke to Peter Joseph (Zeitgeist) who hasn’t been so accused.

Sooner or later one has to silence the noise of doubt and realize that we are intelligent human beings, and are capable of deciphering the overwhelming amount of new information we encounter, in due time, deprogramming ourselves in our own personal way. At some point, if we are to continue to evolve, we must first understand that consciousness is a journey, not a destination, that the nature of reality is far too complex for our feeble minds and five senses to ever fully comprehend, and that what is most important for us to understand is what we should do with whatever information, whatever truth we feel we’ve uncovered.

    We see things not as they are, but as we are. – John Milton

Reality is subjective to the observer. What’s true for me won’t be true for you. Not entirely. We all have our own journeys, which mold our personality and ego. The ego in us loves to know more, know better, than others, and cannot accept alternative points of view, even though we often find ourselves battling with people who hate us for our points of view (our lack of patriotism, et al). The ego has no apparent sense of irony, nor shame for its blatant hypocrisy. Your ego would love for you to grasp tightly to some seemingly profound truth, and occupy your mind obsessing over beating people to death with it until they submit to it. In this, you inevitably bump heads with other people’s ego; an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.

The point to this is not to get carried away and distracted by whatever truth you may find, however profound it may seem to you. Understand that no matter what and how much you think you know, in the grand scheme of things you know nothing. This is not something to be discouraged about. It simply means that no matter how much you discover, there will always be more to discover. What can be disheartening about that? How boring would total omniscience be?

    The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. – Kahlil Gibran

We all have our own journeys, our own sufferings to overcome. We do no one a service fighting over whose understanding of reality is superior to the other. Information is value neutral; if it’s a lie, no one could – or at least no one should – tell you it’s a lie. If you think you know, and someone wants to know, they’ll ask; if we throw it in their face they will shut you out and hear nothing, and only your own ego will find satisfaction. If approached we should not demand they see things the way we do, but rather encourage them to abandon preconceived notions about the way one is supposed to think, or how others may think of them if they don’t conform to what the mob’s delicate sensibilities expect them to think, and just look at the facts with an open mind. If the true nature of reality were as obvious as we make it seem to be, would anyone need you to point it out to them?

Once you get the message, put the phone down. No matter how deep into the rabbit hole you think you’ve gone, it always goes deeper. Ask yourself if what you obsess over is really worth obsessing over, in the grand scheme of things. Does the true story behind Bin Laden’s death, for example, mean anything if the elite are about to crush the economy and plunge us all into a second Great Depression, far more catastrophic than the first? Have you ever stopped to think that, while the elite would prefer you buy their insultingly stupid stories hook, line and sinker like most people do, they still exert a great deal of control over you by directing your energies away from real issues you actually have control over – your own self-sufficiency, your own survival, your physical, mental, and spiritual health, to name some examples? The food supply is horrifically and terminally toxic. The global economy is going to collapse, so that even the garbage they call food won’t be available to you. Donald Trump is running for president. He wants to see Obama’s birth certificate! Anthony Weiner took pictures of his penis and sent them out to other women, and his wife is pregnant! Bin Laden had porn in his “compound”. Which makes the headlines?

Control is illusory. There is nothing more laughable than to think the global elite are meeting in Switzerland, and our future as a species is in their hands. They only have power because we give it to them. Don’t give it to them. Don’t recognize their authority. Don’t even humor them for a minute. Your power is only theirs by your willful consent. The belief that you can take that power back from them is a form of control – it implies the power belongs to them in the first place. It doesn't. Never did, never will. Take a breath. You control your future. You are your own person. Believe that you are free, act like you are free, and you will be free. Everything else is noise.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Fear

Of all the many layers of control in this onion of scientific fascism we live in, one of the most effective methods used is learned helplessness. It is the umbrella that all other facets of control rest under. When the control grid breaks down, when reality becomes too overwhelming for even the most unconscious subject to ignore, when the plebs would otherwise take to riot and violence, there is always the final safeguard of learned helplessness. This can be summed up as both the recognition of the way things are, yet surrendering to the idea that there’s nothing you can do about it anyway.

For this reason, many people become angry and animated at people like me for trying to warn them of what’s happening, what’s about to happen. They have a feeling things are about to get bad, or are already bad, but feel there’s nothing they can do to stop it so they just pretend it doesn’t exist, and excoriate anyone who reminds them. And who can blame them? What is coming will be nothing short of barbaric, with any number of factors playing out scenarios that include money becoming so worthless you cannot afford the food on the shelves, to there not being any food on the shelves even if you could afford it. Depending on the policies enacted by the government, the sky’s the limit. What we know is that there is an open, stated agenda to annihilate national sovereignty through economic devastation as a segue to global government and a one world currency under control of the banking and scientific elite.

    "For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. – David Rockefeller, Memoirs, pps 405 – 406

It is difficult for someone like me to resist the urge to belittle and cast scorn upon people who, when faced with a potentially life threatening situation, throw their hands at it and head to the bar to get hammered. Or bury their minds in the television, worrying about who will come out on top in their favorite reality (sic) TV show, as opposed to solving the problems that they will be forced to face should the economy continue to deteriorate. I must constantly remind myself that learned helplessness is carefully engineered in these people, over the course of many decades, so that they either give up in life threatening situations, their survival instincts psychologically eradicated from their minds, or they proxy out such responsibilities to others they are taught are smarter and more important than they are.

Having been shoved through the same meatgrinder as everyone else, I don’t know why my survival instincts remain in tact while that of the majority does not. There was something about the crash of ’08 and my ignorance of its causes that drove me to learn about what was going on, and, rather than give in to the seeming helplessness of the situation upon learning how bad it really was, spend the last 3 years preparing for the day when the grid we are all slaves to could no longer support me. One factor surely was the knowledge that this collapse is engineered, by design, to foment a new system of global governance. With this knowledge there’s no point hoping things will return to “normal”, no point looking to smarter and more important people to fix things. The people we look to to fix the crisis are the same criminals who are causing it. Only in this insane world do we look to the arsonist to put out the fire!

It would seem to me that, upon realization and acceptance that, at least under the current paradigm, things are not going to get better, ever, and that no one is going to come to my aid and defense as the situation continues to deteriorate, the solution to this problem becomes self-evident – that is, if you value your life above your possessions and your social standing, which is completely fake and superficial in the first place. What do you need in order to continue to breathe, for your heart to continue beating? Irrespective of your shallow and imbecilic belief that you would die without your television, all you need in order to survive is food, water, shelter and protection. That you think life reduced to such simplicity would be too mundane to bear is a product of their programming: that you need an iPod or a flat-screen TV or the hottest car in order to be fulfilled.

There are millions of Americans who have none of these, who live in abundance and joy, not to mention pride, in procuring all of life’s necessities by their own hand and sweat. Nature is their television; the wildlife in their yard is the cast in their favorite reality show. Many of these people once lived in an urban environment and, for any number of reasons, took a leap of faith and moved to a rural area and stuck a cutting spade into the soil and started from scratch. Myself being one of them. There is really no excuse for not cutting the chord from the control grid you’ve been leaching off of your whole life, no excuse except addiction to luxury, also known as sloth. For most, becoming self-sufficient is not an option, because helplessness and dependency is a part of who they are. Freedom is alien to them.

What point now in trying to warn these people of the inevitable, unstoppable economic apocalypse we find ourselves on the verge of? I suppose there is the hope, against hope, that I might strike a nerve in someone – anyone – who will find the spark inside of them to take responsibility for their lives, to take back control, to turn off their TV and surgically remove their ass from their couch. If the words in this essay reach the eyes of one still plugged in, who, while enjoying the comforts of modern living would rather turn his or her back on it and live rather than cling to it and die, consider:

    Food

    The price of food has risen drastically in recent years and, due mostly to the Fed's destructive monetary policies, coupled with natural disasters that have depleted our already taxed industrial food supply, will not stop rising for the foreseeable future. How long before prices rise beyond your ability to afford them? This is inevitable because it's the agenda, and they have at their disposal the tools - namely the printing press - to assure its fulfillment.

    Food is actually secondary to clean drinking water in terms of survival, if only because you’d die without water much quicker than you would without food, but nevertheless you need both. First and foremost you’ll need a store of food to eat while you prepare your garden and await the harvest. To this end, a six-month supply for everyone in your household is minimal, although since chances are you know nothing about growing food, you’ll probably want more as you cultivate experience and hone skills through trial and error in the field. Probably the cheapest and highest quality food I’ve seen that’s not laced with toxic additives and genetically modified “foods” is eFoods Global or eFoods Direct. They are GMO and MSG-free, and require only water for basic preparation. They’re also pretty decent tasting.

    As far as your garden, assuming your capital limits you to the most basic fundamentals of gardening tools, you will need a quality cutting spade, a garden fork, a hoe and a garden rake. You will also need a composting bin(s) but these can be made for little or no money using recycled materials; sites such as Mother Earth News are good for DIY projects like this. Growing food is more about soil cultivation than plant cultivation; properly cultivate the soil and the plants take care of the rest. Composting is an integral part of this process, especially as your harvests deplete the soil of nutrients. Consider also a worm compost: worms eat almost all plant wastes and their castings are second-to-none in soil nutrients.

    Your seeds should be non-GMO and organic, so stay away from large industrial seed producers like Burpee; the USDA’s standards on what is “organic” is flawed and corrupt. Some of the brands I’ve come to trust are Stokes Seeds and Seeds of Change. You should choose crops that are easy to grow and high in nutrient value. Corn is delicious but severely lacks nutrition and devastates the soil it’s grown in, requiring more effort on your part to rejuvenate it for the next season. Personally my garden includes zucchini, mixed lettuces, tomatoes, carrots, black beans, cucumbers, broccoli, celery, kale, rainbow chard, cilantro, basil, green onions, and muskmelon (cantaloupe). Next year’s garden will be far more diverse. As my skills and knowledge expand, so will the size and diversity of my garden, with the ultimate goal of never buying produce from the store again (the time for that is running out anyway).

    Water

    Even pure, natural sources of water will contain pathogens that will make you sick if you drink it. You should never drink untreated water. For the time being, we still have running water. This water is polluted with toxic additives like chlorine and fluoride and should never be drunk without further filtration on your part. I personally have a Berkey water filter system. It claims to be able to filter stagnant pond water, not to mention fluoride, although I would personally boil such water before putting it through a filter, just in case. You should also learn how to build and use a solar still, an essential skill for the day when your Berkey has filtered its last gallon of water.

    Protection

    In the post-collapse world, with such a large percentage of the population completely unprepared, in their desperation they will prey upon the small minority of people who have the means to feed and hydrate themselves. It will be an unfortunate situation, forcing us to defend ourselves and our property against those who, while having only themselves to blame, are only desperate to survive. Nonetheless if you do not have enough to let people just come and take what you have, you will need to protect yourself. Do your own research on what type of home defense weapon(s) you need, and then make sure you have plenty of ammo. Finally, learn how to use and service your weapon properly and safely.

    Off-grid Energy

    If you have capital left over after stocking your house with food and making preparations to cultivate a garden, and have adequate defense for yourself, your family, and your property, you will want to procure an alternative energy source so your basic power needs will be met in the very likely event that you lose access to power, for whatever reason, in the near future. I picked up a 45-watt solar panel kit and a 2000-watt converter from Harbor Freight, which ran me about $320. Eventually I will daisy chain the whole system up to a marine battery, and make improvements as needed so I can at least power my refrigerator. This little contraption is relatively small and very portable.

Consider a worst case scenario: You have lost your job. Food prices have gotten so bad you’ve been forced to make a choice between eating and paying your mortgage. You choose to eat. The bank sends a SWAT team to your house to evict you. You have no friends or family willing or able to help you. The city streets are already flooded with people begging others to help them, but there are fewer and fewer people able or willing to. Homeless shelters have been put out of business by the overwhelming number of people in need added to the skyrocketing costs of food and energy. Do you just wander around with your hands outstretched crying about the woe and depravity your life has turned into?

Learned helplessness says yes, that is what you would do, so don’t consider the possibility, and, in order to make yourself feel even better about your complete helplessness and dependency, laugh at and ridicule anyone who takes such very real possibilities seriously and makes preparations to protect themselves from them. This has become the social norm these days, conformity to self-destructiveness. Keepin it real. All we need is a good time. The good life. It’s all fake. Its fakeness will be made manifest in short order, and if it’s all your life consists of, all that will be left for you is suffering.

Ignorance may indeed be bliss, but on the other hand, there is something far more real, more serene, in knowing. If you’re aware, you can prepare. If you’re prepared, there is nothing to fear. Some people accuse me of cheerleading the end of the world as we know it, looking forward to the day when the economy collapses and the gates of hell are flung open. I suppose I can say I am guilty. But only because I know that not only does what they are doing make such an outcome inevitable, whether it’s purposeful or not, I know it is in fact purposeful, and thus the chances of the old world surviving are absolute zero. The old paradigm has almost completely faded away and it’s time for us who are ready to move into the new paradigm and leave those clinging to the old behind, painful as it will be. Do I delight in this? Yes and no. Yes for myself, because I will be fulfilled (not to mention alive), and my life will have real meaning and purpose. I will be healthy in body, mind, and spirit. Those who will not survive, I will mourn. I mourn them already. But it’s coming whether we wish for it or not, so I say let’s get it over with. No fear.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Bread and Circus

It is often said that old habits die hard. If you take a moment to consider how habits and conditionings are formed from the time we’re born, how our minds are molded so that our thoughts come to be thought for us before we even think them, compounded over many years, it’s a wonder these habits ever die at all. From time to time I still take myself back and reflect on the way I was, how far I’ve come, and how lucky I am that, despite being thrust through the same meat grinder as everyone else, I am here, awakened, becoming more aware.

And it is at times such as in recent days that I am reminded that awareness is not a destination, it’s a journey, and that it is easy to be taken off the path, as remnants of your egoic conditioning distract you from what is. The supposed killing of the already dead Osama bin Laden this week, with all that this signifies, on so many levels, was a difficult event to ignore no matter how conscious you are.

Of course, Osama bin Laden is a CIA creation, once a CIA asset given the codename Tim Osman. We know that Bill Clinton, while president, was offered Bin Laden on a silver platter by Sudan, where Bin Laden resided at the time, and he turned the offer down. We know that, in July of 2001, just weeks before the 9-11 attacks, he spent nearly two weeks in an American hospital in Dubai, and was visited by his CIA handlers. We know that, during the assault on Tora Bora, the compound was only surrounded on three sides, allowing him and his aids to escape to Pakistan. We know that top al Qaeda and Taliban officials were airlifted by our military into Pakistan - the so-called airlift of evil. We know that, since December 2001, when he was first reported dead by Fox News, the very rare occasions where we actually saw Bin Laden on video were obvious imposters. We are to believe that this highly wealthy man lived in a Pakistan mansion (for SIX YEARS) where he met his supposed demise, yet could only find the means to release audio tapes, which we were never privy to but the CIA assured us was Bin Laden. And we know that, for all our celebrating of the death of the supposed mastermind of 9-11, which we know was a false flag black-op carried out by criminal elements of the United States and Israeli governments, 9-11 is not even listed as among his crimes on his FBI most-wanted website, per lack of evidence he was involved in the attack, which only his CIA-contrived imposters ever confessed to.

We know all this; the sleeping masses do not. But it’s not for lack of information. It’s not like we have access and they do not. We want to know, they do not. For in their egoic, hive-mind reality, to even consider such issues, which would consequently prompt an investigation, is a grave offense against their sense of patriotism, which is part of who they think they are. “I am an American. I am a patriot. You are anti-American. You hate your country.” The most important thing you can bring to the table is the acceptance that you are powerless to change this, because you are not dealing with an intelligence that responds to reason and logic; you’re fighting the ego, and the ego will wipe the floor with you every time no matter how eloquent and coherent your argument is.

The fake news of Bin Laden’s demise was red meat thrown at us to generate a reaction. For most, this reaction was patriotic fervor. Chest thumping. Relief. For others, it was amusement and disgust that people could be so easily mislead. And for me, this is a habit that has yet to die in me. Upon reflection, I understand this, and I’ve resolved not to further dignify it all by continuing to talk about it. There is little I can do to enlighten people to the deception they willfully subscribe to, and by casting judgment on their own egoic shortfalls, I do nothing but let my own ego off its leash.

The consciousness of the collective is indeed quite insane. We cannot bring about a shift to sanity, to awareness, without first bringing it to ourselves. The individual makes up the collective. If you are not fully conscious, how can you bring consciousness to others – how can you say to your brother there is a splinter in your eye, when there is a log in your own? In the attempt, you unwittingly increase unconsciousness in yourself. And that is what the death of Osama bin Laden was intended to do. In the unawakened, it healed an old wound that was illusory to begin with. And in those who were semi-awake, it caused us to relapse into insanity, wasting our energies on bread and circus while the real issues of the day were forgotten, or lessened in significance. Did Bin Laden’s death obliterate the deficit? Did it erase the national debt? Did it decrease the money supply, lower oil and food prices, bring jobs back to America, put Monsanto out of business, stop water fluoridation, reverse the radiological contamination from Fukushima, etc, etc, etc?

No? Well okay then. Bin Laden is but one illusion in an ocean of illusion. Even if it had not happened, there would still be illusion. Even though the people were becoming restless about the economy, which is a large reason the regime needed this event, though it will do little for them, most people think it’s an ideological struggle and thus something that can be repaired at the voting booth. Meanwhile, their pantries are empty, except maybe for alcohol. In their minds, only kooks and conspiracy theorists prepare for economic collapse, and they will gleefully follow this programming to suffering and death.

But at least we killed Bin Laden.